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  1. 38 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    She's Robert Rodriguez' sister.  (From Dusk To Dawn, Spy Kids, Sin City, etc.)

    She had mentioned that tonight. Someone else I work with told us that as well before her first set started. She was very polite and nice. It’s be cool to have more performers like her come through.

  2. This wasn’t a concert, but tonight at work we had a performer that was thoroughly enjoyable. Her name is Patricia Vonne and her Tejana/Rock style was really cool. She’s originally from San Antone and I talked to her for a bit afterwards. She lives in Austin now so I thought some of y’all might have heard her before. She gave me her CD that is coming out in September. Usually I try to avoid the shows we have because they are louder rock, but she was awesome and everyone had a good time in there tonight. 

  3. 1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Hell of a game. Lakers missed Fts costed them

    It’s better this way. Old Yeller needed to be put down and Murray was ready to take them out back. I am sure you are looking forward to the next round. Enjoy what are hopefully some really entertaining games. 

  4. 47 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Totally normal that Jokic had zero FTs tonight. Right @UpperWestside ?

    I have already said what I think of your conspiracy theories and that I think you are a crazy person for believing in them. Seriously decouple yourself from this stuff and maybe just stop watching the NBA if you think it’s all rigged. Leave the sport to fans who just enjoy watching it instead because you clearly cannot just enjoy the games.

    A normal fan would be pretty happy with a series victory in such a fashion, but not you. I did not watch any of the game because I had something far more important that I was doing today, but even I was glad for Murray to do what he did. You, however, take the route of being miserable about things like a basketball game that don’t even matter in the overall scheme of things. It’s not a good look and I find it embarrassing that any older adult of your age would believe in such nonsense as there being a ref cabal fixing games solely for the Lakers. They’re doing a pretty shoddy job of fixing these games.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Message Board User said:

    Please make this happen.  The meltdown on this forum would be epic.

     

    I can count on zero fingers the amount of full games I have watched that guy play, but the little I have seen he looks like the kind of point guard that no next generation star should ever be paired with. 

  6. 10 hours ago, Message Board User said:

     

    I shed no tears for him. He CHOSE this situation and wanted Beal brought in and he willingly teamed with another player in Booker that no one should want to be teammates with. He should own this situation and take his fair share of the blame instead of saying stuff like that behind the scenes.

  7. Today is always a somber day because it’s the day my dad died 13 years ago, but this year I decided to change things up a bit. I got my surfboard and headed for the beach. It was 83 in the city, but only maybe 70 at the beach. As much as I wanted to get in the water I know my limits and am not a fan of water that feels too cold even if I do have a wetsuit on. Far Rockaway’s cold water can wait until it warms up.

    Instead I just laid out in the sun and called my mom and talked to my five year old niece on FaceTime. Seeing her enthusiasm for life at her young age made today feel good. I was never particularly close to my dad, but as the years roll on by I see him in a different light than I did when he was here. I wonder what he would think of having two grandkids from my younger brother or all the stories I could now share with him from the decade of travel I have put in and the places I have seen and lived. I wonder how life would have been different for him had he been given a better childhood than being raised in postwar Germany. His Opa raised him because his mother turned 19 the day before he was born. His mother, and my Oma, was awesome, but she was young and having fun when he came along. 
     

    I kinda think he would understand why I never have married or have kids and why that brings me happiness. Mostly it would have been cool to have asked him a few more things about life instead but of being so distant from him while he was here. I do think he might laugh that I now use his name instead of being called JR or Junior anymore. I will never forget the empty feeling on the final call I got saying he was gone or seeing his lifeless body in the hospital bed when I finally got there from Dallas. 
     

    I hope that those of you who still have a parent or parents still here that you make better use of that time than I did with my dad. When they are gone that’s it and you do not get another chance with them. My mom is still here and we talk almost every single day even if it’s really late at night. I just felt like sharing this in case there is someone in a difficult spot with a parent.

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  8. On 4/28/2024 at 12:12 AM, fattyflattie said:

    Odd. I first leaned about it last week in a stand up comedy bit on youtube.  Looked it up after the bit and was able to use it in a joke on a text with a funky pic within a week. Simulation is real. 

    I read about this syndrome probably 20 plus years ago or so. It can cause some serious health issues and is something that seems a little difficult to have to live with. Former Baylor basketball player Isaiah Austin has it and it prevented him being able to pursue a career in the NBA.

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  9. 3 hours ago, austingirl said:

    I posted about it in the "last movie you saw" thread, but my son and I watched this last weekend and we loved it. Not super historically accurate but very fun. The violence was pretty comical - reminded us of Bullet Train.  

    Loved Bullet Train and parts of this movie also felt like that one as well. The comedic violence is one of the things I enjoyed. The opening scene on the boat was just fantastic. 

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  10. 7 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Wolves get Scott Foster tonight

     

     


    Well it was a fun run while it lasted but the extenders gonna take it from here


    For those who forgot, foster reffed the game Rudy made the “make money” hand gesture towards.


    A game Jarrett Allen had 21 FT attempts by himself

     

    I think Minnesota wins tonight because they’re better. Phoenix would need something even more overwhelming than a free throw parade to win. 

  11. What a horror show this woman is. I rarely am going to say something like this, but man she deserves the absolute worst that can happen to her each and everyday for the rest of her miserable life for killing a dog as well as a goat. What a freaking soulless piece of trash.

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

    And he did all that all because he hates Dan Gilbert.

    I am starting to think that Dan Gilbert actually had good reason to not want Ishbia to be an owner and not just because of the competing business thing.

    Also when you are soliciting advice from Isiah Thomas on players and how to run your organization you are probably not a very intelligent person nor are you someone that should have an NBA team.

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  13. 1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    I didn’t get into the Devin Booker hate until the last 12 days but now I totally get it

    I don’t hate him or even sports hate him, but I do recognize guys who just aren’t winners. My opinion of his ability to be the best player on a championship team has never changed since I saw him in his first season. He is just not a winner. Puts up a lot of points and leads fans to believe he’s an elite player, but he’s not. Chris Paul carried that team while he was there and I say that as someone who has never enjoyed watching him play either.

  14. 5 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

    Lebron must be tired of Joker's nuts bouncing on his chin.

    I gotta say that he and Street Clothes really shouldn’t poke the bear like they did last summer saying they were hearing Denver talk about them. Boy did that go nowhere. Well deserved sweep coming for those two.

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  15. So disappointed in the Ref Cabal. They did not cheat at all tonight and that’s unacceptable. Apparently the cabal only exists in the minds of crazy people who think officials are working behind the scenes as part of a master plan to help the Lakers win. Who knew that the people saying these things on here and elsewhere are indeed off their rocker.
     

    I watched the equivalent of three minutes in the 1st half and that was enough. Denver will get a back-to-back and that’s cool. Most everyone predicted that before the season began. Jokic is pretty cool and the NBA is lucky to have him as the face of the NBA right now. Good luck to LeBron for whatever team he forces his way onto next. 

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  16. I’m fully expecting the Lakers Ref Cabal to come through for the Purple and Gold tonight. Going to need 40 free throws, a couple of ejections and Jokic getting his 4th foul in the 1st quarter. If they can manage all of that I see a two point Laker win. 

  17. 46 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    You'll notice that when people do speak in tongues, they always (at least English speakers—the only group of tongue-speakers with which I've had interaction) use phonemes that are comprised of Baby's First Vocalizations. Because it's just gibberish, it's hard to improvise sounds that aren't in your native language. No English speaker of tongues is getting real Semitic phonemes out there. Just lots of "sha na na" and "manahaba" like shit. No complex diphthongs or consonant clusters. No uvular fricatives, voiced implosives, or clicks. Just basic baby bitch English nonsense

    I don’t dispute how it sounds. My first interaction was as a teen and I had no idea what was going on. In college I saw it again, but not so much since then due to going to a Baptist church. I will likely never partake in doing it and I’m cool with that.
     

    I just leave things be with religious beliefs, practices and customs. What a Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Mormon or even the Baha’i faith (Rainn Wilson was raised in a house with these beliefs and he’s an incredibly nice person. Met him once and he was so accommodating to random fans coming off the street to take pictures with him.) thinks and does is okay by me so long as it does not hurt or infringe on others who do not believe as they do. It’s the infringing on others that irks me and in the US it feels like most of this behavior comes from the Trumpvangelicals. 

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  18. 7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Singing also helps people to not stutter, and it’s possible that, since so much of church is singing or chanting, that he was accessing that part of his brain when praying. 

    I think we dismiss stuff out of hand because we do not personally believe it to be true. I attempt to not do this with any religion and treat all the same.

  19. 3 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    Well, yeah, speaking in tongues is literally just making up sounds. Of course he didnt stutter. Stuttering encompasses actual language, which requires a lot more of your brain to process. 

    Thanks for the insight. 

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  20. On 4/10/2024 at 3:00 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    I love people speaking in tongues.   Scared the shit out of me as a kid, but these days, it’s fucking hilarious.  They all know it’s fake,  yet they all keep the charade up because they are better Christians than others.

    I don’t believe this to be true. I preface this also with having never done this myself when praying. I have mentioned this story before, but I remember a trainer we had on the football team in college. His name was Dwayne and he could barely get words out due to a severe stuttering speech impediment. When he wanted to work with us I had to help him ask our coach because he couldn’t finish the sentence. He had a rough childhood as best I remember. One thing about him that will forever stick with me is sitting in chapel with him. He would pray and his stuttering would go away when he spoke in tongues. He could not speak an entire sentence to save his life, but pray in tongues? That he could do. 

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