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Looking forward to the meltdown when a kid literally nobody on earth heard of a week ago doesn't end up coming here.19 points
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I married an Aggie. We had to visit there for a wedding, and the wife wanted to bring the kids to show off her old stomping grounds for a long weekend. It took about three hours after arriving before she asked me to Google what to do with the kids for the next two days. We ended up at a third rate bowling alley and other bullshit. Kids have never asked to go back.18 points
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What is the most British thing ever? I read about this British bloke recently. He was the Captain of British Airwayβs Flight 009 in 1982. When things on board the aeroplane got a bit βdodgy,β Captain Eric Moody, made this very British announcement Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress I guess the American translation for this would be: Ladies and gentlemen. We are all going to die. Now is the time to panic. But thereβs actaully a really interesting story behind this very understated British way to declare a catastrophe. The airplane in question, British Airways Flight 009, also called Speedbird 9, was on the way from Malaysia to Perth. It had been in the sky for a few hours at cruising altitude, when the 248 passengers and 14 crew members on board started to notice maybe the worst thing you never want to experience on an airplane. Whatβs the scariest thing that could happen six miles up in the air? Smoke. At first the passengers think itβs from a stray cigarette (this incident occured when smoking on flights was still allowed). But gradually it gets thicker. Itβs hard to breathe and the passengersβ eyes are streaming. The temperature increases in the cabin. Looking out the window, passengers see the engines glowing with an eerie blue flame. Then flames start shooting out of the back. Meanwhile, in the front, Captain Moody and crewmates Roger Greaves and Barry Townley-Freeman are having some strange experiences of their own. Something they have never seen before β an otherwordly light show β is playing in front of the windshield. Moody checks the Doppler, but the radar is clear. No storms forecasted in the area. The enginges start to make a grating noise. The crew still has no idea what is going on. Then, one by one, they go silent. Modern passenger jets are built with multiple layers of redudencies. That way, if one critical system fails, there will be a back-up. This particular jet had four enginges. Even if three failed, the airplane could safely limp its way back to an airport on one engine alone. But, in the sudden, horrifying silence, Moody and crew realize theyβve lost not one, but all four engines, at once. The passenger jet and itβs 263 occupants has just become a high-tech paper airplane. And to make things worse, the weird, alien light show is still playing up in the nightβs pitch blackness. Thatβs when Moody makes his iconic announcemen: Ladies and gentlemen. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress. Meanwhile, in the cockpit, everything seems to be going wrong. Moody tries to send out a Mayday signal to the nearest airport, but the message is garbled. The speed indicators no longer output the correct speed either. If youβve throw a paper airplane or a styrofoam glider, you know that you donβt need engines to βfly.β When the engines shut off, the airplane doesnβt simply βfallβ out of the sky. It loses altitude slowly. Flying without an enginge is called gliding, and pilots can go a good 50β100 kilometers before hitting the ground. Itβs also possible (though difficult) to land without engines (remember the βMiracle on the Hudson where the airplane ditched by landing gracelessly in the Hudson River but all passengers escaped mostly unhurt?). Thatβs what Moody and team plan to do. Get the airplane on the ground, without engines. Moody switches off the autopilot and checks his map. The aircraft probably has enough altitude to make it back to the Jakarta airport, without having to ditch in the ocean. However, there are tall mountains in the way, and the crew will need extra altitutde to clear them. Moody charts a path for Jakarta, and starts flying the airplane, nosing up and down, to try and keep the speed in check despite the buggy speedometer. His crewmates start running through the engine restart procedures over and over, hoping to get some flicker of a working enging. Nothing. And the Jakarta air traffic controller informs the airplane that they donβt even appear on the radar. Thatβs when the air pressure drops. The pilots reach for their oxygen masks, but Greaveβs mask connection is broken. He canβt get it fixed. Moody isnβt ready to pilot a possible water ditching on an airplane gone wrong, with no engines without his full team, so he noses down and swiftly descends to an altitude where Greaves can breathe normally without his mask. To the passengers in the dark, eerie, smoke-filled cabin in back, it feels like a roller coaster. Now, the airplane definitely doesnβt have the altitude to clear the mountains. As Moody starts preparing for an ocean ditching, he notices that the blue lights outside the windshield have gone away. Then, he hears an amazing noise. The roar of the engines. He made a good choice not letting Greaves go unconcious from hypoxia. His team had kept running the engine restart procedures over and over, and somehow, by some miracle, they flickered back to life. First one engine, then two, then three, finally all four enginges were back in service! Back in the cabin, the 260 passengers and crew members, strapped in, now wearing life vests and oxygen masks, also hear the low throttle of the engines. Then the intercome dings and Moody confirms for them that they are back online. Ladies and genetlemen This is your captain speaking, we seem to have overcome that problem and have managed to start all the engines. Moody throttles the airplane back into the sky, but as he gains altitude, the weird lights come back. He quickly drops altitude, but not before losing one of the four enginges. They still have enough power to make it to the airport though. Thatβs when the crew notices another issue. They were so distracted by the blue lights and by not dying in a fiery crash, they didnβt realize that the windshield had gone completely opaque. Except for a tiny sliver in the corner, they couldnβt see anything. No airport. No landing strip. No runway. With the crew calculating on the spot, and yelling out the correct altitude and speed for the descent, Moody uses their data, and the sliver to line up the airplane. It was a masterclass in communication and airmanship. Moody later, very Britishly, described the landing as: a bit like negotiating one's way up a badgerβs arse. Thereβs a bump and the airplane kisses the runway. In the back, everyone is crying, laughing, and hugging random strangers. Everyone is alive. Back on Earth. There are no injuries. The crew later learns that a volcano on the island of Java had erupted. Volcanic ash is dry, so it is invisible to a Doppler radar taht just reflects moisture. The ash is also composed of billions and trillions of miniscule rock fragments with sharp edges. The dense ash had entered the airplane through the filtration system, filling the cabin with smoke and choking passsengers. The gunk in the ash had stuck to the engines, choking them up. Once the engines cooled, the ash flaked out and the engines restarted. The blue light was a phenomenon called St Elmoβs Fire basically caused by high friction of the ash particles striking the airplane at high speed. The ash particules had also scratched the windshield beyond repair. After this close call, where a quick-thinking crew and their amazing display of airmanship narrowly averted a tragedy, the pilots all recieved various awards and honors. The FAA started marking volanoes in danger of eruption. But that pilots announcement still stands out to me amid all the drama. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress. Communicationβ¦ it saves livesβ¦ Editing to add this video where I took some of the screenshots from. Itβs a dramatization alongside interviews of the incident17 points
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Listen, we all know that Nick Saban is an actual sociopath, so empathy and integrity aren't things for him. That considered, it would take more than his own interest to get up the nerve to bring Bo Davis back to Alabama. I'm not going to get into specifics, but the likelihood of Davis going back to Bama is like .0001% for a number of reasons, but the biggest one is one that never went public, sent him to the NFL, and if known, would have never gotten him through compliance at Texas. @OnAComputer and his buddies are either straight up making shit up or they are not talking to people on the Bama end. If they've actually spoken with someone on the Pruitt end that isn't enough here, and they should do a better job with their journalism.16 points
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Itβs just a Moscow Mule with an extra shot added.14 points
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My oldest daughter went into the Teach For America program upon graduating from college. When she applied, she chose "place of highest need" rather than a specific city. She assumed they'd send her to inner city Chicago, LA, Houston, NYC, whatever. She'd get to see some shit or be home while she was doing her time in the program. Instead of the inner city, they sent her to a very small town in the Mississippi delta. She taught 3rd graders and all students in MS have to pass the reading portion of their state standardized tests in 3rd grade. The elementary school had one white kid in it and a few asians and hispanics. The private school down the road would accept white kids for as little as a $5 donation if they were needs based. That school was all white, as they hadn't found a price high enough yet in order for it to make sense to enroll a non-caucasian. Segregation is still alive and well in that state. It seemed to me that black folks were fucked for life in that place. She had multiple teenagers in her class each year because they couldn't pass the test. She got stabbed. She and her students saw one classmate's dad murder another classmate's dad in front of the school one day over a drug deal gone bad. There were fistfights in her class that she was forbidden from breaking up at least weekly. Point is, small-town Mississippi is a hell of a thing. Many of these kids are fucked from day one and they've got very little exposure to much beyond walking distance. An in-state offer seems like the kind of thing that could be a really big deal. If he's flying to Austin this weekend, it might flat out blow his mind. I'm interested in seeing how it shakes out, but I'm not sanguine about things now that the idiots in Starkville have shown up. I am also curious about this dude's transcripts.13 points
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Listen here, you three times banned anti-vax sack of disingenuous dogshit. His questions or concerns should be directed to a medical doctor, not a message board. But they are not, heβs on a message board because he wants others to know heβs done his research and heβs right and all the doctors and scientists are wrong, heβs interpreted the studies himself. The only person I show antagonism towards on this entire website is shit heels like you. Get fucked.13 points
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I agree with a lot of what this post touches on. Heading into the 2021 season and then again into the 2022 season, they were getting talked up as a national power to be reckoned with by XM84, ESPN, and various online sites (of course The Athletic was fellating them, but it went beyond that), and I (along with everyone here, sure) was screaming at the radio/monitor/tv asking what in the fuck they'd actually done. There was zero inspection of the 2020 actuals, just surface level "they were a top 5 team". Never mind the rest of their history. The SEC hype machine is real, and they were benefitting. I became somewhat despondent that they'd never actually get the real, in-depth review as a cult and program that they so richly deserve. Then, aggie happened. Because ... of course. What was I worrying about? They pulled the bookshelf on top of themselves, because that's what they do. Jimbo Fisher is the second best coaching representation of an aggie that could have ever existed. No one will ever beat RC Slocum, but I will give this current midget motherfucker some credit for trying. It's glorious.12 points
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I knew they'd all overthink Arch Manning for all of the reasons that are obvious. That doesn't mean it isn't stupid. I have a good friend that oversees some of this and I asked him about Arch and the rankings. His take was this: "He's a phenom. Legtimately. Ignore everyone trying to be contrarian about him. The smart play is to bet on him being better than expected, not being outperformed by the windup guy from California or anyone else." Guys come out of the woodwork every year and many of them do so because there's so little known about them due to limited time playing the sport. That doesn't mean they can't show up and compete from Day 1. Guys playing DT don't have to know much about the sport itself. Hold the OL in place, push the OL back and penetrate, twist with the guy next to you, get lower than the guy in front of you, tackle the guy with the ball. These are things that can be taught to DT talent in a matter of days. Teach gap control over time but if you have a big dog biting you as a pup, get him in the rotation and get him on the field early. If Texas lands this guy, it isn't because they're "greyshirting" him. Honestly, those days are gone anyway.12 points
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If you go to a stadium to watch your team play a game at another stadium, you are a fucking loser.12 points
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The eternal truth the Aggies simply never understand is they simply are NOT a national brand. Doesn't matter if they grossly overpay coaches to get attention. It doesn't matter that they build great facilities. They simply never get over the hill. To be honest A&M was on the cusp of changing their brand at the end of 2020, and even closer after landing a monster class last year that helped buoy the Aggies into a top ranked team in the preseason. Then they lay an egg, and another egg, and another... Then that huge contract that was put in place to draw attention, does draw attention. But for all the wrong reasons. There is a reason that A&M is never taken seriously. They simply never have been able to rise to the occasion. In essence their brand is a joke. That they have proven and reinforced over and over again. The screenshots on this thread are a testament to the Aggie brand being something that is humorous. But god Damn they are fun to fucking laugh at!11 points
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Wordle 583 3/6 β¬π©π¨β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬π¨π¨ π©π©π©π©π© I messed up on guess #2 (didn't use the yellow letter from guess #1), but got 2 good clues anyway and found the solution in 3. Woot! Daily Quordle 364 6οΈβ£4οΈβ£ 8οΈβ£7οΈβ£ quordle.com β¬π©π¨β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π©β¬ π¨π¨π¨π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ π©π©π©π©π© π©π©β¬π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬π©β¬β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ π¨π©β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ Today's Quordle was a bit tricky. Missed on guess #5, but got lucky on guess #7, so I guess it averaged out.11 points
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Wordle 583 4/6* π¨π¨β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨π© β¬π©π©β¬π© π©π©π©π©π© NW quad...again Daily Quordle 364 9οΈβ£3οΈβ£ 5οΈβ£4οΈβ£ quordle.com β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬π©β¬β¬ β¬β¬π¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨β¬β¬π© β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©π¨π©β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©β¬π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬π©β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬π©β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ π¨π©β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ #Worldle #367 1/6 (100%) π©π©π©π©π©π βββποΈπͺ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr11 points
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fuck Wordle 582 6/6* β¬β¬π¨π¨π¨ π¨β¬π¨β¬π¨ β¬π©β¬π©π¨ β¬π©π©π©β¬ β¬π©π©π©β¬ π©π©π©π©π©11 points
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The same fucking reason we donβt provide medical care and education to our population. Half the country is in an anti-democratic brainwashed theocracy loving cult, and increasing βcritical thinkingβ doesnβt help the cults enrollment numbers.11 points
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Oh god so most of the survivors were gluten free people? I bet the rest of the survivors never stopped hearing about that10 points
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Want to criminalize anything and everything to do with sex? Texas is your nirvana! Want to devote effort and spending to infrastructure, roads, and a functioning power grid? COMMIE!10 points
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Almost got the birdie; tap-in to save par. Wordle 583 4/6 β¬β¬β¬β¬π© β¬β¬π©β¬π¨ π©β¬π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π©10 points
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Yep. And here's Estonia's backstop: Etc. etc. etc. -- being a NATO member has real advantages. Fuck with me? Meet my friends.....9 points
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The idea of preferring a chain link fence in my back yard is so foreign I cannot answer the question without my head exploding. But you post here so yes, you are the asshole.9 points
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I agree with @burntorangebongos Wordle 583 6/6* β¬β¬β¬β¬π© π¨π¨β¬β¬π© β¬β¬π©π¨π© β¬π©π©β¬π© β¬π©π©β¬π© π©π©π©π©π©9 points
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