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Faceplams: It's just a b/w representation of the flag, and from a graphic arts standpoint it's cheaper to print. It's just a stupid argument. Period.
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It's just a b/w representation of the flag, and from a graphic arts standpoint it's cheaper to print. It's just a stupid argument. Period.
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it never ceases to amaze me what people think about texas.Originally Posted by Volband
Yes, there are shootings in places like dallas. There are a lot of gangs there, because dallas is the 4th largest metro area in the country after Ny, LA, and Chi-Town. But it's GANG BANGERS. Like Bloods and Crips and Gangster Disciples and Latin Kings and shit. It's not like cowboys and indians lol. :P
Aside from the other massive metro areas like Houston (again, think ANY OTHER MASSIVE METROPOLITAN AREA,) Texas is mostly made up of small towns where shootings are pretty fucking rare.
Texas ranks at number 23 for frequency of murder, so it's average.
We shoot each other here in the same manner that all mexicans wear sombreros and all aussies ride kangaroos and drink fosters and eat at the outback steakhouse :P
Last edited by elevenism; 09-04-2016 at 01:38 AM.
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Not to pick nits but I think Houston has replaced Dallas?
Ohhhhh, you're counting Fort Worth.
But the gangs in Chicago don't reside in our suburb of "nap-erville" LOL.
I think he's thinking of this idea that the state of Texas is really pro-2nd Amendment? And he knows you don't live in Dallas (where you avoided the fight)? Dunno, he's from another country, doesn't matter.
Last edited by allegro; 09-04-2016 at 02:07 AM.
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yes, and it makes sense to count fort worth because there is no fucking space between the 30 something towns that make up the area. Literally. At all. (just like i imagine there is no space between la and her suburbs and such.)
Either way, they are both in texas. :P
Now, i have to go use the outhouse and feed the horse and listen to country music in my shack until i fall asleep. Our rooster crows pretty damn early!
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Well, but you ain't in Dallas, you're where Jesus lost his shoes, LOL.
i have friends in a Dallas suburb who said they felt an EARTHQUAKE yesterday?
Last edited by allegro; 09-04-2016 at 02:06 AM.
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i still rep dallas though, till i die. and i'm triple d bred and fed.
But yes, i will admit, people HERE DO actually ride horses and shit. It's just that people think that ALL of texas is like that, and it's frustrating.
I have spent like 80 percent of my life in a place that is way more like LA or Chicago than where i live now. And like i said, the vast majority of texas is peaceful as fuck.
Crazy about the earthquake. It OBVIOUSLY means that Jaysus is coming back, right?
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Um ... no.
From here:
An increase in magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes in Oklahoma has been linked to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and natural gas production. State regulators have asked producers to reduce wastewater disposal volumes in earthquake-prone regions of the state.
Last edited by allegro; 09-04-2016 at 02:06 AM.
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i've been hearing about strange earthquakes in the north texas/ok area for some years.
I assumed it had to do with fracking, but that's just my uneducated guess.
edit: story read @allegro , that's fucking nuts
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@allegro i actually avoided the fight in a town called Cactus, lol. As in that Cactus. This makes the whole thing more bizarre. All i can figure was that this dude was the one dude in cactus who isn't an illegal alien and he was damn proud of that fact.
And it's true that we are pro second amendment. A sensible shotgun is part of a texas home, especially outside the metros. There are a couple here and i've never even fired a gun. I don't get it really. I think it's just that texans like to be fucking obstinate, or ornery, as it were. I mean, there are aspects of that rebel attitude in my personality for sure.
Okay, while i'm at it, THIS fucking town pisses me off. I was at the store a couple of days ago and this kid who worked there said "i don't mean to be nosy, but didn't you used to like shoot dope? becauses i do lawn work and i used to find dope needles behind your house. you live in the jackson house right? you ARE tyler jackson?"
And i was like "NO dude, i never shot dope here, and you never found any goddamn needles!" I HAVE never shot dope here. But this fucker kept insisting. FInally i looked at him all fucked up and told him i used to shoot heroin in dallas to try to scare him. But instead, now he thinks we are friends.
I have tried my damndest to be invisible in this town and i suddenly realized that random motherfuckers know my name, where i live, and that i am/was a junky, and that's just the shit they will straight up say to my face!
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This movie is on Hulu, but all the swearing is overdubbed
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Rodrigo Duterte. Not because he insulted Obama, although that is certainly stupid.
But because he's initiated a bloodbath - 2400 and counting - of people summarily executed - murdered without trial in the streets of the Philipines, and apparently that's OK. It's OK to be a president and tell your people to murder each other in the streets without consequence.
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Maybe more deserving of a "little things that make you sad," but I'm sitting in a diner, Don't Stop Believing is playing, and the cute little girl is jumping up and down telling her mom how much she loves second grade, "I lovvvvvve second grade!!!"
for some reason it made me feel old in a new way
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When I was in the interview for my second job, I was offered a day rate and told "it should average around 10-13 an hour most days, some days will be longer, some shorter"
So... including travel time to tomorrow's job, I'm working a 12 hour day. Worked 10 hours last Thursday. 10 hours Tuesday. That averages me at 7-8 an hour...
At what point do I ask when the shorter days come in to play so that I'm making more than I did over 10 years ago when I worked fast food? Because it's only been a few weeks and I'm already trying to find a job to replace this one...
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I'm still having trouble with my internet randomly dropping connection after months of trying to get it fixed. No technician nor line tech know what the hell is going on. It's at a point where they're going to do a 48 hour monitoring of my line.
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cable internet or DSL? combo modem/router or separate modem & router?
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It's AT&T Uverse. Yes, I know AT&T suck. They were the only internet available in my area last year. It's not the router. Everything at my home has been replaced, even wires.
Also worth mentioning, I had AT&T before but had regular DSL. I upgraded because of expense/data cap, but I also had a similar issue back then. I only started calling after I upgraded to Uverse and it got worse.
It usually goes down between 7am - 12pm and 6pm - 10pm. Sometimes it'll go down at other hours though. Some days it's completely fine.
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Apple's insistence that they know how we want to browse our music catalog on our IOS devices. WTF is wrong with them.
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that's unfortunate. i'm sorry. was gonna try to help you troubleshoot it.
haven't updated yet, but i will say the new version of iTunes on my computer brought back some features they had gotten rid of a few versions ago, and i'm so glad they brought them back. it looks a little "retro" which is weird, but the functionality is vastly improved.
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ok, yeah, i updated. the new music app on my phone is HORRIBLE. and i hate the new control center setup (two pages? for what!?), especially the separation of airplay audio and airplay mirroring (i'm going to have a LOT of confused customers; i do a/v systems).
i don't understand for the life of me why they changed unlocking your phone from the swipe right that it's been forever to a click a button action...it's so counter-intuitive.
the new stuff in messages is kinda cool, i guess? i think the majority of this update is really nonsensical, though.
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realizing that i'm going to need to update my OS on my computer eventually, but that will cause the version of ProTools i'm running AND my m-audio interface to no longer work, which means i'll have to upgrade both of those, which will be around $800-$1000, at which point i should just also buy a god damn new computer.
people think home recording is so easy and inexpensive (and yeah, it is, compared to a studio) but it still costs a lot of money for someone who isn't exactly rolling in it.
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I just had someone ask me to work for 17 hours straight for 150 bucks.
fuck YOU.
Dude, I charge 100 dollars for rich people, and 40 for people trying to make bills meet. You want me to work for less than minimum wage while I pick up your leavings, you better drug me the fuck up to accept that deal, and unfortunately that ship has sailed
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That's $8.80 per hour, you can work at Taco Bell for that.
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This is the shitty thing about being an audio engineer... a lot of people just assume they can tell you "ah, well, for most of the gig you'll just be sitting there, so you don't get paid for that part"
If I'm there I could be somewhere else. And I hate this part of being a grown up, but I've realized that if you do "favors" like work your ass off for nothing for people that aren't your friends, they see you as an exploitable idiot.
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Slow talkers and especially when you have to talk to them on the phone. A few of my coworkers have that slow, monotone voice and for whatever reason, it just gets exacerbated on the phone. I've had to deal with two of them and they were both 10+ minute calls each time, almost put me to sleep.
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Along that line, coworker who insists on calling you to have you on the phone when they work on the deliverable you asked for in email. Really dude.
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Part of being a grown-up is looking at things in terms of hourly wages and time. I was always viewing things from the casual labor exempt salary viewpoint so I was getting screwed until my LABOR UNION MEMBER Husband kept insisting that I stop getting screwed.
YOUR TIME IS VALUABLE. EVERY FUCKING SECOND OF IT. It doesn't matter what they claim is "industry standard." Sitting around IS STILL YOUR TIME. I know BUS DRIVERS who get paid to sit on their asses in between shifts. TIME IS TIME. Anything else is them FUCKING YOU out of your TIME AND MONEY.
PERIOD.
I used to not think this way until G talked me into what we call the "Taco Bell Math." Pay divided by hours = hourly pay = is it the same as Taco Bell pay?
At some point, you have to set a minimum hourly wage for yourself based on your skills and experience and refuse to accept any less.
Last edited by allegro; 09-18-2016 at 12:58 AM.
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That sucks @Jinsai .
I used to do like stage monkey gigs for the dallas cowboys halftime shows on thxgiving, or backline for little music festivals, and i did a WHOLE lot of just sitting there. But i got paid for all of it.
Also, my brother and several of my friends have made careers out of it, and it's always like scandalous if a company tries to pull that shit. It's pretty rare in dallas for production companies to not compensate you for all your time.
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A friend of my mom's had a drunken tirade about someone whose son committed suicide, and went on babbling how that mother's pain was worse than mom's, because that one felt guilty for the death of her kid.
He's not a bad guy, that circle of friends has this tendency to do drunk circlejerks like that, typical french intellectuals and it's fun most of the time, everyone's incoherent and arguing to the point of yelling, it's fine. And you know, maybe he's right.
Next time you tell to my mother's face that her pain is lesser than and I'll spit that fucking wine in your eyes, though.
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3 months ago I was on an Australian deathcore bands Facebook page (a night in Texas). I forgot what it was in response to but I posted some dumb meme in the comments of one of their posts. The replied to me and said "nice meme you four eyed faggot". I fell out of my chair laughing, screencapped the exchange and posted it on my page. Fast forward to yesterday, Facebook removes my screenshot and blocks me for 30 days.
BRUH
Last edited by tony.parente; 09-18-2016 at 11:46 AM.
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Jesus, she said it in your mother's presence? Good lord. Fuck THAT shit! You are a hero for not fucking knocking him out, man.
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