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flatdawgs

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  1. That... doesn't work. WWII out front shoulda told ya (and not just Russia, but pretty much all combatant states) .
  2. Well, yeah, the Italians gave King Zog the push in 1939. An Albanian just isn't gonna forget something like that.
  3. "Continue reading in the app." lol Enshittification.
  4. Lol, Patagonian Toothfish. Nice try. We're on to you.
  5. Well, it's not smashed into a wall.
  6. Not that guy, apparently. Needed the line there.
  7. These are all salad dressings. Coincidence? I think not.
  8. Then why haven't I met Nicole yet? Hmmmm? We have lakes too, ya know....
  9. It shall be done in due time. They were amazed that, yes, you can see the football stadium from a couple of miles away, and were confused as to why any poor lost soul would need directions. They also were befuddled by a bus that said "hullabaloo."
  10. Traveling Houston - Dallas, showing my brother and friends what College Station really looks like (because I am a sick bastard and they didn't really believe what I've told them for years), and on my way home now. Disappointing end to a great season, but UM was the better team.
  11. Oh yeah, lol - I've been to enough games to know what crawls out of the woodwork at times. I've been fortunate enough to have attended a ton of road games and almost always have had a great time (even at OU sucks, sorry). Miami and tOSU x2 were notable exceptions - Horns fans' descriptions of your trip to Columbus brought back memories. One of the best CFB games I've ever been to was our loss to UT in the 2001 Holiday Bowl - caught some stick from some UT fans following but it was in good fun and the UT fans around us were great. The most Seattle thing ever will be to lose to UM on Monday, then watch them have to vacate the title years layer with no champion - so that is what assuredly will happen. (If your daughter comes to UW she'll have a great time in an amazing city and get a good education - UW and UT are extremely similar in that respect.)
  12. Thanks... I hated the fact we had to play UT last year; this was worse. Most of us know our place; we are a good program that can compete every 10 years or so but by no means are anything resembling a blueblood. You guys are, and my guess is you'll be back in the playoffs next year while we'll be 9-3, 8-4 or so. I hope there'll be an opportunity to welcome y'all to Husky Stadium some time. That's a home-and-home most of us have always wanted to see.
  13. Looks like this place got a bunch of us outlanders at about the same time, during the Great Co-Op Statue Fark Fest. Holy shit, that was 2010? That may be the funniest stuff I've ever seen... oh, and Akita and his fence ranks up there as well. Actually arrived here due to a Thujone link posted on a UW board at about that time, but the rich, steamy broth of morons, reprobates, and assholes like me that I found here has kept me around. There's some good shit on this site and I thoroughly enjoy the viewpoints from Texas and other parts of the country. There's a lot of you I'd gladly shout a beverage for should we ever meet. I'm a guest amongst you all, and mostly lurk, but this is my internet home away from home and I thank you all kindly for that. And, starting again January 2nd, Hook 'em!
  14. This is true, and true throughout the entire region (@956 Worldwide would be much better informed than I am). Just between 1918 and 1945 borders throughout Eastern Europe moved substantially, sometimes hundreds of kilometers, and nearly all Central and Eastern European countries have some form of irredentist movement and/or dormant (or not so dormant) land claims - often with several of their neighbors. While Hungary and Ukraine do have this issue, the one between Hungary and Romania is worse. All that said, Poland probably has the greatest issue with Ukraine in this regard - the entire nation of Poland was moved west a couple of hundred kilometers in 1945; nearly all of western Ukraine was Polish prior to that date - and yet Poland is one of Ukraine's staunchest allies. What Russia did in that part of the world for centuries is far more important in most countries' minds than these land issues. Hungary, on the other hand, is just being a dick.
  15. Hungary has historically had the unerring ability to choose the wrong side in any major conflict. Clearly this hasn't changed. It's still a little shocking to me that the lessons of 1956 have already been forgotten there (save, perhaps, for the unfortunate lesson that the West abandoned them to their fate). Wanting a Russia with clearly imperial tendencies, same as then, to crawl back in bed with them after 50 years of previous abuse seems, um, unwise.
  16. Aye-ayes are cool and ugly-ass mf'ers. My avatar out front shoulda told ya (actually the ringtail lemur is from the completely opposite end of Madagascar and inhabits a vastly different biome, but still). And yes, it is the middle finger, and it looks a lot weirder than that rendering. Everybody hates Duke basketball and that's cool, but the Duke Lemur Center is an amazing place that has studied all these fascinating critters for 50+ years, and I'm proud to be a donor and supporter there. Only mentioning it because you actually brought up an aye-aye, which was pretty awesome. So there's my contribution to the weird shit that makes Surly so great.
  17. This is the smart money. And hard as hell to get down there from here. Shit
  18. We got screwed. Better strength of schedule and more top 25 wins than Michigan, and no sign stealing. Did not want to face the Horns and in a road game. Dammit.
  19. Very, very happy to be the final conference champion and have eternal conference scoreboard on every single team except UCLA (damn you, @Sbbruin!) But this is a bittersweet moment too, because this conference was a hell of a lot of fun. Goofy, crazy, siblings beating the hell out of each other, best road trips of any conference, some fun rivalries and the unfortunate habit of eating our own nearly every season. I loved it, knew all the conference teams and their fans (normally great with a couple of exceptions), went to games at every other school. It was ours, way out here on the West Coast/Best Coast, and although the fan bases were smaller than elsewhere, they loved the game, the rivalries, and the pageantry no less than anyone else. It filled my fall Saturdays for many years. I will miss it every season going forward. The conference only had one blueblood; perhaps that was part of its eventual demise. Tonight's UW win broke a tie for conference titles with UCLA - but still far behind USC. Now the enshittification of CFB brings my team to a conference we are very familiar with but that we will never fully be a part of. I will miss the Arizonas and Utahs and Oregon States and Cals. College football in this part of the country will never be the same. RIP, Pac-12. You'll be missed.
  20. AAAAAAAHAHAHA WOOF
  21. Tarawa and Peleliu are the two battles that really struck me when as a kid I started getting into history and the war, particularly in the Pacific. Many years later, when I moved into my first house, I discovered that the elderly man across the street had been a radio operator on the Essex, and he told me harrowing stories of being patched into the Marine tankers' radios ashore on Betio and listening to the battle live. Betio today is one of the most densely populated places on Earth - the atoll is nearly completely covered with buildings - and, while standing on the beaches looking out at the infamous reefs is certainly moving, you'll likely be quite disappointed in the rest of it. Peleliu is much closer to what it was back then, and Palau in general is a lovely place.
  22. From the sunny Pacific Northwest (really), happy Dead Bird Day to all you magnificent bastards - Surly, Shaggy, or otherwise. May you all richly enjoy feasts, family, and football this weekend!
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