Everything posted by CHIEF
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America's Loneliness Epidemic
It’s not complaining, I couldn’t give a single shit. I take it as a badge of honor. My grandparents were the Greatest Generation. We are the “Just Keep Your Trap Shut” generation. Social media became a thing after we were grown, and out of college. We are too busy raising families with kids in college to give a fuck. CHIEF
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America's Loneliness Epidemic
Because we don't bitch much, don't give a shit about polls, and are keeping our nose to the grindstone during our best earning years. CHIEF-Gen X
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America's Loneliness Epidemic
When I was a kid, there were no "travel teams" in my area. Pee Wee football and Lil' Dribblers was it. One or two games for about a 6-8 week period, and that was it. You made friends with teammates from kids in other areas of town that you maybe didn't go to school or church with. But you had all the time in the world to go camping, bike riding, fishing, and other things kids are supposed to do. The reason people can't do anything social anymore, is because every parent's kid is special, and needs to be on a competitive travel team instead of a rec team. CHIEF Jr. was on one for exactly one summer, and we told him it was only rec teams after that. Four games throughout the week, and tournaments all day on Saturday and Sunday is just too much. Kids are over scheduled, and the only socializing the parents have time for is talking with the other parents the other 30 hours of the week they are at the ballpark or court. I know people that have two or three kids of different ages, all on travel teams, many struggle with the financial obligations (ask grandparents to help), and if they are not at home, they are at one of the kid's sporting event. The financial part of it caused my BIL's divorce. You can't have a conversation with them, because it all evolves around their kid's sports, because that is all they have to talk about. CHIEF
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America's Loneliness Epidemic
And that is the beauty of it. CHIEF
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America's Loneliness Epidemic
We have a huge back porch with a fireplace and outdoor kitchen, it was almost every weekend with our friends when CHIEF Jr. was in elementary and junior high. When he was in high school and college, that switched to his friends being here every weekend. Now that they have all graduated and moved away or gotten married, it has pretty much dropped to 3-4 times per year. Many moved to the DFW area, but several have moved back, and more are trying, once it cools off, we will probably be back to every other weekend or so. We have always been the "notorious" party house in our community. CHIEF
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America's Loneliness Epidemic
I don't ever feel lonely, as I live in a community with a lot of work from home folks, and retirees. All I have to do is go to the clubhouse and there are multiple groups of people to talk to. The problem I have, is no one knows how to carry on a conversation anymore. No one is listening to one another, they are just thinking about the next thing they are going to say, interrupting each other, and then going down a boring rabbit hole. There is also a lot of "one upmanship." Gone are the days of the good storyteller, someone will interrupt and they never get to finish the story. At least, on Surly, you can lay out a whole conversation, or idea, and have it agreed with, or criticized. It sucks, but it is the reality I have come to realize. CHIEF
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Bijan Robinson is special
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The thread wherein the national media sucks off Texas for the first time in over a decade
I think the starters at every position on the 2005 team were better than this team's starters, but the 2005 team never had this kind of depth with no drop off. Of course, VY is the GOAT, but MM and Arch behind Quinn is pretty salty. Sark is light years better than GD, but I think Vince took GD's playbook with a grain of salt. He was just Vince being Vince. Here is my real reason to think that the 2005 Longhorns set themselves apart. 2005 USC and Ohio State would boat race anyone suiting up currently. Georgia, FSU, Michigan, UT. The 2005 Longhorns would beat the current team by about three scores. I actually think the Horseshoe at night was probably a tougher game then USC. Both were Herculean efforts. It's tough to make comparisons across decades with the ever increasing weights, heights, speed, and other "measurables."We might have a few "once in a decade" type players, but I have only seen one "once in a lifetime" player, and he wore Burnt Orange. CHIEF
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
Its mummified monkey corpses. Prelude to the mummified baby Alpaca corpses used by Equadorian shamans for good luck. I just don't have an idea why mummified baby alpaca corpses are used for "good luck" rituals. I only have one belief, that is, I will have another drink of bourbon. CHIEF
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
I guess the silver lining is they can't build artillery or replace barrels often enough to shoot all of those shells. Seven times the number but less than seven times as accurate. CHIEF
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
Do it. It’s a thumper with over 1000 lbs. of kinetic energy at 100 yards. We keep hoping TPWD will open an early deer season for black powder and straight sided cartridges. CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
CHIEF Jr. bought a 10 inch can for his .450BM and 400gr. subsonic ammo to shoot hogs out of the stand with this year. It sounds like a big pellet gun: CHIEF
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We're beating Bama
What the fuck did I wake up to? CHOEF
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
It's time to give the Russians the white phosphorus treatment on their trenches. It isn't a war crime, as long as they don't use it against civilians. Set the fuses long on the artillery to where the shell doesn't detonate but a couple of hundred feet above their heads. The Russians used it against the civilian population of Bakmut: Burn the fuckers out into the open. CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
They will eat the tunas off of the prickly pears for sure. When we hunted in Aspermont, we leased up 15,000 acres of pasture, not an oak tree on the whole place. We were overrun with hogs, you would probably see 75 a day, each. It was all prickly pear and mesquite, so there is something they are eating, just not sure what it is. CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
Just remember, there are two kinds of people in this World, those with hogs, and those that will eventually have hogs. CHIEF
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Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer….
Depends, Japanese or German edge? They have different bevels. CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
We always have a round chambered in the bolt guns, but the firing pin is not activated. I don't trust safeties. It is this way in the stand as well. You have to raise and lower the bolt before the gun will fire, which takes conscious effort. CHIEF
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Anyone got any of Margarita and ol' Victor Solovyev's hot takes lately? Haven't seen any in a while, and I don't Twitter. CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
Back on the subject of feeders. Has anyone used a 70/30 percent blend of corn to soybeans? I used a couple of sacks in my road feeder last year, and the deer ate it up. Had a buddy try it in his feeder, in the feed pen, and they kind of ignored it. Anyone had any luck on getting them to eat it? CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
Last year: To this year, just to ba able to see them side by side: Just to get a comparison on what adequate rainfall and plenty of protein can do. CHIEF
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2024: Bags Don't Beat Bankrolls
Yes, his mother is Barbara Bergen, I forgot his dad's name. I worked for her practice when I first moved to Austin in 1992. I knew Matt when he was in elementary school. Great family. They bought a little farm out by Muldoon that they would invite us to. CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
Everybody started going back through last year's game cam pics, and we found him on another guy's game cam about three-quarters of a mile away. The spring rains sure were good to him. Looks 3 1/2 last year, gonna say 4 1/2 this year. We are supposed to shoot 5 1/2 and up. I'm just not sure we are going to get the same kind of spring rains in 2024 to make him any bigger. My vote is to let him get shot this year with no repercussions. CHIEF
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
Ranger belts run about $132 a pop. I would assume maybe a little less on a Mule with a smaller belt. It takes longer to get the dust cover off on a Ranger then to replace the drive belt. CHIEF