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  1. Fried up some Crappie that we caught down off the dock. Made some cole slaw and tartar sauce. Put in a slab in the corral for my scale. Cucumbers and tomatoes from the garden. Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk
    11 points
  2. Now I get why a lot of our right leaning posters in the football thread as so afraid of slippery slopes.
    11 points
  3. Watching Moana with the kids reminded of this today so figured I’d share. A little long so sorry in advance. Years ago we were in Mexico and I pointed out some coconut trees near our room. Later that night the wife told me that she didn’t think they were coconuts because they were green and not brown. I told her that I was pretty sure they were (knowing I was right) but dropped it since we were on vacation. The only problem was that she was sure I was wrong and mentioned it every time we passed the trees (which was multiple times a day). I basically was just giving noncommittal responses and it really started to irritate her, so she started asking random staff/guests who all agreed that it was indeed a coconut tree. After a few days she blew up at me and showed me a picture of a ‘brown coconut’ she found online, so I finally pulled up a video of people husking coconuts and explained how the ‘brown’ is inside the green husk. She was very upset by this turn of events and went from being mad at me for not telling her this before she made a fool of herself asking everyone about the tree, and jumping back into denial stating that we still didn’t know that it was a coconut tree because we hadn’t seen proof that a ‘brown coconut’ was inside. On our last day she found a ‘green coconut’ that fell out of a tree and spent nearly 20 minutes trying to open it before telling me I needed to open it for her. I told her no, that it was a big pain in the ass and that I was done with all of this. She pouted but eventually relented because we had a nice dinner planned that night and still had to pack up for the trip home. Going through customs on the way back guess what was in one of our bags that she conveniently forgot to declare causing us to miss our connecting flight home?
    10 points
  4. 10 points
  5. I’m all for police reform. However, I’m white as hell and if I’m passed out drunk in a drive through, I fully expect to get a not so pleasant visit from law enforcement. If I resist, I fully expect a fight. If I kick the cop’s ass, take his taser, and point it at him as I’m trying to escape, I fully expect to get shot. In the event of my death family would cry out, “why was he so fucking stupid?”
    10 points
  6. Home for the week: https://ibb.co/gJ6GBv6 wife is making pork chops tonight. We set up camp. Banned all screens except me making a work call (and this nonsense obviously) going swimming after dinner. 6:00 am nature hike before work tomorrow. If it’s the same as today and wake up at first light.
    8 points
  7. Black lives matter was created for the expressed purpose and goal of bringing attention to police brutality (not just police murders) and injustice within the criminal justice system. You, along with most white people, don’t know shit about what goes on within the confines of the black community. You don’t know what’s discussed in black churches, black civic groups, black fraternal organizations, black barbershops, or just among black friends. News of stop the violence campaigns rarely get reported or discussed in mainstream media. I can guarantee you if you went to Facebook and searched you’d get more hits for stop the violence campaigns than black lives matter. Your ignorance of this fact doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
    8 points
  8. This thread really needs to be renamed, things have been going just swimmingly for Biden. Here are a few suggestions: "Bad_Teammate Bitches Incessantly About Things That Annoy Him" "Joe Biden Sucks...Here Are Some Cherry Picked Videos" "Bad_Teammate's Manifesto On Joe Biden Sucking and Universal Healthcare" "Click Here To Find Out Why Anyone Who Votes For Joe Biden Is A Centrist" "Click Here To Find Out Why Anyone Who Accepts The Reality Of A Situation Is A Centrist" "The Most Unentertaining Thread On Surly"
    8 points
  9. 3 years at UT has stood in between a lot of elite prospects and the NFL. /satya, definitely,
    8 points
  10. I like and can identity with this one.
    8 points
  11. You are correct. That is the biggest problem. You are suggesting we only solve the biggest problems and not the mentalities and the memorabilia that helped create that problem. Black families were broken apart upon capture... Slaves were bred. Families (the initial community of anyone's life) were illegal. Slaves couldn't have families. For hundreds of years, family was limited to very few black people. However, killing of slaves and blacks has been legal, more or less, since before this country has been a country to today. So, as you see, and I'm sure you already know, the value system that has failed the black Americans was intentionally created by white Americans. We, the black coalition, would like to erase some of the heritage, teachings, and honoring of people who created the system that intended to leave us fatherless, uneducated, ignorant, and dead. Are you being the devil's advocate or the devil? Put your stake in the ground or your head back in the ground. I haven't read one example of any thoughts or ideas from you. All I've read is you denying the issues have existed for long or denying that the current system is actually a problem. this isn't new. you're (acting) new.
    8 points
  12. You miss 100% of the ramps you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky - Donald Trump
    8 points
  13. Since a troll thread has turned into a discussion of the broader culture, there is a reason to be concerned with unchecked cancel culture. Forces for good often degenerate into forces for evil, and the broader cultural strategy for achieving good (and the current movement is no doubt a force for good) is well situated to ultimately trample over innocent people. This is where we desperately need coherent conservative voices as a check. What we have now isn’t a coherent conservative voice; denying or distracting from the problems isn’t a coherent or defendable position any more. Denying the problem (or attempting to claim a position of being oppressed, as the troll OP did) isn’t engaging with it and won’t effectively check the more destructive elements of the righteous anger. The way to keep this from spiraling out of control is to acknowledge the reality of the problem (and some conservative voices have been successful at this to a certain extent) and speak positive conservative solutions. We also must all recognize that our culture has gotten race very wrong for so long that some things we find sacred might become casualties. It’s ok to mourn the loss (say the Eyes actually goes away, it’ll be a loss for many) without losing our minds or casting ourselves as an oppressed people.
    7 points
  14. 7 points
  15. Imagine being this fucking stupid.
    7 points
  16. Because segregation is bad. because they might want to study under some of the greatest minds in the world in majors that aren’t available at other schools and certainly not with the faculty/labs/opportunity that is here and more to the point have the ability to gain the same advantages as their white classmates. Because UT is more than just a fight song, and of all the things the black community has had to make concessions about a fight song is low on the list and that these demands aren’t pointing out that UT is a horrible place but instead highlighting a few things that can and will be made better by increasing awareness and driving change, thereby distancing UT even further from other lesser institutions.
    7 points
  17. My wife is a senior designer for a major clothing brand. She got furloughed in April due to COVID and a halt of manufacturing in China. Her job performance was stellar and she lead projects that brought in millions of dollars in revenue, many times working 14 hour days. She came to this country on a full fashion design scholarship from Russia, learned English, paid her dues and made it to the top. The problem is that no one will be running out to spend money on expensive shirts or suits for quite a while. So, despite her talent and skins on the wall, she may have to look for new employment. But there is no other employment. Every clothing manufacturer is suffering the same problem and will be for the foreseeable future. Her 20 years of experience is worthless right now through no fault of her own. It is entirely possible that she may need to go into another career to gain employment. Life is not fair.
    7 points
  18. “He’s barely able to slowly waddle his fat body down a gentle slope just like us!”
    7 points
  19. Not Target, but last Sunday we went to a local grocery store, about 2 miles away, to get our groceries she orders for curbside pickup. We then drove 25 miles to the store she actually ordered them through.
    7 points
  20. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing HCQ.
    6 points
  21. Holy shit. This guy has cajones of steel.
    6 points
  22. Something fairly reasonable. And to me it boils down to listening to what they have to say. If you value seeing them on the field, and frankly fuck off about the losing shit as you're all still here and still interested in UT football, then listen to what they have to say right now off the field.
    6 points
  23. do you disagree that realities of today were intentionally created and perpetuated over several generations? or do you disagree that the system worked this well? racism is the root cause of the issues you brought up. but i can read between your lines. you hadn't truly been educated on how we got to where we are right now. i wish I wasn't on a phone... I'd lay out American history and walk you through slavery, laws, harassment, death, slaughter, theft, etc... then you'd deny the significance history on today... I've been in this conversation before... it ends with you asking me how i was able to break out of the cycle, blah blah blah anecdotal praise for me and a few of your “well spoken" associates. All the 'real' issues you mention are correct.. absolutely. but you cannot, in my presence, attempt to disassociate the historical basis that intentionally created and perpetuated the issues. "pull yourself up by your bootstraps..." "but you may not obtain boots... or family... or knowledge... or financial means... or property... ... " "but that (legally) ended 40 years ago... you're free now." i don't even know why I'm engaging in the conversation on surlyshaggyhornfans... again...
    6 points
  24. I wish Trumpers would grow some balls and just admit they’re racist and want a white america at any cost.
    6 points
  25. Imagine thinking that an irrelevant failed presidential candidate is the literal worst thing to happen to our country in a century. Like actually imagine thinking that it's a valid enough statement that you're willing to put your name behind that publicly. Continuing to control stupid white people who believe things like this is how the 1% has maintained control of the country despite having nobody's best interest in mind.
    6 points
  26. Not sure this is the answer, exactly, but there was a fascinating documentary on the Pruitt-Igoe Homes project in St. Louis. It was one of the earlier projects and one of the first to fail and be demolished. It had a policy that generally, two-parent families were not allowed (it didn't get much into the justification, just this fact). It told stories of fathers being caught "sneaking in" and living with their families and the families being evicted from the home for this reason. So it seems that the desire to confer aid on only the neediest families (single parent) created a disincentive for two-parent families. EDIT: Yes, the war on drugs and systematic incarceration of black males had an impact on families, without question. However, the war on drugs didn't really commence until 1970 and the disintegration of the two-parent family preceded that. I am pretty sure it commenced with the "welfare state" and the great society programs. Not that the welfare state is wrong, per se, but it had some kind of bizarre unintended consequences.
    6 points
  27. Negged for intentional distortion of truth. BLM has led a brilliant, non-violent, inclusive national demonstration to address the issue of government violence against black people. You must produce evidence of BLM calling for the "killing of police." That doesn't mean a Breitbart story about one guy in the street. Show me that BLM calls for "killing police." I don't neg often. I always say why. It's overwhelmingly done in response to lies and disingenuous sophistry which is the same thing as a lie. You're embracing a lie about BLM which the government is using to justify using force against the peaceful demonstrators. It's on video. Take a look. Your reach for this lie removes whatever atoms of credibility you had. Peddle the hate and stupidity elsewhere. The US is already full up.
    6 points
  28. "Mr. President, we need to shift the blame for the increased Covid threat away from you pretending it doesn't exist and encouraging people to actively resist measures that reduce spread. Why don't we blame the protests? Sure the data doesn't support it but our base won't care and they hate the blacks" "Hmm. Nope. Not dishonest and tacky enough. We need solid gold toilet levels of tacky red meat for our base here" "Why don't we blame Mexico again" "That's the ticket!"
    6 points
  29. “Black on black crime” is always the rallying cry of those who can’t and won’t acknowledge there’s an issue
    6 points
  30. They aren’t risking their livelihoods “to make the school money.” They’re playing a risky sport to live the dream while perhaps taking a scholarship from a marginally less talented, yet academically qualified student who might not be any better off financially. I don’t think the foundation suggestion was for players whose non-football career was shortened during college, but for players who have their pro football careers shortened after college. I’m not overly sympathetic to the latter. If they spent 4-5 years getting a free education and a pro career doesn’t happen, then the school’s official responsibility ends. Take advantage of the alumni or booster network or learn a trade. Either way, get a real job like the 99% who don’t go pro in their sport. My daughter suffered numerous concussions playing soccer, and now she’s in med school, so I know a little bit about athletes risking livelihoods for reasons other than making money for their school.
    6 points
  31. How anyone with half a brain can support this idiot just blows me away
    6 points
  32. This is by far the dumbest thing Ive heard on this thread. Pick a side? How about you consider what YOU think about the issue instead of what your'e being told by both groups. They both are radical and extreme. No room for nuance. No room for thinking. Just Lynch mob justice right? What a fucking idiot.
    6 points
  33. I’m trying to tell my daughter there’s a business here. She took this photo and drew this
    6 points
  34. That’s Gus at his zenith. He’s most closely associated with his other works such as “ I ride the short leash”, “Popped by copperhead - twice to be sure” and “...wait for it” DB2BAC3B-63E1-47BF-85A3-A2722B1F4DA2.MOV
    5 points
  35. I agree with several statements above, paraphrased (I hope not too poorly) below: - Discussion of actual political policy has been very poor in last few years for several reasons, including lack of good-faith arguments and lack of any philosophical or consistent policy-based argument by current administration (e.g. what we think today has no bearing on what we thought yesterday or will think tomorrow). - Those that would be primary drivers of discussion above include @Ghost of LL, @longhornmatt, and potentially @Brisketexan (only mentioning potentially because I think he started becoming less conservative before this administration, for right or wrong). These voices have become stridently anti-current administration, so not much debate there. Other "true believes", including Swam4Texas, @EMAWesome, @markstanco, @TahoeHorn (and his acknowledged sock @MixtyMotions), are part of that latter group of drive-by comments, lack of follow through on discussion, etc. i can only think of one conservative poster who genuinely seems to want to have conversation (@Wulaw Horn). @Anastasis doesn't count here as he hates both sides. - That leaves primary discussion being either "How bad were things today" or discussion over issues that are fact-based, not belief-based. Here there is certainly a grey area as difference between fact and implication of fact is not always as clear as it may seem, but I refer to things like legal or political rationale with Mueller Report and Flynn Hearing. Not discussion over whether behavior is wrong or right, but about what the basis for certain court rulings, committee reports, etc. I personally have enjoyed following these conversations, although I have not contributed. What does that leave us? There have been cool discussion on philosophy, existence of God, etc., but I don't see how there can be any actual policy-based discussion in CR without actual policy to debate. The Columbus discussion (and I understand that this is only an example for you) should not be CR-bound, and is going to necessarily get smaller viewership (and therefore discussion) because of its presence in CR. That could easily be in DT, except for it would get sidetracked with Trump this and Trump that. Our national discourse is so broken that everything is viewed through policy, and so it comes back to lack of consistent policy to use to formulate arguments. That's a lot of words, and it probably looks like I'm saying it's all the other guys's fault. And it's true, both for us guys as well as the other guys. This is a symptom, not a casual factor. I think I need that ledge now. Any scotch left?
    5 points
  36. This is the weirdest hill to die on.
    5 points
  37. Further proof that cops shouldn't have guns
    5 points
  38. OU players petitioned to reduce the number of words in their fight song by 50% so it is but a single word endlessly repeated. I don't believe it's related to racism, though.
    5 points
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