https://www.kltv.com/2021/01/19/east-texans-accused-taking-part-us-capitol-siege-charged-with-federal-crimes/

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Texas (/u/TheSlimeXY) vs. Carthage (/u/TFCAliarcy)

 

Texas:

Both North African failures lining up one by one?

I may have stumbled last time, but now you’re done!

When people said you were like a human,

they must have been thinking of a moron,

Since you seem to have forgotten

‘bout the Boers watching like Sauron,

As you continue to fight a war that has by now lasted for centuries,

And when you only took a capital because of strange space-time anomalies!

And even then you declared a war and then forgot to fight,

But at least you made cartographers’ workloads a little more light!

I can’t even think of a recent war you haven’t botched to hell,

I guess because you’d besieged Cairo for more time than I can tell!

So if Hannibal grows a brain and remembers the warmonger penalty,

I’ll know when he makes peace before he makes one huge orange enemy.

 

Carthage:

Oh looky it's ol' Sam Houston,

something to put my dong in.

Think you can step toe with me,

then you can get back to bein' a Nazi.

I am Hannibal, the maker of Trebia,

but that war to the north sees to trouble ya.

Yeah you got some cities from America,

but you should watch that southern borda,

or you'll get taken by a sombero, down into mexico.

I have fought hard for places like Cairo,

I fought tooth and nail for some floodplains,

You started with grasslands and mountains.

Thinkin' yo self superior, getting stuff on a platter,

My hood so tough peopled'd put stuff in your gaffer.

I'm a veteran of the last royale.

You try to get oy-al.

You startin' to see the difference,

My empire is of reverene,

but you are an embarrassment.

 

Texas Rebuttal:

You think your hood’s tough? This’d be a New World of hurt;

If the Buccs didn’t get ya, the Injuns’d grind ya into the dirt!

All that we have we had to defend from the strong,

While even the Blackfoot look fit to take you on!

We may have been the dark horse in the Great War of Secession,

But you couldn’t even fight in your own War of Northern Aggression!

You may be quick to bring up Trebia but I’d focus on your base,

You’d better fix those feet of clay else you’ll fall flat on your face!

Your chances are ‘bout as good as the Boers let ‘em be,

Cuz the moment they tried, ya’d get a nuke in express delivery.

We’re tough enough to survive, frozen Injuns be damned!

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!

 

Carthage Rebuttal:

You wanna talk about mongerin penalties?

As 2021 draws to a close, we are once again presented with the opportunity to look back and see what this year had to offer musically. Much like last year, I will not be limiting myself to just power metal or even just metal, but will do the list in 3 categories. Feel free to just skip the ones you don't care for.

• BEST METAL ALBUMS - Mostly power and power-adjacent

• BEST NON-METAL ALBUMS

• OTHER INDIVIDUALLY IMPRESSIVE STUFF (Singles, Christmas specials, guest performances,...)

Big thanks to /u/JacksonWarrior for preparing the weekly releases and the guys who were kind enough to write "no recs from me this week" every week ;) Also to anybody irl and online who was kind enough to recommend stuff personally, I deeply appreciate you.

Alright then, we're staying close to home and kicking it off with maybe the most divisive category.

#BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2021

Power metal is dying and/or already dead, so I combined all metal sub-genres into one list. In all seriousness, 2021 was perhaps the worst year for power metal in recent memory and I say that knowing that last year was poor enough to make me do a joint list.

Side-note: I talk about power metal a quite a bit, it's all European style power metal, American style power metal is poop.

This time we have a nice little mix of Power, Folk, Black and Melodeath. If an album made it to the list, I would whole-heartedly recommend it, as I left out a bunch of albums that were "aight". The best of the rest are mentioned in Honorable Mentions.

#Honorable Mentions

• Eons Enthroned - Into The Arcane - Power
• Phoenix Rising - Acta Est Febula - Power
• Ominous Glory - Power
• Wizardthrone - Melodeath
• Legend Of Valley Doom - Symphonic Power

#10. Seven Spires - Gods Of Debauchery - Power/Symphonic

For the second year in a row, Seven Spires make it to the album of the year post. Their previous album, Emerald Seas, was a massiv

I have a variety fragrances (full presentation/bottle/decants) shipped through Rollo and handled by USPS Ground shipping, shipping on Saturdays with tracking numbers originating from Texas. I will only be accepting Paypal G&S as a form of payment.

The decants are full 10ml black plastic spray bottles with caps and will be labeled using a label maker- see picture for example

Below are the prices per bottle and decant (including batch codes/numbers and pictures of the the bottle the decant came from)

I mainly sell using OfferUp but selling decants here due to financial hardships. All bottles have been bought from retailers and trusted online commerce companies. All items are on hand and will be shipping en-masse on Saturdays. Buyers will receive tracking numbers when labels are created.

No trades or swaps available at this time.

Below are the bottles for sell: Free shipping for single item sells. Buyer pays for PayPal G&S fee and bundle shipping

Prices are pre-G&S fee. Pictures include Bottle/Packaging/Batch Numbers

• Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme Parfum Intense- 100ml Bottle Only (85% full)- $70 USD
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• Maison Margelia Replica Jazz Club- 100ml Bottle Only (95% full)- $90 USD
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• Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Aviator-100ml Full Presentation (missing couple of sprays)- $70 USD
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• Jean Paul Gaultier Ultra Male- 75ml Full Presentation (90% full)- 60 USD
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• Armani Code Absolu Gold- 110ml Full Presentation (missing couple of sprays)- $70 USD
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• Al Haramain Amber Oud- 60ml Full Presentation (80% full)- $45 USD
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• Banana Republic Gardenia & Cardamom- 75ml Full Presentation (missing couple of sprays)- $40 USD
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• Banana Republic Tobacco & Tonka Bean- 75ml Full Presentation (40% full)- $25 USD
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• Dolce & Gabbana The One EDP- 100ml Bottle Only (90% full)- $75 USD
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I have been world-building for my first novel for the past six months or so. Granted, part of that time was hampered by some health issues and then a move from Los Angeles to Texas due to COVID lunacy.

Now that I am finally settling in I feel compelled to share some thoughts regarding the confounding nature of the discipline.

if I were to reduce world-building to its simplest terms; it's foundations are a reflection of the passions I hold most dear.

I am ever fascinated and inspired by the list below. The takeaway is , with such a wide range of eclectic interests, it's no wonder that world-building can be so perplexing .

I am constantly bringing elements of these "worlds" into my world (whether consciously or not) , moving them around like puzzle pieces, figuring out the role they will play in my plot and the evolution of my protagonist.

This is sacred work, and work it is.

Giorgio Vasari, who wrote the Italian Renaissance's two volume masterpiece "The lives of the Artists" noted that an artist (who's name I can't remember) after much failure lamented that he had ended up with a colorful omelette on a marble floor.

All artists, regardless of medium make their messes. It's just part and parcel of the creative process.

As a long time painter I know that sometimes you have to scrape down a day's work to create a solid base for next days painting session. I also know what my mentor ,the great Steven Assael told us in class.

"It takes a thousand bad paintings to finally paint a good one."

One final story for your inspiration and consideration:

Walt Disney would depart the studio every late evening around midnight leaving his junior artists to draw all night. At 7 am he would return to the empty studio and go through the waste paper baskets digging through discarded sketches. More often than not when the young artist came back to work, his crumpled drawing would be flattened out on the table with the following message:

"Stop throwing out the good ones!!!"

We should be very careful when critiquing our own work.

We may throw out the next Mickey Mouse or Pluto.

World History:

• Ancient Egypt
• The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
• The Greek Polis
• The Reign of Alexander
• The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Florence, Italy during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

World Religions:

• Buddhism
• Judaism (Particularly Jewish Mysticism)
• Vedantic Philosophy
• Wicca
• Eclectic Witchcraft
• Theosophy
• Luciferianism

**Esote

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Wesbter's Second Term (1841-1845)

President Daniel Webster

Cabinet:

President: Daniel Webster (1837-1845)

Vice President: Henry Clay (1837-1841) (was assasinated)|Vacant (1841-1845)

Secretary of State: John Quincy Adams (1837-1840) (resigned to run in the House)| Edward Everett (1840-1845)

Secretary of the Treasury: Thomas Ewing (1837-1845)

Secretary of War: John Bell (1837-1845)

Attorney General: John J. Crittenden (1837-1845)

Postmaster General: John M. Clayton (1837-1845)

Secretary of the Navy: George Edmund Badger (1837-1845)

Major Domestic Events:

-The Confederacy is defeated

-The Army is demobilized although a chunk of it stays to enforce the 13th Ammendment in the Former Confederate Territory

-Calhoun and his allies are executed

-The 14th Ammendment is barely passed granting citizenship to former slaves

-Bilateral Deals are made with Native Amerian tribes, giving them citizenship and allowing them to have limited autonomy inside their lands

-Webster begins Investing in the South and "Reconstruction" begins

-Texas is admitted as the 27th U.S. state (1842)

-Iowa is admitted as the 28th U.S. state (1842)

-Florida is admitted as the 29th U.S. state (1844)

-Shasta (Northern California) is admitted as the 30th U.S. state (1844)

-Wisconcin is admitted as the 31st U.S. state (1844)

-Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter-Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum, are murdered in Carthage Jail, leading to a Succession crisis, during it Brigham Young, would be chosen as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

-The United States Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

-Supreme Court Appointments:

• Attorney Benjamin Robbins Curtis (National Federalist Alinged) replaced Smith Thompson (National Federalist Alinged) as Associate Justice #1 (1843)
• Attorney Noah Haynes Swayne (Republican Unionist Aligned) replaced Gabriel Duvall (Republican Unionist Aligned) as Associate Justice #4 (1843)
• Former Attorney General and Vice President Richard Rush (National Federalist Alinged) replaced Henry Baldwin (Non-Aligned) as Chief Justice (1844)

Major Diplomatic Events:

-A deal is negotiated

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "