Ummm... "artist"? I shudder to think what monstrosity Hackbrandt would sell for LESS than $500. Fuck me.
Shouldn't this really be directed at the artist? I use the term 'artist' exceptionally loosely in this case. You should put that thing up on eBay.
If you're really looking for revenge you'd commission his portrait. By the way I found a picture of your tattoo. Same guy. No doubts.
My sister has to be one of the worst drivers on the planet. A few months ago she moved to LA and the day before she left she totals her car by plowing into three other cars stopped at a red light. She tried to claim the accident wasn't her fault, and that she had only been going 15mph, which if true obviously her car wouldn't have been totaled. Unfortunately every witness and the cops who were called found her responsible. Fast forward a week and my mom is in Daytona and drunkenly bids on a BMW at a car auction. She ends up buying the car and later realizes she has no use for it whatsoever so she sends it to LA for my sister. It was from 1997 so it was fairly old, but only had 70k miles on it and I gave it a look over and the car was incredible shape. Whoever owned it took really, really good care of it, and while I'm not expert mechanic I know more than the average person and clearly the car had a ton of life left in it. About a month later she claims the transmission died on it and split in half. Naturally, I was suspicious because everything on the car was in great shape and transmissions don't typically break like that after so few miles. Yesterday, I find out from my other sister that she not only totaled that car too, but drove into another car that was brand new that a person had only recently bought for $30k+ and she caused about $15k in damages. My sister just turned 23 and she's now totaled four, count em, four fucking cars and that is only including the cars that she has owned. It does not include and the other cars she's hit and the several other accidents she's caused where her car wasn't totaled. What absolutely boggles my mind is how she refuses to accept any responsibility despite being found at fault every single fucking time. Hopefully having to pay off all those damages, plus having to buy her own new car will wake her up. Fortunately she hasn't seriously injured anyone yet, but if she keeps driving like this it's only a matter of time before she kills herself or someone else. I have no idea what she is paying for insurance, but it must be through the roof. I don't know if there is a law on the books that says once you've caused x amount of accidents your license gets suspended, but there should be. It's one thing to make a mistake, but to continue to drive like a fucking idiot after you've caused several wrecks means you have no business being on the road.
How does she even have a license still? My brother caused two accidents and got one really bad speeding ticket and got his license taken away for 6 months, and then had to pay for high risk insurance for years afterward.
I have no idea. She didn't tell anyone else in the family about her most recent crash, and my other sister only found out because she was visiting her and the crash happened while she was on the way to pick her up at the airport. It may have gotten suspended, I don't know all the details because she's been keeping it a secret. It fucking should be suspended, I can say that much.
I thought russian hate was one of those presumptions? As much as I love watching the olympics (especially the winter olympics) for the sport of it all, the real draw for me is going to be seeing how badly russia messes it up. Not that I'm hoping for a terrorist event or an athlete to get injured or anything, but a systemic failure -- paralleling the country itself -- would be ideal. Russia, to me, seems like the more legitimate, less crazy cousin of North Korea. Not the one you banned from the party for creeping on all the girls, but the one who is one more fight away from getting the boot.
Russia at least has actual muscle and might. North Korea has a large army with Commodore-64 technology. NK is a half-retarded four year old boy who runs out of bed during his parents' cocktail party and won't stop showing people his penis. Yes, very nice. Now put it away, you're freaking out the prudes. You guys need USSR back. Why waste time debating imaginary bullshit like Sharia Law when there's a real Boogieman to freak your shit?
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If I may take us off topic for a moment. There are a couple things in the culinary world I obsess over. Burgers occupy slots 1,3, and 5. It's food porn time. The 40 Best Burgers in America slideshow. If you don't put your dick through the screen you might be vegetarian or dead. Which is the same thing. I have a sudden craving for an undercooked, pink patty topped with homemade pickles and onions, and the stinkiest cheese on the planet that would knock a sewer rat out cold at 10 paces. How the fuck am I supposed to sleep? Every kitchen in this town is closed. Now I know how crackheads hurt.
For me it's White Nights. Russians aren't villains in it but Mikal Barashinikov's dead eyes scare the piss out of me.
Lists like this always piss me off. Why would I give a fuck what the best [insert food of choice] in the country is? Am I supposed to drive/fly across the country just to get a burger? Although it did inspire me to look up the best burgers in my city, and apparently there's a place called "The Happy Gnome" that has a great burger and 76 craft beers on tap. I'm gonna have to check this place out. Alone, of course, because my friends are too damn cheap to spend anything more than fast food prices for a burger.
He gets a bad rap, I like to think of him more as, well, a leader of the Communist world, who brought equality and freedom to everyone in it.
So I can duplicate it at home. Lists like that give me ideas because nobody is making a burger with a truffle studded stinky cheese, or like at Happy Gnome, a lingonberry aioli. By the way, holy shit, do I want to eat there. There are a few good joints in town, but I like making burgers myself for one simple reason: I can make 7 of them. I have obsessive thoughts, but I also have an obsessive stomach. If I crave something I want it for the next 3 days. My cravings are rarely sweets or fried stuff. My cravings are burgers, spaghetti, beef bourguignon, tacos, grilled quails, etc. This is the shit that keeps me up at night. I remember a few months ago I stayed up past midnight googling cheesesteak recipes. In a few years I fear my spouse will walk in on me at 2 a.m. trying to flambe a roast in secret. "Don't you look at me!" Speaking of culinary hedonism, I'm spending NYE at a German bar drinking hefeweizen out of Das Boot. Oh, and yes, I am now googling truffle cheeses. Goddammit.
My dad was a sub captain during the cold war. As tolerant of a person I may try to be, something about Russians is just off putting to me, and I immediately distrust them. Honestly, they all look like criminals to me. I could be walking down the street at night, and have 12 giant black dudes wearing gang colors walking towards me, and on the other side of the street was a single russian dude, and I would not cross the street.