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  1. Death, Taxes, and my wife frantically packing 15 minutes before departure on a trip she’s known about for 3 months. 
    My wife packs for herself and both kids 2 months before the trip and still isn't ready to go. I pack 30 minutes before it's time to leave and am in the car 10 minutes early.
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    Lived on a farm when I was a kid. Once had a calf we had to bottle-feed because mama rejected it and he wasn't doing good. Dad sent me out one early morning to give it a bottle and I found it like this, covered in maggots. The smell is the worst part. I went back and told my dad. Not sure how he got it out of the barn stall.
  3. If it was an IW it was one of the worst I've ever seen. 
    I kept thinking they were trying to low-key strike her out while "intentionally walking" her. I was wondering why they bother throwing four pitches and don't just award the base if the pitching team indicates they want to intentionally walk.
  4. Got some small pea-to-gravel hail in 78724. Some nice rain. Power went out about 5-10 minutes before the rain hit. Wife and kids barely got out of the car and onto the porch before it started coming down. Lasted about 20 minutes and the sun is out again.

  5. What fucking moron calls dispatch instead of 911? He think Amazon has a rescue team on standby? Gotdamn idiot
    Some places require you notify internal resources BEFORE calling 911, and wouldn't surprise me if Amazon is one of those.  Gotta get PR ahead of the storm.
    He doesn't work for Amaxon despite the Amazon branded vest and panel van. He works for a subcontracting company that delivers Amazon packages. It's how Amazom avoids liability for shit like this. The sub-companies are responsible for hiring and clearing drivers. Any damages incurred are on the sub-company that hired him. I personally would've called the customer first to see if they had a ladder or rope, then 911, then my dispatch to let them know why I'm not delivering (vehicles have trackers).
  6. QE definitely had some WTF throws, but I'm not going to totally blame him on some of those deep 40+-yd throws that landed 3-6 feet to the side of the receiver. A lot of times you hear about a QB "throwing a guy open" because of the defender's position. You have a WR running down the field with a CB on his right hip. Sure, a perfect throw COULD land right in his hands, but it's better to throw it to the left and let your WR adjust to the open area of the field and catch it. Worthy was terrible at making adjustments and tracking the ball. I don't put all of that on Quinn.

    Now, when he overthrows or underthrows a wide open receiver, that's definitely on him.

  7. Unless the person claiming it is a self sack, whomever the fuck that is, he will need to know the o line scheme of the play, what the backs were supposed to do and what routes were adjusted or not. Also what the defense did.
    Just because a QB turns into a rushing defender does not mean it is a fucking self sack.
    Jesus how hard is it for you and your other screen name to understand.
    I would call it a "self sack" if:

    - the QB runs out of bounds behind the LOS without throwing it away first.

    - the QB has time but sees all of his options covered and decides to tuck it and gets tackled behind the LOS rather than chucking it OOB over a receivers head.

    Either of those two instances have an option that doesn't lose yards, but the QB decided not to take it.

    Now, tucking it and getting tackled 2 seconds after getting the ball because someone whiffed on a block is not a self-sack.
  8. Are you talking about the QB that changed the play at the line and threw a perfect 4th down pass to save the game ?
    That QB ?
    I'll just jump in for a second to bring up something that occurs to me often when I hear this from Sark or the sports mafia that reports on the Horns:

    We often hear about "that TD (or big play) was a result of (QB) changing the play at the line. I called a different play, but he saw the defense was (in whatever formation), made the change, and the result was (great play)."

    We never hear about the times when the QB changes the play and it ends up being a complete clusterfuck that ends up in a turnover (INT, loss of downs, etc) or DOESN'T change the play because they didn't read the defense properly and the play gets blown up or stopped for a loss.

    How many times have we all yelled "WTF?!?" after a stupid 4th down play or "WHY IS HE THROWING DEEP WHEN WE ONLY NEED 2 YARDS?!?" We blame Sark for the playcall, but who's to say it wasn't Quinn changing the play or NOT changing the play (if warranted)?

    Sure, it's great when it works, but there are usually a ton of mistakes that led us to the point of needing that great play. It's like shooting double-bogey on every hole but saying you had a great round because you chipped in for birdie on the 18th to beat your playing partner by 1 stroke.
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  9. 1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

    Some GMs can be really fucking stupid (I'm looking at YOU Jerrah), but truly, I'd rather have Gabriel, Mertz or Ewers riding pine in Dallas than Sanders. All day, every day. 

    Which is why Jerrah will probably draft him late.

    After Deion kicks back some of that $50M he got from Jerrah back in the day.

    Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Daddy bribed some team to draft him. Maybe with a promise of a scholarship for someone's kid.

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  10. I was thinking about the knife while catching up. There has been speculation about whether a small folding pocket knife is legal on a school campus and - if so - how small is legal and how big is illegal. And if a small folding picket knife that is legal would have a large enough blade to stab someone deep enough to penetrate the heart.

    But let's disregard that for a moment and consider three things:

    1 - it was a folding knife and was folded, then he had to remove the knife, unfold it, and then stab.

    2 - the knife was already unfolded in the backpack. He just had to grab it and swing.

    3 - it was a fixed blade knife, either in a sheath or not. If unsheathed, he just need to grab and stab. If sheathed, he had to pull it from the sheath first.

    Does any of those change anything about intent? If you have time to pull the knife and unfold it, I'd think you also have time to walk away. Does unfolding it imply intent to use it? Does carrying it unfolded and "ready" imply you are expecting to be in scenarios where you would have to use it? If you have pull it from a sheath, I'd think you're intending to use it.

    Just wondering if the type of knife used and how it was carried in the backpack could have any bearing on the self-defense theory.

  11. We have friends of my child in Frisco HS that knew the deceased.   This is patently false.  
     
    further, if you are being bullied to the point that you feel the need to bring a weapon to defend yourself, why are you stationed under the very tent of those you are so fearful of you feel that your life is being threatened by?   This idea of rain?   They are in the football field.  Every team brings tents.  Every one.   This is how the coaches coordinate their runners.  4x100 runners….meet at the tent at xyz time, etc.   This is also where their packs are.   Packs with cell phones, headphones, etc.  It’s not done.   Ever.  I’ve been to dozens of meets between both kids.  You never.   Ever.  See another schools kid under someone else’s tent unless they are friends and talking between events.  
    I'm 5 days behind, so apologies if this is covered already, but you can tell the majority of the speculators here were the bullies and not the bullied. And probably don't even realize they were bullies.

    I was bullied a lot in HS . Apparently it's frowned upon to get the best grades and wreck the curve. The last thing I would ever do is intentionally go where my bullies are unless I was planning a drastic Columbine-type retaliation. It wouldn't matter how bad the rain was. I'm not hanging around to give them a target.

    Either this guy was never bullied by them, or went there specifically to tempt them so he could harm them with the knife.

    And I wouldn't want a stranger in my team's tent where cell phones, jewelry, etc are sitting in bags.
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