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Samson's Wig

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  1. My grandfather had two train accidents in his life while living in a small town with fast trains and zero signals, signs, alerts, etc. Both times, it happened at night, and the intersection had no lighting outside of whatever moonlight might be shining. The first time, the train hit him as he crossed right in front of it. The second time, he hit the train because he didn't see it. Both times, he was drunk.
  2. I hope he learns to accept himself and finds a nice fella who makes him happy and settles down into a life of mixing complicated cocktails, laughing at breeders while vacationing extensively, and publishing thoughtful treatises in an attempt to reverse all the damage he's done to young impressionable kids . . . and then dies a painful death.
  3. It's a thing now because every shitty-driving soccer mom drives an SUV too big for her to handle (because she's not used to handling big things because she's married to a dipshit with a giant pickup too big for him to handle) and modern SUVs now come with 360-degree backup cameras and these shit drivers feel more comfortable backing in because of those cameras. If you watch them, they're not looking around them at all but only down at the screen in front of them. The reality is that backing in has always been the safest option for larger vehicles and is how you should do it. People who actually know how to drive larger trucks can execute this maneuver with no problem, and in fact find it much easier than pulling in forwards. In the old days you could usually spot an urban cowboy dipshit because he didn't back his truck into a spot. The problem now is too many dumbasses drive vehicles much too large for them to handle, but the technology on these beasts has given them the confidence to do things they're not capable of doing well, such as backing into a spot. I think there should be more driving license classifications than A, B, C, and M. If we make people take extensive classes and pass tests to get a motorcycle endorsement, we should be doing the same thing for SUVs or pickups that weigh over 3500 lbs. The vast majority of people driving them have no clue what the fuck they're doing and are a menace on the roads and in the parking lots. A slightly more rigorous licensing process would have 80%+ of the women in giant SUVs and the city dudes in F150s and GMC Sierras driving hatchbacks and sedans again.
  4. To be fair, there is an IQ cap for anyone running for state senate.
  5. My folks came down to visit and celebrate an early Christmas together, so the old man naturally had that Fox News bullshit on the tv the entire time. The amount of brain rot he is dealing with thanks to watching that crap is incredible, and I can't believe how many old folks sit around with that stuff on the tv at full volume for hours per day. It's just as bad for them as social media brain rot is for the kids, and it's sad to see the old and the young so susceptible to the same type of manipulation. I live with a small amount of fear of getting old and sucked into that shit. My dad would have never watched that crap until he got too old to recognize it for what it is, and now they have their hooks in him. Anyway, about 75% of the FOX coverage was about these stupid fucks mistaking airplanes and drones for aliens, or government spies, or whatever stupid notion will get the simpletons worked up. Are other news outlets fanning the flames of this nonsense too, or is mostly FOX manipulating their older and addlebrained viewership? I don't watch cable news of any kind, so I'm curious if this is something that is being driven by all outlets because it's easy ratings.
  6. I should have guessed. Thank you.
  7. So much fat in that video. What have those people done to themselves? How does that happen? Some kind of airborne glandular disorder?
  8. High school valedictorian at a prestigious prep school. Ivy League bachelors and masters. Ends up a Data Engineer and a cog in the tech-bro, no-value-added machine. It's not difficult to see how a screw or two became loose.
  9. It's difficult to get too worked up about a warning coming from a state that puts a warning label on 99% of consumer products that they will give you cancer. Someone should study how much the anxiety being created by all of the fear mongering is impacting the health of the citizens there. There should be warning labels for their warning labels. "WARNING: READING THIS LABEL MAY INCREASE ANXIETY LEVELS. ANXIETY IS KNOWN TO CAUSE HEART ATTACKS, STROKE, AND EVEN WORSE MEDICAL CONDITIONS WE ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO PUT ON A LABEL."
  10. I guess I missed our large Italian population here. Why is it nearly impossible to find good Italian food in these parts?
  11. There are a bunch of them. Google still works last I checked. More privates will come online soon as vouchers now appear imminent after some reluctant Republicans were run out of office. But there are already tons of them. I don't know where you were looking but you weren't trying very hard.
  12. The pack found in Central Park looks like a Peak Design backpack. Dude could have paid for platinum tier coverage instead of buying that backpack.
  13. Because they are purposefully trying to drive kids in the large cities out of public schools in the inner cities and into the waiting arms of their buddies who run charter and private schools. It's a money grab combined with an attempt to dumb down the population more with religious education (many of these kids will end up in Jesus school where they learn next to nothing of value outside of a church setting). Why? Well the first part is simple. It's about money. The second part is about ensuring there is a next generation of voters dumb enough to keep electing these morons and their successors.
  14. I remember staying in a hostel in Manhattan around thirty years ago. Four bunk beds in a tiny room. One fat middle aged guy who looked to be there on business was asleep when I arrived and asleep when I returned from cavorting about that evening. He snored like a freight train. Everyone in the room gave up their blankets to pile them up on top of him in an attempt to drown out the noise. I was mildly worried he might suffocate but was more concerned with getting some sleep. He was gone when I woke up, so he was either okay, or the staff carted his carcass off while I was sleeping off a doozy of a hangover.
  15. Indeed they have. Glad they're back in the fold, I guess, as we've had to drive a kid across town for imaging more than once because of this drawn out "negotiation".
  16. Sounds like it's time for another case, then. I'll need to look up the language in that ruling, but it is difficult to imagine that the current situation in inner cities doesn't amount to the same infringement of that fundamental right as what was going on in rural communities in the 90s.
  17. Some family members just aren't worth talking to. I can tolerate differing political opinions but draw the line at stupid no matter where it's directed. There are no MAGA lovers in my family, but we've got some stupid folks. I'm not talking about being born with a low IQ and can't help themselves but rather willfully ignorant half-humans.
  18. There are many options for lactose intolerant folks, such as lactose-free ultrapasteurized milk from brands like Fairlife. It has less sugar, more protein, no lactose, and real cow milk. Raw milk drinkers are dumb mother fuckers, and I say this as someone who grew up with dairy cows and drank fresh milk most days. Much like anti-vaxxers, crystal healers, and conspiracy theorists in general, this is more about dumbasses making a feeble attempt to exert some false sense of agency rather than acknowledge how low on the societal rung they exist. The positive news is that this recent political trend of mistaking liberty with the right to do stupid shit that can kill you, and others, will thin the herd and possibly stave off the Idiocracyesque future we're hurtling towards. So take that ivermectin and slam another glass of raw milk, everyone. You might take some innocents with you but also spare humanity from your potential future offspring.
  19. I suspect that, should this approach to trademark infringement cases be adopted more broadly, brand/product disparagement or Lanham Act dilution approaches will expand to incorporate any presumed protections lost. There is far too much revenue to be lost, by entities with the means to prevent it, for this type of shift in trademark law to take hold without things being shored up otherwise.
  20. I think this guy is as big of a douche as exists on the planet at the moment, so don't take what I'm about to type as a defense of the whole man. But - putting clothing on backward is relatively common behavior for high-functioning autistic people. I have no idea if that's what is happening here, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. My son has an IQ in the top .1%, but he comes downstairs with his shirt on backward in the morning more often than he doesn't.
  21. They'll just pull it out of the AISD, DISD, and HISD tax base, the same way we fund every other educational project in the state.
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