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  1. I'm sure the 16 Qataris and couple of hundred Egyptians that show up in town will have already had their eyes opened by the time the match begins. It's not terribly challenging to run into the rainbow anywhere and everywhere in the area, and Pride Week is a pretty big deal, parade and festival and all. That draw is pretty perfect for this, though. 😂
  2. Every bar owner in Seattle has been sobbing nonstop since the draw: Qatar, Egypt x2, Iran... possibly Bosnia. Aussies will do their best to help out, but it's a tall ask even for them. Perhaps Italy or Northern Ireland will win the playoff and give the poor pubs some hope.
  3. lolol if the US wins their very winnable group, they wouldn't play a match outside of the west coast megablue states (WA and CA) until the semifinals. 😂
  4. Tomorrow morning, I believe, 11am CT. The delay is definitely to try and align TV times with local markets as best as possible.
  5. The only thing I've seen says they'll announce "the locations and times" at 11a CT Saturday - maybe that's because most cities are hosting games from two groups (Seattle's are B and G). We'll definitely know which teams are in which groups today, but maybe not which group games are where. Seattle (and Vancouver) being exactly equidistant between Europe and Asia, it will be interesting to see who gets placed in the PNW.
  6. Since that game is against a pot 2 team, the USA’s possible opponents are Croatia, Morocco, Colombia, Uruguay, Switzerland, Japan, Senegal, Iran, South Korea, Ecuador, Austria and Australia - mostly pretty good matchups. Since I live here, I'm hoping to go to a match or two, but probably won't be that one. It looks as though we won't actually know where the vast majority of games will be played until tomorrow morning, though, as they're trying to set optimal TV times for as many countries as possible.
  7. You'll get Mazepin's used Haas* and you'll like it. *some assembly required
  8. Nobody wins in a shovel fight. Well, at least that guy didn't.
  9. The roast dinners are generally great and pretty much every pub has them. You can get them every Sunday (at the least); many do a special Christmas dinner for regulars as well. That said, my sister and BIL have always kept the Thanksgiving dinner tradition for their family and have done for the nearly 20 years they've lived there. They want roast beast, they can get that anytime.
  10. So this is allegedly from US Southern Command? And we're still trying to convince ourselves that "oh, the military wouldn't follow illegal orders" when it comes to this (or anything else)? There's a lot of rot that will need to be excised when the time comes. I still have hope that the vast majority of our military will do the right thing in any circumstances when illegal orders are given, but it's gonna be messy if that comes to a head.
  11. Yes, this is typical, particularly on larger projects where you can "stage" the various permits (clearing/grading, dry utilities, site, foundation etc.) and begin work on each in turn. Of course here there's likely no permitting authority, or if there is it was ignored, so here we are. We try to "freeze the backgrounds" as early as possible, especially where stuff is touching ground, so that those permits can be obtained early and subsequent work begun. Freezing the backgrounds in other areas sometimes doesn't occur until closer to building permit application, mainly due to clients constantly changing their minds. (Right, McCrery?)
  12. Oh, he was definitely on from early days - when the renderings came out it was difficult to even find out who the architect was, but eventually I found a blurb somewhere. He's definitely creditable but the weird thing was is, unlike most architecture firms his was difficult to find much info on. At the time there were about 2 intern-level staffers on LinkedIn and his website looked like something a small residential shop would've done about 10 years ago. Most of his work appears to have been on Catholic churches and for a conservative Catholic university, along with some smaller neoclassical projects. His work isn't bad - style is irrelevant; we all work in the style we tend to be comfortable with, and neoclassical certainly is an appropriate style here - but he seems to be one of those architectural demagogues that believe in One True Style, much like King Charles or Trump himself (or Speer/Hitler, if you want to take it there). He was all on board but is now the perfect example of the frog on the scorpion. "You knew what I was when you got on."
  13. Fuck McCrery. He knew what he was getting into. No architect takes over a project - assuming his tiny firm wasn't involved from the start - without a full understanding of what had been done to date. I've done this on multiple large projects; you normally get all previous work (the client typically owns the rights) and often chat with the previous architect before going forward. He deserves all the shit that is about to come his way.
  14. My sister and her family live in London and have for 17 years (they're dual citizens now) - she told me this morning turkeys were running £80-£100 this year. She said to hell with it, chicken it shall be.
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    Adoro disso. Adoro muito! Tchau tchau, Jairzinho!
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