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morehornsepower

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  1. This isn't great news to start a Friday...
  2. Agreed. I don't want to bring in an aging star, as I would rather focus on young talent on the upswing...but, I sure can't complain about Thiago, fwiw. I'm beginning to twitch a bit just in general...would like to see us close on at least some of these fantastic names we keep hearing...
  3. Good read, @956 Worldwide - thanks for posting. Regardless of their efforts, the Russian economy is only temporarily "healthy", and will be hurting - hopefully soon. However, it is concerning that, by the time sanctions really start to bite, we'll be entering winter, and Europe will get desperate for fuel to heat their homes.
  4. Back to them "winning every game they don't play", I love that they believe they would have multiple undefeated or 1-loss seasons if only they were still in the big12...
  5. ? For those of us stuck working...do tell?
  6. Was drinking at a friend's place last night, and he also had an aggy friend over. Things I 'learned': 1. "A&M would curbstomp Texas if they played right now." (I mentioned that UT has had a rough decade, but we played Arkansas about as close as they (ATM) did just last year...) 2. "Texas needs to see how many classes like this (2023) they can pull in before they move to the SEC. They'll need at least 3 this good in a row to have a chance to compete. That's why Texas and OU are delaying the move as long as they can." (I mentioned their best year was their first in the SEC, and he said that was "only because of Jonny...and Arch isn't Jonny.") 3. "Texas fans have unreasonable expectations, and Sark will be fired when they can't win a game in year one in the SEC...if he's even around that long." (I agreed that, if our coach can't win a game in any year, he'd be fired...and that didn't seem unreasonable to me.)
  7. Just a few short years ago, I would have said this was being a bit overdramatic. Fuck though, this is really where we are. I have a little more faith in the constitution than some on this thread - but only as a *living* document that can be updated to keep up with society. Your points above (which are correct) have turned even that document into a political tool though, to be defended or torn apart, depending on whether it seems to support one's political views.
  8. Maybe their obvious stupidity is a result of using 90% of their brain capacity to constantly do these mental gymnastics to keep their reality intact: 1a. Arch sucks. 1b. A great recruit like Arch would never go to Texas unless it was about $$$. 2a. Saban never wanted Arch, and Georgia must have let him know that he wasn't the top choice. 2b. Texas just outbid 'bama and UGA, probably paid more than they should. LOCK THEM UP!!! ER, INVESTIGATE THEM!! 3a. He's going to end up terrible college QB like Simms and Colt. 3b. Simms: never lost >2 games in a season...beat Aggy 3 times in a row. Colt winningest QB in CFB history at the time, highest completion %, got Texas in position to fight for a National Championship (arguably) 2 years in a row. 4a. Texas can't develop QBs (forget the track record of the current coaching staff). 4b. ATM is on the verge!!!!!! (based on the track record of the current coaching staff). 5a. Arch isn't the best QB in '23. Not even the best in LA. 5b. Arch rated #1 by all the experts. Only the 3rd 1.000 QB recruit in history. (Oh yeah, the previous 2 are both longhorns...one of which already proved himself a god). Add in all the rest of their made-up-stories traditions, and we may finally understand why they often struggle with simple logic or sentences...
  9. Hell, I'd be interested in hearing about expat life in Oz. Also considering UK or Luxemburg due to family & citizenship options... We bought some land in the hill country, thinking that would be our retirement, but it's looking more and more like something we'll end up selling instead. The politics in Texas (and much of the US ) are reaching idiocracy levels.
  10. aggy: "Chris Simms 2.0" checks notes...wasn't Simms 3-0 against ATM?
  11. Fuck YESSSSS!!!
  12. I think the will of the Ukrainian people is unquestionable now. I think the outcome rests on how well the rest of the world can stay focused on supporting and not get distracted by the next crisis. IMO, if the western world continues a decent level of support: 25%: Russia is eventually driven out of all Ukrainian territory 50% (though Ukraine would say this war started with Crimea): Russia is driven out of all Ukrainian territory minus Crimea (basically back to where we were before this war) 20%: Russia takes more of eastern Ukraine through a negotiated truce 5%: Russia takes all of Ukraine
  13. My 86 year old mother fell this morning, broke her hip, and spent an hour and a half crawling to the phone to call for help. Any more recent opinions on this topic? This fucking sucks.
  14. Purchase complete...now let's catch up on the transfer plans...
  15. Fuck you cancer. Fuck you Agent Orange. RIP Dad, love and miss you still. Thank you to all who made the ultimate sacrifice. :salute:
  16. 1. Should we make it harder to get near our kids? 2. Should we make it harder to get guns? 3. Should we reduce the # of times someone decides to take the lives of innocents. If all we focus on is #1 and #2, are we just accepting that #3 is a fact of our society? Is this something that is present in other societies, or was present in earlier societies (did this shit happen in the 1950s and we just didn't hear about it)? What kind of a fucked up world do we live in, where people are doing this shit, seemingly more and more often?
  17. Wish they were getting closer to Austin.
  18. "Chelsea are the only team in Premier League history to go through a whole season without ever being behind at half-time." Makes it even more disappointing that we weren't challenging for the league title.
  19. Then we'd just hear a similar "a loss here is better than a win anywhere else!" And commemorative cups for the once-a-decade, the-giant-is-awakening upsets.
  20. Fuck F1 in Miami...I want to party with @ChiTownDoc!
  21. Damn close to the morehornsepower home. Had a lot of the area roads blocked off for most of the afternoon. They initially thought there were 2 shooters (1 report of someone in a black trench crossing the road with a rifle, and another report - mentioned above - of someone shot in their backyard by someone in camouflage), but now seem confident it was the same guy.
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