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utee94

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  1. For the rice, no need to dice the onion, just cut one in half, put it face down in the skillet as you cook everything, and stir occasionally. This is how Abuelita in the Valley always did it.
  2. Yeah their super power is Projection. It's weird, but that's the way of things.
  3. I'll agree that times were better when THESE were found on every elementary school playground. Good luck trying to find one now...
  4. To heck with RBR and Merc. It is now Ferrari's time to shine!
  5. Or the better option, act like a fucking grownup and don't get in barfights.
  6. Jerryworld is a terrible venue for a college football game. It's fine for NFL but it sucks the life out of college games. City of Dallas estimates the financial impact of TX-OU weekend as around $50M each year. It makes up the cost of renovations within a few years. And the State Fair gets a massive amount of its revenue on that weekend, the vendors would mostly fold without that one weekend, which means the fair itself would wither away and die.
  7. My friend in NW Austin, off Oak Knoll, had his pool built in late 2020/2021. It's had cracking between the spa spillover and main pool since it was installed. Cody kept on sending crews out to just rebuild that bit. Now he has cracks all the way across the main pool. Insurance and attorneys are involved. This really sucks for all of you.
  8. Well, it's my turn down this road. My daughter is a sophomore, she's taken the PSAT twice now, once in 9th and once in 10th. We did those with no prep, and she did pretty well, but now I want to start gearing her up for the PSAT that actually matters for NMSQ, the one next Fall in her junior year. She's a straight A+ student taking all honors/AP courses, and her weakness is definitely the test structure itself-- the timed aspect, the pressure-- basically, The Game. So I think she'll benefit quite a bit from a course or tutoring that stresses the mechanics of the test, the test-taking techniques and strategy, while also making sure she's got the the fundamentals of the questions themselves firmly under control. @HornOnTheBayou I know you've recommended the Khan course and Kaplan book, 6 years ago. Are you still in the same role? If so is that still your recommendation? Also curious about how things worked out for the offspring of @jimmyjazz and @chitwood ?
  9. But would anyone actually bother to show up for Otho's funeral?
  10. Wait, I thought we were STARTING WWIII, unless we could somehow get Texas to secede?
  11. Make sure your band plays BOTH kinds. Yeah I was laughing. She was totally into him. I wonder how that bit of writing/direction was intended to work?
  12. I went the first year and it was very crowded. Not as big as an F1 weekend but still quite busy. The rain all weekend was a drag but folks hung in pretty well. I talked to a lot of NASCAR die-hards that seemed to enjoy the weekend. As you say, it's a well-run event from the NASCAR side, so I guess I'm surprised that the attendance/interest fell off so fast.
  13. Seems like the team has also basically quit on him. Not surprising I guess, given the too-early announcement of his departure, but still, show some pride.
  14. It's all going to be crowded. That's inevitable, so just relax and enjoy it...
  15. Yup. Nothing more need be said.
  16. But why? Nobody outside of the pariah states like North Korean and Iran believe even half a word that comes out of Russia. If it's meant as an internal measure to generate support for further mobilization, does it really even work, and does it really matter because Russia is going to do it anyway? Who exactly are they trying to "rally to the cause" two years into this 3-day special operation?
  17. Viva La Ferrari! Great race from Sainz, would have liked to see how it turned out without the Max retirement but Max and RBR have had an unbelievable run of good luck while all the other manufacturers didn't, so what goes around comes around. Not sure about the penalty on Fred, I don't think he did something intentionally dangerous, and I do think he knew if he kept doing the same thing then Russell was going to have an excellent chance to pass.
  18. Pretty sure everyone knows this. The joke is, the ags are beating their chests and crowing like they pulled off some major coup, but in reality Trev hasn't accomplished... well... anything, since he became the AD at Nebraska. Their volleyball team was nationally elite long before Trev became AD, and their football team remains the butt of many national jokes.
  19. The 1971 Indy 500, which had many interesting things going on but is most famous for the pace car careening down pit road and crashing into a photographer stand. Happens around 9:20 in the broadcast.
  20. One of the craziest races ever, the 1984 Formula 1 Dallas Grand Prix. The track ran through Fair Park in Dallas, right around the Cotton Bowl for a portion of it. The race ran on July 8th, and the ambient temperature was something like 103 degreesF. Seriously, when you have the chance, take the time to watch this all the way through--I can't even begin to describe all the crazy stuff that happened. It doesn't want to embed, so here's the URL: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mf3nx
  21. Anyway, the public/private sector discussion is a red herring, it really doesn't have anything to do with the subject at hand. The FACTS are, that we know that an increasing percentage of the population is unhappy enough to answer as such in surveys. And we know that the negative responses disproportionately skew to those under 30. Beyond that, this thread has really been nothing more than speculation as to why. There's some plausible speculation, and some stupid-as-shit speculation, and some insensitive "don't care got mine" responses as well. What I'd be most interested in finding, is WHY those who responded as unhappy, did so. I'd like to find it out directly from the original set of respondents. And I'd also be interested to view similar past surveys over time, of the same age ranges, to see what the trends look like for those age ranges, over, say, the past 60-80 years. As a solid GenXer, I can say that plenty of my peers had some fairly negative views of their surroundings, from ages 18-30. In some ways it was expected or even fashionable to behave so-- youthful rebellion, young-person's angst, and all that. But as I, and my peers, have become older, and gained perspective,, and learned how to live a contented life, much of that angst and fear and anger, have faded and been replaced by happier feelings. This is only anecdotal of course, but that's my own experience. That's why I'd be interested to see the trends over time, from generation to generation, of such a survey.
  22. And it's been successfully redirected by the usual political suspects as well.
  23. I don't watch UFC or whatever he does, and didn't really know anything about McGregor, so had no expectations, bad or good.
  24. 0.07" at my house for the past week, but congrats to those who got some. We all need it.
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