Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Beer 2025: Merry Christmas Everyone, Including the Haters and Losers
Burned 10 acres of CRP, went mountain biking, assembled a set of patio furniture, baby sat my FIL while he got hammered and waxed poetic about Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever winning an exhibition game by 60. Grilling brats now. I’ve earned this
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
Great day to be out there
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Hey Steel Shank!
You don’t cheese hinge? Bruh.
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Hey Steel Shank!
I would annihilate that
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Officially in a watch
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
This never happened when I was growing up, and I saw a 'nader from the school bus once. It has to do with the recent capability of getting these big tornado/straight line wind outbreaks predicted days out in advance. They've been talking about this since Thursday, and it's as humid as I've ever seen it out there. If the sun pops through, we're 100% fucked. If the clouds stay, it'll be a nothingburger.
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Sun is trying it's damndest to break through the clouds here. Schools all releasing at 2PM.
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Really hoping this starts sliding to the north
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Awful Texas foodways
That shit is awful.
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Waiting for the sky to fall (Catch all tornado thread)
Ive been saying this for awhile. When I was a kid, a tornado warning meant there was an actual nader on the ground and someone was getting fucked. Nowadays it might mean “some NWS intern saw goofy shit on the radar.” I’ve already started shrugging them off a bit.
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2024 Houston Texans Season Thread
Noel and Higgins are both absolute dogs. Enjoy! I was hoping like hell Noel would be a Viking
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2025 NFL Draft
God, I hope so. ISU plays CU this year and I would love to see a Jon Heacock defense abuse him
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Waiting for the sky to fall (Catch all tornado thread)
Looks like we’re on deck come Monday
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Awful Texas foodways
No. But I married into a Norwegian family and I love that shit
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Come on, I didn’t vote for Trump.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Yeah, I'm moderately liberal in a fairly conservative community and I've never shied away from my beliefs publicly. I hear people in political minorities on both sides claim a need to do that fairly often and I just don't quite get it. I'm not out there vociferously blasting my politics, but if someone asks me or engages me on the topic I'm honest about it. But it's probably easier for me because everything about my life would lead someone to think I was a Republican, and I'm not a small guy either, so I generally haven't had to worry about people fucking with me.
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Awful Texas foodways
100%. Mayo is fine as an ingredient in something larger (deviled egg, potato salad, etc), or as a condiment if it's sufficiently flavored an applied as a light layer. Excess straight mayo is repugnant.
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Awful Texas foodways
TIL learned that people put mayo on fruit, and grown ass adults dislike raw onion. Life's wild.
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Monday looks fun
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Awful Texas foodways
I don't think Mr. Riley managed to reach medicore.
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Hey Steel Shank!
My friends don't cook like our grandmas did. The internet + major increases in the Latino and Southeast Asian populations in the Midwest have introduced seasoning to the old Germans, Norwegians, and Bohemians.
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Awful Texas foodways
Scramble it up with some eggs and make breakfast tacos/burritos. Pile up on some chips for nachos. Whatever. Mediocre brisket is still pretty delicious.
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Awful Texas foodways
Lone Star hits the fucking spot. I consider myself a connoisseur of regional cheap lagers, and for me Grain Belt and Lone Star are 1A and 1B nationally. I don't know that jello salads and kolaches are inherently Texan. Jello salad exists anywhere poor/cheap white people exist, and kolaches are everywhere the Czechs went. I live adjacent to a super Czech community in north Iowa and kolaches are basically a form of currency there. I always thought Texas BBQ was the most wildly overrated provincial bullshit out there, but then I went to a legit Texas BBQ joint and I realized I'd just had shitty Texas BBQ previously. The Texas method/style is absolutely my BBQ preference at this point in time. Even if I'm not cooking traditional Texas BBQ cuts, I gravitate to that general method. It is superior. Texas's dumbest food thing is the rigor of chili. Chili is a fucking canvas. Go nuts with it. It might suck ass, but it might be divine. Following some arcane rules can be kind of a fun challenge, but acting like anything outside of that "isn't chili" is silly AF.
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Hey Steel Shank!
This honestly sounds like very similar in format to the Midwest redneck bbqs my buddies and I throw. The main difference is ours have a lot more venison, and weird pickled shit.
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2025 NHL Playoffs Thread - Let the madness begin!
St Paul's gonna be rowdy tomorrow.