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  1. I just read this whole thread, so I wanted to jump in here. First of all, I appreciate everyone's opinion. And more specifically I agree with some folks here about certain issues. I want everyone to know that we don't think or expect the OTF message board to be for everyone. In fact, we know it won't be. It's simply not what we're attempting to do. There are already places where people are comfortable and where they enjoy being. SurlyHorns is a perfect example of this. Folks enjoy this place. Clearly. Hell, I enjoy it when I come over here, that's one of the reasons I first reached out to Rick, so I totally get it. The second part is really important to me and why we manage the OTF message board the way we do in comparison to other "premium" sites... When I say dozens of recruits, parents of recruits, and parents of existing players on the team watch or listen to OTF daily, it is a very real thing. I think every single recruit who committed to Texas last year - all of them - knows and has watched OTF. I'm not saying that to brag, I'm saying it because that specific viewership brings a certain level of responsibility to OTF as it relates to the university on the whole. In my opinion, it's important to have a place like the OTF message boards and a site like OTF to be relatively clean. Not without opinion mind you, but certainly one that would not shock the system of newcomers either. I feel like OTF does a really good job of holding up that end of the bargain, and we will continue to do so. The third thing is this: While Surly is primarily a message board/community. OTF is primarily a news service with a community attached. OTF is much more like Orangebloods, Inside Texas or Horns247. Each of those sites, I have found through the years, gets extremely provincial. They don't like it when another site is referenced or they get petty about their own reporting, etc. I've been doing this stuff for 30 years and I'm just done with that. I also know that some parents of recruits sometimes subscribe to those sites, visit the message boards, and they see a bunch of in-fighting, followed by nudie pics, name calling, or cliques that live to make fun of others, and the parents immediately think to themselves, what the hell is going on at Texas? Is that's what's best for Texas? So for me, this is NOT about OTF vs OB. Or OTF vs IT. This is really about Texas vs the rest of college football/college sports. And that's what I want the focus of OTF to be about. We appreciate everyone who has joined OTF. We're doing our best to bring you news whether it's via video/podcast or the website and I think we're doing it in a way that is best for all involved. It won't be for everyone and we get that. I just appreciate the folks who have given us a chance and who continue to support what we're trying to do. Thanks, Bobby
    59 points
  2. There are 80 million people smarter than you in this country
    32 points
  3. 😂😂😂😂
    32 points
  4. I figure this needs to be posted for... reasons.
    30 points
  5. So this issue has recently become very personal to me. Let’s just say I can now testify from personal experience that, as I’ve long believed, there are a multitude of situations in which “abortion care” (in quotes to ensure a very broad interpretation) becomes a true medical necessity, and this renewed wave of faux religious bullshit has made true medical needs excruciatingly difficult and traumatic to obtain, for no other reason than people’s narcissism and refusal to accept that the issue is way, way broader than terminating a fetus as a form of birth control. Not sure if and when I’ll be ready to talk in more details here, but there are situations that these zealots either refuse to believe exist, or know exist and still support complete bans on “abortion care” (again broadly quoted), the latter of which are truly monstrous people if they know and still support putting women through literal nightmarish experiences.
    29 points
  6. WARNING! Drunk lawyer war story! Trump‘s lawyer who crossed stormy reminds me of an attorney for Traveler’s insurance who attacked my very sketchy client in a jury trial when I was a young lawyer. It is gospel among good plaintiff trial lawyers that you are never rude and in attack mode on a witness unless you have an unusually bad witness who’s done truly terrible things that you can easily prove. Jurors do not like to watch you being mean to a witness. Period. This defense attorney’s demeanor was resting bitch face when she was at her best, but most of the time she was scowling and almost scream-spitting at my witnesses. Let me repeat, my case was so friggin horrible that the insurance company took a meager cost of defense settlement off the table on the day of trial. During the direct of my client, she pulled out a deposition and started grilling him in a similar bunny in the pot/I won ‘t be ignored type manner - like stormy was grilled but worse. She exaggerated what my client had said, and not so subtly misrepresented some of his deposition testimony in questions. As the cross went on, I could see her thinking she had a killshot about his drinking before the accident happened. She bowed up, shoved the deposition in his face, and insisted that he read that she thought was different than his trial testimony. He shook his head and declined, and before the judge could intervene to instruct him to answer, she went on a tear about not being honest with the jury and refusing to read the deposition to them. At that moment, several big tears dribbled down his cheek. He swallowed, turned to the jury and told them, “I’m sorry I never learned to read.” I won the trial with a 9-3 plaintiff verdict. I can honestly say I never could’ve done it without her. I was getting some of that vibe as I read some of the transcript of today’s hearing. Being Nasty to Stormy will make Trump very happy, but there is a fair to good chance that it pushes the jury away from Trump and his lawyers more than they needed. tl;dr I think being mean to Stormy on cross today backfired Bigly
    28 points
  7. "i was on the wrong side of the Red River" is an all-timer.
    27 points
  8. They wouldn't bring in Noem with Eric there too. She has a history of shooting little bitches.
    26 points
  9. I'm not much for inspirational stories, but this one moves me. It may turn out that getting his degree at Texas the way he has done will have a better impact on his life than playing. I hope so. Thanks for posting this. Proud this guy is a Longhorn.
    25 points
  10. After a hurricane, a whole shit ton of power line poles needed to be replaced. The local electric company hired a crew of UT grads, a team of Rice grads, and a team of aTm grads to do the work. After the first day, the crews came back to the foreman and he asked how man poles they got put in. The Rice crew said "we got 28 put in today." The UT crew said, "we got 30 put in today." The aTm crew looked at the foreman and said, "we got 3 put in!" The flabbergasted foreman looked at the aTm lead and said, "wtf, man!? Why'd you only get 3 done when the Texas guys and Rice guys got 30 and 28?" The aTm lead, with a smug look on his face, said to the foreman, "You should see how much of the pole they left sticking out of the ground!"
    25 points
  11. Only fucking idiots think you can run the federal government like a business. You can’t. And you shouldn’t.
    25 points
  12. I think my favorite part was how Trump wants the best for our country.
    25 points
  13. The worst part is that the tiger was hungry again 30 minutes later.
    24 points
  14. Man, imagine future people learning about all of this. "Wait so he tried to steal the 2020 election. Everyone watched it happen in real time. Like, he tried so many different ways to steal an election he lost." "Yes." "..... including phone calls that were taped, in which he instructed states to alter their vote count so he would win?" "Yes." ".... including organizing a mob and sending them to the Capitol." "Yes." ".... and four years later, he was the nominee again? Why was he not in jail?" "Reasons."
    24 points
  15. All time self ownage by Billy boy here
    23 points
  16. Thanks, man. I haven’t really done much of anything lately but still appreciate the love!
    23 points
  17. Sorry, nope. If the Founding Fathers wanted to take someone's gun away just for threatening an Uber driver, they would have added a clause about ride share drivers into the Constitution.
    23 points
  18. child traffickers are well known for bringing your own 13 year old to your house.
    23 points
  19. No he doesn’t. You just made this shit up.
    23 points
  20. To my fellow cancer club members, I am sitting here, swilling an old-fashioned after having devoured a steak after my oncologist meeting. My onc told me “I don’t need to see you anymore Ubet, you’re cured….ok, not “cured”…but you have a 2% chance it returns within 15 years. See you next year….and drop 20 lbs. “ Keep fighting droogies. Medicine is warp speed getting better.
    22 points
  21. The dealer didn't want to void the warranty by running the truck through the carwash.
    21 points
  22. Now now guys, have we considered that Arkansas is actually really awesome and if your kid ends up there it means they're really cool and smart and you haven't been a pretty substantial failure as a parent?
    21 points
  23. Welcome to Twinkytown Dinnah Theatah, where we enjoy RDCanecutter's one-person play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Libtard: "Ah'm a proud man from the Hill Country, and my libtard landlord is too. That's why I give him money because he's the dumbass. No wait Ah tolt it wrong. Anyway Ah used to be Burnt Ends but I quit because Ah don't like some other libtards (not my landlord) who say random things contrary to mah beliefs on a subsection of a Texas sports board. Mmmm. And Biden, Biden's handlers, the Uniparty, and all the tarded libtards (also not my landlord) from Austin California will dance the Dance of Doomed Souls in Hell unless a multi-bankrupt New York real estate guy gets elected. Not that he didn't already (cuz he did) but THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM." Lights dim.
    21 points
  24. Also, 155 million people voted and the republican nominee was a lifelong criminal conman who was an absolute fucking disaster as president. It's embarrassing Biden only got 80 million votes.
    21 points
  25. This seems like a good time to use the AI Generator... A day in the life...
    21 points
  26. Ukraine will soon, if not now, have the long range missiles to fuck up Russia’s energy grid. I don’t care about world opinion, I hope they turn off every light in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
    20 points
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