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  1. There's just so, so fucking much to digest here, I'll just hit the high points: 1. If you ever ask a kid if they were cheating/stealing/etc, and instead of just looking you in the eye and saying absolutely not, they rattle off a five minute diatribe of unnecessary information for no apparent reason, they were almost certainly doing it. 2. If, in the process of rattling off a five minute diatribe of unnecessary information the kid mentions that they know other kids who definitely were cheating/stealing/etc who they can tell you about, that kid was 100% doing it. 3. If you ever play poker with Jimbo Fisher and he starts nervously taking his glasses on and off, you'll know you're about to make some money.
  2. https://247sports.com/Player/Devon-Campbell-46093947/
  3. probably need more parks and fire stations. at least that always worked in sim city.
  4. 18 points
    After posting some in the non-Texas Winter weather thread, I had some requests to start my own thread about my life in Alaska. The backstory...My wife and I have lived completely off the grid in the Central Interior region of Alaska for going on 12 years now. It's the lifestyle we prefer, it's not out of necessity. We live in a 400 square foot one room log cabin in the woods, no electricity or indoor plumbing. We provide for ourselves as much as we can off the land by hunting, fishing, and gardening. We moved from Texas to chase my Grandfather's dream of living here. It was the best decision we ever made. I'm happy to answer questions.
  5. 18 points
    We have been very, very fortunate. We keep an abundance of food and fuel on hand for the oh shit moment that hasn't come yet. But we are prepared. The closest I've ever come to getting bit in the ass was on a muzzle loader moose hunt with a buddy. Muzzle loader season is late November early December. We went 90 miles out the Rex Trail on snow machines (that's what they call snow mobiles up here for some reason). It was 30 below when we left. By the time we got to the Wood River, the thermometer my buddy had on his parka zipper had bottomed out at 70 below. We knew it was cold, but we didn't realize it was that cold. He looked at me and told me whatever I did to not let the snow machine die. It took us 6 hours to get back. It's the coldest I've ever been. Danger cold, beyond shivering. The only reason my fingers didn't freeze was because of the hot grips on the snow machine. When we finally got in cell range I called my wife and she said she could hear it in my voice. She had warmed blankets and towels ready for me when I got home. It was 68 below when I pulled up to the cabin. The last few hours of the ride home are basically a blur. It was all I could do not to pass out. I was on the verge of hallucinating. It was other worldly. My buddy thought he froze his feet. It took him 4 hours to get the feeling back in them. We were both very lucky and very stupid for not turning around sooner.
  6. 14 points
    Cabin fever is real and dangerous. Alaska has an incredibly high suicide rate per capita. Alcoholism and drug abuse and domestic violence all skyrocket in the deep winter. It's not really the cold either. Everyone up here has the proper gear. It's the lack of light that gets in people's heads. The lack of light leads to Vitamin D deficiencies. That's the root cause of it all. Take your supplements, get properly dressed and get outdoors when the sun is out. The deep cold is beautiful to me. Winter is my favorite season. On January weekends when the temp is regularly 30 below or colder we'll get suited up, make a fire in the fire pit, smoke a joint and watch the Northern Lights until we get cold. Go in the cabin to warm up and then do it all over again. The Lights fascinate me.
  7. I’m happy. Y’all can go fuck yourselves
  8. Permission to take him for granted, please
  9. Fucking up the scenery and breaking my mind.
  10. 12 points
    Greenhouses are a must, but I do quite well.
  11. 12 points
    “Completely off the grid” ….while posting on a Central Texas based message board. What a bunch of mooseshit….
  12. Lane ain't holding back
  13. 11 points
    The vehicles have block heaters and heaters on the oil pan, transmission, and battery. We can plug them into generators if we need to. Our personal truck, the beat to shit red Dodge in the first pic in the thread just barely fits into a log one car garage that we have. The garage has a wood stove in it that we fire up when the temp gets to 40 below. Vehicles will start in the zero to 10 below range, but cold starts are not ideal for vehicle longevity. The garage usually stays about 30 degrees warmer than ambient, which is why we only need to fire up the stove at 40 below or colder. The plow rig only gets run in the winter when there is plowing to do. It's warm when it snows, so there is no problem getting it started. My company truck has an auto start on it that is hooked into the truck thermometer some way. I've got it set to auto start when the temp hits 20 below and run for 30 minutes every 2 hours. The plan is 10 more years in the woods, then retire down to the Pacific coast of Mexico and become ex pats. We could never live in a big city again, or in the lower 48 for that matter. We'll find something small and simple and laid back.
  14. Has anyone been tracking Ted Cruz's travel plans? Because if he's leaving Texas, you know shit's about to get real. #noCR
  15. I'm a happy dude. I don't watch any sort of "news" put forth by CNN, Fox, MSNBC and the like. I will watch if there is an actual event and then turn it off when the commentators and "experts" start weighing in with rushed "gotta-be-first" opinions. I look at IG for fun stuff, avoid Twitter and the twats that tweet. Surly is always taken with a grain of salt even though most of you are magnificent bastards and many have world views that differ from mine; but, that is what makes it interesting. I have two great mutts, a wife that leaves me off the leash and a deer camp I can go to and get away from the world and enjoy relaxed down time. Never will I be a multi-millionaire and, while that's nice and what not, it would not make me happy and would only gain me access to things that are fleeting. Life is too short to get caught up in the BS.
  16. 11 points
    Quite an adventure, but at least you have your wife to share it with. My dad had a taste of that life in a tent for 7 months when he was helping get rid of the Japanese invaders on the Aleutian Islands in 1943.
  17. 11 points
    Well that's fucking horrifying.
  18. why don't you take a step back from the computer and literally fuck your own face.
  19. Somebody mentioned it before, but it bears repeating... Time is a flat circle.
  20. It’s because people either post in the Cloakroom or watch cable TV news.
  21. Thank you social media! …and any other form of media.
  22. also 900,000 people have died in a pandemic we haven't been able to unite around over 2 full fucking years. And yes of course this is a cloak conversation because the attacks on our government, the beating of an America divided into two realities that have almost no overlap, the devolution of political discourse even among our elected officials, the attacks on our schools (purposefully leaving that vague enough to be relevant for people who are flipping out in either reality), etc etc
  23. 9 points
    1: A good shit stick. 2-5?
  24. That's the same warning on the back of my Longhorn football tickets.
  25. He's correct in that it's not an NIL fund. Straight up buying players before they get to campus on the other hand...
  26. redditsave.com_wcgw_lighting_a_firework_and_taking_shelter_nearby-5y5bnkak3ff81.mp4
  27. Grilled Bologna and Hatch Cheddar
  28. If everyone had an external social group, even for an hour a week, it’d do wonders for mental health. Doesn’t really matter what it is …exercise, book club, bar crawls, etc. Social media gives the illusion of friendships but it doesn’t require the commitment and work necessary to nurture actual friendships while providing none of the benefits.
  29. 9 points
    In the summer, the outhouse thaws and it sounds like a cow patty hitting the ground. In the winter, it builds up into what we call the poop-cicle. Think of a stalagmite of shit rising up from the bottom. We have a dedicated stick we use to knock it down when it gets too close to the seat.
  30. 9 points
    We hunt. Mainly moose and grouse. I'm not that big a fan of caribou. Never had predator problems. That doesn't mean we don't keep an eye open for them, but they want nothing to do with humans. We had a black bear come up one time when I was grilling some meat. Magnum (the dog in the pic above) chased it off before I could grab the shotgun. We have a resident grizzly bear in the neighborhood, but I've only seen his tracks. He's a smart fucker. These are his tracks in my driveway. I wear a size 14.
  31. Thank god we were able to survive OU coaches showing up to his basketball games
  32. Shut up piggy you don’t have the conch.
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