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UpperWestside

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  1. He and Patrick Dumont need to get together at some point. Good Lord he looks like a Minecraft character with this square build.
  2. It’s a rarity to put two of the smartest guys in the league on one team, but then also have each of them be among the best 5 or so players in the league. This stuff doesn’t happen often. It was fun watching Jordan and Pippen, but more of that came from how they could annihilate backcourts on defense almost at will. Magic and Cap for me is still my favorite combo, but I am biased on that.
  3. I remember one poster here saying they were good when Beal joined them. Good times, good times. I don’t know how to say it other than anytime Devin Booker is supposed to be your leader, well, you’re screwed. Chris Paul carried him to the finals and I say that as someone that does not like CP3.
  4. It’s cool that you’re doing this! You’ll hit your number well ahead of time because the more you can do in one set will push you to keep doing more. I think you’ll at the very least double your goal for the year and probably go well past that. I can recall the summer after my first year of college (1999) coming back home and deciding I was going to Herschel Walker my way into doing a bunch of pushups to keep in shape. I was headed to a small school to play some foosball in the fall so I was doing sprints (Not exactly Xavier Worthy here, but I was running as fast as a middling athlete could go) as well in the blazing Texas heat. Anyhow I wound up doing between 1500-2k a day that summer. I would do them on commercial breaks and tried to keep the sets to 50 reps. I think the best memory out of the whole thing was being up late watching reruns of Are You Being Served? Look forward to seeing the updates throughout the year and your progress. Good on you for putting forth the effort on this!
  5. Just remind yourself that once they go down far enough and the outcry is at a fever pitch you’ll get the “Trump alone can fix it” line. As you well know, fascists out front shoulda told ya.
  6. I met him once briefly at his bar in Stamford in his hometown. I was disappointed to not see him wearing the disguise.
  7. I do not readily keep up with UT basketball that often, but Pat Kelsey seems like a guy who is going to win a bunch of tournament games in the next several years at Louisville. I think he could handle coaching in Austin. Louisville is just on year one though so I am sure he has no desire to pick up and leave after bringing them back from the dead to near the top of the ACC again.
  8. I am going to explain Elmo’s behavior a little bit. Since this idiot shares a spectrum with me there are certain behaviors I notice that are common. Note, however, that his narcissism takes what a want to explain to an 11. There is a behavior called masking. It’s fairly common among people on the spectrum. I will explain myself first and my experiences. I have found that looking back on my life that I always attempted to just fit into a group and mask the behaviors I had that were different. In my life I have hung out with people and in places that others would not go to for whatever reason. I can fit into just about any group of people. In another life I might’ve enjoyed working for the government because of this. Natural skills with people do not come easily to me, BUT what I can do is figure out how to mimic the way a group acts and it allows me to be part of said group. It’s mentally exhausting, but I have the routine of how to fit in down. It’s easier than trying to explain to everyone the differences I have and I am mostly okay with that. Elmo masks himself as well, BUT, and this is a big detour from normal autistic behavior, he will fit into a group and pour his focus into it and want to then be the focus of the group. This is where the narcissism comes in. Is there childhood trauma with his dad? Yes. Is there childhood trauma from being made fun of? Yes. Did he take these slights, put them in his back pocket and remember them so he could one day get back at all his imagined enemies? Yes. He’s doing that now while getting the adulation of millions of people here in the US and now in other countries. The narcissism puts all of his impulsive and selfish behavior way over the top. Autism can manifest itself in giving you a really narrow focus. My narrow focus used to lead me into making some real bad decisions. It took learning who I was and understanding that being different is okay. That was not an easy road, but the journey has been rewarding. Elmo skipped that day of school and really never has gotten in touch with who he is so we get this monster. He takes being different as a slight and he is still stuck in his mental development in his teenage years. He could be using his influence to narrowly focus on bettering mankind. Instead he chose money, attention and hate instead. For me I can see and understand his behaviors clear as day. I have no empathy for him because he chose to follow the hate. He’ll never find any real happiness. His internal emotional state is a never-ending void. That is a dark place to be at and it’s not good for the rest of us.
  9. If I lived and worked in an area where designated drivers were a common part of my daily experience I would gladly give them free cokes and whatnot. When I was on Long Island I worked at an Italian restaurant. I am not sure I ever served one adult that did not drink alcohol in a group setting. Those folks drank like it was a job.
  10. I’m starting to believe that having this husky Slovenian on the team might be a net positive. He seems like he can put 30 on the board in his sleep.
  11. Reaves leaving early combined with Rui out for at least a week contributed to those numbers for the starters. Still it’s good to see the bench perform well.
  12. Sweet baby Jesus. That’s what an uneducated person thinks a smart person sounds like.
  13. I am absolutely all for trying anything to help folks suffering with depression. I read the article and it’s promising. Again anything that is legit and is made to actually help folks is okay by me.
  14. Just load your son’s team at Keller with Tony Gwynn clones and you won’t have to worry about losing balls often to homers. Get some good ground ball pitchers on the roster and call it a day. Might be able to make it through the season on three dozen balls. Problem solved. Let the players know that anyone that hits a homer is getting charged ten dollars if the ball isn’t retrieved. Same deal for the pitchers. Gotta let these players know you mean business.
  15. I think I am going to call a former teacher of mine today. I know how she votes, but I also know how she leans on the voucher scam and it’s not anywhere close to what Abbott is pushing.
  16. Open up the Young Man Academy for Men. Only young men and only ones that are good at sports. Put it in Austin and pull every good athlete away from LBJ with promises you have no intention of keeping. Take the money and run to a nice spot in the South Pacific and live out your days on a white sand beach with that sweet, sweet voucher money.
  17. He finally has the ability to play off-ball and just do fun things that you can’t do when you have to be the primary ball handler. He can do this for as long as he is healthy and wants to do it with Doncic running the show.
  18. Was that a good game tonight on his 26th birthday against the JV? Also it warms my heart to see “Not Big Game” James put up a 5-22 and 1-10 from deep. Could not happen to a better person and franchise.
  19. I received a message yesterday from a young lady. I can vividly recall meeting her and her family. It was last summer and they were my last table. They were visiting NYC from West Virginia. It was the young woman’s 18th birthday. At the end of the night I have more free time and I talked to them for about an hour and a half. It wound up becoming somewhat of a therapy session. The young lady’s dad had upset her badly earlier in the week by getting on his Facebook and telling his followers that she’d be going to hell for having a nosering. Grandma, who had long ago stepped into the mom role and kicked her son to the curb as being a parent in this family, started talking. Then the young lady’s aunt, who by all three accounts said she treats her more like her sister, said the trip was for her to have a good time. I told that young lady she was going to be okay and that she has a great support system. I listened and let them get out their anger and sadness and told them how awesome it is that they are so close knit and that “mom and sister” should be very proud of how they have raised her. She said she wanted to go to college and I probably don’t have to tell you that West Virginia is not exactly known for pushing kids onto the next level of education. I gave them my number and the young lady took my IG in case she ever needed any advice on anything with school and whatnot. I got her message and it was her telling me she got accepted into college and will be attending in the fall. Education is going to break the cycle her dad had put her on a path to joining. I can’t tell you how happy I am for this young lady to have a chance to realize her dreams! Sometimes we get caught up in our own lives and all of the strains and stresses we find ourselves dealing with. You can read them right here in this thread. There are people here dealing with hell on earth emotionally. My heart hurts for the things I read here. It is in these times that reaching out to others can be helpful like many of you have done. That young lady and her family shared their life with me and I just opened myself up and told them to keep pushing forward each day. Now a few months later I get to hear that wonderful news. Some of you here will have moments in your own life where your own situations will allow you to help others really going through it. Know that what you are going through is not in vain and that when the time comes to help another person that needs it that you’ll be ready.
  20. If we have learned nothing, and it appears we have learned somehow less than that in the last 80 plus years, you DO NOT APPEASE A DICTATOR. Zelensky finally had enough. It's time for Europe to fill in the power vacuum. Were I Zelensky I'd make those same mineral rights as part of an offer to Europe. Just give the orange god king and Putin both the middle finger in one fell swoop.
  21. Why stop there? Just unleash the whole nine yards on them.
  22. Just a ridiculous shot that only a select few human beings on this planet can make look routine.
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