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Your Mom

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  1. Fixed.
  2. I mean the video ended with the guy on his feet, the thieves running away, and his car intact and undamaged.
  3. Does it have to be in Austin? It’s probably been 20 years since I had a bank that has a branch in Austin. Most credit unions have shared branch partners you can conduct business in if you actually need the brick and mortar building. On the rare occasion, I need to deposit cash or deposit a check that’s larger than the mobile app can handle, I do it at a local UFCU since they parted with my work CU from Dallas.
  4. Some quick thinking and the right ventilation could’ve gotten in the ballpark of 225° and turned lemons into lemonade.
  5. Wow so much to unpack here. Outside of the very first statement here, up to the ellipsis, this is just...incoherent. Texas is not culturally "in the South," I agree with that. That's because Texas is culturally, well, Texas. Surely people here remember the ad campaign, "Texas...it's like a whole 'nother country?" That is possibly the truest statement about Texas, culturally, as there ever was. Texas, first and foremost, is ALL ABOUT SOME TEXAS. Can you go to a roadside gas station in Evansville, Indiana, and find state-of-Indiana-themed stuff everywhere? Not that I've seen. Want to make Texas shaped pancakes? Got you. Want a freaking $10k BBQ grill shaped like Texas? Yassir. Want an in-ground pool shaped like Texas? Got it on special this week hoss. Ever see an Illinois-edition vehicle? There's a Texas Edition of just about every pickup truck AND full-size SUV - you can use it to tow your Texas-shaped grill to your house full of Texas Lone Star decor with your Texas-shaped pool in the backyard. In a weird way, Texas is it's own avatar - a caricature of itself - and MANY residents embrace it so completely that it's just part of the fabric. Texas is not akin to the Mountain States, though some residents of El Paso likely sympathize with what's important in New Mexico - since New Mexico is closer than Austin. (Fun facts: El Paso is closer by mileage to California than it is to the Sabine River - Texas's eastern border. Port Arthur, TX is closer, mileage-wise, to Chicago than it is to El Paso.) Dallas sucks, IMO, but it is not culturally aligned with the midwest - try wearing jeans, a suit jacket, and a cowboy hat to an auto executive meeting in Detroit and tell me how that goes. West of a line between Tyler and Houston (which is only about a third of the state north to south) is San Antonio which has about as much in common with southern Illinois as ancho chile salsa on tacos has with ranch dressing on chicken tenders. Slow-smoked BBQ brisket (which is, you know, beef) is freaking fantastic. Don’t let yourself get triggered over what some Deep South inbred fucks think of us. We are not a cultural match with most of the SEC and it would be a shame if we aspired to or if we stooped to trying to convince them we fit it. We don’t need to fit in. Who gives a shit.
  6. I’ve never been but years ago, perhaps on the old board, there was a thread about that place. It had cult status as the best tacos in Dallas.
  7. We rented a car in Frankfurt and drove down there. Driving is easy there, similar rules, right side of the road, whatever map app you use here works there just as good. We stayed in Interlaken. It’s the bigggest town of the three. There is a train station there. We did day trips to the other towns. Grindelwald was the most appealing to me, but Interlaken has more hotels and restaurants. The are all maybe 20 or 30 minutes from each other. We did a kayak tour on Lake Brienne. Another day we took a tram up from Grindelwald to Kleinne Scheidegg and hiked a very easy 3 miles to Alpiglen and then a cog train back down to where we had started in Grindelwald after lunch staring up at the Eiger. It’s was amazing. The hiking isn’t nearly as strenuous as you’d think. The trams and trains take care of all the elevation for you and you aren’t as far above sea level as the mountains would lead you to believe. https://swissfamilyfun.com/jungfrau-region-eiger-trail/
  8. They were both fucking stupid. One died for his stupidity and the other is going away for a long time for his.
  9. All the thoughts and prayers appear to have turned bullets into confetti. Multiple tweets saying the gunshots were actually party poppers
  10. Yeah prayers ought to help.
  11. I’ve never used the app but Home Depot has a great system for that, telling you the aisle and the exact bay on that aisle, with every bay being marked in store.
  12. Woof
  13. Maybe his argument will be, “Paying off porn stars is something my trailer trash base actually applauds. Therefore by trying to keep it quiet Cohen was harming my campaign, not helping it.”
  14. Isn’t it just assumed that we are conducting as much surveillance on them as they are on us?
  15. This. I’ve shared the electrokic key with my kids many times and the hotel never would have known if I was actually with them or not. Check if the hotel actually has electronic keys though, I think a few Hilton properties still don’t.
  16. Your autobiography?
  17. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-horrifying-epidemic-of-teen-age-fentanyl-deaths-in-a-texas-county This is an excellent New Yorker article on what’s going on with all the fentanyl overdoses in Hays county high schools lately.
  18. She’s dead. And you’re now suspect number one.
  19. ^^^ That. Grindelwald, Interlaken, Lauteebrunnen… you can’t go wrong in that area. I rarely have the urge to go back to a vacation spot more than once, but I’d love to spend another week in Grindelwald.
  20. Toyota posted this today, along with another teaser last week. The Tacoma bros say the license plate is the release date of the new 4th Gen Tacoma and the blurry truck in the background is it. And a nod to the Brazilian Patent office that allegedly leaked some renderings of it a while back.
  21. Power washed my deck and coping. Therapeutic.
  22. Is this the thread where we talk about how great the players that have never played are?
  23. We won like 5 of them last year.
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