If the best gig his band could get was at a strip mall mexican restaurant, I'd wager he's already mooching.

"I'll tell ya what" alone tells us what we need to know.

So it gets to both be an opinion (hey I'm free to speak my mind), and the truth (it's a fact libtards!).

whiny ****ing snowflake

thought this was how you were gonna MAGA bro? now you sitting there unemployed crying to strangers on the internet?

My daughter's kindergarten class did an animal exhibit/report where they each picked an animal, made a model, and sat out with parents visiting each one. They were to give an oral report on interesting facts about their animal, but most of them were deer in headlights. I asked each kid what their very favorite fact was about their animal. The kid who did great white sharks told me his favorite fact is that sharks are cool.

When I told my 6 y/o daughter that story she laughed and said, "that's not a fact, that's an opinion!". She get's it and these mother****ers do not. However...

What Newt Gingrich said when he was saying that crime is worse than ever, was fact-checked on it during the interview and responded with "well people feel like it is true and that is what matters" was both ludicrous and clearly correct. We can **** on the repubs for feeding the idiots their fear, hate, and ignorance delicacies, but they are nourishing that group in a very effective way. It is paying off, just as it always has in history all over the world. We ignore it at our peril.

Congrats on having a very discerning daughter!

Is she available to work on CNN or write for the NYT?

That’s an old video. Pre-trump for sure.

he's lucky that skater kids are pussies nowadays, grinding comfortably in their perfect little cookie cutter cages that now dot the cityscape of any metropolitan/suburban area and terrified to step out of line

back in my day, he'd get a board to the head for trying that ****, and i guarantee you nobody would still be around once the cops got there.

What was the world like without TV, grandpa?

lol i had the same thought after posting that, but it's true. the proliferation of skate parks in the past 10-15 years has ultimately changed the nature of what skateboarding is and how it's conducted- kids dont really street skate anymore, and dont have to deal with the all the associated hazards (and not just conflict with pedestrians/security, but little things like rough ground and imperfect/damaged spots). and increased exposure in pop culture has had big companies trying to re-package it into something more palatable for suburban moms and "popular" kids. which is fine, i don't lose sleep over it or anything.

but we were all dirtbags back in the day, and it was something that was celebrated in the industry- we admired guys like "snugglebandit" andy roy (ironically, i cant stand to see his ugly stupid face now). i've literally slept on countless benches or just on the ground in cities i didn't live in because i was out skating all night with friends and either couldn't afford a hotel room or wanted to wake up at/near a spot before the morning business rush. i had a friend (now a pro skater) who had to have an operation to fix his kidneys because his diet for several months consisted of mountain dew and candy, and they started seizing up on him. we were always travelling and skating, too broke to go sit down and eat anything that wasn't on a dollar menu- you couldn't skate without having a certain passion for it, it was just too hazardous. skate parks have eliminated most of the struggle and also a lot of the originality/creativity in the way that we used to transform urban landscapes.

i'm old and withered now at 35, but some of my best memories will always be from the days when i was a little dirtbag skate rat. as a masochistic angst-filled teen with oppositional defiant disorder, it was the perfect outlet, for better or worse. and i'd be lying if i said i didn't consider going out and getting a board to kick around again from time to time. and now that i'm going to be on my wife's sweet sweet health insurance plan from the hospital/university where she's doing her residency, i may just do that.

Being that im an old man with kids now, how did your parents handle your ODD?

My first skateboard had steel wheels. I had another with some kind of rock or stone wheels. It was really nice when the polyurethane wheels came out.

oh boy, this might be long.

lots of grounding in my youth, tons of "talks" about my attitude/behavior which i mostly spaced out and ignored, and eventually once i got thrown out of school in 10th grade, they basically just went fairly hands-off and gave me more autonomy/freedom to make and (hopefully) learn from my mistakes. their unspoken position eventually became hey, if you focus enough on school to maintain a good GPA ("good" in those days was like 3-4 not 4+), we'll turn a blind eye to all the weed smoking, skateboarding, and class skipping. i think they sensed at a certain point that i was miserable, had no real direction or motivation, and was full of self-hatred (which caused a certain insecurity in me which i refused to acknowledge, leading to anxiety and eventually depression) from an entire youth spent rebelling against anybody in a position of authority.

i think that matters were made worse re: my ODD when my mother decided to enroll me in the same christian school as my sister (~age 7-14), and i feel like they recognized the damage that it had done when i entered my teenage years. one of the things about ODD is that, as a kid, you feel like you're smarter and know better than the adults who tell you things that you don't want to hear- ESPECIALLY when you feel like you can't relate to them on any level. when all the authority figures in your life are christian zealots who are plainly idiotic and hypocritical, it magnifies the feelings of resentment which makes the behavioral/attitude problems even worse. because **** these people, it's that simple. unhealthy or non-existent coping skills are another hallmark. kids' brains aren't developed enough to really grasp the concepts of long-term consequences and nuance- i just decided at some point that all the adults were idiots and i wasn't going to listen to them anymore, period.

once i reached a point in my late 20s, i had some experiences with people, some of whom were friends, that made me recognize just how much of a rageaholic i was and how much of a selfish narrow-sighted ******* i could be. seeing other people excel in poker during times when i struggled also reinforced that i wasn't as smart as i thought i was. i also had an experience during a mushroom trip which must have activated whatever area of my brain is responsible for feeling empathy. as a poker player, i recognized that self-reflection is vital to survival and progress, but i wasn't honest with myself about the extent to which i was cognitively flawed. so i decided i was going to make some changes in my life to be a better person, and while there was a lot of severe depression resulting from it (sucks to "look in the mirror", so to speak, and not like what you see), it's worked out pretty well in the end.

i'm sure my wife will always be able to (rightfully) tease me about the way my ODD still shapes my worldview and my behavior, but i'm a big boy now and i've worked hard to recognize/accept my personal shortcomings and make positive changes. and at 35 years old, it's still an ongoing process. my mother's love, patience, and openness in communication has been vital to my development as an adult (and that goes for my dad too, but he's kind of an introvert and is very typical in his distaste for conversations revolving around feelings and what not).

i think for anybody who suspects their kid has ODD or doesn't respect them as parents or whatever else, it's important for your kid to not view you as an adversary, otherwise they won't listen to you. obviously it's bad to just be their best friend and give them everything they want, and it's a delicate balance- how do i speak to my child with the proper tone/insight/criticism to keep him or her from going on the defensive and rejecting all of the extremely valid things that i have to say? it's a maturity thing and a respect issue, and kids with ODD in particular are going to be immature due to deficient coping skills, and not going to respect authority for authority's sake- respect comes from a shared understanding of the world and feeling like somebody has your back when push comes to shove. and my parents always did, i was just too selfish/immature to realize it most of the time because i had made up my mind long ago that adults just didnt "get it". i'm not entirely sure how to speed up the process of maturity in a kid/teenager, but i began to show real progress there (as an adult, lol) once i knocked down emotional barriers and was truly honest with myself and my mother about all the feelings i had and the negative impacts that those feelings had on my life and my relationships with other people. i found talking with her to be very therapeutic, as i was always the type to bottle things up inside (again, another unhealthy coping mechanism). so like, counselling from a solid therapist seems like a really good start for anybody who suspects that their kid is having these same issues.

so tl;dr, it takes a lot of love, patience, guidance, and forgiveness. i am eternally grateful that my parents always had a lot of that.

The racist old guy reminded me of this. He's lucky he didn't get the same treatment.

haha that movie made parents lose their ****

its funny because ive been in some really heated situations and i never once actually picked up and used my board as a weapon like that or saw anybody else do it. now, i've definitely seen some concerned citizens try to be a hero and stand in the way of whatever obstacle was being skated, and end up getting plowed into like a freight train or having a board shot into their legs if they tried to jump out in front of someone at the last second. but 99% of the time people arent actually trying to do ****, theyre just gonna mouth off at you or call the cops, and you ignore/ridicule them or end up leaving. but man if some bigger adult's gonna throw a punch and not expect to get clobbered? lol.

This gives me a lot of hope for my relationship with my 14 year old. Hopefully in a few years we can be as close as I've always tried to be with her.

Like you said, my job isn't to be her best friend. I just wish her mother (who she's exactly alike) had a similar outlook, at least she only sees her a month or two out of the year though (she's a POS so it's all correlated).

I'd basically just accepted my fate. This only changes my outlook so much, your parents were a team.

It's just me, Casper.

I had the same thought tho. Bart also used his board as a weapon in one of the arcade games fwiw.

Thanks for sharing that, Rep.

Clogging up I-95 to pwn the libs

I do not believe that is real.

I cannot believe that is real.

I refuse to believe that is real.

They’ve been doing these kinds of stunts for years. Pretty sure the courts have ruled that you aren’t legally required to offer any ID.

4th Amendment protects everyone in USA#1 from unlawful searches and seizures*




*does not apply to the 2/3 of the country living within 100 mi of a border

Roughly where this checkpoint was:

I was out west in 2008 and drove from texas to cali via az and nm and then back thru nv. I can remember being stopped at 3 checkpoints. one was in NM, another in CA. there may have been more.

this is nothing new.