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Didn't do a boil last year. Want to do one this year. May not have a weekend to do so until May 3-4. That's usually a good week or two after we usually do so, but I expect we should still be in the money. Thoughts?
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Dead serious. Average looking, not very athletic, drove a shitty car. But I had plenty of game. 90% of it was "listen to/give women your attention, and make them laugh." Shit, if I can do it...ANYONE can. Oh, also, my wife tells me that being smart and having ambition are helpful too -- if your dream is to be a professional video gamer and you act like it....you're not going to get a lot of points with the ladies. Except, apparently, the "anyone can do it" is not true. Lot of really awkward dudes out there.
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American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
The Brady Wal-Mart is fine....but it ain't "big." That said, my truck broke down in the parking lot of the Brady Tractor Supply (stupid fuel pump), and multiple people stopped to offer to help, including a leather-skinned chainsmoking gal who actually had an electronic diagnostic tool in the pile of....stuff....in her car. It at least told us that the issue wasn't electric or the starter. Brady also has a Chicken Express, so I can pick up an order of gizzards on the way home. See, and y'all don't think I know how to find happiness. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
$1? Fucking Daddy Warbucks over here. Fox DeLuxe $.79 pizzas for the sad, not very delicious win. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
America's happiness index just dropped from #24 to #25 with this post. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
To be fair....I recall in our college days, dudes paying for Gumby's with a post-dated check. So, "I'll pay you tomorrow for a pizza that I unwisely and drunkenly ate today" isn't a new game. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah....no doubt in my mind as to the bolded. Shit, my daughter was squarely in that - she was having her dream year (freshman year of college), and it got cut short. And even though she went back to school after that, the cascade effects, changes to scheduling and study opportunities etc.....well, she felt like she was robbed of something that could have been great, and she wasn't wrong. Now, she got out and about and had and has a social life, but I saw plenty of her peers who did not, and who still haven't caught up. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
This is true. It is VERY true. I have experienced it in spades myself. But....it comes with a downside. These communities can indeed see themselves as a more cohesive "us," and "we" who depend on each other....but the also look outward at anyone not in their "us" as a "them," and often not in a good way. It's the flip side of living in a more diverse, urban community. You don't have contempt for "the other" as much because you deal with various flavors of "the other" in your daily life. Shit, the other day I picked up an order at Whataburger. The person who brough my food out was clearly born male, around 50, and dressed up with fabulous makeup, earrings, and his/her hair all did. He/she looked fabulous, and happy. Being a product of living in Austin for 30+ years, I just smiled to myself and thought "get down with your bad self." I know plenty of more rural types who would have thought and even said (although probably after they pulled away) "what the hell was that? Who did that queer think he was fooling?" or something along those lines. And, had he/she shown up in their town....not sure how friendly their greeting would have been. We should all treat each other the way that many rural folks tend to treat each other in their small communities - pitch in together, lend a helping hand. We should all have the tolerance and decency for "others" and "outsiders" the way that many urban folks feel for folks in their cities - live and let live, avoid hurtful judgmentalism. Sure, there are outliers for both (plenty of mean assholes in the city who would have called WB person a queer, plenty of people in rural communities who aren't helpful at all when people need it), but there are general lessons to be learned. The common thread? Treat EVERYONE like "we." And don't just think of the "me." -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
Not entirely wrong....but let's talk about the decline. We don't have to be as happy as the Finns. We SHOULD be as happy as we were in 2012. We are not. We are selfish. We are mean. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
There is also something to be said for that. Dear god....the food alone SHOULD make them depressed. Yet...they are HAPPY to eat....potatoes. And potatoes. And sometimes herring. And more potatoes. And cream sauce. And treating 2 flecks of paprika as "spice." They definitely know how to "be happy with less." Of course, they also drink a lot and have lots of sex (see the Gen Z problem above). Aquavit and getting freaky with other hot Scandinavians goes a LONG way in adding to your happiness score. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
The timeline certainly matches up with Gen Z's two big problems: they ain't drinking and partying, and they ain't fuckin'. I look back at that age, and yeah....drinking beer and having a good time with my buddies, and getting some, were key elements in my overall happiness. Shit, I look back on this past weekend, and....same thing. -
Are you my wife? Because that's what she comes back to, over and over again. Which is a pretty harsh way of saying "well, you aren't very good looking, so you had to bring SOMETHING to the table." True, but harsh.
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American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
God what a copout. Way to say "we can't get along because we have minorities." Also, way to utterly ignore the bigger point here..... Nevermind that we -- in recent memory -- did better at having greater alignment of our values society-wide. Far from perfect, sure....but better than we are doing today. Nobody expects us to be Finland. But we can damn well expect that we could be the US of even 20-30 years ago. In 2012, we were 11th. Today, we are 24th. Saying "we'll never be #1 is a copout." How about we just say "we can be #11 again?" Sorry I give a damn that we seem to be treating each other shittier, shittier, and shittier, and that our social wellness has declined from 11th to 24th in just 13 years. Sorry I give a shit about how my neighbors are doing instead of just myself. I understand that you either 1) don't mind cruelty and selfishness that hurts other, or 2) defend those things because it aligns with your beliefs. It bothers me, sorry, that's the way I was raised, and it's how I'm wired. Oh, and my concern about this isn't because I'm a "city boy, not a country fella" (well, okay....I freely confess that Austin traffic and idiot drivers are probably responsible for a good 10% of any bad feelings I have -- cut me some slack, man...our drivers suck). I know plenty of rural folks who are fucking ANGRY as hell.....at wokeness, at liberals, at minorities, at all that shit. I've heard it -- the words out of their mouths. Hell, some dear friends of ours have parents who grew up rural, raised them rural, and have retired to their dream patch of land along a river. And they....are fucking ANGRY. All of the rage porn stuff fed to them by their curated media, and reinforced by their neighbors who echo the same things. The irony is, in their daily lives, they live in such an insular community, they never have to deal with the things that make them so angry. There are no drag shows in Lower Bumfuck. There are few minorities -- at least, not in the crowd they run with. There are no liberals -- it's 100% Trump country, everyone agrees with them. There's NO reason for them to be angry, at least not with respect to their daily lives....but they are. So, "move to the country, and all will be chill" isn't true. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
^^^^^ Yeah....the second one. Tell me we don't live in the most absurd timeline ever. Attack the car dealership associated with a psychopath -- TERRORISM. Attack the actual capitol and actual Congress -- PARDONED. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
These both work....in part. But if you're shooting for the "happiness package," that includes empathy for others. And that's the unconsumable shit sandwich of American society today. Sure, you can focus on you and yours, and tune out the shit that everyone else is going through (I do a good bit of this these days, and I very much enjoy those moments, like Saturday mornings sitting on the couch with my wife, drinking our coffee, watching a Premier League match, making a nice light breakfast). But if you know your neighbors are going through the shit, it's only getting worse, and many of your other neighbors are actively working to make those neighbors suffer more.....it's kinda hard to fully enjoy your backyard beer and hot dogs with the family. No, we can't fix everything/everyone....we never could. But an approach of just "well, fuck everyone else, I'll just take care of me and mine" kinda misses the point. In Finland, they weren't just happy because THEY get a "baby box" when their kid is born. They are happy, and proud, that EVERYONE gets a baby box when their kid is born. Happiness springs from doing good and being kind, too. -
Running Alt-Right Thread of Mockery and Hypocrisy
Brisketexan replied to bad_teammate's topic in Cloak Room
What I want to know is why he resigned? Wait...I know...he's going to be appointed to a federal cabinet-level position in the coming days, isn't he? -
It was the era of "enough for most everyone"* vs. the era of "an enormous amount for a very select few." Average per capita wealth is a shitty measure -- a couple of dudes can have eleventy billion dollars, everyone else has tree fiddy. Compare to "most everyone has enough...some are poor, some are rich, but most folks are in the middle, ranging from "getting by" to "doing well." * Asterisk because, ummm, for a lot of that period, "this offer not available to black people" and whatnot. Even our golden age had plenty of tarnish....but the systems and patterns were there for broad success, and progress continued to be made.
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American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Brisketexan replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
Digging this up because.....we are plummeting yet again. I imagine this won't come as a surprise to most of us. So, what are the keys to happiness -- with some lessons drawn from places like Finland, which lands in the #1 spot again? Bolded the important parts, because the contrast is painfully stark. Understanding that "happiness" isn't necessarily "joy" or exuberance, but more accurately, is characterized as contentment and satisfaction.....these factors all make sense, both in what happier countries have, and what we're missing. These are NOT political issues -- they are cultural and social issues. Now, do those cultural and social issues bleed over and create our political environment? Yep, absolutely. So, think of life in Finland. It's maybe not as ostentatious or glamorous as the top 1% live here, but it's a good life. They have....enough. They have made a real broad effort for everyone to have.....enough. In the summer, they spend a couple of weeks at a modest cabin on a lake -- often with no or minimal electricity. You share meals, sit around the fire, sauna, take a cold plunge in the lake, drink and laugh. It's a good damned life, built around the simple things and, importantly, centered on family and friends. As much as they have a reputation for being quiet and reserved, they're actually quite social and friendly (just not so loud and boisterous). We. Community. Common purposes. Sharing. The common good. Valuing kindness and empathy as important qualities. Viewing transactions -- personal, business, etc. -- as integrative in nature (each side tries to reach an agreement beneficial to both parties, a win-win). Those are the things that lead to happiness. Me. Mine. Me vs. you. Seeing empathy as a fault and a weakness. Viewing transactions -- personal, business, etc. -- as distributive in nature (treat every transaction as one over a fixed pie, so there must be a winner and a loser). These are things that take us further away from happiness. Culturally, we have made a god of our toxic individualism, our "for me to win, you must lose" ethos. We have elevated those to be sacred, defining elements of the American character. And a natural secondary effect is that when that set of values is elevated to the divine....the contrary set of values (living in community, seeking mutual benefit) ends up being defined as evil. One of -- perhaps THE -- leading voices of our society (the owner of one of the largest communication platforms, most valuable business enterprises, and co-president of the country) made no bones about that value judgment: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” His take is not an outlier. He accurately captured the dominant cultural belief in this moment. The problem is, if our goal is to have a reasonably happy society, that take is poison. We are drinking poison. We should stop that. We won't. At least, I don't see any prospects for doing so until we've fully played out the current string we're on. Keep going further and further to the "me, me, me, and F you" extreme.....and when we realize that it's not making us happy, and instead is making us miserable, eventually our misery reaches such a depth that we say "okay, fine.....maybe let's try something else." But we've got a long, long, long, and painful way to go before we get there. That is pretty f'n depressing.- 329 replies
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I'm just glad that they were fastidiously mowing.....the dry and dead grass that clearly didn't need any mowing at all. But hey, you're scheduled for monthly service at $120, we're gonna make our $120. It's like sprinkler systems that run every fucking day, whether it's rained or not. No waste around here, nosiree.
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Hey, man.....not appreciating the judgment around here.
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CBP can absolutely search your devices at a port of entry. Which is why my devices are NOT enabled for biometric access. Password only. Want to take my phone? Have at it, I’ll buy a new one. But I’m not going to grant you access to something that can get you to confidential client information. Take my phone and brick it.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Clowning, yet accurate. That’s the way of these times. Such is life. -
2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Brisketexan replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
There is no “and.” Not to him. Also…don’t you be so mean as to put the US inflation chart against inflation rates that other nations experienced at the same time. That really ruins the “Biden caused our inflation!” narrative. And it REALLY pisses them off when you show them that the US actually performed BETTER than most every western economy, inflation-wise. Nope. Inflation was caused by Biden, and Trump saved us. Don’t you get it, libtard?
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