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  1. 9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    This is the one my friends and I are aiming for.  2026 will be 10 years since the three of us went to Spain/Portugal - seems like a perfect time to go back! 

    Sounds like it's time for you to start the "2026 Spanish Total Solar Eclipse Never Too Early To Get Ready" thread!

     

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  2. 15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Isn’t Austin Subaru in that area?

    Yes it's on Burnet Road a block north of Anderson Lane.  On a site that used to be a Ross Dress For Less, and a Chuck E Cheese Pizza.  Which was a Showbiz Pizza before that, and the whole building was a Kroger even before that.

  3. 15 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    Since I was on The 40 Acres at that time, I'd probably would want to stand next to a car like that drinking a bottle of Young's Old Nick beer -- now gone, too. Lulz.

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    One of the downsides of the craft beer explosion in the USA, is that we've lost access to a lot of great imports.  I used to drink the hell out of some Young's, Fuller's, Sam Smith, Whitbread.  Now it's tough to find any of them even in bottles or cans, and you can forget about draught.

     

  4. China's no longer a low-cost manufacturing nation for many of the products that the US shifted over there during the past 2-3 decades.  And American companies have been starting to move manufacturing out of China for several years now, the pandemic exacerbated the problems and sped up the timelines for many of those companies.

    But it took decades to get here and it'll take the same to unwind it.

     

     

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  5. I know they're a bunch of self-loathing dipshits who project all of their crap onto others, but I'm really at a loss for what exactly Texas has done so far to be a "cancer" in the SEC?  We're not even in the conference yet.

    The ags got their wet dream of hosting the first game in the revived rivalry, so no cancer there.  Texas is losing the LHN, so no cancer there.  Texas' SEC schedule is fairly favorable but so is the ags', and we play Michigan OOC while they're playing Nichols State or somebody, so I don't really see any evidence of cancer there.

    If anything, in some ways Texas is being stripped and humbled before the altar of the SEC.  You think the ags would actually appreciate that.  But no, they're simply incapable of feeling anything but fear and hate, whenever UT is mentioned.

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  6. 14 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    Yup fuck that place for those two things lol. 
     

    Our school had the worst architecture by far and to top it off they give us that shithole to career fair and graduate in? Fuck off Ernest Cockrell

     

    i did get to work on the new EERC so at least that side of campus is headed in the right direction. All those brutalist ugly shit buildings and that crappy orange steel beam “art” sculpture need to head to the dump ASAP. 

    We referred to ENS as "The Toilet" because the halls were all lined with those little bathroom tiles.  Man what a piece of shit.  And don't even get me started on "The Penthouse" and the smells coming from those microwaves.

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  7. 5 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    If a minority party leaves a coalition then it can force early elections by calling for a vote of no confidence, but they don’t always want to do that. If they don’t call for a vote of no confidence then the government can continue as a minority government. If they win a vote of no confidence then usually you’ll get a caretaker government appointed until there is a fresh election. 

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  8. 11 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    Thank you, I saw that but forgot about it. According to that, traffic was much heavier in populated areas. The shitty weather will also cause quite a few people to stay home or seek an area with better weather too.

    This is what I'm hoping.

     

    6 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    2 updates:
    a) I have decided to view the eclipse with friends who live just outside Indy, and the weather forecast has been iffy, but Monday is starting to look better (gawd I hope I'm not jinxing myself)

    b) Mrs Fairway has gone high anxiety, near panic, mode for this event. She says the Indy had declared public emergency, schools are closing, she read that there are estimates of over 1 million, food and gas shortages due to influx of people. AND to top all of that she decided to test the eclipse glasses that we have and now she thinks they might all be fakes and not safe for the viewing. She says that when she tried them on last night that the lights in the room were still (very dimly) visible, so next she tested them with her cell phone flashlight and again dim light was visible. 

    So I looked (sources linked below) and a small amount of light should be visible with a phone light and a bright bulb (unless it is frosted or in a shaded fixture - which they were not).  And Indianapolis has a population of about 900,000, so a million isn't that many people coming in & it is a, like us, I think many people will not go into the city but rather view in an outlying area. Then she got mad when I said if it seemed like a bad decision to go and she was too worried that we could just drop the trip (which I will fess up, I was bluffing/lying) which made her rethink her overreaction.

    https://www.cnet.com/health/personal-care/are-your-solar-eclipse-glasses-safe-to-use-or-fake-heres-how-to-find-out/

    https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/how-to-tell-if-viewers-are-safe

    https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/

    Fuck it/Floor it - I'm all in on this bitch (and she better not be a just a tease....looking at you Mother Nature and the weather)

    Just gas up ahead of time, pack a cooler with food and snacks, and do it.

    I think a lot of folks are overthinking this thing.  They see pictures of crowded highways from the last one and think it's armageddon, but none of those folks died from starvation on the side of the road.  They all made it home eventually.

    Heck, I bet it's much worse trying to get out of the parking lot at COTA after a Formula 1 race or a Rolling Stones concert, than it will be traveling the highways of Central Texas on Monday.

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  9. 5 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Still using it as an excuse to take the afternoon off and head up to my local beer house.

    We're still camping all weekend at my BIL's property outside of F'burg, and we'll have plenty of beer and food.  My BIL has basically just turned it into a Family Reunion, but only invited the best ones-- we're gonna have a blast. Might not even realize whether there are clouds or not by Monday...  

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  10. 16 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Well, the idea is to get a ticket. If you go towards the Hans Mueller tent, there are tons of TVs over there. 

    At this point I don't think the TX-OU game is in danger of failing to sell out any time soon.  

    But yeah, there are options for TVs throughout Fair Park.

  11. 5 hours ago, BeardIP said:

    First two episodes were really good. I wasn't sure I could get onboard with the 90's style animation that reminds me of BeBop and Uncle Phil as Shredder, but I've quickly assimilated. I don't remember Magneto being yoked but maybe because I never read the comics, so in my mind he's the geriatric from the live action movies.

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