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SwanderedTalent

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  1. It will be really interesting to see how this plays out in terms of fan interest. It should-- should-- be much harder to walk away from college football than it was the NBA and NFL, but it doesn't feel like it will be. I feel like we're in the middle of a baseball game and suddenly the outfield and infield are arguing about whether third base is racist. I find one half of the argument stupid and frankly offensive but I'm not interested in joining in the yelling. So as long as the exits are open, OK, fine.
  2. oh, don't be silly!!!! our money's not racist I mean depending on what we do with it, I guess
  3. I would not have called that play where we threw the interception, I would have called a different play where our receivers would have run into open areas and the QB would have thrown one of them the ball
  4. what 28,000 posts about politics on a Texas football/beer/tits message board say is that the person making them is fucking delusional
  5. But what is the end game here? A&M is racist because they're A&M, no black players should go there. UT is racist because a lot of our fans don't want to abandon the "Eyes of Texas", no black players should come here. Every program in the South (so all of the SEC and most of the ACC) is racist because the South is 100% full of racist white Trump voters, no black players should go there. None of the programs on the East or West Coast care about football. I guess it's going to be Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Penn State in the playoff every year from now on? Or maybe I'm wrong about the West Coast and we can just go back to the Rose Bowl being the only thing that really matters in CFB's post-season.
  6. Texas was a slave state, adopted the Texas flag before abolition, and flew it during its years in the Confederacy. How can these kids possibly be expected to play football if we continue to unfurl a gigantic State Flag of Texas before each game? Or fly it in the stadium at all?
  7. That's fair, or charitable. I would find your evolution on using the word "retarded" a little less genuine if you had a huge financial stake in recruiting two dozen retards a year and it became clear that calling them "retarded" would negatively impact your ability to do so.
  8. and I should point out, at the most base level, my anger is basically "not getting what I want". And that's why the alcoholic part of my brain thinks drinking is such a fine solution to anger, because for me, drinking is the repeated process of "what I want is a drink / I have a drink in my hand / I just drank it / I got what I wanted!!!! / now what I want is another drink". In that scenario, I'm estranged from my wife and daughter and locked in a dark hotel room with the curtains closed and bombed on Skol vodka at 11 in the morning. But I'm "getting what I want" so there's no anger and that is a huge relief to my brain.
  9. I'm in a similar situation at the moment-- it's not that I want a drink per se. I don't have any illusions about it being fun, and I can't get oblivious enough to not realize what a horrible mistake I'm making so there's no relief there either. But between COVID, the race riots, and being laid off from a tech job, my stress level is as high as it's been since I got out of rehab in June of 2018. I don't sit around thinking "man a drink would sure help" or "I wish I could get drunk", but I'm in this perpetual stress state where little things like my three-year-old not doing what she's told just push me into this stratospheric level of anger and frustration and the thought of a drink pops into my head. Mix in what TexArcher was talking about, and I feel pretty combustible right now. And I'm with you, more than anything else, it's fear keeping me in line: the fear of returning unmanageability, the fear of how hard it would be to sober up again, etc. But, I really do not think any of this, or even all of it simultaneously, would feel as insurmountable as it feels right now IF I were working the program. But thanks to the COVID shutdowns, my options there are Zoom meetings and phone calls, both of which I fucking hate. I don't hate 'em more than relapse, but goddamnit if I have to listen the audio pixelization of Zoom trying to manage thirty people mumbling the Serenity Prayer one more time, I'm going to go nuts. There's just a lot of anger right now. I am having to learn, painfully, how to live in anger and move past it without trying to drink it away. Agreed. To me, relapse over time went from flipping a light switch on or off, to there being an entire house's worth of breakers that have to be flipped. Right now, really being outside the program, I'm barely setting them back before something trips them again. I'm not close to relapsing, but I'm much closer than I've been at any point since June of 2018, because I'm angry.
  10. reasons for arguing about Irish-Americans self-identifying? your response to me saying "Irish self identification is an asinine sidebar" is "DERP here's an article on it"....?
  11. he seems like an opportunist and a panderer. he always has.
  12. what the fuck are you talking about? I tried to show you how pointless the argument about "NUH UH, IRISH PEOPLE DO SO SAY THEY'RE IRISH" was. Not the example itself, literally the idea that you and Apex are going to do anything but go back and forth on it with "I know a guy" stories. rabbit hole, dude
  13. Do this: stop for a second and ask yourself if you really think this argument you're having right now-- "how frequently Irish-Americans identify as such"-- on a Texas football board in a thread about whether or not a decades-old fight song is just too racist for black kids to have to sing-- is something that's going actually get settled, and whether it matter if it does.
  14. there are a looooooot of white coaches and players saying what they think they are supposed to say right now I don't personally think Tom Herman believes much of what he's saying. To him, it's no different than when he gets asked about playing A&M. There's a right way to answer, a wrong way, and his personal opinion, and whether his personal opinion lines up with the Correct Answer or not, the Correct Answer is what comes out.
  15. The rate of "fatherlessness" in the black community skyrocketed from the mid-1960s on. I guess we must have started singing the hell out of The Eyes of Texas at that point.
  16. Stipulated. Two things we don't all agree on: 1) What constitutes racism / what is or isn't racist 2) Who gets to define and decide #1 The white population in this country is pretty split on both and the split gets nastier all the time.
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