Dawgfanman

re: How is everyone transitioning your children financially after high school?

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/18/26 at 5:19 pm to Redstickbaw

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If they want on campus housing or apartment during college they will need to get a job and pay for that.

I don’t pay their tuition/fees, it’s covered by scholarships. I do pay their rent. They cover food/fun/books. Rent is expensive (850 each a month) but they have a nice place and their own bathroom, all utilities included, individual lease so no concerns if roommates come or go.

In my state living on campus is required if it’s more than 30 miles from your home, this is at nearly every state university. It was cheaper when they moved to student centric apartments.

Expect them to change majors or otherwise need 5 years to finish, my only things to add to your thoughts (2 in college 20 and 22).

Both should graduate in the spring, youngest already has a job lined up due to internship this past summer. Oldest is kinda lost in the wilderness about what he will do, I don’t really care as long as he works full time after he hopefully graduates in May.

Money Talk

re: Family acts like fools at Yellow, pulls race card

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/17/26 at 6:44 pm to DarkDrifter

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Black Indigenous family ?? WTF??

There is an entire corner of the internet where some black people claim to be the original Americans, that they were here before the Indians and the slaves.

re: If you get pulled over, do you answer seemingly innocuous questions?

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/17/26 at 3:28 pm to Stat M Repairman

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Argue with cops in court; not on the side of the road.

No reason to give them help in court, on the side of the road.

re: CPB halts construction of border wall through Big Bend.

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/17/26 at 3:25 pm to Mushroom1968

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Trump is worried about illegals coming in by the millions when white liberals like myself can't even afford eggs

You poor

re: If you get pulled over, do you answer seemingly innocuous questions?

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/17/26 at 2:52 pm to Indefatigable

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Nothing anyone says on the side of the road for a routine speeding stop is ever going to appear in court And besides his radar and his testimony wins unless he doesn’t show anyway.

Answering the “where are you coming from” with a restaurant or bar will always lead to the “have you had anything to drink” and that can and would be used against you depending on the answer. I wasn’t talking about a routine speeding stop (I don’t speed). I was talking about a traffic stop that starts with questions that are obviously police fishing for info to use against you, which is what “where are you coming from/where are you going” are.

This is like the people who do roadside tests. Why? To prove to the cop you aren’t drunk? How often does that not lead to arrest anyway. If you are not drunk, don’t take the walk the line tests, wait on the chemical/breath test. Those tests are just to make you look stupid on video for court.

re: If you get pulled over, do you answer seemingly innocuous questions?

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/17/26 at 2:42 pm to Indefatigable

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Refusing to answer questions is only going to slow you down at best.

It will also prevent anything I say from being used in a court of law.

re: Georgia/TCU National Championship

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/17/26 at 12:30 pm to Frac the world

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in reality they are damn lucky they avoided Saban and Bama in the SECCG

We didn’t “luck into” anything, your team was not good enough to get to Atlanta. You lost to two teams whose arse we kicked that year.

SEC Rant

re: Stock market at record highs

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/13/26 at 11:23 am to Lsut81

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100% What is the statistic, only about 55% of people have retirement accounts and only 45% have 1k lying around to cover an emergency expense? The avg person in America doesn't give a shite about the stock market, they are looking at everyday prices.

Most of these people aren’t net tax payers (they get more than they give) and shouldn’t be able to vote.

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re: Final Bill dispute with a Contractor (Plumber)

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 6:20 pm to Skippy1013

If he didn’t like 9000 and the only thing in writing anywhere was 6200, that would be my next offer.

re: Final Bill dispute with a Contractor (Plumber)

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 5:34 pm to Skippy1013

What’s the paperwork for the estimate say? Anything else in writing?

re: Massachusetts moves to create a “Muslim Commission” to help place Muslims in government

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 5:11 pm to Ailsa

This seems like it would be illegal

re: Thanks Trump. $4.50 gas in Ohio (regular)

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 4:58 pm to CatsGoneWild

Oil hasnt been going thru the Strait for 5 months, its not needed.

re: 100 women rank themselves from 1 - 100. 100 being the best looking.

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 2:28 pm to Freauxzen

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Not even personality. There were multiple that said "I feel good about myself today, so definitely 85," like that mattered at all. "Confidence is attractive, and I'm confident, so 93"

Men also find willingness attractive..not one said “I am DTF so I’d say 90”

re: 1 out of 3 Flock stolen vehicle alerts were bogus.

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 2:24 pm to Ailsa

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“I pulled into my driveway, and all of a sudden, a police officer pulls in behind me,” he recalled. “I said, you know, ‘Can I help you? Did I do something wrong?’ And he said, ‘Well, your car's registration has expired.' “So I looked, and it was in my wife's name. I somehow missed it. Of course, we got it taken care of

I’ve watched plenty of these stops. Was he pulled from the car, patted down, forced to do road side sobriety checks, and asked to have his car searched/waited for a k9 to sniff? If not, why?

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re: Help me, concerning Trump.

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 2:09 pm to Geekboy

The oil and products that come from the strait are critical for the world, it would crush the world economy if closed…..5 months later..world economy still humming along..

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re: Its just a License Plate Reader

Posted by Dawgfanman on 8/11/26 at 1:55 pm to BrodyDad

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Looks like they sell equipment directly to companies so it is not data that is coming from government sources. Kinda creepy, but still you have zero expectation of privacy in a public setting.

Their business is selling data. The users are govt, insurance, banks, and various investigators. It’s creepy and I didnt say people have an expectation of privacy. I don’t think most people know about such companies and the amount of data about them that is available to LEO and non LEO agencies.