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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. I hear south Austin's mom can pull a pretty good vacuum.
  2. I think one aspect of the border that has fueled GOP opposition that gets overlooked is the war on terror. There are, or at least used to be, many Republicans who legitimately worried about terrorists crossing easily. Now that we are over twenty years out from 9/11 and pretty much done with troops on the ground war on terror, many of those people have been brainwashed and pushed to the far right by hyperpartisanship, but there is a chance for many others. And of course there were always those who just used terrorists crossing as additional justification for their position on illegal immigration, whether it was due to good old fashioned racism or economic anxiety for laboring classes or whatever.
  3. I don't really get the complaints about the tech not changing or the buildings looking the same. There are still buildings that look the same today as they did three hundred years ago. Turns out when you build something out of stone it lasts a really long time. As far as the tech not changing, it is a fantasy series, not a historical series. If this fantasy world mirrored our own in those regards, there would have been handgonnes (the first true handheld firearm) by the time their was armor like they depict. I thought it was an excellent episode.
  4. Once you learn to shoot a traditional muzzleloader well you should be able to shoot a modern gun even better. And the smoke is one of the best reasons to shoot one, not a reason not to, especially if you are using real BP instead of one of the substitutes.
  5. Pretty sure they don't have an open flame permit for that. I bet they didn't even get a safe work permit.
  6. Go back a bit farther than that and try out some black powder guns. @dcbcI believe still has an apparently unfired Thompson Center Seneca caplock rifle for sale in 45. That should be plenty for deer if you are up to the challenge of getting them within 50 yards or so. More if you take the time to develope a load and can shoot it accurately. But be warned, once you go old school, the new school stuff doesn't seem as fun unless you are killing pigs at night or something like that.
  7. Yeah, that pretty much sucked. Sorry to be the contrarian.
  8. Only 3 weeks younger than me, so not a problem here.
  9. Let's get this thread back on track...
  10. If I ever have reason to move out of state, I will be getting a lifetime license before I leave for sure.
  11. I gotta finish up the hunting bag and powderhorn set I've been working on. Season will be here before you know it.
  12. But would you have felt better had your boss bought you a new dad?
  13. Have that in red. Multiple bottles of milk were put in that fridge and subsequently spoiled. But it was the one year that did that, not the wife.
  14. Yeah, just caught up on this thread and am surprised money ric didn't go for the low hanging fruit here.
  15. Did they sign a bunch of Jr High players for the offensive line? DiNucci did make a pretty nice play avoiding that one tackle. I guess he is getting plenty of practice at it.
  16. Got it here. Looks like they switched to the Spanish braidcast for a few seconds before getting the regular one back up.
  17. Seems like I just watched it a few months ago on HBO Max or some other streamer. It must have been removed. Sad day, that is one of my all time favorite older westerns, partly because I used to watch it with my grandad when I was little, but also just because it is a great movie.
  18. I dunno. I can't count the number of times my wife has asked me "is it hot outside" mid afternoon on a sunny day at the end of July/beginning of August in Texas. So it should count for something.
  19. I think the incident that @Jkwellbornwas referring to was the same one I was referring to. And yes, railcars roll incredibly silently. We still roll them down (we'll, I don't anymore) to loading spots manually. One man standing at the wheel brake on the front car trying to stop it at just the right position so that the loaders can reach all the compartments of the next one. Everyone in a while youtighten down on the brakes only to realize that the brakes don't work.
  20. Our 15 month old starts dancing as soon as he hears the theme song come on. I had to get on to the oldest for skipping the intro last night. Let the little man dance.
  21. The kids watched all 25 episodes on drop day. Last night the oldest picked her four favorites and "made" me watch them with her. All were excellent.
  22. 1) a guy got pinned in the buckle between two rail cars. They were able to get his wife out there to say goodbye, but they couldn't pull the cars apart without him immediately bleeding out, so he had to chill while his wife probably spent 20 minutes looking for her keys that were actually in her purse the whole time. 2) an empty hopper car came in to be washed and loaded, but there was something oozing out of the bottom. A few guys had tried to sneak across the border in it, but their escape rope broke and they were trapped inside and turned to soup in the Texas/Mexico sun.
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