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Ann Arbor / Detroit (Y'all are coming for the UT-UM game, right?)
choripan replied to choripan's topic in Food and Travel
This is a good example of how different strokes can be for different folks. Not my speed but may be your (Baboon's and many others'!) speed. I would not recommend *any* Detroit suburb except as a place to crash if you can't find a place in Ann Arbor or Detroit. My thought is, "If you're going to make the trip, why visit a suburb like those outside of just about any other city?" IMO, outside of a few places (I'll get to the Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village later), there is nothing unique enough in the suburbs to justify going there if you only have 48/72/however many hours in Michigan. -
Ann Arbor / Detroit (Y'all are coming for the UT-UM game, right?)
choripan replied to choripan's topic in Food and Travel
ANN ARBOR, PART 1 For starters, Ann Arbor basically has two sides, though they’ve started to bleed over into each other since I was in college in the 2000s. To the west, in the heart of downtown, you have what is generally the adults/townie side, which is centered on Main Street. To the east, you have the student side, which is generally within a few blocks of the diag, which is the heart of UM’s campus. Though we don’t have anything as lively as Dirty 6th or Bourbon St. or anything like that, there’s more than enough places to go. Ann Arbor-Specific Things to Do, Eat Drink – These are things that are unique to Ann Arbor/UM. Not necessarily the best, but ya really don’t want to make the trip just eat at McDonald’s or go to a generic sports bar. These are some of the main things that’ll come up if you sit next to a UM alum on a plane or a barstool or something like that. Campus. Other than just strolling around to catch vibes, things you will want to see are the rotating cube statue (google it), traipse through the student union and nickels arcade, and be absolutely sure to visit the beautiful law quad and, within it, take a peek at the law library. Think of these things like visiting the turtle pond at UT – things that set your/our particular campus apart from others. Kerrytown Market/Zingermans. If you’re into it, go to the over-century old market on the north side of downtown on Saturday morning, get some coffee, and get fattened up to drink all day. Zingerman’s is ostensibly an east coast style deli, but they’re also a cheesemonger, wine shop, and a bunch of other things. They pay living wage plus, many emploees are long-tenured, and every employee is super knowledgeable in their area of expertise. I think the deli itself is overrated and would be a very good but not best deli in, say, NYC, but the place is famous. Blimpy Burger. This is like going to the White Spot in Charlottesville or Players in Austin. Or it was. Much like Players, the land that Blimpy’s sat on for decades was snapped up by the university for development. Except, after some downtime, Blimpy’s reopened in another part of town with the same grill, most of the same employees, and so on. Downtown. Ann Arbor has fought hard to preserve independent stores, restaurants, and bars. When we were dating and I first took my wife to my alma mater, she (originally from Houston) remarked that “Holy shit, I don’t think there’s a single chain down here.” I think it’s really cool, and great to just walk around and soak it in within a few blocks of Main Street and out east toward the student side. I’ll write another post with specific bars restaurants I’d recommend, with a description of what to expect, along with places I don’t love, but that the rest of the world seems to love, and which are worthy of inclusion despite my personal opinion. I'll also have recommendations for stuff to do if you want to get out and be active. Ann Arbor's a pretty good town for that, too. [This is going to take me awhile. I’m slapping stuff together when I have downtime, which I don’t have a ton of these days…] -
Juicy, Bogey, Wally Fairway, etc. and me. We got you.
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Background on Ann Arbor: If you are a city person, don't think of it like a city. Think of it as an awesome city neighborhood or two stitched together, with the urban area about a mile square before you start getting into a layer of historic homes/districts and then, after that, generic single family homes. For your hotel or Airbnb, try to be within about a 10-15 minute walk of the heart of the city, which is basically a triangle from Liberty and First to the south/west, 5th and Kingsley to the north, and South University and Washtenaw to the south/east. Within or near that triangle, everything is walkable and a very pleasant walk, at that. Yes, there are other places to go but, save for a handful of exceptions, they're no different than what you'd find in Anytown, USA (think a car-oriented environment with quite a few chains). Background on Detroit: Detroit has gone quite bonkers around its city core. Lots of stuff to do and see. We moved back home (for me) to Detroit in 2011, leveraged ourselves to the hilt in real estate based on a tried and true rule of real estate investing -- "if you see pride flags and hipster beards, buy in this area" -- and now I'm semi-retired at 42 after we exited it all in 2019. Woodward Avenue forms the spine of the city, dividing it between the eastside (human trash) and westside (demigods, all of us). There is a much-maligned streetcar that runs down Woodward that isn't much in terms of true public transit, but that would be great for a tourist like you. You'll want to find a place south of Warren, east of 2nd or 3rd, and on or west of Brush (if north of I-75) or west of 375 (if south of I-75). The exception here outside of that area is the Eastern Market area, which is really pretty cool, but kind of markety and which can seem sparse, depending on day and time of day. If you are dipping in and out something like Friday evening through Sunday morning, I'd recommend Ann Arbor as your home base. There's enough to fill your time and then some. If you're making it 4-5+ days, I'd recommend staying in Detroit and taking the express bus (A2D2) to Ann Arbor for gameday or just taking an Uber/Lyft). [All the above assumes that you're a first-timer in whichever place you choose] [Specific recommendations and all that to come, but I wanted to lay a very general groundwork. Also I don't want this to be nor see it as *my* thread -- I encourage others to add to, confirm, or contradict what I end up writing here..]
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Lions/Michigan fan back from the bar. What a season. Bad drops and fumble, otherwise they didn't stop us. What a season! Probably never see another like this in my lifetime. Had innumerable high fives, hugs, and first bumps with strangers this season. In Houston for the title game, at Tampa and Chicago road lions games, and in a buncha bars. That's what sports is about, once you're doing more watching than playing. 2024 season... You fucked. Rest in power. ✊
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^ Damn skippy. Doesn't matter. Had national title. I'd be very surprised if Herbert left. He's a college guy through and through, likes to mold players, and a lot of NFL guys have their own programs.
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It's a trust issue. SF did him dirty the first time around when he was a winner there. Here at M, Warde the AD has been shit from a support standpoint, NIL is lacking institutional support ("transformational, not transactional" wtf), and he got hosed on the SELF-IMPOSED 3 game suspension at the beginning of the season (wtf, your AD should fight *for* you, not backstab you) and the big ten's 3 gamer (your conference should fight *for* you, see the SEC and countless scandals like cam newton). And the NCAA has jumped way past any precedent with him, especially when it comes to leaks. So he can't trust his AD or conference, and the NCAA has been unusually aggressive with him..I'd want out, too. And he had similar issues with the 9ers in the past. He's also a weirdo, so it's not all external, too. But in any case, it makes sense to stay at M if he can't get contractual security/assurances from an NFL team because he can probably win the power struggle with Warde/the AD if he stays. Shiny penny says that if Jimmy comes back, Warde is gone within 6 months
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Why you scared of your latent homo-bestial tendencies? Acknowledge and reject them and you'll feel better.
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FUCKING LIONS LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO WE'VE NEVER WON SHIT IN MY LIFETIME BUT FUCK IT LET'S GOOOOOOOO (1. Tampa got theirs with merc Brady, SF has a million titles, KC fatigue is real, Ravens got a couple recently. Bills, uh, cool if you win it besides us after the 90s near-misses. That had to suck.) (2. LOL at the Google image results for "Muscular Lion." Look at the nips on that second one!) And why the FUCK does it have blue eyes?!?! (If you can't tell, I woke up pumped today.)
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Haha, I'm probably missing some things here but last year Ryan Day, coming off back to back Michigan losses, brought an elite undefeated squad to Ann Arbor. Quite probably the second or third best team in the land, depending on them vs. Georgia. He put up the stiffest fight of any Michigan opponent this past season, more than the national finalist and arguably Bama, and anyone dating back to TCU last year. His QB threw for more yards and TDs than any other Michigan opponent. They scored more than any other Michigan opponent. It was only a last second INT on a drive to win the game against Michigan that took them down, and the QB was hit on the play. In the aftermath of this, he has decided to: run off his rising senior incumbent QB who finished 14th nationally in passer rating. run off his rising senior WR who was arguably the best blocking WR in the country. run off his starting center. take a new center who can't snap (lol). take a new power run QB who lost his first battle to Adrian Martinez and lost a second round of PT to Avery Johnson. take a malcontent running back who the entire Ole Miss offense shoved into the portal after a stepback season. add zero tackles. add zero guards. add zero tight ends. fire the Special Teams coach whose unit was always SP+ top-20. fire the QB coach whose recruiting + position performance was always national top-3. fire the safeties coach for seemingly no reason. publicly cuck program luminary and WR coach Brian Hartline, who many argue is the best in the business when you consider recruiting and development (MHJr, Olave, Wilson, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, etc.). hire Bill O'Brien off one of the worst offenses in NFL history. Am I missing anything? Crazier things have worked but gottdamn Ryan, that's an, uh, interesting offseason.
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I would like this to be wrong. Maybe jumped the gun on this through the game of telephone. I don't care if he flirts with the NFL every year if the on-field results are fine. If Jim is scraping the bottom of the barrel with the Falcons and moving toward giving up control in his various negotiations, he probably gone. Diminished credibility aside, it sounds like Spanos wants to keep all of his sons, nephews, etc. in positions of power with the Chargers and it's been a point of contention not just with Jim, but with other coaches.
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Per my people, crossing the Ts and dotting the Is with Chargers. Minter gone, too. Possibly more. Staff rebuild incoming.
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Also, be mindful of taking what JUB says as gospel. He's a good guy. Our kids are at the same small elementary school BUT ... just like Sam Webb, he's sometimes only fed part of the story and can be used as a mouthpiece to advance certain camps' agenda.
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Problem is Regent Bernstein and insisting on a fired for cause clause tied to the COVID cheeseburgers. We know Stalions-gate will be nothing based on NCAA prez statements. Harbaugh's camp wants the carveout, Bernstein is insisting on the clause and has at lease one Regent with him. Everyone wants Regents vote to be unanimous. Harbaugh feels like UM isn't showing him the love and his negotiating camp is being aggressive instead of "Michigan-gentlemanly" about it, which is ruffling some feathers. Also, expect Warde or Harbaugh gone by summer, regardless -- that well is poisoned, even though Warde is trying to save his ass by pivoting to do everything to get the contract done. Also heard that Harbaugh walked into LAC interview with a huge list of demands, many tied to the nepotism in the LAC organization tied to the owners' relatives as well as control/job security in general, and LAC was like "shrug, okay." Good leverage for Jimmy. Source: Am somewhere between friends and good friends with a Pro-Harbaugh Regent. Enough to drink and hang together, but not enough to like go on vacation or anything like that.
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Michigan fan/alum here. I think I am in the supermajority of us that are like "hope he stays but, if not, thanks man. Go get a Super Bowl unless you play the Lions." The feeling walking out of NRG last week was the same, but with overwhelming euphoria. Hasn't changed much since and I am a degenerate message boarder and text threader. Not too worried about the second NSD, either. Almost all of the key plays from the defense are back next year (safeties, CB1, DTs, etc.), the OL ran 2-deep with high-level players, Donovan Edwards/Mullings will be great at RB. Only questions will be CB2, QB, and potentially WR with some unproven guys there. If we get a transfer portal QB or Orji steps up, offense should be fine enough to win around 10 and make the playoff and then flame out. Really looking forward to playing UT next fall. We owe you for the "Holy shit this Vince Young guy is gonna be something next year" Rose Bowl game, and My BIL is a UT alum and is flying up from Austin to A2 to watch with me.
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Also that Antonio banderas looking mother fucker puka is good. First time I've seen him play live
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Yeah, we held but we are owed it. About even now --that offsets when their guy was offsides earlier, in terms of drive killer-- with trash calls both ways
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One good thing about Peacock is that it's in 4k. Lot better feed than my NBC affiliate over YoutubeTV. (Somewhat related hint: If you're a golfer, buy GolfPass+ thru Costco for like 70 bucks. Comes with $10/month in teetime credits AND a free Peacock subscription.)
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I mean. WTF? How can this stuff always happen? I am the least conspiracy-type person ever. But wtf? If you can't tell I'm a Lions fan. Since I could follow football. Felt real good at 14-3. It's felt really familiar since then.
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HUGE there after the uncalled late hit on gibbs earlier in the drive, too.
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SLIGHT WORK. LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO!
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
choripan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
choripan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Often, between down payment and payments made, people have *some* equity. Not always, but often. In other words, most people pay down their principal amount one or many steps ahead of the depreciation curve. But the drop in value of these cars has been so precipitous that it's almost impossible to be right side up in many cases, even if the buyer was relatively responsible with respect to amount down and loan term. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
choripan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Drives home how much of an utter sycophant loser you need to be to buy anything Musk related at this point, when other options exist. Obvious exception for people who bought Teslas some time ago, and who are probably and unfortunately in a bad negative equity situation.
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