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dcbc

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  1. I'm not going to call you a fascist. I'm using your post to quote for no better reason than to say that I think this whole story is a bit. It's the Onion. Maybe I'm wrong, but this feels like a bit. If it is, it's brilliant. This is precisely the first thing I would do if I were in charge of the Onion after it bought infowars. If not, WTF. Shouted down from Brisketexan's ledge.
  2. Would smash like a fist of an angry god!
  3. That movie, notably with a killer soundtrack, holds up really well.
  4. Lots of good ones. I'll reiterate The Cars debut album. Also,
  5. I'm sure he's rewatched it a few times by now.
  6. /because let's face it. That's where this is headed.
  7. I already mentioned the Shining when I was about 7 and Airplane shortly thereafter. Truth be told, I saw a ton of age inappropriate movies throughout my childhood and even wrote a parody of Life's Little Instruction book if all of the life lessons were learned from movies I watched as a kid on TV /CSB Anyway, when it came to my older son, I let him watch a lot of age inappropriate movies including Jaws at age 8. He liked it. Around that time, we watched Ghostbusters. My wife watched it with us. We didn't think much of it. But at about 2 a.m. that same night, he work up screaming. I ran into his room and he looked like he'd seen something horrific. I asked him what was wrong and, through sobs, he said, "That lady turned into a dog." Oops. Sorry.
  8. I'm glad your instincts appear to keep you on the right side of history. Because you would be a scary dictator. Your doomsday game theory is startling to say the least.
  9. I've used this a few times. I find it to be an appropriate reaction to lots of things ranging from the totally heinous to the slightly off-putting.
  10. The next civil war might actually be fought over textiles.
  11. My older son ate a lot of peanut butter sandwiches as a child. I'll never forget trying to clean up peanut-butter puke out of the carpet in the middle of the night when he was about 8 years old.
  12. Is. Edit: the answer apparently is both. But under the JimmyJazz inner voice method of grammar, I'm opting for treating it as a singular noun. From Webster's: Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural. It occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (such as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (such as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (such as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it). Both constructions are standard. The plural construction is more common in print, evidently because the house style of several publishers mandates it.
  13. And it's even a more prevalent side-effect from contracting COVID19 than the rare side-effect of vaccination. https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-poses-higher-risk-for-myocarditis-than-vaccines
  14. Let us know how it goes. My first pit was a New Braunfels Hondo I bought in the early 2000s. Probably 3/16" thick. It was frustrating to use and I mostly put it to use as a grill. But I really had no idea what I was doing. From there, I moved through a Pit Barrel (briefly) to a WSM, which I love and am keeping for those times when I'm too busy to tend a fire or just want some sleep. I sing the WSM's praises whenever possible, and it's thin metal. But it's well-designed, easy to use, and I've put out some exceptional food on it. Incidentally, I gave the Hondo to a friend of mine and he's still using it over 20 years after I bought it. He'll burn out the firebox soon enough, but it's gotten him into smoking food and, to my benefit, he's keeping me supplied with wood from some rural property he owns as long as I go out and help him cut it on occasion. 3/16" steel may be fine in that vertical design, and there's only one way to find out. In my case though, I wanted to buy once/cry once and spent about $650 more than I would have spent on that Old Country G2 at Academy. The G2 is a beast, but I don't regret the wait and a little extra money to get get the smoker I got, which is a monster for its size and spec'd out like pits costing even more. I have no worries about its longevity as long as I oil it up periodically and keep it under cover. And so far, the extra-thick gauge of steel has made the learning curve not so steep with my first two cooks going really smoothly. But what I learned in the last day is that vertical offsets are not all that common, and when you do find them from custom builders, they ain't cheap. Keep us posted.
  15. 2/3 of my order was. And the beef rib was what I was there for. But if you zoom in on the fat cap side of that brisket, you can count the bits of pepper on it. That shouldn't be a thing at a top 50 joint, much less a place that goes as pepper heavy as LMBBQ is known to go. I mean look at that beef rib. Just make it look like that. And if it doesn't, set it aside for chopped sandwiches. I paid $116 for three meats, no sides, and a drink. I'm speaking my mind on that brisket.
  16. They probably arrived after 9 a.m., ended up behind the last man standing, did not understand or unwittingly took their chances, and it sold out. It wouldn't surprise me that Michelin judges would be off-put by having to wait or waiting and not getting served.
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