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    What’s it like to be constipated? I drop one every morning after my coffee/breakfast without fail. Usually have at least one other BM later in the day. I’m 58 and I’ve never been constipated.
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    Bourbon

    HouTex replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    Yea, the posters here are not as bad as some hobbyists in other areas. The wine geeks, for example, on some wine boards think it's their God-given right to get current vintages of classified Bordeaux at 1980 prices for around $35 per bottle for First Growths and around $15 per bottle for Second-Fifth Growths. No one but them are qualified to truly enjoy the best wines in the world so they blame the producers, the negociants, the exchange rates, governments, the three tier system, etc. They rarely acknowledge that market forces are largely responsible for the current state of the wine market. A growing group of people around the globe with more $$ than ever are chasing a fixed amount of product. That leads me to a question: Is the bourbon craze going on world wide or is it mostly an American thing?
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    Bourbon

    HouTex replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    That there is so much complaining and whining about how expensive the hard to get stuff has become when there is a lot of really good stuff out there at reasonable prices.
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    Bourbon

    HouTex replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    That there is so much complaining and whining about how expensive the hard to get stuff has become when there is a lot of really good stuff out there at reasonable prices.
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    Bourbon

    HouTex replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    As I’m enjoying WT 101 this evening with Israel under attack I just don’t get the angst from chasing all of the crazy expensive Bourbon.
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    Can’t tell if you are serious. Harris County has almost 4.8 million people. There are only 195 people with or suspected with covid in ICU throughout the county and 527 in general beds. Those numbers have been continually dropping since January. The only people who actually believe in the red level threat are Lina and a few useful idiots.
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    The unknown long term effects are unknown. And there may be none at all. The long term effects of the vaccine are unknown as well. I and my family took that risk and got the shots. I’m only saying that it would be a tougher call if my kids were young. Another data point for me is that I know so many people with college aged kids and younger and none of them have said it was worse than the common cold for their kids. That and the death stats show that the seasonal flu is more deadly than covid for people under 20. So it’s not a no brainer either way for me.
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    This. No one in Harris County takes the red level seriously.
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    What you think is crazy and what I think is crazy are two different things. There are unknowns on both sides of this. All of the available data shows that youngsters are at very little risk from covid. It’s completely reasonable to not vaccine your young children in this unique case. I’m also saying you are not foolish to have your young children vaccinated for covid. For those of you who might think I’m generally antivax read my first post on this topic. My whole family has been fully vaccinated.
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    This right here. All in the Family was the best. Too bad we can’t have a lovable bigot these days.
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    That’s not what my restaurant owner friends are saying. Get ready for very high prices at restaurants.
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    Y’all know the issue about staffing, right? Waiters and many people are make more on unemployment now. And maybe no end in sight.
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    You can still get covid after the shot. My 91 year old father with major medical issues was in the hospital for a few days with non-flu issues last week and they routinely test new patients. He had covid (had 2 positive tests). He never had a fever or other flu related issues. He was never treated for covid and he came home when the other issues subsided. So he got covid but it didn’t do anything to him. He got his last shot in mid Feb.
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    One of the best radio stations ever.
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    Bourbon

    HouTex replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    Rent a U haul.
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    Funny (actually sad) about NY fucking up the rollout. I have some friends who are from Texas but live and work in NY. They have spent the entire pandemic in Texas. Most of their NY friends came down to Texas in Feb/March to get vaccinated.
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    ^^^ This. It’s not the arrow it’s the indian.
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    The area covered by SETRAC (25 counties, 9.3 million people-my earlier 8.5 million number was a little low) has 291 confirmed and suspected Covid cases in the ICU. Lowest amount since November 7.
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    The emails each say that unless you delete the app you’ll continue to get YTTV unless the other one discontinues the service. And there’s no new customers. So it sounds like you’ll continue to get YTTV over Roku. Just don’t delete the app.
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    That’s why I watch SETRAC.org’s hospitalization numbers on a daily basis. It’s more real time. The hospitals in the 8.5 million person SE Texas region have been showing significantly improving numbers since January. Today’s ICU bed numbers are the lowest since early November and general bed usage is the lowest since mid November.
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    Many of those deaths could be from several months ago. I follow the daily reported cases at KHOU.com and for Houston you can hover your mouse over each reported death and the details pop up (age, race, co-morbidity, actual date of death). There is at least a two week delay in the actual date of death and more often the actual date of death is from 2-5 months earlier than the date the death is reported. Today, for example, only four of the reported deaths actually occurred in April 2021 and one person actually died last December.
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    Highly recommend The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larsen. It’s about my Avatar’s family life during the blitz. London life continued largely uninterrupted while around 45k civilians in the city were killed in the bombings. Churchill’s daughter attended deb parties in the city while bombs were falling. One night a bomb destroyed their late night after party venue. They just went to another bar. I love their defiance. They were not pussies. God how I hate the 21st century.
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    Just finished Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for the third time. Hitler was one lucky SOB for a long time. Evil too, of course.
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    They say one fiber, just one, of asbestos in your lung can stay there and cause mesothelioma 30 years later. But I’m betting it’s a million to one shot. I wouldn’t worry about it.

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