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Brisketexan

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  1. I had haggis, and loved it. It's like boudin for inherently violent people.

    Yep. My whole family loves it. My kids are Mexican Coonass Scots, so they were destined to love it.

    My daughter visited Edinburgh solo when looking at colleges. She waited at the World’s End to be seated for a dinner of haggis, neeps and tatties, and sticky toffee pudding. She got much respek from the bar staff.
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  2. Oh, and the only things on that list I HAVEN'T had: Lancashire hotpot, steak and kidney pudding, laver bread, and jellied eels (although I have had eels several different ways).  And most of the rest of the stuff on that list, I really like.  There's a couple that I'm just okay on, but the rest, I genuinely like.

  3. Just had a friend share a Pavlovitz piece that rings rather loudly right now:


    https://johnpavlovitz.com/2019/02/21/everyone-around-you-is-grieving-go-easy/

    Everyone is grieving and worried and fearful, and yet none of them wear the signs, none of them have labels, and none of them come with written warnings reading, I’M STRUGGLING. BE KIND TO ME.

    And since they don’t, it’s up to you and me to look more closely and more deeply at everyone around us: at work or at the gas station or in the produce section, and to never assume they aren’t all just hanging by a thread. Because most people are hanging by a thread—and our simple kindness can be that thread.

    We need to remind ourselves just how hard the hidden stories around us might be, and to approach each person as a delicate, breakable, invaluable treasure—and to handle them with care.

    As you make your way through the world today, people won’t be wearing signs to announce their mourning or to alert you to the attrition or to broadcast how terrified they are—but if you look with the right eyes, you’ll see the signs.

    There are grieving people all around you.

    Go easy.


    I just can’t help but think about how fragile we all can be in a particular moment. And how just a little bit of someone else’s strength can help.

    Twicehorn is right - mere kindness generally isn’t a difference maker in cases of severe clinical depression. But there are enough folks on the margins who can be helped...and that’s worth it.
  4. 15 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    I will no longer shy away from discussions about those “weird” kids, whether gay or trans or depressed or whatever, because it’s uncomfortable.  I’ll stand up for them and advocate where I can.  Because in the end they are like you and me, they are sons and daughters, friends, classmates...  They are human.   That was made abundantly clear.  

    And so much this.  There's an epidemic of loneliness in our society, even for folks who fit into the conventional box.  For those who don't....it's so much harder.  But they are all fellow children of God, taking this journey along with us.  We just need to walk alongside them and love them.  No matter what.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    I know you keep the faith, brisket. Judge I'm sorry for y'alls lost. I'm glad you're turning this into a positive, and hopefully your sister and bil will find peace. 

    Yeah, I couldn't sing any of the hymns Saturday.  Here I am Lord, and Canticle of the Turning.  Perfect hymns for the person, and the service.  I just fucking cried through both of them.

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  6. 18 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    I've seen the Steel Shank thread.  There's no way you don't have the worst smelling farts on the planet.

    I won't DENY mimicking the scent of a skunk wrapped in bologna cooked over a tire fire.  If that's what you're getting at.  My main point here is....my flatulence is more qualified to be POTUS than the current occupant of the office.  It's more honest, sincere, and achieves excellence on the regular.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm more of a hang time guy myself, as opposed to distance.

    Yeah....decibels are where it's at.  Time and odor count, but decibels are how champions are determined.

  8. Just now, JimmyJames said:

    No there is absolutely nothing that piece of shit won’t lie about. 

    If you let forth the worst smelling fart in history and bragged about it he would lie and claim he was actually the one who let forth the worst smelling fart in history. He’s a fucking psychopath. 

    I don't know about worst smelling, but the loudest....well, that was me, in a one-room hunting cabin during goose season, 1989.  Right after folks drifted off to sleep.  Was on the floor in a sleeping bag, perfect conditions.  It shook the walls.  It woke up the other 9 guys there.  They even asked if I was okay.

    If Trump says otherwise, he's absolutely lying.  I have witnesses.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Art.

    Art is good for the soul, that's what brings people together. Here you go fellas:

     

    If the phrase "looks like a million bucks" didn't already exist, it would have been coined just for her.  Always.  Even at her worst.

  10. A guy named David Pecker is a central figure in a scandalous presidency of a reality TV gameshow host who fucked and paid off a pornstar, along with two absurd looking Ukrainians involved in a business named "Fraud Gaurantee," and they also work closely with the president's personal lawyer who is an acclaimed cyber-security expert who regularly buttdials people and confesses crimes on live TV.

    This is the most ridiculous simulation ever.

    And I didn't even mention the blackmailed gay Republican southern senator.

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  11. 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Wishful thinking.

    If Sela Ward was caught up in such a thing, @Brisketexan and I would be too busy to post for a good week or two.

    Dude.  We live in 2019 America.

    This is the only new fappening we'll get, and it's EXACTLY what we deserve:

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  12. 20 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Good message, Brisket.  It was a beautiful service, in large part because of all the people that were there and the message that their presence conveyed.  I know it meant a lot to the family, his parents were a bit overwhelmed by it all.  They are pretty committed to carrying on their sons advocacy for the "different" kids.  Good to see you there.

    It was good to see you, brother.  We love you and your family, and I just want to make damned sure we say that loudly, and often.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, formermav43 said:

    You went to law school and don’t recognize an allusion to McCulloch v. Maryland?

    More to the point, I think my response already addressed how that applies. Despite “da fuh” not being a terribly specific question.

    Dude.  On Surly, THIS is a specific question:

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  14. 3 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    You are ignoring the rust chole reference. The reality is the fight against darkness never ever ends. That’s why you can’t just give up and throw in the towel. Because then it really is over. 

    Didn't see all of True Detective. I probably should, but the wife can't handle that sort of show.

    And yes, I agree -- absolutely always fight, never quit.  I'm a big fan of raging against the dying of the light and all that.  I think "defiance" is one of the greatest words in the language.  I"m just a realist.

    Hell, I'm old enough to remember when images like this were sent around on fax machine chain communications:

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    Fuck em.  Fuck em till the end.  I hope they fucking choke on all of the wealth and power they're shoveling down their gullets as fast as they can.  I just don't have any illusions about the power dynamic.

  15. Just now, Johnny Sack said:

    Furthermore, the court warned that taxing churches would be a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, which bars government interference in religious affairs. 

    That won't last.  See the recent history of "ecclesiastical abstention" -- the doctrine that says the gov't and courts won't get involved in inherently ecclesiastical disputes.*

    * Which has effectively been amended to state "unless the gov't thinks it's chosen wing of a faith might lose, in which case they'll totally step in and rule."

    There's literally books written on the subject, telling fundamentalists how to successfully litigate their church disputes (these days, all of those disputes are over the "God insists that we cast out the queers" variety).  And the courts just can't help but get involved to help their friends.

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