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Eskimohorn

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  1. Some fat, white, middle-aged asshole cussed out my wife and daughter in the Starbucks parking lot on Great Hills a week or so ago.   The spots there are tiny, and she was parked dead center (according to her).  Well parked or not, he didn't like that he had to shimmy his fat ass to get inside his car, rolled down his window and started screaming obscenities at my wife.   Wife asked him to calm down as our 11 year old daughter was with her, and he proceeded with "fuck your daughter, she's a bitch too."  Then looked right at my daughter and said, "Yeah, you.  You're a bitch just like your mom."  
    Given this site's proclivity for attracting a bevy of men who meet this particular description, I thought I might see if this story sounds familiar to anyone.  If you happen to be the guy, please announce yourself so I can come over and feed you your teeth.  If you're not man enough to message me your name and address, know that I'll eventually find you anyway.  
     
     
    With that out of the way, there does seem to be an uptick in the general level of anger out there in Austin these days.  I don't know if it's the influx of northeasterners bringing a more direct form of communication to us Texans, who prefer to act nice outwardly and talk shit behind your back, or it's a result of the political environment of the last few years, the state of the economy over the last few years, pandemic, etc. etc etc.  

    It was me. Can we keep this between us? I’d hate to lose my teaching job.
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  2. I would let Noah Brown go if he expects a big contract. He was injured throughout the season and is nothing special. His biggest games were due to Collins and Dell drawing the coverages. I would really like to add Mike Evans and Derrick Henry on some short term deals. Then focus the draft on a safety and interior lineman.

    Buy low, sell high

    Under few circumstances should an up and coming team dedicate finite resources longterm on aging assets.

    Agree on Noah Brown. Think Texans are fine at receiver.

    Dalton Schultz is a JAG. He also struggled at end of year with hands. It’s frustrating to see teams think guys are tight ends when really they’re just big possession receivers. Want to see a real tight end? watch George Kittle work.
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  3. this is the thing.  the analytics only work if you....you know...follow the analytics every time.

    Context matters a lot. In baseball, if you need a single run against a power pitcher who doesnt field their position well, maybe a sacrifice bunt is the right play.

    As the 49ers defense was tightening up their run D and your team was playing tight and sloppy, maybe that 60% go for it wasnt representative of what was happening down the stretch.
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  4. I haven't seen all the nominees, but American Fiction is the best movie I've seen this year. Definitely better than Oppenheimer or KOTFM. 

    The commercial made it seem like something fresh back in the 90’s
  5. if instead of Randi Trew and Chris Beard it was Randy Trew and Kris Beard then ESPN would probably be producing a 30 for 30 on Kris Beard, the women’s basketball coach who had the courage to finally fight back. that’s how stupid all of this is.

    Bullshit. In reality, women who “fight back” are more likely to be murdered. Women who arm themselves, are more likely to have their abuser use that gun.

    The problem we have is not equal between men and women. The hospitalized and deceased are few and far between battered men. Its an epidemic.

    With exceptions, men cannot engage in fair physical confrontations with women. If you want to see how it plays out when women FAFO, watch the Joe Mixon video again.

    At no point was Mixon, a large man with years of strength training in danger of being hurt. But he fucked that chick up. Mixon deserved more.
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  6. But he does bankroll it. And his state department has done nothing but furrow its brow (on its best days)

    That would be something. The ignominy of abandoning Israel after a major terrorist attack, siding with the terror faction Hamas and Iran, and reversing a half century of policy would be massive.

    One big problem is that Netanyahu has meddled in US politics at the local, state, and federal levels. And has plenty of media support and experience manipulating social media.

    The US is deeply divided on the issue largely on age. Older Americans side with Israel, remembering their plight and a Cold War ally who never funded terror attacks against Americans. Younger Americans side with Palestinians, and even Hamas, due to current events and dissonance about Israel’s rights there in the first place.

    It’s a quagmire. I think if Biden took your advice, it would be followed by “…and I will be resigning” as he’d have no hope for re-election and he’d be turning over the White House back to dotard.

    And middle ground is not helpful either. There are plenty of misguided people who will stay away from voting due to this issue, which has no easy answers and only more and more problems.
  7. I mean, kinda. I felt that the book was more objective. It presented the Comanches as human beings living in a culture that, albeit alien and hostile to Anglos, had its own internal logic and was understandable given its roots and context. Comanches lived like pretty much any plains tribe had been for centuries (millennia?). They were just doing it more effectively than their competitors. 

    Like I said, from our perspective, they were evil bastards. But they took care of their own and I agree they had their own logic. There were other tribes that werent nomads and they were shit out of luck unless they could trade something of value.
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  8. That 26,000 rape related pregnancy number seems high. Is that high? I live in a non rape related pregnancy bubble.

    That seems like a shit ton. Wonder if they count all unmarried minors as rape (statutory). It’s fucked up regardless.
  9. What struck me about the book was how deep it cut at Old West and Native portrayals in pop culture.

    You’d both sympathize and be revolted by how Comanches operated as a warrior tribe. They were like apex predators and if couldnt provide them value they saw you as lesser beings. They cared only about taking care of their own people.

    I’d like to see a fair depiction of their strength and rejection of western culture’s morality. Which might upset people.

    I do expect the same old wise Indian monologues over peace pipes talking about the white men.

    What was depicted in the book was these evil bastards (from our perspective) were terrorizing whites and natives alike. They’d get paid to stop raiding, then break treaties, only to have the ignorant US government terrorize other, more peaceful tribes confused it was Comanches.

    We’ll see. Think Sheridan would be best outsourcing some of this work to others to make it fresh.

    Did I spell all the words correctly? @slorch

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  10. He was worse outside of the courtroom in the grand meeting scene. He and Leo were in different movies.

    Digging in on your opinion? I’ll have to watch it again.

    One of things that made KOTFM notable is the depiction of the banality and grotesque nature of evil. Having Leo and DeNiro be the two lead villains would not have been my choice because they seem cool and are legends on and off the screen.

    But they both did well. I usually appreciate Leo’s performances after time and rewatches. Think they needed to be in it for box office.
  11. It was clear that he was doing what Marty asked of him, which was a directorial mistake. KOTFM was my favorite movie of the year and a modern master piece, but the Fraser stuff is just tonally off and disjointing. 
    I was at the NBR awards the other night, and Marty started talking about the scene where the Osage gather in a circle to talk about the ongoing travesty. He said they needed some audience reaction shots, so he asked one of the loquacious Osage actors to rile the folks up. The resulting off the cuff monologue was so great Marty decided to leave it in, and, in my opinion, is one of the best scenes of the movie.
    What a picture

    The court room scene was a farce and demonstrated a miscarriage of justice was occurring. Therefore it was on point and (probably) historically accurate.

    I dont doubt the Freemason’s spanking scene was also based on real stuff but that was weird too. The whole movie is filled with weird, evil and unbelievable shit that actually happened.

    Regarding 1920’s lawyering, I read a book about the infamous lawyer turned Gatsbying bootlegger - George Remus - who got away with murder. He did theatrics similar to what Fraser was doing. The book covered this part in great detail. Dude was crying and yelling - I think in his own defense. Jury ate it up back then because they were rubes. Now juries eat up DNA evidence and crying blondes.
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  12. Fantastic book but I wish someone else was doing the movie. Sheridan is becoming the Tyler Perry of this genre.

    I am related to Cynthia Ann Parker and hence, the white side of Quanah Parker. Eager to see how the movie goes. The Comanche were fascinating and the greatest horse cavalry the world ever saw. Chased the Apache out of Texas and nearly pushed the frontier back to the Gulf.

    The Comanche’s impact on world history is dwarfed by the Mongol Empire, who ended civilizations with their horse calvary.
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  13. Funny, I tend to agree about Gangs of New York but see KOTFM completely differently. Generally thought the cast and performances were great (aside from whatever Brendon Fraser was doing) and the pacing wasn’t a problem. I felt the 3.5 hrs, but not in a bad way if that makes sense. 
    More so, I really push back that it was a poorly directed movie when there are a few sequences that were so well done and memorable that only a handful of people could have pulled them off. Specifically the ending, which was incredible. I don’t know if anyone else alive could have made it work. 

    1920’s lawyers acted that way and did so effectively.
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  14. This was an absolutely fantastic role for DDL, however. I watch it just for his scenes.

    Then you can excuse yourself from further discussions about Scorsese. Do you fast forward thru Breaking Bad for just the good parts?
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