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  1. 8 hours ago, bureaucrat said:

    It's best of 2025 list season for anything and everything, including bourbon. Sharing Breaking Bourbon's list for no other reason that it's a fun read and generates discussion. They listed the following:

    • Bulleit BIB
    • ER 17 year
    • Beam Lineage Batch 2
    • McLaughlin Distillery Cask Strength Baby Barrel 
    • Woodford Chocolate Whisper Redux 

    Of these I have only had Bulleit BIB and thought it was fine, so maybe I need to give it another go. I'm not familiar with McLaughlin and would assume they don't distribute to TX, but seems like from their website they ship here? I always find our laws confusing on this point. 

    Breaking Bourbon also publishes lists for best American Single Malt, Finished Whiskey, American Whiskey, and Rye. Curious if anyone has thoughts on those lists as well!

     

    Bulleitt BIB is nothing special. I’m pretty sure I still haven’t finished a bottle I opened months ago. 

  2. On 12/5/2025 at 5:55 PM, Billy Pilgrim said:

    I’d be interested to see what the age breakdown is of people who do and don’t like A Christmas story. I suspect us gen Xers can appreciate it because we had hard ass parents. I could see how the younger generations wouldn’t appreciate it. 

    Not necessarily a generational thing, but definitely a hard ass parent thing. I graduated from UT in 2009, and my dad is the Old Man. 

  3. A guy on another message board admitting to spending $22k in 9 months at the Midtown Spec’s. He’s had some nice Vault pulls, but he’s not exactly blowing me out of the water and I’ve spent a small fraction of that. There’s some bottles like Heaven Hill 19 or OF Presidential that know I’m never going to get and that’s just fine. 

  4. 4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    A jury on Wednesday found a Houston man guilty of killing a lawyer during a 2024 shooting at a McDonald's restaurant. 

    Jurors took 20 minutes to reach their verdict in the murder case against Anthony Landry, who was accused of killing Jeffrey Limmer, a 46-year-old lawyer who intervened in Landry's dispute with fast food workers over a botched double Filet-O-Fish order.

    Landry shouted profanities at workers over a missing patty, witnesses said, prompting Limmer to ask him to leave.

    The first rule of Houston McDonald’s is never leave your car. 

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  5. Gilligan was inspired by 2 things. The rise of AI and Covid.

    AI is obviously the virus.The ensuing disaster is Covid.

    Some people like AI. Some people liked staying home during Covid. Let’s call them an analogue for the Others, people like Laxmi that want to join the hive mind, and Others sympathizers like Diabate. 
     

    Vince is asking what it means to be human. If we let AI do everything for us, are we still human? If Carol asked the Others (AI) to bury Helen while she drank iced tea and chatted with Zosia (ChatGPT) on the back porch, is she really mourning Helen? 
     

    She did it herself with immense pain and exertion. She bled, sweated, and cried over Helen’s grave. She suffered. She mourned. She achieved emotional closure. 

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  6. 6 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    Interesting, is the overhyped of Buffalo Trace stuff dying off? Haven't bought a bottle of bourbon in probably going on 3 years so have no idea where the market is right now. 

    MSRP on Eagle Rare and ETL essentially doubled. Blanton’s is a cool $90-95 now.

    I still think ER is a good buy at $50, but I won’t buy another bottle of Blanton’s or ETL unless I’m forced to in a bundle situation. Weller 12 and Antique have been $50 for several years. 

    They priced ER12 well. I believe it’s the same price as ER10. The new cask strength Sazerac rye is supposed to be under $50. BT is kind of a mixed bag on MSRP. 

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  7. Random thoughts:

    - I remain convinced Gilligan doesn’t want to do a big VFX show with hundreds of extras in alien makeup. I think there will be a build up for an invasion and they’ll converse with Carol, but little green men aren’t coming.

    - Something stuck with me after the poker scene. The others clean up broken glass with their bare hands. No brooms or dust pans or hell gloves. This could demonstrate the aliens don’t give a shit if the others injure themselves in their service. They’re worker bees. 
     

    - Maybe the virus didn’t kill anyone because the aliens need worker bees? What if their biology prevents them from doing some tasks on Earth? What if they don’t like dirty jobs? 
     

    - Again everything is deliberate with Gilligan. He went out of his way in the previous episode to say they can gather and eat fallen fruit. There’s probably enough healthy orchids on Earth to keep a small number of humans alive. 

  8. The Bama-OU game going to be a dogshit fight. They just played and it was probably the worst 60 minutes of football I’ve witnessed this season. I think OU wins and then gets drubbed by IU. Probably the worst offensive 11 win team in recent memory. 
     

    Tulane - Ole Miss and JMU - Oregon should both be better games. At least your eyes won’t bleed during it. 
     

    aggy probably needs Beck to go full regard to beat Miami. I fully expect him to go full regard in a big game. fOSU should handle them pretty easily. I’d bet the over on The Blanket to pick up 5 DPI’s in that game. I’m glad we’re back to beating aggy’s ass instead of the common opponent argument bullshit we had to do for 10+ years.

    Oregon should wax Tech, but holding Indiana in reserve to knock them out makes me feel pretty good about it. 

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  9. It feels like McCarthy rolled in on Monday and provided the writers with clear prohibitions on fat jokes or jokes about her body. The problem is, that’s her entire schtick and the show suffered for it.

  10. 29 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    the sec and b1g will not do so

    they are the entities that own the contracts with disney and fox, and those contracts are structured with the existence of those marquee helmet-helmet matchups

    my feeling is this is why cdc called off the dogs midweek

    sark's campaign was potent and therefore concerning to disney

    Why would CDC tell Sark to shut up? I think they knew they weren’t close by Tuesday and they didn’t see the point in continuing. 
     

    Meanwhile, that Cristobal fuck went on a podcast barn burning tour and it was obviously effective. 
     

    I think Notre Dame calls in every marker they have, and we go to 16 by next season. 

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  11. 5 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

    theories on the others' endgame in all this? 

    Reddit is your friend. It’s Gilligan, so he might not be interested in a first encounter type show. He’s asking a lot of questions about what it means to be a human and how different parts of the world view individual freedom. There’s precedent of humans never making contact with their alien overlords. 
     

    Spoiler

    Much of Three Body Problem is a 400 year build up to the aliens coming to conquer Earth. But the only contact humans ever make with the aliens is a frozen brain in a probe.

    I think the Others aim is to make humans so docile before their arrival that they couldn’t possibly defend themselves from an invasion. Additionally, they prohibit farming so all humans will eventually starve to death. An empty Earth is my guess at their endgame. 

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