At my buddy’s great grandmother’s funeral they said “She was born century before last”. I don’t remember the years but it would have been similar to yours.

“So I will quarter-ass this while telling you I’m giving 100%”

It’s unique in it’s looks.

That’s what they said about me.

I did contract IT work for one where one of the staff got in very serious trouble for having CSAM on their work computer. Like a lot of it.

“send in The Clown”

Is that like “Bring Out The Gimp”?

For me this just raises the question: What is a Juggalo?

That happened to a friend of mine. He deleted everything when he had a mental health episode. Took time off. They found his remains months later.

So yeah, could be.

He calls it his lair.

I was too. I surbibed with tribial blain dablage.

Nah, I got kicked in the ribs. Hurts like a motherfucker.

Leela: Why are you cheering, Fry? You’re not rich!

Fry: True, but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step.

No worries! It’s less than half an hour to downtown Houston from here at this time of night and probably right at half an hour from Katy proper.

I grew up in a true rural community of less than 1000. It was half an hour to the outskirts of the nearest city, and that place had 75,000 people. It was hours away from the outskirts of the closest REAL city, Dallas, with 1.3 million people. In contrast, Katy has 25,000 people and sits half an hour from the center of a city with 2.3 million people, nevermind the size of the metro area.

So if she lived on the west side of Katy, she was describing the place as she saw it and that’s not on you. A small place as compared to Houston, and more on the rural side of the suburbs. I take my motorcycle out that way because if you leave headed west it’s pretty empty for a while.

I’m glad that my nephew’s teacher last year sent out a message to allow family to donate to those parties. I’ve paid for a few.

I’m also sad that it has come to that.

Katy ain’t tiny. Well, in and of itself it is but it’s part of the Houston metro. I live off the Energy Corridor. I can be in Katy in a few minutes. I can also be at a dozen grocery stores, an insane number of taco trucks, any type of bar you’d care to visit, escape rooms, several gyms (I’ve recently started rock climbing in one again!), and shit loads of white collar industry for a good paying job within a few minutes. My first IT job making more than $125k was 10 minutes out of Katy. It’s suburban, not rural.

Yep. I write like a junior draftsman because anything else I do is pretty terrible.

Historically, you shook hands and kissed babies to show you were a man of the people running for office.

That’s why my bid for the Texas Senate fell through. I got the two mixed up.

Some places, yeah. But some of the screening tools have grown more sophisticated now that the information about copying and pasting the listing has made its way to the public.

You’re right, and he softened his stance with age (as well as his stance on sexism). To add to it on a personal level, I also enjoy the works of H.P. Lovecraft and he was wildly racist even compared to his peers.

It’s less about judging him by today’s standards than it is about lamenting that I’ll never be able to think of his work without remembering his racist views. I also can’t watch Call Girl of Cthulhu without remembering Lovecraft’s cat’s name. I can separate the art and science from the artist and scientist, especially if they’re dead so that they can’t benefit from it, but because of my own past (I was raised with a lot of passive racism by well meaning people) I can’t forget what they said.

It’s too bad T.H. Huxley was such a racist POS. He was a great paleontologist and I like his style of agnosticism.

I see you’ve been to my hometown.

The other person that replied did mention a lot of cool things you can do in a rural community. But being half an hour from a grocery store that has something I actually want at a price that’s reasonable (as reasonable as groceries get, I guess) sucks.

It’s less about what was done than the hypocrisy. Especially the hypocrisy of doing it while kids were around. Hell, I expect the hypocrisy out of her but that doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore it.

It’s the same reason we talk shit about all the Republicans that get caught doing gay shit. I don’t care if someone enjoys doing gay shit. Good for them. But if you’ve voted for laws that harm the LGBTQ+ community and get caught sucking dick in an airport bathroom then I’m going to make fun of you.