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Vegas64

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  1. Yep. Sherman is the right mix of weird, funny and chutzpah.
  2. With all due respect, I think it’s obvious why they don’t care. In their view it’s still a girl besting girls. They don’t buy into the girl being a boy, and so it doesn’t get brought up because there is nothing to be upset about to them. Thats like saying “did you know the butch lesbian struck out all the cisgender girls in softball and nobody says that’s unfair!” Because that’s the status quo and she’s in the appropriate league (as far as traditional people who care about trans sports, are concerned).
  3. I’m happy to be wrong in this situation as you and others have pointed out.
  4. I can see it. At a certain age, it really is the only flex that draws the resentment and hate and full ire of many a sad man.
  5. Hold on to your hats when I say this, and I say it in a way that "a broken clock can be wrong twice a day" sort of way, but it actually may be true that Trump is the reason for as good as it can get ceasefire and potentially some sort of end. Bear with me... From Ukraine's POV on needing Trump: Zelensky (via Kiev) wants to reconcile with USA from that embarrasing meeting Zelensky seems to suggest that the costs of any imperfect ceasefire are currently outweighed by the benefits Those benefits are getting him back in the game and having a seat at the table for any peace negotiation Keeping his job (approvals for now and then later) Fixing the relationship with Trump as it's argued and written that he (USA) still holds sure defeat and/or the closest thing that can be described as victory for Ukraine, in his hands You see that with the reeastablishment of intelligence and money From Russia's POV on needing Trump: Putin wants to continue the thawing (detente) of relations with USA more broadly in an established way so needs to look cooperative to Trump/DC Russia needs narrative cover for why the cease-fire Russia needs narrative cover for why a peace agreement Putin needs ego cover Putin knows this can't go on forever and Trump is as friendly as he could have ever hoped for and will ever get in Washington It's weird to think that being an abrasive leader has, for different and same reasons, gotten to this point.
  6. Here is what I learned. There are two shots for measles. The first as a baby gives you 93% immunity. The booster given as a 3 or 4 year old jumps it to 97%. In order to have herd immunity, the community or herd has to be at 95% vaccinated. The anabaptists and/or amish are not as vaxxed as modern societies. Therefore. Today.
  7. Yea but have you heard the viral tarararar trumpet man?
  8. Melania really is the Helen of Troy of our epoch and Trump the modern Agamemnon.
  9. The weiner of consequence rarely comes with a lubey taste and texture.
  10. Too handsome and too good of hair?
  11. Asppppennn thread is that way ->
  12. But will D's be man enough to use the boot in retaliation. That's the inherent misogynistic question I'm trying to ask.
  13. I have a grandson I'm interested in getting him on the master track for trumpet. Since this is a random thread I feel justified in taking this conversation into the weeds, can you provide some history and background for him and trumpet? My grandson's first word might have been trumpet for all I know. At 2 he carried around a fisher price one and at 3 or 4 all he asked for was a real one. Well the real one is crazy hard to use for a baby so we got a plastic one he enjoys. I looked into "School of Rock" which is a local franchise based on the Jack Black movie I reckon, but they are all vocals and guitar and drums. Nothing brassy. Would be cool to hear how your kiddo go so good at trumpet and what roads to take (and not take) on that journey. Also-- as a parent have you tried to play one? It's impossible. I still can't figure out how to make the buzzing lips to incide any noise. Trying to play one gave me a whole new level of respect.
  14. I didn't expect to feel so conflicted by your post. You know, as a middle aged mediocre white man with mediocre white sons and grandsons.
  15. And, as road warriors everywhere have been wailing on sites everywhere, the airlines are nerfing the rewards and awards you get per flight/mile/dollar. Used to be quite the hack. Sadly, or happily, depending on your perspective, the level of business travel I saw pre-Covid will never be matched. I'd say at my firm, we are at about 75% there and seems to be the limit of the appetite. And I do think about my carbon footprint more in my old age, fwiw.
  16. Agreed, if you fly as little as you do, it really doesn't matter and the chance of delay or cancellation is probably about the same in the law of small numbers. When you fly 200k miles a year, every week or every other just domestic, it invariably pays to choose the lesser of the evils and lock-in with a single vendor to max out rewards knowing sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes it eats you.
  17. Sorry, oval. You are so perfect. Like a circle.
  18. I don't know what you are trying to prove. We all have anecdotes with flying. Flying, no matter who you fly with, long enough and you will have a horror story with every carrier. Southwest sucks. Glad you think it's the least worst of the crap out there, tho.
  19. This just makes me think...will turnabout be fair play? No party keeps majority and power forever... Maybe the Republicans don't fear a response from the Dem's inkind. In politics, like in geopolitics, a little old fashioned "mutually assured destruction" threat goes a long way. Let me be 100% clear. The Dems are not to be blamed for MAGA and half the country being MAGATs. That's victim blaming. But there are things that could have been done better that we should review and learn from and implement moving forward. Dem's have abdicated the responsiblity to "discipline" (or punish, if you will) rogue/bad behavior. Like with a child, spare the rod and spoil the child, we allowed for increasing and escalating horrible behavior to normalize. And here we are. In short, maybe the Dem's oughta think about how they will serve a cold dish when they get power again. And you can't be scared of division or another civil war because sitting idle is what got us here...
  20. like any good real estate agent would tell ya: location, location, location!
  21. Is there a more tired opinion in 2025 than the "octopuses are so smart and amazing and [insert 9 facts] and probably they are the REAL aliens akshully and they are advanced life forms so as a quasi-intellectual and fake interesting person, I've stopped eating them. Howboutu?"? I blame the aforementioned My Teacher the Octopus movie for dumbing down what once only the nerdy Slayer fan knew due to his niche friend group all having H.P. Lovecraft hard-ons. And that Netflix documentary was boring and sucked. Also octopus is gross and weird. I'll only eat the circle versions of calimari and only from the most classy of establishments. You know, TGI Fridays, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Bennigan's, etc.
  22. Occassionally one of us will haeve to wake up super early and go to bed before the other one or I'll fall asleep on the recliner or something, but invariably we stumble into the same bed around 3am.
  23. Speaking of Hugh Grant, despite being an adult in his heyday and vibrantly remembering his being busted with a prosty and going on late night talk show to apologize to America (because we didn’t have screen shots or apologies written on a note app to share on Instagram in 1997), I realize I have never seen a movie he’s in. Notting Hill (1999) with Julia Roberts changed that for me. I actually really enjoyed it. I am guessing that will buy me a fair amount of ridicule here, but maybe I’m just a sap. Also, the hand Otto Hightower as the Welsh deadbeat is one of those “wow, that’s the same guy” moments for me.
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