Everything posted by RDCanecutter
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Trump’s America
If you're going to snark about my family, sir, do try to get it right.
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ICE activity/raids
Glad to see that the neighborhood is no longer black and white like it was in January.
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tceh :: green flames erupt from manhole covers across campus, they shut down a day early for spring break, 48 hours later still no explanation
If it's circular it's still funny.
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US College Student Disappears in Punta Cana
Suits make sense if you're piddling down to the pub in Wales or some shit. Down Mexico-way (and I am including all the Mexican bits like DR or Costa Rica etc) the only guy in a suit I remember seeing was cranking an old-timey music box.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Glancing through this thread, it occurs to me that we aren't even giving this Trump person a chance.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Where in Alabama are you two from? We might be kin.
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Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
Gold is squeakingly close to 3,000. Completely arbitrary number, but I bet many of Those Who Want To Sell will do so if it bumps it. Me, I'll just lay low.
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
Yep. Once he got to a certain level in high school we had him study with a trumpet professor from granddad's college. He also picked up a bunch of paid gigs at churches that way.
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New Girl Scout Cookie Flavor: Death?
I don't want to burn fossil fuels, so I just order them from DoorDash.
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
First you make a roux. Then you have the maternal grandfather be a music professor and skilled trumpet player himself. Other than that, he pretty much did the regular band type stuff, except he was really good at it, with a wolf-like killer instinct compared to the other puppies. As in, if he missed one note in a recital, he'd go off to an empty room and redo the piece as many times as it took to get it right, even if nobody else was listening. It came from inside him.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
What you do is double everybody's Social Security check. This will keep them from noticing that you've Argentina'd the dollar down to a 1/4 of its 2024 value.
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Will you still live in the U.S. in 20 years?
I've had a soft spot for Guadalajara ever since I got busted spectacularly for lying about having a hotel reservation when all the places were packed, and instead of making us go sleep in the park, the clerk found us a suite at the hotel next to the train that runs to Tequila. She apologized that it would run us 30+ bucks.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
I used to be pretty good at scales on a trombone. I should have been-- I practiced them at least a half-dozen times.
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
Trumpet.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Lean in, and make your own fun. Start talking about Federal overreach, and when they start nodding, point out that slavery is mentioned multiple times as a normal thing in the Bible.
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
My son just auditioned at Julliard today. He already got accepted at a couple of other good places. This was his "swing for the fences" moment. 4 years ago he had stopped playing music.
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I’m in the wrong business
We here at The Canecutter School do not lower ourselves to discussions of tuition, salary, or curriculum. You know your child is a little monster. We know he's a little monster. The difference is, we are willing to put up with him, possibly. Simply send what you feel is a reasonable gift to The Canecutter School. Allow 4-6 weeks for the cheque to clear, and for our private detectives to conduct background investigations into your particular Faulknerian House of Horrors. If all works out for your child's acceptance, you will realize that when you find the little darling's chambers empty in the morning, possibly with signs of a struggle depending on how spirited the lad is. For the next few blessed years you will know peace, with regular Christmas cards adorned in cursive that we beat into the little savage. He will also learn horseback riding, fencing, and Latin. More importantly, he'll be gone. When you do see him again, you shall behold a creature transformed. You may espy him torturing a mouse, or pushing a beggar off the sidewalk, but it's a small price to pay for the impression he makes at the club. Perhaps you think back to when you were writing the gift cheque, how for a moment you felt cheap, and almost left two zeroes off the sum. Ah, how fortunate that you did not.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Considering that it made you blurry about which month you were there, I believe you.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Donald Trump is a character from 1700s Britain. Imagine a syphilitic rake ensconced in a rotten borough, mixed up in schemes designed to stay ahead of gambling debts, clearing off yeoman farmers from land he never visits so he can cheat the shepherds, as a last resort he joins a regiment but hires a replacement when they leave London. If by bad luck he has to command troops, the sergeants get them to form square while he lolls drunk in the saddle.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
You have to have someplace to eat when Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday.
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Will you still live in the U.S. in 20 years?
A Canadian friend who married a Mexican woman found out all about that. Her mom lived 5 hours up a dirt road in Michoacan. At some point his life changed from "parties at the beach" to "drive 5 hours up a dirt road into the mountains err damn weekend." Even better, he got set to searching for the Family Gold that was hidden during the Tragic [insert reoccurring historical mayhem.] So my boy was alternating between metal detecting and pick-and-shovel work, all the time getting watched by in-laws making sure he didn't pocket something. He never found anything, which tells me he actually is lucky.
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Will you still live in the U.S. in 20 years?
Second thing is that telenovelas are not fiction, they are documentaries.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
So it won't break any budgets if we include it in school lunches.
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Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
"You're dealing with lunatics," --my buddy who buys and sells metals full-time for a living. If you aren't talking to at least one guy who thinks the Clintons are Serpent People, and another guy who thinks a base-metal Canadian dollar coin is really silver, you aren't in the right place yet. At coin shops I will routinely let people go in front of me while I pretend to peruse the shelves, just so I can listen.