this thread is fucking fascinating to me. i grew up in a redneck racist suburb of dallas, and i've heard someone with a winston 100 voice shout "the south will rise again" more often than i've heard the pledge of allegiance. but i never once tried to think about what the south would have been like even 20 years after…

this thread is fucking fascinating to me. i grew up in a redneck racist suburb of dallas, and i've heard someone with a winston 100 voice shout "the south will rise again" more often than i've heard the pledge of allegiance. but i never once tried to think about what the south would have been like even 20 years after…

don't forget all that good german grub in the middle.

don't forget all that good german grub in the middle.

texas was only an independent nation because it got turned down for statehood, initially. and it only broke off of mexico because mexico made slavery illegal. it probably would have stuck around in the CSA. texans talk a lot of shit, but it all comes out of desperate, desperate insecurity.

texas was only an independent nation because it got turned down for statehood, initially. and it only broke off of mexico because mexico made slavery illegal. it probably would have stuck around in the CSA. texans talk a lot of shit, but it all comes out of desperate, desperate insecurity.

well. it was worth a shot.

well. it was worth a shot.

yep.

yep.

every time anyone mentions Chuck Norris, i want to watch that scene where Bruce Lee kicks the shit out of him again. Also, anytime a guy with a moustache bitches about gays, i get very suspicious.

every time anyone mentions Chuck Norris, i want to watch that scene where Bruce Lee kicks the shit out of him again. Also, anytime a guy with a moustache bitches about gays, i get very suspicious.

god damn it i just bought a paper copy of gravity's rainbow three days ago.

god damn it i just bought a paper copy of gravity's rainbow three days ago.

i still think it was a dick move to name the first book, AND the collection of the first three books, Quicksilver. it caused me to skip king of the vagabonds and odalisque and go straight to bonanza/juncto.

i still think it was a dick move to name the first book, AND the collection of the first three books, Quicksilver. it caused me to skip king of the vagabonds and odalisque and go straight to bonanza/juncto.

oops. good looking out.

oops. good looking out.

can i make my "so who did they ask to play Danny Marianinho?" joke here?

can i make my "so who did they ask to play Danny Marianinho?" joke here?