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There should be a button on GoFundMe you can push to let them know you've donated thoughts and prayers in lieu of money. "Tom has donated 2 virtual bootstraps and 8 thoughts and prayers to H Scott Apley." Also I'd leave a comment letting them know I'll keep fighting for them by voting for politicians who support expanding socialized healthcare in remembrance of them. "I wish I could give some money to help out, but in his heart, that's not what Mr. Apley would have wanted."

Nothing makes a house feel more like a home than a "getting booked in jail" room.

In what freaking scenario do you foresee where Texas would need to "step in and run things"? The most well-run machine in college sports that has yet to miss a step, has made every right move for decades to put itself in the best possible position every time it expands, and gets as much money and exposure or more than anyone else is suddenly going to need us to take over? For what reason? To make it more like the conference we previously ran and are now trying to leave??? I won't go as far as Pancho and call you a troll, but I think you're seriously misguided if you believe what you're typing.

Wow. Even though it had already started with his terrible beard, he looks so much worse now than he did even just a year go. Insurrections must be a terrible stressor on your body and metabolism. His outward ugliness is rapidly catching up to his soul and personality.

Fair enough, but I don't think this would be happening today if Nebraska, Mizzou, A&M, and CU were still here. Mizzou really owns a lot of blame for lifting their skirt publicly to the media 5 seconds after the Big 10 announced they were exploring expansion and begging to get out. Maybe there was a lot more going on behind the scenes, but I was shocked at the time at the idea that the Big 12 was an unstable conference. I knew Nebraska had some beef with a few rule changes and the championship game being played down South, but I never would have guessed in general schools were looking to leave. The sad truth is that the Big 12 is not the Big 10 or the SEC and will continue to fall further behind as time goes on. We're not that far behind now, but it will get worse. The ACC is positioned much better long term. The Big 12 is vulnerable now for the same reasons the SWC and Big 8 were so vulnerable -- they now have a very small footprint compared to other conferences, and as exploration proved a few years back, the options to expand weren't that great. I honestly not in love with the direction things are going in CFB in general. I view these 14 and 16 team super conferences the same as the NBA pile-on teams of the last decade. I assume it's fun if it's your team, but it's bad for everyone else and a negative for the sport in general.

Nothing against Iowa State, but if the situations were reversed your admin would be doing the same thing -- exploring whatever options were best for Iowa State. It sucks that your school is put in this position, but this thread hasn't fallen off the first page in a decade for a reason. Even though nobody knew how it was going to happen or where schools would end up, we all knew the Big 12/CFB musical chairs weren't over -- only delayed. I really don't understand why every fanbase and former SWC/Big 8 alumnus feels it's always Texas's job to save every conference they're in and protect the other programs at their own expense when we haven't been the first ones to cut and run in either the SWC or Big 12. The very worst case scenario for Iowa State is likely a mix of the other Big 12 schools and top AAC schools either forming a new conference or those AAC schools being absorbed into the Big 12. It would likely still be an upgrade over the current PAC and their recent troubles, even if it doesn't have the historical prestige. Best case scenario, maybe you wind up in a Big 10 division with Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. I know it sucks, but it's not the end of college football for Iowa State. If I had my way, power conferences would still look like they did when the BCS was established. At the time I didn't think it got any better than the original Big 12, and the BCS conferences in general were much more balanced before Miami bolted from the Big East and the Big 10 and SEC got too big. But money has fucked up college football, and you can't turn back time.

Pretending A&M is going to be forced out or leave the SEC is just pure ridiculous fantasy. What does blackballing A&M look like? Staying somewhere where we make less revenue? In a place that's less attractive to top level recruits? Allow them to continue improving, keep getting better recruits, and upping their profile by marketing themselves as the only Texas SEC team? Who wins by us boycotting A&M? I get that we still are a top brand that still makes a shit ton of money and can still recruit well, but it's harder in this conference now and we have a lot less fewer wins and the program has lost some of its shine over the past decade. Let's put on our big boy pants and just play A&M. I was very much a proponent of fixing the Big 12 and hated the idea winding up in the SEC until about a year or so ago when it became clear that there are few options short of former Big 12 schools or Arkansas returning that could put this conference on a higher level.

This. Every place prints tip lines now regardless of whether or not someone's actually waiting on you. I used to naively write in a tip for the ladies working on the cafeteria line in the cafe in my building. After several months I heard from a co-worker that the asshole owner keeps the tips. I asked one of the girls working there and she confirmed. Made me ragey. Also trivial and annoying -- every time you buy anything online or have a customer service call over the phone, you start getting spammed to take customer service surveys. Now, if it was something like one question rating your overall experience, fine. I'll let you know if they deserve 5 stars like you would for an Uber driver. But most places are like, "Thanks for taking 2 minutes to purchase an item online. Do you have time to take a 10-page survey? Oh yeah, don't forget to fill out the short essay portion. And yes, we did see that you didn't check 'yes' to us sending you future company promotions and special offers. We're going to send you about two emails a day anyway."

it's too little, too late. People are already too far gone. Even if Fox were to suddenly start reporting responsibly on the virus and vaccines and they continue to tell people to get vaccinated, it's too late. Their viewers aren't going to suddenly take it as true. They're going to do what they did after Fox called Arizona for Biden or any other time Fox has tried reporting something straight -- they're going to complain Fox is turning liberal and start watching Newsmax or OAN more. Fox will see that ratings dip, panic, and give Carlson and Hannity the green light to ramp up the crazy again.

Honestly, it's no HBO but FX has a better track record of making good shows I like over Showtime.

I didn't see Pulp Fiction until 20+ years after its release. I was probably a little young for it when it came out, and then I just never got around to seeing it for some reason until I was well into adulthood. I saw Inglourious Basterds, Kill BIll, and Django Unchained before I ever watched Pulp Fiction. Maybe because of the order I saw them in and the fact that it wasn't new or groundbreaking by the time I saw it, but Pulp Fiction just never did much for me. It feels like one of his weakest. If not for the non-linear storyline, the plot isn't exactly that interesting, IMO. On the other hand, I saw Jackie Brown around the same time, also long after its release, and I loved it. Absolutely one of my favorites of Tarantino's. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is probably my favorite Tarantino film at this point.

Well, her reasons are terrible and she's a vile woman but I'm not going to argue with a broken clock. Does this mean we can all agree now to finally cut the bloated military budget?

Well, technically he did get The Tonight Show. NBC just never gave it a real chance to find its groove. Then they allowed the bobblehead who previously hosted and refused to ever actually step away take back over when the 4:00pm dinner at Luby's demo didn't immediately get Conan's humor.

Not sure if my sarcasm meter is broken or if you've somehow miraculously avoided hearing any Mumford and Sons songs the past 10 years.

Without cheating, I could only name Richard Kind (Spin City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jerri Blank's dentist) and Gary Cole (Bill Lumberg, Ricky Bobby's daddy).

Also he's kind of a dick to kids.

I'm not sure which one of us is bad at math, but I'm pretty sure $15/hr isn't $44,000 a year. Art thinks much less of people than that.

I love this show and think it deserves every accolade it gets and more. I could be wrong, it's been a long while since I've seen it, but I thought it was supposed to be implied when they were hanging in the outside smoking area at lunch or under the bleachers they were getting stoned, but didn't show it for NBC network reasons or something like that.

People like to shit on Signs, but I can't think of another movie I've ever seen in a theater on an opening weekend with more energy in the air or people on the edge of their seat the whole time. People lost their minds at the swing away scene. That was an electric movie going experience.

Season 1 was good. Season 2 was phenomenal. This doesn't look very good. I'll watch and give it a shot, but my hopes aren't too high.

I disagree. The Big 12 made a lot more sense at the time than the ACC would now. We had a century of history with one of the two biggest names in the Big 8. All but one school was in the same time zone. Hell, most of the schools are a stone's throw off I-35. We have little history with the ACC, and we'd be as much of a geographic outlier as WVU is in the Big 12. At least with the Pac there'd be room to take three neighbors with us. Two of our three biggest historic rivals are already in the SEC West. We'd essentially be #16 and all alone in the ACC. We need to figure out how to make the Big 12 work. This is a good, fun conference in basketball and baseball. Football is fun but just needs a couple more 9 or 10 wins per year teams capable of getting into NY6 games and the playoffs occasionally to boost this conference's perception in the eyes of the public.

Why the fuck does the twice impeached former president's charity stealing disgraced child think we give a shit about his opinion on the current administration?

Admittedly I'm not a big Jolie fan, but she seemed exceptionally poorly cast for this part. The movie was okay, but it's not something I'll likely ever watch again.

I'm not complaining at all because they're both great actresses, but I guess Jean Smart is going the Margo Martindale on FX route and is going to be in every other show they make.