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Brisketexan

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  1. Yep. Bottom line, it's just what you posted. Centuries of white folks having a built in, structural leg-up. An attempt is made to help minorities play catch-up....on something that took GENERATIONS to build....and we kill it dead because white people are fucking scared-ass snowflakes.
  2. Do you know what will be AWESOME about that? When it happens, the climate change deniers will stand up defiantly and say "SEE! Europe is getting COLDER! Proof that 'global warming' is a hoax!" I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that is exactly the path they will take. Will the rebuttal of "holy shit, you dumbasses....it happened BECAUSE of warming causing melt which caused the current to collapse" even make a dent in their stupidity? Come on, man. We all know the answer to that.
  3. Look, if people would just let the faster golfer play through, this shit wouldn't happen. Courtesy is dead, man.
  4. Good post. And yes, there's a separate discussion there as to the difference between "Ivy leaguer with a fancy resume" and "local kid who thinks on his/her feet and busts ass." Malcolm Gladwell would agree with you. I know some mediocre Yale lawyers, and some damned fine Texas Tech lawyers. I sure don't judge a lawyer I'll be facing based on where they went to school. But all of that said, we don't hire from the Ivy league, and even then we have to be diligent and make an effort to seek out quality minority candidates who might be overlooked. Yeah, a black lawyer in the top 10 at UT can write their ticket anywhere, in part BECAUSE they are a black lawyer in the top 10 at UT. But the pool of minorities even going to law school is still below the population ratio, if for no other reason than minorities have a lower number of mentors in their community and family who went to law school. We have been working with a program aimed at helping with that -- geared towards helping first-gen college students and such, mostly but not entirely minorities, get introduced to law school and the legal world. But we won't be able to do so much longer, because that program got the axe because of Texas's new anti-DEI law. Again.....all that program did was reach students who wouldn't otherwise have much exposure to the legal world, but we had to kill it. Because we are stupid and mean.
  5. The Daves double and the Double Stack are two different burgers. The second one is much smaller (and thus cheaper).
  6. Coupons for a discount on gray slacks should do it.
  7. When it's that dry, with lots of fuel, and windy.....a fire is going to happen. Could be any number of things: power lines touched in high wind, a piece of metal or segment of chain falls off a trailer on the road, kicks up sparks into the dry grass (I've literally seen that happen in real-time), ash from someone's cigarette...truly anything. All it takes is one mistake/bad circumstance. I mean, it could also be someone being utterly stupid and deciding to fire up a campfire or something, so don't rule out stupid. In fact, NEVER rule out stupid.
  8. He's the best hope for this country in this circumstance. That's how far we've fallen. We're hoping for the creator of this to guide the ship through stormy seas:
  9. I wouldn't worry about that. Soon enough, the story of the "chaplain" (who your kid's school put in place instead of a licensed counselor) molesting a kid will totally take y'all's mind off the incompetent "armed guards." Just send your thank you note to the GQP, and be done with it.
  10. Yep. And also, this is pretty much an ironclad rule for the crowd that has spent most of the last 10 years shouting "THE DEMS ARE PEDOPHILES!": ummmm....the pedophilia....IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. Case after case after case after case. GQP politicians and their family members. MAGA church leaders. MAGA cops. Etc. etc. If you want to avoid pedophiles....just avoid the people shouting about pedophiles. That strategy will yield a good outcome more than anything else you could try.
  11. I haven't had one of their frozen indian meals that wasn't really, really good.
  12. They don't do surge pricing. But they do make me annoyingly carry a supply of 1 euro coins in case someone has to take a crap while out and about. They need to start adding a QR code at the bathroom, and accepting Venmo payments or something like that.
  13. See, that's the thing: my "sex video" nomenclature is good for all ages. The point isn't the age of the participants. The points are 1) there was sex, and 2) it was recorded on video. Do you want to say "underage sex video?" That absolutely works. All kinds of modifiers are welcome! "Elderly sex video," "group sex video," "sex video in a walk-in cooler," whatever the circumstance, the basic term "sex video" works.
  14. You say that now, but wait until 1) public shitters start charging for TP squares, and 2) they upcharge based on the detected pressure of your particular blowout. Giant-ass bowl-spattering post-Taco Bell dump? That'll be $5 a square, friendo.
  15. You know what really bothers me about that story? The term "sex tape." What, did they pick up a VHS camcorder laying around and make a low-res recording of them boning? I doubt it. It was almost certainly recorded on a phone camera, which is entirely digital. I am on a crusade against the archaic term "sex tape," which should be replaced with the simple, correct, and widely applicable "sex video." Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
  16. Deal....especially if that gravestone is chiseled and installed ASAP. Time to finish the bit, Mr. "I'm too tough for therapy." Finish it the way such bits are often finished.
  17. You forgot one team......600 million screaming Taylor Swift fans....
  18. Oh. You think the laws apply to cops. How adorable.
  19. I actually kinda like it. I added some other stuff to it, and used it to make a quick carne adovada. It worked pretty well.
  20. Have the results of those elections fixed a single goddamn thing, or is the parade of horribles continuing unabated? Yep. The second one. Ask a woman. She’ll tell ya.
  21. Blame…credit. Potato potahto.
  22. They can't just let THIS fire burn, it's too big, mean, and destructive. You have to contain it if possible. Now, they should probably look at being more aggressive about controlled burns in the panhandle going forward, but that's a separate path.
  23. I've also learned not to place bets on games of Calvinball. Because my bet cannot account for the new rule of "you lose all your points if you touch the 'no touching' tree before you dunked the ball into the barrel." Seriously. I regularly have no fucking idea what this court will do, which is a huge problem in itself (courts and the law are supposed to be relatively predictable -- that way, people can make informed decisions about how to behave). I mean, we DO know how Alito and Thomas will go. But as to the rest of them....no fucking idea. Just maintain pessimism. It's been the safe bet since 2016.
  24. Owner. Dropped crack pipe. Bare electrical wires. Pretty much an unlimited menu of how a place like that can burn down.
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