Discussion: Police: Man Shot Son On Thanksgiving After Fight About Kneeling NFL Players

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https://twitter.com/WarrenHolstein/status/1065019027507081218

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Love the taste, but the texture, no oomph. Arugula on a baloney sandwich? Madness.

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The Trump Effect™ Part [ERROR 8645: INSUFFICIENT MEMORY.]

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Well, it stopped the fight, didn’t it?

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Many, many years ago, my late mother-in-law announced (after everyone arrived for the annual feast) that “There are some people who just can’t manage to behave when we serve wine, so, everyone will enjoy sparkling apple cider today.”

The handful of drunks were mightily pissed, but we were at grandma’s ranch, so not really easy access to go into town and find someplace open to get some alcohol. Boo hoo.

The rest of us enjoyed the peace so much, it became a given that Thanksgiving means bubbly non-alcoholic drink in nice wine glasses and if anyone tries to sneak in something else, we’ll confiscate it because “grandma’s house, grandma’s rules”.

ETA: Grandma enjoyed a cocktail or wine with dinner as much as anyone. She just got tired of Grandpa and the uncles acting like assholes.

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I blew off my wingnut/asshole relatives decades ago.

No regrets. Plenty of peace :slight_smile:

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I think the contamination mostly comes from feral hogs defecating in the lettuce fields – enjoy your salads. By the way, I love Romaine also but I only eat what we grow at home.

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Dear Lord…Romaine is off my shopping list forever.

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Oh dear. One of those things it’s best not to think about. Why can’t the feral hogs lead a decent honest life? Why do they have to be rooting around in lettuce I’m eventually going to pay for with my hard-earned money? Bastards.

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I was hoping it would make you happy.

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I love arugula.

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Seriously it’s a staple.

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I think the contamination mostly comes from feral hogs defecating in the lettuce fields

It’s tempting to mention SHS but I won’t.

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It is here too. My husband has been very verklempt. He had to have a caesar salad made with spinach and iceberg.

O the humanity!

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Yeah, it’s kind of a first-world problem, although food and water contaminated with poop isn’t traditionally a first-world problem, is it? Other, poorer worlds mostly. And seriously just yesterday I threw out a three-head package of romaine I’d hoped to spare from euthanasia. Bugs me to throw out food. Starving children in China and all that.

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I hear you. This seems to happen with a lot more frequency and it is a terrible waste of food. I wasn’t being snarky exactly except about my husband a little bit.

I miss it, I do.

But mostly I miss having food I have confidence in - being unsure is a 3d world problem - and we’re growing increasingly unsure of our food and our water.

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But clearly this family lacks a GOOD GUY WITH A GUN who could have taken the old man out before he got a shot off.

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Feral hogs are a major problem for agriculture and they do a lot of environmental damage also. They are highly mobile, smart, reproduce rapidly and are virtually impossible to control. I used to encounter them frequently when doing field work in Texas. I have seen packs of 30+, with all ages represented. They destroyed some golf course greens, it looked like somebody had plowed them and they do the same thing in natural areas.

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They are a very big problem in Texas. I know that. Despite everything that is done to try to get it under control it doesn’t seem to be under control at all.

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well, we know you gave them a grandchild, number 1 priority met i’d say

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