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I'm not that interested to watch, but I am curious why does the Academy have a ship? Is that just a captains chair in a simulator or does the faculty actually have a ship?

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That's pretty standard. SUNY Maritime College has a ship.

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Helen of Troy was fair skinned, blonde, and ‘the face that launched a thousand ships’

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You know who else is fair-skinned, you fricking Ugmo? The best software developers.

Interesting take.

The big TV networks, the NFL, and the pharmaceutical industry all seem to be throwing money back-and-forth in a sort of symbiotic relationship that I don't think (or hope) is sustainable.

Do we really all love broadcast TV, psoriasis pills, and NFL "football" all that much? Everyone I know just sort of tolerates these things as inevitable.

I used to think that we needed at least one developed nation to have a for-profit healthcare system, or innovation would cease. Now that I see the form taken by this innovation (lots of pills for scab-picking "eczema sufferers" and chicks who think they shite too much while real disease continues to run rampant), I am not so sure anymore.

The whole system seems unsustainable to me. You can probably throw in the big IT consultants, too, with their breathless go-nowhere TV golf promises.

There's not enough value in there for it to last. It's an ultra-high-stakes shell game.

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Southern Yacht Club, Baw.

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I was "Best Skipper" there one year at summer camp.

Also, someone said something about "Lake Vista NIMBYs" and that is a real phenomenon. I remember when Renaldo Turnbull built an ostentatious there and we all just about lost our minds

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Hilarious. I know her. Definitely showing her this thread.

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If it makes her feel any better, you can tell her Porpus would gladly take her for a ride.

She looks ready to host one of her signature Candlelight Suppers.

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Is it legal to have sex with an autistic person?

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That's highly situational, but I can tell you one thing: I would absolutely WRECK that Dani chick from Love on the Spectrum. Madison and Journey could get it, too. Pari would only get to sit in the cuck chair. I don't care for her.

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Hope she loses her pension and is discharge dishonorably

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I, on the other hand, wish her continued success in her military career, since I'm a kind, decent person and traffic stops are unconstitutional and unethical regardless.

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Walmart? That's probably not even the weirdest thing she saw in the produce section that day, much less the rest of the store and parking lot.

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"Nice" stores aren't immune to crackpots. There's a Publix in Sandy Springs, GA right near North Springs HS that's super-nice. One time I saw a guy wearing what I can only describe as "full Renaissance garb" berating the kid at the customer service desk over God only knows what. (And no, it wasn't a Knights of Columbus uniform. It did include a cape, though )

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Want to get happy hour at that golf place next to the apartment complex, logistics company, and railroad?

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The Director of Zoning for Houston, Cal Ripken's backup, and Lena Dunhan's personal trainer walked into a bar...

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Skipping over the whole cover up and attacking victims part of you supporting child molestation.

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It's always the cover-up, right? That's another aspect of our culture these last few decades that I don't completely buy into.

Look at the post I was responding to, which basically said this was the worst crime perpetrated by a powerful organization ever. How is that even remotely close to true? Look at the shite governments have done to their own people just in the last 100 years.

And it's the cover-up? The Chinese Communist Party is harvesting organs from ethnic minorities for the profit and convenience of its leaders, but boy oh boy heaven forbid a couple of scared bureaucrats shred a frickin' memo.

Everything about this is just so distorted. There was a guy on this board in another thread like this recently who called himself a victim of a Catholic priest but then openly admitted his claim was based on repressed / recovered memories. People here were lapping it up without objection, but that's not how memories of truly traumatic events work, at all!

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There was some great vandalism on his wiki page:

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I hadn't known he wrote for Pravda.

People like having a villain class. It can be the commies, or the Jews, or the homos, Jazz musicians, or whatever.

I do think that vilifying kid-diddling perverts is more justifiable than throwing a whole race under the bus. IDK about religion... the distinction there is less clear to me. If you worship 94 different gods and they're all weird monstrous creatures, or if you name your god "Satan" because the other guys think he's bad, then IMO you've got it coming- maybe not to the extent a pedophile does, but don't expect the rest of us to just accept that.

Similar with sexual orientation. Claiming you're married to another man might not be as bad as being a pedophile, but it's not right, either.

When you accept all the other stuff as normal, I guess you're left vilifying pedophiles- because there has to be a villain or the normies will get restless.

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Awful rules and turning out exactly as expected. No group of 5 team is ever going to win a playoff game against a P4 playoff team

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I'm not watching the same handful of SEC and Big Ten teams over and over again. That bores me. Like, you watch all these interminable rounds of playoff football and at the end you can really, really say with great accuracy "those guys really are the best at tossing around a pigskin?" Who cares? What does that get us that's good?

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I understand the criticism but Will's HC experience was at USM which is easily among the least resourced schools in the country. That's why Huff was looking to get out immediately.

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USM and Tulane are more similar when it comes to resources than you might imagine. Tulane hired Bob Toledo and then sent him and his team to play Rice on a Greyhound bus. Yeah, they've got a bunch of money in their endowment, but they're hamstrung when it comes to spending it on football, probably by a bunch of faculty senate blue-haired weirdos.

USM doesn't have a big endowment like Tulane, but they don't lean on student athletic fees to the extent most other G5 schools do, and you can see they've got money when you look at how they've built up their physical plant. All that poor-mouthing their athletic department people do really is shameful. They turn right around and brag about how cheap they were all year on their own performance reviews. If Reed Green Coliseum were used by the Department of Social Work instead of the basketball team, it would be a state-of-the-art facility. That's just the mentality there. It's a public school that wants to be Agnes Scott College or Sewanee or something.

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There is no fund.

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The hell there isn't. There's a fund, and I own a big chunk of it, and your Yankee government owes it a shitload of money. Pay up, bitch.