License and Registration please. Sure officer, here, hold by beer while I look for it!
Texas man to cops during traffic stop: hold my beer (msn.com)

 

License and Registration please. Sure officer, here, hold by beer while I look for it!
Texas man to cops during traffic stop: hold my beer (msn.com)

 

License and Registration please. Sure officer, here, hold by beer while I look for it!
Texas man to cops during traffic stop: hold my beer (msn.com)

When I was a kid there was no open container law in Texas. I think it was legal to drive while drinking until the 80's.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-26-mn-13688-story.html

HOUSTON —
In this city of clogged highways, the evening drive from office to home can be as much as two beers long.
A trip to Dallas could easily be a six-packer, necessitating an ice chest to keep the road beers chilled for the five-hour drive.
In Texas, drinking and driving is as common as the 7-Eleven store. The state has no law against quaffing a Lone Star or sipping on a Scotch and soda while cruising down the interstate. Often, trips here begin at the package store.
While that may seem odd indeed to residents of California, where such practices have been banned since 1961, drinking and driving is legal in 26 states, according to statistics provided by the National Safety Council. Drivers and passengers can drink as they roll down the road in Maine and Mississippi, Vermont and Wyoming, so long as they are not legally drunk.

I remember getting pulled over for speeding with my older bother. He had a beer in his hand while the cop wrote the ticket.

 

When I was a kid there was no open container law in Texas

Same thing here in Georgia. I've been through a State Patrol license check in my hot rod Camaro with a beer between my legs. Kinda hard to steer and stick shift one handed and no cup holders back then. Ahhh... The good ole days and young enough to enjoy them. Then in the 80's local municipalities started passing open container laws and eventually it was a state law early 90s or so.

 

spider falling on pilot:

 

In this day and age.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tuck...race-iq-fox-nation_n_60caeb62e4b05fb35760481d

 

In this day and age.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tuck...race-iq-fox-nation_n_60caeb62e4b05fb35760481d

Those feeble minded idiots with an inferiority complex will tell lies to try and make their horrid lives better.

 

Some things should not be said.

 

It seems the definition of Racism has been redefined...

 

It seems the definition of Racism has been redefined...

Racism is unfortunately is pretty universal. Asians are biased against other Asians. The main difference is that they don't try to hide it behind some thin veneer of science.

 

There is Racism and then there is Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia. All quite different definitions... And then I don't quite like idiots but that is another definition.

 

Unfortunately Science has been misused in the past to justify racism. And will be again most likely. On the internet people don't know if you're black, white, or yellow, they have to judge you on your merits. A lot of people just hate that.

 

Look! A literal fanny magnet: https://www.healthline.com/health/menopause/magnets-for-menopause

 

 

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...ile-tests-could-kill-four-snails-and-90-clams

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has determined that future tests of the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic boost-glide vehicle, or ARRW, could result in the deaths of four Top Shell snails and up to 90 clams at Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific.
Steve Trimble, Aviation Week's Defense Editor and good friend of The War Zone, was among the first to spot these details about the potential impact to wildlife at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, a U.S. Army-managed test range in and around Kwajalein, which is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This information can be found in recently-released Environmental Assessment documents related to USAF tests of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that were published by the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base.

 

As someone who grew up with a black "nanny" (whom I loved very dearly by the way) I can honestly say that I am most definitely NOT a racist. Having said that, from my own personal experience I must confess that the vast majority of African-Americans I have come across throughout the years have not impressed me much with either their manners or ways.

That's no excuse to hate people for the color of their skin of course and I would never advocate such a thing. We should give the benefit of the doubt to ANYONE worthy of merit and indeed they come in all colors. The bottom line however is that the black culture "in general" has some major, deeply-rooted socialization problems. (Every culture does to one degree or another, but theirs just seems to be particularly acute.)

Mostly I think this is due to the "victim mentality" that they have been taught to accept, along with the baggage of carried over from historical events. Maybe they should just let those things go rather than dwell on them? You don't hear Latinos or Asians or so many other cultures constantly rehashing past grievances ad infinitum. And hence they are generally well-respected. So it's really more a matter of getting on with life with the right attitude than anything else.

A little bit of prejudice is natural. It's nothing to be ashamed of nor to fuss about. But we SHOULD be make an earnest effort to be more accepting of others, whatever their skin color or walk of life.

 

Manners and Ways are IMO mainly an urban curse that affects all races equally. I must also say that anyone that thinks Asians don't rehash in private a thousand years of grievances ad infinitum is IMO very ill informed. What many cultures have done is to evolve a veneer or public 'face'. Much of that veneer was ripped to shreds by institutional racist in the US in the not so distant past so it's not a current cultural tradition in urban black America.

 

Lets face it, some people are just a**holes. Only they can change that.

After my stroke I had become a major one due to my bitterness, I' trying to fix that.

 

Manners and Ways are IMO mainly an urban curse that affects all races equally. I must also say that anyone that thinks Asians don't rehash in private a thousand years of grievances ad infinitum is IMO very ill informed. What many cultures have done is to evolve a veneer or public 'face'. Much of that veneer was ripped to shreds by institutional racist in the US in the not so distant past so it's not a current cultural tradition in urban black America.

What culture DOESN'T have institutional xenophobia built into their system? It's the same everywhere. And in fact the United States is better than most in that respect. I mean where else in the world will you see some bleeding-heart sycophant fawning over minorities with "Bless your hearts you poor little thangs!". Not Mexico! Not Asia! Not Africa!

It just makes me sad really. There is so much unnecessary talk about race. We should all move past those things. Inter-racial marriages are commonplace and uncontroversial. Black men nowadays make MILLIONS and enjoy a prestige unimaginable in previous times. We should be GRATEFUL for that. That's real progress.

But you do raise a valid point. It's very much an urbanization problem as well...

 

Lets face it, some people are just a**holes. Only they can change that.

After my stroke I had become a major one due to my bitterness, I' trying to fix that.

Well I've never known you to be anything but helpful, kind, and thoughtful in your posts.

What you're going through is understandably a very frustrating experience and I doubt anyone really holds that against you.