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  1. On 3/4/2024 at 8:52 PM, brakeman said:

     

    This is a true story. I had a friend (female) who had a roommate.  The roommate was kind of awkward, had had bad luck with boys and my friend thought it would be a good idea to set us up on a blind date.  I agreed.  I went to pick her up.  We went to Shady Grove.  I ordered a drink and she hesitated and acted weird about getting an alcoholic drink.  I think she thought I was going to try to get her drunk and date rape her or something.  I eventually told her we could share my drink and she agreed.  The next stop was the Flamingo Cantina where the Killer Bees were playing.  On the drive there I broke out a spliff and asked her if she was okay with it and if she wanted to smoke it with me.  She agreed and we smoked it together on the way there.  We parked, went in the club, got a couple of beers and went up on the second floor to find a good vantage point before the show started.  About ten minutes later, after not really finding a suitable spot, I asked her if she wanted to go back downstairs to get closer to the stage.  She said, "I can't."  I said, "What do you mean you can't?"  She said, "I can't see."  I said, "What do you mean I can't see?"  She said, "I'm blind. I can't see anything."  I wasn't sure if she really couldn't see or why, but what I did know is that we needed to get the fuck out of there and I needed to take her home as soon as possible.  So I told her that I was going to sit her down in a chair and go pull my truck up to the door and come get her and take her home.  As I was trying to carry/lift her up to put her in the chair, this dude standing nearby smiled broadly and said, "Ha! She's pretty fucked up, huh?"  I replied, "Yeah, man.  More than you know."  I went and got the truck and came back and carefully walked her down the stairs, loaded her in the passenger seat and took her home.  I told my friend not to do me any more favors. 

    tl/dr: My blind date actually went blind during our date.

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  2. On 2/11/2024 at 3:18 AM, futureman said:

    Nutty Putty has always creeped me out but still I could read about it and watch vids on it without any sort of visceral reaction.  This, though, I had to stop watching.  3:20-7:30 is about the most awful shit I’ve seen on the internet in my whole life.

    Fucking horrible.

  3. 2 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    That middle gif still blows my mind all these years later. The cop goes after the unarmed cheerleader, NOT the doofus who drew a fucking sword on unarmed people.

    I love that gif.  I like to recreate what was going on in their minds at the time. My guess is that the corps turd was protecting the sacred field. Then he got his ass kicked by a couple of male cheerleaders. Those cheerleaders were probably thinking, "What the fuck is this guy doing?  Did he just pull a fucking sword? Are we really going to have to fight this dweeb? Well alrighty then."  The cop:  "herp, derp, herp, derp."

  4. 1 hour ago, CoTex said:

    I don't understand why more of these ladies don't end up with wealthy husbands to buy the Mercedes and pay the pool boy to "clean the pool."

    It would seem to me like there have to be at least as many 60-80 year old fat lonely dudes with jobs and cash as there are porn starlets that refuse to pursue any course of self-sustenance.

    Instead, they never get there, and end up in some trailer in Moore snorting fentanyl with some guy that probably is more like Lester Diamond from Casino than anything else.

    Tragic.

    Have you ever met a porn star?  They are not known for brains and making good life choices.

  5. 19 minutes ago, troph said:

    So do Indiana, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Mississippi state, northwestern, and other dog shit programs that are just historically lucky get to stay? I’d much rather see Miami in the mix over shittier programs.

    I've thought the same. Possibly the blue bloods need a few creampuffs on the schedule.

  6. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.

    If the concern is "immigrants are a drain on our resources," then there are so many easy, low-hanging fruit options to address those matters that it ain't even funny.  E.g., process people on entry, get them in the system, and get them permits that allow them TO WORK, EARN MONEY, AND PAY TAXES.  The supposed "issues" on that front can easily be addressed.  Yet.....they aren't, and won't be.  Because it has never, ever, ever, ever been about actually solving any real or tangible "problem."

    The reason we have a huge nativist anti-immigrant fervor in this country is NOT because immigrants necessarily come in and sap our resources (generations of experience on that front shows that just isn't true in any medium or long-term way).  Nope.  The reason we have that nativist anti-immigrant fervor is the reason that the "thought leaders" in the GQP and their captive media outlets HAVE FUCKING TOLD US IN PLAIN LANGUAGE: brown people "are poisoning the blood of our country," and are "replacing real Americans."  That's it.  Stop overthinking it.  Dig into archives and read newspapers about the yellow chinks and the dirty papist irishmen back in their day -- the EXACT same fucking rhetoric.  This generation of nativist xenophobes isn't even original in their thinking.  They're recycling shit that's 150 years old, and doing a "find and replace" function to sub in "spics" for "chinks."  That's it.

    Here, here.  About a year and a half ago someone I knew came to me with a bunch of the "drain on the economy" stuff.  So I decided to research it.  There are many scholarly articles that have looked into the net economic effect of illegal immigration.  I tried to pull a cross-section to avoid the liberal university prof. egghead bias.  I read about a dozen.  They broke into three categories of conclusions:  1) negligible economic benefit, 2) no measurable effect, 3) negligible economic detriment.  Based on these studies, it appears that the idea of an illegal immigrant coming here using up hospital services, free public school, food stamps and all the rest of it while contributing nothing is the same myth as the welfare queen.  So, if it's not an economic reason, what would be the actual reason for being so against immigration?  Hmmmm....???

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  7. FSU no longer has the factor in place that kept them out - only four teams.  At 12 they get in.  So they don't have that reason for jumping ship anymore.  The bigger reason, for them or any other school, is the $$$ disparity between the conferences.  In this constantly evolving landscape, there are now two major conferences and two lesser conferences - based on the revenue from TV contracts, which tracks the relative media market value of the schools.  The reality is that each school has a certain, fairly known, value to networks.  Above a certain line and your athletic department has a chance to be profitable and you get an equal share to all the other big boys.  The money disparity will eventually have a large effect on competitiveness.  So, if you aren't in one of the two big conferences making the most money, eventually you won't be able to compete.  The wild west of NIL isn't going to last much longer.  Eventually the schools will be paying the players; the schools with the most money will be able to pay the players more and the disparity will grow even greater.  I foresee the BIG and SEC becoming like the AFC and NFC, if you will.  Their "merger" in whatever form it takes, will effectively create a new league, which could replace the NCAA for football if they wanted.  They would hold all the cards.  They could make their own rules. Call it The College Football Champions League (brought to you by AT&T). There are 32 teams in the two major conferences now.  I could see 40-48 making the cut.  The remaining will be relegated to the NCAA and compete at whatever highest level the NCAA offers.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    assume you are talking about the jimbo contract, which happened before he got there, and with which he would have had nothing to do; same with the extension, and termination, those documents were prepared for him and he was a pass-through

    I'm talking about the extension and termination including the record buyout.  Are you telling me Bjork had nothing at all to do with those?  If so: 

    rights saudi GIF

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  9. 13 hours ago, TXUT said:

    I am absolutely shocked by this. I don’t follow AD’s or know whats going on at most schools but having a general knowledge and looking at what AM has done I could not think of a worse leader of a company/athletic department. His failures are staggering and if AM was a company it would be bankrupt because real business don’t have the luxury of donations. I’ve only seen him in action once watching the press conference after they fired Jimbo and he was a stumbling, bumbling, drinking water as a crutch, over his head, afraid, searching for words imbecile. 

    This.  The guy made the biggest mistake in college football history and....he's a sought after individual?  What am I missing here?  Is tOSU run by waterheads?  Their program will spiral.  They let A&M off the hook.  I was waiting for his firing after the Jimbo debacle, but my thinking was, "They can't fire him.  If they do they will have to admit that they made the biggest mistake in history and that they are a laughingstock.  They never have, never will and simply cannot do that."

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  10. 15 hours ago, deft said:


    Yeah but…..aggy.

    And besides a little rape, murder, arson, and rape isn’t so bad if you get to taste conference success, at least according to Baylor.

    You said rape twice.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

    RB is always tough. That is a position that young players can come in and star early.. I would rather have a healthy Brooks, but even that is not a given if he came back. This past year Texas threw the ball to open up the run, so they were never really dependent on the run game. With Quinn back and portal pickups at WR, I am guessing that will be the case this upcoming year. RBs had high YPC vs Washington, because Washington focused on the passing game. Wasington was not the only defense to do that vs Texas, that really helped the run game in 2023. I am guessing that will be the case in 2024, so I am not going to get worried about the RB position. 

    I also think how "good" a RB is depends a lot on how good the OL is. The all time rushing leader in NFL history, Emmitt Smith, benefitted hugely from having the best OL in the league year in and year out.  I don't think he was the best pure running back to ever play.  If you have a good run blocking OL you could put just about anyone back there and they could average 4 ypc.

  12. 2 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

    RB: I don’t think you watched the bowl game if you think there’s no drop off from Brooks. He’s significantly better than what we have returning. 

    DE: no chance it’s same. We added one of the top edges in the portal with Trey Moore and we have 5 star Collin Simmons coming in while returning everyone from last year. 
     

    DB: DB is significantly improved. Mukuba is a huge addition that will let us play 2 safeties with speed, and Williams, Muhammad, and Brooks will all be developing. We’re also adding 2 freshman who were ranked top 50 nationally. 

    The RB's averaged 7.1 and 6.6 ypc in the bowl game.  They didn't get a ton of carries because we were passing a lot.

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  13. Based on gained experience, young guys slotting in and transfers, here is how I see the position groups comparing '23 to '24:

    QB - better; Ewers should benefit from another year in the system.  Manning > Murphy as backup.

    RB - same; Brooks was better than expected, but Baxter and Blue looked good when he went down.  No dropoff.

    WR - same; I thought losing Worthy and Mitchell would be the biggest hit along with DL, but now with Golden and Bond I see virtually no dropoff.

    OL - better; should be the strength of the team with much experience returning.

    TE - worse; losing JT hurts and no one clearly able to pick up his touches.  Might be better as a run-blocking group though.

    DL - worse; losing Sweat and Murphy hurts.  They were the strength of the team this year.  Hard to replace two NFL guys.

    LB - worse; Ford was really good. Hard to replace.

    DE - same; Sorrell was really good, but I like the guys we have to replace him.

    DB - same; lots of attrition here, but also the ability to reload.  We looked to be very thin at safety until we landed Mukuba.  Barron coming back is huge.

    Overall, our offense should be the same or better.  Our defense probably worse, especially at stopping the run. We will make the playoff and should do some damage.  We have a team that is good enough to give us a chance to win it all if the cards fall right.

    Agree?  Disagree? I'm a dumbfuck?

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  14. 5 hours ago, futureman said:

    for all my fellow hoarders out there, this shit is great.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1nimohtdpN/?igsh=ZWV3YWRhZXZsMmt5

    I try so hard not to be that dad.  I hate clutter and storing junk.  My grandfather lived through the depression and he saved fucking EVERYTHING.  He would cut a hole out of 2 liter soda bottles and use them as containers for other bits of junk and shit he'd save. It was excessive and drove me crazy.  My dad does the same thing, but to a lesser degree.  I do agree it feels good to pull the exact right thing you need out of your junk stash, but the juice ain't worth the squeeze IMO.  So I just have a little bit of the most useful junk saved.

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  15. I've been trying to figure out the endgame of conference expansion.  Eventually, will the SEC and Big Ten have all Power 5 teams in them?  Would they usurp all power over the highest level of college football and replace the NCAA and College Football Playoff?  All the money that currently goes to those entities and any other conference would go to them.  Eventually, those two would merge to create a single entity controlling all of college football.  It would be an evolution that would take years, but eventually they would have to legislate the two biggest things affecting college football right now - NIL and the transfer portal.  It has to strike some balance between the players being compensated, having some freedom to move around, and some level of control over the money and movement at an institutional level so it's not the wild west and rampant with abuse.

    If I was suddenly appointed the czar of college football and could do whatever I wanted, I would institute pretty much exactly what Chip Kelly said. I think it gets there eventually on its own, albeit slowly. The reason it won't happen quickly is that you have all these different entities with power and money flowing to them who are resisting giving up that power and money.  The bowls, the conferences, the individual universities.  They are resisting change to what makes sense for everyone because it means they have to give up power and money.

  16. I worked at a car wash during high school and in a structural iron fab shop the summer after my senior year. The fab shop job wasn't that bad - learned a lot of cool shit.  It was hard though.  Convinced me of the value of a college education, that's for sure.

    The worst jobs I ever heard of personally were a turkey masturbator and a guy who was on a moving crew who worked as general labor. We were moving offices and I was there helping and directing traffic.  We struck up a conversation and I asked him what was the worst assignment he ever got. He said the worst assignment ever was to excavate a broken sewer line that was coming out of a hospital. The city crews wouldn't do it. The turkey masturbator story was probably the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life. It was on a turkey farm and they had to get sperm to inseminate the female turkeys.

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