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Beau Vine

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  1. Oh whatever. What does Scott Baio say about it?
  2. We had a hell of a time getting insurance on our house in CO when we bought it last fall. We ended up getting a policy that covers about 60% of what we paid for it. IIRC, there was no one willing to do 100%. I rationalized being OK with it because the land is by far the majority of the value of our place.
  3. They will honestly need a bailout bigger than 2008 Wall Street. We're about to get socialismed!
  4. Serious answer: Lots of towns in the West (including mine) have grants available to help fire-mitigate (?) your home. I think I read that in my town, they'll send out an expert to help you figure out what you can do to lower the fire risk and give you a $5K budget to do it. I assume that this program is funded by a federal agency which will soon be shut down by President Musk because of its inefficiency.
  5. Holy fuck, I remember this guy shutting down Augie's boys in a season opener that year they played in Dell Diamond.
  6. Have you not noticed that he just moves on to the next sport where aggy will assuredly dominate?
  7. Sweatergawd I was looking at the Rose Bowl on Google Maps and this place was highlighted nearby: https://www.cintima.co/about-us
  8. That's Galapagos turtle long time for a university president.
  9. Holy shit, I just noticed that he's replacing Gerald Turner, who has been there for fucking ever... ie, I think he took the job when I was an undergrad there.
  10. They're frantically pissed about the US winning gold two years in a row at the world junior hockey tournament while Canada doesn't even medal, so I'm not sure that's a joke.
  11. Trump just wants Canada to be a state so that he can control the huge faucet that brings water to California. Brilliant policy, IMHO.
  12. She definitely does. I'm the asshole here, but she has huge control issues, and my whole childhood was spent fighting against my parents' control issues, so it's just a bad mix.
  13. Too good -- "Make yourself at home! But I'm going to insist on not letting you do anything for yourself like you would if you were actually home!" She's from Arkansas, so my wife always claims it's a Southern thing.
  14. Beau Vine

    Getting old sucks

    Had a colonoscopy this morning. Nothing but jello to eat yesterday and had to get up at 3:30am today to choke down the laxatives. But if you've over 45, this is absolutely necessary.
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  16. Spent a week with the in-laws and it wasn't as bad as usual. FIL is fine, but MIL treats everyone like they're 5 and doesn't want to let anyone do anything for themselves, which drives me batshit. She sets a table for breakfast every morning -- knife, spoon, fork, napkin -- even if everyone is just eating cereal and toast like they always do. The last thing I want to do when I wake up is sit down at a table to eat with everyone so I always skip that, which bothers her. One morning, I was getting some leftover pizza out of the fridge and she comes into the kitchen hurriedly and asks, "Do you want me to heat the oven up for you?" and I kind of snapped at her ("No, I don't want you to heat the oven up for me!") because I was standing right next to the oven at the time, plus I eat cold pizza for breakfast regularly, which my wife told me she had already told her, plus who heats up leftover pizza in an oven anyway? The day after Christmas we got up early to start the 12-hour drive back and she's bent out of shape because we're not eating breakfast at the table with knives and spoons and forks... Wife and I are in the kitchen talking and she comes in and says, "We have spoons if you want yogurt!" I blurted out "YOU HAVE SPOONS???!" which got a disapproving glare from the wife, but now gives me something to annoy my wife with every day since -- every time my wife says she's hungry, I say, "We have spoons if you want yogurt!"
  17. All of these people are nothing but parasites.
  18. This guy is angrier than the sea today, my friends:
  19. Interesting strategy:
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