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Iceman

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  1. Iceman

    NIMBYism

    So we need Obamacasa in addition to Obamacare, am I hearing that right? OK. I'll quit fucking around> I have discussed before being in subsidized housing when I was a kid. We lived there 4 years until my mom got situated( she had been out of the job market for 20 years and then suddenly was a single mom with 3 kids.) Every day was an effort to get the fuck out of there and they were decent apartments in a decent part of town, as in, there weren't crime issues or whatever. IMHO, that is what "affordable housing" or subsidies should be for, even if there was no defined time limit, it should not run into perpetuity either. As a taxpayer, I'm cool with that premise. Defined timelines with progress towards independence. Crazy, I know... The approach does not need to originate from "the gubmint has an endless supply of money." What's reasonable? 10 years? I know 4 isn't the answer. I just take issue with the folks who feel like they are owed, and I know you know where I'm coming from. There were people who lived in those apartments in the 80's who probably lived there until they died. That's not cool either.
  2. Iceman

    NIMBYism

    Also false. Get jobs and go earn it. I know, it's insane to say that, but people do it; or should we ignore the other results? There are always tradeoffs for different decisions in life. Too slorchy, i know, but I get sick of the "woe is us" as well as the " Government must intervene!" bullshit.
  3. The Sark thread has admittedly been better, for sure.
  4. 1. I'm not whining about anything. 2. It's all incestuous rankings and bullshit anyway. "we played 8 teams in the top 25. The only reason any SEC team lost a game is because they had to play the SEC" Yeah...Mkay. 3. Fuck Notre Dame and Fuck aggy. Those notions are hardly exclusive to 2025.
  5. Which metrics did I choose? My beef with ND and the SEC for that matter is not playing a 9 game conference schedule, but then getting Samford in November, because it's dumb. It's deliberate manipulation of competitive reality for other teams. I ain't dying on the hill of defending Tech's schedule, because it also is bullshit. I've long felt teams should schedule 1 tough game, 1 medium, and 1 cupcake in non-con. Every team should be gauge off of 9 conference games. Anything less than 9 counts as a loss. Guess what? They don't GAF about standardized schedules or my opinion on the topic; but I still get to complain.
  6. Maybe not, and A&M actually makes a great case against conference schedules this season; however Notre Dame's schedule:
  7. Congrats. Glad it turned out that way...even after the 4th & OMG play.
  8. Now show me a legal craps table... In Texas. We are so fucking blessed to be protected.
  9. Actually, the rules are pretty fucking fair on site determination.
  10. You said to ignore the first round. After that when people say "home and home" it's Team A's pick of a neutral site and if they rematch within 2 seasons( 3 years total) Team B gets their pick of the "neutral site." It is not generally their home field.
  11. That was illegal procedure on third down
  12. Plano West's snapshot number is 4914.
  13. Sorry Ghost. It's bullshit to have to make choices over someone else being an asshole( hateful.) By the same token, you shouldn't have to tolerate/ endure it either. I would lose my shit if someone said something like that about my kid's "faults" even if those faults only exist in the condescending idiot's mind. Would your kids be interested in coming to your house, or is it the "bigger family" or nothing for them?
  14. Guess what- kids that play basketball at 6A schools generally play only that sport year round as well. Nazareth girls hoops through the years would play anyone willing to schedule them. It happens in volleyball too.
  15. I ain't feelin sorry for B1G or SEC either one. It's a fucking joke that anyone in either conference would be at any disadvantage.
  16. The first round of playoff rankings should not come out until the first week of December. Anything before that is just offseason-like bullshit.
  17. The people who need that shit aren't actively driving. That's the point. Traffic in general and driver behavior says none of it is mitigated. That notion is laughably insane. Spend any significant time on the road at all and one begins to wonder how some of these fuckers were ever granted a DL in the first place.
  18. I turn all that shit off when I drive a rental or my wife's car. If you can't drive the fucking vehicle, what the fuck are you in the driver's seat for? It's also a gotdam beating having a paragraph long warning on the media screen not to take your eyes off the road. Shouldn't it disappear when the vehicle is placed into drive?
  19. Consent, eh? What about conspiracy to obstruct justice?
  20. It also seems logical that one of the B1G and one of the SEC teams respectively in the Top 5 would slide down after CCG weekend, and Tech would get a Bye for the Top 4 seeds, should they win the B12 CCG. I'm not holding my breath on shenanigans not happening.
  21. Thread title is so confusing...
  22. The USS Constitution was launched in 1797. 250 years has a better ring to it though...
  23. No. It's up to the coaches. Sometimes a coin flip is done if they cannot agree on a neutral site, often because of past seasons and if they lost. Sometimes Coach A already played a game at the ideal location this season and Coach B is like, "Fuck all that, we'll both be uncomfortable..." Also if it's a repeat matchup, sometimes it was agreed upon in year 1 Team A travels and in year 2, Team A gets the more desired location. There's been some fun stories of playoff site determination in the past- think like Mike Leach for a second and get weird. Some of the coaches have fun with it. Others are just bitches. Other times it's simply supply and demand, and what day you want the venue...
  24. $10-15. the same price as your basic cable subscription in many cases.
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