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NameAlreadyInUse

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  1. I have never not had access to booze on United and I’ve been back flying for over a year now. 1. Umm I do have noise canceling headphones. That hasn’t stopped random blue hairs who wind up next to me from deciding to interrupt my quiet time by trying to get me to take them off and have a conversation. 2, 4, and 5 - you must’ve missed the part at the beginning where I said I’m not sure they matter on a plane. I was mostly poorly attempting to be funny. however, #3 needs to be discussed. Yes the whole point of wearing a mask is to protect yourself from others and to protect others from yourself when you are in giant crowds. Inside the airport giant crowds are still a thing that happens pretty frequently. On the airplane I think the filtration is likely good enough that they aren’t needed but the airports didn’t suddenly spend billions on improving their air filtration systems. Where there is no social distancing I’m ok with masks being required until we are out of worldwide pandemic stage. We aren’t there yet. I say this as someone who will likely not wear a mask except when traveling with hubby. Or when I’m getting close to vacation and I’m working my ass off not to get sick beforehand.
  2. I can't say I'm in favor of it, in fact I'm not sure it matters so much once you are on the airplane. However, I fly almost every week for work and I've noticed some giant benefits. From most to least important, here are my reasons: 1. People talk less with the masks, which makes me very happy whenever I have to be on an airplane. Please do not talk to me unless you are asking what I want to eat/drink, thank you. Yes, I'm ok with sitting in the exit row. 2. Fart smells don't seem to be as intense with masks on. Ma'am please go to the restroom before you exercise your colon again, good lord. 3. There is no such thing as social distancing at the airport. People press together, standing dick to asshole in the security line and then again at the gate. I actually liked not having my personal space invaded. I liked it a whole fucking lot. 4. I love to travel, my husband is less enamored. My husband is also a germaphobe. My expectation is that vacations without a mask mandate are going to be harder to cajole than they have been with everyone masked up. 5. Seeing the people that weren't willing to wear their masks made it really easy to pick out the unpatriotic assholes. Their country asked them to do the least little thing for their countrymen and they couldn't be fucking bothered. I like knowing who those people are so I don't accidentally get myself mixed up in their anti-American shenanigans.
  3. Pleated pants add 30 pounds, man. Just stay away.
  4. I think the point of this topic being started is that we liked it better when it was a great value, full stop. Yes, we are still cheaper than most of those places you mentioned, but it's less true every day.
  5. First, if you are wearing 40 jeans and xxl shirts, mix in a salad. But also, yes you do want a slimmer cut down the leg of your pants because it will make you look less fat. You'll still look fat, but you'll look less so than going with those billowy cuts that would help you catch air in a strong breeze if you weren't fat. Also, don't ever wear pleated pants if you have bigger than a size 30 waste, unless you want to look fat. As someone who wanders around the territory of being fat periodically myself, these are all hard learned lessons.
  6. Yeah, Austin isn't affordable. I'm definitely a beneficiary of getting a house here when they were still affordable, but I've lived in this house 7 years and could sell my house today for triple what I bought it for. That's insane. And what I could buy with the proceeds wouldn't be as good as what I have from a location/amenities perspective. That's also insane. We're now planning for the eventual time where we're going to have to leave Austin altogether because even if we work here for the rest of our careers, it will be prohibitively expensive to retire here even for people like me who do meet the definition of being able to afford a median house by Brisket's definition. How do they manage this in New York City? How do they manage it in San Francisco? It isn't a new problem, and people live/retire there as well. Do people just decide to live in shitholes?
  7. Just replying to this to repost it. Fucking awesome work whoever you are gay state representative!
  8. Hmm, I don't know about y'all but I'm suddenly in the mood to go camping. Or Nothing like finding a pack of starfish on a camping trip. Or "So I just walk up to them, tell them my cock shoots light rays, and I'm good?"
  9. Even better, cheaper seats that aren't almost sold out are not BOGO. Also, someone with some skills should remake that map with eagle, gun, america, man, woman, person, tv.
  10. Pretty sure that Trump already tried that on 1/6 and failed
  11. Yeah he sassed someone and then offered for that someone to fight Gym Jordan if he had a problem with the sass.
  12. We didn't have woods where I grew up, but we did periodically happen upon random stashes. Once we even accidentally discovered my dad's VHS stash. He eventually figured out that we found them because they disappeared one day. So yes, I guess I got my sex ed from the playground and Debbie Does Dallas instead of in school.
  13. I know you grew up an hour and a half south of me, but as I was reading this I first started thinking, did I black out and post this? This exactly matches my sexual rearing in rural west Texas. Only thing I’d add was that we also skipped the chapter on evolution in Honors Biology in high school because the teacher was a Baptist and told us she didn’t believe in it.
  14. When the last guy ramped up the racism, and it was finally and utterly proven that the police were never going to protect me, I would've bought some guns too if I wasn't white.
  15. There was a minute in the not too distant past where they brought back those onion rings. I got them at the Congress and William Cannon Popeye's and they are indeed great. But they were only around for a few months a couple years ago and never reappeared. Missing the dirty rice is a killer as well. Otherwise our Popeye's usually gets things right. But the sides are way better at the Golden Chick so we wind up there if we're staying close. And no, you go to Bush's for gizzards and gravy. Chicken Express is ok, except there are no convenient locations unless you live out by the lake or out in the exurbs. Bush's suffers from the same problem mostly, but I used to live close to the one on Brodie and love that you never had to worry that they were serving you cornish hens. And for those of you that need a fried chicken buffet, you can still find them around Houston. Look for Hartz Chicken Buffet. I'm not going to tell you it's great chicken, but you can eat as much as you want.
  16. Had to give you rep because this is a sentence I see myself repeating over and over and over again. Fantastic ! Also, one of those inflection points y'all are looking for involves that point in our history where people actually elected an overly pigmented president.
  17. I'm not going to watch that, but I'm going to comment that I know it was girls he was molesting and not boys, because he's being protected by the Republicans. If he was fucking boys he'd be out on his ass. I guess the moral of the story is, don't do anything that could make people think you are gay, and you are good to go to be as reprehensible as you want to be in all other areas and keep your power. It's a bonus if you treat females like objects as well. Every time I see a new story about the latest Republican battshittery it makes me want to continue to speak to my parents less and less. And shit like this is hard to forget about when I know they are going to keep right on voting for it.
  18. Honestly, I've always heard it the way you are starting to hear it, even when I know it's coming from people that don't mean it that way. I'm not going to call it out here though because #1, I actually don't care if you want to be a homophobic asshole unless you are then going to turn that into creating government action that will abridge my rights and #2, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt until they explicitly make it clear they are in favor of #1. It's why I'm a lot more ok with someone like you or Brisket saying that than I ever was with someone like LonghornLaw, that piece of shit, who delighted in the government's suppression of my rights. I'm glad he's gone, and I hope he's miserable in whatever he started doing that caused him to go away.
  19. Great, in this way conservatives are getting their wish, we're heading back to the 1950's. I'm sick and fucking tired of this shit.
  20. Always love how he's so surprised he's going to get arrested after that.
  21. Admittedly it's been awhile, but what? The Flying Monkeys are actually monkeys and they did the bidding of the Wicked Witch of the West. WTF is she talking about?
  22. I would've been better off had I not clicked on this particular page of this thread. Baby raping and then @Neonmoon spitting a truth I don't really want to hear today. Jesus Christ.
  23. Yep, he called it out for what it was in the moment, but within days he was already back to party before country. He gives 1 fuck about this country. That 1 fuck is reserved for making sure Republicans are in power. That's his only fuck to give. Disgusting.
  24. LOL. I'm not sure I'd have ever called Mr. T "Hollywood," but if there was ever a time to do it, it was the 80's.
  25. I'm building a pretty good hoard of Oaxacan Mezcal as well. Who is supposed to be responsible for the mixers?
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