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UpperWestside

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  1. Does his stroke have anything to do with this really dark turn as a human being? I am no expert or even a wannabe amateur on this, but man this guy just completely flipped out. I have seen the personality of friends change when they had a traumatic brain injury, but I don't know near enough about what happened with him after his stroke.
  2. What percentage of the GDP will be for NIL for UT athletes?
  3. I had no expectations, but this wound up being really good. The storyline was definitely way different than normal for Marvel, but making the movie about mental issues was a nice diversion from the usual superhero movies. Everyone in the theatre had a great time which was also cool. I would say to see it in 4DX for the full experience. I’d love to see more movies with this group staying together.
  4. His name could be it. I just do not recall hearing that name as often as now. I guess it's like people naming their child Kobe. That was another name I never heard until he got to the NBA.
  5. How did this become such a popular name?
  6. Yeah kinda the same deal as my childhood hero Magic who was not exactly a defensive wizard. He did try harder though on that end than Luka. You put someone out there with him that can defend and runs the floor baseline to baseline. I am 100 percent fine with Luka not ever being better than mediocre to average at defense. His talent of controlling the pace on the other end is unmatched by any other point guard in the NBA. The Wolves and most any other team besides Memphis were going to beat the Purple and Gold this year once we completely vacated the center position by rescinding the trade for Williams.
  7. I want RFK to start a study where he and Elmo head to Papua New Guinea. I want them left there with no anti-dote for when they invariably get bitten by snakes, malaria giving mosquitoes and everything else that entails. I want to see how much these manly men can take. Just two morons and nature. Let’s see who wins.
  8. Haven’t thought about Ted DiBiase in God knows how many years. Man that’s a throwback. I have a friend that is really into wrestling and his younger brother was doing some amateur wrestling events for several years.
  9. I didn’t see the game, but Rui is one of those guys I do enjoy watching. He has a pretty good backstory with his family and whatnot. Unfortunately for my guys we have no size, at all. I assume that gets fixed this off-season when we get an actual center and not a Make-A-Wish guy manning that spot. I did say the winner of game 5 wins the series so I got that part of the series correct. Good luck against the Dubs. Going to be hard to play Gobert much in that one. Would not shock me to see Draymond miss a game in this series for an attempted decapitation of Rudy.
  10. His crash is going to be the biggest belly up in the history of the modern world. I hope I find him on a street corner in Durban one day begging for food. He deserves to be thrown to the sharks there. Pretty sure most South Africans would volunteer to make it happen.
  11. This is example eleventy billion in Russia’s despotic history of the value their culture places upon human life. The world would be better off just walling off the country from the rest of civilization. As horrific as TFG is at the moment this is a country with century upon century of examples of how little the life of a person matters. At a certain point the blame for how Russia operates cannot just be placed upon Putin and his cronies when generation after generation operates in this manner.
  12. We’re not king of negativity. We’re just not.
  13. That whole tourism thing is not going so well. We'll do better out here because we're not on the mainland and tourists from Japan, South Korea and China are still going to make it here. Tourism in the continental US? Good luck keeping your jobs in tourist areas. Should see a good amount of restaurant closures across the major tourist cities this year as well as many hotel chains taking some huge hits.
  14. Any reasonable Lakers fan (Haha I know) can say that our championship for this season was getting Luka. The roster has no credible center that Luka can use to get easy points. LeBron is getting way too many minutes, but again there is no credible big. Rui is overextended as well, but he plays hard and generally makes the right play on offense. He works well with Luka. This team just has to find two bigs who can run with Luka. He gets that and things change quite a bit for next year’s outlook.
  15. I didn’t see the game, but his line seems like his normal Big Game James line. This guy will make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot and yet he will have choked in almost every single big playoff game. It’s incredible just how not good this guy is when his team needs him the most. The only time I can remember him coming up big was that one game with the Sixers. I look forward to whatever person introduces him for his Hall of Fame induction and proceeds to have to lie about how great he was.
  16. That story made me laugh only because that is exactly how things work out here. The Ryan brothers are national treasures. Somebody has to pick up the slack and attempt to fill the role of The Old Pirate in college football.
  17. In that scenario there is no way they don't actually have him get those tattoos in El Salvador before he returns. Evidence issue solved for TFG. Now he can just drop him off at the Mexican border and say case closed.
  18. Europe doesn't like us. Canada doesn't like us. Most of Africa would shoot us into the sun due to Elon if given the chance. Bob in Idaho this is all your fault for not being more patriotic and sending money to your favorite president!
  19. Sounds like a great time to bomb some Russians. Shouldn’t have any problems finding them on the 9th.
  20. Every accusation with this cult.
  21. Wait until Shedeur gets shipped to Dallas for a 7th round pick next off-season. I was honestly shocked Dallas did not pick him. That would have been the most Jerruh thing ever.
  22. Gotta admire @realgreggymfor starting this thread then never coming back once things predictably went south in a hurry with the adults back in charge. Since he always talks so much about his playing days on the basketball forum I decided to see some of the team pictures for the years he would’ve been a player. There are high school teams I have seen play over the past 30 years that would murder the teams he played on at UT. One of the team pictures looks like a bunch of guys from a 24HR Fitness that showed up and got handed jerseys.
  23. Cas Evac is for casualty evacuation so you did indeed hear it right @austingirl.
  24. I feel that this adds a level of authenticity to the film. The Americans did not come out as heroes at the end. Their mission was not completed. The evacuation was a horror show. I feel like that was the point. We got probably as close a look as any civilian such as myself will get to seeing how war looks when things go sideways. To me it takes a lot to make a film about what may have been the weakest and most helpless moment these guys had as soldiers. I appreciated what was shown. War is not fun and it is not a game. Men and women die and do not come home when stuff goes wrong. For those of you in this thread who served all I can say to you is thank you. It’s not adequate to say the least. I am pretty defensive about defending the men and women that serve so thank you for doing what most of us will never do.
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