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Our daughter and her friends, all from moderately affluent families, make the rounds at goodwill and several consignment shops on the regular. Its like a game for them. They will have a CAR load of shite when they get home and they have a big time doing it. They also buy one another outfits and have to wear them at least once to school - sometimes parents have to step in because they're teen girls and schools tend to frown upon a hooker showing up for 11th grade home room but generally speaking they have a big time doing it. They also go to the mall regularly but seldom buy anything....and usually because, there words, not mine, that "Goodwill has the same outfit for $3"! A lot of times they stuff they buy still has tags on it, never been worn.

When we lived on or near military bases and it wasn't a pain in the arse to get on and off them we bought a LOT of stuff at the base thrift store. Again, most of it still had tags on it and most of it came from the PX or the BX and the exchanges sell the kind of stuff you will find in shopping malls and not Walmart etc. Not extreme high end clothing but certainly higher end than we would buy normally. I have bought brand new Columbia PFG Shirts at those thrift stores for $1. Not used, brand new, tags still on them. $5 was normal - for a shirt with a $50 tag on it from the exchange. We have a thrift store on the base near us and we have access but we don't go on base very often. If you have access though those thrift stores on base have some bargains.

I don't think most thrift and second hand stores sell underwear LOL...someone said they wouldn't wear used drawers but I don't think they sell them or bathing suits....consigment shops may sell expensive womens bathing suits, I wouldn't know. Most if not all of them sell shoes though and you can also get some deals on shoes.....and many of them will be new and never worn.

We have some friends we have known since our early 20s and they had a bunch of babies in their early 20s so they didn't have a lot of money. The wife bought almost ALL of their baby and childrens clothes at yard sales. Those were the best dressed kids in the neighborhood. I asked her about it one day and she said her and some other friends would get together on Thursdays or Fridays and map out yard and garage sales in high end neighborhoods around Atlanta and would each go to a different area, buy anything that any of their kids could use, settle up on Saturday afternoon....and about 4 times a year sell all that shite and anything none of them could use at a yard sale of their own. Brilliant! Gave them something to do, saved them some money....just brilliant.

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But we’ve always been paying taxes forever that was supposed to be for our infrastructure. Yet Biden passed the largest spending bill in history that was supposedly meant to pay for infrastructure improvements that we were already paying taxes for. Also that money had to be spent in 5 years if I’m not mistaken. Where’s that money?

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$4.5 billion of it went to Louisiana for various projects. The same is true in every state in the Union. Mostly spent in rural areas for the most part for things like high speed fiber internet and of course road repair / maintenance and construction. Lot of bridges mentioned in the pages of Louisiana GOP politicians about how they secured money from the bill in the state.....

Georgia has done it several times over the years. Just did it in the last week or so. Each time it has been done gas prices dropped for a short period, started creeping back up and by the time the "crisis" was over and the tax was once again in place prices were slightly higher than before the last "crisis". It made gas marginally cheaper for a short period and when reinstated gas prices were marginally higher than they were before the got completely out of hand and the tax was removed. And of course the lost revenue is made up elsewhere because a pound of ground beef costs what it costs no matter what it is sold for...there ain't no free lunch.

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It shows you know nothing about Mizzou and CFB.

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If beating Florida, a historical middle of the pack SEC program, is even mentioned as the biggest game in your history by ANYONE with a cursory knowledge of CFB your program is historically shitty. An awful lot of people with a cursory knowledge of CFB have said just that since Mizery's win against Florida.


What is Missourri's biggest win ever? Y'all ain't ever won a natty, the one you claim came about because the US Senate, for some inexplicable reason, stepped in and said y'all were national champions (only counted as a natty in Missouri) and was the result of a 7 point win over Navy so I guess thats the biggest game y'all ever won, a 7 point win against Navy. I think I would go with this one if I were a Missouri fan. I can't be though because my mama and daddy were married when I was conceived and they weren't related prior to marriage....

12 gauge pump gun. It will require some thought before pulling the trigger 2 times, will be more reliable with way less maintenance and will cost less than a O/U. I suspect most people under the age of 70 or so started off with either a pump gun or a single shot. The latter is likely to make a young hunter pretty frustrated in not having a second and third shot like Daddy and PawPaw and the former will force the young hunter to at least work the action before firing that second and third shot which may teach them that they have more time to find a target and lead it properly than they will initially think they have. I vote for a pump gun. Usually low maintenance, cheap and reliable and has to have some action on the shooters part to get off that second and third shot. No matter how good one is with a shotgun we are alll better on the first shot than the second and better on it than the third...unless we are shooting an autoloader and it may not be noticeable which shot actually hit....

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Yeah, it’s the best rivalry in this conference, boss.

And if you went to the game you’d see why.

But even if you don’t believe that, nobody would agree with your horrible take. A top 5 in the sec? Yeah ok lol

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I have been to it. I have been to the Iron Bowl and The Cocktail Party. It ain't close. The Cocktail Party is a better atmosphere and rivalry and it is behind the Iron Bowl. Hell, UGA/Auburn and UGA/GT is better.

The Iron Bowl had to be stopped for a period of time due to the vitriol between the 2 schools. About 40 years if memory serves. State legislator had to step in. The animosity between the 2 goes back to the reconstruction era. It predates Oklahoma Statehood by about 40 years.

UGA and Auburn is older than Texas OU.

I have lived and worked among UT and OU fans. I have done the same among Alabama and Auburn fans - in fact I have family members who are fans of both schools. I promise you that you can't attend a funeral in Alabama in June, February, or any time of the year when the Iron Bowl isn't a topic of conversation. I haven't seen this in social, work or any setting among UT and OU fans except during the season. This, by the way, is not a slam against UT or OU...to be consumed by a football game that took place in Thanksgiving and will not take place again until the following thanksgiving on the 4th of July is not a point of pride - it is a sickness. To top the iron bowl the entire state, and in the case of OU and Texas, would have to be consumed with it year round.

There ain't a damn thing that the state of Alabma has other than college football - outside of Alabama being arguably the best program ever in college football and Auburn being caught up in that year round the entire state has NOTHING else. Have you ever been to Alabama for crying out loud??? It is a very nice state and the people are great but it hasn't got much going for it culturally or economically or in any meaningful way. It has no cities, it has no unique industry, and other than really gorgeous natural areas that can be found anywhere in the south it is pretty non-descript....except for college football which is disporportionally important in the state due to the lack of anything else....

They gotta be making some money - production value is way up

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Both teams are making the playoffs

So like last year’s regular season and SECCG games, it won’t matter much in the big picture either way.

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This is probably true BUT UGA needs to win this game. Not for anything going through the rest of this season but in order to get over the mind frick that Alabama is for UGA. I say they need to win the game - I don't think they do - and for the rest of the season win or lose is probably not back breaking...but from a program standpoint UGA needs to get Alabama out of their head.

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Then get Festool. Want some good shite, go German.

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If you really want to spend too much money for certain. I’ve sold just about all my Festool stuff, not because it ain’t great but because people will pay more for it used than it cost me new. I sold a 10 year festool track saw just a few months ago for $1200 LOL. I paid about $700 for it and it had been used a BUNCH. Nothing wrong with it but I have a $300 WEN that’ll break down a sheet of plywood just as good. It probably won’t last but 20 years or so….

I have Makita, Dewalt, Milwaukee and Ryobi and there ain’t a noticeable difference in any of them. I use Ryobi at the sawmill because they’re cheap and if a 1 ton log rolls over them they crack just like the others. The same is true if you drop one 20 feet, they all bounce the same, the ugly green one costs half as much to replace.

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They were talking about this on WJOX this week. Viewership of college football is down almost 10% this season compared to last year.

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If it weren’t for TVs in bars and restaurants and other public spaces I’d bet viewership is down by half. Those of us on these boards are fans…most of us spend an inordinate amount of time watching CFB games…. When we hear anything about viewership we immediately think that all of those people are like us…and they may be… but I seriously doubt it. I know for a certainty that every TV in every bar, restaurant, airport etc is tuned into games that almost no one is paying attention to….so TVs are tuned in but viewers aren’t. I suspect this will be born out in a few years when advertisers realize they aren’t getting a lot of bang for their buck. Live sports is the last thing network TV has….propping up sports is a requirement. I seriously doubt given the impact TV has on games that anywhere near as many people are watching as claimed….TVs are tuned into games and no one is paying attention