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Submariner

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33. When you start talking about standing in the water with a battery

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2026, 10:59 PM

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getting electrocuted and wondering if engaging the shark……over there…..would be worse, then ya, he sharing brain cells with Tommy Tuberville, and needs to be treated to some compassionate conservatism and then euthanized.

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When you start talking about standing in the water with a battery Submariner Monday #33