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Asithappens

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  1. Yeah, I think he will (or probably will) be good. Not great. But there are a lot of factors involved. Mainly, aggy incompetence.
  2. Agree. Part of that Athletic piece on why Jimbo was such a failure (which in all honesty could've been a War and Peace length novel) was that Jimbo just wanted 5-stars and ignored character. Could Texas use Stewart? Sure. Do they need him? Don't know. Would Stewart be a positive addition to the locker room? Maybe, maybe not. Personally, I say fuck him.
  3. - This has been alluded to, but London is expensive af right now, even with the strong(ish) dollar. As an example, a run of the mill sit-down restaurant family meal (including a beer or mixed drink for each parent) that would be $75-80 in the states often ran $125-130 in London. Things may have changed a bit, but I found London to be very affordable. Of course, you can spend as much as you want when dining, but we went to a very good Turkish restaurant, Efes (1 Whitechapel Road) and the total bill for four of us was 82 pounds. And no tipping! We had/shared two appetizers, a Greek salad, and a two kabob plates (one plate was more than enough for two people). We did not have any drinks, however. We raved to the waiter and he threw in a free dessert! The curry places on Brick Lane had entrees for around 12-15 pounds. You can't begin to eat at Pappasito's for that. And when you're out walking around, you can hit up a Pret a Manger and buy a sandwich for less than 5 pounds, or go to a Greg's (we went to one in the Westminster tube station) and get a Steak Bake for less than 3 pounds or a sausage roll for around 2 pounds.
  4. Just returned from a week in London. What a world-class city! We stayed in an aparthotel in the Whitechapel area: The Gate Hotel. It's a great location for catching the subway (Tube) and within walking distance of Brick Lane (London's curry district) and Tower Bridge if you're so inclined. Get a little Tube map and hit the Aldgate East station and the city is basically your oyster. And speaking of oyster, you don't need to get an Oyster card. Just use your credit/debit card and tap in and tap out. As easy as falling off a log. Some people are the museum types, but I don't know how anyone can go to London and not see the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles (Parthenon statues now) in the British Museum. Free entry, spend an hour or so and Bob's your uncle. The National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery are also pretty good. We had the great fortune of having a friend who's a local and he helped guide us around. Here's my take on some of the places, of course, ymmv: British Museum: worth it. Notting Hill: NOT worth it. Trafalgar Square and environs (around the Embankment Tube station): totally worth it. Brick Lane (street near our hotel) and the weekend market (mostly food stalls): worth it at least once. Borough Market: mind-blowing but you can't eat at every food stall and you probably don't need to do your weekly grocery shopping there, but worth it. Jack the Ripper tour, Westminster tour (both with guides) TOTALLY worth it. Bus tour to Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, and Bath: eh, it's ok, but the downside is you get to Bath and have an 75 minutes to see things. It's a trade-off imo, quantity over quality. I liked Windsor Castle, Stonehenge was meh, and Bath was a notch or two above meh. Westminster Abbey: good, but not great imo. It was kinda dark that day and there's room after room (or alcove after alcove) of what I guess were famous people I've never heard of with a bunch of stuff written in Latin about them. That stuff gets old fast, imo. Also, the audio guide was not good. But I did like the Scientists "corner" (Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Paul Dirac, dudes like that, and the Poets' Corner. But even so, it's essentially a bunch of names on the floor. Worth seeing but don't put it on the top of your list, imo. Hampton Court Palace: Henry VIII's place. We had a tour guide and it was fantastic. TOTALLY worth it. Better than Windsor Castle and Westminster Abbey. Plus, there's a nice little pub nearby, The Mute Swan, that has good beer and good food. Speaking of pubs, we went to the Blind Beggar (favorite haunt of the Kray brothers - look them up if you haven't heard of them, catch a movie about them, NOT the Tom Hardy one but the 1990 movie "The Krays") on Friday night and it was basically a so-so college bar with a bunch of drunk 20-year olds. NOT how an American would envision an English pub. Same goes for the White Hart on Whitechapel High Street. Other than a sign that reads 1729 (iirc) it was just another hangout for slightly older drunks. However, the Churchill Arms in Notting Hill was good. Now, don't laugh too much, but we caught the ABBA Voyage show in the ABBA arena (specially built for the show) on Pudding Mill Lane, and it was incredible. Just incredible. Basically holograms of ABBA (but with a live band). TOTALLY worth it even if you're not a big ABBA fan. Depending on your views of hallucinogens you might want to imbibe a bit before the show. But seriously, I would consider the ABBA show a must see. We walked about 8 miles a day and took the tube basically everywhere. Go, spend a week in a central location, and enjoy yourself. Cheerio mate!
  5. Don't get any. Using your credit/debit cards gets you the best daily rate. Thanks, man. That was the answer I was hoping for.
  6. Heading across the pond soon. What the Surly recommendation for English pounds? Get over there? Don't get any - use a card?
  7. How can you not? Their intelligence wasn't good enough to stop the initial attacks and things have been pure chaos ever since. I don't see any reason to think they have a good idea where Hamas militants currently are. They're reducing whole neighborhoods to rubble and they've bombed the crossing into Egypt, where tons of Palestinian civilians had fled to hoping to get out.
  8. What? So because Israel doesn't have perfect or infallible intel they should what? Stop all bombings? Bullshit.
  9. Extremists (and they usually seem to be religiously motivated - not just Muslim) don't care about how many lives they take in pursuit of their holy war. We've seen this time and time again. Imo Israel, being in the middle of a war/terrorist attack from Hamas, is under no obligation at this time (maybe later) to show "mercy". Israel is at war. They are fighting an enemy that calls for the destruction of Israel. They don't have the luxury of mercy.
  10. They do. And I never want to hear Drake Stoops and legend in the same sentence again.
  11. Other than the final score that was one of the best, most exciting, most entertaining games I've ever seen.
  12. Fucking exactly.
  13. No doubt Iowa will find a way to Ferentz it up. They are making aggy look smart.
  14. Tech is like your well-meaning, half-way likeable cousin that knows they aren't as good as you, but every now and then pulls one over on you. But, even if they don't admit it, they know their place. aggy, on the other hand, is like your retarded cousin with a mother that tells them they can do no wrong and are just as good as everybody else. But everyone knows they aren't. Eventually, everyone around them gets sick of their shit and laughs at them to their face.
  15. Kim Ogg is a disappointment. Lina Hidalgo is not.
  16. This.
  17. Am I the only one who is somewhat pleased that Biden has opted to keep the Space Force stuff in Colorado, not move it to Alabama? Fuck you, Tuberville.
  18. Don't know if this really belongs here, but .... Everything we needed to know about Trump was revealed to us when Sean Spicer (may he rot in hell) lied repeatedly, unabashedly about the crowd size during the inauguration. Contradicting photographs, even. Don't believe your lying eyes. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode (not that I'm a big fan, but a fan) when Picard is being tortured (more or less) and the bad guy says (iirc) hey, it's all ok if you just tell me that there are 5 lights instead of 4. No biggie, right? So, just tell me that the size of Trump's crowds were bigger than Obama's crowds. No biggie, right. Fuck those people. Trump supporters are the very definition of anti-American.
  19. Love this thread. I'm going to be up in that area in a couple of weeks. Haven't been to the cities in a long time. Traffic sucks. Would like to catch a Twins game, and/or a Fargo Redhawks game. Cuz you know, Fargo. lol
  20. Lol. Somebody needs to photoshop that to read "KKKyle Field".
  21. Sure, let's all hop on board that train. While we conveniently turn a blind eye to the conditions that led to it. The more we can demonize young desperate women the less likely we will address the anti-Roe/anti-women's health issues. Kind of an old testament, GOP mentality, imo.
  22. I respect what you said but disagree with just about all of it. The show is a comedy. Right? Maybe not a dark comedy but it's pretty funny. Stop comparing shit. It's the thief of joy. Also think Danny McBride has greatly improved over the years (not a high bar) and he's done it in this show. Goodman does an excellent job, imo.
  23. Lol, of course, but as I often tell my wife when watching tv shows "it's not a documentary". Just enjoy the drama and the acting. (it's taken me a long time to get to that point).
  24. I liked the ending. Barry being buried in Arlington. A gotdamned hero! lol But they should've shown Gene happily teaching an acting class in prison.
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