Took me a few seconds. Excellent onion.

Are you sure the phone didn’t bugger you up?

Why wouldn’t Navajo people be places other than a reservation?

My cats watch me like, are you done, I need to go.

Probably wondering why I want their poop so bad.

I legitimately feel so bad for that young man.

I don’t know about the difference between a jackrabbit and a rabbit but rabbit jambalaya was sent from the gods. If you’re not hunting them for game why not hit em with the shotty. Super fun to shoot and you can teach quick lessons on how to hold it right because it usually only takes one shot holding it wrong.

Funny. In my 20s I didn’t give a shit about getting ahead in life, more like getting head in life. So I would have been dismissive of wolf shit for that reason among others.

40s me to 40s you- fuck yeah go for it, let that freak flag fly!

If you’re willing to take some advice from a fellow non-hunter, go with someone experienced. I know my way around a firearm too, but I would never say, go rock climbing alone with kids because I know how a carabiner works.

The thing I understand from talking to the young and old about hunting is that it is very cold and very boring.

I got some Dickies long underwear on sale this winter and it is amazing. Combined with ski style pants, heavy boots, two layers of wool socks and thin gloves under thick gloves, plus jackets (one thick warm, one thin waterproof) of course, I was a snow and ice destroying machine during the last bad storm here. I would recommend a setup like that to go hunting. Even though it’s just the fall or early winter you’re going to be starting at 4am and then not moving for hours.

I was raised by women, and it’s not that women can’t hunt, culturally they don’t where I’m from. And I absolutely hate being cold. I think my ADHD brain might have had a little problem with staring at nothing quietly for hours as well. Hunting is a fuck no for me.

The last American lions died out here about 13 thousand years ago. There was all kinds of wild-ass shit roaming around here back then. Humans have been wrecking the world’s ecosystems far before the industrial revolution, we just kicked it into overdrive the past 200 years.

My neighbors feed them and we’re five minutes from downtown in the capital city of my state. They’re cute and all, barely afraid of people or cars. Get scared off by neighborhood cats sometimes.

I would love to post the photo I got of 13 of the 14 that were in their backyard at one time but I’m lucky someone hasn’t already doxxed me.

People loooove to hunt here. People live for deer season. They talk about hunting during the other three seasons like those people who can yammer on about sports for hours in the offseason. I know scrawny little dweebs who bag a buck almost every year.

The meat is good and if they aren’t culled they’re all doomed to starve or die of disease and further ruin the ecosystem. We have a few city coyote, more on the outskirts and countryside. I feel like people would lose their minds here if we tried to reintroduce wolves though.

People already look at me like I grew an extra head when I tell them I’ve never been hunting, so maybe the hunters are doing enough here.

I would have rolled my eyes at it in my 20s but I’m feeling it in my 40s.

Because sweet beers are fucking disgusting? Really though you like what you like. I live in a tiny state population-wise in the US. I can drive five minutes to several shops that have 30 different sweet wheat options.

You better get the hell out of my house immediately and never come back.

My wife says that everything I cook smells the same. Yeah baby I know what I like.

Might even be famous for it.

We’ve moved on to sours or IPA/sour combos. I drink them because they are delicious to my palate. Always drank my coffee black even as a kid. I like bitter.

Honestly I fucking hate the term hipster. I’m not hip, I’m a laborer in my 40s. It’s just another way for people to divide each other.

For real though get a Carhartt. They make high quality shit for workers. I got a new one for Christmas and I can’t imagine a head too big to fit, I gotta roll it up.

The success of the USA is generally because of its geographical location and the unfortunate economic conditions that hit Europe due to WW2.

Do not forget slavery. This is huge to the success of the US.

I can stop you right at “I refuse to play monopoly altogether”

That’s where I’m at. Game sucks. Yeah it’s a great illustration of how capitalism fucks most people but whatever.

I got Catan years ago and I’ve only played it once. Everyone refused to trade and it ruined the game. My extremely competitive friend got mad he was losing and we just shut it down.

Yep. See Monopoly for another example. A game should only take about an hour to play by the rules but there are so many ubiquitous house rules that keep players in with random windfalls of cash.