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  1. On 6/27/2018 at 12:50 PM, washparkhorn said:

    100% guarantee Dem, Inc. will choose a neoliberal. The owners of Dem, Inc. will want a candidate who is an expert at virtue signaling and expert at getting the rich - richer. 

    The base wants a New Dealer (the last New Deal President was Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford).

    Dem, Inc. will give them another neoliberal (Booker, Harris, Biden, Clinton, Holder, Gillebrand, Murphy, D. Patrick, McAuliffe, Cuomo). Dem. Inc. still hasn't learned the lesson of 2016. DINO's who champion "welfare for the wealthy" and "austerity for the rest of us" are toxic outside the East and West Coast citadel cities.

    Trump hatred, while strong, goes hand-in-hand with disgust for those who pretend to know how the poor feel cold (while listening to ethnicky jazz on their five grand stereo). See Joe Crowley's defeat last night. 

    Dem Inc. and Repub Corp. hates populism - right or left - at a time when millions upon millions have nothing. Aging Baby Boomers without savings and Millennials loaded with school loan debt desperately need a big fix. No help is coming from Dem Inc. Buffett will make another mint using his tried and true vulture capitalism while Dem Inc. gives him a reach around with another bought and paid for candidate who does not care how challenging these times are for a large chunk of Americans. 

    This is the right answer, unfortunately.   

    I don't see it changing until the United Corporations of America suffer through a Bastille day.    Which isn't going to happen as long we stay occupied with our phone games, netflix binges, and daily sports telecasts. 

    That said, if the next Corporate-spokesperson-in-chief stays off twitter, they'll get my support.

    Now back to "Idle heroes' and binge watching twelve monkeys.

  2. 5 hours ago, miguelito said:

    No Chris berman, right?  Please?

    You don't like to hear extremely long stories about his personal life, occasionally interrupted by a few quick comments about the sporting event you're  trying to watch?

     

  3. 22 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Forget the "rule of thumb".  What does the lease say?  That's all that matters. 

    Just because I put something in a lease, doesn't make it legal.  So, while I agree that this is mostly true, it isn't necessarily all that matters.  

    And agreed, Nice Guy Eddie.  Getting directly involved is a guaranteed way to get my eyes scratched out.     Which is why I threw out a line in to see if anybody had an unconventional idea. 

  4. I had a question for landlord types.  This seemed like a good thread for it...

    I have a rental house with 4 girls living in it.  One of the girls has a boyfriend who, apparently, has moved into her room with her.  This has caused two of the other girls to send me text messages asking if they can be let out of the lease, citing roommate issues with this girl/boyfriend combo.  (apparently the boyfriend is messy and generally an asshole)

    I've searched online and found a 'rule of thumb' about 'guests' being able to stay overnight for 2 week in a 6 month span, at which point they are considered 'rogue tenants'.  If a rogue tenant won't sign a lease and pay rent, then I could consider the lease violated.

    Except I'm not looking for extra money, or a lease termination.  I just want to stick to the lease I have with the good, quality tenants I have.  Should/can I confront the tenant with the boyfriend and ask about him/how long is he staying?     Would definitely create drama between the roommates....which could lead to what I'm trying to avoid--a broken lease.

    Also, I don't actually have anything in the lease about 'Guests'.

  5. This feels like a situation that's going to resolve itself sooner than later.   He's going to do something illegal or OD at some point.  But yeah, if you're trying to sell your house, or if you have kids that walk by that house, or if you live in earshot, that's an extremely uncomfortable wait.

  6. Was expecting 'guy keeps parking in front of my house'....but holy shit, I can't say I've seen anything quite like that. 

    There was a guy who lived out in the country near here that used to put up a bunch of anti-government/apocalypse  signs on his land that everyone could see from the road.  But he had acres and acres of land so the neighbors were miles away.    

     

  7. Watched Pique handball two or three times in the penalty box in earlier matches, all with his hands out to his sides, instead of behind his back, so pretty happy it got called finally.  Generally didn't like the way Spain played.  Glad they're out.  

  8. At a full sprint, ball coming from behind you at a severe angle....tap it with your knee, down to your foot on the same leg, which flicks it forward, all before it touches the ground. Then fire a rocket to the far corner of the net with a guy on your hip the whole time.  

    That was awesome.

  9. 18 minutes ago, Monster said:

    OSU is one of the many, many teams that MUST go undefeated to get into the playoff.  UT, OU, Bama, SEC #2, etc. can lose a game and still get in.  Because college football has an oligarchy thing going on. 

    If you're OSU or one of the other 110 schools (out of 129) that aren't part of the 'traditional power' inner circle, then you learn to be satisfied with 10 win seasons and the rare, secondary BCS bowl invite.   College football has the worst playoff system of any significant sport in the world, so non-traditional powers have to define 'big game' differently.  

    And if you're UCF, undefeated isn't even good enough. 

    (Fix your shit, college football)

     

  10. 7 minutes ago, Go Pokes said:

    Read your first two sentences. The level we were at when MG took over was bottom of the barrel. He took us from total irrelevance to being nationally discussed on a regular basis. That’s a pretty good decade. Now the next 10 years needs to be about winning the type of games you’re talking about.

    It’s all relative. A big win for UT or OU is different than a big win for OSU. Personally, I don’t think it’s ever going to happen and I’m ok with it. If the next 10 years are like the last 10, I’ll be pretty happy. A few more wins vs OU would be nice, but I don’t really see us ever reaching their level.

    OSU is one of the many, many teams that MUST go undefeated to get into the playoff.  UT, OU, Bama, SEC #2, etc. can lose a game and still get in.  Because college football has an oligarchy thing going on. 

    If you're OSU or one of the other 110 schools (out of 129) that aren't part of the 'traditional power' inner circle, then you learn to be satisfied with 10 win seasons and the rare, secondary BCS bowl invite.   College football has the worst playoff system of any significant sport in the world, so non-traditional powers have to define 'big game' differently.  

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  11. Crazy ending.  I didn't have a rooting interest going in, but thought Iran had a few crucial calls go against them   The handball penalty at the end kind of made up for it.  And they did have a chance to win it...just missed.

    British commentators and post game group were showing their favoritism toward the end, I thought.  The post game group was irate that Portugal/Ronaldo almost got left out.   

    Iran and Morocco both put good teams/sides on the field.   Not as much talent gap as I thought there'd be between those four teams.

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  12. 14 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Unlike OU, most of their fans have some sort of tie to the school.  They're also convinced OU is the most cheatery program in history (possibly true) while Okie State has never cheated or broken the rules (most definitely not true).  They're just as bad as OU and maybe worse but hey, who doesn't have a blind eye for their own team or political party?

    One of the worst college towns of any P5 school, though.  

    This is an objectively ignorant statement that smells of personal bitterness.  I'm guessing you have a grudge, had a bad experience, or just haven't traveled much.  Most university towns (in the south) are smallish towns with a school in the middle.   They're pretty fun on gamedays, but the rest of the year, its like every other smallish town in America....you need to know how to entertain yourself.

    That said, agree with 'Okie State'.   After you graduate, there's really no reason to stay, unless you want to raise your family in the lifestyle provided by a smallish (50k population) southern town.  

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  13. Don't know if this is where this goes...but OrangePower.com deletes/censors anything you post about Mike Holder that doesn't paint him as 'our glorious leader.'

    OSU just renewed AD Mike Holder's contract though 2021...a few days after Holder got his name on the ESPN news ticker telling the public that he would recruit better if he had Gundy's job.  And one year after hiring a guy to hire a basketball coach after he'd run off our existing, high profile coach.   Could Gundy recruit better?  Sure he could.  So could everybody.   Does your boss need to show up on the CBS/ESPN news ticker telling everyone he could do your job better than you?  Uh...no.  That's how you run another coach off.

    Would not be surprised if Holder's renewal sends Gundy to another school in the next year or two.  At which point, I'll just start rooting for that school instead of OSU.  Gundy has his flaws, but he's the best coach OSU has ever had.  While Holder is an absolute narcissist that has destroyed the once proud basketball program and appears dead set on running off the most successful coach in OSU football history.

    If that happens, OSU is going to get what it deserves and I'm going to find another school to root for.  

  14. 38 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

     

    I don't have as much of a problem with flopping strategically to win a free kick or penalty.  It's a strategy to win the game.  It's not the most admirable thing to do, but it is strategy.

    What I can't stand is that with every possible foul, players instantly grimace and clutch various body parts.  95% of the time we know they're not really injured.  They know they're not injured. They're elite athletes capable of playing through pain but almost every time they go down with a facial expression like they're giving birth.  I absolutely love soccer and the World Cup but this is one thing that drives me absolutely nuts.

    And the problem is it happens so routinely that it's literally programmed into players as they develop.  Get hit hard = fall down and make a pained facial expression.  So annoying.

    Agreed.  Its not the flopping, so much as the committed LYING about it.    Flop away if you want...you risk getting left behind by the play.  But laying on the field and waiting for medical attention when everyone in the world knows you didn't even get touched is bad for the game.  I did see a team, can't remember who it was, use the old magic spray on a shin guard a couple days ago.  Pretty hilarious, really.   What could you possibly be spraying on his shin guard?

     

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