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Born to Run

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  1. Gotcha. Yeah I don’t know many who talk politics at work either. Nah didn’t mean anything deep, just noting it’s funny who we’re cordial with irl vs behind the screen.
     
    Anyhow, I’ve got to get back to picking up beer bottles along the highway to make up for my losses from that goddamn Biden and his policies!!1!   Mortimer…We’reback.gif
    It's all copper these days, but if you don't want to strip construction sites at night I suggest aluminum cans. Trending up on per lb price and as your a fisherman, you operate in a target rich environment. I figure once aluminum hits $900 a lb I'll be able to fish for nearly free with the way some people drink beer. Any day now its happeninh is just taking a bit because aluminum is so damn light.
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  2. Fished half day today solo. Caught a few, lost a few. Everyone I talked to had a slower day. Saw few fish and most I caught I didn't see. All were quality and healthy, no dinks. Had a pig on that just ran and ran damn near to backing and then turned and spit the hook without me getting a good look.
    Not sure which is worse, knowing or not knowing how big with a good visual.

    Guess I need to work Sat and go back once more next week before it's too hot.


  3. I imagine most of the open carry people daydream about the different scenarios where they would be called into action and be the hero. It’s fucking fantasy cosplay.
    A relative used to mail me NRA magazines back in the day and it was all fear porn and "good guy with a gun saves the day". Dude never got to save the day and shoot some marauding (likely black) thug and instead died of shitty life and health choices. Man he spent a lot of timing preparing to shoot another human.
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  4. Most people that carry here dont believe in open carry. Not necessarily not believe in the law, just that it’s ignorant to show your cards. Sort of antithetical to the purpose for those that feel the need to carry.  That’s my takeaway mental polling from active involvement in the gun owners thread over the last however many years going back to the scat site. 
    Yet most that oppose open carry would freak the fuck out if it was banned. I think it's the dumbest fucking thing and completely goes against notions of discretion and courtesy that was taught to us as young hunters. Don't frighten the non -gun owner. That's both courtesy and self-serving to protect your right to own guns. It's basic, don't be a dick and keep your rights.

    Now days it's fuck your feelings I'm going to parade my AR around.
    And for some reason we let the fringe set the rules.
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  5. I grew in a shitty part of Houston and kept a loaded shotgun under my bed through high school. Carried on a commercial construction project when I went back to Houston and we were working nights. Everyone did and we still had issues.
    Moved to West Austin and haven't carried since. Pistol is in a safe by the bed. All my other guns are in a safe.

    I'm far more worried about gun accidents than I am about self defense. And anecdotally I know more people that have experienced death or injury due to gun accidents or friends or family going nuts (multiple horrible incidents) than from home invasion or robbery (zero shots fired). One of my friends that carries in Houston got robbed and when he tried to draw he got the fuck beaten out of him instead of just handing over his wallet and watch. Fuck living in fear or shooting someone over possessions.

    We sold the family ranch so my son hasn't had a ton of shooting experience since. I'm pretty leary of public gun ranges and we share many other hobbies that don't lead to fucking death.

    I can’t even imagine feeling so scared in my own home or driving around town that I needed a gun.
    I feel bad for y’all.
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  6. Can we stop with the popularity equals merit bullshit. Hootie has a top 10 all time sales album. The Force Awakens is #5 all time box office gross. The fact that (a likely overstated) number of simpletons passionately show up at rallies is about as compelling as New Kids on the Block poster sales in the late 80s 
    Except we choose to give an exceptional amount of power to the single winner of popular vote contest, then we decided to skew that vote to favor the winner of the common clay of the new west over general majorities. Then we did nothing to check that power when it proved to be dangerous and horrible. Then we ceded power to a retarded narcissistic who took us to the brink of facism, he barely ceded, we all ceded the threat was over and started whistling past our own graves.

    This is our concern dude.
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  7. Spaghetti and meat sauce is always an easy way to stretch a buck.
    Cajun stewed chicken legs over white rice is super easy and a hit.
    3 cheap-ass frozen pizzas works.
    Refried bean and cheese tostadas.
    HEB marinated chicken thighs for fajitas (about 3-4 lbs) on the grill,
    tortillas, 2-3 cans of refrieds.
    Shakshuka.
    Breakfast for dinner: pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage patties.
    Fideo.
    I could do this all fucking day.
    Red Beans and Rice most errday if it's a Monday over here. Sometimes with Tasso, or ham hocks, or old frozen pork scraps. Sometimes more vegetarian. Always slams
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  8. Ugh, it’s very hard to break through to the “supporting Russia cause of Orthodox” people.  Converts tend to be the worst. In a shitty situation, I ended up in a long car ride with one who just kept coming back to the subject no matter how I tried to duck it, and got cranky when I told him I wouldn’t be setting foot in a Moscow Patriarchate church so long as Kirill was around. 
     
    He got super upset when I explained that Ukrainians shouldn’t be expected to care about the intricacies of canon law and who has the right to grant autonomy at a time when Russian priests were blessing the missiles that were blowing up in their hospitals and apartments. His response was “God’s laws must take precedence over earthly concerns.” 
    Laws like "Thou shalt not kill"?
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  9. Former fatty-ish here -- 260 at 6'3" in my late 20s/early 30s.  I'm now around 200 at 41yo. Cutting back a bit for another visible abs summer (douche alert), when I'll be low 190s.
    Is it simply or just a lifestyle change? Not quite. it took the better part of a decade for my wife and I to deprogram ourselves from our poor people lifestyle patterns and the typical American diet. We are still working on it but are pretty close to a good equilibrium that allows us to have fun but not pack the pounds back on.
    But I think it's facile to chalk it up to diet. Or wrapping it up neatly in a package of just lifestyle change. Most people need to be comfortable with it being dozens or hundreds of small good habits that you build, and bad habits that you lose until, one day, you blink, and you can't believe how you looked in pictures or what you used to eat.
    But I agree with those in here that think it's asking a lot to make a broad lifestyle change. But to ask people to do something small better a few times a month until, a year or two down the road, it aggregates into a lifestyle change? That's fair. 
    Yep that's exactly it. I used to not feel comfortable eating a meal without milk, a soda or maybe a lemonade for a drink. It just wasn't "right". So I didn't drink sodas or anything with sugar for about a decade until water became normal, maybe sparkling water at a nice meal.

    I used to have a small dessert after dinner. Mostly nope there too.
    I used to get fries, mostly nope. If I do I'm splitting a small fry maybe.

    Over time I just don't want fries. I don't want carbs. But you start eating that shit and the body wants it more.

    I relaxed a bit, I'll order a coke on a plane because it's like 4oz of shit not 44 Oz and trust me after you obstain for awhile the little airline soda cup is amazing and enough sugar.
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