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CHIEF

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  1. It was mainly rednecks that live in a $150k house, I imagine, but with wakeboard boats and trucks that cost more than their house individually. I know several of those types. CHIEF
  2. Curfews and quite hours are because a lot of idiots want to have parties and loud music going 24/7 during their stay. Some of the AirBnB locations are right in the middle of neighborhoods with working families. We had two houses, in our neighborhood, that people purchased for AirBnB party pads. After about 2-3 bookings where the clients stayed up and partied by the pool, threw beer cans in the neighbor's yard, and got into yelling matches at three in the morning, the HOA shut them down, and made a rule eliminating AirBnBs. Apparently, communities all over the nation are doing this using HOAs or deed restrictions. Idiots are the reason we cannot have nice things. CHIEF
  3. There was a YouTube poster saying that Putin had reversed his amnesty plan on Porgy. I was going to post it, but it got taken down. It will probably happen, but at a later date. The plot just thickens. CHIEF
  4. They will never get there. Their weirdness, and cultish behavior will always be off-putting to at least one of the missing pieces. They will always be Bruno Kirby's Lt. Steve Hauk, to everyone else's Robin Williams' Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning Vietnam. CHIEF
  5. Lukashenko has supplied thousands of tons of material, equipment, and armaments to Russia. What he has failed to do is send Russia meat for the grinder. I think this movement of Wagner troops into Belarus, where the military warehouses are bare is a message to Lukashenko to provide said meat or there will be repercussions. CHIEF
  6. What company did you go with? CHIEF
  7. I remember the first day of my Freshman year Eastern Civ I class. The first thing my professor said was, "the Chinese will eat anything that doesn't eat them first." CHIEF
  8. One would think that they would carry at least a six shot revolver on that shitcan. You could choose to keep up the good fight, and hope to be rescued, or choose to go out with a bang. CHIEF
  9. My BIL has one, and he loves it. However, the tolerances weren't very close between the barrels and carrier, it now has blow by. It has lasted a good 20 years though. The newer ones may have fixed the problem. CHIEF
  10. Just a cheap Truglo. Still a $300-400 scope. I actually like it. He said he put a cheaper scope on it, since it is probably going to be removed for a thermal. He was right. CHIEF
  11. I went and picked up the AR I won, thinking it would probably be just a $400 Palmetto State or something similar. Boy was I wrong. The gunsmith is an old retired Nuclear Engineer, and building out custom rifles is his hobby/obsession. So, what he donated was an AR with an Aero lower, custom Garrison trigger, and a Faxon custom barrel. He told me to insure it for $2300, as that is what it would cost to replace it. He said that since he built it, it has a lifetime warranty for as long he is able to keep gunsmithing. Also, it came with the case, and five boxes of .300 BLK ammo. https://pikeprecisionarms.com His specialty is 1911s, and AR platform. The Faxon barrel is supposed to be the most accurate barrel made in .300 BLK. It has five groves instead of six in the rifling, and they are "dovetailed" in design, grip the bullet better, and have a better gas seal. CHIEF
  12. Only child, CHIEF Jr. is an only as well. I have shit from my maternal grandfather, my late father, my late FIL, the shit I've bought, and the shit CHIEF Jr. has bought. Gun safe is full, and there are probably a half dozen guns under each bed. Told CHIEF Jr. he has to build a gun "vault" when he builds his house, a gun safe will not cut it. Feels like this: CHIEF
  13. With the Sargassum problem in the Caribbean and Gulf, right now, the west side of Cozumel will probably be one of the few cruising destinations without fucked up, stinky beaches. The problem, and the reason you have the Walmart crowd, is you can go 3-4 days for under $300/person, and for 7 days for under $500. That's just as cheap as staying at home. Every ship, out of Galveston, always makes a trip to Cozumel. The tourist traps at the end of the cruise ship piers are a spectacle to behold. https://www.carnival.com/cruise-search?pageNumber=1&numadults=4&port=GAL&pagesize=8&sort=fromprice&showBest=true&=undefined&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwhJukBhBPEiwAniIcNeRnAq715AvGzOjeIU0exybuiGfk9NqqrNQduclid5FczgiTmfPoHhoCcFcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds If they are just "beach" people and not necessarily the "swim in the ocean types," I would just book all inclusive to Cabo. There will be Walmart types, there, as well. But you can avoid them since you are not cooped up on a ship with them. CHIEF
  14. That looked like one of those giant shotgun shell bombs with the 186,000 tungsten BBs. CHIEF
  15. I can send a prayer for MAC to go kick Pat in the nards, but to be honest, I have a feeling they are in two very different places. Matthew 18:6 6 And do not lead astray one of the weak and friendless who believes in Me. If you do, it would be better for you to be dragged down with a millstone and drowned in the bottom of the sea. CHIEF
  16. This was a great topic to resurrect. We just cleaned out my late in-laws house, in Cedar Park, last weekend and closed on the sale yesterday. There were 50 years of shit packed in there. Both of them were pack rats. My SIL is one, as well, and pretty much felt entitled to everything. We nearly filled a pickup, she filled two pickups and a 20' cattle trailer. She was going to take the new washer and dryer, but Mrs. CHIEF let her know that she bought them for her mother with her own money, so they were off limits, as well as a beautiful antique china cabinet that my wife snagged for our niece. I kept hearing Mrs. CHIEF yelling, "FUCK." I went to see what the problem was. Apparently there is this feature on Google where you take a picture of something you have, it searches the internets for it, and tells you what it is worth. So there was a bunch of shit that was worth not throwing away. There was one bowl that was worth $1250, some cherry blossom depression glass, some high dollar figurines. Shit that she can sell for a lot of money is what we brought home, as we helped her sister load the Walmart entertainment center with broken shelves for the 3 1/2 hour drive back to Tyler. Of course, the SIL starts asking about shit she cannot find. SIL: Where is the Waterford Crystal punch bowl set? Mrs. CHIEF: Don't know. (Its been at our house for 15 years) SIL: Where are granddaddy's chaps? Mrs. CHIEF:Don't know. (Been at our house for 10 years) SIL: Where is granddaddy's accordion? Mrs. CHIEF: Don't know (been in my gun safe for 5 years) Thats just the tip of the iceberg. CHIEF
  17. Hey now. They have to use his bed, and eat in the kitchen. I'm not THAT much of a pushover. CHIEF
  18. I never win raffles. But a family friend that is on our HOA wildlife committee (we have so many deer that they trap about 1500 a year)badgered me into buying six tickets for $100. I told her I didn't really need anymore guns. Well, I won. So I'm getting an AR chambered in .300 blk. So now I have to get a new can chambered for .30. So out another $1200ish. CHIEF
  19. Shit. We got a lot of bars in Granbury, but the consistent numero uno is the Chili's bar. Not big enough to have an Applebee's yet, we can only aspire. If you are here, just to drink in Granbury, those would be the cheapest spots for decent booze. 10K or under population, those are the safe bets. CHIEF
  20. Of course. In the San Antonio thread, he said his family thought Applebee's was pretty "high cotton", and ate there for special occasions. After oil prices collapsed in 1985, my spot was Long John Silver's. Just acknowledging a kindred spirit, in a slight ball busting way. I totally understand. CHIEF
  21. Well, obviously you can show them you are a "high roller" at any Applebee's in San Antonio. CHIEF
  22. After watching cruisers disembark from the pier in Cozumel a couple of weeks ago, I would have to say Carnival and Disney have to be the run away leaders on 400 lb. bald guys with tribal tattoos, and 250 lb. wives in thong bikinis. I have only went on one cruise. It was the Alaskan cruise on Celebrity. It was pretty good. But I really don't ever want to go on another, but that would be the one to go on. The time in port is way too short. Not really enough time to do anything but their shitty excursion racket, or shop for tourist shit. I'm sure it is designed that way so the cruise line can get a cut of it. CHIEF
  23. Very true. I know several dudes that graduated with CHIEF Jr. that still want the kind of wool they pulled in high school. Only now, they are college dropouts, working dead end jobs for $40k/year. They went from Biff before Marty's dream, to Biff after. They need to hit the gym, eat right, and get their ass in a trade school. Union plumbers, electricians, and metal workers make a very comfortable living. CHIEF
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