Posts posted by BHMCruiser
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35 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
I find myself quite a bit removed from the people in this video. I swear if I was forced to live in Alabama, it wouldn't be much more culturally alienating than living in Outer Mongolia.
Alabama is a great place to live. Well, at least the area around Birmingham is a great place to live. I would not want to live in the Black Belt.
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45 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
I think Malzahn would be taken as a serious candidate at a lot of places. He was certainly a very hot name when he took over at Auburn although his reputation has taken a hit recently because of an apparent inability to adjust to defensive approaches.
I agree with your larger point about it being a tough job because of the environment, though.
He was one of the first to really push HUNH and use long-abandoned running concepts in the spread framework. It was brilliant, devastating, and very hard to defend. And then everybody else started doing it. And that ate up a lot of his real estate, because his system thrived on the Nick Marshalls of the world: run-first QBs who were "okay" accurate, and didn't really need to make reads. Well, now everybody recruits those guys, and Malzahn really cannot develop, or even utilize, traditional QBs. I mean, Auburn was mediocre with Jarrett Stidham, who's probably going to start in the NFL.
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On 12/17/2020 at 1:12 PM, Aqua Buddha said:
Is Auburn really that good of a job? I know they have facilities and a recruiting region and whatnot but it's been open multiple times and the best they've gotten are Chiz, Malzhan, and evidently Kevin Steele. Those are awful and none of them would get a serious look at any other major program.
No. The expectations are unrealistic, the recruiting is hard because there's so much regional and in-state competition, the fanbase is retarded, and they have a perpetual little brother syndrome that cripples their decision making abilities.
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13 hours ago, UTexasFight said:
Dining area/ table chairs at some point soon
installing a fan in the middle at some point before the spring
some sort of cactus-type plants in those planter boxes and also waiting for them to rust and then seal
stain the couch lumber
installing a gutter on the house roofline
are all on the to-do’s still
That's going to be very nice.
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2 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said:
You're the third person that's mentioned the grilled cheese + mayo thing within the last month to me. Sounds like I need to give it a shot.
It is excellent. Huge improvement over butter, and the outside of the grilled cheese is puffy and brown like perfect freedom toast.
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On 12/4/2020 at 11:11 PM, Elvis said:
A couple years back I got my son the ~2000 piece falcon. I built the whole kit in n one long sitting on Christmas Day. My back hurt after that.
it survived about a month.
My six year old built that too. He's a Lego fanatic. He's done the MF, the AT-AT, Slave One, the Star Destroyer, Kylo Ren's ship, and others. It's amazing.
I used to hate Lego. I hated that I always ended up putting the goddamn things together and then it was a toy the kid couldn't play with. My older son hates them too. But the 6 year old is like a surgeon.
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On 12/19/2020 at 11:29 PM, Zeus said:
Florida had a couple unfortunate plays, Bama played mistake free and only won by 6.
I guess it's gonna look a lot different when Bama blows out both teams on their way to a championship. Then you will look back on the season and see they were the only team that even hung around all year.
"Bama played mistake free" except for lining up offsides to cancel a fumble at the goalline, failing to pick up a fumbled ball that was inexplicably surrounded by four Alabama players, interfering on a pass to negate an interception in the end zone, Surtain just losing a ball he was in position to intercept to give up a touchdown, holding behind a play to kill a drive into the red zone, letting the QB run up the middle fifteen times, and using a middle linebacker with a reconstructed knee to defend a RB/WR on THREE different big pass plays.
Except for that, it was a mistake free game.
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2 hours ago, taybo20 said:
I worked with Tom once. He’s a pretty cool guy actually and willing to work extremely hard. Clearly he feels the weight of the production on his shoulders and that makes sense given his position on his films. And right now with Covid, all these productions are a few cases away from shutdowns. It’s sucks right now.
I didn't know that people who actually knew what they were talking about were allowed to post on the internet. You've made this really awkward.
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On 8/5/2020 at 2:34 AM, mulletpelini said:
We're in a 40 year old house that I'm constantly working on myself. The original insulation is still there, and at some point in the future we will address it. Keep in mind I'm 6 hours north of Dallas so it gets hot but not as humid as where most of you are. Summer time the attic is probably 130+ most days, when the outside is 90-95. The house faces south but there is good shade and some days the AC may not kick on til after noon. Would it make sense to have an attic fan to pull some of that hot air out during the day? Especially when I am working up in the attic. As it is now, I try to do early morning in summer or wait til winter.
I'm not talking about running it all day, but would it benefit from time to time to recycle that air during the day and would it help the AC run more efficient/less often than it does now.
We pulled all the pile insulation and sprayfoam insulated the attic. Now it's only about 5 degrees warmer or cooler than the living areas of the house. The house is way easier to keep consistently cool or warm and there are no hot or cold spots anymore. It was also pretty cheap. The downside is that if you have a roof problem, you won't know about it until it's pretty serious. I'm in Birmingham, Alabama.
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10 hours ago, Beer Drinker said:
Between Surly and AR15.com I was convinced that my lifelong go-to mayo Hellmans had been surpassed by Dukes. I tried it on a few sandwiches the last month and was kinda suspect about it. Then I made a batch of deviled eggs tonight with it and its fuckin garbage. Hellman’s dominates this fucking trendy millennial bullshit.
I agree that Hellman's is better but Duke's is over 100 years old.

Auburn fires Gus Malzahn
in Football
In a lot of ways, firing Malzahn made sense (in a whole lot more ways it didn't because now Auburn is embarrassing itself looking for a replacement). Malzahn had long since hit his ceiling, and was probably on the decline. Recruiting was going down, and his occasional rabbit out of a hat was not enough to compensate for 8-9 win seasons.
There's no doubt he was a terror on game day. He was creative and courageous with his willingness to take risks to win big games. But while beating Alabama more than everybody else is an accomplishment, he had room to breathe on that. Winning by less than a TD occasionally meant that nobody really cared if you lost by 40 the next year or the year before. But after a while, those beatdowns add up in the L column and you end up with a lot of 8 win seasons with losses to shitty teams.