TexasDrunk

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TexasDrunk ,

Damn, y'all having to pay for the whole meal to get one? You're getting ripped off.

Sincerely,

A drunk Texan

TexasDrunk ,

I don't and my time outside of work is worthless. But I have enough friends at this time and really don't want to answer.

TexasDrunk ,

My bartenders are all well aware of who I am. The only reason they'd blink at this request from me is that it's tequila instead of bourbon.

TexasDrunk ,

I have some very loud voices in my head. One is intentional, like when I read or write things out I hear my own voice in my head. At least one of them just talks shit to me all the time. It's not like schizophrenia "I hear voices", it's just a thought that I'm not actively having. When my depression gets bad it's gets really loud so I drown it out with music and books.

I can't see pictures in my head.

On another note, I'm pretty sure religious nutjobs really hear their own inner monologue and think it's a god talking to them. That's why their god always agrees with them.

TexasDrunk ,

Did you ever see the episode of Futurama where Bender had that big ass "Remember Me!" tomb built? He's like that except instead of tricking a planet and becoming a pharaoh to have slaves build things he burned down a temple of Artemis.

It seems to have kind of worked.

TexasDrunk ,

Yet we're here talking about him a couple of thousand years later. So it worked.

TexasDrunk ,

That would be fucking hilarious

First case of highly pathogenic avian influenza transmitted from cow to human confirmed ( www.sciencedaily.com )

In March a farm worker who reported no contact with sick or dead birds, but who was in contact with dairy cattle, began showing symptoms in the eye and samples were collected by the regional health department to test for potential influenza A. Experts have now confirmed the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza...

TexasDrunk ,

That pipeline is so damn real.

I've had occasion to buy raw milk to test making different cheeses (that hobby didn't last long enough to produce much cheese, sadly). This would have been before Trump was a big thing in politics, but I swear every person I met there was a damn tea party nut.

TexasDrunk , (edited )

Yeah, some folks don't want to tinker and do like to play games with DRM that won't work on Linux. It's also a little more powerful than the Deck.

I love my deck so much that I broke my tinkering with computers outside of work hours rule in order to set up some Steam remote play boxes (HoloISO based) on mini PCs scattered throughout the house so I don't have to be next to my gaming rig to play. I don't really play anything online that has the Windows only DRM so Linux is great for me. But I get it when people have things they want to do and don't have the time, know how, or desire to fuck with their systems.

TexasDrunk ,

I've had exactly one problem using the built in remote play with Steam, and that was a bad update that was put out just a few months ago. I've got a few Bee Links with the 680m iGPU (I'm not home to check the model right now) so they were a few hundred bucks apiece which is a huge con for some folks. But that also allows me to play a variety of emulated games and games that aren't graphically intensive locally if someone is streaming from another room.

So if I have a friend with kids over, we can play BG3 couch co-op in the bedroom or garage while the kids play Mario Kart or Hollow Knight in the living room. That's worth it for me.

However, cheap Android TV devices work for a lot of people and I'll never knock them.

TexasDrunk ,

This is the first time I've run across this community. I feel like I've found my people.

In about an hour and a half I'll be having a Maker's 46 Manhattan. Tonight I'll be drinking well garbage. Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'm headed to a whisky bar that keeps Old Rip Van Winkle in stock and I'll have a couple of glasses of that. Tomorrow night is more well garbage. Sunday morning will be brunch cocktails with either corpse revivers or cadaver revivers. Sunday afternoon will be more Maker's Manhattans, then in the evening I'll switch to water so that I don't die at work Monday.

TexasDrunk ,

Are you proposing to me?

TexasDrunk ,

Of course I do. I'm a drunk and there's alcohol out there that needs me!

I keep a fairly active social life and drink when I'm not responsible for anything. But I can squeeze you in for a date if you're interested though. We haven't really known each other long enough to get married yet.

TexasDrunk ,

Tell your lovely spouse that a drunk in Texas says they're lucky to have someone with a good sense of humor. I assume you're lucky too but I don't know your spouse well enough to say exactly how.

TexasDrunk ,

I thought The Last Starfighter was shot on location.

TexasDrunk ,

Or license it to a third party studio who does a great job, puts out a quality product, then gets bought out and gutted.

TexasDrunk ,

The only legitimate child of notorious poet philanderer Lord Byron. I love her whole story.

TexasDrunk ,

2/10, mostly for the condescending use of "sweetheart". Without that, 1/10. You can do better trolling than that.

TexasDrunk ,

Euthanasia as in animals, no matter the quality of life, adoptability, and years left, are put down by the thousands because they're inconvenient to keep alive and get adopted while PETA preaches that killing animals is wrong. Also, did you read the bit about them kidnapping animals from kids and old people?

Plus they're cowards without the courage of their convictions. When I was growing up their protests included throwing red paint on people in fur but they wouldn't do it to someone in biker leathers. One got them shunned and laughed at, the other would get them killed like the animals they stole.

TL;DR their whole schtick is to either destroy others' property or steal loved members of families who have fur while killing many more animals than they save.

TexasDrunk ,

You haven't answered any questions though. How many pets taken and euthanized the same day would be acceptable to you? How many animals that are adoptable, not ill, don't have behavioral problems, and aren't elderly should they be allowed to euthanize? Should they have to retract their ad campaign that ran for years claiming a link between autism and milk or should they be able to quietly redirect it and not confront it because the "science" was almost as laughable as the link between vaccines and autism?

You'll willingly answer, so I am eagerly awaiting answers rather than redirecting or trying to be the Glen Beck of PETA by JAQing off (I'm just asking questions!).

TexasDrunk ,

Ah, so you're not willing to answer questions. I don't engage with lying pieces of shit. If you had, you could have changed hearts and minds. Instead you're as worthless as PETA.

TexasDrunk ,

Or to watch porn in one of the states that block porn.

TexasDrunk ,

I love taking a motorcycle up to the Radio Quiet Zone in VA and WV. There ain't shit up there and no one can get in touch with me for days.

Just slowly cruising through the mountains and disconnected in a way that I haven't been since before my first work cell phone.

TexasDrunk ,

Just over 20.

The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands.

I’m kidding here, but the similarities are odd. The weather is always between 70F and 85F all year round. The biggest threat to you on the island are apples. You shouldn’t eat the apples that grow on the island; the small green ones are poisonous. Oh, and it isn’t easy to immigrate there. It’s a place where only few...

TexasDrunk ,

Do you really believe Jesus couldn't travel through time?

TexasDrunk ,

I'm both, but apparently someone's sarcasm detector needs calibration. Alternatively my sarcasm creator needs a bit of tweaking.

I'm well aware that Doc Brown, Marty McFly, Bill, Ted, and The Doctor are the only people who can time travel.

TexasDrunk ,

I browse all, but I've only blocked a couple of dozen. Every one is just a language I don't understand or American football (I'm just not a fan). But I have a "disable NSFW" button on my client so I use that if I'm in public.

I don't mind seeing things in my feed that aren't my thing as long as they don't take over.

TexasDrunk ,

Well if you're in the US you can get it from New Mexico and Wyoming. We've even got a few mines here in Texas.

So in the US it's a matter of getting licensed by the NRC and contacting one of the many processing facilities.

TexasDrunk ,

Can we call a knit throw an Afghan Afghan?

TexasDrunk ,

I did the same around 2005-6. I had plenty and never did it again.

TexasDrunk ,

Usually it's shittymorph telling a story or giving "facts" up to the end where he says that.

TexasDrunk ,

Supposedly it was for the film "Gags" which was shot in Green Bay.

There were tons of copycats. My buddy was out for an evening walk and one followed him around in Houston.

TexasDrunk ,

Getting a divorce. My life has been better since then, even when I lived in my car.

TexasDrunk ,

It's rough as hell, friend. I'm glad you're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. With a little hard work and a lot of luck I was able to buy a house a few years after I went through the homelessness thing. I hope the same for you.

TexasDrunk ,

I used to get that question a lot when I was a kid. I always politely said "no thanks".

It turns out my face always said "Are you fucking stupid? I understand how to heat things" while I was trying to be a little polite. I found this out when I visited my parents recently and found out that, while I'm still trying to be polite, my face still tells my mom that I'm capable of deciding on the temperature of my food.

My face says things that I don't mean to say even when I'm trying not to be an ass.

TexasDrunk ,

My mom is super loving and well meaning. She just has a "not the way I want it" problem.

TexasDrunk ,

Or "have we run out of natural yoghurt, we bought that 500ml pottle last week but we had curry twice, maybe I should get some more..."

This is me. I have to really watch where I'm zoning out because I have absolutely been called out for staring when my brain was miles away.

TexasDrunk ,

She's now qualified to do 90% of my job. Unfortunately the other 10% is explaining why it works.

TexasDrunk ,

I heard the same story when I was a kid, but it was about a boilermaker. The rest was for knowing where to tap his hammer to fix their problem.

It's an obviously apocryphal story with two great messages. First, don't undervalue your expertise just because the fix was easy (I still have a problem with that). Second, if you don't know what you're doing don't question the expert just because it looked easy.

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