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  1. 7 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    You need to go by SMU where the North Dallas Bueatiful People live, other than that the burbs aren't to much like that.

    Nah, sorry if I didn’t make that clear. It’s not beautiful people that bother me. It’s the faux-hippies (hipsters). 

    Generally speaking, the HP (or River Oaks, or in Boston, where I grew up, the Back Bay) people know they have money and act like it. 

    The closest equivalent in Dallas to what I’m talking about might be Deep Ellum or Bishop Arts.

  2. I live in transplant central now (Collin County) and I am a transplant myself. Honestly, one thing I like about the Dallas area compared to Houston and Austin is that generally speaking, nobody is trying to prove to anybody else how hipster/alternative/liberal/whatever they are... Austin definitely got that party started, but there are so many obnoxious Houston hipsters who think they’re God’s gift because they went to an upscale thrift shop in Montrose, took a photo at the Menil Collection, went to happy hour at Anvil, and then retired to their studio in EaDo. And then documented it all on instagram. 

    Maybe I’m just hanging out with the wrong crowd up here, but I find it much easier to deal with the Uptown douchebag than the Houston/Austin hipster. 

  3. I’m either a very young millennial or old Gen Z (born April ‘96). I don’t really remember life without the internet but I definitely remember life with dial-up internet and without smartphones. My younger sister, born ‘01, doesn’t really.

    My parents possess a similar lack of generational identity. My mom’s parents were born in 1919 and 1921 respectively and had my mom in their early forties (she was youngest of four, 16 years younger than her eldest brother). On the contrary, my dad is actually 5 months older than my mom but his parents were born in 1936 and 1938. While my maternal grandfather went to West Point and served in Italy and was a colonel in Korea, my paternal grandfather was part of a “forgotten generation” who was too young for WWII and Korea, but too old for Vietnam. 

    In a sense, I almost consider my mom a baby boomer and my dad a Gen X’er despite my dad actually being older.

  4. 2 minutes ago, rickyspub said:

    No. College football needs to split FBS into 2 divisions. Promotion/relegation is dumb when you can't actually pay for players. Rice can't just decide they want to get the talent of a P5 team. Move the P5 to a separate division, let them play one G5 team in OOC and all the rest of the games have to be within the new division. The schedules instantly get closer in quality and you can add 4 playoff teams without as much worry about TV complaining about the quality of games or fan bases. Maybe some G5 teams get called up if expansion occurs, but having teams dropping down and moving up is silly.

    I’m not even talking about Rice. We’ve dug our own grave through lack of investment of 60+ years. I’m referring more to the Boise’s of the world, who no matter what they do, won’t get invited to the P5 because they’re in Idaho. 

    You bring up separating the division. OK, fine. But it’s fundamentally unfair to do that by just looking at who’s in the P5 today and who’s not. What has Oregon State done to deserve being in P5 conference (in both football and MBB) lately compared to say, San Diego State (just thinking of a decent west coast G5 with decent hoops and football)? 

    If the test is that you have to have a football budget of above $X, and if you don’t do that, you won’t get to be in the new D1, that’s fair. 

     

     

     

  5. The attitude of some posters on this thread are exactly why CFB needs a promotion/relegation system. It’s impossible for a school to “climb the ranks” unless they’re really good when a TV deal is being negotiated. And even then, they have to be in a big market. It’s a scam. 

  6. If you’re in F it’s fun, in J it’s bearable, in Y it sucks. Luckily, SQ’s aircraft on this route doesn’t have a traditional Y. Only premium economy.

    Longest flight I’ve ever done in Y is BOS-HKG. It SUCKED (and I had an exit row). 

    On the other hand, I flew DEL-ORD in J and it wasn’t bad. 

    Done Europe-East Coast many times in Y and it’s not too bad, especially going east.

  7. On 10/6/2018 at 3:03 PM, cmontexas said:

    It was on TV he definitely was

     

    Edit: Also, what a fuckin cheap shot by Hebron at the end. 2 seconds left, Coppell in victory formation, Hebron d line goes into the knees of the Coppell oline. Coppell kid with a scholly to KSU hurt his knee thanks to dogshit dirty play by the Hebron thugs

    Just seeing this now, but thanks for the backup on this. 

    Bridges can definitely play as you’d expect, just not the type of guy I’d want in my program. 

  8. 1 hour ago, kopp0e said:

    Congrats Louisville, you got a last minute mopped up the clock touchdown with less than :30 seconds left, still lose by 25...

    *35.

    The Paul Johnson/VanGorder drama goes much deeper.

    PJ was the coach at Georgia Southern from 97-01 and won two 1-AA national championships and went 62-10. After PJ left for Navy, Mike Sewak, his OL coach took the head job.

    Sewak was good, not great, and that simply didn’t cut it for GSU at the time. So they fired him. 

    VanGorder is hired as the head coach and trashes the offense and PJ, goes 3-8 in his one season, and then gets fired.

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  9. Went to the Coppell-Hebron game as recommended. Terrible special teams play all game long by both teams but Coppell blocks a kick to win 16-15. 

    The Hebron receiver committed to OU is a total thug and had to be bear hugged by the head coach post game so he wouldn’t fight.

  10. 31 minutes ago, Assman said:

    A couple others to put on your list: 

    -Coppell v. Hebron should be a good game. 

    -Richardson v. Pearce is a good rivalry and both are actually decent this year.

    What would you say is best in terms of atmosphere?

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    6 hours ago, coachkiss said:

     


    Rain is very, very possible, so you might want to see if there is something at the Star?

     

    NOAA weather forecast looks fine on Friday as of now (Mostly Sunny). 

    Looks like Wakeland vs Lone Star at the Star though Friday night.

     

  12. Woo hoo Go Owls!!!

    We’ll get crushed by Cougar High next week (oh well still have a better job and life than them 😜) but time will tell as to whether we improve as the season goes on. Tonight wasn’t a promising start to the Bloomgren era, but Bailiff lost his first game to $.05 State so at least it’s an improvement over that.

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  13. Whatever. I grew up in Massachusetts (15 miles inland where we received 66% more snow than Boston), a place where it’s cold and snowy in the winter and went to school in Houston (which is a weather hell hole in its own right), and it didn’t phase me. I now live in Dallas, which IMO is slightly better than Houston weather wise, but hardly great. 

    I guess I’m just less affected by weather than others. 

  14. My only comment (that hasn’t been said yet) is the following: don’t let weather influence where she goes to college. 

    So many people say “winters are a bitch in XXX.” Yeah, maybe if you’re 40 years old and have to shovel your driveway/pay for a plow, find childcare for your kids because school cancelled and work didn’t, etc, etc. 

    But as a college kid, it’s a blast! A couple bonus days off are nearly guaranteed for snow days, scheduling all your classes in the afternoon so you can ski 4 mornings a week at Tremblant (if she went to McGill), etc. Montreal isn’t really any colder than Boston or other northern U.S. cities. Head up the road to Quebec City-Yes, lots colder. Montreal, not so much. 

  15. Been raining on and off in Frisco all day long... A nice, soaking mist too when it hasn’t been raining.

    This is after the thunderstorm Thursday night dropped over an inch. Cant wait for the green-up!

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