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Why do you think we’re playing this awful schedule?

Agreed on that. Some of these Midwestern accents are ridiculous too. Lars the Golfer just sounds like someone trying to make fun of Minnesota and going over the top.

Jennifer Jason Leigh dressing down Hamm was epic

I was in an Italian market on Saturday and saw these little loaves of giardeniara focaccia. I knew what had to be done. Leftover brat, olive salad, pepperoncini, stone ground mustard, Colby Jack, sriracha. It’s not a muffaleta hot dog, but it’s adjacent

This reminds me of when my wife's aunt/uncle and cousins used to come back to Iowa around the holidays. I'd always offer to take her cousins' husbands out for a tour (which would involve stopping at a few bars) and there were always death glances from the women, because the intention was to all sit in their grandparents' house for 3 days doing absolutely nothing. We live a half hour away from where the grandparents house was, and they were basically locked to the city limits, and even then we couldn't go up to the bars in town.

I'm not super familiar with Wichita, but if you can't find a good watering hole in a Midwestern city, you didn't look very hard.

How in the hell are we #6 in the NET with those VA Tech and Aggy losses? I realize we're beating these buy squads by 50, but those teams are awful.

I would sure take that 11-7. I was a little discouraged by our performance in the Thanksgiving tournament, but I do think we've got the pieces to get there, assuming Hasan Ward is full strength for league play.

I live in the Midwest. I get my fill of fish frys during Lent.

That’s where I was hammering the oysters. Grabbed a Bloody while I was at it

Oysters and Schlitz

Super Dave

God, I forgot that part. Agreed.

That's a great one. I liked the one that follows it alot, too. That's the one where Larry gets extorted by the family of the girl who can't act for shit.

My kid isn't old enough to listen to music on her own, but my buddy's 11 year old daughter got him listening to Olivia Rodrigo, and he turned me onto that, and I legit like it. It's like if the Blue Album was made by a sexy 20 something instead of an emotionally crippled Gen X incel.

This is my favorite exchange in the entire series. The first time I watched this episode, I was eating, and started choking because I was laughing so god damn hard I got a chunk of food stuck in my windpipe.

I'd hammer that.

I think you’re in the right place

I always thought it was a reference to someone acting like a "white knight" and not that good behavior was universal to white people.

There are a lot of sayings being dropped in here that I had absolutely no idea had any connection to racism. I would guess most people don't. My general rule of thumb (I guess that's a bad one too) is that it's usually pretty obvious when someone is saying something from a place of derisive intent vs a mindless application of an old saying whose origins are long forgotten. And all of this changes over time. When I was a kid, people called knocking on a door and running away "N-word knocking". Obviously most of us played Smear the Queer. Even in those contexts I never thought of hating African Americans or the LGBTQ community while engaging in the activity, but the offensiveness of those terms is so evident and easy to understand that I ditched them long ago. My general rule is to listen to people and try not to be an asshole. If someone says they found something I said offensive, I apologize and listen to what they have to say, and then evaluate my further usage of the term. Seems to work pretty well.

I mean... it's Baylor. Utah is angling real hard to take the spot of "most despised fanbase".

I'll be around in the same places I am now. Off topic shit (that's the real hook here anyway) and any sports topics that may arise about the Big 12 games or teams or controversies or whatever (and I assume there will be less of that going forward). I'm not going to comment on UT sports or SEC stuff, but I don't really do that anyhow. Don't follow any of that close enough.

I would drop UCLA, South Carolina, Nebraska, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Iowa from that tier. None of those schools can hang with the top tier. UCLA could if they cared but they don’t and probably never will. Michigan State maybe too

Christmas Vacation isn't quite as good as Vacation, but it's best moments are just as good. It has more truly dumb gags (the sledding hill is the worst), but some of the exchanges are straight comedic genius. "So Eddie. Can I refill your eggnog? Get you something to eat? Drag you out in the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?" "Nah, I'm doing just fine Clark".

This is why there needs to be a 16-20 (not 32, not 40) school division of straight blue bloods that only play each other. 2/3rds of the new Big 10 can't compete with the top 1/3rd as it is. Iowa was 10-3 and they weren't remotely competitive with the upper tier of that conference. There are 6/18 Big 10 schools (OSU, Mich, Pedo, Oregon, Washington, USC) that are capable of fielding truly high end competitive squads with any regularity. In the SEC that number is a little higher (UT, OU, LSU, Florida, Bama, Georgia and then maybe Aggy, Auburn, and Tennessee from a financial standpoint). Toss in FSU, Notre Dame, and Clemson, and that's it. No one else is on that tier. The bottom 2/3rds of the Big 10 and bottom half of the SEC should be playing in the same spot as the Big 12 and ACC. And that should be it's own tier separate from the G5, which those schools are light years ahead of (see what happened to Big 12 newcomers).