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  1. Dudes like Roschon are always my favorite.  He does what is best for the team and then excels after the move.  Hopefully he is 100% soon.  Can't wait to see what he does at the next level.

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  2. Parents overreacting or behaving badly at youth sporting events has been going on since the advent of youth sports.

    I remember when I was walking to the baseball field getting ready to play a game - some East Texas equivalent of Little League.  A game had just wrapped up when I saw a mother of a ball player slap her son for, basically in her words... not striking out the last batter he faced to win the game.

    My sister-in-law has lots of stories about parents getting out of control stemming from her days as a soccer mom for club teams in the Dallas area.  So bad at times they banned the parents from matches.

    Then there are the Moms I used to see wearing their kids letter jackets in The Woodlands.  WTF.  I bring this up to point out how wrapped up parents get into what their kids are doing

    My oldest granddaughter is active in club ball and school sports.  She played in basketball tournament for her Junior High Team and there was an asshole parent in the stands acting like he was at Rupp Arena when the girls would go to the free throw line.  There's that and then watching her play club ball where the whining about the officiating is pretty consistent.  I have to distance myself from where the parents(yep, my own family) sit at these games.

    Bottom line... Mom's and Dad's, your time for athletic glory days have passed.  Sit down and shut up and let the kids play the game.  Don't put your failed dreams and expectations on your kids.  It is their time.  Treat the officials with respect no matter how bad you think they are.  Treat the coaches with respect no matter how bad you think they are or how biased they are against your kid.  If you think you can do a better job then sign up.

    I say this as someone who has been a player, coach and umpire(part of coaching duties).

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  3. People that don't under stand the left on yellow\red concept when there is no arrow.  

    Assert your presence and pull forward into the intersection on the green light you fuck face.  You have the right of way when on coming traffic stops.

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  4. Hall's dismissal aside, you can't spell stupid without UTPD.

    Years ago and living in married student housing on Lake Austin, we had a bike stolen.  We called UTPD and ended up having to give them directions to the apartment complex we lived in.  An apartment complex on University property.  

    Also got ticketed on campus once but since we were living around the poverty line they mercifully dismissed the ticket.  

    Hopefully Hall wakes up and gets his shit together.  

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    I hope all of the Big Humans have the same intensity as Banks, if so, Holy Shit.  

  5. 8 minutes ago, SuckitKevin said:

    We’ve started to use Ketamine prehospital for significant burns rather than some of the traditional opioids. What pain it doesn’t take away is at least forgotten with the right dose. These are some of the worst scenes I’ve had to deal with in my career. Terrible.

    In Richard Pryor's 'Live on Sunset' he gives an account of being on fire and the recovery process.  It is well done and of course hilarious but at the same time you know it is something you never want to go through.   He talks about how at first, he could not really feel anything and how the nurses kept coming in and telling him we was going to get better and get "washed" and he follows that up with the process of getting washed.  He said basically as soon as they made that first scrub he was begging them to stop.

     

  6. The type of music she sang was never my cup of tea but she was a great singer and of course beautiful.  

    Loved her in Grease.  

    The sound track from Grease and just her music in general were part of everybody's life growing up in the late 70s and early 80s***.

    ***Basically, you were going to hear her music everywhere.

    Get some rest, Sandy.

  7. 21 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    I did a six week elective rotation in the burn unit at Parkland as a third year med student. Mostly little kids, old people, and the mentally ill. We took almost everyone to the OR for debridement because of how painful it is. I got really good at placing lines and taking skin grafts. This was years ago so I'm assuming artificial skin, xenografts etc are better but we were taught TBSA %full thickness + age = mortality rate

    Worst case I saw was a 20 something Park Cities guy, black sheep of family who got in huge fight with his parents at thanksgiving family dinner. He went to garage, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire. Had 85% TBSA burns and was still alive and 200+ days later when my rotation started. Mental status was normal except he was constantly doped up on morphine. He would just stare at us when we went in to change dressings or replace central lines. Had no lips. Amazingly had eyelids. His parents kept his room filled with fresh flowers. That smell of flowers mixed with pseudomonas was something that stayed with me for a long fucking time.  I've seen some fucked up shit -- though I'm sure a lot less than you -- but smells have always affected me more than sights

    Smell is the main memory invoker from what I have read.  

    I had to have surgery on my right hand when I was in first grade as a result from an accident.  Anyway, back during that time they used ether as the knock out agent.

    To this day(50 plus years later), when I smell ether, I go back to my first memory after waking up from surgery which is me sitting up on a gurney and getting wheeled back to my room after post op.  

  8. Just now, Dennis Taylor said:

    Did Point Blank get up there and play 'Nicole ' for 30 minutes? KLOL used to play that regularly, pretty cool tune. Listening to it again for 1st time in years, and it would be amazing done by ZZ Top in their late 70s style. 

     

    I remember 'Great White Line' and that is about it. 

  9. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    TS and JY are far better rock singers than DDY.  And, they're great guitarists.

    Not sure what you were implying by "other two albums", but Pieces of Eight was their 8th album.  Depending on your point of view, all but the new-ish pop fans thought it was their peak or just past their peak.  Things got super ugly real quickly.

     

    I saw Journey & Sammy Hagar at a stadium jam in StL in 1980.  For some bizarre reason, Sammy headlined.  It was not good.  Journey was pretty good, being Journey.

    I was looking at something on google and it didn't list their 1st four albums in a noticeable manner.  I do recall those first 4 now.  I think I even thought about buying them when I was buying their stuff but they(the other albums) didn't appeal to me.  GI and PoE  are peak Styx for me.  Pieces of Eight and Queen's News of the World were the first rock albums I bought.  I got an 8 track for Christmas with a gift certificate to a record store where I bought those two albums\8 tracks.  Blue Collar Man was getting a lot of play at the time as well as We Will Rock you and We Are the Champions.  

  10. Re: Styx - Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight are good listens.  Oddly enough my favorite cuts are with Tommy Shaw or James Young singing.

    I had their other two albums Equinox and Crystal Ball too.  I gave Kilroy Was Here one listen and I was done with them.

    Made it to the '86 Jam with Van Hagar.  Eddie Van Halen was phenomenal. 

    Was at the 82 Jam:

    • Journey
    • Santana
    • Sammy Hagar
    • Joan Jett
    • Point Blank

    It was late in the afternoon and I was feeling the heat from being on the floor.  I was around the 50 yard line listening to Santana rocking the place.  I decided to sit down for a bit.  The bass and percussion were so intense I still remember roaches bouncing off the ground as I sat there.

    That was the Escape album tour for Journey.  They put on quite the show as well.  It may have been documented, but IMHO, this tour was the beginning of the end for Steve Perry or at least the Steve Perry that people remember most.

  11. 5 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

    Those hours are insane. I water one day a week voluntarily. Soak the hell out of it after the weekly mow and it's fine. 

    There are a lot of people that skirt the rules though. 

    I try not to skirt the rules.  I have been trying to keep up with the restrictions but we had an expected death in the family and I am having to deal with estate stuff.  So, I am still watering 2x's a week.  I will adjust before my next watering time.

    Regard to watering as you mentioned in the second reply, that is pretty much what I decided on doing.  I have a Rachio controller so this should be pretty easy to plan out.

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  12. So do you gents pay attention to watering restrictions?  I am about to cut down to 1 day.  The city I live in wants to restrict watering from 8am-10am one day a week.

    I have a lawn service for grass, trees and shrubs.  All of which look good still(front lawn with regard to grass).  Looks like I am about to sacrifice most of the back yard to keep the front looking as good as possible.

     

  13. 2 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    99% of the driving populace can’t handle roundabouts 

    I have told this before...

    I grew up in and around Waco.  These days, the circle is clearly marked.  Yield to traffic in the circle.  Of course there is still fuckery because people don't know what yield signs are nor turn signals.

    In my days there, there were no markings.  It was pretty much the wild west every time you drove through it.  I had the occasion to ask two different Waco police officers about who had the right of way in the circle.  I got two different answers.  (Yield to traffic in the circle v. traffic in circle yields to feeders)

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  14. I - Has the edge on the story.  Gritty, bloody, graphic and told in such a great manner.

    II - was shot better...Cinematography wise.  So many shots that could be hung on the walls of museums.  I have said it before, II has my favorite scene.  Mama's funeral.

  15. "No thanks to you, shitface."  That's some surly level shit right there.

    Already mentioned, but Thief is up there for one of my favorite movies he was in.  Godfather at the top.

    Rip Sonny.  

     

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  17. 22 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Jeff Bridges

     

    Best:  Last Picture Show/The Big Lebowski 

     

    Worst:  King Kong

    King Kong... I guess.  I saw this as a teenager when it came out.  For some reason, I mostly remember Jessica Lange.

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