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CharleyHorse46

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« Reply #1246 on: December 21, 2018, 01:34:23 PM »
I know Brazoria! You a brother?  If you don’t mind me asking. Totally non-racist. I love all people.
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« Reply #1247 on: December 21, 2018, 01:36:33 PM »
You made me laugh. I’m about as white as they get. 
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CharleyHorse46

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« Reply #1248 on: December 21, 2018, 02:17:04 PM »
That’s cool, bro.  

I’ve done a lot of work in Brazoria & I’ve made a lot of connections with non-profits who serve the rather large but in some ways largely indigent African-American community there.

Fascinating place, Brazoria.  

Or hell maybe I’m thinking of Freeport in Brazoria county.   I need to check a few references.
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« Reply #1249 on: December 21, 2018, 02:24:08 PM »
Yeah guess I know the county better than I know your town.  Angleton, Freeport, Lake Jackson.

Never met no white folks down there before though. Guess I assumed there weren’t any until you got back up to Nolan country.

Learn something every day.

Good to know you, Gig em.  May you and yours have a delightful Christmas.
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BrownCounty

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« Reply #1250 on: December 21, 2018, 02:42:10 PM »
Quote from: CharleyHorse46 on December 21, 2018, 01:34:23 PM
Totally non-racist. I love all people.

I'm pretty sure I don't love all people.  It's something I need to work on.  But I'm positive I love people of all races so I think maybe asshole has something to do with it.

Wait... I didn't mean it like that.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  I'll stop digging now.
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CharleyHorse46

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« Reply #1251 on: December 21, 2018, 03:04:50 PM »
Quote from: BrownCounty on December 21, 2018, 02:42:10 PM
I'm pretty sure I don't love all people.  It's something I need to work on.  But I'm positive I love people of all races so I think maybe asshole has something to do with it.

Wait... I didn't mean it like that.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  I'll stop digging now.
I actually understand you.
Abstractly, and in theory, I do love all people just like Jesus says I should.  But in practice, love is much harder.   There’s no group that I just blanketly despise across the board.  Like the president said there’s good people on both sides. Or like Victor Frankl who endured Nazi concentration camps once observed, sometimes your Jewish brothers can be bigger dicks than your Nazi captors. Best, I guess, to keep an unbiased heart like Babe the pig and give everyone the benefit of the doubt until the second time they screw you.
BTW, BC, may you and your loved ones have a blessed holiday season.
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« Reply #1252 on: December 21, 2018, 03:16:40 PM »

CH, I wish a blessed and bountiful Christmas back to you and yours as well.

And to all you other kind folk and sooners.

"Never stop living.  It'll kill you." - BC
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« Reply #1253 on: December 21, 2018, 05:31:43 PM »
Quote from: CharleyHorse46 on December 21, 2018, 10:29:42 AM
I opted for GM because I had done the Mopar thing and I wasn’t about to drive a Ford.
dern solid logic
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Gigem

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« Reply #1254 on: December 21, 2018, 11:08:23 PM »
Quote from: CharleyHorse46 on December 21, 2018, 02:24:08 PM
Yeah guess I know the county better than I know your town.  Angleton, Freeport, Lake Jackson.

Never met no white folks down there before though. Guess I assumed there weren’t any until you got back up to Nolan country.

Learn something every day.

Good to know you, Gig em.  May you and yours have a delightful Christmas.
Hooky I don't know whether to laugh or to cry at your last post.  I guess we've about average with regards to diversity according to Wikipedia:
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As of the census[11] of 2000, 241,767 people, 81,954 households, and 63,104 families resided in the county. The population density was 174 people per square mile (67/km²). There were 90,628 housing units at an average density of 65 per square mile (25/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 77.09% White, 8.50% Black or African American, 0.53% Native American, 2.00% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 9.63% from other races, and 2.22% from two or more races. About 22.78% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. About 12.1% were of German, 11.2% American and 7.2% English ancestry according to Census 2000. About 79.0% spoke only English at home, while 18.1% spoke Spanish.

I can assure you there are all types of people here, and plenty of opportunity to be had making money as we have an extremely large amount of industry here on the Chemical Coast.  This is probably one of the few places where the average man (person?) can still make a decent wage without a whole lot of schooling.  I know scaffold builders here that make over $100k per year.  Granted, they're hustlin', but it's doable.  

Next time your down this way give me a heads up, we'll see if we can meet up.  

May you and yours also have a wonderful Christmas!
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« Reply #1255 on: December 21, 2018, 11:11:47 PM »
Quote from: CharleyHorse46 on December 21, 2018, 10:49:29 AM
Ch 7 Coming Round to Ford

In 2008 when the US had to bail out the auto industry, I kind of liked the way Ford refused a handout.

Years later I started watching “Alaska State Troopers” and I was amazed and impressed by the intrepid endurability of their Ford Crown Vics.

Then my oldest son got a job with Direct TV.  They gave him a 10 year old Ford van with 250,000 miles and sent him every day from Leander to places like Bastrop, LaGrange, Columbus and Katy.

The kid drove the van like a mofo.  Down dirt roads to rural homes.  Through the woods to even more rural homes.  Every evening he’d sit and wonder why the OBS Chevys he drove required so much loving maintenance while this damn Ford van just went and went and went.

The final straw was an overheating problem with my last GM vehicle.  I replaced the radiator, hoses, water pump, thermostat, everything- nothing worked.  But there was one wickedly placed bolt on the thermostat housing that could only be unscrewed a mm at a time.  About the 50th I put it back in and it still overheated I said that’s it.  Screw GM.

I bought 3 Fords in the fall of 2016 and haven’t been this happy since I had my Toyota truck.
I get it that your son had a long lasting Ford van but is it really fair to compare 20+ year old trucks to a new (or newer ) Ford?  If you did buy some used older Fords with the V8 Triton engine I can't wait until you find out how those suckers spit out sparkplugs like my youngest son spits out baby teeth!!  
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CharleyHorse46

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« Reply #1256 on: December 22, 2018, 11:30:26 AM »
About, Brazoria county, I stand corrected.

But you know how it is.  You go into an area (in my case North Avenue H in Freeport) that’s run by certain people who serve certain people and they tell you about systemic obstacles and introduce you to other folks of a like experience and then all around the place (because of the community they serve) you see the same folks and it almost looks like a poorer third ward you can almost imagine the whold place is like that if you don’t know better.

Now I do.  And I’d love to visit with you next time I’m down there, Gig’em.   Angleton is on this year’s schedule.  I was planning to send a couple of employees but I might flipflop the schedule on them.  

Merry Christmas!
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« Reply #1257 on: December 22, 2018, 11:32:29 AM »
Quote from: Gigem on December 21, 2018, 11:11:47 PM
I get it that your son had a long lasting Ford van but is it really fair to compare 20+ year old trucks to a new (or newer ) Ford?  If you did buy some used older Fords with the V8 Triton engine I can't wait until you find out how those suckers spit out sparkplugs like my youngest son spits out baby teeth!!  
I’ll be sure to stay away from one of those.
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« Reply #1258 on: December 22, 2018, 04:50:35 PM »
Man y'all are a bunch of chatty mofos.

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« Reply #1259 on: December 22, 2018, 04:58:35 PM »
Truck this and truck that truck all of ya

and oh ya Merry Christmas
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