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UpperWestside

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  1. 78 million people think that quote means he’s successful, ruthless and should be the president.
  2. Portnoy is a clown, but I do not have to listen to him so I don’t. College football is now entirely about the size of the NIL fund each school has and how much the players can make. I am not against any of this. If UT has a ton of money to spend on players then go for it. If my school, ASU, gets it together and buys the best roster money can buy then go for it. If Portnoy is going to help monetarily I just shrug my shoulders at it because I have no say in what the conference does, but I also can make it through a season without ever hearing him talk because I do not emotionally invest myself in the outcomes of the games. If Portnoy wants to really do some good go on that show and advocate for the firing of Bobby Hurley. I’ll even tune in and listen for a week if he’ll do that. Some of you who think Mack Brown stole a decent amount of money his last few years in charge in Austin need to see how much money Hurley has gotten from ASU to produce absolutely nothing in more than a decade in charge.
  3. I am glad your child is able to read in a way that is most comfortable to them. I always love hearing about good stories of my fellow neurodivergent folks. We’re all wired a little different and sometimes we will learn in a very specific way. I need to hold a book, but not every autistic person wants to read the way I do. Again good on you for letting your child just be who they are. That’s seriously awesome.
  4. I enjoy reading books. I physically like to hold the book and sit and read it. It doesn’t feel right otherwise to me. I sometimes have to read books for class that are on my laptop and it always feels odd. I am glad to have the resource available to me for sure, but it’s just a way of reading I have never been drawn to.
  5. She’s a comically worthless liar who deserves to get shipped off to Siberia. Go tell some Russians living out in the Siberian wilderness all of your lies about being assaulted. I do not believe a single word she says about any of that.
  6. Crazy people connecting with other crazy people almost anywhere in the world really changed the human race as a whole. It’s incredible how people will bond over lies and come together like they are right now. All 78 million that voted for this can kick rocks, but being fooled by a con man does not excuse their complicity in what is transpiring.
  7. Might as well put up a wall on the path to the left. People in cults are wired to see it through until it explodes on them. Even then there will be reluctance to say they were conned because of personal embarrassment. People are just horrible.
  8. She’s another one that needs a shovel to the face.
  9. I love my guys in the Purple and Gold, but we had no real back line defenders. This is somewhat predictable when the best team in the league, a still very young team, has guys that can get to the rim whenever they want to. I’ll tune in to watch games regularly in March. Teams mail in so many games now that there is no real reason to invest any time in the games when some are glorified exhibition games/load management night where the stars just sit out because they want to. That’s not really happening in this game. The Thunder are just a lot better.
  10. This Predator, being the runt of the clan, it was like a Rocky movie I think. I kinda enjoyed that aspect as well as the Calise storyline. I can’t wait to see the Calisk in the next movie as well. I do get your take though. If you go in with expectations of how you think a Predator movie will or should go you’ll be disappointed somewhat.
  11. I remembered who she was and I mostly enjoyed this movie, but I wouldn’t expect most people to have heard of her. The story is interesting in that her boxing career ever happened and that she survived her ex-husband’s attempt to murder her. I did not expect this movie to make much money, but it’s a well done movie overall that is worth a watch once it begins streaming.
  12. On a normal team not stocked up on high end talent I would have said they gave up too quickly on Giddey. It worked out well for each team on the trade. Giddey is a star in the making. He just needed a team where he could be the leader. His contract is an absolute bargain as well.
  13. I don’t really think they care about that anymore, but right now they play on campus until they figure out how to get a bigger stadium. I would imagine that at the moment they aren’t going to bring in teams with a large fan base that will turn a home game for them into the road fans buying up all the tickets and making it feel like an away game. They need money and are far more likely to take money games from big schools. I enjoy going to their games, but their stadium is a makeshift one and smaller than almost all of the big high school stadiums in Texas at the moment.
  14. If you talk to Aussies today that remember the history they sound much the same. The gratitude they have for the Americans showing up to hold the line and keep Japan from making it to them is still echoed even now. Australians are a patriotic lot as a whole. The Kokoda Track in New Guinea is still an extremely popular trek across the Owen Stanley range that many Australians will do to pay homage to the Aussies who died fighting the Imperial Japanese Army across it and then back. I want to do it at some point to retrace the Americans who crossed it as well.
  15. I appreciate you sharing this with us. This was an important time in your father’s life as well as the men he served with there. Those pictures are both surreal and haunting at the same time. I can only imagine what your dad’s memories must have been like of that time.
  16. Wow that is impressive! That was one of the most unique battles of the Pacific War. So far from home yet also cold and snowy in May. Did your father ever talk about the last charge the Japanese made right into the Allied camp?
  17. I like a lot of what A24 puts out. This was a Monday night movie at Regal where you don't know ahead of time what it is. The last Monday night movie I liked this much was Novocaine when it came out earlier this year. It's hard to really put my finger on why this movie really hit me, but it did so in a good way. I am not going to give anything away, but if you need a movie that will make you laugh and smile this would be the one. Really glad I was able to see it tonight. It also has Da'Vine Joy Randolph from The Holdovers. I love seeing her in films.
  18. I went back to see it in 4DX 3D. I personally love the 4DX and the seats moving and all that. You don't need that for this movie, but I would suggest a 3D showing. It really added to the movie honestly. However you see this movie is up to you, but I felt the 3D version was really cool. Even if you don't want to watch it that way just go see it and enjoy it. You'll have to try really hard to not enjoy this one.
  19. These people are, my God, so incredibly naive and honestly incredibly ignorant human beings. When an entire cult and their leader tell you who they are, what they are about and what they are going to do to your political party, you should believe them. The rules these morons are trying to abide by DO NOT APPLY ANY LONGER. I have a hard time fathoming how Democrats can be dumber than a guy who spray tans himself everyday. They are dumber than Gov. Hot Wheels. They are less intelligent than politicians who are actively part of a cult. You really have to be a box of rocks to have said "You know we'll just end this shutdown and trust that this time they won't pull the football when we go to kick it." I am personally glad I am getting closer to no longer living in this country, but for those of you who have more ties to America and cannot just leave I empathize for the cruelty coming down the pike.
  20. You know it will. The centrists are cowards. Full blown moronic cowards that blinked first for no reason.
  21. The gap is Tech, ASU with Leavitt vs. without since a healthy Leavitt is the best QB in the conference, then Utah (who beat them with Leavitt sitting out) and the rest doesn’t much matter this year. Tech should win the conference and deserve to. They’ve been the most consistent team all season.
  22. BYU is average. This was the first good team they played and they got rolled.
  23. I am somewhat at a loss to figure out how Cal lost 34-0 to SDSU yet can win on the road at Louisville while the Bows beat the brakes off the Aztecs tonight by 32. College football can be such a wonderful diversion at times while making absolutely no sense week-to-week.
  24. Until he says he didn’t say it, well, he said it. It doesn’t matter that it’s not real. Make these fascist clowns have to answer questions about ridiculous stuff like this.
  25. Great game by the Bows defense. Best all-around game from the team this year. Headed home soaking wet with a coffee from 7/11 to warm back up. It’ll work and no complaints at all. If any of you ever come during football season you need to experience a game here.
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