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Bateshorn

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  1. JFC, how hard is it to just rub one out in the privacy of your own home and move on with your life.
  2. I don’t know what they were actually doing, just a lot of boat traffic off Bolling at a time of year when the Potomac is usually pretty quiet. Lots of Powerboats zipping around Haines Point today.
  3. Most of the people you listed fly in and out of Andrews, which can take 1-2 hours by car if traffic is bad. So they take Blackhawks back and forth. one of the problems with DCA is the Congress critters don’t want to fly out of IAD or BWI so they keep adding directs to an airport the size of a postage stamp that is already way way way over capacity. Including Ted Cruise, who negotiated a deal for American to add a direct to SAT.
  4. They were still doing recovery from what I could tell on my evening walk. Lot of boat traffic off of Bolling.
  5. The air space of DC is insane. When I eat lunch on the roof of my building, the planes are landing and taking off 1 min apart on #1. Occasionally landing/taking off on the other two, and there is always at least 1, if not 2-3 helicopters knocking around the city. I used to watch it to empty my mind, but not anymore.
  6. I live on the Wharf. It’s fucking siren city rn. I’ve landed that runway probably 100 times. I see Marine One almost every week. I know about the helicopters. They shouldn’t be over DCA.
  7. Fuck. All. Of. This. GODDAMNIT. If you live in DC, We all have status on American. It’s basically a mini hub for American. I’ve spent probably 10% of my life on CRJ700s, as well as Embrear’s and MD-90s. HOW THE FUCK WAS THERE A BLACKHAWK IN DCA AIRSPACE.
  8. No. No. Didn't you get the progressive memo about letting the perfect be the enemy of the good? This sort of compromise and incremental change won't do. It's Swedish Style Socialism on Day 1 and hairshirts for all of America's historical evils. Otherwise I'm staying home.
  9. I'm so sorry, brother. I never really knew my father, so it makes me happy that you had such a warm and close relationship with yours. Gives me faith in the men of our troubled world.
  10. No. Classic Trump do the work/stiff the contractor bit.
  11. THis is a classic "will watch until the game gets out of hand/is boring, then I will grudgingly (but actually happily) let my wife talk me into putting an International House Hunters on" Super Bowl.
  12. I don’t want to say this feels like the dot com bubble popping…..but it kinda feels like the dot com bubble popping.
  13. I don't, but my Son's childhood best friend goes to St. John's in Minnesota and LOVES it. Granted, he went to a Benedictine High School, but they offered him a ton of need and merit aid. The St. John's Football Corch back in the 80s and 90s was kind of a legend for being a good dude and the opposite of a Bobby Knight style asshole.
  14. There it is. HTTR.
  15. Uh. Guise. GUISE!!! Im starting to get a tingle.
  16. Every Carleton grad I’ve met is fucking smart and cool.
  17. I’ve made this joke before in this thread, but when Oregon played Colorado, that’s a lot of rich California kids who didn’t get into their first choice UC school.
  18. True. Texas State and North Texas are D-I. OTOH, if you aren't going pro and looking at business, law, or medical school post graduation, would you rather have paper from: Bowdoin or North Texas?
  19. A school like Middlebury, Tufts, or Bowdoin, which are near impossible to get into academically, will give A LOT of preference to a top tier athelete who can pass the academic sniff test.
  20. I've said this many times, depending on the school, the price isn't usually the price when talking D3 schools, depending on your income. If you are middle class, after need and potentially merit aid, the cost is often 1/2 to 2/3 less than the listed price. Don't look at that sticker and immediately swear off a school. It's worth reaching out to the coach, having a conversation, throwing in an application, and seeing what the school offers you. Your child doesn't have to be resigned to the Greek IM field at second tier state U.
  21. Australian Actors mostly end up going back to Australia. Same for a lot of New Zealand actors. Outside of the odd Mel Gibson, they all go back. Pearce eventually left Melbourne and moved to Amsterdam with his second wife, a model, but 90% of the time when an actor from down under doesn't have the career you thought they were going to have, it's because they hated Hollywood and left.
  22. With Societies, it depends on whether they are charity based or science focused. A charity based society should either be funding research or charity efforts and most of that money should be going out the door. A scientific society usually is a member based organization that also publishes/runs conferences to help cover the cost. Doesn't mean the executives aren't well paid, but their primary mission is more internal focused than external. There's a big difference between the American Chancer Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
  23. I'd roll Doctors without Borders for international. The real green light moment for me was during the Indonesian Earth Quake when they basically said: We have enought money, send it somewhere else. They caught a lot of shit for turning away donors, but that's just how they roll. Also, they are the canary in the coal mine on international situations. When they announce they are leaving or call for intervention you know its about to go down. Their work in Rwanda in 94 is fucking legend.
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