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Samson's Wig

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  1. It's a shame, as SW is typically the airline that keeps things going when everyone else falls apart.  E.g., the Orlando airport ran out of jet fuel a couple of weeks ago, and Southwest was the only airline that didn't have disruptions as they were nimble enough to adjust on the fly (aided by their lack of a hub and spoke model).   They're the only airline I'ver experienced making up for delays while in the air (at the cost of extra jet fuel) in order to get things back on track.  Ultimately, their old school point-to-point model helps them dodge a lot of the issues that become systemwide problems for other carriers. Something finally had to give them fits, and I guess this was their week.  A bad week for Southwest doesn't overcome decades of complete failure by the legacy carriers, though. 

  2. On 12/19/2022 at 4:56 PM, 52-80 said:

    I must be blessed with weather-impervious hobbit feet. 

    Wife freaks out when she sees me in sandals in the winter. Friends during skiing complain about their feet freezing and such. Fellow bicyclists always going on about wearing overshoes and toe covers and winter booties and such. 

    But I dont think once in my life have my feet ever felt cold. 

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    9 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

    I can respect your opinion up until you start making shit up.  What he acknowledged was that he stopped her from attacking him.  I realize that could mean all types of things but to say he is some sort of abuser has not been proven. You know what’s missing here?  Other women coming forward and saying that he has been physical with them. Facts like that help with insight as to whose story is more accurate. 
     

    But, this quote is where you show your bias:
     

    “But it's also a fact that Beard didn't deny assaulting her to the cops.  He merely claimed that she started it, which might matter interms of his criminal situation, but doesn't mean a hill of beans in terms of public opinion.  He has proven himself to be a low-life that will assault a woman.”

    You're working overtime, counselor. I hope you're at least getting paid for your spin efforts.

  4. Just now, txhorns said:

    Well my sister doesn’t have a history of abuse, including towards minors, so I’d be more inclined to believe every word she said.  Trew’s past plus her admitting that she started the altercation means that her version of the events has to be taken with a grain of salt.  That doesn’t mean that Beard is innocent, he still likely did something that most of us would consider abhorrent.  It does mean, however, that I am more willing to let the legal process and UT investigation runs its course before I start demanding his immediate firing and calling his a piece of shit.

    I think this is a reasonable take.  Whatever Randi did or didn't do as a coach has absolutely zero bearing on this incident, however. It serves as a sign that neither one of them are particularly nice people, but we all already knew that didn't we?  The standards of the justice system don't apply to the question of whether he keeps his job or not, and I'm speaking more to the quality of the character of a high profile UT employee.  The legal issues will work out one way or the other, likely without much fanfare, in my opinion.  We need no further information to know that he engaged violently with a woman.  There is absolutely nothing in the affidavit to indicate that his life was in danger (which would be the only justification), and his attorneys would 100% have made such circumstances public already were that the case.   So we have all we need to know that he is a piece of shit, whether he ends up in trouble legally or not.  Some clearly want to twist things around in their mind to justify keeping him.  I like winning too, but I'm not willing to go that far.  Beard's always been a volatile guy, and that's part of his charm to an extent, but this situation shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone.  And if he stays around, we'll be dealing with some other incident caused by his inability to control his temper at some point down the road.  There's a reason that Bob Knight style coaches are gone from the profession, with Beard being the most notable exception.

  5. Just now, CTC2 said:

    Easy Thunder. That’s not what I said at all. Garza is a nobody especially in the sense that he has never been a prosecutor and is now running a 200 person prosecutor office. 
    In 30 years practicing law I have never need a PC affidavit that accurately reflected what happened in a matter like this. You are taking it at face value and generally that is not safe ground. 
    If the Randi was my sister I would have to acknowledge that she started the physical aspect of this confrontation which would lead me to at least question what went on. 
    I get it, you don’t like Beard. 

    Beard has never presented himself as an upstanding member of society, but I've always been okay with that and considered it worth the gamble for a good coach. I've been a fan.  This incident is a bridge too far, however.    And I agree that not all facts are in the affidavit, of course.  But it's also a fact that Beard didn't deny assaulting her to the cops.  He merely claimed that she started it, which might matter in terms of his criminal situation, but doesn't mean a hill of beans in terms of public opinion.  He has proven himself to be a low-life that will assault a woman.  Mitigating factors may impact his legal issues, but they don't change the fact that we've got a coach that hits women.  

     

    Just now, CTC2 said:

    What you don’t understand is that if Beard had left the house and drove to the police station and made a complaint, showed them his bruises, and said she attacked him, she would have been arrested that night. 

    Sure, but he didn't.  And what he did do is telling.   As you said, maybe massaging reality and cutting a deal works in East Texas, and maybe it will also work with in Austin, but I expect better out of the university than I do our criminal justice system.

  6. lol

    1 minute ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    How do you know what happened?  Is that not important?  Should he nail him to the wall no matter what the facts are?  Even if she was not telling the truth to the police?

    Good lord, of course not.  That's what a trial is for. Some of you are losing your damn minds over this situation. My point was that the post I quoted was disgusting in that it had no interest in justice, just in making certain our coach gets off scott free with no consequences regardless of the facts.  

  7. 14 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

    What I suspect is that the parties want this to go away but the dipshit Travis county DA will ultimately be the problem.  This guy is a nobody and has no incentive to help UT, Beard or Minton.  This is all a guess but an educated one based upon unrelated facts that I know to be true. 

    Sad take you've got there. I'm no fan of the Travis County DA, but referring to him as a nobody who is merely standing in the way implies that Beard is too important to face justice for something that most people would consider as low-life as it gets.  Garza isn't the problem.  Beard is the problem.  If this wasn't a coach, and it happened to your sister, you'd be ready to kick his ass up and down the street and be rooting for prison time.  Sports make people lose their minds. Beard should be gone.  Full stop.  The fact that Randi may cut a deal to keep the money train flowing doesn't change the fact that we'll have a complete piece of shit on the sidelines if he manages to keep his job.  And it's possible the DA doesn't need the victim's testimony to nail Beard to the wall on this one anyway, which is what a DA should do in such a case.  She may not be able to stop it even if they back up the proverbial dump truck full of money.

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    9 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I don't have a problem with Goodman, he just reports what he's told. And he was incredibly charitable to us last year. I doubt anyone in the Beard camp was involved, lol

    I don't dislike Goodman, but he loves him some Beard. He's probably having some kind of internal crisis after learning that his favorite coach is capable of beating a woman. 

    I don't think anyone directly connected to Beard had anything to do with this either.  Just internet troll idiots thinking they're helping.  And Goodman, for better or worse, will repeat anything he hears if it fits his notion of how things should be.  That Massey guy was quick to repeat what turned out to be a bunch of nonsense as well, but that's also no surprise.

  9. On 12/16/2022 at 1:19 PM, Brian Fantana said:

    I'm thoroughly confused now

    You know it's really him because only a damn Canadian would spell it "rumours"

     

    Most of that entire thing turned out to be complete bullshit, coming from Goodman (no surprise with that dude, as his lips have been firmly planted on Beard's ballsack for a long time) and more notably from UT message boards (which strains credibility as well in this case).  Looks more like an attempt to deflect attention from the dumpster fire in Austin, but at this point the rumors that actually matter have been proven false: Aimaq isn't going anywhere, and Womble (donor) never got sideways with Adams.  As for Adams fucking his brother's widow, well we just don't know, but ultimately who gives a shit?  That rumor has been around for a really long time.  Tech will likely lose to the Horns in both games this season whether Beard is on the court or not.

  10. Is the "auto-driving" feature on a Tesla any different than the driver assist features on other high end vehicles?  My wife's ICE SUV will keep you in a lane, adjust speed, start and stop, and generally control the vehicle without you having to touch anything.  Is this what all the fuss has been about with Tesla?  And if so, is it just a case of them having put it into vehicles first, even though just about every vehicle that sells for over $70k or so now has that same feature?  If so, how does Tesla maintain any semblance of a "future-looking" brand?

  11. How are you regular McDonald's eaters still alive?  Are you great big fat people?  I think if I ate that garbage two days in a row I'd keel over with heart attack.  My kids won't even eat there, which is some kind of small miracle.

  12. 14 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    I've got a buddy (Jack) that works hard at his job, and makes enough to provide a comfortable middle-to-upper-middle lifestyle for his family. 

     

    His wife has a brother that's LOADED.  So, anytime she doesn't get what she wants or needs, she calls her brother and he gives it to her.  Daughter was big into the barrel racing deal.  Wife wanted a new truck and horse trailer.  Jack says that the truck and trailer they have is fine, that he will put new tires on the truck, etc.   Wife calls brother. A couple of days later, Cummins Dodge Dually arrives and a new featherlite arrives a week or so later. 

    This goes on and on.  Jack feels like a POS because his wife makes him feel shitty because nothing he provides is good enough for her.   And what he provides is enough that most women would be grateful.

    Your buddy's wife seems like a terrible person.  Marrying poorly is the number one way to fuck up your life.

  13. My little sister (now in her mid 40s) has raided my mom's wallet her entire life.   Her husband is relatively successful with a modestly sized car dealership, but she will invite my mom to go shopping with her at every chance she gets just so my mom will pay for everything.  Prior to current husband our folks paid her rent, utilities, phone, etc. etc. and still pay for her and her family to go on vacation. She has mental health issues, without question, but they are of the sociopath variety and she doesn't garner a ton of my sympathy.   

    I can draw a couple of potential conclusions from this.  One: she is simply trying to drain what little extra money our hard working middle class parents have managed to save to ensure that there is no inheritance left to speak of, or two: my parents don't like me very much.  Shit, maybe it's both.   Whatever it is I'm happy to not take their money.

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    Correcting typos. Probably missed a few.

    I think this is somewhat more common with millennials than it used to be, given how infantilized they were as a generation, but there have always been people who never grow up and continue to spend their parents (or grandparents) money. The difference now is that it is happening more often with middle class and upper-middle class folks and not just the wealthy like it used to. A couple of defense attorneys can do really well, but that's not fuck you money, and you should see what most attorney's credit looks like - it's good for a laugh (and a cry).  A 35 year old is right in the age wheelhouse for having been raised by well off parents and never taught how to adult.  

    Envy, which is all that is really going on here, is not a trait unique to millennials, however.  Who gives a shit how your neighbors got their money?  That's right up there with judging a person based on the type of work they do.  It doesn't fucking matter.

  15. All else being equal, if this guy was my neighbor and firing rounds that could easily travel outside of his property and accidentally kill my loved ones, I'd be at least a little bit grateful that the cops killed him so  wouldn't have to.  A simple arrest and douchebag is back firing off his weapon for no reason a few days later.  One way or another, someone had to confront him.  Better the cops that a neighbor, in my opinion. 

    Do I wish he had been taken in peacefully somehow?  Sure, of course - I'm not a monster.  Do I think that would solve a problem like this? No, not at all.  Better that guy is dead than the six year old girl next door.

  16. This whole thing reminds me of an old serial that came on Saturday evenings about a successful 19th century snake oil salesman selling his business to a new buyer, Musty Ephron, and all of the past customers got really pissed because Ephron is an asshole with goofy viewpoints who then proceeds to charge a nominal fee for customers to get the "premium" label snake oil, which is really just the old snake oil in a new bottle with a blue label on it (and doesn't even really taste the way the old oil used to).  Everyone gets mad and talks about how they're all going to die without their snake oil and that the community will crumble without access to the snake oil, but they are unwilling to pay extra for this bullshit new blue label when they used to get it for no additional fee. 

    The former customers start putting up posters all over town making fun of the new guy and also pinpointing exactly where he'll be later that day.  Then ol' Musty gets mad at them and refuses to sell them any snake oil at all.  Meanwhile, Musty's original business (selling modern conveyances with a new fangled contraption called the internal combustion engine) starts to suffer as his customer base, it turns out, was largely made up of forward thinking individuals who put a great deal of faith in all things modern.  Things get even trickier when it turns out that Musty Ephron sold off a big chunk of his modern conveyance business to finance his purchase of the snake oil business, and now both entities are struggling.

    In the next episode, we learn that Ephron's other futuristic endeavor (long distance train travel) may be in jeopardy as Chester A. Arthur himself has been refused the sale of snake oil, which he dearly loves, and has decided that the government will not bankroll this new business for Ephron like it has already bankrolled the modern conveyance and long distance travel businesses.  Meanwhile, thousands of former snake oil users begin to realize that life without snake oil is exactly like life was with snake oil, and further realize that the vast majority (over 90%) of people never tried even a sip of snake oil in the first place (even though the customers were certain that everyone was doing it) and their neighbors and friends rejoice as they rejoin society at large and recognize that they were hiding inside of a bottle of inconsequential nonsense.

    I don't remember exactly how it ends, but I think after having been exposed as a fraud with no actual business sense beyond taking advantage of poorly conceived government programs, Musty Ephron ends up moving to an island with a  bunch of illegitimate offspring and performing weird experiments involving human/animal hybrids. He also starts wearing a fun hat. The former snake oil customers discover a new product  called cocaine, being peddled by some oddly muscled up bald guy named Buzzleby Geoffs, and realize that they were sorely mistaken about how awesome snake oil was, as this new stuff has a real kick to it.  Geoffs buys all of  Ephron's old businesses for four or five old greenbacks (that were technically not even legal tender anymore).  After an evening of sampling his own product, he invents space exploration, packs up all the assets of Ephron's old businesses, and launches them straight into the moon on a giant penis.

     

     

     

  17. 21 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Publicly, not sure, but if he's skipping on paying rent and stiffing vendors, then twitter is not long for San Francisco.  I don't think the companies that own the buildings or the contracts are going to think "well, we'll let him skip the payments for now, I'm sure he'll make it up latter" because he's erratic as hell, and there is absolutely nothing that he is doing that makes it look like twitter will turn a profit any time in the future.

    Plus, if you are with those companies and looking down the road when Musk has various payments coming due, you know that he won't give a shit about paying you for the lease or services rendered if he's got to make payments on twitter.

    This kinda feels like some dot-come bubble stuff coming back to haunt us 20 years later - CEOs in over their heads, and stiffing vendors and landlords to keep the company running.

    Completely agree.  I don't like that it will probably be Austin area businesses/landlords/etc. that will take the biggest hit when this shit comes crashing down.  Keep the valueless social media tech companies where they belong: California.  Those fuckers falsely enriched the tech bro contingent and they should be the ones eating the shit sandwich when reality catches up.

  18. I miss how dimly lit everything was in the good ole' days.  Twas a better time for those with less than stellar looks, but mostly I just miss that mood.  Modern lighting feels so artificial and cold.  While not a brand, incandescent light bulbs are mostly gone (except in dollar stores in shit-ass poor places).

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