And none of these studies seem to talk about genetics. Ozzy Osbourne and I can drop hella drugs and alcohol, be just fine. OK. That has no bearing for the rest of humanity.

Speed of any sort can exacerbate panic attacks. Been there done that.

Y’all are fat as fuck. Period. But I think I know why… bear with me.

I’ve spent decades watching Americans get fatter and fatter and fatter. I’ve seen people tonight that were unthinkable in the 70s and 80s. From talking to friends and neighbors over the years I’ve gathered this, “Yeah. I’m/he/she/ is a little pudgy, but at least I’m not as fat as him/her!”

You see people worse off than you and breathe a sigh of relief. Well… I look at gravestones and think, “At least I’m not that bad off!”

Keep telling my how bad your joints hurt when you hit 30.

Fair question! I’m guessing he views such women as sluts and beneath him.

Breakfast Club. I was part nerd, part rebel. Funny how I read comments about how unrealistic the characters are. Guys, that is exactly how it was in the 80s.

Something wrong with inspiring stories?

The chances of that happening to the average person

Pure lemmy right there. Hard work is useless and derided. Only chance determines success. What a miserable way to navigate life. Is there a word for “economic incel”?

Figured this out some time back. Firing a manager is an admission of failure by someone even higher.

We had the coin op at the local movie theater. Didn’t play much as a quarter was real money and I lost so quickly.

Anyone remember the vector graphics Star Wars game? Man, if I could have any vintage game in my house…

Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself

I CANNOT kill this off my Spotify country list.

Them’s fightin’ words!

Yeah, 9-months is getting out there.

The walnuts are on a string and lubed.

Jesus. So you expect companies to produce products that lose money?!

Or, do you expect them to remove more profitable products, which by definition are widely loved, from the limited shelf space and replace them with less profitable products, which by definition, fewer people enjoy? You’d fail running a lemonade stand.

There’s a short stretch of road on the way to camp that’s always been a sand trap, but lately it had become almost impassable.

Whenever someone is stuck, people come out the woods and start shoveling and hooking up tow straps. Pulled up last week to 3 vehicles, grabbed my shovel and walked up, “OK. Which one’s stuck?” “Bro, we all stuck.” “OK, who’s first?”

There were two white girls stuck in an AWD drive vehicle. One of the guys got them into AWD mode and they drove it out. A black family was stuck in a medium-sized car and the neighbor used a 4x4 (which he keeps in the weeds for just such cases) to lever the ass end off the ground. Our local Boomhauer backed his 4WD up and yanked another truck out. I stood there with my shovel mostly being useless.

Never gone 15-minutes stuck without a helpful redneck pulling up. One of the guys on the road just dropped a dump truck full of red clay and packed it into a little hill! Should be good for a long time. The guy next to my lot is poor as a church mouse, and not in great health, but he drives his little POS tractor down the roads pushing the sand to the side. Not long ago the road collapsed where I turn just past the trap, so bad even my ancient F150 would bottom out. Someone got out there and removed all the broken asphalt and smoothed it over, that was serious work! (I should note, this is a private dirt road in the boondocks, no city or state assistance.)

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Agreed! But the real-life stories hammer those points home.

Hi! I’m going to pick your brain because this is on my mind tonight.

My family happily eats meat. I’ve never hunted anything but a few fish, rarely and not for decades. So, there’s the background.

Noticed there are LOADS of squirrels around. In my yard, at my camp, in the woods. Thought about harvesting a few. (Turns out I’m too soft, what if I shoot someone’s wife?!, but I thought about it.) My kids were horrified at the notion. “But you’re happy killing chickens and cows for your McDonalds?!”

Kayaking tonight, I ran into a monstrous rookery in the swamp. Egrets I think? Great Herons? Anyway, they seem always in the same place, by the hundreds and hundreds. Thought, “How about bringing a 20-gauge and shooting down dinner?” My wife was horrified. “Birds are not food!” So I brought out a pack of chicken, “Chickens aren’t birds!” (She’s Filipino, something may have got lost in the translation…)

What are your thoughts? I dated a vegan once who couldn’t admit that hunting your own food was morally superior to farm tortured meat. Uh… I don’t get it. If you’re going to eat meat, isn’t harvesting your own the moral choice?

Pretty in Pink - Pure 80s.

Romeo and Juliet is my all-time favorite Shakespeare adaptation. And yes, the soundtrack is perfect.

• Philippines threatened by the PRC.