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The Royal We

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  1. 4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Got rained out at Colorado Bend this weekend.  Again.  That's 3 of the last 4 years when I've tried to go in April.  I think I'm just going to have to take off a Friday and come out on a Thursday after work one week.  Friday and Saturday nights are booked up 5 months out.

    Did you check out this place? https://www.sulphurspringscamp.com/

    It's just up the road from the state park and I've stayed there 3 or 4 times. It's certainly not fancy, but it's got a lot of area for dispersed car camping. We've kayaked down to the park to see the falls and had someone shuttle us back a few times.

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  2. Pretty horseshit moderation for sure.
     

    Chucklefucks yammering about cracking skulls are likely in an echo chamber of bullshit as far as information goes. Having their nose rubbed in their own heinous hot takes can’t hurt. And it wasn’t political. 

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  3. What a bunch of fucking bullshit. God damn this is infuriating.

    I'm just getting caught up on this thread, but I have seen absolutely no evidence that this type of response and show of force was necessary.

    Our "leaders" in Texas continue to fail us. Fucking pussies.

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  4. I got out to the fishing club last week. Fished with clients one day and did pretty good. I spent a lot of time re-rigging and un-boogering gear but they had a blast.
     

    Was supposed to take a different guy on Thursday but he better offered me for a sailfish trip so I went out by myself. I think I caught 38 but nothing bigger than 3 lbs. Good for the soul tho. 
     

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    I use #30 braid with a 7' fluoro top shot

    I've gone to this when fishing clear water for Bass and it does seem to make a difference. Do you use a double uni knot?

    The lake I live on is usually pretty stained so I just roll with 30# Power Pro. The fish all get so much pressure that I probably should use a fluoro leader, but I usually don't bother.

  6. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Their boys shoot our guns at Ivan so our boys don't have to.

    Fucking this. I've got sons that are 14 and 10 years old. The quoted is essentially what I told my dad when he was spouting the same horseshit <animal><tobacco> is saying here. We either fight them now with our money, our old equipment, and their men OR we fight them later with our money, our new equipment, and potentially my sons. The Russians have made it very clear they don't intend to stop at Ukraine.

    The fact that a back bench bitch from Louisiana is holding up a vote on funding is fucking infuriating.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    I went the other way - it is hard not to pick Scottie, so I did. My picks are from the pick'em on the Masters website - where are y'all playing?Screenshot2024-04-10081630.thumb.png.df315825f758224585b06bb8d41de65e.png

     

    You can play in a Surly group here

    https://www.masters.com/en_US/fantasy/join.html?leagueId=43725&leagueJoinToken=3f86cf5335

    Runyourpool.com is the site my buddy is using. They appear to group players by the Vegas odds, so all of your picks would be in group one and you could only use one of them. 

  8. 9 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I don't hate Keegan in the 5 tier and I'd just take a past champ for 6 like Schwartzel, Bubba or ZJ.

    Probably good plays. I think I'll see how many people end up in this pool and if it's smaller I'll go with safer plays like Keegan and Charl. If it gets pretty big then I might need to swing for the fences with riskier plays like An / Dunlap.

    Thanks!

  9. 32 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    Taking my first stab at a Masters pool and Tier 5 and 6 feel like such a crap shoot. I don't like any of these guys to make the cut. Especially if the weather is shit on Thursday and Tiger and Phil have to play 36 on Friday.

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    Maybe Zach Johnson in 6. I feel like he's got a decent chance to make the cut.

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    First pass.

    It's hard not to take Scottie in the A group, but surely there's no way he can continue the torrid pace he's been on. Right?

    This article gave me ideas for the 4, 5, 6 guys. https://golf.com/lifestyle/2024-masters-sleeper-picks-break-out-augusta-national/

  10. Taking my first stab at a Masters pool and Tier 5 and 6 feel like such a crap shoot. I don't like any of these guys to make the cut. Especially if the weather is shit on Thursday and Tiger and Phil have to play 36 on Friday.

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    Maybe Zach Johnson in 6. I feel like he's got a decent chance to make the cut.

  11. 4 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Just to reiterate - I first saw this xkcd after the 2017 eclipse, and reading other peoples posts about being in the totality convinced me that I wanted to go to view this in the totality. 

    So glad I did, my 2 youngest who went to a dark park in Arky are already talking about not waiting until 2040's to see on in the US.

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    credit xkcd.com/1880/

     

    This can't be said enough. I mentioned it already, but we almost didn't leave the house because of the weather and the fact that our house was going to get 98% totality. This thread and comments like this one were the nudge I needed to insist to my wife that we were going even if it was a 50/50 shot that we could even see it.

    After experiencing totality, I'd drive a long way and put a lot of energy into a 10% chance to experience it again.

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  12. 12 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Yep, I listened to a guy on NPR a month or so ago talking about how you should do whatever you can to get in the path of totality, and as deep into it as you can get. He emphasized how precious it is and how you should try to get as much time in totality as possible. He was right.

    I could’ve stayed home, gone to the northernmost part of Dublin and seen 1:23 of totality. I could’ve stopped in Delaware and seen 2:35 of totality. Instead I drove on to Marion and got 3:34 of totality. Every extra second of jaw-dropping wonder was worth it. I’m so lucky that I could leave a little after noon and be back around 5:00. 

    1000%

    We listened to The Daily on the way out there and "Mr Eclipse" was talking about how impactful his first total eclipse was on the rest of his life. I honestly thought it was a little much and maybe he was just a wackadoodle. Nope. I get it now. All three of my kids really enjoyed it too. My middle son is skeptical of pretty much everything and I could tell leading up to today that he was happy to get out of school and was humoring me with his interest, but that shit went out the window the moment totality hit.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/podcasts/the-daily/mr-eclipse.html

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