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flatdawgs

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  1. Username doesn't something something. Tites.
  2. flatdawgs

    Austin FC

    Depending on your schedule, you could catch a couple of group stage matches in the Club World Cup if you visited Seattle - last two are Sounders v PSG on 6/23 and 6/25 Inter v River Plate (and Driuzzi, lol). There are a few things to do locally between games, I think....
  3. There's a reason it's called Londongrad. Too many entrenched interests there even with various "divestitures" for the powers that be to care to do much about it. Fucking Canucks fans.
  4. I'd never heard of prayer before a game or other events - at least at non-religious schools - and had attended CFB games in probably 25-30 places around the country when I started dating my now ex, a South Carolinian. She took me to a Gamecock game and, yes, there was a pre-game prayer, which shocked me. This was about 25 years ago and it continues to this day as far as I know. Being naive and from the PNW, I was shocked that it was even allowable at a state school. I received an education on the difference between the deep South and my part of the country that day and on many others, on many different things.
  5. We have several large ports on the Pacific, you dumb fucking squidbilly.
  6. We'll (WA state) go to Canada, or better yet, Denmark. We're pretty hygge up here.
  7. Ex-g/f lives in Altadena about 2 miles from that fire - we don't talk much anymore but I hope she's followed Bruin the hell out of there.
  8. They have for years. They just don't like to talk aboot it, eh? Curling bonspiel oot front shoulda told ya.
  9. No worries, and apologies for the pedantry. The J = ZH sound is one reason somebody told me Portuguese sounded like a Russian trying to speak Spanish (to my partially trained ear that applies more to European Portuguese rather than Brazilian, due to the different cadence).
  10. *injustiça the J in Portuguese is also pronounced more like "zh", so "in-zhoo-stee-sah." but yes, you're correct about his complaint. Of course, he could be complaining about the Jews. He complains about a lot of things.
  11. I hate all those teams. Except Texas. Hook 'em! (no Oregon embiggens my heart)
  12. Note that these aren't all apples-to-apples comparisons. In a handful of states (WA with an already high minimum wage, as above - also CA, OR, AK, MT*, MN, and Guam), there is no tipped wage - the state's minimum wage or higher wage per locality is the minimum wage for all jobs. In other states, several of which are listed in the quote, the tipped position minimums still apply. (*MT has some exceptions based on business size)
  13. In Kirkenes (northern Norway) it was fireworks, no guns, unless the Russians down the way a bit decided to fire into the air - which they'd miss. Otherwise, no different here than a typical small town 4th of July, except for a fuckton of snow on the ground. The entire thing was people setting off their own fireworks, including "downtown", some quite impressive. Being Norway, nothing was actually open, so by 12.15am it was back inside. Happy New Year, ya Surly bastids. May 2025 beat all odds and be a great year for us all. Except that guy. You know who you are.
  14. Thoughts on my visit today to the Russian-Norwegian border at Kirkenes 1) Rossiya, idi na khuy. 2) longcat follows, although for me 1 and 3 suffice. 3) Putin khuylo. Thanks for reading (or ignoring - TL;DR certainly applies) - after two+ years of reading this thread and following the war, it was more than a little surreal to stand a meter or two from Russia and to also understand the complexity that the war has engendered in this small part of a close ally.
  15. lol I'm in the Arctic at this moment, about 71° N in Norway, and it's 35 degrees outside. That other stuff sounds shitty.
  16. I had the immense pleasure of meeting President and Mrs Carter several years ago and they could not have been more generous, kind, and welcoming. He was wickedly funny and had a way of speaking that sucked you into whatever he was saying, enraptured. Gil's post above captures the essence of why I believe history will be far kinder to his presidency than it has been, but regardless of that, he was not only a great man but a good one. RIP, Mr. President. Thank you for the immense good you have done for the world, thank you for the time you gave to a nobody like me, and thank you for the example you set, even if today it seems as though we have gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction. I don't pretend to know what if anything comes after this life, but the thought of you and Rosalynn somehow being reunited makes me happy. May your memory continue to be an inspiration.
  17. Yes. I mean, Washington fired Tyrone Willingham and hired Steve Sarkisian. Total cesspool move. Who could survive a hire like that?
  18. It was also the Soviet/Third International/Comintern plan for dealing with the French, British, and Germans. The plan worked for the French and British, but at great cost. It turned out to be irrelevant to the USSR, at even greater cost.
  19. Feliz Natal e boas festas, seus animais nojentos! (from the non-Portuguese town of Lillehammer)
  20. I am in Lillehammer (Norway) for Christmas, and at the restaurant i had Christmas Eve dinner last night, the young lady server told me she was Ukrainian. Offering a "Slava Ukraina!" and receiving a "Heroiam Slava!" with a huge smile in return, I told her that I had learned the words to "Chervona Kalyna" and we sang it quietly (well, she sang; I did whatever) to again a big smile. She was already in Norway prior to the war, but her family is mostly still in the Kyiv area. It was heartwarming yet with a tinge of sadness and fervent hopes that somehow, some way, this will all be over soon, and with justice and fairness for Ukraine. (Brisket's son's visa issue reminded me that the multi-year visa processing delay I'm dealing with in Portugal is due in the main to that country's very open-armed Ukrainian refugee policy and prioritizing their visas, and as such it is something I do not mind in the least.)
  21. In for another season. Thanks to all of you in advance for your insights and discussion - although I've been following for decades, so many of you know a lot more than I do about the intricacies of the sport. Should be a great year of racing. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
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