Tell Me About Texas a&m

[Vic Mackey 47,960]

Funny. Didn't aggy claim they were Big 12 champs even though they did not even win their division? Heh

 

[Guest]

Fuck A&M.  Hell at least Texas actually won what they said they did.

[ButtFumble 5,287]

 

dermdoc

In reply to TXAggie2011 • 2:35p

 

AG

 

 

 

dermdoc said:

Listening to Kendall Rogers today he made it sound like we were getting either Schloss or Vitello.

And he also talked about the idiocy of a "life time" contract. What happens if Tadlock is 72, losing, and does not want to retire?

You are hosed.

TXAggie2011 said:

Tadlock's "lifetime" contract is in reality a multi year rolling contract meaning Tech can at some point choose to not renew it and make their way out of it.

It'll hurt to get out of if they decline to roll it over too late, because they'll probably have to make that call a few years ahead of his departure, late but it's not as big a deal (and potential problem) as the name makes it sound.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Still smacks of something Tech has to do. And not us or LSU.

 

 

hahahahaha when you are void of self awareness

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/8/22/17769874/jimbo-fisher-texas-a-m-contract

 

Jimbo Fisher’s $75 million A&M contract is even more hilariously one-sided than you thought

If another team wants to hire Fisher away, that school won’t owe the Aggies a dime.

Jimbo Fisher’s 10-year, $75 million contract with Texas A&M is fully guaranteed, making it the richest guarantee ever in one college football coaching deal.

A&M seems to have a hard time with buyout negotiations, generally.

Kevin Sumlin, the coach the Aggies fired to hire Fisher, had a $10.4 million buyout. Unlike most coaching contracts, his didn’t have offset language that shrank A&M’s obligations if he got a job elsewhere. So now Sumlin is getting paid millions to be the head coach at Arizona, and A&M still had to pay him everything it otherwise would’ve.

 

[msucolt45 4,232]

Deep down aggy is just sad that Tadlock would rather be at TECH that beloved collie station.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2,779]

Funny. Didn't aggy claim they were Big 12 champs even though they did not even win their division? Heh
 

I don’t Twitter but I assume someone in that feed posted the wall of their football stadium in response.

[Deej 77,833]

aggy hardware vs UT's.

 

[lemonandaturd 4,289]

4 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

hahahahaha what a fucking asshole

Sat, Nov 13 @ Ole Miss (NOTE: Ole Miss plays Bama the week before A&M)

https://olemisssports.com/sports/football/schedule/2021

Nov 6 (Sat) TBA vs Liberty Oxford, Miss.

 

https://fbschedules.com/mississippi-state-football-schedule/

I am going to make my bold prediction that pirate mike does pirate mike things and loses at least 3 of 4 if not all 4 to LaTech, NCState, Memphis, and LSU then he kicks the shit out of aggy at aggy

They have Auburn penciled in as a win too.  Bo Nix may suck, but he is better than King and Calzada.  

[NeverMarryAStripper 22,304]

To be fair when that texaggy poster said that the SEC west champ was usually going to be the winner of the aggy/bama game with LSU sneaking in once every five years he was correct.  What he just doesn’t realize is that it will never be aggy

[Randolph Duke 4,034]

12 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

To be fair when that texaggy poster said that the SEC west champ was usually going to be the winner of the aggy/bama game with LSU sneaking in once every five years he was correct.  What he just doesn’t realize is that it will never be aggy

aggy hasn’t has two back-to-back seasons with a winning record in conference play since the late 1990s. 

The ags need to worry about just getting five conference wins this season before they get used to going toe-to-toe with Alabama to settle who wins the SEC West title. 

The ags are also crowing about Castiglione being unhappy about OU playing Nebraska at 11am on September 18. The ags love to belittle teams that play at 11am. Take one guess which other team has an 11am kickoff that same exact day. 

The ags are the dumbest white trash most of us will ever meet. 

Edited May 29, 2021 by Randolph Duke

[deadshank 24,654]

[Blotto 24,022]

Spydey's got it figured out....once word gets out that the winner gets the aggy gig, I expect to see fistfights between coaches almost every inning. a couple of them will probably wear A&M caps in game. 

[Nope 3,151]

10 hours ago, Blotto said:

Spydey's got it figured out....once word gets out that the winner gets the aggy gig, I expect to see fistfights between coaches almost every inning. a couple of them will probably wear A&M caps in game. 

Just release a sheep in lingerie out onto the field and see which coach chases it

[Dennis Taylor 19,357]

17 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

 

dermdoc

In reply to TXAggie2011 • 2:35p

 

AG

 

 

 

dermdoc said:

Listening to Kendall Rogers today he made it sound like we were getting either Schloss or Vitello.

And he also talked about the idiocy of a "life time" contract. What happens if Tadlock is 72, losing, and does not want to retire?

You are hosed.

TXAggie2011 said:

Tadlock's "lifetime" contract is in reality a multi year rolling contract meaning Tech can at some point choose to not renew it and make their way out of it.

It'll hurt to get out of if they decline to roll it over too late, because they'll probably have to make that call a few years ahead of his departure, late but it's not as big a deal (and potential problem) as the name makes it sound.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Still smacks of something Tech has to do. And not us or LSU.

 

 

hahahahaha when you are void of self awareness

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/8/22/17769874/jimbo-fisher-texas-a-m-contract

 

Jimbo Fisher’s $75 million A&M contract is even more hilariously one-sided than you thought

If another team wants to hire Fisher away, that school won’t owe the Aggies a dime.

Jimbo Fisher’s 10-year, $75 million contract with Texas A&M is fully guaranteed, making it the richest guarantee ever in one college football coaching deal.

A&M seems to have a hard time with buyout negotiations, generally.

Kevin Sumlin, the coach the Aggies fired to hire Fisher, had a $10.4 million buyout. Unlike most coaching contracts, his didn’t have offset language that shrank A&M’s obligations if he got a job elsewhere. So now Sumlin is getting paid millions to be the head coach at Arizona, and A&M still had to pay him everything it otherwise 

Masters of negotiation they are not

[nnm 37,908]

Since TAMU is a branch of UT (as pointed out ad nauseum by RD), do you think they would like to borrow UT’s brand new NCAA women’s rowing championship to put in their empty hall of champions?  Or maybe UT’s men’s swimming and diving trophy from this year?

[Scheiss Meister 8,471]

9 hours ago, nnm said:

Since TAMU is a branch of UT (as pointed out ad nauseum by RD), do you think they would like to borrow UT’s brand new NCAA women’s rowing championship to put in their empty hall of champions?  Or maybe UT’s men’s swimming and diving trophy from this year?

They would most likely want the Women's Golf trophy, since Texas stole "their" coach to win it.

[ButtFumble 5,287]

35 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

They would most likely want the Women's Golf trophy, since Texas stole "their" coach to win it.

Texas did not steal the coach aggy just ran out of time to go to the aTm to get more money to pay him and build better facilities

[Randolph Duke 4,034]

10 hours ago, nnm said:

Since TAMU is a branch of UT (as pointed out ad nauseum by RD), do you think they would like to borrow UT’s brand new NCAA women’s rowing championship to put in their empty hall of champions?  Or maybe UT’s men’s swimming and diving trophy from this year?

It's not just that TAMU is legally a branch of UT Austin, that fact is something that is strictly never spoken of in Texas political circles or by administrators at UT or A&M.

Discussing the subject is one of the "third rails" of Texas politics for the simple reason that acknowledging that A&M is, was, and eternally will be a branch of The University risks discussion of what else in aggy "history" is a complete lie.

If knowledge ever gets introduced into aggy culture, the reaction would be as if half a million voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Texas A&M is the only institution of higher education I can think of whose existence is dependent on the perpetuation of ignorance. Mostly because the students and alumni Texas A&M are judged largely emotionally incapable of processing historical facts.

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

I met some new neighbors yesterday. Bought a couple of dining chairs off of Facebook Marketplace, and met this nice couple from a farm a couple of miles up the road. She's an accountant, he's an artist, and they have all sorts of interesting stuff around the place. Turns out, they met in Amarillo a few years ago; he'd lived there for a while.

I knew we'd be friends right away, because his first question was, "You're not an aggy, are you? No? Thank God. Those people are weird."

[Randolph Duke 4,034]

Seeing how this is Memorial Day, it seems a reasonable day to bring up how the aggy dumbfucks, in re-writing history into essentially a white trash fantasy tale, completely miss true and impressive aspects of history.

Earl Rudder at D-Day is a favorite aggy trope. Yes, Rudder was on the beach at Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day as C.O. of 2nd Ranger Battalion. The group Rudder lead on the beach was Force A. Force B was to capture Pointe-et-Raz-de-la-Percee, Force C was the reserve. Pointe-du-Hoc is actually the dividing point between Omaha and Utah beaches.

What no aggy understands (facts don't matter to aggys) is that Rudder wasn't supposed to be on the beach that day. His assignment was to be on the command ship (USS Ancon) coordinating the actions of Force A, B and C.

Maj. Cleveland Lytle was originally assigned as C.O. of Force A. By early June, it was well known by those planning the invasion (including Rudder) there were no German artillery pieces on the top of the cliffs at Pointe-du-Hoc.

On the night of June 5, before the troops left Weymouth for Normandy, Lytle and some other Ranger officers were pounding whiskey, partially to deal with nerves and partially to celebrate promotions of various officers that had just been made official.

Knowing there were no German guns at the heights of Pointe-du-Hoc and that the Rangers were about to attempt a very challenging assignment and men were going to get killed for no real reason, a drunk Lytle lost his shit, had to be restrained by his fellow officers, and punched the battalion medical officer. Upon hearing of this, Rudder immediately relieved Lytle of command.

The problem was this left no one with a complete enough understanding of the mission to be capable of leading the assault from the beach. So literally at the last minute, Rudder stepped in and took personal command of the assault on Pointe-du-Hoc. This, of course, lead to a lack of coordination between the three Ranger groups, but that is a story for another day. (In the run-up to D-Day, Pointe-du-Hoc was to be subjected to a quantity of high explosives equal to that of that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.)

So while King Gill pretty much did nothing, Rudder literally stepped forward when called by his country and risked his life to lead his men in one of the epic battles of history. Being aggys, they erased from aggy history the backstory of why Rudder was on the beach in the first place. It is FAR more impressive to step forward at the last minute to storm Omaha Beach on D-Day than to stand around with a dozen other substitutes during an exhibition football game and not even getting his uniform dirty, but aggys have to aggy. They picked which story of "answering the call at a moment of need" they wanted and being aggys they picked the fake one.

Rudder knew the artillery pieces on Pointe-du-hoc had been replaced with telephone poles meant to look like guns but he realized the plans had progressed too far to start changing them. It was the Maisy battery artillery that actually threatened the beach that day, not the telephone poles on Pointe-du-Hoc. The guns of the Maisy battery were objective #6 in Rudder's orders but were not silenced until after Rudder and his men had been relieved.

To this day, aggy politicians are still trying to get Earl Rudder's Distinguished Service Cross upgraded to a Medal of Honor, but because the attack was on a dummy installation and for other reasons believed to include the execution of German prisoners by Rudder's men, the request has never been granted.

News story of aggys trying to upgrade Rudder's DSC 70 years after the fact:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Politicians-seek-Medal-of-Honor-for-the-late-3466333.php

Picture is of Normandy beaches in Spring 1944

[Crapinon 2,373]

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be serious or not because I only made it 30 seconds before I considered piercing my eardrums and turned it off. 

 

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 22,304]

I read this a while ago

 

[JMFP 1,126]

54 minutes ago, Crapinon said:

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be serious or not because I only made it 30 seconds before I considered piercing my eardrums and turned it off. 

 

 

 

 

I also just heard about some girl eating a list at the ticket window on campus! Those wacky aggys...

[SHOOTER12 8,886]

1 hour ago, Crapinon said:

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be serious or not because I only made it 30 seconds before I considered piercing my eardrums and turned it off. 

 

 

Just negged you before I leave to kill myself....

[Homesickhorn 2,219]

NSIAP

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

so I guess this year, it's "man who cares about BASEBALL, college baseball ain't shit" for the Aggies this year

Edited June 1, 2021 by SwanderedTalent

[DaggerHorns 3,170]

4 hours ago, Crapinon said:

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be serious or not because I only made it 30 seconds before I considered piercing my eardrums and turned it off. 

 

 

One of you dickheads needs to make some gifs of the sul Ross statue worship from this video. 
 

That would be internet worthy for a few different message boards.

[NoName 17,148]

On 5/28/2021 at 5:00 PM, ButtFumble said:

 

dermdoc

In reply to TXAggie2011 • 2:35p

 

AG

 

 

 

dermdoc said:

Listening to Kendall Rogers today he made it sound like we were getting either Schloss or Vitello.

And he also talked about the idiocy of a "life time" contract. What happens if Tadlock is 72, losing, and does not want to retire?

You are hosed.

TXAggie2011 said:

Tadlock's "lifetime" contract is in reality a multi year rolling contract meaning Tech can at some point choose to not renew it and make their way out of it.

It'll hurt to get out of if they decline to roll it over too late, because they'll probably have to make that call a few years ahead of his departure, late but it's not as big a deal (and potential problem) as the name makes it sound.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Still smacks of something Tech has to do. And not us or LSU.

 

 

hahahahaha when you are void of self awareness

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/8/22/17769874/jimbo-fisher-texas-a-m-contract

 

Jimbo Fisher’s $75 million A&M contract is even more hilariously one-sided than you thought

If another team wants to hire Fisher away, that school won’t owe the Aggies a dime.

Jimbo Fisher’s 10-year, $75 million contract with Texas A&M is fully guaranteed, making it the richest guarantee ever in one college football coaching deal.

A&M seems to have a hard time with buyout negotiations, generally.

Kevin Sumlin, the coach the Aggies fired to hire Fisher, had a $10.4 million buyout. Unlike most coaching contracts, his didn’t have offset language that shrank A&M’s obligations if he got a job elsewhere. So now Sumlin is getting paid millions to be the head coach at Arizona, and A&M still had to pay him everything it otherwise would’ve.

 

IIRC Sumlin also had a lump sum payment if he got fired vs paying it out over X months or years.

[LW Goatman 1,129]

 

 

[Randolph Duke 4,034]

Here is a thread that exemplifies aggy racism.

"WestTexasAg 5:08p AG

 Really bizarre that most of us had never heard of this before. I have been reading up on it to learn. Lots of differing info."

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3202255/1

 

None of the aggys were ever exposed to the Jaybird-Woodpecker War. Or the atrocities of the election of 1886. When you attend Texas A&M you are immersed in a fairy tale world of fake military heroes and insulated from facts such as the promotion of KKK Klan 48 rallies at Texas A&M home football games.

 

Of course none of the aggys have ever heard of racial atrocities. When your "education" fills you with fairy tales and omits the details of how despicable your racist predecessors were you understandably tend to never have heard of racial atrocities.

 

This "we weren't ever taught about racism at fish camp, therefore racism never existed at Texas A&M" crap needs to die a quick death.

 

Ask an aggy how many students they murdered when the drunken rednecks let their bonfire stack collapse. They will insist it was a tragedy.

 

Ask them how many innocent blacks died at Tulsa and they will call it "an obscure ethnic clash."

 

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3202255/replies/59397447

 

Fuck Texas A&M. We have tolerated their racist hatred long enough.

 

aggys deserve to be in the S!E!C! where the rest of the racist white trash congregate.

 

And before anyone gives me crap for mocking the aggys, they chose Jefferson Fucking Davis as the first president of their school.  By his own daughter's words Sul Ross was a white supremacist. After the Supreme Court passed down Brown v Board the aggy students held a vote and announced they would not accept that decree.

 

It is difficult to identify a more racist culture than that of Texas A&M.

 

The greatest advancement in education and culture the state of Texas could make is wiping Texas A&M from the face of the Earth.

 

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

 

Seriously.

Edited June 2, 2021 by Randolph Duke

[Jersey Man10 3,801]

Fuck aggy. I hate them so much.

[Viper 12,220]

On 3/30/2021 at 9:38 AM, Randolph Duke said:

Amazing. Simply amazing.

was reminded of this today

 

[Horn80 6,361]

On 4/16/2021 at 11:53 AM, Randolph Duke said:

After the ags killed those 12 kids on the school's campus, federal investigators looking into the matter concluded one of the main factors in those kids being crushed was the aggy cultural defect that "impedes risk identification."

As an entire culture, one of their main identifying characteristics is difficulty  in properly identifying risk.

has any aggy ever spoken on why aggys seem to have this difficulty far more than others? Has any aggy administrator ever expressed a belief that being able to reasonably identify various risks is an important life skill?

Does anyone believe aggys will ever reform their culture so future generations will finally have an ability to reasonably assess various risks in life, thus possibly enabling those individuals to enjoy more productive lives?

I find staining an entire culture in the way federal investigators did to be quite damning. It is utterly negligent of John Sharp and every other aggy administrator to never have addressed this cultural defect. But I guess the inability of aggys to properly identify risk impedes their ability to understand the problems inherent to their cultural defect.

Just a thought. The jon boat story clearly shows there are aggys who have no ability whatsoever to assess the risk in their actions. Good ol' texags political forum shows every day the struggle aggys have to understand the Covid-19 pandemic.

I guess the saddest part of aggy is they continuously constitute a material danger to themselves and others. They are oblivious to the dangers they pose to themselves and others and in fact insist it doesn't exist.

Yet, twelve kids are dead, and countless other aggy lives have unquestionably been needlessly lost since the bonfire "tragedy" due to the aggy cultural defect. aggy parents continue to insist their kids attend a school that will inevitably leave their kids utterly unprepared to safely and effectively deal with the various risks of life. And the aggys continue to insist the definition "world class education" permits such gaping holes in one's ability to navigate the basic elements of modern life.

Remember back when we laughed that John Sharp was placed in charge of the state's flood "recovery?" One of the very few things John Sharp has done is take the Texas Division of Emergency Management taken from DPS oversight and made part of the Texas A&M System. Taken away from "Public Safety" professionals and made part of the state's trade school.

Thanks, John. We all feel safer knowing the DPS has been removed from the state's emergency preparedness and aggys have been put in charge.

How's that working out for Texas so far?

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

 

If only A&M had an Engineering School this tragedy could have been prevented.

[texifornia 59,017]

 

[Scheiss Meister 8,471]

How do we go about removing any association between aggy and the State of Texas?  Remove all state funding and make them stop using the name of the state on any of their property or merchandise.  Totally disassociate with them.  They are an embarrassment to our state, and we need to disown them.

[Armybrat 41,408]

Transfer their school charter to Alabama.

[TexMexBuddha 998]

I met some new neighbors yesterday. Bought a couple of dining chairs off of Facebook Marketplace, and met this nice couple from a farm a couple of miles up the road. She's an accountant, he's an artist, and they have all sorts of interesting stuff around the place. Turns out, they met in Amarillo a few years ago; he'd lived there for a while.
I knew we'd be friends right away, because his first question was, "You're not an aggy, are you? No? Thank God. Those people are weird."

This is like the anti-matter equivalent of the aggy visiting fan post.

[Zeus 6,864]

6 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

How do we go about removing any association between aggy and the State of Texas?  Remove all state funding and make them stop using the name of the state on any of their property or merchandise.  Totally disassociate with them.  They are an embarrassment to our state, and we need to disown them.

Force them to join three SEC and become a permanent over hyped bottom feeder with an over paid chicken shit loser head coach.

[deadshank 24,654]

12 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Transfer their school charter to Alabama.

Can the state of Alabama handle to A&M Bulldogs?

I say give it stab. 

[RamjetFDO 10,654]

So ... when the Space Shuttle program wrapped up, there was a distribution of program artifacts to various museums across the country.  Of course, aggy-being-aggy, they lobbied *HARD* to get something to show how connected they were to the space program.

They were granted a pretty substantial allocation by being given the Shuttle Motion Base simulator (a full six-degree-of-freedom simulator used throughout the entire program).  This was a BIG DEAL and had aggy actually done something with it, it would've been a fairly big feather in their Texum Bulldogs cap.

However - the only way to describe what actually happened is "aggy".

It was delivered to CS in 2012 and promptly sat in boxes gathering dust for almost a decade - for at least awhile in non-climate-controlled buildings.  It even has an entry on aggypedia where they claimed "lack of funds", even though they had been required to show they had full funding for displaying this artifact before they were granted award of it.

WELL!  FINALLY!  A group in Houston has raised private funds and saved this incredible piece of Shuttle crew training history and is in the process of having it returned it to Houston.  The first shipment is being unboxed now (literally this week) and will be set up in the Lone Star Flight Museum at Ellington AFB at some point in the near future (LSFM is about 15 minutes away from JSC).  Had aggy not fucked it up so badly, this could've been a major attraction *YEARS* ago.  Now, some old friends (including a number of volunteers who used to actually work daily with the simulators) are unboxing to see what damage has been done by aggy negligence.

[South Austin 53,227]

They didn't lose the Shuttle Motion Base simulator, they just ran out of climate-controlled storage space.

[MAUFRAIS 6,740]

only problem is now it has one of those big bronze stars from buccees on the side.

[Deej 77,833]

Feel badly for the people having to clean the old jizz off that simulator. 

"This ain't no sheep motion simulator. Box it back up."

Edited June 3, 2021 by Deej

[Dennis Taylor 19,357]

 

[Homesickhorn 2,219]

They didn't lose the Shuttle Motion Base simulator, they just ran out of climate-controlled storage space.

[mchookem 16,769]

On 6/2/2021 at 3:00 PM, texifornia said:

 

[tejas60 3,560]

7 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

 

does CFB Home even Tupac, bruh?

[Elmer_Fudd 22,994]

https://www.secrant.com/rant/sec-football/jimbo-is-about-to-pants-the-whole-conference/96630555/

[markstanco 12,789]

On 6/3/2021 at 7:06 AM, RamjetFDO said:

So ... when the Space Shuttle program wrapped up, there was a distribution of program artifacts to various museums across the country.  Of course, aggy-being-aggy, they lobbied *HARD* to get something to show how connected they were to the space program.

They were granted a pretty substantial allocation by being given the Shuttle Motion Base simulator (a full six-degree-of-freedom simulator used throughout the entire program).  This was a BIG DEAL and had aggy actually done something with it, it would've been a fairly big feather in their Texum Bulldogs cap.

However - the only way to describe what actually happened is "aggy".

It was delivered to CS in 2012 and promptly sat in boxes gathering dust for almost a decade - for at least awhile in non-climate-controlled buildings.  It even has an entry on aggypedia where they claimed "lack of funds", even though they had been required to show they had full funding for displaying this artifact before they were granted award of it.

WELL!  FINALLY!  A group in Houston has raised private funds and saved this incredible piece of Shuttle crew training history and is in the process of having it returned it to Houston.  The first shipment is being unboxed now (literally this week) and will be set up in the Lone Star Flight Museum at Ellington AFB at some point in the near future (LSFM is about 15 minutes away from JSC).  Had aggy not fucked it up so badly, this could've been a major attraction *YEARS* ago.  Now, some old friends (including a number of volunteers who used to actually work daily with the simulators) are unboxing to see what damage has been done by aggy negligence.

That is awesome (the last part of course).  Will the sim be setup in the museum where people can actually 'fly' it to see what it is like for an astronaut? 

[Royale with cheese 1,491]

20 minutes ago, markstanco said:

That is awesome (the last part of course).  Will the sim be setup in the museum where people can actually 'fly' it to see what it is like for an astronaut? 

Not aggys; they'd fly it into the ground. 

[RamjetFDO 10,654]

53 minutes ago, markstanco said:

That is awesome (the last part of course).  Will the sim be setup in the museum where people can actually 'fly' it to see what it is like for an astronaut? 

Sadly, no -- the "motion base" portion of it won't be set up.  It'll be a static display where you can "peek into" the cockpit (looks and functions *EXACTLY* like the real thing, as you'd expect).

It's a shame, actually ... it's one of the most cool things I've ever experienced.