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| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Jawja |
| Biography: | King of the normies. |
| Interests: | God, wife and kids. In that order. |
| Occupation: | Professional data nerd. |
| Number of Posts: | 3067 |
| Registered on: | 12/3/2023 |
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You can’t possibly know enough about someone in 6 months to decide you want to spend the rest of your life with them.
That’s plenty of time unless all you two are doing together is staring at each other’s private parts.
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re: How long did it take you to know your spouse was marriage material? Study says 172 days
Posted by Dadren on 12/9/25 at 7:49 am to dyslexiateechur
I was 17 when we met, married at 20.
In terms of her being “marriage material”, pretty quick, way less than a year. Probably a few months, even at that age.
But for me to actually start thinking about us being married, probably two years.
I guess what I’m saying is “you know before you know”, if that makes any sense. :lol:
In terms of her being “marriage material”, pretty quick, way less than a year. Probably a few months, even at that age.
But for me to actually start thinking about us being married, probably two years.
I guess what I’m saying is “you know before you know”, if that makes any sense. :lol:
When women say “they dress that way for themselves”, they’re half-correct.
The proximate motivation is actually to compete with other women. This is how female social hierarchies work. The problem is that it’s not clear what exactly they’re competing for, because what they get is the attention of hard leggers they actually don’t want anything to do with.
Older women used to slut-shame. That effectively served as a limiter to the “higher-end of slut dressing” for most women. This allowed for the female competition to function, similar to how salary caps in sports keep things from getting stupid.
Once that became “frowned upon”, well, things got stupid.
The proximate motivation is actually to compete with other women. This is how female social hierarchies work. The problem is that it’s not clear what exactly they’re competing for, because what they get is the attention of hard leggers they actually don’t want anything to do with.
Older women used to slut-shame. That effectively served as a limiter to the “higher-end of slut dressing” for most women. This allowed for the female competition to function, similar to how salary caps in sports keep things from getting stupid.
Once that became “frowned upon”, well, things got stupid.
re: Burrow needs to leave Cincinnati ASAP
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 3:29 pm to PP7 for heisman
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He had no choice.
Far too many people on this board don't know how the NFLPA or NBAPA work.
Couldn't he have asked for a trade prior to signing his big contract? Or force the Bengals to tag him until he could leave like Cousins?
I’ll admit I’m not an NFPLA expert but I thought signing contracts was voluntary.
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Also, the Bengals have cap space. This isn't a case where they're over the cap and are limited. They have $11MM in space. They could convert salaries to bonuses like the saints did. There are a million ways around the "cap" and the Bengals haven't taken advantage of any of them.
Well that’s my point. For whatever reason the Bengals aren’t doing everything they can to build a winning roster. That’s been true for a while and he should have known that.
re: Burrow needs to leave Cincinnati ASAP
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 2:53 pm to TigersHuskers
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he will never be successful on this trash arse franchise. Ownership doesn't give a frick about winning
All of this was true when he took his big payday.
I’d love to see him win more but this is what he wanted.
re: A full season with Shadeur
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 2:51 pm to JerryTheKingBawler
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but Shadeur finna be a problem with the experience from this season and an entire offseason as QB1.
If this Dude’s last name was Smith, he wouldn’t sniff being on the front page of ESPN and any mention of the Brown’s QB situation would revolve around them drafting a QB next year and sending “Smith” back to the bench.
Prime’s football career seems to have purchased him and his sons a crap ton of ability to pass off mediocrity as awesomeness, and that’s not even me throwing shade. It’s legit impressive.
re: A Christmas Story Question
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 10:51 am to StrongOffer
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Most overrated Christmas movie by far. Other than nostalgia by people who grew up in that era, the movie isn’t very good
I just don’t understand this take.
I can maybe see someone saying that it was “good for its time, but not great today”. I’d disagree but at least I’d get where you’re coming from.
The movie was and still is a cultural phenomenon. Literally everyone remembers at least a line from it. It’s funny and relatable even today. How does that not make it good?
re: The college football playoff is rubbish
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 8:35 am to WaydownSouth
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No, its actually a terrible system, especially now with conferences that are too big for everyone to play each other.
Texas Tech and A&M deserve a shot to play for a national title
Why does Alabama get a shot to play Georgia and Texas A&M doesn't when they broke a tie based on them not even playing each other?
Conference championships are stupid. Eliminate them and expand the playoffs to 16-24 teams
IMO, any discussion of what the CFP needs to be has to start with what it’s trying to accomplish.
If the goal is something like “reward the best and/or most deserving teams with a post-season tournament”, then I suppose there’s no limit to the “expand the playoffs argument”…because who knows what “best” or “most deserving” means.
If the goal is to determine a CFB champion, we absolutely don’t need more teams while we have reasonably intelligent people currently debating the validity of including James Madison and Duke.
re: The college football playoff is rubbish
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 7:52 am to CecilShortsHisPants
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Are you seriously not interested to see Texas Tech square up with the big boys and see what they’re made of? Come on
Sure, but you could implement a four-team playoff right now using BCS rankings and get TT vs IU and UGA vs OSU.
IMO, that’s really all you need if the goal is purely to determine a champion. If you can’t play your way into the top four, you simply did not do enough in the regular season, which would once again become relevant along with conference championships.
Everyone else should be jockeying for the best bowl game they can get into.
re: The college football playoff is rubbish
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 7:40 am to CecilShortsHisPants
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Yea, I remember when the media used to jam it down our throats that they mattered, but I had the wisdom to realize it was all balogna.
Then you’re remembering wrong, because it mattered to the players, coaches and it meant more money going to the schools as well.
re: The college football playoff is rubbish
Posted by Dadren on 12/7/25 at 7:36 am to CecilShortsHisPants
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Never understood this logic. In the BCS era, 95% of games after week 10 are irrelevant. But every game mattered right? The frick you talking about?
Those games did matter, because bowl invitations mattered. Remember when “New Year’s 6” used to be a thing?
This Frankenstein mess of a playoff system not only killed the relevance of bowls, it basically killed much of the regular season, because losing big games no longer means much and non-playoff teams winning “lesser games” no longer means anything.
quote:quote:That's not a playoff, it's an invitational.
The goal should be to get the best 12 teams.
It’s not if we scrap the dumb committees, goofy auto-bids and reinstate the BCS model.
Top 12 ranked teams go. It really should be that simple.
re: 18 year old Arizona teen swiftly arrested after epic bike stunt
Posted by Dadren on 12/5/25 at 4:51 pm to Rockabilly Hoodlum
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Campbell was charged with a misdemeanor for reckless driving
“Well, technically officer, I was flying, not driving”.
I’ll give you a “sorta-non-bible-thumping-ish” reason to stay away from this.
As a Christian, you know that God is a God of both order and goodness (He demonstrates this in Genesis when He literally organizes existence and declares that ordered state to be “good”).
By definition, this means any physical or metaphysical phenomenon outside of what God creates/blesses/supports is disordered and not-good.
If it’s disordered, it’s chaotic and unpredictable. So you really have no idea what might happen if you interact with people doing this stuff. It’s not like you can just stand in the back and “be safe” because of your faith. You’re flying in a 777 filled with monkeys who are banging away at controls, buttons and levers, ripping panels off and flinging them around the cockpit and cabin. You have no idea what’s going to happen because they don’t know what they’re doing.
What you do know is that whatever happens will be spiritually chaotic and random. Maybe nothing happens. Maybe everyone who shows up to this thing is cursed for seven generations then dies a horrible death next week. Literally no upside. Don’t go.
As a Christian, you know that God is a God of both order and goodness (He demonstrates this in Genesis when He literally organizes existence and declares that ordered state to be “good”).
By definition, this means any physical or metaphysical phenomenon outside of what God creates/blesses/supports is disordered and not-good.
If it’s disordered, it’s chaotic and unpredictable. So you really have no idea what might happen if you interact with people doing this stuff. It’s not like you can just stand in the back and “be safe” because of your faith. You’re flying in a 777 filled with monkeys who are banging away at controls, buttons and levers, ripping panels off and flinging them around the cockpit and cabin. You have no idea what’s going to happen because they don’t know what they’re doing.
What you do know is that whatever happens will be spiritually chaotic and random. Maybe nothing happens. Maybe everyone who shows up to this thing is cursed for seven generations then dies a horrible death next week. Literally no upside. Don’t go.
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I'm torn. I feel strong enough in my faith that I'm protected, but I really don't want to be anywhere evil spirits are actively communicating with people around me.
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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass[a] through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
I think your instructions are pretty clear. You just have to decide what you really believe.
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"put up the statue or there will be.... Trouble"
You have twenty seconds to comply
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why not
in today’s world this doesnt seem smart
I consider it occasionally, but I’ve never been able to get comfortable with the idea of having one with small kids and I’ve never felt a strong need to own one. I didn’t grow up around them either.
I probably will in the future, so I try to pay attention and learn here and there.
EDIT: Also, since I’ve clearly said something that was very wrong, I probably have a lot to learn before I own one. :lol:
re: Extremely niche pet peeve. Mine could not be less important and stupid, I know.
Posted by Dadren on 12/4/25 at 8:19 am to sidewalkside
Some of the things that get under OT poster’s skin make me wonder how many people IRL are a side-eye away from driving a pickup through a crowd.
re: What are the advantages and disadvantages of attaining “Unc” status?
Posted by Dadren on 12/4/25 at 8:10 am to LSUTANGERINE
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Disadvantage - People calling you sir, and making you feel old.
Never understood why people seem to consider this a negative.
Everyone gets old if they’re lucky. Being respected is a bonus IMO.
Unc, pops, El Patron, I’m 45 and I’m good with any of it.
All they had to do was put it in the settings. Most people would not have bothered to go find it and those of us who hate it could just shut it off permanently.
They would have gotten at least some of the benefits that they believe the auto-shut off provides. Instead, they just pissed off a bunch of people who are now moving for it to be killed completely.
When environmentalist types implement something, I swear they try to do it in both the most ineffective and obnoxious way possible. :lol:
They would have gotten at least some of the benefits that they believe the auto-shut off provides. Instead, they just pissed off a bunch of people who are now moving for it to be killed completely.
When environmentalist types implement something, I swear they try to do it in both the most ineffective and obnoxious way possible. :lol:
re: Bullet ejected from gun, detonates at the shooters feet
Posted by Dadren on 12/3/25 at 4:52 pm to hawgfaninc
So it was chambered, then it popped out when he pulled the slide back?
I don’t own a gun so didn’t know that could even happen…let alone said round going off by hitting the ground. Wild and I’m glad nobody was hurt.
I don’t own a gun so didn’t know that could even happen…let alone said round going off by hitting the ground. Wild and I’m glad nobody was hurt.
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