I’ve been making this car safety - gun safety analogy for a couple years, so I obviously agree with you. If car manufacturers had taken the same approach as gun manufacturers, ‘this one solution won’t fix all issues, so fuck it’, then we’d have a lot more automobile fatalities.

I’m a vet, I’ve fired a weapon or two. I’m not qualified whatsoever to speak on civilian weaponry and the laws (or lack thereof) governing them, as I’ve never bought a weapon of any type since I got out. Just saying, firing a weapon at a range does not qualify one to speak authoritatively on a subject.

It could be argued that part of the reason we have the extreme divide we do today is because people don’t talk face to face. Personally, I prefer my shit talking in person. I’m usually tame online, because I’d to represent myself as some ‘internet tough guy’.

I don’t know, I think there has to be a decent amount of people that want some good, hot, salsa. My favorite pepper I grew was the Fatalii and it was great in a tomatillo salsa. Wasn’t the hottest of my peppers, actually a bit less than the habanero, but best overall flavor and worked well when I made a salsa with it.…

I didn’t have luck growing peppers this year, limited space and all that. But when I’ve had good pepper growing seasons, I convert them all to salsa.

I just always made my kids try the food. If they don’t like it, then so be it. But I made them try everything I ate in the days before they were old enough to get their own kids plates. By the time they got old enough for the childrens menu, they didn’t want it. They’re close in age, so I’d just have them agree on a…

I grow the beard so my kids won’t laugh at my double chin.

I’m 40 and unless I’m required to ‘be an adult’, I’m all about the gym shorts, tee and flip flops. What the hell else am I going to wear? designer jeans or cargo shorts? I’m not single.

At work we used to have a group of guys that would grow and eat hot peppers. Most of us were good through ghosts. I got some Carolina Reaper seeds and I’ve had a couple of the guys grow those, but I’ve not been as successful. I have no desire to eat them by themselves though, I’ve done it but that gets to be a little…

My dad did 20, Vietnam era (but too young to have gone) and retired after the gulf war. Does not like the kneeling, but doesn’t make a fuss about it.

Shit, Sproles was on the bubble going into his third season. He failed to impress as a rookie and didn’t get much playing time, and then almost immediately broke his leg to start his second season. Sproles was very close to never panning out.

Merriman hurt his knee when Mawae illegally chop blocked him 2 games prior. That was the knee injury that essentially ended his career. You are correct that he did play, but it was with two torn ligaments and he was ineffective.

I’ve made it very clear to my two boys (18/19) that to not fuck drunk. I tell them you can’t protect her, you can’t protect yourself and selfishly, drunk sex isn’t all that enjoyable.

Well, Rivers gutted that one out and there were a few throws where that torn ACL really showed. I don’t remember every play exactly, but pretty sure the game sealing pick was a throw he couldn’t step into fully. Not that his ‘laser like float’ has ever been particularly zippy, but it really showed in a couple spots.

Well, considering they were playing without the best RB in football, the best receiving TE in football, the best pass rusher in football and their QB had a torn ACL, I’d say losing to the NE team by 9 pts was pretty tight. I didn’t feel like listing the Tomlinson, Gates, Merriman and Rivers injuries to further clarify…

What kind of revisionist history is this? LT was injured, tried to play but he had a sprained ligament in his knee.

As a former Charger fan, I’ve been saying ‘holy shit, did you see that Denver defense’ for a couple years now.

That’s not completely true, I’m still old enough to fuck properly, but even at 40 I was almost too young to actually get to a Fugazi show as I’ve never actually been to one (timing, location). But 40 yr old women are way past prime child bearing years. I looked it up, last Fugazi show was in 2002 and I was 25 at that…

I’ve been fighting with my mom for decades over who knows what at this point. Less fun than I thought it would be. Now every conversation I have with her has to be ‘nice’ instead of ridiculing her support for the orange fucker.

First wedding was in Vegas because I was super poor (just getting out of the military and about to go to school) and that was all the time we had off. Only her family attended (because they were the only ones that could get there, being somewhat spur of the moment and they being in SoCal). We only got married because…