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Brisketexan

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  1. Yeah…you’re not fooling anyone here, ROY.
  2. Glad this got bumped...I couldn't find my mom's rice recipe, and there it is a few posts up.
  3. Yep. If your approach to life is "I'm going to Make America Great Again....by telling half of my countrymen to fuck off and go to hell, and happily inflicting pain on anyone I deem insufficiently MAGA," then don't come bitching when the response is "fine...then fuck you too." Choices have consequences.
  4. Was grousing a bit and letting myself feel blue because this Christmas is the first when we won't get to be together with our kids. The boy is doing his college year abroad in Germany, and couldn't get his student visa (necessary to be able to leave and then re-enter Germany) in time to come home for Christmas. Fortunately, we have a family in Germany who have become family to us, and both of our kids are together and spending Christmas with them. And we'll be heading over in a week or so for a "second Christmas" all together in Germany. So, it's a good thing. But as I was grousing in my own head, I remembered the reason why -- he couldn't get his visa because the German immigration system and offices are clogged with a backlog of processing Ukrainian war refugees. They are spending Christmas (probably not for the first time in this almost 3 year old war) away from their homeland, away from those who were left behind, under the cloud of war and death. So....our little hiccup is just that, a hiccup. Wishing and hoping that their Christmas gift is some sort of victory, and some sort of secure peace, in the new year.
  5. If you think "sure, she's hot, but man....she's EVIL" was any deterrent to Brisket's romantic pursuits, you did not know young Brisket.
  6. Fucker won't even go down in /history as the new George Jefferson. George at least owned a chain of dry cleaners, that's a real business.
  7. When the archeologists reassemble the rubble of this era, the theme will be something along the lines of "peak narcissism and hubris." It's breathtaking to watch. The fucking density of the narcissism and egos involved is truly astounding, on a historical scale. And there is a line of people who just can't get enough of slobbering all over narcissist cock, which is perhaps the weakest thing a human can do. Just pathetic.
  8. Coming from a dude's who's ideal career path is "Glass Joe" from the reboot of Punchout.....that's cool.
  9. You sound like my dad and his rants against overpriced fajitas ("Goddammit, I remember when they were 29 cents a pound, before those assholes at Chili's made 'em popular with gringos!"). What was a cheap, throw-away cut became a price victim of its popularity. Brisket has followed that lead. Shit cuts that used to be cheap as hell are now expensive due to mass popularity.
  10. Yeah.....that shoulda redlined your meter immediately.
  11. Wait....you think there's anything above a 0% chance that a Trump administration would actually HONOR its debts? We'd give the locals a $1,000 "advance" or some shit like that, install our governing apparatus, boost our military presence even more....and then stiff the everloving fuck out of both them AND Denmark, and tell 'em "wadda ya gonna do about it, sue us?" The #1 rule of ever having a deal with Donald Trump is that you never, ever, ever have an actual deal with Donald Trump. Get paid in full, up front, or don't make the "deal."
  12. Well, with the price of Roast Beast these days, a Grinch has gotta do what a Grinch has gotta do.
  13. She's probably going to need some comforting.... And look at it this way - she was willing to get down with murderous genocide, so whatever weird shit you're into won't even make her flinch. Unless, of course, you were wealthy but then had your assets frozen. Run a murderous regime that dissolves its opponents in acid? She's the happy housewife. Have your millions in stolen money frozen? BITCH IS OUTTA THERE! It's good to know that there's only so much she'll tolerate, I guess.
  14. Yeah. No. This is stupid. The FAA controls airspace, and the Supremacy clause says that wins. The FAA also provides that private drones can fly at a max altitude of 400 feet (unless they have a special additional permit). While local jurisdictions can layer on other laws (e.g., in Texas, you can't use a drone to take photos of property that isn't yours, with plenty of exceptions for emergency uses, surveyors and engineers, etc. -- but generally, it bars dudes flying a drone over the neighbor's yard and taking a photo of their daughter by the pool and whatnot). None of that gives anyone a legal right to conduct air defense activities (that is, you have no more right to shoot down a drone that is not threatening your life and safety than you would have to shoot a car that is not threatening your safety). And yeah, think of the obvious - plenty of aircraft fly over many properties every day (I'm in the approach pattern for ABIA -- lots of planes fly over my house. They're still pretty high, but they're there and visible). Do I get to shoot them down if they are under 400 feet? Do I get to shoot them down only if they're unmanned? Regulating airspace is the dominion of the FAA.
  15. Yall need to be nicer to Granger, she’s clearly the most intelligent GOP member of the House these days.
  16. Cool. So, your answer is "no." Just want to hold you to that standard going forward.
  17. Yep. When JM came to town, it was the first "high-end" great bbq joint in the city limits. If you went back in time to the day before JM opened, and you dropped in Mickelthwaite, or Franklin, or Leroy and Lewis, or even an outpost of Blacks, or Terry Blacks, etc. etc. etc.....we'd all have gone nuts about the fantastic, amazing barbecue that you could now get in the city proper. And we'd have been right. The argument about which is great and which is bleh is like fighting over who was hotter, peak Cindy Crawford or peak Kathy Ireland. My dudes, they were both amazing, and any sane person would be over the moon to be with either one of them. Again, we have an embarrassment of riches of bbq nowadays, how about we just bask in that great situation and enjoy it?
  18. Question, yes or no: Are there people (more than one person) in this country who 1) committed a crime, but 2) were not charged because law enforcement did not feel like the evidence they gathered was sufficient to support a successful prosecution? Just a yes or no -- are there people who "did it," but charges weren't brought because the authorities simply couldn't gather sufficient proof?
  19. Sounds like some libtard shit. Jesus was born with an AR-15 in his hand, ready to shoot dirty immigrants. I don't know what Bible you read, but it's probably a commie one.
  20. It's been a year or so since we hit the original Blacks in Lockhart, but it sure as hell wasn't dog meat. It was damned fine cue. Honestly, for those of us old enough to remember....we are spoiled, living in a golden age of great BBQ. Seriously, what some of the snob crowd is calling "dog meat" is the same as it was 20 years ago, which was and is really good stuff. The "argument" is about whether you're getting an 8-9 quality, or a 10, maybe. I'm serious, put a perfect slice of brisket from Black's next to one from Barbs, Franklin, Terry Blacks, Leroy and Lewis.....only someone with deep experience with all of them could tell you the difference. Every one of them would be a) glorious, and b) better than 98% of the barbecue that was around even 10-20 years ago. There are probably 20 individual locations within an hour of Austin today that serve a slice of brisket that would be life-changing for anyone who doesn't eat great Texas bbq with any regularity. Instead of shitting on some of them, and boosting the 4-5 that are getting all the buzz today, how about we sit back and marvel at the wealth of options we have? FFS, tonight, I can swing by the Black's location on Gaudalupe and bring home a pound of brisket that will be light years better than ANY cue I could have gotten in the city limits 20 years ago. And that's just the place that's on my way home.
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