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  1. On 10/2/2023 at 12:08 PM, RPM said:

    WTF happened to Mary Lou Retton?

    I lived in Moore Hill on campus. My room was right above the front door on the second floor on the southwest entrance opening out onto 21st Street. Early one morning I heard a ruckus going on outside so I looked out my window to find Mary Lou arguing with the cops. They were having her Vette towed. This must have been a Monday morning and her car was not to be parked there.

    That is all I got.

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  2. 14 hours ago, elfenix said:

    People who need assistance
    Global services
    Activate duty
    Young children
    Premier 1k
    Group 1 now boarding 6th

    I fly a lot. I constantly see people boarding in the “need assistance” time that clearly do not need assistance. Rare do I see a gate agent stop them.

  3. 3 minutes ago, DougO said:

    The NFL has become one giant commercial for Taylor Swift. 

    Just kill it with fire.

     

    This right here.  They keep saying, "Everyone is talking about Taylor Swift at the game tonight".  Of course, because the camera is always panning to her and the commentators keep talking about it.  If they would just shut up then no one would know or care.  NFL just trying to increase the "brand".

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Chest is fine now, but ass and back are sore from not moving much.

    I had an ablation performed back in April to correct my SVT. Had lay still for about 4 hours on my back in recovery. Couldn’t even cross my legs at the ankles.

    Back started to hurt.

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  5. I don’t mind getting hot and sweaty if I am working or doing some sort of exercise, etc. I despise getting hot if I am on a flight or in a building/room and it is warm and air conditioning is available and it is not being properly used.

    The latter usually happens when I am overseas as people just use AC differently than what Americans are used too. Spent last week in China and am now in Australia right now sweating my balls off on a domestic flight to Brisbane.

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  6. 3 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Any of y’all walk out on a job? Just straight up said “fuck this BS” and quit?

    Only as a teenager. Worked 3 nights at a Whataburger and quit to go to work at a Sirloin Stockade where all of my buddies were working. Worked there for about 4 months when summer started and I then got a job with a civil engineering firm. I worked for the engineering firm every summer while I was in college.

    As an adult, no.

  7. I am glad that I went to UT when I did (84 thru 88). There is no way that I could get in today.

    Growing up all my daughter knew was UT and that was here dream school and the only school she wanted to go to.

    I was in constant contact with UT admissions and her high school counselor constantly checking on her placement in the top 10%.

    My then wife tried to talk her into taking other school visits but she was just not interested. She did eventually visit Baylor (nursing) just to please the ex.

    Knowing that UT was all that she wanted was stressful. The ex was not involved at all so it all fell on me and there was no way I was going to fail my daughter. This went on several months until I get a call from her counselor saying that she set the deadline on class standings and my daughter was the cutoff for the top 10%. I remember shutting my office door and crying with happiness for my daughter and the relief from the stress. My daughter was admitted in the fall of 2010 and graduated in 2014.

    I don’t know what I would have done had she not gotten in. Luckily it did not come to that.

    I now have a granddaughter that is 4 and is all in with Texas. Praying now!!

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  8. 50 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Neither my mother or grandmother EVER put gas in a vehicle. It was my father's thing to do, women just do that type of stuff in their generation. When my father passed, it fell to me or my BIL's. Mom didn't even know how to put gas in her car. Strange, but I kind of miss those "old" days.

    Whenever my daughter would come home from UT for a visit I would always wash her car. When she got ready to leave I would follow her to the local gas station and fill her gas tank up for her. Just a little more precious daughter and dad time.

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  9. 7 hours ago, smuggs said:

    Folks that are hauling junked/scrapped vehicles down the interstate (to Mexico I guess?) in 100% laughably dangerous Beverly Hillbillies caravans. I live on I-10 and I see them daily. Toyota 4Runners pulling 3-4 junked Toyota Tacomas that are daisy chained ass-to-mouth rolling down I-10.

    Yesterday between Baton Rouge and Lake Charles there was a 20ft box truck that was in a serious bind, towing a rollback truck with an old Silverado strapped on the deck, with a fucking Sea-Doo strapped down and half hanging out of the bed of the Silverado.

    How is this legal? It was a Final Destination scene waiting to happen.

    I see this everyday on my drive to work on I-20 in NE Texas

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  10. 18 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

    Me neither. Although it somehow made sense to him in his alzheimer state.

    And drove with it the 2 miles or so over to the national forrest refuge or whatever it’s called.

     

    Fool me once, shame on you

    Fool me twice, shame on me….something something something 

  11. 4 hours ago, Sandman said:

    My buddy was a medic in Afghanistan. When his unit would go door to door, he was the breacher that went in with a 12 gauge. He got to go home on leave when his son was born. Fast forward to today, his son is 13 and playing the new Call of Duty game. My buddy is watching him play and his son had built a breacher class, complete with a 12 gauge and whatnot. He tells his son "Hey, that's me. I did that in the war.". He said his son looked at him and scoffed "Pfft, you were just a medic". 

    Respect to your buddy.

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  12. 14 hours ago, Sandman said:

     I had my first grandchild 5 months ago and I worry about how that relationship works. I've never had a grandfather give me a hug and tell me he loves me. My dad's dad died before I was born, this is foreign territory for me.

    My other kid is having a baby next year, so I need to un-fuck myself and figure it out, I suppose.

    Hug them. Kiss them. Tell them that you love them. Be present.

    But, it sounds like you know what to do. Just do it.

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  13. 6 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Grandpa was a piece of work.   I remember riding in his truck and the conversations.   He was a medic in WWII.   He would get mad when I told him he was a nurse.   “I wasn’t a fucking nurse”.  “Yes you were, I have your nurse bag right here”.  “That’s a war bag, son.” Call it what you want, looks like something a nurse would carry.  “ Look you little shit, you have no idea.”  You’re right I don’t.   Then we would pull into Praseks and eat. He may have been a nurse, but he was a badass.  

    I had a great-uncle that was a combat medic in the ETO during WW2. Prior to enlisting in 1937 he served in the CCC in the southwest. Great guy, always smiling and happy. He is the one that jumped started my WW2 military collection. During the war he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor. He would never really say how he earned it other than to say that he stumbled upon some Germans and all that he had was a hypodermic needle as a weapon. Upon his death another elderly uncle told me that he earned the BS by liberating some US soldiers that had been captured by some German soldiers. He would not go into detail on how he did it other than to say, “just know that the soldiers were freed”. My guess was that the “needle” was a sidearm. Either way he was a badass.

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  14. 16 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Damn, I thought you were way younger than that.

    On behalf of all our members...welcome to The Olds Club!

    His Surly handle should have alerted you that he is old. It has been a long ass time since a treaty was signed under an oak tree.

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  15. 7 hours ago, Lidig8r said:

    That was a tough 15 months.

    Am still soldiering on. Either I am the most emotionally stunted man in the history of God ... or God still has plans for me.

    IMO, I would roll with this right here in a positive way.

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