Posts posted by RomaVicta
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4 minutes ago, EastTexan said:
You should go back to 60's. Those were the days. Dandy Don Meredith has forever been my favorite Cowboy qb. He, along with many of the old timers were mugged every Sunday.
btw, the oilers were my second favorite team. Earl was the Man.
Meredith was a hero. He got his nose broken numerous times. In one game, a defender jammed his fist past the cross bar in Meredith's helmet. Ralph Neely, the all pro OL for the Cowboys, found that player on the next play and roughed him up so bad that he had to be helped off the field.
This wasn't game of millionaires. It was in many ways a brawl. The violence of the game picked up with weight training, technique improvement, and greater speed. It had to be brought under control.
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Spanky,
Thanks for reminding me what a bunch of dicks your average NFL fans can be. You are your franchise.
What a sad joke.
We used to like the Oilers. It's worth remembering from time to time. See if you can find a way to jump up your own ass proudly wearing your beloved franchise's jersey.
Nueces,
It's a shame nobody remembers the sadists when drawing up the rules.
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FX's Christmas Carol with Guy Pierce is brilliant. They've taken one of my favorite classic stories and brought it to life in a singularly deft way.
Time has made given the story too much to jolly caricature and removed the edge that I believe Dickens intended. That's back. The creative team also explores some motivations quite well.
This movie was a great surprise.
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
You can quibble about Reagan's policies, but he's a veritable Rhodes Scholar and Nobel Laureate compared to Trump. He had some political experience, had been out of entertainment for a long time, and was never the self-dealing dickwad that is Trump.
The election of Trump as POTUS is a several orders of magnitude larger indictment of the American public.
I'll agree that Reagan was more of a dupe than a villain. I think you overstate his intellectual ascendancy over Trump. Reagan clears that low bar, but his knowledge of the world was limited and often informed by homey cliches and right wing stereotyping.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
Because people are dicks and they suck.
I mean, in case you hadn’t figured that out.17 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:Because con artists know getting Group A to fight Group B enhances their chances of sustained success. It behooves them not to solve existing problems, and benefits them to create problems and divisions where none previously existed.

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On 12/12/2019 at 12:25 PM, SquishMitten said:
Excellent reply.
And absofuckinglutely I am. I bought an inappropriate sweater that I feel adequately represents my feelings, and I'm bringing a bottle of bourbon to pour into a bowl. They want everyone to eat soup? Fine. I'll sit down and drink whiskey with a spoon until I'm drunk enough to make them all wish they had made better decisions.
And I had to get the post of the season onto this page. Laugh rep is so inadequate.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Solstice!
I like the season because for whatever reason, some of the humans in N. America chose to brighten the darkest part of the year with lights and gifts and joyful greetings. It's a wonderful expression of a moody species creating their own light amid the darkness. It works as a metaphor for believers in Christ. I'm not of their number, but I'm fine with that.
The holiday should be totally inclusive. The only requirement be that you add light in whatever way you wish.
Again, why do some people have to make things that are easy and fun difficult and hostile?
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On 12/11/2019 at 11:06 PM, Junior Miller said:Found it on my phone. People are nutty
For being scourged, having thorns shoved into Your temples, dragging Your cross up a mountain and then dying painfully for us, we went down to the local grocery and shelled out $9.95 for a disgusting sheet cake sprinkled with petroleum byproducts to celebrate Your birth.
Nothing is too good for our Lord and Savior!
I started to post about how this thread had become the War on Funny and realized that I was only on page one. I skip to page three and find tales of a person eating bourbon with a spoon to spite his family.

God bless us! Everyone!
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14 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:
I seem to remember that Texas ran this for a while. Thinking it was Ham, Lam, and Jam Jones a few times? Can't remember who the swing guy was.
It was '74 when most kickoffs allowed time for that maneuver. We ran it all season and I loved it. I think it went sour in the Gator Bowl and we abandoned it as too risky. I don't know if Ham was on campus yet and the other two Joneses were after him. Earl was here, but he didn't do kickoff returns.
My freshman year.
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2 hours ago, RollLeft said:
Yes, blatant and veiled racism should be shunned and eradicated. I'm for that. Also if you are person who has directly supported racists views fuck you. My only question is what does the average person have to do with the sins of idiot's of the past. How far do we go back? Furthermore, does it help to tell a young black person that they are victims of the past? If they have been discriminated directly today I get it but I think it perpetuates a victim mentality that serves no one to say they are owed an apology. The true victims are those who were directly and or cruelly victimized. Does that stll exist today, sure to some but fuck those racists fucks.
There are sentiments in your posts that are not alien to me. I am certainly wary of sanctifying victimhood. You seem to want to look at other people and imagine them as yourself. That's generally a good way to go through life.
The Black experience in America is unique. Not good unique. Even having recognized this throughout my life, these new historical facts impact my outlook. Black paranoia had appeared to be a bit overblown to me at different times. I only see the Black perspective through news usually as described by non-Blacks and through art. The most expressive such art has been stand up comedy. Pryor, Rock, and Chapelle have been the most brilliant at bringing those unique perspectives to light for me.
Cops are shooting Blacks, we jail them for crimes white men get probation for, and, it turns out, we were organizing massacres of them long after I would have thought that word had left the American vernacular. Am I to blame? No. The thing is that it's part of the history of my country. My country has the unique habit of proclaiming itself the greatest place in the world. Constant complacence and self-congratulation are about as unhealthy as it gets for any organization.
So, yea, I want to know this stuff so I can get a better fix of what informs the wariness of people of color. There may be ways subtle or unsubtle that I can ease that wariness in my little world and make everything as inclusive as I can.
These stories reinforce my thought that Martin Luther King may be the most important American of the Twentieth Century. He lived among people who had witnessed these slaughters. He managed to head off a wholesale race war in this country. He save his outnumbered people from massive killing and expulsion. He saved the country from a horrible dishonor and criminal blemish.
And, of course, somebody kills him.
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A glimpse of history shows the worn out justification that was used: black man accused of harming a white woman. You almost have to believe that those excuses are created after the fact or were used to start an action everybody wanted to take anyway they could.
In thinking about it, I'm reminded again about how Texas A&M is like a time capsule of bad things glorified as good things. All of the riots they started and violence they caused in other ways is always justified by a defense of innocence or the weak.
I didn't know about this massacre or the Slocum massacre.
It makes me sick that it happened.
It makes me sad to read about it.
It clarifies Black rage. This also makes clear why seeking out Black History actually has more of a purpose than I allowed for. My ignorance must support an African American's sense that nobody gives a fuck about what makes generations of American Black people angry and, necessarily, afraid.
I've been embarrassed as a white man that Blacks are treated different in so many subtle and unsubtle ways. Seeing this kind of history covered up or, worse, justified in any way, allows me an inkling of what is behind the way some black Americans feel when when they receive a different look or the hint of suspicion.
They hanged us, shot us, called out the National Guard and bombed us on a city street.
People are alive today who have heard the stories first hand from the survivors. How stunning that the story would be doubted (I would have doubted it) if related outside of a group of people of color.
It happened more than once, you know.
No, I didn't. I'm pretty ashamed of that. I'm ashamed the white people making decisions decided to hide it from my white suburban boy ears. I could have used the insight. I'm tolerant of anybody who doesn't hurt anyone else. I could have been more empathetic had I known these things.
At least we could count on a comic book to preserve and speak important history where scholarship and educational decision makers have failed us.
I don't like living in Idiot World. I can't really very well imagine what it's like for people living in Scary Violent Racist Idiot World.
Edit: Oh, almost forgot:

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3 hours ago, Bookman said:
Yeah no shit. Those 4.6 million Texans love them some corrupt, immoral, incompetent failed-businessmen.
It all started with my state embracing a Hollywood Movie Star wearing a cowboy hat and riding a horse. At least we went for an empty image. Now we don't even care about the image, only the ignorant hate behind it.


I'm sure the Texans who fought the formidable Comanches or scratched out livings in the Hill Country before the Colorado was dammed would be very impressed with us.
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On 12/19/2019 at 2:08 PM, Chuckie Finster said:True or False: Corruption has been in issue in Ukraine for more than 1 year.
True or False: Hunter Biden joined the Burisma board in 2014.
True or False: Trump did not hold up aid to Ukraine in 2017.
True or False: Trump did not hold up aid to Ukraine in 2018.
True or False: Joe Biden announced his candidacy to run for President in April of 2019.
True or False: Ukraine elects a new President, one who explicitly campaigned on anti-corruption measures, in April of 2019.
True or False: Trump holds up Ukraine for the first time in his Presidency, in 2019.
It's also significant that Trump threatened to hold up aid only after the the corrupt administration he was dealing with had been replaced by a hugely popular anti-corruption administration. He and Rudy preferred the old guys.
GOPs keep pointing to Ukraine as corrupt spurring Trump's concern. No. Trump became concerned when the corruption he was hoping to exploit was replaced. Trump wanted the new guys to play ball like the old guys.
It once would have amazed me that such a simple sequence would be beyond the common understanding of the electorate. No longer. We're a nation of idiots who won't work more than about 10 seconds thinking about an issue critical to the interests of the US.
Trump introduced the corruption that his apologists say he was worried about. It's not that fucking hard to see unless you have an army of shameless criminals in office taking great pains to muddy the water by lying and third rate sophistry. But those are the things that their voters lap up like a dog does vomit.
Anybody now appearing on this board to deny the obvious abuse of power committed by Trump is a disingenuous piece of dogshit who doesn't care a whit about their own integrity or honesty.
Your last ditch is admitting it was an abuse but not removal worthy. It's a shitty, pus-filled ditch that you share with crawling vermin, but at least the level of disingenuousness is less toxic than denying the facts about what Trump did.
Be kind to yourself. Choose the less odious form of treason.
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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Another example of why conservatives aren't funny. They're just petty and mean.
Well said. They're generally humorless and absolutely irony-deaf. Strange that they lack even a wicked sense of humor. Their sanctimoniousness, I suppose, could be the root cause. Believing everything you do is right and that every sensible person agrees with you breeds hubris which is on daily display.
It's strange that such pieces of shit never doubt themselves. Her objection to being called a liar screams about her (and her kind's) absolute negligence when it comes to self-reflection.






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Brutal. I'd forgotten or likely blocked it out.