Favorite team:LSU 
Location:LA (Lower Ashvegas)
Biography:LSU 1989 by way of Nakatrash parish
Interests:Mountainbiking and Jeeps
Occupation:Pool boy
Number of Posts:2520
Registered on:5/7/2004
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Wife works three nights a week. I get more done in the shop and sleep better.
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But they've been hacked up, chewing gum and baling wire for the past 20 years to keep 'em running. Maybe get some parts out of them, but I doubt there are many that would be worth much at all.
There's people that want this. Unrestored cars are a thing. Maybe well start seeing Ebay ads like this: Unrestored, still running 53 Merc with flathead, 1.2 million miles, near perfect body panels.

They've had no supply chain and no money for 60 years. They are highly motivated and inventive to keep things running. The few videos I've seen show cars that are well taken care of.

Certainly Mr Ford and his buddies never envisioned or intended this.
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The 85 dollars I just spent at the pump disagrees
Rookie numbers...since like early 2000's for me and the F three fiddy...
Dad's Union 76 Service station starting in 1975 at 14. $1.80 an hour. worked from 3 or 4 pm to 9 daily, all day Saturday. Didn't punch a clock.

Thank god I never had to work in a grocery store, fast food or any of that crap. Worked with men who could fix anything. Learned a lot.
Sure...we do a few pool parties a year and a bonfire or two. Have a giant screen to project music videos, sports, what have you.

It's good in that it forces us to clean up, make some improvements, etc. Love the parties.
Wife works three nights a week.

That's when I crank up the barrel fire next to the shop, the old honky tonk sound comes on, projects are resumed while bourbon is sipped.


Your post is misleading.

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Thanks to you lame-o’s that don’t show out for day games and leave early anytime the opponent isn’t Top 10, the greatest venue in sports isn’t even #1 anymore.

Great job guys.


He said if we are playing at night, it's the clear number 1 in the sport.

But a different atmosphere with a noon or 2:30 kickoff.

He's right.

Now, is Neyland better in either case? No.

On the other hand, he had Washington and Oregon in the top 10 but not Ohio State or Michigan. So take it for what it's worth.
That's not bad mileage.

My kid (2016 Silverado 1500, 70k miles) wanted to be cool and bought a 6" inch lift kit and 37 x 13.5 Nitto Mud Blaster's for it without talking to me first.

Told him he'd need to regear it to have any chance of not bricking the tranny within a month. And that his truck has the clamshell diffs that cost $2,500 each to regear. The guy who sold it to him said don't worry about it.

He needed a 4wd shop owner to tell him this again before he believed it. Luckily he was able to recoup his money and resold everything.
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They were blown away by restaurant portion sizes. They were repulsed by it. They said no wonder everyone is fat around here.

Yep, that's why on the rare occasion my wife and I go to a restaurant we'll share an appetizer and an entre. All that food, just sad.

Oh, and we sit on the same side of a booth (OT hates this).

re: 90% of the OT looks like this

Posted by chrome_daddy on 3/2/26 at 10:48 pm to
Nope.

Think Kevin Bacon.
DC snipers began devolving in my little town, Ashland VA. I was in the YMCA working out the night they came and got a shower, just before they shot the guy at the Ponderosa.

BUT, this one was so senseless and hit home as the Harvey house was right next to the mountain bike path I rode all the time. It felt really weird riding there afterward. Knowing those little girls died like that.

These assholes just walked right into these peoples house on NYD, who were busy prepping their house for a party they held every year.

Richmond Spree Killings

Here's a similar fraud story here in RVA, local Dem cheating people (sadly, disadvantaged women and children) out of thousands.

WRIC News article on public frand sentencing

Funny thing is, the local news channel WRIC posts some of these articles on Facebook. For laffs I decided to wade into the comments. A shocking number of local idiots think this woman is a Republican operative of the Trump Admin. Some people are so dumb.
LIved in Chas SC suburbs the first few years in mid 70's. Had lots of friends from school activities, sports and worked in a gas station in another HS district (Goose Creek) so I got to know all those baws / gals.

My airman workmate always had a duffel bag of good weed (Columbian Gold, Panama Red, etc.) they flew up. I sold ounces for $35 and I was quite popular. I also was 6'2 at 15 and could buy beer if I wore my uniform.

Friday nights were football games then the parties out at various boat ramps, parks. Street racing our hot rods. Taking chicks out to the field next to the airport. Or drive-in movies with a crowd - park in the back. Saturday night was sneaking beers watching my dad and his friends race at Summerville Speedway.

Then moved to Natchitoches Parish before senior year. Met a good group with jobs, money, a few hot cars. Friday nights were cruising the strip, hitting the two drive-thru daquiri / liquor stores, and meeting up in the Walmart parking lot (Walmart was like a Roses back then). Then we'd all decide where out in freakin country we'd meet up for a campfire and more shenanigans.

Now it's date night for the hot nurse and I. Still have a good time with friends in the bars and then out in the woods.
Every night before bed, for anywhere from 3-4 mins to 20-30 mins. Dependent on how tired out I am.

Primarily fiction but also bios, history, psych, politics, Pulitzers, you name it.

Best are stories by Connelly, Kellerman, CJ Box. Authors that paint scenes with their words to help my brain slow down and crash.
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The taxpayers on NC should hit her up for the wasted tax dollars they spent looking for her all these years.
Not to mention US taxpayers: I'm guessing the husband had her declared dead and the family received SS survivor benefits for years.

She should have to pay us back.
Yep, after I joined / progressed in Toastmasters I became painfully aware how poorly most people on the planet talk / communicate.

Especially under pressure.
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the male students would have ensured he left the building feet first.
Not the smart males these days, especially in a super woke place like Oregon.

They know all the white women would come to "its" defense and the boys would get doxed / expelled / lives ruined. For something most women support. Phuck that.

Let them defend themselves from what they created.
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know someone laid off directly bc of AI?
No, promoted.

I retired back in 2024. My tech lead of the robotics/automation practice / platform I implemented at a fortune 100 company (ended up with 60-75 bots) was promoted bc of AI. We did such a good job w the automation program my lead was called into the CEO / CIO's offices and "voluntold" to lead the corp rollout of Copilot and Claude.

Six months later, he's stressed out as his current mgmt sucks, wishes I was still there. I briefly had remorse that I'm not there in the thick of things, learning, planning, executing.
My wife was widowed before she met me. After she had received insurance $$, she was talked into loaning this cousin of her husband's $5,000 to keep his paver / landscaping biz afloat. This was like 20 years ago. A chunk of change.

I got wind of this and convinced my soon to be wife to file suit, which she won.

We settled a few years ago when he covered the labor install of our 2,500 sf outdoor patio and kitchen.

Best advice, don't do it. But if you, make it a loan agreement with a signed contract, interest rate, penalties, etc.
No, not in this day and age. My ex was a liberal back in the 90's, raised that way by her federal bureaucrat mom (Ph.d, she knows it all - just ask her).

She supported women's rights, etc., but we NEVER discussed politics because she knew I follow policy closely and could blow away any of her arguments easily. She didn't follow news whatsoever.

Now, years later she has TDS and has gone over the edge. in raising our son she's mentioned concern about him listening to Andrew Tate and "toxic masculinity" online. Of course, she knows that's just inviting a lecture from me on "toxic feminism".

Leftist women are different these days. Activists, militant, TDS-infected. It's sad, but save yourself grief - stay away from them.
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It only feels 'not worse' right now because LSU got the better end of it in the portal.
THIS.

Just think of everybody else, 90% of other teams fans probably REALLY hate it.

Just think if you were a Clempsun fan. Their only decent player was pickpocketed from them at the last minute in Dabo's first serious attempt at using the portal. Now their piddlling 70th rated class looks up at us at number 1. Of course, some of their holier than thou fans need a little grounding so not completely a bad thing.