Lilly HunterHere's Jerry Wayne Longmire's sketch from his tictok, which I managed to download. Enjoy!
Dr Suzanne she/her@LaChasseuse this is the funny fucking thing I’ve ever seen especially bc I finally decided, just moments ago, to, myself, engage in the sin of comfort.
Shantell Powell@LaChasseuse this guy has a wondrous way with words.
@Shanmonster Both the writing and the delivery are superb. I'm blown off my feet!
Nicky🦨✌️@LaChasseuse a soft lie told in freon but i pressed on 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@skoombidoombis The TS Eliot of our time, truly!
@skoombidoombis He's up there with the greats.
@LaChasseuse totally— a 21st century cross between Faulkner and Tom Robbins
What’s Your AC Again@LaChasseuse his truck astrology series is pretty funny too.
@whatsyouracagain Must look for that. What a talent!
Michel PatriceI’m impressed.
Matt Hall@401matthall It's both high art and a worthy protest statement
publius"Market-oriented electricity reforms" were supposed to somehow lower household electricity costs by "giving people choices", when we had power rates among the lowest in the nation, well below 10¢/kWh. It was an obvious lie, especially given the experience of California with Enron was by then years in the past.
In the event, the fuel-oil tanks at the gas-burning steam plants, intended to bridge over interruptions in gas supply, were demolished. I saw it happen.
TrimTab 🇺🇦@LaChasseuse Give that man an Oscar! For all the categories!
James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺@LaChasseuse "But then came August. August that devil in cargo shorts."
@freequaybuoy I will never be able to forget the image of a devil in cargo shorts! 😂
Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽Oh, that is just brilliant! 
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Wrenasaurus Tex 
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I love this more than I can put into words because I am a fellow Texan and because I felt this in my soul and I because feel the shame he does in knowing that "... yet, I will do it again."
I love this more than I can put into words because I am a fellow Texan and because I felt this in my soul and I because feel the shame he does in knowing that "... yet, I will do it again."
@WrenArcher It's funny, but I worked for a company whose HQ was in Dallas so I had to go there once in a while. Being from a cold country, when the others would take a coffee break, I would take a heat break, when I would leave the refrigerated office building and bask in the glorious heat outside!
Always turned it off in the hotel room as well.
Always turned it off in the hotel room as well.
@LaChasseuse
I can totally understand, especially knowing how offices and retail places will push the air conditioning/cooling systems as far as they can in these brutal summers of ours.
I live a little further south in the Houston area and it's rather common to see people (usually women) walking into places with a light sweater to combat how cold it will be inside despite the 100 degree F and 85% humidity outside.
As a Texan, I do this myself. And my mother recalls doing it when she worked in an office building.
I'm in Germany at the moment, and I just have to laugh at people complaining about the heat, when the temperature is below where I set my air-conditioning thermostat in the summer!
@publius On the rare occasions when the temp reaches 20ºC (roughly room temp) in Edinburgh, people go right round the bend. I've seen bus drivers have total meltdowns at 20ºC, it's nuts!
Nazani@LaChasseuse
$696 sounds like it would buy a solar panel large enough to power just the AC.
$696 sounds like it would buy a solar panel large enough to power just the AC.
@Nazani Haha, it does. And perhaps his lament will spur people to realise that.
Aaron@LaChasseuse I never in my life expected to hear the accent of my homeland used so eloquently! Usually it's just stuff like, "Billy Bob! Git down from thur afore I kick yer asssss!"
@hosford42 So true! But it may be closer to how Shakespeare's English sounded than modern English is!
My favourite bit rhythmically, in terms of his recitation, is the way he glides up on "you day-anced ⤴️ , now pay".
Music!
@LaChasseuse We are very good at turning monosyllabic words into polysyllabic ones, and vice versa. :D
@hosford42 Indeed! I saw Kinky Friedman once in concert, and he and 'Little Jewford' were laughing about how many syllables a Texan could inject into the word "Jee-iu-yiouuu" whilst at the same time pronouncing "Jewish" as a swift monosyllable "Joooosh".
RIP, Kinky.
RIP, Kinky.
Ah, my dear departed Aunt Kay-ren, who called her husband Payut to the end of their lives.
Mike Mayak@LaChasseuse LOL!! Dead on perfect!!!! That's the news from Yoknapatawpha County...
Si Dawson@LaChasseuse That... is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.
@sidawson I think I watched it ten times. Magnificent!
@LaChasseuse Truly. Absolute genius.
dasgrueneblatt@LaChasseuse So good! Wow! (and I hope he can get solar panels)
RossS@LaChasseuse Bravo!! lol
Bocchi the Ryu 
This video is funny but that interior is haunting
Offbeatmammal@LaChasseuse original link: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSkgN1XAW/
CheriSwears@LaChasseuse
I love this so much!!!
I love this so much!!!
Bo Tally@LaChasseuse The WORST part of getting banned for life from TIKTOK is not getting to hear Jerry Wayne.
The Shaking Earth@LaChasseuse this is delightful, but also - seven HUNDRED dollars, god! the gas and the rent might be cheaper out that way but damn, sooner or later they find a way to wring the money out of you, don't they
Paul BrownjohnI used to live in Thailand where it gets properly hot! I saw the temperature sensor in the local air quality monitoring station climb to over 47°C (so 117°F). However the Thai government will not allow figures like that to be published for fear of putting off tourists!
I used to keep the aircon in the living room set to 26°C (79°F) the maximum temperature at which I didn't sweat too much indoors and in the bedroom to 30°C (86°F) but with the fan running at slow speed to keep the air moving - I found that perfectly comfortable like that sleeping under just a sheet.
Most Americans I knew over there used to run their aircon practically flat out so that inside their apartments, I'd be shivering, then they'd complain bitterly about the electricity bills they would receive as the aircon was costing them $100s per month!
@Paulos_the_fog It's crazy. Because up to a certain temperature you get used to it pretty quickly.
If it goes above 35ºC I head for water and stay in as long as necessary.
It was just under 50ºC when I was in Crete one summer, though the sea was really cold. There was a beach with a very long, shallow slope into the sea, and there I lay with just my head above the water. The wind on my face felt like having a hair dryer too close to your skin! Agggh
If it goes above 35ºC I head for water and stay in as long as necessary.
It was just under 50ºC when I was in Crete one summer, though the sea was really cold. There was a beach with a very long, shallow slope into the sea, and there I lay with just my head above the water. The wind on my face felt like having a hair dryer too close to your skin! Agggh
When I visited India, the monsoon was very late that particular year and the heat in Madras (now called Chennai) a city reputed to have India's most unpleasant climate was so oppressive, that crows were literally falling out of the sky due to heatstroke. Personally I could only stand being outdoors for around 20 minutes and even after such a short time I was drenched in perspiration.
@Paulos_the_fog Those poor birds! Even around here, when it gets a bit warm they spend most of their time splashing in the bird bath to cool off!
Madras back then (and maybe still) was definitely NOT a place you would want to be in the water on the foreshore, although a few brave or foolhardy locals were. The beach was mostly used as a public lavatory so you had to watch where you walked and a few 100 metres down the coast a substantial river sized open sewer carrying the untreated human waste from a city of around 5 million people flowed into the sea.
I did discover one thing on that beach. There was a pineapple vending stall down there. Pineapple in India is not sweetened as it's sweet enough already, they serve it sprinkled with salt and hot chilli powder and it is DELICIOUS!
@Paulos_the_fog Well, that was some compensation for all the rest!
sunflowerinrain@LaChasseuse
Utterly brilliant.
Utterly brilliant.
Mike Fraser@LaChasseuse Sounds like a letter from a civil war documentary.
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Ewen Bell 📸Oh my that gave me a smile. Great to enjoy a moment of poetic brevity this week.
There's something just intensely satisfying about the cultural conflux here. It's quite marvellous.
Arthur van der Harg@LaChasseuse “Air so thick you could taste the mosquitoes before they bite ya.” 😄❤️