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    Maybe we could get Wade Phillips back, this time as DC!
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    Roof estimates vary wildly depending on how gullible/rich the roofer thinks you are. In Austin, a home remodeling & roofing company with a name that rhymes with Tower gave me a fancy presentation followed by an initial estimate (for a very plain 1700 sq ft house) of--get this--fifty thousand dollars. Five zero, not 15. I was able to "talk them down" to a "special price just for you" of 28k, which was still double the other estimates I got.
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    I've resigned myself to Dak fucking up a certain number of times so I was prepared for that. But the defense today, was something I will have nightmares about. Love had so, so much time to survey the field. And so many completely open receivers. And mostly perfect accuracy. And those GB receivers, did they even have any drops? It was like Dallas didn't even have a defense on the field. And I thought Love was supposed to be a confirmed bust of a pick, at least that's what everyone said earlier this year.
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    Ever fucking year is the same and every fucking year I fall for it. I was able to break up with the Oilers after 35-3, why can't I break up with the Cowboys? And I know somehow, despite looking like an Unbeatable Future Brady 2.0 Hall of Fame Lock today, Love is going to play like complete shit next week. Just like Washington did against Michigan after their win over Texas.
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    Just for max lolz I hope Bama takes Elko or Jimbo. (Why would they? Why not!)
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    Is there any chance Sharp, Perry, or anyone of note actually suffers consequences from this, like an indictment? 🍿
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    I had a couple drinks (Forty Creek) before bed, but I still laid awake for a couple hours going over the game in my head. Especially UT's last two red zone possessions and play calls. We had a legendary comeback opportunity within our grasp and let it slip away.
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    Yeah, it doesn't make sense that the defense is given a massive, disproportionate gift if the fumble goes through the end zone and rolls OOB (rather than any other fumble that goes OOB). The defense should only get possession if they actually recover the fumble in the field of play. At worst, the offense/fumbling team should get the ball back at the 20, instead of fully losing possession.
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    Seriously? Whatever agreement is "negotiated" with Russia, they will just break it again at the first opportunity.
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    Why can the Dallas defense only get sacks against QBs that stand in the pocket for 6 seconds like a statue. They need a different (read: effective) scheme for QBs who get the ball out quickly. I don't know what that scheme is but I'm sick of watching guys like Tua clown on Dallas.
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    The Republican strategy for that is to make sure that, by the time that generation is voting in large numbers, they will have implemented some combination of gerrymandering, voter suppression, court packing, state control over local election districts, etc. to make sure that they still get the outcome they want, whether legitimately or not. Republicans are hostile to the principles of "one person one vote." They have some balls to complain about election security when they are the ones actively working to fuck up the system.
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    Marshall really went into a tailspin
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    What's the over/under on this? Marshall tends to sink below minimums.
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    This is a tangent, but did anyone watch the Titans-Texans game on KEYE-TVs over the air channel? I just wondering if I should dig out my old OTA antenna, because the feed on Youtube TV was horrifically compressed, and I wonder if KEYE is any better directly OTA. Any shot with motion was very blocky, and at medium distance the grass was swimming with details kind of popping in and out. It looks like KEYE multiplexes two 1080i channels and two 480p channels, which can't be good for video quality.
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    It's fucking dire. I only made it 20 minutes. Is this supposed to be a comedy? If so, it's not funny. And if it's supposed to be action-drama, it sucks at that too.
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    Surly wallet check

    Paper_jam replied to 52-80's topic in Lulz

    When I was 13-14 years old, I got a trifold black nylon wallet with velcro closure, "Flying Scotsman" brand. Almost 40 years later I still use it as my primary wallet, despite getting leather wallets as gifts probably 15 times in the intervening years, which I usually regift. Doesn't smell too good though. Can you wash a wallet?
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    In a just world, or even in the Texas of 15-20 years ago, this would be a scandal that would force those THC commissioners to resign. In the Texas of today, nothing will happen.
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    I didn't watch, but out of morbid curiosity I'll ask: did any candidate discuss policy approaches for any of the following issues: housing affordability, homelessness, higher education costs, public education, protecting personal privacy rights, healthcare cost/availability, protecting social security & medicare, transportation infrastructure/mass transit, or climate change?
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    Surly posters, can we throw enough money together for a plane ticket for uncle?
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    Look on the bright side. This action by the very-concerned-about-consumers AG's office surely means we will soon see similar actions against the shitton of misrepresentations and fraud committed by other industries in Texas. Like, say, car dealerships; oil, gas & chemical; energy conglomerates, and so on, I mean it's the AG's office, that's a respected state institution. It's not like they're just going to selectively target prosecutions to score cheap political points. That would be something that happens in a banana republic.
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    It can happen. I remember flying out of ABIA early one morning just before Christmas (about 20 years ago) and there were tornado warnings and torrential rain. We went into the bathrooms to get away from the terminal windows.
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    Is there even a comics section in the Daily Texan anymore? For that matter, is there still a Daily Texan? Robert Rodriguez had a pretty good strip (Los Hooligans) in the early '90s.
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    I'm sure** the actual contract language is more specific, but from that summary, from the structure of those bonuses it's not explicitly clear that he only gets the highest applicable bonus. (For example, I'm assuming A&M intended that if he wins the CFP, he gets the 3.5 M bonus, but not all the preceding lesser bonuses too.) ** well, it is aggy so I'm not actually sure
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    Deep State Activation Alert: Initiate psyop module Fisher2, codeword "Elkhunter"
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    https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-delivers-meals-to-homebound-austinites-thanksgiving-morning/ Conservative politicos love to be seen serving meals in a soup kitchen for a few hours a year, or doing other charity photo-ops, while simultaneously advancing policies that don't support (or actively harm) the vast majority of people in poverty or people at economic risk. I guess they either see no hypocrisy in that, or they don't care about the hypocrisy. Or they have some twisted justification that it's somehow bad or wrong when assistance comes from the government but it's OK if the assistance is coming from the religious establishment. If I was ever in a role of authority in a nonprofit or church institution and one of these tools wanted to do a self-aggrandizing photo op I'd tell them to go pound sand.

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