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  1. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


    At this point….she wouldn’t respond well as all. We’re dealing with some underlying emotional maturity and related communication issues that underlie all of it. The job/career path will come, once she figures out…how to figure things out.
    She’s incredibly competent at a number of things, beyond her years. Which she has used to conceal/make up for her weaknesses in other areas. Now, those skills she is weakest in are needed, and there’s no way to cover that up or get around it. So, it hits a crisis point. And she’s getting easily emotionally overwhelmed.
    The issues aren’t what she’s doing or not doing; those just reveal the underlying problems. So, helping her work in those.
    Today, with the whole family, was goddamned hard. Tomorrow will be too. And the next day. And a lot of days. Until at some point, it won’t be as hard.
    I’m tired. And sad. And frustrated.

    I could type a whole bunch of crap advice, but it would all boil down to: you've pretty much done your job.  You've raised her to college graduation.  Now, it's up to her to figure things out.  You gotta let her go, so to speak.  Give her some space to think, and enjoy the time you have with her living in your house.  Give her advice when asked, and your unsolicited opinion when you think she's off track, but let it lie at that.  If she continues off track and burns her hand, she'll remember you advised against it.

  2. 2 hours ago, Chopper said:

    ESPN made $3 Billion profit last year for Disney. Meanwhile Fox Broadcasting, the owner of Fox News, Fox Sports and the Fox broadcast network said it generated profit of $375 million. Color me skeptical on at least point 7 from the guy's "friend in the athletic department."

    Yeah, but something is making Disney uncomfortable.  I don't follow this stuff closely, but I'm guessing Disney's finance department is forecasting icebergs ahead.  Why else would Iger be talking about a strategic partner, and ESPN refusing to compensate SEC for an extra conference game?

    Seems like there's blood in the water, and Fox is all over it.

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  3. My son's friend works at fast-food chain Habit Burger, they have the ipad tip thing.  He estimates about 60% of people tip.  He also admits to staring intently at customers while they decide what to tip.

  4. On 8/7/2023 at 8:29 AM, Brew said:

    Never met anyone that thinks they make enough money or has enough saved or has enough whatever. There is always someone further up the ladder to compare yourself to. Combine that with the fact that most people’s spending habits track with income growth and there are plenty of people at each level living paycheck to paycheck which makes them feel like they aren’t rich even though statistically speaking they are.

    I'll never forget a quite wealthy businessman owner I was a customer of, unironically lamenting flying into Aspen first class at peak season, and feeling inadequate seeing all those private jets at the airport.

  5. One of my favorite scenes of any film is the Duke's Rooster mopping up the stew remnants with his bread before breaking out his jug and taking a healthy swig, and starting a card game with Mr. Chin.

    Bridges is one of my favorite actors, but the scene where Rooster explains his ex-wife and son was pretty much word for word in both movies, and the Duke was on another level.

  6. 1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    They didn’t get AAU status and build a campus in LA to get cut off from Southern California. Under current leadership, they want to be University of California at Tempe. 

    I don't see the connection at all.  How will they be cut off from SoCal?  Living here, and having a son who's about to apply and get rejected from the local UC schools (I've prepped him to expect CC for first two years even though he's straight As at JSerra), there will always be a place for an ASU CA campus.

    Apologies, I shouldn't have reacted so strongly.  I went to grad school at ASU in the 90s and have an affinity for it.

  7. Just now, billfromlaketravis said:

    Their AD and President are unhappy. They made public statements expressing their unhappiness. I’m not imagining a goddamned thing. 

    You went from unhappy to begging for a BIG invite.  You must be a moron, then.

  8. 2 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I fully expect Arizona State to be squeaky wheel/Mizzou in the new Big 12. They’re not above publicly begging the Big Ten for an invitation every year to be reunited with the SoCal schools. 

    You're talking out of your ass.  The AD is probably taking a cue from his boss, who seems to be inherently out of his element.  But how to get from them not being excited that their conference imploded to publicly begging the BIG for an invite?  Other than your overly stimulated imagination.

  9. 3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Help me out here.  Why is Arizona a bigger get than Arizona State?  Zona State is in a bigger market (Phoenix) and a larger school (65K students to 36K).  They're both the same in football with Arizona being better in basketball if that matters.

    Thanks.  I'll hang up and listen.  

    My opinion, and it's only my opinion, is that UA was willing to move.  That's it.

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  10. On 7/27/2023 at 12:13 PM, RomaVicta said:

    I know the movies he's made. Hugely popular and mostly very entertaining. 

    I stand by my opinion. He has the skills of a giant but not the output. He is the director Michael Bay would like to be but not nearly there.

    I should have included Close Encounters as one of his top efforts. Many of those other movies are meh to me. (Please, nobody come back with the tired, "every movie isn't supposed to be Shakespeare! So dumb.)

    Michael Mann, Chris Nolan, Martin Scorcese, and the lesser known Tom McCarthy have work that I consider superior to anything of Spielberg's. And that's just Americans. Korean cinema is kicking major ass now.

    Again, to be clear, I'm not deriding or derogating Spielberg. He's brilliant at putting together a very well told mainstream movie. The guys above do the same thing, but there's some meat on the bone. Something to chew on.

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  11. On 7/16/2023 at 6:34 AM, kevwun said:

    My friend got an offer from Cosmo for a free room for F1.  We talked about it, but I think we're gonna wait for a couple of years before going to Vegas for the race so they have a chance to fix some of the problems.  The first one is gonna be a shitshow.

    Just curious, aren't those rooms going for five figures?  You think it will be that much of a cluster fuck?

  12. 4 hours ago, McCroskey said:

    I’ve seen that happen in Vegas, they obviously have a lot of flights that leave both before and after 12am.

    I don’t understand the “$450 penalty plus full rate.” Why didn’t you just buy three new tickets at that point? Was the $450 to get you credit back for the remaining initial ticket price?

    Yeah, they credited back the original rate minus the penalty.  New tickets ~8K vs. original ~4K

  13. This is more stupid shit husbands do, but don't have a better place to put it, and I really just want to vent.

    Wife wants to visit her Philippines homeland badly this summer.  I've been there and have no urgent desire to go back.  Agreed she and the two kids will go.  I get a two week vacation at home.

    Book a flight for the three of them early spring.  Prices are sky high, but found a reasonable $1.3K rate.  Flights to Asia out of LAX are usually quite late at night.  The ticket I got was for July 3 at 00:50 hours. Now, in my stupified mind that somehow translated into leave late night July 3.

    Day of departure I check the airline to make sure things are on schedule, and realize to my horror that they missed the flight.  Call the airlines, hoping they'll be accommodating and just put them on the next flight available.  Nope.  $450 penalty for missing the flight and must purchase new tickets at full rate.  All other options are worse.  All in all, this fiasco cost me an additional $4,500 in costs just because I/we misinterpreted the date of departure. Fuck me.

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  14. 10 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Congrats on sticking with public access and saving $12 a month, but I haven’t listened to local trash in decades and love the variety when on long drives. 

    It's actually $5.50/month if you negotiate a little

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  15. 17 minutes ago, Brew said:

    Sign a contract with Pat McAfee for $17M per, lay off some of the names above that we’re making a quarter or less of that, decisions make no sense.

     

    Accurate or not, they figured that McAfee brings his own eyeballs.  Enough to warrant a $17M salary.

  16. I'm an episode behind.  Just watched the 59 year old dude who hadn't had any protein since the drop spend all his energy reserves to build a fantastic cabin that would probably last decades.  Immediately after completion, he's fried and has to leave the game.  Do these people ever learn?

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  17. 8 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


    i was at Costco Richmond yesterday, zero card checks 

    Family goes to Costco pretty much every Sunday after church.  Every time as we near the entrance I make my son go fetch a cart, which is on the other side of the entrance/exit.  There's too much chaos for the door host to see us together.  The other three of us immediately enter the building and flash the card, leaving him alone to walk in with his cart and no card, lol.  Hasn't been stopped yet

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  18. 56 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

    We got excited because we thought that everything was going to unravel right in front of us in a 48 hour period. It’s understandable. We were on the verge of seeing what would be the greatest geopolitical event since the fall of the Berlin Wall and maybe we still did. It took two whole years from the Wall going down to the dissolving of the Soviet Union.

     The Wall falling was the breaking away of the most visible non-nuclear symbol of Soviet power in the European front. Russia’s most powerful and seasoned troops withdrawing from the newest Russian/European conflict border, Ukraine, turning their guns east, and holding the Kremlin hostage to meet demands was our modern day equivalent. People are openly wondering “how could Prog possibly believe this is over and he is safe” but the same could be asked of Putin’s mindset. Both sides of that conflict are irreparably damaged. Imagine how many oligarchs just saw their fortunes flash before their eyes. Imagine how much chatter about Putin’s weakness has been picked up by the FSB. 

    May we live in interesting times, indeed. 

    I recall way back in Geopolitics class (one of my favorites), the professor said he could not see the Berlin Wall ever coming down, that the Soviets would never allow it.  Literally one year later it was down.  Just brought up to say that times change quickly.

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