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  1. 1 hour ago, capnamerca said:

    And Robison and Derrick Johnson.

     

    '06 Texas if Vince had stayed would have been the best team in the history of college football, right? I can't even comprehend the destruction we would have wrought.

    We would have fucked for sure. Probably would have been more dynamic on offense but taken a step back on the OLine. Secondary and DLine was elite. Probably end up being just as good as '05 with the potential to be better, but you never know. We would have almost assuredly run the table up until the MNC - and been favored against Florida.

    I honestly forget how close we were to going back to the MNC game in '06 without Vince. Close losses to atm and Kst fucked up an otherwise pretty damn good season with rs freshman Colt. But I guess it's becoming easier to forget that we were relevant in the national title race every year for almost an entire decade. 2000 and 2007 were the only years where we had fallen out of the top 10 come nut cutting time. 

  2. 24 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    I don't know if this is the right thread for it, but there's so much of this happening lately that I guess it could go anywhere. Man, the trivialization of brandishing firearms, pointing them indiscrimately, using them as intimidation tools, etc. is just terrifying. I don't recall this phenomenon or anything like it in my lifetime. This may be political and if so, so be it, ban me or whatever; but I don't think anyone will really disagree or take offense. The "side" that traditionally has been anti-gun seems to be taking up arms more and more. And I think that's making the traditional pro-gun side even more entrenched and on edge, because normally they were the ones with guns. And now both sides are starting to get into this bunker warfare mentality. Figuratively, for now. There are a lot of folks on every side that have no business owning firearms let alone walking around with them in public. And they're out in public, normalizing it and emboldening the morons from all walks of life and political belief sets.

    This is just a bad situation all around. I'm not saying that there's going to be some sort of civil war or anything like that. But it feels like we're headed to society where a lot more people are openly armed, and it turns into a 'situation where people in conflict are going to be looking to be the first one to obtain legal cover to fire (threatened), because they're going to feel like if they don't, the other guy will. Everyone is going to be armed and on edge for threats. I think you saw that with what happened in Austin. Protesters on edge, swarm the car. Guy in the car on edge, shoots AK47 guy. Bad times.

    This seems like a bit of a death spiral to me. No idea what the answer is. 

    It's actual insanity. I already posted upthread about the ridiculous political oxymorons we're seeing so I won't just copy paste something I already said, but I will expound on it.

    I'm not a gun nut, I've never owned a gun, and I don't really see the immediate need for most Americans to own guns, but I would die to protect the 2nd amendment and if any of you were sitting across from me I would have no problem telling you that with a straight face. The fact that BOTH the far right and far left are now making a mockery of gun ownership and giving legislators tangible ammunition (no pun intended) to keep chipping away at gun rights is just... bizarre. And it concerns me. I'm not trying to get any more political so I'll leave it at that. It's bizarre. And it's concerning.

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  3. 2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Not everything life has good guys and bad guys. Not everything fits the fucking narrative.

    God damnit.

    A man died and a suffering woman lost her husband for nothing. No one learned shit. No one won. EVERYONE FUCKING LOST

    And someone took a life. That shit will fuck you up whether he gets convicted of anything or not (or whether he should have fired or not).

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  4. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yep.

    Here's an interesting contrast for us to think about.  Remember back in the early days of the George Floyd protests, and there were hysterical posts/warnings about "stacks of bricks" and things like that being staged, with the implication/conclusion being that they were WEAPONS, to be used by agitators up to no good?

    Again, we saw a huge freakout because WEAPONS (bricks) were being staged in protest areas.  That's what the entire freakout was about -- "look at these weapons, staged for use."

    But when WEAPONS (guns) are being openly carried by protesters all around -- BLM protests, "reopen America" protests -- well, that's GOOD.   The right to keep and bear arms and all that.  Nevermind that "arms" doesn't = guns, and only guns.  "Arms" just means "weapons."  So, we might as well see protesters marching around with buckets full of bricks -- those are arms, what's the big deal?

    We have a problem with how casual we are about people showing up at supposedly peaceful protests with weapons -- either intended to actually foment and cause violence and damage, or displayed in a way to intimidate and escalate confrontations that might occur.  Again, when you show up with a weapon in view, the chances of weapons being used goes up dramatically.  And as a member of the public, it detracts like hell from your message.  I felt that way at the "reopen" protests where the mob with guns swarmed the statehouse, I feel that way seeing BLM protesters marching around with guns.  It doesn't invite a conversation in any way -- it merely presents the binary choice of confrontation/no confrontation, and the day is a success if nobody gets shot.

    We're not a smart people.

    Yep. You know our country is fucked when Portland-solidarity and BLM protesters are defending a straight white male's right to brandish an assault rifle in a crowded public space.

  5. 21 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    I guarantee you one could find 400 million Chinamen (because they killed all their Chinawomen) that speak better English than this country.

    Yeah I pretty confidently guarantee that you couldn't. I'm less than a year removed from going to grad school with a lot of them, and those students are probably towards the top in terms of English "fluency". I went to undergrad with plenty more.

    Most of their English is about as good as my Spanish, and I sure as shit wouldn't consider myself fluent in Spanish (although I was fairly close at one point).

  6. Saturday night as a burning desire an old timer with 13 years shared that he had received a call from his ex wife earlier that morning. His 26 year old son was dead. Drank himself into liver failure and kept drinking.

    There weren't any tears in his eyes. He said he had already come to peace with it and knew it was coming. 

    It was a somber reminder that you can't get sober for anyone else, but you don't have to drink and you can always get your ass to a meeting. 

    AA and 12 step isn't for everyone and I would never preach that it is. Anything that can get you clean and keep you that way is something worth holding on to. But the courage that alcohol and drugs gave me pales in comparison to the strength and courage that I've seen in those rooms. I used to think it wasn't for me, but it's one of only two things in my life that makes more sense than anything else (the other is music) and I know that it will help me make sense of everything else. There's always someone with more time than you that has seen worse shit and come out sober despite it.

    So as I sit here unemployed without a clue of what my future holds, still largely restless, irritable, and discontent, drinking coffee and smoking Marlboro lights, I am absolutely certain of two things:

    1. I don't have to drink today, and 2. I will be at a meeting later.

     

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  7. 53 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    It is interesting that Korean League, Japanese League, and the NBA can all make it through a weekend while MLB can not. NFL and college should be watching and taking notes as to what is working.

    Adam Silver for president.

    I wish I was kidding.

  8. 23 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    We've got rampant speculation without facts, politicization of everything, giant walls of text of posters arguing with each other over semantics, thinly-veiled racism, posters who can't contain their glee over a man dying, and "I know more about guns than you" dick measuring contests. 

    I know right? It's awesome. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, Halohal said:

    Saw the fund me page... Doesn't a portion of funds raised go to the website owner's? At last glance... And why disable new donations?

     

    Official Garrett Foster Memorial Fund

    $108,534 raised

     
    Share
    The organizer has currently disabled new donations to this fundraiser.

    I just threw up in my mouth 

  10. 1 minute ago, Xian said:

    Yeah.  That would be a ducking disaster.  Why does it even exist?? 

    It's like a semi-protected left (or right, depending on where you drive). Seems overly complicated and like it would cause more problems than it solves unless everyone was stringently on board.

    So, I'm guessing the British came up with it.

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  11. 3 minutes ago, Somnio said:

    Not delusional.  They know exactly what they are doing.

    Yeah I wish I could beleive that. This guy just seems actually that stupid. Asking strangers to donate for... what exactly? I mean I'm all for his friends and family helping out his fiance but he kind of dug his grave here. 

    Then again, people that ask for donations undeservedly and GoFundMe in general piss me off so maybe I'm just being an asshole.

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