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RomaVicta

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  1. From Olin. Big changes in Aggieland. They're pumping up the balls and shining up the helmets in College Station. It's a whole new deal there. Nice to hear fresh comments. Marcel Reed: Coaches are blowing whistles, using tough love, restraining from scratching their crotches. Wait, didn't they say this last year? Marcel: Ahhh, there is a difference. They're harping really hard this time. Last year's harping was soft and melodic. It's thrash harp now. And now it's time for Mike Elko's impenetrable sentence of the week: This? What this? It will build into something... [Gotta be excited about that!] ...that can be a really special year. Evidently, the masses are repeating that this has the opportunity to build into something. Just not around here, I guess. They've got 30 days to start the process of building a team. Coach, baby, you can't start in 30 days! You gotta start now! The game is in 30 days! I better check my calendar. Yes! Show me your Penn ring. Yeah, but not with the same voodoo that you do, Mike. I. The goal: II. The Elko Report: III. Fact Check: Yogi Elko Foot pounds? Is this English or metric? Thanks, Olin!
  2. Also Batts Auditorium. Hogg was the most uncomfortable theater around. There were screenings in Jester, too. It was great to see movies on the big screen for cheap. The best movie bang for the buck I got was one year when I stayed for the summer. There was a series called The Thirties: Good Times, Hard Times. I think it was fifteen dollars to see two double features a week. It wasn't on that plan, but I saw Casablanca for the first time on campus. Maybe Batts. Chillingly good. If I were rich, I'd buy a theater for screening great old movies. Don't care if I lose money. The experience is everything. But I enthuse.
  3. My beloved and I were talking about attending a protest gathering. It's not likely for me due to creaky joints and spine. But she's in great shape yet not young. What if a shooter appears? First danger, bullets. What does the crowd do? Second danger, panicked crowd crushing or trampling you. What if it's anti-Trump,? Overiding danger, stochastic terrorism. That's where we are. I can't deal.
  4. @hpslugga Terrific post. What's killing getting your points and those of other's here across is the binary thinking built into our mythology and outlook. It's good guy versus bad guy. The bad guy always ends up killed by the good guy. Once the bad guy (any terrorist no matter the cause) is established, we're not able to reassess without great turmoil thus the good guy gets to kill, maim, terrorize the bad guys with what amount to a mandate from heaven. Any detail I read about the Hamas attack of October completely mortifies me. Rape, mutilation, torture, gleefully applied torment at every opportunity. Bad men. And that's it. Any retaliation is justified against the bad men. Netanyahu has used the event cynically, and we do little to even slow him down because it's hard to get the American people to see Palestinians as anything other than targets for righteous vengeance. Our leaders cynically apply accusation of anti-semitism or terrorism to anyone voice an opinion that runs against the good guy grain. Israel is the fucking bad guy. So. Are. We. I know you know this.
  5. We bombed the wrong guys.
  6. This and the news dithering over whether to call the starvation in Gaza a famine drive me crazy. I read down to see that this gentleman declares the Israeli mass murder as genocide. To me, that's not the point. It's enough that it's mass starvation and mass murder. In this and other big stories, the focus is on a precise term instead of reality. It creates the notion that things aren't so bad if they don't rise to the direst of definitions. The UN has a definitions for famine that news outlets are waiting to be declared. They can't look at skeletal Palestinians being forced to a few locations where the face trigger happy Israeli military and pronounce it a famine. The word existed prior to the UN. Say what you see. In the case of genocide, I really don't much care if it is or not. We can discuss that. My opinion uneducated opinion is that this sure seems like genocide. It's certainly a campaign to devastate shelter, food, and medical for an entire population justified by actually defiling the memory of the victims of the unspeakably atrocious attack by Hamas on Israelis. I'm sure the dying, suffering last thoughts of those poor victims was: "I sure hope they blow up hospitals and children and every structure that may house a Palestinian family to avenge this." I'm not sure where Wolf Blitzer's panel in the Situation Room stand. I'm sure they stand between reality and their audience through semantic examinations and homage to college professors. Just see what's in front of you, you dense, lazy, pricks!
  7. I agree with every position you quote. You need to work on your narrow-minded, narrow-focused sophistry. You need to do this particularly when you're going after people who are better humans than you. She's better than me, too. ETA: @Brian Fantana did it much better. Compliments.
  8. Ol' number 2. Damn shame we didn't get him.
  9. I walked out of my first viewing of Alien. I was taken off guard by how intense it would be for a movie set in space. I left when Harry Dean Stanton was by himself looking for the cat. After that, I went to see it weekly. I was living in a place where I didn't know anybody. At one screening, the sound went out and persisted for more than a minute. The theater was dead quiet watching Ripley trying to escape. I finally got the nerve to announce: In space no one can hear you scream. Brought the house down. I should have done the comedian thing, "Thanks everyone! You've been great!" and strided out as the proper end of my career as a stand up comedian. Just got to this: Sorry.
  10. Ahm proud t'say- ya listenin' boy? I say, boy ahr ya hearin' me? Ahm proud t'say we ah purged of Blaggies. Ahll ahr puhsons of niggra puhsuasion ahr proud Aggies. An' we ahr proud a them, too! We treat them as equals!
  11. If you plan to attempt high-minded, you must deliver same. I'm neither a grammarian nor an English teacher. Writing has been my job or part of my job for 35 years. A&M's most esteemed man of letters presents himself with a raised nose and raised sense of himself. From a college man: Dear Mister Farkquar Fuckstain, Your writing improves with every new effort. This represents your best work to date. Sadly, you undermine your premise with name-calling and a logical argument that stabs itself in the testicles. You state that you observe two "tu" students who speak poorly. You conclude that all "tu" (if only this institution of higher learning could dispense with that silly slur!), students must be uneducated and poor speakers. This reasoning is equivalent to suggesting that you've observed three left-handed mechanics, therefore all mechanics must be left-handed. [Farkquar reads this and thinks, Yes, and?] Perhaps you, yourself, should consider becoming a mechanic. They make excellent money and are not called upon for much, as you describe, professional communication. The good news, Mr. Fuckstain, is that you are well on your way to passing Remedial English this time around! Well done!
  12. How was I supposed to know she was 13? She looked 15!* *Basketball Jones
  13. You don't have a War Hymn for rivals. A War Hymn, well, that's for something ebil. 1 Quote marks. This is a serious man. Subtle of thought. 2 No, you do not aside from your "buddy" close to the tu football program. 3 Not "rivals," that's too "soft" a characterization. Adversaries, "enemies" for whom "you" have war "hymns" to rouse your "fake" army. 4 Cover the ears of the children and women folk. Ebil. 5 Perfectly normal way to express this. Am I the only one around here who feels totally found out? I surely am whatever the hell he wrote there.
  14. Do you have your own radio show? It's not good sophistry, but it's good enough for the right audience.
  15. Barely intelligible idiotic babble that amounts to a shit river of lies flows from the face sphincter of a malign moron who....well...
  16. Just trying to have a discussion instead of a shit war with Ana. Whenever he posts, there are only repeated, tiresome diatribes against him. I think he does troll now, but I suspect it's something of self-fulfilling prophecy. He's not one of the MagaGops who come here so they can run back to their safe space and lament how mean everybody here is. I think there is plenty of room for Anastasis' voice here. He shows up. He writes well. I'll quote whoever the fuck I want to.
  17. Just dropping by. You suggest that "Austin," however you envision that entity, voted for what looks like an abuse of power by a traffic ticket judge? Do you think she ran on that policy?
  18. It's a fucking yokel/hillbilly sounding song. I was surprised when I finally heard it.
  19. I don't understand your point.
  20. I'm the choir on that one, Brother Biff. A confluence of factors led to this place where we are. Advertising. Slack education. Grad students. The press becoming overrun with college boys and girls who learned templates in school rather than learning how to find news and how not to treat every story the same. It's a shit show.
  21. Don't take away my mental masturbation! It's all I have left!
  22. That's the president of the EU having to sit there and listen to this crazy rant from an American President. I wish Trump would tour all of Europe with his power-drunk buffoonery on full display. The West needs to fully realize just how far the US has fallen. We should never be called the leader of the free world. The free world needs to prepare to get along without us. They also have to prepare to deal with an adversarial US. Europe is on its own from here on out. I wish I were a European. On the continent, there still seems to be a great concern for the common good. On a trip there two years ago, I couldn't avoid noticing how much they've reduced their use of plastic. We can't be bothered to give up hamburgers (nobody proposed that, of course) to make a less horrific world for generations that are alive today. We need to be hated and reviled by the better countries. It's their best chance. And we earned it in a period of less than ten years. Stunning.
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