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  1. 1 hour ago, mr. sunshine said:

    Got sucker punched by John Hagy back in the day at a club. He would have beat my ass in a fair fight but evidently he had a reputation for hitting and running 

    Well he's still one of my favorite players.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    I remember him smirking and saying "skiing, huh?".  

    If he's anything like my Dad ten years later he was still saying, "...because you know my son is really interested in 'skiing.'"

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  3. My very first job was a refurb of a Legg's plant, my part was removing some spray bars from an open-air dye pit with an oxy-acetylene rig. I had a few pallets to hold my oxy-acetylene rig because the pit was far from dry, about 2' deep of chemical dye-mud, so I would cut one section and then trudge through the muck in galoshes lugging one pallet to the next pipe-stand, and then retrieve my torch from the other pallet, repeat.

    On my lunch break I would barf.

    I was too young for payroll taxes so it was cash-money, and paid for my first car before my Freshman year (got my license at 15). But whoever was in charge of that shit, c'mon man.

  4. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, we have evidence that certain more restrictive levels of gun control were effective in reducing mass shootings, and not too long ago, so I reject your premise.

    That evidence elides the unintended consequences, which you also ignore. So you don't seem overly concerned with gun deaths depending on the circumstances, and I do indeed regret engaging in good faith here.

     

    In that vein then I add the obligatory "we should restrict fentanyl, which is more deadly."

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  5. 6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    The gun fetishists simply won't allow any meaningful change to happen.  It doesn't mean they're all homicidal maniacs.  They enable the homicidal maniacs.

    You assume this change you want will be positive. Gun control is enforced with guns, after all, and the type of gun confiscation that would put a serious dent in gun homicides is going to have its own body count and very sizeable incarceration component, things I thought we didn't favor.

     

    I may regret this edit to point out that bail/sentencing reform and mental health reform also enable the homicidal maniacs, but I'm not going to rush to eliminate those things because of the unintended consequences.

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  6. 8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Nah.  The disease is gun fetishism.

    If this were true wouldn't the body count would be much, much, much higher? Probably 50m men in this country have a gun fetish, but 99.99% of them aren't homicidal maniacs. I have not read that the killer had a gun fetish, only a bunch of evidence that he was violent and mentally ill.

     

    I will probably regret even bothering to engage

     

     

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  7. 14 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

    Oh, and during reconstruction, a contractor drove a Bobcat off the upper deck of the stadium. Not sure where his memorial is. Whoop!

    Don't know why this struck my curiosity but evidently Lindwood Construction crew were cutting off a portion of a support column off the upper deck (!?) with a concrete saw and had Angel Garcia operating a skid steer with forks to support the portion they were cutting, but it was too heavy and when the cut was completed it "catapaulted" the Bobcat over the edge. 

     

    RIP Angel

    https://www.ctinsider.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/OSHA-levels-130-700-in-penalties-on-two-Kyle-5516599.php

    Hopefully better explanation of incident:

     

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    In a news release, OSHA said that Angel Garcia, 25, a Lindamood employee, fell on Dec. 4, 2013 from the fourth level while operating a "skid-steer loader," or machine with lift arms.

    The loader was supporting a 3,340-pound concrete stub while a Texas Cutting & Coring employee used a circular saw to cut the stub from its support column, OSHA said.

    The 1 ½-ton stub was too heavy for the loader, which tipped over a ramp wall, falling more than 70 feet to the ground. Garcia was ejected when the machine hit a horizontal beam and died later at a Bryan hospital.

     

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  8. I know this was 25 pages ago, and obviously has been covered, well, by everybody, but...

     

    ...some of you don't watch aggy games? They are usually more entertaining than this thread, for the same reasons, but live and in color. And you presumably enjoy this thread.

     

    As has been explained with many good (of an inexhaustible supply of) examples, you're missing out.

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  9. SIAP Texas Monthly from 11/21

     

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/rise-and-fall-of-the-longhorn-network/

    Spoiler

    What if, Dodds asked Byrne, Texas and A&M cut out the rest of the Big 12? What if the two of them—together—were big enough to create a channel on their own?

    Texas, Dodds revealed to Byrne, had been exploring the idea of launching its own network. All Longhorns, all the time, beamed into every home in the country. He believed a Longhorn Network could succeed on its own, but it would be stronger with the Aggies on board. “Maybe we’re thinking in the wrong direction,” Dodds had said to other UT administrators ahead of his meeting with Byrne. “Maybe we ought to talk to A&M about this.” So, Dodds made his pitch. What if they went in as partners? They could call it the Lone Star Sports Network, or something like that.

    Byrne said he’d think about it. But when Byrne called back, he told Dodds that the Aggies were out. The network would never make money.

    Just nice to see this in print.

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  10. 22 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Inexcusable not to call timeout before the delay penalty.  

    Watching live in my mind he was too stunned by the audacity of it and was thinking

    "There is no way he is going to stand over the ball until the play clock runs out. Is there?

    Holy shit! They are really going to do doing that? Now? In front of everybody? FUUUCK!"

    (they do in fact stand over the ball and let OSU run players on as the clock runs out)

    "Wow"

    (out loud now) "That was my fault."

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  11. 7 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

    What if you came from a farming family (both sides) and graduated from UT?

    I did. My dad said, "You can't go to A&M. You're a real farmer."

    (Dad was pre-vet at CSU so he knows what a real Ag school is.)

    edit: and then he also said, "Plus you can't take a joke. jfc."

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