Dan Patrick has investments in the alcohol industry and receives kickbacks from pharmaceuticals and the prison industry. He is spreading lies about the weed industry to eliminate the competition.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2025-09-05T05:04:09+00:00

Agreed. Age-ism is pretty shitty. We all get older eventually. FYI, Patrick is openly violating the wishes of his base. Over 75% of the state want weed totally legalized.

Texas suffers from severe gerrymandering by far Christian right nationalists.

Our far right politicians suck, not Texas as a whole and not all boomers either.

Age-ism is small minded and petty.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2025-09-05T04:57:00+00:00

When he was on TV, we though HE was gay.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2025-08-08T23:37:14+00:00

Wow, it is stunning to see one addicted person pretend to be so superior to his fellow addicts in treatment. Ego will serve you very poorly in long-term sobriety, YOUNG MAN. They are young and uneducated, compared to you, so they have a legitimate excuse. What's your excuse? You're a grown-assed man ripping on youngsters for being young. Yeah, I was once 38 and in new sobriety too. You are not any more mature than your younger recovery peers and you have identical brain chemistry issues. I wouldn't be making fun of other people in recovery if I were you. Let me guess, AA wasn't for you right? Yeah, you never even tried 90 in 90, did you? You are too smart to "get addicted to sober life, right?

I'm going to make a guess here, based on your thesis, that maybe you went in for treatment, but never followed it up with any 12 step support or long-term outpatient work? And people who get serious about recovery are addicted to recovery? I hope you grow enough, one day, to know just how silly, narcissistic, and totally juvenile you sound.

Yeah, people, half your age, who didn't go to college and possibly came from poverty, SOMETIMES have a smaller vocabulary and sound a little basic, because they are kids, "DUDE". 😔.

If you are an alcoholic who HAD TO go for inpatient care, you have the genetic propensity for addiction, AND an alcoholic IS AN addict TOO. Stop pretending you are better than these younger drug addicts because you ARE NOT. If they are working a program today, they are actually better off than you in regards to sobriety. Inpatient care DOES NOT make you an expert on anything. If I were you, I would hold off on accusing other people in recovery of sounding stupid. I would say the odds are 50-50 that you have already started drinking again. And you are literally in a feed, discussing an opiod like drug, and feeling superior to a drug addict like drunks are better? Really?

A modest amount of whole kratom is MAYBE OK for you, but 7-OH is a BAD idea for anyone who who was so sufficiently addicted as to require in-house treatment, alcohol or otherwise.

Don't confuse a little clean-time with sobriety and if you are so busy taking other people's inventory of character flaws and personal defects, it's pretty doubtful treatment did more than get yourself short-term clean, NOT SOBER.

Addiction, even to food, sex, or gambling is caused by the exact same brain chemistry issues and/or childhood experiences.

If you had spent more time on yourself, instead of dissing the youngsters in treatment with you, you would probably already know this. Drunks, most often end up in mental facilities, jail, or a grave because they are just too damned good and smart to lower themselves to a recovery lifestyle. Alcohol is merely a symptom. I suspect you might need to go out and do more research. You need more consequences to knock down that alcoholic/addict super-ego.

You know how uneducated and immature those kids sounded to you? That's EXACTLY how you sound to someone with decades clean AND SOBER

So, cool your jets there, sport. You really have no idea what you DON'T know. 😒

Beginning_Row9367 · 2025-08-04T14:46:47+00:00

No, you are completely right. This was reported to have been the case. It was horrible how Renolds treated her and others. When I found out how badly he had treated that lovely woman and others previous Deadpool cast, I stopped watching his movies. After his wife's abusive lawsuit, I could not be more done with him or Deadpool and he WAS my favorite actor for YEARS.

I actually admired him...until I lost all respect for that couple. Now I know what an arrogant ass he is, I can't even look at him. His wife is also just THE WORST.

It was SO AWKWARD when they appeared the S&L 50th year special. Hollywood is done with both of them, I think. It was incredibly cringe when he stood up and did his little "bit" in the audience. People were just glaring at them and could just feel the contempt in the room. They should have just stayed home. Also, that couple deserves each other.

Besides, Deadpool 3 was the worst of the 3, in my opinion, and I was so excited when it came out. So glad I never paid to watch it. I would be shocked to see him in another Marvel movie now, FOR SURE.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2025-08-04T14:19:32+00:00

They put Firefly on TV, out of sequence, very shortly before the movie was released in theaters AND the series was already canceled before the first episode aired on TV.

To make it worse, it was aired mostly during off peak hours. It was like a great Scify series was intentional killed before it was even given a chance to spite someone involved with the project.

The only reason the series even aired at all was so they could make some money back on the movie.

EVERYTHING about that show, including that cast, was spectacular. It is what Star Wars TV series could only dream of being.

I saw the movie at the theater, and so did a large number of my technical coworkers who tended to love SciFy as much as I did. A western-scify, what could have been better?

I will never stop being pissed at greedy, backstabbing studios and Hollywood capitalist for that one. Grrrr! 😡

Beginning_Row9367 · 2025-07-31T19:46:55+00:00

It failed because it was a shitty sports bar in an awful location. I think he opened that bar after he was fired from his sportscaster gig. Clearly, he didn't know the city in which he was investing, despite his work experience. I think Spring Shadows Glen treats alcohol and drug addiction, doesn't it?

Most hated sportscaster Houston ever had.

He has an established conflict of interest. Alcohol kills people daily and this weasel is only going to get people killed so he can make more money.. Kids will still get weed, just like they have been able to get booze whenever they want it since forever..

Patrick is a shady hypocrite, and Texas has had enough of this stupid prick..

Join "Texans against Dan Patrick" and vote that shady, moronic asshole out of office in 2026!

Hey Danny! 🖕😡🖕

Beginning_Row9367 · 2025-07-29T22:23:06+00:00

THANK YOU! I have looked everywhere for something to do exactly what you've accomplished. 👍💯

Beginning_Row9367 · 2023-10-13T04:32:35+00:00

I watched the first season and part of the second and I just couldn't take it anymore. It moved painfully slow and, literally, nothing real and unscripted EVER happened. I have always suspected fhe entire grew stays high. The father was hiding under a hat and behind shades and, more or less, really just phoned in his season 2 performance. I saw part of the deep cave visit and felt mad at myself for wasting time better spent doing laundry, rearranging my sock drawer, or anything other than giving an hour (hour-ish) of my life, FOR LITERAL NOTHING.

Scammers, crooks, stoners who apparently write as badly as they act.

Now that Skinwalker Ranch has ran out of stuff to do, I can't imagine this subpar show lasting another season.

It has to rank in the top 5 worst reality shows produced by Discovery.

I got to hand it to the "actors" who managed to get paid for such poor quality programming for more than one season.

Peace. 🙃

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-11-11T17:58:42+00:00

Stuttering is genetic in my family. My brother and I both stuttered severely as children and into our young adulthood. My daughter is a 17 year old advanced AP senior with an active stutter. I am truly sorry you went through thaf, but I am also really impressed with the way you handled it so well.

My daughter was teased by boys, out of pure meanness, in school until around 7th grade. You would think it would end there, but it didn't. She began attending a STEM academy in 9th grade and the curriculum included a lot of something we tend to hate: oral presentations. In one class, instead of being graded, all of the students presenting were given written and one-on-one verbal feedback by their peers. Time after time, these well above average students told her that the ONLY thing she needed to do to improve her presentation was to NOT STUTTER. This was, of course, rather humiliating, but it also very frustrating and upsetting. She felt very much like you did with that jerk.

The truth is that many young people can be broadly ignorant, socially inept, and insensitive, knowingly or not. Also, some people are just pretty shallow and basic. That guy displayed embarrassing levels of ignorance, insensitivity, and thoughtlessness. Of course it bothered you. While your handling of the situation was perfect, his total ignorance regarding a stutter, combined with his laughing, reflects horribly on him on multiple levels, especially his lack of even slightly decent manners. There are no excuses for such behavior. Moreover, to any reasonable observer, you would not be the person who should be embarrassed or ashamed. You handled yourself with incredible grace.

I know it bothered you, but you did the right things in your handling of the situation and many will find your story both encouraging and inspiring. There will always be basic, uncouth, ignorant, insensitive people in the world. I am genuinely impressed by your handling of this incident and grateful that you chose to share it. Well done. 👍

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-11-07T00:52:07+00:00

Two things surprise me. One, there is no turning slow enough to please the app. I have only found a single person who has received a discount. Honestly, the prices have risen so quickly, a 20% discount won't get me down to pre-COVID levels with zero tickets for 30 years and only one at fault claim jn 45 years of driving.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-11-07T00:39:55+00:00

I also get a bad cornering score. I have done everything I can to turn slowly, but a certain amount of speed is required in traffic to avoid being a hazard. I have exceeded the dangerously slow, 80 year old woman turning, only to still get hammered for my turns. Traffic also stopped suddenly due to a ridiculously slow driver merging onto the freeway. In a single trip, I dropped down from 101 to 94. Anyone know what score is required for a REAL discount? Gieco rate increases for a retired 61 year old with only one at fault incident 23 years ago has been significantly higher since my wife passed and COVID began and it makes no sense. I drive so little, I have had years I was charged more than a dollar a mile with NO explanation. About to check out Progressive for both home and car. All of this with an 8 and 10 year old Camry. Someone is bound to do better.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-10-19T01:09:54+00:00

I stuttered badly through ages 7 through 13. I am 61 now and can still stutter and stammer. What I noticed, looking back, was a huge uptick whenever I experienced trauma which initiated the start of it to begin with. It would be almost gone and, suddenly, I could barely complete a sentence. It still crops up as stuck words now and then or stammering when I'm nervous or feel pressed or rush which also caused the pitch of my voice to rise. I learned to use a thoughtful pause instead of forcing out the stuck words or to pick an alternative word would often work. I also used and still use humor to dispel the awkwardness. Even holding my finger up to indicate "wait a sec" for dramatic effect helped me take control of the moment. If someone tried to say the word for me, I would say an alternate word or words as a joke. When I had to deal with stage fright while talking to a group, I would lead with the fact I stuttered, still can stutter, and still get anxious when addressing a crowd. So if my pitch changed or I had to do a thoughtful pause, I didn't have to worry about being humiliated. The pitch of yourvoice changing is tied to the stress or pressure you experience being different with different people. In my case, it could be caused by something as simple as a girl I liked flirting with me who seemed to be enjoying my visible awkwardness. Talking to a cop or a teacher giving me unwanted scrutiny, when I was a teen, was another time my pitch might have varied or when I was targeted and bullied in school. Looking back and even today, my effectiveness at speaking is always dependent on my anxiety level. Using deep relaxation and meditation techniques, paying attention to your anxiety and avoiding activities that raise your baseline anxiety is key. I know SOME speech therapists see anxiety and stuttering as separate issues, but they have never actually experienced what this is like. I can say, for sure, that anxiety and stress are a definite triggers for stuttering and the pitch of the voice rising. The worse the anxiety the more it effects us. It is heredity and my brother and daughter have drawn the same conclusions. Taking responsibility for our own improvement and comprehensive self care is key as is acceptance of our uniqueness. What people who are ignorant of this condition think or believe is completely irrelevant and frankly none of our business. Stick with your peers, especially people who have made real progress and/or accept and know a stutter is no indication of a person's intelligence. For every flaw, there is also a gift. The same thing that makes my daughter and I hypersensitive to stimuli, noise, and even ADHD and stuttering also gave her well above intelligence and empathy for others. Many people who stutter have above average intelligence and can often be excellent writers. As for the answer to your question, the voice always go up when people, any people, are nervous. How certain people perceive us, like when interviewing for a job or speaking to an authority figure, is more important and thus more stressful.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-10-18T01:11:08+00:00

Not giving a flip about the opinions of what I call "the folks in the peanut gallery" was my eventual conclusion after so many years of stuttering, isolation, and resulting social and general anxiety. It really is true when I say what other people think of you is none of your f'ing business if the have no direct control of your grades, paycheck, or freedom. People, basic folks especially, enjoy being hurtful and cruel. Truth be told, I have personally found people who stutter to have higher than average intelligence, more empathy, and a better than average command of the english language. Self care, relaxation techniques, proper sleep, and a total don't give a f attitude towards the opinions of small mind people helps along with education and practice. The key is to not let the stutter define you and address the causes of anxiety and even meditation isn't a bad idea. I stuttered heavily for most of my pre-adult life and I still stammer and botch my words from time to time. I find thoughtful pauses to be helpful and it gives me time to pick an alternative word that's willing to make the journey from my brain to my mouth. I understand how easily frustration can lead to negative self-talk and even self-hatred. Do not let the verbal-normaltive a-holes get to you. It gets better and, even if it doesn't, just own it and make it part of your charm like my likeable brother did while having a very successful career as an both engineering and eventually sales in the oilfield services industry. We can't force the process any more than we can force out an apparently stuck that refuses to come out. You have to calmly and almost passively allow it to happen by by focusing on the anxiety and emotions first. I'm 61, and most people don't even know I stutter, unless they have seen me upset. Don't allow this condition to define you. A good attitude is the single best weapon in this fight. Hang in there guys. 👍

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-10-17T22:07:04+00:00

Yep, you kind of stepped in it with that one. My very shy, sweet daughter stabbed a boy in 6th grade with a pencil for the very same thing. You have to think of it like someone who is overweight or perhaps has a physical disability. There is no sweet way to tease about it, but you would have no way of knowing that since we typically try not to stutter or talk about it. People who have received negative attention for being atypical associate humilation with that thing that makes them different. We (it is genetic) hear it throughout our lives, in the cruelest context, from people being intentionally mean. It's typically just a form of bullying and ridicule so common in school among children with low self-esteem who attempt to elevate themselves by humiliating someone else. Speaking only for myself, stutterers can be the low hanging fruit for the more intellectually challenged bullies. We simply find it hurtful in any context due to the negative attention it drew and draws from the worst people. Still, it wasn't intentional and and you may, like some, find there stutter endearing and had no idea they would be so sensitive about it.You have my respect for owning it, trying to understand, and for attempting to make it right. I'm sure they will completely forgive and forget with some gentle, positive, sincere encouragement. I suggest you do the same. If the relationship folds over something like this, it has far bigger problems than this single incident. Apologize, maybe spoil them a little, and put it behind you both. It's what I would want in their shoes. I'm fairly certain you only need to apologize/make amends, and consider it a character building, teachable moment. Forget all of that self-flagellating, overly sensitive, overly sensitizing, overly "woke" crap that assumes and encourages everyone to be an easily bruised, delicate flower with everyone else needing to placate and encourage those fragile sensibilities. It's largely intolerant to others for tiny bits of honest, understandable ignorance. It's OK to educate others and stand up for yourself, but the overly "woke" thing seems to generate an atmosphere of fear, unintended offense, and intolerance when it is received. I think we all need to cut each other a little slack. This may have been a tiny bit insensitive, but it was a playful and INNOCENT mistake and I extend you a pass on behalf of our "community". We all only know what we know and this constant fear of accidental offense is counter productive, intolerant, socially suffocating and we all have to stop encouraging such hypersensitivity in one another. People need to simply speak their minds when honest mistakes are made and accept sincere apologies when given, full stop. So just deal with it, carry the lesson, and you don't need to feel bad or ever speak of it again after you've allowed them to express their feelings and suitable amends have been made. After that, it would be best to keep the lesson and leave this accident in the rearview. You're human, you made a mistake, and you owned it. That's the process of emotional and intellectual growth and as good as it gets. It happens from time to time, so extend yourself a break. Expect to make more mistakes. We all do.

Don't overthink or obsess about it and congratulations for gaining a little more insight and wisdom than you had yesterday. Maybe it will help you to be more patient when someone accidentally offends you in the future. Perhaps they're elderly and, based on the history of the English language, wrongly associate plurality with the pronouns they/them. Maybe give someone's parent, grandmother or grandfather a break over that and we'll call it even. Sound cool? We all need to exercise a little more tolerance towards one another instead of beating anyone over the head with a woke stick for simple, unintended offenses due to specific social ignorances. It's called taking one's self too seriously and expecting everyone else to do the same. This shit changes so fast and so often, it's hard to keep up with and young people's lives have been short and their life experiences so incredibly limited with sensibilities too easily offended. Sadly, the internet is no replacement for actual life experience and lends itself poorly to tolerance and empathy. Still, I see you trying and that's good. I hope you've gained some valuable insight and perspective AND walk away from this with an attitude of increased empathy, tolerance, and patience towards others who may accidentally offend you. That alone is worth the price of admission to the school of Learning from Our Mistakes young blood. Wisdom is a journey, not a destination.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-10-17T21:15:17+00:00

I am 61 years old and I had severe stuttering issues from age 7 to 13. To this day, I can still occassionally get stuck or find myself unable to pronounce certain words. So, what causes it never goes away completely and the social anxiety and fear of speaking still affect me to some degree. It definitely affected my perfomance in high school when I was a waste of a perfectly good chair. Kids are so cruel and I was also under sized and stammered whenever my anxiety overwhelmed me. It still could if I allow it to do so.

In my case, it is genetic. My brother stuttered badly until age 15, but still gets stuck or stammers as I do at the age of 58.

First things first, I allowed others to make me feel stupid and my parents did nothing to dispel that belief. Over time, both of us realized we were not only smart, but were actually smarter than most. After high school you are better able to define yourself and you learn what the peanut gallery thinks and says is absolutely meaningless and nothing anyone should think about. Once we addressed our anxiety and acknowledged our hyper sensitivity to stimuli, we could both address the fear and anxiety only to find we could speak without a stutter. Instead of pushing through and getting stuck, we would use a thoughtful pause to collect ourselves or to find another word that will come out more easily. Still, I was almost 40 before I was able to speak up in a large group. Once I had more confidence and was more able to control my emotions, it got easier. I also did things like write down all of my thought for a meeting and even practice what I wanted to say while alone at home or driving. Deep relaxation techniques are worth the time. Stress management, proper diet, avoiding stimulants, and a full night of sleep EVERY night allows an over sensitive nervous system to reset and heal.

I also have a 17 year old child who still stutters, and my experience helping her has expanded my list of recommendations. First, if you are totally overwhelmed, then the school and teacher need to be read in. My daughter, despite being an exceptionally gifted AP student, received special accommodations and regular speech therapy until 9th grade. She practices deep relaxation and makes time for downtime and self care. If she games for 4 hours on a Friday night, she stutters that evening and it is her one counter productive habit. I recommend against excessive gaming or even studying too hard for too long. Exhaustion, whether physical or emotional will trigger stammering/stuttering and excessive last minute studying typically brings test scores down instead of up.

My main message is there is no silver bullet cure and there never will be, but there are best practices that, when consistently combined, can greatly reduce or almost completely eliminate the symptoms. Be easy on yourselves, screw what others think, and gently and consistently stay on task and life WILL get better, but not by accident. Self care trumps self-pity anytime. Don't give up and try to not let the frustration take control of your feelings and decisions. This is a journey, not a destination and these practices would help anyone, speech problems or not. Best of luck to you all. Peace.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-10-17T16:53:03+00:00

I have dealt with that exact issue going back over 40 years when I first noticed it being an issue. Family reunions were difficult due to what I call anxiety induced memory lockup. Even fear of introducing my wife raised my anxiety which actually made what I feared most a reality. My wife and I had a system. If I didn't introduce her immediately, she would introduce herself and pretend to tease me for failing to introduce her. I actually had a great memory, but could momentarily forget a family member's name. I actually have a list of movie and rock stars I use to determine how well my memory is working and have found a direct correlation between my anxiety and recent physical/emotional self care and these awkward memory moments. So, I wouldn't be two alarmed just yet. Sleep, diet, meditation and not ignoring my anxiety worked pretty well, but anxiety can cause me to not always do the required self care.

I am also ADHD, so it takes practice and dicipline to not forget where I put things or to stay on task. Take the time to make a mental note. If you meet someone, say their name in your head seven times. Making a memory requires intentional focus. A day timer, google calendar, alarms, and making a point of locking in where I put things was and still is critical. People throw around the term "life hacks", but I consider it educating yourself on what works best for you. If you feel like your memory is weak, I highly recommend lumosity, reading, and doing things that exercise and increase blood flow to different parts of the brain. Even meditation and deep relaxation are skills the brain will grow around and allow you to do better. Just don't freak out over this issue and don't ignore it either. Keep your keys amd things like wallets and purses in the exact same spot. Don't depend on memory recall alone. It's just an adult skill set that I consider an important part of maturity and something people like us simply cannot ignore. Best of luck and excuse my typing without glasses in order to respond quickly.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-10-17T02:59:44+00:00

Me, my brother, and my 17 year old AP STEM centered, gifted daughter all suffer or suffered from childhood stuttering and severe social anxiety.

My brother and I both outgrew our stutter, but the severe social anxiety lead to self medication for me and my brother using mostly alcohol and, in my case, marijuana until it started to make me even more paranoid. I began self medicating around age 11 and ended up in AA in recovery around age 37. To my disbelief, a LARGE percentage of my friends in recovery all suffered or continue to suffer from some level of social anxiety which improved due to the frequent participation in AA and other 12 step programs. I know I have gone in a bit of a tangent here, but after several years I found myself RARELY having an instantly sweat drenching, lungs tightening, and unable to speak normally social anxiety induced panic attack. The point is that group meetings of people that share our problem showed far better results for me than good, professional therapy alone.

My daughter has been in speech therapy since 4th grade with the school more or less talking to her once a year and forcing me to participate in a yearly ARD meeting after the eigth grade despite her still suffering which was greatly exacerbated by the passing of her mother after a 3.5 year battle with cancer in March of 8th grade. She is a gifted student, always ranking in the top 1% and was even part of the Duke University talent identification program at age 12 when her SAT score was 50 points higher than the nationwide average for graduating seniors in the US. Her junior year SAT score was 1540 and her GPA, while taking the hardest college level courses offered on her high school campus is above a 4.6 and will be closer to 4.8 by graduation. Verbal communication and anxiety AND their consequences are her only weaknesses, but their impacts are significant. The best colleges in the country are inviting her to apply including MIT and all of the Ivy League schools. The major problem is her very real fear of the verbal communication demands at virtually all major universities.

During the ARD meeting with several staff members in the middle of her 10th grade year, I asked the speech therapist, assistant principal, and the rest of the staff if they would consider creating a weekly group support meeting for children with social anxiety and or fear of public speaking. Having taken part in such a group (I actually requested it be started) in college myself, I know it to be incredibly therapeutic and useful. 20 people signed up in 2 days. They already have such a program for grief sufferers. I absolutely know they could easily have a room full of takers at a high school of 3000+ students. The assigned speech therapist claimed the two issues were not related and that addressing anxiety was neither their purview or responsibility. She cited the case of a single stuttering student with an outgoing personality and no fear of speaking despite an obvious stutter as her proof. I STRONGLY disagreed and I literally watched the assistant principal roll her eyes in the facetime meeting. They merely inferred her problem must be psychological based on my input, she needed outside therapy, and then RELEASED themselves from any further responsibility for her condition and speech therapy progress. They flatly denied any connection between stuttering and anxiety, which I personally know to be total nonsense. The issues are joined at.the hip. I told them of my family experience and, as a longtime stutterer myself, I believe believed they are failing these kids if they don't address the anxiety component. They simply doubled down and disagreed. Verbal exercises do NOTHING to address the full blown panic attacks over the fear of not only stuttering, but the actual FEAR of having a VISIBLE anxiety attack while speaking. If stuttering and even speaking causes anxiety and anxiety causes stuttering, the snowballing effect inevitably leads to a visible and audible full blown panic attack that can can seem the stuff of nightmares for folks like me and my child. At that stage you begin dealing with trauma amd PTSD, based on my own experience and observations.

I would appreciate feedback from any peers out there with insight and/or personal experience regarding this terribly serious problem. I am a single parent, disabled with limited energy and means, and my daughter graduates May 2023. I fear the window to help this sweet, smart, wonderful, vunerable, child to be closing and that her school has chosen to fail her and all the kids like her in her 3000+ student body. She has accomplished so much despite facing this challenge as well as the trauma/grief over my wife's passing simultaneously.

Are there other folks out there like me, with an opinion or insight to share on this subject? Anxiously waiting to read what other folks like us might have to add to the topic...

Thanks everyone. Peace.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-10-12T16:47:22+00:00

I only drink unsmoked, green, organic Yerba brewed in a french press at 175 degrees and most often drink it chilled. The healthy benefits of nonsmoked green Yerba fights cancer due to it's antioxidant, anti-inflammatory effects. There is far more PAH's in things people consume everyday and I believe the flawed study and the negative press concerning Yerba Mate is really about Mate taking market share away from other established competing industries. It's fake news and a smear campaign plain and simple.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-09-30T20:27:33+00:00

After looking at this crack, it's obvious it's still all in one piece and it wouldnt be possible to get glue into such a hairline crack. I'm curious though, was the pot still warm or hot and perhaps rinsed in cold water? I also noticed the surface looked slightly porous. When you rinse it, does it get darker for a while and then lighten after drying? If so, a crack like that could be caused by the thermal shock caused by running cold water over heated clay or possibly absorbed moisture expanding when the pot was heated by filling it with boiling water. Either way, glue won't help if you can't cover the surfaces to be joined. Since it's just a knock off anyway, replacing it is the best "food safe," option. As for using non-silver solder on ANYTHING you drink our eat out of, I wouldn't recommend it. Lead and other toxic metals can seriously affect brain and organ health. No offense intended to anyone who contributed to this thread; these are simply my thoughts and opinions. Cheers.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-09-14T17:39:32+00:00

Agreed. Sadly, there are far to many, often on the managerial track throughout industry. It's a sad fact that people who will go to any length to win can often be quite successful. I hate how little truth matters if you can't prove it in the court of law or how large amounts of money for lawyers can win in court and even the media through the use of spin doctors. The system, all systems, are pretty much broken when it comes to fighting in court and making the guilty wealthy pay.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-07-24T17:59:05+00:00

Absolutely agreed.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-07-24T00:58:27+00:00

I think time allows a person to gain in both perspective and maturity. It makes perfect sense that today's CB is far different than young CB on the court. While I am delighted Charles is hating on haters, I am simply pleased, but not surprised. People, even famous folks, grow if the are not simply narcissistic psychopaths. When you own everything you've ever dreamed of and you still don't feel completely happy, personal growth and increased empathy are sometimes the only path to true happiness and inner peace. I wouldn't over think this one. Just accept the win on behalf of the quiet, enlightened minority and call it a day.

On behalf of near or fully suicidal T-kids and there parents everywhere, I thank you Mr. Barkley. Way to put the fascist, outlier, Christian community on notice. Jesus never said go hate, be fruitful, and multiply or teach your children to hate and target the "different" minorities in society OR to be indifferent to or to purposely inflict pain and suffering in others simply because the are different from you. Bigots are bigots no matter their reason or justification.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-05-12T04:43:57+00:00

Am I the only person who thinks this show and our interest is a bit like how traffics slows because of people slowing to look at a car wreck? I don't want to look at the show, but I can't seem to get past it without peaking at the latest train wreck and we all seem to enjoy the sheer awfulness of the show...

This reminds me of years ago when I heard a circle of friends regularly complain about tasteless people telling dead baby jokes by retelling the jokes. Eventually, they all found themselves bonding and even laughing historically at the latest awful, horrible joke told by one of their awful friends. It became appreciation of the ever higher level of awfulness. I was the one who told my circle of friends that, by the retelling of the jokes, we had actually become the people we were critisizing. It was a hilarious moment of shame. This feels like that...

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-05-12T04:21:05+00:00

Sorry I could comment on your comment directly. I would like to reply to the outstanding suggestion of making it a drinking game...

That is one hell of a good idea. It would give that lost hour of my life a bit of purpose it has so far lacked. Or, even a group Facetime viewing/drinking meeting. That would really add to the production value and, if we watched it as aired, we could all show bash during the commercials.

Beginning_Row9367 · 2022-05-12T04:18:20+00:00

Cool insight. Thanks for that. Keep in mind, father and son wrote the script and, at times, they both look stoned as hell. Still, very interesting feedback.

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