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Showing content with the highest reputation on 08/23/21 in Posts

  1. If you thought Sark was aggressive with Waddle, Jeudy and Smith just wait until you see what he does with Cade Brewer and Kai Money.
    30 points
  2. After reading the back and forth over the last few pages, for some reason, I remembered that there was a post on the old site that predicted Sam would never start for UT and probably was going to transfer out. Out of curiosity, I decided to wade through the shit and go find that post. Imagine my utter shock and surprise to find that that poster was none other than: derka derka. You have been predicting him to fail since he was a junior in high school. Like, seriously, do you have some personal vendetta against him that makes it impossible for you to see any possibility of success? And every time he has some sort of success, you predict him to fail at the next level up and get pissy that no one agrees with you. "He's never gonna start and is going to transfer" - Starts his freshman year. So you move on to "he's never gonna lead us to any championships" "He's not an NFL caliber prospect" - gets drafted. "Well, he's never gonna start" - currently in a QB battle to potentially start week 1 behind injured starter. "Well, he's never gonna be a top 12 entrenched starting QB" Sam Ehlinger could hypothetically win the fucking super bowl and you'd probably come out next with some shit like, "Well, he's not a hall of famer" or "Worst QB to ever win the super bowl and all of you are just too blind from Westlake/UT homerism to see it!" There is no hypersensitivity to Sam criticism. There's plenty of legitimate criticisms to his game discussed on this thread. Lack of arm strength. Slow to make reads. Inaccurate deep ball. All legitimate, all calmly discussed. And, ironically enough, buried somewhere in your histrionic characterization of other posters' responses to you, those legitimate criticisms are there in your posts as well. But it's not the hypersensitivity to the criticisms that is being displayed on this thread. It's the hypersensitivity to your mind boggling lack of self awareness. That lack of self awareness is the whole reason the concept of a thread being Derka'd even exists in the first place. Also, since you seem to be a fan of the "I never said that" defense and the "Show me one post where I said that!", there is not a single person on this thread that has predicted Sam would become "one of the 15 best QBs in the entire world" and certainly no one has taken offense to the opinion that he wouldn't as you seem to insinuate in your post above. If there has, please show me the post where someone took offense to that opinion. In fact, you seem to take offense when anyone suggests that Sam is talented enough to be "NFL caliber" or you know, one of the top 100 (give or take) QBs in the world. So really, who is the one spazzing out here?
    19 points
  3. Full approval for Pfizer. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/23/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine
    17 points
  4. It was believable until the part at the end about “hundred people are in charge at Texas”. Anytime someone throws that in it automatically screams uniformed asshole opposing fan.
    16 points
  5. Didn't know where else to put this but over the weekend Her : How much is a new dishwasher? Me : Our wedding was about $10,000. I thought it came with one. tone
    15 points
  6. Do y’all remember the AIDS panic urban legend about gays or junkies or gay junkies hiding AIDS needles in gas pump handles and movie theater seat cushions? I bring it up because I have an idea to get more shots in people.
    14 points
  7. @trauma babe, how about we take that pizza money and put it towards flying you out to Florida?
    13 points
  8. Tomorrow I will put on a suit for the 4th time since the pandemic began. All 4 times will be for COVID funerals. Friend’s mom, and while I’m not 100% sure she was unvaccinated, her social media would lead me to strongly believe that she was not. Gonna mask up, stand in the back, and let my friend see that I came to support him when he’s hurting.
    13 points
  9. For a lot of them, it's a John Locke social contract level of survival. I had a heart to heart with my mom a couple of days ago about how I realize that she moved out of state and lives in a small town and her church group are the only friends that she has. Of course she feels she has to parrot all of the talking points and question the vaccine. Her friendships and social survival depend on it. It's all she hears about every day. She has probably seen others ostracized and banished over opposing opinions. So, no matter how long she has been in the medical field, no matter how many infectious disease continuing education sessions she's been in, and even when her own eyes tell her the real story when she works in a local care facility, her social well-being depends on toeing the line. My rural roots will always give me an avenue of sympathy for these people. I've been there. I lived it. I know the community pressure they are under. And in a lot of those towns, the youth that would be a benefit to those towns go off to college and never come back because Muleshoe or Iraan or El Campo or Trinity have nothing to offer an educated individual trying to earn the best living possible. On top of that, the internet has become a window into the urban settings that rural youth didn't have in the 90s and early 00s. So, indoctrination of the idea that big city living is a horror show doesn't work anymore, either. Rural America, deep down, knows that it is dying. Not just from COVID, but from lack of progress. The communities that do remain are tight-knit because they feel like they are fighting for survival. Of course they are going to act like this. In a very fascist way, the rural people better hit that like button on Facebook and stay on message, or they lose the only friends and connections they have. Unfortunately for them, progress always drags people forward, eventually, no matter how much they kick and scream over it.
    13 points
  10. Dude looks like he’s about to shoot finger-lightning at Luke Skywalker.
    11 points
  11. I think it boils down to this: A whole lot of people would rather die under the delusion that they are right and good than live and face a reality where they are equal parts idiot, asshole and instrument of evil.
    10 points
  12. 10 points
  13. If, and that's a big if, I had an anti-vax, ivermectin and HCQ fan co-worker who came down with the 'Rona, would it be frowned upon to sign the get well card, "Congratulations on fucking around. Hope you don't die from finding out. SM."? Cause I don't want to get talked about, or shunned.
    10 points
  14. Here's the kicker: for the longest time, with respect to certain things, they aren't wrong to think "we're the smart ones." They know about certain things better than any city-slicker, for real. When I was high school/college age, we used to go spend weekends at my uncle's S. Texas ranch -- my grandfather was the de facto foreman. He would put us to work doing various things, most of which were geared at demonstrating how little "country common sense" all of us college boys had. And he was right. He'd give us some task that we would puzzle over and couldn't figure out, and after laughing at us for a while, show us the obvious way to do it. Live in the country, and you learn stuff that the city folks don't. You don't just reach into the bottom of the chicken coop to grab eggs - you look to make sure there's not a rattler in there eating them. Gonna burn brush? Wait till a dry stretch with no wind in the forecast, but not so dry that it's burn-ban weather. Need to get to the back pasture? Stick to the path on the left side, because the right side holds mud and you'll get stuck. All kinds of little ins and outs that you learn from living a rural life. They ARE experts on that -- that's their subject matter. Our current hell started when they became convinced that they know EVERYTHING, and they're smarter than EVERYONE. No. Stay in your fucking lane. If I want to know how to keep from getting bitten by a rattlesnake, how to avoid losing my chickens to a raccoon, how to tell which cow is going to go into labor first, I'll talk to a rancher. If I want to know if a particular plane is fit to fly, I'll talk to a pilot and/or mechanic. If I want to know about a specific medical treatment, I'll talk to a doctor. That doesn't mean that I'll just flat take their word for everything, but it means that I recognize that a lifetime of real-world knowledge and experience has real value, and I'd be smart to listen to the guys with that expertise. Instead, these guys are the functional equivalent of the city slicker out at the ranch who ignores the rancher's advice not to take their Lexus sedan to the back pasture, because that road's shitty and you'll get stuck -- holler "I don't think so, you aren't so smart!"......and 3 minutes later, the phone rings from the back pasture because city boy's Lexus is stuck up to both axles. "Come get me! You have to tow me out of here! And don't you DARE scratch my paint when you do!"
    10 points
  15. I want one of those wordy, aggressive t-shirts about this yes I'm a VETERINARIAN who gives DEWORMER to patriots who LOVE OUR COUNTRY and I won't APOLOGIZE for killing DOZENS of overweight, elderly HEROES
    10 points
  16. Doc, look what I got from Tractor Supply!!!
    9 points
  17. I get the "my freedom" angle, too. I also own 6 guns, drink beer in a lawn chair in my garage and am currently in the market for a new pickup. I'm just not a fucking moron.
    9 points
  18. I might get a ticket every time I drive the WeebRocket, but at least women refuse to be seen inside it.
    9 points
  19. I'm only here for doctors in bikinis pics
    9 points
  20. if i was an afghani refugee and my first exposure to the western world was united airlines, i'd probably ask to stay behind.
    9 points
  21. mfw @BabaYaga and texags both cite the same retracted studies
    8 points
  22. Cade Brewer Jared Wiley Brayden Liebrock Jatavion Sanders Juan Davis Gunnar Helm Nathan Hatter
    8 points
  23. ladies have asked me if i take horse medicine before.
    8 points
  24. That'll be gone in a day or two.
    8 points
  25. I feel some empathy for this guy, because he lost a family member. Still, this logic is infuriating: “My uncle didn’t take the medicine that could keep him alive. The doctors and nurses didn’t give him medicine that isn’t approved to treat the disease he got. He wanted it though, because of internet. I’m mad at the doctors and nurses.”
    8 points
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