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Samson's Wig

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  1. Completely agree. I think I noted that she's been great in other projects. The casting was fine, but the writing, directing, and production quality are that of a low rent adventure series appearing on late night in the 90s.
  2. Nah. And if by some miracle this worked and they managed to provide enough work to lure experienced crew to permanently move to Texas, those folks are not all Californians anyway.
  3. A large film studio will end up a giant empty building. Texas doesn't have a great history of subsidizing anything that isn't oil and gas related, especially the arts and film specifically. The film industry follows the money (tax breaks), and Texas has never done enough to entice any serious players here. There also isn't enough skilled labor living in Texas to justify a large studio. This has boondoggle written all over it, but the developers will pocket some cash if they can pull it off.
  4. That is clearly a raccoon that has fashioned itself a pair of stilts to help get over the fence. Smart little fuckers.
  5. Is it still the case that a kid can transfer to just about any damn school they want to so long as their grades are decent and they're willing to pay for it? As I recall this was due to the ranking systems not giving two shits about anything but the incoming freshman class. Has this changed?
  6. In clappy's defense, filling your reusable water bottle from a well or city system pumping that Ogallala Aquifer slush is a gamble for your teeth and your health. By the time that water seeps it's way down from up north it's more like drinking mud (and tainted with Oklahoma sediment to boot). Many panhandle folks buy their drinking water and use the ground water for showering, flushing toilets, and watering the yard, which is about all it's good for. I grew up drinking well water up there and I don't wish it on anyone. Even in that scenario, of course, there are ways to minimize the plastic usage, but it's not as simple as filtering your Colorado River water (now infused with Zebra Mussel flavor!) and filling up a Yeti.
  7. That was just as dumb as anyone being flagged for a Horns down. Big 12 was/is ridiculous. My point was really that being the big dog means you don't have the luxury of whining with impunity. The advantages for UT are already baked in. No one wants to hear Longhorn bitching, even when it is justified, and I get that. Aggy and Tech can bitch all they want and it won't so much as disturb the breeze. Why? Because they start from a severe disadvantage.
  8. Meh. Aggy gon' aggy. The horns down thing gained steam when refs started throwing flags for it in football games. And that bullshit came from admin leaning on the conference. Penalizing athletes for a completely inoffensive hand gesture shows nothing but thin skin, and certain types of people were going to keep poking that wound because it is insane how offended some UT fans were (or at least school officials), to the point of whining to the conference. Add in the reality that no other school in the Big 12 would have received that white glove treatment, and the resentment attached to Horns down at least makes a little bit of sense. NCAA getting in on the act in this situation doesn't help matters. It will only inspire more mouth breathers to do this type of thing in the future. And you can bet someone related to UT with influence bitched about this aggy and made this happen. Whoever that is needs to grow up. Let aggy be aggy. It only makes things worse for them when they're allowed to behave naturally in public. There will always be people who thumb their nose at the rich/big/cool kid on the block. Acknowledging them only gives them what they're looking for.
  9. WTF is wrong with BeardGuy? People like that deserve to be punched in the mouth. He and MultipleRobberyTeen should be forced to hang out in a cell together for a while. BeardGuy will end up dead after MultipleRobberyTeen has enough of his smug bullshit, and then we can can execute MultipleRobberyTeen. Everyone wins!
  10. Whether or not we're talking about a public works project or private investment makes a big difference in terms of ROI relevance. Ole' T. Boone was working to build a pipeline for water to suck the panhandle dry before he kicked it. Glad it never happened for the sake of folks out that way, but he saw profitability in some capacity.
  11. I'm also the parent of a child on the spectrum, and difficulty with spatial relationships is one of the number one common traits of those with autism, particularly ASD Level 1. I agree that the spectrum covers a wide variety of differences, and no two people experience it exactly the same way. I'm glad your daughter hasn't struggled with spacial issues, but that makes her an outlier. As for the interior decorating, I have no fucking clue.
  12. Reva character is terrible. Poorly written, poorly directed, and poorly acted. Maybe the actress is doing her best with what she's got, but the character is little more than Snidely Whiplash and it's fucking terrible.
  13. So is this a safe space to say that "Obi-Wan Kenobi" is Xena Warrior Princess level of terribad? I know that saying such a thing will give rise to accusations of racism, sexism, etc, but holy shit Disney has some problems and it has nothing to do with diversity. The villain on the show is some of the worst acting seen outside of "Highlander: The Series". And she can act, as she proved in "The Queen's Gambit". So maybe it's the writing, direction, etc. I believe I read that execs stepped in and stopped production mid-shoot because they thought it was "too dark". What we ended up getting was a hamfisted cartoon. "The Mandalorian" could get away with some of the low rent production value at times given its episodic nature (hell it is basically a modern era Xena or Highlander), but the Kenobi series should have been handled more seriously, in my opinion. Instead they wasted a legacy character. The whole thing feels like every other film or series where executives interfere too much and you end up with something that has no clear vision. Make it fun or make it high quality. They managed to do neither.
  14. Some of these are so bad that either alcohol/drugs/medication or some kind of neurological disorder has to be in play. For example, anyone on the autism spectrum has serious difficulty with spatial relationships and awareness. Many can never drive, and those who do can definitely struggle with things like parking. They also tend to have a really easy time getting lost as it's difficult to navigate via landmarks. If it's just that people are assholes most of these pics must be of fellow posters on this site.
  15. At 14, and even the younger one at 11, the time for parenting has already passed. Ethics are already baked in at that point and parents can do little more than minor course correction and offer guidance when it's sought. If your kids are acting like these two at this age, there just isn't a whole lot a parent can do about it. While I agree with Slorch that the dad here is likely culpable to some degree (we don't know enough to say for sure), his hot take that dad is the only one who can somehow fix a 14 year criminal is laughable and says more about Slorch's lack of ever having to deal with a kid like that than it does the father in the story. Disciplining kids who get slightly off the rails is completely different than dealing with a complete delinquent, and yes sometimes those kids grow up in homes with perfectly good parents. I have a cousin who grew up with all the same opportunities, exposure to religion, ethics, work ethic, etc. as I and my other cousins did. We were all relatively poor but all had solid families and experiences that for all but one of us led to successful and productive adult lives. That one cousin though, has spent almost his entire adult life in prison. He had parents every bit as present and on task as the rest of us. But we all knew he was headed for a bad life from the time he was very young. Because some people are just born broken. Whether that's mental health or something else I don't know, but I know his parents couldn't have changed one bit of the trajectory of his life. He had something wrong with him from birth. We were afraid of him as kids. There was no stopping it other than exactly what has happened - throwing his ass in prison for the last thirty years.
  16. I clicked on this thread assuming it was about the Toronto Maple Leafs. The struggle is real. Congrats on a long and (I hope) happy marriage, Brat!
  17. The coasts need to look up their own ass. Racism isn't isolated to the south. It's easy to live in a bit of a bubble if you're college educated and have been even moderately successful financially. You just don't generally run into people like the twat in the video. But they are fucking everywhere. The most racially segregated cities in America are north of the Mason Dixon line, as they were never forced to integrate after the war. It's really easy to have your head in the sand in those places.
  18. I've been running a completely remote company since 2009. I've long been through all the shit everyone has been learning about over the last couple of years, and was able to find resolutions and workarounds for just about every drawback related to remote employees. The number one action for making it work is no surprise. It's all about who you hire. The skillset required to work from home and actually make a meaningful, or even just positive, contribution is not something that most people have. However, almost every one thinks they are excellent at working from home. Most of these people are delusional. No one likes having a direct report standing over their shoulder, so it's easy to think remote work would be amazing and you would get so much accomplished without the distraction of coworkers and especially a boss in your direct vicinity. Unfortunately, most people are not motivated in this way. Some need the whip cracked, some need the camaraderie of coworkers, and some just need to get away from their family for a few hours each day. It's a small minority of people who are good employees while working from home. The distractions in a modern home are insane, and most can't avoid them. Yes, Millennials and Gen Z are the most overconfident groups when it comes to thinking they'll be solid working remotely because they already live their social lives online. But they're also the group from which I've found some my best remote employees. The young man in the OP, based on the information we were provided, is a layabout and should be sent packing. And any company considering a hybrid or straight WFH situation needs to think long and hard about which employees can handle it and which can't. Most can't, and I think we'll get to a point where we look back and laugh about that time when people actually worked from home. Owners and managers are already learning this shit doesn't work unless you build a company specifically for remote work. Taking an existing set of employees in an existing company and trying to implement it is not going to work out in most cases. TL/DR: Everyone thinks that they're great at working from home. The vast majority of them are wrong.
  19. Garage sales are only worth it if you're poor or insanely miserly. My folks had one every couple of years growing up, because we were poor and it was worth it. My wife and I had some garage sales early in our marriage because we were poor and it was worth it. Now? Fuck that.
  20. Damn, people fucking suck.
  21. Fuck yes voting age should be raised to at least 25, but 25 is too old to start soldiering. Drafting a bunch of fat fucks with fully developed brains is no way to rapidly build a ground force. You need them young and impressionable. In any event, a draft sucks for anyone at any age, but it's also something we're highly unlikely to ever see again. Trying to develop any kind of corollary from draft age is silly at best. Anyway, just checking in to see if you guys made any headway on solving this issue. Looks like it's the same boring old shit all over again, so please carry on.
  22. It's easier with the mirrors. And I'm going to guess that Brisket's experience with people who can't back into a parking spot largely involves city slicker frat boys who drive pickups but have never done a day of manual labor in their life. Those fuckers shouldn't be allowed to purchase a truck, much less back one up.
  23. This seems like a poll that could have included the single question, "Who here is over 40?"
  24. I fucking loved Parsec. Holy shit that brings back memories.
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