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  1. 5 hours ago, Bevo said:

     

    Do we just send them our old stuff and surplus stuff or do we send them more of what they need? I've bitched about accounting in the past but with where we are now, I hope we are putting a low value on artillery that is past or near expiration. $60 Billion can go a long way if we value artillery at $9.95ea. Fuck replacement cost.

    Approximately $16 billion is actually going to the Ukranians. Most of it is DIB spending. It's a normal bill, loaded up with pork. 

    House Approves Long-Stalled Ukraine Aid Over Angry GOP Objections - WSJ

  2. 11 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Agreed, battering ram would be more accurate. My bad. 

     

    Season GP Passing Rushing
    Cmp Att Pct Yds TD Int QBR Att Yds Avg TD
    2020      10 194 322 60 2566 26 5   150.7 113 377 3.3   8

    Passer rating his senior year was 150. 

    Michael Penix's rating this year was 157.  Quinn was 159. 

    He was pure ass as a freshman. He threw a completely fucked up INT to cost us a game late in the year. CTJ took to calling him I Am Sam and other nicknames. We argued a lot about whether he would be good, I said he would be. After the Gilbert/Case/Tyrone era, he was our first decent QB in maybe a decade and it was glorious. 

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  3. On 3/7/2024 at 6:31 PM, Armybrat said:

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    This post should not go unappreciated. That car really floats my boat.

    I really think I may do a restoration of a Sunbeam Alpine to match what Grace Kelly drove in To Catch A Thief.

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  4. On 4/10/2024 at 10:51 PM, Superhero said:

    Worked 10 days straight (including an all nighter) with another 2 days to go.

    Had a Juice Force (9.5% ABV) followed by a few fingers of Talisker and now with some Johnny Walker green. Probably have another whisky before I go to bed. Decisions decisions.

     

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    And yes, I need to upgrade my whisky game, but tonight is quantity over quality baby. 

    Incorrect. That is a very high quality selction. I've had most of those. I could buy that Talisker in Poland for around $25, it was my go to. The Balvenie is fantastic, as is the Dalmore.

  5. OK I have a story to tell. It is time to come clean. This is a from a few years ago, but I am only now beginning to heal the emotional scars.

    So I do a loop around Dallas on my bike. It's maybe 40 miles. I am on a road bike, Spandexed out, I have to take some actual surface streets in addition to bike paths, including Hillcrest north of Highway 12. I go through White Rock Lake, down to the AAC, and then up the Katy Trail and past SMU.

    The last bit is the relevant part. Highland park is residential, mostly. So I am going north on Hillcrest past SMU, having a grand old time. Feeling great. And I feel and hear The Gurgle. Pressure. I know there are only private homes. Rich people who do NOT want to talk to me. My gut told me I was fighting a lost cause. Fecal urgency soon turned into a lack of fecal urgency. And that's when I discovered how lucky I was.

    Now the key here is my outfit. I have boxer briefs, of the polyester variety. On top of that, spandex. Two layers. It formed a container of sorts. If you can imagine. Biker shorts are tight on the legs, so the don't slide while riding. All black, so I'm good there. After proceeding a bit, I was confident that I was watertight. Had to be at least a liter of fluid like substance back there.

    This of course created a small difficulty, in that there is a seat on the bike. I could not imagine that squishy feeling of sitting on it. Worried I might lose containment, I refused to sit , I stood on the pedals the whole way home. Like the rape scene in 300, I did not enjoy it, and it was not over quickly. I had like five miles to go with a couple major intersections.

    The piece de resistance of the entire glorious event was the shower scene. You really haven't lived until you enter a room with a liter of poop in your undies. After rushing past others so they would hopefully not find out what happened (I did not make eye contact), I walked fully clothed into the shower. It was fairly emotional. I do not like poop, it makes me dry heave. But there was waffle stomping that day, believe me. It was like something out of The Shining. The shower was of the straight down sort, so the pieces got all spread out and I had to really focus on getting all the stray bits. There wasn't merely a crime, there was also the coverup.

    Something like that really changes your perspective on things. I have other stories that shall not be told. 

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  6. 2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    You think this is a professional website? I didn't know this was the bastion of professionalism. My bad, I thought this was a website on the internet that has the tagline:

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    I must have gotten lost on my way to business insider or something. 

     

    Applebee's ain't the greatest restaurant in the world but if my waiter acted like you I'd fucking slap them upside their head.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    You come in here with hot takes claiming I don't know my own business model, I explain to you the exact business model and you don't even refute it. You just continue to triple down on some premise that is actually a figment of your imagination. 

    Our customer acquisition model isn't to get everyone on the internet to come here and post. If you read this thread at all you would realize that there is a balance on who the community wants here and it's not the shitposters from twitter and it's not the mindless drone content consumers from Instagram and tiktok. 

    You know what we need more of? Young people who are ~22-28. You didn't read this thread though, because you don't care about _actually_ being right or presenting fact based evidence showing that we are "excluding 50% of our potential donor base to burnt ends". Instead you come in here acting like a persecuted member of society when in reality you are just a completely deranged person who is living in a fake bubble lala land of your own creation.

    Even if you are correct, this is totally unprofessional.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I think you have no idea what you are talking about and it's extremely evident.

    You think the market for message boards is growing, like you honestly believe that? 

    You think that there are MORE fans now than there were in 2004-2009? That's a serious question, you think people are more engaged with Longhorn sports and football specifically than 20 years ago? 

    You think people want to come here and talk politics and news? Like that's what you think this site is?

    Weren't you the one who said that football board isn't even busy and is dead during the season when there's no way to actually slice the data that paints a picture of that? Nothing, not access patterns, not a single metric. You think that football, recruiting and talk around that is not the driving force behind this website? You think it's "Texas news and current events"?

    You think our food board is just so legendary that people come from all over the internet to read our threads?

     

    I'm tapping out bro. You are a nightmare. You know some human beings are pleasant to deal with and can hold a conversation without being offensive. You are not that. 

     

    7 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Here's a spoiler alert for you. People like this site because we have no corporate overlords and we don't give a shit what the institution thinks about what our users say. Our brand has always been irreverence to the established "proper fandom" experience. This is a place for people who love hard and hate hard, with opinions they feel strongly about and are willing to spend time thinking through why they formulated those opinions. 

    We don't sunshine pump, we don't set an agenda, we let the community self moderate and go where it needs to go without outside intervention from anyone else. 

    I think if you understood your customer acquisition model you would have said it. I think if you had a rational basis for excluding 50% of your potential customers, you would have said it.

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  9. On 4/16/2024 at 6:05 PM, Anastasis said:

    You won’t find a single post where I have been openly rooting for Russia. Some of you get very confused when someone is critical of American foreign policy, historical context, and has the capability to pull together an attention span longer than my dog. 

    Hitler was a vegetarian. I am not saying that all vegetarians love Hitler. I am merely saying they want EXACTLY the same things, and boy that is a really weird coincidence wink wink.

    The "D" is TDS stands for deranged. 

     

  10. 1 hour ago, immamac said:

    revenue is up not down. Ads were down because of a depressed market and apparently I was serving blank impressions to logged in users for the better part of 5 months. Oops. 

    NIL program specific revenue is down and I’ve answered that pretty clearly. If you don’t want to pay players because of some shit that happens in cloak room on this website then whatever. I don’t make any money off it. I lose 3.5% because I gross up the payment processing fees. 

    half of the potential market for surly is not turned off/away/leaving/gone/whatever the fuck it is you are insinuating because of cloak room and the general discussion which is similar everywhere, not just on surly. 

    You don't understand your business model at all. Good luck.

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