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Beantown Express 2.0

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  1. I have to go to a bourbon tasting party tomorrow and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a bottle under $50 that would be good to go buy and bring.  I don't want to bring the good stuff but I also don't want to poison these people.  Was thinking something different (not makers, woodford, wild turkey, etc...) but still decent.

  2. 18 hours ago, dcbc said:

    I avoided taking a statin for years, focused on diet, lost weight, etc.  But the LDL continued to be a problem.  I have a sister who is eleven years older than I am.  She is in great shape, exercises, eats well, doesn't drink or smoke, and also has high cholesterol.  That's a fairly good indicator that my less than stellar numbers were genetic.  Even after getting a CT-Calcium scan (scored zero), I finally decided to give it a try.  Doctor put me on 10mg of Lipitor 3x per week.  My cholesterol and Triglyceride numbers are great now.  I take Co-Q-10 daily as well (supposed to help with the muscle pain).  I had some muscle pain for the first week or so, but nothing since then.

    Doc just prescribed 10mg Crestor daily.  He said based on family history it looks like genetics may be causing the high LDL as my father and brother have it also.  I feel like my life is ending by getting put on cholesterol medicine for some reason.  Don't know how to explain that.  

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  3. I hate having to search and bump this thread but after years of being borderline for high cholesterol I just did my annual physical and the labs came back really bad for my lipids.  I have to talk with the doctor tomorrow about what the next steps are.  I am now at 229 total cholesterol (been 200-210 for the last 20 years) with the LDL at 168 which is the doctor's concern.  My LDL has never been that high but spiked on this blood test compared to previous years.  Not sure how concerned I should be in him recommending a Statin or if he tells me to go the diet and exercise route.  

  4. 1 minute ago, Lurch said:

     


    Nice. You know it’s in there

     

    Yeah.  I had a triple on a par 3 where I got hosed by hitting the ball into a deep bunker right against the lip.  Then hit the lip and it wedged on the side of the trap where I had to stand outside the bunker and hit a ball in the bunker below my feet which hit the lip again.  Still shot 41 and really didn’t have any crazy long putts drop (none) or any crazy chips that went in or anything like that so if that stuff happens then I could definitely break 40 on 9 holes and 80 on 18 which has been my goal for about 30 years. 

  5. Been struggling getting adjusted to my new clubs for about 2 months now but I am finally getting used to them and the distances for the irons/wedges.  Shot a 41 on the front 9 at my course today which is my best 9 holes ever there  (As a 15 handicap this is good for me).   Screwed up the back 9 with a 46 for a overall 87.  Being able to hit irons that actually have great loft is something I have never been able to do but now with my new sticks it is happening quite often and making me love golf again.  Same goes for the driver actually getting a good ball flight versus what I used to do, low line drives.  

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  6. 20 minutes ago, Hate said:

    The Grateful Dead when Brent Mydland joined in 1979.

    I was gonna say the Dead once that bum Jerry Garcia croaked and they were able to add some real musicians like John Mayer but I figure that might offend some on here.  

     

    I kid, I kid.

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  7. 14 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    The problem is that Fox News is going to use this to accuse the Dems of controlling the FBI and using them to do their political bidding. 

    All any of the Fox puppets are going to hear is, "Hillary wasn't prosecuted, Biden won't be prosecuted, and Trump will be prosecuted!  And they all did the same thing!  Isn't it outrageous?!"

    This is a really bad weapon to hand the Tucker Carlsons of the world.

    I would normally agree with you but at this point Fox and the Tuckers of the world will spin anything into how evil Biden and the Dems are and the people that watch them will believe whatever they are told so it really doesn’t matter that much.  I mean, if you have been watching Fox News for the last couple of years they have been saying Biden runs a criminal enterprise where his entire family is enriching itself from the Presidency.  It’s a good thing Trump and his family never did that kind of stuff.  Oh wait, there is proof of the Trumps doing it and none whatsoever of Biden actually running a criminal enterprise yet Right wing media keeps spewing that onto the airwaves?  Oh well, never the less. 

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  8. 13 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    Is that 2 straight years where they fired a coach after only 1 season? 

    There's very little talent and no QB. What are they expecting to happen?

    I’m guessing that since they are going to draft Bryce Young at QB they want someone that can help groom him to be a top NFL QB.   They should just hire his current OC at Bama as the new Head Coach of the Texans to make sure Young is in a comfortable situation.  

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  9. 5 hours ago, campcrunk said:

    My sem-literate-Twitter-idiot-squid language skills are limited - broken at best - but that's definitely what it looks like is being implied (Harrison, Jr. to USC). If so, wow. Riley's just making more and more friends wherever he goes

    Harrison might be the one player in the country I wish Texas would "break the bank" for if he really is leaving Ohio State to go to somewhere else. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, tokamak said:

    Joining the thread for the first time. I don't understand McCarthy's play here. Why not just cave to the loonies and give them everything they want? It's not like he's some sort of moderate that gives a fuck about policy or anything - literally all he wants in life is to be speaker, everything else be damned.

    I believe he did cave to everything they wanted and then they said fuck that shit what we really want is you not to be speaker.  

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  11. 3 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    nah she's toast. she barely won last november and will probably lose in 2024. 

    she'll do a rant about how her election was stolen, get a lawyer or two disbarred on stupid lawsuits, then start an onlyfans channel while she rides a dildo called "Donald's Dick."

    she's fucking done.

    You underestimate the stupidity of the American public but I hope you’re right.

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  12. 6 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Thats the longest I've ever listened to that moron. She is galactically stupid. 

    In the real world she is unbelievably stupid but in the MAGA world she is actually smart in that she knows how to do the con.  She says, “ Inflation, guns, the border, send me money and vote for me” and she knows that more than 50% of the moronic voters in her district will vote for her and keep her in power.  

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