“South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.” —-James L. Petigru of Charleston, SC, 1860

Visited Scotland a few years ago and the food was fine. Had one of the best Italian meals I’ve eaten in ages in the old part of Edinburgh. Didn’t have a bad meal anywhere...

But, but...she wait [sic] you! 😆

I already like your Mom! And I’ll probably be doing the same in a few years (I hit 60 a year ago...)

The T-Rex at Cabazon definitely gives me Fallout: New Vegas vibes (::peers into his mouth, looking for sniper::). You can do a really fun road trip around Vegas visiting all the real-world inspirations for locations in the game (e.g. Hoover Dam, Goodsprings, Red Rock Canyon).

Covert is a big chain of dealerships in the Austin, TX area. My late parents had a Buick with a “Covert” dealer badge on the back (which always amused me). That this sort of thing is happening in a small town outside Austin is no surprise. A lot of those little Hill Country towns outside of Austin are conservative / Tr…

So a Taco Bell “Mexican Pizza” is basically what the rest of the world, at least here in the Southwest, calls a Tostada Compuesta ?

Have you actually been to an H.E.B. ? Yes, they have good quality offerings, but they aren’t an “expensive” grocery store by any stretch. Esp. the larger H.E.B. Plus stores - they compete with Wal-Mart.

They’re not homeless, but perhaps “houseless”. How is this any different from retirees who live full-time in an RV ?

I do this while frying up a hashbrown patty (cheap ones, from the grocery store freezer section, like the ones you get at McD’s). Then roughly chop up the brown, crispy hashbrowns and mix it with your egg, bacon, etc...while scrambling. Makes the perfect breakfast burrito filling.

We call it Toad-in-the-Hole. But Claire is right, fried bread (esp. in bacon drippings) is the perfect breakfast bread...

the national burger of New Mexico: the green chile burger from Lotaburger.

Here, take the stars. ALL the stars... :D 

Not everyone lives in a city, or even an easily accessible town, so maybe have a bit of open-mindedness for people living a different life than yourself ? And if you can’t, then you can always fall back to an old saying I use myself: Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Heh, OK. Might be a very good point :) So clue some of these guys in, what do women want ? (married guy here, so no personal skin in this game - just curious).

Problem is that such finishes appeal to the target audience (old folks with more money than taste). Now I’m an “old folk” myself, but I think these things are hideous. Give me a Sportsmobile-style 4X4 campervan with a rugged interior any day of the week. Because I want to be outside, not pretending I’m at a tacky…

I think I’ll try this next time I make steak for my wife. She insists on no red/pink inside her meat.

It’s Southwest. They’re headquartered in Dallas for f*ck’s sake. They even just announced they were going back to the 30 people at a time cattle-call boarding procedure they used pre-pandemic.

Been in this situation, mostly because the newly-promoted manager didn’t want to do the... “managing” thing. You know, the primary f-cking job responsibility of someone with that pay/title ?

Agree absolutely. There are very few good reasons to garnish funds from a stimulus check (child support was one of the small number that came to mind).