Yee haw, fuck the law.

I agree with my Tex Mex bazooka friend and now I want something in a flour tortilla with slightly too much cheese.

Step one for gun control should be a fully functioning mental healthcare system. That’s not the final step by any means, but if people are getting the mental help they need there will be fewer shootings.

https://xkcd.com/37/

Sadly I did not. I have visited but I was only there a few weeks to have beer and bratwurst.

I’m starting to think that there are a lot of managers who demand the impossible.

Same. Technically I report to someone at the company I contract with but mostly that’s just to let them know when I’ll be in and when I won’t.

Was it me? Because I had that conversation back in '10 or '11. I ended up taking most of it off then took off the rest after the project “off the books” (but with an email paper trail because I’ve been burned before).

You’re absolutely right. Watching porn is not a big deal. I care far more about the hypocrisy of being part of a party who wants to ban porn while going every damn day to semen covered booths with glory holes than I do about the actual porn or anything he was doing in those booths. These are the people enacting porn bans on “moral grounds”.

Of course I care more about the Holocaust than the hypocrisy, but I can think he’s a shit stain for two reasons.

If the code is there it can be exploited, and that’s a big ol’ honking attack vector.

Pop a Poppler in your mouth,

When you come to Fishy Joe’s.

What they’re made of is a mystery,

Where they come from, no one knows.

You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em,

You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em,

And if you promise not to sue us,

You can shove one up your nose.

I’ve got everything from an American G&L to a shitty $80 acoustic bass off Amazon. My favorite that I purchased instead of built is currently a mid level Alvarez, followed very closely by a butterscotch Squier 51 that I’ve had since they first came out (for under $100).

The biggest problem with low end guitars and bass guitars these days is mostly QC. Sharp frets, super high action, and bad tuners are fixable as long as your neck isn’t complete garbage. The problem comes in when new folks really have no idea what it should feel like and they don’t want to take it down and pay half the cost of the instrument to have a good setup done. So they suffer and quit when they could have spent $45 and turned a garbage $80 no name special into a reasonable beginner instrument.

To be fair, QC has also become a problem with much more expensive guitars as well in some cases (looking at you, Gibson).

I’ll give you a nickel if you say it out loud.

I want to know if that manager is still on heroin.

The day I realized that we don’t even know how to treat each other was a wild day for me. My friend group has been complimenting and building up each other for a while now. It’s amazing the change you’ll see just by having one dude say to another, “Hey, nice shirt my guy!” or something similar.

We opened for a national band tonight so a bunch of my friends were there. After having done this for a few years then reading this thread, I’m amazed to see just how much positive masculinity we had going on. There were compliments, talking up guys to others outside of just being a wingman (there was at least one case of being a wingman, too), lots of bro hugs, and a lot of genuinely happy guys.

It’s a hard thing to get going, but I’m glad we started doing it.

I’ve got a mouth like a sailor who stubbed his toe, mostly because I used to be a sailor who stubbed his toe a lot. Between my foul mouth and my either overuse or utter absence of fucking commas depending on how drunk I am I don’t think I’ll ever be mistaken for an LLM.

I just replaced mine as they were abscessed or impacted and I didn’t notice a change, but that was over several years. I would have died in the middle ages.

If you can afford it I recommend getting the worst of them replaced with implants. If you can’t then get some partial dentures to replace whatever you’ve lost. It will help both your confidence and quality of life.

But they’re much nicer about it.

I turned down politeness all the way and watched it become Dallas traffic almost immediately.

Fluoride in water can help if you’re not taught proper care and feeding of teeth, but you are right. The fluoride in toothpaste is what should be doing the heavy lifting.