Ron Swanson
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Uncle just found this guy (south TX)...
Has anyone seen my specialty plates?
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HFrog1999
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I’ve never eaten Spam. I even had a coworker give me Spam.
If things get really bad, I’ll eat people before I’ll eat Spam
netty2424
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Fry it up. It’s tasty!
TxFrog1999
The Man Behind The Curtain
Mean Purple
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Deep Fried Spam Samich
Dairy Palace in Canton.
ftwfrog
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Liked, not because I agree, but because you referenced The Byrds. I’m more of a fan of their hippy, tambourine sound from the late 60’s, but I can appreciate when a band changes it up, even if they sounded like they were trying to come up with a soundtrack for HeeHaw.
Mean Purple
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Thanking you both for the inspiration (sorta - guitar wise anyways)
Co-worker: do you think they move forward on (work project that seems way too good to be true)
Me: Both Keith Richards and Joe Walsh are still alive, so anything's possible.
Saw them couple years ago and top 5 favorite live groups I’ve seen.
nwlafrog
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So I reached the point in my fatherhood I hoped would come later. My 9 year old first born who I’ve sacrificed and done everything for hates me and her step-mom and doesn’t want to live with me because she wants to see her mom more.
Many of you are familiar with this crazy journey to me getting full custody. We’ve been through kidnapping, her seeing domestic violence and drug use... way more than I can even add in a post. Just things a child should never be submitted to. I hate that she has to go through the pain of being pulled in different directions and I know it’s normal for a child to want to live with the other parent.
Currently, her mother has lost custody of her other child (a toddler) all that I can find out was that it was domestic related.
Now, I don’t beat my own chest and brag. I am not that type of person, but I can lay my head on my pillow each and every night knowing that her step mother treats her as her own and that I have legitimately sacrificed entire careers to give her a life that she would have never had and open doors to opportunities that she would never have. It has been a long and difficult road.
It took everything out of me to keep my composure and not tell her how it really is. (Her mom is on drugs, her husband beats the [ Finebaum ] out of her, they lost their kid, neither of them have jobs and he thinks he’s a rapper now). Apparently he has the NFL brain trauma disorder even though he only played through high school. That’s his crutch for the robberies and drugs and abuse.
somehow. My little girl thinks that they have hung the moon. Meanwhile, I have given her things that I had to risk it all for and made it to where I see her everyday and kiss her every night and read my kids stories every night.
It’s okay though. I’ve settled in well to my role as the bad guy after the past 9 years. She will see when she’s older. I refuse to bad mouth and tell her how it really is. Just breaks my heart because I would die for her and give her everything I had at a moments notice.
Many of you are familiar with this crazy journey to me getting full custody. We’ve been through kidnapping, her seeing domestic violence and drug use... way more than I can even add in a post. Just things a child should never be submitted to. I hate that she has to go through the pain of being pulled in different directions and I know it’s normal for a child to want to live with the other parent.
Currently, her mother has lost custody of her other child (a toddler) all that I can find out was that it was domestic related.
Now, I don’t beat my own chest and brag. I am not that type of person, but I can lay my head on my pillow each and every night knowing that her step mother treats her as her own and that I have legitimately sacrificed entire careers to give her a life that she would have never had and open doors to opportunities that she would never have. It has been a long and difficult road.
It took everything out of me to keep my composure and not tell her how it really is. (Her mom is on drugs, her husband beats the [ Finebaum ] out of her, they lost their kid, neither of them have jobs and he thinks he’s a rapper now). Apparently he has the NFL brain trauma disorder even though he only played through high school. That’s his crutch for the robberies and drugs and abuse.
somehow. My little girl thinks that they have hung the moon. Meanwhile, I have given her things that I had to risk it all for and made it to where I see her everyday and kiss her every night and read my kids stories every night.
It’s okay though. I’ve settled in well to my role as the bad guy after the past 9 years. She will see when she’s older. I refuse to bad mouth and tell her how it really is. Just breaks my heart because I would die for her and give her everything I had at a moments notice.
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nwlafrog
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Sorry for the rant. Just really has me in my feels after everything I’ve done the right way from day 1.
Still owes 5 years of child support but that’ll never happen. Meanwhile if the roles where switched I’d be without a job, have my license taken away and be sitting in jail while my child support increases.
Facts
Still owes 5 years of child support but that’ll never happen. Meanwhile if the roles where switched I’d be without a job, have my license taken away and be sitting in jail while my child support increases.
Facts
Mean Purple
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Know this has been tough on you.
Hang in there does not quite seem to do it as a reply. You've gone through a lot to make sure she has the life she needs.
I'll say a prayer for ya.
nwlafrog
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So, on a somewhat different note, I got the confirmation that I was looking for when I was searched 5 different times to and from Mexico last year after clearing TSA and boarding a plane, I was removed and searched again time after time and other times while boarding in the terminal. It was a bit humiliating.
A guy a week before with a shaved head and beard had a rap sheet and was a former Aryan (possibly) and apparently any bald headed dude with a beard and a new passport was a gangbanger in that timeframe.
I always had a feeling I was being stereotyped. Not my fault I embraced the bald and have tattoos. Lol. The other guy had a bar wire tattoo with 3 barbs that are different. His were lightning bolts. I have no Aryan tats or barbwire for that matter, lol. Just apparently resemble a white gangbanger.
A guy a week before with a shaved head and beard had a rap sheet and was a former Aryan (possibly) and apparently any bald headed dude with a beard and a new passport was a gangbanger in that timeframe.
I always had a feeling I was being stereotyped. Not my fault I embraced the bald and have tattoos. Lol. The other guy had a bar wire tattoo with 3 barbs that are different. His were lightning bolts. I have no Aryan tats or barbwire for that matter, lol. Just apparently resemble a white gangbanger.
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Mean Purple
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When you did your final boarding, you should have looked at the passenger nearby and said, "they'll never get me."
Damn I’m really sorry to hear about that
nwlafrog
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I remember thinking “Man, I must look aryan or something” I had just watched “Shot Caller” on Netflix. We had like 20 of us on the flight because it was a work trip. So, super embarrassing in front of the big wigs when I kept getting escorted away from them for further searches and questioning. At least I know now. It was really as simple as stereotyping, but I didn’t have anything to hide so I never had a problem, I was just like, “damn dude! Again?” “[ What the heck? ] is going on?”
it happened at every air port and 2 times at LAX after getting through screening. They stopped me on my way to the terminal and then another time pulled me off the plane and delayed it. So that was cool walking past people who thought I was a terrorist or something.
netty2424
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Racist, IMO.
netty2424
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Sounds like you’ve really been through some ship with the ex. Kids will be kids. Don’t take it personal.
And maybe you can manage his rap career and make that child support money back!
