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Snake Diggity

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  1. Wife’s car thermometer read 118 at about 5pm yesterday. My car thermometer read 111 when I picked up my kids from school at 3pm today. This is fucking crazy.
  2. We got a F1B Aussiedoodle back in November. Neither my wife nor I are/were really “dog people” but wanted our kids to have the experience. My 8 year old had been asking for a dog non stop for 5 years. 8 year old came up with the name Mason after reading about Mason the brave tornado dog, a true story of a dog who found his way back to his family after getting sucked into a tornado. We have really struggled at times adjusting to the added responsibility of a dog, and tbh we really didn’t have the bandwidth for this shit. But goddammit if this isn’t the best dog ever born. I have been the only person in the house to train him so I have a fuckload invested in him. He was potty trained by 10 weeks (within 2 weeks of us getting him). He’s NEVER shit in the house, even thru several bouts with chronic diarrhea. He is >90% responsive to sit, come, stay, fetch, fetch to pile, heel, spin, down, up, and play dead. He’s a great running partner. He plays great with the kids although my 35 lb 6 year old doesn’t know how to handle him so she’s gotten banged up rough housing with him a couple of times through no fault of his (we expected him to be 25-35 lbs, he ended up ~55 lb). I am working on getting him to enjoy the swimming pool. At this point he and I have a bond unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. His ability to read my mood and adjust accordingly to make me feel better or at least avoid making shit worse is uncanny.
  3. Yep. I normally hate fireworks, but the day that bag of shit dies, I’m putting on a show.
  4. I am pretty sure the PE firm that bought Schlitterbahn turned around and sold them to six flags. I totally agree that it is too democratized. I was thinking that exact thing when we were there. I would easily pay 50% more for there to be 30% less people but I guess the math overall doesn’t work. They would rather make a few extra bucks and have everyone leave there unhappy than not milk it and have people actually enjoy their product.
  5. He says “this is the greatest commercial they’ve ever had”, then proceeds to disparage the fuck out of the company/product by holding it up as the example of the negative impact of inflation.
  6. Uneducated white rural male boomers. Fuck em.
  7. Current prediction: 2020 map, flip Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina. Harris with 297 EV. Trump cries fraud in PA, AZ, WI, and NC.
  8. Will be very interesting to see how close Texas is. There’s zero 0% chance it goes blue this year but if it keeps trending and gets closer than ~3.5% then the following cycle it should actually be in play. Personally I think there will be a negative reaction in Texas to Harris’ race and gender and the gap will widen to 6-7%. I hope I’m wrong.
  9. Is this the thread where we get to vent about shit that used to be cool and now sucks? Schlitterbahn sure seemed enshittified yesterday. Only half the park was open (there were no signs posted to let anyone know this, when we asked a worker they said (it’s on the website”), even though tickets were full price. In that half that was open, the largest tube ride was closed. The most visible ride was out of order for half the day. The wait for the only 4 operating rides of any consequence was over 90 minutes all day long. There were no signs anywhere that indicated how long the wait was estimated to be. The 2 lazy rivers were utterly packed and the water looked like they were shooting a scene from The Impossible. I paid $24 for 2 funnel cakes that were the literal worst tasting thing I’ve eaten in the last 5 years. We've had season passes since last year and just during that time the number of operating rides at any given time has decreased and the cost of concessions has increased. Yesterday sucked.
  10. Pretty sure that’s a fake account. The 2 m’s in the handle Rammaswamy gives it away.
  11. 100% of the people who hate him really hate him. 75% of the people who love him actually hate him. You think Melania, or Don Jr., or Ted Cruz, or Lindsey Graham, or fucking ANYONE who truly knows him really loves that piece of shit? No.
  12. 42 year old war photographers can be hot as fuck. Especially if they are Kirsten Dunst. They had her out there like Charlize in Monster.
  13. Put your teeth on the curb.
  14. Mini GOTV tour Oct 1-30 with stops in Philly, Detroit, Phoenix, and Atlanta
  15. Also, intentionally making Dunst look more middle aged and hiding the warlocks for almost the entire movie was stupid.
  16. This movie is terrible. The writing is awful. The story is unbelievable (not the idea of the US falling into Civil war, the more detailed plot points like Dunst and the other dude allowing the old man and kid to join them last minute as they go do some super dangerous shit). The melodrama of journalists as the end all be all was over the top. The sound was excellent.
  17. There is no “elite level” of a fucking Tough Mudder.
  18. I have developed a huge pet peeve for people who hype sports that nobody gives a fuck about. CrossFit is top of the list. Sorry you’re not an actual good athlete, and I’m glad you’re staying active, but no I don’t give a fuck about the idiotic “sport” you’re into. Pickleball has moved into 2nd place. Anyway, it sucks that dude died. Those people should be punished.
  19. I don’t think it’s enough to just keep your cool. Clinton kept her cool in 2016. Harris has got to be ready to retaliate against Trump in a way that shows she’s smarter and of higher character than he is. It sounds easy because Trump is so stupid and such a piece of shit. But I think it requires a lot of skill to deal with someone as unique as Trump.
  20. Ineffective. The people who need to understand that don’t know what the word “denigrating” means.
  21. I don’t know, I guess I’m just the type of person that views experience as an educator turned governor as far more qualifying for the presidency than experience as a celebrity game show host or trust fund baby turned bankrupt real estate tycoon.
  22. Damn. 7 hole hitter Carlos Correa, 8 hole hitter Kyle Tucker.
  23. officespacethatsmessedup.gif That sounds like a nightmare for everybody involved (workers, patients, loved ones of patients). If someone at that place broke the law, contact an attorney or the police. Making a YouTube video is extremely unlikely to make any difference. Good luck to you.
  24. He has 10&5 rights, he will not be traded.
  25. Congrats! Great to get a take from somebody actually doing it who doesn’t appear to be full of shit. What does 6-7 shifts per month look like in terms of days/hrs per week? What was your household net worth when you went down to part time? I am beyond the “number” I originally shot for and if it weren’t for my wife wanting more and my kids being so young I would probably quit working or go part time. My job just represents way too good a value to me right now in terms of pay vs time/energy I actually put in; I work from home and essentially have my schedule set up to have half days every Friday. My kids are in elementary school, so retiring wouldn’t free me up enough to make it worthwhile; if I quit now, I’d be running errands for them and doing housework rather than anything enjoyable. I will be 55 when my youngest graduates high school and I can’t imagine working beyond that. I have told my wife that if something changes to the downside with my job (get truly miserable or laid off), I’m not getting another one, and she’s on board with that (in theory).
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