Samson's Wig
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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.
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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Yeah, so even though being actual Christians probably doesn't hold much appeal to high school teens, and politics certainly doesn't, these kinds of organizations can attract members by other means, basically "cool kids" or "hot chicks" or just "joiners."
Of course, in our time, there weren't these social media incels, either. Then again, how many of them really join anything, except social media mobs?
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.
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
Fellowship of Christian Athletes. I was in it for a while, it was nothing in terms of religious indoctrination, just a sorta-Christian, sorta athletic thing. Hanging out and signaling virtue, not much else.
Perhaps some other "chapters" were more militant. That is my question.
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.
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6 minutes ago, TexArcher said:
This is ignoring the fact that the committee has said it doesn't punish conference championship losses and Bama played a much harder schedule.
And the team that gave Bama their last loss is probably the best team in the country. They'd pound Notre Dame, too.
I don't like any of those three teams, by the way.
Notre Dame scheduled light, intentionally, and they failed to simply win 2 out of 3 against pretty good opponents. That is really all there is to this.
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.
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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.
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12 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:
in fact, the only people who should be on the committee are former players and coaches
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:
How about a system that eliminates selection.
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).
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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.
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On 11/26/2025 at 8:02 PM, TrashMaster G said:
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.
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On 11/26/2025 at 1:13 PM, Your Mom said:
“Bro-dozers, red hats, and fake shit-kickers” (not sure… I never ask).
Perfect description of the DS populace. Your pop has a way with words.
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13 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:
Was down to 400 last time I checked. My extended family all lived there and it’s where my grandmother was raised. Don’t think I have any living relatives left there.
And to make this on topic. There’s plenty of cheap housing in the US. It’s just in the south and Midwest. Desirable places like southern Cali are always going to be expensive. People like me would move there as soon as it got cheaper and drive the prices right back up.
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, CHIEF said:
Jayton, Texas did this about 50 years ago with tax from oil royalties. My history/aviation teacher was from there. We went by the school, and they had nice single family homes that they provided for the teachers since Jayton is 100 miles from anywhere. I think Guthrie did the same.
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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?
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On 11/19/2025 at 1:08 PM, 956 Worldwide said:
Let’s be objective: Texas did (and still does) get credit for that. Last week Texas was the highest ranked two-loss team in the CFP rankings, ahead of several one loss teams. Squarely in the field for the CFP, even with the ACC and G5 participants. In fact, it can be fairly said that the tOSU loss wasn’t punishing Texas, although it wasn’t rewarded as a win. Had that been the only L on the schedule Texas would maybe have been the highest 1L team, and in the bye.
This week: Texas is the highest 3 loss team in the rankings. Ahead of name brands like Michigan with fewer losses. A small but existent path to the playoff. The 2L teams in front of you have excellent to good wins: USC, Bama, Mizzou, Notre Dame, Georgia, Tennessee, among others. All teams currently ranked in the CFP. They don’t have losses to sub-.500 teams, they don’t have non-competitive losses, they have mostly put away inferior teams in regulation.
There’s no unfair treatment here. Texas is in the mix with teams that have fewer losses and well ahead any other 3 loss teams that are all well and truly out of the convo. They are getting credit foe that schedule.
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
sportbeauty 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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So are we now living in a situation where we get ridiculously early warnings even when the odds of any rain at all are rather slim? The Chicken Little Doctrine, aimed at avoiding litigation and political fallout, can't possibly lead to any unintended consequences. I'll believe it's going to rain when I see it falling from the sky. Anyone who has lived in Central Texas for more than a season or two should know that the odds of rain are higher when it's not in the forecast than when it is.
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17 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
Someone made money off it. Who do you think it was?
Based on this thread alone, I'm betting it was a fake Mexican dude from Aledo.
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5 hours ago, 'stache said:
Here’s a hilarious clip from Conan’s podcast with comedy writer Jim Downey that includes Epstein. For those who don’t know, although he looks very different these days, Downey is the guy who played the academic bowl host in Billy Madison and delivered the “What you just said is the most insanely idiotic . . .” line.
Downey is killing it in his limited minutes on "The Chair Company".
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17 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:
No wonder Garza needs $115k in tax payer funded security. He is probably terrified of these parents
Man accused of multiple child sex crimes in Travis County gets probation instead of prison
Prosecutors dropped nine felony charges against Richard Leigh Bell in exchange for a guilty plea to a lesser charge.AUSTIN, Texas — A Travis County family is stunned after an accused child predator avoids being prosecuted on multiple charges of sex crimes against a child.
KVUE spoke to the victim’s father outside the courtroom, following the sentencing. He says prosecutors Efrain De La Fuente and Lorraine Garcia didn’t give him a say on the plea bargain they offered to Lee.
“I was outraged to find out that this was not only our first and last plea deal, but this was our deal whether I liked it or not,” the father said.
“I think any parent would expect somebody to rot in jail for doing something like this. This was continuous sexual abuse in just about every way,” he said. “As time went on, I expected a realistic plea deal to be years at least, long enough to serve some time in prison where you belong if you have successfully carried out pedophilic acts.”
Don't worry. Garza will aggressively prosecute the father (or at least get everything filed on time) when he understandably takes care of this himself. Vigilante justice is not good, but it's all people have left when the system refuses to do anything. Here's hoping no jury will convict him for whatever he does to the deserving piece of shit.
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15 hours ago, F250 said:
Yep. This dude wasn't even doing the basics. He would wear clothes that were so wrinkled it looked like someone would compress all his shirts into a one-inch triangle after they were taken out of the washer. His clothes rarely matched and looked like he inherited them from his grandpa. He had a unibrow that once he took care of added 2 points to his look. Unfortunately, he suffered from early male pattern baldness and let the sides grow out, and it was real curly on the sides so it kinda looked like Krusty the Clown hair. I convinced him to buzz it, and it greatly improved his look as well as get his teeth whitened, it was Mack Brown butter teeth bad. Once he learned to work with what he was born with, his looks improved. After that, it was just a matter of lowering his expectations. But once he lowered his expectations, he thrived and landed a girlfriend who he would bang daily on his lunch breaks, I know because he would talk about it non-stop afterward. They were both in the same league, and he was happy, and she was happy. I never encouraged him to change his interests which were reading fantasy and sci-fi novels, I figured he would find someone with similar interests in the nerd-sphere.
It sounds like what these gooners and incels need is a fuck sherpa. You should start a new business.
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26 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:
A girl much like a man is only as loyal as her options.
I don't know about that one. Most women, let's say any of them between a 3 and 10 on a scale of 10, can walk into any sizable gathering and ask "Who wants to fuck me?" and have a lot of options to choose from. Any woman who is taking even the bare minimum of care for herself has guys pestering her for sex all the damn time, and that includes your wife/girlfriend. The vast majority of men have to work, at least a little bit, to get laid. Women just have to go out in public, and maybe, if they're not at least moderately attractive, take a shower first. If a woman is loyal to her partner, it's because she actively chooses to be on a daily basis. The power dynamic that used to hold things in balance (only men could earn a living and provide financially) is not only gone, it's reversing. This is why you have shit like incels and gooners. They're the guys who can't navigate a world where you actually have to be enjoyable to be around to have a sexual partner. Young Gen Z guys, and those of the following generation, are going to spend their entire adulthood in a world where women make more money than they do, hold the majority of the power positions in the workplace, and still own 100% of the pussy. They've got their work cut out for them.
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The media has already been pushing a narrative that UT might return to Lubbock for the first round of the playoffs, and how fun that would be. In this scenario, the winner would likely then play Aggie in round two. I think if Tech wins out (or even if they lose their conference championship game) and UT doesn't stumble, they will make this happen for the spectacle alone. This has never been a sport, but rather a beauty pageant, and that is the case now more than ever. I like UT's chances of a spot.
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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.