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UpperWestside

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  1. He sounds just about like I thought he sounds. There is no way he is not a person suffering from depression. Woj realized how dumb it was to continue doing a pointless job just because it paid seven figures. Shams hasn’t figured that part out yet.
  2. Maybe he gets better playing next to one of the best players in the league. Would I hand him that contract or have traded for him in the first place? No, but sometimes a new environment can work wonders for a player and how valuable they can be when the team and hopefully coaching staff is better around them. Some guys just aren’t winners. Years ago I remember LaMarcus Aldridge before he even made it to Texas and thought this guy is really skilled, but not a winner or someone you build around. He made a bunch of money, scored a lot of points and never came close to winning anything of consequence. I’ve been able to watch a whole slew of guys who aren’t winners the last 15 years in Lakerland who put up good box scores and little else. I guess we get to see which guy Fox is now that he is in a more stable environment.
  3. I encourage him to continue not buckling up.
  4. I trust zero that comes from this clown car dictatorship. I’ll listen to what other countries think about human rights violations. We are not to be trusted on anything, but especially reports like that.
  5. Lefkoe and Long I do not know. The rest of them I do. I remember Wire playing for the Bills. I believe he was a safety. To add some random Takeo Spikes knowledge, the last time he played in a playoff or championship game was his senior year at Auburn when he lost to Manning and the Vols in the SEC Title Game. He is one of only seven linebackers in NFL history to start in over 200 games (219) and he played in more games than any player that never played in a single playoff game. Every team he played for got better and made a playoff appearance after he went to a new team as well.
  6. I can't recall ever hearing Takeo Spikes talk, but he had a really good career in college and then in the NFL for 15 years. Looks like a pretty solid group in the studio.
  7. If any of you on here ever need a break from life due to the stress on you piling up or you just feel completely worn down you are more than welcome to stay where I live on O’ahu. I purposely got a two bedroom solely so people could come out here. Things are just getting more expensive with hotels and whatnot. Anyhow if life is kicking you in the face and you want a break just let me know in a PM. I had a friend come out for a week and it gave them a chance to recharge and get some time to relax. Where I live it’s easy to get around and the beach is about 15 minutes away.
  8. Well I would think most people should remember that part of history. We were all taught it. Without France we do not get independence. Britain’s Redcoats were a professional army, but they were fighting thousands of miles from home and the strength of their military was that they were a worldwide naval power. The colonies were too big and spread out to be brought to heel.
  9. Two months+ of having had the new switch and still I just do the free roam on Mariokart. One of the best ways I have ever experienced in just turning off my brain and relaxing. They ought to market the roaming around as some free therapy. So peaceful.
  10. Most people will stay. Making less money in a free society seems like a good choice. No amount of money or property could keep me in this country any longer than I have to be here. Too many folks around this world need help and I’d rather dedicate whatever amount of time I have to still live helping them. To those who are staying it will be harsh, some of you will wind up in prison, but they will not win in the end.
  11. None. I am pretty good at taking punches though! Just never have been a violent person.
  12. Sports has pretty much lost any meaning to me. I’ll watch a few games for Arizona State when I can, but football, or any other sport for that matter, is just kinda whatever until we get out of this.
  13. The splitting up won’t happen. A lot of things seem unlikely when you’re in the midst of the storm, but there’s always the other side of it. Human beings, as tribal as we are, will eventually decide this whole fascism thing didn’t make life better and eventually the whole thing will come crashing down. How long it takes to get there is just guesswork because the populace and how it eventually reacts is the key to the length of it..
  14. It’s a new release that’ll be out in a couple of weeks, but they don’t tell you what the movie is. The tickets are discounted since Monday is a slow day for movies. I have a monthly pass so it doesn’t matter for me. The movies are usually pretty good. This one just had an odd ending, but everything else was really good.
  15. Europeans have told us to kick rocks. They are definitely spending their money elsewhere. This is going to destroy so many businesses, supply chains and all of the stuff affiliated with it. A society does not collapse all at once, but ours is getting a big jolt of "we're screwed" right now.
  16. I look at life as being precious. It is so painfully short the time we are given. Like most everyone here I am just numb to the shootings unless it involves children. When the life of a human being is taken in its infancy that really stops me in my tracks. Every day when I am at work and someone is having a rough day the thing I remind them of is that today they were able to wake up to another day. I also tell them that only they have the power to decide how today goes and to make the best of it because for many people yesterday was it and they did not wake up today. You soldier on and find the beauty in the small moments and hopefully you get to wake up the next day and do it all over again.
  17. Went to see a movie tonight. One of those deals where the movie is a surprise. This was the movie and honestly it was thoroughly enjoyable. Good memories of all the places they showed in NYC that I used to see every day. The ramp that takes you down from 42nd to below street level at Grand Central reminded me of the year I spent commuting to the city from Stamford. Really good film and I like that they don't waste time on going right into the heart of the matter. I think several of you here will really enjoy this one.
  18. When the other side of this is reached, and it will be because again history is a REALLY GOOD guide as to what is going to transpire, the first thing Democrats need to do is purge all the olds that want to reconcile with the fascists. The second thing they need to do is completely abolish the Republican Party from existing. The time for working across the aisle is gone and it's an antiquated idea from what is now another time in American history. They are going to have to go General Sherman scorched earth on the whole apparatus. None of that party can be allowed to move forward. Anyone who currently holds elected office as a Republican/Cult Member has to be barred from ever serving in politics again (At any level) and needs to be on a permanent probation for the rest of their lives. The consequences for destroying America have to be harsh and a reminder to future generations of what you have to do when confronted by future Stephen Miller clones or people like TFG and his little couch fiend buddy. We are a good long way away from that time, but when the time comes it'll take leadership willing to bring the hammer and not just empty rhetoric. I think the suffering this country is about to go through as a collective will make what happens after this bout against fascism be okay and understood to be necessary.
  19. That is a normal amount for two Americans to be eating. I mean the principal is not in the greatest shape.
  20. It’s not thinking in terms of being hopeful or cute or even wishful. Familial ties here remain strong to those countries. Unless TFG decided to cut off flights to the islands from each of those countries they will keep coming. My time in the US should be done early 2027, perhaps sooner. These were plans made long before TFG opened up Griftco in the newly minted Faux Gold House. His stupidity has no bearing on leaving, for me at least. I’ll keep on keepin’ on until I don’t and that’s good enough.
  21. Pascal is really good at what he does, but Brolin nailed it.
  22. Does anyone expect an honest answer from a guy who loves violating unsuspecting couch cushions?
  23. They sure did. I’m eagerly awaiting the regret posts we’ll be seeing from people as our economy spirals out of control while prices keep going higher. What a time to be alive to see 80 million buffoons get exactly what they deserve.
  24. Those of y’all on the mainland that live in cities or areas that get lots of foreign tourists are about to see your local economy go in the tank. The only reason things are okay out here is because we get a ton of tourists from Japan, South Korea, The Philippines and China. Canadians have the pretty much quit coming and Europeans are like seeing Bigfoot. The loss of tourism dollars will lead to thousands of restaurant closures, suppliers with much more product on hand, the closing of clothing stores and the hotel industry will get massacred as well. The f’ing around already happened and now the finding out will happen to Americans while TFG is busy trying to extort UCLA for money and skimming a few billion off the top on tariff money taken in.
  25. It was noticed. Cool, but easy to spot.
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