Posts posted by C-Man
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So Madison wound up coming back and is one of the final two. I thought she and Hannah Ann would be the final two awhile back so I'm wondering what the shocking twist is going to be. Does he pick Madison and then it blows up over the whole fantasy suite thing? I'm still sticking to my guns that he's not with either Hannah Ann or Madison at this point.
Not sure I'm going to bother with the songwriting Bachelor show.
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On 2/29/2020 at 6:25 PM, Vito Andolini said:
The new Bachelorette will be revealed Monday morning, which means it can’t be one of the three remaining “contestants” this season. Victoria F. could have been a fun choice with those giant tits, loose, home wrecking morals and penchant for drama, but Hannah Ann is way too young and Madi is as boring as her sexual history.
Reality Steve says he has learned the identity:
As noted by several outlets, the choice is supposed to be a real surprise, so that eliminates crazy Kelsey “Is that my champagne?” Weir... and Reality Steve says it’s Clare Crawley, the runner up from Juan Pablo’s season. She’s 32, full of crazy and hot enough to make dudes fight over her. Rumor has it they wanted to go a touch older, early 30’s to get a more interesting mix, rather than early twenty somethings who don’t know what they want yet.
Ugh, she sucks.
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Decided to give it a try today. Wasn't bad at all. The brisket had a good smoke flavor although the seasoning was inconsistent. A couple of bites were so salty they were barely edible. The one thing that irritated me (my own fault) was I wasn't watching the cutter, and did not notice until I got back to the job site, but the asshole cut the brisket with the grain. Might try them again, might not.
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On 2/28/2020 at 10:15 PM, Stunns38 said:
The Henry is nice. Chelsea Corner is opposite but could work as well.
I love Chelsea Corner but it's been awhile since we've been. We wound up at Grapevine (yes, more divey than the other suggestions) and it was perfect. My friend remembered having been there 20 years ago as soon as she walked in and she was kind of looking for "familiar" in her return to town. We had a good time. Plus, they get upscale/douchey all the time in CA so I think they were glad to have the laid-back feel of Grapevine.
One thing we did notice on the way over is that The Windmill is now known a MD Tavern or something like that. The patio area out front has been ripped out. I'm not sure is Lisa Georgalis still owns the bar or not -- she bought it when it was still Windmill and cleaned it up some. Then she and her husband Tom split -- they owned Ivy together (after selling Inwood Tavern) -- but I think they're back together again. Maybe they dumped Windmill altogether to whoever has rebranded it.
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4 minutes ago, Zavala said:
That's what my eyes tell me as well. Just saying, in an argument when bowl wins comes in it's pathetic how the big 12 did last year.
Bowls aren't a big enough sample. I think they're useful -- and humorous -- when the big, bad SEC face-plants like it did a few years ago, especially considering all the gymastics that conference employs to ensure the very best (read, winnable/favorable) matchups take place. This past season, I feel pretty certain there were probably four or more better teams than Oklahoma, therefore the entire conference played up at least one level (OU should've been playing Georgia, Baylor would've gotten Utah or Notre Dame, etc). Also Oklahoma State nearly knocked off aggy despite having a bunch of skill guys not playing due to injury.
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18 hours ago, Masshole Horn said:
If you stay under 20 net carbs daily, you're doing keto.
Net carbs = Total Carbs - Fiber - Sugar Alcohol
I find it easiest by sticking with real foods (Meats with Veggies) rather than trying to make keto versions (Cheese and psyllium husk pizza crusts) of high carb food. Also, when you start, don't worry about calories, just track your net carbs. Once you get in the swing, couple of weeks to a month, then start dialing down the amount of food you eat. A lot of times your hunger will have subsided and done this for you already.
Agree that the reddit sub r/keto is a good source for starters. I think they get overly dogmatic, but not in a counter productive way.
Gotcha. Yeah, I don't think I need to go in for keto-versions of high-carb foods like you say. I'll just dump it altogether. I would hope I could that for a month or two to get a good base and see some early returns on the dietary change. Want to get more of a feel for what foods are "keto-healthy" and where I could trip up thinking I was eating approved foods.
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Anybody else Notice how Danny was kind of going in at Bob week one with some of his digs. Then last week he cracked a joke about not getting the chair Bob got. Think there is some animosity there? I didn’t have even considered Danny for the co-host spot.
It’s a bit. Danny has always done the self-deprecating thing pretty well. Corby/Danny played like a Saturday morning f-around show, not afternoon drive. -
Sucks that the big 12 sends chokelahoma to eat shit in the playoff every year. That and losing EVERY BOWL GAME this year really justify the worst conference argument. It's SEC, B1G, pac12, ACC, then shit 12. Bottom of the barrel. Worse than the fucking ACC.
Not according to the numbers. Big 12 was third behind SEC and Big Ten. The PAC 12 was fourth, followed by the AAC and then the ACC.
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We need to differentiate here between Las Palapas, Taco Pelenque and Pelenque Grill.
I've been to Pelenque Grill out in the Rim a few times before going to a movie. Are there other locations? I thought it was pretty good. Not the greatest and I don't think they enter the breakfast taco conversation. So I'm leaving them out of it for now.
I consider Taco Pelenque more fast food QSR than sit down restaurant per se. Taco Pelenque is like Taco Cabana in layout, but with much better food. And don't get me wrong, I'm a Taco C guy going back to the original location on Hildebrand and San Pedro. But Taco Cabana is crap these days and has been for more than a decade. Pelenque is really solid. I'm a big fan of the Pirata (bean and cheese with beef fajita) taco. Pros: fast drive thru, salsa bar, solid food. Cons: for breakfast tacos, I don't think their eggs are that great. For some reason, these high throughput drive thru joints can't get the eggs right.
Las Palapas is an old school SA place, going back to the original location on West Avenue near Churchill High School that moved into the old Winchell's Donuts location. At some point, they expanded and built multiple locations. Palapas is more of a sit down restaurant than Taco Pelenque is. They have wait staff vs. Taco Pelenque where you just order at the counter. As noted previously, back in the day Palapas was one of the few places to eat late night and I've stumbled through there after 2 am more times than I care to (or actually can) remember. The Okie and Macho burritos, I consider to be seminal culinary accomplishments in San Antonio Tex-mex . Of course, you have to grade that on a curve in consideration of 2am drunk and stoned. I think their food has gone downhill over the years. Pros: late night drunken hijinks nostalgia. Cons: food is kinda meh plus closed Sunday for family and worship except for the Godless location out on I-10.
With regard to either of them having the best breakfast tacos in SA... like anybody could ever know that. I can probably rattle 20 joints off the top of my head that I would rather pick up breakfast tacos from than either one of them. I hit up Pelenque mostly out of convenience / speed.
I’ve probably been to Las Palapas 200 times — only went in and ate there twice. Always drive-thru. LP’s food doesn’t translate very well to seated dining IMO and I do not know how to explain that. -
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2 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:That's closing in on "dive bar" territory. That said, its a fun place and you just never know who or exactly what kind of crowd you'll see there.
Mansion bar or the Library bar at the Melrose (whatever it is called now) are fun on weekends. Cheers.
Yeah, you're probably right on Grapevine's classification!
EDIT: I like the Mansion but only when on the expense account. Way too spendy otherwise!
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So as not to confuse this with the dive bars thread, thought I'd start a new one.
Old friend from the Star-Telegram and her husband are in Dallas this weekend for a wedding. We haven't seen each other since before I had kids (oldest is 14). They're in from LA and staying over at the Anatole. Their rehearsal dinner is downtown and we are going to meet them for drinks after they leave the rehearsal. Looking for a good watering hole -- nice, casual, it doesn't really matter -- and probably best to keep it within downtown, Uptown through west of Cedar Springs/Preston and then over to the Design District. We live near Love Field.
Lando suggested the new back bar at The Charles, which we are considering. I also threw out the Grapevine -- haven't been there in years.
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5 minutes ago, Landomatic said:
Not likely. Because...
...this ^ more and more every day. Mrs Landomatic and I used to have a DVR full of stuff, but it seems like little-by-little, every time we go to our DVR to watch something, the outcome is, "we don't have shit." Then we switch over to see what we can find on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon and usually find something really good. I still have YouTubeTV and I'll keep it for the foreseeable future (mostly just for sports anymore), but seems more and more, anything worth a fuck is on one of the streaming services. My kid has never even logged into the YouTubeTV app. Literally everything watched is on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon. Appears to be where everything is headed.
I've long been procrastinating the move to streaming. I need live sports -- Stars hockey, football of all kinds (save XFL, I guess), big-time soccer (EPL and Champions League) and the Rangers if/when they get good again -- the local channels, HBO, Bravo (sorry not sorry), Comedy and FX/FXX and perhaps a few others. Is there a magic bullet? I don't want 10 different providers that I have to pay per month if I can avoid it but I also don't like paying $125-$150/mo if I don't have to.
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It's finally time for me to try this keto diet. I'm tired of taking meds for blood pressure and cholesterol. I'm under no assumptions that dropping weight is going to entirely get me off the meds -- high BP runs in my family and I've got two teenage kids -- but it's high time to shed some pounds.
I get the general idea of ketogenic. But if I'm going to do this, I want to make sure I'm not fucking up anywhere. I did the South Beach Diet nearly 10 years ago and stuck to it religiously and had great results. I found a few books on Amazon that deal with keto but there's almost too many to choose from -- is there a "best" resource. Is keto as restrictive at the very beginning -- IIRC on South Beach, the first two weeks was brutally strict and then it eased a little bit for the next few weeks and then you got into maintaining with the occasional "cheat" days.
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1 hour ago, orangecat92 said:
Imo, it got better because the writers were able to adapt the script to fit the actors. Example, the basic theme being cheating people is bad: Burns cheated soldiers out of money by listening to a baseball game, betting the results with enlisted men and making $ when the game was replayed. Winchester's character attempted to cheat the locals of their money during the script change episode. The Winchester episode was a better example I believe, because of the way the writers showed Winchester's emotions when he realized he had been had by Hawkeye and BJ, who used Winchester's words against him in the end, offering 10 cents on the dollar, the exact rate Winchester had offered to the locals.
I think better writing, because we got to see the gamut of emotions from Winchester.
Perhaps -- I just thought it worked better as a comedy with Trapper and Burns. I'm also a MASH movie >>>> M*A*S*H tv show guy.

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