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  1. If you get stuck on a wakeboat, something like this would be a much better buy than the Malibu. Whatever you do, get it inspected and there is always room to negotiate.

    https://www.onlyinboards.com/2009-Nautique-Super-Air-Nautique-230-for-sale-Montgomery-Texas-160732.aspx

    Another decent buy if you could get it into the mid 30’s.

    https://www.onlyinboards.com/2008-Supra-Launch-22SSV-for-sale-Crystal-Minnesota-160145.aspx

    If you are going to go trailered option, get someone to go with you the first time and go during an off time. Bad things happen on a ramp when people get stressed. Wake boats also don’t steer in reverse which makes that whole process difficult until you get the hang of it, especially if wind/waves are involved. You can really f-up a wake boat in a trailering situation.

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  2. 8 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    What should this boat be worth? Looks nice...

    https://www.boattrader.com/boat/2006-malibu-sunscape-23-lsv-8951683/

    What additional questions should I ask the guy?

    Personally, hard pass. They are asking Wakesetter pricing for a Sunscape and hoping they get it. It’s been a while since I kept up with older v drives, but the Sunscape likely sits on their Diamond Hull which is a longer version of their old slalom hull with modifications. It has no following to justify that pricing on an ‘06.

    I’m a wakeboat guy through and through, have had quite a few across multiple brands and from every decade since the 90’s at this point. You need a better idea of what you want to do with a boat and what the water is like. Wakeboats aren’t good for cruising, they aren’t good for rough water (especially older ones), they aren’t good for pulling into a beach and hanging out, etc. What they are good for is moving max people, being easy to work on, versatile for different water sports, etc but they are ultimately designed for specific uses and if your use doesn’t line up then there are better options.

    There is nothing wrong with I/O’s if you want to ride around and pull a tube occasionally. You could find a 24 foot Cobalt in you range that will hold it’s value like a wakeboat. If I’m going wetslip only, I’m buying a pontoon and never looking back just for the record. Tilt the motor up and I only have to worry about cleaning aluminum tubes occasionally. It’s a floating dock that will carry everything you would ever want. My older kids prefer the pontoon and jet ski’s at this point which is why I’m out of the wake game at this point until grandkids come along. Severely herniating two discs on a board last year helped that decision along as well.

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  3. On 7/27/2023 at 6:52 PM, Gatorubet said:

    I’m confused.

    Where in that scenario does the winner of the Surly Sniper Rifle Delivery Lottery get to approach the gorgeous Ukrainian wimmins and explain how you took time off from your massively successful business ventures in the United States to deliver this sniper rifle to kill Russians, who threaten beautiful women like them?

    I’ve seen how this plays out on Pornhub, in for $100.

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  4. 8 hours ago, Juicy said:

    This is the career I would like, I would say he is about as fringe as it gets. 13 years 16 games played. 31 mil made. Seems like a decent living to me. 

     

    https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/tampa-bay-buccaneers/drew-stanton-3331/cash-earnings/

     

    That’s not fringe. That’s a top percentile NFL career. The latest numbers say the average NFL career is right around 3 years and less than $3M in earnings. QB’s and kickers prop up the first number, QB’s prop up the second number. Something like 80% have spent their earnings 3 years post playing. The numbers are pretty crazy when you dig into them, but guys that get a taste of playing and game checks blow everything chasing another shot. We have a group that works with them to invest, live cheaply, and avoid their families to try and give them a shot post playing because the percentage that sign a second contract is extremely low. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, Brothahorn said:

    Sounds like a fun job. When you say fringe, do you mean like a journey qb type? Like a guy who makes $1.1 million or something for 8-9 years? Or a guy who is bad with money or lives in an expensive city?
     

     

    Guys at the bottom of the roster that are playing on non-guaranteed minimum contracts. If they are active roster, they get paid the minimum which is pretty decent now. If they get pushed to practice squad at some point, they get 20% or thereabouts of their minimums that they get while active. If they get cut, they are not getting paid at all.

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  6. On 7/25/2023 at 12:37 PM, HRSchenker said:

    Only for mixed drinks or beers on tap. Never for opening a bottle. 

    That’s BS for the record. The bartender and servers in restaurants always get tipped because they are making $2 an hour. To go, sit down, whatever, they get tipped something. If you frequent places like we do, tipping well makes a world of difference in service. The 5-6 places we eat regularly, service is great for the type of restaurant it is.

    Fast casual places I’ll leave a couple bucks, valets always get tipped well (there for a few days and magically your vehicle shows up a lot faster), hair cut gets tipped well, etc. If it’s a low paid service based deal, then I just consider it the cost of doing business.

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  7. 23 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:


    Btw that rigged system will pay $7.16 billion to players in 2023. There are roughly 2280 players so that’s $3.1m avg. obviously some make much more, others don’t. That’s a huge transfer of wealth every year. Few businesses hand over half their TOP LINE revenue to their employees before any costs are calculated. They aren’t sharecroppers choppin cotton down in Groesbeck.

    That’s a very Pollyanna view of the NFL economics. I do tax and other work for probably a dozen NFL players and a couple of agents. Most of the guys operate on the fringe. Outside the top players, it’s a pretty terrible business. It has improved significantly the last few years, but the economics aren’t great. I talked to a guy last week that was probably going to get rostered in an expensive, high tax city and he was trying to figure out housing as a UDFA knowing he could be cut/dropped to practice squad at any time in season.

    As far as your point on total salary cost, any business where people are the product are going to be in that ballpark. My payroll costs are in that ballpark as a percentage of revenue.

  8. 10 hours ago, Okie State said:
    10 hours ago, Longhornsnus said:
    What is the value proposition for wanting your daughter to be in a sorority, again? Is it solely trying to put her in the best light for a potential husband who can provide a higher probability of success/comfort?
    That feels a bit...barbaric. But I'll allow it, we are but barbarians in silks styled by Italians.

    I have the same question. I don't understand the point of any of it.

    I will say that my oldest is looking at a couple of high end out of state schools that no one she knows attends. In her mind it’s a way to start off with built in friends, be involved in something that will benefit her post undergrad, these schools have extensive Greek cultures with much better housing situations, etc. The consultant comes into play to see how many rungs up that ladder she can go. I think it’s all bullshit, but at this point with what I’m going to drop for college it doesn’t matter.

    I’m much more disturbed by how tight money/admittance is for a kid with extensive involvement, high GPA, high ACT, numerous AP’s, etc. I always assumed she would have her pick of where she wanted to go with money available from most. Yeah, that isn’t the case by a long shot. That process has been a bit of kick in the nuts. 

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  9. One side of me says season 3 has to be the Carmy redemption story since he’s helped everyone else find their purpose and they’ve built up how deep his connections are and the respect everyone else has for him. The other side of me says that based on the direction of the show it could just as easily be the Carmy goes further off the rails and the mental issues take hold story. I’m hoping for the first because personally I was a little disappointed they didn’t leave him in a little better place personally at the end of the season.

    It’s such an interesting, intense show. It was definitely a lot to sit down over the weekend and knock it out in a few days. By the end of the fishes episode, it was like do we really want to keep going on this. Forks was definitely the right follow up episode to that one.

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  10. I don’t think I would have sentimental attachment to anything, but I also don’t have anything from my grandparents or parents. They never had much so there wasn’t much to give. I know there is still childhood stuff at my mom’s house that I could have now or will have to deal with later, but I don’t have any use for it and don’t want it.

    Personally, if there was something of value I think it would come down to whether I use it or want it, if not then I’m not holding on to it.

  11. 12 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Couldn’t you just buy her a $4000 handbag and get the same result?

    She can borrow one from her mom if that’s all we need to do. I’m pulling for her sticking with no sorority or one of the schools where it doesn’t matter. However, I’ve listened to enough of this crap at this point to accept that it makes a difference at certain schools. I also was naive enough to think grades, GPA, and the right involvement would walk her into pretty much any school she wanted. That’s not the case any more either.

  12. Oldest daughter has looked into this. She’s a senior this year and works with a consultant now on college prep. I thought it was dumb until we looked at the stats on college admittance into those top tier schools which is where she wants to go. Grades, scores, etc are only a part of it and the kids coming out of her private school have better school  acceptance rates using a consultant. Sororities at the top tier schools are the same way listening to the college consultant. Assuming my kid decides to pledge (she doesn’t currently) I’m sure I’ll be writing that check while I cuss under my breath.

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  13. 25 minutes ago, Hate said:

    Wait, are y’all saying that to be a Texan I have to know who Jason Isbell is and to know who music well enough to know that someone else I’ve never heard of covered a song of his??? Now that’s a stupid fucking comment.

    I always get a kick out of the people that pop in with “who?” comments when referencing well known people. Wait, no I I don’t, it’s dumb.

    24 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Today I leaned that an aroused vagina is basically lynching. 

    Welcome to the deep south where sex is taboo and history didn’t actually happen.

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  14. 20 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    He was pissed because Wallen didn’t stay cancelled.  He was pulled from every station in America.  A year later he’s on every non-rap station, and Isbells pussy hurt and he tweeted about it.  Sort of like, a salty bitch.  

    I’m not sure why I’m even bothering, but that isn’t how that went at all. The issue that came up a year later was around him making the appearance at the Opry. The point was bigger than Wallen specifically, it was about the lack of support for black artists by the country music industry and Nashville specifically and how allowing Wallen to pop up onstage in the heart of the industry was a problem.

    You might want to try and look through the narrative that you get spoon fed and actually see things from the other side everyone once in a while. You don’t have to agree with them, but at least looking at it from that viewpoint might give you a little more insight into the world.

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    1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

    It's pretty well established that, unless we're discussing bullet calibers, fatty is one ignorant mother fucker.

    I was going to say he’s not that bad, just has some bad takes on certain things because of a different value system.

    35 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Meh. Dude can continue to cry in the corner about how unfair the world is and I’ll continue to laugh.  My only hope is he resides in TN. 

    Then he just keeps digging on a take that is just plain dumb. Crying in the corner doesn’t describe Isbell at all. He’s literally going head to head with his industry on a lot of his beliefs and values. It has been pretty impressive to see a few (very few) standing up as well or on his behalf. This isn’t a shut up and dribble situation before you go that way, these guys get paid to put their words out for everyone to listen to.

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  16. 3 minutes ago, williemackgarza said:

    Gangsta rap and wet ass pussy cool.
    Shitty bro country, offensive!!!!!!

    This is another one of those dumb takes making the rounds. I can easily think both gangsta rap as you call it and this song are stupid and/or problematic. That isn’t a mutually exclusive deal like some of you think it is. Even though it has been drug into the conversation, I’m not sure WAP is on the same level. Offensive to me personally, sure but that’s not on the same level as the issue with the other two examples.

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  17. 3 hours ago, slorch said:

    To me, saying it on a message board is a world of difference from that.  It's just a simple display of ignorance or whatever. 

    I don’t know that I agree with the first, but it’s also just how an individual operates I suppose. I’m no different here than I am anywhere else, so if I wouldn’t say it outside of here I’m not saying it on here. I get the aspect that there are aspects of people’s personalities that are blown up on the internet and some are caricatures of themselves, but if you are comfortable here using certain terminology then it says a lot about you away from here. I get that was the genesis of what you were saying (I think), I just don’t view there being some large difference between online and offline and the words you use. Too many people hide behind online anonymity that shows a lot more about their real feelings than they care to admit.

    On the second, a display of ignorance is something you learn from. 10 pages has shown that’s not what this is. 

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  18. 46 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    The brain drain has been issue for Iowa (and other rural places) my whole life, and when I was 18 I thought my hometown/area would be a bombed out crater within 5 years.

    Here it is 20 years later, and it's honestly got more going for it than when I was a kid.

    A lot of it is that we went through that big population loss in the 80's, when you had big families on small farms, and it wasn't possible to sustain that level of population in that economy.  In essence, we kind of found our carrying capacity.  And there have been a fair amount of college educated people who realize you can live here dirt cheap, make a lot of money in comparison to the COL, and the recreation opportunities are better than their reputation.  If you have a craving for the big city stuff, pretty much anywhere in the state is within 4 hours of a pro sports town (Minneapolis, Chicago, or KC).  Easy weekend trips.

    The brain drain is an issue for places with nothing going for them. However, there are plenty of places that qualify as small towns that are thriving especially with the all out push for remote work. It has reversed the course on that issue I believe. We see more coming into our area that want out of the bigger city hustle than ever before. There is an aspect of it that sucks because of the issues that come with it, but there are new restaurants, event spaces, breweries, etc all opening because of the people coming in.

    Me, I’m ready to size down again. I preferred what I had over what I currently have, so we’ll be looking for something a little less thriving soon.

  19. 51 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    The underlying theme here seems to be political, as is that so-called “list”.

     

    Welcome to the 2020’s, everything seems to be political. The migration related to Covid and other things is really wrecking shop on some states that had typically been well balanced in the past. We will probably be looking at relocating when our youngest finishes school for similar reasons as mentioned in this thread for Texas. The great influx of people has exacerbated things that already weren’t great about my state and damned if those elected haven’t tripled down on it.

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  20. On 7/18/2023 at 4:29 PM, Chewbacca said:

    Are used car prices ever going to come down?  Looking for a car for my oldest because the Landcruiser I bought him is too big, so we're looking at Mazda CX-5s and Subaru Crosstreks.  What the hell is up with a 9 year old car with 120,000 miles selling for $15k?  They were only $25k brand new!

    We went the new route, I could get a brand new Escape for less than what used ones were going for when we bought it and not much more than older, high mileage vehicles. Getting ready to buy something for the youngest and we’re probably going to do the same thing again unless something changes.

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  21. 59 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    i should have just stopped right here and never even responded. you have zero interest in anything i have to say. i mean it's beyond clear that i had never seen your postings, that i had zero clue what royiv was talking about, and that i was not avoiding responding to anything. and yet you continue argue in this bad faith/witch hunt manner: "you saw that i posted this,  it you KNEW you couldn't respond, so you avoided it!!!"

    im not going to participate in my own witch hunt. you guys have taken one simple stance: "i disagree that there's no place on shaggy for norm macdonald and billy madison", and you've warped it into something completely different and personal to you, and the e tire lot of you are incapable of listening or honestly responding to anything that doesn't take such a hard line stance on the word, again, be wise it's personal to you. this is the definition of an exercise in futility.

    I would like to point out that neither of those people or that stance for that matter are mentioned in your original post.

    Past that, there has been plenty of discussion on the topic. At some point you might want to accept that if you’re the only one on one side of the discussion, it’s probably a good time to really think about your stance.

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