Everyone's got UK citizenship. Not me, just the son of a son of an Okie. Grandaddy road the boxcars out west with a feller named Red.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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I was in Lafayette for about 6-8 months. I liked it too. Goddammm...the girls there were amaaaazing. I nearly got in a wreck every time I drove around town, just rubbernecking checking out beautiful chickies. I remember once walking into a Subway sammich place and the three girls working there were so frikkin' cute I literally lost my ability to speak. Nearly just turned around and walked out.
That is very disappointing to hear. I didn't have that kind of experience there at all, but the times I was there it was just to check out the town (and one time, to do Mardi Gras) and I just thought the town was cool. I obviously didn't get into it in as deep a way in any sense as you did, especially socially. That's depressing. Sorry you had that experience.
Well, I wouldn't classify Oklahoma as "The South" (nor would most people, I expect) though parts of far Eastern OK and particularly far SE OK have some similar topography and culture to parts of The South. But that was one thing I missed about living on the coasts (or, well, near them) --thunderstorms. It would rain--sometimes a LOT--but no thunder, no lightning. There are many things about Oklahoma I can complain about, but the skies are amazing...I've seen sunrises and sunsets and alien-looking cloud formations here that I've never seen anywhere else...and the thunderstorms are killer. I mean, profound.
Yep. Got a lot of that here. Especially prevalent in smaller towns around where I live. Simple crickets too. Cool evenings can be very nice.
Also interesting (to me) is the number of tribes in Oklahoma. Of course the seat of the Cherokee Nation is here (in the NE part of the state) and the town where I work (about 20 miles from the town where I live) is totally tribal--Caddo, Delaware, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa...some Chickasaw (which is what most of my NDN blood consists of) and others. Here i my library we have so many artifacts...pottery made 125 years ago, all kinds of Native American art, past and present. It's beautiful. Geronimo and Quanah Parker are both buried about a half hour from here at Fort Sill...
@Burnsy --brother, you gotta KNOW nothing would make me happier than heading to Tucson for some heavy. Just ain't in the cards. I wish...I wish...
The weird thing about our situation - we had no idea that my wife's mother had dual citizenship until after she passed. We were looking through papers and discovered it. Really strange.
Bassic - Definitely a decent metal scene in the UK, and the winters (at least by midwest US standards) are pretty damn mild. We were there in the back half of december and I was fine in a light coat. I wore a stocking cap but that's just because my baldy head gets cold.
I realize that my standard for cold is probably different than a lot of people's but the UK has it pretty easy. Hell, there was still green grass growing everywhere, (Ireland especially - greenest place I've ever seen) don't get that here in the winter time.
That happened on the Idiotbox Ron Swanson I had. I opened it up and one leg of the LED on light was disconnected from the switch. Little bit of solder and I was back in business.
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Yeah I miss the nature and weather of Florida a lot. It's seems colder and hotter here in Virginia. Too sticky with no sea breeze. Some many crazy shagerzzs in Florida though. Florida Man and all that jazz.
Yeah if I get the tests that prove the kava is Noble and not tudei then I will set up a little Amazon shop and see how I do. Got two more strains of root I can get in bulk if the store does ok. Keeping my fingers crossed this root is Noble as it is super euphoric and potent and I could sell it for a great price.
It's very validating when the cutest girl at the dog park by far comes up to you, says "everyone is creepy here, and tries to talk to me". Then spends two hours talking to you, and wants to see you again.
Is it kinda like everyone wants arabica coffee beans not robusto? A taste/quality thing
Or is it like Cali lab grown trees vs your cousins ditch plant.
Or is it like indica vs sativa different effects of different sub groups.
Noble is quality kava that takes five years to grow. Tudei is crap quality that only takes a year to grow and isn't healthy. Gives hangovers that lasts for two days usually why they call it tudei. Some unscrupulous islanders sell it or spike good kava with it to stretch their money. Stay away from tudei, only drink Noble kava.
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Oh, I know what the early sunset is like. San Juan is almost on the 49th parallel, it gets dark early, especially when it never gets light due to the heavy cloud coverage and rain.
That...sounds...AWESOME.
Also, I've spent a lot of time in the UK (mom's English), and I love it, but it has changed a LOT in the past 15 years. Good or bad depends on your point of view I suppose, but I've noticed the changes more significantly every time I've been there. Honestly, when I get to retirement age, I want to buy a small farm somewhere in England, a nice old cottage in the country. My Grandaunts and Uncle lived in a 600 year old cottage built from a man-o-war on a dairy farm and I always loved visiting that place as a kid.
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There are upsides, of course. No tornadoes. No hurricanes. On the coast, most older places have no air conditioning because it's not really necessary. Or wasn't, rather.
The real downside with the drought, besides the lack of water, is fire.
As for water rationing, basically, don't have a lawn, don't wash your car, keep your showers short. We're not quite at the point of no flushing the toilet unless there's crap, yet. Yet.
It's already happening. There are "no Californians" clauses in Oregon house/rental listings now. And "Californians go home" signs.
What the hell for? I love this state, but this place is dying.
Kinda tired of the PNW and I can't say I'm fond of the east coast. I figure I can always come back north if I don't like it after a while. Plus I have a BUNCH of friends down in L.A. from college. Figure I'll ride it out until it dies, and I'd rather deal some quakes there than the bloody murder-quake and subsequent obliteratsunami that's due to hit the PNW.
Lol I always get kind of confused.
I swear once you said you were a construction worker in some state. You live in the pnw, but also the east coast, and San Juan (Puerto Rico?), and go to school somewhere too?
What major btw.
History Major (concentrations in European and War & Violence), but graduated in May, moving from CT back home to WA, where I live on San Juan Island (which is an island in Washington).
European war & violence or all violence?
apparently UNT where I went has a graduate level military history department. Probably wouldn't have changed anything if I knew that before, but damn I want to visit it.
I'd want to focus on the guerrilla warfare of small developing nations and how the large relatively futuristic armies of the developed world (US, Russia, France etc.) seemingly can't beat them in any real way.
The logistical systems of men, arms and food needed by these factions are incredible. The viet cong are endlessly fascinating to me.
^What he said. It takes less time to reach Canada than it takes to reach the mainland United States.
Technically all, but, yeah, in practice primarily Europe, and really mostly between the Napoleonic War and WWII. I did a lot of research and papers on the Crimean War, Unification of Germany (including Franco-Prussian War), Great Game (Britain and Russia in the Middle East), and the period between WWI & WWII. Outside of that I've studied a lot of WWI & II on my own. So really, my Major was pretty much history of industrialized warfare.
However, my "thesis" (technically an essay [50+ pages] at my school, a thesis is 120 pages) was essentially comparing the US war crimes committed during the Philippine War to the more recent human rights/war crimes committed by the CIA as revealed in the Torture Program report. Touched on aspects of guerilla warfare during that, as that was the primary sort of action the Philippine forces resorted to. I think a big part of the whole lopsidedness of large national armies vs. small guerilla units is in big part the mobility and decentralization of the command structures. Our forces, as well as pretty much all western militaries, are modeled on essentially the idea that they will be fighting another similar force. I mean, that's pretty much the way Europe has ALWAYS fought its battles, wars were pretty much determined by the outcome of major military actions. Our military since WWII has pretty much been structured in opposition to the threat of the Soviet military, the idea of two major power duking it out (although we mostly saw them simply supplying arms in proxy wars). We just don't get fighting small forces. They operate on their own, independent of other cells, so you can never really defeat them in a traditional sense.
Was this a BA, MA or PhD you were getting?
And yea, there's no way to beat an enemy who is for all intents an innocent civilian unless proven otherwise by their actions.
And yea, there's no way to beat an enemy who is for all intents an innocent civilian unless proven otherwise by their actions.
Sure there is: kill all the civilians.
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I think Tom Beringer tried that, and Charlie sheen shot him.
