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UpperWestside

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  1. Eurobasket is a HUGE tournament for them. There was no way he was sitting it out. Really big deal to win it and it just helped further Dennis Schroeder's Basketball Hall of Fame Resume.
  2. Haha. For gifts they are easy to go to and the cost is whatever. Also I just like the store. No real rhyme or reason why because I don’t really do brand loyalty.
  3. I try to do this every year and do something nice for someone else on my birthday . This year I got something for everyone at work today. Getting gifts was cool as a kid, but now it’s even more fun to give to others on this day. I got my boss, who I fish with when we have time to, a new rod. He needed a better one so I brought it in and he asked me where I was going fishing and I said “I’m not. It’s yours.” He’s a great guy originally from East LA who has seen more than most in hs 52 years. Everyone else got stuff that I either thought they could use or some of them some Bath and Body Works stuff. My boss went and got me a lei to wear for the day which was cool. The best part is we have a cook that is out on a strict probation through 2029. He walks to the front and our GM starts talking about the fishing pole I guess and “Shorty” says it’s his birthday tomorrow. A guest hears this and pulls out a 50 to give to him. It was his first birthday not in prison in seven years. So glad for him. That same guest tried to give me money. I tried to give it back and told him to just do something g the next d for someone and he says “I’m doing it right now.” Kindness can be contagious. Long story short just do something nice for others every chance you get.
  4. Dennis Schroeder has one of the more interesting basketball careers I have seen. He has been a solid NBA player, but his international career for Germany has been wildly successful. Knowing that the Basketball Hall of Fame isn’t just for what you did in the NBA makes his candidacy a real one. Leading Germany to the World Championship, being selected to the all tournament team for the Olympics and now winning the European title (While going 9-0) is pretty impressive. When you see some of the players that got in you can see why he has a really good shot at getting there himself for his international accomplishments.
  5. He’s not wrong. Probably not the words your broadcast partners want to hear, but whatever. I mostly see highlights from non-Laker games. Not a big deal to hear him speak like that.
  6. I attempted yesterday to watch it. I have that movie pass for Regal so if I am just not really into a movie I'll get up and leave. This one, for me at least, was not one I wanted to stay and watch. That does not mean the movie is not good. I made it maybe 30 minutes or so in.
  7. You know I need to go watch them play at least once this year. Not hard to get to the stadium and it would probably be fun to go.
  8. Jordyn Tyson had a pretty good game. That touchdown where he jumped over the defender and stayed inbounds was quite the effort. Ready to start conference play. There’s no one in the Big XII that is more talented than ASU, but it just takes one play (Not going for it last week at the goal line when MSU couldn’t stop me if I was running the ball) to ruin a game.
  9. I am not going to group myself with people taking the words of someone that was peaceful and instead using them as a form of hatred. These people know as much about peace and loving your neighbor as aggy does about football championships in the last 8 plus decades.
  10. @Sbbruin So, um, the Dodgers got a shot at the repeat?
  11. Lampasas has to go play at a stadium named after a guy who covered up sexual assaults. Good job you redneck imbeciles.
  12. The rare times I look for news it's the BBC or Guardian. If I want to sometimes read a story where TFG is being made fun of it will be Drudge because those two do not like each other, at all. Never would have thought that back in 2016.
  13. I don't condone violence. I have read enough history to know violence is not the answer. However, Kirk's own words came back on him. He messed around and, this is going to be shocking, he found out.
  14. I was really wondering whether he had lived long enough to earn a spot on the grave pissing tour. What you just posted put him on there. If you haven’t made plans to vacate this 3rd world tire fire of a country start looking into it.
  15. Much like his hero, TFG, he was a grifter. He told lies, blatantly lived in an alternate reality and worked to persuade people to join his warped and racist view of the world around him. These are not admirable traits and I hope he's burning in hell for the rest of eternity for the person he was for the entirety of his adult life.
  16. An incredibly kind person Charlie Kirk was not. Not even close. You don’t get to put the 95 percent of his words that were hateful rhetoric, as well as acts on his part that helped cause January 6th among other things, away in a box and talk about what a great person he was. He’s in the dustbin of history where he belongs.
  17. In her case I’d say “Never let a chance to say something awful and absorb as much attention as possible go to waste.”
  18. Anyone feeling the least bit of sorrow for her should really rethink the choices they’ve made in life that has lead them to feel sympathy for a soulless monster.
  19. Aww man I am glad to read this and that you are having such a good time. I hope you continue to rest and regenerate yourself in a positive way while you’re out here. @Hank_Hill was right when he told me last year that being here was far enough away from the craziness of the mainland that you could live normally. Enjoy the Big Island and post plenty more pictures up of your adventures while you are here!
  20. Completely different. I was able to spend the day reading and fishing at Kailua. People just randomly stopped walking on the beach to talk about fishing. Being a full continent’s worth of miles away from the mainland is a nice feature of being here. @Orale can probably speak more to that since he has been here for several years. Hawai’i is the last place I will ever live in America before heading away at the end of next year. If you have the ability to do so make this place your home for a little while at least. It has definitely been amazing to reconnect so much with nature and the ocean here.
  21. Those are the eyes of a crazy person and he’s from Long Island. You never unleash crazy Long Islanders on the rest of the country.
  22. Exactly. Just all out in the storefront window again for everyone to see.
  23. They do this for attention. You know this Jimmy. There is nothing that you can say that will get a reaction that is rooted in reality. You just let these folks go on living in their made up construct and move on. Putting people like that on ignore makes this place easier to read.
  24. I am glad I am no longer there because I would have unleashed a torrent of curse words upon seeing that in the Bronx. A divisive hate monger died. He does not deserve anymore attention. He reaped which he sowed.
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