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  1. I always enjoyed the Reacher novels but let's face it- it's harlequin romances for men.  Simple, formulaic escapist plot but for men.

    A total badass, free as the wind with no mortgage or obligations, rolls into town, kicks the shit out of anyone that tries to stop him and always bangs one chick (and only one) per book, because they just can't keep their hands off him.  

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  2. 17 minutes ago, Genco said:

    You know a place outside of Brainerd where I can get laid?

    You a little fella?  Kinda funny looking?

    And it's too late to edit original post but Scandia is NE of the cities, not NW like I put for some reason.  Don't need a bunch of Minnesotans correcting me passive aggressively.

  3. I lived in the twin cities for 18 years and just realized Scandia is actually a real suburb.  Granted, I lived on the SW burb side and Scandia is NW but it makes me wonder WTF I was doing there the whole time.

    And yes, I have been to both Chaska and White Bear Lake (go bears!).

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  4. 31 minutes ago, utexas8 said:


    Yeah but I think at the beginning of the year they are really cheap like $10. Face value + 10 is not bad if you hit. I wouldn’t do it every year but Texas has a good chance next with ewers back so I think I’ll do it next year.

    Where is the championship next year?

    If they're only 10 bucks, I'd buy ones for each of the usual suspects that have large fanbases and resell when one or both hits.  Seems a cheaper way to do a futures bet on a team making the finals.  

  5. 4 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

    I wonder how it takes them to figure it out, and end up putting the second round on-campus as well. Leaving semi’s and final located like they do now. 

    This is the way.  Gives another advantage to the better seed, making the regular season still important, and allows for better attendance at each game.  

    How would the money split work on those games?  Does home team keep all revenues from game or split profits with visitor?  I know in regular season games it's the former but the latter seems to make sense for playoffs IMO 

  6. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    My white kid was an all-district sprinter in high school.  I . . . was not.  I learned my place when I challenged him to a race on the beach in Florida.  At the time, he was probably a 5th grader.  I'm pretty sure I blew out my hamstring on stride 4, but it wouldn't have mattered, I was toast.

    I would aspire to a PR of 5.1 in my life (maybe 6.1 if I'm being honest).  Hey to Rich Eisen.

    My son turned out to be a white kid that ran a 5.0 in high school.  So we just need to stay on that improvement trajectory and my great, great, great, great grandson will be kicking major ass at the slot position. 

  7. 1 hour ago, bernorange said:

    Is this like how people own the deposits held at their banks?  Because that's not really true any more.  Laws changed.  Bail ins are the final resolution should the system break.

    First, Bernie said the concentration of political and economic power threatens democracy, not that there's a danger of default.  It's just standard tactic of just throw big names in and mention " threats to democracy" and people start clutching pearls without understanding the issue.  The irony is that the one he listed that really throws its weight around is blackrock, and they use it to force public companies to adopt DEI policies.

    Second, comparing bank assets and fdic insurance to the securities industry doesn't fit because they're entirely different businesses and regulatory regimes.  A bank's very business model requires it to loan customer deposits, and your deposit is really an IOU from the bank. If the shit hits the fan on the bank's balance sheet, well customers are fucked, absent fdic coverage.  

    In contrast, the various laws governing brokers (1934 exchange act and rule 15c3-3), investment advisors (1940 advisers act and rule 206(4)-2), and mutual funds (1940 investment company act and rule 17f-1 et seq), require each to keep non-margined securities separate and distinct from company assets.  So if these companies fail, creditors have no claim to customer assets.  

     

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  8. 2 minutes ago, troph said:

    except for Texas v USC I've never seen tickets do anything other thank spike at or shortly after announcement and drop all the way to game time.  I could see the next Texas championship game going the same way though.

    This.  I think you need 1) 2 blue bloods, 2) near campus of one of them so they don't incur travel costs, and 3)  one (or both) hasn't won a championship in a while and is full of highly paid fanatical alums.  Or Michigan/Texas this year if it had happened. 

    Even then, I wonder if the ubiquity today of internet brokers would change the calculus.  In January 2006 there were just no extra tickets available. I'm not sure if internet brokers would alleviate supply problem or just goose demand even higher in the same situation today.

  9. On 1/1/2024 at 2:01 PM, StassneyHorn said:

    Fairly harmless tweet bemoaning the concentration

    Concentration of what?  The literally tens of millions of individual investors that actually own those shares via the three mentioned conduit companies?  If that's the case, we really need to go after DTC- those bastards seem to own everything...

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  10. 25 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    I’d put this loss similar to the Gideon interception drop in terms of how I feel.  

     

    Disagree.  The worst losses are when you know for a fact you're the far better team, you just shit the bed and gave it away, much like that Halloween night in Lubbock.

    I'm not thrilled but can tip my hat to penix and acknowledge it wasn't our day.  But we should have bitch slapped that tech team.

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  11. 5 minutes ago, cabowabo said:

    I am glad I am not driving 10 hours home from NO and have an extra $3k or so in my bank account today.

    I had everything set up other than game tickets for my son and I to go.  Friday he calls me and says my stomach really hurts kind of on the lower right.  24 hours later he's getting appendectomy.  So I guess he saved me a few grand.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, troph said:

    this doesn't show JW open, it shows 5 moving toward blue easily a second maybe two after Ewers made the move to Blue. it also doesn't show what JW was running into. the ball is already half way there in this shot. and if you notice, blue has one on one with 5 and has some shake. 

    Blue has shake but that's not helpful against any DB with a brain when you're on the sidelines and if you are tackled in bounds game is over.  I like that call with a minute left, hate it with 15 seconds.

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  13. 1 minute ago, bar said:

    The ball was in his hands. It didn't hurt the team. If anything it gave the team time to get down field before the ball was set.

    Hadn't really thought of that.  So the refs can't/won't grab another ball and set it up and start the clock?  I ask because if that's the case it should be standard for anybody running the 2 minute drill to do an extended celebration after each first down.

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