Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[RikidyBones]

It is.

And yet a completely sad, absurd reflection on the "annie grab your gun" society. Not sure when, in history, going straight for your gun became so acceptable. Fwiw this is not about gun politics blahblahblah just the culture around them and how quickly people will resort to them. It's absolutely insane. Are these people just "seeing red"? Do they prepare themselves in advance to confrotations and know they will flash their gun ahead of time?

Outside of life-threatening defense, I just don't get it. Can't even wrap my head around grabbing a gun over driving or any mild confrotation. Society can be so damn depressing smh

Annie grab your _____ has been around since the beginning of humanity and this "culture" you speak of is mild compared to historic societal norms. From dueling with pistols to swords, to rocks, spears, whatever. It's relatively rare these days for confrontation like that.

 

[hotcypress]

I'm big on the North Carolina style vinegar sauce. I want spice and tanginess. Yall can miss me with any bbq sauce that looks like ketchup.

 

[drvenner]

Can we just reduce it to the simplicity that, despite the physical characteristics of other drivers, road rage and challenging people to square off in the street is stupid...?

Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezie

 

[drvenner]

He bareky tapped the guy.

I thought this said Barkley tapped when I read it the first time. I think a Barkley tap would hurt pretty bad.

 

[Glitch]

To be fair, @InVOLuntary needs to get in the trenches and stop eating caviar and drinking fine wines from his giant boat while his employees build.

Well that is a given. Threatening his employees with releasing rabid ducks on their children if the don't produce faster is just wrong in my book.

 

[drvenner]

When I graduated from UT, I enrolled in grad school in Memphis and took night classes so I could work during the day. I was a pre-loader with UPS from 4:30-8 and worked in QC for a medical device company from 9-5. Classes were Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9. I did this for 3 years until I got my MS in engineering. Pretty sure I was the only college graduate loading trucks, but I needed the money. One of my kids once told me he would be embarrassed to work in retail while in college as I did in high school and undergrad. After I initially laughed and then got mad, we had a good conversation about work ethic and responsibility.

I agree that some younger workers are unwilling to make the sacrifices that older workers did at their age. I have been blessed with a great career, but have worked my butt off to make it happen. Making your children work when they are younger helps to build a strong work ethic. My 4 children held a variety of jobs when they were younger, such as retail sales, restaurant hostess/waitress, soccer referee, babysitting, farm hand, and tutoring. They didn’t always like it, but they made a little money, gained valuable experience, and it kept them out of trouble.

Thank you for sharing. Really good story.

 

[drvenner]

SN!

I choose to believe.

 

[butchna]

I thought he was fired and not working now. His record, as a head coach is 44-44. That's not good anywhere.

Well yeah? There’s a reason he’s AVAILABLE. Won 9 games two seasons in a row. Last 3 seasons weren’t exemplary but 44-44 AT NORTH TEXAS? That’s successful.

 

[SSVol]

I mean, it's certainly part of gun culture. Of course, there's more to gun culture than this, but you can't discount the very real negative aspects of gun culture just to create an artificial rosier picture.

I guess it depends on how you define "gun culture". Most of the people in the gun community that I know (what I would consider the "culture") would absolutely not draw a weapon in such trivial circumstances. If you are talking about the plethora of randos who've recently bought a gun because <insert: world event, fear of unknown, etc> then sure. They ain't real gun people though.

I've carried for nearly 10 years. I've drawn handful of times. All were while walking home in the dark on my own property after hearing an animal (most likely deer, but we have lots of coyotes) in the woods beside my road. Never in public, although I have been threatened more than once.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

You talking about some sandwich lube?

Please don’t enable him or this thread will become mayo central

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

I mean, @LittleVol said this exact thing last week

Well he is a loser so…

 

[drvenner]

Amen. Mayonnaise is pure poison, the anathema of food. Bammers love their wretched "white sauce", which is little more than mayonaisse with a smidgen of BBQ sauce...just awful concoction.

I was at a local "eatery" a few years back. Said eatery has really good chili dogs. Dude comes in and orders three "all the way." He left with his dogs and came back in really upset a few minutes later. He said he was upset because that all the way apparently included chili, onions and MUSTARD, instead of mayonnaise. I mean this dude, was hoppin' mad. I had NEVER heard of anyone eating mayo on their hot dog until that day. I hope that I never do again.

 

[drvenner]

MAJ (P) Moran to you, mister man.

Congrats (soon to be) LTC.

 

[Glitch]

Congrats (soon to be) LTC.

Thank you. Then 3 years to the day, I hope to be LTC (Retired) Moran.

 

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

Hey VolsDoc81TX,
Wonder what you might know about qualifying for the Ispire sleep apnea implant. My wife got all the testing done, but she has been losing weight so she is down to like 130lbs 5'6.So with this weight loss it appears she is having fewer incidents where she stops breathing per hour. In previous sleep studies she was above the 15/hr min to qualify for inspire thru insurance. Now she is at 13. So she was denied. She is 42 and has dealt with sleep apnea the past 20 years, so is tired of being tired. She uses her CPAP, but that only helps out so much. She also has a larger than normal tongue as well. Appreciate anything you can pass along.

 

[Pridedad]

I was at a local "eatery" a few years back. Said eatery has really good chili dogs. Dude comes in and orders three "all the way." He left with his dogs and came back in really upset a few minutes later. He said he was upset because that all the way apparently included chili, onions and MUSTARD, instead of mayonnaise. I mean this dude, was hoppin' mad. I had NEVER heard of anyone eating mayo on their hot dog until that day. I hope that I never do again.

I love mayo on a hotdogs.

 

[85SugarVol]

Guns

Many clearly believe that

 

[feathersax]

I was at a local "eatery" a few years back. Said eatery has really good chili dogs. Dude comes in and orders three "all the way." He left withis dogs and came back in really upset a few minutes later. He said he was upset because that all the way apparently included chili, onions and MUSTARD, instead of mayonnaise. I mean this dude, was hoppin' mad. I had NEVER heard of anyone eating mayo on their hot dog until that day. I hope that I never do again.

Oh, this touched a memory nerve: in college many years ago, I went out on a snowy evening to get a foot-long hot dog. Returned to my room, anxiusly awaiting that morsel, only to discover it was slathered in mayonnaise! So mad, but unwilling to go back out. What sick person would put that gross concoction of a perfectly good weiner? That was some 50 years ago yet still grosses me out.

 

[Ashevolle]

What is gun culture? Where does it come from?

The culture of people who own guns. Like sports culture, it takes all kinds

 

[butchna]

I love mayo on a hotdogs.

 

[85SugarVol]

Annie grab your _____ has been around since the beginning of humanity and this "culture" you speak of is mild compared to historic societal norms. From dueling with pistols to swords, to rocks, spears, whatever. It's relatively rare these days for confrontation like that.

Innate hominin behavior

 

[SSVol]

I was at a local "eatery" a few years back. Said eatery has really good chili dogs. Dude comes in and orders three "all the way." He left with his dogs and came back in really upset a few minutes later. He said he was upset because that all the way apparently included chili, onions and MUSTARD, instead of mayonnaise. I mean this dude, was hoppin' mad. I had NEVER heard of anyone eating mayo on their hot dog until that day. I hope that I never do again.

My wife eats mayo on hot dogs. It's...a choice.

 

[85SugarVol]

The culture of people who own guns. Like sports culture, it takes all kinds

When did it rise?

 

[85SugarVol]

My wife eats mayo on hot dogs. It's...a choice.

So does mine.

 

[drvenner]

I love mayo on a hotdogs.

You are dead to me.