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VolenteHawk

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  1. Don’t get mad at me. You’re the one that eventually has to explain to sweet, innocent, 8 pound baby Jesus that you prefer breaded wings. Then presumably explain other stuff you’ve done wrong in life...but surely none of it is quite to that scale.
  2. Hooters wings suck. I was shocked by the love for them/breaded wings earlier in the thread. Nononononononono.
  3. If Angela does that, Tyler isn’t playing this game as well as I think he is. The ONE reason you don’t play that power app is b/c it opens up the funniest eviction in the history of the show, per Derka’s plan. She’s probably not smart enough to understand that, but she’s similarly not smart enough to figure out that her side is losing a number if you just tell her what she wants to hear all week about targets. i don’t think her app has that much power this week really, and it opens her up as a target. I don’t watch feeds, so if I’m already wrong, don’t laugh.
  4. That should really be true for Houston, too. I’m not sure how they do it. NWLL in Austin had 24 hours to prep for the previous regional. The team that knocked them out in the championship at the previous level was cheating, it turns out. Kids baseball is serious business.
  5. Disclaimer: I have never run a message board, though I have used about a dozen since the late 90s. Going to ads if the motivation isn’t to quit your day job is always the wrong move. It always costs as least some traffic, and if the mobile experience sucks some subscriber traffic, and that ultimately harms the product. I’m not a Texas fan (though do live in Austin)...I spend so much time here, because it’s among the best off-topic forum ties to sports on the internet. The fact that I live in the town and my team shares a conference helps, but I’d frequent the non-sports boards here regardless. So, ads feel (historical experience) like a damage to the product and an unnecessary one if the goal is covering expenses and throwing a righteous tailgate every year, targeting the Kansas game in odd numbered years no doubt...you don’t schedule fucking homecoming in a game you could lose. In for subscription if we go that route. I do think it should be 3.49 or 3.51 a month to carry forward “about tree fiddy”. If somebody is serious about trying to meaningfully help BL get whole, I’m in for that too.
  6. Yeah, I danced around a similar point earlier, but with last year’s performance combined with starting ugly (maybe), the spreads could get stupid. When a team is so bad nobody wants to bet them, that creates value. KU -10 against Nicholls State (FCS) in week 1.
  7. You ordered steak at the shitty version of TGI Friday’s?
  8. I actually thought that during the comp, but he found out Bay had a power app, he gained trust that will almost certainly help him against that app, a Level 6 member was almost surely the replacement nominee, Rachel flipped out and went behind his back...so he learned how loyal she’ll be when stress hits, and he’ll win Brett back in 30 seconds by assuring him he had votes which is why he didn’t use the veto. Outside of a replacement nominee that he probably couldn’t pull off based on the Angela/Scotty probing, if he keeps Brett this was a great week for him. It’s actually a testament to how well he’s playing that on a week when his alliance goes down to 4, he got stronger.
  9. I think Tyler can get the votes by pointing out Rachel’s lack of trust and suggesting he trusts Brett and can convince the swing group he won’t put them up/will vote with them. I’d actually be surprised if Brett is evicted unless Tyler floated that idea, it didn’t gain traction, and he decided not to push it enough to impact his own game.
  10. I remember that joint (I think). It was close to the Cheesecake Factory in that it was in the Arboretum but was actually next door to TGI Friday's in that building that could never be the same thing for very long...was an On the Border, Cozymel's, something else before that (steak I think...Dan McClusky's maybe?). I think it's a Brazilian Steakhouse now if I'm thinking of the right building.
  11. There's room for this. For some reason, my kids love Applebee's. Of the places they'll pick for a family lunch on a Fall Saturday, I can do a hell of a lot worse than a high top in the bar, cold beer, and college football on a few TVs...even though the food sucks.
  12. The ones in airports are called Chili’s Too, Mr Sophisticated.
  13. In a drunken state in 2009, I was arguing with some UT buddies about who the Big 12 champion was in basketball the year before (this was north/south days, UT won in Austin, no game in Lawrence, technically tied with UT as the 1 seed in the conference tourney where KU beat UT in an great game, KU wins national title). Anyway, per the conference they split, which I knew, I was just being kind of an asshole cause I thought it was funny. What started as me teasing some buddies to induce a KU v UT for the conference title bet for the upcoming season turned into me taking KU vs the field about 8 ways for $100 per man. The participants have dwindled over time, but one UT guy is still taking that bet every year, bless his little heart.
  14. Played fine, but you can check the flop without being TOO outright suspicious. You have a few hands in your range for which you’ve just hit a monster but you have a few for which that’s an ugly board.
  15. It doesn’t have to be that well placed. It can be awkwardly jammed in out of nowhere like, oh say, off the top of my head here, Casino Island and Codebreaker.
  16. Yeah, make jokes. See what happens when the entire metaphysical, mystic community is upset with you.
  17. You can spend that already, there just isn’t a scenario that they get past 2 wins...Vegas just can’t make the number that low. It’s a market inefficiency, the opposite of, say not being able to make Patriots win totals high enough. I hold 3 limit bet tickets on the under (3, 3, 2.5) and don’t expect it to even be a sweat.
  18. They have a season win total of 3, so they’re STILL overvalued...but they could legit open the season with a loss to Nicholls State and make the books just crank the spreads up. They’re going to be historically bad this year, which sounds stupid under a coach that has 1 FBS win (sorry dudes) and is entering year 4.
  19. The producers didn't need to air that much of it. 2/3s of that discussion should have been on the cutting room floor.
  20. Or the pawn doesn't get voted out, you hit your target, they play their way back in, and now the pawn thinks you used the power on them and takes that info to your allies.
  21. She put up two bad competitors, maybe to beat the “chance to come back” wrinkle. If life coach goes, Sam can always tell smoke aggy she was a pawn that had the numbers. Most feelings are fixable in this game. Sam is dumb, though.
  22. Good call. On Seattle, they’re 20 games over .500 with a run differential of +1. They gotta be a fade when the price is decent moving forward.
  23. He was about a foot from the bunker and about a foot from perfect. I wouldn’t call it ending in a spot where he makes double anyway particularly lucky.
  24. Tiger just declared he’s still Tiger Fucking Woods.
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