Jump to content

Scheiss Meister

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    3460
  • Joined

Everything posted by Scheiss Meister

  1. I've lived in several small towns. People in small towns are the backstabbingest motherfuckers I've ever seen. They only have someone's back when they've cut it out and put it in the back of their truck.
  2. I used to work with a guy whose dad grew sorghum and cotton in Robstown. He went to UT, and he sent his oldest son to UT. When my former co-worker was a senior in high school, his dad told him that, while The University was the greatest school in Texas, he (former co-worker) should go to aggy. He did, and got a degree in Parks and Rec. He never worked in Parks and Rec, but he knew the shit out of how to grow grass.
  3. I have been thinking about my post upthread, and I have an improvement on it: Federalize the entire Texas National Guard and Air National Guard to address the "border crises". Have them remove the floats and razor wire and all other non-federal obstructions and store them at Fort Cavazos. Then set them as guards to prevent any further fuckery by Abbott. Abbott won't have anyone beyond DPS to execute his demented orders, and he won't be able to get to the removed material.
  4. I admit that I have not seen this. If this is so, let her keep finding out.
  5. President Biden should send active duty Navy, Army, and Marine troops to remove the floats and razor wire and dare Abbott to try to stop them. Fuck this "sue them and let the Supreme Court rule that states have the right to murder people at their borders" shit.
  6. Why, 3 and 8, of course. Am I allowed to use a stick, club, or boat oar to keep the others from getting out?
  7. I saw on the news last night that Banks will not receive a pay-out or severance package. They've also started calling it a resignation, when she clearly said retirement. I don't think that she knew about the revisions and saw that she was going to be the scapegoat. I think she objected to what was going on and hit the bricks. Being who and what they are, aggy will smear her for not playing along.
  8. And the F-16s can haul and shoot nearly anything in the NATO inventory. Good to have that capability.
  9. There may be some haggling about Wagner = Russia, but an invasion from Belarusian territory will definitely trigger Article 5 on Belarus. Any Russian assets in Belarus would be subject to "accidental" destruction, or intentional if used to assist the invasion. If invaded, I don't think that Poland would balk at taking out all military assets in Belarus, just to be sure.
  10. Next time I call in sick I'm blaming an imbalance of the humors.
  11. I was just struck by the fact that 150 years ago Radical Republicans were the ones trying to complete the task of removing slavery and all of its vestiges from our country, while now Radical Republicans are the ones trying to whitewash and downplay slavery. Any time the Republican party uses the "Party of Lincoln" label,they should spontaneously burst into flames. They couldn't be any more the opposite of what they were.
  12. But they'd still take the fucking $50,000 and claim that it's their tax money, anyway.
  13. But the "I"s are capitalized. It should read "i only type in lower case because i hate capitalism."
  14. If @Walden Ponderer was still at aggy, it would be interesting to get his take on this.
  15. Over the past several years I have hired at least five operators with the industry, intelligence, and education to train to replace me. They have all moved on to more lucrative endeavors. I get pressured to train others with less on the ball to replace me, but if the potential isn't there, I can't manufacture it. This not just my department, it's all of the municipality at which I work. ETA - Pertinent to this thread, one of those five moved to North Carolina, another to Oregon, and another to Colorado.
  16. You have no idea. Wait, you worked at a wwtp before. You do have an idea what's involved. Never mind.
  17. My daughter (UT grad, born in Nacogdoches) and her fiance moved to Oregon a few months ago and have no intention of ever moving back to Texas. My wife and I are going up to see them in September, and we wouldn't come back if we weren't needed for her mom and my dad. They are both closing in on their final days. Once they are gone, all bets are off. I hate that the state that I love has become so insufferable.
  18. This will probably delay his promotion to PFC. And I'm sure that Corporal is right out.
  19. Neither the Battle of the Bulge nor Pickett's Charge ended their respective wars. WW II went on for six more months in Europe, and involved hard fighting the whole time. The Civil War lasted almost two more years after Pickett's Charge/Gettysburg, and involved many more horrific battles. I don't think that anyone is saying that crushing the Russian offensive in the north will end the war, although things could happen where it could. It's more likely that it will further deplete Russian resources and give Ukraine a better chance to win the war and end it earlier than they otherwise might. We'll have to be patient and see.
  20. No ketchup, please.
  21. In much younger days I worked in several food establishments. More often than you would think someone would pound on the door or the drive through window 15 or 30 minutes after closing time demanding that we open up and feed them. It was fun to ignore them until they left. Or come in just before closing and camp out for an hour or more. At one place we started turning off the TV at closing time, but some of the assholes would turn it back on. At another we had to unplug the jukebox and video games at closing, whether someone was playing or not. Fuck around, lose your quarters. I don't give a shit.
  22. I'm sure that they have enough for at least one or two executions. How much ammo the guys behind have is not as important as how much ammo the guys that they are keeping in line think they have. After the 20th Maine made their bayonet charge down Little Round Top, they took quite a few rebel prisoners. One of the men detailed to take the prisoners to the rear approached the regimental commander, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and told him that he only had one bullet, and some of the others had none. Chamberlain pointed to the southern prisoners and said that he should make sure that the prisoners didn't know that.
  23. Damn, that's Mr. Snek.
  24. My dad's refrigerator is exactly as described above, except the light no longer works, and you can't get to it to replace the bulb for all the stuff in there. The only thing that you can always count on being fresh is the two gallons of milk. He doesn't drink tea or water, just milk. I like milk, but damn. That's too much. Sadly, other than the refrigerator references, too many of these describe me. Every cable I've ever owned - check. Enormous quantities of random screws, bolts, washers, and nuts that never match the task at hand - check. "The Drawer" with miscellaneous items dating back to 1988 - check. Yep, I'm old.
×
×
  • Create New...