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  1. 8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I don't play with capos, my ear can't handle the disconnect between chord shape and pitch.  If I pluck behind the nut it certainly doesn't sound good.  But, just stretching the string behind the nut does change the tension and drives it sharp.  Why do it there, though?

    Beats the hell out of me.

    But Jason Isbell and I are both guitar players in the same way that Aaron Donald and I were both defensive linemen.

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  2. On 3/1/2025 at 10:28 AM, jimmyjazz said:

    I wonder how many wedding receptions have kicked off with this daddy/daughter dance?  I'm gonna fucking lose it when that day comes.

     

    This Isbell song has always struck me as appropriate for that day as well.

     

  3. 3 hours ago, irishtexan said:

    Tomatoes have their place. When in season and picked fresh from the garden, they're the star of a BLT. 

    That being said, tomatoes have no place on a burger or a melt of any kind. All they do is make everything soggy. 

    This is my one and only "raw tomato on a sandwich" exception.  And a fine one it is.

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  4. If anyone's curious in outsider (who has visited a fair amount) perspective...

    Texas is kind of a mini United States inside the United States.  Because it is so fucking big, it encompasses a dramatic mix of landscapes and biomes.  It has a unique blend of cultural influences from the Spanish who set up missions, Mexicans who came north, Germans and Czechs who came overseas, and settlers from the American southeast who brought slavery (and therefore a major African influence) with them.  This fairly unique stew of influences created some truly native cuisine and music - both of which are often really damn good.  It also has the unusual (but not wholly unique) distinction of having been a sovereign nation for a brief period of time.

    All of this contributes to the mix of pride and exceptionalism that is simultaneously admirable and nauseating.  It's admirable because having pride in one's home is an absolutely essential ingredient to ensure investment in that place's success, and Texans are fucking invested.  It's nauseating because it helps breeds an incredible amount of insularity, ignorance, and tribalistic isolation.  I think it's cool as hell that people in Texas fly the state flag everywhere and are fiercely proud of Texan artists and Texan cuisine.  I think it's fucking ridiculous that Bud Light has to slap the state outline on the label to sell it's product.  I'm almost positive I could stamp a lone star into cowpies, and sell them at Buccees.  I'm also envious of how you can roll into some tiny town in absolute nowhere Texas and find a crazy good band tearing it up on a Saturday night.

    America right now is in the middle of being divided between urban and rural, and the differences in culture from one state to another are becoming less.  Texas is politically in the same place as all other states controlled by Republicans.  The unique spirit of it's people seems to still come through, but who knows for how long.  Who knows how long that will exist anywhere.

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  5. 51 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    The very first time I ever heard that usage was in a casual conversation about 25 years ago when talking to someone from Ohio. At the time, it felt like a wrong note or one that was out of tune being struck, but I couldn't figure out why it sounded so discordant. It actually bugged me off and on for a little while afterward until I realized, "Wait a damn second. She actually meant 'nowadays."

    Then, I started noticing it used by other Midwesterners and went to look it up, and I feel like I see it more and more nowadays (SWIDT?).

    You pointed this out to me recently and it blew my mind that this was a regional oddity.  I had never noticed it.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

    I just meant that celebrating Independence Day for Texas is not the same thing as celebrating MAGA culture in Texas in 2025. 

    The Texas Revolution and the whole origin story of defeating Mexico is awesome. Being the only state that was it's own country before being annexed a state of the U.S. is awesome. Texas history is awesome.

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  7. On 6/22/2024 at 5:26 PM, Scary Stranger said:


    There's an impossible amount of good looking girls in Sudsburry Canada.

    FIFY.

    I have family in Winnipeg, and a night on the town with them is absolutely something else.  All their friends are smoke shows.  Hell, even the fat one is extremely pretty in the face.

    I don't really get it, because IMO, in the US there's not a significant difference from one part of the country to another.  Some places have a lot of good looking women, but those places all have plenty of nasty at the same time. 

    You just never see truly ugly chicks in Canada.

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Think they said the final 2 min of the aggy game took 35 real time minutes 

    When you say it out loud it sounds like pure hyperbole, but I 100% believe this.

    I can't tell you how many games I've just started watching on ESPN+ because of how long the previous game was taking, and then just end up watching the whole game on that app.  Which is exactly what ESPN wants.

  9. They have to do something about the last 1:00 of college basketball games.  Prior to an ISU game a few weeks ago, there was a game where :10 seconds of game that took 13 minutes of actual time.

  10. 10 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    watched The Gorge on AppleTV. 

    this is Anja Taylor Joy, who Hollywood tells the public is the hottest it-girl:

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    Preach.  She looks like someone told AI to create a hot robot.

  11. 1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    2021: OSU was 9-1 and ranked No. 9 in the country, TCU was 4-6.

    2022: OSU was 5-1 and TCU was 6-0 and ranked No. 3 in the country.

    2024: OSU was 3-7 and TCU was 6-4, also in the same time slot as Bama-LSU.

    You don't think that might have had something to do with the difference? Plenty of Big 12 games made it to decent timeslots and did fine (including some not involving CU). Nowhere near a UT or tOSU game, but in line with the contract. Before our season went to complete shit OSU-Arky drew 2.8M even though it was up against UT-UM (it certainly helped that your game was a blowout and ours went to double overtime). The biggest problem the Big 12 will likely have going forward is cannibalism where it will be difficult for one program to win out and make it into the Top 10 with any regularity. It is what it is, the games are still fun, and there's plenty of timeslots available. I doubt it helps to say it for the 40th time, but I and most other Big 12 fans (on this board especially) undertand the difference in ratings and TV contracts. It seems about right to me, I just always will push back against "nobody watches" or the notion that the Big 12 contract should be zero'd out in 2031, that type of hyperbole is just asinine.

    Statsman jerks off to this idea.  Just let him.

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  12. 6 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

    Interesting setup. How do you keep the fillings from falling out when the sandwich is finalized?  

    I'm thinking you hold on for dear life and keep a fork handy.

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