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BearSchlong

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  1. not sure if it was on FB but my wife just texted me this
  2. My current gig started with a recoverable draw with a 1 year payback clause. Gotta admit it was in the back of my mind that first year but after that I forgot all about it.
  3. Just had a phone call with him, I sent him a screenshot of what I've seen reported. He laughed, called it fake news, admitted that they are busy but told me to stand down until he gives me actual facts.
  4. Shit just got real for me, so Defcon 1 at my house. https://www.wral.com/fort-bragg-families-brace-for-deployment-amid-ukraine-russia-tension/20097455/ My son is an officer in the 3rd brigade.
  5. Really? I mean you're right, I'm just really surprised you think so.
  6. Holy Moly. A man can get into serious trouble in that neighborhood.
  7. Ive got strong feelings about this. My daughter is finishing her last semester at Mizzou, she has worked in bars her whole 4 years there, mainly to cover food and partying as I had tuition and housing covered. Her whole sorority worked there (Kappa) so it was also a place for them to bond and politic with other houses and frats. When her mother found out she was going to be working at campus bar and grill (formerly and colloquially known as Big12) she was mortified and ashamed, how dare her daughter go from being Miss Tennessee to working in a bar like some. . .barfly! I told her I was over the moon extatic, because it was going to give her the best education about human nature in quick order. She's graduating from the honors program in the J school Magna Cum Laude in May, and will be highly sought after in strategic communications circles like creative agencies, but her real education is knowing how to connect with people and stay away from train wrecks. A new place she works at had whole fraternities come in for brunch and drink specials and under tip while staying all day watching football. 2 weekends ago when they arrived she met them on the sidewalk outside and told them to scram, that they were costing her and the staff money and weren't welcome anymore unless they started acting like adults and tipped 25% and everybody had to order an entre. She really bitched them up and down and her fellow waitresses actually clapped for her at closing. They formally apologized for their shitty behavior, begged to be allowed their usual corner of the place, and tipped her $400 and have subsequently been better about tips. They've thanked her for being assertive. She's told them they're lucky that they didn't get blacklisted all over Greek town as cheapskates and fucktards. Because her current bar is more adult oriented she's gotten to know loyal clientele in Mizzou administration, the football head coaching staff, and even SEC commissioners and executives. Shes interning with Fox Sports this year and mixes that work into conversations with AD staff and picks their brains about sports. When I toast her on graduation night I'm going to thank Mizzou Journalism for the cutting edge strat comm education and thank Big12/The Quarry for helping her spot trouble and for giving her a finely tuned bullshit detector. I've taken calls from her about how to deal with coworkers strung out on blow, ODing on Xanax, projectile vomiting drunks, all kinds of unsavory situations, and I'm happy as hell she learned a lot of street psychology and human behavior. Her rationale is "My dad is a clean and sober drunk, he's seen this before and will give no shit judgment free realistic advice." She had an internship at HLK in St Louis last summer and was working with a creative team on a F100 company campaign (Kitchmaid? Bayer?) and when she saw the client wasn't being forthright she called her out on it, telling her "maybe you shouldn't waste your money on this engagement if you're not going to share accurate datasets which will maximize our work product" and the firm associate, whole account team, even the managing partner were shocked that she would challenge a client so directly. The client agreed with her and shared the data and complimented her for her directness. She could had easily been fired instead but told her team that the corporate world is nothing compared to managing a bar. Other academically strong kids that has never had real world interactions were resigning from the internship, saying they couldn't take the pressure. My mother is a wannabe stepford wife who always tells my daughter that she is too brash and outspoken and needs to temper her personality. I tell her no, don't change a thing, the world doesn't remember wallflowers, you get in there and make noise and ignore your grandmother, who spent most of her life in risk avoidance and fear. Tl;dr service industry work gave my daughter big dick energy, shes going places.
  8. Don't be an apologist for a bald faced liar. That's the issue, IDGAF about his politics.
  9. Honest answer, he's not Brett Favre. When Brett had controversy and a messy personal life he didn't react by getting self righteous and morally superior. He just said "I showed poor judgment in sending female sports correspondents photos of my cock" and moved on. We knew Brett was flawed and a naughty boy and it was seen as human weakness and endearing. He would have been "me too'd" if he was currently playing, but he was always just a redneck from southern Mississippi. Brett would call a presser and apologize. Rodgers whines that he's being picked on and only admitted a lie due to intense pressure from the league and the media.
  10. It'd be so fucking awesome if he ends up in Houston or Dallas. Just cut Dak and erect the circus tent.
  11. Now California teams are 3-12 in playoff games at Lambeau. And they nailed the average score by those teams, 13 points. Was enough tonight. Fuck Aaron Rodgers.
  12. Thats so fucking awesome. Lying Rodgers loses.
  13. A guy who knows how to fucking win. Something the Texas NFL teams will never have. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk
  14. Drove over to Lake Charles and took wife's cousin to a meeting last night, it was really good. Great to see new faces and hear new stories and meet new old timers. I'm committing to do that about once a week. 11 years today. Tonight my Dad's going to give me his own corresponding year chip just like he does every year. Pre-drilled with a hole to fit on my key ring, as always. Just had lunch at Luby's like I do every friday with my grand sponsor J.B. and "the drunk whisperer" Gerald, about 80 yrs sobriety between them. The predictability and routine of this sober life is so satisfying.
  15. One day when I was a kid my buddy and I were throwing the football in his front yard. Guy I didn't recognize pulled up the driveway in a new Monte Carlo, went in the front door, and emerged 15 minutes later with a thickly stuffed manilla envelope which he put in the car and then walked over and joined our game of catch for about 15 minutes. When he left I asked my friend (who later became a professional sports journalist and now works for a sportsbook) who the guys was. He shrugged and said "New quarterback for the Aggies, Kevin Murray." Around the same time period there were Baylor football players on the payroll of our family business. Unsure of their hourly rate but they did show up for work from time to time. And I spent a lot of time in the back of a suburban while my uncle drove Grant Teaff around. Someone needs to write a book about all the payoffs that took place in the SWC.
  16. I've never had the thought "yeah sure the Cowboys might have talent gaps and shitty coaching but look out, they've got Dak Prescott, he's a gamer so anything could happen." Substitute GB and Rodgers and that sums up my opinion on the Packers since he became QB.
  17. Just sent that to my wife via email and said fuck yeah make me this, bitch. Ok I would never do that last part. But she and I are hard keto since December 27. Also we discovered keto chow shakes made with heavy cream. It's on Amazon.
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