UpperWestside
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
You crossed the rubicon with that one buddy. Cousin Eddie will be pulling up into your driveway for an extended stay.
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2025 Random Games thread
This is pretty awesome and why football is a bit different out here. So happy for this young man to be embraced the way he has been by Hawaiians.
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
They were all just cartoons to me, including the California Raisins!
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Whatcha reading?
Read that for class this semester. I loved it. Highly recommend it. Larson wove a fantastic narrative out of the participants actual words and actions.
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Gun to your head: name your favorite book ever
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer. Not a better book about the US Navy has ever been written in my opinion. The events of that morning on October 25th, 1944 are just legendary and the opening salvo from Commander Ernest Evans started what eventually became one of, if not the most, unlikely wins in naval warfare history for any country.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
I did not watch this game, but I recognized maybe half those guys playing for New Orleans when I looked at the score against the Lakers. I did not know Bey was still in the league. Someone has to score on bad teams so might as well be him I guess. Looks like Luka and Reaves went foul hunting with 26 free throws combined.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
When everyone is putting up numbers the stats lose their luster. Good for Jalen Johnson, but again when so many guys can put up stats in the hyperfast era of the NBA it is not really a big deal. It's just normal and eventually teams that have to pay these guys for doing the new normal will figure it out and adjust accordingly. Austin Reaves is going to get paid well, but his stat line is inflated if for no other reason than he's quite the free throw merchant.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
I celebrate their entire catalog. I want to see them finish just above the Pelicans in the standings.
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Trumps War on Everything
This is Italy attacking Ethiopia, but without the revenge element for the Battle of Adwa.
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2026 Midterms ...
And they would not do a single thing with it to benefit the country because they have no spine. I vote for these cowards because the opposite is people in love with fascism. What a country we have.
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NFL Week 13; Thanksgiving-style
Seems like he’s doing his favorite post-game loss routine and blaming his receivers for him being well past his expiration date. Never seen the focal point and leader of any team in any sport take less responsibility for losses than Rodgers does.
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
As a kid I can recall watching it once. I didn’t really connect with it, but clearly it landed well with a whole bunch of people. I don’t dislike it, but it was never on the list to watch each year. I preferred all the cartoon Christmas movies as a kid like Rudolph. Never get tired of hearing Burl Ives.
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
It has never been a tradition for me to watch the movie like it is for a lot of people. However, knowing what Jimmy Stewart was suffering through mentally, especially during the one take scene where he breaks down and sheds real tears because of his memories of flights over Germany, has this amongst the Christmas movies I will watch if I get some time to do so. He was a wreck at that moment in time emotionally and had aged a good 10-15 years because of those flights.
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Trumps War on Everything
Answers don’t matter. They’re going to do whatever they want. No other country will do anything about it either. Big nuclear arsenal out front shoulda told ya.
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Trumps War on Everything
Aside from these clearly illegal killings, the next time we have a Democrat as president is the 2nd worst thing about this because they won’t prosecute and jail a single person associated with this. It’s another reason I am glad I won’t be in the US whenever that moment comes to pass. One side is filled with traitors and the other is filled with spineless cowards who won’t do what Brazil just did to Bolsonaro.
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Stephen Miller is outed as a White Nationalist (shocking, isn't it?)
All of these people are just horrific human beings. They have made it where when I run across people from red states that I am more guarded than usual before I will talk to them. This whole cult is just a complete clown show that has torn to shreds the fabric of American society.
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2025 Random Games thread
Good job officials on making the Big XII officials look good. Christ that late hit call was Wyoming’s QB doing a Euro flop.
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2025 Random Games thread
Really chippy out there. Wyoming probably should fire their coach and start over. This is the least talented team I have seen in-person this year. I am not sure they’d win a game in the FCS playoffs.
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2025 Random Games thread
Almost had a good fight! Wyoming player threw a helmet. Hawaii needs to put their starters back in and score again.
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2025 Random Games thread
He missed! And he gets a standing ovation from the home fans.
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2025 Random Games thread
Harris and Ashlock are the best duo at WR that Hawai’i has had in a long time. They catch darn near everything thrown their direction. That last catch by Ashlock in traffic was ridiculous.
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2025 Random Games thread
Here is the coveted Paniolo Trophy. So important in fact that it sits on a 20 dollar fold up table right in front of me that anyone could just take home.
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2025 Random Games thread
Wyoming does not have The Tokyo Toe kicking for them as their guy missed from 30 yards. 20-7 at halftime.
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2025 Random Games thread
I dated a woman once who was Igbo. She was pretty cool and her and her three siblings are all doctors.
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2025 Random Games thread
25-25 with another 47 yarder! Really happy for this young man. IMG_0196.mov