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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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These people are gonna look great in the history books.

They just never learn. The Klan, book burners, cops with firehoses. Always the same. The scum also rises.
 
Kepler said:
I thought it was just an excuse to drink away from the wife?

Sounds like heaven.
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Go to a bar or a friends house...outside in freezing temps on a lake? No thanks.

I guess I just prefer to be comfortable when I get a buzz.
 
Handyman said:
Go to a bar or a friends house...outside in freezing temps on a lake? No thanks.

I guess I just prefer to be comfortable when I get a buzz.
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Are you saying an ice shanty with prostitutes doesn’t sound comfy?
 
Handyman said:
Go to a bar or a friends house...outside in freezing temps on a lake? No thanks.

I guess I just prefer to be comfortable when I get a buzz.
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Don't you have a fire inside the ice fishing hut to keep you warm?

I'm actually serious about this, I figured without a fire you would be ice corpsing.
 
I love ice fishing. One of my favorite winter activities honestly.

No prostitutes in my shanty though so not sure what I am doing wrong there.

Kepler - I wear proper layers, have an insulated portable shanty, and a small propane heater that runs off the 1 lb. cylinders. Actually gets quite comfortable in there temp wise


And no, I actually don't like to drink when fishing. I just enjoy fishing. I also fly fish a ton (year-round). Would be a little harder to drink doing that.
 
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SJHovey said:
Ice fishing is spectacular fun, and anyone who says otherwise lives in the real world
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FTFY :^p

Kepler,

Some people have heaters...but again you know where else they have heaters and booze? And you have the added benefit of not having to deal with the possibility of falling into a freezing lake!
 
Ice fishing is a blast and one of the things I miss most. I have a group of friends with which we've rented 2-3 houses on Mille Lacs every February for a weekend going back 25 years. 6 bunks and 10 holes per house, stereo, oven and stove top, heated, TV/DVD if you have time. Bring bean bags, footballs, the bar on shore is usually at most a 5 minute drive, we do a fish fry on Saturday night. It's serene and at our ages nothing gets out of control - just a fun way to hang out with buddies.
 
There's a dinosaur in every crowd, and this will draw eyerolls and groans, but today I'll be it.

My family has owned a place on Lake Metigoshe since the 30s. My father would take us kids ice fishing a handful of times every winter. Metigoshe stretches into Manitoba, so it's probably like International Falls or Baudette in the winter. We'd cut holes through 2+ feet of ice with a heavy steel bar with a chisel at one end, making sure we had the leather strap at the top end on our wrist so we didn't lose it when it broke through. No shanties, heaters, or warming devices except the car, which we often didn't have when we fished anywhere near the cabin. Just hot cocoa. Wood tip-ups. We usually caught a lot of perch so the action was pretty constant, but one challenge was keeping the holes from freezing over. We didn't go out if it was real windy, but cold didn't keep us away. We'd take a puck and sticks and play around when we weren't actively fishing. We were well dressed and equipped for the cold (but didn't have rubberized gloves or mitts that I can recall). We kids always had a great time. I think Dad would just as soon have stayed home and read, but he tried to get us off our butts and outside when he could.

And yes, we usually walked to school, but it wasn't far and it wasn't uphill both ways. As a Minnie poster from years ago would have pointed out, it wasn't uphill either way.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Corrupt Texas AG finally does something I agree with, even though it's obviously easy meat for the base.
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Huh.

Illinois actually leads the nation in facial recognition blocking laws. So much that Facebook is currently embroiled in a statewide lawsuit (two claimants have filed an injunctiom blocking the settlement until another court hearing this month) AND Google neuters the Nest software in the state to prevent it from utilizing facial recognition to tell you who's at the door (like it can in the 49 other states).
 
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Not a facial recognition thing, but apparently San Francisco has been running the dna of rape victims through database to see if the victim is wanted for any crimes and they just found one.

there’s one way to get even fewer rape victims to come forward
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Not a facial recognition thing, but apparently San Francisco has been running the dna of rape victims through database to see if the victim is wanted for any crimes and they just found one.

there’s one way to get even fewer rape victims to come forward
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Uuuuugh. That's awful. Way to set back women's rights.
 
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