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  1. I don't have any trauma in my childhood, certainly nothing to explain why I tried to drink myself to death nine months ago. Trauma may be a component or root cause for some people's story. It wasn't part of mine. I liked drinking from a young age, I liked feeling like I finally had an aspect to my personality that was rebellious and against the rules, I liked feeling euphoric and not bored, I liked being by myself and since drinking was the entire point of existing, I was just fine as long as I could get drunk. 

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  2. 14 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    In South Austin, the vibe that has suited me the most has been Cherry Creek (near Crockett, in the corner of that mall with the catfish place - you can enter from the back alley where the alcoholics are smoking cigarettes).

    I went to some early meetings at 617 Clifford that were pretty good.

    Westlake is fine - a little bit older, the room makes me sleepy, nice folks but at some point I decided it wasn't my crowd.

    Keep meaning to check out Bouldin.

    Western Trails was pretty rough the time or two that I went.

    I went once to the... big church near Matt's El Rancho on Lamar and it was a huge meeting that was pretty structured.  Seemed interesting.

    Your mileage may vary, and different times are different (the late one at Cherry Creek has more newbies, I kinda like that one).  This is from dabbling around a while ago with different meetings.  But for a while, I'll just pop into Cherry Creek every now and then.

    I am going to share my opinion here to chime in w/Celery's feedback. Fair or unfair, this is how I felt in these meetings.

    Westlake (3-5 times): strong group, good sobriety, can appear a little plastic in places depending on how many court-ordered 25-yr olds are there. Weird room layout and gets crowded so get there early to make sure you're not sitting somewhere distracting.

    Cherry Creek (5-7 times): strong group, good sobriety, not as whitebread as Westlake. May be a culture shock if you are high-bottom; may be a culture shock if you get out of the shower to pee. There are some regulars there who think they're the star of the show. Ignore them and focus on the message. CC sometimes divides into regular and (smaller) newcomer meetings so ask around if you go. 

    Northland (2x recently, was a regular in 2015): your mileage may vary here. It's easy to get lost in the shuffle and certain NL meetings can seem kind of cliquish to a newcomer. But like Westlake and CC, there is terrific sobriety in the room. Of all the groups, this is the one I'd say KEEP GOING if you go once or twice and don't like it. 

    Bouldin (3-5 times): fucking fantastic. If I were going to relocate based on AA, I'd move within walking distance. Nice mix of people, instantly friendly and welcoming. That is not to say the other groups AREN'T like that, just that I noticed Bouldin people doing this more readily than I saw it in other groups. Smaller room than CC, NL, WL.

    Bridge to Shore (2 times): older, very white, affluent. Based on those adjectives, probably nothing about this meeting would surprise you. I was perfectly at ease there, years into AA. If I were a young newcomer, it might have been harder to feel at ease. 

    Those are all fine meetings, my somewhat tongue in cheek critiques notwithstanding. Further west, the Lakeway groups are all extremely good (older, very white crowd). 

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  3. 28 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    It’s only been 10 years of the wrong color on our football field. Don’t tell me you’re already tired of it.

     

    Really, how much could paint possibly cost? I remember Dodds saying “this was the closest we could get”, which is obviously bullshit.

    That was Dodds-speak for "shut up, peons, you don't know anything"

  4. 43 minutes ago, Kyle said:

    drives me nuts. i realize two syllables are so damn hard, but nothing wrong with "request." every meeting at my old shop was "do you have any asks?" I always wanted to say, "yes. grammar lessons for the group please."

    I will cut off a testicle if I ever use "ask" as a noun like that. Fucking California corporatespeak.

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  5. When you can't find an appropriate difficulty level on a sports video game. One level you're running for 400 yards and winning 49-7, the next level you're lucky to score 14 and win by 1. I don't want to play around with the sliders but I guess that's all I got.

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  6. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    And they will come up with more titles from their past,

    I am telling you, 1994 is going to look like an untapped source of gold before much longer. UNDEFEATED! And look at how we all used to think the Big Ten and Big 8/12 could compete with the SEC, that's been proven wrong, so SEC teams should get the benefit of the doubt going back decades. A&M was practically IN the SEC in 1994, they would have mopped the field with Nebraska or Penn State. In fact A&M DID mop the field with Nebraska just four years later and WOULD have mopped the field with Penn State in 1999 but the refs were biased t-sippers. Your 1994 national champions: the UNBEATEN Texas A&M Aggies.

  7. 1 hour ago, Barry_McCokiner said:

    Not saying VY didn't screw up, but he's right.  Those tests aren't designed for you to pass.

    Not saying he's wrong, but the majority of people who've already been convicted of DWI and who fail "multiple" field sobriety tests on a subsequent stop are probably drunk.

  8. 13 minutes ago, MAUFRAIS said:

    When is the kid he fucked at OU finally gonna speak up?

    You don’t retire from that job to do this a few years later.

    I would like for this to be true, but I think you're basing it on a dated conception of coaching. Coaches didn't retire from jobs like that and then take make-ready work a few years later back when they a big contract was a million bucks for five years.

    Stoops probably earned $75 million in coaching salary alone, so if he kept half of it and then spent half of it, he has nearly $20m in the bank before any kind of wealth shelters and investments. Not many coaches would rather sit on millennial couches and beg them to play football (and then coax good football out of them and hope they don't rape anyone in four years) for a living. That's all it would take to retire once you'd had enough of it. And then if someone says "Hey dicksucker, we'll pay you a million bucks to run a pro franchise that fucking nobody cares about, part time"-- how hard is it to believe Stoops wants to feather his nest with easy money?

    It's more fun to imagine he had a torrid gay affair with a man-bun wearing, "Whiteness In America" studying sociology major, but the truth is probably closer to "he's a thin-skinned middle class dude who earned what he thought of as fuck-you money so he quit a job that made him work hard and caught him a lot of criticism". 

  9. On 2/4/2019 at 6:25 PM, Goo Punch said:

    1)Fred Hoiberg

    2)Steve Prohm

    3)Buzz Williams

    4)Ben Howland

    5)Eric Musselman

    I'm still high on Musselman and think that he could have a ton of success here, and I know that he'd have our offense doing a 180 from what we see now. Still, with a void of sure fire replacements out there, I have other guys ahead of him because they have more college coaching experience and I feel a bit more certain that we'd turn the program around under one of them, even if Musselman could have just as high a ceiling as any of them here. Prohm strikes me as an up and coming star in coaching, while Buzz has Va Tech looking very good, is young, is from Texas, and would be a clear upgrade. Howland is a bona fide program fixer and would be a super safe pick, and Hoiberg is the dream. I really hope that one of them is leading our team next year. 

     

    the only problem I have with Musselman is that his dad was the king of the sleazebags in the early 70s

  10. 1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:

    During the show Dave said wtte “We’ve been a band for like 25 years”
     

    yeah it's up to him more than me, I just wondered if I was missing something-- the 25th of Cobain's suicide is coming up. Which is in itself a what the fuck/where did 25 years go moment.

  11. Just now, Huckleberry said:

    Obviously satyanash would post something about how Herman can't recruit against Fisher and now Houston is being shut down in addition to our DFW struggles and we all know Fisher just got A SECOND RECRUIT IN TWO YEARS out of the San Antonio area so all hope is lost and we're doomed.

    But that's just his thing.

    so satyanash is Westcott Eberts?

  12. 5 hours ago, Blotto said:

    Reply all. Everyone in my company received a phishing email disguised as an enquiry over an invoice yesterday. It started a chain reaction of retards asking why they received the email, followed by other retards advising on how to handle phishing emails (delete them), followed by more retards asking to be removed from the email chain. At last count over 70 emails about that very important matter.

    that was a thing in 1997 and it's still a thing today, abandon hope all ye who enter

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