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12 minutes ago, Pancho said:
It’s also allowing community colleges to remove the word “community” from their name and just go by _____ College, which helps in lowering the stigma of community colleges compared to 4-years. (ACC can’t remove the word “community” from their name, though.)
Honest question for ACC: Why?
I mean, the Ags removed Agricultural & Mechanical from their name many decades ago, so now the A and the M stand for nothing...
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5 hours ago, Js1 said:
Est ridiculam quod est verum!
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14 hours ago, Updawg said:
This historically a bad week for shit happening. Deep water horizon was as well among othersTitanic was the early hours of April 15th
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3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
Or maybe he was a vampire worried about a stake.
Sounds more like he was a hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent.
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20 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
First, "dhow" sounds like a word describing a type of woman. And in that case, JFK plowing her sounds entirely plausible.
The first time I came across a picture of a "dhow" was when I was an early teen perusing Kathy Ireland in the "Kenya Top This?" SI Swimsuit edition.
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5 hours ago, Bama Llama said:
There’s nothing wrong with the S-E-C chant if the time is right. I can’t claim to be one that started it but I believe I was there when it was born. It grew out of being force fed Miami’s bullshit hype for a few years and the whole Geno Torreta Heisman bandwagon in 1992. Seems like there were about seven or eight minutes left in the Sugar Bowl and Bama fans were starting to realize it was going to happen. Not only were we winning the title but we had pantsed the invincible Caines in the process. We received literally one (1) vote in the AP poll all year, up to and including that week. An Arizona writer in Tucson I think named Corky Frost started voting us #1 in October and continued it every week right through to the final poll, when it was unanimous. He was invited to be grand marshal of the parade. The chant started up in some remote psrt of the Superdome and it jusr caught on and kept building until it was a stomping, standing, yelling Victorygasm. It didn’t hurt that Miami and Ericson had whipped our asses three years before and we were reminded of it constantly in the runup to the 92 game. Sports Illustrated was the worst front runner Caines suck off douche. I believe the chant has a time and a place. That year, it fit. This year, assuming you don’t trip on your foreskins in Nashville or aggyland, when Texas deflowers some unlucky team in the Mercedes Dome in Atlanta, it would be apropos as well to haul out the chant. Year One SEC Champs - check✅
I was at that game, and I don't remember there being SEC chants at all. Now, I'm not saying it didn't happen, as it was a long time ago and I was plenty drunk that night - but the whole atmosphere in the Superdome and way the game unfolded remains crystal clear in my mind (and make no mistake, it was glorious!). I remember the "Geeeeee-nooooo" chants building steam and taking over the crowd as the game went on and Toretta bumbled and crumbled under the Bama D. And by the end of the game the dome echoed in Roll Tide chants. Besides being there and not remembering SEC chants, it also would have made no sense. Miami was in the freaking Big East! Nobody was talking up the strength of the Big East - it was all about Miami's historic rise and dominance in spite of their weak ass conference, not because of it. The game wasn't billed as a chance for the SEC to prove they could hang with the Big East, haha! Bama was Bama. They transcended their conference - even after falling off the map for awhile, they were still a legendary program, and those were the days way before conference pride became a thing.
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31 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
I don't know if its on Hawkins or his coaching staff, but he plays like if he throws a single interception he will be sent off to Gitmo or something. The dude is not willing to take a single risk passing the ball. Pathetic. OU sucks.
Haha, yeah. During the broadcast the announcers emphasized how he had been coached to "just throw the ball away" if he gets in trouble. Hawkins clearly bought into that lesson. It was funny how in multiple instnces when a comeback was the only hope they had, he stuck to just throwing the ball away - even on the last drive and last freaking play when you would think they'd, I dunno, be willing to throw the kitchen sink at getting a touchdown on the board.
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On 9/29/2024 at 8:53 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:
Same exact situation my son was in last year. His school is the STEM Academy for a good part of Conroe ISD and draws the real geeks from all of The Woodlands / Conroe and even a small part of Spring where Grand Oaks High School is. The Academy makes up about 10% of each graduating class.
My son's rank, GPA and SAT are almost identical to yours. He got CAP'ed; but if your son is dead set on UT and is willing to spend the first year somewhere else then he will have a great chance of finishing up at his dream school.
I'll chime in with my daughter's success story about transferring in to UT this Fall. She was a Lake Travis kid who took as many AP, UT On-Ramps, and ACC Dual Credit classes as possible, and all it took was one or two Bs in those advanced classes to drop her class rank to Top 11%. Her SAT was mid 1300s. Outstanding extracurriculars. I cautioned her that acceptance into UT was a longshot, and sure enough, she did not get accepted. She got Cap'd, but was dead set against that pathway since the curriculum is fixed, and she felt like she would be wasting a year re-taking classes she already took.
She ended up going to her safety school, TCU. Interestingly, she got deferred then denied at Georgia, but got accepted to UC Irvine. For reasons I won't get into because it would venture into the cloak room, her mom (my ex wife) "wouldn't let her" go to UC Irvine, even though it is on par with or arguably a better school than UT. Long story, much angst, but as a 17-yr old my daughter was just not gonna rebel against her mom's wishes.
Her freshman year at TCU was a fine experience, but a cake-walk. Truly, the classes were a joke even though she was in mostly upper division courses, and her classmates were lets just say not real academically oriented. She got 4.0s both semesters without trying, and said it was like her brain had been on a gap-year. She applied to the UT school of liberal arts as a transfer student for admission this Fall and was initially denied (probably because of all of the Cap students filling spots). But, she appealed the decision based on "new and relevant information" (namely, her 2nd semester 4.0 grades at TCU, which weren't factored in to the initial transfer app). Her appeal was successful - she got in to UT! She's now a happy UT sophomore, loving every second of the experience, and said the academic rigors are like night and day compared to TCU. Kids should keep in mind that with a little patience and diligence, the transfer pathway to UT is feasible.
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3 hours ago, BeardIP said:
I just meant that, this italicized below which is the only small paragraph I replied with and is verbatim a biblical quote, was considered to be word salad.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
This verse is cryptic at best, verging on unintelligible. So yeah, a word salad. Consider this: from an uninformed person looking in and asking for an explanation of what is meant by things like "spiritual warfare" and the word of God being a sword (which to someone who hasn't been raised around such concepts, can be quite confusing and rather alarming), quoting the Bible verbatim it isn't very helpful.
For - this indicates a follow-on or concluding statement is being made based on a whole bunch of other explanation that came before it, but without that context, there's confusion right off the bat.
our struggle - is this about a particular struggle happening at that time, like persecution of believers? Or is this more philosophical, like general struggles any time we start feeling like life is always an uphill climb and nothing's going our way?
flesh and blood - first thought is this refers to how the struggle doesn't involve physical fighting or face-to-face interactions, but then it occurred to me "flesh and blood" could be referring to family (our own flesh and blood) or a family of fellow believers. Knowing who this refers to would help resonate what is meant by the struggle against rulers (who after all, are also flesh and blood), etc.
against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers - ...who were persecuting believers? or just in general? Either way, I guess the point is Christians should be prepared for and unsurprised by struggles imposed by rulers and authorities and the powers that be (so it is what it is, don't sweat it?)?
dark world - sounds ominous. Still trying to unpack, though, and the meaning is not self evident.
spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms - ah, here's the spiritual warfare part (maybe?). Well, it hasn't gotten to the fighting back part yet, just the existence of supernatural enemies. Presumably later in Ephesians it goes on to talk about how to combat these various causes of struggles, including but not limited to the heavenly spiritual forces (maybe by praying? or taking comfort by reading the word of God? or outright taking action using the Word as a weapon, like exorcism style commands or some other way to go on offense instead of defense?)?
I think a lot of people get frustrated when answers to their questions are "go read XXX X:X". For a believer, it is sacred text and it has the ultimate credibility, so they're going to infer as much wisdom out of it as possible, and lo and behold: the verse is crystal clear and unambiguous! But when read on its face by a curious person, even who earnestly wants to know more, it ought to be a fair critique to call passages like this a word salad.
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4 minutes ago, 1978horn said:
I’m dumb, delete userNo, something is off in those numbers. The statewide water demand in 2020 was 7.7 million acre-feet. https://www.twdb.texas.gov/waterplanning/swp/2022/docs/04-SWP22_Future-Population.pdf Samsung was not using 7.5 million acre-feet, virtually all of the water demand of Texas. ...Too preoccupied with enjoying the heavy rainfall right now in 78756 to reconcile the math...
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2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
3/14/2024 #Neverforget
Well I guess it makes sense to pull out on pi day
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1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:
Woman Asks Fellow Passenger To Move From Business Class to Economy So She Can Move Her Husband Up
"He's already heading this way!" the passenger recalls the woman telling him in a post shared on the subreddit, 'Entitled People'
A Reddit user recounted a shocking request made of him by a fellow passenger.
In a post shared on the Entitled People subreddit, the user canada11235813 recalled an incident in which the woman sitting next to him in business class asked him to voluntarily downgrade his seat so that she could sit next to her husband, who was seated in economy, in business.
The original poster (OP) was on a flight from Toronto to Vancouver on an unnamed airline when he says the woman sitting next to him in a two-seat center pod configuration asked him if he'd mind switching seats with her husband so the couple could sit together.
He said yes assuming that her husband was sitting somewhere else in business class, at which point the woman casually revealed that her husband's seat was actually 18B — a middle seat in economy.
"You can't seriously expect me to swap a pod for a MIDDLE seat at the back of the bus. Are you kidding me?" OP recalled saying, adding that he kept looking around to see if he was being recorded for some kind of YouTube prank.
Not only was she serious, she proceeded to throw a tantrum over OP's refusal, saying "But you said you would! He's already heading this way!"
The woman, he says, had originally been seated in economy with her husband, but took a free upgrade when it was offered to her, apparently assuming someone would readily downgrade their seat so she could sit with her spouse.
The OP said that if she could find someone in business class to switch with her husband, he'd move to any pod in the section so that they could sit together in the double pod. Or, she could sit with her husband back in economy.
Seemingly unhappy with these options, he says, she replied, "But we both want to sit together up here!"
Unable to facilitate either option because of the seating assignments, OP writes, she eventually sat down and traveled apart from her husband for the 5-hour flight.
https://people.com/woman-asks-passenger-move-from-business-class-coach-for-husband-8599345
While not the same thing, this reminds me of the time my wife (no pics) and I were upgraded on a MEX-AUS flight. But, we were in like 3B and 3C which on that plane happened to be two aisle seats rather than right next to each other. When we got settled in, a woman asked my wife if she would switch seats so she could sit next to her husband, which would have moved my wife to a completely different row. We declined and indicated we'd prefer to stay sitting by each other, and the woman got all huffy. After they got seated, my wife, being gracious, and tried to clear the air with the husband, and he just rolled his eyes, threw his hands up in desperation, and gave the look of a typical defeated husband who knew his wife was being unreasonable but he had to take her side anyway. I'm guessing there is a reasonable chance this encounter was with a fellow surly poster, haha. But, was it wrong to not agree to their switcheroo request just because my wife and I wanted to sit "next" to each other, even while divided by an aisle?
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33 minutes ago, texasdago said:
This. It has to be utter humiliation not that he has any shame or a conscience to feel humiliation.
Put him on an uninhabited island in the Bering Strait so he's close to Mother Russia. Give him a small but comfortable house with a TV that only gets CNN. Stock him up periodically with food supplies and toiletries, but he's on his own to cook and clean. Stock him up with board games, puzzles, books, and whatnot. Have Secret Service vigorously monitor the island from afar. Generously allow visitors once a week. By any other standard, a highly compassionate house arrest. Way more humiliation than the celebrity status he would enjoy at any actual prison facility.
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48 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:
...during the recent avalanche of negative media coverage.
Jeez, there are avalanches at least biannually around there. All self-inflicted, under Sharp's watch.
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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:
"Fast Truck" is absolutely the dumbest thing I've heard this month, and I've heard and read a whole bunch of dumb things this month. You should feel shame.
Haha, so true - Fast Truck would be horrible, that idea. It was intended as a dig on formulaic country songs, not as a way to make it better, but pointing out how he missed a golden opportunity to kill two birds with one stone (make the cover his own, and check the "truck" box for the song).
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On 7/19/2023 at 10:29 PM, boilerhorn said:
This one was shared by @jimmyjazz in the "cmt pulls aldean video" thread on "Daily Texan". Might as well share it here.
Jeez, what an abomination of a cover. When it comes on the radio I can't change the channel fast enough, except half the time on shitty Austin radio its playing on at least one other station at the same time. The dude broke the cover song honor code and didn't even try to change up his version, even a little. It's generic and soulless. Could you at least have made the song "Fast Truck", or sung it from the perspective of the other character (presumably the boyfriend) in the song? Nope - instead we get to hear a country bumpkin twangin' on about being a homeless woman with an out of work boyfriend, desperately dreaming of a better life. The whole thing just isn't plausible - I mean, redneck dudes don't live in shelters, work in convenience stores, have partners (girlfriends/boyfriends?) who put their arm around their shoulder while driving fast cars. He even kept the line about how he's gonna work in the market as a checkout girl. It's the same as if I learned to mimic 99 Luftballons so I could do a killer karaoke performance - yep, I could do it, but I wouldn't have a damn clue about the words I was singing. The only silver lining of this atrocity is that it put a black female songwriter on the top of the country charts for the first time, and I can only imagine she's laughing at this cracker all the way to the bank.
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43 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:
i know we can't always predict when turbulence occurs but do we really not know what causes turbulence?
Solar radiation heats the earth's crust, warm air rises, cool air descends - turbulence.
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3 hours ago, zman13 said:
So is going to Xochimilco worth it? Have heard lots of reviews and lots of different opinions.
Seems like it could be a lot of fun.
Also seems like a big detour, crowded, lots of people selling things, etc.
Absolutely yes, it is worth it. We were there last month on a Saturday afternoon and it was almost entirely locals. Yes, it was crowded, but on the water it didn't seem overly so, because after going through a bottleneck of party boats, you'd hit a more peaceful stretch to chill out for a bit. None of the sellers tried a hard sell - just wave them off, and they get it. Or, beckon them over and check out what they've got. The whole experience was fascinating, and while kitschy, it seemed like a glimpse into authentic Mexican family fun; and at least the day we were there, felt like it was off the beaten path of the US tourist circuit.
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39 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:
Oh my bad.
Really dumb taking your sidepiece when you change jobs. Only thing missing from his terrible decision making is a bastard baby.Yep. I just got my wife (no pics) up to speed on this story, and the very first words out of her mouth were: "What was he thinking bringing his mistress to Alabama with him? If there's one thing Alabama's got, it's pretty girls willing to fuck a football coach. They may be dumber than a box of rocks, but they're pretty."
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