https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Van

One of our cats is a turkish van. He’s mostly white with orange spots on his head & legs and orange stripes on his tail.

He’s certainly derpy enough, and we joke that he’s orange in spirit.

I once drove drunk. This was long enough ago the statute of limitations has expired. I shouldn’t have done it, I was really lucky that I didn’t hurt someone or get arrested. For the next 15ish years that I still drank, my limit was 1 drink if I was driving.

This was before Uber & Lyft were a thing, but I still could’ve made arrangements with the bar manager “look dude your bartenders kept serving me when I was visibly drunk, so let me leave my car here overnight without towing it so I can take a cab home, and I won’t say shit to anyone.”

Is it even possible to buy a tv nowadays that doesn’t have this crap?

I’d always heard if you’re presenting in front of a crowd and rip a fart, say something to the effect of “I was hoping to finish with a bang, not start with one.” But I’m not sure how relevant that is for OP’s situation.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness… that is life.”

I loved my parents, but once I was on my own I was happy to live a few hours drive away.

Would be interesting to see the methodology on this, or to see how much it has changed since this was published, or to see it broken down at a county level.

Thanks for finding & sharing the original, it’s a lot less gross than the caption supplied on this post.

Any idea what the original caption was?

Apology was for people offended by an aquarium using teen slang to connect with today’s youth.

Nandor the Relentless agrees with you

Transfer portal is something I forgot about.

I’m unfamiliar with the details of how it operates but I think it’s a good idea in general. After all, if non-athletes can transfer whenever they want, and if coaches can take a new job elsewhere without having to sit out, athletes should be able to move around too.

I am concerned for the vast majority of athletes who aren’t good enough to go pro, because of issues with getting transfer credits to count toward your degree plan, that they may have trouble finishing in four scholarship years.

I’m also concerned about the potential for abuse of the portal by unscrupulous coaches & athletics administrators.

The conference realignment is the hardest part for me to swallow.

Granted, I’m old enough that I was first paying attention to college football when the Southwest Conference was on its last legs. I miss having conferences that were based on regional rivalries and geographic proximity, instead of wringing every last dollar possible from TV contracts. In that aspect at least, it feels more like NFL-lite than a proper collegiate thing.

I’m all in favor of things that contribute toward player safety. I also don’t mind at all players having NIL rights and making money off that. I will admit to having concerns about direct player compensation and in effect making them employees of the university. Primarily, I’m worried that at schools which aren’t flush with athletics money, this could lead to non-revenue sports getting dropped, and could also risk Title IX implications in compensation parity among men’s & women’s athletics.

I went to a D3 school that didn’t have a football team, and in the context of the changing athletics landscape I’m glad I did. My alma mater does have an NIL policy for it’s athletes including timely disclosure of all details, and warnings about tax implications, but we aren’t ever going to be wealthy enough that we’ll pay direct compensation to student athletes.

I used to want one of these IR blaster things to kill tvs in waiting rooms, but then earbuds got better and cheaper and more generally useful.

I’m curious about whether the number of A-10s left in operational service exceeds the number depicted by the AI tool.

I agree on both counts

Lol. I was on that site for under a month total, before the plague. All it did was get me angry all the time and I miss it like I’d miss a case of the clap.

The text makes me wonder if they’re either a fan of a specific brand energy drink or if they’re advocating for metrication in the US.

The white font on black background plates aren’t bad looking. The black font on white background are boring as all getout and make me miss the old plates that had cowboys & space shuttles.

The car is kinda lame, in a generic “I have more money than sense and am not afraid to show it.”

This looks like eastbound Louetta Rd at Stablewood Farms in Cypress TX.

29.996855, -95.668944

Isn’t he the chomo that worked at Nickleodeon?