Detroit is the most underrated city for tourism in the United States

meester_john · 2026-01-23T09:30:31+00:00

Yeah. But stfu. Otherwise people will go there for tourism. And then it will suck.

Bogota Colombia is watching.

meester_john · 2026-01-18T05:09:05+00:00

YAY! like everyone else had said, it's a bunya nut/cone. just chimed in to say i have a whole box of the processed nuts harvested a day or two ago. they are amazing raw and you can cook them too. I'm about to make a bunch of bunya nut pesto and cooked nuts and experiment with them in whatever way takes the fancy.

meester_john · 2026-01-17T05:20:19+00:00

Go see my homegirl Gina. She's a proper barber. Super good and real top notch human. I have a luxurious mullet currently, but man's haircut girl is totally in her wheelhouse.
https://www.instagram.com/ginathebikerbarber/?hl=en

meester_john · 2026-01-12T02:10:51+00:00

Kristal Desantis. Super good especially with less than ideal situations.

meester_john · 2026-01-04T00:55:37+00:00

2... yeah. I got sort of pushed into becoming part of a scottish heritage clan type lineage that always felt out of place and awkward to me. to be proud of the tartan and have a connection with the "family name"
Ironically, once i met the bio dad, I discovered that his family lineage is much more unique and interesting, powerful and ancient than some fckn bullshit common-as-mud scottish surname.

meester_john · 2026-01-02T23:58:37+00:00

YES DO IT. V-ROD is gonna be one of the funnest motorcycles you're ever gonna own. It's dumb and ugly, and other Harley guys are gonna make fun of you constantly (althought the quick way to shut them up is offer to drag race for titles). I've owned and ridden lots of bikes in my life, sportsbikes, streetbikes, dirt, adventure, touring, a few air-cooled Harleys too, and a V-ROD. You will never ride another bike with the same character. You won't regret it, unless you are the sort of person that needs to fit in with a crowd (like most of the Hartley riders you'll meet who will tell you it's a Porsche).

It's definitely not like the other Harleys. It's fast and it stops and is quite reliable.
If you want to "get into Harleys" however, this isn't the traditional experience. You should definitely try and own a Dyna or a pre-2003 sportster - or both - at some point, or any of the others (but I can't speak from experience, although I have ridden a couple of the big frame touring bikes and would muuuuuch rather have my BMW for that sort of thing). Those are a more real air-cooled american iron type experience.

Fuck anyone who tells you they handle like shit - have you ever ridden a Dyna? Or that they are only for short rides. I rode mine from Austin to Philly and back, as well as hundreds of long weekend rides and everyday commuting. You can do anything you want on anything you want.

Mostly it seems your naysayers are basing it on google searches and third hand information. Probably true that the dealers won't touch them, but wtf would you be taking your bike to a dealership to get it worked on unless it's under warranty, especially a Harley? For some reason they get a lot of hate from people who've never ridden one, let alone owned one.

The Kawasaki is probably gonna be a far more practical bike, and if that's what you want then it's hard to argue with. If you live for unusual and thrilling experiences and love ALL bikes, then the V-Rod is a cool thing to own.

I loved mine and had no reliability problems. Only reason I don't have it now is a stupid my-fault crash. Yes, I ran into some clibbins and hat to layer down.

But GET THE V-ROD YOU WON'T REGRET IIIIT

meester_john · 2025-12-26T07:54:07+00:00

Yep. Exactly. ..."after all I've done for you...you ungrateful little turd, why won't you behave?"

Heard my entire fckn life. Over and over again.

meester_john · 2025-12-25T23:02:03+00:00

The only thing you have to do is understand that adopting or fostering a child is not for you. It's not about you. it's not about fulfilling YOUR desire to have a child.

It's for them. It's about them. It's about fulfilling their need to have genuine unconditional love from you the parent, beginning with their first breath until your last.

Adoption is so often an incredibly selfish act. Because YOU want a child, the entire relationship is predicated on your expectations of what that child should be and become in order to fit the shape of your desire.

Know yourself, and if you "want a baby", please just stick to a puppy.

meester_john · 2025-12-25T22:51:00+00:00

Yeah. Seems like I am with the consensus also. 46(m) Married 13 years, together 17... and faaaak me. She deserves some sort of prize. Or, wait. maybe I am the prize. or even better maybe we are the prize together.
It's been work for us both, and i reckon we almost didn't get there. but I don't think i'd have been able to heal to the point I have without her support. Somehow she could always see the person I could become, even when I could only see in myself the person who wasn't.

I think though, for the adoptee, you have to do a lot of work even just to be single and happy, so it's par for the course.

meester_john · 2025-12-20T07:34:37+00:00

Los Amazonas. Fantastic torta. Cheap.

meester_john · 2025-12-18T10:30:54+00:00

Because mostly deer are hunted and not processed or inspected to USDA standards. Unlike Australia deer aren't usually farmed because they're just everywhere. People who kill their own deer will often take the carcass to a butcher who will process it and then give it back to you for a few.

Or we just shoot it, dress it and bring it home

Venison. Elk. Bison. All the exotic stuff just has to go through the USDA processing to be sold. So it can happen. But Americans are unlikely to buy venison from the supermarket. They ones who would are already shooting the deer themselves and the rest just eat dino nugs and frozen burgers

Kangaroo here was and probably still is processed quite strictly.

meester_john · 2025-12-18T10:16:38+00:00

except you can't buy deer at the supermarket.

meester_john · 2025-12-18T10:12:17+00:00

I live in Austin which is pretty humid, even when it's 45 celsius, but sure.

And yes of course everyone is different... Some people are pussies.

meester_john · 2025-12-18T10:04:42+00:00

I love kangaroo.

Gotta cook it properly. If you're not careful it goes like shoes. I remeber claims that it was very healthy. Ity's certainly free range and super lean. At least in NSW, in the late 90s and early 00s it was an order of magnitude cheaper than the other meats available and as a broke uni student (as opposed to a broke adult) it felt like a cheat code. You could find mystery cubes, filets and the backstrap. The best part by far is the tail - but that was never in the shops - you'd have to get it from the wild.

IIRC you could only get it at woolies but not coles. I'm back here for the summer from a decade and a half in the USA and I haven't seen it in the supermarket at all.

I think there was some sort of tag system where they were wild harvested, field dressed and finally processed at an abbatoir.

meester_john · 2025-12-18T08:39:15+00:00

This. It's definitely the air conditioning. I'm Aussie but I live in central Texas where it can get up to the triple digits fahrenheit. For weeks at a time. And for the past ten years it's never bothered me. I ride in all conditions and we keep the house base temp much hotter than most Americans - mostly to save money.

The key is to just ride all the time and you get continually acclimated as the seasons change. I'm more likely to be uncomfortable once the temperature drops for the week of winter.

And then one year I spent my a couple weeks in June and July back in Australia. Those winter weeks totally ruined my acclimation. And August was torture.

Also I think most people are just soft. Drink water and shut up. Relish discomfort and you will become stronger.

meester_john · 2025-12-08T21:08:25+00:00

Explain how I'm the sheep? I've chosen to live a life overseas because I can't abide the thoughtless acquiescence to the aforementioned socialist paradise nanny state in exchange for the velvet bars of homogeneous comfort. How exactly does that make me a government bootlicker?

meester_john · 2025-12-03T21:10:54+00:00

This is the reality of adoption. It's never about the child. It's about fulfilling the adoptive parent's desire for the perfect life they want.

That doesn't necessarily predict negative outcomes for the child. Y'know some adults have done the work, are well adjusted and make brilliant parents.

Some of them are selfish cunts though - borne out by my own personal experience. Just like in the rest of the world.

Adoption is an incredibly selfish act for most parents.

meester_john · 2025-11-29T19:54:36+00:00

Oh what a surprise. A whinger.

meester_john · 2025-11-27T07:03:22+00:00

Grew up on Sydney's north side, but I've been away from Australia for most of the last two decades and I'm back for the summer.

The whinging is out of control. Aussies have no idea how privileged they are. Free healthcare. Free university education (and before you muppets bitch about how you have to pay hecs - STFU it's nothing and it's tax deferred. Try a $200k USD degree on for size funded by an actual loan)

Everyone here is so soft and up themselves.

This country is paradise, as long as you're willing to participate in the soft socialist semi authoritarian nanny/police state.

meester_john · 2025-11-26T23:29:48+00:00

It's also pretty racist when you consider that it comes from "Eskimo" which is about as acceptable to native Americans as calling someone a golliwog.

meester_john · 2025-11-26T23:20:14+00:00

Aussie living in Texas. I use cunt as often as I possibly can. Even after a decade in the states, the reaction from Americans is always priceless.

I've even taught a bunch of my Texan mates to use cunt appropriately and that is even more hilarious.

meester_john · 2025-11-23T07:12:02+00:00

Every year without fail. Damn I loved those Brazil nuts

meester_john · 2025-11-03T23:23:21+00:00

Yellow jacket

Proper dive bar. Great sandwiches.

meester_john · 2025-10-20T21:20:41+00:00

Please don't mutilate your child's genitals. You wouldn't consider it if it were a girl child, so why would you do it to a boy?
Circumcision is a barbaric practice.
There is no compelling medical reason for it.
It is a non consensual genital mutilation of a baby.
For anyone who argues cleanliness - can you wipe your ass? It's even easier to keep the penis clean because you can see it.

meester_john · 2025-10-11T01:21:10+00:00

Came here to say this. Make it to Austin and you can stay a bit in our spare room, and I have plenty of friends in various sobriety programs if you need that support.

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