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  1. 5 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Junior year at Texas I lived in a house on San Pedro, new neighbors had moved in a week earlier. Was sitting on the back deck smoking a fat solo morning hangover bowl when a fucking capuchin plops off my fence onto the deck next to me. I was legitimately concerned my weed had been laced until the new neighbor poked his head over the fence looking for “Kong”  /csb

    That's so accurate. Random awesome Austin shit.

    I was a poor and frequently worked on my truck in our garage in a north campus condo. One night I took my buddies catfishing and forgot to throw away the extra chicken livers when we got home. The next week I was working on the truck again, and the garage was filled with this awful smell. Obviously I forgot to throw away the chicken livers from the week before.

    But because I'm sort of a negligent dick, I blamed my girlfriend for farting in the garage. Bye bye girlfriend, but it was all for the best. That's when I remembered the chicken livers. So I walked the ice chest full of rotten chicken livers out of our garage and along an alley next to yards full of future Austin assholes behind our condo. They were tech people who had just moved in from California, no shit. Anyway, I dumped that ice chest out in our dumpster and the smell was honestly horrific. The California folks had been having some wine and cheese deal in their backyard. Obviously I nuked that shit. They literally ran away screaming.

    I suppose the whole point of this is that if a monkey named Kong had appeared right then, it would not have been an aberration. That was a huge part of what I loved about Austin.

     

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  2. 15 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    For decades the cheaters would constantly claim "Texas pays players just like everyone else." Don't get me wrong, I was vocal about how Texas didn't handle it correctly. They should have either joined the cheaters or turned them in. The tactic of not cheating or turning them in but just whining about it to boosters while not letting them pay players was nauseating. But still, the cheaters would always have the same retort when Texas fans pointed out how they were outrecruiting Texas. "You're just jealous, Texas pays players just like everyone else."

    Oh really?

    Now that Texas affiliated interests are actually paying players because it's legal (along with a splash of winning), how's that working out for y'all? Fuck 'em all.

    Preach.

    What’s happening now is proof positive that we were NOT doing the same stuff as the other guys. If we had been, it would have looked like this for all these years.

    You nailed it: fuck em. Time to pay the piper, bitches. 

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  3. I got the Pfizer booster at the beginning of December in anticipation of holiday gatherings.

    I didn’t have any side effects, and I’ve had them from every previous vaccination. So that was nice.

    There are so many great people out there. There are some shitheads too. There is a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram when it comes to sickness/vaccination behavior. The only part that bothers me is that so many peoples’ default is not “This might help, and it’s not a huge burden, so I’m gonna do it.”

  4. I’m up in the air on this dude.

    I hated it when the Cowboys got him. I don’t think they needed him, and I think it that it was nothing more than Jerry Jones hubris that brought him to Dallas. After a few more years of that, I’m no longer a Dallas fan. Hell, I feel sorry for Cowboys fans. They have an owner who wants to make a lot of money and be on the front page, but he doesn’t really give a shit about winning it all since he’s done that before.

    I thought Deion was a pussy in the run game. When it got tough. He was real good at what he did: cover and make big plays on defense and special teams. He was a highlight video. But man, when it was him, mano y mano against some really big dudes, he pussed out. 
     

    I know. Nice story bro. Prime Academy showed some more of the same for me. All flash, little substance. I would be more impressed with the dude if he had stayed at a HBCU and turned things upside down. It would have felt more genuine to me. 
     

    Deion is real good at what he does: self promote. And to be fair, that extends to his kids. I can’t blame him, I promote my kids all the time. I don’t think it’s going to work, in the end. It might be pervasive racism, it might be just the “system” holding him down. He’s trying to be a change agent, but having watched him as a player I just don’t think he has the fundamental toughness to get it done. 
     

    It’s good that he’s doing what he’s doing though. Maybe it’ll make it easier on the next dude.

  5. 9 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    Not a charlatan if you produce results. And Deion always has.

    I am not a Deion expert or hater by any means, but Prime Academy was certainly an example of results in the wrong direction. 
     

    The dude is entertaining as hell though.

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  6. Really? It’ll be a relief, as others have said, to play against more than one team (OU) on the schedule who doesn’t 1) take advantage of the money that we bring to the conference (and then light on fire, which would be more fun than donating it to you fuckers), and 2) then bitch and moan 24/7, 365 about how we want to run things. 
     

    In the immortal words of Tex, “Goodbye and good luck.”

    Still like you, slorch. Along with most raider fans. Wish it was a different world, but it’s not.

  7. https://podcast.silverado.org/episodes/interview-this-american-spent-10-months-fighting-in-ukraine

    Posted by Schulz2.0 above. This is a pretty decent listen. The portion towards the end about the difficulty in getting medical treatment for Americans wounded in Ukraine is infuriating.

    I can understand (but not agree with) withholding certain weapon systems from Ukraine for fear of escalation. I can’t understand not treating vets who are wounded in Ukraine. There’s no way that leads to any sort of escalation. It’s bullshit red tape and anyone responsible is the very worst sort of pussy.

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  8. 1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Everyone should have to watch it. If you want your tax return, to be able to vote, to get your license renewed, you should have to watch it. Small children excepted.

     

     

    on NPR this am, they were interviewing a local (black) pastor who has been active in police reform in Memphis. He said he is hopeful that the riots won't be as bad as they might be because 1) the cops were promptly fired, and 2) they have already been charged with murder (or manslaugther or something I forget exactly what).

     

     

     

    It was a very good interview. The same pastor said, at the end (paraphrasing) "I'm not going to watch it, and I hope that people stop seeing black death as theatre."

    Made me think. I'm still thinking about that statement.

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  9. Fleeing armies have taken tons of casualties in warfare throughout history. Mobile elements (cavalry, armor) tip scales in favor of the victor and then are in prime position to follow up and cut down people running away. There are a few times where feigning retreat or withdrawal has led to dramatic victory (Austerlitz), but those are the exceptions.

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