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  1. Vegas64

    Getting old sucks

    Wasn't sure where to put this. Friday I took my grandson to the Cotton Bowl. He's a teenager and full of life, so we get there when it opens at 3:30 for the pre-game hoopla. That means we leave the suburbs at about 2:30p just to make sure we can drive safely in bad conditions, which I was tense driving the entire time. We get to the stadium and to our seats around 5:30pm and I hadn't eaten since 6:00am, so my eyes are bigger than my stomach and I'm like that Chris Farley character, "Lay off me, I'm starving!". I house a cheesesteak and then get some popcorn and some soda. Note: I didn't drink one sip of alchohol in any varietal at all. The game starts and it's a great game until the 2nd and goal play. So we are engaged, yelling, standing, cheering, etc. for the full time excluding the dozens of media timeouts. We stick around after the game, buy some merch, putz around a bit-- end up at whataburger for a late night taquito-- and we end up at home around 1am. I pass out on the couch next to the fire. Well let me tell you, the next two days I feel like I was a 25 year old on a bender hitting the night life hard. My voice is raspy and almost gone, my neck hurts, my back hurts, my head aches, my body aches, I'm fatigued, I feel like I had a horrible hangover. Again, not one drink of booze at all. This goes on all weekend and just this morning I'm feeling myself. tl'dr: Longhorn cfp game gave me a 2 day "hangover". If that ain't getting old sucks, I don't know what is!
  2. I agree with this. We had to drop some sports because grades were #1 priority and they were slipping and the time management piece was too difficult at some point to keep juggling all the balls and something had to give.
  3. Gunnar Helm is awesome. Big, good hands, deceptively fast. His only knock is he isn't a great blocker, but the games we got him involved were good offensive games and there is a reason for that. Will miss him, but I honestly think Niblack could be just as if not more special. Remember being impressed with him last year when he was with Bama and played against us...
  4. Based on the movies I saw this year, best to worst: 1) Harold on the Purple Crayon 2) Dune Part 2 3) Furiousa A Mad Max Saga 4) Ordinary Angels 5) Twisters 6) Kung Fu Panda 4 7) Inside Out 2 8- Unsung Heros 9) Daredevil vs Wolverine
  5. Can’t buy without an account :(
  6. Can you send a link for those who don’t have Facebook accounts?
  7. I tried to buy and my credit card auto declined it and flagged it as potentially fraudulent, but idk…
  8. Right, my first thought was “what if that fumble by Bolden didn’t pop right back into his hands on the kick off”
  9. What if Bond didn’t drop that 3rd and middle for a first down? I think the game changes if we drive and score there and it was a massive drop by a MASSIVE underwhelming and underperforming player this year. Im not one to disparage or be ugly to any of these kids but for those lashing out at Quinn, there are better targets IMO and one likes his milkshakes shaken not stirred, if you get my drift.
  10. Super important call out. If Arch is who we think he’s gonna be and if we look back and win it all and see the progression and trajectory just keep going up, we can look back and point to Quinn being the transition QB who made that happen. A lesser QB creates a situation where the boise is too loud and Arch transfers (either because he or his family don’t want to deal with it).
  11. I feel like Quinn to Arch is reminiscent of how it felt going from Simms to VY (minus the Chance Mock transition year).
  12. This was my oldest grandsons first “real” season of being a fan. I say that to mean, watching every game, knowing the players and being emotionally invested. We were very high at times last night in the upper deck (7-7, 14-14) and very low (screen pass, end), and as we dejectedly walked out last night I told him, “Welcome to being a Texas fan.”
  13. That's hilarious.
  14. No way. Leo's try-hard self.
  15. Ticket prices seem to have rebounded (or stayed steady?). I sold some in the lowers I bought before the weather crashed the prices for about 33% more than I bought them for and then bought some uppers for about 20% of the overall cost. I just want to get in the door so taking a little profit is fine.
  16. I only uber anywhere I go, even NYC. I never fly into JFK so didn't even know of those train options. I'm an Uber from LGA to the City guy. Heck, I'll take a $30 Uber from Chelsea or West Village to Midtown or Hell's Kitchen every day of the week. Add $15, sure, why not. Just not interested in riding public transit. I still even have a Clipper card in my apple wallet in case I thought I wanted to ride from Oakland to San Fran, but never did and just Uber'ed. Good luck to you people who live there and I hope it works out for you in whichever way you want it to!
  17. Which team does your kid play for? Another way of asking that question is, which team did Prestonwood North blow out last night? harharhar
  18. Nerd! I had the prettiest girl wrap mine for me as a flex. Toxic masculinity wasn't yet a thing in the 80's.
  19. Friend of mine sent me this (finance satire email): Meta’s new logo after the update to their content policies Now let’s break down the 5 key updates to Meta’s content moderation. 1. Replace fact checkers with community notes Rather than buying 1 million Nvidia Quadro graphics cards and running LLMs to ban content, Zuckerberg realized they could moderate content for free by having unemployed losers doing nothing at 2pm moderate for them. This saves Meta billions. 2. Simplify content policies For the last 8 years you had to pretend that Caitlyn Jenner looks hot and that 12 million illegal immigrants didn’t cross the border. Now Facebook will allow your crazy uncle with 3 followers to write diatribes on Muslims because Meta realized no one was gonna read his shit anyway. 3. New approach to policy enforcement Instead of banning some guy who says retard on Instagram, they’re gonna focus on addressing the pedophiles and terrorists plaguing their platforms. 4. Bringing back civic content Previously you weren’t allowed to discuss politics on Meta platforms because they didn’t want someone with purple hair to have an anxiety attack. (It definitely wasn’t because the federal government was secretly forcing social media platforms to bend to their will.) 5. Moving their trust and safety content moderation teams Meta is moving all of their moderation teams from California to Texas. If you make $230k but your political ideologies won’t let you relocate to Texas, you were definitely part of the problem.
  20. This reminds me of the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) light rail issue recently. Cities with low to very low ridership (compared to Dallas proper) who are helping to subsidize the whole program are wanting their taxes rightsized and it's potentially existential (or will cost taxpayers more): https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2024/07/darts-existential-crisis-another-city-wants-to-cut-funding/
  21. Donated. I don't know why but I read this as ROBLOX (the dumb app game my grandkids play) needs prayers and just ignored it until now.
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