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Thank you for your forbearance.
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Wrong—the DB really didn’t touch the WR. The WR launched himself backwards to try to get the flag because he knew there was no way he was going to get to that ball because it was so badly under thrown.
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Make-up call.
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What a shitty call.
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2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
Ghost of LL replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
F-15s. Watched them from my office. I'm really enjoying the new "fly-bys need some practice" thing we've got going on. Last week, the Apaches practiced on both Thursday and Friday. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Dude--I'm a quarter Texan-German. I'm quite familiar with the history. But if you think I'm going to let a small thing like facts get in the way of a quality shitpost on Surly, . . . well, friend--you just haven't been paying attention. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Huh. You mean to tell me that a small Texas town populated heavily by the descendants of people who came from Germany in the late 19th Century might have some political opinions that are maybe a bit pro-authoritarian and anti-racial-equality? Wow, I mean . . . I just wouldn't've ever guessed. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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You know, I really don't like the A's and I think their fans are garbage. But damned if I'm not more than a little sad. Garbage though they may be--this is some bullshit. No fanbase deserves this.
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Not much anymore. I do general litigation (including covenants not to compete, which is the case I'm involved in as I sit here in a Zoom hearing). But I don't really do a lot of employment counseling anymore.
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Are you getting that from the website or from a sales person? If the former, you ought to pick up the phone and call them—those guys work on commission, and they want to put you in this new Buick today.
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By the way, with your trip coming up you ought to call and see if they have any upgrades available. With the upgraded suite, you get the premium wifi and free dry cleaning (as you noted). And the free dry cleaning really helps cut down on how much you have to pack.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
So in my neighborhood, which is pretty consistently 2/3rds Democratic, I've seen two Trump signs. One is a handwritten sign of crazy. The other is a campaign sign just next to the old beater pick-up truck in the driveway that is really very incongruous with the neighborhood. A quick thought on that Trump sign, if you haven't seen those campaign signs. It's blue, for one. And that strikes me as odd in a world in which red has become the universally understood color of the GQP. But for another, the font size is very small. Shockingly small for something that says "TRUMP" on it. It almost implies a certain shame--"I'm putting out this yard sign, but I don't actually want to advertise that I'm voting for that guy." There are houses in the neighborhood that always have their GQP campaign signs out, no matter whether the candidate at the top of the ticket is Trump or Cruz or Abbott, but which don't have anything right now. Maybe it's just too early. I don't know. And I think all this is meaningless. But it's interesting to observe on an otherwise-slow Wednesday. -
It warms the heart.
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This is the right decision, based on how you described yourself. As to the butler, I think it varies very much by cruise line. On Norwegian, the butler is a person who is going to deliver the room service and can work things out for you with restaurant reservations or shore excursions--kind of a concierge-type person. On a more upscale cruise line (e.g., Silversea), the butlers are actually trained to be butlers. That means they'll unpack your shit and put it in drawers or hanging in the closet when you arrive. If you can't tie a fucking bowtie (I'm telling on myself here), they'll help you out getting dressed for a formal night. If you need gifts for the office, they'll run into town during a stop and pick up a bunch of shit from a local shop (I might be telling on myself again). If you have a question and you don't know whom else to ask (e.g., "I want caviar on the table here every evening at 5:30--is that doable?"), you ask the butler. And the night before you leave, you can have the butler pack you up while you're at dinner (and they do it with very nice tissue paper--much better than I've ever packed myself).
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
Ghost of LL replied to Gil Bang's topic in Football
So if this is true, then UNLV is going to have a real problem attracting recruits going forward. You break one of these agreements, and that makes you a risk. Alabama can get by with being a risk--they're putting guys in the NFL, and that's where the real money is anyway. But UNLV? The guys they're attracting aren't playing in the NFL. For almost all of them, this is the last time they'll ever see a dime for playing football. So if signing with UNLV means you're risking not getting paid anything, the price (and the demand for up-front payment) is going to go up. And that's really bad for UNLV's program. If this is not true, then UNLV (or its boosters, to satisfying immamac's legalisms) have the receipts. And that's not only going to limit Sluka's chances of transferring for fear of a tampering charge, it's also going to raise legal concerns for a breach-of-contract suit or an IRS issue. Bottom Line: someone's coming out of this fucked. And it may be both parties, really. -
Brett Favre is about to go through some things
Ghost of LL replied to Hugo Stiglitz's topic in Football
It's not just that nobody feels bad for him. It's the the reaction of a lot of people--myself included--was "good." Fuck Brett Favre--he stole money from kids on welfare. He was strong; they were weak. So he stole their money. And he defrauded the taxpayers to do so. He's a piece of shit, and I hope he suffers a lot on his way to an early grave on which I will gleefully piss.- 311 replies
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah--I agree with that. And by way of full disclosure, we didn't really talk Georgia in any depth individually. His commentary was "Arizona and Georgia." And since I was so surprised by his Arizona take, I focused much more on that. But you're right that Georgia likely has some of the same challenges Pennsylvania has with respect to Black men. I think this goes to what we're seeing in the polling--Harris is doing materially better than Hillary or Biden did among whites (particularly among college-educated whites), and materially worse among Blacks and Hispanics. It's kind of an interesting de-racialization of the vote. In the last six weeks of the campaign, it strikes me that Harris has her work cut out for her among Hispanics and Black men. But I think she's maybe better positioned to make up ground with those groups than Trump is to make up ground with college-educated whites. But that's just a pretty uninformed sense that's not based on any actual data. This coupled with the de-racialization of the voting patterns (Harris maybe doing better among whites in Wisconsin and Trump doing better among Hispanics in California) may be behind a possible reduction/elimination of the Republican advantage in the Electoral College that the current polling kind of hints at. We'll see. But for the time being, it's interesting to speculate about. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I don't recall specifically talking about Wisconsin. I think it fell under the general "fine" feeling for Michigan. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I guess the lack of talk is kind of telling, isn't it? -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Well, it's all relative, right? I mean, if Harris is getting 40% among white men in Pennsylvania--which may well be pretty close to where she is--then she's doing pretty phenomenally. But if she's getting anything less than 85% among Black men, then that's pretty lousy. I didn't get into specific numbers with my friend. But I don't suspect the "problem" with Black men in Pennsylvania means that she is behind among that demographic (or even close to it). It's just that her margin isn't nearly as high as it needs to be to make up for her weakness among other demographics (e.g., white men). -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I had dinner over the weekend with my previously referenced "source close to the campaign," and a few nuggets are worth sharing here: Arizona: They're very confident about Arizona. I mean, they're so confident about Arizona that I was somewhat shocked. I mean, I feel good about Arizona. But what I heard was "we're going to win Arizona by 1-2 points." Georgia: They're maybe a little less confident about Georgia. But that was couched in terms of "we really like where we stand right now." Michigan: We're fine. Nevada: They're unequivocal on Nevada: "we're going to win Nevada by 2-2.5 points." North Carolina: This one is really harder to tell, because they don't have any information from after the whole Mark Robinson flame-out. It's pretty clear to them that the likes of Kari Lake and Mark Robinson are a bit of a drag on Trump. And they're really trying to target people who have decided they're not going to vote for Lake/Robinson but who are still planning to vote for Trump. Who are those people? I don't exactly know, but it's obviously a focus of the Harris campaign's data people. Texas: I think the term "extreme skepticism" is the only way to describe their feelings with respect to Texas. My friend conceded that there are some numbers that look good-ish for Allred. But damn--we've all been through this drill before. There's just an extreme unwillingness to divert resources at any level to Texas, no matter what any poll is currently saying. Pennsylvania: I take this one out of alphabetical order because that's where the game is. My friend gamely tried to obfuscate on the point, but quickly conceded that Pennsylvania is the tipping-point state. And they're feeling ok about Pennsylvania, but they have a big problem with Black men. How big a problem I can't exactly say. But it's causing some serious concern. I asked about whence the problem derives, and he said two things: 1) Kamala's perceived record as a prosecutor (and alleged prosecutions of small-time marijuana offenses) and 2) misogyny (and particularly as against a Black woman). On the upside, the campaign has identified the issue and is doing a whole lot to address it. That State Commonwealth is being absolutely blanketed with campaign surrogates talking directly to that community to shore up those numbers. And I'm going to observe here--and this was my observation, and not my friend's (though it was an observation with which he agreed)--that this is where the Harris campaign's superiority in resources shows. They have something like twice as many field offices as the Trump campaign and RNC have. We spent a good deal of time just laughing at how Lara Trump is siphoning off money from the RNC and killing their organizing and down-ballot support. So the Trump campaign isn't really able to go out and play offense and try to exploit the problems Harris is having with that (or any other) demographic. So from that standpoint, it's kind of the opposite of 2016. -
Well now I'm wondering what the fuck happened the first two weeks of the season against North Texas and Ohio that has South Alabama with just a 1-2 record.
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This offensive line is really good in run blocking.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I can't even remember what this is from.
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