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wild_turkey

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  1. If carbon offsets are purely bullshit, then what specifically are the airlines doing with the money? It would seem to me that at least within the U.S. there are regulations that prevent a major domestic airline from advertising and selling something only to not do what they say and merely pocket the money. Maybe I’m naive but there are restrictions on everything else in that industry.
  2. Let's go offense
  3. O-line needs to man up
  4. Much needed turnover
  5. Saw it last night. Thought it was entertaining but nothing exceptional compared to other Bond films. Most of all, it felt good to sit in a theatre and watch an anticipated new action film that doesn’t involve superheroes. I enjoyed the typical Bond stuff - fancy Aston Martins cruising along a beautiful Mediterranean coastline, car and motorcycle chases through an Italian village, black tie dinner parties turned shootouts, etc. Ana de Armas looked fantastic in that black dress, even more so once she started shooting up bad guys. I didn’t love the overall plot. Thought it was kind of boring and unoriginal. Didn’t like M’s role and thought Rami Malek’s villain was kind of meh. And the ending was….?
  6. Kinking? Can you not cut it and put 90 degree elbows/4 way/whatever on it? Yes that's possible in some places, but I'd like it to be flexible enough to bend around plants without getting a kink.
  7. What type of drip irrigation is best for a 4x8’ raised garden bed? I already have one raised bed that has the 1/2” brown tubing as a zone on my main sprinkler system. I added another 4x8’ bed and need a new drip system but I’ve noticed that 1/2” brown tubing kinks pretty easily. Is there something better to use? Should I buy one of the kits? Any other tips?
  8. Thoughts from this episode: 1. Nate sucks. He has an inferiority complex that rivals aggy. And what’s with the hair? 2. Weird that Rebecca and Ted and everyone willingly sent Sam off to be courted by the billionaire. 3. I would like to purchase Phoebe’s drawings in a coffee table book format. 4. Wife got a new nickname = Fuck Witch. 5. I would like to see them make Higgins’ play into a mini episode to air between seasons.
  9. Please create a feature where a poster can get crowdsourced from a single thread if they earn sufficient neg rep. Or at least a 1 week timeout.
  10. I’m not sure my sarcasm was coming through when I said Dirty Bones. You can go there if you want but I’m not endorsing it and I think you can find better options. How old are your kids and what kinds of places do they like?
  11. Why are most topics on this forum combined into massive meta threads? If I want to read what people are saying about the spending plan, it seems like I should be able to come to this forum and click a thread titled “2021 Social Spending Plan”. Instead, I have to hunt around for it and eventually figure out it’s hidden in a thread titled “Joe Biden 2021” which has 6,300+ posts and a month ago was discussing Afghanistan and a month from now will be discussing Covid again. Then if the social spending plan becomes relevant again in 6 months, it’s very difficult to reference the present discussion because it’s buried 2,000 posts upstream. This is absurd. I don’t get it.
  12. If this were to happen, could we get rid of the max 4 years of eligibility? Could a great college player like Colt McCoy choose to forego the NFL and remain a “college” athlete for his entire career? Obviously the NFL offers a higher salary under the current system, but some university boosters have very deep pockets and would probably be willing to slap the franchise tag on certain players.
  13. Those are great places for Dallas folks to hang out. In the same area people can also check out Dirty Bones, a trendy wings joint with bottle service and a DJ.
  14. I’m really enjoying this so far and hoping it builds momentum. I already have tons of questions. How do they have gravity on their interstellar space ship? It would seem the only way is centrifugal force but they don’t appear to be rotating. When they originally discussed the duration of travel in episode 1, Gaal estimated ~857 days. Then in episode 2, Raych said they have 54 months (1,620 days) remaining on their journey. Why did it double in length? And obviously I have no idea what to make of the last 5 minutes of episode 2. Can’t wait for the next one.
  15. I see your Naples and raise you Paris. Never again. And that was just one day trying to leave the city for the countryside.
  16. Great day all around.
  17. Please no.
  18. Just watched the finale and very underwhelmed. I would say it's somewhere between a mediocre and bad show. Maybe it worked better in book format. SPOILERS BELOW (anyone reading the thread at this point should expect that) Masha was not an impressive character. They initially built her up to be some kind of a psychiatric guru, but she was simply a grieving person who was trying to use psychedelics to connect with a dead loved one. And she was microdosing her wellness retreat guests without their knowledge, which felt like a "that's it?" kind of reveal. I expected her to have some kind of amazing people skills or healing abilities and she never really displayed that. She seemed frantic and out of control most of the time. Ben and Jessica were pointless. No depth to their characters. HBO would've at least used them for eye candy but Hulu didn't even pull that off well. The rest of the characters were cliché in every imaginable way. I'm surprised Nicole Kidman agreed to make this.
  19. Central Marker is fine except for the people clogging up aisles part. Don’t go on a weekend.
  20. You might go ahead and tell Zuckerberg to shut down Insta. There definitely is not a market for watching hot girls in their 20s doing hot girl things, especially considering some people in their 20s have student loans. Really a dumb app idea when you think about it that way.
  21. Cool story bro time… Wife and I were in Cinque Terre in 2011 for several nights. We stayed in a 3 room B&B in the Monterosso old town, owned by a guy named Francesco, where his Italian mother cooked breakfast each day. Great little place. Anyways, one day we set out on the hike towards Vernazza. We had breakfast in Monterosso, then a stop in Vernazza for wine and focaccia. Sat by the water and sunbathed on that outcropping. Then we headed on towards Corniglia. The trail from Vernazza to Corniglia was noticeably less crowded. There were still a few people but not many. Eventually someone who spoke English told us it was technically closed. Oops. Oh well, it was important for us to keep hiking because I had been informed of a secret nude beach along this stretch. Wife was skeptical but she was wined up so the world was our oyster. We eventually saw a rock on the ground the size of a baseball that said “Spiaggia” written in sharpie with an arrow pointing down towards the water. At this point the water was ~100 feet below us on a steep coastline. We of course trusted the magic rock and veered off on a tiny side path. It snaked down and at one point required us to crawl under a thorn bush tunnel thing. I slid on the rocks and scraped my hands. Worth it if we could only find the damn nude beach. We dumped out onto a wider gravel path closer to the water. I realized our chances of returning to the original trail were slim and we had no phone service. My wife would possibly kill me once her buzz wore off. Luckily I had 3 more bottles of wine in my backpack to buy me some time. A naked man walked down the path. No shoes or bag or anything. Just naked. “Ciao.” “Ciao.” Okay, so should we follow him or go the opposite way? While debating our options and somewhat regretting our choices, a group of 4 people came down the path. One of them said “Have y’all seen the beach?” I responded “Y’all? Who says y’all in Italy? Where are y’all from?” Turns out they were Texans, from Austin, 3 of them UT grads. So that made 5 UT grads walking down the same gravel path in Cinque Terre, looking for the same secret nude beach. We collectively decided to follow in the direction of the naked guy and we acquired a Canadian couple along the way. Well we find the beach and it was a picturesque stone beach with choppy water. There were 3 naked Italian men but no one else was there. The stones made a cool crackling sound as the waves kicked them up and dropped them back down. I swam a bit. The Canadian guy tried to swim and almost drowned but didn’t. The ladies went topless. We drank all the wine. Life was perfect for an afternoon. Eventually it was time to leave and we all headed towards Corniglia. According to the Canadian couple, the gravel path led to an abandoned train tunnel that could take you straight into town. Great, so no scaling up the cliffs to the hiking trail. Problem was that the train tunnel was dark and the Canadian couple had passed through the first time with a flashlight that was now dead. Turns out I had an iPhone 4? that was the only light source in our group of 8 people. So we all set out through the tunnel using my iPhone (I think it was just the screen light before flashlight mode was available) as our guide. It was about 3/4 mile long if I had to guess. About half way through, the phone died. So now it was pitch dark and you couldn’t see light at either end. We kept walking with one hand against the wall, feeling along the ground and holding each other’s backs to keep from falling. Then we heard a train coming. We thought this tunnel was abandoned?! The earth around us started shaking and we could see a light approaching. We all flattened ourselves against the wall and waited to get crushed. The train flew past in an adjacent tunnel that had some openings into our tunnel so we could see through. Whew, we avoided death. We made our way to the end of the tunnel through the dark. We said our goodbyes and the wife and I hopped a train to Riomaggiore (the trails were closed) where we had some bruschetta and wine at Pie de Ma. That’s a can’t miss place if you’re ever there. Stunning views of the Mediterranean. Later that year, flooding and mudslides destroyed parts of Cinque Terre, especially Vernazza. The towns recovered but the trails were forever changed. We returned in 2017 and spent 4 days in Monterosso, which is one of the best places on Earth to laze the day away, drinking wine and limoncello, eating gelato and trofie al pesto. Just typing this is making me want to book a flight. Maybe I’ll surprise her in the morning. But the trails to the beach are permanently closed from the floods and the abandoned train tunnel was apparently blocked off. We searched it out on our last trip and it was a no-go. Hopefully one day that will be accessible again.
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