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Brisketexan

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  1. It's solid -- one of the boy's go-tos in the UK (along with Popeyes, believe it or not). And my personal confession: I've never had Bojangles, and I hear good things?
  2. That cost-benefit changes as you get older and your time is literally more valuable. If I can bill for a half hour of time instead of do some task, it's almost always worth it to outsource. But when I was young and poor? DIY was almost always the right call.
  3. Oh, no doubt. Had to change out a headlamp bulb on my sedan a few years back. Found a video on Youtube, because I couldn't quite figure out how to pull the assembly. It showed me the way, then I did it and changed out a $3 bulb instead of a $150 assembly. As things have gotten more complicated, those tutorials are helpful, no shame in that game. I wasn't fixing a 1948 jeep, where you can see how every part is mounted when you open the hood -- I was fixing a more complex modern car. And don't discount the value of "doing a job well-done." The satisfaction of "yeah, I took care of that" has major value.
  4. Our "leader" is a fucking child. A petulant, tantrum-prone, toddler child.
  5. Sorry bro. "3-5 years" is a timeframe that literally does not exist. Only "this quarter" exists.
  6. I love that query. Let's translate it to reality: Would you like to spend nearly as much as the product price? For something you have a near-zero chance of needing? And if you do need it, we'll absolutely find a way not to honor it? It's triple-layer enshittification.
  7. Say what you will.....I bet if you cooked him up low and slow, he'd be pretty tasty.
  8. So much this. Looking back two of the best things I did for my son were (1) taking him on "work weekends" before deer season to a friend's ranch. Lots of "fixing broken shit," putting up new deer blinds, installing parts in vehicles, feeders, etc., fixing fences. Just stuff where you problem-solve, work with your hands and tools, and such. And (2) when he was 14, we bought a used go-kart. It needed work and customization. Bought him a set of tools, and told him and his friends to have at it. There were plenty of weekend days where there were three boys in the driveway, hands bloodied and greasy -- replacing an engine, adjusting the steering, adding lights, what have you. One of his buddies who worked with him is now getting an engineering degree, has a side-hustle fixing and selling go-karts, and has a job lined up with Peterbilt. And the boy knows how to use tools to solve problems (even when it gets frustrating). A shitload of his peers have no fucking idea how to do any of that stuff. Him? When something at his flat breaks, he figures out how to fix it and usually does. It gives him a level of self-assurance and masculine satisfaction, as most of us around here are familiar with.
  9. I mean, he legit lives in a fantasy world. Seriously, he thinks that Frank Frazetta paintings are reality.
  10. "Nobody knows more about cattle ranching than ___________." Yeah, we all know who goes in the blank. In fairness, sometimes some old school original recipe just hits. It's not my favorite fried yardbird, but I ain't turning it down. And once in a blue moon, I really want some.
  11. As a side note, no CR.....a lot of nice little treats like these, which are imported, are a lot more fucking expensive than they were a year ago. Because tariffs. It's a little irritation, but goddammit, it's an irritation.
  12. Why do you hate freedom and profits and move fast and break stuff and disruption, bro?
  13. This. Again, we sent a kabillion dollars worth of military kit to fucking STALIN to fight a common enemy. And it was the right move. I am a single-issue voter: do you oppose MAGA in the interest of keeping this Republic in existence? That's it. That's my sole issue. Because if we lose on THAT one, then every other fucking issue and policy is fucking moot.
  14. Again, it's just all Wilhoit's law.
  15. See the bullshit with John Deere. If a farmer wants to use his tractor to do X, or he needs to make repair Y.....he fucking can't. Not without paying an extra fee, or not without bringing it in to the dealer for some proprietary "process" that costs 10X what his repair in the field would cost. I grew up in a world where farmers and ranchers kept a whole shed of spare parts, bits and bobs that could be used to fashion spare parts or makeshift repairs, etc. When something went wrong with a piece of equipment, the first place we went was the shed, to see if we could find something to use to fix it ourselves. Now? Get fucked. You just breached the "license agreement" (that's right, you don't even fucking own the whole tractor, you just have a license to use some of its features), voided the warranty, etc. etc. Make a product. Sell it at a fair price that provides a decent profit. Buy that product. Own that product. Use it as you wish. That model is fucking DEAD.
  16. Jesus, the echoes of the late 1920s are deafening. Vibes bubbles writ large. It's insane and unsustainable, and anyone who says so gets shouted down as a negative nancy, this rocketship only goes up, up, up! Let's keep going till their market cap is eleventy trillion! Let's give Elon a $ 1 trillion compensation package! Fucking hell, this bubble bursting is going to make 2008 look like child's play.
  17. On excerpt that is interesting: This is a huge problem. It has multiplied exponentially. BUT, it's not entirely new. I recall 40 years ago, a high school buddy had a used GM car. Something was wrong (I can't recall what), and he wanted to fix it himself - good money-saving move, we were poor students and such. Turns out, the part required a special GM-only wrench or fitting or somesuch to remove and replace. Why didn't GM use a standard setting (that is, something an ordinary screwdriver/socket/hex wrench could turn)? Because they couldn't gatekeep that. Want to replace your air filter? Cool. You need to buy our $20 air filter wrench. I thought that was shitty in the mid-80s. I had no idea how ubiquitous that approach would become. Everything is proprietary, with no standardization or interoperability.
  18. "Have you joined our Executive member's club? Have you downloaded our app? Would you like our credit card, you'll get 10% off your purchase today?" You get that at Costco....you get it at Bob's House of Lightbulbs, it doesn't matter. Every. Single. Place. Fuck, I hate looking to buy something online. Hey, I'd like to check out nice wool overcoats. Search. See a link to nice coat at Calvin's Coat Shop. Click to see it....the screen is immediately blocked by multiple windows asking me to sign up for their Executive Premium Platinum Members club, and then to download their app, and then to apply for their store-branded credit card. Fucking hell, I just wanted to look a the coat to see if I want to buy it. I am trying to decide whether to buy something you are selling, and BEFORE you let me do that, you put up multiple barriers to me doing so. Fuck you.
  19. What I love is the openly endorse concept that if only the UK could be rid of everyone but the native English and such, it would be a crime-free paradise. Yeah. Those native-born white Englishmen, not a troublemaker or criminal to be found.
  20. You just made @MissingInAction curl up in a ball and weep in the corner.
  21. Well, that seals it. I'm not fucking Charlie Sheen.
  22. Geopolitically, we're mirroring the lead-up to WWI. Economically, we're mirroring much of the roaring twenties lead-up to the Great Depression. This is fine.
  23. You and I should be friends. We share certain....tastes.
  24. Except that most of us are very cautiously optimistic. Let's see if it really pans out. As opposed to the Ivermectin crowd, who is pretty much to the point of "it cures everything: COVID, cancer, male pattern baldness, malaria, bent dick disease!"
  25. Yeah. Just leave cash.
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