Randomguy Posted February 4, 2020 Share #1 Posted February 4, 2020 So I bought an antenna, and it works. Now I get channels. One of the channels is for old people and it is entirely westerns, the channel is called 'Grit' or somesuch. Anyway, the west didn't look so good. It seems entirely populated by bad guys and malevolent gunslingers, with just enough honest guys to put up a fight while getting constantly crapped on. There are few women, and the women that are there are whores or prudes that are uninterested in almost all men. People drink a lot, and it doesn't look super enjoyable. Disagreements were solved by shooting. This last part sounds really appealing, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Page Turner Posted February 4, 2020 Popular Post Share #2 Posted February 4, 2020 . ...this is a weekly occurrence in my life. Do you understand that you take the bad with the good ? 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted February 4, 2020 Share #3 Posted February 4, 2020 ^^^..me, the last time some idiot in a car cut me off on my bike. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #4 Posted February 4, 2020 19 minutes ago, Randomguy said: So I bought an antenna, and it works. Now I get channels. One of the channels is for old people and it is entirely westerns, the channel is called 'Grit' or somesuch. Anyway, the west didn't look so good. It seems entirely populated by bad guys and malevolent gunslingers, with just enough honest guys to put up a fight while getting constantly crapped on. There are few women, and the women that are there are whores or prudes that are uninterested in almost all men. People drink a lot, and it doesn't look super enjoyable. Disagreements were solved by shooting. This last part sounds really appealing, though. Hollywood likes to glamorize that era. It was a very difficult time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #5 Posted February 4, 2020 One of my wife's favorite channels, but then again, you said it was for 'old people'. Some of those on the channel, we actually saw at the movie theater. Death Valley Days was a must see on black and white tv. I assume people came west for freedom and a 'better' way of life. Some were probably escaping their past, and we know many came to get rich with the gold strikes. Tough for you to make comparisons to life this day and age, as those folks did not have a glimmer of the life you lead today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #6 Posted February 4, 2020 3 hours ago, Dottles said: Hollywood likes to glamorize that era. It was a very difficult time. I didn't think so, but I was younger then. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted February 4, 2020 Share #7 Posted February 4, 2020 1 hour ago, maddmaxx said: I didn't think so, but I was younger then. Wrong era, we grew up when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. Miss those Bronto burgers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 4, 2020 Share #8 Posted February 4, 2020 Looks okay to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #9 Posted February 4, 2020 HoSmudge LOVES westerns. I think he appreciates the manly men, as in, "Oh ya, that's me," kinda thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted February 4, 2020 Share #10 Posted February 4, 2020 Since living here, I've met a lot more people who own/ride horses. And these are urban folks. https://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/prairies-declaration-of-horse-love-in-art/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted February 4, 2020 Share #11 Posted February 4, 2020 I got sick of shows with Nazis or cowboys a long, long, long, long, long time ago. There is the occasional exception, like Rustlers Rhapsody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share #12 Posted February 4, 2020 7 hours ago, sheep_herder said: One of my wife's favorite channels, but then again, you said it was for 'old people'. Some of those on the channel, we actually saw at the movie theater. Death Valley Days was a must see on black and white tv. I assume people came west for freedom and a 'better' way of life. Some were probably escaping their past, and we know many came to get rich with the gold strikes. Tough for you to make comparisons to life this day and age, as those folks did not have a glimmer of the life you lead today. I do like the westerns. Something about the pacing and the lack of ‘spectacular’ special effects just works. Plus the landscape. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #13 Posted February 4, 2020 guns, saloons & whore houses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #14 Posted February 4, 2020 Simple “if - then” equation: If people are dicks and there are fewer people per square mile in the west. Then the west is a better place to live. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #15 Posted February 4, 2020 4 hours ago, maddmaxx said: I didn't think so, but I was younger then. POTD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #16 Posted February 4, 2020 @Randomguy there is a reason you are still stuck in the East and we are out West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #17 Posted February 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, jsharr said: @Randomguy there is a reason you are still stuck in the East and we are out West. That was my first thought too. But then I recall him living in Denver. So... he got game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #18 Posted February 4, 2020 5 minutes ago, jsharr said: @Randomguy there is a reason you are still stuck in the East and we are out West. Yes, but things are not the same after Marvin Zindler had his way with the ladies in LaGrange. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #19 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, Dottles said: That was my first thought too. But then I recall him living in Denver. So... he got game. He could not handle it and ran back home to mama East. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #20 Posted February 4, 2020 1 minute ago, Dottles said: That was my first thought too. But then I recall him in Denver. So... he got game. I think he likes the west, but he has 'strong' ties to the east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #21 Posted February 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, sheep_herder said: I think he likes the west, but he has 'strong' ties to the east. He envies us. Take this chance to beat him down a bit for this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #22 Posted February 4, 2020 I like the west but I may be a little biased. My cottage is on a cattle ranch. Maybe not coastal west. Things get too weird out there.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #23 Posted February 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, Wilbur said: I like the west but I may be a little biased. My cottage is on a cattle ranch. Maybe not coastal west. Things get too weird out there.. Southwest is the Best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #24 Posted February 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Wilbur said: Maybe not coastal west. Things get too weird out there.. Booo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted February 4, 2020 Share #25 Posted February 4, 2020 21 minutes ago, Wilbur said: Things get too weird out there.. I resemble that remark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #26 Posted February 4, 2020 10 minutes ago, Zephyr said: I resemble that remark You are a transplant. Down east still runs through your veins. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted February 4, 2020 Share #27 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, Wilbur said: You are a transplant. Down east still runs through your veins. True story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #28 Posted February 4, 2020 35 minutes ago, jsharr said: Southwest is the Best. If you like Melanoma and leather catcher-mitt faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #29 Posted February 4, 2020 10 hours ago, Randomguy said: So I bought an antenna, and it works. Now I get channels. One of the channels is for old people and it is entirely westerns, the channel is called 'Grit' or somesuch. Anyway, the west didn't look so good. It seems entirely populated by bad guys and malevolent gunslingers, with just enough honest guys to put up a fight while getting constantly crapped on. There are few women, and the women that are there are whores or prudes that are uninterested in almost all men. People drink a lot, and it doesn't look super enjoyable. Disagreements were solved by shooting. This last part sounds really appealing, though. I watch Grit TV sometimes. Of course, the stories have virtually nothing to do with reality. Research has NEVER found a single instance where two guys actually drew on each other in reality in the West, but there's usually at least one of those in each episode of Laramie, Tales of West Fargo, Zane Grey Theater, etc. But some didn't have a lot of killing, like Death Valley Days. I liked the episode of Death Valley Days where Marlo Thomas made her TV acting debut, playing the daughter of a charcter played by her real-life-father Danny Thomas. A con-artist almost marries and causes the death of Marlo's character, but she makes her father promise, as she's dying, to not kill the con-artist, invoking a solemn "Honor Bright" code they had between them. Danny Thomas's character tricks the con-artist into killing him - guaranteeing he'd be hanged - and as Danny Thomas's character is dying he says he never killed the con-artist as promised and his last words are "Honor Bright." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #30 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, Dottles said: If you like Melanoma and leather catcher mitt faces. And no state income tax and of course the ability to say things like "I'm from Texas" and "Everything is bigger in Texas." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #31 Posted February 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: And no state income tax and of course the ability to say things like "I'm from Texas" and "Everything is bigger in Texas." And no hippies. No flannel shirts and little opiods. You think I can give that up??! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #32 Posted February 4, 2020 1 minute ago, Dottles said: And no hippies. No flannel shirts and little opiods. You think I can give that up??! Move to Austin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #33 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, jsharr said: Move to Austin Austin can't compete with our gay factions and coffee. Get out of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #34 Posted February 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, Dottles said: Austin can't compete with our gay factions and coffee. Get out of here. It is the best that Texas can offer you in that arena. Take it or leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #35 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, jsharr said: It is the best that Texas can offer you in that arena. Take it or leave. Just give me your effing tacos and shuddup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted February 4, 2020 Share #36 Posted February 4, 2020 32 minutes ago, jsharr said: Move to Austin Daughter#2 is in Austin for a week of visiting. She has ben texting pic of her adventures in the city. There appears to be lots of hippies in Austin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #37 Posted February 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Kzoo said: Daughter#2 is in Austin for a week of visiting. She has ben texting pic of her adventures in the city. There appears to be lots of hippies in Austin. Sadly true. Austin in the San Francisco of Texas. I sort of blame Willie Nelson for this. He smokes so much weed it is like moths to a flame. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share #38 Posted February 4, 2020 1 hour ago, jsharr said: @Randomguy there is a reason you are still stuck in the East and we are out West. You aren’t out west. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #39 Posted February 4, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #40 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, Randomguy said: You aren’t out west. You shut your dirty whore mouth! You shut it RIGHT NOW! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #41 Posted February 4, 2020 1 minute ago, jsharr said: You shut your dirty whore mouth! You shut it RIGHT NOW! He's right. If you're east of the Rockies... you're EAST. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #42 Posted February 4, 2020 1 minute ago, Dottles said: He's right. If you're east of the Rockies... you're EAST. Bite me Butt Munch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #43 Posted February 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: You shut your dirty whore mouth! You shut it RIGHT NOW! I can't disagree. I always thought you had to live west of Austin to consider that you lived in the west. I lived in the south when living in Baytown, 26 miles SE of Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share #44 Posted February 4, 2020 1 minute ago, jsharr said: You shut your dirty whore mouth! You shut it RIGHT NOW! You are practically living in New York, only someone in a plains state could assume they are out west while living in Texas. You have never even seen a mountain, admit it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #45 Posted February 4, 2020 1 minute ago, Dottles said: He's right. If you're east of the Rockies... you're EAST. That really is a bunch of BS to be spreading this early in the morning. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #46 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, jsharr said: Bite me Butt Munch Try to accept jsharr. You ain't nuttin' but an oversized Gulf state. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #47 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, sheep_herder said: That really is a bunch of BS to be spreading this early in the morning. Sshhhhhh. It's jsharrt I'm talking to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted February 4, 2020 Share #48 Posted February 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, Randomguy said: You have never even seen a mountain, admit it. Batta-boom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share #49 Posted February 4, 2020 Just now, sheep_herder said: That really is a bunch of BS to be spreading this early in the morning. It is true, though. Dallas is more mid-south, but only west in a way in that they are slightly more west and slightly less inbred than Alabama natives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share #50 Posted February 4, 2020 I think Smudge would own a brothel if she lived in the old west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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