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Watson went total politico on his way out the last time.  The man is worthless.

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22 hours ago, texasdago said:

By the way, I'm talking South MoPac, where it is 65, not North mopac near Dallas where it is 75.  

Went to a Longhorn basketball game this past week and I swear a Rivian came up to me at about 90 but then it looked like he and another car were road raging.

I'm judging you as a Tesla driver. Or wasn't your mom driving?

North San Antonio drivers are shit

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Speaking of mayor, any rumors on who is considering running this year? 

31 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

North San Antonio drivers are shit

35 between Buda and San Antonio is ass

2 hours ago, bolverk said:

I've definitely been disappointed with his leadership this time around.

My surmise is that Watson really just has one mission: keeping Austin out of the legislature's crosshairs.  He had decent success with that this past session.  But I fear that's really his only mission.

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Watson went total politico on his way out the last time.  The man is worthless.

This is the best part.  The bulk of Austin voters can remember the last few days and that's about it.  All the new residents don't recall the previous dumpster fires (see: Romeo Rose and Fitlove), so if you don't win this time around, just wait a cycle or two and try your schtick again.

 

But, in Watson's defense, it was literally the race of the turd sandwich vs the douchebag.

42 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

This is the best part.  The bulk of Austin voters can remember the last few days and that's about it.  All the new residents don't recall the previous dumpster fires (see: Romeo Rose and Fitlove), so if you don't win this time around, just wait a cycle or two and try your schtick again.

 

But, in Watson's defense, it was literally the race of the turd sandwich vs the douchebag.

Not sure which was which

4 hours ago, texasdago said:

Not sure which was which

Why not both?  Roman both naochs, even the rock throwing douche could run this city better.  

6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

My surmise is that Watson really just has one mission: keeping Austin out of the legislature's crosshairs.  He had decent success with that this past session.  But I fear that's really his only mission.

watson has just one real mission: be Austin's old white father. i am serious. that's it. 

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Quick! Everyone please open your refrigerator and check to see if there's an egg missing in the carton.

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23 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

Austin is getting exactly what it asks for.  Nothing more, nothing less.  I say this as a resident. My kids will be destroyed if we move, but damn if I don't think about it every time some stupid shit like this happens.

i did that 22 years ago.  austin had the derps then, and continues to out derp itself every year.

 

Rape victims not too pleased about Acevedo’s hiring….

https://www.kxan.com

When are the women going to march on City Hall to protest while the City of Austin continues with its tone deaf policies.

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Demark and Breck have one, why not Austin? Instagram worthy pics coming to Pease Park.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/giant-thomas-dambo-troll-austin-pease-park/

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These days, Texans are more likely to encounter trolls on the internet (or at the Capitol) than in a forest or under a bridge. But starting this March, they’ll have a chance to meet the oversized, folkloric kind in Austin’s Pease Park.

Since 2013, Danish artist Thomas Dambo has turned discarded pallets, scrap lumber, and twigs into more than 120 enormous wooden trolls that lurk in parks around the globe. Actually, “lurk” isn’t the best word—these giants are the gentle sort, with friendly faces and Scandinavian charm that have earned them a cult following. The Austin sculpture is Dambo’s first Texas troll, and it’ll occupy a wooded alcove in Pease Park, just northwest of downtown.

The troll will occupy a secluded spot north of the Kingsbury Commons section of the 84-acre public green space. The conservancy worked with city officials to make sure the sculpture, which will remain at the site for at least fifteen years, will have minimal environmental impact. “It’s in a part of the park that gets a lot of use already,” Netherton said.

Funding for the project, which is expected to cost about $350,000, comes solely from private donors. Among them are philanthropists and longtime Austin residents Lynne Dobson and Greg Wooldridge, whose Tejemos Foundation helped pay for a popular tree house at Pease Park. Dobson and Wooldridge proposed bringing a troll to Austin after seeing five of Dambo’s creations at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine, in August 2022. “I went, ‘Okay, this has to be at Pease,’ ” Dobson said. “This troll has Austin’s personality and playfulness, and we need whimsy and delight in our lives right now.” Approval to build the sculpture came after an extensive community engagement and review process with the city.

But not everyone appreciates Dambo’s trolls, or the crowds they draw. In 2018, a fifteen-foot Dambo troll named Isak Heartstone, built in Breckenridge, Colorado, created a stir when visitors began streaming into the area to snap pictures with the art. Locals complained about traffic and trash. The troll was eventually dismantled (the photos of his decapitation aren’t for the faint of heart) and, happily, reassembled at a permanent home on a trail near the town’s welcome center.

Before approving the Austin project, the conservancy gathered public input from around 1,500 survey respondents. About 85 percent of the feedback was supportive, but a few folks argued that Austin is no place for a Nordic troll. “Shoal Creek is not troll habitat,” read one comment on the conservancy’s Facebook page. “Texas has no cultural tradition of trolls. It makes no sense to plop a troll into Pease Park,” wrote another skeptic, adding that “Pease Park is not a Danish forest.” Others argued that money used to fly Dambo to Austin could be better spent to support local artists struggling to afford the city’s high cost of living.

 

3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Before approving the Austin project, the conservancy gathered public input from around 1,500 survey respondents. About 85 percent of the feedback was supportive, but a few folks argued that Austin is no place for a Nordic troll. “Shoal Creek is not troll habitat,” read one comment on the conservancy’s Facebook page. “Texas has no cultural tradition of trolls. It makes no sense to plop a troll into Pease Park,” wrote another skeptic, adding that “Pease Park is not a Danish forest.”

LOL

"Austin is no place for a frog that has tall protruding eyes and goes by the name of Jeremiah," said a concerned Tarrytown resident, noting, "Jesus didn't create any talking frogs!"

2 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Rape victims not too pleased about Acevedo’s hiring….

https://www.kxan.com

When are the women going to march on City Hall to protest while the City of Austin continues with its tone deaf policies.

They were raped during the Obama era, why didn't they blame him?  It's just a BS argument to blame the Chief because of some inept departments so far downstream.  Don't get me wrong, I'm no Art fan, but for other reasons he was more directly involved in.  Dude spent more time trying to whore his way on camera than actually doing his job.

13 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

They were raped during the Obama era, why didn't they blame him?  It's just a BS argument to blame the Chief because of some inept departments so far downstream.  Don't get me wrong, I'm no Art fan, but for other reasons he was more directly involved in.  Dude spent more time trying to whore his way on camera than actually doing his job.

And that’s probably why the forensics lab wasn’t subject to any oversight & accountability from the chief.

17 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

They were raped during the Obama era, why didn't they blame him?  It's just a BS argument to blame the Chief because of some inept departments so far downstream.  Don't get me wrong, I'm no Art fan, but for other reasons he was more directly involved in.  Dude spent more time trying to whore his way on camera than actually doing his job.

There is a structural problem that falls completely on the Chief when those "downstream" departments are utter failures.

4 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Quick! Everyone please open your refrigerator and check to see if there's an egg missing in the carton.

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Actual mugshot of hitby 

23 minutes ago, blacklab said:

Also, Obama wasn't making rape jokes.

Brings ol’ aggy Claytie to mind.

25 minutes ago, blacklab said:

Also, Obama wasn't making rape jokes.

I mean.....that you know of.  If he had, I bet they'd have been a lot funnier than Art's, too.

On 1/22/2024 at 1:55 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:

Speaking of mayor, any rumors on who is considering running this year? 

It now makes sense why he's come back.  Hello, Mayor Art!

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Wow. What a shitshow! The Interim City Manager couldn't see what a horrific idea this was. How fucking out of touch can he be? Or rather, how bad is our relationship with APD that he thought hiring Art to negotiate the new APD deal would be a good thing? And now he's allowing Art to turn down the job to save Art the embarrassment. 

LMAO.  

I tell ya', I was blindsided by this whole deal.

3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Watson during this whole ordeal. 

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i've got a feeling we dodged the jab but there's a haymaker coming from the other side.

3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Watson during this whole ordeal. 

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On 1/22/2024 at 2:53 PM, PvilleStang said:

This is the best part.  The bulk of Austin voters can remember the last few days and that's about it.  All the new residents don't recall the previous dumpster fires (see: Romeo Rose and Fitlove), so if you don't win this time around, just wait a cycle or two and try your schtick again.

 

But, in Watson's defense, it was literally the race of the turd sandwich vs the douchebag.

Yea I really didn't feel a Hispanic lesbian would represent my interests.

Had a tripping shirtless homeless dude jump in the back of my truck after shoulder checking my mirror while I pulled past him at 6th and 35 this afternoon. He used the time to try to negotiate something that I was not able to discern. That was a fun experience on the commute home. 

2 minutes ago, drt said:

Had a tripping shirtless homeless dude jump in the back of my truck after shoulder checking my mirror while I pulled past him at 6th and 35 this afternoon. He used the time to try to negotiate something that I was not able to discern. That was a fun experience on the commute home. 

Sorry for Busketing?  

Had a tripping shirtless homeless dude jump in the back of my truck after shoulder checking my mirror while I pulled past him at 6th and 35 this afternoon. He used the time to try to negotiate something that I was not able to discern. That was a fun experience on the commute home. 
Just pull around to police HQ and start laying on the horn.
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Just now, Modessit said:
13 minutes ago, drt said:
Had a tripping shirtless homeless dude jump in the back of my truck after shoulder checking my mirror while I pulled past him at 6th and 35 this afternoon. He used the time to try to negotiate something that I was not able to discern. That was a fun experience on the commute home. 

Just pull around to police HQ and start laying on the horn.

That's a good way for the driver to get shot and the homeless dude gets an apology from the city for having to go through the trauma.

11 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

That's a good way for the driver to get shot and the homeless dude gets an apology from the city for having to go through the trauma.

and a settlement.

They were raped during the Obama era, why didn't they blame him?  It's just a BS argument to blame the Chief because of some inept departments so far downstream.  Don't get me wrong, I'm no Art fan, but for other reasons he was more directly involved in.  Dude spent more time trying to whore his way on camera than actually doing his job.


Unless this is a parody, this is a pathetic opinion.

Let’s break it down:

1) Start off with a huge leap off False Comp Mountain. Reminds me of the Otter Defense.
2) Describing the Crime Lab as a “department” “far downstream” is also a massive departure from norms. Perhaps this is our cue to know that you’re joking. Because when the average person watches a police procedural on tv, analyzing semen is like 1/4 of each show.
3) Putting violent offenders who shoot off semen into or onto unwilling and/or dead victims behind bars seems like a big deal and probably should be something a Chief should be on top of.

Saw the news interviews of survivor groups dismay with Art and they expressed concerns of his seriousness with solving the crime lab issues and lodged an accusation that he retaliated against those critical of the crime lab issues.

My conclusion is that you were either joking or you’re a “I like rape” twice kind of guy.
12 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Yea I really didn't feel a Hispanic lesbian would represent my interests.

Lucky for you Greg Casar has moved on!

Eggroll stand on the Drag. Mmmmmm....

12 minutes ago, Deej said:

Eggroll stand on the Drag. Mmmmmm....

Had some bad ass lemonade. I would kill the fried rice and the Turkey rolls. I would go more to the one by Littlefield and take lunch into Portuguese class.

Had some bad ass lemonade. I would kill the fried rice and the Turkey rolls. I would go more to the one by Littlefield and take lunch into Portuguese class.

This right here. And that breakfast taco joint/stand in the parking lot across from Mad Dogs.
1 hour ago, Deej said:

Eggroll stand on the Drag. Mmmmmm....

 

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Had some bad ass lemonade. I would kill the fried rice and the Turkey rolls. I would go more to the one by Littlefield and take lunch into Portuguese class.

they had a lot more than eggrolls and lemonade

Electronics from west campus apartments.

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