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RomaVicta

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  1. Can you recommend some good reading on this? I'm pretty fascinated but know very little. They may have made it to South America. That's a vast bit of ocean with few islands.
  2. The courage to sail into the sunset and keep sailing cannot be overstated. Nor can the scale of catastrophe visited upon the existing civilization by the invasion of Europeans. I've come around on the celebration of Columbus and discovering the "New" World. The contact led to unfathomable death and sorrow and destruction. He personifies that. I don't care that he thought he was landing in Asia or wasn't actually the first European here. His achievement stands just as do the consequences. I'm with the descendants of the indigenous who think the whole thing should not be celebrated. I doubted their claim for years. Read 1491, 1493, and an Indigenous People's History of the United States. Or try to before they're banned, collected, and burned to protect the feelings of the downtrodden white man.
  3. Now that I believe we can do some damage, this looks like a really fun season going on. Indiana and A&M in the top 5 with Tech and Georgia Tech in the top 15 is fun as shit. Anybody can lose any day. Indiana was playing some pretty badass football Saturday. I still haven't watched Tech. A&M's easy schedule will keep them up there if they can win away from home. We can dogfight our way back into the scrum. Good times!
  4. I screamed it at the TV and said I could smell his mother's vagina over the airwaves. Had to keep a can of Glade at hand as well as fly spray.
  5. Da ball moved. And moved. Wisner gets a little more help from an inspired line. Da ball move in different way. I don't care how.
  6. That was me. I went into OU with remarkable little feeling or expectation. I'll just react to what I see. The brilliance and violence of the Texas defense was reminiscent of some of those intense option football games of the 70s. I grit my teeth at the futility of the offense, but it wasn't so much on Arch as the OL penalties and other holding calls. Arch didn't subtract, but, IMHO, he didn't add a whole lot either. But he was thwarted no matter what by the line. Second half, I'm edgy starting, and then Arch comes alive. He leads the offense to more spirited play. The defense plays like a group of angry, fleet hammers. Great! Now Kentucky.
  7. And who would of thunk after all the assumption that talent would be fully concentrated in the money programs? I assumed as much. Turns out that it's just too expensive for a small number of schools to corner the market. At least, that's my guess. Some stars will go to smaller schools for the money and change to contenders after proving themselves. A&M sure cashed in on that. Dang it.
  8. Slam dunk! Surrender accepted.
  9. I'll take condescending tolerance. We in the lower percentiles are not proud.
  10. Really pathetic attempt and thoroughly expected. You use a cherry picker to move the goalposts. Your quote contradicts your claim even if cherrypicked. Can you link that quote, btw? Did no one recalibrate their expectation of Arch? Did you not change your expectation? Was UTEP somehow stellar for Arch? Is this even a quote of me beyond the first two sentences? Are you quoting yourself to prove me wrong? WTF is that. Let's review my reasonable request for quotes to substantiate yours and the other guy's claims, shall we? Your will to believe things does not make them real. You want to feel like a winner. I will help. You are a winner. Everybody admires how perfect your record of opinions is. Women adore you. Dogs would change their master at your mere beckoning. Wild-eyed spittle ejaculation is a winning trait. Go ahead and quote me on that. Have it put on a card. The above is totally rational and winning. You're the sanest person I know. You're beating the shit of me. Please stop. I'll die if you continue.
  11. Agree. I chose the word "inspiring" in one of my posts above. That's huge.
  12. "Y'all?" Is there another RomaVicta around here? Yes, I can see why you condemn me along with the other imaginary members of a lynch Arch cabal. Do you imagine uniforms with funny hats or Hugo Boss imposing black? If somebody wants to actually quote me, please do. I'm not a therapist for emotional imbalance-induced self-righteousnes. Oh, and do make it complete quotes that prove: I'm still dogging Arch. I wanted to start Caldwell. I wanted to give Caldwell more than a possession to prove himself if put in. I have or had even a molecule of antipathy towards Arch. Otherwise address others with your hysteria.
  13. See quote about inaccurate paraphrasing. It's pretty close to lying. You're relying on your emotional state rather than actual words. It shows in how you can't even be sure about what I said in this post. You lump me with a chorus, evidently, in hopes of obscuring your intellectual dishonesty. Sorry to rob you of your petty victory. If you want to lie to your friends about what I wrote and claim victory, I'm fine with that. Your world must be very small. Just don't expect me to validate it. I stated continued incompetent play by Arch would justify giving Caldwell a chance based on "the very thin line of evidence" of his successful play among the disaster of the closing "drive" against Florida. I stated often times that I like Arch and want him to succeed. Your response? The pinnacle of detached reasoning. Bravo!
  14. I'm sorry, it's all or nothing. I hate you. Actually, I agree with you. At least I won't contest what you say about leading up to the season because it seems you know more than I do.
  15. I had no idea. That's Aggie-like. Does it indicate where the OU job ranks among college coaching gigs?
  16. I didn't see SHSU. Oh, and it was SHSU. I don't follow your point about that affecting what I saw against Florida where we lost to a poor team.
  17. Why do people on the football board do this? Had he led a great drive that gave us the possibility of scoring at the end, then you could crow. He didn't. Just coming close would prove your point, but that didn't happen either. He didn't even look like he'd turned a corner in the first half of OU. The sun rose burnt orange after that. Sark was vindicated in sticking with Manning. One could argue forever about the past games, but that does nothing. We'll never know what would have happened with Caldwell no matter how many times certain elements believe their absolute declarations have any weight. There is a strange, to me anyway, parallel sport for some sports fans where careful noting of their own and other's opinions over time leads to petty victories of declaring someone else wrong when you were right. There are grudge matches and rivalries and even cheating (specious recollections of other's words) in this sport. It often seems to supersede the sport on the field. It's what makes the football board often insufferable although the worst aspect is repeating the same opinion unsupported declaration (they're opinions in the form of predictions) in the same words over and over on as many threads as possible.
  18. I believe Arch's struggle was affecting the team which jumped to horrible life against Florida. Before OU, I saw the usual habit of Arch running around pre-game encouraging the team, and I wondered just how hollow it felt to the other players. Arch is sincere to the core, so it was not mere show. My point is that the team has spent weeks trying to encourage him. That gets old when you begin to believe it won't matter. Arch's successful plays in the second half, improvised or otherwise, made him inspirational rather than struggling. The offense began playing with more belief and fed on Arch's plays where he turned third and hopeless into a fucking first down by gunning a perfect pass to the sideline while on the run. Everything changes. I hope we can do this becomes fuck yeah, we're doing this, motherfucker. Oddly, getting a couple of scores ahead seemed to have a temporary negative effect on stellar defensive performance. Were we suddenly more cautious and going victory defense? I don't know, but that changed, too. The end of the game was a slaughter. It was beautiful.
  19. Some people were hearing what they wanted to hear rather than what was actually said or written. Persons shouldn't believe their own inaccurate paraphrasing.
  20. They don't play Alabama, Georgia, or Ole Miss. They did look good tonight against the team that whupped us last week, but we didn't look like the team Florida whupped last week. Gonna be a wild ride this year for everybody.
  21. Well done, Arch! A corner may have been turned. I feel like when things went poorly on a play, he abandoned the play plan and just looked for ways to move the ball down field. His improvised throws were excellent. Great day!
  22. Am I doing that or do you mean the person I was responding to? I don't see you (or myself) as Arch haters. I'd be delighted to see Arch destroy OU. Now that I think about, you're responding to me saying "we." Sorry if I errantly included you in something. I do appreciate the lessons. All is well.
  23. Surrender accepted.
  24. Always like your educational posts. Seriously. I agree with the above. I'll just add the prospect of your business complex changing like this: a few days after an inhuman Hamas attack on Israel that killed (horribly) a few hundred Israelis would be part of the equation. You didn't kill or rape or mutilate or abduct anybody. If, magically, Gaza could be returned to what it was, which sounds pretty interesting, I'd be reluctant to even vacation there for free. You and I argued bitterly in the days of the initial retaliation by Israel. Our dispute was about proportionality. Who knows which of us was correct in that moment? Maybe it was proportionate, maybe it wasn't. Some level of bloody, brutal vengeance would be unavoidable. Over time, Israel erased any doubt. Netanyahu's motives were merely justified by the right to vengeance. And here we are. It's hiroshimaesque.
  25. Well if you want to take the presumptuous and doubling down on name-calling as a position, have some rancor. 1. Dismissing what someone says as stupid, moronic, or idiotic based on a premise you don't really articulate says more about your mind than anyone to whom you direct your vacant claims. 2. You are so unjustifiably sure of yourself that you claim I am pretending about my opinion. I actually name my statements as opinions. You proclaim absolute truth supported by disdain for any who disagree. Here, eat dick, you fucking moron if you don't agree with me. Hey, I just crushed whatever you think your argument is. Neato! I guess that really is persuasive. 3. The main point I and others are making is not to take Arch down a dark road and bury him alive. Here's the line of reasoning. I know I'm wasting my time because you will destroy it by writing that I'm not serious and that my position is really really stupid. I'll likely weep. a. Arch Manning is objectively struggling to find open receivers and throw accurately to those he does find. Many promising completions have been limited by his ball placement retarding the speed of the receiver. b. We have lost twice to competitive teams (even though it's possible Florida won't be very competitive with anyone else). Many elements caused those losses. Pay attention now, other players poor play does not excuse the problems Manning has had as described in a. above. c. Amid the futile plays at the end of the game in hopes of scoring against Florida, Caldwell has to go in and makes the only competent QB play of that possession. d. It's actually not uncommon to play a player who has shown, in game, that his experience may pay off nicely by succeeding at some of the easy reads and throws that dog the starter. e. You don't fucking know how good Caldwell is. Nobody is saying he's VY. You keep harping on his time at Troy. The same coach that chose Manning chose this guy as a viable back up. Should I put more stock in Sark's evaluation or yours? (I know. I know. I'm just pretending that's a reasonable statement. Ya got me.) f. You defend your position like that skinny blond guy begged us to leave Britney alone. The difference is that he was joking. Enough with, oh he'll die behind that line, he tries so hard, he really isn't playing poorly, nobody in the world should be put in. Translation: stick to losing if it means I can hold my jackass position that not even God in heaven should bench him for a series. g. Yes, only a series or more if Caldwell moves the ball. That's all we're saying. Who is actually being unreasonable here? @Thatguy's analysis and explanation are persuasive. Your claim about the hopelessness of the one play perfectly illustrates your odd desperation. Deny your eyes all you want but maybe keep it to yourself. What's going on here is pretty much self-immolation. We're growing sad for you. I know for some this is tldr. For you, it's likely too long can't understand it. Now fuck yourself along and toss another spurt at the Arch altar.
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