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SydneyCarton

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  1. The disappearance of Half Price Books is one of the things I really lament. I used to go to the one by campus once a week with my buddy and pick up old editions for like a buck apiece. And when older, I'd often go browse on Sunday Mornings.
  2. If you're referring to the TD, I don't really think it's fair to blame Guilbeau. That was an absurd catch. We weren't favored to win, though, which was the question.
  3. Can that poster be 6th Street? He needs to be diving head first because the fucking spot the second he begins the slide is horseshit.
  4. but you don’t “get” kiffin despite he’s done way more at the collegiate level than sark had?
  5. How'd you feel about Sark when he was hired at Texas. Holy shit, this guy is going full Spider2YBanana. Might want to see if he's raided the drug cabinet at the clinic.
  6. You're both a father, and an old white dude. Sounds like you show up with bejangled Ed Hardy jeans and a salt life t-shirt to the parent teacher conferences and accuse your kid's teacher of being "sus."
  7. Well reading and listening activate different areas of the brain, and exercises different mental muscles. But at the end of the day, I think it's really just personal preference. You might not be missing out on anything at all, personally. I'm not the poster that claimed it was a Hill To Die On, but I mean, for me, perhaps I'm just dying on the hill of verbal pedantry that listening to a book is not, by definition, reading one. Because I'm on surly, therefore I'm an asshole. Personally, I enjoy reading, because I enjoy holding something solid in my hand, and the act of marking progress page by page. I also like that I'm forcing my brain to construct a word, then have to reach for the imagery associated with the words strong together and create the image in my head. I think reading is better for stretching and reinforcing vocabulary than listening. I like re-reading things, as other posters have said, if I find it striking or touching without having to hit the rewind 15 second button over and over. But that's just me. It doesn't mean I won't tell people who watch the movie instead of reading the novelization of a movie idiots, or wrong, etc. Also, just to remind everyone, including myself, that Elon Musk is a fucking piece of shit.
  8. No, you Tennessee Orange and Burnt Orange Are The Same Thing Blind twat.
  9. My wife and I watched that series when it came out. Found it kind of meh, but it was definitely pretty to watch. Can't argue w/ $4.
  10. That's you projecting. And then trying to justify, when no one asked for justification, that an audiobook can hit different emotionally. Of course it can, it has professional voice actors. The point is you went out of your way to defend audiobooks when someone just said "It's not reading." Man, thanks, I've got to go watch this.
  11. Prison scrubs aren't burnt orange. Fuck that dude on reddit.
  12. The benefits of a classical education.
  13. Maybe. I totally buy that. But none of those things are reading. Did someone here say "Fuck those people who listen to audiobooks, they're sub-human and illiterate?" If so, I missed it. I loved that book. Never heard of it being a movie, and I pay attention to movies. Weird.
  14. I can get behind this except for Military Ops pause. Because China and Russia would love that. "So no one's manning their defense systems? Cool."
  15. No they can't. No one has ever sued, much less successfully sued, a coach for not going back into coaching in regards to their offset language. "Yeah, the stress of the LSU job, the smearing of my good name by LSU, and the legal battle were a lot. My doctor told me I should take a year out of coaching because of the stress I've been enduring." It's not happening.
  16. I guess words don't matter. Tell me, have you read any good podcasts lately?
  17. Ok, so you're admitting you're basing this entirely on the city/location of the franchise. That's what I thought, which is why I said "Other than living in New York." You're also taking that Titans interest as fact, which is most certainly is not proven fact. That's a hell of a false premise for this conversation.
  18. The guy was born to spar with Dave Portnoy on Big Noon Kickoff.
  19. The Giants are a glamour franchise? Really? I stopped watching the NFL around the same time Jeff Fisher buttfucked Vince Young, but the Giants have been shit with a couple great Eli Manning runs for the last 30 or so years. And I mean shit. Other than being in New York city, what makes them a great destination? The management sucks, they're almost as bad of a laughing stock as the Browns. What makes it Glamour? Because if you say New York city, my response is the New York Knicks, the New York Jets, and the New York Mets, also NY teams that are jokes at this point. I just don't see it. We can be realistic, however. This isn't 2013, where we'd already fallen behind on facilities, had assholes running the athletic department, and wouldn't play the bag game. Now NIL has changed the entire landscape, we're at the forefront of the NIL game, and we have a stable and exceptional athletic department in a talent rich state. We can realistically have high fucking expectations. Uh, you don't think the AD we hired in 2017 had a strong hand in deciding who our coaching hire was in 2021? Del Conte was leading that show every step of the way.
  20. I'm not sure why everyone is so caught up on the mitigation aspect at this point. He's been fired less than a month, and it's not college football hiring season. Additionally, him seeking a job can be him taking a gig at ESPN for a year or two at a few hundred K, he can't be legally forced to work only in coaching by a contract. LSU wanted a lower settlement to make him go away, BK told them to fuck right off, then the clownshow started. Even if they reach a settlement, the news will report the number, but probably not the payout structure. This started with the two parties arguing over the total payout. Then the state of Louisiana decided they were going to try and pay zero. And here we are.
  21. "That will be 1 trillion dollars." read: transitive verb 1 a (1) : to receive or take in the sense of (letters, symbols, etc.) especially by sight or touch (2) : to study the movements of with mental formulation of the communication expressed read lips (3) : to utter aloud the printed or written words of Listening Is Not Reading.
  22. It's all of it. In the past, were here women who liked other women, or were bisexual, that would have been interested in exploring that if society didn't fucking punish that kind of behavior aggressively? Absolutely. In the past those women kept that shit to themselves, at least more often than now, because there was a legit chance they could end up in an insane asylum if they got caught. At the very least ostracized from friends and family for being heretical sinners. It's not just that they'd have been "identified" as straight, they'd be pretending to be straight for their own survival, and all that it entails. Same as gay men. Sure, it's always existed. But not it's not punished by the literal laws of society. And because society has become more open and accepting of same sex relationships, guess what, both sexes now have a theoretically larger pool of people from which to choose, at least if they're comfortable with both sexes. Personally, I'm not. But I'm not every person on the planet. You can "reject" the idea of women choosing women because they think men suck all you want, but there's an increasing drumbeat of those stories being told. In the past, women who just got the shit beaten out of them were almost legally forced to stay in those marriages. Now? Plenty of women who say "fuck me, I'm done" and guess what, they can peace out and find a relationship with someone they feel safer with, regardless of gender. Sure, women who like dick still get dick. And maybe they get married, but maybe they don't because that's no longer a required societal structure anymore. It all adds up. And that's before you even factor that women are going to college at greater levels than men these days, and there's a growing segment of incels and shit. Maybe some of those women at the top end up alone. Maybe they choose women. It all adds up into a not statistically insignificant number.
  23. SydneyCarton

    Obama

    I assume this thread got bumped because Trump issued an arrest warrant.
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