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I went ahead and put on my protection classes at 6 am. Since then I’ve been running with scissors, bunge jumping, and running in traffic. It’s awesome to be able to do things with no fear of injury.

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Counterpoint. At least those of us who spend a little time each week on a message board have developed the maturity, self awareness, and graciousness to not be a complete jerk in calling someone else a loser for how they decide to spend their time. Hornfans, Shaggy and Surly have contributed to me being much more knowledgeable politically. I am a better person in interacting with people of differing opinions because of message boards. I have had some of the best vacations of my life because of message boards. I have a few real life friends because of message boards. I relate to different generations better because of message boards. I retired early because I was financially able to do so and have some spare time to learn, reflect, grow, and engage with others. A message board is one of many ways to do that. I try not to judge how others live. Maybe you don’t have life all figured out just yet. Maybe.

If some of you, like me, have been struggling to better understand the conflict, go to the Fire Rodney Terry thread and start with post 2060. Then quickly scan the Derka interactions to the end. You will see three things happening: 1. Derka banging the concept strongly (irritatingly?) that Terry was the wrong choice and a lot of posters unhappy with that. 2. Some pretty aggressive responses to his views. 3. Him pointing out that aggressiveness. 4. A few subtle shots at him. I compared my thought process when I originally read those posts awhile back to when I read them now. When I scan threads I usually do it quickly and skip over stuff, never reading anything too closely. Originally, I remember thinking that Derka always calls other posters combative when they are just disagreeing with him. So it seemed like he was starting fights. Now when I read them after seeing this thread I do see how some of the comments towards him are either more aggressive or subtle jabs. The reason I didn’t notice them before is because I often see other people on the receiving end of similar styles of posts. So in my opinion, I see both sides of the issue. Derka probably is the recipient of more aggressive posts. There are other posters on surly that also are often on the receiving end of aggressive posts. Derka struggles more than others to take that, and hence this thread. Maybe everyone on this site should just tone down the rhetoric a bit in general. Being personally mean to people isn’t very healthy for anyone.

Ah got it. Shit I didn’t realize anyone would do that. That’s bad.

I have to admit I’m really confused by the whole bullying concept being referenced. Every day all day long I see posters on surly ripping other posters for their opinions, their posts, their screwing up of threads, etc. I don’t quite get how the ripping of derka is different than what I read elsewhere. Is it because he has some personal challenges? If that’s it, then I get it. But if that’s the case then immamac’s requirement that Derka’s conduct has to meet some minimum standard doesn’t seem unreasonable. And that’s where I struggle with this whole controversy.

I think we just witnessed someone having a stroke.

I can’t remember how to get to the on3 Texas board. There isn’t a link on surly as far as I can see from the mobile app

There is no doubt in my mind that you are completely wrong. Completely.

If Cook is smart, and I think he is, then he realizes he was behind the two fastest WR’s in the nfl draft on the depth chart, and is more than ready to carve out his legacy starting in 2024.

This morning an extremely suspicious character was in a car outside my house, and as I discovered later, I'm 99% sure he followed me to a grocery store that was more than 5 miles away. I got his license plate and would definitely like to figure out who this person is and where they live. If I could DM anyone with an ability to look it up, I'd appreciate it. I'm really concerned about safety.

Interestingly, none of those names except for Conan were on the list I reviewed. Conan was the one guy that came to mind when I first thought about it, but it felt weird to call him my favorite. I rarely watched his shows. I liked them. Just never watched them.

I signed up for a website that asked me to list my favorite TV personality. Not actor or movies. TV. I sat there for several minutes and couldn’t think of anyone. So then I Googled TV personalities. A list of hundred people came up. I scanned the list. The entire list. I realized there wasn’t one person on that list that I would be proud to call my favorite. Even stranger, many of the people on the list were pathetic individuals that I hated, people like Jerry Springer. Who’s your favorite TV personality?

So, you are using his terrible lack of development as an argument for why Terry can’t be blamed for his lack of development. Interesting take.

All this data looks correct. And the ABoR data should be ok because its pulled directly from MLS data. Here is through February. My experience is that prices were still dropping though December/January and stabilized in February/March. If you look at JimmyJazz trend line, the current prices are just about back on the trend line. 2022 was ridiculous.

Wtf? I clicked on that link expecting to see a video that cleared the delivery guy. Unless I missed something there was no video. So where the hell do you come off declaring him innocent? Were you there? Are you a time traveler? Git the fuck outahere with that uninformed declaration.

I think Riley is gone after this year regardless of how his season progresses. He’s in too much of a tenable situation. He knows that if the defense struggles again for the next two years, it will destroy his nfl opportunities. So he will take whatever nfl job comes his way in the offseason. And someone will hire him for sure (insert Jerry Jones joke). Or if the defense improves, a good nfl job will most certainly crop up.

Talked with one fly fishing company that it within an hour of Winter Park and they said at the end of June the fishing might be ok once the rivers have emptied a bit. But they don't do river float fly fishing, only stand and cast. We are interested in a float trip for half a day. Anyone recommend a decent fly fishing guide reachable within an hour of Winter Park?

Recently, I had missed a few years of the Texas OU game for various reasons before finally going again last year. The place was always crowded and a mess, but holy shit the misery was about 2x what I remember. The bathroom lines, the food lines, the area around Big Tex. It was terrible. I don’t remember it being that crowded, and I had been going for over 35 years before missing those few games.

Why are the spurs winning? Don’t they need to stay in the bottom three for the draft? I thought this year was all about tank #2?

The Shaka formula: 1. Play in a so so conference. 2. Recruit a few top quality recruits and a few other athletes. 3. Let them run up and down the floor jacking up 3’s. 4. Win a few games against high seeds by getting lucky with 3 point shooting and leveraging the athletic ability of the team. 5. Beat up on lesser programs in a so so conference 6. Gain a decent tournament seed as a result of 4 and 5 7. Beat the really low seeds. Lose as soon as you run into good coaching, or your 3 pt luck runs out 8. Rinse repeat

The Boeing situation and this thread are fascinating to me. The comments about not putting the MBA’s in charge of engineering or of airplane businesses are not that crazy. I have first hand experience. I have an engineering degree and worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry for several years. But then i got an MBA and ran companies for several years. So I’ve lived on both sides of the fence. The issue is that the pure engineer who thinks solely like an engineer makes a terrible business leader. They think too linearly in black or white. But similarly a pure business leader with no product development expertise is often an absolute idiot, making dumb decisions about product quality, safety, timelines, costs, etc. You have to be able to meld those two mindsets together to make optimal decisions. But often leaders with experience in both areas still screw up because they can’t effectively optimize their thinking. It took me a long time to really get better at ensuring businesses optimally mixed safety, quality, profitability, etc. But even then, if you report to people that don’t understand it, they will force you down the path of bad decisions. A bad Board of Directors can be just as responsible for the failures. In my opinion there have been enough serious problems at Boeing that they need to redo the Board as well.

Let’s see this is shaping up to be the worst year of Texas baseball since________