Bobby_Batronic

When do you know if your life is in the bargain of losing your possessions? I agree, all the extra fuckery that goes along with gun ownership probably wouldn’t be worth it if the exchange was your TV and then you call the police. That’s an unknown quantity. Each of us reaches a different conclusion about that. Some don’t consider it at all.

Every last person on this forum would quickly opt for the extra 5% chance of survival when faced with their imminent death. Ardent 2A, gun control, religious or not wouldn’t matter. The hind brain will take over and everyone will choose anything that extends life. It’s why so many are oddly acquiescent when they are clearly being walked over to their certain execution. Anything for a few more moments of being. None of us would begrudge a solider about to charge an objective wearing some piece of equipment that upped their odds of survival by any percentage. And yet we begrudge some for doing the same in the unlikely event of a self defense situation. It’s silly.

It’s fascinating seeing the idea that people carry or have weapons in their homes because they are scared of their shadows in a thread spurred on by a mass shooting at a Christian school in what is probably a reasonably affluent part of Nashville. Is that a place that most people should be scared of their shadow? Or say a Walmart in El Paso? Or elementary school in Uvalde? Or church in wherever? Snide, bible beating, deep sticks cousin fuckery comments aside, are those really places the average person would consider to be dangerous to the point of needing a weapon? And yet they were. The “just get rid of the guns” idea is nice, but isn’t happening anymore than the just get rid of the drugs, alcohol or insert whatever here is. That cow is out of the barn, those comments will be made and I encourage the commenters to challenge the sunrise to stop each morning because it’s probably more likely whether you believe in ardent gun control or not. So if a person wants to train and carry as insurance against a crazy world then so what? We don’t have an epidemic of CHL owners shooting people. Quite the contrary. And most of them, despite fantasies built up in some people’s heads about concealed carry owners wanting to play hero, are looking to avoid the fight at all costs. To the point that they’ve thought about where the exits are in a restaurant or told their kids what to do if someone is in their house at night. I see that as no different than having a family plan for a house fire and drilling it occasionally or thinking about what to do in a car accident or whatever. I train all the time for emergencies and life saving procedures at work for something that statistically is less likely than winning the lotto or attracting lightening to my DeLorean. Statistically speaking I shouldn’t even bother. It’s not going to happen. And yet it’s done religiously in case it does happen so that myself and others have a chance in case of the nearly improbable. Responsible carry is no different in my opinion. If you think you’d be tempted to use the weapon in a fight or disagreement or in a fit of road rage or whatnot then you don’t have the makeup to carry the thing and shouldn’t. That’s not how a responsible carry person thinks. The decision of when to use a gun and whether to kill with it was made long before any scenario plays out. And the answer to that question doesn’t involve some social media spat playing out in real life or or living out some call of duty or rainbow 6 fantasy in a public setting. I live in a pretty nice area. I’m not overly concerned about my house being broken into. It hasn’t happened in 20 years of living where I’m at. There are weapons in my house. Anyone breaking into it will be exsanguinated post haste should they try by myself or my wife. Anyone who advertises whether and when they do or don’t carry is unwise in my opinion.

How much does playing in kilts effect the spread?

That’s what I mean. It’s an ultra low cost airline and not a white trash airline. It would be very safe to say that all varieties of of melanin are represented on a given flight and that the white trash segment is far and away the a minority on many of their flights. It is what it is. I hitched a ride home on them the other day. Downloaded some entertainment and enjoyed the lack of pretentiousness in the cabin.

I see you’ve never set foot on Spirit Airlines. But I do appreciate the attempt at humor.

It’d be pretty sweet if you could select a standard taxi route and it would be drawn for you on the AMM.

Some type it into the scratch pad of the FMS and others write it down. It’s usually company policy to record it somehow. LAX is usually very easy. ORD can be if you’re familiar with the local practices. I wrote it down in the right seat and typed it in the left because I’m right handed, the location of the various transmission keys and the need to keep a hand on the tiller.

I see some Spanish, but that would be expected.

ABC would be on the left side, and if the picture was taken looking towards the tail the letters wold read CBA. In short, while the picture may be real of some bus somewhere with some questionable cosmetic work, it’s not a Spirit Airlines A320 model.

Stardust

Saw it sitting in FLL and LAX respectively.

Preach.

That’s not really any kind of secret. Most of our fighter aircraft can get up that high and all of the long range missiles routinely climb that high and higher on their way to the target.

Saving fuel on taxi out. Planes break too.

I just flew with seniority numbers 33 and 52 respectively out of I don’t know? 27,000? 30k? I haven’t bothered to look. Both were in their 70’s, probably buddy bid, actually quite nice and judging by the passenger compliments good at what they were doing. They also moved at a glacial pace in the terminal, and I had to provide a step between the curb and the hotel shuttle for one because she’d couldn’t span the distance without toppling over. I’m not sure what use they’d be in an emergency. Both mentioned their husbands dying and needing something to do. I had a sense that they’d probably be in the grave with ing two years of retirement themselves as this was all they knew. I treated them like a pair of 20 somethings and they seemed to appreciate not being given the old bitty treatment, but goodness. Plenty of charities could use some volunteer help. Probably most making it past 7 years are completely unmarketable on the dating scene for one reason or another and must assume the wandering cat lady lifestyle.

‘Bout the same time grown men started to take maternity leave so they could LARP breastfeeding.

You can believe that or not. I don’t care. But I’m telling you that scheduling having no idea where people are at isn’t as far fetched as you think it is. I remember an instance where the scheduling for a coworker’s former company called to inform him that he had a trip. He told them he’d be right there. I didn’t make any claims about the meltdown being non weather related.

1. Yes, they most certainly can. 2. Usually.

Why wait? Again, some OC’s don’t adhere to the strictures of unwritten rules of the game. Running some gadget play early in big games is a staple for some coaches. Whether it’s play 1 or 3 doesn’t mean much to me. Bob Stoops’ Sooners typically ran some form of end around or other trick play in the first series against us pretty much every year to take advantage of our aggression. It usually worked too. Agree with much of the rest.

Package was simply a way to describe what we were doing. Seeing a flea flicker early in the game where a defense is jacked to stop the run is a semi normal occurrence. Often in big games whether they be in a bowl or not. They’re going for it was brilliant. Shift around a bunch to convince us they’re just bluffing and then pull the trigger near the end of the play clock. Who does that? A smart as F coordinator. It might have even been an option. The bluff is on unless we get them to shift to this. Everybody plays to win. Some just don’t abide by the unwritten gentlemen’s agreements about the game. As for you last point…Texas is the perpetual rebuild. Lots of stars attached to recruits, but never seemingly the ability to stack meaningful contributors. At least not since before Mack packed it in as a recruiter 2/3s of the way through his tenure. Next year is the same. OL will be better. Probably QB and TE too. Definitive step back at RB, but that’s understandable. DT and CB are good. Special teams should be fine. WR? Edge? LB or S? Better be a portal hero or unusually ready frosh. Someone will probably develop too, but nobody has been flashing at those spots.

Sigh. Yes. I know we don’t have “packages.” We just like to make improbable substitutions of ineffective players in numbers. Often placing one ineffective player behind or beside another. DTD and Bush were manning the middle quite a bit together. If it was Glenda behind Broughton then so what? The names are wrong but the point is not. DTD grading out best against the run isn’t saying much. I didn’t see anyone actually filling many holes outside of Jerrin Thompson. Clearly UDub’s offense is legit. That wasn’t a question. Our deployment of personnel against them and overall keep them in front of us strategy was. Our DT’s looked pretty average rushing straight against their OL. It’s something we find ourselves doing a lot instead of playing some line games and giving guys angles and opportunity. You can’t do either to exclusion of the other, and we spent a goodly portion of the night doing the former despite the entire back half of the season suggesting that it and our sit and let them cut us to death approach wasn’t our best path to success on defense. I can’t speak intelligently about the rosters of the 4 playoff teams. I can’t name more than a handful of players off of any one team other than TCU. So I can’t sit there and point out the inanities of each particular staff. But you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think that some of their coaching dogmas, personnel favorites or tendencies didn’t contribute to the offensive fireworks in addition to plain old execution and lack thereof. And some of it is full participation, no holds barred, do or die playoff football where crazy things can happen, and often do in spades once that can of worms is opened. Show me someone who thinks it’s not an issue in every program and that the playoff contenders are doing it all right and I’ll show you a coach too busy patting himself on the back to think critically about the game at a hand. Alabama had trouble running the ball this year and last, and Nick Saban kept a butt chinned moron as his OC. They’re in the middle of the greatest run of college football ever btw. I’m sure their fans can point to bad evaluations by even that staff. And legitimately so despite having more MNC’s in the last decade than we have conference titles dating back John Mackovic and beyond.

Yeah ok. The larger point is that there will be people bitching about the team regardless of the success. UT fans aren’t unique no matter how much they like to tell each other so in a burnt orange circle jerk. And the fans complaining about their much more successful programs probably have legitimate gripes too.

10% taking wardrobe cues from a Datsun.

Yes. It’s both. We have one LB who is competent at tackle football. That’s still the case heading into the spring unless the portal delivers. We also don’t play great zone defense or challenge receivers much inside as a matter of practice. Part is personnel, part is philosophical. It’s pretty clear to me that PK needs someone to make him right in the secondary, and someone above him to keep him on the straight and narrow with regard to calling situationally appropriate defenses. I understand that UDub probably presented the best offensive personnel we saw outside of TCU and Bama, but I don’t understand our reluctance to challenge them more on defense. Playing more aggressive coverages and attacking in the front 7 yielded good defensive performances against both of those opponents, and had rewarded us well starting in Manhattan. Actually sacking Penix had been nigh impossible this season, but there are advantages to getting him off his spot and making him throw under duress.