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  1. 6 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Update on my Marine!

    He finished at Geiger and he’s now at his A School in Pensacola.

    Apparently the Marines changed his MOS between Boot and MCT.

    He’s now in Avionics but can’t tell me any specifics because of security beyond he will be working on weapons system.

    He’s been selected squadron leader and is currently first in his class. He left Boot as a PFC because he had college credits and if he keeps doing well he should get a meritorious promotion to LCpl at the end of A school.

    He had to teach a lesson and a Staff Sergeant approached him after class and told him he should consider looking into applying to be a Drill Sergeant and then moving into an instructor position after his fleet service. And then he invited him to join his golf group last weekend.

    He’ll be in Pensacola till August or September and then may end up staying there for his next school or could end up somewhere else depending on which platform he specializes in. If he stays at the top of his class he gets to choose.

     



    I got to go down and visit with him and bring him some of his things - civilian clothes, XBOX, laptop etc.

    I can’t get over how much he’s changed in his maturity and responsibility and attitude. He’s still the same kid but that kid now lives inside a man with ambitions and plans.

    I got him some tech stuff for his birthday and Christmas I saw other Marines and Marine parents recommended - a certain solar charger and power strips and some other stuff I don’t remember at the moment. His squad nickname is now “Best Buy” because everyone goes to him to use and borrow his stuff lol.

    I sure do miss him and I never would have chosen this path for him but he is thriving and happy and that’s all we can hope for our kids when they get grown.

    I’m so damn proud of him.

    It's amazing what focused discipline does for a kid. I saw it with several friends of my son as they went from freshman in the corps of cadets at VT to their  senior year, and then military service beyond.

  2. 2 hours ago, ztejas said:

    This has diverted into a discussion about Texas movies instead of talking about The Last Picture Show and I'm culpable myself.

    I had never seen it and bookmarked it to watch ASAP when I saw the thread and just did. 

     

    That's a pretty damn good movie. This especially - one of the best things I've seen in any film (like - ever - this is just stupendous):

    Some of it is meh and there's some ham handed scenes. Sonny acts circles around Duane. Maybe partially because Bridges doesn't seem to nail the Texas roughneck very well. The plot is a bit heavy on everyone sleeping with each other, gets a little messy, and the strongest element kicks it halfway through. Randy Quaid is a funny cameo in hindsight. 

    Overall it's a solid flick set in Texas. I don't think it touches No Country nor even comments on the state as much necessarily. But thanks for the rec and thread @OWLVIS

    (And obviously Jacy Farrow is a hot little slutty piece of ass that deserves everything coming to her and then some. Sounds like she went to SMU, too. Damn. Oh shit - did I say all of that out loud?)

    It is a damned good movie, even with the flaws.

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  3. On 4/21/2022 at 7:25 PM, Brisketexan said:

    When I am traveling for work, and turn the hotel room TV on as I get ready in the morning, it's always on CNN HLN, because I get to hang out with the lovely Robin Meade, and get super-high-level takes, And Robin.  We get to hang out together.  Because she's nice.

    So that lasts like what, a good 8-10 seconds  ?

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  4. 2 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

    Got to see his 7th no-no, but more importantly was in the stands for the Robin Ventura game.


    (Of course I was an idiot babbling with a chick and missed the charge of the mound...center field seats.  But I got the ticket stub!)

    So ??? Did you hit that shit ??

  5. One of the original 60 Wimbledon  white, and ice blue interior ‘65 mustangs sent to the 1964 worlds fair.

    And a nice little green 68 Firebird.

     

    Heading to Raleigh, NC now for a good guys rod, and custom show with my moms boyfriend, and his car buds.

    I skew the age down by a good 20 years, but these guys know from cars. You walk thru the swap meet tables, and they can tell you what just about any part is, what car, model, and year it came from.  That’s from Model T’s up thru most late 60’s cars, and they’ve probably rebuilt most of em.

    Really cool getting to hang with the grandfather types, and getting called youngster.

     

    I haven’t been to many car shows the last couple years, I’m sure everyone relates.

    More pics to follow today.

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  6. 2 of my favorite mustangs ass to ass

    65 GT350, and a 67 Shelby, I prefer a convertible, but damn that fastback is sexy as fuck.

    $169k for the 67 .  I’m starting a gofundme site.  Let’s make this shit happen !!

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  7. 3 minutes ago, brakeman said:
    I like the intelligence and multiple points of view in this thread. We only speak in small talk to our family that are in Russia now.
    This war sucks.
     
     
    Belarusian photographer Pavel Krychko created a portrait of Putin from 1,500 screenshots and photos of 57 days of the war in Ukraine. “Horror, pain, suffering, death, inhumanity, evil-all of it is in this image. I don't understand how people can support this,” he says.

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    That is one of the most powerful images I've ever seen.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    You're a vegetable (you're a vegetable)
    You're a vegetable (you're a vegetable)
    Still they hate you (still they hate you)
    You're a vegetable (you're a vegetable)
    You're just a buffet (you're just a buffet, you're a vegetable)
    You're a vegetable (you're a vegetable)
    They eat off of you (they eat off of you, you're a vegetable)
    You're a vegetable, ow!

    A little late to the 420 Day party I see...

  9. 2 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

    In Moldova I could see them doing that thing where they send in a bunch of plain clothes soldiers to play separatist. 

    Much of your post confuses me though. How would attacking Moldova be aggression against NATO? Moldova isn't in NATO. 

    Because Moldova insists upon itself ?

  10. 11 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    You should try the bisquick quiche.  It’s really more of an egg bread, but it’s fucking delicious. 
     

    Also, Kirkland mini quiches are the tits.

    So are you a waist only apron guy or the full magilla, mid knee length, halter top, apron ?  We'll get to the hat or not after your response.

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