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  1. 19 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    So our upcoming OOC has these home and homes on it: LSU, Alabama, Michigan, tOSU, Georgia, and Florida. Not bad. Not bad at all. Playing the best of the Big 10 and SEC without having to join either conference. 

    Exactly.  This is a direct response to the vocal minority that think changing conferences would actually be a good idea.  Getting to play the best teams in the SEC and B1G, while not having to play Illinois and Indiana and Kentucky and Texas A&M, is a GOOD thing.

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  2. 56 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:

    This article on KHOU's website has a video of one determined-ass lightning strike:

    Video: 12-second lightning strike hits same spot over and over in Fort Bend County

    https://tinyurl.com/yxgbzphq

     

    In unrelated news, this guy was sighted at the Waffle House in Rosenberg an hour later:

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  3. 6 hours ago, Augustus said:

    Exactly.

    As I've noted here before:  I have Plantagenet blood.  But that doesn't stop that Saxe-Coburg-Gotha bitch from sitting on my throne.

    This just means you're a frog and had no business on the throne of England anyway. Plus your idiot line gave us York and Lancaster and caused all kinds of ridiculous problems.  The Hundred Years War was a mercy compared to your ancestors' rule.  Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

     

  4. My guess-- Aaron Rodgers will play a small-time knight that think he deserves the Iron Throne, gets leap-frogged at the last second by a much more deserving character, and will then whine about it for decades while also being the douchiest knight the Seven Kingdoms has ever known.

    Or he'll get torched by a dragon, which would be really, really satisfying. 

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  5. No, I think we all know that a new set of "investors" simply outbid the old "investors" when it came to payouts to corrupt Brazilian officials.  That's the only way anything ever happens in that particular country.

     

  6. I think the rebranding to Ram only, eschewing the Dodge name, is weird and confusing in the marketplace.  Not unlike the entire Landrover/Rangerover problem that persists to this day in the USA.

    Ultimately it doesn't really matter to me, I've had several Chrysler products in my lifetime and I'd happily buy a Ram if it suited me, but I just think it's a goofy move.

  7. 7 hours ago, Spankytoes said:

    Plus, she’s NOT good looking.

     

    7 hours ago, Nivek said:

    ugh.... got to disagree with you there.

    Yup.  Tastes vary and whatnot.  But a lot more people disagree with spanky, than agree, so he can take that bulljive it to the unpopular opinions thread.

  8. 1 hour ago, 77horn said:

    Most say Cersei is ruthless, cunning, but loves her children.  I call BS.  she only "loves" her children because she gets reflected glory.  Witness the "Tommen betrayed me," line when he committed suicide.

    She's not particularly cunning.  Most of her schemes go badly.  For example giving the high sparrow so much power. Sending Jamie to Dorne to fetch her daughter back home.  Sending Bron to kill Jamie and Tyrion (wtf did she expect?)

    She's not ruthless, at least not directly, and only when backed into a corner. She did it through 3rd parties.

    • Ned tells her he knows her children are bastards of incest, so she is forced to have Robert killed and Ned charged with treason.
    • She has the Sept of Baelor blown up because she was going to be imprisoned again.  But she watches from a distance.
    • She tells Jaime not to leave her to go fight with the North, or she'll have him killed.  Then has The Mountain stand down.
    • She wanted to have Tyrion executed for killing Joffery, but not by her hand, but after a trial and with an executioner.

    So to me, there was no doubt she would stand down again and not give a public order to kill Tyrion.

    Also, she's had no experience with warfare.  All she has is Euron Greyjoy, who while adept at sea battles has no on land experience.  She has the sell swords of the Golden Company, and I'm sure their leader is skilled, and it is possible that Jamie will return to fight for her, but...

    Finally, remember the Battle of Blackwater, when it looked like Stannis couldn't be stopped? What did she do? She went and hid in the throne room and prepared to commit suicide.  If the Targaryen forces look like they will overrun Kings Landing, she'll kill herself.

     

    just my two cents.

    Agree for the most part.  Earlier in the thread, someone said that Cersei was "clever" and "plays the game well" and I don't agree with that. She simply brute-forces her way through.  It might be effective short-term, but just as everyone turned on the Mad King, they'll turn on Cersei even quicker.  Because ultimately, people just don't like getting burned alive and will only put up with it for so long before they'll take your ass out.  She has no concept of the long game, and wouldn't last for long even if she did take the iron throne.

  9. 45 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Been pretty mild here in south Cedar Park. Some heavy downpours & electric show, but not much in the way of winds. Feels like it's dwindling already.

    Rained like crazy in my part of the CP, right by Twin Creeks/CPHS.   And now I have to go into the office in RR, so it looks like I'll be chasing this storm.  Sure hope I don't catch it...

     

     

  10. Yeah I don't really like Lagunitas beers, and the only Goose Island I ever tried was just ok, so I'm good without either.  Closer to home, Karbach was ok for a couple of their beers, but there's plenty of better ones so no need for me to buy any of that either.

    About the only macro-owned beer I 've wanted to buy in the past decade was Hoegaarden Witbier, but once Celis came back and re-released their White, I had no need for that, either. 

  11. In the cases where the sellouts don't adjust the recipes to make them cheaper and crappier to appease their macrobrew overlords, I don't have any problem with the beer itself.

    But I do have a problem with some of the macrobrew companies that engage in some pretty severe anti-competitive behaviors in order to choke out the smaller breweries.  ABInbev has been thoroughly documented in doing some extremely shady things in the marketplace.  I don't recall anything specific that Heineken has done, but nothing would surprise me.  There are so many great ACTUAL small, local craft beers, that I don't ever feel the need to buy from the sellouts.  That's my personal choice, others are always free to do as they wish.

     

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