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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Big part of why Otz isn’t leaving ISU. His wife is ISU WBB royalty. She’s also an Aussie who considers central Iowa her American home
  2. Down to 27 by Sunday. Roller coaster never ends.
  3. To steer the convo away from Nazis, this is really making me angry lately... My in-laws have all of their packages delivered to our house, because they believe delivery services won't take packages to their house. We live in town, they live out in the country, but right on a 4 lane Federal highway. My MIL used to work at their county courthouse, and she would have things delivered to a PO Box in that town. Now that she's retired, she was worried that she wouldn't be going to town every day and it would become inconvenient. My wife works in the same town (which is not the town we live in), so when they have the packages delivered to our house, my wife has to load them up and bring them to work with her. My MIL then runs into town (the same town she has a PO box) to get them out of the car. A couple of times we've been out of town in the winter, and they've had something delivered that could freeze. So I had to call a buddy to go by the house and pick it up. This whole thing is fucking insane, but if I make a big deal out of it, it will turn into a shitfest who's downside will dramatically outweigh the upside of them having packages delivered to their easily accessible home like sane people would. I brought up the idea of anonymously mailing them a gift last night, and my wife yelled at me for "trying to make her parents feel stupid" and "prove a point". They're (my in-laws) all very protective of each others' irrational neuroses and get offended when I push against them. It's not a hill worth dying on, but it fuck, it makes me annoyed.
  4. McCasland isn’t leaving for Aggy. I doubt he leaves at all. Tech has a rabid fanbase and good NIL situation. He’s in the Elite 8 in year 2 (or is it 3? I can’t keep track of time anymore).
  5. You'll have to excuse me, assuming derision from others is baked into the Midwestern ethos. Part of why we can't take compliments for shit. Fantasy Factory is great when fresh. It's a little leaner/lighter flavor profile from something like Two Hearted. Agreed that fairly recently the Midwest was big on those kind of IPAs. That's when I really started getting into them. Surly Furious is in a similar vein.
  6. I dunno, but he's always been one of my favorite posters. Invited me to go riding with him a few years back when I was vacationing in Yellowstone. I think he was in the Pocatello ID area.
  7. Been missing @Braff Zacklin from the basketball and mountain biking discussions for a minute.
  8. Al_4_ISU

    Boognish

    So many people with similar taste to me are super into Ween, but I've never quite gotten it at the same level. Although "Piss Up a Rope" just cracks me up to no end.
  9. I took at his him saying it looked like shit, and Midwest IPAs are shit, which is a wildly ignorant take of course. IMO there's no specific kind of IPA/APA that is unique to the Midwest, but there are plenty of Midwest breweries making world class IPAs/APAs. Toppling Goliath, New Glarus, 3 Floyds, Black Stack, Pipeworks, Half Acre. I could go on.
  10. My wife is a UNI alum/former athlete, and that happened a couple years after we graduated college. We were watching at a sports bar in Des Moines, and the whole place went absolutely apeshit. Everyone was united because Iowa fans mostly went to UNI and cheer for them on the side, and the ISU fans hate Kansas. 2 years later we were in Lawrence for an ISU/KU football game, and we were at a dive bar getting Bloody Marys and the bartender goes "did you guys go to Iowa State?" and my wife responds "he did, but I went to Northern Iowa". Bartender looks at her and dead-ass serious goes "I wouldn't mention that to too many people today". Dude's a Midwest legend, and a lot of UNI fans are crushed that they couldn't get him back to Cedar Falls to coach, but assuming he does well at CSU he's on his way to bigger things".
  11. Just start funneling money on the Florida line.
  12. I have family in VA Beach and they always go to Harris Teeter’s. Surely I went past Krogers there and just didn’t notice
  13. I've only seen them in Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, so do what you will with that information.
  14. It sure does.
  15. I'm just quoting you, genius. I don't know that Elon Musk is a Nazi, but it's much in the same that I don't know he's a man. It sure looks like he's a man, but I've never seen his balls so how can I be sure? Unlike visual evidence of Elon's manhood, I have seen him give a Nazi salute and parrot talking points that very closely resemble Nazi positions. Maybe, maybe it doesn't mean he's a Nazi. But it sure looks like Nazism.
  16. So in order to be a Nazi you have to register with a party?
  17. I've been to both towns a few times, and I just have way more fun in Fort Collins. My wife and I went out in Boulder on a Saturday night with school in session back in 2019 or so and we were the youngest people everywhere we went. We were like 34 at the time. Boudler feels more like a place for old wealthy retirees, and Fort Collins feels like an actual college town. Although the view in Boulder is definitely better.
  18. Fort Collins > Boulder, IMHO.
  19. You ready for an in-law from Chicago?
  20. These guys popped up another place I frequent, and I'm hooked. Definite MJ vibe. Or "chill version of Wednesday". Which is kind of the same thing.
  21. Semis that are governed at 65.1 MPH trying to pass semis governed at 65 MPH across the entire god damn state of Iowa on I-80.
  22. Exactly. And it's worse when you've been friends for 25 years, in each other's weddings, etc. You feel like a prick asking, but I'm anal about never leaving any unfinished financial business.
  23. When we get together with the guys I grew up with, one wife is always super slow to Venmo things back - if at all. I don't think it's intentional, but it's fucking annoying.
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