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As many Super Bowl/natty rings as you possess. Otherwise if you’re not a mobster the answer is 0.
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Xofluza


Worked for me, had kid coughing in my face with flu and took this. Didn’t catch it. No side effects.

Took Tamiflu a few years ago and after the first day I stopped, that shite made me feel worse than the flu. Wife also took it last week as prophylactic at dr’s request and made her sick as shite.

re: Credit score frickery.

Posted by tes fou on 12/22/25 at 9:41 pm to
It’s computer algo and you just have to look at it in its simplistic form as each factor is a positive or negative. If you have things it’s counting as a negative (no installment loans open) then you need other factors that it counts as positives to outweigh the negatives.

A lot of fuss is made about removing negative info from reports but another important factor is simply diminishing anything negative by overwhelming it with positive info. You have one tradeline reporting on time payments each month, if you had 10 it would be 10x the amount of positive factors getting counted each month. Avoid negative factors as much as possible and try to add a few things that are considered positive. Most credit cards only need to be used once every six months or so to keep them open.

Someone with only one account with any recency doesn’t give a lender a lot of info to go off of and most consumer loans don’t get bogged down in personal financial statements etc. they just want to run a credit report and see you’re a reliable payer.

You can probably add a couple credit card accounts even if you don’t frequently use them and have a visa/MC as a backup to your Amex you’ll see a big bump up in your scores.

Also as a person with a thin file it’s a good idea to have a relationship with a smaller local bank or a financial institution who holds your investments they will consider relationship more than just score.
20 years ago a 3-400hp car was a “fast car” these cars with 700+ hp are insanely fast. The amount of acceleration and grip the 296 has is mind blowing. First time in 296 to me was like the first time you ride a super bike like an R1 or hayabusa. Someone explaining it doesn’t prepare you for it.
We market new items there, in general people are complete idiots. I will have people who see our ads for brand new items sold in our retail store and inquire asking if we will take random used household items as trade.

I generate a ton of sales from Marketplace, it’s more useful than other online channels that cost us thousands of dollars per month, it’s just very inefficient because you’re dealing with a medium that’s overrun with low IQ individuals and makes it easy for them to communicate with you.
I have flown a good bit on a TBM, cool little planes. One trip I Was riding shotgun with a very professional pilot (retired widebody captain) departing right before a front flying into some nasty weather.

Maintenance guys had done some update and had the Garmin screens all pissed off and not talking to one another, throwing errors up and being obnoxious.

I quickly saw how so many guys without a lot of experience could get overwhelmed and allow the weather combined with a bunch of warnings and alarms to distract them while a perfectly good airplane turned itself into a lawn dart.

Small planes don’t bother me at all but amateur pilots do. Things happen very fast in a small turboprop/jet and the ability to stay calm and make sound decisions when there’s a problem is not a natural trait without experience and training.

re: Kuiu sold to investment bank

Posted by tes fou on 12/17/25 at 11:52 am to
Chene founded by Raymond James guys... :bow:
Haven’t hunted ducks this year but everyone all around me seems to be complaining about slow hunting. Weather has been frigid in TN for a few days but it’s about to be nearly 70 degrees through Christmas. Certainly not the needed weather pattern.

I went for a preserve hunt in SC shot quail/chukar/pheasant over thanksgiving and for a couple hundred bucks we hunted fairly easy terrain and shot a pile of birds, seems like a hell of a good deal when I listen to guys talking about thousands spent on leases, thousands more on boats and gear, work weekends etc at the duck club, only shoot a handful of birds the entire first split.
Powerpole is a great company when it comes to customer service, Minn Kota is good but doesn't come close in comparison.
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intense criticism from the medical establishment


I’ve already heard the details of an email to hospital employees instructing them “you must ignore the CDC and listen to the academy” or whatever the frick they call their political lobby croup masquerading as a scientific society.

Funny it’s the same fricking scumbags who told the same people “the CDC says you need this vax, take it or you’re fired”. All the while they all knew it was bullshite might kill a few of them and certainly wouldn’t do them any good.

Far too much government and cash involved in medicine for it to not be completely corrupt.

re: 2026 Firearm Deals Thread

Posted by tes fou on 12/4/25 at 10:43 pm to
I told my business partner I was bidding on their closing down auction his first response was that he and a relative had just been talking about those guys being world class assholes.

When I was picking up my winnings the Guy told me they had been there 43 years. Between the neighborhood and the reputation I gotta agree I’m amazed they were there that long.

It’s amazing how much money big box stores make on firearms just from gun shop guys who can’t figure out how to be reasonably friendly and helpful to people walking through the door.
There are also states that will issue a registration or title without a previous title usually a notarized bill of sale and possibly a previous registration will suffice.

Then you can use that title to get an LA title Or if it’s from a state that does not title like TN or AR the registration will work.

re: 2026 Firearm Deals Thread

Posted by tes fou on 12/1/25 at 9:21 pm to
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I had the $800 bid on that one you bought when you went to $810. When you did, I went to the other 229 pro and bid the same ($810) and won it.


I was sitting in my business partners office bidding on that one and even told him at one point, I haven't been paying attention to bidder numbers I sure hope its not me and one other guy bouncing back and forth bidding each other up on these two guns like dumbasses. :cheers:

re: 2026 Firearm Deals Thread

Posted by tes fou on 12/1/25 at 8:57 pm to
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So, we were bidding against each other on the Sig P229 pros.


That one was a flyer for me, just like the way it looks but I'm more a fan of the 5-800 pistols than the $1500+ stuff. With tax and fees that one ended up at $1022, not a bad buy, not a total steal. Got the Hellcats with red dots for just over $400 ea all in and the side-by-side 16ga for about $550, both of those were smokin buys.

I wanted the benelli 28ga shotguns but somebody paid too much for them as expected. No reason to pay retail for one you can't inspect before hand and is being sold as-is.

re: Duck Boat Advice

Posted by tes fou on 12/1/25 at 8:40 pm to
I sell a bunch of these, Young kids that like to go fast generally buy edge/havoc/reaper.

Guys who are a little older, have had a bunch of boats, hunt a lot and have duck clubs that have been around for a long time, mostly buy war eagles.

The right setup is going to depend a lot on where you hunt.

re: 2026 Firearm Deals Thread

Posted by tes fou on 12/1/25 at 8:34 pm to
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Local gun store when out of business here in Memphis and put everything up for auction on a local online auction.



My haul from this same auction:

HK 9mm VP9
HK 9mm VP9SK
Springfield 9mm Hellcat x2
SIG Sauer 9mm P229 R BXR3 PRO R2
CZ .410GA Barrel Over Barrel Drake
CZ 16GA Double Barrel

Ended up spending $4269 with fees and tax. Stopped bidding on several that went into the retail range, I'm sure I missed some other good deals but tried not to buy too much random crap I woudln't use. Saw several guns go for retail/higher than online vendors. These guys had a lot of tactical shotguns and other stuff I don't know anything about and just avoided all together.

Got several of these less than 50% of retail price, paid a little more than I wanted for a few but stayed well under normal pricing even after buyers premium and sales tax.

re: UPS plane crashes in Louisville?

Posted by tes fou on 11/20/25 at 10:26 pm to
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FAA records show maintenance workers repaired a crack on the crashed UPS plane’s left engine pylon in 2019. The NTSB said Friday the bulk of that pylon was still attached to the engine when it detached from the plane during its takeoff roll leading up to the Nov. 4, 2025 deadly crash.


Had a fedex aircraft mechanic in my office a few days ago. Making small talk I mentioned that it sounded like they were going to have some extra workload with their MD11 fleet. He said they were getting guidance that they’d have to remove and inspect all of the wing mounted engines/pylons on their grounded fleet and that they already had one torn apart that he described as “isn’t pretty”.

re: USAA Homeowners Insurance - up 31%

Posted by tes fou on 11/20/25 at 8:25 am to
I had them for several years, had been a lifelong State Farm customer before. Couple years back they Raised my auto by a massive amount, switched to state farm kept homeowners, tried to double my homeowners last year, switched it as well. My parents have had them quote multiple times, have never been competative. Never had a claim, other than dealing with auto accidents where other drivers/insurers were at fault.

re: Helly Hansen FF coupons ??

Posted by tes fou on 11/6/25 at 11:33 pm to
Email@tesfou.com is the email address

re: Helly Hansen FF coupons ??

Posted by tes fou on 11/4/25 at 3:00 pm to
email at tesfou.com if you have one left love their stuff
I don’t live in south LA anymore and try to use local stuff whenever I have it but I run out at times and I think any quality smoked sausage will do. The key to making great beans with good but not great suasage is if you have some combo of Tasso, pickled pork and a ham hock/shank. The shank will do the heavy lifting but all 3 help.