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  1. On 12/12/2023 at 6:35 PM, Anastasis said:

    A short cut coq a riesling whipped up this afternoon to feed the kids before they head out for practice. 

    Chicken thighs. I blend the stock with an immersion blender to work down the onions and some of the shrooms before adding just a bit of cream. Less bitching from the kids if they can't make out the components of the sauce. 

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    11 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    My man. Made Coq Blanc this past weekend. I pull the chicken right before serving because less bitching from wife.

     

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    Y'all got any recipes you like for this?

  2. 1 minute ago, Deej said:

    Well, I thought if someone told me not to do it then it would be a good time to go buy a lottery ticket. 

    You'll get a better rate of return playing the masculinely confident pink tele than you would playing the lottery.   That's just science!

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  3. 1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

    Wait...what?

     

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    The Gainesville Ripper, You know the serial killer that inspired the movie Scream?  Gruesome murders, staged scenes with parts of the bodies, nightmare fuel.

    Spoiler

    "Rolling covered both of the young women’s mouths with duct tape before he bound their hands. He forced one young woman to perform oral sex on him before he raped, stabbed and killed her. He returned to Sonja’s dead body and raped her again. Rolling went so far as to cut off the girl’s nipples and to keep one as a grisly trophy of his actions.

    The next day, Rolling killed Christa Hoyt in much the same fashion. He broke into her residence and after he raped her, he removed her nipples and placed them beside her. Rolling cut off her head and sat her upright on the edge of her bed. The Gainesville Ripper put her head on a bookshelf.

    By now, news of the murders had spread across the University. Authorities put out as much information as they could to try to catch the suspect, and students slept in groups and took every precaution they could think of. Despite this, the Gainesville Ripper killed one more time.

    On Aug. 27, Rolling attacked Tracey Paules and Manuel Taboada, both 23. He killed Tobada while he slept. Then he killed Tracey. Authorities feel Rolling did not manage to mutilate these bodies because he may have been in danger of getting caught, or was otherwise interrupted.

    These murders all occurred less than 2 miles from each other around the University of Florida."

    I wasn't at the game (in Knoxville), but I heard this directly from multiple different friends.  A lot of talk about it around campus too

    anyways, if you thought things are all chummy in the SEC, think again. There is some truth to the "it just means more" but not in a Disney/espn type of way.

     

  4. On 12/12/2023 at 12:25 PM, LateAughtsHorn said:

    Bama and Georgia aren't surprising due to success. Texas is responsible for covid AND the Titanic, so to be expected. But what did Tennessee do to anybody? 

    Piss bags or perhaps chanting the names of your freshly murdered students...  IDK

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    The old photo flame stuff was interesting - it was like a decal that got laid down on the top.

     

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    #gratuitous

    I almost bought a Japanese fotoflame guitar until...

    1. I learned it was just a sticker
    2. I read about the Hamburgler
  6. 1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

    You sure? Because both Arkansas and A&M were talking about how they were going to someplace where everybody would love and accept them and not be mean like Texas.

    When have you known either of them to know a god damned thing?

     

    See ATM handshake deals

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  7. Just now, Tex Pete said:

    The fuck it doesn't. I constantly hear fans of lesser SEC teams, including Florida, brag about the accomplishments of the conference. That shit doesn't fly here.

    Well news to me, I haven't EVER heard a Gator bragging about another school.  Which fucking school were these posters bragging about?   The only schools that have had any real success are Bama/UGA/and LSU.  No fucking way anyone who went to UF puffed their chest out about those assholes!

    I had to literally fight my way out of Bryan Denny Stadium when Siran Stacy went down.  Pissed drunk Gumps were lined up outside the stadium after the game.

    UGA...  please

    Corndogs?   Have you seen a UF/LSU shitastic slap fight?  

     

    What I think you are referring to is when teams within the SEC talk about the difficulty of their schedules vs other conferences. And rightly so.  There is no "brotherhood" it's more of a viper's nest.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    Most of us hate everyone not Texas. I don't get this conference brotherhood bullshit.

    hth

    You won't get it because it doesn't exist.  You'll see..

    Except Vandy, because no one has a losing record to Vandy!

  9. 1 minute ago, Macklemore said:

    UT is unique in having 3 legit rivals. I loved the SEC move because it rekindles the aggy and pig rivalry. As witnessed in Fayettenam 2 years ago, piggy’s hate for is still white hot. Like OU, I respect piggy because of the history we share with them and their program’s success, which, albeit was a long time ago. 

    get ready to hate half your schedule.  SEC is choke full o' assholes

    UF has like 4 rivalry games, 5 on years we play Duh U

     

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  10. 53 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Still a big fan of the magnetic door canister spice storage. Old picture (rip Kevin) and honestly we could use another panel. Held on with fifty million command strips, two sets of some Amazon whatever. This was a wife project, and a successful one.

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    I need to get some proper drawer organizers. We have some bamboo boxes but they’re always sliding around or coming apart. We do the pan/sheet stuff vertically with some cheap wire holders from bed bath and whatever or Amazon.

     

    I’ve always just had silicone turners cause you can use them on everything and cheap 22 year old me isn’t getting more non-toy tools than the absolute minimum. I brought my big metal fish turner inside because silicone wasn’t working with tortillas and man I’ve realized how stupid I’ve been to not have just a standard flat metal spatula in the mix. It’s made me dislike using nonstick even for the quick stuff, going to my raw and enameled cast iron more or my carbon steel flat bottom wok. Also a little frying basket is useful more frequently than I realized. And the bench scraper for cleaning/gathering/picking up.

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    I love the fish spatula...  so thin I think you could slip it under tissue paper without a wrinkle

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  11. 48 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    all mammals can swim. And that's my contribution.

     

    (cue some asshole with the one exception to that rule)

     

    One?

    Chimpanzees, gorillas, porcupines, rhinos, hippos, and giraffes are some examples of animals that can't swim

     

    Also had no idea hippos don't swim

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  12. You guys are going to love this!

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/guns-disposal-recycling.html

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    When Flint, Mich., announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms.

    “Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma,” said Mayor Sheldon Neeley. “I will not allow our city government to profit from our community’s pain by reselling weapons that can be turned against Flint residents.”

    But Flint’s guns were not going to be melted down. Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits. Buyers online can easily replace what’s missing and reconstitute the weapon.

    Hundreds of towns and cities have turned to a growing industry that offers to destroy guns used in crimes, surrendered in buybacks or replaced by police force upgrades. But these communities are in fact fueling a secondary arms market, where weapons slated for destruction are recycled into civilian hands, often with no background check required, according to interviews and a review of gun disposal contracts, patent records and online listings for firearms parts.

     
     

    Some public officials and gun safety advocates said they had no clue this was happening. The Rev. Chris Yaw, whose Episcopal church outside Detroit has sponsored buybacks with local officials, said in an interview that he was “aghast and appalled” when told by a reporter how the process works.

    “It tells me that our society is set up really well for buying and selling guns,” he said, “but it’s not set up very well for disposing of them.”

     
     

    Seized firearms arrayed on a light gray surface, each with a tag and atop a brown paper envelope with writing on the outside. Guns seized or recovered by the police in Flint, Mich., displayed in 2020.Credit...Jake May/The Flint Journal, via Associated Press

     
     


    This examination of the gun disposal industry reveals a hidden aspect of the government’s role in promoting the proliferation of guns and a gun culture that has divided the country. The New York Times has previously reported how federal officials and legislators have facilitated the spread of ammunition and favorable laws.

    The industry relies on contracts with public agencies at the local, state and federal levels, and is subsidized by tax dollars and charitable donations that pay for buybacks. Governments arguably could be seen as complicit in bad outcomes — if a recycled assault weapon from Flint, for example, was later used in a deadly shooting — but it would be difficult to even know that: The salvaged gun parts typically would not include a serial number that could be traced.

     
     

    A Missouri business called Gunbusters, which patented a “firearms pulverizer,” was responsible for dealing with the Flint weapons. The company says it has taken in more than 200,000 firearms over the past decade from about 950 police agencies around the country, from Baton Rouge, La., to St. Louis to Hartford, Vt.

    At least a half-dozen other firms do similar work. LSC Destruction of Nevada says it has disposed of guns for police departments in Minneapolis and San Antonio, while New England Ballistic Services of Massachusetts has worked with Boston and towns in Rhode Island.

    Gun auction websites have thousands of listings for parts kits, and even complete firearms, offered by firms that contrac with law enforcement agencies to handle disposals. Gunbusters and its five licensees across the country, for example, recently averaged more than $90,000 a week in combined online sales of hundreds of disassembled guns from government clients.

    This little-known but profitable corner of the firearms economy exists because the approved method of destroying a gun contains a loophole that has been exploited.

     
     

    The Rev. Chris Yaw, wearing all black except for an orange scarf, sits in a church pew. The Rev. Chris Yaw, whose Detroit-area church has worked on buybacks, said he was “aghast and appalled” to learn what happens to the collected guns.Credit...Emily Elconin for The New York Times

     
     


    To be able to say a gun is destroyed, disposal companies crush or cut up a single piece that federal law classifies as a firearm: the receiver or frame that anchors the other components and contains the required serial number. The businesses can then sell the remaining parts as a kit: barrel, trigger, grip, slide, stock, springs — essentially the entire gun, minus the regulated piece.

     
     

    Police agencies and disposal companies say they are following guidelines set by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While the guidelines, posted on the A.T.F. website, show illustrations of whole guns being cut into pieces with an acetylene torch, they also say that an “acceptable method” is to destroy just the receiver or frame.

    The companies, for their part, say that if public officials want the whole gun destroyed, they must pay for it.

     

    “Our services are free for law enforcement agencies,” said Scott Reed, president of Gunbusters. “If we can’t cover our costs by selling parts, then we charge them.”

    Only about two percent of Gunbusters’ clients pay to have the full firearm destroyed, he said. Federal agencies, including the Secret Service, are among them.

     
     

    Mr. Reed likened the recycling of parts to “organ donation,” allowing collectors to repair or maintain their firearms: “The people who are happiest with us are those who need parts for old guns that just aren’t made anymore.”

     
     

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    But while the parts kits have legitimate uses, they could also further the spread of so-called ghost guns when paired with an untraceable receiver or frame, said Nicholas Suplina, a senior lawyer with Everytown for Gun Safety. The number of do-it-yourself ghost guns turning up in violent crimes has surged, made possible by unfinished components — prefabricated metal pieces that need welding and drilling — that are not serialized, and often do not require a background check when purchased separately.

    “These parts kits provide the necessary elements to complete a gun by a person who couldn’t pass a background check,” Mr. Suplina said.

    Both Everytown and the Giffords Law Center, another national gun safety group, said they had not realized that “destroyed” firearms were being sold in this way.

     
     

    In their marketing, gun disposal companies play up their no-cost services, often leaving out the information about parts-selling, which appears in the written contracts. Elected officials rely on their police departments — which typically look to save money — to make the arrangements, and they give perfunctory approval with little or no discussion. In interviews, some officials acknowledged that they had not understood the process, but were reluctant to speak publicly now because they had made inaccurate claims for years about guns supposedly being destroyed.

    In Spartanburg, S.C., where a taxpayer-funded buyback in May collected 128 firearms that were given to Gunbusters, local news stories reported that they would be destroyed at no cost to the city. Police Chief Alonzo Thompson said he was aware that Gunbusters sold most of the parts rather than crushing everything, but felt that was acceptable as long as the company complied with A.T.F. regulations.

    “But I understand the concerns and those who might feel they’re less than informed,” he said, adding, “My priority is to remove these guns from our community.”

    Flint, like other Michigan municipalities, transfers its unwanted firearms to the state police for destruction. What Flint officials did not know was that the Michigan State Police was Gunbusters’ biggest client.

    “The city was unaware that weapons were not being incinerated,” Flint officials said in a statement when told by a reporter about the company’s destruction method, adding that they would seek to clarify the disposal arrangement.

     
    A gloved hand places a gun component into a boxy white metal contraption stamped “American Pulverizer Company” and “Gunbusters.” Gunbusters says it has taken in more than 200,000 firearms over the past decade from about 950 police agencies.Credit...Neeta Satam for The New York Times
    Red vs. Blue

    The disposal of unwanted guns has emerged as yet another front in America’s culture wars.

    Red state lawmakers have pushed to prohibit law enforcement agencies from destroying firearms in their inventories, while also discouraging gun buybacks, calling them ineffective and a waste of money. At least nine states have laws mandating that the police sell seized guns or trade in their own when buying new ones. Gunbroker, the largest online firearms marketplace, lists hundreds of former police service weapons for sale.

    At the same time, officials in mostly blue cities have stopped police departments from selling or trading in old or confiscated weapons, pointing to cases where the firearms resurfaced in crimes. They have also embraced buybacks, using tax dollars and charitable donations to pay citizens to turn in firearms.

    Amid the rancor, entrepreneurs large and small have found a way to profit.

    Jeff McCabe, a house painter with a firearms license in Orange County, Calif., started a side business, California Gun Services, to resell weapons. His buyback website says its goal is “to limit the number of cheap, dangerous or unwanted guns in our local community” by destroying them — unless they have historical “or significant monetary value.”

    Mr. McCabe said that navigating the politicized environment around guns can be challenging. On one hand, he said, “there’s those, ‘You can pry it out of my dead cold hands’ Republicans,” and on the other, “there’s the liberals who think nobody should ever own a firearm.”

     
     

    “I’m trying to be somewhere in the middle,” he added.

    Other businesses deal only with law enforcement agencies. Gunbusters, the biggest of them, was established a decade ago by a retired St. Louis police officer. The company’s “pulverizer” crushes a firearm and videotapes the process so the police have a record.

     

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  13. 14 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    December and Charlie Brown Christmas are my go to LPs this time of year. Looks like you're covered.

    December is a great one, and I like the Charlie Brown album as well, but I'm  interested in other great recommendations too.  I have music on all the time (not just around Christmas), two albums aren't going to get it done.

  14. Like the title says...  I'm looking for Christmas music that more or less meets the following criteria

    1. Doesn't suck
    2. Not "pop" or modern
    3. Ideally instrumental, orchestral, and/or choral
    4. Doesn't have to be mainstream

    Some of these are the vibe...

     

    and maybe my only modernish.... Just sounds clean & lush

    You get the idea...

    PS Surly search is the Mariah of Christmas music

  15. 14 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Yeah, no one wants to hear Georgia play the world's smallest violin. They made their out of conference schedule with the inherent knowledge that winning the SEC with anything less than 2 losses gets them in, no questions asked, so why take the risk. They essentially created their own one game season and lost. Sorry, not sorry.

    Is uga acting butt hurt?   I wouldn't say they're happy, but they aren't pouting little seminole bitches either. (This is about the nicest thing I can say about uga, and it makes me feel dirty...oh so dirty)

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  16. On 11/22/2023 at 4:21 PM, Chopper said:

    pfffffttttt

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    I got mine in Constantinople Istanbul Turkey Türkiye for like $5.   Grind by hand and it makes a shit ton of pepper fast.   Chuck it up in your drill and stand back!

    You can get them in the US for probably $35 or so

     

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