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MotownHorn

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  1. I assume he told them they're welcome on the team but don't expect minute guarantees.

    I have no idea how much control he has over the NIL folks, and how much they have over him, when it comes to assembling the roster

  2. 9 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    I thought that's the way it was going to be for the rest of my life for UT sports. Particularly football, men's basketball, and baseball. 

    Narrator: It wasn't. 

    Yep. I started my PhD in fall 2005. Attended every football game, and most basketball games, through spring 2012.

    Up until Colts injury in the natty I thought we just won all the time forever and ever. Then the next decade happened.

     

  3. If you read someone of Derka's posts in this thread he literally says "Motown Horn would say nice things to me, but he didn't mean them!"

    How the fuck would he know if I meant it or not? He doesn't know me. I definitely meant it. I wish the guy no ill will and I'm sincerely worried about him now.

    Again he got it in his head that I was his big enemy despite the fact that I tried to ignore him, be nice to him, and deescalate things with him.

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  4. You can also look at posts 2073 and 2076 in the fire RT thread

    I add a disclaimer to post 2073 so Derka didn't feel like I was attacking him personally. Post 2076 is a long rant calling my opinion "stupid" and a "joke." I did not reply to Derka's rude response to my post because I did not want to upset him. I did that dozens of times in the last few months. He'd attack me directly, I'd ignore it.

    I swear to God I was trying to deescalate any conflict with the guy. I tried to post supportive messages to him etc.

    I can't control that Derka got it in his head that I was his big enemy and he was really gonna get me good by working with blacklabs to get me permabanned.

    I wish I understood earlier that I could put him on ignore and still see the threads he started. That may have avoided the whole thing. 

    It's all very silly and stupid. Again, I apologize to Derka, the mods, and the boards for my role in this matter. 

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  5. I agree with everything posted above except for calling me a "bully." I went out of my way to NOT bully the guy. 

    Also blacklabs never told me all that stuff Derka says he told me. He would just suspend me out of nowhere with a nasty message I couldn't even respond to. No one ever said anything to me about an IP ban or anything else.

    Every time blacklabs would say something to me like "Derka doesn't like you using the phrase tourney dynamo to mock Chris Beard" I would say "ok I will not use that phrase if that bothers him. Even though that's ridiculous." I did my best to NOT torment or bully him.

    In the last 6 to 12 months there's been tons of posters who have been a lot ruder to Derka than I was. For whatever reason he got it in his head that I was his big enemy and focused on me.

    This apparent deal he had with blacklabs to try to get me banned did not serve him well IMO. It just made him fixate on me and make up this big battle in his head where he was going to emerge as King of the Message Board.

    I think blacklabs had Derka's best interest at heart, and was trying to help, but turning it into a game to get me banned was not helpful. It fed into his problem instead of helping solve it.

    I truly feel bad he's banned and I hope he is well. I'm not his enemy or bully. I'm just a guy who had a different opinion than him.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Bevo said:

    Yeah, I made that mistake 5 years ago or so. I don't know what the right answer is, but maybe some people will chime in. I went to Fredericksburg with my wife and son right after getting my car inspected. I have allergies from wine so I didn't do any wine tasting. I had one cider with diner. Maybe a half hour after a long early diner (so an hour and a half after the cider), we left town at dusk and I didn't notice my light weren't on. The inspector had turned the light switch from automatic. Anyway, I was stopped maybe 10mi from town for driving with my lights off. It was a new, really short policeman who was shaking speaking with me and asked if I had any drinks. I told him I had one cider with diner. He then proceeded to do a sobriety test. It was dark by that time, so as he was pointing the light in my eyes, bugs were flying up my nose, etc. He had me stand with my feet together at the side of the road, which was at probably a 25% angle - try doing that without taking a step forward. I didn't step forward but I bet 95% of the population would. Shit I could have beat the guy senseless in basketball, but obviously that wasn't part of his fucking test. Anyway, he let me go after a long lecture. Knowing that I was sober, should I have just asked him for a breathalyzer? Should I have let him take me to jail, for one fucking cider? Or should I have done what I did and hopefully pass the fucking subjective test that he was obviously trying to get me to fail?

    The usual advice is to say something like “I’m not going to discuss my day.” You can also just say “no.” You’re not under oath.

  7. On 4/8/2024 at 11:46 AM, immamac said:

    I would suppose around 40-50%. There’s a lot of poor drunks out there. 

    I once had to go to traffic court because I forgot to pay the ticket before the appearance date 

    The DUIs were sad. It was all poor people on their 3rd or 4th DUI driving without licenses and blowing like 0.15 or higher 

    Obviously driving drunk is dangerous and unacceptable. But I had some sympathy for these folks because they clearly had serious alcohol problems and few resources to attempt to solve them and get sober 

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