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choripan

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  1. Almost every fanbase is like 95% cool people you'd like to hang and knock back a few beers with, and 5% goons. Ohio State is the inverse. Go Blue!
  2. Add in Michigan (10) and Northwestern (13) I think that makes a majority of the hallowed "Top 14" law schools that have opted out now.
  3. Happy birthday to some of the proudest MFers I've ever met, and an especially happy bday to the marines this soldier drank with a bunch of times after training at MCAS Futenma.
  4. I got my day started with morning nookie, kaszanka and eggs, [cloak room stuff], AND the Russians fleeing Kherson... damn near tears of joy over here! Now give those fuckers some ATACMS.
  5. Michigan fan here. Will be pulling hard for y'all because (i) chaos helps ups our chances to get in as a one-loss team if lose a game to Illinois or OSU and (ii) would be nice to see Ewers develop like Burrow and have OSU people talking about what could have been again.
  6. Never did Twitter due to how hard it is to follow, but have FB and Insta. I'm thinking not ever going in on Twitter is going to be like when I skipped over MySpace and was fine. TikTok TBD.
  7. Last night, on Sunday night football, I saw Stefon Diggs -- alone, without any Bills teammates around him and with his helmet off -- jawing with the Packers CBs coming out of the tunnel. Made me think: "Gee, he sure deserves to be beaten with helmets."
  8. I can assure you it's more likely than not that many of them brought their makeup to the field. Source: Am 1/2 Polish and 1/4 Ukranian.
  9. Our 4yo and 3yo fell asleep like this on Saturday night on the pull-out couch while watching movies. [Heart-Eye Emoji!] BTW, hang tight for those of you that are having a tough time. Ours are 19 months apart, so we had 2-under-2 for a bit. It may seem like it sucks now, but you'll probably reach a point down the road where you *wish* you could just wake up at 3am and rustle up a bottle to get them through the night and stuff like that. Or to have an hour or two just looking into your young baby's eyes, singing, shushing, while alternating between "damn, I love you so much" and "GO TO SLEEP MFER." Try to keep that perspective and realize that, like the cheesy song says, "you're gonna miss this." It's the advice we got many times over and it worked great for us.
  10. Nope, just a blond guy with long hair. And the dumb jabroni that kept cutting people off. (My wife ran with me in 2012, though)
  11. Fourth time at the festival, and I ran today and yesterday for my fourth and fifth runs. I'm in the light blue shirt and my BIL is over my left shoulder and behind me. Dropped my newspaper so I had to touch a bull with my bare hand today. The day before, I was able to catch 3 bulls with my newspaper. I rate today's run first (bare hand touch) and yesterday's third. Second place was my very first run, when I entered the arena between two groups of bulls when they'd split up earlier, and the crowd (Like 10k+? Think a gladiator looking arena) was going buckwild and I came out of the tunnel into the arena. I also got tripped up in a pile up ahead of my and have road rash on my face, arm, and knee. Today was my first injury in 5 runs over the 4 times I've been to the fiesta. I will be back if I'm in W. Europe in early July, like now, but wouldn't make a special trip for it BIL is a big Louisiana homer/Mardi Gras guy and says the fiesta surrounding everything is better than Mardi Gras. Really, the fiesta is great with fireworks and concerts every night, brass bands in the street, drunken revelry (but not threatening dbag drunkenness, per my wife), and tons of other surprises you just kinda wander into. Tag me if you ever want advice. 👍
  12. Okay, now conference realignment is really heating up. Kazakhstan to the B12. You heard it here first.
  13. We are living in Madrid for the summer and, duh, we should have checked whether there was going to be a NATO conference. One of the usual things like whether you have enough bedrooms in your apartment, I suppose. Anyway, this week has seen a lot of helicopters in the air and a VERY strong police presence in the city. On our walks to and from daycare in the morning and evening, we walk across Paseo de Prado/la Castellana, which is a large N/S boulevard, and it's always shut down by the police. Our kids have learned about armored vehicles, firearms, and seen more helicopters than they previously had in their entire lives. And there's been a bit of a tension in the air. But it feels safe. And my spidey sense would be up since we're here with our 4 and 2yos. (For the guy upthread who talked about his son here. Things are safe. No need to worry (famous last words? )
  14. S/O to search function. Going to be based in Madrid for the next few months with our flight leaving this afternoon, with my wife and 4 and 3yo kids. Kids will be in daycare/camp during the weekdays while we explore the city in between a little bit of research and writing, Spanish lessons, and the gym. Fourth time in Madrid and we've done the highlights (Prado, Botin, Retiro, etc.) multiple times over, so we're looking for recommendations like the chocolateria above. Wife is between A2/B1 and I'm a solid B1, so we can get around and have basic conversations, but can't speak philosophy or anything like that. We'll be HQ'd in Malasana so we'll have pretty good Metro access to most of the city. Current plans include side trips to Paris, Pamplona, Toledo, Costa del Sol and, perhaps, 4-5 days down in Andalucia. No strong plans for Madrid other than exploring via foot, dicking around at Retiro and some playgrounds, and eating/drinking. Any recs appreciated. [As for the obvious "why Madrid when it's hot as shit?" question. We needed a city large enough to have a full-time private daycare/camp close to a cool neighborhood/city core and that took expat/ferner kids, which basically left Madrid and Barcelona. We love Barcelona, but have spent a lot of time there and, given that one of our core goals is to improve our Spanish. had some concerns about how quickly the barceloní switch to English when they hear your accent.]
  15. If one were to look for an equivalent of CFB streams for college baseball, where would they look? Not saying I'd ever do it, but my beloved Wolverines just went up 2 on Louisville and they're gonna cut off this ESPNU split screen stream soon...
  16. That was intended to be a "The More You Know" type post that augmented the posts in this here thread about Musk really fucking up this WFH thing.
  17. FWIW, there was a big exodus over the last 5-10 years or so from the Big 3 to Tesla and, to a lesser extent, Rivian, and to a MUCH lesser extent, jabronis like Lucid, Fisker, etc. That tide has dramatically reversed in the last year or so, especially since GM's CEO introduced "Work Appropriately" as the company's motto when it comes to work location (based on it's "Dress Appropriately" dress code). A lot of these jobs are not in the Metro Detroit area because WFH has allowed a distributed workforce. Another trend is that a lot of the people are leaving the Bay Area, Cruise employees especially, to go to lower COL areas where their salary stretches farther, but where there's a good baseline level of amenities. Think places like second tier cities (Charlotte, Nashville, etc.) or college towns. Source: I advise manufacturing companies on "stuff." My wife was medium-high up at GM for 3 years. I am constantly in touch with some folks, and still maintain contacts and keep in touch with a lot of people at other companies.
  18. Uh, doesn't linguistic history suggest that Russians are offshoot Proto Indo-European/Ukranians and that, actually, Russians need to be brought back into the fold? Zelenskyy's social media team needs to get on this ASAP, and all Russian speaking areas need to be returned to Ukraine.
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