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the rare contemporary contribution to one of these types of threads.

exactly. at this point, i would take a bucket of fungo balls for any of everton's front line.

hmm, probably worth some potions and some light conjuring of azazel and beelzebub. not sure, 8 is right on the line.

as i have said on this thread before, i am not much a watch person but I sought out some advice for a gift for someone on here and, after confirmation, bought them a stowa atnea. i really liked it a lot. so simple, so bauhaus-y, and the perfect profile for my tastes. so i got one for me. came today. i grabbed a couple of extra straps and will use the blue one in the middle below as it looks nice with the rest of it. the brown one i bought is ugly as shit and was a regrettable purchase.

well RDC, I think it really comes down to...since we know how far along the crazy axis this 30 year old is, the question is how far along the hot axis is she?

Feeling good about staying up this year!!

LOL at Trent in Anfield.

How often do you live the lugs to “keep them lubed?”

well, well, well...look who has coming crawling back for some of that sweet, sweet dw quality. on a serious note, @ohchaucer, @rungeflash, and @Handcruser, now that i am rocking and rolling with this set, i have no idea what i am doing maintenance wise. what is your maintenance regimen for your drums, cymbals and hardware? which lube do you use, what do you lube, and how often? what about cymbal stuff? anything you do to hardware beside keep shiny?

i got covid early in july. i had to fly for work to new orleans and back and on the outbound, was stuck at the gate for a couple of hours next to someone who sucked. when i got back to austin, i felt horrible the next morning for four hours but it just felt like a sinus infection and being pissy from crappy travel circumstances. took a brief nap, and felt fine by the afternoon. flew to montana to go to glacier national park the next day. the next evening, my wife and kids started feeling poor. i went and got a covid test and it was positive in like three seconds. fuck. what was crazy on this one was that i tested negative twice three days later. anyway, in talking to people that week and the next, there were a lot of people who were like i felt bad for a day or two this week too. didn't even think to test. i knew right then that august and september would have a massive, massive outbreak of covid cases and that most people would never realize it. fucking nailed it. basically every single living person i know in the last three weeks has had it.

i got you, fam. that was a sick burn. p.s., every time i see you are the last poster in this thread on the main page, i think to myself, yep...thread/username combination checks out.

ya know, it is so nice for me that i can scroll right by any post you make related to aesthetics, quality, recommendations, literature, music, art, or any other topic of hedonism or matters of subjective taste. that time is spent so much more productively looking at tits in ipihb (that i suspect you have terrible taste in as well).

god damnit...the amount of concrete around mabry is about to become the new deconstructed doral burger isn't it. also, fuck everything.

fucking entitled white people, man. just kidding, love all you dickheads who need to wear a sweater inside in august. i'm just amazed your compressor lines haven't frozen over and failed. full disclosure, i prefer 71. but in this shit, i'm making allowances.

needing your house at <75 in the day time when you live on mercury is fucking absurd. set that shit to 77-78. if that is too hot for you, go outside for five minutes and come back in. i am not saying it needs to be 82 or something...but good lord.

jesus christ, dude.

are you fucking serious or is this a bit?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/politics/abortion-pill-mifepristone-5th-circuit/index.html

for some reason, i was taking part of some banal discussion with some idiots that were probably parents of my kids' school friends and someone was making a joke about the ridiculously terrible movie "surviving the game." in a moment of surly invading life, i actually immediately thought to myself..."hmm, i bet crash_davis from surlyhorns really fucking hated that movie." luckily, i did not say that out loud.

perhaps you are on to something. i don't disagree. get aisd, hisd, eisd, plano, highland park and the couple of oil rich districts out west on the same page, and perhaps something could finally be done. they should. with all that extra money, perhaps austin could funnel some cash into some crashdavis projects like affordable housing for the homeless or at least a well-funded homeless hunting and elimination task force led up by crash davis.

not how that works. if the judge actually considered an appropriate affidavit for purposes of probable cause, it should be on file with the court clerk. it may not be accessible because it is filed under seal or something but a d.a. just showing up with an affidavit, waving it around the courtroom, not filing it with the court, and then taking it home to never show anyone would be...inappropriate.

to build upon anastasis's response, the statement that they "received around $87.5 million from the state" on your link is an extremely poor articulation that's leading you to very understandable confusion. it makes it sound like they received $87.5 million in recapture funding from the state but that's not what it's saying. every isd "receives funds" from the state but it is not necessarily robin hood funds. for example, here is eanes isd's budget: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1655934192/eanesisdnet/rrchb2vai5gezqrgwu8c/2022-23AdoptedBudget.pdf you can see that there is ~$8 million in "state revenue." so they put in $130 million and get $8 back and thus, the remaining is recaptured. meanwhile, austin isd puts in a billion dollars and gets $66 million back from the state. https://www.austinisd.org/sites/default/files/dept/budget/docs/Budgets/FY2023_Official_Budget.pdf prosper has absolutely gamed the system though to jimmy their tax rates to be juuuuuuust right in terms of revenue so that they get out of the state precisely what they put in and thus, don't contribute to recapture.

fucking prosper isd, gets a chapter 49 designation for years and then suddenly, in the last two years, no longer does. unreal.

as someone who is sympathetic to certain tenets of socialism that seek to provide some opportunity equity across our widely varying socioeconomic gradients - particularly in a state like texas, the concept behind recapture has never bothered me and seemed like it could work. but man, the state of texas has demonstrated with utter incompetence how badly they can fuck it up by not forcing that money into an al gore-esque lockbox for education purposes exclusively and instead let our dumbfuck state government redirect it to their own political purposes like performative border theater, as well as allowing local administrations like frisco and prosper to game their tax rates so as to not be required to contribute. unfuckingbelievable. i have been an eanes isd taxpayer for more about 15 years and I am fine with helping subsidize poor districts. i went to a poor ass district in east texas. but fuck this state's government for their gameplaying horseshit. absconding with the funds is absurd, as is the fact that the fuckface suburban pieces of shit that comprise frisco isd and their 2,000 high schools paid $8 million in last year while i, and my single high school, paid in $121 million and austin paid in $875 million for abbott, patrick, and the rest of the dipshit brigade to loot while shitting on us repeatedly to their idiotic constituency. also lol at pecos-barstow-toyah and its 677 person high school being the second biggest contributor behind austin isd. thanks for the boost in o&g royalty values, russia.

the pac has been raising money for years on this garbage and white trash shit-for-brains across this country keep sending their disability checks to this dipshit brigade organization on a daily basis. the pac could spare a few bucks to mitigate the personal pain and leverage opportunity as a reasonably smart strategy. but here's hoping he just keeps pissing off his co-conspirators.