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Felix

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  1. I don't have a problem with it. I heckle players on occasion but it's always about their play or maybe their appearance if they have stupid hair or something. Going after someone's family is a no no in my book.
  2. One thing I remember is that up to that big chamber they are talking about with all the various passages coming off, there were multiple strings of twine that went off in various directions from people using that to find their way back. That's as far as I ever went and only the one time because the squeeze to get there was not pleasant. I was 140 lbs back then and it was tight as fuck for me. You had to go through with your arms in front of you and inch worm your way for at least 10 feet and it seemed like a mile. Your clothes would hang on stuff and sometimes you'd feel like you were stuck and would have to shift your position to angle your shoulders right. I'm in a cold sweat just remembering it 40 years later. We had those cheap ass flashlights too that would just randomly dim out and you had to shake them. In retrospect, like many of the things we did when young, it was pretty damned stupid based on our level of preparedness. No foot, no water, one extra set of batteries, no helmets. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
  3. Yeah I think that's what it was called. It was a short hike from the loop 360 entrance. I remember that story too. That was about 15 years after my last time in there. I remember it was mostly low but large chambers back to around 150 yards in and then there was a truly terrifying squeeze that I seem to remember was around 10 or 12 feet of just inching along and then it opened up into a fairly big chamber but I only attempted that once. We usually stopped in that last room before that which you could actually stand up in. Those guys that got stuck were way back in there. I never trusted a flashlight that much.
  4. When I was young we used to go to that cave on the Barton Creek greenbelt before they closed it. Within the first 10 feet or so there was a 4 or 5 foot squeeze like that and I did it multiple times with no issues. Then one day on the way out as I was inching myself along I suddenly thought of all that rock over me and now I can't even watch these videos. That was my last time in a non-tourist cave.
  5. The correct mechanic is to see the ball into the glove and then check the runner. There can be no out if the ball is not in the glove and the fielder touching the base. He made that call before the ball ever hit the glove. Bad umpiring period.
  6. I would have happily broken her arm and dislocated her shoulder to get her to let go of that other woman. Fuck that drunk bitch.
  7. I coached girls basketball for a while years ago. Coming from the men's game I had many of these same questions even back then. First, don't equate skill and athleticism. While they often go hand in hand in the best player they aren't necessarily the same thing. I watch Texas and some random games and I would submit that the skill level among bigs is quite high. The biggest difference in the volleyball vs basketball is contact. Elite female players are really good at using their lower bodies to steal your power. When I coached I interned a few college players from around Austin who wanted to get into coaching and I found that playing against them was an enlightening experience in the use of hip and ass pressure and contact to disrupt your movement and dampen your athletic advantage. Now don't get me wrong, women generally aren't great leapers and the bigger they are the worse it gets. The women's game is never going to be as athletic as the men's but skill levels are getting closer every year as the women's game become more popular and gets better coaching and training. Men will almost always be able to overpower women, but shooting and touch aren't that much different IMO. The best bigs in the women's game are all about body position, establishing space, and touch around the basket. I prefer the men's game because it's faster and cleaner because men are built for power and speed. Women are built for endurance and stability. Those differences aren't going to change any time soon.
  8. Good luck steering with your front wheels barely touching the ground.
  9. Unfortunately it's happening. Just one example. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/02/cia-layoffs-trump-administration/
  10. I don't worry too much about the military. It's the gutting of the intelligence services that scares the shit out of me. It's hard to hide that shit, but if the intelligence community is fucked, we all are.
  11. It's true. I'll just point out that most of the asymmetric warfare successes against our forces have been done during exercises by our own forces. This is what military planners do in a professional officer corps. I served in the 80s and 90s. Vietnam was very fresh in Army minds then and the Cold War was wrapping up. Our force structure has changed significantly since then, and it seems to me those changes are focused on smaller conflicts against less sophisticated enemies. All that being said, the main thing that separates the western armies and particularly ours, is the the professional nature of the officer and NCO ranks and I doubt the training tempos are any less than they were when I was in. We trained intensely, as realistically as possible, and as a combined arms force. I won't even get into logistics. Technology is constantly changing so there are always challenges, but I never found our officers to be hidebound in any way. Sure we have our doctrines and we train to those, but a large part of our training was leadership training and that training taught all levels of leaders to be prepared to act when the plan failed or unexpected things happened and our ability to adapt on the fly is probably our greatest strength. Company level officers and NCOs are not only encouraged to act as needed to accomplish the mission, but given the tools to take control of a bad situation, and the best field grade officers trust their teams and act to support them, even if it's off plan. Many times in training ops the guys on the scene were driving the bus and the higher level commanders were providing support and coordination to the guy at the tip of the spear instead of trying to drive the bus from a CP a mile behind the front.
  12. I would almost agree with you on land, but sea operations are an entirely different animal.
  13. Yeah I don't think people realize how effective a carrier task force is at not only defending itself, but preemptively striking before it can be struck. I'll admit our Navy has had some issues lately, the other thing people seriously underestimate is a military tradition. China has never done shit and until it does, I just can't see it. We have no idea how effective their weapon systems are, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts their training, command structure, etc are going to lead them to struggle to use them effectively. Not terribly relevant, but as a student of history, especially military history, and a veteran who trained officers from military's around the world, training, command tradition, and NCO experience are huge factors in effectiveness. There is a reason the British military is still one of the most effective in the world despite it's size and budget.
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    I put it in cleaning mode to extend the wand and sprayed vinegar directly on the nozzles. That sort of worked, so I did it again and put the solution in a zip lock bag and secured it to the wand so that the nozzles were in the solution. After 5 minutes or so I removed it and it went to self clean and after that the pressure was much better. I have hard ass water too. It sounds like you might have another issue though, if water is spraying around.
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    Vinegar worked for me but mine is only like 3 years old.
  16. The scam is most likely that they want to send you money to "buy your own equipment" but they'll send you way more than you need and then you send them back the rest, except the check was fake and you're on the hook for all of it. That's what I learned when my wife was between jobs.
  17. Well I'll be....
  18. Yeah I gotta question your police work there, Lou. Laugh faces are pos rep. So is Hearts, drools, and FAFO.
  19. I'm an equal opportunity negger. If you post something stupid or, especially, hypocritical (Derka), or just fuck up a thread, I'll throw a neg. I'm surprised it gets people so riled up, frankly. I also give out a lot of positive rep. I think some of y'all might be too tied up in what other people on the internet think of you. I also have a shitload of posters on ignore because otherwise I'd be negging everything the posted. Just like most of you, I've been on these forums for years and I've seen most of you post a million times. I don't have a lot of time or energy for arguing with stupid shit, so I neg instead most of the time, with a few occasional short discussions. It always amuses me when someone will type something absolutely idiotic, I neg, and then I get 20 negs on random shit I've posted over the years. Internet points don't concern me, but apparently it's serious business to some of you.
  20. They must have pictures of this guy fucking a little boy or something. It's the only thing that makes sense.
  21. Watched Number 24 on Netflix on my Dad's recommendation. Outstanding movie about the Norwegian resistance during WWII. It's a Norwegian film so you can watch it dubbed in English or Norwegian with English subtitles. I watched it with the subtitles. Some really strong performances by the actors.
  22. When I worked at Brackenridge Hospital back in the day it was always an all hands on deck week for the ER. We had a crotchety old doc who ran the ER back then. Dude had been an ER doc for so long that he was on shift at Parkland when they brought Kennedy in. I was working on a PC in the ER and this woman was hollering and carrying on in one of the ER bays and the nurses couldn't get her settled down. This dude comes storming out of one of the other bays and walks in and starts yelling at her to STFU. It's not an exact quote but something to the effect of "you should have thought about that before you got on a donor cycle with a drunk. You're lucky, at least you're still alive. The idiot you were riding with is having his vital organs removed right now for people who hopefully aren't morons". It was pretty brutal. I was like the Jesse drinking water gif from Breaking Bad. One of the ER nurses sitting at the desk said "God, I love that man."
  23. Oh yeah! For some reason I thought like twenty or so were killed in that one. Mixed it up with another nightclub fire I guess.
  24. Smoke on the Water?
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