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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
I was awarded the title Sultan of Shrimp when I waited tables at Red Lobster, so I can relate.
By "awarded," I mean that one of my co-waiters called me that one night after closing when we hit the margarita machine a bit too hard. So, pretty much same-same.
I remember one time working with a dishwasher in NYC and I bring a plate back with most of the shrimp still on it. I’m about to throw it away and looks at me and says “Can I have it?” Umm yeah sure have at it. “Remember him saying jackpot when I handed him all those shrimp.
/notRedLobster
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2 hours ago, flatdawgs said:
lolol if the US wins their very winnable group, they wouldn't play a match outside of the west coast megablue states (WA and CA) until the semifinals. 😂
I’m rooting for the Socceroos and Paraguay. Beat the piss out of the US and I hope Pulisic tears both ACL’s in the first match.
Die Mannschaft is my team thanks to my German born and raised father, but I’ll be rooting for Mexico to have a deep run and Canada as well. Mostly Mexico though out of the two for obvious reasons.
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It’s about time to crank this one up. 2nd favorite Christmas movie. Going to try to sit down and watch it this weekend once I settle into my new apartment.
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2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:
Documentation matters. Ask the nazis.
You’re correct. It absolutely matters even if the documentation is not directly for the benefit of any of us living through this. We don’t have a lengthy overall history of humans being able to document things on a grand scale, but in the few hundred years we’ve had societies that can read, write and have access to a printing press, the Nazis have had no peer in the documentation of evil. So much has been lost or destroyed, but even with that they left behind so much evidence of their atrocities in writing that people can still write new books about what they did.
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1 hour ago, elfenix said:
I recall as a kid that my uncle had a chow. I was 8 or 9 and that sucker chased me one day and I had to jump over the fence to get away. Still don’t know why he did that since I had very little in the way of interactions with that dog. I came back with my mom the next day and he finished the job from the day before as we were walking in the gate and it took a chunk out of my backside. When we’re at the hospital getting patched up I remember my mom believing me about the dog chasing me the day before for no reason. Have not liked that breed of dog since that incident. Only dog in my entire life that was like that towards me.
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25 minutes ago, Gap03 said:
If the non-MAGA contingent ever regains a majority on the Supreme Court, they should just issue a blanket opinion overriding every opinion that was decided from 2016 on without concurrence by any of Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Kagan or Jackson because the rest of them over this period have shown themselves to be utterly corrupt. (BTW - I understand that's not the way the SC works, but why bother trying to play by rules when the GOP has made up fact patterns and forced cases up to the Supreme Court to be heard as soon as the court's composition was just right ...)
Since rules no longer matter just rewrite them once the US comes out on the other side of this one day. The only thing morons understand is being firm and forceful. Being nice once this is over just invites more of this idiocy. Go through every lower court appointment and nuke anyone that has rulings even resembling anything these six are ruling in favor of. Man what a time to be alive to see the US become 1920’s Italy except with far more money and an actual functioning military.
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1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:
This institution is dead.
This is not how the highest court in a functioning democracy works. This is how it works in a fascist nation. Folks if you haven’t made plans to get out of Dodge yet you might want to. At least relocate to a different state than Texas.
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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:
This is what happens when you give power to the incompetent.
Incompetent fascists. These guys are making Mussolini look like Alexander the Great.
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Stumbled right into the best movie I have seen this year. I think that even @billfromlaketravis will like this. I love Colorado and this movie is set in the San Luis Valley. One of the harsher yet beautiful areas of Colorado. A massive fire wiped out a bunch of homes and people come together to start over. What a masterpiece of a movie. I think this is one that will resonate with almost everyone who posts here. Josh O’Connor, a Brit, does a great job in this role. I’m more familiar with him from his work in the UK, but he really nailed this role.
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On 11/13/2025 at 6:51 PM, demos said:
Finished 2 more books from my pile:
John Costello’s ‘The Pacific War’
Ronald Spector’s ‘Eagle Against the Sun’
Also read Christopher Golden’s ‘House of Last Resort’ over the weekend.
Pulled this off the shelf and added it to my pile; it’s now next on the list:

Have a lot more books on WW2 in the Pacific than I initially realized.Costello’s book was really enjoyable to read. Spector’s book was a good read as well for broad knowledge on what transpired. I will read pretty much anything on The Pacific War since it’s the focus of what I study the most. I try to mix in plenty of reading from authors giving the Japanese perspective as well. It’s interesting and worth it to read about why Japan acted the way they did and how a good deal of their foreign policy came about because of the actions of other countries (Mostly the United States and Britain, but not entirely) towards them both well before and after the First World War.
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1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Bradley seems like someone that deserves to be thrown under the bus. Just hopefully that POS takes the people above him down with him.
If you are going to lie on behalf of the fascists currently in charge then yes his career deserves to come to an end and he should at a later point get a court-martial whenever the country comes out of this. You either protect and defend the constitution that you swore an oath to or you get ex-communicated from the military completely due to shameful actions like this.
1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:Is he willing to go down for an Army major who never held a major command and who had a spotty career of leaving and re-entering the service?
We’re about to find out.
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7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
So they were going to swim the drugs to America across the Gulf of Mexico.
Very determined drug runners. The best drug runners. Many people are saying this.
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2 hours ago, Tuco said:
Anyone with first-hand knowledge can't say that publicly without going to prison because I'm sure it's all classified. I'm betting there are a few people waiting for a subpoena. Admiral Holsey is probably checking his mailbox 3 times a day.
Yes the rule of law on such things should matter. However, rules stopped mattering a good while ago now and playing by the rules of a system that exists in name only does not much matter. It would be nice if he’d get a subpoena though so he can at least say he is doing it by the book even if the book has been torched.
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On 12/2/2025 at 4:55 AM, Classic Rock said:
Great book. Pretty cool that he went onto be a college professor. Peleliu is a place I will go to see since it’s easier to get there from Hawai’i than it was when I lived in New York. I worked with someone out here that grew up there and her uncle owns one of the two hotels they have.
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7 minutes ago, Derka said:
I wanna pull up the Idi Amin gif, but I never enjoyed watching Paul play.
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11 hours ago, d2o said:
Basketball retired from Danilo Gallinari about 6 yrs ago.
The story about his season in Puerto Rico was pretty cool. Didn’t realize he got the whole thing started when Cousins got in a fight with the fans. Gallinari went out winning their title and finals mvp so good on him.
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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
If Bradley actually goes up in front of Congress next week, do we think they'll get the original guy that resigned as well?
And will Bradley take the fall? They didn't have that little get-together last night just for shits and giggles, that was all about getting stories straight.
Someone is going to have to be an adult at some point and say "The Secretary of War made the call on shooting the survivors and he was watching. I know this because he gave the illegal order to murder the survivors."
Until we get that this is all just garbage like the rest of everything else these buffoons do.
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On 11/24/2025 at 6:38 AM, South Austin said:
I can't speak as intelligently on the THC debate, other than my continued view that our state leadership sucks donkey taint.
But I do have personal experience with synthetically produced narcotics, namely Delta 9 and most recently, Kratom. Not to hijack a thread with family trauma, but last year my stepson went into rehab after a Delta 9 addiction helped throw him off the rails his first year of college. My wife and I read up on synthetic Delta 9, which for some kids with ADHD (like him) and other related mental developmental disorders, it can really fuck up your brain wiring in a way that natural pot does not. And most recently, he relapsed with Kratom. And what's the similarity with the two? He was able to freely buy both in most convenience stores in town. While Kratom, like THC, is a naturally-occurring plant, its synthetic derivatives can produce symptoms and resulting addiction very similar to opioids. It's just bad bad shit, and reports of overdosing on Kratom are growing. While my stepson has some personal accountability in all this, I have growing anger over the fact that stores can legally peddle this crap to 18-year-olds.
So as much as Dan Patrick's THC crusade may have been yet another annoying waste of time our MAGA controlled state government, I'm increasingly in favor of laws to curb or ban over-the-counter sales of this synthetic bullshit.
tl;dr - Dan Patrick and Kratom can both get fucked.
I support people smoking all the weed that they want even though I've never smoked. This other stuff that has had a traumatic effect on your son and family needs to be shot into the sun.
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6 hours ago, 4th&Five said:
Can someone just piss on this guy while he’s walking down the street? No need to wait for him to be part of the grave pissing tour. What a coward.
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I still haven’t gone to see it. Seen so many WWII movies this semester because of class that I’m not certain I want to see anymore Nazis for a bit. I am sure this movie is well done and I do like Rami Malek.
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10 minutes ago, Derka said:
cease to the jays. if he continues to be the iron man of mlb pitching then that’s a great signing for toronto. i like seeing teams go for it, and this seems like a really good move to me. he’s been up and down, but even in a down year this year he leads the league in k/9 and has a 3.56 fip. if you get that for 33 starts/year for the next 4-5 years you’ve got to be happy.
I am all for teams doing this. Spend money and try to win. I can’t stand the moochers like Pittsburgh and the A’s who make no attempt to win at all and just take their revenue sharing money and pocket it instead of investing in the team.
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On 11/27/2025 at 3:17 PM, Gil Bang said:
Rendon was a bad, bad signing. But, it wasn't a really dumb signing. A young talent with a great future...so we all thought.
Now, that fucking shitbag asshole dope-sucking cocksucker Josh Hamilton...THAT was a dumb signing.
Rendon is and was a selfish prick. There were warning signs on taking him on, but the Angels threw a ridiculous amount of money at him anyhow. I hope he moves back to Texas and loses everything he owns in a hurricane.
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8 hours ago, Deej said:
They are having a showing of "Christmas Vacation" with a Q&A with Chevy Chase at Bass Concert Hall. I bet they could have included Randy Quaid for cheap.
It’s worth it to go. Chevy is getting up there (think he’s 82) and he’s slowing down quite a bit. His wife was on stage with him when he did the Q&A when I went two years ago. He did just fall on the stage in Buffalo so he still may have had some lingering issues from that.
I didn’t ask a question because the only thing I would've asked him is did you get being so ornery with people from your grandfather? Pretty sure he would’ve flipped me the bird and told me to get out if I brought up the most hated man in the history of the US Navy.
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Still not sure how UNLV got to 10 wins this year. Conference should be better next season overall.