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gyroprotagonist

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  1. i have a soft spot in my heart for Matts as i had been a frequest customer for ~20 years. The ones in Dallas were built by Matt's son iirc. Their queso is better than 90% of the texmex places out there and they have one of the better chile rellenos imo. Also loved their Cowboy CFS (chicken fried steak with chile con carne, onions and cheese on top). if there is a passable substitute anywhere, let me know. Their beef fajitas were not that great. Mico took their location in the Lakewood shopping center and 90% of their former customers never migrated to the new location. Their frozen margs were a step below Mico and Glorias and that might have been their death knell as they started missing on the hausfrau crowd that wanted mambo taxis. I think Matt's changed their marg formula a year or so ago and it was better.
  2. when someone tells you who they are, believe them. not saying any of that nonsense was justified, but philly guy started walking up the car towards that guy after he told him he would whup his ass.
  3. went on Saturday. whole fam enjoyed. not as many easter eggs as i thought there might be but there was a nice h/t to the old cartoon (see my post in this thread from late July) that was funny. not many people in the 1pm showing but it looks like it's doing better than expected for the box office take.
  4. Was at Matt's in lakewood today and the bartender told me they are closing. Dude gave me 2 free margs to go and said what are the going to do, for me? I think tomorrow is last day.
  5. they are waiting on those chips for the backup camera and seat warmers like the rest of us
  6. we did the same trip over thanksgiving last year. 4 days in each city with teens. i posted a little trip report here in the London thread: no idea what it cost 'cause the wife planned it all, but the airfare (biz class) and hotels were pretty damn expensive (but incredibly nice and convenient).
  7. 17 pts in the 4th quarter vs Phila. woof.
  8. hey, who doesn't?
  9. just booked a 3y rate of 10.6 cents (in Dallas) with value power. my old term is up starting next month. just searched on powertochoose.org. i tend to just go with the longest/cheapest term i can find. cheapest 12 month i could find was 10.2 cents. I don't think i have ever come out of a longer term deal and the current prices are below what i was paying.
  10. we are going on Sat. about the only movies we go see in the theater are the Marvel/super hero movies so this seems to be in the same wheelhouse. took no arm twisting to get the wife on board. tween daughter may be a different story, but she doesn't know yet
  11. so just google ingredients for bread. it's some variation on flour, salt, sugar, yeast, water and something like egg or oil. lipids soften up the bread and not really essential. So even this gets into 'what oil to use?' now the ingredients for a loaf of Natures Own bread Whole Wheat Flour, Water, Yeast, Brown Sugar, Wheat Gluten, Contains 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Salt, Monoglycerides [shelf life], Enzymes, Ascorbic Acid [ aka Vit C helps dough rise], Soybean Oil [lipid of choice], Vinegar, Cultured Wheat Flour, Monocalcium Phosphate [baking powder], Soy Lecithin [emulsifier] so nothing too crazy in there. maybe you would consider soybean oil bad. again i am not sure what is considered good/bad. the few ing. lists i googled seem to use soybean oil. found this as well RE: gluten (source: the interwebz) The majority of American wheat grown is hard red wheat, which is high in protein and thus gluten. In Europe, the majority of wheat grown in Europe is soft wheat, which is lower in gluten. so that could explain the gluten difference across the pond.
  12. so along the lines of 'why are people fatter now' is there any credence to all these different additives causing negative changes to the human body? I see a ton of stuff decrying seed oils as 'toxic' to our body and i don't know if it's crazy talk or if there is a kernel of truth in there. Lots of grifters demonize a segment of our diet and then sell 'cleansers/de-toxifiers' and then their own brand of 'healthy' foods. internet/twitter is rife with these things pointing to some rando study and laying blame to big agribusiness. I am guessing but back in the day, stuff probably did not contain all these basically industrial by-products when a fat or oil was needed for production of packaged foods. Was cottonseed, grapeseed etc.. oil used? It's pretty easy to start with the facts - 80 years ago people were not this fat - ***something happened*** - people are now land orcas Then try and sell your own version of what happened and how your product can 'fix' that. But something probably did happen to food that goes into our bodies other than we are probably eating too much and working desk jobs more. tldr - is there some additive/ingredient introduced in the last half century that is contributing to America's obesity problem?
  13. right, but are the majority of GQP voters demanding gun porn pictures from their politicians? Is his primary competition shooting videos of riding around in a tank and firing mortar rounds at migrants crossing the border? At this point, if I were a feckless GQP politician I might distance a little bit from 2A nuts, amp up the T&Ps, and lament the sad state of mental health in country (while stripping away healthcare).
  14. i just don't get these type of pics. I mean I know Jesus strolled around Nazareth with dual bandoliers of 50cal ammo crossed over his chest and a Barrett slung over his shoulder but the family gun porn pictures are just obscene at this point. it is perfectly fine to just say "I support 2A" and if your position is to 'hold the line' with no plans to alter the wild wild west of anything goes, so be it. But lining up your family and draping AR15s all over them as a Christmas card just seems grotesque to me.
  15. Your first mistake was settling for 5%, bro. what kind pussy seeks bond market returns in the up-only world of crypto?
  16. we've stepped up to 2x per year this year and last year going with the fam. may try to make it 3x next as i was inspired by the pics from @JCHIL of Portillo Got back from Park City/Canyons last weekend. Just great snow in Utah right now. Almost too much powder on Wed as we were trying to get to certain places on the Mountain and a few of the trails were slow going where they were not steep enough. Son was dubbed 'Cocaine Bear' nearly everywhere he went in his bear coat We stayed right at the lift on the Canyons side but skied about equal time over the week between PC and Canyons. We had a blast at the Kuchu Shabu restaurant in the Canyons base and the kids enjoyed 'cooking' their own food shabu shabu style This one was from Wed, when it snowed a foot or so between Tues/Wed On some the slower trails i was like a ice breaker boat creating a trail with my board. Also, the doughnuts at the Cloud9 cafe (top of Dreamscape lift, Canyons side) are effing legit. You have to haul ass to get there in time to get one. I think they make 2-3 batches and that's it. We were 2 for 2 heading straight out and not screwing around (hard to do with kids) but people arriving 10-15 mins after us were SOL. I think they have doughnut holes as a consolation prize for the latecomers. Overall a great trip getting on the slopes for 7 days before leaving on Sat.
  17. not only did he not outkick his coverage, but that shit was blocked and recovered for a TD while the punter tore his ACL
  18. That's the rub. Can anyone here, with a straight face, actually believe that rulers and powerful, literate men would not change a few lines here, take out a few lines there to, i don't know, maybe keep peasants in line a little better? Make their lives and their progeny's lives easier down the road? Keep women and slaves in line with Godly mandate? out of all the self serving, backstabbing, lying, cheating, double dealing that all politicians/rulers are into they said "Nah, we better leave these stories untouched before distributing to the masses". Church leaders were like bump that giving to the church line up to a full 10% and we're in. We'll even endorse holy wars, mark your political enemies as heretics and later on charge any especially mouthy bitches as witches for you at no extra charge. Maybe there was a divine message. But if you think for one minute the original was unsullied by the men disseminating the message, you are a fool. Just look at today's politicians trying to erase that slavery happened or banning children's books about 2 male penguins raising a chick.
  19. [GQP logic] but most with no health insurance, can't read and have mental illness are the same people. plus 1 getting shot shot just reduces that total and drain on the taxpayers [/GQP logic]
  20. yeah, he kinda contradicted himself in Hunt for Red October when dropped off to the aircraft carrier and was about to shit his pants.
  21. sorry too good to pass up I have an M.D. from Harvard. I am board certified in cardiothoracic medicine and trauma surgery. I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England; and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you, when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry, or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death, or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, you go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church and with any luck you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17th, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something: I AM GOD. Some of this is that there are sooooo many religions and offshoots that some of them are bound to be right some of the time on some of the stuff. religions are even evolving (heh heh) like the FUMC having churches split off because how dare gay people attend church or want to contribute in said church.
  22. i don't partake but maybe if they offered free edibles instead of booze shit would get better? non-csb, we flew over spring break and it was pretty chill in airports and on planes. decent wifi to watch Disu drag his nuts all over Pedo state while on the plane ride home.
  23. would we have seen this if Timmy had not gone down for a few games? It has been amazing and Dylan shooting the mid-range is just basically a cheat code with touch he has on display. I think carrying the team with Allen out has unleashed the monster.
  24. yeah, once we found out both our kids were dyslexic, they were moved (1 from private and 1 from public) to a private school specializing in teaching kids with learning differences. It is a stone cold fact that the cost of this education would preclude 'poor' people from sending their kids their sans scholarship. As a dumb hick from a small town with 1 HS and no real private alternatives, i was astounded at the cost of private grade/high schools when i moved on from college to Dallas and had kids. but soon found the cost acceptable when the need arose. we did not want to fight the good fight with public schools and had the means to go the private route.
  25. i'm back in baby! like all important financial decisions i blindly follow an anon person on a private discord for most of my crypto advice. he gave the buy signal back on the 10th and damned if he did not call it pretty well this time. got about a 1/3 of my crypto fun money back in the market and only have taken the smallest of profit so far. just letting it ride in alts for the time being. probably the first crypto buy in ~12 months or so you too should start buying as i will need exit liquidity soon (probably).
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