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SydneyCarton

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  1. I'm choosing to believe it's a sign of a minor stroke.
  2. It's 6th Street, you knobs. He's being sarcastic.
  3. Sure, in small numbers. There used to be like 10 in Houston, at least. Now I think it's down to 1 or two, and they're both in suburbs far enough away to make them nonexistent. Plus I'm not sure I want to muck through the used books deemed unfit to maintain ownership by the enlightened people of Copperfield or Katy. Lots of RC Slocum biographies.
  4. Someone walked through it. House sends it to the senate, the senate has to pass it, Trump can veto, then Congress overrides. But make Trump veto releasing the Epstein files, lol.
  5. 2018. When was his "perfect phone call" with Zelensky? Holy shit, Trump is Derka?!?!
  6. The disappearance of Half Price Books is one of the things I really lament. I used to go to the one by campus once a week with my buddy and pick up old editions for like a buck apiece. And when older, I'd often go browse on Sunday Mornings.
  7. If you're referring to the TD, I don't really think it's fair to blame Guilbeau. That was an absurd catch. We weren't favored to win, though, which was the question.
  8. Can that poster be 6th Street? He needs to be diving head first because the fucking spot the second he begins the slide is horseshit.
  9. but you don’t β€œget” kiffin despite he’s done way more at the collegiate level than sark had?
  10. How'd you feel about Sark when he was hired at Texas. Holy shit, this guy is going full Spider2YBanana. Might want to see if he's raided the drug cabinet at the clinic.
  11. You're both a father, and an old white dude. Sounds like you show up with bejangled Ed Hardy jeans and a salt life t-shirt to the parent teacher conferences and accuse your kid's teacher of being "sus."
  12. Well reading and listening activate different areas of the brain, and exercises different mental muscles. But at the end of the day, I think it's really just personal preference. You might not be missing out on anything at all, personally. I'm not the poster that claimed it was a Hill To Die On, but I mean, for me, perhaps I'm just dying on the hill of verbal pedantry that listening to a book is not, by definition, reading one. Because I'm on surly, therefore I'm an asshole. Personally, I enjoy reading, because I enjoy holding something solid in my hand, and the act of marking progress page by page. I also like that I'm forcing my brain to construct a word, then have to reach for the imagery associated with the words strong together and create the image in my head. I think reading is better for stretching and reinforcing vocabulary than listening. I like re-reading things, as other posters have said, if I find it striking or touching without having to hit the rewind 15 second button over and over. But that's just me. It doesn't mean I won't tell people who watch the movie instead of reading the novelization of a movie idiots, or wrong, etc. Also, just to remind everyone, including myself, that Elon Musk is a fucking piece of shit.
  13. No, you Tennessee Orange and Burnt Orange Are The Same Thing Blind twat.
  14. My wife and I watched that series when it came out. Found it kind of meh, but it was definitely pretty to watch. Can't argue w/ $4.
  15. That's you projecting. And then trying to justify, when no one asked for justification, that an audiobook can hit different emotionally. Of course it can, it has professional voice actors. The point is you went out of your way to defend audiobooks when someone just said "It's not reading." Man, thanks, I've got to go watch this.
  16. Prison scrubs aren't burnt orange. Fuck that dude on reddit.
  17. The benefits of a classical education.
  18. Maybe. I totally buy that. But none of those things are reading. Did someone here say "Fuck those people who listen to audiobooks, they're sub-human and illiterate?" If so, I missed it. I loved that book. Never heard of it being a movie, and I pay attention to movies. Weird.
  19. I can get behind this except for Military Ops pause. Because China and Russia would love that. "So no one's manning their defense systems? Cool."
  20. No they can't. No one has ever sued, much less successfully sued, a coach for not going back into coaching in regards to their offset language. "Yeah, the stress of the LSU job, the smearing of my good name by LSU, and the legal battle were a lot. My doctor told me I should take a year out of coaching because of the stress I've been enduring." It's not happening.
  21. I guess words don't matter. Tell me, have you read any good podcasts lately?
  22. Ok, so you're admitting you're basing this entirely on the city/location of the franchise. That's what I thought, which is why I said "Other than living in New York." You're also taking that Titans interest as fact, which is most certainly is not proven fact. That's a hell of a false premise for this conversation.
  23. The guy was born to spar with Dave Portnoy on Big Noon Kickoff.
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