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Royalfan5

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  1. I would of figured that GE would have beaten him to the grave given how things are going for them.
  2. As someone who attended a regionally well regarded Private Liberal Arts school in the early 2000's, I'll contribute a few observations. All the theater majors I knew all do pretty well for themselves excepting the ones with crippling substance abuse problems, with all them making a living with their technical skills, not acting. E.g one runs lights for major tours, another coordinates production things at Disney etc, another builds specialty props for movies and whatnot, but the degree gave them networking and experience. Secondly while my school was expensive for the Midwest on paper, the merit scholarships made it the same as going to the instate flagship. I went that way because I could easily double major in Poli Sci, and Religious studies with a double minor in history and philosophy and be done in 4 years while doing a bunch of other stuff, and it was a wet campus. The bulk of my student debt was taking a year of law school to figure out I sure as fuck didn't want to be a lawyer. I pivoted to getting a Master's in Ag Econ that was fully funded, and a commodity broker/cattle producer. Now the same school charges a significant premium to the flagship, even with significant merit aid, and they have added a bunch of sports and other activities along with administrators that cost a lot more than just letting students entertain themselves by being a wet campus and having the basic extra-curriculars. Both ways the less achieving kids from better off families pay most of the freight. In my experience, the real student loan train wrecks come from the people that pursued graduate degrees that weren't funded and didn't finish. While trades are important, and can certainly provide a great living, we also undersell that many of them are hard as hell on your body, and that much of the upside is in running your own business in the said trade, which is distinctly not for everybody in skill, temperament, risk, and hours. In conclusion, if the government and society is happy to soak up risk for many big business and set them up for easy success, maybe doing the same for citizens as they come of age might yield dividends as well.
  3. I suppose it's a win for Sparty if he wasn't fucking anyone or anything he wasn't supposed to.
  4. Is this a case where you can do more than set a headstone?
  5. Some folks just can't resist clinging on to pointless measures of control in order for themselves to feel something since they've long since became dead inside.
  6. I guess since it sounds like Gordon will be back, you’re right
  7. In general, I’d just assume more Royals quit.
  8. Well, he’s willingly involving himself with Baylor so being an idiot is a pretty safe bet
  9. My fuck up cousins, that joined the Marines promptly became fuck up Marines, were invited to return to civilian life where they continued to be fuck ups. They love their guns and Trump though, just not showing up to work, or if they do keeping their mouth shut.
  10. We’re going to see pictures of American Aircrews drug through the streets of Tehran, aren’t we?
  11. I suppose getting to deal with adults and one owner, and not having to kiss the ass of teenagers and boosters has a lot to do with it.
  12. Well the United was placed in the name to acknowledge the United Brethren that Methodists had merged with, so it makes sense to keep it because presumably some of the Brethern line will be staying with them.
  13. Most of the active silos are a little north of the droned area so far, have to get up towards Scottsbluff. It’s a experience to meet an Air Force convoy going through that area.
  14. Games going to be about 2 hours long, with maybe 15 combined passes. Should be fun.
  15. I’ve gotten up early to go back early to take my Grandma to Christmas morning services every year since my Grandpa passed in 2009 so she has someone to go with since I live the closest relatively speaking.
  16. That’s probably on the table here at some point. The current theory is that she’s squatting in her uncle’s house while he’s a guest of the state for bit. I think the upshot is that he legally adopted the older girl, so the kids can stay together with him instead of sending the older one into the system
  17. Did find out why my nephews new wife wasn’t at the first Christmas this weekend, apparently she went on a full bender, tried to choke her 3 year old out, cleaned out their checking account, while he now has a full restraining order against her, although no one is sure where she now is, while he starts divorce proceedings.
  18. Finally saw it this afternoon. Was it fun enough in the theatre? Sure. Did I stay through the whole credits just far the music? Yes. Am I interested in ever seeing another JJ Abrams movie again? Not really. I think at the end of the day, there wasn’t enough new stuff brought into the sequel trilogy to go anywhere interesting, be it depth to new characters or growth from old ones, or any sort of sensible consistency to the rules of the galaxy that it took place in. But it was fun enough to see on the big screen once
  19. I will point out that teams often appear to play smarter and with more fundamentals when they have an edge in physical talent. Conversely, you fundamental all you want and still look dumb as shit when outgunned physically. Probably don’t want to draw coaching conclusions from either situation
  20. Why demote Tim Beck to hire Tim Beck with a different name, and without the same defense and special teams structure to surround him?
  21. Barney Cotton just had a new heart installed so he should be good to go.
  22. Managino, Paul Johnson, and Charlie Weis too.
  23. There also moving into the new Raiders Stadium and get some of that sweet Fertitta booster cash too.
  24. Pastor Olson likes to remind us that if you object to refugees that you haven’t been paying very close attention to what Lutherans like to do when you’ve been showing up on Sunday’s.
  25. I enjoyed it thoroughly especially the Gravity’s Rainbow joke. I was probably predisposed to like it because I was raised by a mom who loves mystery novels and Murder She Wrote, and it rubbed off on me
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