YOURADHERE

re: How smart is your dog?

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/11/26 at 1:25 pm to Ramblin Wreck

We've got a sheepadoodle, she impresses me with how smart she can be. Picked up all the usual stuff pretty quick(sit, shake, laydown, stay, come, etc), rings a bell on the door when she wants to go outside, rings the doorstopper on the patio when she's ready to come in, figured out how to climb the ladder so she can get into the kids playhouse to hang out with them, for a while I was picking up her poop and tossing it in a little unused area on the side of the house for the rain to wash away and she now uses that as her designated pooping area. We have a few of those dog buttons for her at my office and she picked them up pretty quick for "outside" and "treat". We had to confiscate the "treat" button, she kept pressing it repeatedly, then would get an attitude when you wouldn't give her one.

Years back we had an Australian Shepard who HATED FedEx and UPS drivers. It was funny to watch him just hop up and start growling because he'd heard the truck turn down our street a half mile away.

re: Multiple musical artists cancelling summer tour dates because ticket sales are so bad

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/9/26 at 7:12 am to The Pirate King

And it doesn’t get any easier once you get in. Brooks & Dunn are coming to Lafayette in October, you’re looking at $300-$400 for non-nosebleed tickets, $400-$600 if you want decent seats on the floor. Figure ~$100 if you go to dinner before and another $100 for a couple rounds of drinks inside. I’m sure the place will be packed but ~$600 for a night out on a Thursday ain’t for me.

re: 2026 Formula 1 (F1) Season Thread

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/7/26 at 12:39 pm to Lsut81

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Lsut81

:bow:

I appreciate you carrying on this fight. We had HuluLive, now DirectTV streaming, both of which have ESPN. I already piss and moan about the prices of those and refuse to add another subscription service just for F1, of which with 2 little kids has dwindled my time to sit and watch a race anyway. I agree with you, I suspect viewership through Apple has fell off, possibly quite significantly. I keep up here, I watch the highlights, etc, and I don't really feel like I've missed a whole bunch.

re: RIP Bootsy

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/6/26 at 10:51 am to arseinclarse

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The family has laid Bootsy to rest close to the barn where she used to live

Well that's just wasteful.

re: Sea Shepherd Boat in Larose- Menhaden????

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/6/26 at 9:25 am to subMOA

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Sea Shepherd Boat in Larose

Alexa! Play Bullet with Butterfly Wings by the Smashing Pumpkins!

I doubt they're here for pogey boats but the enemy of my enemy is my friend so I'll cheer for them if so.

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re: Tell me about your dog "breed" & why their great.

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/5/26 at 2:14 pm to wrongRob

We got a sheepadoodle a little over a year ago, our previous dog had passed ~10 months prior and though we said we'd wait she sorta fell into our laps and for a deal($200). She surprises me often with how smart she is, easily trained, can usually pick up on a new "thing" pretty quickly, great with our little kids, and surprisingly athletic. She'll bark at strangers aggressively through the door/window but usually mugs them for pets if they come in, probably just enough to keep a stranger at bay but I know she'd be useless with an intruder. I also can't keep her away from the water and though she's not quite sure exactly what, knows that there's something she should be doing anytime we're around livestock :lol: Comes with me to the office just about every day too.

re: Red Snapper Rod and Reel Setup

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/2/26 at 2:53 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt

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Get something with a line counter. It makes it much much easier.

And if not a line counter spool it with the metered Depth Hunter braid, makes it so much easier to be able to know how deep you are.

re: 2026 Formula 1 (F1) Season Thread

Posted by YOURADHERE on 5/1/26 at 3:14 pm to Lsut81

Incase he was talking about Nascar, he can probably get in some sort of guest type spot. Kimi Raikkonen did a couple Nascar races a couple years ago after he retired from F1, I'm sure they'd be willing accommodate Max the same, it would be fun to see him try a road course.

re: What meds to take for offshore fishing to prevent motion sickness?

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/30/26 at 2:30 pm to Out da box

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Nothing worse than turning around 20 miles offshore…

Wait, people go back?!? I must fish with a pretty ruthless crew, ain't no turning back for seasickness. :lol:

re: Mom cheers husky son after defeating young girl in wrestling match for a ball.

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/28/26 at 6:56 am to arseinclarse

100% chance that guy moderates a Reddit sub.

re: First trip to rigs

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/27/26 at 11:43 am to MAEFIELD

If you don't already have them I found a guy through Facebook that sells a SD card with all the rigs/wellheads marked as waypoints for $50. I then went onto the LDWF website and pulled all the coordinates for all the reefs/cutoff rigs they have listed from ST all the way east to a bit past Venice and manually entered them into our unit. Even if you don't want to mess with the reefs/cutoffs I felt like for $50 it was a good value to have all the wellheads marked.

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re: Are car generations of the pre-Covid era going to become highly valued in time?

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/27/26 at 8:50 am to SlowFlowPro

Ours was a TRD Off Road Premium, KBB comes in around the low 30s, which is pretty wild considering we paid $40k for it new. So far the only other TRDORP I've found under $30k has ~220k miles on it.

At this point I'm assuming the at-fault probably just has the $25k minimum coverage, I'm halfway tempted to just take their $25k and keep the 4Runner and either sell it as -is outright or hang onto it, collect parts, and repair it myself, frames can be had for ~$1500 and I'm just dumb enough to do it.

My other option is to turn it over to my insurance to collect maybe an extra $5k, lose the vehicle, and have my insurance rates go up for filing a claim. :banghead:

re: Are car generations of the pre-Covid era going to become highly valued in time?

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/27/26 at 8:39 am to SlowFlowPro

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the 5th gen 4Runner

We got word on Friday that our 2019 is totaled after being hit by a drunk driver, and I'm devastated. I wanted to keep it forever and joked that one day our kids would be driving it. I've even tossed around the idea of buying it back and frame swapping it, yes, I'm that attached to it. :wah: :lol:

2nd Gen Sequoias are another line that's holding value, equipped with the same 5.7 V8 as the same year Tundras and can go forever. That may be what we replace the 4Runner with for now.

re: 2026 Formula 1 (F1) Season Thread

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/24/26 at 11:38 am to Lsut81

:lol: I really wanted to like George, he seemed like a likable young talent at Williams just needing his big break, had that great drive when he replaced Lewis in 2020 only to have the win pulled out from under him.

Then the crash with Bottas in Imola happened that was his fault and he came off as an entitled brat and he hasn't really been likable since then. He's a cringy bastard :lol:

re: 2026 Formula 1 (F1) Season Thread

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/23/26 at 11:19 am to Gulf Coast Tiger

I feel like someone needs to tell him to STFU because I feel like he's making it worse by doubling down. :lol:

re: Deer Meat for Dinner, Blue Gabe, Dat Louisiana Life. Recommendations please.

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/23/26 at 10:31 am to SecGamer

I don't really watch either of them but watched a DMFD video recently because I saw he'd bought an Insetta 35 cat with Honda 350s and those interest me, they're a hydrofoil assisted 35' catamaran and tout a good ride and supposedly amazing fuel mileage. However, everything I see about mileage is people running ~35mph and I can't imagine spending that much on a cat and running so damn slow. :lol:

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re: Auto insurance claims question

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/22/26 at 12:42 pm to LSUFanHouston

Yes/no, they won't proceed any further until they have the police report showing them fully liable. Going through your insurance may have sped up the process, but once you have the report showing them as liable things should speed up a bit.

Source: Currently dealing with the same shite after being hit by a drunk with no license and questionable immigration status, luckily the bastard had insurance. However, they wouldn't proceed any further until we had the police report despite providing them with dashcam video of the whole accident. It'll be a month on Sunday and I still have no idea if they'll be fixing our vehicle or totaling it :banghead:

re: What do you wish you would have built into your shop?

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/20/26 at 7:42 am to Murtown

We do a pretty good bit of DIY on vehicles, I desperately want a 2 post car lift to keep from working on stuff on the ground/on jackstands/etc.

re: Best sushi restaurant in Lafayette.

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/15/26 at 9:18 am to RichJ

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I've heard some really good comments about Fish Box Sushi on Settler's Trace...

It's good for what it is, a fast-casual spot to maybe grab some lunch, but not really worthy of making a trip just to go there.

We recently tried Minami downtown and enjoyed it.

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re: Staying in Pensacola (not beach) for Blue Angels weekend

Posted by YOURADHERE on 4/14/26 at 11:39 am to BilbeauTBaggins

We went a couple years ago and purposely set our checkout date the Saturday of the show, and were on a boat to catch the practice session on Friday. The practice session is a full run through of the actual show, and while crowded, was no where near the crowds/traffic that we saw already stacking up when we left town the Saturday morning. So that's always my tip, catch it Friday if you can.

There's a Facebook page you can follow( Blue Angels Practice Info) that post all their scheduled info. We were there all week and were able to catch a beach buzz on the Sunday when they came in from an out of town show, then their normal Tuesday and Wednesday practice sessions, then the full show practice session on Friday.

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