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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.

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  3. 6 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    Airmen's Cave?  I was friends with one of the three that got stuck back there in '07.  Buddy was the guy who called it in around 5am.  Crazy enough of a story to ensure I'll never set foot in there.

    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.

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  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. 10 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

    A legit question to me is why hasn't there been an increase in the overall skill level and athleticism among the bigs  in women's basketball?

    Not trying to be funny, not trying to troll anyone, serious question.  

    Clark's skills are not unique to the game of basketball so why don't we see higher developed skills coming out of college?  

    There has been a ton of money poured into women's collegiate sports, the WNBA is almost 30 years old so this isn't new or just catching on.

    As far as big, I watched parts of two TCU games last year,  one versus ND and the other South Carolina and I couldn't believe how unathletic the bigs seemed on the floor. Prince played flat footed, heck the other bigs the same.  It was as if I was watching female clones of Bill Robizine and yet if I watch women's volleyball in college I see multiple players over 6' who can get up off the floor and play above the eight foot net.

    I am not expecting a 6'3-4" post to drop step and dunk like I see in can commonly see in a guys' high school game, but in those two games the bigs are playing below the net.  

     

    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. 

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  7. 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.

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  8. 14 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    If anything, the attack reveals how technology, combined with imagination, can overcome a mindset that is stuck in the past. I am afraid our military mindset is firmly stuck in the past, with gigantic task force groups and huge, vulnerable weapons platforms. I think technology has evolved to the point where an imaginative enemy can overcome our defenses by employing asymmetric attacks, like 911 and this drone attack on Russia's strategic arsenal. 

    I would almost agree with you on land, but sea operations are an entirely different animal.

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  9. 35 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I’m not super worried about a cargo ship full of FPV drones swarming a carrier underway and ready, so the Ukraine scenario isn’t a likelihood.

    Carriers move and are a long way from anywhere that can launch an attack, even China is going to struggle with real time-targeting. And that’s before the active and passive defenses come into play.  

    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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  10. 2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

    They still have value for projecting power in 2nd and 3rd world countries, but a full blown war in Taiwan would likely see several carrier groups having an HMS Prince of Wales moment. 

    Wanna bet?

  11. 34 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    I cleaned out the filter and it helped with the pressure, but the wand is still acting funky. I had to turn off the self cleaning function because it sprayed water across the room onto the floor after I fired it back up. 😒

    Did you just soak your filter in vinegar or how else did you use it?

    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. 

  12. On 5/28/2025 at 12:12 PM, The Royal We said:

    Sad day in TRW household as after 8 years my Toto Washlet appears to be on the fritz. It started to glitch out a few weeks ago and would misfire during the self cleaning mode and spray water on the floor. Then this week I noticed that it started to deploy inconsistently and now pressure is almost gone unless I crank it up to enema mode. I think the hard east Texas water has gummed up the internals to the point where buildup is blocking the flow. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm going to make a last ditch effort to take it apart and soak the filter in vinegar to see if that fixes it, but I might be in the market for another Toto soon.

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    Vinegar worked for me but mine is only like 3 years old.

  13. 20 hours ago, Derka said:

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    4,851 - 3,508 = 1,343 

    Yeah I gotta question your police work there, Lou.  Laugh faces are pos rep.  So is Hearts, drools, and FAFO. 

  14. 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.

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  15. 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.

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  16. 5 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

    I mean, nobody died.  So they had that going for them, which is nice.

    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.

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