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utee94

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  1. 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.
  2. 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:
  3. OP mentions "renting cheap condo for a couple of months in the summer." Surly responds:
  4. 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:
  5. We all know it's @BurntEyes .
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Huh? Every Texas QB gets the exact same treatment. The Quinn Ewers thread is 558 pages long.
  14. Ha, folks mention they want a nice little summer hideaway and then the talk turns to "reasonably" priced digs at $3.5 million. Never change surly 1%!
  15. I've thought it was bizarre from the beginning. I have an idea if Epstein and company want to make more money at a racetrack-- how 'bout, hold more RACES??? Also, PROMOTE those races??? Just spit-balling here.
  16. I ran an extra mile because it felt so damn good.
  17. I think it's hilariously awesome that people are scraping through old photos of Arch throwing the football to prove or disprove whatever the point is. That's such a tremendous, wonderful waste of time. Truly surly worthy.
  18. It's okay to think the police suck and want better, and also to think Garza sucks. Any time someone mentions Garza and gets a yeah but the police in response, is an example of downplaying how shitty Garza is. You just did it, no need to search back any further. But it's the Austin voters that voted for Garza, and continue to vote for him. Indeed.
  19. Yes, a couple of posters say stuff like that. And a dozen more do not. Acting as if a couple of people represent the masses is a silly strawman and I'm not sure why you're bothering to spend the time to set it up. Far more people shit on APD on this thread and all the others, than defend it. One difference though, is that Austin voters aren't voting for the police chief, but they are voting for the DA.
  20. I've read this thread many times. There's plenty of "yeah but" type of defense of Garza, and APD is constantly getting shit on by you and a dozen others. And deservedly so, APD sucks. Acting like a couple of posters are speaking for the masses in defending APD is silly. It's not anywhere close to a majority, it's a tiny minority. Read the thread.
  21. They both suck. Downplaying Garza's shittiness just because the APD sucks is no less insane.
  22. Were they real injuries or were they bullshit fake injuries like LSU and Ole Miss are famous for? If it's the latter, then we too booed LSU for faking injuries all game long, and I don't feel bad about it at all.
  23. PSU pretty much always "literally beats themselves" so I have no idea why you'd think this year would be any different. I'd love our chances against both them and Notre Dame.
  24. I'll put it another way. If Michigan and Alabama choked away games in weeks 1 or 2, then why should victories over those teams promote anyone? You're still making assumptions, they're just your own assumptions, so you like them better. Like @BurntEyes said if polls came out much later, like in week6 or something, then we could avoid some of this. But helmet teams are still going to tend to be overranked, and there's still going to be disagreement in the rankings, because humans are fallible and emotional and subjective.
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