chrome_daddy
Favorite team: | LSU |
Location: | LA (Lower Ashvegas) |
Biography: | LSU 1989, Nakatrash parish before that |
Interests: | Mountainbiking and Jeeps |
Occupation: | Teckno |
Number of Posts: | 2046 |
Registered on: | 5/7/2004 |
Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: WSJ Piece: Young Americans Are Getting Left Behind by Rising Home Prices, Higher Stocks
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/28/24 at 9:38 pm
[quote]Spoken like a true boomer who paid less than $1000 a semester for college[/quote]Boomer here confirming this. Hell, LSU was only $500 / semester in the mid-80's when I was there. But guess what youngster? I didn't pay a dime for it as my employer did. Why did they do that? BC I worked my arse ...
re: Why do so many people refer to SUVs as "trucks?"
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/26/24 at 11:31 pm
Damn, thought everybody knew this: Early on in the beginning w SUV's, insurance companies classed them as Trucks. It stuck.
It's that simple - it's an industry term. ...
re: Question re: Hard Drug Use:
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/26/24 at 10:14 am
Tried meth once as a 16 yo in a rest stop off I26 on the way to a Boston concert. Someone in our caravan told me to snort something, and then I thought the top of my head would blow off. All I'd ever done up to that point was drink beer and smoke weed, but I liked to maintain control. Never tried me...
re: Summer Plans?
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/24/24 at 11:13 am
Retirement trip. - overlanding out west for a few months. NM, CO, UT, AZ, NV, CA. No kids or wife. ...
re: Alec Baldwin smacks agitator in coffee shop
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/23/24 at 7:03 am
I think it was staged by two leftists to garner attention for the Free Palestine movement.
Alec Baldwin has to have N amount of money such that he doesn't have to participate in a peasant activity like walking into a coffee shop.
And the part about him "killing that lady" is penance for Alec...
re: People that get a good night's sleep
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/22/24 at 10:41 am
[quote]Do you exercise?[/quote]Yes, 5-6 times a week vigorously. When I say drink, I'm talking 1-2 drinks. But regardless, I don't drink Sun - Thurs because I know overall it's not good for me.
I'm just old (62). Comes w the territory. ...
re: People that get a good night's sleep
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/22/24 at 7:51 am
[quote]They probably don’t drink half a fifth of gin right before bed.
Jackasses.[/quote]For me, the prevailing thought that not drinking improves your sleep is BS. All it does is let's my mind continue to work so if anything, I sleep alot less when I don't drink. ...
re: Question for people who drive jeeps?
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/21/24 at 9:10 pm
So the first thing that comes to mind for you is "gay sex". Does your wife know?...
re: Finding a ripe berry patch is one of life's little pleasures.
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/21/24 at 5:53 pm
That's awesome.
Well, it wasn't casual for us. Every year my parents would take us out next to I26 and Ashley Phosphate road (which is now all hotels / restaurants) for acres of blackberries. After we picked buckets and buckets of them, they'd put them up as jelly / jams and make blackberry cobb...
re: Eating out vs in since Covid
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/21/24 at 10:37 am
We are outliers. We've never eaten out in restaurants much. A few times a year for birthdays. Except for vacations where we're forced to go, it's just never been a part of our lives. My high school junior son works at Chipotle and sometimes brings home food. That's the only restaurant food we get.
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re: Holy shite some American cities are so fricked
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/21/24 at 12:17 am
[quote]Yes everyone knows rural red areas are known for their beauty and socioeconomic success[/quote]Correct. In my zip code it's 20k / acre and parcel sizes are at 10 acres minimal per zoning. Keeps out the riff raff.
Have a nice day. ...
re: Wife's dirty car
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/20/24 at 1:27 pm
My buddy complains about his wife's car the same way. Empty Starbuck's cups, food wrappers, etc. She'll let the passenger foot wells fill up with trash. It's disgusting. She is probably 50-60 pds overweight. My buddy worked and put her through school to be a teacher, but she refuses to work as one. ...
re: Will humans still exist in 100k years from now…
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/20/24 at 12:22 am
Rest easy. There will be no humans on this planet in a 100k years. The current population will diminish greatly once we run out of fossil fuels. Technological progression will be reduced greatly after this, back into another feudal era. But some militaristic tribe will develop some bio killer that w...
re: Would you rather have a mountain house or beach house/condo?
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/18/24 at 10:37 pm
We've done this before.
OT says mountains by a landslide.
Better choice is a nice Southern fresh water lake, where you can actually swim without getting blue balls. For example, Smith Mountain lake in Virginia below. I keep my boat at Lake Anna and can see mountains from the north end, but n...
re: Why do some companies still mail out unsolicited thick paper catalogs?
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/16/24 at 9:19 pm
[quote]quote:
U-line
Tried multiple times to get Uline to stop sending that useless paper catalog, with no success.[/quote]Bummer. I just started getting them last year. They found my address for the Guatemalen farmers who owned my place 8-10 years ago and were running a trucking company out of he...
re: Can high speed rail work in the United States?
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/16/24 at 6:37 am
Anything can work, with the proper investment. IMO, that ain't high speed rail. California has proven that whatever the estimates are for HSR, the actual costs are much higher. We have other fish to fry.
Was involved w local town politics in a small town here in Virginia and 15 years ago this wa...
re: How much have you spent on your current ride?
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/16/24 at 6:30 am
05 Rubicon
- Oil change (do them myself), battery, brakes (myself), and tires (Goodyear MT's, now Nitto Trail Grapplers)
- put on 80k miles.
- Just replaced all drivetrain fluids: 6speed tranny, xfer case, both differentials (yes I painted the diff covers)
- No issues other than the wear items ...
re: As a side hustle or retirement gig
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/15/24 at 10:42 am
After June, I'll retire to be my wife's pool boy.
I took an advance yesterday. ...
re: Dating as a 40 Year Old Man, How Realistic is it?
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/15/24 at 7:35 am
[quote]Considering that most of America is going away from religion the idea of meeting through "Church/Religious Group" seem slim to none.[/quote]Depends on where you live. There's still plenty of available, decent women out there if you're outside of NYC / left coast.
If you live in any kind o...
re: Survey of sex doll owners reveals good news/bad news
Posted by chrome_daddy on 4/15/24 at 7:24 am
[quote]Do people actually pay for a fat sex doll?[/quote]Are you new here? Have you not seen the litany of NSFW SI-models that are posted here and all the enthusiastic thumb's ups? OT loves a big arse. Apparently this is true of the general population as well. ...
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