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RDCanecutter

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  1. The simple solution is to go back in time twenty years, and plant apple trees.
  2. "Why don't you shut up and just play golf, you MO-ron?" would be my go-to.
  3. Extrapolating from Hannity, I assume the low number of arrests is due to almost all the agents and the people they're searching for being killed by weekend gunfire.
  4. 3 years in of making special Valentine's art for Valentine's, there is no real reason to. Oh, I'll sell some. Say I make a couple dozen prints. I'll sell 2 or 3 on the holiday. Then if I sling the rest in the mix of unsold art, I might sell one or two every month after, or a random person might buy 12 in August. So they do sell, but there's barely any connection to the holiday. Same thing goes with most other holidays. I don't think my customers get my work for greeting card reasons. Probably for the best, as I swan through the year completely detached from whatever my non-existent marketing department would tell me to do.
  5. My evil goblin wife found out she could occasionally get White Women on Instagram types to snatch their children up onto the sidewalk if she rolled around with the windows down blasting La Jefa 98.3 FM.
  6. I see you've been there.
  7. All I know about that Yankih Overreach is that it wasn't treason because Robt E Lee felt so bad about something. Before he led an expedition west into the hills against other Virginians. And got whooped.
  8. Oh the town is solid blue. I'm just talking about its mopey online exiles. It's the heart of the Black Belt and every Dem from dogcatcher on up comes down for 15 minutes to tapdance across the Edmund Pettus bridge. Matter o fact, visiting there, I hop from one blue island to another. Only unbroken Trumpy stretch is Chilton County*, and that's like the Shire if the Hobbits grew peaches. I have a deep voice and know how to check spark plugs, so they simply nod and wave me through. *I left out Shelby County, which is now solid generica. Bomb-making meetings replaced by whatever people do while driving around, say, Katy.
  9. Imagine being from Selma, Alabama in the 60s when you had no reason to think the South didn't win the Civil War, and yes there was a thriving commercial district (Thanks, US Air Force Base and all your retired NCOs and Officers) but now it's an online community of obese white people lamenting the Lost Paradise because some people wanted to be treated like Americans. Dipping back into that world is like drinking a quart of pickle juice, and I'm insulting pickle juice which does not shrivel your soul. You tell em the decline's also got something to do with the one industry packing up in a small city 40 minutes drive from a much larger one full of competing businesses, Nooo, you left out those people, it's them! We could live there for free in a family house, but dayyum.
  10. I mean, somebody could cut their gym membership and just work on their own lawn for free, but that's some kind of psychopathic crazy talk.
  11. From the days when I worked at regular jobs with managers, I'd say that guy has even odds of becoming one.
  12. Still in the Early Year Dead Zone here. Two shows coming up next weekend. Still laying on supplies and gear. Probably get in the black by May, which isn't bad if it happens. Took til November in 2024.
  13. It was wrong to leave GF at the restaurant wondering where you were.
  14. Yeah but you should have asked them how to triple-class a Wyvern Bard-Rogue with an effective and completely legal free set of Paladin abilities simply by tuning the mirth-crystal inside a jester-lute. Things you never dreamed of in your vanilla TSR "classic-three-books" dorm time, Old Man...
  15. Yeah. Me I tapped into my own little FB psychodrama today after one Trumpanzee post too many. (Aw fuck it, let's be honest, I didn't need any encouragement to do it.) Basically told all Trumpkins on my page to scoot. Of course immediate support from fellow freaks and geeks I hang out with now. The fossilized High School Yearbook however had their furrowed brows and one or two flip-outs, which if I were merciful I would delete, but I left them up for now. And a fair amount of positive surprises from that second group. You can never assume. It's been kind of like one of those zit-popping videos. We aren't anywhere near squeezing out all the good chunks. Probably woulda been easier to just delete FB, but I felt like stirring some shit.
  16. While typically thrown out willy-nilly, the terms do have specific meanings. 1 ecosystem = 2 1/2 cabals (except archaic Scottish cabal could be 2 1/3 ecosystems immediately after the rye harvest if so proclaimed by the King's Minister of oats, ryes, corn, and burrowing wee beasties,) none of which should be confused with the Troy Cabal, aka le chabal de Troyes (pl. chabaux) which equaled 1.05 ecosystems (1 ecosystem + 1 shilling) and was current when gambling or otherwise settling debts between gentlemen.
  17. I mean, why would they even need to? If countries keep extra dollars around just to trade with us, why not spend those same dollars on each other?
  18. I am not so sure. IIRC the best time in relatively recent Mexican history was from the 40s to the 70s when I believe they were running inside their own economic bubble. Maybe some uncouth Gringo flailings revive the almost religious pride in doing things that way, instead of the current "do backflips for money." It is Mexico, and we are us, so given our mutual track record I expect to be disappointed.
  19. RDCanecutter-style Vulture-Picking-at-the-Carcass investment opportunities comin up y'all.
  20. I may switch to a Costco CC if I ever murder my current one. Until then it'd be like a character from Trainspotting buying extra heroin. I do see several gold and silver options on my Costco app. All are online only. No prob with that, ordering looks pretty simple. Bottom line is I think that the shiny is just generally too high right now to sink thousands into it with the hopes of making a few percent back at year's end. Would be happy to be wrong. In other plans, my next silver dump will be Canadian 1960s silver, but only if silver hits 35. (Arbitrary number I pulled out of the air.) It's from when $5 Canadian = 3 troy oz. ASW. I will undergo the ceremonial dealer poor-mouth about "People around here don't buy that" from guys who sell every Canadian silver coin they get. Or maybe it won't hit 35. Sore-ry.
  21. Also, lots of the best (price paid) dealers are technophobes. They work over the phone (talking on it, like animals) or verbally. Their websites, if they have one, may be straight off the Wayback Machine. It's its own crusty culture, just how it is.
  22. I need some ICE pointers should I be questioned. I am King of the White Race so I figure I can get away with anything. Once. 1. Am I required to speak English? My Spanish is pretty fly for a White Guy. Maybe only speak with the Hispanic Mordor Orcs who assist the Uruk Crackers? Seems like putting my safety in the brittle masculinity of an agent could be interesting, like how the Japanese prison guards would choose the tallest Americans to beat half to death. 1b. Or maybe should I keep it in Scottish Gaelic? Family names tell me that's a legit, honest option. Zero clowning, answer questions 100% to the best of my ability, in Scottish Gaelic. Not my fault Officer McSomething has a Sasanach soul. 2. Or maybe just sorta lie down.
  23. Now, why we gotta insult an actual currency? 😛
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