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Posts posted by McCroskey
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13 minutes ago, Red Five said:
So, it looks like Hegseth is about to get confirmed. We are not a real country anymore.
It's gonna be fine.
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4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
The populace didn't. A sizable minority of Americans did.
Depends on how you look at it, I guess. Not standing up for Navin, BUT:
~152 million people voted, out of a pool of ~245 million eligible voters. So yes, minors and anyone else not eligible sat out but nearly 2/3 of those that could have voted, did.
Turnout in non-swing states has a big impact on the overall numbers. The results, even from a technical minority of people, are a good representation nationally of what people want.
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I don't think the "populace" does any research at all, but without much digging it's not hard to find the flaws in crime statistic reporting, among other measures like jobs. The combination of a politically valuable data point combined with problematic data gathering typically just leads to people spinning the numbers however they want to form the narrative they want.
Do any of you follow the Marshall Project? They have a lot of good coverage on the reporting of crime stats, namely how problematic it is today.
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So no more foreign wars but we're immediately gonna go take back the Panama Canal, peacefully?
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"Great call." FUCK you, Kirk. This isn't a September skirmish.
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Turnover right here...let's go.
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The missed calls are everything.
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1 minute ago, EuroHorn said:
ACC
This is the bullshit main ref.
They also ref'd OSU vs Tennessee.
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Fucking ACC crew. Absolute bullshit.
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Where the fuck was the flag for holding???
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Tentative. Scared. Howard is fucked.
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Howard and Day both are puckered tighter than a lizard's ass about now. Here comes their melt.
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Play of beauty.
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One hand from breaking that to the endzone.
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Goddamn that was gorgeous.
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Kirk are you saying Bolden is Golden?
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Fuck it call targeting. It was that more than anything. More I watch it he looks almost knocked out.
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That'll stand. Down by contact.
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1 minute ago, Jkwellborn said:
Here comes arch to throw.
Something like that.
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6 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:
Poboy spots in Uptown or the Garden District?
Going in a few weeks and staying around St Charles & Jackson. Plan to explore that area more than on my previous trip. I'd made a note to get to Parkway, but figured maybe there's something better more out of the way and less known on that side of town.
EDIT: shit, any Uptown/Garden recs would work, really.
Domilise's. Hole in the wall but where you want to go.
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Hmmm…what kind of man are you?
Well you’re weak, spineless. A man of temptations.
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I'll echo the previous sentiments...cut the # of cities you want to visit. And how old are your kids? You can easily, easily fill a week in London as a first-timer and never remotely feel bored, many of the sites and museums have been mentioned but you haven't gotten to the shopping and theatre options yet, several GREAT shows that kids love. For shopping there's Hamleys, Harrods, and a billion other awesome options.
Day trips from London my kids have loved...Warwick Castle and Portsmouth Dockyard.
Also, IF Paris was a must I'd personally do Manchester - Paris - London.
So much depends on your kids ages, in my opinion.
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10 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:
This is a positively insane itinerary. Don't do this.
When are you leaving? On March 13 (which is Thursday)? And then you're coming back on Tuesday, March 25? If that's the case, let me tell you how this vacation is actually going to go, because you haven't built in any time for transit between your destinations. You're basically treating Zurich as though it is a suburb of London. Fuck--Oxford isn't a suburb of London.
March 14: Arrive in Manchester mid-morning completely dog-ass tired after an overnight flight. I have flown intercontinental a few dozen times, and I'm telling you that flying west to east kicks your ass (east to west is comparatively easy).
I'm going to assume you're on the Singapore Air flight from IAH that lands at 9:30. So you'll get to your hotel around noon, because it takes that long to get your bags, clear customs, and get into the city. And that sucks, because all you want in the world is a hot shower after an overnight flight, and your goddamned room isn't ready. So you drop your bags at the bell desk and go find lunch. You feel shitty. Go back to the hotel, check in, get a bit unpacked, get a shower . . . and now good luck getting the family out of the room to do anything. Maybe you go get a pizza for dinner. Day over.
March 15: Match Day. It's fucking Match Day. That's your day. That's it. I'm doing that for Spurs in three weeks. And Match Day is its own day. So that's all you're going to see of Manchester.
Oh, and you're still jetlagged. It's going to be early to bed.
March 16: Travel day. Let's just say you're ambitious and you want to get on the 7:55 train to London. Sure. You get in at 10:10. Same deal as when you got into Manchester . . . God, was that only two days ago? It feels like a lifetime . . . you have to drop your bags at the bell desk and go grab lunch because your room isn't ready. So what do you want to do your first (half-)day in London? You want to do the typical touristy stuff? Ok--so that's the Tower, the Churchill War Rooms, the Changing of the Guard, Horse Guards Parade, the Royal Mews (the kids love that), the London Eye, Parliament, the British Museum, St. Paul's. You have time for one.
Let's say you do the London Eye. That's a good thing to do with your half-day, because there's a lot of shit over there on the waterfront that is super-touristy and good for kids. Or maybe go over to St. Paul's. That's also a good thing to do because you can walk down Watling Street and visit a pub for dinner and check out the City.
March 17 & 18: So these are your London days. There's no time to go out to Oxford. That's an entire day, and then some. It's an hour train each way (and that's once you get to Paddington, which is going to take time just to get there). It's not doable. And why would you want to, when you're in London and you've never been to London before? One day is the Tower and the British Museum. The other is Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the Churchill War Rooms, and the Royal Mews. Those are two days that are going to kick your ass. There's really four days' worth of stuff in there. But hey--we've got to get to Amsterdam.
March 19--I assume this is your travel day. It's a four-hour train to Amsterdam. And it's not like a regular train--you have to clear security similar to a plane. Zurich is no better--you have to get out to Heathrow and then you're landing at ZHR.
So same deal. Let's say you're super-ambitious and you get that 7:04 departure out of St. Pancras. That puts you into Amsterdam at 1:00. Drop the bags at the hotel and grab lunch. You have time to see one thing. Maybe just walk around the canals a bit.
March 20: Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum? Or the old city? I don't exactly know, because this is your one Amsterdam day.
Honestly, I don't know why you would go to either Amsterdam or Zurich when any time you take in either city comes at the expense of London or Paris.
March 21: Hooray! It's another travel day. It's another four-hour train from Amsterdam to Gare du Nord. It's 4.5 from Zurich. It doesn't matter. Same deal. You have a half-day at most in Paris. So what're the "usual highlights" in Paris? I guess go see the Eiffel Tower today?
March 22 & 23: These are your Paris days. So the Louvre and the Tulleries and the Champs Elysees on one day, Notre Dame, the Islands, the Left Bank, and d'Orsay on the other? I mean, we're leaving out a whole lot. But that's the time you have.
March 24: Travel day back to Manchester. I mean, this is a flight, right? Because the train is three hours back to London, change stations, and then two up to Manchester. A flight takes a half-day, because CDG sucks. But it is what it is. And you need to be back in Manchester by the evening of the 23rd, because that Singapore flight back to IAH departs at 10:05, and you don't have time for a connection directly from Paris. So maybe you see something in the morning, but realistically you're doing a lot of packing shit to go home.
So here's what you've done: out of ten full days in Europe, you've only got six days where you're doing actual Europe stuff--one in Manchester, two in London, one in Amsterdam, and two in Paris. Realistically, I don't know why you would do that. I really don't.
It'd be one thing if you were flying from the United States to Hamburg. Hamburg doesn't really have enough for you to see to spend a week there. So maybe you want to bounce around northern Germany and the Low Countries. But you're talking about Manchester and London. And there's a shitton to see between those places. London itself is a week.
Fly into Manchester on March 14 and stay in Manchester to the 17th. That gives you an extra day after Match Day to see the city. Then take a train down to London and see London for the next week. With that time, you can take a day trip out to Windsor. Or maybe you hit Oxford on your way back up to Manchester.
But please, for the love of all travel things that are good and holy do not do the itinerary you set out above.
This might be my new favorite post on this board. So much truth.
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Trump’s America
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Can you name me a point in time where the world wasn't fucked up? I don't like Hegseth either but the hyperbole year after year after year gets to be a bit much.