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  1. 17 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Should’ve been formed 125 years before they were and they could have. It is really hard for me to determine which group has the nuttier origin story and early practices. People will emphatically say Scientology and I probably would agree. But a lot of that is based on the fact that mainstream Mormons (not FLDS) over the last 50 years or so have become a largely high-functioning and successful part of society and are genuinely good people. Their early history and the nuttiness of Joe Smith and Brigham Young is totally whitewashed. But LRH is still probably crazier. 

    Both have nutty origin stories but, as krakauer pointed out in under the banner of heaven, what religion doesn't?  Imagine if someone in the last century with all "modern" documentation and newspaper records available tried to claim they were a married virgin impregnated by God?  

    I'll say that I've worked with a few mainstream Mormons (i.e. not crazy polygamist cult offshoots) and they're easy as hell to work with.  They take care of their shit, just be sure you don't drop as many "fucks" into the conversations.  I've never met a scientologist that I know of, but every story I've ever seen makes them seem bat shit crazy.

  2. On 1/14/2025 at 9:34 PM, MissingInAction said:

    Beast Games

    It's both pathetic and amazing.

    The Squid Game guard costumes crack me up.

    This.

    It's like watching the Stanford prison experiment in real time.  Some of these idiots need to learn basic calculation of expected future value.  The guy that held out for 100k at the very beginning got it.

    And speaking of money, I just do not understand the economics of streaming.  Between insane prize money being thrown around like candy, complex sets and games, thousands of cameras and dozens of support staff, how much money is this costing? How in the hell does Amazon turn a profit?

  3. 2 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

    2001 to 2006.

    We were dumb, but we won a lot.

    2013    Nate Boyer - OL
    2022    Ovie Oghoufo - DL

    Better than when we were dumb and lost a lot.

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  4. 24 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    here is our list of football academic all-americans (1st/2nd/3rd-team & Honorable Mentions)

    1958    Maurice Doke - E
    1959    Maurice Doke - G
    1961    John Treadwell - G
    1962    Pat Culpepper - B
    1962    John Treadwell - G
    1963    Duke Carlisle - B
    1966    Gene Bledsoe - OT
    1967    Mike Perrin - DE
    1967    Corby Robertson - LB
    1968    Scott Henderson - LB
    1968    Corby Robertson - LB
    1969    Scott Henderson - LB
    1971    Jeff Zupalac - C
    1972    Mike Bayer - DB
    1972    Tommy Keel - S
    1972    Steve Oxley - OT
    1973    Tommy Keel - S
    1975    Bill Hamilton - LB
    1976    Bill Hamilton - LB
    1983    Doug Dawson - OG
    1987    Lee Beckelman - LB
    1988    Lee Mark Brockman - LB
    1995    Pat Fitzgerald - TE
    1996    Pat Fitzgerald - TE
    1998    Dusty Renfro - LB
    2000    Kris Stockton - P
    2007    Dallas Griffin - OL
    2007    Derek Lokey - DL
    2008    Chris Ogbonnaya - RB
    2009    Adam Ulatoski - OL
    2009    Sam Acho - DL
    2010    Sam Acho - DL
    2013    Nate Boyer - OL
    2022    Ovie Oghoufo - DL
    2023    Bert Auburn - K
    2023    Jake Majors - OL

     

    Before the Westlake Mafia hits you with negs, 1971 is Zapalac.

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  5. 3 hours ago, MrBig said:

    Lively accuses Baldoni of “walking into her dressing room while breast feeding” but she left out the text messages she sent him to him where she says, “come over to my trailer so we can run lines, I’m pumping.” She also says that she was uncomfortable that he wanted to include nude sex scenes featuring an underage character (with an actress of age) but she neglects to admit that she changed her nudity rider during production to have final approval of the sex scenes of her character, including the underage teenage version of the character. Lively accuses the producer of showing her pornography on the set when it was a video of a home birth being used as an example for the birthing scene. She accuses Baldoni of purposely using his D-list actor buddy in the birthing scene to humiliate her, but she neglects to include that he is a trained actor with a Master’s Degree in Theater from UCLA.

    Lively is pissed off that people had backlash against her for neglecting to speak about the domestic violence aspect of the story during PR for the movie so she could focus on talking about her makeup line she launched during the release of the film. The producer alleges Lively did not read the book so she did not understand the domestic violence context that some women identified with and wanted to talk in favor of pushing her makeup products. She’s Amber Heard 2.0. It just doesn’t help that the producer is using outlets like Megyn Kelly to get his point across so everyone that sides with him is being associated with that Fox News shit.

    Lively absolutely does not want to talk about domestic violence and makes a joke about it when it was the central theme of the book. This interview shows an example of how she makes a joke about the entire thing. 

     

    I'm not saying it didn't happen the way she said, just that in that clip she tries to explain something by reference to her astrological sign.  Astrology references are a top 5 red flag for batshit crazy.  Plus I'm an Aquarius, completely incompatible with Virgo, everyone knows that.

  6. 1 hour ago, TheAuditor said:

    I know a bunch of Ohio State fans.   Good people, but arrogant and passive aggressive when it comes to their football team.   Fuck all of them.   We are going to curb stomp them and then watch them piss down their leg when we ruin their 2025 season on opening day.  

    Passive?  I think we've met different buckeye fans.

  7. 5 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

     

    Does endowment have any influence at all on athletic department cash flow?

     

    Not sure about TCU/SMU/Baylor.
    USC got "honorable mention" somehow.
    AI said this about Notre Dame lol

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    Endowment shouldn't have anything to do with AD cash flow other than the overlap mentioned by another poster that the same factors leading to endowment also often lead to healthy athletic departments (bunch of involved alumni with cash).

  8. 2 minutes ago, wablty said:

    He's from AZ, went to ASU, got his first college coaching job at ASU and just signed a new contract.

    He isn't leaving unless it's a Godfather situation.  Maybe even not then.

    It may be wishful thinking on my part but I think in the brave new world of NIL plus SEC membership the OU job is not the coveted position it once was.

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