Jump to content

UpperWestside

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    5354
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by UpperWestside

  1. But his weight! Won’t anyone think of that?!?! -Nico probably
  2. Some bars have started stocking non-alcoholic beers and stuff for more mocktails. Smart on their part to do that. Restaurants are going to have quite the reckoning in the near future though with so much of the profit coming from the sale of alcohol. That is usually the highest profit earned on anything sold.
  3. The glaring hole at center is a really, really big issue. Next year my expectations will be higher. This year what happens is fine. If they make a deep run in the postseason that’s awesome. If they don’t that’s okay because we have the best young player in the league on our team now.
  4. Quite literally I will say that none of this matters. Not UT athletics, not high school football, not any of the things we enjoy watching. The only thing that MATTERS in this life is how you treat others. That is it. You do not have to be a religious person to treat others with dignity. You are what matters. What is important is how I treat you and you show that you matter as a human being. We have such an epidemic of selfishness in this country. If the majority of us could just stop and treat other folks like human beings we'd be a much better society. Instead half of this freaking country has gone all gas no brakes on making life a living hell for anyone they can. That usually involves groups that have no ability to fight back. Historically this is ALWAYS what happens when idiots are given power that they will not use for the greater good. One day this cult of idiocy will disintegrate. When I don't know, but history shows this never works out. It might get ugly, but this will not work out long-term. In the meantime if you aren't in this cult filled with morons go and find someone today and do something nice for them. Just do your small part to make things better because all you can do is all you can do.
  5. I also liked Hackman in A Bridge Too Far. That was a great war epic with a ton of legendary stars in it.
  6. Aww man this sucks. He was great at his craft, but seemed like a good guy as well. Rest in peace Mr. Hackman.
  7. I like the beaches in SoCal. I think downtown LA has some good spots. There was a market I went to that has a lot of places to eat which was cool. The name of it eludes me at the moment. I also used to have a friend that lived in a cool neighborhood in Inglewood before he moved back to the east coast. I actually really liked that area. People were really friendly in that neighborhood.
  8. He just doesn’t stop. The amount of neg rep I have given out has been almost entirely to him. Just an absolutely worthless person.
  9. Suffer them gladly, BUT always keep a shovel handy if they just won’t shut up.
  10. I worked with a guy out here. He was a year younger than me, but you could tell he really, really drinks a lot. He moved around like someone in their 70’s and looked so distant cognitively. I felt bad for him because I am sure at one point in life he was a different person than the guy I met. Alcohol completely changed how his mind operated, which is the worst part of what drinking does to you.
  11. I think abstaining from it entirely is the best course of action, but I have seen it take my aunt’s life at age 53. She was a nurse for 33 years and knew better, but it got her. I would agree with that medical wisdom. It can be so painfully hard for folks to walk away, especially in our culture.
  12. Alcohol can really do a number on you. It almost took my life five years ago. I won’t tell you to do what I did and just go cold turkey and never pick it up again, but just don’t turn to it as a way to forget life. I did that and it was not a good time.
  13. I think admitting that everything is not great is good. I mean we all want life to be ideal, but when it isn’t it’s cool to just say it. Sometimes life is a beating and you feel like you’re on the business end of a punch to the face from prime Muhammad Ali. When I was younger those moments would just paralyze me beyond belief. I had no clue how to deal with adversity. Now I roll with it and just remember that all I can do is all Incan do. Our lives are so painfully short that it’s good to just remember we can only do so much as human beings.
  14. When power eventually swings back the other direction, and it will, the new president needs to invite him to the SOTU speech and slap the grin off his face with a frying pan.
  15. That's the most Long Island thing ever. If you've spent any amount of time out there, especially once you get past Nassau County, you'll understand that this is totally on brand for that type of New Yorker.
  16. Taking the bus and it being almost completely silent despite it being full yesterday afternoon. The manners of people here are just so much better.
  17. Well, Reddick solved Jok in their last game. He's done. We’ll trade our Make-A-Wish starting center for him.
  18. That will never, ever get old seeing the grin on his face while roasting Booker.
  19. The Purple and Gold are fun again. We could not play like this with Street Clothes. Luka completely changes how everything works.
  20. You can thank the Gail Goodrich trade and the insane arbitration and compensation for acquiring him as a quasi-free agent for the Magic Pick. The Worthy pick also belongs on the list for ridiculously lopsided trades. Ted Stepien might be the worst owner not named Donald Sterling in NBA history.
  21. Haha well if you live in Durant now then yes. I am guessing you did not choose living there though. I had one instance when I had an NFL team I rooted for since I was a kid. I walked completely away from them 12 years ago though. Dallas, to me at least, has a lot of people that I found to be pretty cool. When I lived there it was fun talking about the Mavs. Listening to the radio and hearing TheTicket back in the day discuss the “Little Mavericks” To me it sucks to see a fanbase being intentionally run off. This smells of what happened to Seattle, but they didn’t give Durant away.
  22. My best friend does not have this issue. He goes back to the early 80’s Mavs. He wants Dallas to get beat by 50 tonight for trading Luka. I think the anger is more than justified for what transpired. I actually remember rooting for Dallas in 2011 in the Finals and being downtown after they won Game 6. That was a crazy night with a whole lot of drinking. It was cool seeing Mavs fans so happy. The fans did not deserve to have any of this happen.
  23. I have not seen most of the Batman, Spiderman and Superman movies. As a child I saw the ones with Christopher Reeve, but cannot recall many of the details. I have no reason to intentionally not see them. They just are something I do not have a great interest in. I did enjoy seeing reruns of the Adam West Batman as a kid, but probably because it was kinda cartoonish to me.
  24. I watched LaLa land on a Sunday afternoon at a theatre back on Long Island. I think it was at Roosevelt Field Mall. I had long since stopped watching the NFL by this point. When I came out of the movie, which was really good (I am someone that doesn’t enjoy musicals), I saw that the Patriots had mounted a comeback from being down 28-3 to the Falcons in the Super Bowl. I’m still glad I watched the movie instead.
  25. If not for his own court-martial for running the Decatur aground in 1907, Nimitz might never have fulfilled his own destiny. That demotion led him into submarine-based assignments and trip to Germany not too long after that to learn more about how to improve the ones the US had. He never forgot the leniency he was shown for his court-martial as he was always stern, but forgiving of subordinates who made mistakes.
×
×
  • Create New...