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  1. Now I wanna tell you a story. I'm gonna ask ya'all to close your eyes while I tell you this story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves.
    This is a story about a football coach taking on the head job at the flagship university of the 2nd largest state in the Union. I want you to picture this football coach.
    Suddenly a bus races up. The Arkansas Razorbacks jump out and call the hogs. They drag his pathetically talented offensive line into a nearby field and continually push their shit in with a 3 man front, and then they rip the freshman QBs clothes from his body. Now their running backs climbs on, first one then the other, then the other…… then the other, raping them, shattering everything innocent and pure -- vicious thrusts -- in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they killed any shred of dignity his team had, murdered any chance for them to go to the CFP, to have the oddly magical season so many of their delusional fans thought was possible, they decide to turn them over to their meth addled hillbilly friends to the west for target practice. So the hillbillies start throwing counters and punt passes at them. They throw 'em so hard that it tears the flesh of his team’s unathletic defense all the way to their bones -- and then they storm the field.
    Now comes the Cowboys for a hanging. They have a rope; they tie a noose by letting his team get out to an early 14 points lead. Imagine the noose pulling tight around his neck as again his scheme just can’t counter-balance the holes his offense and defense has for four full quarters of football. The team and its fans are pulled into the air, their feet and legs go kicking and they don't find the ground. The hanging branch isn't strong enough. It snaps and the team falls back to the earth for a bye week.
    Can you see him? His team raped, beaten, and broken by crushing losses, soaked in their collapses, soaked in their failures, soaked in their blood -- left to die.
    Can you see him? I want you to picture that football coach.
    Now imagine he’s Urban Meyer.  
     

    The Aristocrats!


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  2. Strikeout for me too. My hot streak has ended.


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    Somehow the notification emails have started getting hing up in my spam filter. I didn't even get to register for the draw.
  3. I think you are way overthinking this. Are you surprised that the appraisal today is significantly higher than a year ago when building materials are up by 2x and not coming down anytime soon? You talked about this a while back, but you are selling now. Current value is what it is - if they hadn’t jumped the gun you’d have agreed to follow the appraisal. So, follow the appraisal.


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  4. Baylor and TCU are the main backstabbing ingrates right now, hence their position front and center in my list of schools I don't care about when it comes to landing spots. Oklahoma State occasionally from what I understand (which is obviously at least second hand info because I'm not a journalist) which I assumed was because they historically thought OU would protect them. But the Cowboys not as recently. 
    I've always just considered Kansas as that guy in the corner covering his face by looking down when Texas's third tier rights "greed" is discussed. Those rascally Jayhawks.
    Ironically to most people, another school I've never heard about leaking greedy Texas stories to the press is OU. I've only heard about those assholes grinning and saying no comment. I assume the grinning part was metaphorical but who knows with those shitheads. 
    You are indeed correct a lot of it was historical, but the conference died a decade ago, it was just a slow death. By the time the smarter remaining schools figured out that shitting on Texas all the time wasn't going to work out for them long term, especially after the other 4 left them nowhere to go, it was too late. I won't deny that Texas has been at least contemplating more stable ground continuously since the SWC died. But that's just fiduciary duty when the Big 12 was unstable from the beginning, and Texas was not the sole or even majority reason for that instability, just a contributing one. 
    What I am arguing and will continue to argue is that the Big 12 could have been that stable home if it hadn't taken the wrong turn at nearly every major decision point. Texas certainly helped steer the wrong way sometimes (see what I did there?) but not nearly every time. And that's exactly why some of us are saying better conference leadership from the beginning would have helped. You can say the conference network thing was a long time ago but consider how much different the world looks right now if the Big 12 Network had been the first successful conference third tier creation. 

    This is on point. And honestly it’s not even the i8’s fault that Texas is leaving. There’s an alternate history where Texas beats ‘Bama in the title game, stays a national power over the next decade, doesn’t hire shitty AD’s and coaches, and puts the conference on their back and carries the B12 to the front of the pack.

    Didn’t happen.

    In this reality, Texas wasn’t staying in the B12 past 2025 once ESPN chose not to reopen the TV contract last year. Add too many recruiting losses head to head with SEC teams, sprinkle NIL on top and… it was just time.
  5. So my mom recently received a kidney cancer diagnosis that qualifies her for disability. However, she didn't pay in enough the past 5 years to qualify for disability (pretty low income with high business expenses that made her taxable income real low). So, she is applying for supplemental security income (SSI) based on the disability. The extra money will be minimal, but she will automatically qualify for Medicaid if she is approved for SSI. She qualifies based on her income, especially now that she will not be able to continue her work due to cancer treatments. However, my grandmother (her mother) died fairly recently and left my mom inheritance that would disqualify her from SSI's resource limitations. Mom has only had the account for less than a year, and it is intended to be used for my brother, who has disabilities of his own, when my mom eventually passes away. 
    Can we move that money into some legal arrangement that will allow mom to qualify for SSI and protect the inheritance for my brother's use? Or will the fact that the account has been in her name in the past few months prevent her from receiving SSI?
    Any recommendations are appreciated. She and my brother are in a really tough spot.

    The rules on the $2k limit of assets are pretty draconian. I would make sure you understand those if you need to dispose of assets to get her under the limit for SSI.


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  6. Doin' some Dino's tonight for a get-together mañana.  I watched the Franklin youtube tutorial just to refresh and made the mistake of clicking on this afterwards.  
    RAGEY!!!
     

    WTH is meat church?
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  7. TL end of Summer sale not the same as dollar days, but some decent buys. Picked these 2 up, both hyped bottles I wanted to try. Got the Seagrass for $69, and the Wathens’s for $39.a662c16cfd8274d1d2bb693e10820261.jpg


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  8. I got replacement lenses from Revant. They had to ship me 3 sets of lenses to get me the ones that fit my frames and actually matched what I ordered. All were labeled correctly, just weren’t the right lens in the box. Really easy to deal with, didn’t ask me to ship anything back. once I got the correct lenses quite happy with them.


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  9. 1 minute ago, nycHorn said:

    Is tapa the only option? I’ve looked but can’t find anything.

    I can’t login on tapa and it give me a 3 page error message. Like I’m going to read all that….

    First Nothing would load, then I tried logging out and back in, got this same novel of an error message. Tapa is borked.

  10. That is very strange.    I have known folks who went undergrad at one school and then Grad or Whatever Professional Degree at another  and have more of an affiliation  or affection with the later.    Even a few who went to aggy for undergrad and UT for Grad or Med/Pharmacy/ Law  School.  You would never know they were aggy if they didn't tell you or see their undergrad diploma on the wall. Any self respecting person who went to UT for both undergrad and grad school would need to have their heads examined if they joined the cult of aggy, IMO.  I don't care if they were trying to impress and keep a lady happy  if she is aggy.    I'd go to a game with her, but never in the world would I wear aggy shit to make myself feel like I'm part of the cult for one day.  

    Exactly. I wear burnt orange 90% of the time as a TexasEx and Texas resident of 30 years. Wear bright orange when it’s appropriate (OSU playing anyone but Texas) since I am an alumni. Fuck OU and anyone that roots for the Sooners if they graduated from another school. Same for Aggy.
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  11. My wife's boss is an Oklahoma State grad for both his Bachelors and Masters degrees, but wears nothing but OU clothes/hats/etc... He's explained how it works, but I cannot for the life of me understand his logic at all behind his loyalty (or lack there of). 

    Your wife’s boss is an idiot. I grew up in the state, got my undergrad from OSU before coming to The University for my MS. No self-respecting OSU grad would be caught dead in Crimson and cream.
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    Looks like the opening to a 70's sitcom, WKRP knockoff.
    Though seriously, I applaud Cleveland's promotion of the Human Pamplona Virus vaccine.

    Spiders was the obvious and correct throwback choice. This is horrible.
  13. Met with his "staff"....
     
     

    While my knowledge of Texas Legislature rules is not comprehensive, I believe they can’t file shit in a special session unless Abbot puts it on the session call agenda prior to starting the session. So regardless of anything else, they can’t file it in the current session, and Abbott can shut this down in any subsequent special session until the 2023 regular Legislature.
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