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BurdineBandit

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  1. Ever seen the comments on an AOC tweet? They're a lot more vile than believing she's a witch.
  2. This would assume that he's actually capable of putting out a hit on two people. I thought part of the mystery is that we didn't even have proof that he was involved. And capable of killing more. Anyway, I just finished. Probably 6.5/10. Entertained. Could have used way more Carrie Coon, especially topless, but she has the best monologue overall obvs. The family arc..... Annoying, but I mean we could all see that ending for them, right? Gaitok won't last with Mook. He won't enjoy losing his soul to be a fake man with that girl.
  3. I watch a lot, and this week was absolutely over the top. He usually gets a few seconds of a recorded walk in, definitely gets shown on the ringside celeb cam a couple times, but this week giving him a fucking walk in with a couple minutes of uninterrupted screen time and fuckin Tulsi and Kash and Brain Worms and Elon getting screen time and fawned over? Straight knob-slobbing going on over at UFC these days.
  4. Well shit, plenty of dumbshits never find out. It's a new day for me... (I guess in theory it would work great. I feel like I see different every day, but I'll take their word for it that the traffic would be 40-50% worse if the galaxy brains stopping a 2nd lane of traffic to try and zip their way to the exit in the last 100 feet didn't exist).
  5. I don't understand the argument for the "zipper" method of entering a line to exit on the freeway. I've heard twice now that it's the efficient method, but it still just sounds like being selfish to me. It's only efficient for the one cutting in line, there's a 95% chance they are making the person behind them brake, and thus starting the chain reaction of braking that causes backups. The constant braking chain reaction is what causes the backup, not that "not everyone is zippering". Did dumbshits just make up a term for "cut the line because I'm too important to wait" and try to make it sound like it's reasonable?
  6. It's never fucking enough for them. Elon was doing this last year with DOGE. Just blatant fucking manipulation. It's never enough. Trump pump and dumped DJT (or whatever his shitcoin was called) on those cucks, and they stood there and took it. It's never enough. He's manipulating the world economy with tariff tweets now. It's never enough. If there's a bigger play he can think of he'll try it soon, because IT'S NEVER FUCKING ENOUGH.
  7. Great show. Wasn't sure if he was teasing everyone because he kept counting down 3.5 hours, but by gawd he done it. For whatever reason, my favorite moment of the night was him playing 'Juanita'. Just didn't expect anything to be played from that album. But super satisfied that he played damn near everything I would want to hear overall. I'd have been pretty satisfied just to hear 'I Don't Mind'.
  8. I needed it, but I got it. Only took 37 page refreshes, but caught a pair around 10:15. Absolutely stoked.
  9. That sounds amazing. Trying to figure out presale but even Ticketmaster app won't show a link to enter presale code... Guess I'll try my luck in the morning. I love Austin.
  10. At least Atlanta lost. Not sure if they're close to moving spots at all, but it'd be nice.
  11. That's an interesting shirt choice. A sign of a humbling, but one can also think he probably *deserved* to be kicked out of two universities.
  12. If OP had googled it and grabbed the entirety of the 2nd page of (incorrect) search results, he would have had ChatGPT's answer. It just packages that slop with a wordy description of why it is not what you're looking for. Along with other useless facts presented as though they would be helpful to another question that was not asked. I don't get it.
  13. If there's any blonde-haired incels with a 1450 SAT applying to colleges this year that don't want to go aggy or private, they can apply to the new School of Civic Leadership at UT. Why would anyone who has proven a small amount of intelligence apply to an uncredentialed school? Reading the course descriptions under the Civics school is pretty funny. Teaching about exceptionalism, the constitution, Government..... Just send them online with the rest of the incels and let them learn from Stephen Miller. The government and constitution will be whatever the fuck Trump says it will be soon.
  14. Was a fan of Anora, so sat down to watch it for Mikey, and was definitely disappointed in the whole damn episode. Marcello has charisma, but they got him all over the place flailing his arms like an inflatable tube man. The sketches were all pretty weak, but I thoroughly enjoyed Weekend update, both of them seemed to be super sharp. Mikey didn't seem to get much of a chance to have fun, but finding out she was home schooled gets me wondering just how much comedy charisma she really has. Haven't seen her in a light-hearted role yet; only seen Scream, Once upon a time..., and Anora. Wallen got an insta-skip from me. Seems to be an all-around class act, I'm really surprised to hear he's a shithead in public and on social media, at his 31 years of age. /s
  15. Stopped and bought a $50 mega box at a NW Austin card shop off 183 a few months ago (haven't been to or bought from a shop in years) and pulled this bad boy. Had never heard of the dude so just figured it was a random prospect, but apparently he's the Rangers' #1 prospect and a top 20 guy in the MLB. Can sell now for 70-80 bucks and make a profit, or wait til he gets called up and probably sell for triple that. Can Smith from the Astros wasn't ranked nearly as high as this guy, and his prospect autos were going for 200 this week because he made the opening day roster.
  16. I'm ready. Show me what Walker, Paredes and Smith got. Let's get Pena back on track with a little power this year. Yainier to the all-star game.
  17. The more I read about the decision, and about people's opinions on Aaliyah's game, it really just reminds me of LaMelo Ball and the whole AAU generation. She wants to "run" and play uptempo offense. She wants the ball in her hands, ready to shoot on any possession. LaMelo is having a hell of a time in Charlotte averaging 25 ppg on 40% shooting (career low), building his brand as a young star with another Top 5 pick....... who combined will win less than 25 games this year. OU might just be along for the brand-building ride like the Hornets are. Others will enjoy winning championships while she gains fans. Good for them. Let's be the ones building a team.
  18. I feel that baseball is a bit more fun, even though I grew up focusing on Basketball and Football. These days the market for baseball is still buzzing, and people are still collecting prospects years out from maturing. I bought some 2022 boxes and had a great time chasing guys like Bobby Witt, Jeremy Pena, Julio Rodriguez, and even Wander Franco (RIP) and Spencer Torkelson. Not all the guys pan out, but if you hit a big card it's rather easy to sell it for a year before the guy's market falls. Because basketball has smaller teams and less prospects, you're really only collecting a few rookies each year, and hoping to hit a superstar card otherwise. I bought a bit of basketball last year because Wemby. I haven't bought football in years. I don't think it's worth buying boxes when the only guys that keep their value are QBs and maybe WRs. Too hard to pull a valuable player. IMO. Oh, and it feels much more expensive these days. Most retail stores like Target do not seem to have very many "packs" these days, mostly boxes which will run you $30-40 for blaster boxes(4-6 packs) or $50-60 for Mega boxes. Targets in Austin seem to rarely have decent products. Apparently Barnes & Noble keep a decently stocked section.
  19. I saw some videos of that yesterday and I was very surprised they just put them on the patio and pointed the speakers outwards. Never seen that before. Glad I got to see them at Mohawk instead, that sidewalk didn't look like the best place to watch a set. I tried to see La Securite at Valhalla yesterday and didn't realize that stage/room was so small, it was backed up to the main door and people were just hanging out in the hallway. Couldn't get a good spot to listen but they seemed like they'd be worth a real shot tomorrow. Hopefully not all their shows are packed because they play 13th Floor tomorrow I believe. Saw Los Juanos out of San Antonio later on at night and the blew me away. I've been hooked on SXSW music for about a decade now and don't think I've ever heard Tejano being played. Can't remember the last time I saw a band with members under 50 playing Tejano either, but they were fun, and had a good crowd response over at Lambert's. A little energy does the genre well, kinda sounded punk how loud/fast they played it. For the first time in my life I heard them describe an attempt at a "Cumbia Rock Opera" and I was in. Only two bands left on my list for this weekend are "Ali" and "The Thing". Don't know if I can make a 1 am showcase these days though, my back and feet got a good 3 hours in them before I just want to go home.
  20. I don't know much about Langford other than he's the hottest Ranger in the hobby right now, but 2 low-run auto RCs, both chrome, of two budding stars, an a MM auto baseball? That seems like a great haul for a non-RC Witt. Oh and I love Stadium Club Chrome. Easily my favorite product of the post-covid resurgence, and I hate that they nixed it.
  21. I thought it was a short detour, but still keeps the rest of the story intact? Funny that others brought up Lindelof, because this episode immediately reminded me of The Leftovers. A character-focused episode that detours off the overall story line but weaves its way back into it by the end is exactly how Season 2 and 3 were functioning. And The Leftovers is one of my favorite all-timers, so this episode was completely fine to me. We learned more about her, more about Lumon and their roots and previous actions, some crumbs were left for the possibility of more story/arc-building, but ultimately it sets up Cobel to bring some heat to the corporation and possibly help Mark with pushing his story line forward.
  22. Excited to start music tomorrow. Got a handful of bands to check out so far, but Thursday is still under construction. Tomorrow will be cumbia at the Rivian day stage, attempt to get into Mohawk for a couple heavier bands (the important ones), then over the the Vegas patio for more cumbia. These hips don't lie. And I love that Hotel Vegas is the #1 proponent for cumbia in the city. Friday I gave in and bought Grupo Frontera tickets for the Moody Amphiteater. Never seen them live so I'll check that out.
  23. The most distracting big-screen experience I remember is seeing an early 2000s Halloween movie on a Friday night (so filled with teens) with my dad in Houston. There was a lot of hootin' & hollerin', a lot of screaming at the screen, but my 73-year old dad still brings it up yearly as the most fun he's ever had at a movie. I imagine I've had maybe 3 or 4 negative experiences (although I can't specifically remember a single one), out of the hundreds of movies I've seen between the AMC in Southeast Houston or the Cinemark in Harlingen. Either your neighborhoods suck or y'all or just some ornery fucks. I'm sure there's some nostalgia at play, but I still love the big-screen, dark theater experience.
  24. As an (at least) 4th generation (proud?) Tejano/Texan, this sums up my lukewarm acceptance of the Independence day. It's so wrapped up in the same mythology that the rest of Texas history has been served in since 7th grade Texas history class, that it doesn't do much but garner an eye-roll from me. Everyone was a hero, all their causes noble, the founding history was exemplary, and justice and freedom for all at the end of the day.......... If you say so. (And that goes for the Texas Rangers lore too). I've read the 7th grade and High School curriculum passed by TEA to ensure patriotic, state-loving, red-blooded Texans. I've taken the courses from UT's History department. I've read the "alternative" books on the state's founding and Alamo's history from various scholars (surprisingly some of them aggy). The history is a lot less glamorous and heroic, but yet somehow that state pride still grips me. This is still the land my abuelos and abuelas were born in, and their parents as well, from Shiner, to Kingsville to the RGV. I'm more of a Texan than a lot of its leaders I despise, and I'll never let them make me hate it.
  25. You're describing my brother. 2 tours in Iraq, now 100% disabled (PTSD) but able to work when he wants. He's a middle school coach when he wants to be, but frequently takes a year or two off and just hops to another school when he's tired of being an at-home dad. The checks keep clearing....
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