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Gatorubet

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  1. dammit yup. Dook playing fsu in baseball today and my quick look at the ESPN app made me mix them up. But there is a larger life lesson. Which is fuck FSU no matter who they are playing.
  2. Holy shit! I did not know that such a thing existed. My handwriting has always been almost illegible, to the point where I often cannot read my own handwriting. No amount of practice at penmanship in school would change that. I was getting poor grades in penmanship as a kid - and when our bar exam was handwritten over three days, I always began the exam by explaining I moved around the country a lot when they used phonetics for spelling, and so ignore the fact that I look like a functional illiterate because I promised to use spellcheck on my briefs. My mom had beautiful handwriting and was into calligraphy. Which gives you an idea of how much she appreciated my handwriting.
  3. Duke beating FSU last night was wonderful. If a meteor can’t hit the ball field, then I want FSU to lose again today.
  4. in South Louisiana the inability to obtain affordable homeowners insurance is the biggest problem we have with new real estate purchases. Eventually, we will have a cat four or five hurricane that follows the coast from Miami to Jacksonville, and with the demise of FEMA, that will reset Florida’s real estate picture for who knows how long. Obviously not in a good way. When your mortgage note goes up $400 a month because of insurance, that is a game changer
  5. in undergrad and law school I would always make test outlines, and then re-copy them by writing by hand as I spoke the words I was writing. That way my memory would be provoked by hearing, seeing and using motor skills. Which was just a workaround for my shitty memory.
  6. i’m fairly sure that the galaxy will build a wall to keep us out, and that we will pay for it.
  7. Threadjack: I saw a study where anthropologists looked at the bones of men of that era, and the closest occupational fit to the type injuries commonly found was that of rodeo cowboys. It seems that getting close enough to jab spears into a very large angry mammal incurs a lot of risk of multiple broken bones.
  8. Preach! My 2.875% became possible when some bad crap finally leaked off my credit report after seven years. I refinanced and took $100k out and stuck it in my brokerage account. And yes, the market from the January 2021 refi close till recently had no problem beating that interest rate. My dilemma was to have a paid off house or a low interest loan - and for good or ill - I decided my heirs can worry about the rest of the 30 mortgage payments after I’m dead - or they ship me to a home, buy me a fancy drool cup, and sell the house to fund it
  9. I’m assuming you don’t have to be a family member of a victim of the Holocaust to have a shit ton of anger at people responsible for that. You could be a Methodist in Kansas City and still feel like you wanted to kill a shit ton of Germans - or Nazis - or SS - when you learned of the holocaust. I learned about it pretty early because my father liberated several camps at the German Czechoslovakia border. The last 10 years in America have taught us that the public has shit for brains - and exactly like you say - will blame some random gay guy for some terrible act by a person who just happened to be gay. But it seems like you just skip over the ugly murdering acts that caused people to lose their minds when they see or hear about the ugly murdering act. And the people who want to respond in a negative way to the ugly murdering act do not have to be family members of the victims. I find it odd that you focus on that. My point was that as long as Hamas is a murdering deplorable terrorist club of shitheads, people will seek vengeance for their murdering, regardless of their family connections - but especially because of their family connections. And as long as Israel is trying very hard to be Jewish Nazi Germany, there will be people seeking vengeance for their murdering, regardless of their family connections- but especially for their family connections. And for full disclosure - after the Israeli response to the horrific terrorist act - and the fucking morons who equate supporting innocent Palestinians being needlessly killed with antisemitism - they can all fuck themselves in their goat ass. Just like I could give two shits about how many Hamas terrorists are killed. That is not a societal negative. People who think there is a large gulf distinction between the two right now are full of shit, in my opinion. I would be tickled if we cut off all funding to Israel until they remember what it was like, being oppressed with no hope of rescue. and maybe not have to be told by the president of the United States not to flood Gaza’s freshwater table with seawater because you’re pissed terrorists killed some innocent people. Your use of the phrase, “overly excited by Geopolitical developments” is like talking about Kristallnacht as “ when some excited people broke some windows”. The IDF are fucking murderers of late.
  10. I’m also completely lost. Are you saying that no Palestinian parents have lost children to the IDF’s attacks recently? Or no Palestinian parents have lost their children to IDF or settler attacks in the last 30 years? And that no Israeli parents have lost their children to numerous missile attacks from every shithead terrorist organization, sponsored by Syria and Iran? Or no Israeli parents have lost their children to a long line of Hamas terrorist attack attacks over the last 30 years? I wasn’t trying to say anything profound. Just that if Israel and Palestine want to play England and Ireland - then they are gonna get the Northern Ireland experience. And that includes every family member killed by Hamas or killed by the IDF, vowing to take vengeance on the person who killed their family. It’s sort of what Homo sapiens do. People who believe they belong to a tribe seem to take this even further.
  11. Statsman gets disgruntled if you don’t support Israel’s genocide of Gaza. Here’s what I believe is a truth factoid: every parent of every nationality and race in every country will not be happy with the innocent death of their child due to some murder-y actions by somebody. it is universal. I would not call vengeance by Israeli parents of deceased children terrorism anymore that I would call vengeance by Palestinian parents of deceased children terrorism. Is just one of the world‘s oldest primal emotions - vengeance. Why someone can’t accept that fact, I cannot fathom.
  12. To be fair to the guy, I’m absolutely sure he does not do that anymore.
  13. if I was a Palestinian dad whose kids were killed by the IDF destroying Gaza, I guarantee you I could do far better than just killing two diplomats at a museum. Anything that happens to Israel that is less than a one-to-one death response should make them giddy with happiness.
  14. I have United healthcare for my part D Medicare prescription plan. I got a call out of the blue yesterday from some lady from United telling me I could save money on prescriptions and get money to buy over-the-counter stuff if I would only sign up for this fantastic Medicare advantage plan from united. So I asked her - ”Does that mean I can go to any medical provider in the country if - I don’t know - I get cancer?” She said “no, but you will have excellent healthcare locally and a huge number of people to see.” I asked her if MD Anderson provided services for my cancer that cost me $200,000. How much would that plan pay. She said 50%., As MDA is out of plan. So I asked her, “since I’m a cancer survivor who wrecked up a bunch of bills at MDA previously, why was she recommending that I accept a plan that if I get cancer again will cost me $100,000 out of my pocket? She told me “let me know if you want to change”, and ended the call. There are a ton of uninformed old people who would listen to that sales pitch and not understand the out of system coverage consequences to their pocketbook and wind up in serious financial problems. Why that wasn’t the first question, she asked me - did I have a need for healthcare services not under their local coverage plan- before some stupid hundred dollar over-the-counter drug benefit - can only be described as greed. Assholes. They will have to pry regular Medicare in supplement plans from my cold dead fingers before I go with a Medicare advantage plan. fuck united
  15. Twice, everyone knows that politics have no bearing on what happens in our real lives.
  16. if you can stomach a thread where people talk about loving chilies food, you can damn sure stomach this.
  17. Your typing fingers to God’s eyes.
  18. Do they give you any of the royalties??
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