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utee94

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  1. Well, it's a GT 5.0 so I'm not sure there's a reason to scoff. Clearly they went with the white paint and black trim because it looks like a stormtrooper uniform/helmet.
  2. PM @luke duke he usually has his fingers on the pulse of available smokers for sale. Heck here's one for 1/10th the price. If you have a cutoff wheel and know a good welder, it could be a heck of a deal... https://austin.craigslist.org/for/d/buchanan-dam-bbq-smoker-trailer-project/7880530131.html
  3. First published picture has been released. Looks bad for surly...
  4. The Ags have worn all-white with white helmets pretty frequently over the decades. It's a good look. And although I don't hate the script Aggies, I still think their aTm logo is more classic and a better look. None of that will help them win the game tomorrow.
  5. Yeah my high school teens have no idea who he is. Doesn't make it onto their tiktok feeds I guess. I'm fine with that.
  6. They held Orakpo so egregiously and so often they ended up injuring him. It was unconscionable.
  7. Counterpoint-- You're a Texas Tech fan with 10,000 posts on a UT message board. That's weird. Aggy level weird.
  8. Texas holds plenty. And gets called for it plenty.
  9. It makes complete sense that a Texas Tech fan would feel that way.
  10. Yeah it was a raw deal for the sooners but it didn't even come close to making up for decades of uncalled holding so fuck 'em.
  11. My inlaws bought my son a Mustang for his 16th birthday (they are 1%, I am not) so I figured I'd get him one, too. This is what I will be giving him tomorrow:
  12. OP mentions "renting cheap condo for a couple of months in the summer." Surly responds:
  13. It's kind of funny though, how things are cyclical. There's a current growing trend among young homeowners, to add in all sorts of fancy decorations-- to create a curated space of maximalist possession. It seems to me, to be an attempt to connect to the past. They're putting in faux moldings and antique furniture and doilies and, yes, tablecloths! They're also hand-writing letters and invitations in cursive, or even calligraphy. Who knows, maybe alcohol and sex will make a comeback, too. Hopefully we won't forever be stuck with this:
  14. We all know it's @BurntEyes .
  15. That's fine, but you're bringing in outside stuff, onto this thread. On this thread, there are a couple of guys who always seem to stan for APD and do the same kind of "Yeah but" deflecting onto Garza. I get it, I know what you're saying, I've seen it. But there are a lot more people on this thread, and on this message board in general, who Bernard the APD. Which they absolutely deserve. Like I said I was born and raised in Austin, I received both my undergrad and graduate degrees from UT. I've been around shitty Austin police my entire life. They deserve all the criticism they get. I'm just not seeing a multitude of people defending the APD, on this thread.
  16. Well then good work indeed on attempting to find challengers. I live in the part of Austin that is not Austin, just NW of the city limit. I was born and raised in Austin, lived there the first 43 years of my life. But of course, since my entire family lives in Austin and I spend a great deal of my time there, the status of both police enforcement, and prosecution, ultimately affect me.
  17. Oh yeah for sure. I wasn't really trying to overlook it, although I didn't call it out explicitly. It's certainly a difference in both consumption and interaction.
  18. I'll take your word for it as I have no knowledge of it. I certainly wouldn't find it surprising. And I'm just trying to address the main idea in general, of increased intolerance among younger people. I do so, because I find it an interesting proposal and I'm just trying to work through the hypothesis and see what evidence I can find to support or refute it. In general I think younger people have been far more open to different lifestyles than my generation was at the same point in life. That's sort of a baseline, a rising tide lifts all boats type observation. But at the same time, I can see narrow bands of idealistic intransigence, focused beliefs that can vary widely from group to group. I think the internet and social media have allowed people with narrow like-minded views, to find one another, and reinforce one another. This is true of all age groups but seems especially focused in the younger generation because at the same time, their baseline society has moved away from the 4 TV channels or even the 43 TV channels that cable brought to us as young people, and moved into the world of highly diverse streaming content providers, youtube, tiktok, insta, and all of the other places younger generations consume their media, which has fractured what used to be a more monolithic set of cultural norms. Yeah this for sure.
  19. I mean, you don't need my permission to comment on whatever you like. I'm just pointing out that if there's any "moving backwards" as you cite, it's not coming from the younger generation, regardless of any intolerance they might or might not have. Overall I think they're likely more tolerant. But those on the edges also seem to be more aggressive when trying to eliminate opposition ideas and speech.
  20. I don't know if they're any more or less intolerant than previous generations. I do believe that they're more emboldened to attempt to take aggressive stances, which has been encouraged by cancel culture and has been allowed to proliferate through weak or poor or even aggressively malignant leadership. Honestly when I see how open and welcoming my kids are to people who are different than them, how they really don't see race or color or gender or sexual orientation as being identifiers of differences, how they view all of those as either irrelevant or fluid, I'm very proud of them. That is very different from my teenage/high school experience in the 80s. So in that sense they are far more open and tolerant than my generation was. I realize they're not the sole cohort for judgment and they have peers that don't view things in the same way, but those groups seem to be fewer and further between, than when I was a kid. That might be true, but it doesn't really address the topic of this thread, about the younger generation. I don't believe it's the younger generation that's putting court cases in front of SCOTUS and other circuits.
  21. Counterpoint-- losing to South Florida means you suck, and therefore South Florida has no quality wins, and is inherently incapable of ever having a quality win. ...is part of the circular logic that lands us in a thread like this.
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