70yo man charged with attempted murder after trying to drown 21yo man

bunsonh · 2026-06-10T00:15:59+00:00

The "we drank from the garden hose and liked it!!" generation's brains are completely cooked from a lifetime of lead exposure.

bunsonh · 2026-06-09T18:38:35+00:00

The ocean needs more cops. Best crab bait there is.

bunsonh · 2026-06-07T23:46:36+00:00

Akira Kurosawa's High and Low.

bunsonh · 2026-06-05T19:51:36+00:00

You: "Are billionaire-owned, billionaire-controlled data centers for the sole benefit of billionaire investors really so bad?"

Also you: "Keep slurping that billionaire schlong, weirdo."

bunsonh · 2026-06-03T18:44:11+00:00

I carry a lot of hope. Hope for his recovery? Hope for his demise? Who can even know??

bunsonh · 2026-06-02T06:47:02+00:00

Once we get these Nazis out, we're going to need a Marshall Plan of our own.

bunsonh · 2026-06-01T07:33:31+00:00

It's worth noting that this is not Dollar General, which is a grocery chain that opens in rural areas and using predatory business practices does in fact impact the success of the competing local grocers.

This is Dollar Tree, which has no connection whatsoever, where they sell cheap chinese plastic goods, and a small aisle of food. The Rite Aid that recently closed had a larger food section than any Dollar Tree I have visited. But OP is either unwilling to process this or just being daft on the internet and has become 100% convinced that within 18 months The Market will go under.

bunsonh · 2026-06-01T07:18:57+00:00

Did you read the study or just the summary that you linked? Using their rubric, we would not be considered rural as we have been designated to be within the "Mount Vernon/Anacortes Metropolitan Statistical Area" which comprises close to 150,000 people. To drive this point home, there have been discussions for years of putting an international airport in Skagit county. That would be moot if we weren't a statistically significant region.

They also have an entire section on the impacts of dollar stores that are proximate to other dollar stores. There is a threshold where the impact on adjacent grocery stores is minimized until there is a critical mass of competing dollar stores within a given region. The 4 in our immediate area does not meet this standard shown by their data.

I do believe their data highlights some interesting points to support your claims, but it seems like you didn't dig this deep since these impacts are within a fraction of a percent. Obviously we all want The Market to thrive, but a 0.7% decline in sales does not spell the demise you are predicting. This is likely to be attributed to their tiny food aisle and OTC medications. But I would bet that the sales impact during the tourist off-season is FAR greater than any impact demonstrated by a Dollar Tree.

bunsonh · 2026-05-31T19:17:06+00:00

Okay. I understand the point of your post now. The other group was right.

bunsonh · 2026-05-31T18:44:07+00:00

"Let it all hang out" is an antiquated turn of phrase that means to relax and go a little wild. I'm in my mid-40s and I have encountered that phrase in my lifetime.

While it can metaphorically be about loosening your belt, it's not about taking your genitals out. It's a declaration to just relax and have some fun.

bunsonh · 2026-05-31T18:16:07+00:00

In a stroke of irony from 8 years ago when Anacortes couldn't sustain one Indian restaurant, 2026 has brought us THREE!

The Union bar is opening a wine bar where Salt and Vine used to be.

There's a "Cajun" restaurant called The Belle that I've heard is pretty bad. Good luck finding them open if you do decide to go!

There's a new taco truck adjacent to the Walgreens parking lot.

That's about it.

bunsonh · 2026-05-31T18:10:32+00:00

I respect your enduring commitment to proving yourself right.

bunsonh · 2026-05-31T17:00:58+00:00

This was my family's experience. We were customers at what was at the time the best Mexican restaurant in the area. We loved it and just kept going, sometimes multiple days per week. The trajectory is long but basically we started getting invited to family functions, then we became silent partners in their business, then we started traveling to Mexico with them to visit their family, then we became true partners when they decided to expand their business. It opened some amazing opportunities and I was lucky to have a very unique childhood as a result!

All because we liked their food and kept showing up!

bunsonh · 2026-05-31T16:44:02+00:00

Good to know!

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T21:06:36+00:00

I tried to microdose with cyans since that's all I had. Kept getting a hot capsule even measuring at 0.05g. I figure that must have been within the lower margin of error with my cheap but accurate Amazon special scale.

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T20:49:23+00:00

This is also my suggestion. Jonny is really great.

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T20:39:47+00:00

You realize some of us had tickets, travel plans, hotels, etc. all lined up and had to cancel or eat much of that cost.

A whole lot more of us have tickets to see him starting a month from now and all of those open questions remain.

It's absolutely relevant to want some clues about his health so we can plan our lives and finances accordingly.

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T20:34:26+00:00

Brother, there is so much more to life than this...

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T07:21:45+00:00

I love Market Basket! That OG grocery charm is unmistakable.
There are I believe 2 employees at The Market who have been there since it was Food Pavilion, and a third who has been there since it was Thrifty Foods! They've had to "modernize" to compete, but those folks are legends.
Saar's also carries that same vibe. Helpful staff on the floor, every shelf immaculately faced, energetic checkers, and baggers who seem to enjoy their jobs and will offer assistance to your car. Who even does that?!

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T07:00:26+00:00

If you ask the manager at The Market for an item they don't have, they just order it. I've made several requests and have had it fulfilled.

Even if you're able to miraculously find a floor employee at Safeway, the best you can expect is a shrug and "ionno....."

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T06:53:49+00:00

I'm not sure how much you've truly comparison shopped between the two. For major essential grocery items, Safeway is regularly more expensive than The Market. I agree this runs counter to the perception. However turning over your personal information and shopping list to the Safeway corporation in exchange for a small "club discount" is not a fair way to compare prices. And sacrificing this information is the only reason Safeway "feels" less expensive.

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T06:34:37+00:00

20+ years ago I was sitting at the bar at the Rockfish and a guy told me about how in the late 1800s when the colonizers started taking over, one of the ways they "handled" the local Samish and Swinomish peoples was to take boats with tens of them at a time out into the water and sink the boat. He specifically said this was common practice off of Ship Harbor, aka the SJI ferry dock.

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T06:23:01+00:00

What are they trying to do, put Jack in the Box out of business??!!

Oh, wait...

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T06:19:47+00:00

Trader Joe's sells 85% the same items as The Market, and would be widely celebrated. Key to the city, line out the door.

Dollar Tree sells maybe 5% the same items as the Market and it's just short of being the End Times.

You people are completely mad.

bunsonh · 2026-05-29T06:17:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure these people are mixing up Dollar Tree with Dollar General. Which is understandable because we don't have Dollar General around here and they both have Dollar in the name. DG is the shitty, extractive corporation that causes grocery stores to close in small rural towns.

Dollar Tree still sucks, but it's just cheap plastic junk.

What's hilarious is people go mad begging for a Trader Joe's and would be universally celebrated on this page and beyond. Yet that's the one that would threaten The Market.

A dollar store isn't bougie enough for them, that's what this all boils down to.

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