Everything posted by Hayduke
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
Worked at K State for a short while and went to KU a few times. Always liked it and the town. Close enough to KC to have easy access to big-city stuff, but typical college town in a nice enough region right on the edge of the Flint Hills, which I always found beautiful. Kansas politics aren't as goofy as they could be so I think the university system there hasn't been as messed up as other states. As a faculty member elsewhere who's got a senior daughter in the process of choosing, I'd say that if your daughter loves it, the program is among the best (so many rankings out there -- how legit are those you've seen for the speech pathology program?), and the aid makes it affordable, give it your blessing. There's too much that can change in a semester, a year, a couple of years, both with young people and the educational environment at large right now. If they start out happy with their choice, the odds are at least in their favor. Last visited last summer and had a great Hungarian goulash with local ingredients at Free State Brewing on Massachusetts Street. Noticed lots of new upscale stuff in the area of the state streets that's the center of off-campus student life, but it also felt a little seedier in spots than I remember. Another faculty friend's daughter (who's a good friend of my daughter) went to KU but transferred to Minnesota after a semester and I don't know why. My daughter never reveals much so I'll ask the mom what her daughter didn't like about it. Will report back if I hear anything of use. But KU is a pretty darn good school and I'd be more than OK with my own daughter going there if that's how it worked out. That's the good thing about finishing up a school, whether it's after a semester or a couple of degrees. They can always move on, and that's what I tell my daughter. If you don't like it, transfer. Get the best offers you can; pick where you think you'll thrive and be happy and not go into debt. I'm looking out the window at some of the worst kind of gray, freezing, icy, bitter weather a guy could hate, but am not ready to trade everything off. Too many factors like weather and politics shape things in ways we may not expect. If your head, heart and gut are all telling you a place should work out, or is a good one to finally leave, then you're probably right. Flip side is you can play ultimate Frisbee late into the night without lights in the summer. My son, born in Texas, loves it at Minnesota and graduates in May. My take is that if we get fewer Floridians crowding the cross-country ski trails in our few hours of daylight, I'm happy for them to be happy elsewhere.
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Official 2025 Holiday Insanity Bitchfest
Amazing what just facing an issue will do, @Jameslaw121. Whether accidentally or not ... bet your FIL is eternally grateful.
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Official 2025 Holiday Insanity Bitchfest
Probably not something any teenager needs to be told -- they tend to be naturals. But a church is as good, or bad, a place to do that as a youngster can probably find anyway. I suspect there's plenty of feel-good and fervor at that church, and it probably seemed benign when they were still dating. It's always part of the appeal. The big questions are how it affects her down the road and what she learns from it. I'd have to say that right now, it seems to be keeping her unsettled, but separating faith from lovesickness is the hard part. College should probably help her find some equilibrium, and frankly, I'd rather have a breakup ruin her senior year than her first year away.
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Official 2025 Holiday Insanity Bitchfest
Hadn't heard of that one, but I'll check it out -- looks like they released a 25th anniversary edition three years ago. The friendship stuff looks especially interesting. Our daughter has turned her back on a couple of longtime friendships this year as well, and I'm wondering if that's because her friends tried to talk sense to her about the young man (who's really a great kid, but I suspect a lot of what makes him so is extreme politeness, cheerfulness, optimism and whatnot that strike me as being a major part of his Christian upbringing). Bottom line is they're still just kids and neither one likely has lived enough yet to figure out what their beliefs mean, especially in a period of national turmoil when religion is central to the struggles. I've encouraged my daughter to hash things out with her friends, but she's stubborn. In fact, I told her just yesterday, during one of her stints of calmness, that the New Year is always a great time to reconsider and reconcile. She did at least listen and respond with a tiny bit of thoughtfulness, so it was a good enough holiday moment.
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Official 2025 Holiday Insanity Bitchfest
Too late to edit my post, but to bring this back to the topic, I suspect religion has dampened our holidays quite a bit this year. Daughter didn't really even take part (not even doing gifts for anyone), and I'm wondering whether it's because she's got a newfound and I suspect not fully committed faith based primarily on getting her former boyfriend back. His family goes to our local evangelical and apparently fundamentalist super-church, and she's still attending despite the breakup and despite honoring my wife's wishes to continue attending Catholic services at the same time. Daughter is a senior in high school and of course on the cusp of leaving for college, so she's already been in that morose, rebellious teenaged stage that I keep wanting to point out includes way more disrespect than the commandments allow. Hard to talk to her most of the time, and her disappointing lack of enthusiasm on Christmas seemed based on judgmental and conservative disdain for merrymaking. She made it pretty easy for us to continue deemphasizing all the consumptive ritual and stressful preparations for tradition's sake. Because we stretch the holidays out with a flexible schedule, we may still do a few gifts and I'm close to getting her a book about faith written by Jim Palmer, a former megachurch pastor himself who writes to help people deprogram themselves from fundamentalism.
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Official 2025 Holiday Insanity Bitchfest
When my best man got married and I toasted the couple, I told of how I got to know a good portion of his family through his stories while we played poker and drank bottles of wine in Europe, where we were roommates for a while. I wondered what was up when he buried his face in his hands during the toast. Seems his in-laws did not know he drank (not a lot -- was a minister for the first half of his career). Afterwards he explained to me that he even had to hide his cooking sherry when his future in-laws came to visit before the marriage. But it turns out Berry, the FIL, thought the toast was hilarious, and Berry came up and pumped my hand afterward telling me so. Seems that after 30 years, ol' Berry still asks about me and I am welcome at their farm any time. And my buddy and his wife didn't have to hide their alcohol any more.
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It’s Black Friday assholes
From the frozen north woods, where we're not skeered of 45 mph gusts or icy roads, and certainly not A&M ... FIGHT!
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SEC Refs Suck
I'm not seeing a launch there. Just a full-speed hit and a pretty good wrap-up with Smith's head clearly up. Left foot is firmly planted until he goes down with the tackle. Seems like it would be pretty tough not to leave your feet when you've obliterated the guy at speed and have him wrapped up. If there is any launch, it's one-footed and after contact. Does that fit the definition?
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Waiving your dick will do that pretty much every time.
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SEC Refs Suck
I can see why he might have made it a "just in case it did cross" call, but the videos provided more than enough evidence to overturn it. Yeah, maybe some really, really thick laces that we couldn't see well on camera might have just nicked the plane of the goal line, but at that point, the replay officials should have just said, "Too many gambling arrests and referee suspensions to risk this letting this slide." The end of that game was not a good look and now goes onto the same shelf as the Okie State and Grant Teaff productions. Edit: except this one had the proper happy ending.
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SEC Refs Suck
The link I gave shows pretty much all the plays, including the personal foul against Filsaime on the sideline, which occurs at the 16:00 mark and has multiple replays. Gotta give credit to Pavia on that one. Shrewd MF who manipulated the play into a penalty.
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SEC Refs Suck
Been waiting for this all morning but no one has posted, so here it is. I'm one of those who was cut off from coverage yesterday so I just listened to the game on Sirius XM while working, and these YouTube highlights are the first time I've seen the plays. On the video highlights, it's obvious that the pylon never moves.
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Bundesliga 2021-2022: The Hoff Can't Wait
Logged in just in time to encourage Führich's game-tying shot to bend in right before halftime. You're welcome, @Mittens.
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It’s Time for Organized Resistance
All I've seen is this from Alt National Parks saying 22 MAGA types were arrested. I've looked at a few sites but am not gonna spend much time on it this morning. It's pretty clear yesterday went about as peacefully as it could and just about the most horrifying thing coming out of it was Trump's video, which apparently highlighted Harry Sisson as the main recipient of the dumping. But even the Trump video appears to be downplayed by U.S. mainstream media right now -- it was a publication in India where I found an article about Sisson being the target of the Trump dump. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CS8aUCfy5/
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Bundesliga 2021-2022: The Hoff Can't Wait
Probably not much to worry about, @Mittens. I've been too distracted to pay much attention at all this season, unfortunately, but every time I do I see I haven't missed a lot. Took a quick peek this morning and saw they were down 2-0 to Leverkusen but haven't checked since. Barely have time to do football today and am gonna have to listen to the Horns on satellite radio on the way to the airport to pick up my wife. Hope you're doing well.
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Dog Killer, Kristi Noem
- Grammer Bored
- U.S.A. Map of Alcohol Consumption
- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
"Half the country" probably doesn't even know or use, much less attempt to define, the term "fascist." But I do bet that most people who both use and know the term are also pretty astute at figuring out where most of it sits on the left-to-right American political spectrum right now. But, yeah, sure, his messages will be "that much more popular" among the young voters. Especially those young, black females like the one who got arrested at Tech.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Major respect to both your wife and you. I think there are some excellent congregations from many branches of Christianity out there, and they tend to self-select. The Catholic church over near campus has very different homilies from its priest and very different programs than the others in town. Although we almost always attend the churches closest to the house, my wife is deeply involved in a different one that does all the work with Hispanics in the community, so I'm careful about my actions. I would suspect local Hispanic congregants would respond differently to the homily we heard yesterday -- assuming that at least a few of them had a clear understanding of Kirk and had the opportunity to discuss it. But that's a big assumption, as a good majority of them are too busy working to keep trades, restaurants and farms running around here, whether they own the businesses or simply work a lot. They're aware of a small number of ICE incidents that have impacted the larger Hispanic community here, but generally, ICE has focused its attention on different parts of the country so far.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Ah ... I am suddenly viewing all of my students in a new light and gaining appreciation for their organizational leadership skills. 😆- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Gave it some thought, didn't act immediately, and that was probably good. Fairly certain it wouldn't be very effective compared to other approaches, which I'm thinking about a lot right now. Grown son (but young and in military) said he would have said something. Good that he wasn't there. We're going to need him and other thoughtful, moral and upright leaders in the military if stuff keeps moving in the current direction, but he'd probably not be in that position if he draws attention to any of his political statements.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
I attend Mass for my family's sake. There's a balancing act for me, and a lot of cognitive dissonance. Today the priest, in his homily, drew parallels between Kirk and Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the subject of a current movie that's essentially one of those church-promoted, independently produced films that survive because of crowdfunding Christians. The priest's description of Kirk was basically that he was only a guy trying to bring civil, open discourse to society, that he was a father and a family man. This in a university town where many understand Kirk got wealthy by going after faculty on his Professor Watchlist. It was, to me, indicative of where much of the more conservative side of the Catholic church is heading. Eventually that will probably cause more serious issues in our family, as it may in society at large. The priest's homily was disgusting. The lack of any apparent response from the sheep in the congregation was disturbing and a little scary. The Catholics, however, are less scary to me now than the worst of the evangelicals, the "seven mountain" folks and others. It appears Kirk's wife is a Catholic who likely will return more fully to the fold, although maybe she goes in some other direction. Regardless, I see difficulty for her in carrying out the work of a husband who reinforced the notion that women need to stay in their place. Can't imagine she'll have nearly the following, but they apparently are worth about $12 million and somebody else will probably fill that mindless void. And no matter what happens there, the bigger issues are getting closer and closer to tearing the rest of our country into some pieces that will not be easy to put back together.- Realignment talk not going away
Just a subtle flag tribute from some Ethiopian graphic artist. But, yeah chart is misleading the way it is. The color scheme confuses matters. Other than being at the top of very different conferences, there's no similarity between K-State and Texas, or Utah and Alabama. Turns out there are 14 flags with the green-yellow-red combo of bars/columns/blocks, but none except this Ethiopia do the G-Y-R horizontal order. Unless the chart was done by a Colombian trying to diss the Bolivians, whose flag is red-yellow-green from the top.
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