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Your Mom

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  1. I’ve been angling for the resort for a couple months now, but I’m getting outvoted by other family members. I’m the first generation in my family to escape a long line of white trash, so some of the family is not as averse to floating Walmart as I am.
  2. Careful, she’ll still ban your ass from some dark long-lost corner of the internet.
  3. I wish something like that was in the cards but it’s not. My mom and sister are beach people. I couldn’t give a fuck about going to the beach for the rest of my life if it were up to me. My mom hasn’t traveled a whole lot in her life, so we’re trying to make it a great trip for her and it will need to be tropical.
  4. I’m being roped into taking my mom on a cruise with some other family for her 80th birthday. I’ve never been on a cruise. I don’t want to go on a cruise. What cruise lines and ports do I avoid to minimize my exposure to trashy people. And which do I seek out instead?
  5. If your username is accurate we are neighbors. And in that area $75k was the absolute bare-bones cheapest 15x30 rectangle basic gunnite pool with no extra decking I could find a year and a half ago. About $10k more when we added 15x18 ft of decking on the side. You’d get hung up on if you mentioned $30k for any project with any local builder.
  6. My son and I are mountain biking coast to coast across the highlands of Scotland next month. Dropping him off for college a couple weeks afterward. Younger son and I will fly out west and rent a car with some vague plans for a wherever-we-end-up road trip.
  7. I attended a Mississippi State baseball game a couple months ago and the only choice at the beer stand near me was Michelob Ultra and Bud Light. So I got two tall boys of Bud light and those Mississippi hillbillies looked at me like I had just fucked their dog for the rest of the game.
  8. Umm.. so we’re just gonna let this comment go? As the owner of a high pressure industrial strength bidet and also a strong personal commitment to having an immaculate bung… NO. You still gotta wipe, preferably with those wet wipes that piss off the guy who works at the water treatment plant. You cannot convince me that your bidet is strong enough to get it white-glove-inspection clean, so to speak.
  9. Kind of, but my understanding is that GPT4 is different. It’s able to not only regurgitate knowledge, but also learn new tasks it has never been taught before and often learning those tasks faster than a human could.
  10. I read yesterday that in December 2022 GPT-4 took the bar exam and failed spectacularly. Four months later they had it take it again and it got a top 10% score. It’s gathering knowledge at an alarming rate.
  11. I feel like I’ve had a fairly adventurous life, but a 300 mile hike is a hell of a lot more than I’ve ever done. My oldest son wants to hike the AT and for me to tag along, but I am quite certain that by two weeks in I’d be completely over it. Honestly I don’t think I would even want to section hike an entire trail like that or the PCT, but cherry picking the best spots one at a time is something I’d enjoy.
  12. I’ve got some curiosities too but I really don’t think I need to see whatever foul creature is willing to fuck that old lazy-eyed ogre.
  13. Fuck that test. One of my kids, who is graduating from an AISD public high school in 3 days, failed the Math STAAR in 4th grade (long story short… nothing happened) and then a year later he aced the 5th grade STAAR to the tune of testing himself into advanced math for middle school. I’d love to give him all the credit and say that he worked his ass off to get a lot better at math over that year, but he really didn’t. It’s just a fucked ineffective test. We also know a family whose children, also here in AISD Public schools, have never taken a single STAAR test. Their kid will be walking across the same stage as mine on Tuesday. I don’t know what kind of hoops they had to jump through or red tape they had to cut to pull that off, but their two kids have absolutely never taken a single STAAR. They simply keep them home from school those days.
  14. 104.9 is listenable to me every morning and then about half the time in the late afternoons. Hogan and Rod would be the best match up and I hope he takes over in the mornings when Bucky retires. Harge is bad but not nearly as bad as Chad and Zay. Hearing them play promos with Zay blubbering about sexually explicit things makes me want to jump out of my car on Mopac. Just stop dude, there’s a time and place for racy jokes, but sports talk isn't it and you’re not funny enough to pull it off anyway. And then Chad tries to make himself sound like some music guy waxing on about the shittiest music ever. They are terrible. Haven’t heard Jeff in years but I always thought his whole schtick is to take one side of the story and fucking run with it when there is a completely logical other side that he just ignores as it’s presented to him over and over again and steamrolls on even after someone proves him to be misinformed. There. My semi annual radio bitchfest is done.
  15. I keep mine right there next to my sharpie.
  16. Seems like it just opened 12 parsecs ago.
  17. The shark fins are trailer cameras. I think the blindspot alert extends back to your trailer if you have one on. And yeah, all the scoops and shit are pretty douchey but the Pro has had high douche factor for a while.
  18. The new Tacoma was shown yesterday. Highlights include a hybrid engine with 326hp and 465lb-ft torque. Available Old Man Emu suspension on the Trailhunter rig, reservoir shocks on models as low as the Off Road, an electronically disconnectable sway bar, rear lockers, 2400 watt inverter in the bed, air compressor built into the bed walls, console safe, 360° camera views, lane keep assist and all the other modern safety features they’d been lagging on, and a whole host of ARB bumpers and gizmos for the bros. Interior is highly updated, exterior not too different. A bit jagged and anglely for my taste but I’ll take it. Lots of YouTube’s out there with the finer details. Long bed still available on most models, manual transmission still available on a few. Most models available late this year, hybrids available early 2024. No prices or mpg estimates yet. I’ll probably be in on a mid-tier long bed Off Road model. Timing should work out well for when my youngest starts driving and takes my current ride.
  19. I’m sure there’s some sort of validity to that, but I’m a rebel. I live on the edge.
  20. Lots of hotels still only have one or two usb ports near the bed and the pass-thru charging lets you charge an ipad, a phone, and the battery all at once without a multiport charger plug box thingy.
  21. I’ve been running the same 3 port Mophie 2000mAh charger with pass-thru charging for at least 7 or 8 years. I keep waiting for it to die or for a port or the pass-thru function to quit working but it just keeps on keeping on.
  22. I was wondering that too. That wasn’t the Window view I’m used to. I’ve probably hiked to the Window 5 or 6 times and have never taken the overlook trail. Probably should.
  23. I knew AISD was getting fucked with Robin Hood but I didn’t realize we were bussing kids in VW Buses now.
  24. Silver is short on crews. It’s the last airline anybody wants to work for and even the better paying jobs can’t hire enough to meet demand right now.
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