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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. I mean, thought what I said was ridiculous enough that most folks would immediately recognize it for what it was. Apparently I miscalculated.
  2. What's dumber is the number of people who actually took it seriously.
  3. It has probably the best Southern Forestry school.
  4. That's a horrible lamp. And the "artwork" directly behind it?
  5. It's worth sticking with it. It starts to make much more sense later on.
  6. Is playing soccer really any different than kicking a 50+ yard field goal? Seems like we have plenty of professional ball kickers.
  7. You're right, soccer as a sport does not currently have the popularity it needs to put the money it needs into developing the kind of athletes we need need in the US to compete on an international level at the WC. We have plenty of young talent being developed, but until there is real money involved we won't see that talent develop beyond the high school or college level. As the younger generations grow up, however, the popularity of the sport should increase and eventually has the potential to get there. With our population size soccer doesn't need to be as popular as football in order to get there.
  8. I have personally made many such proposals here. I'm know many others have as well because I pay attention to those sorts of things. So not a lie. As to the second, if i was a betting man I would bet I could find a post of yours about how Reagan passed gun control because he was scared of the Black Panthers when he was governor of California and how the modern Republicans would freak out if they saw armed black people (more power to them!) during the recent protests we've had. When you find yourself advocating for policies that will adversely affect the ability of minority populations to exercise their civil rights in order to effect your progressive view of how society should be, you are no longer someone who has a liberal view of how society should be. You simply think that rights can be turned on or off in order to mold society into how you think it should be. Not unlike the very people you oppose.
  9. It worked pretty well to suppress black people during the Civil Rights movement, so you've got that going for you.
  10. There have been numerous proposals in the many threads we have on this site posted by people active in the "gun culture" about the issue. Almost all of them have been been shouted down as not restrictive enough by the other side. All the while saying that the gun lobby refuses to compromise while stupidly ignoring the fact that most of the stuff they are asking for were in fact compromises that were made in order to get the laws they want passed in the first place.
  11. My primary hunting rifle is an AR-15 type rifle chambered in 300 BLK that I built back when it was still a new round and a lot of folks were saying it wouldn't take off, but there is definitely something amiss with American gun culture these days. I don't think it is necessarily related to the guns themselves, but more to how we were in a state of war for twenty years up until just recently and the associated idolisation of military culture. Combine that with the expiration of the AWB of 1994 and here we are. To me, my rifle is a more practical tool for hunting than the rifles my grandparents and great grandparents used. It has uses for defending my family, yes, but I recognize that that likelihood is an outlier and don't ever expect to use it for anything other than hunting. To others, however, the same rifle is something fetishisized and it's like they almost hope to have a chance to use it to kill someone.
  12. My six year old daughter does soccer at the academy level. I'm a classic mostly scotch-irish with a smattering of pretty much every western European white guy, but my wife is Hispanic. Every other girl on her team is Hispanic with the exception of one kid whose dad is British and who played soccer in college over here and now does sports training professionally. The level of talent between our teams and the local public sports teams is a huge and vast chasm. We are developing great soccer players right now, and, at least from a Texas perspective, the vast majority of them are Hispanic. We have a huge nation with tons of people, and we are just now entering the phase where enough of them who were soccer fans growing up are wealthy enough to put their kids in advanced programs at a young age. When this younger generation grows up, we will have the talent pool we need. The real question is whether or not the sport will be popular enough to give it the money it needs to truly develop a professional team at the level that is required to compete on the WC stage.
  13. The requirements to get into a school are obviously a big component of how they are traditionally ranked, but they really don't tell you much about how well a school does at preparing a student for life. Do the rankings take into account any sort of differential of how strict their admissions policies are versus how well their students turn out? I mean, I would like to know about any schools as a parent that can take an idiot kid and transform them into a genius professional just from a cost benefit analysis perspective. Not that any of my kids are known to be idiots yet.
  14. To anyone one ordering fries at DQ: you are doing it wrong. Order a side of jalitos with your burger, or preferably dude sandwich. Thank me later
  15. There's a big difference in improper nutrition and no nutrition. And a poor diet isn't going to slow down an otherwise young and healthy athletic person at 20 years old or so.
  16. You sound like someone who wears Tecovas.
  17. Yeah, I'll watch this.
  18. Our dock seems to be broken. It only works intermittently and you basically can't play any games on the TV with it, so I can't school my kids at Mario Kart or Smash Bros anymore. Are there any aftermarket docks that work well and won't brick my console?
  19. Russians have experienced a lot more brain drain over the decades. There's just not very many people clever enough to do all that left.
  20. Did they show how many shifts left on any of the characters that we can see how much time passed there?
  21. We have reservations for Thanksgiving weekend at Robber's Cave State Park in Oklahoma for the second year in a row, so it looks like this may become a family tradition. Hopefully the wife won't forget to pack the ham in the cooler this year like she did last year. Robber's Cave is probably one of the best underappreaciated state parks within reasonable driving distance of lots of folks in Texas. Whenever we decide to go on a last minute camping trip, we can almost always find reservations available there when they are all booked everywhere else.
  22. Gonna head out in the morning with all three stinkies to give momma a break and cruise around on the side by side with them, maybe explore some creek beds, and just do some fun stuff out at our family land. The flintlock is gonna have to chill for a bit, and I'm going to bring along my .243 that is set up for longer range shots as well as my .300 BO for when we are exploring the creek beds in the brush after last weekends monster buck for the property casually crossing the road 250 yards off while I was cruising around with my flintlock episode. Anyhow, the plan is to spend some time with them just hanging out, not really looking for anything, but being ready, and then take them back home to momma in time to get back out for an evening hunt and then another in the morning after spending the night in the camper. After that we'll take the camper home (we are going camping over Thanksgiving break, which looks like it might become a family tradition, so I gotta make sure everything is ready) and head out to the inlaws' place where the middle kid will probably want to go sit in the blind out there with me. It's dang near as complicated as sports season just planning time to hunt and balancing family as well when you have young children. I'm just glad I have one who wants to go do that stuff with me at only three years old.
  23. Maybe what Chekhov didn't count on is that in some places pretty much everyone has a gun?
  24. Just finished the last episode of The English, and, man, that last scene really kicked up the dust in the room. And on top of all that dust was the acknowledgement that the circus is exploitative, but it's also the only way that some people will be exposed to some things. Such a great ending.
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