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High Plains Drifter

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  1. wettest ever, in terms of water.
  2. In Texas, charter schools are technically public schools. They don't charge tuition. Their "charter" exempts them from some state rules (depends on their charter), with the expectation that they will outperform traditional public schools. Their charter is supposed to get revoked if they don't do that. I wonder how many charter schools in Texas have had their charters revoked? Charter schools in Texas have an abysmal record: https://www.texasaft.org/policy/funding/doomed-to-fail-new-report-shows-how-charter-school-churn-harms-students-they-purported-to-help/#:~:text=Over the past decade%2C Texas,state%2C many of them abruptly. Not sure how many are shut down by the state. But 30% fail on their own for various reasons.
  3. I delivered pizza for that old Conan's on the drag, which turned into a kerbey land. I have no idea what it is now. Delivered to campus and west campus mostly. I don't think ever got a tip from a dorm. Cheap bastards would stand there with their hands out, while I counted back 14 cents from a $19.86 tab. Frats would usually tip, but half the time they'd be passed out or had left, and I couldn't ever find them. Apts usually tipped ok. Got a lot of beers as tips. On a weekend, I'd have a sixer of random beers rolling around in my back floorboard. Stoners would sometimes give me a bong hit. If the delivery was a block or two, and we weren't busy, I'd sometimes carry the pizza on my skateboard. Overall, the job sucked, and I was destroying my car, so I didn't last long. I remember there was this one scruffy dude, whose job was to bus the tables and do the dishes. I came in through the back door, and he was in the kitchen, chowing down on a pizza. He asked if I wanted a slice. I said sure, and asked if they (meaning the manager) had made him pay for it, intending to give him dollar if he had. He said, "nah, somebody just left this on their table. Didn't want it." Turns out he was taking home uneaten food left on tables.
  4. let em. They cover him already.
  5. https://apnews.com/article/ap-white-house-gulf-name-dispute-3f43c519a4b4f4661dd0831421943ef7 DotARd not letting AP reporters into press briefings because they are still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. Seriously, all reporters should just boycott all doTArd press briefings. He would starve without the attention. Its not like they say anything that's not a lie anyway.
  6. Going to need pics of the wife to make a ruling on this one.
  7. Some motherfucker in the lab I work in left an open(!) gallon jug of 95% methanol (toxic, extremely flammable, burns with an invisible flame) just sitting in the fume hood, with the exhaust fan off. Couldn't be bothered to take the 15 seconds and screw the lid back on return it to the flammables cabinet, which is like 5 feet away from the fume hood. I know who did it, even if I have no direct evidence. Who knows how long that shit has been sitting there, evaporating away. And of course we get safety audited, and the safety nazis wrote us up for it (as they should have). So now we all have to take a chemical safety course. 4 hours sitting in room listening to some 20 year old nerd drone on. We're lucky we didn't fined. Sweartogod, post docs are some of the dumbest assholes alive. I'm surprised the dumb motherfucker didn't light a cigarette and immolate himself like a Buddhist monk while he was in there dicking around. And the dingle-cherry on the shit sundae is that I have been assigned by the lab director to inventory all the chemicals and make sure they are all properly stored, with the proper paperwork filed with the safety nazis. Because the post doc who left the shit out in the first place is too busy to do it.
  8. Those eggs were his retirement. On a related note, my daily breakfast burrito went up almost a dollar in price.
  9. Anybody ever watch this cartoon? Another Mancini great.
  10. Then when they get to about 12 or 13, you spend the next _____ years (when will it end?) trying to get them to talk to you again.
  11. I'm thinking the FSD actually makes the car less safe, due to drivers thinking they can just jack off (literally or figuratively) while driving. Also those touch screens to control things like AC and the radio are inherently unsafe (and should be illegal imo) because you have to take your eyes off the road to use them. Yes, I realize that not only Teslas have the touch screens. Teslas may or may not have high passive safety and active safety (engineered safety), I don't know. But the shitass drivers cancel that right out.
  12. He's as high as kite at a Jimi Hendrix concert
  13. not sorry IAP
  14. Out that owner's name on blast.
  15. They think that you are a gang member getting initiated, and if they respond to you, you will have to kill them.
  16. Need a penny nickel, take a penny nickel. Need a nickel dime, get a job.
  17. This is some sort of joke, right? right? edit: One day I will learn to read the entire thread before responding.
  18. happens to the best of us
  19. A press conference with three toddlers wtf you are in the fucking oval office. Take your fucking hat off and put on a tie dipshit.
  20. I've actually wondered quite a bit which of these two factors was the bigger issue. I'm coming down on sexism being the bigger issue for the Magats than racism. Of course, most wouldn't admit to either. So who knows.
  21. My wife is on the board of a of a local nonprofit that is basically a nonprofit senior citizen center. They provide sit down meals, meals on wheels, legal advice, help with SS, rides to Dr. appts or shopping (I sometimes help out with the rides) , stuff like that. They are probably going to get fucked by Nazi boy and orange doTArd's fucking around. They've already started talking about what services they are going to have to cut. I asked her if they are going to tell their septuagenarian clients exactly why they are going to have to scrap the sit down meals, or whatever cuts end up happening, if any. They are planning for the worst, but no actual cuts yet. The board decided they "didn't want to make it political" if cuts actually happen. She is thinking about resigning from the board if they don't directly tell people that any cuts in services that actually happen are due to cuts in federal funding due to doTArd and Nazi boy. We'll see. Although honestly, they should all just die anyway, according to our state leaders. This quote should be on the front door to their senior citizen center: "No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that America loves for its children and grandchildren?' And if that is the exchange, I'm all in."- Texas Lt Governor Dan Patrick, speaking to Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, March 23, 2020.
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