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Samson's Wig

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  1. 27 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

    Only crime is naming the officials that I can see.

    Fuck Bowlsby and this bush league

    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.

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  2. 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? 

  3. On 11/5/2021 at 2:27 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    It's more for the Surly Dad thread, but we really need to teach our kids to separate fact from fiction and to be wary of social media, because I don't see this stuff getting any better - Social Dilemma on Netflix was just the tip of the iceberg.  Although, in a bit of irony, a lot of my younger cousins are cynical as shit about stuff on social media while the olds lap it up.

    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.

  4. 7 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Would you have taken your 9 y.o. child to that festival?

    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!

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  5. What do we do with the 20-30% of adult Americans who have decided they are smarter, better informed, and generally just better people than the rest of us in spite of all credible evidence to the contrary?   Wall them off in Utah?  Seems fair, it's pretty there.  They're accepting of nutty ideas.  Good skiiing.    

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  6. 1 hour ago, TKthunder2 said:

    This is a good move for them on paper but I doubt it’ll be super successful.

    aggy should be trying to annex UNT, they be a good fit with each other.

    I don't know much about UNT other than their top notch jazz program.  That seems like the least good fit with aggie I can think of.  They would probably convert it to a modern country department, where only greaseballs from New Jersey are allowed to sing about beer, trucks, and never moving to the city.

    For all I know UNT students love humping farm animals though, so perhaps it is a perfect fit.

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  7. On 11/7/2021 at 7:52 PM, atomheartbevo said:

     

    We had a parent tell us we were "sending the wrong message" by masking our kids up and not letting them play with the unmasked kids.  We explained that we wouldn't be responsible for exposing other kids, and we didn't want our kids exposed so that they'd have to miss school.  The woman told us "why on earth would you ever tell the school that your kids had covid or were exposed to it?"

    I won't repeat the rest of the conversation but she was shocked as hell when we explained that our kids would be fully vaccinated by the first week or two of December and we wouldn't be as concerned. We'll just say that she's in the microchip/infertility/heart attack outbreaks in 6 year olds crowd.

     

    Fuck that aggie bitch.

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  8. 3 minutes ago, DanRydell said:


    I don’t think you know how bonds work. The whole point of bonds is that they’re an additional tax so that the spending doesn’t come out of the general fund.

    If you reread the post I was responding to, his last comment was about property taxes, although he did mention bonds earlier.  I could have been clearer.

  9. 2 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Thanks. So, Prop A lost bigly, despite the fact that some heavy money (Save Austin Now or whatever) was spent on it? Is that correct? Who was funding the pro A crowd?

    Also, Prop A would have forced the city to fund police above and beyond what they already got in the '22 budget?

     

    Thanks again.

    Prop A would have required a certain number of police based on population of this city.  Essentially putting it in line with other large cities.  While it had nothing to do with funding, as the funding has already been restored, it would have put a dent in the budget to get enough cops hired and trained quickly.  Essentially, an inelegant solution to what is a real problem (rising crime rates).

    Heavy money was spent on both sides and the entire thing was ugly and stupid politics on both sides. Fortunately the best outcome happened, even if the messaging that led to Prop A failing was as silly as the messaging supporting it.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    when left to vote on direct measures, austin seems to be mostly right. it's when the fuckhead city leadership votes that fucks over austin.

    well, austin citizens do have a giant propensity to vote YES on every got damned feel good bond measure teed up on the ballot sheet. it's like the city leadership dreams of bullshit ways to spend all the new money collected by the extra high property taxes and they know the fucking idiot masses will pay for it, damned to who's paying for it and where that money could be better spent, or god forbid, saved.

    Yep, and then cry when there's no money left for basic services.  Fuck those fucking fucks. 

  11. 4 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

    Except we did. Makowiak seems sideways and full of himself. But thankfully he pushed to get rid of the idiotic law that somehow allowed people to squat with tents wherever they desired in the city.  Wherever.  At some point this camping lunacy will be fully eradicated, who knows when.  But had someone not raised a big flag and did some legwork the homeless would still be able to shit, piss and do whatever else they wanted in full view of you and your family, while simply sitting in a car at the Ben White and Manchaca stop light. That open invitation to Camp Austin was and is ridiculous and the fact that our city allowed it, by law, for almost 2 years is unconscionable.

    I didn’t vote for Prop A but I voted for the camping ban and thankfully someone pushed it to the forefront to at least get it outlawed. Of course it won’t be fully enforced, probably ever. 

    Good point.  I was mostly just responding to the notion that Austin has smarter voters than other places.  We very much do not.  

  12. 5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I don't understand how we still have antisemites in America.  Even the shitty public school in Redneckville I went to decades ago drove the right messages home on this topic.  What kind of backwards ass piece of shit do you have to be to believe the bullshit these neo-nazi white power idiots believe?  It's just willful ignorance, which I know is the only thing we don't have supply chain issues with these days, but got damn.  I've heard schools haven't been teaching much history for the last two or three decades, which is a crying shame.  I hope this guy suffers.

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    4 hours ago, Lobo said:

    I know Texans like to shit on California.  But just think about this...the second best public in California is UC-Los Angeles.  the second best public in Texas is A&M (the retarded kid you let sit in on regular class so they don't feel left out).  the third best in California is UC-San Diego (spoiler alert, one of the best colleges on the planet)...the third best in Texas is University of Houston (a glorified community college). 

    For as wealthy a state as we are, we are so fucking goddamned embarrassingly far behind in education...it's disgusting.  And our dorms reflect that.

    If we're being honest with ourselves, which I know is generally frowned upon, the hoarding of state resources by one system is the main cause of the weak public university system at large in Texas.  It would take decades to catch up to what California has built, but we should probably at least try.

  14. On 10/29/2021 at 4:05 PM, smoky said:
    On 10/29/2021 at 1:28 PM, Samson said:
    Do tell.  How did you pull that off when approval hasn't come yet?

    We got an email from our pediatrician saying they expect it to be approved and they're taking appointments for Nov 6th, but would do it earlier if it gets approved earlier.

    I like your pediatrician.  Ours said, "Fuck off and call back once it's been authorized."

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