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GoPokes83

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  1. Jesus?  Those 12 dudes, Mary M., the server at the last Supper, The Holy Spirit (nobody can ever explain who that dude was/is), uh.....Donkey Dong Doug, Roscoe the One-Armed Midget, and Frank Stallone.  

    I can totally believe Frank Stallone.
  2. I'm one of those weird people who uses commas, periods and the like in my texts. 

    I was chided relentlessly on TOS for run on sentences. I’ve been writing shit like it’s for a middle school English grade ever since.
    Both Beyonce and the grand old opry are fucking stupid.

    You’re half right.
  3. With the real shit some of you have going on I hate to even mention it, but a couple of weeks ago felt like I had a bad stone bruise on my left heal that wouldn’t go away and it got continually worse. Freakin Planter Fasciitis. Been using an ice regimen and doing some foot stretches, bought an orthotic but damnit that shits annoyingly and surprisingly painful! Every freaking step! Doctor was no help to speak of, is this a permanent thing?

  4. Daughter: Is JoJo Siwa still alive?
    Me: [Googles JoJo Siwa]...yes.

    Oh yeah… She’s still around, kinda. She’s decided to be a “bad” girl now and put out a song with the word bitch in it to prove it. Baby 83 says it’s the same cringe, different clothes. a7df34168c56b57d788ac65720f5a4db.jpg
  5. Toilet paper is not flushed in Mexico. Every bathroom has a trash can for TP. My GF refuses to flush TP here in Austin.

    Couple of rat traps in the wastebasket at random times? She’ll learn the virtues of first world plumbing soon enough.
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  6. Looking at flights just now and wife wants to choose a 5:30am flight out of AUS on a Friday morning instead of one a couple of hours later because it's $100 cheaper.  It's worth $100 to me to not have to deal with the airport at the absolute busiest time on the busiest day of the week.

    100 total or 100 each? Hundie and I’m sleeping in, two and we’re setting the alarm.
  7.  
    Massive attack destroys one of Ukraine’s largest power plants
    A massive missile and drone attack destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest power plants and damaged others, officials said Thursday, part of a renewed Russian campaign targeting energy infrastructure.
    The Trypilska plant, which was the biggest energy supplier for the Kyiv, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr regions, was struck numerous times, destroying the transformer, turbines and generators and leaving the plant ablaze. As the first drone approached, workers hid in a shelter, saving their lives, said Andrii Hota, director of the state company that runs the plant, Centrenergo.
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    The plant supplied electricity to 3 million customers — but none lost power because the grid was able to compensate since demands are low at this time of year. Still, the consequences of the strikes could be felt in the coming months, as air conditioning use ramps up with summer.
    At least 10 other strikes overnight damaged energy infrastructure in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said more than 200,000 people in the region, which has been struck repeatedly, were without power.
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    Russia has recently renewed strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities, and attacks last month blacked out large parts of the country — a level of darkness not seen since the first days of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
    The volume and accuracy of the attacks have alarmed the country’s defenders and left officials scrambling for better ways to defend energy assets. The strikes have also tested Ukraine’s ability to make quick repairs.
    Ukraine’s leaders have pleaded for more air defense systems to ward off such attacks, but those supplies have been slow in coming.
    “Today’s situation demonstrates that there’s nothing left to shoot down” the missiles, Hota said.

    Does Ukraine not have the ability to somehow retaliate in kind? Are Moscow’s power plants so well guarded that random attacks by small covert groups couldn’t work? Wasn’t that long ago that some asshat with a rifle put a ton of Texans in the dark just shooting up one substation.

    Why isn’t Ukraine hitting Russians where they live? At this point are they really worried about being labeled terrorists by doing the same thing Russia is doing on a daily basis? Bring the war home and let them get fed up with constant fear of a car bomb and continual inconveniences. What do I know, but it’s worked before.
  8. Our pole was a steel pole that a friend of my dad’s cut and welded for us. It was secured in the ground with a post hole digger.  No concrete at first.
    The backboard was a composite board for a week or two until the pole fell over in a storm. Then it was a plywood backboard for the remainder of its life.  When the goal was re-raised, it was secured in concrete, which lasted. 
    The court was our dirt driveway/parking lot. There were random rocks and sand patches, so dribbling was interesting. 
    There was no pavement within 2 miles of my house. 

    Did I write this post? Because it’s my exact story! Only my dad put the hoop like 9’8” which was off just enough to screw up my training and kept me from going pro! (I’m assuming)
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