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  1. 44 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

    They named the girl Bennett? 

    Bro they are suburban white people from Alabama. We should just be thankful it's not Bynnyttleigh.

    38 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    split by race / wealth right?

    Sometimes they pack a few sympatico demographics together. Looking at this map, 18 is pretty much Blacks and 29 is Latinos. But 38 is a mix of super rich old money whites and exurban aggy whites. 9 is mostly Black but with a sprinkling of both well off and working class whites. 7 is actually quite a mashup of rich whites, yuppie whites, Blacks, and (South) Asians.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Not a cat said:

    I played that for my teenage son once and he says G-reg was the best rapper of all of them.  Spitting bars, as the kids say.

    He might be. They weren't exactly Wu-Tang. IIRC, G-reg and one other guy were passable and the rest were straight trash.

  3. Yeah getting ready by the 20th seems like a stretch. I assume people will be out of town for spring break this month (myself included).

    Maybe post on the baseball board to see if we can get some more participants? Or we could try AL/NL only if we don't get many more. Never done that before but that might be a better option than everyone having stacked superteams.

  4. 15 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

    Was there. There was hope in the air after Garrett Gilbert looked decent in the championship game months before. Then we looked like dogshit against a bad opponent. Rice went 4-8 that year, later giving up an average of 60 points against the likes of Tulsa and Tulane. So it's not like Gilbert was facing a functional defense. 

    Bless Sark for rescuing us from a dozen years of ineptitude that began in Reliant Stadium that dark day.

    The pregame and postgame difference could not have been more stark. I was euphoric walking in to the stadium, I remember it clearly. By the 2nd half the stadium was like a morgue. No excitement, no enthusiasm whatosever from fans or team.

    Damn right on Sark. We are just in such a better place right now. I mean, thanks to them for their service to Texas football and all, but check out our offensive skill position "talent" from that day: GG, Tre Newton, Cody Johnson, Fozzy Whittaker, Malcolm Williams, Marquise Goodwin, John Chiles. Yech. Hats off to Goodwin for hanging around the NFL for several years, but the rest of that group is pretty rough.

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  5. 2 hours ago, 'stache said:

    I'll die on this hill if necessary: It's the coaches (and the owner since real coaches won't work for him). You don't win 12 games and get the 2nd seed without the talent being there, including at QB and the lines. Bad coaching is what gets that team down 20-0 to start a playoff game against the lowest seed in the playoffs and failing to even fight back. That's shitty game planning, shitty playcalling, and shitty in-game coaching.

    Nobody else wanted McCarthy or Zimmer. Quinn was always the loser that blew that Super Bowl lead. Kellen Moore only got the job because he was a Jerry yes man, and he's only still around because I guess someone else thinks he might be salvageable at his age (I give it a 5% chance he is still a coach in 5 years). We couldn't even find an offensive coordinator willing to work with McCarthy or Jerry. It's the fucking shithead coaches and the fact that not only would Jerry never consider a young up and comer coach, the type that is leading the league into a new era, but that none of them are going to work for a piece of shit like Jerry. I'm calling it now, after we fail yet again next year, McCarthy will get fired, and Jerry will just promote Zimmer, because why not, he's old and washed up, just like Jerry likes 'em.

    I think it's the culture of the organization. There's no way to have so many talented teams on paper and not make it to a single NFC Championship game in 30 years unless something in the organization is rotten to the core. Jerry treats the players and coaches as his buddies and playthings, he doesn't demand excellence from them. Strive for greatness every fucking day or you'll be replaced by someone who will. You haven't accomplished shit just by being on the Dallas Cowboys.

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  6. 56 minutes ago, hook me said:

    No no. Now that it's been started it must be completed. We must punish ourselves by posting/reading about how bad we were from 2010-2022. This is Surly's Law & there is no escape.

    I got you fam.

    I had just moved to Houston in the fall of 2010. I was so excited for the first game against Rice, just minutes from my new home! We had just played for the MNC! We were ranked #5 preseason! This is the year! I was fucking hammered by kickoff.

    And then....we kinda looked shitty. HornFans or Shaggy, can't remember which we were on back then, did its usual "a win is a win! some of y'all will never be happy!", but nothing could hide the fact that we looked bad against a bad Rice team.

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  7. Actually one last parting shot before I’m out. Anyone posting stuff like “Trump is only winning 70% and that is very bad for him” needs to shut the fuck up. That is a terrible take. Nikki Haley is a big name, was a governor and UN ambassador, and had a lot of money behind her. If someone like, say, Pete Buttigeig was running against Biden, he’d be siphoning off 35% too. 

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  8. Do y’all want to see how fucked we are?

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1b7pfa2/how_are_you_feeling_about_the_inevitable_trump_v/

    One trillion upvotes this morning for variations on “these guys both suck”. Not one single top post calling out the false equivalency. 

    I think I’m done with this thread and this election cycle. Quickly losing my will to give a fuck. If a majority of voters think there’s any comparison at all between these two guys, we deserve every last shit sandwich headed our way. 

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  9. 22 hours ago, Skipper said:

    Anybody got a link to a cheat sheet for less batshit crazy republicans?  I'm an independent that will be voting D in the fall (outside of some local races in Dallas) but not following any of this closely outside of obvious vote for Haley to the extent I vote tomorrow.

    I googled "Ken Paxton primary endorsements" and just voted the opposite lol. I'm not joking.

    21 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    Depending on where you live tomorrow is potentially the de facto general election. That's probably the biggest one.

    Lawyers/Houston folks - any particular judicial recommendations to sell me on for judicial seats in the Democratic primary? There are so many in Harris County and it can be hard to find good information. 

    I was a juror in Kyle Carter's court (125th) a few years back. He was very professional and seemed to run a nice tight ship from what I could tell. Also had an Earl Campbell Texas jersey hanging in his office. Not sure why he attracted primary challengers. That's all I got on judicial races.

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  10. 49 minutes ago, Slacks said:

    5'11 165 is the equivalent of 153 or so at 5'10.

    X is the size I was coming out of HS, but a lot faster.

    He needs about 15 pounds.

    He’s been 165 since he stepped on campus. At this point, I don’t think it’s happening. 

  11. I watched LA Confidential for the first time last night. Always wanted to see it, just never have. It's on Netflix now.

    I ate a large gummy before watching so I was definitely all up inside my head the whole time. Before I get attacked, I agree that it's a great movie overall and I was thoroughly entertained. That said, in my altered state of mind a couple things stuck out at me:

    1. The lead characters sometimes came across as caricatures with one-dimensional motivations, especially Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe. I did feel like they hinted at something a little deeper with Kevin Spacey (who was great, even though we now know he's a creep). Some of the dialogue was very on the nose, and the characters' big dramatic revelations were telegraphed.
    2. Along the same lines, Kim Basinger's character basically just existed to be a sex object for the lead male characters. I skimmed a little bit and was surprised that contemporary reviews didn't call them out more for this.

    I couldn't decide as I watched if the filmmakers deliberately made these choices as an homage/tribute to real old school film noir type stuff, or if these were just flaws in the script. Definitely want to rewatch it while sober and see what I think.

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  12. 19 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:


    I’m not saying it’s right, first and foremost.

     

    But Apple would say, if you just bought a Mac, you wouldn’t need a browser version, as it’s a built in app.

     

    so it’s not an issue for me, with my MBP.

     

    I understand your yelp complaints. And I have the same for google, as they are also trash. I’d be ok if either removed all reviews from the apps. Let me seek out validation separately. 

    Didn’t realize there is a Mac app. I use Windows PCs at work and at home. Even so, I still find it strange there’s no web version. There’s web Apple Music, for example. And they let people embed Apple Maps (DuckDuckGo, for example), so it seems like the technology is already pretty much in existence.

    I could rant all day about Siri. It’s shit. My (least) favorite thing ours does is when you say “add red salsa to the grocery list” it adds “red” and “salsa” separately. Every. Fucking. Time. Ask for green salsa? No problem. Purple salsa? No fucking problem. Red salsa? Fuck you, human.

     

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  13. The problem with Apple Maps is that its reviews are through Yelp. Obviously reviews on Google Maps have their own set of issues, but Yelp is pure trash.

    Also, no web version of Apple Maps is just fucking silly. It's never going to replace Google Maps entirely for me because I can't, for example, save a map of interesting restaurants before I go on a trip. I guess Gen Z will happily do shit like that on their phone, but I want a real web interface and mouse and keyboard.

  14. 13 hours ago, Js1 said:

    It’s unlikely he loses any states he won. Maybe 1 (GA) but Dems have done nothing but keep winning in WI, MI, PA, AZ, NV since 2020

    I wish I shared some of y'all's optimism. Biden won GA, AZ, and WI by a COMBINED 40k votes, out of 11.5 million cast in those states. That's nothing. That's noise in the data. And that was when Joe was 4 years younger, and everyone was sick of 4 years of Trump chaos, and Trump was thick in the middle of his shitty handling of the pandemic and the associated economic crisis.

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