Samson's Wig

These streaming companies will laugh their ass off at this lawsuit, most likely. They can outspend these dumbfuck law firms till they put them out of business.

I completely agree and it's sad. I wouldn't get my kids within a mile of an NFL game. College football games are heading in the same direction, sadly. College basketball is still largely kid friendly, and I've taken the kids to a few games. I'm really excited to be taking my kids to their first NHL game in Toronto right after Christmas - although that atmosphere is kid safe for a couple of reasons: it's in Canada and we bought the expensive seats. Not all NHL games are kid friendly.

Two things: 1. Watching that kid in the video, who may or may not be with the dude who got beer thrown at him, is fucking heartbreaking. People fucking suck. If I didn't think it would be abused bureaucratically I might get on board with procreation licenses. 2. There are lots of places as you describe. Here's one of a few in the Austin area: https://www.thebreakingpointaustintx.com/ Maybe we should hand out vouchers or something.

That is a masterful way of not answering the question. Well done.

And that, my friends, is what we call in the business "limiting your liability". Well done, church.

Easy to convince the public of the stadium bond when the costs for everything else are already being covered by the fine folks in Austin.

Typical well-intentioned bullshit that ended up clearing the way for multimillion dollar football palaces in the suburbs.

Nope. Or buying credits at an arcade.

Wasn't able to edit in time, but wanted to add that it sucks that for public school your main options outside of AISD are moving to the shitty suburbs with their "highly rated" schools full of self entitled twats and mouth breathing parents. Given the option of AISD or Lake Travis/Eanes I'd stick with AISD all day long. Obviously, in most any district there are going to be decent programs and good fits for the right kids. Everyone's mileage may vary, blah blah blah.

That is along the lines of what eventually convinced us to pull our kids out of AISD and public school altogether. The inclusive classroom concept was well intentioned, but has led to a complete nightmare for teachers and students. Tons of evidence now that it has been a disaster. Every single year in elementary school at least one of my kids was in a classroom with a child who had no business being there as they couldn't behave and constantly disrupted the room. Some of this was genuine mental health issues and some of it was just shitty parents who weren't raising their kids to act right, but were able to get them diagnosed with one thing or another and threaten to sue if the school didn't stay in line with their exact wishes. Either way, the schools live in fear of lawsuits from crazy parents and the end result is thousands of kids don't learn a damn thing in a given year if they're unlucky enough to land in one of these classrooms. Whatever good comes from these programs is far outweighed by the bad. We need a better way to ensure kids who could benefit from inclusion are able to do so, but not at the expense of a learning environment. And public schools need a way to tell parents with uncontrollable kids that they are no longer welcome in school. My son's second grade teacher was in tears on a daily basis. She was a great teacher, but couldn't handle the "ADD" kid whose mother was up screaming at administration more than once a week. My son and his classmates lost a complete year of learning thanks to that mother and her kid. When you add in that AISD is making the inevitable transition to a large city school district, and all the political and issues that come with it, I don't know why anyone who has options would stick it out (outside of maybe kids who are nearing the end of the road and want to see it through). AISD is circling the drain, and it's sad, but it's also inevitable. Someone upthread mentioned something about Elizalde working to destroy AISD and in cahoots with Betsy Devos. No. Wrong political party, and completely different ideology. The head of TEA (Mike Morath) is most certainly in the "destroy public schools to get vouchers for Jesus school" camp, though. Elizalde is more likely to bus your kid across town in the name of equity but in reality to bring all test scores to "average" and claim academic victory, thus keeping the Morath mouthbreathers at bay. One group is purposefully trying to weaken public schools in order to get a voucher program, and the other will weaken public schools anyway with their well intentioned nonsense.

Kids were supposed to get their second shot tomorrow, three weeks after the first. Walgreens called today and said they're out of vaccine and the appointments are cancelled. Tough shit, find it somewhere else was their response. Fuck Walgreens.

I don't think we're discussing people who are smart enough for such shenanigans, but maybe.

If you can't trust the IOC to be straightforward and honest, who can you trust?

Agreed.

I began my comment with "legalities aside". I'm a gun owner (or I used to be before they were lost in a boating accident), but I don't really care if this was legal or not. No decent human being introduces a gun into that scenario. I agree the big guy was an idiot as well, but the tiny man with the gun is the reason someone is dead, and anyone trying to justify it is likely trying to frame this to line up with their thoughts on gun rights rather than just calling it what it is. A little dude with a fragile ego brought a gun to what wasn't even a fist fight. That's a pussy move, period.

So many neck tattoos.

Legalities aside, little man is a piece of shit and committed straight up pussified murder (the common use of the word). Anyone defending his actions should seek some help before they follow in his footsteps. Men scared of their own shadow and deadly weapons are a bad combination.

Sounds an awful lot like shenanigans I've heard tell of in Gillespie County, although this shit happens in many small communities.

FIFY

Refs names are publicly available for all games. Most radio and television broadcasts name them at the start of the game and often refer to them by name throughout the game. Bowlsby is pissed because they called him out personally, and he has thin skin and a tiny dick. Fuck that guy. The worst part may be that the Tech AD is a big reason why the Big 12 leftovers were able to stick together and bring in the new teams, thereby saving Bowlsby's job. After UT and OU leave, Tech is one of the largest brands left in the conference (probably the largest). He should be kissing their ass. What an idiot.

I don't live in DFW, have never lived in DFW, and will (likely) never live in DFW. Is this overblown or sound about right for that community? In other words, is this driven by a handful of racist idiots or should that area be avoided like the plague?

Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes...

It's definitely mostly the olds that fall for this shit. The cultural and technological shifts they've experienced have left many of the lost at sea. And I think it will happen more and more as these advancements continue to increase in speed. We're next on the chopping block.

I don't know Jimmy from a hole in the ground, but in my experience the people with the strongest opinions on what parents should or should not do is the people who don't have any. For cloakroom asswipes who live in a world of zero sum thinking, it's impossible that the event coordinators can be at fault and that this kids' parent could have made a really stupid decision bring him in the first place. It's both, for fuck's sake!