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South Austin

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  1. His floor for losing his virginity is 62 years old.
  2. I can only offer a summer perspective. I’m not a skier, and have only vacationed in mountain towns during the summer. This was my first trip to Park City, and I’ve also been to Breckenridge and Crested Butte. Compared to each other, they have their pros and cons. Park City is by far the easiest to get to. It’s a 2.75 hour direct flight from Austin, the rental cars are on site at the SLC airport, and it’s an easy 40-minute drive to Park City. Breckenridge is a tougher haul. When you get to Denver, you shuttle practically to a different town for a rental car, and then it’s a 2-hour drive to Breck. Crested Butte is somewhere in between – layover in Denver to catch a small plane to Gunnison, and from there about a 40-minute drive to CB. I think Crested Butte has more charm, but that’s purely a matter of personal taste. It’s the smallest of the towns, so the dining options aren’t as plenty. There’s much more to do in Breckenridge and Park City, and the Olympic Park in Park City is far better than the adventure park in Breck. The hiking in CB is great, but it seems like there are more options in Breck and PC. Regarding the whiteness in PC, yes, that’s generally true for most mountain towns. But I noticed a lot more nonwhites in PC, perhaps because it wasn’t ski season. It took me a couple days to get over the fact that I was in the state of Utah. But I didn’t get a sense of “Mormonness” around town. It seems like most of the locals – the rafting guides, servers, bartenders, art gallery staff – are from places other than Utah, and wanted to retreat to a mountain/ski town. If it’s any indication, there were pride flags hanging along Main Street. The beer flows abundantly in PC. I could go the rest of my life without returning to Breckenridge. But I’ll want to go back to Crested Butte and Park City.
  3. This weather doesn’t suck.
  4. A courtroom silent-farter with bad hair coloring application and a secret minority interest in a Philadelphia landscaping company.
  5. Yup. They’ve got uniforms and everything. It’s really great.
  6. Operation Midnight Hammer???? Sounds like a porn title.
  7. @SydneyCarton, read 11/22/63. You’ll love it. It has a nice detour into Derry. And I recall his depiction of 1960s Lower Greenville Dallas is a bit Derry-like. And I’m a big fan of Rose Madder, though it doesn’t get the level of recognition of most of his other works. I’ve read it twice.
  8. But our pizza is better!!!!
  9. Kai Money is going to stuff him in a locker.
  10. Priest Holmes and James Brown are responsible for that program’s demise.
  11. “It could’ve been worse.”
  12. That sounds like something someone who’s hiding his Tulsi Gabbard crush would say.
  13. You’re going to be really pissed when he has sex with your wife. Again.
  14. 70,000 are at one college two hours away.
  15. I get that advice. I'm not a constant heavy drinker, and I'm not looking for a magical hangover cure because I frequently get shitfaced. Short of abstaining from alcohol altogether, I'm more interested in a supplement that combats the negative affects of alcohol on the system, because even a few drinks that doesn't cause hangover symptoms the next morning can still create toxins in our body. And bringing this back to the longevity topic of the thread, I want to continue to enjoy beer and wine as I get older, and if there's a supplement that will mitigate the adverse effects of that on my body, I'm interested. And, we consume a lot of other things that aren't good for us, even things that we know are linked to higher cancer rates. BBQ, for example. There's a good amount of literature talking about how the process for smoking meats creates carcinogens. And red fatty meat in general is not as good as other leaner healthier meats. But I love BBQ, and I'm not going to quit eating it. But I don't eat it every week.
  16. It really is.
  17. Yesterday evening I tried the Cheers Restore, for science. I’d give it a similar review. After more than two drinks, it’s almost impossible to make my 4am wake up for the early morning workout. But after several glasses of wine last night, it was no problem. I sensed a little rust at the start of the workout, and it was probably because I didn’t hydrate as well as I could have. I’m still going to maintain my general rule of not drinking during the workweek. But on those nights that are the exception, or if it’s the last night of vacation and I have an early flight home, or at the end of a college football Saturday, these pills are useful. But they shouldn’t be a license to drink more.
  18. And his father was in on the Kennedy assassination.
  19. Yes, but not about whether you get free checked bags.
  20. Man, the reboot of Christine looks awesome.
  21. South Austin

    Burgers

    You grew up in the Bon Aire building?
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