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  1. On 7/10/2022 at 5:11 PM, troph said:

    And I don’t know if I want a major city and if we do I don’t think it’s a US city. I love the outdoors and being within walking distance of a trout stream would be ideal. That’s the idea behind tahoe or Colorado. And from Tahoe/truckee we can be in Yosemite or SF or Carmel or any other amazing spot for the weekend pretty easily (within a day of driving).   
     

    There are a lot of places in there Bay Area that aren’t SF. We live in the East Bay in Moraga. But the whole area of Lafayette, Orinda and Walnut Creek are great. Of you Fing need to get into the city easily there are other communities to consider as well. 

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  2. 5 hours ago, CooterBrown said:


    If you look at the actual national vet school rankings, aggy is middling like they are at everything. It’s why they fought so hard to keep Tech from starting a vet school. It won’t take much effort to be at least as good as the aggy vet school and just a bit of effort to pass them.

    Oh wow. UC Davis is #1. I didn't know that.

  3. On 9/29/2022 at 8:09 AM, MaybeACoordinator said:

    My daughter (no pics) is 18 and wants to be a vet. We all know that, tragically, aggy has the top vet school in state. 
     

    I am a big believer in letting my older kids make their own decisions without too much chatter from me, within sensible limits, of course. Since attending that college for vet school was not quite life threatening, I held my tongue when she went up to aggieland for a visit. 

    I needn’t have worried. Everything about tge town and the school and the campus and the student body contributed to a violent case of the nopes. It’s hard wired into her, apparently. I was so proud of her. 
     
    oh well, Lubbock/ out of state here we come. 

     

    Evidently UC Davis is a great vet school. 

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  4. On 9/22/2022 at 2:16 PM, MagicSoccerSpray said:

     

    I was encouraged by it and am not copy pasting shit. I saw what they did to Obi-Wan, Boba Fett, and Luke.

     

     

    No shit. Watch 6/7/8, Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan, then get back to me. I'm just happy this seems to be written and directed for adults instead of thirteen year olds, though I'll hold final judgement till I've watched all of it.

     

    This is what they’ve needed to do for a while. They just get away with being this gritty with “beloved” characters because they know that people will want their kids to be able to watch shows about Obi-Wan or Han Solo.

     Using unknown characters allows them to expand the tone of the Star Wars universe.  

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  5. 2 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

    Yeah, I liked this episode. But I thought the cripple’s motivation for killing his Dad and brother was poorly developed. 

    Yeah. I don’t get what he’s doing. They never really show him interacting with his family so I don’t get the sense of decades of pent up hate and frustration like with Tyrion. He don’t have the background of poverty and trauma to motivate him like Littlefinger.

    He feels powerless and overlooked so his big plan is to kill his father, the Hand of the King, and his brother, who has lands to rule in hopes of possibly receiving favor or blackmailing the Queen, who might never have a son sit on the throne.

    Without sufficient backstory about his familial relationships it seems like he should be scheming more to advance his family’s interests over a Queen by marriage. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Yesh said:

    To me on the last UTSA drive I thought they were content to run the ball and end the game, but then they ended up throwing the ball and trying to score and we were blitzing rather than playing back.  It wasn't clear which side escalated first, but I assumed that was what their conversation was about.

    Looks like at the very beginning of that clip Sark says “This just happened?” Than after Sark says “That’s between you and me.” He says something like “He came right up to me.” So it sounds like they were reacting to what someone did after the game. 

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  7. On 9/6/2022 at 11:52 AM, shadow_operative said:

    i really liked how all of the crab soldiers attacked daemon one by one, repeatedly getting killed in assembly line fashion. i always love seeing that in movies and tv shows, it's very exciting and unpredictable.

    I was hoping they’d just lure all the guys in and firebomb the whole area since Daemon is ostensibly fireproof. 

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  8. Even if they were able to secede without having to fight the US, how long would it take for the Mexican cartels to take over the whole state/nation do you figure? Tac vests over beer bellies will seem less cool when people are chopping off your neighbors’ heads. 

  9. On 8/25/2022 at 2:21 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:

    This. I honestly didn't know he had Turkish citizenship. I don't think anyone with a state level or higher position should be allowed to serve while being the citizen of another country. 

    I'm pretty sure the US doesn't recognize dual-citizenship with Turkey. Turkey does accept dual citizenship from citizens of other countries. My wife is Turkish and is "dual citizenship" as well as my elder daughter, who was born in the USA.

  10. 5 hours ago, Laxtonto said:

    I think a lot of the late game collapses of CT is tied to teams finally realizing how often he can get the ball in his receivers catch radius but not really consistently be able to put the ball in a position for them to be successful after the catch.  As the pressure mounts he becomes more and more likely to miss behind and/or high. 
     

    So teams crank up the pressure late knowing he is either going to hold it a bit too long for the sack or derp out and put the ball in a spot that the defender can make a contested play on it.  
     

    Early in the game teams try to limit pressure because he does have enough talent to occasionally hit big on a busted play on pressure, but late game it is worth it from a risk vs reward standpoint.

    The weird thing with Casey is that his accuracy doesn't seem to drop THAT much when he gets flustered. Just enough that the balls are really hard to catch but everyone blames the receiver. This INT to end the game is a perfect example of that. I think that's why he gets more slack for his play than if he were just heaving it straight into the ground or DB's hands.

  11. 46 minutes ago, demos said:


    Getting left in Dublin is probably an upgrade over going back to Lincoln.

    Ain’t no probably about it. Dublin is a cool city. Take your “fired college football coach money” and hit the town. 

  12. 10 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    The only downside to New Zealand is travel anywhere else. You’ll have a 25 hour flight and like it.

    Oh the way back from a trip to Turkey we had a connection at a German airport (Frankfurt maybe). I ended up talking to a couple Kiwis who were motorcycle sidecar racers who had flown to Germany for a race. I rode at the time so we talked about bikes.

    I asked them why they were flying to LAX from Germany. They said that was the fastest flight home. Blew my mind frankly. 

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  13. 16 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:


    How embarrassing to play in one of the top venues in sports and only fill it up that much.

    To be fair, when they’re good it fills up. I moved to LA in ‘96 and became very close friends with a UCLA season ticket holder in FB and BB. The Rose Bowl was per full back in those days when they were good to nearly great. I’ve been to a lot of near-capacity regular season games at the Rose Bowl. 
     

    Sure they’re more fair weathered fans than Bama but I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to take an hour+ bus ride to watch their team suck.

  14. 3 hours ago, WBT said:

    Good season and good finale.  I thought Maeve holding her own 1 on 1 with Highlander (except for the eye thing) was a little out of nowhere.

    Lulz at Homelander's "I could shoot a guy on 5th avenue" moment at the end.

    I don’t think it was out of nowhere. They’ve always implied that she was very, very strong. She just doesn’t have Homelander’s other powers. It’s obviously a parallel to Superman and WW. WW is pretty strong but just a notch weaker than Supes. 

  15. 1 hour ago, gmr548 said:


    Yeah I’m sure the recruitment of a Manning came down to NIL money. They desperately need the cash.

    Evidently Cooper is pretty loaded on his own, not to even mention the rest of the family money. 

  16. 1 hour ago, Party_Taco said:

    Gotta say, this was a pretty cool way to watch this gem - Bonus points for being next to an air guard station with 20 A-10s parked right out front and a bar called The Landing Strip across the street, complete with a P-40 on the roof!

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    Anyway, great popcorn flick dripping with nostalgia… but a question for you all:

    Why no Gen-5 fighters for us in the film?

    Wasn’t there some explanation that the radar jamming tech the “enemy” would render new jets blind in this mission? 

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