Born to Run
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Glorius day. Tough loss. Frustrating and kinda unsuprising. We go against Elite pitching and we strike out everyone except maybe 7 at bats? Is that bad? Buzz sawed
Mississippi state fans are kinda trashy. We won the lowest BMI award by a lot. But the biggest loser of the day was the Pig fan that got up in my face post game with a irrate horns down and sec sec chant. I was posted up waiting on my lady minding my own business. Took a bit more resilience than I would normally require not to fuck his face up. He was hogging a good dozen teeth all to himself too. Fuck piggie, they belong in the SEC forever riding others achievements.
Fellas looked ready to go, and never quit and like the rest of the season ready to also go get smoked by high fast balls over and over. [ -
Wow this is spot on and great advice. It took me hours of research two years ago to gather roughly this when choosing a bike.I'm going to elaborate on this a little. I don't think frame quality varies much among good brands, in terms of materials, welds, etc. Of course there's carbon fiber and aluminum and I don't think most newbs are going to want to spring for carbon fiber, nor should they.
But what you are looking for are things that are "built in" to the frame: the geometry, the dropouts (wheel mounts) being Boost and through-axle, and the headtube being tapered.
On geometry, other than "fit" things, probably the primary thing these days is the head tube angle. They vary between 70 something and about 65 degrees. The bigger the number, the less "slack" the bike. Slack means longer wheelbase for the frame size and puts the front wheel/axle more forward of the head tube and handlebars. These are advantages pointing downhill and on rougher terrain. They sacrifice steering precision and "quickness" Angles of 70+ are known as "cross-country" or XC and more resemble a road bike with more precise road bike handling, but they also pitch you forward heading downhill. They are mild terrain race bikes as a general rule. For a long time, the cheaper bikes stuck with XC-type geometry, but that has started to change.
Very generally speaking, a bike's "size" (S, M. L, XL) is determined by the seat tube length, so that's the dimension you sometimes see associated with frame size, e.g. 18.5, 20, etc. But, seat tube angle can vary, also. On the first "slack" bikes, they were angled further to the rear to keep weight back. But that hurts pedaling efficiency and can hurt your knees. so they have gotten steeper lately, the idea being that with dropper posts, you won't have your weight on the seat heading downhill, anyway.
Other non-fit-related frame dimensions tend to follow the head tube angle, and the seat tube angle. But this is where there can be a lot of variation among manufacturers before you even get into full-suspension and those frame kinematics.
You can broadly figure the type of bike, from XC (69-73) to more "radical" bikes (65-68.5), by the head tube angle. Most of the rest of it can only be sorted by test riding. You can generally trust a manufacturer's height to size correlations if you are buying online. But it might pay to read some rider reviews to see if there are any geo idiosyncrasies that will cause you issues. -
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My lady and I got real fucked up at a Dead and Co show and decided we should follow them and other jam bands around and just chill man.
My customer skill level would have been exactly this. Cut out all the dumb shit upfront.
Respect
However, my grill cheese game is epic. I like to finish with a crust of parmesan and butter and I'm charging way more you hippy fucks. -
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Fuck this is such a cool town. We had an Airbnb in the Blackstone area that got all fucked up, walked towards some live music to regroup and ended up in a Polish festival. Met a ton of locals, many free drinks, got invited to crash in someone's driveway in thier motor home and made fishing plans in port A with someone else.
Relocated downtown for the duration
Uber fees so far are like 30 bucks with tip. Everything is so close -
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That's exactly the intensity and weirdness I was expecting just the wrong zip code on the receiving end.What are you dragging me into this shit for? I ain't even going. I've done my 4 trips to Texas at the CWS. Maybe someday, I can take my girls...but y'all have fun. It's a freakin' blast. Just help bring us home some hardware.
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I'll be at the game on Sunday if any of you lunatics want a free drink- just name the pregame spot.@Lobo
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I agree a hundred percent. I feel embarrassed. And it gets harder to tolerate those that still gleefully vote R for these ghouls that are the Texas GOP. It's just so blatantly gross and transparent. Say what you will about your Pappy O'Daniels of the past but at least they brought some tunes to your radio and pretended to give a fuck.You know, I will say that being an ex mostly-Republican (always crossed the aisle on some races, but was primarily an R voter for a long time), watching the last decade plus, and continuing, has been incredibly humbling.
I didn't just follow a political path that was wrong....I followed one that was utterly hollow, stupid, and had no guiding principles of any merit whatsoever. I mean, I've done a lot of stupid shit in my life, but goddamn.....having ever voted Republican is the fucking stupidest, and it only gets stupider with each passing second.
I have a Trump flag flying fishing buddy that works for an environmental firm. He has a job because of evil regulations on unbridled capitalism. Take away the minor socialist bent of our society including, gasp, saving resources for our children, and he'd have no career. Yet he flys his flag and is scared of socialism via fox news.. I could see a SCB driving welder from the oil patch. But bro, you literally monitor pollution levels and keep companies (barely) accountable. As but one example of the dissonance here. -
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My old man, used to blame that on wolves or coyotes shitting in his mouth and praying for snow to track them down for vegenceSometimes when I wake up after drinking, I have that wooly-mouth feeling on my teeth. Like somebody put little business suits on each of my teeth while I was passed out. Perhaps Jim Jordan uses his evasive suit-jacket to put over his fucked up grill as well. Or it's entirely likely I am as crazy as he is and none of this is real.
What the fuck were we talking about again?
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Can you explain that then.There’s a greater good at stake here. Small sacrifices must be made to advance the agenda.
Becsuse it looks like dems are farting around with a clear mandate with every headwind known to man before them and every advantage and they are just ceding all power to facism like this is an ice cream formal



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