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  1. 12 hours ago, Vertigo said:

    Woke Randolph is like a cosmic nightmare that Shiva the destroyer has unleashed upon this world. 

    this is what it looks like when he connects "Texas A&M is bad" to literally anything else that goes on in that feculent brainswamp of his

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  2. 45 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Not to be picky or to go all CR here, but can we leave the term “blue blood” to the aggys. 

    The term originated during the 1400s when the Catholics were attempting to kick the Muslims out of Spain. Those of “blue blood” could blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah  

    who fucking cares

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  3. 6 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Like clockwork.

     

    When I was 17, I got pulled into a pickup game with some neighborhood kids at Woodland Hills Elementary. They were in awe when I took off from like six feet out and dunked a missed shot. Hey, it was a nice move. On an eight foot goal. Against some fourth graders.

    It was similar to Michael Jordan going baseline past Oakley and dunking on Patrick Ewing in the '91 playoffs. Not much the defenders could do. 

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  4. 22 hours ago, Thiefery said:

    In a time when we are going through a pandemic.. the money is everything.  

    Everybody lost money during the shutdown. It was a one-year blip. Saying "our losses weren't as bad as they would have been had we not made this stupid and illogical realignment move" completely sidesteps the question of whether the moves were better for the schools or not. That it might-- might-- have had a temporary ancillary benefit is like defending chasing an inside straight because you hit it once.

  5. 8 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    One time when I was still actively drinking and was jonesing bad for whatever reason (Sunday morning or some other planning failure), I took a hydrocodone I had sitting around in an old bottle.  It didn't do the trick and made me kind of nauseous.  So I agree that it's not perfectly interchangeable.

    That said, I think there's a very high chance of "cross addiction" or switching addictions from one substance to another, or even other compulsive behaviors.  I don't believe marijuana is nearly as harmful as alcohol, and has less potential for addiction.  But I have seen drunks on the marijuana maintenance plan exhibit 100% of addict thinking and symptomology, without the hangovers and general purpose illness.  So I'm not going to screw around with any of it.

    When I had my wisdom teeth out in 2000 or 2001, I got two Vicodin prescriptions. One strong, one weak. I took two of the strong ones by mistake (yes, really) and turned so green my work friends at lunch were like "dude, take the rest of the day off, we'll give you a ride home). It was gross, nothing about it felt good. It seems impossible to me to imagine ever trying to get stoned on pills. 

    But prescription drug abuse is a tremendous problem in this country, and multiple addictions are a real thing, so I'm not telling anyone else what they should or shouldn't do. I am just personally not concerned with my prescribed medications, used properly.

  6. 12 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    I tend to believe opiates and alcohol are different enough for most drunks to use painkillers as prescribed w/o a lapse into booze. I got a script a few years ago for my wisdom teeth and I don't think I even finished it. Just my opinion...there might be studies out there proving me wrong in too many cases for doctors to take the risk.

    That is personally true for me. I wouldn't advise anyone else either way on it, but for me, it's apples to oranges. I don't mean "as long as I'm not drinking it doesn't count". I mean that in terms of why I take prescribed medications and how they affect my thinking, it's just not the same thing. 

    I would not smoke medically prescribed marijuana, FWIW. I was never a pot smoker but when I did smoke it in college, it was to get high. I've never gotten or tried to get high on prescription drugs. 

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  7. 4 hours ago, camel at sea said:

    COVID is probably going to get the CFP expansion done faster.  There's less reason for the AAC to push for growing into a "power" conference, via expansion, if they feel secure that they'll consistently have the G5 spot in an expanded playoff with status quo.  

    that's a reach when there's a much simpler, obvious reason

  8. 16 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

    The Boise thing never made sense the travel is terrible and it would wreck their other sports even just putting them in some western conference (and apparently none wanted them anyway)

    Boise MIGHT have gotten away with their football being stretched out like that, but no other team wanted that "action" with them especially knowing no other conference would want their Olympic sports

    Boise without 3 other teams would have been a long term disaster for them and there is a good chance the MWC would have taken the opportunity to say "pass eat shit see you in D1-AA like Idaho" if Boise had decided to try and come back

    The AAC needs to come to grips with the fact that they are either going to play an unbalanced schedule with 11 teams or they are going to add some other G5 school from the east coast

    yeah-- the Dodd tweet is weird in that it implies COVID had any fucking thing to do with the AAC doing the math and realizing "nah fuck this". 

  9. Although I'd take Jordan first, and I am not much of a Steph Curry fan, it seems like Curry is the most unguardable (least guardable?) player I've ever seen, only because his reasonable shooting range is out to forty fucking feet. 

    Just as a contrarian way of looking at a pretty routine question, you could take Curry and Durant and put them with some killer rebounders and maybe Scottie Pippen as your lockdown defender... well it would be interesting. 

  10. 2 hours ago, Goodman said:

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    is there anything douchier than that jersey framed on the wall? 

    I guess get it, it's not like he has any gold pants for beating Michigan or Big Ten championship rings. I'm sure they gave rings for just being in bowl games, which is lucky for him since he never played on a team that won a bowl game either.

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  11. 2 hours ago, South Austin said:

    At least a lack of smell and taste won’t affect his love of Eckrich sausage.

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    that might be the problem right there

    "Doc I was eating Eckrich sausage and it was bland and flavorless! I think teh COVID got me!"

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  12. 19 minutes ago, Eggo said:

    I make a joke about Herbstreit being able to tolerate a food known for being polarizing and also from Ohio (where he's from) and you decide to dig in.

    Offseason is too long. 

    well there's your first mistake, Debbie Downer there doesn't take kindly to jokes

  13. 1 minute ago, Lobo said:

    And these folks were just bagging on her.  Saying just awful things about a then 16/17-yo girl.  So I finally let loose and maybe my second or third post overall was "She's just a smart kid who is worried that her plane is sick and wants to help it.  But not as sick as you glops of human shit.  There is no helping you depraved fuckbags and it's no wonder this is what this cesspool site has become."

    stunning and brave

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  14. I don't really have any interest in the show without Arkin's character and the way they just abruptly killed him off was poorly handled.

    Kathleen Turner is on steroids? She looks like she's on jelly donuts.

  15. 16 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

    I haven't even gotten to the actual big book part yet.  The teaser in the prologue is that Ebby's visit went WAY different than what's in the Big Book, but Bill had to narrate it differently while keeping the spirit of what actually happened or the reader would have been confused or disinterested.

    Fascinating, can't wait to read about that. Ebby's visit is one of those parts of the Book I can read where I *know* I'm an alcoholic, because I can put myself in Bill's shoes re: that appeal of and perverse relief in knowing he'd secured his ability to drink round the clock during the dark, shorter days of early winter, that reassurance of thinking "I've got enough booze stashed here for a couple days!" Like he basically thought he was bulletproof regarding anything Ebby might say to him because he was drunk, drinking, and in possession of more to drink. 

    For me, at the end, that was the one positive thing I could still feel-- the excitement of being totally isolated and surrounded by booze. All the shame and guilt and fear and worry could not amount to enough to motivate me to quit, because of the way my brain lit up thinking about chasing that feeling of blissful drunkenness. I say "chasing" because there was nothing blissful about drinking at that point-- I was chasing something that had stopped happening years ago. Whatever initial rush of euphoria the first drink gave me dissipated within seconds and then it was "well maybe another drink will make me feel better" or "well I feel pretty sick, I better take another drink" or "maybe a few more drinks and I'll pass out" or there wasn't even any conscious thought, just autopilot. Lift, swallow, fight to keep it down, repeat. 

    I didn't have a 1x1 sitdown like Bill had with Ebby, but that was only because I wasn't ready to make sobriety my number one priority. I eventually did have tremendously meaningful 1x1 relationships with fellow alcoholics-- the one I'll never forget was with Andrew, this sweet natured guitar slayer counselor at my residential rehab. I told him something I'd never told anyone else, that initially (as like a 17-20 yr old) I wanted to be an alcoholic, because I thought it made me a dangerous cool bad boy and God knows I wasn't actually any of those things as a college freshman. I thought that was the most embarrassing thing I'd ever admitted, until his eyes got real wide and he said "DUDE me too!" and we ragged on our 18-yr old selves for thirty minutes. 

    I heard a song on the PA while grocery shopping at 630 this morning (yes, HEB was open). It was a big hit when I was a college junior, and I was overwhelmed by the sudden realization that there was no way looking back 27 years that I could have imagined sitting in my dorm room watching MTV where I would be on June 2, 2021. I might as well live on a moon colony, my reality is so divorced from anything my imagination could have conjured at that time. And I don't mean that in terms of "you became famous and wealthy" or anything that pedestrian. I just mean it's amazing how happy and joyous and free God has made me through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's basically, "imagine how happy you think you'd be starting at point guard for the Houston Rockets or fucking Cindy Crawford or opening for the Black Crowes.... now imagine being ten times that happy just living an ordinary life". 

    It's a program of miracles.

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  16. 3 hours ago, hpslugga said:

    Ok so that’s your version and probably the version a lot of fans shared at the time.

    Here’s mine:

    The year before, I attended my final Rocky Willingham kicking camp. Mangum was a camper there...not even an honorary counselor like every other NCAA kicker I’ve ever met at one of those. He was there to learn. He was there to improve.

    He worked his ass off. He got frustrated as hell too because his big issue was that he kept planting too close to the ball. For those that don’t know, doing that deprives you of power and it pushes shit off to the right if you’re a righty. But he kept at it, kept at it and kept at it. It got to the point where he was showing up early and was seen kicking with these pieces of tape marking his should-be plant spots. I’ve no doubt that he kept at it for the rest of that year and his senior year after that.

    Heres my point with that little anecdote: at that point in his career, he was never going to miss that kick. It didn’t even make a flying fuck that one of those Michigan guys got a hand on it. When he lined up to kick the ball, Texas was winning that fucking game.

    I wonder what percentage of fans would realize that much work goes into the relatively simple looking act of kicking a FG. 

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