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RDCanecutter

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  1. If Buddy is like our dogs, he'll never be completely gone.
  2. Will the infinigon Be unbroken By and by Lord By and by.
  3. Tell him you've been drinking and he'd better not piss you off.
  4. This is in the West Virginia part of Alabama. Any Black people wandering through Hanceville would be accorded the awe given by tribal societies to the insane. Yep, that was a traffic-stop village ticket-mill NW of BHam. Hanceville is due north, actually supports a Juco, various businesses, and a physical therapy rehab where I recently visited a family member (since escaped) without knowing what was up. Stopped for fast food, and there was almost a high-pitched hum coming off the workers-- they were friendly, but there was a vibe like they thought I was a spy from Corporate. My roots are Old South Black Belt [with a much more Latin American-style corruption], so whenever I venture into Appalachia I assume that I am being watched and judged by The Hills Have Eyes. Also, Hanceville is a bicycle ride down the road from Cullman, which has a KKK rep. But this at least is happening. Arresting three generations of criminals seems to be the key to making the rest pretend to do right.
  5. My grandmother was CofC, and church secretary. I got parked at a CofC vacation bible school where, among other Damian Demon Child utterances, I declared the lack of musical instruments to be "dumb." Must have run in the blood, because not long afterwards, Gramama ditched the church over how they used back-stabbery on the preacher.
  6. That's what drew my eye. Platinum's price has been relatively steady for several years, bopping between 800-1200, compared to gold and silver. So in other words, slowly getting cheaper. Not like I'm gonna get enough to change the world in any case. I am mostly just bored, plus the first time I remember hearing about platinum coins I was rolling up a D&D character.
  7. Anybody ever play around buying or selling platinum?
  8. Good test results are a wonderful thing. May you get shot by a jealous husband when you're 102.
  9. Biopsy results back in, they are 100% sure (as in completely) that every number they didn't like about my kidney can be blamed on Lenvima, and various other drugs they gave me to manage side effects. The calls were coming from inside the house. So, like, dropping or cutting back on half the concoctions I was innocently scarfing down. In the past two weeks I lost about ten pounds of excess water weight, maybe that much left to go. Doc has a different cancer drug lined up for the future, but for right now, I am just going to pretend I never had anything.
  10. Life is too short. Invite them over for a party. Open the door to show you and your whole family dressed as trans Mexicans.
  11. We're assuming the plane is upside down. It's possible it's the planet that flipped.
  12. Did you drop a tamale bite and spill out a sip of Sonic drink for all your dead homies? That would be legit dating back to Roman Sonic times.
  13. It's 48 degrees outside here. Gonna try to walk to the CVS. Cover me.
  14. The bird is flightless? Well it's not as if it's going anywhere.
  15. If you or I get called back up, a supervised institutional setting like the Army would be the safest place for us.
  16. Unfortunately the Army is always losing important shit. CSB: After I finished Officer Candidate School, I was assigned to a platoon. The clerk poked around in the records and informed me that there was no record of my attending AIT (Enlisted basic training + specialty training.) I kinda remember being there, in fact, I don't think you can even go to OCS if you didn't already complete Basic. But so it went. I didn't really GAF since I was functioning as Platoon Leader even though the guy on the rolls listed as such was off at flight school in exchange for whatever sexual services he'd provided to his senator. I asked the clerk to see what he could do. Never want to piss off a clerk or the PFC who knows where the barrel of the .50 cal went. I kinda liked being the Immaculate Conception Platoon Leader.
  17. Pretty sure I wore that same shirt, tie, and jacket to a job interview in 1993. Didn't have to sexually assault anybody either. Just showed a little leg.
  18. In my house, all coins have a use-cycle resembling that of cents. And I'd call us pretty cash-friendly. I'll carry paper cash to use instead of credit card, also to keep from buying too much. (And some places ring up a 3% discount if you don't make them give Square a cut.) Buy something, get various coins in change. Mrs. Canecutter collects coins, so she looks at them, rejects 99% as ordinary. The rest go on a shelf in case I decide to swan about on a city bus that month. Usually don't. Every now and then I'll make a big cash sale so I'll take it (plus excess coin change) and deposit it in the Credit Union. I never bought anything recently with the quarters, dimes, or nickels. They were useful, but no longer 100% currency the way they used to be in school when I'd gather up enough for a cheap burger before I'd leave the house. Maybe that's the key. If you're broke, you use them more.
  19. Why did the God-hating Communist Democrats do this?
  20. My band and I were employed to run customers away from a Kerbey Lane on the Drag, so this hits closes to home.
  21. Yes. Probably not from this though.
  22. The Wet Leprosy.
  23. Way outside my pay-grade. I suspect the move west was due to people having eight extra kids who survived to adulthood, as well as a culture of asking for forgiveness instead of permission. Didn't hurt that the Crown had settled the back-country with Johnny Cash types. I wonder if those different currencies even bothered anybody. We walk around with handfuls of apps, still can use checks, cards, or cash, and in a pinch I'd spin up the exchange rates in Euros if I needed to. Only time it's been simple in my life was back when I was a kid. I do think a lack of usable currencies would stunt trade. There is a book by Harry Franck who walked across most of South America in 1912(?) (with gold Sovereigns sewed into his belt.) He crossed areas outside government control where it must have been mostly barter, hardly any coins, paper money was typically worth a penny on the dollar, small change was pins and buttons. Then once when he tried to cash a gold coin, they for some reason didn't trust the word of a strange hobo.
  24. When the US decided to make 1 cent coins, they were worth about a quarter dollar compared to now. As in other incredibly poor countries, they probably went farther than that. But back then we barely had any coins compared to what we needed. Once you got a couple of days inland, trade would have died if not for IOUs, with all the chances of cascading failures if big creditors went under. Back to the question, I have no idea why we use pennies anymore. If we were designing our currency now, we wouldn't invent them. They've inflated away. For more fun: https://foundinphiladelphia.com/money-its-not-what-you-think/
  25. Got stabbed in the kidney yesterday for a biopsy. No problems there, zero bleeding or pain. What zinged me is they paused my Lenvima for a week so as not to jack up the blood pressure on the wound. Fair enough. This morning I'm looking at my 4 bp medicines so I decide to take just one, the Coregs. I'm lazing around, feel a little loopy, check BP. Like 70 over 50. There are corpses with higher BP than that. I somehow get down to the kitchen, can barely see or think, get hold of salt or something just in time. Gradually increase pressure. Dayyum. Text wife specifically asking her to bring a supply of shitty food like frozen burritos, pot pies, whatever is simple and full of salt. She is appalled but eventually does so. I need salty crap food as a "break glass in case of plummeting blood pressure" emergency supply. I saw where she put it in the freezer in case I have to grab it out of there blind. In the meantime I strategically ate some canned chow mein that we bought ironically. Did the trick. BP is still at levels not seen since high school. Maybe I'll drag some Ritz crackers to bed.
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