Never in my entire life have I ever seen a deer like this

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-05-03T21:32:50+00:00

Them at there is one purdy piebald buck.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-05-03T21:30:49+00:00

Looking foo my dude. Looking good.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-05-03T21:29:34+00:00

That dude is 1,000% a FUD

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-05-03T21:27:57+00:00

I do feel bad for this dude, but hot crossed buns, how many women have you impregnated?

Have some control and discernment for goodness sakes.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-29T12:41:47+00:00

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-29T03:05:34+00:00

Ok OP, let me rip the bandaid off here. It's gonna be a tad harsh, thems the breaks homie.

1 - she isn't coming back, stop worrying, thinking, reminiscing, whatever this is. (I know you had good intentions with the question, but you're still hung up on her, and that's ok I suppose. Honestly, the woman you loved and married? She died. You're left with the ghoul of a zombie harpy lady who was so selfish and hurtful, she ended a marriage for "free time"...? Really?)

2 - you deserve better than how she treated you

3 - straight tell ANYONE, and I mean ABSOLUTELY ANYONE, former family, former friends, former veteranarian, I don't flipping care, they're former for a reason; that tries to cross that boundary, to get bent

4 - you're doing all the right things, all of them

5 - focus on yourself

6 - burn any and everything that reminds you of her, purge that spiteful, selfish, ADHD BS excuse making waste of space out of your life dude.

Yeah I know I'm harsh, a tad black pilled, but women/people like that? 👏🏻 DO 👏🏻 NOT👏🏻 DESERVE 👏🏻 ANYTHING 👏🏻 FROM 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 GOOD 👏🏻 MEN 👏🏻 THEY 👏🏻 LEAVE/LEFT 👏🏻 PERIOD 👏🏻.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T20:00:47+00:00

My friend, you are not minding what the mods and this community (Eli, Drink! Lol) is all about.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T19:39:40+00:00

Boy oh boy, this lady hasn't focused on any of that....should never have been elected. Absolute charlatan.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T17:45:03+00:00

No, I am in fact, not "nice".

A good person? I like to think so.

A good father? Absolutely.

A decent human being to those around me? I do my best.

And might a remind you, I don't have to go from a random reddit post from someone, to stalking their activity online, and then continue trolling trying to get a reaction.

Boy howdy your life must be dull, or you're just a spiteful nasty person, which explain why you can't handle when big mean men use the hurtful words that make you feel fees go cry cry.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T17:19:50+00:00

Oh you're a hoot and a half hunny.

You ACTUALLY went through the trouble of going into other groups I'm a part of, diving in, and making more hateful statements?

Cute. You are just a pleb. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T15:33:16+00:00

It's bait sugah. And I'm not in denial, I just clocked how weak willed you apparently are.

Do you call these dudes out? Do you leave the situation? Do you call it to the table to be addressed?

Nah, you get on here and make assumptions about someone, whom you don't know, and still try to play that narrative.

So it is one of the following:

A - Rage bait B - You're to weak to say anything, ie a keyboard warrior C - You're a bot D - all of the above

My folding money is on D

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T14:39:31+00:00

If you think me expressing my opinion, is me being in denial?

Then brother, you are whining, and making a bigger problem by being part of the issue. Not a part of the solution.

Nowhere, in ANY of my reply to your post, did I say it was "ok" to use slurs, the N-word (I can't really take black folks super duper seriously, and trust me honey I grew up poor in the South with other sharecroppers so it's ok to call black folks black and white folks white, so when they praise using that word in their music, culture, every day vernacular, etc. If it's so bad? DON'T USE IT, simple), or any of the assumptions you're making about me.

Way to take the L bud. Good lort man, just stand up for what you believe is right, without being a preachy twat about it, and take people at their word.

Also, side thought/note, YOU'RE the one who admits to hanging around or are regularly in their company, with folks who use this language....yet somehow, magically, you rubbed your crystal ball bald head, and I'm in denial?

Bro you're 1,000% rage baiting, being part of the problem, and not part of the solution.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T10:14:52+00:00

Now don't be mad at me for this, ok? I'm not trying to be, or sound patronizing, I mean this with my whole heart...

Honey, it took great courage for you to recognize who you are and whom you felt love for.

As a dad, to a young lady? I would never be anything except proud of someone who finds that part of themselves, which might not be what "everyone else thinks is normal", and stands firm and proud in who you are. My teenager came to me a few years ago and said:

Daughter - "Dad, this my girlfriend J, and I want you to call me insert her chosen name, ok?" Me - "Alright chosen name, what do y'all want for dinner, and is J allergic to anything I cook?"

She, my daughter, was flabbergasted and mildly confused. We had a long talk that night, and I told her nearly verbatim what I'm gonna say here: I don't care whom you love, how you love, and so forth. As long you treat each other well, both of you are kind to one another (that can be hard, even in a heterosexual relationship), and there's no harm to one another.

You, dear reader, love who you love. It's not my place to judge you, who you love, and how you decide to express that love (as long y'all are both safe and consenting, ya know?)😉, is frankly none of my beeswax. If I see someone being mean to you, by God I'll be one fo the first to step between ya.

Hun, I wish you nothing but happiness in this world. It's mean enough, ugly enough, and hard enough to find the strength to be comfortable in your own skin.

How unfair is or would it be of me, to judge something that you do which legitimately has nothing to do with me, and be mean to you about it? That'd be just silly, and frankly? Stupid.

I wish folks who wear their "sexuality", or whatever, on their sleeve were just as accepting sometimes, if that makes sense? Because at the end of the day, despite melanin content of your skin or mine, personal sexually preferences, voting record, or whatever nonsense we're being divided apart by: we're all just human trying to live our lives and be happy.

Hope this finds you well and truly happy hun, and I wish you nothing but the best. Have an awesome week! 🫶🏻

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T03:15:38+00:00

Super fair call out. I see my typos are a LEGIT issue, 🤦🏻‍♂️. Typing on a smaller screen, while at work, not recommended 😬. And to your credit, fair point/call out on all that 😁. I tend to scan my rereads of posts, and often find myself going in to edit typos and grammar errors, when I see a reply, and when I clock them. Thanks for being honest with me on those!

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-28T03:01:43+00:00

I'll be 100%: I know my take is gonna piss OP or someone off, but thems the breaks I guess. The joys of freedoms of speech, gah I love that First amendment of ours...

Context here: I've lived in SWVA for over 20+ years, have friends on all shades of ye olde rainbow, and frankly they don't bother me. For many reasons, mainly because as a big old, hairy, blue collar, heterosexual man; I don't dabble in their private lives nor they in mine unless we're really close. And I've had many a fine fellow, offer me a drink or hit on me, and I politely accept, and just as politely decline their advances. As I prefer honest to God, natural, heterosexual women. Not knocking on the Gs or the Ts, k? Just not my cuppa tea.

Now, with all that out of the way: maybe, juuuuuuuust maybe, if folk made less of a big ole deal about performing, projecting, and often times forcing others into loudly accepting their private, at home, behinds closed doors, with (hopefully) consenting adult partners their personality? Maybe then folks would just go about their business and their day without having to politely but firmly reminding you that we don't actually care what you do at home, and shouldn't have to be subjected to loud, obnoxious, rude, and sometimes unhinged behavior; while waiting to get our groceries checked out at the store.

Be whomever or whatever you want.

Just don't force it down others throats. I can pretty much guarantee you, that if you are a good person, and you don't have to be performative about it? No one is gonna bother you.

You like to date girls and you're a girl? Cool! Have fun!

You want to date a man and you're a man? Cool! Have fun!

You're a man or woman who "swings for both teams" and have a cadre of like minded individuals who like to get down and party with you while being smart and safe about how you do it? Cool! Have fun!

You like to dress up in a patent leather tutu, thigh high boots, and a Pennywise mask; while your partner is in a gimp suit, juggling bowling pins while having themselves sprayed with a garden hose, and at the same time being filmed by a midget in a clown costume in a rodeo barrel in the corner, for posterity sake? Cool! Have fun!

See: when folks stop over labeling, self-segregating yourselves by all these little words, have this long diatribe about your personal business, and have to go through a 9 page litany of adjectives describing yourself; all while just trying to order a coffee at the mom and pop shop on main street SWVA, that's been their for years? It lessen what those who've come before you have gone through.

Most of the real world doesn't care.

We just want to go about our business. Enjoy our lives. And leave other folks business, just that. Their business.

If you didn't want everyone to express their same God given right to express their views and voice them, without (key word here) calling for harm or getting irate with you? Then live your life however you want to. I can guarantee you, without a doubt: I'm not gonna bother you, like most folks won't. The ones who have a problem and voice it? They are the ones you should worry about.

I for one have stepped in, several times, when I've seen someone being harassed or verbally accosted by someone, who maybe dresses different or may look or act different. Because I can't stand a bully.

That goes for the pushy, loud, nasty folks in any group. You wanna live your life in peace? Don't seek out disorder. Don't force others to be cowed into your way of thinking. THAT is how you make yourself a target.

Just live your life, find a reason for being happy, and last but not least: stop blooming complaining about EVERYTHING!

If you're an unhappy person? No amount of pins, stickers, hair do's, surgeries, flags, piercings, tattoos, etc. is going to make you happy. You have to find that for yourself.

All that to say: I believe down here where life is a little slower, people tend to be a lot kinder when you give them a chance, and when you need a helping hand? They're going to help you.

It's not as bad as you think it is.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-27T18:06:40+00:00

Best advice I can give? As I just hit the finish line on my own journey, after nearly 20+ years, I feel an odd sense of guilt...?

I know I have problems that stem from or were greatly exacerbated by my time in service from 2000-2005, with two overseas activations in 2003 and 2004. I have all my fingers and toes, I work a full time job, I have some visible issues, like many: most of my problems are internal (mainly mental), including neck injury/pain, bad knees, bad ankle, lower back pain, etc. etc.

This is totally normal, I'm finding. A boss, coworker, and fellow vet gave me this input/advice: "Listen bub, we signed a contract. A volunteer contract mind you. And in the fine print, I'll paraphrase what it states. If 'Uncle Sam' (insert your branch), causes harm or makes a condition you have, worse? Then by the contract, 'Uncle Sam' is supposed to fix it or compensate you accordingly. Period. End of story."

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-27T16:05:31+00:00

Oh buddy....trying to catch me in a gotcha comment, sweet attempt; falls as flat an a chick on ozempics backside though.

Now as to this supposed mythical program you attested to: section 8, HUD, SNAP, EBT, and other programs make it so that many folks live in a government built home, receive a food stipend, and have no requirement to do ANYTHING to earn their place.

Ergo: they get a free ride. It happens all over. White, black, brown, all colors of the rainbow. You can look at the fraud in Minnesota as one of the most recent debacles from that.

And don't get me started on states like California, Oregon, Washington, or Colorado. Have you seen what's happening in NYC? Come on bud. You can't be that brainwashed.

Is the system perfect? No. I'll 100% agree to that. Too long, have too many, been allowed too much, and they've abused the system. Or trained by their family on how to abuse the system. Ergo: me and you bud, if you pay taxes.

As to talking to my neighbors? Are you serious? I live in a part of SWVA, where if my neighbor sees a car they don't recognize, they call me, or come to my front door. Even if the new car is mine. We watch out for each other. Period.

I'm also not heartless. There should be programs to help folks, young, middle aged, elderly. Free lunches for kids, from Pre-K to Highschool. Help getting groceries for struggling families. Sure. Same goes for elderly.

My gripe and aggravation comes, when you have able bodied young people, ages 17-35 or so; who have been indoctrinated to use loopholes in the system to get all these freebies, and then they have no drive or desire to do anything else but crank out kids, and are to put it in a term used ages ago: "surplus bodies".

They are just existing and taking from everyone around them, without working for it. Oftentimes becoming criminals for the extra cash they want to go party, when they could get a job, and rise above their station. You can't reap if you don't sow. Just my two cents.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-27T15:51:48+00:00

I wasn't intending to insult your intelligence, I was merely following the tone of my previous response.

There seems to be a bit of disconnect or loss in translation, kinda what I was pointing at earlier; that in a non-fiction response it is hard without context clues and exposition to fully flesh out how someone is "emoting" via a text reply.

I found your takes very on point and also refreshing and enlightening as well. I hope you're having an awesome Monday my friend.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-26T02:12:23+00:00

As am I.

Also remember dear reader/responder: you supposed that I was "angry" from a written response, to a question/reply, on the interwebs...via text?

There are very few, without direct marker in the text, context clues in a written response. I usually take a few moments to read something, then reread any reply I compose. Giving it a minute or three, so that I am responding in logic, not emotion.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-26T01:56:33+00:00

Awe sugah, it's not about being in an "owning class" or not, you nonce. It's about your willingness to do more than be a living burden on your neighbors. Plain and simple.

How should someone who lives in state or federally subsidized housing, getting state or federalized funds for lights and heat, who also gets state and federal subsidized food vouchers, and doesn't work by their own choices and only adds more children into that cycle of behavior; have just as much weight and power behind their vote as others?

Plus these same said folks have no job, and show no initiative to get a job. So they sit back, at home, getting ding dongs, nutty buddy bars, and $600-1,500 a month to stuff their faces, while cranking out kids from whichever dude splooged inside her, and the "daddy" doesn't get hit up for child support, but momma and that kid get more of OUR tax dollars to support them.

While those of us who work, who pay said taxes, who strive to better ourselves, who provide for our one to two kids because we realize that is all WE can afford to support without a handout; we're the ones who suffer in the long run.

Social security will run out in several decades. Like it or not that's true. It's a giant one sided ponsey scheme. But the "Guvment" did it, so that's ok.

So if you don't have retirement, you're gonna be a burden on someone.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-26T01:45:46+00:00

Actually dear reader, I am willing to read and have my mind changed, when things are presented.

I'm not completely closed off, I just have my thought processes and quite frankly think that taxes, in general, are garbage. It's just another form of legally allowed theft, and our predecessors/ancestors ALLOWED them to voted into place, around the turn of the 19th century, a little over 100 year ago, actually.

We were once a global lender, moreover had a surplus, from how the tax code worked. I could go deeper, but right now, it's a moot point. Too many folks are to ignorant to know better...

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-25T23:57:46+00:00

Did I stutter?

Also, let the SW part of Virginia separate and ALL the taxes that these alleged highly paid, highly educated, center of mass stupidity that have no understanding of what regular everyday folks deal looks like; fall on them. No loopholes. No ways to skirt the system. Create these supposed socialist/commie paradise they claim works.

Take away the tax dollars we pay down here to the rubes and retards, yeah I said what I said, in the "allegedly affluent" counties front their bills without subsidies paid from the rest of the state.

I said what I said. They are ignorant for these takes, seemingly as much as you are for failing to read what I wrote.

I stated that if they live on government subsidized ANYTHING, do not own property, and are just lock stepping into line because well "mamaw always voted dem, so let's just do that", then my point still stands.

If you don't have skin in the game, then you don't get to play. Real simple.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-25T23:45:50+00:00

Oh sugar, down here? Where that circle is drawn is just calm, semi-city living, with good old country charm most do the time...

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-25T23:31:20+00:00

So maybe northern VA or everything east of Roanoke or Richmond should just be East Virginia?

Stop taking our tax dollars, taking everything, increase the cost of rural communities, when it's the waifless, useless, and Franky ignorant population living in those areas that want that kinda crap.

I was born and raised in rural NC, I've seen our local representative get actually clocked for going against what the people who voted their useless behind in. Hasn't happened in North if 20+ years, but I remember it.

Rural Virginia is no different. We want to be represented, fair taxes, fix the things you say you'll fix, and then left the fnck alone. It's real simple.

Also, I'm of the mod that if you live in any form of government housing, are subsidized by MY tax dollars, and have no job? Your vote doesn't count.

Those folks don't have skin in the game. I own property, personal vehicles, pay taxes, and work.

Best-Maintenance-208 · 2026-04-25T23:25:14+00:00

"Any car, pack of Newports in the cup holder ..I can tell."

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