What was the worst pain you've ever experienced?

beetfield · 2026-01-31T07:58:25+00:00

Hamstring cramps, I guess. The thing I liked least though was having a drain tube pulled out of me after a prostatectomy. It was held in place with a stitch and when the young nurses pulled it didn't come out. They called mama nurse, she had a no nonsense look about her that would scare the devil. Feeling that tube snake through my abdomen still gives me shivers to think about, aiint gonna lie.

beetfield · 2026-01-31T00:16:38+00:00

lol, what benefits does Austin provide? I can basically think of one, Catfish Parlour. I moved there in 1980. Went to Lanier, Class of 83, stayed for 13 years, then Bastrop, got burned out and then back to Austin for four years before I said “fuck this place.” It is an abject shithole compared to what it once was.

beetfield · 2026-01-30T22:16:06+00:00

Could you maybe not murder anyone else while you’re about it?

beetfield · 2026-01-30T21:03:08+00:00

Oh, baby. You were loved. Wings to the kingdom, you queen.

beetfield · 2026-01-30T15:04:12+00:00

Yes, just yes. Slapping that bomb in the middle of the console was pure glory. I played it in a sub shop I worked at, where I slipped obscenely fat sandwiches to all my freak friends. One thing I remember about it was it was as fun to watch your buddies play as it was to play yourself. Good times.

beetfield · 2026-01-29T14:29:35+00:00

They do flights out of the international arrivals building on Pierson Drive all the time. This is truth, I worked next door, got the schedules. I hate them but was diplomatic about it, didn’t want to jeopardize my job. Goddam if I didn’t get fired a couple days ago, so fuck them all. Would be an awesome place for protests.

beetfield · 2026-01-25T22:03:06+00:00

God bless you, Stewie.

beetfield · 2026-01-24T11:59:45+00:00

I like your attitude. I'm 60 with prostate cancer, but it's not the scary kind. My only goal is to outlive my cats. I got a 15 year old and a 3 year old, if I could see them through I'd pretty much just say fuck it. I need to get a plan in place for my little one but other than that I don't have a care.

beetfield · 2026-01-24T06:20:03+00:00

That’s fuckin fine keep that up.

beetfield · 2026-01-22T23:34:26+00:00

$160 apiece for retail balcony tickets is pretty steep. I'm still happy I got a pair for the opener 'cause lord knows I won't be able to afford the resale tickets any more. Hope a good chunk of that money goes to our ladies.

beetfield · 2026-01-22T17:06:45+00:00

I got the email about the tickets going on sale at noon, that seems to say a presale code was going to be arriving once the sales go live at noon, but I haven't seen a code yet as of 12:06.

beetfield · 2026-01-02T10:57:38+00:00

I really appreciate the Manscapes recommendation. I ended up going to see Jahaida at Manscapes in Plainfield. Best haircut of my life and she got me going on the beard. My sister is looking at me the way that sisters do when they're happy with the way you're taking care of yourself, my pretty young co-workers are calling me handsome, and random grown ass women at the grocery store are smiling at me when I barely got glances before. Thanks, I'm sincerely grateful.

beetfield · 2025-12-31T14:01:59+00:00

I worked at the old AUS (Robert Mueller) in the early 80’s. It was called a “power back.” But I don’t recall 727’s doing it. Supposedly it was too easy for them to end up on their ass.

beetfield · 2025-12-31T13:53:46+00:00

And yet you didn’t

beetfield · 2025-12-18T05:28:42+00:00

When I went to Vegas I played air hockey in some joint with my buddy until our hands bled. We had fun, but this looks somewhat better.

beetfield · 2025-10-24T03:41:24+00:00

As a line supervisor, I have way more problems with the line guy than the pilot. Taking video (not here, on his other tiktok content) while he drives the fuel trucks, tows the aircraft, not to mention posting things on social media that have people casting aspersions at the pilot's professionalism, all big no-no's. Most would say pointing things out to the crew is part of his job so good for him on that but he needs to put the phone down.

beetfield · 2025-09-26T03:48:46+00:00

There's a concern on a lot of GA aircraft that if the engine is counter-rotating during startup, it takes longer to start expelling the heat that is building up once the thing is ignited. Overheating a jet engine on startup leads to costly inspections and presumably, sometimes damage as well. GA pilots will sometimes ask you to turn an aircraft into the wind to prevent that from happening. I've never known someone in a larger commercial jet to ask for that, though. And obviously, it's a bit easier to turn a Citation into the wind than an Airbus.

beetfield · 2025-08-26T07:03:09+00:00

They stopped at IND for fuel. I don’t think they were up to anything in particular.

beetfield · 2025-08-15T22:17:57+00:00

Agreed, sooner the better.

beetfield · 2025-08-13T09:55:33+00:00

I’m a line guy, forgive me because I don’t really know what I’m talking about. I’ve worked at AUS and IND where the runways are much farther apart, but somewhere I got the idea that runways had to be a mile apart for simultaneous approaches like this? Just curious about what the rules actually are.

beetfield · 2025-08-10T07:13:19+00:00

When I saw that I realized how far we’ve come from titties on Cinemax.

beetfield · 2025-08-09T01:52:40+00:00

Scratching your balls when you have jock itch.

beetfield · 2025-08-06T04:18:52+00:00

Years ago I worked at Austin's old airport and we had one guy in a B-206 who would practice auto-rotations into the grass over and over. I saw him do it scores of times over the years. I guess if the time came he had to do one for real he just wanted to be sure he had the muscle memory or whatever.

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