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mchookem

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  1. did it rain for Texas Tech on Thanksgiving 2019? maybe it was just misty. 

    it rained for a KU game a few years ago...i bought tickets from a bigwig at work and we were 50 yard line under the underhang, it was quite funÂ đŸ€˜đŸ˜ƒ

  2. 1 hour ago, JimmyJames said:

    Yep. Trump is the only person in history dumb enough to not recognize the presidential moment for what it was. If he had half a clue he could have easily won by treating the pandemic seriously but thank God he’s a total fucking moron and that ironically saved the country from the abyss.  He will never run again because he’s a complete fucking scam artist coward. 

    i mean that's been my constant refrain about pretty much everything for the past 4 years... thank god his cruelty and evil was matched by his incompetence! 😳

     

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  3. On 3/29/2021 at 1:10 PM, Bama Chick said:

    Yeah, Fred is the only sane and decent “internet main character” in the entire series.

    And I need deets on Mama Watkins. Seems like both Ron and Jim (and Fred actually) have Asian “wives” that basically function as personal assistants/employees and I’m a little concerned it’s a mail order/trafficking/hostage type situation. Ron is obviously half Asian. So, what’s the backstory on his mother?

    Seems like they’ve set up a compound for reformed incels to buy an Asian companion to lose their virginity in the Philippines and it’s fucking sketchy and creepy.

    YES. add the asian porn fetish and some of the sexual comments they've casually made and that's exactly the bell that was going off for me VERY LOUDLY.

    fucking creepy and GROSS 😝 

     

  4. i would assume there's also some sort of 'cost of living' baked into the salary - i.e., all things being equal, a life guard in Los Angeles County is going to make significantly more than one in Nueces County b/c LA costs way more $$$ than Corpus. aren't most or many CA jobs like that? (and jobs in other super expensive markets)  

  5. 2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Watching episodes 3 and 4 of the HBO QAnon docuseries.

    Jesus, these fucking assholes.

    Jim and Ron Watkins need an assbeating, no matter if they are Q or not.

    yeah, fucking creeps. man.

    not shocked to find out they are all into porn as well and that Ron has a sex doll lol. 

    what did they describe, Bannon 'activating an army of incels' or something...accurate.

  6. yep, our booster is DOA but it's low priority, as our pool reno currently looks like this...

    2 weeks in...new tile and mastic/mortar/coping repairs complete. sundeck refinish was done thursday and cured all weekend, they had to finish it first before the plaster, which is scheduled for the coming week.

    i would be all smiles except...one of our lights is out and our pool was so small we only needed one, so we told them we just wanted to cap it and fill it in. that detail seems to have gotten lost somewhere as the hole/light is still there. but when i brought it up to the reno manager last week he seemed apologetic and said 'no worries, we'll get it taken care of'...so i'm hopeful they can quickly fill it in and we can stay on schedule and get this done in a month!

    so basically...so far we're having the exact opposite experience as Landomatic lol

    (sorry man, that's enraging!)

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, tantric superman said:

    I think that is being a bit too generous.  I don't think they even want to "abandon to a more expensive private sector approach"  I think think they truly appear to not give a fuck, and are basically telling those who can't get theirs to fuck off.

    Good god, I'd love for the Republicans to be a party that offered an intelligent alternative.  They aren't even offering  a stupid alternative on issues.

    YES. i had some kind of epiphany during the past couple of months, the deep freeze and the vaccination rollout in Texas especially...

    there is absolutely a large faction of our citizenry that views life through a lens of 'every man for himself' or 'i got mine, you get yours', etc.

    that small town mayor or whoever in Texas, the one that resigned bc of his fb rant about people being lazy and you have to 'take care of yourself!' and 'stop expecting help especially from the government'? as our electric grid shut down and water got cutoff and basic services were failing? he was right in that he was speaking for a significant portion of our country.

    it really clarified with the vaccination rollout...i mean, if you personally did not have access to fast technology and equipment, were not technologically astute and comfortable working with it, or have someone in your family or friends ('your people') that could help you...well, so sorry older or poorer person, you're SOL. oh, and also, no more masks! so good luck and may the odds be forever in your favor!

    i mean, i just really thought about the impact that had on people that didn't have a macbook or laptop or fast internet or time where they could randomly and for hours at a time F5 looking for appts. and be able to click hereherehereandhere fast enough.

    anyway... it's been a bit liberating bc i feel like i at least kind of 'get' where these folks are coming from now...life is a battle, a competition, survival of the fittest (or most privileged or richest or luckiest or whatever). 

    i also think that's why the gun culture is so prolific in this country, it all ties in.

    in a way it sort of makes sense...we are animals and that's how the animal world operates.

    one would hope we (as a species) would have higher aspirations (without the caveat of having to adhere to a specific set of religious beliefs)...that our mere self-awareness and consciousness would elevate us.

    but i don't think so. 

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  8. not just the border, and not just dental care. we have friends* that have retired near Guadalajara and they are appreciating the healthcare as well. the husband does come back here to his cardiologist bc he had quad bypass a few years ago and prefers to see that same doctor, but they've both had other medical procedures and issues that they determined were cheaper for them to just pay out-of-pocket than the hassle of traveling back here and dealing with our system.

    *anecdotal but real heh

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