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  1. 21 hours ago, demos said:

    I’ve seen people go the wrong way in them to make a left hand turn instead of going around.

    The new traffic circle I referenced in our neighborhood is so small that larger trucks routinely do this.  They can't negotiate the proper left hand turn, so they just take the short cut.  Great job, Austin.

  2. 12 hours ago, markstanco said:

    Yea I get it on their aTm logo and font. But to piss off a texas HS fan base over letters is just dumb business. Let the high schools use your logo or fonts you dumb idiots.

    Many teams have done licensing deals in these situations -- $1 a year for the right to use the logo or some such.

    I guess A&M is just a little to important for that.

  3. 18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    If you’re eating Mexican rice at anyone’s house who is a real-deal messican…and in a shitload of restaurants…you already are.

    I'm pretty sure we don't need to elaborate . . . I'm aware . . . I'm not cooking with it.  End.

  4. 48 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    To throw a wrench into things - a contemporary guy I really, really like (a little hip-hop/rock fusion).

    Ha, that's one of the dudes who has been really cool to my daughter on their travels.  He came to see them in Louisville.

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  5. 48 minutes ago, Stringer said:

    We didn't do much this year, except for Luck Reunion and bouncing around South Congress on Sat.  We caught English Teeth and were about to leave until they introduced Britt and we stayed for his songs.  I don't know much about The Replacements, but Alex Chilton definitely could have fit right in on Girls Can Tell.  Pretty obvious that Britt was influenced by them early on.  Thanks for posting.

    I've spent a fair amount of time in the studio with Britt and the Spoon crew.  I can confidently assert that Britt's knowledge of rock is "encyclopedic", to an insane degree.  If it was recorded and got any airplay, he knows it.  I think that's why you hear so many diverse influences in Spoon's music, from Prince to the Stones to the Kinks to the Replacements, the Clash, the Isley Brothers, you name it.

  6. 6 minutes ago, hornian said:

    Plus one for @C-Man. If he could beat USAA I'd go back to him a heartbeat.  If you don't qualify for USAA, definitely talk to him. 

    I'm with @C-Man, and definitely agree. 

    What I've never understood are the requirements to qualify for USAA.  For instance, my Dad served a short stint in the Navy before a 4F for asthma, and my wife's parents both served (mom an officer, dad enlisted).  As far as I know, none of the 3 every had USAA insurance.  Does my wife qualify?

  7. 45 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    As for some right wing billionaires willing to prop up the RNC and Trump, even some of them may hit their limits. It's one thing to put $1m into Abbott's campaign but something else to give $500m to Trump.

    Some may hit their limits.  Yass clearly didn't.  Trump is worth billions more this week than last week.  I would not assume that's the end of the gravy train.  (Accessing that "wealth" may prove difficult in the short term, but it's still his.)

  8. 4 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    I haven’t even checked the ingredients but I suspect that boullion contains the msg that is sometimes the missing *something* from the more natural ingredient recipes 

    It's literally the second ingredient.  The first is salt.  No thanks.

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  9. 50 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I haven’t read the whole thread. I see the Styx mention but I’m not sure which album you’re talking about. I assume Kilroy Was Here? That counts but I don’t think it was executed very well. I think Paradise Theater was the better effort. 

    I posted about Styx "Kilroy Was Here" because it is the worst concept album ever recorded (which is consistent with the thread title).

  10. 48 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    As far as store bought corn tortillas go, in Austin I like the El Milagro yellow corn tortillas that come in the cool paper sack. They don't have any preservatives (according to the package) and when you open the bag there's a noticeable rich masa smell. Of course, the downside is that they only come in packages of 30 and since they don't have preservatives they don't keep very long. And our family usually isn't eating 30 corn tortillas in less than a week.

    Have you tried freezing them?

  11. I completely disagree that "kids these days aren’t even interested in listening to an adult", broad brush.  Maybe elite D1 athletes, I have no experience there, but I helped teach HS kids both in band and soccer and felt like they were for the most part engaged and willing to learn.

    It's the oldest old man perspective in the book . . . "kids these days".  Eh.

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  12. 7 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Who gives a shit? Griner fucked up in another country breaking their laws. Bitch should have stayed rotting in that jail and not traded for what she was traded for.

    You're a remarkably ugly human being.

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  13. *Taylor Hawkins had a groove that neither Freese nor Grohl have.  That's why I preferred Hawkins to both.  Frankly, I think Freese is a mismatch, just a little too punk for that band.  I've seen him play a bunch (Westerberg, The Replacements, etc.) and I love him in the right situation, but I don't think he's right for the Foos.  (I was at that ACL Fest show, weekend 1.)

    I don't "get" Alex Van Halen at all.  For one thing, his drums sound like shit.  He plays OK, but it's not my cup of tea.

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  14. 12 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I don't know what data would say otherwise. Circles offer better flow but command attentiveness, and increase caution. Much like narrowing streets lowers speed, the mechanism of action is increasing the amount of focus required by drivers. Getting drivers to focus more is a good thing, but it's stressful for people who think they should be able to daydream while piloting a 4000lb machine on residential streets at 35-40mph. 

    No, it's stressful for the people who encounter the circles when those daydreamers are plowing through without any regard for the actual law.

  15. Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

    false. Every single intersection that has replaced signs or controls with a circle in the last two decades has seen both a reduction in accidents and better traffic flow.

    LMAO.  OK, I'm just going thru the ones that suck ass (my street and 51st, and yes I know your data on the latter).

  16. 27 minutes ago, Mittens said:

    Why would anyone be upset about that intersection?  Anything that removes stop signs is a plus to me.

    We have a traffic circle at the end of our street.  It's a "T" intersection.  Previously, there was a stop sign on the leg that was perpendicular to the other two.  Now, it's a traffic circle with 3 yield signs.

    To say that Austin drivers have no fucking idea how to navigate a 3-legged traffic circle with 3 yield signs would be understating things.  Most drivers on the two legs that are parallel to each other (and perpendicular to the third) seem to think they have the right of way.  It's maddening.

    Long story short:  Austinites don't tend to be very astute when it comes to traffic control measures, especially traffic circles.

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