That One Guy

It really is time for a new TOST tho

brand new ass-pads

Is Billy Pumpkins really worth bringing up in any context?

Love seeing those Rivian vans! Service vans are the first vehicles that should be entirely electrified. They’re the best candidates for it.

Minneapolis has covered pedestrian bridges all over downtown between buildings. You could hit a lot of places there without going outside in winter

90% of the US looks like shit in February.

Unless your wife is kinda macho, don't plan on her ending up liking .380s or any of that shit. Maybe a 9mm if it's a very huge and heavy one to kill the recoil, but then it's a shitty and heavy pistol. .32acp is also frankly too obscure to recommend

Seriously, you can't go wrong with a .22lr or .22magnum revolver. It just works. Get a round that's a dud, being a .22? Keep pulling the trigger, it's a revolver. The quintessential "get off me" gun.

Did you have her shoot a .45? Giving someone a .45 as their first thing ever to shoot is a good way for them to never want to do it again

I do want to buy a second pistol, small enough caliber that my girlfriend would feel perfectly comfortable using it. A 9mm you're afraid of shooting is way less useful than a .22 revolver that you're willing to keep pulling the trigger on. No criminal ever said "psh, it's only a .22"

I would caution against that. Rideshares and delivery apps where you use your own personal car do not end up working out very well financially. The average person drastically underestimates how much it truly costs to drive their car per mile, factoring in EVERYTHING. The Doordashes and Ubers of the world prey on this. People think they're making $20+ an hour, but with expenses and taxes factored in, it can end up being well under $10. Chewing through a car by "working" for those companies is not worth it.

That's just something hicks afraid of cities say

Minneapolis looks pretty sweet.

It would feel wrong for me to board a dog a cumulative two months every year, so nah. Dogs aren't allowed in most national parks, at least out here. They're not allowed in the cottonwood canyons either.

Unless you inherited six figures or are a double-doctor-income household, having kids is quite the luxury expense for late millennials and later. I feel like the dead last young generation where it was possible to buy a home without inheritance, and it took serious work. I couldn't afford my own home today

That's the primary reason why we won't do it. Don't wanna be tethered in that fashion. Don't want to avoid national parks, or worry if we're gonna go on vacation, or if we feel like spontaneously doing something after work. I don't need an excuse to leave places early, I just announce I'm leaving. That includes work.

So is having kids, so I hear. Doesn't influence me to want one, but just good to hear.

I think millennial and later society has graduated past that point. I don't widespread expectations of having kids amongst the young anymore. The statement "when are you having kids" seems to have died. But now it's the expectation of a f***ing dog. "When are you guys getting a dog?" "We're not getting a dog ever, shut it, blue hair."

shh, saying "tradwife" is practically an invitation for suicidal incels to come crawling out of the woodwork

I hope to f**k this isn’t my new normal, because this is no way to live. Better not be some incurable thing

Welp, my neurologist is too busy to bother beyond the most cursory level

trendy downtown in SLC, plenty of LGTVHD4KQLED+ bars to whet your whistle

Ogden had a bar that made the absolute best ever then they closed this past year.

Wholesome news https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236404969/donor-gives-40-million-for-yellowstone-national-park-employee-housing

JR, it's a blow to the "you're a calm reasonable collected guy" angle when you go liking batshit retarded KJ posts. Makes me sad. You don't see me slapping like on deranged Taurus posts. Unless you really think trains and apartments are an inside conspiracy to enslave humanity lol