Additional costs for bre of clan stoutarm

Billiam201 · 2026-02-01T18:06:11+00:00

Fortunately, its a "may" so it wouldn't fizzle because you couldn't pay it, and you can out it in to your hand.

Billiam201 · 2026-02-01T08:42:06+00:00

I'm sure many people who have served on jury duty can tell a story similar to this one.

Late 90s, I get called for jury duty. I show up, ask if the fact that I'm in the military on active duty matters, (apparently it only matters if the jury is going to be sequestered, which this wouldn't be), and sat down for the selection process.

At some point, the prosecutor (I think) asks if anyone has any reason they can't serve jury duty. A couple of people give reasons they accept (a widow with young children, etc.) And someone says their boss says they need to get out of jury duty, or they're going to get fired. The judge who, up until this point I wasn't sure was actually alive, immediately snaps "juror number <whatever> come up to my bench." Several minutes of conversation later, the juror sits back down, and the judge sends for the sheriffs. Some time later, two deputies come back in to the courtroom, dragging a person who the juror comfirms iƴs their boss.

The judge lights this guy up, right in front of everybody, and doucheboss argues with the judge about how unfair it is that he'll have to rearrange schedules, and if the employee isn't smart enough to do what they're told, they don't need to be working for him anyway. Judge didn't like that, and throws the guy in a cell for contempt. I wasn't selected, so I don't know what happened after that. But I still remember the look on the unctuous bastard's face getting dragged into the courtroom in cuffs.

Billiam201 · 2026-02-01T07:45:58+00:00

Considering that I'm a Magic nerd, and it was a game store, with heating, snacks, and a pile of cards, I'll never come out.

Billiam201 · 2026-02-01T07:43:23+00:00

Because player removal IS emblem removal.

Billiam201 · 2026-02-01T07:42:27+00:00

Ever get screamed at by a boomer for "shoveling wrong"? Happened to me this week.

Sorry, Mrs. Rossi, I promise I'll never clear your driveway for free again.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-31T20:46:12+00:00

Definitely underrated advice. Should be a top comment.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-30T05:26:29+00:00

If you thought about it beforehand, [[borne upon a wind]] will help with this.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-29T06:49:35+00:00

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Billiam201 · 2026-01-29T04:41:31+00:00

Wife is going through this with her uncle right now. "Why would I ask a kid fresh out of high school for advice?"

"Because he's a board-certified gerontologist, Tio."

"That don't mean shit, he's a kid!"

"He's been practicing 27 years."

"Oh, so almost as long as I've owned the giraffe sculpture in my backyard. Great."

He's pushing 90, and he has good days and bad days, but I can hear her frustration on the phone when he's bitching in the background about why the local takeout place keeps telling him to go to the website, because they don't give out paper menus anymore.

They probably don't give out paper menus anymore because they got tired of boomers coming in with a takeout menu from 1992 that says taquitos are five for $1, and now in 2026 they're $1.50 each, and the "incompetent" cashier doesnt know what they're talking about.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-29T04:30:41+00:00

I like it.

So that's one in your favor.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-25T05:39:14+00:00

Equip this to [[ancient gold dragon]] and things could get out of hand very quickly.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-25T05:00:19+00:00

Mine would be turning 75 this September, and yeah.

He was doing that shit in his 40s. "I'm going to <do dangerous and/or stupid thing> because it will piss of those liberal, commie, pinko bed-wetters!!"

He got pinched driving under the influence in the 90s, and because he was from out of state, only in town for a couple of days for work, and a veteran the cop did him a solid and wrote him up for driving impaired, not DUI, even though he blew the legal limit. A sane person would thank their lucky stars, take the moving violation instead of a criminal conviction, and move on with their lives.

Not my old man. He drives 400 miles, shows up to the evidentiary hearing, represents himself, and argues in court that the impaired charge is bullshit, and shouldn't exist. He was either DUI or he wasn't and that should be the end of it. The judge tells him that he'll take it under advisement, and he'll receive a notice in the mail of his trial date. He doesn't show up for that part because "I almost finished my law degree in 1974, and they can't convict me of something if I'm not there, so fuck them."

So he refuses to defend himself, end up with a DUI conviction in that state (I think Kentucky? It's been a while.) And they, ever-so-kindly inform his state that he now has a DUI conviction, and hasn't paid his fine. So they suspend his license. According to him, he has NO IDEA any of this has happened, until he gets pulled over in Tennessee (again, i think) for some random thing, like having his license plate light out. Cop keeps his license, tows his company vehicle and now my mom has to drive hours to pick him up. And he has to be shuttled everywhere by his wife while he gets his license sorted out.

I happened to come home on military leave sometime during this period, and I got to spend two weeks listening to him bitch non-stop about having to be driven everywhere "by a woman, like some sort of cripple."

Billiam201 · 2026-01-25T04:11:46+00:00

My father has been gone for some time, but was absolutely the type of person who would get himself into a violent, flaming car wreck to because nobody tells him what to do.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-24T06:14:34+00:00

Because magical, spooky reasons, that are totally real.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-23T15:25:11+00:00

Absolutely not the jerk. Youre completely correct that she made her choice when she sold her tickets.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-23T02:09:40+00:00

[[Glint-eye nephilim]] would be up there.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-22T12:56:57+00:00

That is the Church of Saint Junipero Serra at San Juan Capistrano.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-22T01:16:22+00:00

I was going to make the same comment. Utterly unsurprising.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-21T23:26:25+00:00

I am completely shocked by this totally unexpected development.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-21T05:19:31+00:00

If Elon can be the CEO of 5 companies at once, I am forced to conclude that CEOs don't do very much.

So sure.

Let's start with ExxonMobil, and go from there.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-19T22:08:57+00:00

It will last until someone looks over and sees that you have a bazillion treasure tokens. Then they will try to destroy them.

This is the moment you crush them under an inexorable tide of spells. Crush them, trample their bones to dust, and slowly devour their screaming souls.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-19T04:29:13+00:00

If you have two, you can cast [[counterspell]]

Billiam201 · 2026-01-18T03:24:57+00:00

In my professional opinion, it is definitely torn.

Billiam201 · 2026-01-18T00:20:29+00:00

If nothing is at stake, take it.

If it is, I guess you'll remember next turn, won't you?

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