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re: Watching Home Alone

Posted by messyjesse on 12/8/25 at 1:24 am to
The church scene is serious movie magic. It'd be an Oscar-worthy short film on its own.
Hot take. 3 losses should automatically disqualify you, no matter when or where they occur.

re: CFBP Top 12 predictions

Posted by messyjesse on 12/6/25 at 11:17 pm to
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1. Indiana


God this is surreal. I watched Wisconsin hang 83 on this program once upon a time :lol:
Funny thing is they haven't looked like underdogs at all. They're positively bullying teams.
UGA at 2 for sure.

Tech at 3 wouldn't be controversial in my mind. They've been rolling.

OSU at 4 is fine. They're rolling into the playoffs off a loss, very much like last year. They'll still be favored over everyone, including IU.
IU's going punch for punch so far.

Similar to the UM game though, OSU just refuses to give up the end zone. IU hanging around won't mean shite if they don't get paydirt.
Dude dropped that ball almost as soon as he caught it. How many steps/moves do you need to do to establish control?
In DIII, Wisconsin-Whitewater and Mount Union met in the Stagg Bowl 9 out of 10 seasons from 2005 to 2014.
You're doing great and there's a lot of good advice here.

What do you have set aside for your kids? Any amount you throw at your oldest today will have almost doubled by the time they're 18 if historical trends/Rule of 72 are any indication. 529s can be a good option. The new 530As (the Trump accounts) look attractive too.
What the frick were they even trying to do? 4th and 1 and you run PA 10 yards behind the LOS?
OSU's WRs are better on the whole but Indiana's got an elite group too. That game-winning TD against PSU was the kind of catch you usually only trust an NFL All-Pro to make. And that was Indiana's #3 guy.
The games that were designed for the Wii U play better than their ports. MK8 and SM3DW come to mind for me. I really didn't care for the Switch version of either of them. Bayonetta 2 was originally a Wii U exclusive too, not sure how well it ported.
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We share a checking, savings, and retirement accounts not tied to our employers. We each have one credit card that the other doesn't have access to. We touch base weekly on our current balances and pay them off every month. It's worked well for us the last 8 years.


This almost word-for-word describes our situation as well. Been married 12 years.

re: Natty on Monday nights

Posted by messyjesse on 11/16/25 at 1:52 pm to
With an advertised 8:30 PM EST kickoff time*.

* the ball isn't actually kicked for another 27 minutes.
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It might just be me, but this season feels very…generic. Like none of it matters. I still try to follow along on ESPN.com and the MSB, but I haven’t watched any games since September.

I’m sure it’s interesting on some level but I’m just not on that level I guess.


I've made the comment before that OSU/Michigan was the ultimate "frick you" rivalry because losing that game has historically killed your season, and UM and OSU have fricked each other out of probably half a dozen NCs over the last 60 years. But last year... it didn't matter. OSU lost that game, shrugged it off and won the NC anyway. (Avenging a loss to Oregon on the way too.) None of the regular season matchups mattered.

Think of the Kick Six. People remember that so fondly not just because of how crazy it was but because it flipped the dynamic of that entire season. Bama's hopes were killed, Auburn's were renewed. If that play had happened today, Bama still gets into the playoff so what the frick would it have mattered?
What counts as major?

In August 1991 I was 4. I was in a daycare in the basement where they had a TV on wheels that was usually turned off. On this day it was turned on and for some reason it was tuned to the news with breaking coverage about the Warsaw radio mast collapse. That's always stuck with me.

Kurt Cobain killed himself in '94. I have a very vague memory of Kurt Loder on MTV News announcing Cobain's death but that might have been archival footage from something else I watched a few years after.

I definitely remember the OKC bombing coverage live.
Nobody really knows for sure how she sank. One of the prevailing theories is that she was thrown up, over, and down a rogue wave so violently that her bow smashed into the bottom of the lake while her stern was still above water. There's a decent chance that the sinking and breakup happened so quickly that the crew were still alive for a short time at the bottom of Lake Superior. :speechless:

I dunno man, when I think of ships sinking I imagine the deck flooding, the slow list, the gradual "slip away into the sea" kinda deal. Imagining a ship that size just being destroyed by mother nature in a few seconds is next-level shite. I can't imagine very many more terrifying ways to die.
That was snapped at midfield. Touchbacks are spotted at the 35. Imagine trying to scheme against a 2-minute offense that only has to move 15 yards :lol: