Oh, and your rifle gets all slippery!

Heeeeey. There might be a role for me after all.

I want it in Source at 800x600 on my end. CRT please.

Me too, and I’ve only hit one kid. Launched him about 15 feet and he survived. All i experienced was a thud and I seen a skateboard and kid flying side by side.

I’ve accidentally killed like 3 pedestrians and 4 deer in mine. I wonder what the national average is.

Seriously, only one of the deer damaged the grill. The people just rolled right under it, except for the kid of course.

All he had to do was acknowledge their differences and keep his mouth shut. That’s the rule in my family. Someone brings up politics and we say, “let’s not do that.” and move on. If they insist, they end up on the porch alone, grumbling to themselves.

Or he’s making it up.

I made my mother cry because she voted for Trump and I expressed my disapproval. She called my sister, who also voted for Harris, and my sister made her cry a second time.

We’re all having dinner tomorrow and we won’t bring up politics.

It’s fucking stupid to turn your back on your family over politics.

I think my mom made a stupid decision. Oh well. She thinks I made a stupid decision.

If your politics define you so much that you abandon your people or you’re not disciplined enough to keep your mouth shut at family events where you’ll convince no one, that’s on you.

They bring it up and end up having a bad day, that’s on them. We simply agree to avoid politics and religion. It’s not that hard.

Edit: We’re doomed. We really are.

Man, I don’t even know if I could sit down and count the folks that I knew personally who died from Covid. Shit was crazy.

This dude was just totally disconnected. “It wuh twentwenny. That when uhlecshun, duh!”

Yes, at the eeeeeennnnnnnd of 2020, buddy.

And folks just call it fake. Isn’t that neat?

Like when your mother and I conceived you.

No one believed I was your father.

…because I wasn’t.

I say that with the biggest goddamn smile you’ve ever seen.

I mean, yeah. Why not? I don’t want to live in a city, but if you give me a cave, I’m in.

I wish I wasn’t me. I really do.

Hmm. Healthy for who?

I have no close friends and I couldn’t be happier. As a matter of fact, give me a cave, a phone, a single outlet and BAM. I’m good to go. I don’t want friends, I want to laugh at a stranger’s joke on the internet and I’m good.

Yeah, trains.

The whole “small town on the edge of dying” bit. Holy shit have I experienced that firsthand.

See, what happened with a lot of these towns is that their industry became a part of their pride and culture. Where I’m from it’s coal. Trucks everywhere have a decal of a coal miner with one of two phrases. “Coal keeps the lights on.” and “6 inches from hell.”

My grandfather was a coal miner, so was his father, and his father, on both sides of my family. My father realized that the industry was dying so he left (and left us here haha). My brother did it for awhile but left it behind because of the drug problems in the mines. There was a whole underground urine market that kept things moving.

Even the poor fools who never worked in the mines go on and on about coal like it’s some kind of idol.

I would imagine the same thing happens in other places. The people fear big changes until their fear backs them into irrelevance. I’m getting older, so I can relate to that, only I vote for my kids, not to make me feel less afraid. Whatever world they grow up in won’t be one that I’d be perfectly comfortable in. It has always been that way as far back as we have been recording history. No sense in fighting where the world is going just because I don’t understand it or relate to it.

If I could get back all the years of my life spent walking boomers through tech problems for free…

Hey, I got thanked and told I was worth a million bucks to the boss one time though. If I had a tail I might have wagged it. :/

And they’re all going to be mad about it and make your misery even greater! Yaaaaay

All guys. Everyone. I made that clear. I’d be immortal. The resources I collect would actually matter then. How much success I have would matter then. I’d get to keep it, because I wouldn’t jusy turn around and die after playing the social vampire game to get it.

I don’t hate you. I made my position pretty clear. We aren’t immortal and I’m not gonna be out here in a constant battle for success or resources just to collect it and die.

It isn’t in me to play that game. I’m not out here pretending success matters in any permanent way. They’re gonna scatter my ashes the same as anyone else’s and I’m not playing the game.

Now, if I could keep it all for eternity, I’d eat you guys alive to get it. I can’t though, so I’m just gonna ride the rock until I die and help any fellow sufferer I can who feels like I do about it.

My millionaire uncle is 500 times as miserable as me and he’s on vacation every weekend. I’m not running a race to nowhere.

But hey, you do you. If success means something to you, who am I to knock it just because I don’t get it? You don’t step on my nuts and I won’t step on yours. That’s how I roll.

Yeah it definitely is. I’m older than her though and we discussed it. I could end up kicking the bucket or our relationship might fail and she wants to plan ahead for the unknown.

We’ve got a few more weeks to talk about it, but ultimately I might end up getting a vasectomy too just to have it over with. I have plenty of kids.

I have two adopted and 5 biological, so I’m good at this point.

Hell, I was good 3 kids ago really. Haha

I wouldn’t trade any of them for anything in this world though.

My wife’s gynecologist has asked her if she wanted to get her tubes tied during all three of our pregnancies. It didn’t offend us, we have the kids we want now and she said yes this last time.

I appreciated him asking. It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s on that list.