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  1. On 4/9/2018 at 3:48 PM, Ghost of LL said:

    So a few months ago, I started playing indoor soccer.  I figured I need some extra exercise.  I hate jogging for no purpose, but if I'm running after a ball, somehow it's fun.  And anyway, I played soccer when I was 7 and watch Premier League every weekend--obviously, I'm going to have no problem.

    About seven minutes into the game, there's a 50/50 ball to our (i.e., my adopted team's) keeper, who slides to get it.  The other team's forward goes hard for it, and collides with the keeper.  The keeper goes right over his foot as the foot and ankle twist.  The guy goes down in a heap and starts screaming.  Like really screaming.  I look down at his leg at about the same time everyone else looks at the leg, and we all see the same thing--a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula.  The leg below the break is twisted at a 90* angle and broken at a 45* angle to the rest of the leg.  And there's blood, but actually not as much as you would think given the size of the laceration.

     

    You play at Soccerzone north or south?  And for the record, that's why there is no sliding in indoor and I stay the fuck away from the keeper when they slide.

     

    In Mens's outdoor over the last 12 years or so I've seen 1 tib/fib break.  I've seen 3 broken arms, personally broken my nose 3x, and seen 3 ACL tears (2 non-contact, 1 a tackle from behind).

     

    Coed I *knock on wood* haven't seen any bad injuries.

  2. On 4/10/2018 at 1:28 PM, Speedtrucker said:

    I currently play in a no slide-tackle coed soccer league here in north Texas, I switched from the open division to the over 30 because I got tired of guys in the early 20s playing like their paycheck depended on it and getting all pissed off at stupid shit. I've sprained my ankles and pulled a muscle in my back but in open I had a couple of plays where I got lucky to avoid injury. Had an asshole slide tackle me with studs up when I flicked the other other CB, if I wouldn't have seen it at the last second and get my studs out of the ground I don't doubt I coulda had a broken ankle. It cracked my heel counter and I did a near full flip from it.

    Weird.  Here in Austin the Men's Open is generally much calmer in the than the Over30.  I refuse to play O30 Premier because that shit (fighting, cheap fouls, dangerous play) is not fucking fun at all, and it's a ton of has beens that keep trying to play like they're 25.  I'd rather play with the young guys that still can get their body to do what they think they can, and don't have 15+ years of bad blood with the other teams.

  3. On 4/7/2018 at 7:50 PM, staboner said:

    but they can't go up and down on the house/improvement value over and over? you would think once they downed it substantially that it would be easier to fight the following cycle if they upped it

    damn i am dizzy. 

    Actually, they do exactly that as land value rises.  I assume they get land value in established neighborhoods by prices people pay for teardowns, at least it seems that way around here.

    As far as making it easier to fight, not really.  They're comparing your house to other houses in your neighborhood that have sold recently.  Not to what your house is actually worth, or what it would cost to build.  If sales prices go up, it does not matter what your house was valued at last year.

  4. 24 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

    I guess I'm going to use protax.  It's 8% over what I paid for it.  78746.  Furk.

    If you bought this year you can just walk in with your closing documents to the informal hearing and they'll set it to your purchase price no questions asked.  30 seconds tops, assuming you had a normal arm's length transaction as that is the definition of fair market value.

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