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  1. I emphasize saving now because I was taught that growing up. But damn if I don’t sometimes think “I’m saving this money now so that I can sit on my ass and ‘travel’ maybe when I’m old. How fun is traveling when you’re an old person? And I’m saving for when I get sick when I’m old, so that I can be cured and my oldness can be prolonged.” Just seems kinda pointless to me now. I’m sure I’ll feel different when I hit my 40’s or so though.

    I do suspect that for many they were not taught how to save or they live by the “I’m here for a good time not a long time” mantra. 

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    2 hours ago, youdunnf'dup said:

    This is a rhetorical question, but why the fuck is Yankees v white Sox on espn and not Astros v A’s

    All your TVs are belong to us. 

    That said, I would rather have watched a special olympics bowling competition than that game they showed tonight. A team fucking 150 games out of 1st place, and they win anyway. 

  3. 1 hour ago, slorch said:

    What if you back out Chi-town, St Louis and Nawlins?

     

    oh and 40.000+ deaths from automobiles last year.  Put everyone on a golf cart.  It would make me feel so much more secure.

    That tired old myth:

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    While Detroit, St. Louis and New Orleans are consistently among the top five American cities by homicide rate, the cities with most per-capita murders vary from year to year. Neither Washington, D.C., nor Chicago make the top five.

    Chicago has a high number of homicides because of its population, but its homicide rate is middle of the road for large U.S. cities, according to Jay Corzine, a sociology professor at the University of Central Florida.

    Specific reasons for the cities’ high murder rates largely remain a mystery for criminologists, but all are cities with "high poverty levels, inequality, significant segregation, and an entrenched drug trade," Corzine said.

    Dropping them from the U.S. total has little substantive impact on the U.S. homicide rate or count.

    The cities cited in the meme accounted for 1,568 of 17,250, or 9.1 percent, of all homicides reported to the FBI in 2016, Tom Kovandzic, a criminologist at the University of Texas, Dallas, calculated for us. And without those cities, the homicide rate (per capita) would only decline by 7.73 percent, or from 5.34 to 4.93.

    When we applied those reductions to the UN data, the United States barely budged in its international standing. It moved down four spots in per capita murders and stayed the same in total murders. That’s inconsequential compared with the 186-spot jump the meme concocted.

    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/28/viral-image/united-states-third-murders-outlier-cities/

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  4. 5 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


    Youre more likely to die from being beaten to death with a hammer. The news won’t cover it though. I get it. You’re afraid of an inanimate object. You buy into the sensationalized media.

    Without even looking at stats, I can guarantee you that more murders in this country are committed with guns than with hammers. By a wide margin. 

    Just looked at the stats. The FBI counted about 500 murders by blunt object in 2014, and over 8,100 by firearm.

    https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/expanded-homicide-data/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2010-2014.xls

  5. I’m pretty biased because I went to a shitty high school. Knew of 1 current and 1 former (drop out) students killed in drug deals over marijuana during my time there. Both instances involved $50 or less worth of weed or cash. I read a lot of local news too, every other murder is a drug deal gone bad. 

    Do I think marijuana is dangerous? No.

    Do I think that smoking/buying/selling it increases your chances of running across some shady, dangerous folks? Yes. There’s no way I’d let my kids do it as long as it’s illegal.

  6. Apparently Moeller is a double major in finance & mechanical engineering. Finance isn’t all that hard of a major (I mean I did it) , but I’d say it’s more difficult than most. But holy shit at Mechanical Engineering, especially at UT.  And to combine those two, AND play a sport is nuts. Dude is going big places in life.

  7. 5 minutes ago, Constant said:

    It wasn’t a matter of him completing it at all. I was responding to the tard who said, “I can’t imagine Kyler having a strong arm.”

    He throws the ball 65 yards in the air. 

    Lots of QB’s can rainbow chuck it 60+ yards. Arm strength is about being able to zip the ball on a line with good velocity. It’s what baseball scouts look for in outfielders too, which is why Murray’s arm was a question mark.

  8. I believe I was 1 of 2 posters who correctly predicted a 6-6 record and a bowl win last August for the 2017 season. This year I’m saying 7-5 with a bowl win.

    Maryland- W 

    Tulsa -W

    USC -W

    TCU -L

    KSU -L

    OU -W

    Baylor -W

    OK St -L

    WVU -L

    Tech -W

    Iowa St -L, Annual “Herman Head-scratcher” loss

    KU -W

     

     

     

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  9. My takeaways from this thread: 

    1) all white men & illegal immigrants are murderers

    2) Barely winning a 7 game series counts as a “smackdown”

    3) I have no idea what TOS stands for

    4) VY was slow

    I’m dumber for reading through this.

  10. 29 minutes ago, KaiserSoze said:


     

     

     


    Rex belongs to Dallas.

     

     

    That post was directed at smax, who’s part of the weak-minded group of Astros cock jockeys on the baseball board that get offended and asshurt over everything I say. It’s not every Astros fan on there but it’s a few. I don’t know much about Rex other than his comical hero worship of Ehlinger last year.  

  11. 23 minutes ago, Smax said:
    2 hours ago, Helobious said:
    The only thing that enrages Rex more than a critique of the white race is insinuating that Ehlinger isn't a great QB. If someone were to start a thread saying that Ehlinger isn't a good QB because he's a white male, Rex just might have a stroke. 
    All that aside, psychos and violent pieces of shit hail from all races. They do overwhelmingly come from the male side of the gender equation, but I guess that's easily explained by science. 

    Why dont you tell us again how a group of 12 year old little leaguers are chokers

    I blushed when I saw that you quoted me in something. It's so cute and flattering that you're following me around the message board all because your snowflake easily offended bitchass couldn't handle one joke. I'm sorry that you have so little going on in your life that you're still thinking about a one-sentence message board post over 24 hours later. But what else is there to occupy your mind when (I assume) you live in the manure spread of a city that is Houston. Go put on that faded Craig Biggio jersey you own and jack off to the Rockets 1994 championship season DVD again and leave me the fuck alone. 

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  12. 10 hours ago, F250 said:

    Well she is a Latina lesbian, she has that going for her not that I think that will help her out. The guero from El Paso probably has a bigger following in South Texas.

    Side topic: Do people actually use the phrase latino anywhere in Texas? In San Antonio people just say they are Mexican.

    I use the terms hispanic or mexican more than I use latino, as do most other hispanics I know here. Some people feel like "hispanic" is a somewhat offensive phrase giving preference to the conquerors, while "latino" is the more inclusive phrase. I don't see it that way, but whatever. In California, latino is definitely the more popular word, and you'll hear "chicano" a lot more over there too. They're more of a prideful bunch generally, with more engaged voters and a lot more "viva la raza" types. While there are exceptions, that's not really the case so much in Texas. Hispanics here usually have more of a "just stay out of my way and I'll stay out of yours" mentality. Unless "your way" involves using a barbecue pit in a public park on a Sunday afternoon. That's ours now and you need to accept it. 

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  13. The only thing that enrages Rex more than a critique of the white race is insinuating that Ehlinger isn't a great QB. If someone were to start a thread saying that Ehlinger isn't a good QB because he's a white male, Rex just might have a stroke. 

    All that aside, psychos and violent pieces of shit hail from all races. They do overwhelmingly come from the male side of the gender equation, but I guess that's easily explained by science. 

  14. 14 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

    You are some kind of special asshole ragging on 12 year old kids. These kids have accomplished more in their short life than you ever will.

     

     

    I'm not ragging on 12 year olds you dumb dicksack, I'm laughing at Houston sports returning to form. 

    To be perfectly honest, I'm now unbelievably impressed with that Goldstein kid, the pitcher. Dude got shelled, was on the verge of sending his team home but buckled down and finished the inning. Then went back out the next inning, got into more trouble and still kept his cool and got out of it again. That's very insane for a 12 year old on national TV. Pretty invaluable life experience and an A+ answer for job interviews when he's older. 

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  15. 3 hours ago, shnsajax said:

    It should be noted that Schwarber is tied for the MLB lead in OF assists. I realize Helo doesn't watch the Cubs or the NL for that matter, but the notion that Schwarber is one of the worst defensive OF in baseball is just wrong. He won't win a Gold Glove, but he is not the detriment that people thought he was going to be either. 

    I've seen Rookie of the Year at least twice, but nice try.

    Schwarber leads in outfield assists for the same reason that mediocre cornerbacks tend to have more picks than great ones. No ones scared to run on him, they know he's not Aaron Hicks or JBJ out there so he's going to get a lot of chances to throw people out. That's a microcosm of why I hate defensive metrics. Defense in baseball is simply too dynamic with too many variables to reasonably quantify. Differences in playing surfaces, outfield dimensions, time of day the game's played, weather/wind conditions, indoor vs outdoor all adds up to making it a foolish attempt to try and compare plays made by defenders, especially outfielders. 

  16. I like how vegetarians/vegans think no animals suffer to get them their food. Yes, those croplands were always there & no animals lost their lives or habitat for it to be there. No animals get harmed in the process of harvesting either.

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  17. It’s astounding that anyone puts any stock at all into defensive metrics. I think Kyle Schwarber was rated as the greatest defensive player in all of baseball for a huge chunk of the season in terms of DRS. He’s still rated top 10 I believe. Same story in UZR. It’s all a complete joke.

  18. On 8/17/2018 at 10:10 PM, tchookem said:

    I'd say it's more likely the young ones that don't know who they are. 'Fly' was over twenty years ago, my bro.

    Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
     

    Yep. I'm in my 20's and the only Sugar Ray I've ever heard of is Leonard. 

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