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@Max: I'd like to hear it!
@Unusual: I'm gonna make jerky out of it if I get one. I've never had elk jerky before, just antelope, so I'm curious to see what it tastes like.
@Unusual: I'm gonna make jerky out of it if I get one. I've never had elk jerky before, just antelope, so I'm curious to see what it tastes like.
@Max: Hear hear! This would be good.
@Sniper: Well, I bet its good too! Well, you gotta bag it first. You skin em and stuff too? Or take that to someone else.
@Sniper: Well, I bet its good too! Well, you gotta bag it first. You skin em and stuff too? Or take that to someone else.
@Max: Well, thats a heck of a story. Sounds like you have neighbors who let things really get out of hand. Well, its good to hear your dad handled things as well as he did. Though...I don't understand how standing on the sidewalk was a problem...but hey, thats just me.
Should I add "Cool story Bro?"
Should I add "Cool story Bro?"
@Unusual: Well that was te only one. My mom says that the guy would beat up the pets because she could hear it but Animal Control is crap at there job here. We've got a damned coyote here that has attacked my cat before, the cat lived, and is still here and there are little children at the ages of 2 months, 2 years, 4 years, and 6 years old playing on the street and they're in danger. But the reason the sidewalk was like that is cause the sidewalk technically belongs to the city, my city is run by assholes if you couldn't tell, and so my dad would get fined by the city. That's why he went into the street. Also, no adding "Cool story Bro" because that implies that you think I'm faking the story to me.
@Max: Ah, I see. So, this fellow has a history, and also your resources are all a bunch of assholes. (Not surprised by that) But sadly, it usually takes a death for things like that to ever get any attention they need to get...that, and media coverage...
But I would use "Cool story Bro" even if the story was true. Its just a saying that I picked up from some place....
But I would use "Cool story Bro" even if the story was true. Its just a saying that I picked up from some place....
@Unusual: Yep and the reason we didn't deal with it sooner is because I was a school and my dad was at work. Also yeah the city is lazy and unhelpful. For example, our streets were so old that the weight of the garbage truck was literally tearing up the asphalt on the street to the size of my T.V- I have a large T.V-. We told the city that this was a danger and they didn't do anything for months until my dad lied to them and said that my grandfather, who was living with us, had fallen and broken his leg and we were going to sue the city. Next day the city came early in the morning, fixed up the street and left not even inquiring if what my dad told them was true. See we've had the same mayor for a long time because she hires private investigators and what not to find scandals on her opponents and people in the council she hates so they they resign or drop out. Before her, her father was mayor all throughout my dad's childhood when he was growing up.
@Max: Yeah, so you said. And I know how a bad city works, I grew up in one. One which rather there were just so many connections around that no one could really touch anyone. The school board, the city council, hell, even the teachers were in on it.
But yeah....like I said before, corrupt groups won't do anything until the extreme happens, then they finally move their lazy asses.
But yeah....like I said before, corrupt groups won't do anything until the extreme happens, then they finally move their lazy asses.
@Unusual: Don't get me started on the school board here. They are the worst out of all. Even when extreme stuff does happen they don't do anything. They just raise our sales tax again. We have a 10% sales tax here. Also, they just blame it on Mexicans; which most of the town is which is why when they do they get chewed out by us.(I'm Mexican and I'm proud)
@Zer: Chula Vista is a border town. We are right next to the U.S-Mexico border. Also, when the news says that the crime and cartel from Mexico is spilling into the streets of Chula Vista making it an unsafe place; it's a load of bull crap. Everything is happening in T.J and we rarely have an issue in Chula Vista like that. It's just people in Chula Vista being bad, and the people in Chula Vista know how dangerous T.J is but they go anyway and it gets them killed. Chula Vista used to be a small quiet town which is why the BS that happens here was unknown. But thanks to Mario Lopez everyone thinks this place is the ghetto, and it doesn't help with the recent slew of paedophiles that have showed up and reveal how our police force never notifies us of this happening. Man I love Chula Vista; hate the people that run it.
@Max: Heh...Sounds kind of like mine. But the thing is, they just...don't do anything. Or when they do something, it makes no sense at all. For example, destroying a gazebo that had for years been signed by hundreds of students. They just tore it down...and put benches there. And a few flowers. Years of students, memories, and everything, taken down for...no reason. At all.
@Unusual: My city does that a lot. We have many mom and pop stores here doing fine and have been doing fine since the 50s and hate all this "protect small business crap". They're doing fine even in this economy. La Bella's Pizza Garden for example, if you ever come down her I recommend that place, has been open since a little after WW 2 and is doing excellent. They've actually expanded too. Which is also cool because it is on a long street that has an old fashioned car show every Wednesday outside that people can go to. But the city tears down our murals in schools because my school district approved product advertisement on campus so that they could make more money. Our school district is the only one that did so basically the school is being repainted to show off ads right now. T.T
Sounds like a Ma and Pop place in my city. Its called Ma Possum's. Its a little diner holed up behind a strip mall. Place is doing really well and recently opened up a second place. They do a vintage car thing the third week of September or something. My dad used to go every year.Maxieon said:
Don't know what to say about your school district besides 'that really sucks'.
You can tell I'm not from the far South given that I hadn't even considered the whole border town thing. Where I am, you only ever see one or two Mexicans every now and again. As a matter of fact, you hardly ever see any foreign people here. The only foreigners I've ever personally met in my city, as in they weren't born in America, were exchange students. Marie from Japan and Tamur from Russia. I never actually spoke to Marie either, seeing as how she was two grades under me and very isolated as far a social interaction went. I hear she was quite the otaku... I ramble! Anyway, I can't really relate at all. The main problem I'm faced with is that everyone in my community seems to be borderline retarded. Ignorance is sacred apparently.
@Max: Heh...Yeah, sounds about right for most of those stores really. If you sell something worthwhile, no matter how the economy looks, you will be fine...But yeah, I dealt with my school system on less than good terms, so I know how bad it is a lot of the time. Annoying bastards.
But yeah...schools are broke because they waste money, much like the government, and need to make more from somewhere.
But yeah...schools are broke because they waste money, much like the government, and need to make more from somewhere.
@Zer: Well they expanded as in added a new part to the restaurant. Mama recently died and Poppa died a couple years back. But they only wanted one store and so that's how it is. The pizza and chicken is amazing. They put the pepperonis underneath the cheese so that when you bite down on it you don't take all the cheese with the pepperoni. The old fashion car show is also by my little deli with a Mom and Pop Mexican restaurant called Luzitas that cooks like how my grandmother used to. My mom knows the founders too because she went to school with him and he knows me because I'm his best customer. Everyone thought Luzitas was going to fall in a month or two because the last two Mexican restaurants that were there did but Luzitas has been going nice and strong for almost 6 years now.
As for exchange students we get a lot. See in the district my school is the one with the most language programs. We also have a sister school in China so every year we get a new Chinese teacher from China. We get German exchange students, Japanese exchange students, one of which I may have to house, Chinese, Australian, French, Italian -oh my you should have seen all the girls in the school falling for the Italian students, quite funny- and I believe we got some from Taiwan once. Although we've been getting new transfer students from all over the place: Peru, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Israel, and many more places. Doesn't help that our school is overcrowded though.
@Unusual: Our town, city, and state is highly Republican just so you know. We choose Republican Governors that screw us over and Democratic Senators and Congressman that do an average job so as to not garner anger. Especially with the candidates for governor: Meg Whitman, the former CEO of Ebay who has never held a political office and believes her time at Ebay makes her a good person to lead the bankrupt state, and Jerry Brown; a 40 year old veteran of politics who ran against Clinton for presidency. Meg Whitman is probably going to win too so we are screwed.
As for exchange students we get a lot. See in the district my school is the one with the most language programs. We also have a sister school in China so every year we get a new Chinese teacher from China. We get German exchange students, Japanese exchange students, one of which I may have to house, Chinese, Australian, French, Italian -oh my you should have seen all the girls in the school falling for the Italian students, quite funny- and I believe we got some from Taiwan once. Although we've been getting new transfer students from all over the place: Peru, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Israel, and many more places. Doesn't help that our school is overcrowded though.
@Unusual: Our town, city, and state is highly Republican just so you know. We choose Republican Governors that screw us over and Democratic Senators and Congressman that do an average job so as to not garner anger. Especially with the candidates for governor: Meg Whitman, the former CEO of Ebay who has never held a political office and believes her time at Ebay makes her a good person to lead the bankrupt state, and Jerry Brown; a 40 year old veteran of politics who ran against Clinton for presidency. Meg Whitman is probably going to win too so we are screwed.
@Max: Well, at least it isn't split like my state is. A democrat governor, and a republican house...or is it the other way around? Heh...Not that it matters, as they still just fight and get nothing done ever. And if they do manage something, it just screws everyone over. Well, at least you have a good choice to make. We have a governor who has done next to nothing....and not really anyone else. No one wants this state. Its just a disaster.