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Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
SydneyCarton replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
I'm sorry, why is this the most obvious scenario possible? -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
I feel like you’re missing my point, which is that while they can all be examples of progress, the countries that prove progress doesn’t find a way are ones like China and Russia where there has never been any progress. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
I mean, not to derail, but you have to set a reasonable timeline. Everyone in Europe was ruled by a monarch at some point in Western Europe. It if they’ve been liberated for 200 years, that seems like progress found a way. Russia? China? Never been free. That doesn’t sound like progress always finds a way to me. and much of the middle east has gone backwards. America is going backwards. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
It’s a nice sentiment, but ask people in Russia, China, Brazil, Iran, Lebanon, North Korea and a fuck ton of other countries if the pendulum always swings back towards progress.- 3401 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
@Zeus which part of this post was inaccurate and warranted a middle finger?- 3401 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
@immamac Can you do something about the obvious misinformation in this fucking post? Hundreds of Deaths? Armed Wing of the Democratic Party? Meanwhile, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who have literally been cited by the president in a debate and have gone to jail for gun charges and sedition and a right-wing paramilitary group tried to kidnap a sitting Democratic governor. But there's no armed wing of the Republican Party?- 3401 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
I think you're wrong on this one. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
It's Jkates. He's one of the biggest cowards on this website. He doesn't post often because he gets his ass handed to him every time, but he lurks like a motherfucker and hands out negs and praise. He wasn't being sarcastic, I assure you. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah [Crazy Person]
SydneyCarton replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Pro tip, dumbass. When you paste something in rich text, it's obvious to the rest of us that you lifted that quote from somewhere else. Why don't you try citing your source instead of just passing off someone else's shit as your own. As another poster shared already, look at all efforts on good faith discourse: https://www.politifact.com/personalities/charlie-kirk/ That being said, I want to be clear, there is no space for political violence in this country, this is fucking horrible, and to be honest it doesn't end well at all for America. There will only be escalation after this, and it fucking sucks this is where we are as a country and species.- 3401 replies
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2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
This is a relatively fair post. I mean, if you want to be an old man shaking his fists at clouds, by all means, this site and this country and this planet are full of them. At least you acknowledge that it had a purpose, which was to bring money and facilities into the program that the team needs to be successful. That's more than some people acknowledge. For what it's worth, there were literally architectural reasons that the bowl couldn't be closed completely and that technically the SEZ is not connected to the rest of the stadium. Closing in the bowl, in no world, was ever an option. You could have tried to match the look and feel, sure, I guess. But that doesn't raise any kind of special money needed for the actual facilities and team resources aspect that was truly the goal of the whole project. It's just more bowl seating. And additionally, for what it's worth, UT's campus is not that big and it's surrounded by a pretty big city. There just aren't a lot of spaces where we can put things when we want to expand. When we have the football indoor facility that is being built now, we'll have a centrally located area of campus that will treat and handle all of our student athletes needs. That wasn't easy to pull off. Sometimes you have to make do with what you have, and I think we've done a pretty decent job of checking all the boxes, whether you hate the Disneyfication or not. I could have done without the longhorn outline, personally. -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
You don't think I know who this idiot is? The fact of the matter he wasn't the only person expressing the "this is embarrassing" shit on this thread and others over time, so I'm going to take the opportunity to respond to him and every other short-sighted fucking slack-jaw in detail as to why their bitching is stupid as fuck. I'd like to know why they have different demands of the people in the SEZ that don't exist for any other season ticket holder in the stadium? Is it just some kind of Eat The Rich thing? Personally, I'd like to do more to encourage our well-heeled alum to support the program and NIL. -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
Why are YOU so rabid about the empty seats at the stadium? I'm starting to believe you ARE a forklift operator. People bought the RIGHT to buy those season tickets every season, by stroking a huge check. You're now saying the Athletic department, despite entering into an agreement with a booster who has money and supports the athletic program, that they either: A) Go against that contract and take away their season tickets and say "Stay in this club on the field with barely any field visibility." Sorry about the money you paid us in advance and violating the contract. Please don't take away any other AD support and NIL." B) Re-Sell those tickets to someone with some kind of requirement that they show up to every game, which is not something that exists for ANY other season ticket for UT season ticketholders. That's your plan? -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
"I'd guess that.." Because you don't know shit. You're guessing. Here's 2 facts in response to your dumb post: 1.) Without the club, the AD woudln't have been able to raise millions of dollars to help fund the entire SEZ project, now would they have million(s) of dollars of recurring revenue every single year for people re-upping for their seats. 2.) You're full of shit. I've been at almost all the big home games in the SEZ. Alabama. GA and Clemson last year. Those seats are almost always busting for big games against big opponents. Just like the rest of the stadium. Why aren't you so insistent and rabid about empty seats elsewhere in the stadium? -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
The "evidence tends to point." You. Don't. Know. Shit. You're a 4 year old drawing lines in your own pile of shit because you think it's funny. The media area was deemed obsolete because we don't have the LHN anymore, and weekly broadcasts aren't a thing. And you need to understand something, let me highlight your post: "They're putting in more suites for even more expensive seating." That's right. They're putting in "suites." The gray seats aren't suites. They're SEZ seats. Suites are the big 10 million dollar boxes, the Loge Suites, and the Living Room style suites. That's the expensive seating. That's what they're building. Because the demand is for the high end shit. Not the gray seats, where people have to walk up and down flights of stairs to get from their club to their seats. You're so dense you can't even see the stupidity of your own post. "The stadium is completely sold out and we're at record ticket sales." You're right. Does that mean you think the stadium was at 100% capacity last weekend EXCEPT for those pesky gray seats? Is the stadium at 100% capacity for all of our shitty non conference games? It's never half empty? Here's a stubhub map for tickets for UTEP. Do you think those gray seats will all be filled? Here's Sam Houston. Do you think it's going to be full, and there's a line of secondary people willing to pay over 800 dollars per ticket to sit there? You can't even answer any of my specific points, you just say "Hurr durr we're popular people should want to sit there." People pay money to sit there. They just don't fucking go to all the games, LIKE VERY OTHER FUCKING FAN. You only give a shit because you see empty seats during extra points. -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
Don't even try to sit and lecture someone about "where the value is" in a certain section, to people who have written huge checks for the actual privilege of having those seats. It's not One or The Other. It's the privilege, that you paid for, of being able to do both, when you want, how you want. You have no concept of how many of those seats above the gray ones are also empty, or sparsely populated, because it's harder to see. Trust me, they're empty and sparsely populated a lot of the time. You're making up conclusions to support your shitty line of thinking and confirmation bias. The value, is supporting your university, and having the money to do whatever the fuck you want without being told. That includes "It's raining and I don't want to get wet I'm going inside" to "It's hot, I'm going to stay in the A/C" or "I'm not going to the game, the opponent sucks." The people that show up may be more interested in the game. But I've got news for you, people like us are outliers. The richer MOST fans are, the more it's a social event. They're not diehards. The section next to us, we saw the guy who bought it on opening day, and that section has had people in a grand total of THREE times in the 5 years we've had tickets. Opening day year 1, seats he sold to some GA people and oddly last weekend. These are people that don't NEED to sell seats on 3rd party websites. They don't care. Those are also the people you count on to fund your Athletic Department to do the shit you want to fucking do, because Burnt Orange & White is showing up with a 200k check and an offer to buy out some gray seats who's behavior he doesn't like. Also, you're advocating a car dealership repossessing your car because they don't like the way you drive it. A car you paid for in CASH. Do you just think there's that many Texas fans out there that want to cut massive checks for the RIGHT to spend tons on season tickets each year to be told what to fucking do? Do you even realize how fucking stupid you sound? -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
But you don't get one without the other. "Hey guy, you may like the club, and maybe you spend most of the time there, but I gotta tell you, now that it's Ohio State at home sorry you can't sit in your seats and watch the game." Also, the clubs down there aren't that fucking big. My money is that most of those season ticket holders aren't at the game at all. -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
SydneyCarton replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
I'll line up all the ignorance in one post. First, to those fucking idiots bitching about empty seats, is your position that we shouldn't have built the entire south endzone project because we wouldn't be able to force season ticket holders to show up to make the stadium look full for shitty opponents in shitty weather? We should have just scrapped the entire thing, because in retrospect the optics look "terrible?" I'm guessing most of you haven't had a tour of the SEZ complex, your knowledge probably is limited to what you've seen briefly on social media posts. It's a sprawling complex, with the weight and performance center, the new locker rooms, new meeting rooms for the team and position groups, nutrition area, player lounge and recreation area, as well as the medical training center as well as recovery facilities, which include water rehab, sleep pods, etc. It's pretty fucking impressive, and my brief description in no way does it any justice. Anyway, my point is, that this entire facility, which is a boon to recruiting and the football arms race, was paid for entirely by the donors you're bitching at for not showing up in those gray seats! So because you're worried about the "optics" of empty gray seats, we probably should have done...I dunno...none of that for the team. Good idea, that South Endzone is so embarrassing! I believe the SEZ project cost 125 million dollars, and was built with bonds using the fundraising and guarantees for the people who promised to buy those seats. Somewhat akin to a seat license, all of those people either cut huge checks, or made legally binding financial promises, to pay six figures or more (the suites were 10 million a pop, I think the gray seats were 100k, I could be mistaken) and they cut those checks JUST FOR THE RIGHT to be able to ALSO pay thousands of dollars each year to buy the same season tickets. That's right, it's not just a one time expense, it's a one time expense so they can keep spending thousands of dollars every season to buy those tickets. And you know what part of the sales pitch was? Hey, we're going to throw in access to a club where you can have A/C, be covered if it rains, and cater some food for y'all...and still let you buy extremely overpriced drinks. Now imagine that I'd paid all of the above, and the AD comes back and says "Hey, that thing you bought, we're going to take away those tickets and just let you have this little club." That's y'all's idea. My response, personally, would be to tell you to go fuck yourself. And if you told me I had to go back up in inclement weather just because some whiny internet shitbirds who've contributed, maybe, 1 part of 1 million to what I had contributed to the athletic department, because THEY didn't like the TV optics, well, I'd laugh in their face and then tell them to go fuck themselves. And then I'd probably pull my NIL money. Because, you know, these are some of the same people that are supporting our NIL budget. Best to alienate them. And my favorite part is, no one gives a fuck if some season ticket holder anywhere else in the stadium doesn't show up in shitty weather, or at all, because those seats don't get a lot of coverage on TV. But because it's the SEZ, THOSE people should be SO embarrassed. Fuck right off. If you don't like it, step up and spend the fucking money to support the athletic department the way those people have, and stop being fucking poor. Signed, Someone with Season Tickets In the South End Zone. -
Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
SydneyCarton replied to bigup2dahorns's topic in Food and Travel
The articles of the sale were from June. I'm somewhat optimistic that they haven't fucked things up too badly in around 6 months. But this might be the last voyage of the demeter, so to speak. -
Of course. But that's not what Slorch said. He said, and I quote "in the REAL WORLD degrees doesn't make a fuck." The quote is direct, the emphasis is mine. Of course fields matter. And in theory, sure, once you're some amount of time out of college and several jobs into your life and career, no one probably gives a fuck where you went to college. But to sit there and say my degree didn't "make a fuck" in regards to my life and career is fucking stupid, and wrong. I illustrated exactly why it's wrong. And I'm not the only person. Maybe the real fucking lesson here is that slorch should learn to stop speaking in fucking absolutes, and maybe he won't end up posting back to back shit like "I don't remember where anyone ever went to school" and "I almost always remember where people went to school" in back to back posts. Guy has to be the worst, most ineffectual Sith of all time.
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Sure, but that's not what you said. You said the opposite of that: When someone says contradictory things in almost back to back posts, it's kind of hard to take anything they say at face value. Are you just an easy liar? Is it a communication issue, where you simply struggle to say what you mean? If it's that last one, I bet a better education could have helped out with that...
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The FilmGuy guy his start as a Georgia 995er, so...He's from Georiga, went to a small college in Georgia, and worked for a GA based sports website for awhile. He's fine to watch, but at the same time, the guy is also a biased fan.
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A degree doesn't need to be critical to remember things from conversations folks have with each other. Does one need a degree to remember that my neighbor has 2 kids? Does one need a degree to remember Thursday is trash day? You know, it's almost like behavior is demonstrating intelligence here.
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I find it weird that you have conversations with people, assuming you haven't also HIRED people, and can't/don't remember important facts in their life, like where they matriculated. I also love the nice little attempt at a dig there, like I or anyone else doesn't actually work in a results driven field. Outside of government and general bureaucracy, I'd argue that most fucking fields are results driven.
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Unfortunately, Slorch, we know. We all know. As for the degree, I dunno, I can draw a direct line from the University of Texas to exactly where I am in life, starting with using the UT job board for new graduates to land my first real job, to the people (other UT alum) I met at that job, to their businesses I've invested in, to my business they've invested in, which has allowed me to provide for my family and have a pretty good life. And that doesn't include the shared joy of UT sports as a great complimentary aspect of my life. I would say the degree I have, and specifically where it came from, made almost all the fucks. The only thing my degree hasn't facilitated is meeting my wife at a bar.
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I don’t care if there’s zero construction and 8 lanes in each direction existing, it’ll still suck.
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