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GringoSalado

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  1. Got dammit
  2. Meh. I'm not seeing anything objectionable here. "...Texas will always be Texas with or without me." hesrightyouknow.gif
  3. Woke up this morning fantasizing about wearing a go pro and accosting this guy with a shotgun, making him shit himself, and then posting that to YouTube. Would that be wrong?
  4. Narrator: it was Houston. And Nebraska. It's complicated.
  5. Well, those two things might be synonymous, making that repetitive, so perhaps I spoke too soon. Do I have the fucking commas in the right place?
  6. One of the best cowboys I used to hire for day work did not own boots or a hat. Nike high tops and a trucker hat, but the dude was always well mounted, and never missed with his rope. There is no dress code at the roundup.
  7. Didn't move but my parents did the opposite, car pooling me and my sister to the more urban school dist. once we were HS age. Sucked at first as I did not fit in but I finally learned how to speak/write English at a level commensurate (or in the neighborhood) w/ your avg. UT enrolee.
  8. I own several baseball caps, haven't played the game in 20 years. Would you like to confiscate those? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
  9. Yes Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
  10. It's not insidious,it's reality. Some stranger in, say, Manhattan, gives zero fucks about you. This is less true as pop density goes down, I was stranded just outside Floydada, TX once but only for about ten minutes as multiple people pulled over to offer help. It's human nature.
  11. Right? Alum side, obv
  12. I dunno man, I'd apologize for the GD word. We don't even like typing it out here, opting for Gotdammit. Aside, twice I've been asked to take off my cowboy hat. Obliged once when the request was polite, said fuck you the time it was not, esp. since that was two rows back. Bitch called the usher who declined to do anything. What say the shag on stowing my cowboy hat?
  13. Does it have one of those vacuum operated fuel pumps? Just spitballing but maybe a failure of that pump and the various interconnected crankcase ventilation circuits, and, well, keeping wildlife, um... an amphibious rodent, for... um, ya know domestic... within the city... that ain't legal either
  14. Good point, and not to beat a dead horse, but some of these older gaming sites were put in years ago when resistance was much, much higher. So that is, IMO, indicative of a mindset that allows change. Mind you I'm not talking about E Texas, I've never really been there. In rural NM we don't have any sort of Bible Thumping resistance to those sorts of things. We have meth instead.
  15. hyperbole. If there is no gambling anywhere, and Shithole TX puts in a casino, it's a boomtown. Every subsequent casino that opens anywhere subtracts from that. So even if you never get to "every state has plenty of casinos" as you approach that, you approach zero benefit.
  16. Yes and the end game is we all have casinos, and we are all right back where we started. There is no inherent economic benefit to gaming. edit: as a kid we used to run quarter horses a bit (as a side thing to our rodeo business). Ruidoso Downs was a big deal, fairly swanky (I'm talking early 1980's), lots of money. They opened the Mescalero casino and that took to to 11 so to speak. Great food, entertainment, and West Texas money poored into the town. I was up there recently. It has (more or less) regressed back to a shithole. The casino is okay, the resort and golf course a litle ratty, and the track is failing.
  17. In some ways gambling is a zero sum attraction IMO. Unless you attract out of area money, you are just cannibalizing your entertainment dollars.
  18. Yeah the gambling thing. SE OK is a shithole, they have (Choctaw) gambling. Tularosa is a shithole, they have gambling (horse racing and Mescalero casinos). edit: lost of ugly as shit windmills all over west texas. A huge solar install near Tularosa, also a very depressing eyesore.
  19. yeah I had never heard of that. Interesting that this more recent thing spawned so many copy cats.
  20. Good points, I think your last sentence sort of says it all. I'm from New Mexico, and in my former life operated a few ranches in the state, so I lived near (but not in) some smaller towns (Tularosa, T or C, Santa Rosa). Gorgeous scenery, but when you lower your eyes you see toothless meth heads. I would literally check your teeth before I hired you. The Chicken/Egg thing, all the folks who don't like meth moved to Albuquerque and got good jobs. Traveling in those rural circles I've also spent time in places like Big Spring, San Angelo, and Milano. All those little Texas towns are 1,000% better off than the best of the shitty NM towns (like say, Silver City).
  21. Can't remember where I heard this but somebody pointed out that this started w/ Ariana Grande licking a donut? I had not heard of that.
  22. Lol but nothing is free. Let's keep doubling tuition every 5 years and see how the PUF takes the length.
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