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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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Sabalenka is the physically superior player to Collins. I like how hard Collins is battling though. That was a great game just now from both of them.
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Sabalenka really, really does not like the crowd.
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9 hours ago, Underdog said:
Watched it Friday evening after I got back from the beach. Seeing it in 3D was pretty cool. Such a great movie from start to finish and I am glad I decided to watch it again because that is a timeless movie that has aged exceptionally well. Roy Scheider actually has a small nameplate plaque on the wall where I work because he was a regular there many years ago.
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Amy Schumer comes into eat where I work when she isn’t touring. She is really polite and comes across as being a very happy person. She ate there on her 41st birthday this year. I have heard her comedy routines before and I think she is funny.
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On 8/27/2022 at 8:37 PM, HookEm said:
Also was at a high school state championship game at the Erwin Center when a kid threw in one from half court to win the game. On his birthday.
I was at that game sitting in the 4th row opposite the benches. When Kimball missed the free throw and made minimal effort to get the rebound was the first wild part. The 2nd part was the look I had of the shot was such that when he released it I said to myself “This is going in!” because he shot it perfectly. A friend that was always on me about the money I spent to sit so close to the court every year tells me the next day that “I’ll never say another word about what you paid to sit there!”
I will also never see a moment of pure joy in an athletic contest like that ever again. If memory serves correct the grandmother of the center died before the playoffs started and he told his grandmother they would win a state title. That was a pretty bold declaration considering Jay finished 3rd in their district that year.
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18 minutes ago, Mez2 said:
Biden fucks
And goes hard in the paint.
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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
Oh, it's more than that. The GQP in Texas has literally made it ILLEGAL for the state to do business with any business that decides not to do business with AR-15 manufacturers, EVEN THOUGH that law is on track to cost Texas taxpayers an estimated nearly $1 billion this year (due to less competitive interest rates because the GQP has banned multiple lenders from doing business with Texas governmental entities). They are costing us a billion dollars NOT because ARs are banned or not, but because they won't even let us do business with businesses that choose not to support the AR-15 industry.
They are charging every one of us money to indulge in their psychopathic masturbatory gun fetish. And Fatty thinks these are the good guys, here to protect us and our way of life.
Moving away from Texas sounds like a pretty cool thing to do.
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1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:
I get that Serena is the goat and the fans want to see her keep playing, but the onesideedness is crazy. Kontaveit got to some crazy balls and hit a phenomenal passing shot, and the crowd groans. She hits it into the net and it's like Serena hit the greatest shot ever seen. I love Serena and a huge fan, but geez.
Fans flew in from around the globe to see Serena play. If I am flying thousands of miles while paying the prices these folks are in order to see Serena in one final tournament then yes I would be cheering everything she does. Kontaveit knew this would be the environment going in and she was okay with it. I met a woman on Monday that flew in from London solely to see Serena play. I hope she wins this tournament. She is among the handful of greatest athletes of all-time. Go out with a bang Serena!
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I honest to God cannot imagine what being his lawyer must be like. I also cannot imagine what it must be like working this case at the DOJ. It is not often I would think that someone implicates themself like this for everyone to see.
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I wanted to go see Alcaraz play tomorrow, but he’s an early afternoon start. Going to have to hope to see him at night in the later rounds. Watching him play has gotten me interested in tennis again for the first time in Lord knows how long. He just does things no one should be able to do at his or any age.
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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:
Yeah, I still get brain fog especially towards the end of the week when my routine used to be started to crack open a bottle of wine. Had a real pissy conversation with a friend in politics on Thursday and Friday and it set me off since he hinted he'd tell people about my recovery but under the bullshit guise of "to help you create a network of folks you know with similar values, for support." Yeah, first 60 days sober, the best thing for me is for a bunch of Cruz and Abbott staffers and fundraiser to know I'm trying to quit. Already having enough nightmare fuel, thank you very much but he kept pressing (obviously for details, not 'cause he gives a shit). He's just pissed 'cause I keep talking about Cruz to friends and donors and he ain't happy about it given his job title. Didn't go boozing, but definitely got weird. I don't give a shit about me, I get threatened all the time. But I'm doing this for family, so in essence---he was threatening them and that didn't sit well. 95% of people in real life and on here that know (and it's not many) have been fantastic. But some people just fucking help themselves, they contact me with some bullshit ruse of concern. But it's about something else and they just see that I'm really vulnerable for the first time since they've known me and want to keep that information.
But yeah, I'll tone down the saltiness on here. I know some folks can talk about their shit on other threads/forums, I'm not there yet and don't care to be. I quietly joined several weeks ago just to join that thread because of lurking on there for months and the conversations help and talked to several folks off-line/real-life.
You know I'm looking for a discretion because I went almost 8 weeks without touching the Seinfeld thread. So that's that, enough about my shit. Back to fun topics like the fall of the Republic, more domestic violence-this time against librarians, and we are all apparently getting arrested on 30 October. Somebody please come back and remind me of that so I don't relapse that day and get arrested and have enemies think "Hey, that crazy tiktok dude was right, they are arresting anti-Trumpers!"
I don’t post on that thread, but be blessed in your journey towards recovery and finding joy and happiness. Keep co fronting the demon that is alcohol and never back down from it.
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Thanks for all of the detailed explanations @TwiceHorn. It is really cool of you to continue to do this for us. We all absolutely appreciate you taking the time to do it.
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36 minutes ago, Underdog said:
Didn’t the Lakers also get a PPP loan? And it’s only the Fed student loans that are being forgiven, am I right? So both the student and PPP loans fall under the Fed umbrella?
They applied for and we’re approved for a little under 5 million. They returned it not long thereafter. I am sure it was returned more because of the optics of taking it versus the team statement of wanting to make sure smaller companies had access to money that had quickly run out.
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19 hours ago, gyroprotagonist said:
throw in that false prophet Olsteen getting his $4M PPP loan forgiven as well.
You must understand that times are tough and Joel just needed a little spare change to see him through. I am sure it all went to his staff and he didn’t waste any of it.
/LOLHewastedmostofit
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28 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
You're going to have to be more specific. That describes most of the current GOP.
I attempt to stray from blanket opinions, but yes right now we have a political party that went full blown cult and there are others like this guy. When a society breaks down at the core of its principles (Could probably make a good argument that we have no real guiding principle that the entire nation follows thanks to tribalism and this maga cult) this is the result. The best thing to do is attempt to meet people like this head-on. A bully like this does not enjoy when you give them exactly what they give and do to others.
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This is a very, very depressed human being taking out all his anger and rage on those he seems undesirables. This is what happens when the levers of power are given to a person with the intellect of a tree stump and the personality to match.
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Not cool to see this injury happen. Hopefully Holmgren still has a good career going forward and that this won’t be an injury that derails his young career for more than this season.
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I haven’t checked in here this month, but I really enjoyed reading everything that has been shared. @OWLVIS Everyone here wants to see you push forward and live a life that brings you happiness and peace. I fully believe that is possible. People here are graciously reaching out to you and you will get the help you desire. Never, ever give up or give in to a way of thinking that harms you mentally.
Something a manager at work said yesterday was something I found to be poignant. He is in his late 60’s and chooses to still work because he loves what he does. We were discussing how he likes to teach people what to do and he said “I teach people to do something because I want them to do it BETTER than I do it. I really enjoy working with him and his humility is not fake. When you work for people who have this attitude of humility it is easy to say that I never feel like I am working. I wish everyone on this thread had this type of situation or perhaps something even better in your chosen profession.
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On 8/23/2022 at 12:16 PM, Mach 1 said:
We have Spectrum 5g that’s fast but goes out all the time, so ordered Verizon 5g box.
It sucks for us. We have to put it in a far window in the house to get the best reception, but the speed of all devices farther away in the house is compromised.
Might work well for other folks depending on location. Still debating whether to return or just keep it as a back up to shitty Spectrum.
I stopped by the Verizon store on my way home yesterday to pick up the box. I am going to hook it up tonight and go to the Spectrum store tomorrow to give them back their equipment. I would prefer that I never use Spectrum for anything going forward and it is mostly because I find them to be a company I would never want to do any business with.
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Beast. It was okay, but probably a movie you would watch in your spare time at home.
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New Yorkers are a really nice group of people overall. They have been exceedingly good to me over the years that I have been here. The tourists I get from around the world always comment on how nice the people are here and how helpful they are.
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2022 US Open tennis
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That first set flipped quickly. Alcaraz is hitting some just ridiculous shots right now. It feels like he can cover every square inch of his half of the court.