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Scheiss Meister

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  1. Just like with teens dealing with hormone floods, keep in mind that no matter how miserable your experience is, hers is far worse. Be there for her, be patient, supportive, and comforting, and get fireproof Kevlar armor, with a chain mail overlay.
  2. What if there were no rhetorical questions? (Old as shit, I know. Still, what if...)
  3. Thank you. I thought so, but sometimes things aren't always as they seem.
  4. A question for the Surly Law Brigade: Let's say that the person taking that video sees the old man pull that gun, feels that his or her life is in imminent danger (as seems likely they did due to their rapid displacement to another location), and instead of running pulls a firearm of their own and perforates the shit out of the old guy. Would that not clearly be a case of self defense and justifiable homicide under Texas law? If not, why not?
  5. Tracer rounds, which can have an incendiary effect.
  6. My neighbors are going to lose their minds when I do that here. Don't try this at home my ass! That's fucking awesome!
  7. He just sounds nasty. Well he pretty much is.
  8. I ended up having to change out the pump, too. I have a spare contact switch, and am looking for a more robust pump for my next replacement. Pumps from Tractor Supply and other local stores have plastic impellers, which wear out pretty quickly in my well. I'm looking for a good pump with steel or brass impellers to run down the well when I have to replace this one. Hopefully that one will last longer than a few years. I'm getting too damn old to pull that pump up by myself comfortably.
  9. This time has been a journey. The points are good and I was getting power all the way through, so I had to pull the pump out of the well to check it. 90 feet of pipe later, I find that a wire has rubbed against the side of the pump and parted. I spliced the wire and bump tesed it and it still wouldn't run. I found that the capacitor in the control box burst, probably due to the parted wire, so I need a new box (the burst capacitor made a real mess). I am now searching for a new control box, but I need to help my dad with some stuff today, so it will probably be late tonight before I get the well back into service. I love living the easy, relaxed country life.
  10. Indeed. And when I got to my first appointment, I found out that it was diarrhea. At least I have been places this morning where I could use someone else's water for that. Now I'm back home, and it's time to dig into the emergency stores. At least we have that.
  11. When you are on a private well, you will always find out that your pump went out while you are taking your morning shower and the pressure drops to nothing. On a related note, your well will only go out when you have other important things scheduled for that day that you cannot defer, delaying the start of the necessary work on the well. Shit.
  12. All of these involuntary sacrifices to the gun god so that some people can continue to have their fantasies of murdering public officials that they don't like or anyone whom they consider "thugs". Fucking disgusting.
  13. That's what would happen if my oldest younger brother tried hang gliding. There could be only one tree for 100 miles, and he'd hit it. His scars have scars.
  14. As someone who goes by his middle name I support this message.
  15. Who would hate Taco Tuesday? That's un-American!
  16. Hell of a thump on her melon. Not ripe yet. Damn I bet that hurt.
  17. My mom's favorite weapon of correction. Those things can sting like hell. One with a cracked handle once broke while she was paddling my younger brother. You'd have thought she gutted him from the hollering he let out.
  18. I have several Trumpist Facebook friends who have been posting more violent fantasy posts lately. Like "We ain't played cowboys and leftists." and shit like that. I don't think that the chance of violence, organized or other, is very high, but it is not zero. To answer the inevitable question, I keep contact with these folks because they were once sane and I hope they could be again, and they tell me a lot about the Trumpist mindset. Gotta know the oposition.
  19. Some sort of targeted EMP, if that's possible, would put paid to the noise for a bit.
  20. I once heard that when it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below. Doesn't sound like that much of a relief, but I've never experienced it, so... Thanks for sharing your experiences with us, @mooseoutfront.
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