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Spankytoes

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  1. Are you inferring that the race of the suspect and victim contributed to the creation of this thread?!? You must have missed the OP’s concern for catching Omarion: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/hcso-releases-photo-of-teenager-who-allegedly-shot-7-year-old-in-drive-by/285-622388775 7 year old, shot in a Houston drive-by, but a few details differ from this case. The victim, who is black, lived and the shooter, who is also black, turned himself in. Happened a few weeks before this incident. Probably just got overlooked.
  2. Off topic, but if you enter a mosque you are expected to take your shoes off. If you are a woman, you are expected to cover your head in a hijab. You are also expected to worship in a different area than the men. With that in mind, why is wearing a yarmulke in a Catholic church considered OK? I don't have a dog in the fight as I'm not religious, but I'm curious as to why you would not consider this to be impolite.
  3. From my understanding, gay guys don't want to have anything to do with pussies.
  4. I'd argue that he is the single most important man for commercial air travel since the Wright Brothers. His pioneering of the industry has been copied and duplicated worldwide. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I don't think that Southwest has ever posted a negative financial quarter. That is is testament to how business is rewarded when you treat people right. Want to check-in a bag? I'll let you do 2 for free. Want a nightcap? Here's 4 free drink coupons that we'll take 6 months after they expired. Need to cancel your flight? Sure, you can do so up to an hour beforehand and we'll give you back all of your money. Oh, our internet isn't working on your flight? Here's a $15 voucher for next time to use it on us. I have a few friends that work for Southwest and it would take wild horses to drag them away from the company. RIP sir
  5. Terrible news. Thoughts and prayers to her family on this senseless act of violence. On behalf of white people, allow me to apologize. We’re not all like this OP.
  6. 11-3 with losses to ou, some random Big 12 opponent and our bowl game. We'll win the Big 12 but miss the playoffs.
  7. I long for the days our fans can enjoy the victory instead of worrying about who is validating them. Most here weren't even predicting a win. Anyone watching the game knew that Kirby was making a rhetorical statement. If Georgia wasn't motivated, or was depressed about being left out of the playoffs, they had ample opportunity to decline the Sugar Bowl invite. We whipped them on a neutral field in a pretty fairly called game by the refs.
  8. This. It will still be a race with ou. We should be one of the two teams playing in the CCG.
  9. Somebody gonna get pregnant tonight! Hook ‘em!
  10. It’s hyperbole for the sake of hyperbole. Sure, a Bama team that hasn’t beaten anybody is better than 2005 Texas. Awesome, they just beat an overrated ou team on a neutral field. So did 4-loss Texas in October. I don’t care if you “slurp Texas”. The closest you got to slurping anything for Texas was ordering a Frosty at the campus Wendy’s.
  11. Why Derka thinks that he’s a great philosopher of sports, I’ll never know.
  12. I’m sure that there has been a lot of technological advances in the last 4 months, but yeah...
  13. Depends. You'd have to give examples of dates and whether that price is one-way or roundtrip. I can't duplicate it on Google flights. If you're flying KLM, you will have 1 or 2 connections before reaching Frankfurt depending on the routing. (One of those would be AMS) In general, I'd say the train is a better way to go unless Lufthansa has a sale because they own that routing. Both FRA and MUC have trains that take you to the respective bahnhofs, so there's no disadvantage to taking the train. Both options would take roughly the same amount of time, all things considered.
  14. I was going to respond but you pretty much nailed it. I always read his posts from someone who believes that he is more “woke” than the rest of the board. If you disagree with his position, it’s because you possess inferior intellect. Kind of like Barzini in the Princess Bride.
  15. It's simple... You sign a LOI to play for a D-1 school, you get a scholarship. If you want to transfer to another school, you can do so freely on 2 conditions: 1. You can't transfer to a school in the same conference and remain eligible to play football. 2. You can play football at a non-conference school, but as a walk-on player. No more scholarship If the NCAA wants to emphasize the "student" part of being a student athlete, this is the way to go. There are much more deserving students that cannot afford college out there and will be saddled with a student loan for much of their adult lives because they weren't gifted with the genetics to play sports. If you want to squander that opportunity on a Liberal Arts degree because you are waiting for the rest of the world to catch up with the thought that you're going to be a first ballot HOFer in the NFL, that's on you. But, this will give more ammo for boosters to skirt the rules and essentially buy players with their own, just invented, exclusive scholarships. At least it would be out in the open.
  16. This is very true. Out of NYC, I can always get dirt cheap fares to go to places like London, which is a 6 hour flight. I’m happy to spend $250 - $300 for economy. But, if I’m not intenting to go to London, I use miles. I can literally decide the day of my flight that I want to go next week and change for free if there are award seats. Try doing that on a purchased fare and watch the fees rack up. Or, I can cancel and get my miles back for a nominal fee rather than purchasing a non-refundable ticket. Life has a way of screwing up the best laid plans sometimes, so I’ve done both. Regarding flying Economy, it’s fine. I used to fly AA to London or Lufthansa to Frankfurt from Dallas regularly before I built up my mileage warchest. If you really want to level up, buy an economy ticket and upgrade with miles to save yourself $5K. I fly a ton but am only Platinum with AA because I don’t fly international for work often, and when I do, it’s to Canada or the Caribbean.
  17. JFK is an AirTrain to Jamaica the LIRR to Penn. same as EWR, just different stations
  18. Ok, but the shuttle bus has its own bus lane and the LIRR is a train unaffected by traffic. (You could do the subway from Woodside too, but it’s worth the extra few $s for the LIRR) The Van Wyck, Grand Central, LIE, BQE, Cross Island, etc. are irrelevant. If I’m leaving from downtown during rush hour, even I’m taking the train-train-bus unless I have check-in luggage. It’s the only way I’ll make the 6:30 PM LGA-DAL flight without knocking off work early. Despite JFK being 1/2 the distance to my house, I fly out of LGA all the time because AA and Southwest hub there. JFK is only JetBlue on international for me. Will be nice when they build the LGA AirTrain. On that note, the new Terminal B is nice if you don’t want Club access or decent places to eat. Much bigger.
  19. Holy shit, this. I wouldn’t fly them if they paid me $100. They make Southwest look like first class. You can take the shuttle bus from LGA to Woodside. Then you can transfer to the LIRR to get to Penn. Same cost and time as EWR with 1 extra step.
  20. Or, if you don’t want to be a tourist, go to Juliana’s
  21. I’ve found sushi in NYC to be undercooked. Without fail, it comes out rare.
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