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RDCanecutter

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  1. Yep. Working in my early 20s in a print shop, we would speed up the cleaning by wrapping rags around our hands and just splashing around with those -enes. tick tock
  2. At night, they'd ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
  3. During WW2 my grandad (aircraft electrician w/ 9th AF) developed a loathing of the Red Cross. Something involving a girl they rescued from who knows what hell, and Red Cross basically treated her like shit.
  4. Consequence of the Colonial Service, what. Nothing a gallon of Bombay Sapphire can't sort out, Old Bean.
  5. You can never tell when your neck is going to start hurting. Joking, not joking. Just because you didn't feel anything the day of the collision doesn't mean you won't.
  6. Clean brain scan. Doc said if he didn't know there'd been a tumor there, he wouldn't have noticed anything. Except for that one little hole. "Oh my High School teachers knew that was there."
  7. This thread reminds me to wonder how I even ate while a student at UT. I had an overall budget of about a thousand a month (late 90s). A chunk of that went to rent, utilities, and books, so how did I eat for a whole month with what was left? You had the Vietnamese carts, if you were strong and stoic. I barely knew what a grocery store was (it was the beer store.) Yet somehow I ate out regularly, and drank almost constantly. Never remember missing meals. Sometimes it was just grazing the land, walking into some event winding down and there are 12 sandwiches left on an abandoned table. "Take them, they're free." TLDR: They gave us plenty of beer money but not so much food money.
  8. My grandad (when he was a teen) did some bootlegging with his bartender older brother. There were interludes of routine work interspersed with moments of rapid movement and terror. Me I stuck to tame stuff. Puebla blouses and similar. The customs guys didn't even want to look at them, as they tapped on all the admittedly interesting-sounding parts of the car, (and there are many after I rammed that truck in Colima that night, then spent weeks haggling with the body shop guys and showing them pictures of my nieces lying that they were my daughters and that their lives depended on solid hammer-work.) My son called me the Han Solo of Puebla Blouses.
  9. Not to mention Japan is already kinda cool and damp.
  10. It was part of a place and time. To really enjoy it you'd have to be just done with an exam or a paper, and shuffle there from whatever subdivided shack you paid too much rent on. Squirrels and grackles and dtf girlfriend and "old" pals you've known for a whole year, and you think you'll see forever. It was there for us then. Then.
  11. Seems like pre-pumping water up to a tank above the roof would be the thing to do.
  12. Whiskey Man payin tariffs don't hardly sound like no true Whiskey Man. [/spits]
  13. I suspect the cops are going a little bit more Singapore than usual with bad actors.
  14. Well fellers, if I don't just up and die, I oughta be healthier the next time we meet. Went to my favorite greasy-spoon diner today and it was a cackle-fest as they watched Fox News talking about fires. The owner is of Middle Eastern extraction, and I briefly considered replacing "California" with wherever his folks are from, having my own little jest, but do not currently have a steak knife embedded in my forehead so I guess I didn't. Just a pack of provincial baboons. I shan't be back.
  15. And of course silver took a dump the day I could sell it at the shop. Was waffling about even going through with it, but remembered that the mission was to murder interest-generating Credit Card debt so I pulled the trigger. $28.50/oz for generic, ie a dollar back of spot. About 14% higher than what I bought it at if anybody's giving out cookies. So tomorrow if it shoots up to 35, that's me, team.
  16. This is why I always work with pros. I will bring my old SCA shield and a stick.
  17. I'll throw a brick if you let me know when the cops show up.
  18. I can't do much, maybe, but whenever you get settled you've got some free artwork* coming your way. If you hate it, that's OK to say so too. I lived among the French. Just hand it off to people with worse taste until it finds a home. *contains no depiction of fire bc fuck fire. ^^ There's still time to delete this.
  19. It wasn't just that you said it, it was that it was double-plus ungood oldthink. Now that it has happened, it just proves you were bad. Possibly even horrible.
  20. I just emerged into a Scottish Gaelic politics unit, and it is getting sassy. "There was an uprising in Portree" "The government made this strange law" "Who made these rules?" "Is the government listening to us?" Now if it'd just teach me how to see "you moany wee thing."
  21. It just takes one to sneak across the board, get promoted to Vengeance Queen, then we get to watch JD bolt in panic until his eyeliner runs like Tammy Faye Bakker.
  22. The Spirit of Manchester is dropping boulders on him.
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