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CHIEF

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  1. Not necessarily incels, but a lot of young singles in general no longer go to clubs and bars in our area. A DWI will wreck them financially. We are lucky in that we have a 19th Hole in our neighborhood and security doesn't give DWIs, in fact, you can call them to come pick your drunk ass up and take you home. My son bailed out one friend, and had another get one leaving the last wedding we attended. He worked at Lockheed and got let go because he could no longer qualify for Top Secret clearance. Our 19th Hole is an older crowd, but there are some pretty young women, bartenders, and our cart girl is a smoke show. At work, the older women are always trying to set him up with their daughters or granddaughters. I'm glad he didn't take a job working from home. CHIEF
  2. I think Israel offered feeling that Hamas is stupid enough to reject it. If they do reject it, Israel will try to gain sympathy and lessen criticism of their actions. If Hamas doesn't care about their civilians and any humanitarian aid, why should we. CHIEF
  3. Sounds like the ball is Hamas' court. Release hostages for a ceasefire. If they reject it Rafah gets invaded. CHIEF
  4. I've often wondered about compulsory military service for a year or two after high school for Americans. It is mandatory in all Scandinavian countries, Austria, and quite a few other countries. To hit on the above, it instills discipline, punctuality, accepting authority, and how to work as a team. It might not make a difference in some, after they leave the military, but you would think it would take quite a few and turn them away from the incel path, before it starts, and towards being a kind, contributing member of society. CHIEF
  5. I'm fair at English, Español is muy malo (can't remember how to conjugate verbs, I'm good with singular, but shit with we, they, us, them). But I can absolutely crush it in Pig Latin. CHIEF
  6. I've been watching that one. Luckily, we still don't have anything left to tear up at our deer lease. The big one went south, but the lease got pelted with heavy hail and was in a tornado warning earlier from the storm north of the one that has produced this big tornado. CHIEF
  7. Our circle of friends (whose kids ended up as my son's circle of friends) didn't let the kids sit in the house on video games and social media. The daily choices were Air Soft fights, take your bows to the archery range, play golf, fish or hunt for arrowheads on the Brazos, go to the pool, or go to our local rec center and play pickup basketball, shoot pool, or play air hockey. We were lucky to have shit for kids to do by golf cart. CHIEF
  8. Just set her paycheck up to withhold 100% so it offsets your lowered withholdings. That way her money becomes "our" money. I heard wives really dig that. CHIEF
  9. Same. I have to scroll through contacts to find Mrs. CHIEF, she is never in my recent calls list. CHIEF
  10. It really hasn't changed in college. My son and his male college mates had, "I'm in class, will call you later" as a cut and paste, and kept their phones on silent. He would not be able to hold down his job if he was still dating the last one. He is transitioning from dating college girls to dating women with jobs that understand that you have to be left alone during working hours. There still is hope out there. We won't be going on a dive trip this year, CHIEF Jr. is in three different weddings and a traveling bachelor party, and it will use up what little personal time he has earned at work. At 26 about a third of his friends are married already, with probably half in long term relationships. Mostly small town guys marrying small town girls. I would be curious to see if this is a more urban or rural phenomenon. CHIEF
  11. I say the fall guy should be Terry Joseph. CHIEF
  12. In most social circles, YES. But Surly requires pics to make a determination. CHIEF
  13. I remember both my parents and Mrs. CHIEF’s family both told us, “if you wait until you think you can afford kids, you will never have them.” This was about five years into our marriage. Mrs. CHIEF and I had been living in apartments, and were waiting until we could purchase our first home. My parents helped us, and said there is more support if you need it. Her parents did as well. Children are expensive, time consuming, and are a bunch of trouble. However, the day your first born arrives is the best day of your life. Everything pales in comparison. At least it does for me. CHIEF
  14. Well Mr. Hollis (Ms. Piper), I could backpedal a 4.6 while smoking a Camel unfiltered cigarette. CHIEF
  15. When you disregard someone's well-being and DEMAND that they drive to your place because you are lonely at 3am when you have been drinking with your friends, or DEMAND you take them to get something to eat in a foreign country at 2:30 in the morning even though the gas station is across the street and won't open till morning and your vehicle is empty, that is a big line that has been crossed. She created such a scene that it was waking people up. CHIEF Jr. had an application in for a job that required a Top Secret clearance, a brush with the law would completely have deprived him of that opportunity. She didn't give a shit, killing people while driving drunk was way down her list of bad shit that could happen. Good riddance. CHIEF
  16. No its even worse, cheerleaders. My niece played travel club softball, and she has been married for about two years with a new baby, and is in a stable committed relationship. I believe your friend may be on to something. Having to compromise on team decisions, and work within that team provides a lot of maturity and growth. When CHIEF Jr.'s girlfriend would get bent out of shape he would tell her, "you are just like a toddler throwing herself to the floor in a candy store, you are an embarrassment to be around." The beauty/crazy matrix is for real. CHIEF
  17. A lot of young women have become bossy and entitled. I know CHIEF Jr.'s last girlfriend was. One of his best friends just broke up with his fiancé', they had bought a house together. He said it was because of her uncompromising, her way or the highway approach to any disagreement. With divorce rates at 50% and young men loosing their house, kids, and half their retirement, they are reluctant to commit to such an arrangement. CHIEF Jr. and all of his well educated friends that are knocking down high five and low six figure incomes are looking to own their own houses, and getting prenups before getting married. CHIEF
  18. If a fire killed all of the occupants of Selawik, who were you teaching? CHIEF
  19. I ran a faster time in Junior High, and I ain't no CTJ. CHIEF
  20. The problem is there is not a lot of fat between construction costs and retail pricing right now. Small time custom home builders (like myself), are pretty much sitting on the sidelines, or building for clients at cost plus a percentage. The cost of building, right now in our area, is from $190-195sqft. 1450sqft. starter homes with single car garages, sitting on $10k lots in mixed housing (stick built homes and mobile homes) are $250k. We are closing on one today. It's a young couple with a combined income of a little over $100k, and it was still tough to get them qualified. I paid $117/yard for concrete in 2020. It is hovering around $200/yard currently. Until material costs come down, building will lag behind, and the units that are being built are still unobtainable to most young families at current interest rates. Doubling interest rates basically halved what potential home buyers are able to qualify for. CHIEF
  21. I haven't met anyone as famous as CHIEF Jr. has. He and a buddy were given Rangers tickets by his buddy's mother that works for XTO Energy. They went to the game and set next to Pudge Rodriguez, W, and Laura. He turned to his buddy and asked him whose seats they are sitting in again? It was Bob Simpson's seats. He said they were all really nice, especially Laura Bush. Said she talked about the ranch at Crawford and her family. CHIEF
  22. I guess God finally thought the Juice was worth the squeeze. CHIEF
  23. Same here. My wife is a penny-pincher, as was her whole family. I bought Mrs. CHIEF her first $25+ purse, a $250 Coach. She carried it for about 25 years before giving it to her sister, that had never had a $25+ purse. It looked like it had been with Lewis and Clark on the expedition to the Pacific for several years. CHIEF
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