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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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On 1/26/2022 at 10:37 AM, Brisketexan said:
This.
Look, I'm an old fart. I remember when absolutely batshit insane, irrational, and detached-from-reality-and truth "pamphlets" were how people indulged in this shit. I went to gun shows and similar events 30-40 years ago, and occasionally, there were some "fringe-y" types around, or some guy's table also had a stack of "newsletters" about how the illuminati were hiding proof of aliens and having perverse sex with them along with JFK who was actually still alive and tag-teaming the still-alive Marilyn with Elvis (I'm not saying I picked up a newsletter to read that particular story, but I'm also not saying I didn't).
But their distribution was......limited. The nutbars reached.....dozens of people.
Now, through the magic of internet first, and then the amplification of such things as the approach got picked up by "celebrity" types, the same inane, utterly batshit crap I once saw on hand-printed newsletters at a SE TX gun show in 1986 now get an audience of 11 million people.
I didn't worry about these ideas when they were only communicated among a few dozen gullible morons. Now that the gullible morons have a common source, and have become the largest single "information consuming" audience in the country....yeah, it's fucking troubling.
Listen to some of that batshit crap he's selling. Fucking listen to it. You're not "black" unless your skin is midnight black? Ignoring (just for starters) the continuing legacy of treatment of people of even fractional african descent in this country for centuries? The treatment of such people by the law and law enforcement? How your dad would have felt if your daughter brought home one of those lighter-skinned black guys? Jesus fucknuts, what the fucking fuck?
You're goddammed right the problem is that idiotic shit like that has an audience of 11 million people. It should make everyone concerned.
I share your concern here because of the audience size that is listening to him. I don’t listen to Rogan, but it is not because I hate him. I just don’t really listen to podcasts and until recently I did not realize how much of a negative effect this guy is having with his “I’m a moron that’s just asking questions” approach on his show.
I think that in a society we all have a responsibility to be a good part of it. We all have our own weight to carry so to speak. Rogan has 11 million plus people listening to him. I assume there are many vaxxed listeners who just watch or listen for the celebrity guests he has. There are also some I assume that listen to his vaccine stuff and go right along with it. That is absolutely an irresponsible use of a media platform. He could be doing a lot of good in spreading news about the vaccine and how it is saving countless lives. He is messing around and eventually, like almost everyone e who wants to be the contrarian, he’ll find out. You play with fire long enough you’ll eventually get burned.
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7 minutes ago, C-Man said:
Not even remotely the same situation.
I think people change as they age and honestly I think that Stern, underneath all those layers of craziness that he built his show and career on, is a guy who does actually care about his fellow human beings. I have never gotten a vibe from listening to Stern that says this guy is the kind of person that would be doing what Rogan is doing. Plus I have always found Robin Quivers to be entertaining in the back and forth banter they have.
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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Maybe his kids are grade-A dickheads as well. Have you met them?
They could be, but if they are that would not be their fault. I’m not going to think badly of the kids in this situation. I just hope they have at least one adult in their life that will give them some positive direction. Every child deserves people around them that help further their growth emotionally. I just worry that we will have hundreds of thousands of kids in similar situations who are going to suffer because of the decisions made by the people who are supposed to love and care for them the most, but instead make insanely selfish decisions.
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1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:
I cannot fathom how this person would readily choose death over surviving and helping to raise his family. As much as I enjoy dissecting the human mind and better understanding it each day, I just have zero interest right now in even giving such an inherently selfish human being any kind of attention. Those children deserve far better than what they are getting and the emotional wounds they will have if he dies will go well into adulthood for them. But you know “mah freedoms!” are more important than parental obligations.
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20 hours ago, Bojack said:
I was born in '73. I remember it well. I've always been a Rockets fan so fuck Larry Bird for '86. Fuck Magic Johnson on behalf of the Western Conference throughout the '80s. Fuck Danny Ainge most especially for the time he threw the ball at Mario Elie's face. Fuck John Stockton for being a dirty rat bastard. Fuck Karl Malone going all the way back to his La. Tech days since I grew up going to Lamar basketball games and they had quite a rivalry in the Billy Tubbs, Pat Foster era following Lamar's trip to the Sweet 16 back in '80. Fuck Karl for impregnating a 12 year old. Fuck Stockton for being an even bigger contrarian conspiracy dumbshit than Kyrie. I had reasons for disliking all of them even though I no longer have anything against Bird or Magic. The rest named in my rant still suck and will always suck.
I mean this is a pretty high quality rant right here. I never thought I would get to see Stockton and Kyrie in the same rant for both being conspiracy nuts, but here we are. What a world we live in where one guy believes the earth is flat and won’t get a vaccine because reasons and the other has brain worms and thinks athletes are dropping dead all around the world.
Magic was my childhood hero, but other than that no issue with including him since he and the Showtime Lakers quite literally ran an entire conference for a solid decade. I mean if I were a fan of a team in the West at that time I would have probably hated the Lakers almost as much as fans of THOSE GUYS hated the Lakers.
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18 hours ago, Bookman said:
I thought that was the Wofford College mascot.
The person who left behind the money to found the school is in my mom’s family. My grannie was a Wofford.
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On 1/21/2022 at 10:34 PM, dcbc said:
I've got a full auto espresso maker that I've relegated to weekend duty. Some real gourmet shit, Jimmy.
On work days when we're trying to get the kids out the door, I make a pot of drip from whole beans ground at home. We got this Cuisinart when we got married almost 20 years ago and other than my cracking the carafe on the countertop once (replacement was $25), it's never missed. And it's not expensive and fancy. It's drip. Yes, there are some variables that could be adjusted that this price point doesn't have. But for my workday cups, it does the job. We clean it with water and vinegar occasionally. Other than that, no fuss, no muss.
Basically this:
I was given a fully automatic De’Longhi espresso machine by a friend for helping him move last summer. I looked up the cost and it would’ve run me 600+ had I purchased it. It had never been used. It’s been really cool to have and I get quite a bit of use out of it.
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On 1/21/2022 at 7:03 PM, Judge Roybeanbag said:
One of my best friends, he flunked band in fifth grade. Couldn’t even bang two cymbals together without fucking it up. He graduated from, you guessed it, A&M.
It sounds like ending up at A&M was very cymbalic for him.
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6 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
I mean somehow Conway Twitty happened, so why should we be surprised about Meat Loaf?
My first dog was named Conway. I have no idea where I am going with this.
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I’m putting Aaron Rodgers name here and I’ll say that lying about being vaccinated killed his Packer season and possibly his career there. I hope Gritty pays him a visit soon.
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I have met some folks in the last two plus years that you could throw that stupid label on. I think most of the people that are called stupid lack even the most basic educational skills.
I try not to spend a great deal of time worrying about them though. If you want to be left behind by society and live in an outdated construct of what the world is now so be it. I won’t force anyone to see reason. Just keep to yourself and leave the people alone trying to clean up the messes left by other like-minded people.
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49 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:
You are not this stupid. I refuse to believe it.
I don’t want to call him stupid. I think he is just someone with an exceedingly low educational level. You can kinda tell when people fit that profile. He may have graduated from college and yet didn’t understand or retain anything he learned five minutes after the semester ended.
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On 1/15/2022 at 6:00 PM, Beau Vine said:
It’s too sad to read all of that because Bradley has always come across as a really nice guy. That said if you’re a seven footer living in or visiting Utah just don’t ride a bike. At least Bradley did not meet the same fate the great Mark Eaton did. That was another guy that no one had anything bad to say about.
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42 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:
Bitter Oiler fan here to say “fuck the Bills.” But cool game. Fun to see Belichik get pantsed.
I mentioned that game last night. It felt a little surreal even all these years layers to be in the stadium that was home to one of, if not the most, bitter football memories I can ever remember.
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44 minutes ago, Underdog said:
Have wanted to do a Bills game more so than either Giants/Jets or even Pats game. Guess I’ve had a soft spot for them ever since their SB losses.
Do it man. If they somehow wind up with another playoff game this year just go. Life is more fun when you do some randomly cool things. I was sitting next to the guy I bought my ticket from and he was talking about it’s the memories you make doing stuff that make it worthwhile. I could not agree more.
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I took a short video on the Bills running onto the field. I thought this was cool and I have always liked this song. I am sure most of y’all have heard it if you listen to rap. Everything start to finish just felt like the Pats had very little chance to make a game of it.
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1 hour ago, NYBevo said:
Yeah, hopefully you got to visit the tailgate, definitely a must. Just find a group say Fuck The Pats. And youll get all the food and drink you want haha
I took a stroll through several areas. I’m somewhat reserved if I do not know folks so I was content to just see everything and take it all in. Those folks had enough fires lit to burn a village down. The whole trip up here was a blast. It was worth the eight hour train ride each way. I’m waiting to leave to go back in 20 minutes. I need to come back and visit this area in the spring or summer. I will definitely come back for a game next year.
The funniest thing I saw was when I got out of the Lyft and I get on the sidewalk near a convenience store by the stadium. There was some rocks that you had to walk up to get into the lot. I turn around just in time to watch someone that was likely drunk fall down those rocks and face plant in the road. He got up like nothing happened. I should have known everything after that would be cool.
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That was really cool to see when it happened. Everyone was really excited when those two legends took the mic.
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2 hours ago, Underdog said:
Need a @UpperWestside update on stand shenanigans.
Well I was completely frozen from start to finish. I sounded like Clark in Christmas Vacation when he could barely talk when they went to pick out the tree. I have never been that cold in my life! It was an amazing experience though and I highly suggest to anyone watching a game with the Bills Mafia. That is how watching playoff football is supposed to feel.
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2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:5 hours ago, UpperWestside said:
So last week I went to an NFL game for the first time. It was cold and the Giants and Washington are technically teams in the NFL. All in all the experience was cool because all the drunks were at home and the stadium was 2/3 empty.
This week I decided to go to my first playoff game. I’m currently on the train and will get to be at a game with this as the weather at kickoff. [mention=1501]Beantown Express 2.0[/mention] this might possibly be the coldest playoff game in Pats history. I assume I’ll be frozen solid by kickoff!
More power to you. No way in hell could I sit outside in that weather and watch a football game for 3 hours. Just curious, what will you be wearing to keep warm? Living in Texas, I'm not sure I even have the right stuff for that weather.
I brought two pairs of thick wool socks that I used when I was hiking in Vermont last winter in weather close to this except with feet of snow to deal with then.
I still expect to be overwhelmed by the cold because I don’t drink so liquor won’t keep me warm and even though I have three layers on I can’t put a glove on my left hand because I tore ligaments in one of my fingers and it is bent down. I am going to wrap it in one of the scarves I brought to keep warm. Again I’ll freeze while some guy next to me is running around shirtless looking like Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
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25 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:
I don't see why the NFL decided to fuck up the schedule with a Monday night playoff game. A Saturday triple header is perfectly acceptable. They go out of their way to annoy the fans.
I haven’t watched near as much football as I did a decade or so ago, but man they really do seem to attempt to do things at times just to get a reaction from the fanbase. The NFL is run by some oddballs for sure.
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So last week I went to an NFL game for the first time. It was cold and the Giants and Washington are technically teams in the NFL. All in all the experience was cool because all the drunks were at home and the stadium was 2/3 empty.
This week I decided to go to my first playoff game. I’m currently on the train and will get to be at a game with this as the weather at kickoff. @Beantown Express 2.0 this might possibly be the coldest playoff game in Pats history. I assume I’ll be frozen solid by kickoff!
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37 minutes ago, sidis said:
these are fairly strong endorsements.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8174711/joe-rogan-ivermectin-covid-19-vaccines/
I am not sure how one could possibly see rogan as someone not endorsing and promoting ivermectin as a covid cure - nor can i see how someone could possibly believe he isn't efforting to undermine the public perception of the mainline vaccines.
also, i can't believe i just posted on a thread about joe fucking rogan.
“I’m just asking questions”
I feel that when someone says this they are trying to cover their backside.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
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We are still in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that is the most severe in a century. I expect human beings that care about their fellow woman or man to be responsible with the words they use, especially those that have a platform that can spread a good message about getting a vaccine.
This is solely a do the right thing moment. Contrarians spreading crazy disinformation that has no basis in science or medicine are actively harming people. Words have consequences when they are used in the manner Rogan uses his. He is showing he does not care whether people live or die. He’s getting paid and that’s what he’s in it for. He could be doing so much good right now, but he willingly chooses not to because “he’s just some moron asking questions.” When someone tells you who they are on the inside in this manner believe them.