DonkeyCigars

Wow, that guy was a mensch and that's a great song

Thanks for coming by and seeing me and bringing me some music.

I always appreciated your point of view and I find your feedback here very fair-- I know I'm a bit (maybe a lot bit) backwards in a lot of ways and I was definitely not shy about those positions. Obviously my opinions were in the minority for this community. Even the extreme minority, I would say. You might ask yourself, "why would someone who disagrees with 98% of the community in the CR actually want to engage and stick around and comment and discuss?" Well, firstly representation matters (and speaking of representation, it is relative. Despite being a slight majority in the state of Texas, a lot of my opinions were extreme minority on this website and if we really hold true that minority representation matters, to all minority vs majority dynamics, this alone is a valid reason to stick around). But more importantly and the lion share of the reasoning is that I enjoyed the discussions and conversations with a lot of people I vehemently disagreed with. I haven't been shy in saying that a guy I initially couldn't stand, @bad_teammate, became probably my favorite poster on this entire website. Something about a consistent, fervent point of view held with the integrity that didn't care for fair-weather fans and rep wore me down, I guess. Probably helped he is hilarious, but I learned a lot from that guy and softened in a lot of ways from the consistent challenges. Dozens of others who are obviously super intelligent I appreciated, even as they did not like me: @Mole, @wildcat09, @F250, @BrickHorn, @longhornmatt@jimmyjazz@bad_teammate@Mrs Whiggins@Ghost of LL@mchookem@Celery Man@TwiceHorn: You guys are all "appointment TV" in that when you weigh in, whether in parody/jest or with serious intent, we all stop (at least, I did) and read what you have to say because your intelligence served you to be able to ingest, synthesize and respond in meaningful ways that grew or was value-add to the discussions. Even @Js1 who I could not stand, and didn't want to ever respect, well...I grew to respect his mind and takes on all topics. I'm reminded of the Aristotle quote, "The mark of an intelligent mind is to be able to entertain an idea without having to accept it". But yes, to your point: I also was not always as...diplomatic, let's call it... to a subset of folks who I disagreed with that I felt to be inferior and were limited in their capabilities and aptitude by virtue of not being able to control their emotions and impulses and either were one-hit wonders or zealots without critical thinking skills (which is irony, because they are that which they most hate). Looking back, my disdain for this people does feel a bit narcissistic and ego-driven-- we should love everyone and meet them (the whole person) where they are at. It's okay to not be okay, etc. And then there was the posse that got me. Hats off to you guys; @DDD Dad @elfenix@Bullneck@cactusflinthead@Beau Vine @JimmyJames and a couple of your socks (usernames that would only neg, usually right after you, but never post). Good organization and execution. You not only showed me, but I think it's an example to all, that a few minor and sensitive posters can band together and eject a consistently dissenting voice (and probably one that, to you all, was often dismissive and rude due to a lack of respect, so I completely get it and empathize with you--I'd probably be tempted to do the same). I really want to own this, though. I don't know if it's because I'm super coachable or because I feel like this helps to continue to own my own narrative-- to continue having agency on my own terms-- but I am serious when I say that this handle, DonkeyCigars, is not going anywhere and there will be no re-incarnation. When I post it will be here. I want to be like Martha Stewart and keep it ten does down and eat this prison sentence like the true baddie that I am: for I am a young cowboy, and I know I've done wrong.

Lay the sod o’er me. It appears that a handful of posters were able to codify their grudge into tangible action and I’m dead. The people have spoken and, in attempt to be true to form and in death honor the way I posted while among you, I will vow to not create a sock and insult everyone’s intelligence and pretend to not be myself (and spoiler alert; I’m not and never have been anyone else despite people’s weird assumptions I.e, Tahoe or Chrispy etc.). So I will post here. Come by and visit and see me from time to time and let me know what’s going on in the old neighborhood. Let it be known, however, that I was crowdsourced for being diametrically different and expressing those differences with respectful yet radical candor. All I ask is for conservatives in the CR to lay rose petals on my grave so I don’t hear the clods as they fall.

Put some money on my books and come visit me from time to time.

First comment: You know what’s even funnier. This is actually LESS insane than the original

@DDD Dad the great amazing pervert is so desperate to neg to me 100 that you are going back and negging dozens of innocuous posts. Your cowardice is even greater than mine. I know it hurts to love and to lose, so at least tell me goodbye, you'll regret not doing it later.

I'm sorry about your financial problems, Dennis, I really am, but they are your problems. I don't blame people for their mistakes. But I do ask that they pay for them.

Schlocky is a good word for it. I remember loving this movie when I was a teenager and had a teenagers mind, so it's probably pretty cringe with the benefit of a little bit of life experience and wisdom. That's how those things usually go for me-- the Ayn Rand books out front told me, at least.

Same. Brothers?

lol

What?

So…..anyone seen that new controversial Chappelle special? Lol

Could be worse, could be southwest which apparently stranded 35% of customers, thousands of people, due to the pilots version of “blue flu” because they are butt hurt about a vax mandate

It was pretty straight forward. I said what I said. If you have trouble understanding and/or take issue with it...that sounds like a personal problem 😛

Well, I'll take the bet if you can ever figure out the stakes and a way to settle it. IMO Grimes has already shown above and beyond the cognitive dissonance needed for a mere to move to Austin by being with the billionaire technocrat oligarch, given her stated views, etc. I find it hard to believe she suddenly had a change of heart (especially since her latest music has not been received well, if not outright critically panned). Or maybe now that she has his baby, she figures she can Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Bezos her way to billionaire status and do her own thing, but I doubt moving to Austin had anything to do with anything.

Really? I'd be willing to take that bet (if it could ever even be known?)

Nashville rules and Tennessee in general is awesome. Memphis is cool, Nashville is cool, Knoxville rules, East Tennessee is beautiful.

This is what I said: Yet, you have multiple mouth-breathing, idiots spazzing out with "I cAnT BeLiEvE U aRe OkAy Wit Dis!11eleven" because they can't read and are stupid human beings. I could not have more explicitly stated that my beef was that IF TRUE this is Very Bad! and that my skepticism before reading this was because you, Pancho, have a very sensationalist history of posting reactionary stuff because you are a sensitive, liberal, low tier academic and that's just par for the course. Your thread you started implying a black man being lynched (which had to be updated and redacted because it was a mexcian guy committing suicide) is one example. Another more recent being your "Explain This" where you take the same format as this thread, which is posting a tweet that leaves out all context and relevant background which makes the headline look a lot more sensational that it really was. For those reasons, along with your hyper-sensitivity to denying the term CRT could ever be or mean anything more than an esoteric definition found in academia, I've grown to view your posts with the eye of a skeptic. And if I were to ever start threads with obvious subtext and agenda I would say you and others should take the same exact posture. I don't do that or generally start threads (I guess you can skewer my NFT thread I started) because I don't have an agenda and I'm not a troll. I don't run from direct questions and try to respond in good faith to each and every "call out" or counter question and because I won't just tuck tail and run away but will respond in a manner consistent with my political views, I am living on borrowed time here. Well, that in combination with the aforementioned idiotic morons who can't read and write and will neg because they are stupid, along with the 4 or 5 handles and their socks who are just sick and tired of my push back and just vehemently disagree with how I choose to believe and think. All that said, you aren't wrong here. I read the tweetstorm and the article. It was really well done and really well written and it's a travesty. I don't know that I actually owe you an apology for being skeptical of things you post or thinking you aren't exactly the most honest poster on here, but it sounds like you would appreciate one: I am sorry Pancho. You were right in your premise and your OP. It's horrible and it should be brought to light and thanks for starting the thread and brining attention to it. I am sorry for the rest of this thread (at least those who aren't the 4-5 people who follow me around and necro-neg to try and be rid of me because I'm meddlesome) for not taking the 45 minutes to dive into the subject and read the long form article before posting. I was unnecessarily incendiary in this instance. It was game day and I was pre-occupied with TX/OU-- if I didn't have the time to dig in I should have just not said anything. Lesson learned. Edit to add: I anticipate this response will be received well and this will be fun for me 😄

Boss Baby: Family Business (July, 2021) Very meh, which was a bummer because I've come to really love the Netflix original series Boss Baby Back in Business (4 seasons). The original movie I thought was good and the show is an excellent treatment with some fun B-school concepts and ideas creatively explored at a high level. It's a super fun series to watch with young kids. So I was excited for this and it was really bad. I feel like for the bad guy (Goldblum), the director watched Thor Ragnorak and said, let's just do a baby version of that guy and the plot wasn't really that great. Also, we've come to grow and love some of the canon characters (Jimbo, Stacy, triplets, etc.) and to see them get 1 or 2 seconds of explanation was super disappointing, because the new boss baby (Tina) sucked as a leader/field manager/CEO/whatever. That's probably 200 more words and thoughts about this movie than anyone cares to read or think, but I thought I'd share.

Just read that article, thanks for posting. This jumped out as "wow, this guy is nuts": Clapton does appear to have a credulous side: In the book, he detailed the bizarre incident in the Eighties when “a lady with a strong European accent” called him at home, told him she knew all about his difficulties with Pattie Boyd (his wife by then), and persuaded him to try all sorts of odd rituals — like “cut my finger to draw blood, smear it onto a cross with Pattie’s and my name written on it, and read weird incantations at night.” (At her suggestion, he also flew to New York and slept with her before realizing that none of that madness would bring Boyd back.)

hahahahahahhahahahahahahia. I'm dead.

Yes, you certainly don't know where to post that lol.

I don't know if she walks, but I think it's a 50/50 jump ball at least right now. I've started to hear bits of "she's a woman and this is why it's a big deal, silicon valley/start-up culture lying is okay when men do it" from reputable news.

That was such a beautiful pass. For anyone who has thrown a football recently, the level of strength and ability that "flick" was is superbly impressive, and on a dime.