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Knoxtnhorn

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  1. Dirt poor.  Second year at UT.  I come across an ad in the Daily Texan for environmental activism or somesuch.  Pays up to $300 a night.  I like green things like trees and money so, let's do it.

    I show up at 4PM.  The job was essentially raising money from door-to-door.  About 8 of us get picked up in a van.  They drive us to some semi-rich burb south of Austin.  I'm to follow another person around for 2 hours, then go it alone.  I watch this guy occasionally bag $20 here and there.  The rest of the time he's getting door slammed in his face.  IIRC, there was some catch where you could earn $300, but that was if you raised $700.  7PM arrives and I'm off on my own.  First door gets slammed in my face and I'm all, "F this".  I find a small community college library and hang out there for a couple of hours.  Van ride back sucked.

    Could have been worse.  I picked this ad over a salmon fishery in Alaska.  

  2. As someone who has always had nagging injuries due to sports and cycling, I hate that I'm at the age where I can't tell the difference between serious and trivial.  The other day I woke up with a pretty severe pain in my groin. I had not done anything active lately, so my first thought was Lance Armstrong and cancer.  Five days later, it's completely gone.  Nothing.  At 20, I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

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  3. So aggy groupthink has shifted with the (lack of) win(d)s.

    1. We have the best recruiting class of all time.  We will be in the playoffs.

    2. Jimbo sucks, but the recruits are still awesome.  Let's hire a coach that will keep them.

    3. Elko is hired and aggy Titanic begins to sink.

    4. Well, those guys sucked because look at our record.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:

    Oh, I enjoy watching aggy lose as well, no question.  And in some instances (e.g., 77-0, App State, etc.), the enjoyment is even greater than usual.  But it doesn't come close to outweighing the pleasure I get from seeing Texas win.  I guess it's just difficult for me to fathom the depth of the hatred that has to exist in order for a person to take more pleasure in the demise of another team than in their own team winning. 

    Samesies.  Hell, I'm to the point now that I'll come out of the wknd happy if all of my teams lose except TX.  

  5. On 12/1/2023 at 11:48 AM, idigTexas said:

    Absolutely.  I didn't see anything particularly difficult about the Maypole challenge, and they definitely should not have used the EP there.  It sucks that they didn't really get to take advantage of it, especially since dad almost had a heart attack earning it.  Saving it for the last leg was the right move, but it wouldn't have helped them much regardless of which task they skipped.

    That's why I couldn't be on this show despite my wife's constant nagging about applying. Recall the challenge in/around episode 3 where they had to build some sort of plant thing using items around a swamp.  Several got stuck because the particulars were so specific.  They get to the maypole and it's all, "Just throw the shit together".  Having one minor detail curtail my efforts would send me through the roof.

    Oh, and lol at Midsommar.

  6. 29 minutes ago, Lou_Sassle said:

    You've got to be fucking shitting me...I thought they wanted a more modern, wide open offense... not one from the early 90s.

    Ok.  I wondered if I was the only one.  I know shitall about X's and O's as I only achieved the level of "intramurals brother".  That being said, I don't see KState as having some inventive, can't stop this, offense.  

     

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  7. 10 hours ago, linux said:

    I fucking love aggie so much, everyone in the CFB world is pissed about FSU being left out to the point where they would support an emergency playin game between Bama and FSU.

    Then there are the Bama haters that just want FSU in and Bama out

    But Aggie is on the case again they are angry that the world is quiet on Texas, that is their jihad their number one purpose in life, those darn sips!

    They would support another pandemic if it meant cancelling the whole thing.

    I think the best part of the aggy argument is that we don't deserve to be there BUT we're somehow favored against UW.  I believe I saw odds that had TX as the overall fav behind UM - in betting circles.

  8. 18 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    I was once in a room of 60 folks, some of whom were going to be on the jury.

    The judge said "If you are a convicted felon, you cannot serve, please come forward and I will dismiss you."  No one moved.  The judge then said "If you are not certain if you are convicted felon or not, please come forward and we will discuss it."  Three people needed to talk to the judge.  Two left the room, one had to sit back down.

    Almost forgot.  After two hours of explaining a simple concept to the jury pool, the last defense attorney asked if anyone had any questions.  A 40-ish year-old woman raised her hand and asked what methamphetamine was.

  9. Didn't get selected; however, it was a pain in the ass process.

    Check in at 8.

    Outside the courtroom by 9.  Told that we'd either be selected or let go by 11.  Nothing.

    At noon, we finally go in.  Two hours of attorney questioning/statements.  Told to recess for 20 mins to get the jury selected.  Hour and a half later, and I'm not picked.  Walked out after 3.  Geez. 

    The case, btw, was some Mexican dude who had been busted dealing 8 (grams?) of meth.  He had just pled guilty, so the trial would have been for the punishment - 5-99 years.  One dumb chick asked the judge what meth was.  Perhaps she was playing 3-D chess and figured a question like that would preclude her from serving.  Anyway, it was only supposed to a be a 2-day thing, so I'm kind of disappointed in not getting picked.

    One last thing.  It's rare to be in a room of your random peers and find out how absolutely, GD stupid much the population is.  The question that took 2 hours to answer took several different explanations from the judge, as well as both sets of attorneys.  Would you be wiling to consider the entire spectrum of punishment?  I.E. min of 5; max of 99.  Obviously, 99 years is extreme - even for most anti-drug sorts; however, most couldn't distinguish between considering and doing.  The defense attorneys were wrapping themselves in knots because they were going lose a huge segment of those that would probably be favorable to their cause.  The judge actually had to change the wording of the question, so the defense didn't lose over 50% of those present.

  10. 2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

    We can also laugh at Canada for how they have fallen off since qualifying, but if they make it in and they figure their issues out can also be a tough out. 

    Right?  For a team I generally rooted for, they became quite c*%$y after a tad bit of success.

  11. I haven't had anything worthy enough to post for a second.  Got one tonight.  

    6th grader is struggling with his homework.  Wife was helping him.  I look at problem #1, and it's wrong.

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    You're feeding 24 people with the following recipe amounts:

    500 g

    350 g

    400 g

    200 g

    1 kg

    How much of each would you need for 12 people?

    Son had doubled everything.  I told him this was wrong which pissed off my wife.  I couldn't get it through her head that 12 is half of 24 and, thus, you'd use half the amount of each.  After arguing with me for 5 minutes, she walks away and says, "Fine.  Listen to your father.  I scored higher that him on the ACT in math."  I took the SAT and scored 1390.  I have no idea how I did in math, but I know what a half is.  Her last comment was, "If you're so smart, see if you can get his mattress cover on his mattress.

    Of course, I couldn't let it go.  I took care of the mattress in 3 minutes, then went downstairs to let her know it was as easy as figuring out the math.

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