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Jugging for catfish and watching a big one pull the whole milk jug under like the shark in jaws never gets old to me. Then campfires and fresh catfish filets. Heaven.

My dad really likes to eat smallmouth bass. I can’t ride on that train.
 
Smack Tea Hut is weird, as I've mentioned before. Yesterday, there was an anti-racist alert sent out on twitter that had over two hundred likes/retweets that there was a "confirmed Proud Boys sighting" there. I wasn't totally surprised, because some of the cops/military dudes who go in there have that look and it just wouldn't shock me. But the bar tending staff is pretty diverse (I know it doesn't mean anything, but there are black, latinx, and gay bartenders), and I've seen it as a relatively safe and welcoming space for people of color and trans people, etc., but also a welcoming space to guns rights guys and cops, so yeah.

Anyway, turns out the confirmed sighting was one of the bartenders, who is Puerto Rican, because he had a bandana face covering with a Call of Duty sign on it. Like, they even went up to him and started questioning him, and still posted that it was a confirmed Proud Boys sighting. Now, I 100% guarantee this guy doesn't have a clue who the Proud Boys are. He is super pro-gun, and has one of those "you'll pry my gun from my cold dead hands" bumper sticker, but I'm pretty sure he is not racist/bigoted in any way, and generally seems to have a good heart -- though, yeah, you never know.

Felt bad for my dude, and felt kind of bad for the business, but in other ways, they have opened themselves up for some criticism like that in the past. I dunno, it was weird. I get that everyone's on edge, but it was pretty irresponsible to put that it was "confirmed" when it definitely wasn't, it was just two of the bartenders/managers wearing video game shirts.
 
RedSoxFaithful said:
i went camping with him and cookout last year and he seemed v bummed that we were just doing car camping (more that he didn't have a real use for some of the legit actual camping gear he brought lol)

though it like DOWNPOURED that weekend and he got to show off some v cool macguyver skills
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he basically is macguyver

i know he's probably got a rep from like 10 years ago as a member of team emo (and the shoe fits there)

but he's also a total boss of home improvement and ron swanson paddle your own canoe style manliness
 
El Chupacabra said:
Smack Tea Hut is weird, as I've mentioned before. Yesterday, there was an anti-racist alert sent out on twitter that had over two hundred likes/retweets that there was a "confirmed Proud Boys sighting" there. I wasn't totally surprised, because some of the cops/military dudes who go in there have that look and it just wouldn't shock me. But the bar tending staff is pretty diverse (I know it doesn't mean anything, but there are black, latinx, and gay bartenders), and I've seen it as a relatively safe and welcoming space for people of color and trans people, etc., but also a welcoming space to guns rights guys and cops, so yeah.

Anyway, turns out the confirmed sighting was one of the bartenders, who is Puerto Rican, because he had a bandana face covering with a Call of Duty sign on it. Like, they even went up to him and started questioning him, and still posted that it was a confirmed Proud Boys sighting. Now, I 100% guarantee this guy doesn't have a clue who the Proud Boys are. He is super pro-gun, and has one of those "you'll pry my gun from my cold dead hands" bumper sticker, but I'm pretty sure he is not racist/bigoted in any way, and generally seems to have a good heart -- though, yeah, you never know.

Felt bad for my dude, and felt kind of bad for the business, but in other ways, they have opened themselves up for some criticism like that in the past. I dunno, it was weird. I get that everyone's on edge, but it was pretty irresponsible to put that it was "confirmed" when it definitely wasn't, it was just two of the bartenders/managers wearing video game shirts.
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RSF really likes Call of Duty.. so that means he's a proud boy too.
 
TownieDeac said:
my wife thought for her whole life that she didn't like shrimp and recently tried it again and now orders it all the time

i may be overcompensating now and cook it like twice a week
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bro in law has gone his whole life thinking he has a shellfish allergy bc he's p sure he had a reaction once. but the past 7 years they've been in Louisiana and eating these jalapeno poppers one of his fellow residents always brings to parties. turns out they have shrimp in them. now he's getting ready to leave Louisiana and coulda been eating all the shellfish!
 
cookoutdeac said:
RSF really likes Call of Duty.. so that means he's a proud boy too.
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Reading through some of the threads and responses and seeing some other legit criticism about how they (the kava bar) markets itself and some of the language and imagery used (and generally, appropriation of this cultural thing as white business owners), which I get, and need to acknowledge and think about if I'm going to continue to go there. But this one thing seemed a little over the top. I dunno. I think I'm at least going to transition to just getting to-go for the time being even though they've opened up their bar area.

Anyway, def some problematic things with that place that I guess I should consider, apart from this little blow up incident. It would be nice if the account posted a clarification/explanation, if not a retraction, instead of the "all clear" they posted, which just makes it seem like there were Proud Boys who just left and moved on.

A damn shame it smoothes me out so much and I can at least somewhat trust the provenance of the product.
 
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RedSoxFaithful said:
i went camping with him and cookout last year and he seemed v bummed that we were just doing car camping (more that he didn't have a real use for some of the legit actual camping gear he brought lol)

though it like DOWNPOURED that weekend and he got to show off some v cool macguyver skills
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I remember also making fun of you for "car camping"

I would have been there for u TWdeac
 
TW sent me his old graphics card when I was thinking of replacing mine. I think about that nearly every time I boot up my compy.
 
TenaciousKory said:
I remember also making fun of you for "car camping"

I would have been there for u TWdeac
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I thought you were supposed to join us that weeekend.

Would have been hellacious to not car camp in the end, because the rain was nuts and it would have sucked not having a big tarp to hang out under. Also we were just trying to get drunk in the woods, it's much harder to do that on a backpacking expedition.
 
BarcaDeac said:
I will never, ever understand people who wholesale don't like seafood. not counting vegetarians, vegans. but people who eat meat but won't eat any seafood. it's so varied! shrimp, oysters, tuna, trout, salmon, octopus -- all so different.
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For some it is a health and safety issue. Shellfish allergies can be life threatening. Life is not worth a lobster. Just being around cooking of these can be a very unpleasant experience.

Others have religious reasons for not eating shellfish.

So be careful who you chastise.
 
Deaconblue said:
For some it is a health and safety issue. Shellfish allergies can be life threatening. Life is not worth a lobster. Just being around cooking of these can be a very unpleasant experience.

Others have religious reasons for not eating shellfish.

So be careful who you chastise.
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I mean he's talking about "people who don't like" it, not people who have life threatening allergies or religious reasons. That's not the same thing as preference. Specifically people that group it all together as one big category and write it off.
 
right, more a full grown adult who is like "fish are icky"
 
I really need to go fishing. I don’t think I’ve been in 2+ years.
 
damnit i think fish are icky sorry y'all
 
it's funny because i was born on an island then i moved to another island then i moved to another island then i moved to another island then i moved back to the states

and i never liked eating fish despite it
 
no sushi? wasn't japan one of those islands?
 
japan was one and i have tried sushi multiple times and v much dislike
 
I like fish, but lobster seems like too much work. I even went to this place in San Francisco that had these day long cooked crab things that you could basically take apart with your hands, but it was still too much work. That's my only real complaint, is when you have to take tails/shells off and stuff. Sometimes I just want to EAT.

But down with fish/sushi/seafood, generally.
 
i was the lil white kid the sushi place would see and know to bring out rice and sliced cucumbers for
 
tbf i haven't tried sushi in three or four years maybe i like it now
 
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