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Samson's Wig

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  1. I might be concerned if the bar exam had anything to do with the successful practice of law.
  2. Agreed. Again, the point was that it has more going on than Bryan/College Station, and that it's just as close to Lubbock as Navasota is to BCS. I never claimed that Lubbock is great. I certainly don't live there and have no desire to. Austin is the smallest of the cities I've lived in over the last thirty years, so you'll get no argument from me regarding big city life. I'm not sure why the pedants are out in force without bothering to read the context. I feel like I'm on a merry-go-round.
  3. Completely agree. The discussion was about living in a small town close enough to civilization to get the necessary things.
  4. Well, that depends . . .
  5. Need a way to aerosolize it and pump it into the buildings and planes.
  6. When compared to Bryan/College Station? Yeah, without a doubt.
  7. About the same distance from Brownfield to Lubbock as Navasota to Bryan/College Station. In terms of living near civilization, Brownfield gets the nod, barely. The distance to Houston might push Navasota over the top, I suppose.
  8. Would you recommend the Winchester area for a family with middle school kids? My wife works for a company out of Framingham but has to fly up to Boston so often now that we're considering making a move. I only know downtown Boston (a bit) and don't even know where to start regarding areas to look.
  9. I've been lucky thus far to avoid anything close to the type of shit posted in this thread while flying, but reading and watching this makes me question whether I should ever take my kids anywhere that involves an airport. People fucking suck, and it would sure be nice if there were a way to sort out the trash and keep them at home where they belong. I can't believe someone like the asshole tampering with the airplane door made it back to the ground alive without someone just taking him out on principle.
  10. I believe the proper nomenclature is spelunkulas.
  11. If anything, this is a sign that being poor now is not as devastating as it used to be.
  12. It's a sad state of affairs when crumbling AISD keeps anyone in place. I'm right there with you and wish all the time there was an option well outside of town for a couple of intelligent kids to receive a decent education in a culturally stimulating environment. The suburban schools rank high on paper but come with the mouth-breathing, book-burning, low-info moron contingent. Frats and sororities have to raise new recruits somewhere, I guess. There is probably a gem of a rural school hiding out there somewhere, but I've yet to hear of it.
  13. A voter from 1985.
  14. You're assuming anyone in banking has a soul to speak of. They don't.
  15. !!!!EVERYBODY PANIC!!!! I have enjoyed fielding calls from every person my parents ever met asking me if their money is safe. The fact I don't have a fucking clue about any of this doesn't slow them down. I've got more education than they do so I must know all about it, even though I work in entertainment law. So, thanks a lot, SVB, you rotten lot of goat molesters, for making me talk on the phone nonstop and calm people down about whether their $50k in savings at Bank of America and their IRA at Ameriprise is safe. This is the true travesty of this entire ordeal.
  16. Impound vehicles with no registration and/or insurance and require actual driving tests once every couple of years, and you'd have Austin streets damn near empty. One in every three (maybe two) vehicles on the road are being driven by someone with absolutely no business behind the wheel.
  17. I don't want to see depositors lose money, but I don't have a deep well of sympathy for a company that doesn't understand how to manage and mitigate that risk. It's not difficult, and any company sitting on a significant chunk of cash in a single bank (absent recently transferred funds to cover payroll or a larger purchase that just had terrible timing) is not being operated properly - which is par for the course in the tech industry where any moron with an idea can get stacks of cash so long as they're charming, and said charming morons often ensure no CFO worth their salt gets anywhere near the operation to gum up the grift.
  18. VC and tech have been digging their own grave for a long time now, propping up fake businesses and silly ideas just to funnel money into the hands of investors. It's contributed to the large wealth disparity in this country as much as anything else, and they can all go die in a fire as far as I'm concerned. Maybe everyone will grow up and actually start real businesses with a longer-term view than just getting to acquisition. It's complete bullshit on its face and has to come crashing down at some point.
  19. You can still buy long-bed trucks. They just don't market them as heavily as crew cab/short beds. If you need a true work truck, you need one. You don't need an ad campaign.
  20. Wife is naturalized, so the kids are first gen on her side. Her folks moved to Canada from Ireland and England. My people have been here so long that the dirt smells like us.
  21. The whiplash caused by reading the back-and-forth between pedantic and indiscriminate comments in this thread might sideline more people than Covid. We need Yogi Berra in here for a low-brow and on-the-nose summary of the situation.
  22. Not the first time, and it won't be the last, that West Texas cotton is decimated by drought. Something tells me this won't be the one that does them in for good. Long term, I agree climate change will shift growing regions, but we're not there yet.
  23. If the next global crisis leads to a shortage of hair dye, botox, etc., and is coupled with a huge spike in cigarette usage, we're all going to be reminded just how old a 35-year-old can look pretty quickly.
  24. I showed this to my elderly father, as most of the family had one of these in their houses at one point. His comment was, "Fourteen months, tops!" I remember them lasting forever, but he wasn't impressed apparently.
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