hookem2010
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2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM
Formation of that system crossing the Yucatan just jumped to 60%.
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2024 US Open tennis
Is Sabalenka eastern European Serena (skill set, obviously not with hardware)? She appears so much more powerful than everyone she faces and seems like she should have more trophies, honestly. Also, Team Taifoe!
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Week 2, 2024: Texas at Michigan
Taking the 2 year-old to Reimers Sunday for a cool, leisurely, celebratory hike.
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Birding
Had one of my rarest finds ever yesterday, a pomarine jaeger, flying over a smallish lake in Round Rock. They're basically mean, large gulls that are rare even along the coast in Texas, much less 250 miles inland. I really need to get a camera to at least document these surprises. The next couple months is my favorite times of year. The first cold snap (hopefully), fall migration with weird shit showing up, and the meat of football season. Fuck yes.
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Surly Dad Thread
My 2nd is due to arrive a week before OU. The first OU game after my first son was born was 49-0, so I'm expecting big things. Will I be coherent enough from lack of sleep to follow the game? That remains to be seen.
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2024 US Open tennis
Fritz up 2-1 after finally converting his 4th or 5th break of the game.
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2024 US Open tennis
Best chance in quite some time for an American man to win a slam? I haven't seen much, but it seems like Tiafoe always shows up ready to play at the US.
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Surly Dad Thread
We're about a month away from the due date for #2. The wife has already had some legit contractions here and there, so not sure we're making it to 40 weeks. The 2 year-old is getting much more fun, but the toddler obstinance is really shining through at times. Some of his favorite phrases currently are... "No, Dada. Get back!" "Let go!" "Go away, Dada!" ...and "Mine!"
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Week 2, 2024: Texas at Michigan
So we're playing Iowa next weekend?
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Except he was never "just trying to dunk on political rivals". He's always been pretty unsubtle with his misogyny and racism.
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Time to start working on the parents and determine if they're truly broken.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Hahaha, I was about to ask who needs this quote broken down and explained to them any further.
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
I was never a big cable news guy, but would tune to CNN when actual breaking news occurred or during elections. Have switched entirely over to PBS for occasional news and MSNBC tor events like the DNC or elections where some production value and talking head stuff is more warranted.
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Joy Reid on MSNBC, "I think we basically just watched an episode of Ted Lasso."
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
My wife, who is fairly liberal but often needs to be dragged to the voting booth, has been tuned in to virtually every second of this convention. A switch turned around the time of the debate where she is now beating me to the punch in sharing political news. It's amazing.
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
God damn, I feel like 20 year-old me after watching a preseason football hype video. I don't know how I'm going to fall asleep.
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
I remember taking a speech class in college. The professor understandably was obsessed with Obama. The analysis of the state of the union versus rebuttal from Bobby Jindal was fun.
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Sleepy Joe outlasted me last night, and I'm CST. To be fair, my sleeping habits do more closely align with someone twice my age.
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Off Grid Alaska
You guys are really daring me to turn this into another bird thread. As BrickTop mentioned sage grouse are larger, and along with prairie chickens are grassland birds. Spruce, ruffed, dusky Grouse are all more of woodland birds. The grassland grouse populations are in dire straits, while the woodland species are generally OK and I believe can be hunted.
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Off Grid Alaska
Those can be tricky little fuckers to find when you're looking for them. And when you're not, they're just hanging out in the middle of the trail (photo from Glacier NP). No desire to shoot, just to see. Weird, I know.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
What a perfect political description of those 3 states.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
This is the political perversion I come here for!
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
I would LOVE to ask my Trumpy parents to babysit for a date night and come back home decked out in Harris-Walz paraphernalia.
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2024 Paris Olympics
Golds now tied at 37 with China. Do they have more bullshit events to win or should basketball put us over the top?
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Track & Field (men and women)
Unless Sydney decided to run without hurdles. That would be an event.