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Samson's Wig

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  1. I believe I first read this comment on this site, and it was spot on. Flying hasn't been the same since they lowered prices enough to let bus people fly. Airlines need to hike up prices, make the experience more comfortable, and get about 50% of the flying public back on the bus. The legacy carriers, especially, could surely turn a better profit this way. Even Disneyland/world figured this out during the pandemic. The poors can keep JetBlue and the like, I guess, but they need separate terminals for this to work. If you can't handle your drugs, take a shower, keep your hands to yourself, wait your turn, etc., or if you're so god damn high maintenance that you'll have a panic attack over a window being open or closed or a seat being reclined or not when custom and basic courtesy dictates otherwise, you might be a bus person. It's okay.
  2. What is a circle beard? I'm not sure I really want to know.
  3. He's more likely to be . . . incredulous.
  4. I want to say that can't be real, but . . . Holy shit.
  5. To your point about selecting an undergraduate program that prepares you for the rigors of med school, a music degree (particularly the non-education tracks) is significantly more difficult and requires substantially more time and effort than an accounting degree (or any other business degree). It's not even close.
  6. It's too bad the father died already. I would prefer they both die slowly and as painfully as possible. Anyone who can do this isn't human. I hope the younger one suffers as much as possible before someone ends his useless life.
  7. Good for Tech. He won't be their last good get this off-season. To those upthread who seem to actually believe that UT played by the rules all those years: I'm not sure what you're smoking, but share it.
  8. Phones and other devices are banned at AISD schools. Access to video games, social media, websites, etc., on their Chromebooks is banned, with software in place to prevent it. Guess what 99% of AISD students do every day at school? Kids will find ways around this type of thing in seconds. I appreciate the sentiment behind this law, but it's little more than virtue signaling, just like the porn ban in Texas. Legislating behavior doesn't work without the means to enforce, and the folks who support this type of thing tend to be the type who don't want to be bothered with parenting. You can't shield your kids from the world. You have to teach them how to engage with the world, the good and the bad, without being overcome by it.
  9. I definitely attended youth services in high school because there were cute girls there. Both of the preacher's daughters ended up pregnant (not by me), so it seemed like good times were being had, and I didn't want to miss out. Alas, the church angle did not overcome my lack of game, and I eventually wandered out into broader pastures in my search for fun.
  10. My experience was similar to yours. I didn't have much to do with it, but I was brought to FCA events by other guys from the football team. It seemed little different from the National Honor Society or any of the other silly clubs kids would join to pad college applications. I do remember a Young Life group forming in my last year or two of high school. A friend hosted one of their events at his house and asked me to attend. I found it weird, and with hindsight, it was definitely an early-stage, and perhaps prototypical, evangelical nutjob cult recruiting tool similar to TPUSA today. I didn't attend a second time. I was raised in the SBC, but in an era before they joined forces with the Christian right and became full-blown evangelicals. I was already used to fairly nutty religious behavior, but the Young Life thing creeped me out. Now it's just par for the course for the SBC.
  11. Yeah, but that's bullshit and the proof is in their punishing of BYU for losing in a CCG. Now Notre Dame is running scared as they know how likely a loss woudl be to BYU in a bowl game. Notre Dame played a weaker schedule than Aggie did this year. They didn't belong in the playoff. B etter than Tulane or JMU? Sure. But BYU had a better record with a tougher schedule than Notre Dame. Their only losses were to a top four team that looks as complete as any team in the field. In a holy war, the mormons beat the catholics in 2026.
  12. I'm all for a sixteen-team playoff, or play-in games of some sort. Still, fuck Notre Dame. They will forever be NBC's second choice, after Blow-U turned them down.
  13. Former players are often among the most ignorant people about football. They tend to know a lot about one position and jack shit about anything else. Their knowledge also tends to be stuck in the time they last played. And if we're being honest, football players are not typically drawn from the creme of the crop, intellectually speaking. I'm immediately skeptical of any football take that involves language along the lines of "they don't know ball" or "they never played ball". It just about guarantees that whatever they have to say next will be utterly stupid. My perspective on this is that of a former player.
  14. I got to demo this Rocket 3 while my bike was being serviced yesterday. The experience was downright spiritual. The owner knew what he was doing when he suggested I take it, damn him. Now I'm trying to talk myself out of buying one. It makes no sense on any level, would be a bitch to maintain, serves no functional purpose, but it was the most fun I've had on a motorcycle since I was a kid riding dirt bikes and building tracks with ramps in the cotton field after harvest. If you get a chance to ride one, and aren't intimidated by the largest production engine available today, do not pass it up. 2,458cc liquid-cooled inline-3 engine producing 180 horsepower and 166 lb-ft of torque
  15. Ugh. Over a boyfriend. Hormones are a bitch when you're young, and the lack of them is a bitch when you're old. Mother nature sucks sometimes.
  16. I can't wait to see the insane way this piece of shit leaves LSU in the lurch in a couple of years. I still don't understand why schools keep hiring the biggest douchebag in sports.
  17. I'm all for that, though I don't know how you can truly turn college football into an actual sport when it's been a glorified beauty pageant for most of its existence. And the more college football looks like a minor league NFL league, the lower the ratings will get (and they've already been sinking for a while).
  18. I mean, let's be honest. SEC teams scheduling anything other than the most embarrassing of cream puffs in non-con is relatively new. The mouse will survive if things revert to the mean. That guy who created the fake school for Alabama to pad their schedule has to still be floating around somewhere.
  19. That's a hot take coming from an Oregon fan. The absolute closest comparison to what is happening at Tech now is what happened at Oregon when Knight started pumping in money, only they were a much, much shiitter program than Tech was before the cash. I'm still puzzled how this narrative even got started. Tech was outspent by several programs this year, including . . . wait for it . . . Oregon. They spent $12 million more than Tech did on NIL. Get fucked, Doug.
  20. Perfect description of the DS populace. Your pop has a way with words.
  21. I had a lot of family just up the road in Spur, but there are only a couple left now. Grandma grew up with Red McCombs there, and they dated in their youth. When she was still with us, I used to gently tease her about what might have been had she not dumped him and married my granddad. She was always quick to let me know that I wouldn't be around had she made that choice.
  22. That was the expected outcome after watering it down like they did. I'll be interested to see if Segura holds to his line about revisiting this next year. Somehow, I doubt it. I still want to know what the Bryker Woods folks did to get him to back down, because it sure as shit wasn't that a member of his staff was talking out of both sides of their mouth. That's simply SOP for him and his team.
  23. There used to be a nice little cafe in Jayton that I would stop at with some frequency a few decades ago. That town, like so many, has shrunk down to almost nothing now. Maybe 500 people?
  24. Thank you. I've never understood, especially since the BCS era started and continuing into the playoff era, any UT fan who whines and bitches as if the Horns don't get every benefit of the doubt at every possible opportunity. The media companies that run this sport beauty pageant want UT involved whenever possible, as it makes them more money. This same team, with almost any name other than UT, and maybe four or five others, wouldn't even be sniffing the playoffs.
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