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Hornius Emeritus

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  1. WTF? Tre has been here since he was a freshman.
  2. This was the greatest post in the history of Longhorn forums. I laughed so freakin' hard. I called my dad and read it to him (giving him the proper context of course) and when he heard "perpair to loose this football game" he almost ruptured a kidney.
  3. Holy hell, thanks for the recommendations. This show is OUT FREAKIN' STANDING! I just finished s1 E6, the birthday episode where we meet her stepfather at his home. I'm dyin'. I read that it's an international smash hit and that the first season won a ton of awards. Guardian reviewer gave both the first and second seasons five stars: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/03/colin-from-accounts-season-two-review-the-smash-hit-aussie-comedy-is-better-than-ever
  4. They gave up more than 37 points in 10 of their 11 games. That's not going to win championships.
  5. Oh, man ... I hate to say it but there's no way my gf would go there. Looks like it will be Meanwhile or Lustre Pearl for me.
  6. We're in. What about Lustre Pearl east? They have a great setup for games, good beer, lots of space, and it's sort of centrally located.
  7. I wonder if Alex Mastromanno is looking to leave a terrible FSU team.
  8. Anthony Richardson was 11/28 passing yesterday for no touchdowns in the Colts loss to Detroit ---- IN A DOMED STADIUM. Perfect conditions. I don't understand what the Colts are doing. Are you telling me that Sam freakin' Ehlinger can't hit more than 11 out of 28 passes?
  9. Not trying to humblebrag, but for crazy reasons unknown to me, I have two credit cards that, together, amount to 100k of credit. I pay them off every month, so there's almost always 100k of credit available to me. I've always thought that if I get some bad news vis a vis cancer or some other ailment, I'm going to go to Paris or Bora Bora, check into an expensive hotel, go to the best restaurants, drink and and dance as long and as hard as I can, and then shuffle off this mortal coil, leaving my last bill unpaid. At least, that's what I think about doing. But then there's this conflicting thought: I've had credit cards for more than 40 years and have never paid a penny of interest on any of them because I pay them off every month. I'd feel bad knowing that I was going to break my streak. My FICO score didn't just build itself, damnit!
  10. After seeing that 500 .lb player that Florida has playing situationally, I'm thinking that maybe there's a place for Sydir in certain moments at Texas.
  11. Because libraries are one of the few places you can go and be inside and spent large amounts of time without paying for anything or having to have a membership, librarians ----- LIBRARIANS! ---- are now being threatened, having to do medical interventions, dealing with the homeless etc .... From the article: On social media, Mychal Threets was spreading the gospel of “library joy” to hundreds of thousands of followers. Known for his energetic delivery and signature Afro, Mr. Threets showed off the book-themed tattoos covering his arms and evangelized about the pleasure of reading while cradling one of his cats. Viewers found his enthusiasm for literature infectious, and he got a kick out of drawing in young readers. But at his job, as a supervisor at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Solano County, Calif., he was facing new challenges. The library, which he had begun visiting as a child, had become a gathering place for people experiencing issues like homelessness, drug dependence and mental illness. Some of his duties had little to do with cataloging books and recommending titles. Over a year, Mr. Threets said, he filed more than 170 incident reports documenting how library patrons had acted out: property damage, harassment, physical altercations. “There were several instances where people would get in my face and kind of threaten to physically push me,” Mr. Threets said. At one point, he added, a patron threatened to kill him multiple times — visitors pulled knives on each other, too. His anxiety and depression, both present since childhood, had worsened. And he faced an impossible dilemma: What do you do when the pressures of your profession are harming your mental health? In March, at age 34, he left the job, announcing his departure on social media in a characteristically upbeat way. “It’s been the honor of my life to work for the library that raised me,” he said. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/well/mind/librarian-trauma-homeless-drugs-mental-illness.html
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