Jump to content

Felix

Certifiably Surly
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    577

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Felix

  1. Felix
  2. Felix
    I think DPS just likes to shame people. "You should take care of your vehicle" is one I've heard more than once for things I wasn't even aware of. I used to work downtown and my middle aged white self driving various late model vehicles got stopped at least 3 times for that stupid crap. Once for an inspection sticker that expired the day before, once for a bad tail light, and once for, get this, a dirty license plate. Yeah. They're dicks.
  3. Felix
    That's DPS MO alright. They can spot an expired sticker from 300 yards and God help you if you don't have a front plate or all your lights working. Dudes used to sit in their cars at the little DPS office on 15th street across from the capitol, where they have about a 3 block jurisdiction and pull people over at lunch time just to get their jollies.
  4. Felix
    Medicare is for old people so I'm not really surprised that would be their initial focus.
  5. Felix
    I swear you could use a serial mouse cord as a grappling hook and you'd never miss. Those fuckers would catch on anything and everything.
  6. Felix
    The Four Seasons Landscaping thing still gets me. Every time I see pics or get a reminder about it I just shake my head in awe and disbelief. How in the ever living fuck could that have been allowed to happen? It's still flabbergasting.
  7. Felix
    I got that bullshit too. I'm in south Austin.
  8. Felix
    I don't know much about how all this will play out and it seems pretty cleat that something about he relationship changed over the years. I do know that my wife (no pics) worked for a non-profit that did conventions/training and Leigh Anne Touhy was a featured speaker one year. Let's just say that she wasn't very popular amongst the folks who had to deal with her. Demanding, condescending, conceited, and self important were the words that were used.
  9. Felix
    Didn't see combat, thank God, but I've crewed every position on an Abrams. Almost impossible to see mines if they are deployed correctly. We mostly liked to operate at night since out night vision/thermal imagers were so good. Many mines use a probe instead of pressure so that it doesn't have to be run over by tracks to explode. They are easier to see in open ground but are more designed to be deployed in vegetation obviously. Those are the ones that really scared us because they were designed to blow a penetrator up through the bottom of the tank. That would usually be the end of the driver. Running over one with a track would usually just immobilize you instead of killing you.
  10. Felix
    I made no argument. I simply stated an opinion, and a throwaway line poking fun at some of our overly negative reactions, as you pointed out. It sounds like you may have taken it personally but it was intended as self deprecating humor as I too am "Surly".
  11. Felix
    Sounds like the racist neighbor who called them should be outed too IMO. If you call the cops because black folk are in your neighborhood that should open you up to civil rights charges too. It's fucking ridiculous.
  12. Felix
    Yeah I know Surly thinks if you aren't great as freshman you'll never be any good, but that was a big loss. That guy is going to be a star IMO.
  13. Felix
    When I saw it in the theater a WWII vet was sitting a few rows in front of me with a few members of his family. About 10 minutes into the Omaha Beach scene he got up and started staggering out of the theater and had to be helped by his wife. It struck me hard and I love the movie but I have a very hard time watching parts of it.
  14. Felix
    Agreed. All aircraft are somewhat fragile just because they have to be as light as possible, but the difference in civilian and military is vast. Unfortunately modern anti-aircraft systems are really good at taking them down.
  15. Felix
    "Everybody in McKinney is dead." LMAO
  16. Felix
    Pretty much all air to air or SAMs have a proximity fused warhead. Much, much easier than direct hits and aircraft are fragile.
  17. Felix
    Many evangelical churches believe that God chooses the Pastor. In the LCMS pastors and educators in schools are hired through a call process. The congregation notifies the Synod and the Synod gives them a list of pastors, teachers, principles, whatever that are "open to a call" and usually narrows down the list based on some mystical criteria. The congregation then determines through it's own process whom they want to issue a call to. That person then prays on it and if it's a better congregation than the one they got or the pay is better or it's in a better city or, just possibly, they actually have a calling for ministry decides to take it or not. If the first person doesn't heed the call then they move on to the next.
  18. Felix
    LCMS. AKA Liturgical Baptist.
  19. Felix
    Eh, it was over twenty years ago. Let's just say I knew what a shit show our congregational finances were and who the loudmouthed deadbeats were.
  20. Felix
    The kind where when it came time to call a new pastor after the old one retired, so called "christians" went on a terror campaign to harass and shame other members of the congregation to get the one they wanted. People I had known for my whole life, including family, went to any lengths they could, including late night threatening phone calls, hateful letters, and outright back stabbing of folks they had spent generations with to get a "conservative" pastor who would hate as much as them. I left a church my great grandparents had built and never looked back. I was in my late twenties at the time and was the chairman of the stewardship board. I knew who gave what and was privy to most of the inside information of the church and it sickened me. I was too young to do what I should have done, so I just left one day and when they called me I told them I couldn't do it any more and I haven't been a member of a church since then. Fuck them.
  21. Felix
    I haven't gone to church for years. Mainly because of shit like this. In the old days I would have just left. That's actually what I did. Now I think I'd have to stand up and say "Have you lost your fucking mind?" and then left.
  22. Felix
    Drank beer and played domino's at the Type store after dove hunting/tank fishing at my grandfathers land in Coupland. Drove to Lexington at 6 am for Snow's BBQ on several Saturday mornings before Texas Monthly fucked it up for everyone. Fixed fences at my other grandfathers place in Elgin after Curls the bull pushed it over to get to Mr. Shroeders heifers in the next pasture. Chased Curls back to our pasture. He was very compliant for some reason. Maybe he was tired.
  23. Felix
    Black guy knocked on my door this morning. I figured he was selling pest control, windows, solar, you know, the usual stuff. So I go answer just to see what's up and I wasn't in a meeting or anything. Dude is stumping for DeSantis. I just had to ask him if he was a true believe or if he was just getting paid to do this. He was just getting paid so I gave a simple "not interested" and he moved on. If he'd been a true believer, we'd have had a different conversation about voting against your own self interests.
  24. Felix

    Meanwhile in China

    Felix replied to RPM's topic in Daily Texan

    I sort of agree with you, but if history has shown that certain societies are warrior societies and others aren't. China is an economic power certainly, but when was they last time they fought and won a war? There's more to military tradition than most might think.
  25. Felix
    Yeah, I'm no law dog for sure, but my understanding is the once the verdict is in the trial is over. The sentencing is a different process. I served on one criminal jury and that was how the judge described it to us after the trial was over and we'd found him guilty.

Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...