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  1. From which of the last 10 offseasons did you pull this quote?
    37 points
  2. Also, another compelling reason to get jabbed....
    29 points
  3. Is it just me, or do the goalposts look a bit off center and askew?
    26 points
  4. Its Gods plan he becomes the best football player of his family.
    23 points
  5. The people who insist on thinking for themselves are always the absolute dumbest motherfuckers on earth. “Think for yourself” means rejecting anything from people smarter than you, because you’re insecure about how fucking stupid you are and you’d rather endanger your own life and those of everyone around you than admit that maybe you don’t know something.
    21 points
  6. This thread is full of a bunch of “get off my lawn” old men who seem to have a negative worldview about everything. This Olympics was held under the worst possible circumstances - once in a lifetime pandemic causing a year delay, no fans - yet it still had amazing competitions, amazing athletes, and amazing stories. Simone Biles story gets you down? Umm.. she was sexually abused by Larry Nassar and she self reports mental health issues. She’s also the greatest gymnast of all time and she returned to competition to win a bronze medal with a great beam performance. Sorry if that triggers you. American athletes should really learn to internalize their sexual abuse and mental health. Athletes look like they don’t want to be there? Are you fucking kidding me?! Are those of you saying this actually watching or are you merely projecting your own shitty worldview onto Olympic athletes? I’ve seen a bunch of athletes who look completely pumped to be there, and that’s without fans to increase the excitement. Not enough star power? Do you only enjoy the Olympics if you are watching Carl Lewis or Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt? Do you only watch UT football if VY is taking snaps? Come on.. Alysson Felix became the most decorated U.S. track and field Olympic athlete in history. Caeleb Dressel won 5 medals in the pool. The men’s and women’s basketball teams both continued their dominance, the men being led by a particular star who has now scored more points than anyone in Olympics basketball history. The women’s 400m hurdles featured 2 amazing runners - McLaughlin and Muhammad - who BOTH broke the world record in the same race, only to go on to destroy the competition in the 400 relay. Simone Biles withdrew from competition and then we get to see Suni Lee rise to the challenge. There’s plenty of star power, what more do you want? Don’t forget the ton of other cool stories like Molly Seidel winning a bronze medal in her 3rd ever marathon. Yes, I get the time difference. It’s annoying but the internet and smartphone are both here to stay and we can’t turn technology back to 1992 to maintain suspense on the outcome of competitions. That isn’t going away. Deal with it. I think we’re lucky to have even had Olympics, and given the worldwide circumstances of the last 17 months, this year was pretty damn good. Our athletes represented the U.S. very well and we walk away the overall medal leader with a lot to be proud of and plenty to be entertained about.
    20 points
  7. Can we really trust Arnold after his history of tumor denial?
    18 points
  8. Do it. Call his bluff. Sacrifice your salary in the interest of protecting the children you are charged with protecting. Let him take his vengeful action. MAKE HIM DO IT. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that local parents will chip in to cover any bills those folks can't pay while DeSantis throttles their livelihood. Do it, you gutless fucking cartoon villain.
    17 points
  9. I love Roschon. What a concise, respectful answer. On twitter.
    16 points
  10. We are too stupid to live, example # 458,972: Arkansas nurse watches both parents die of Covid, refuses to get vaxxed, says she doesn't want people judging her.
    16 points
  11. Sitting in the Moore-Hill TV room almost 40 years ago, one dude wondered out loud why the Crimson Tide had an elephant for its mascot. Another guy replied, “Have you ever seen an elephant on its period?”
    16 points
  12. This was posted by an ER doc from a local hospital: I have been mostly silent on the COVID surge but I feel it’s a duty and responsibility for healthcare professionals to report what we are seeing and confront some of the unbelievable and irresponsible mis-information out there. This is long and reflects many opinions and observations. Those opinions and observations are mine and mine alone and do not reflect upon any healthcare institution or governmental agency. I admit that I did not consider Facebook memes or posts by non-healthcare workers, nor conspiracy websites in formulating my opinions. My opinions are based on possessing an actual medical degree and board certification as well as over 30 years of medical experience (28 of which have been in Emergency Medicine). Hospitals in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas (as well as many other areas) are overwhelmed with COVID cases right now. Of the COVID, about 75% is delta variant. Delta is much more contagious than the previous strains were. Sadly, the majority of the really sick people I have been seeing are presenting 7 to 10 days AFTER diagnosis and after failing “treatments” that don’t work such as Rocephin, Zithromax, Levaquin, Augmentin, and the ever-present and thoroughly debunked hydroxychloroquine [emoji849][emoji849] all prescribed by folks who apparently do not understand what a virus is. (The jury is still out on ivermectin…. I personally do not believe it works, but there is some junk science saying it does. You can judge for yourself). In my opinion, if your PCP is treating you with antibiotics or hydroxychloroquine for the COVID virus, you need a new PCP. A concomitant bacterial pneumonia with COVID (which is a viral pneumonia) in the outpatient setting is exceedingly rare and the risk vs benefit ratio on hydroxychloroquine isn’t a debate anymore. The relevance of the time course I am frequently seeing from diagnosis to severe illness is important because by that time, people are out of the window for monoclonal antibody therapy which was in my opinion (including my own personal experience) beneficial for non-delta COVID. This means there isn’t a lot we have to offer unless you’re critically ill. There seems to be a misconception about what this COVID surge and hospital capacity means to the average person. First of all, when the COVID units and the hospital beds are full, admitted patients back up into the ER waiting on beds to open up. This occupies ER beds and ER nurses and leaves sick patients in the lobby with no where to put them and few staff members to take care of them. Only the most critical people can be seen. This doesn’t mean urgent cases, this means critical. Sadly, this means that your kid’s broken arm, won’t be seen quickly and you will have to wait. We don’t like it either, but it’s reality right now. Second, when tertiary referral centers are full (which they are), they refuse transfers for sub-specialty care (which they are). So, if you (or your family) develops a condition (including serious trauma) that a community hospital can’t manage, you may be held at a hospital that can’t take adequate care of you because there is nowhere to send you (yes, this is happening). During the previous surge of COVID, several things were different than they are now: 1) VOLUME: Patients stayed home and didn’t come to hospitals. So hospitals saw far fewer patients than normal and only the sickest patients came. Volumes are now back close to pre-COVID levels. 2) STAFFING: Before, both state and federal agencies paid for and sent staff (nurses, techs, respiratory therapists) to hard hit areas to help. Healthcare workers were offered very good money to travel and those who could left in droves. These assistances are largely no longer available and hospitals and ERs are having tremendous staffing trouble. 3) CURVE: Lots of misconceptions surrounded the “flattening the curve” terminology. It was not an attempt to eradicate COVID. It was an attempt to spread out the infections over time so that the health care system was not overwhelmed. With the re-opening of our society and few people masking, we are seeing a surge like we did not see before. We’re seeing the spike that was feared and somewhat mitigated before. 4) FATIGUE: As health care workers, we are tired. We are short-staffed, overwhelmed, over-worked, and we are tired of getting yelled at and complained about when we are barely holding things together. This is leading to attrition of personnel which only compounds the problem. If you’re in the ER or the hospital, you may not get your drink or your warm blanket in a timely manner while we are off tending to critical patients. If you’re there for non-urgent issues, attention, or hypochondria, we’re probably not gonna be very accommodating. Recognize that the people there working are doing the best they can during some very challenging times. If you’re our priority at any given moment, you’ve got problems! As for the vaccine: 1) This was developed and encouraged under the Trump administration and continues to be encouraged by the Biden administration. It is NOT a political issue. 2) The vaccine is NOT “experimental”. The technology used to create the vaccine has existed for years and was developed in order to allow rapid creation of vaccines for just such a scenario. The vaccine was tested on thousands and determined to be safe before release. True, it was rushed to market due to the circumstances and true, we aren’t certain there will be no long term effects but it is doubtful there will be any. 3) The vaccine DOES provide protection against delta variant. I have personally not seen a single COVID patient who has been immunized and I have seen and admitted a lot of COVID patients recently. When last I checked, our hospital did not have a single admitted COVID patient who was immunized. I do know of people who have gotten sick and provider stories of vaccinated patients with COVID, but the overwhelming data shows that these folks have a mild illness. Of the COVID deaths during this surge, a tiny fraction (less than 1%) have been fully immunized. 4) People getting COVID even though vaccinated isn’t unexpected or unusual. NO vaccine is 100% effective. This is NOT a logical reason not to be vaccinated. 5) There are NOT large numbers of people having severe reactions to the vaccine. Don’t be misled by isolated cases and propaganda. As with any medication or vaccine, there will be side effects in a small number of people and even death in a tiny fraction. In medicine, we always consider risk versus benefit for any therapy. To make an analogy here, every year there are people injured and killed BECAUSE they were wearing a seat belt. But a vast majority more are saved from serious injury by the belt. Using the small number of people harmed by the belt as justification not to wear it is illogical. 6) There is so much misinformation out there about the vaccine that it is hard for non-medical people to separate the facts from the fiction. Consider that the overwhelming majority of healthcare experts support the vaccine and we have NO agenda to promote it. We are not paid to promote it. We are making our recommendations based on understanding the effects of a pandemic and understanding the science behind the vaccine, as well as our own observations. There is some extremely crazy (and frankly downright stupid) stuff out there quoted by lay people with a Facebook medical degree. Before you make a decision about the vaccine, consider all of the information you can find and consider the credentials of those who are making the recommendations. Please do your research with an open mind and don’t look for and consider only sources that agree with your a priori opinion. I have long tired of the statements that masks don’t work promoted by folks who don’t want to wear one. Of course they work. They are also not harmful to your health. (If they were, surgeons and OR nurses would have been dying off for years.) I would point out that this last winter because of masks, social distancing, & sanitizing, we saw very very few cases of flu and RSV (like COVID, these are also viruses). As soon as masks started coming off, we began to see large numbers of cases of RSV in children. In 30 plus years of medical practice, I have NEVER seen a summer outbreak of RSV. In addition, I would point out that shortly after mask mandates ended, the COVID surge began. Clearly, they did work. Like anything else, masks weren’t 100% effective but that doesn’t mean they were ineffective. To be clear, I am not advocating closing our society again, mask mandates, or mandatory immunization. But I think if more people believed those of us on the front lines and paid attention to what is happening right now and listened to reputable authorities on vaccines and masks, maybe we could mitigate the current situation without those mandates returning. Those of us in healthcare are not lying to you or trying to misconceive you. We have NO incentive to do that. This is not a conspiracy or attempt to control your behavior or inject you with trackers or alter your DNA. That is completely illogical and frankly crazy. The virus isn’t and never was political. The virus is some RNA floating around out there surrounded by spike proteins that are neither red or blue. Those of us on the front lines of healthcare have no agenda except to keep you and your family safe and healthy. Please take heed and if nothing else, please stop calling us liars, conspirists, and reactionaries. To my observations, the current hysteria is coming from the anti-COVID, anti-vaccination crowd. We are merely reporting what we’re seeing and what we have concluded based on knowledge, training, and expertise. PS: calling an ambulance for non-emergent issues will NOT get you seen faster. If you are less ill than those waiting in the lobby, you will be sent to the lobby to get in line. If you have managed to make it this far through my musings, thank you for your consideration.
    16 points
  13. Bijan really reminds me of an elephant in the open field
    15 points
  14. Think for yourself = Google for something that appears to confirm what I believe, even though I’m too stupid to understand the report and more importantly not qualified to interpret the scholarly articles especially when I ignore the million other scientific data points that reach different conclusions The Joe Rogan research method. “I found this study in 2015 in the lancet by googling and it says vaccines are causing the variants.” (Implying either you shouldn’t get vaccine or don’t feel bad about not getting vaccines, you’re not the problem of variants which is what his dumb listeners want to hear) Except the person who created the study he mentions doesn’t agree, because he understands what the fuck he is talking about https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2021/08/08/joe-rogan-is-getting-this-completely-wrong-says-the-scientist-who-conducted-the-vaccine-study/?sh=4e8caf6f7bd1
    15 points
  15. The devil went down to Texas, he was lookin for a crippled bitchmade motherfucking piece of shit cuntnose chud baby.
    15 points
  16. "Man actively spraying gasoline on fire asks for someone to show up with water."
    14 points
  17. Wtf is this bullshit? The tensions haven’t dissipated much. There’s still anger within the conference about how this all went down. Those two schools have done irreparable damage to so many long-standing and previously close relationships. “It’s difficult to be betrayed by people that you call friends,” Bowlsby said last month. “There’s a right way and a wrong way to do this, and OU and Texas did it as deceptively as they possibly could.” Bowlsby long considered Texas AD Chris Del Conte and Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione to be two of his closest friends in the business. Their decision to bolt for the SEC without warning or explanation stung a lot of their peers within the conference. Full transparency can’t be expected given what they were planning, but leaders in the Big 12 felt they were owed a lot more than what they got: a no-show for the key July 22 meeting (citing “conflicts”) and a pointless July 25 videoconference with Bowlsby and the Big 12’s executive committee one day before Texas and Oklahoma sent their exit letter. Why in the hell would we tell anyone any earlier? So they can try to find a way to stop it or otherwise fuck it up? We've been down that road before. The conference is getting four years' notice (until we find a legal solution to do it sooner). We don't owe anyone anything more. Any one of the Irate Eight who says they would have done this differently in our position is lying. The whining about the lack of transparency is just playing to the masses who are happy to demonize UT for pretty much anything.
    14 points
  18. Damn right people are judging you, you moronic cunt.
    14 points
  19. The financial costs, and strain on a necessary thing -- our healthcare apparatus -- is brutal. That alone makes this a huge national crisis. But layer onto the incredible mental toll. Some of the people most important to our continued health, survival, and growth as a society are being subjected to some traumatic bullshit. I encourage you to talk to someone who is actually involved in front-line medical care (shit, just listen to @trauma babe right here in River City). Talk to my hospital chaplain friends. The PTSD they are experiencing is fucking wartime level shit. Some of them are breaking. Some are leaving the profession altogether in the name of their own mental well-being. And teachers aren't in a much better spot. How would you like it if the governor of your state effectively told you that not only does he not give a shit about your safety, he will actively and maliciously BLOCK any efforts to protect your health and safety, because fuck you? Want to serve on a school board, because you believe in serving the community and its children? Enjoy being subjected to hateful attacks, threats on your life, and harassment everywhere you go because you dared even SUGGEST that maybe kids should wear masks during this current surge. You thought this country was broken BEFORE COVID? Dude, that was the goddamned Phony War. What we've done to ourselves and our national psyche during this crisis is the fucking fall of continental Europe. And as we stand on the beaches at Dunkirk, Abbott and DeSantis are signing orders prohibiting private boats from saving us. Our mental self-destruction as a nation is ACCELERATING. That's why things like 1) getting vaccinated and 2) oh, I don't know, giving 1/1000th of a fuck about other human beings are really, really important now. But then, that ship has sailed. "Fuck you, I enjoy your suffering" is our national motto now. Might as well embrace it. And here's the part you aren't going to like -- now that we've committed to it, it's time to return the favor. Don't want to get vaccinated? Fine. Then everywhere we can pull it off, we should fucking prohibit your participation in public life. We should shame you and ostracize you at every turn. We should use tax dollars to have a guy with a bullhorn follow you everywhere you go, just hollering "in front of me is a selfish fucking moron!" repeatedly. Cruelty and suffering is the game now. Fine. So be it. Time for all to play.
    13 points
  20. Everyone is in the best shape of their life, two QBs significantly than Ehlinger, Byron Murphy is Aaron Donald, and Xavier Worthy is a force that cannot be kept off the field. Nice to have tempered expectations for a change!
    13 points
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  22. I'm in a bad place today. The first couple of rounds of covid were scary, but that was before we had vaccines. This round of covid seems more depressing than anything. Like we are purposely trying to make it worse. Add the climate news coming out and it just seems like we are spiraling downward as a species.
    12 points
  23. I'm not him, but I have been pretty vocal about not sending my kids back and have changed a lot of future plans based on withdrawing the kids and homeschooling them until The State of Texas proves they're willing to do, well, anything at all. Texas officials came out both barrels and said this year will be business as usual, going as far as threatening any school district that tries to police their own districts and implement measures to combat the spread of COVID and keep parents informed of potential contact and outbreaks within the school. They literally want to do nothing about it. Our gameplan, as a family, has been purely risk mitigation, not elimination. As we learned more about the disease, we adjusted our plans accordingly. In fact, when cases were down below 100 a day, we lived as if it was 2019. Our kids played with other kids in daycare without masks, we did not make them wear masks, and my wife and I didn't wear masks because we were vaccinated. We are now masking up again, have stopped going to the gym, again, and have kept the kids at home, except for outdoor activities. The schools, on the other hand, refuse to do anything despite the numbers being the same, or higher in some areas, as when we had virtual and kids masking. This variant is more easily spread, this variant appears to be slightly tougher on children, and we know a lot more about long COVID. If it truly is as contagious as chickenpox, our children will be very likely to get it, at some point, with a zero-mitigation policy in place. Our children are young and while they are fine with masks and we never had a problem, they will need adult guidance willing to remind and enforce the mask, just like kids that age need to be told to go to the bathroom. Without that support, we are left hoping for no long-term effects and no severe illness. The numbers in school were low last year, and people like to crow about that. But they also seem to neglect to mention that we had distancing and masks at the same time. The lack of public concern from officials is astonishing, disappointing, and frustrating, to put it lightly. If even an ounce of concern was shown by merely allowing individual districts to mandate COVID policies, I'd feel much more confident about sending my kids in because the school policy would be in place and school officials will be required to follow it. So, yes, the fact that schools in California are requiring masks is a showing of good faith that California school districts recognize that there is an issue and are likely to be willing to take further steps should the Delta surge worsen and create a health crisis for kids, which we have thankfully avoided up to this point. With Texas, we are pedal to the metal and I have no clue if government officials are willing to hit the brakes if we are approaching a cliff. I mentioned in the AISD thread that I have heard some murmurs out of rural Texas that even they are getting nervous, but unless those nervous officials speak up, nothing will change. The government is playing political chicken with our children and I am sitting my family out until either the numbers drop or cooler heads prevail.
    12 points
  24. Smart people trust experts to be experts in their fields. Idiots don't trust anyone but themselves.
    12 points
  25. I’ve seen pictures of Shaggy/Surly happy hour gatherings and y’all motherfuckers got no room to bag on anyone else’s face/physique/style/etc.
    11 points
  26. In. Wife and I want to move to France. I'm a puppeteer for children's birthday parties. My wife sells crystals online. We love to entertain. Our budget is 2.5million.
    11 points
  27. Do I need to spell it out for you?
    11 points
  28. No player in my lifetime enraged me quite like breckyn hager. Never has some that had done so little said so much. Mother fucker looked like tarzan and played like jane. Got straight up dominated.
    10 points
  29. This isn't a direct response to any recent posts here, but I'm out of patience with those who maintain the "it's a personal decision and we shouldn't shame people for not getting vaxxed" takes. If you're still refusing to get vaxxed (and not for a legitimate health reason) and you catch it and require hospitalization, you should be sent the fuck home. If you're still refusing to get vaxxed and you get someone else who can't get vaccinated sick and they die, you should be tried for manslaughter and get serious prison time. I know we don't have the contact tracing in place to figure that out, but if we did that's what should happen, because these assholes are recklessly killing people who deserve better protection from the rest of us.
    10 points
  30. Because the data suggests a third dose is wise, because the shit is about to hit the fan with delta, because my jobs require me to interact with lots of young people who generally make poor decisions and/or think they are bulletproof, because I'm deathly scared of covid, because the vaccine is safe, because I love my wife and kids, because it is the right thing to do for everyone else too, because I want to take another "I told you so" victory lap for my anti-vax friends to see, because I refuse to let Greg Abbott kill me, etc.
    10 points
  31. I’m dealing with some health issues (unrelated to Covid—I’m fully vaccinated) but concerned if it winds up being either cancer or something that requires surgery with all this going on. Well shit I’m scared anyway. But people have really shown their asses on this pandemic. Fortunately, my family (all who are able to be vaccinated—where it’s not a health restriction or age) is vaccinated so I don’t have to get into arguments with them. I got off FB last fall because of all the dumbassery I see. With friends and acquaintances if I hear one more fucking time “the jab” or “Im doing my own research” or “the ones that got vaccinated are the ones getting sick” or “they are exaggerating the numbers of people with Covid—people are dying from other stuff and they are just saying it’s Covid” —I may have to start canceling people out of my daily life. There is not enough time in my day. Thrilled to see most people here are vaccinated and are taking all of this seriously. I’ve reached my level of give a fuck about those who are not for “reasons” that don’t include age or restrictions for health.
    9 points
  32. 9 points
  33. Negative. That was easy peasy. Guess it is allergy/sinus/cold. I also have sinus rinse, and that usually cleans everything up quickly.
    9 points
  34. I don't think Herman's teams were particularly soft. Certainly had a lot of infuriating bonehead coaching decisions and individual fuckups, but they played hard through the whistle and generally didn't seem to fade in the fourth quarter.
    9 points
  35. All the conference needs to succeed is Ed Orgeron and automatic closed captioning:
    9 points
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