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  1. So an update on our situation. We were scheduled to meet with our college guy on August 27th in the evening. Early afternoon that day he texts me that he needs to reschedule as his wife had a work meeting pop up and he has to run all the kids to their evening activities. I say that this is no problem and we can reschedule for next week at any point. Nothing after that. My multiple emails have gone unanswered. My texts have also not been answered. I'm hoping nothing bad happened to him or his family but it's just disappointing to be at the point where we need to get things finalized and he's pretty much ghosted us. I told my daughter that she should approach her UT On Ramps teacher who wrote her the most glowing recommendation I've ever seen to see if he would be able to help assist her with cleaning up, better focusing, and flowering up the essay. She said her school has some resources that also can help her. I'm not mad at our college guy, just really disappointed because we weren't that far away from being done and she worked really well with him. My brother was also hoping to use him for my nephew and he's gotten nothing back either. Tonight, we're going to Duncanville to talk with some small private colleges like Grinnell that she's interested in. Colorado College will be there so I'm going to have her go up and see if they can give her some hints on what can help boost her application. Grinnell is one I'll talk to because that's one I have some reservations on her going to given how isolated and small both it and the city are. It was one she focused on really early and did a virtual tour with. She'll apply with them but I told her if she's accepted we're going there in the dead of Winter so she can see what life in Iowa is like.
  2. It feels like cancel culture run amok. It is very intoxicating to be able to shame or blacklist someone online. Social media has only made it easier and there's a bit of getting out pitchforks in a very public way. I guess it's easier to live in your bubble where only your worldview is fed to you. We see it on both sides with people's media feedback loops. People get shouted down for different or "offensive" speech. It's very black and white thinking. There is no longer any grey or nuance. You have to be fully committed one way and it better be "the right way". I see it with my own teens and try to challenge them to look at things from different perspectives. I relay to them my own history of thinking one way for a long time and then changing later in life. If I were held to the standard they hold people to based on my past beliefs, I would be cancelled by them. It feels like this generation doesn't allow people to make mistakes, think less than ideal things, and be able to recover from those past misdeeds. If you do something wrong at any point of your life, that will be forever held against you. It's very strange behavior that might come back to bite them in the ass since they live so online constantly. I think my oldest would be mortified if her posts as a preteen and early teenager were served back to her when she's in her 20s. It feels like a generation that doesn't want their worldview challenged. Then again, I could be an old man now who is doing the same thing my father did about my generation, bitching about how they just don't get it.
  3. Gundy is in Florida recruiting and killing himself?
  4. Not sure on the helmet since there's not a clear shot of it but it should be the same as that mini helmet.
  5. @SbbruinI thought you might like to hear this. Your club was featured on Marketplace on NPR. Great show if you've never heard it. It's a nightly appointment for me. https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/09/08/country-club-partially-reopens-after-altadena-fires
  6. Certified lover boy, certified pedophile
  7. Yeah but all those transgender athletes will crop up again when they need something to be scared of.
  8. Good. Fuck em. They made their choice. Let them lose their souls.
  9. He sounds like a Star Wars character. Be careful when you enter the system. You might run into Biff Poggi.
  10. Ha. Yeah, nail on the head with that name choice.
  11. Racists like this always have this in their profiles. His tweets are now protected. Why hide from this? You obviously posted it thinking you would get massive agreement. Frankly, it's great that a racist like this guy moved out to Colleyville to escape non-whites and now he'll have to move again.
  12. 2001 was the 2nd highest grossing movie of 1968, the year it was released. That's pretty wide appeal. Alien and Star Wars aren't greenlit without 2001.
  13. I'd put Arch more in the early Colt McCoy stage right now. A guy from a smaller school who is learning while he goes. Colt didn't have the pedigree but you saw flashes. Arch has these high expectations because of his name which gave him the high star rating. Maybe he's just average. Average could be enough. Man, it's so early. Wisner was out. WRs are still getting up to speed. Wingo is too much in his own head. Livingston and Endries look great. We get consistency out of the WRs, this thing is going to start cooking. We might've been foolish to expect to be great again in the passing game after losing Golden, Bond, and Helm. Baxter looks good at RB and I'm interested in what Clark can bring. We need a home run hitter at RB and no one has stepped up yet. But again, it's early. One of my many flaws is my brain works faster than my fingers when I type.
  14. Do I need a new green shirt from Liverpool? No. Will I be getting one? Probably.
  15. Pulp Fiction: Hollywood's Indie New Wave of the 1990s Die Hard: action thriller set in a specific location (future action movies were "Die Hard on a _____")
  16. It is so satisfying to see a team manage the end of a game like that
  17. That felt very close to getting blocked
  18. What a great game
  19. Yeah, I was going to suggest Minnesota.
  20. This is not the take I thought Wulaw would have coming out of that game after his zero concerns thread. I think everyone needs to just reset your expectations on Arch. He'll be good and with this defense that might be enough against most teams. Is he the Second Coming that everyone seems to have thought he was destined to be, it's way too early to know and way too early to panic that he's not VY 2.0. Maybe we are seeing a bit why Sark kept going with Ewers. Maybe he saw Arch just wasn't ready yet. But everyone heaped all their hopes and dreams on a kid who is still learning. He's still got a lot of time until we need to hit the panic button. Florida was going to be the measuring stick and they certainly don't look super scary. The worst thing for Arch was starting his tenure against the defending champs in their stadium. He didn't get the easy entry that pretty much every QB at Texas in the modern era has gotten. I think he'll be fine. We're going to beat the piss out of UTEP.
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