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  1. 6 hours ago, slorch said:

    Despite the best efforts of many, America still stands strong.

    If you think we're not, well a shit ton of folks sure are trying to become Americans.

    When that stops, you might have a point. For most of the self-loathing, those folks are just expressing their guilt complex. WGAF?

    I still believe that there are enough good people in this country that we will survive our current crisis and come out stronger as a people. We have a lot going on with civil unrest and people just not liking one another on a personal level. 
     

    I think communication with people who think differently is exceedingly important. We have to keep our lines of communication open as a society and remember we are all just people on the same road. Just help as many folks as you can on your own journey and be the person you want others to be.

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  2. I will take the Golden Bears. I have a really good friend that played basketball for SOC and he said they are legit. Their only loss is to Duncanville. I hope they break the DISD drought that’s 63 years long at the moment because of the Carter forfeit in ‘88.

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  3. Vogel is probably not long for the job, but he isn’t the issue. Anthony Davis is not playing at the level they need him at and Westbrook should never have been traded for. I wanted Ball brought back because I am an adamant believer in giving a young point guard time to grow into the role. 

  4. Incredibly sad, but at least it was apparently not foul play. I am glad he was able to get a few years back with his mother and grandmother when both had their federal drug sentences commuted. Another reminder how fragile life is. 

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  5. 47 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    A quick review of their wiki page leads me to believe this is their most significant achievement

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    presumably basketball is their favorite sport. 

    I went to high school with someone who played on the women’s basketball team at Nyack. Last I heard she is back in Texas and is the AD at a small, rural high school in west Texas.
     

    Having Curtis Blow on the alumni list is honestly pretty cool.

  6. This was a fun movie to watch. It’s hard to adequately describe how cool it was. Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn both made me laugh as did Tom Waits. Cooper Hoffman was great in this in my opinion. His dad would have been proud. Alana Haim also was fun to watch. Those two had good chemistry. 

  7. I like Adam Driver and Lady Gaga as well. The accents in this movie were, well, not Italian. This movie would have been better had it been done with people who speak fluent Italian and actually, and I’m just spitballing here, are from Italy. I never get disgusted with movies and do not consider myself a movie snob, but I went home a little over an hour and a half. I can count on one hand the amount of times I have done that.

  8. On 12/7/2021 at 1:31 PM, Loch Ness Monster said:

    Mavs would be a bottom 10 team in the NBA without Luka. 

     

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    What I wouldn’t give to see Sabonis on the Lakers. It won’t happen, but man it’s be cool to see him in the Purple and Gold.

  9. My mom is up here visiting me and there is one theatre that was showing this movie and tonight is the only night they show it. We didn’t have money to watch movies in the theatre as a kid so this was her first time to get to see it on the big screen. I saw it two years ago on the 30th anniversary showing in Times Square, but this was so cool to get to watch this with her. She had a great time! I put on one of the sweaters with his quote about the nuthouse. So many good memories of watching this movie every year.

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  10. On 11/9/2021 at 11:01 AM, Baboontyme said:

    Thanks guys. I guess I can just keep offering to give the kids rides to/from school to make things easier on them. 

    Good advice from WWS. You just offer love and positive attention. It sounds like your wife is making a positive difference with her. Stay positive and always, always, always heed the advice from WWS of taking care of yourself. Make sure y’all are not on empty emotionally.

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  11. 5 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    This doesn't make sense to me.  Wouldn't the effects of inebriation provide some warning that you are over consuming whether or not you have taste buds?

    He drinks regularly and paid no attention apparently to how much he had. From when I used to drink I can recall that at a certain point it all feels the same. I think normally where you might stop, even if you are wasted, did not happen for him. If it all feels like water going down I would probably have had a similar incident. 

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  12. 5 hours ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

    Since last Friday. 

    I hope you are getting better by the moment hoss. You’re one of the cool posters on here and I really hope that the side effects do not hit you really hard.
     

    A friend of mine I grew up with got Covid a year ago or so. He lost his ability to taste anything for nine months. That inability to taste anything darn near killed him. He was drinking with his brother who came down from Dallas and thanks to not tasting any of the liquor he was drinking he got alcohol poisoning. 

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  13. 13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Every R IS Trump. You’re starting to grasp the problem, even as you argue against it. Any R that doesn’t fully support whatever batshit insanity he spouts at a given moment is driven out as an apostate. They fucking kicked out LYNN CHENEY, for fuck’s sake. The party is paying his legal fees TODAY. They are all-in on his Big Lie as we speak. Anyone who dares disagree with him is cast out as a RINO libtard. This is our concern, dude. It’s a proto-fascist cult of personality that will gladly destroy all functioning democratic norms in order to satisfy the whims of their mad king.

    The D opposition doesn’t have to be JFK. They just have to have a pulse and believe that maybe, we should be a Republic still. That’s it. It’s the only issue that matters right now.

    I do not usually lean as far into this as you do, but I absolutely do agree with this. I have not waivered on believing there are enough good human beings in this country to right the ship and send this cult to the dustbin of history. It is one heckuva thing to do, but the GQP cult members cannot be allowed to get control of this country. At some point you have to realize that siding with “libtards” on this is absolutely the right thing to do if you care at all about the people you share this country with. This is not real hard to understand. 

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  14. 13 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Progress, not perfection, my dude.  I'd accept center left.

    You seem to choose positions that advocate for others who need help climbing the ever-changing societal ladder. We should not need a party designation to figure out that doing that is what we should all be doing. You help as many folks as you can along the way. 

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  15. 40 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Rent free in your head.  My parents are in NYC with me.  We went to the Thanksgiving Parade.  Your life seems like it sucks.  

    Hope y’all enjoyed it. I am going to try to bring my mom back with me if she is doing well enough to fly so she can see the city leading up to Christmas. She has been here twice right after Christmas for New Year’s Eve, but not before. 

    I walked past the barricades this morning for the route on my way to catch a flight to Austin. Ton of police over near the Garden today, but that’s normal for the parade. This is such an awesome time of year in the city. It already feels so much better than a year ago this time.

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  16. 4 hours ago, Gatorubet said:


    The goatee is some sort of club sign, isn’t it? The first piece of a MAGA Starter Pack.


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    I teach 4th graders that are more emotionally mature than this guy. Putting that shirt on and going out in public is a sure way to let everyone know you are not all there. This entire lie built upon lie phenomenon that is now the majority of that voting base is so abjectly ridiculous as to not even seem real at times.

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  17. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

    People equate Texas with being egotistical, bougie, condescending, wealthy, bitchy, etc. that’s why they get up for us a love to beat us no matter if we suck or not.

    It pains me to agree with this, but this is true. I am born and raised in Texas and am the only member of my family to leave the state. This is an accurate view of the association people generallly have of Texas and Texans when you travel outside of the state. The bullseye will be there for every single game no matter the opponent.

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