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Dbeasy

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  1. I’ve read the revised rules several times, and this thread, and I’m still confused. So the top 70 in points standings qualified for today. Next week the top 50 IN POINTS STANDINGS advance, right? Then for the last event, it’s just a straight up tournament, low score wins, right? If so, doesn’t that make Scottie’s points leader title worthless, and makes points only important for the guys between ~25-85? So now the FedEx champion is just mostly whoever wins one tournament. Seems strange to me.
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    Getting old sucks

    As a boomer myself (last year of the baby boom), it has become completely obvious that some older people have just decided they are going to say what’s on their mind no matter how rude, mean, or stupid their thoughts may be. Like anything, there’s dipshit young people and great nice older people too. In this particular situation, all of the jerks were older, while the younger folks just stood by and watched them make asses of themselves. yup.
  3. I have a friend in Orlando who has made a fortune off supporting Disney customers with two things: scooter rentals that will fit into the trunk for the fatties, and Disney princess dress-up for the little daughters. It’s insane how much money people will spend on their kids to pamper them.
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    Getting old sucks

    I know this thread is more geared to health issues, but just wanted to remind old people to not be jackasses for no reason. I got to Costco ten minutes before they opened to the general public and the blue hairs and old goats were ragging on the poor guy at the door for not letting them in early. They truly were disgusting.
  5. The Rangers announcers need to go listen to the Astros announcers for how not to be annoying voices constantly talking ALL the time. The Astros announcers are completely superior to what the Rangers are rolling out there.
  6. I have never seen HornFans, ShaggyBevo, ShaggyTexas, or SurlyHorns with a higher level of ADHD than right now. It’s remarkable how every thread is “rabbit!”.
  7. Congratulations. It only took you one post to talk about the most boring, polarizing topic on the planet, fantasy leagues.
  8. “Sir, you are not allowed to hit golf balls in here. This is a yoga studio.”
  9. This one is perfect for this thread. A few years ago I looked her up and she hadn’t done a whole lot since Uncle Buck.
  10. I totally don’t get this movie and turned it off 45 minutes in. I feel bad because people like you rave about it and it confuses me because it was one of the worst 45 minutes I’ve ever wasted. How should I watch that movie and “get it”?
  11. Diamond back water snake I believe.
  12. A few years ago I reviewed fifteen years of Texas recruiting classes and the hit rate on them. From what I recall it was much lower than I ever would have thought. It really was shocking. So then I did it for OU. Same result. I concluded recruiting is a crapshoot with a bit of skill and hustle.
  13. What if I make really good comments during a football broadcast. Does that count?
  14. Hahaha. It’s so bad that whenever either my wife and I say “identical”, in any social situation, we stop, look at each other, and go “I - (clap) DENTICAL!” It’s ridiculous.
  15. I’ve watched My Cousin Vinny 112 times.
  16. Interesting side note. Extensive research on men’s lives have shown that the 40’s is the second cockiest decade in a typical man’s life, behind the teens. It results from a high level of confidence built from success in relationships and career during their 20’s and 30’s. The decade of the 50’s is when most men became more aware and philosophical about their life and the world around them. However, some men get stuck and fly through their 50’s not progressing, leading to higher levels of frustration, unhappiness, closed thinking, and conflict in relationships. We’ve got all types on Surly, I’m sure.
  17. Today is Texas A&M National Football Day. 8-4.
  18. It’s a team with some talent, a lot of gaps, and a pretty easy schedule outside the top 4-5 teams they play. 8-4 seems certain.
  19. I love how this administration has rooms full of people scrambling around to look for any obscure statistics they can find and serve up to rubes like Chickensandwich for distribution so they can obscure the damage they are doing to the economy.
  20. I actually don't mind Taylor Swift. Listen to some of her stuff, and about every other genre. Sydney must be having a mid-life crisis. He's complaining about old people in multiple threads, despite the fact he's pretty old too. Methinks he doth protest too much.
  21. That’s good because if she was quite a bit younger than Taylor that would present a problem.
  22. You methodically built up tremendous credibility on Surly over many years. It’s been an impressive run. But you just completely destroyed it all in one post. You are now on the level of Rocko, TxTow, and Helobious.
  23. I just spent weeks building spreadsheets to analyze these scenarios. Roth conversions are the mechanism to deal with that, or saving more in after tax accounts rather than just IRA’s. However, there was an interesting article written about the “widow tax” that debunks some of the perceived cost of it. The guy does make a decent point. It’s a bit along the lines of what Imammac is saying https://www.financialplanningassociation.org/learning/publications/journal/DEC23-widow-tax-hit-debunked-OPEN?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLh_ehleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpKnpeidF9xh6NKlKm6oELFyhwwriQQx6E8LI7dbLLL91MCadhaAp7idd2kZ_aem_-ssQJ5Ve3SYMR9wW-42tKA
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