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  1. The tea I have from friend in the area is that they're alright. Had a really good RB go down before the season but had a kid transfer in during the summer that has filled his shoes and is young so provided he doesn't get injured will likely be their go to guy for awhile. QB has improved quite a bit. Defense is solid enough. Coach was moved up when the OG coach left to coach at Decatur and didn't take all the staff so not a big change for the team. Some butthurt in the community as CS is the 'new' school and the older hs just had their coach (Fedora?) resign. Don't know the story on that. Keep in mind it's a band parent so have no clue if anything I said is just the usual bland sports fodder but I suspect it is.
  2. ^^^^ Grackle Guano Since now it appears its only use is to fertilize 'hate.'
  3. Elon giving off some of those each accusation is a confession vibes....
  4. That is the same recipe (Drummond's) I use for Salisbury Steak, and the whole family really enjoys it. I used to use another one (might have been from my Mom's recipe drawer) but we've been using this one ever since I first checked it out. Some of the semi-regular meals in our rotation that might fit in your category are: roast beef with carrots and potatoes and onions (my next oldest's favorite), meatloaf, New England Clam Chowder, fried chicken, salmon patties (we had those this week with the last of the leftover fillet), sloppy joes, pork chops with milk gravy, chicken pot pie (my oldest's favorite) and one of my favorites: corned beef with vegetables and soda bread. We don't eat out a lot so we pull from various types of cuisines, but these are some we've made in the last few weeks or so.
  5. From one of the comments, someone remarked on Greene's request for a pardon from Trump. Maybe she should be thinking about that instead of attempting to wrap her brain around foreign policy and adversarial relationships.
  6. Those are drapes from Melania's latest reno.
  7. I certainly understand why folks are quick with the witty responses, but I also see some of the pathos behind the human beings. I mean, around the 14th century just after the bubonic plague there were only around 350-375 million people on the planet. None of the exposure or technology or advancements to show what brain chemistry gone awry can be like. Well, maybe other than certain royal families that had issues or STD related mental deterioration that have been highlighted to a great extent because of their power or infamy. I didn't watch the entire video but the woman above is Cambridge educated and that isn't an easily gotten spot. To know that there is something off, that the brain is telling you one thing and repeatedly doing so while another part of the brain also knows that isn't what is observed is a special kind of torture. Society will say, "just stop it," but it is not as simple as it sounds any more than someone with tinnitus can just "ignore" the ringing in their ears. Hence, my comments about the parts of the brain that we've yet to plumb. It all acts in sync and yet we are not all playing the same tune.
  8. Shouldn't be a need for security. Just walk up and tell him how it's great that he's the President of the Bobby Petrino Pen Pal Club and by the time he parses out what that means you'll be long gone. Alternatively and if you'd like to have a more visceral response, there is always the incredulous reaction that you thought his tongue would be longer given that he's licked so many boots with nothing to show for it.
  9. Because it is a rare mental condition? In a way, the mind is the final unexplored frontier for medical research and with a population of just over 8 billion worldwide, maybe scientists can figure out how to help aggregate groups of humans who fall into the range of behaviors that struggle with the disconcordance of brain and body. I get the comments and it's Surly, but the brain is a fascinating piece of work.
  10. Not going with a 'whataboutism', but for a real case of not being transparent, talk to Paul Kruse of Bluebell. That, IMO, was a true case of being willfully negligent and deceptive, not the Twitter TOS.
  11. And the wing is by your window? You get to spend the next 14 hours looking at that tape job and seeing how it holds up! Shouldn't be nerve wracking at all....
  12. I see your point, and with many spouses that arrow might find its mark, but with Ted I'm not so sure. From my own perspective, Ted being the child of an immigrant and (as far as I can tell) raised somewhat as a singleton (not sure how much his half-siblings were around) has this air of wanting to belong. He tries very hard. He was and is smart, and he checked all the boxes--being trotted around as a hs Constitutional scholar and patted on the head by adults, went Ivy League and all that, but... however much his father told him that 'God destined him for greatness', however much he has strolled the halls of the impressive marble and wood, he cannot quite shake that aura of not having that 'it' factor. His unlikability is well known but it seems to have made him revert to the know-it-all sarcastic I'm rubber you're glue type of immature attitude that is rather off-putting and reeks of bitterness and fifth grade. But that facade--I mean, look at the outings: the trip to the border (see me in my Orviswear and BP vest as I scan the Rio Grande for ebuhdoers), stumping for Kelly Loeffler in Georgia (playing the populist in starched jeans and plaid shirt that had Dan Patrick drooling over the suede leather jacket combo) and finally: appearing at every Texas sporting event garbed in whatever jersey is team appropriate. *It's what one does when trying hard to be 'one of us' no matter who the 'us' is. And that is the barb that I speculate would hit the hardest: being not even a T-shirt fan who is, at least, loyal to whichever team they claim, but a cosplay dress-up poser who is as shallow as they come. Still on the outside, looking in, among the crowd but never asked to join the after party. The senator who shoots hoops but has no game. *this isn't meant to throw shade at first gen immigrants nor is it an apology for Cruz, more of a personal observation to perhaps what makes him tick. Or it could be completely shit. Other people come from various similar situations and are not sanctimonious reprobates.
  13. We made our aged recipe back in October except going forward we have decided to drop the Jamaican rum and go back to our preferred rum, Chairman's Reserve. So I am making another batch this week for us to drink around the New Year. We still have a quart of the original that we're holding back for Christmas.
  14. That is a lot of "unlesses" and "ors" my friend. I suspect that each in their own way they are leading desperate lives and hoping for the best outcome they can imagine. Judging by some of the fan club assertions, some of the more optimistic and slightly less desperate of them can imagine quite wildly.
  15. No, don't you get it? Elon is a victim, a victim I tell you. Or he will tell you if ever stops talking about whatever blathering nonsense he is spouting. You should be ashamed for even thinking that Elon had every advantage known to a young white person born in South Africa in the 1970s. What if one of his father's planes had crashed? What if the family yacht was swamped by a large wave? That mine was a literal millstone around his neck and leaving SA in order to avoid military service meant that he had to live in Canada of all places in order to eventually become an American. I mean, come on, Canada? All those nice people who say nice things and export that niceness in the personages of Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling? It was all too too much. The oppression of living in the land of curling and ice hockey and poutine until he could finally immigrate across the border to Pennsylvania. A true migrant's journey of unfathomable heartache and misery in order to place his life in the hands of Penn's faculty with their crunchy tweeds and habit of clearing their throats every third word for emphasis and sobriety. Such persecution he has faced, such villainous treachery he has overcome, and all for humanity.
  16. Can we have @Brisketexan goes to Florida? According to the wisdom of TexAgs folks, she should never have been working outside the home. Which, as women know, is how one (perhaps not in Ms. Cruz's case) ends up with no current employment skills when the mister decides to trade for a younger version and is frankly irrelevant to the situation but TexAgs are pretty consistent that it must be the mother's fault at each and every turn. Setting that aside, I recall when Kelly Anne Conway and her spouse were front and center on social media when their daughter was having problems. It is not an easy thing to be a parent and children are not objects to be cast aside when they don't perform like the wind-up toys some parents imagine them to be. Those words are not so much for Ms. Cruz, but Ted. Young people know bullshit when they see it, and it hurts to live a lie. Some teens develop a shell to protect themselves, but others have no such innate mechanism to do so. I hope she is given the opportunity to be heard, to be helped, and to heal. Edit: Js1 beat me to the punch.
  17. Most grocery stores have a service desk and that is often where bottle deposits are refunded. We occasionally buy a local bottled milk for one of my kiddos and it has a two dollar and change refund if I bring the bottle back to the desk at our store. When we lived up north, we used to buy cases of beer from various breweries and keep a box or two in the kitchen to fill up because they all had returnable bottles.
  18. Who do? You do? To do is to be. The truth shall set you free. Free to be, you and me. To be or not to be. Doo be, doo be do. I'm am really not digging this renaissance of the dumb, modern, dark ages.
  19. Well, no, but save the delusional, a larger audience certainly is. Why don't you save us the trouble and go back to your old avatar, you know the carrotpenis one with the potatoes. Better yet, send that pic to Elon since you two seem to share the same sense of humor.
  20. Every day that passes reveals just how squishy Elon's ethics are. I would never trust this man, nor would I expect anyone's data to remain private should it prove convenient to him to sell it, reveal it, or use it for personal gain.
  21. 2023 is almost here! One of my resolutions for next year is to only use exclamation marks! I'm going to use the Surly platform I've been using to make this change! I never wanted to be at the forefront of exclamation mark usage but I'm going to use my punctuation for good! "If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!"..."Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?!" William Strunk and E.B. White: The Elements of Style! [sic, no exclamation point in title!]
  22. I don't know, it was a random tweet that an account I check on retweeted and I had a wth moment because it was new to me as well. So, I looked around this morning and apparently the top left photo is from 2015 and that family asked a local photographer in Louisiana to do the shoot. It sparked a lot of backlash (I guess, I missed it), and predictably some folks must have decided (rather like the posing with weapons Christmas photos) to keep it going. I don't have Face/Meta/Pintrest etc but in some circles, I guess it's a thing now?
  23. I didn't even know where to file this one. Have never seen this before but I am appalled. Oh, I get that some folks would think this was funny, but let's just be clear that no, it really isn't. And if the Mom was the one who organized the photo? Good grief and have some self-awareness. That little girl on the bottom right looks like she is having SO much fun there Dad. An
  24. Apparently there is a plan to bring this one back: I would rather not drink soda if it has to be diet, but I had a friend whose mom loved this: I was surprised that you can still buy these Zubaz pants:
  25. He misses his brother. You know him, he's the kind one:
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