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  1. 1 hour ago, nnm said:

    Ditto to almost everything you said. Sports got way oversaturated, over-covered, over-analyzed. The shows just aren’t interesting or engaging. I haven’t watched Sportscenter in at least 15 years. Unless it’s a team I’m directly interested in, I just don’t care. 
    During CFB season, there are 2-3 podcasts (all covered in the “podcasts” thread) that I’ll listen to occasionally, and I’m obviously on a couple of sports message boards, but that’s about it. 

    Agreed-- I'm just glad I didn't go into sports media and make it a career given how little I ended up caring about everything sports-related besides UT football and basketball.

    It's really hard to assign "blame" to the "why" behind that change. As w @DNAGuy, I have other stuff to think about and do, all of which takes precedence over sports. But I also decided a long time ago that my interest in sports was going to be on my terms, and the political hectoring wasn't welcome in my living room. When I tuned in for a diversion and was presented what felt like an attitude of, "no diversions allowed, what are you going to do, not watch?", my answer was "yes". 

    I do not, however, pretend that mine is as simple as "GET WOKE GO BROKE". My interest had already waned to varying degrees, for varying reasons. The need to signify politically-- it wasn't the only factor, wasn't even the primary one, and would not have driven me away in 1994 or 1999. I told myself a long time ago that I could easily pull the ripcord on anything but Texas football, and that's been true.

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  2. with all the cancel culture and people revealing private conversations that they think will harm other people, can we REALLY not get an email thread or something from Liucci released, where he exhibits normal Aggie racial attitudes? I"m honestly surprised it hasn't happened yet

  3. 6 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    He wants to be their Freddie Steinmark. 

    Doctor: "Well, good news, the tests came back and they're all negative. No cancer!"

    King: "Well, OK, but could you just prescribe me some chemo anyway?"

    Doctor: "Son, no, you don't understand, you don't have cancer, you're not sick, you don't NEED chemo."

    King: "No I think it is YOU who doesn't understand, I'm the inspirational leader of the Fightin Texas Aggie football team! And you, you're not going to stop me from BEATING CANCER!"

    Doctor: "Which you don't have."

    King: "What's the best way to GET cancer, since you say I don't have it."

    Doctor: "You could take up smoking. You already look like a four-pack-a-day Chesterfield man."

    King: "Consider it done."

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  4. 17 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Interesting that there were "rules," and she "got in trouble."  In my first foray into sobriety, I went to an outpatient deal.

    I'm using the wrong term for that stage. It wasn't the "OK, go home, see you 3x/wk and if you don't show up, we'll notify your insurance and you'll be on the hook for the cost of treatment" stage of outpatient treatment. It was the "OK, insurance doesn't want to pay for you to be in in-patient anymore, time for you to move to a sober house for lodging and then come to our facility from 9 to 3 daily for treatment" stage. I always forget what that's called. 

    So we were still technically in in-patient (where the rules are far more strict), we just didn't live at the in-patient facility anymore at that point.

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  5. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Relapses happen, sometimes even kind of by accident.  Don't let it bury you.  Kudos for your honesty.

    Also, pro-tip.  The general rule on NA beer is a) it still has some alcohol in it and probably enough to goose those neural pathways and start up a craving if you guzzle them; and b) even if it was completely alcohol-free, it is "romancing the drink," which is not a good idea for the newly sober.

     

    1 hour ago, hundredTT said:

    Yea, will not be making that mistake again. I tried a sip of it and it was nasty too. No point to even go down that path. 

    I asked about it in early sobriety as a thirty-year old who wasn't in any way ready deep down to actually give up alcohol. The wisest answer I got was, "Non-alcoholic beer is for non-alcoholics". 

    I remember somebody in outpatient rehab getting in trouble for drinking two non-alcoholic beers. The lengths this person was willing to go to in order to insist that regardless of what our rehab program's rules explicitly said about drinking them, and regardless of anyone else's experience and regardless of what the big deal about rationalizing stuff into "not a big deal", she knew in her heart that she could handle non-alcoholic beer. 

    Of course she did have two of them, not one. And she did say "I wanted to try <some IPA> but I had the willpower to order a non-alcoholic beer instead!" So.

    Hope she's sober wherever she is.

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  6. 1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

    Your inability to formulate a coherent argument is kind of a perfect example of what I was talking about above. I can see why a place for open debate would fluster you.

    more concise:

    oh that's your argument? well it's bad and dumb, like you, therefore QED I win

    this CR shit sounds pretty easy-- positions I disagree with are incoherent and dumb, therefore wrong. Because I said so. 

  7. 7 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    Well, maybe don't support politicians who are going to interfere with my life, then.

    yes that accurately describes either of our two political parties-- support the one that doesn't have politicians who want to interfere in your life

    and man I miss when stuff happened and we had a President that didn't MAKE those things political, those were the days

    what days were those again?

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  8. 18 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    🎶 THE EYES OF TEXAS 🎶

    The Eyes of Texas are upon us

    all the live long day...

    The Eyes of Texas are upon us, 

    we all must find a way...

    To grow and learn from one another, 

    and make a difference every day...

    The Eyes of Texas are upon us

    “What starts here Changes the World!"

    it's politically incorrect and offensive to say something's is "really gay" nowadays, right?

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  9. On 7/2/2020 at 10:10 AM, M12BH said:

    I'm sorry that the order of my thoughts didn't suit you

    yeah that was the problem, not coupling "man I'm having a hard time, this is difficult" with "oh and FUCK YOU to anyone reading this who thinks differently than me about politics"

    let me as you a question, did it occur to you that there might be people who see the thread title and click in here to see what's being said about stuff they feel like they're going through, and among the first five or ten posts they come across, one is a big "FUCK YOU" for stuff that's not even related....?

     

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