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UpperWestside

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  1. I think admitting that everything is not great is good. I mean we all want life to be ideal, but when it isn’t it’s cool to just say it. Sometimes life is a beating and you feel like you’re on the business end of a punch to the face from prime Muhammad Ali. When I was younger those moments would just paralyze me beyond belief. I had no clue how to deal with adversity. Now I roll with it and just remember that all I can do is all Incan do. Our lives are so painfully short that it’s good to just remember we can only do so much as human beings.
  2. When power eventually swings back the other direction, and it will, the new president needs to invite him to the SOTU speech and slap the grin off his face with a frying pan.
  3. That's the most Long Island thing ever. If you've spent any amount of time out there, especially once you get past Nassau County, you'll understand that this is totally on brand for that type of New Yorker.
  4. Taking the bus and it being almost completely silent despite it being full yesterday afternoon. The manners of people here are just so much better.
  5. Well, Reddick solved Jok in their last game. He's done. We’ll trade our Make-A-Wish starting center for him.
  6. That will never, ever get old seeing the grin on his face while roasting Booker.
  7. The Purple and Gold are fun again. We could not play like this with Street Clothes. Luka completely changes how everything works.
  8. You can thank the Gail Goodrich trade and the insane arbitration and compensation for acquiring him as a quasi-free agent for the Magic Pick. The Worthy pick also belongs on the list for ridiculously lopsided trades. Ted Stepien might be the worst owner not named Donald Sterling in NBA history.
  9. Haha well if you live in Durant now then yes. I am guessing you did not choose living there though. I had one instance when I had an NFL team I rooted for since I was a kid. I walked completely away from them 12 years ago though. Dallas, to me at least, has a lot of people that I found to be pretty cool. When I lived there it was fun talking about the Mavs. Listening to the radio and hearing TheTicket back in the day discuss the “Little Mavericks” To me it sucks to see a fanbase being intentionally run off. This smells of what happened to Seattle, but they didn’t give Durant away.
  10. My best friend does not have this issue. He goes back to the early 80’s Mavs. He wants Dallas to get beat by 50 tonight for trading Luka. I think the anger is more than justified for what transpired. I actually remember rooting for Dallas in 2011 in the Finals and being downtown after they won Game 6. That was a crazy night with a whole lot of drinking. It was cool seeing Mavs fans so happy. The fans did not deserve to have any of this happen.
  11. I have not seen most of the Batman, Spiderman and Superman movies. As a child I saw the ones with Christopher Reeve, but cannot recall many of the details. I have no reason to intentionally not see them. They just are something I do not have a great interest in. I did enjoy seeing reruns of the Adam West Batman as a kid, but probably because it was kinda cartoonish to me.
  12. I watched LaLa land on a Sunday afternoon at a theatre back on Long Island. I think it was at Roosevelt Field Mall. I had long since stopped watching the NFL by this point. When I came out of the movie, which was really good (I am someone that doesn’t enjoy musicals), I saw that the Patriots had mounted a comeback from being down 28-3 to the Falcons in the Super Bowl. I’m still glad I watched the movie instead.
  13. If not for his own court-martial for running the Decatur aground in 1907, Nimitz might never have fulfilled his own destiny. That demotion led him into submarine-based assignments and trip to Germany not too long after that to learn more about how to improve the ones the US had. He never forgot the leniency he was shown for his court-martial as he was always stern, but forgiving of subordinates who made mistakes.
  14. This would be a much deeper discussion on how people get to this point in their adult life and do this. I’ll leave it at these morons should be banned from every airport in the US for at least 5 years for this. I have not flown as often as many of y’all do, but I never have issues flying or waiting for a flight.
  15. Last Breath. I enjoyed it. Direct and to the point. I did not see the documentary, but this was worth watching. Mark Bonner is a favorite actor of mine from the UK shows I have watched him in like Shetland, Line of Duty and Unforgotten. I’ll also watch just about anything Woody Harrelson is in.
  16. I would argue that it was not in vain. We as human beings have a tendency to look at the here and now as being the most important part of things. One day we'll be gone and be supplanted by the next group of people doing the same thing. Bonhoeffer, and those like him, will always have someone willing to pick up their mantle and fight back against tyranny. What is happening now makes his sacrifice no less important. He is still a guidepost to how you deal with these pricks.
  17. So much of how those theaters went depended upon America. I would contend that Burma would have probably ended up like it did at the end of the war. India would have been a bridge too far though. India was at that pivotal moment in their history where they were not going to be ruled by anyone any longer. There were still exceptionally impressive achievements from that theater though, especially the Burma Road and the flights over The Hump to name a couple. I’d speak more on the military accomplishments of Viscount Slim, but what he likely did in Australia after the war gives me great pause on discussing him that much. Read his autobiography though which was a pretty level-headed account of the fighting and his own shortcomings as a commander.
  18. This sounds like a book a friend gave me to read called House of Leaves. That was, well, it was quite the read.
  19. I decided recently to leave the restaurant I was working for. The environment was something I struggled with and I knew I had to go. The older I get the more I value peace while working. I chose a local place near Pearl Harbor. We will see how this goes. I have a years and a half left to finish this degree so I try to have a schedule with work that makes sense when it comes to studying. I like to experience as much as I can in life and those experiences honestly help in my overall happiness. I think I would be in a deep rut emotionally if I did the same job for years on end. Nothing against those that can, but that would drive me nuts. i see the posts on here about what y’all are dealing with. The only advice I have is to just keep waking up each day and do something kind for someone else. If you can just do that you will have made someone else’s day better. Maybe open a door or say thank you to someone. Being a good person costs you nothing and you will just feel a little better about the journey through life you are on.
  20. I’m not too far behind you. This is 38 years of being a fan of the Purple and Gold. I still have the Magic jersey I got back in 1988. He made me love the sport by how he orchestrated things and the joy he played with. I was also glad to see Knecht back. The biggest puzzle piece is getting a serviceable starting center in the off-season that Luka will feel good throwing lobs to. He can do that with Hayes, but Hayes is not my idea of a starting center and probably no one else would think that either. Still this is a fun time to watch The Lakeshow. I’d love to stick to the JV team in the playoffs because of Ballmer running his mouth nonstop with nothing to show for it aside from a pretty cool arena it seems.
  21. I am posting this picture by itself because this is a guy who did more for America by his early 20’s than 99 percent of us will do in a lifetime. Next time you fly in here please stop by and spend a minute paying your respects to him. His grave is easy to find by the road. His Medal of Honor story is incredible as well.
  22. Which is just laughably insane to anyone with a functioning brain like yourself or millions of like-minded folks. His sexual preference supersedes his superior intellect in the year 2025 in America because too many insecure morons feel that takes precedence.
  23. Elmo is a garbage person that does not deserve to live in America. North Korea seems to be more up his alley.
  24. I liked the mini-series I watched as a kid more. It was scarier to me as a child than watching two movies about it as an adult.
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