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UpperWestside

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  1. Was that a good game tonight on his 26th birthday against the JV? Also it warms my heart to see “Not Big Game” James put up a 5-22 and 1-10 from deep. Could not happen to a better person and franchise.
  2. I received a message yesterday from a young lady. I can vividly recall meeting her and her family. It was last summer and they were my last table. They were visiting NYC from West Virginia. It was the young woman’s 18th birthday. At the end of the night I have more free time and I talked to them for about an hour and a half. It wound up becoming somewhat of a therapy session. The young lady’s dad had upset her badly earlier in the week by getting on his Facebook and telling his followers that she’d be going to hell for having a nosering. Grandma, who had long ago stepped into the mom role and kicked her son to the curb as being a parent in this family, started talking. Then the young lady’s aunt, who by all three accounts said she treats her more like her sister, said the trip was for her to have a good time. I told that young lady she was going to be okay and that she has a great support system. I listened and let them get out their anger and sadness and told them how awesome it is that they are so close knit and that “mom and sister” should be very proud of how they have raised her. She said she wanted to go to college and I probably don’t have to tell you that West Virginia is not exactly known for pushing kids onto the next level of education. I gave them my number and the young lady took my IG in case she ever needed any advice on anything with school and whatnot. I got her message and it was her telling me she got accepted into college and will be attending in the fall. Education is going to break the cycle her dad had put her on a path to joining. I can’t tell you how happy I am for this young lady to have a chance to realize her dreams! Sometimes we get caught up in our own lives and all of the strains and stresses we find ourselves dealing with. You can read them right here in this thread. There are people here dealing with hell on earth emotionally. My heart hurts for the things I read here. It is in these times that reaching out to others can be helpful like many of you have done. That young lady and her family shared their life with me and I just opened myself up and told them to keep pushing forward each day. Now a few months later I get to hear that wonderful news. Some of you here will have moments in your own life where your own situations will allow you to help others really going through it. Know that what you are going through is not in vain and that when the time comes to help another person that needs it that you’ll be ready.
  3. If we have learned nothing, and it appears we have learned somehow less than that in the last 80 plus years, you DO NOT APPEASE A DICTATOR. Zelensky finally had enough. It's time for Europe to fill in the power vacuum. Were I Zelensky I'd make those same mineral rights as part of an offer to Europe. Just give the orange god king and Putin both the middle finger in one fell swoop.
  4. Why stop there? Just unleash the whole nine yards on them.
  5. Just a ridiculous shot that only a select few human beings on this planet can make look routine.
  6. But his weight! Won’t anyone think of that?!?! -Nico probably
  7. Some bars have started stocking non-alcoholic beers and stuff for more mocktails. Smart on their part to do that. Restaurants are going to have quite the reckoning in the near future though with so much of the profit coming from the sale of alcohol. That is usually the highest profit earned on anything sold.
  8. The glaring hole at center is a really, really big issue. Next year my expectations will be higher. This year what happens is fine. If they make a deep run in the postseason that’s awesome. If they don’t that’s okay because we have the best young player in the league on our team now.
  9. Quite literally I will say that none of this matters. Not UT athletics, not high school football, not any of the things we enjoy watching. The only thing that MATTERS in this life is how you treat others. That is it. You do not have to be a religious person to treat others with dignity. You are what matters. What is important is how I treat you and you show that you matter as a human being. We have such an epidemic of selfishness in this country. If the majority of us could just stop and treat other folks like human beings we'd be a much better society. Instead half of this freaking country has gone all gas no brakes on making life a living hell for anyone they can. That usually involves groups that have no ability to fight back. Historically this is ALWAYS what happens when idiots are given power that they will not use for the greater good. One day this cult of idiocy will disintegrate. When I don't know, but history shows this never works out. It might get ugly, but this will not work out long-term. In the meantime if you aren't in this cult filled with morons go and find someone today and do something nice for them. Just do your small part to make things better because all you can do is all you can do.
  10. I also liked Hackman in A Bridge Too Far. That was a great war epic with a ton of legendary stars in it.
  11. Aww man this sucks. He was great at his craft, but seemed like a good guy as well. Rest in peace Mr. Hackman.
  12. I like the beaches in SoCal. I think downtown LA has some good spots. There was a market I went to that has a lot of places to eat which was cool. The name of it eludes me at the moment. I also used to have a friend that lived in a cool neighborhood in Inglewood before he moved back to the east coast. I actually really liked that area. People were really friendly in that neighborhood.
  13. He just doesn’t stop. The amount of neg rep I have given out has been almost entirely to him. Just an absolutely worthless person.
  14. Suffer them gladly, BUT always keep a shovel handy if they just won’t shut up.
  15. I worked with a guy out here. He was a year younger than me, but you could tell he really, really drinks a lot. He moved around like someone in their 70’s and looked so distant cognitively. I felt bad for him because I am sure at one point in life he was a different person than the guy I met. Alcohol completely changed how his mind operated, which is the worst part of what drinking does to you.
  16. I think abstaining from it entirely is the best course of action, but I have seen it take my aunt’s life at age 53. She was a nurse for 33 years and knew better, but it got her. I would agree with that medical wisdom. It can be so painfully hard for folks to walk away, especially in our culture.
  17. Alcohol can really do a number on you. It almost took my life five years ago. I won’t tell you to do what I did and just go cold turkey and never pick it up again, but just don’t turn to it as a way to forget life. I did that and it was not a good time.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Well, Reddick solved Jok in their last game. He's done. We’ll trade our Make-A-Wish starting center for him.
  23. That will never, ever get old seeing the grin on his face while roasting Booker.
  24. The Purple and Gold are fun again. We could not play like this with Street Clothes. Luka completely changes how everything works.
  25. 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.
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