-
Posts
208 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Store
Downloads
Recruiting - 2020
2019-2020 Football Season
Football
Entertainment
Sports
News and Business
Cloak Room
Transfer Portal
Recruiting
Events
Everything posted by Caver60
-
Who's been covid vaxxed? Stand up and be counted.
Caver60 replied to High Plains Drifter's topic in Daily Texan
Got Pfizer #2 on Saturday. Had a few drinks that night. Strange, had chills but I wasn't cold. Ran between 99 and 100 temperature, but that was done by Sunday morning. I was really sore on Sunday, entire body. Felt great yesterday. Wife got Pfizer #2 on Sunday. Very fatigued on later that evening and yesterday, with a bad headache. -
COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Caver60 replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
The struggle is real, man. I've dealt with so many ant-maskers over the past year that I've lost count. The toughest stretch was between the start of this whole mess and the day that Trump came out finally and wore a mask himself. After that things evened out a little. We tried all sorts of things. We offered to put anti-maskers and their families on private tours for an exclusive price. That worked sometimes. Other times there was absolutely no way to make them happy. I totally lost my shit one day when a dude who refused to wear a mask was also open-carry, and stubbornly aggressive about it all. Worst part about it was our employees, who freaked out and damn near walked out over the implied threat. Yesterday a guy showed up who presented the old ADA bullshit card for me to check out. I was like, "nah, put that away. Wear a mask or come back when all of this is over. Check our website for when we drop the masking requirement." He wanted to argue and I had none of it. The guy left. To me this is like going to that friend's house whose mother required you to take off your shoes at the door. A minor inconvenience but those were the rules at her house so you just did it. It still depresses me how many of our fellow human beings out there will not do even the slightest something to even possibly keep someone from getting sick. It's nuts. -
I think this years Bama on field coaching staff didn’t include a single coach who was on the field in 2017 when they won it last. Another crazy bit: I think it’s also true that he has never had a signing class at Bama that has failed to win a national championship at some point in their 4 years on campus.
-
The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]
Caver60 replied to immamac's topic in Cloak Room
My wife’s office (no pics) is full of Trumpers. 2:15 rolled around today and they were surprised that THE PLAN wasn’t going down. My wife was in a tizzy (no pics) about the kids in school and all. Gotdamn I hate these people. it’s gonna get worse, I agree. It’s bad when the people we hope will put this down are mostly complicit. Holy shit. -
They weren’t this stupid because they were deadly serious about what they were doing and the consequences of their actions if they failed. These people, for the most part? Not so much
-
How can you be a fan when you don’t even watch them? The players are the constant. Coaches come and go. Don’t like the coach? Fine. Me neither. Refuse to watch the kids? Fuck off, you suck, your heart is black as coal. Eat shit and die in eternal fire. You’re not a fan, you’re a wretched heartless pile of shit and you should be jettisoned into space.
-
Every single one of the Mc’s and Mack’s has more hardware than Herman. We used to think this guy fucks. Course correction. He sucks.
-
Here it is, in short. I would need to cross check some things to make sure it is all correct, but this is the story in brief: Some time in March, 1944, the 45th was moving into Germany in near constant combat. Grandad was a machine gunner. His best friend was named Dizzy, and Dizzy carried the tripod in the three man crew. Dizzy was killed in combat. At that time, the Allies had an agreement among themselves that if any of the Allied powers liberated POWs from the Germans, they could use them in their own armies until the war ended, rather than go through everything it would take to repatriate them. Shortly after Dizzy was killed, Grandad's unit received a Soviet POW named Stanislav Ordinsky. He was Ukranian, a former university professor who spoke seven languages fluently, but not English (haha). Grandad was a farm boy from Royse City, Texas, and spoke some Spanish. And that was how they communicated until Stanislav learned English. They became good friends through combat and some other escapades, and when the war ended, Stanislav gave Grandad his address in Kiev and headed east for the USSR. Every year on VE Day for the next 45 or 46 years, Grandad would drop a letter in the mail for Stanislav. There was never a response. Then the Wall fell, and sometime that year or next he got a letter back from Stanislav. Turns out that after he got home, Stanislav was sent to a Gulag in Siberia for a number of years, a consequence of having served with the Americans. When he got out of the Gulag, the Soviets had expunged his military service records. This was devastating, because without service records a person could not easily get any sort of quality medical care from the state. Nevertheless, he carried on. Late in the 1980s, Stanislav's son died, leaving a son of his own for Stanislav to care for. Then the grandson came down with leukemia, and because Stanislav could not get good medical care, this was a death sentence. And finally, after all of this time, he received the first letter from my Grandad. The state had let the mail through at last. And so he was writing my grandfather to see if there was any way to recover US Army records which might prove to Ukranian authorities that he had served. Grandad and Grandma hopped a plane to Washington, DC and started poking around. Before long, someone from the State Department heard their story and got involved. They flew my grandparents to Kiev, and brought Stanislav and his grandson back to the United States for medical treatment. The boy recovered, Stanislav's service records were amended, and I learned as a teenager that everyone from the former USSR weren't monsters after all. My Grandad was a great man.
- 9151 replies
-
- 43
-
-
-
My Grandfather fought with the 45th. He was not in the 157th, I'd have to look up his exact unit. He was, however, there when they liberated Dachau. Some of the things he took from there and traded SS officers for after the capture are on display in the Houston Holocaust Museum. The few combat stories he shared (via memoir to my grandmother - he never spoke of it aloud) are harrowing. He also had one of the best personal stories I have ever heard from that war. If anyone is interested I will write it up here.
-
It’s because we lack dudes on offense at the skill positions. And in general, really. We have solid players at most every position, but recruiting rankings don’t really lie. We play like a team stacked with 3 and 4 star players, but we don’t have many 5* guys who can really house it at any time. We are loaded with complimentary players who don’t have anyone to compliment. For years now posters on various sites have said things like “Good WR recruits in Texas are a dime a dozen”, and they are so wrong. Texas produces enough talent to bring game changers in every year. Water is wet. OU sucks. This shit is obvious. Brockermeyers are headed OOS. Every year we take fall backs at nearly every position. It’s not rocket science. Herman is a good roster builder for depth, but got damn you have to have some studs and we just don’t. Ossai is as close as we come right now. But you know all of this. You’re a good poster and a knowledgeable fan.
-
Give Me One Reason to Keep Caring about the Dallas Cowboys
Caver60 replied to Vic Mackey's topic in Football
I apologize beforehand: I feel sorry for you poor bastards. That’s maybe the worst thing anyone can say to a sports fan in my book. I grew up a cowboys fan. Hell, my grandma was a paralegal for them and I always had signed memorabilia on my walls as a kid. More importantly, I’ve always been a Texas fan. I could barely stomach Arky Jerry, but the wins were scintillating though they came at the hands of pinche Jimmy Johnson of U fame. And then that dude hired the antichrist of my childhood, Barry F’in Switzer. And I was done. The cowboys of my childhood were dead. I feel sorry for you dudes. -
I remember when I had my first beer
-
This is more or less true in my experience. You self-monitor and keep your own records of quantities and usage and then the ATF shows up for inspections every 3 years and audits those records and your magazines for compliance. And that's pretty much it. Ammonium nitrate, however, is an oxidizer and not even considered an explosive by the ATF. All that is required by the ATF is that oxidizers are kept a certain distance away from actual explosives (determined by a table of distances and the quantities and nature of the explosives and oxidizers being stored).
-
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Caver60 replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
We live in New Braunfels. He plays for a 16U team called the Barracudas. They are partnered up with the Bombers, a really fine softball club. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Caver60 replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
We have two kids. Our daughter just graduated high school (no pics, assholes) and our son will be a sophomore. One of our son's friends killed himself the other night. Through this whole thing, we have been pretty good about distancing and things. Not too long ago, the boy's club baseball team started up again. We let him do it, and I've been feeling guilty about it ever since. Then this kid killed himself, and sent out a picture of himself with a gun to his head right before he did it. I don't feel guilty about club baseball anymore. We are all social animals and if teachers are willing to teach, I welcome it. Kids need adults to keep an eye on them. Teachers and coaches notice things that we as parents don't. It's hard to tell with teenagers what is normal angst and what is a brewing problem that needs dealt with. There have been plenty of posters on here who have talked about the mental health aspects of this ordeal all along. I want our kids in school this fall. Looks like I won't be seeing my parents for at least a year, and that sucks. -
We closed down Natural Bridge Caverns yesterday. Laid off 20 seasonal employees we just hired to help out with the spring school group season, too. We are going to pay full-timers as long as we can, and we plan on getting some projects around the park done over the next couple of weeks. We are set up pretty well financially but nothing will last forever. My daughter is a high school senior who is starting to realize that her senior year might be over. I don't have the heart to confirm that. With everything going on and the benefit of some age under my belt, I know that not having prom is not really a big deal. But for her, no prom, no graduation ceremony or party, no more soccer, no soccer playoffs, no chance to say goodbye to teachers and friends... it's gonna be a lot. Time for her and my son to gain some perspective on things, I suppose.
-
I work at Natural Bridge Caverns. Spring Break is our biggest week of the year, typically. This year, the majority of Texas school districts are on break this week. The rest will be off next week. The split is pretty even, though, so there will be almost as many people on vacation next week as there are right now. We are open, and there are plenty of people here. Not what it would be without the virus running amok, but we are still busy. We are running down 25% or so compared to what we were expecting before this thing got loose. For context, we usually see 2500-4000 people per day during Spring Break. For the life of me I can't imagine why anyone would think "Virus? Sure, I'd be happy to place me and my family in a group of 50 people in a warm wet environment". But they are. We are doing all sorts of planning, as most all of us are. Suspending spending on projects, planning for laying off hourly employees if we are forced to close. Our best advice will probably be for our hourly folks to take unemployment in the worst case scenario. We do offer health insurance, but no way are hourly hourly folks going to be able to afford COBRA if we let them go. I think that CTJ is right, the travel industry is going to get pounded by this thing, and it might take a couple of years for things to settle down. At some point soon, tourist destinations will likely start closing for two weeks. As soon as that becomes "industry standard," we will too. I think most places are trying to get Spring Break $ in the bank before choosing to do that. I can understand a beach vacation at this point. Stay in a condo, be on the beach away from others. I'd avoid theme parks like the plague, so to speak. And I wouldn't come here, either. I sort of have to, but you shouldn't.
-
Watching them from heaven?
-
And anyway, even if Jerry didn’t fire him technically, Jerry also hired fucking Barry Switzer. That closed the door on my Cowboys fan chapter. Looking back on it, it seems sorta stupid since Barry is kind of a hoot. But he may as well have been the antichrist while he was at OU.
-
They need to expand the CFP, they said. It'll be better, they said.
Caver60 replied to Landomatic's topic in Football
True! If your players had just been a LITTLE BETTER you wouldn’t be asking these questions. We are down and all, but it’s nice knowing we still live in your head. Gracias -
I remember hearing that Phil had been a kicker and an OL at Lake Highlands. So when he got to Texas, he kept working out with the OL there, too. Always thought that was awesome. He must have looked like a dwarf.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!