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Asithappens

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  1. Pro-Palestinian? 

    You mean support for the group that cheered in the streets after the 9/11 attack? 

    Support for the group that was chanting death to America (iirc up in Michigan)? 

    I can see not liking what Israel has done (I don't), but don't kid yourselves. Palestinians would kill lbgtq's (and jews) in a heartbeat if they had their way. Talk about stupid fucking progressive kids. This knee-jerk response to support the underdog needs to be examined. 

    But the handling of the campus protests was heavy-handed. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Longboard Horn said:

    My God jackson has such a punchable face..

    Yeah, Jackson and the wife are basically white trash. Harsh, but true. But the KC crowd is riding the Mahomes wave so they don't want to upset that boat. 

    They seem to have stayed out of the news better this year than last year.

    Good thing Taylor has been around to soak up the media attention.

  3. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I assume, then, that Kaplan permitted Mr. Bob Dobalina to withdraw from the case? 

    After seeing this guys name I couldn't help but think of Bob Loblaw. 

  4. 3 hours ago, MirrOlure said:


    Doubling down…they KNEW Georgia was gonna skullfuck them and that they had ZERO chance of winning, so they all “opted out” to manufacture the excuse.

    Yep. Losers, whiners, and pouters always have a reason for why they are losers, pouters, and whiners.

     

    Just look at aggy.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, BigHornedLurker said:

    Evey aspect of the last 10 years has been both predictably aggy , and unfathomably stupid , at every turn .

    They have invented new levels of aggy that broke most of our understanding of how aggy they are repeatedly .

    It's almost like they are unified at searching the internet for shit so dumb that everyone agrees 'that would be regarded , no way they'd do that next' and they respond with 'hold my collective beer' 

    I have no idea what stupid aggy shit happens next , but I eagerly await 

    So do I.

    aggy has always been a fruitful fount of the almost perfect combination of insecurity, ignorance, arrogance, and cult-like behavior. The Dunning-Kruger effect made flesh.

    To me, the pinnacle of this is "the only problem with signing Jimbo to a 10-year guaranteed contract is that we couldn't sign him to a 15-year guaranteed contract." 

    aggy laps that shit up with a ladle. They are like the cults whose leader predicts the end of the world on a specific date/time, and when that doesn't happen the excuses and next set of predictions are trotted out, only to believed just as fervently as the past claims. Jimbo? Yes! What, no! Elko! Yes!

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  6. On 11/30/2023 at 11:47 AM, blutow said:

    With the exception of the Pirate back in the day, I think I'd have to rank Gundy as my favorite Big 12 coaching personality.  And he's a solid coach.  That said, fuck him this weekend.   

     

    Agree. He is what he is and some of it is ok. Loyal, looks good in a mullet, a really good coach (especially for Okla State). 

    He's above average at a place that's pretty much below average in everything.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

     

    So he has childhood trauma and he takes it out on The University of Texas instead of going to see a therapist? As if UT forced his parents to divorce? 

    Confused Katy Perry GIF by Top Talent

    Exactly what I was thinking. 

    That guy needs therapy. Lots and lots of therapy. He's sick and using Texas as his foil. I can see this guy renting a U-Haul and purchasing a lot of fertilizer in the future.

  8. 46 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    He may end up being a good head coach. He is definitely a good defensive coordinator but has seemed a little overwhelmed as a head coach, and that was at a place with zero pressure on the head coach. 

    Yeah, I think he will (or probably will) be good. Not great. But there are a lot of factors involved. Mainly, aggy incompetence.

  9. 1 hour ago, Viper said:

    Why would we want a wr that quits on his team and spent the last 2 years learning the behavior of the a&m locker room? 

    Agree.

    Part of that Athletic piece on why Jimbo was such a failure (which in all honesty could've been a War and Peace length novel) was that Jimbo just wanted 5-stars and ignored character. 

    Could Texas use Stewart? Sure. Do they need him? Don't know. Would Stewart be a positive addition to the locker room? Maybe, maybe not. 

    Personally, I say fuck him. 

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  10. - This has been alluded to, but London is expensive af right now, even with the strong(ish) dollar.  As an example, a run of the mill sit-down restaurant family meal (including a beer or mixed drink for each parent) that would be $75-80 in the states often ran $125-130 in London.  

     

    Things may have changed a bit, but I found London to be very affordable. Of course, you can spend as much as you want when dining, but we went to a very good Turkish restaurant, Efes (1 Whitechapel Road) and the total bill for four of us was 82 pounds. And no tipping!  We had/shared two appetizers, a Greek salad, and a two kabob plates (one plate was more than enough for two people). We did not have any drinks, however. We raved to the waiter and he threw in a free dessert! The curry places on Brick Lane had entrees for around 12-15 pounds. You can't begin to eat at Pappasito's for that. And when you're out walking around, you can hit up a Pret a Manger and buy a sandwich for less than 5 pounds, or go to a Greg's (we went to one in the Westminster tube station) and get a Steak Bake for less than 3 pounds or a sausage roll for around 2 pounds. 

  11. Just returned from a week in London. What a world-class city! 

    We stayed in an aparthotel in the Whitechapel area: The Gate Hotel. 

    It's a great location for catching the subway (Tube) and within walking distance of Brick Lane (London's curry district) and Tower Bridge if you're so inclined. Get a little Tube map and hit the Aldgate East station and the city is basically your oyster. And speaking of oyster, you don't need to get an Oyster card. Just use your credit/debit card and tap in and tap out. As easy as falling off a log. 

    Some people are the museum types, but I don't know how anyone can go to London and not see the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles (Parthenon statues now) in the British Museum. Free entry, spend an hour or so and Bob's your uncle. The National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery are also pretty good. We had the great fortune of having a friend who's a local and he helped guide us around. 

    Here's my take on some of the places, of course, ymmv:

    British Museum: worth it.

    Notting Hill: NOT worth it.

    Trafalgar Square and environs (around the Embankment Tube station): totally worth it.

    Brick Lane (street near our hotel) and the weekend market (mostly food stalls): worth it at least once.

    Borough Market: mind-blowing but you can't eat at every food stall and you probably don't need to do your weekly grocery shopping there, but worth it.

    Jack the Ripper tour, Westminster tour (both with guides) TOTALLY worth it.

    Bus tour to  Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, and Bath: eh, it's ok, but the downside is you get to Bath and have an 75 minutes to see things. It's a trade-off imo, quantity over quality. I liked Windsor Castle, Stonehenge was meh, and Bath was a notch or two above meh. 

    Westminster Abbey: good, but not great imo. It was kinda dark that day and there's room after room (or alcove after alcove) of what I guess were famous people I've never heard of with a bunch of stuff written in Latin about them. That stuff gets old fast, imo. Also, the audio guide was not good. But I did like the Scientists "corner" (Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Paul Dirac, dudes like that, and the Poets' Corner. But even so, it's essentially a bunch of names on the floor. Worth seeing but don't put it on the top of your list, imo. 

    Hampton Court Palace: Henry VIII's place. We had a tour guide and it was fantastic. TOTALLY worth it. Better than Windsor Castle and Westminster Abbey. Plus, there's a nice little pub nearby, The Mute Swan, that has good beer and good food. Speaking of pubs, we went to the Blind Beggar (favorite haunt of the Kray brothers - look them up if you haven't heard of them, catch a movie about them, NOT the Tom Hardy one but the 1990 movie "The Krays") on Friday night and it was basically a so-so college bar with a bunch of drunk 20-year olds. NOT how an American would envision an English pub. Same goes for the White Hart on Whitechapel High Street. Other than a sign that reads 1729 (iirc) it was just another hangout for slightly older drunks. However, the Churchill Arms in Notting Hill was good. 

    Now, don't laugh too much, but we caught the ABBA Voyage show in the ABBA arena (specially built for the show) on Pudding Mill Lane, and it was incredible. Just incredible. Basically holograms of ABBA (but with a live band).  TOTALLY worth it even if you're not a big ABBA fan. Depending on your views of hallucinogens you might want to imbibe a bit before the show. But seriously, I would consider the ABBA show a must see. 

    We walked about 8 miles a day and took the tube basically everywhere. 

    Go, spend a week in a central location, and enjoy yourself. Cheerio mate!

  12. 7 minutes ago, Orale said:
    15 minutes ago, Asithappens said:
    Heading across the pond soon. 
    What the Surly recommendation for English pounds? Get over there? Don't get any - use a card?

    Don't get any. Using your credit/debit cards gets you the best daily rate.

    Thanks, man. That was the answer I was hoping for. 

  13. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    How did you come away with that interpretation of his post?

    How can you not?

     

    Their intelligence wasn't good enough to stop the initial attacks and things have been pure chaos ever since. I don't see any reason to think they have a good idea where Hamas militants currently are. They're reducing whole neighborhoods to rubble and they've bombed the crossing into Egypt, where tons of Palestinian civilians had fled to hoping to get out. 

  14. 2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    We know Hamas uses people as human shields, but some of y'all have what I think is an incorrect assumption that Israel's strikes are all targeted at Hamas targets. Their intelligence wasn't good enough to stop the initial attacks and things have been pure chaos ever since. I don't see any reason to think they have a good idea where Hamas militants currently are. They're reducing whole neighborhoods to rubble and they've bombed the crossing into Egypt, where tons of Palestinian civilians had fled to hoping to get out. 

    There's no way to completely avoid civilian casualties in war and I wouldn't expect Israel to do so, but I think it's reasonable to expect them to not commit war crimes. All that's asking them to do is adhere to their own training. 

     What?

    So because Israel doesn't have perfect or infallible intel they should what? Stop all bombings? 

    Bullshit.

  15. Extremists (and they usually seem to be religiously motivated - not just Muslim) don't care about how many lives they take in pursuit of their holy war. We've seen this time and time again. 

    Imo Israel, being in the middle of a war/terrorist attack from Hamas, is under no obligation at this time (maybe later) to show "mercy". Israel is at war. They are fighting an enemy that calls for the destruction of Israel. They don't have the luxury of mercy.

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