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Samson's Wig

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  1. That light can kiss my ass. Those folks can enjoy heading south when they want to go north once the highway work is done (at least, I don't think they're getting an overpass there).
  2. I can't believe no one has postulated that this may be a "Gone Girl" situation. This forum is full of dudes, and not one has considered the possibility that this is all a brilliant ploy by this woman to exact revenge on her hapless frat bro husband. Bunch of misogynists, I tell ya. Apologies if this has already been brought up. I didn't read the entire thread, but I did read that silly book.
  3. The only way this story about Abercrombie and Fitch would be surprising is if any women were involved. I'm not sure how they went from outdoor goods supplier to gayest retailer in history, but they were 100% of the way there by the mid-nineties.
  4. My son wants a cat. I've read a lot about the benefits of cats for autistic kids and want to make it happen. I've been allergic to them (cats, not autistic kids) all my life, although some breeds, e.g. Maine Coon, don't seem to bother me. We actually had a Maine Coon for fifteen years before he passed. He was awesome, but was a kitten rescue and grew into an unexpected monster. Anyone have experience with a breed of cat that is good for allergies, but isn't the size of a school bus? Any thoughts on males v. females, especially if we really want the cat to bond with my son rather than his sister or my wife or me? Thanks to anyone with any thoughts on the matter.
  5. "Medical Device." "Former owner." It's okay to admit the truth. This is a safe space. EDIT: Damnit, Brisket beat me to the joke. Should have read the rest of the page before commenting.
  6. At first I was skeptical of his story, but then I remembered some of the doctors I know and realized it was probably true.
  7. I'll take your word for it, and that makes sense. My dad's pacemaker alerts his physician's office with irregularities, so I'm familiar with that process. I assumed in AB's case that it was the physician's office that maybe had an itchy trigger finger in terms of calling in support. That still seems more plausible to me than a sheriff and EMT showing up based on his phone, or whatever, monitoring his conversation with his wife.
  8. That was definitely your pacemaker sending out the bat signal.
  9. If what happened to Alberto doesn't make your blood run cold at the thought of the lengths our government will go to destroy an individual just for holding an opinion that differs from those in power, even when it's one of their own, I don't know what will. We're run more like a communist regime than we like to think. We just flip which assholes are in power from time to time, so those being persecuted get a brief respite while a new group gets a turn. As for the Cuban government, count me in the club that thinks communists are pieces of shit, due in large part to the inevitable violence baked into their supposed cupcake ideology. However, I also agree with those who think the best way to subvert the Cuban system and gain some measure of influence over the country is to normalize relations. The CIA is a joke and has been pretty much since its inception. Cuba is perhaps the ultimate example of their ineptitude. We shouldn't be letting those clowns dictate policy. Ever.
  10. Here's a great article about a buddy of mine and what lengths those hawks will go to in order to keep the status quo: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/07/the-assassination-of-alberto-coll.html
  11. Well, yeah. Lie detector tests don't detect lying. Never have, never will. They're just a tool to try to get a confession, or at least a slip-up, out of you. I'm sure most of you already know this fun fact: Willam Marston, the inventor of the lie detector test, also created Wonder Woman. Lasso of truth and all that.
  12. I wrote and deleted a few things. I can't seem to find the words for this one, but I'll try two: people suck.
  13. Fucking you without consent? It sounds like they may be Pikes, too. I smell a conspiracy.
  14. What does your sticker say?
  15. Thank you for bringing up the second item in particular. I have no particularl knowledge whatsoever of traffic systems beyond experiencing them as a driver, but Austin's system has (for decades) felt like it is nonsensical, inefficient, and constantly leaving huge blank spots in traffic. It's something that has always bugged me when driving here versus many other larger cities, and it's rare that you hear any discussion of it at all. It seems like the most obvious, least expensive, and easiest-to-implement solution for the traffic woes here is to throw some money and experts at updating the system and ensuring traffic is flowing as optimally as possible on the roads we already have. We instead waste money on projects that don't solve anything but make a handful of vocal groups happy. We seem hell-bent on making the same mistakes as in the past, only dressed up in modern notions. Austin neglected ever to build a decent public transport system while expanding roadways haphazardly; consequences be damned. Now we take every opportunity to reduce lanes in some quixotic quest to magically reduce traffic while still neglecting to build a public transportation system to fill in the gap; consequences be damned. We've just swung from one idiot branch of the dumbass tree to another one.
  16. If we're being honest, the same thing is true with most real doctors as well.
  17. If we can't manage to ban them altogether, there should at least be a one-bite, and you're done policy with pits. Fuck pit defenders. Everyone loves their dog. That's not a justification. I respect the restraint of the father above whose daughter was attacked. I don't think that dog would still be breathing if I were in his shoes, and I'd be in jail and paying some hefty fines. Where I grew up, if a loose dog killed anyone's livestock or family pet, that dog was dead. If it bit a person unprovoked? Dead. No questions asked, and rarely much pushback from the dog owner either. It was just the understood way of things.
  18. Thank you for presenting, much more intelligently, what I was trying to get at with my post above. This situation should never have been allowed to get this far, and we'll all be impacted by people on both sides of the negotiation acting foolishly.
  19. iPhone 12 Pro Max here (yeah I know), and no issues today for me in Austin.
  20. Greed is shitty when executives wield it, and it's just as shitty when a bunch of low-skill assclowns wield it. The Biden administration should have been on top of this, and there is no reason for the rest of the country to be impacted because a bunch of fucksticks who are already significantly overpaid decide to say "fuck 'em" to millions of people who work harder for less money. Unions are great, until they're not.
  21. I look forward to the higher rates, or most likely just the continued made up usage numbers, to cover what is almost certainly a negligence-related incident. I know that some here believe that city employees are warm hearted geniuses and we should all just get out of their way so they can make Austin a modern marvel, but at the moment I'm just hoping they can keep pumping water to my house. You should run for office.
  22. Every now and then the crazy voters here get it right.
  23. I always assumed TEMU was Chinese spyware of some kind. Do people actually buy things from that site?
  24. This is about as moronic a response to this topic as I can think of, but okay. No one blamed teachers for school shootings. And if you don't realize that there are lots of shitty teachers out there, which is one of many things kids have to deal with, you live in a bubble of willful ignorance.
  25. Looked and could not find a discussion on this. Apologies if I missed it. Just in the last week, there has been a threat to Hill Elementary from an unmedicated schizophrenic: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-police-make-an-arrest-linked-to-austin-isd-elementary-school-threat A kid was pulled out of class at Lamar Middle School by police for threatening gun violence (no article on this one, but I have spoken to the school principal about it personally). Another threat to Lamar Middle school happened over the weekend, which now appears to have been middle school girls from another middle school (so hopefully not a credible threat). Just in case anyone mistakenly thinks this is isolated to AISD, here's just a handful of similar instances happening out in the burbs. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/social-media-threat-response-school-districts-central-texas-list-of-arrests/269-ec879603-9371-45f0-8c53-c5c38edc35ab Tons of kids are being kept home today due to all this shit, although we sent ours as there doesn't seem to be any active danger. I don't really have much to add other than I hate that kids are growing up with this as a baseline reality. I have 12 year old twins, and it's difficult to explain to them why the adults (myself included) can't create a safe environment for them. Getting kids motivated to go to school and put up with all the bullshit that involves (shitty teachers, boring lessons, misguided romantic entanglements, asshole bullies, etc. etc.) gets even tougher when you have to add "oh, and you might get shot and die" to the list of crappy things that come with middle school and high school life. These kids are growing up in some genuinely shitty times, but the adults haven't done a damn thing about it other than complain about how millennials and Gen Z are so dysfunctional as adults. Well, we made them that way.
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