DBD 9.15.11 Why is everyone getting married?!
Note: It's 7 AM and there's no DBD. If you wanted to avoid another Rishi-style DBD, maybe you should have posted one. Your parents/spouse/children/cats will be very disappointed in you!
It seems like it was only a little over a month ago when I was preparing for my best friend's wedding and obsessing over what to wear. Oh wait, that was only a little over a month ago. But at least that went well!
Now it's time for another big wedding. Weddings are always a big deal, but Indian weddings take it to another level. Multi-day affairs, even in America (seriously, this one had a prayer service on Wednesday; the Mehndi, or henna decoration ceremony, tonight; the Sangeet, or another excuse to sing, dance, and be merry on Friday night; the wedding ceremony Saturday daytime, and the reception at night). And the biggest issue out of all of this? That's five different outfits to choose!
So now that that's all figured out (navy suit with pink shirt and blue for Saturday night, for those of you curious), the next step is to figure out how to approach this one, since weddings should obviously be all about me. Since this is a family friend's wedding and there will be my mother and plenty of her friends in attendance, I can't approach it with the same reckless abandonment that I did the prior one.
But I still need to get noticed! Do I just dance with anyone? Do I talk nicely to parents so that they talk their daughters up to me for an arranged match? Do I just drink the entire bar? What a bonanza!
Also, people, seriously stop getting married so fast! Enjoy your twenties! Do dumb things, enjoy life!
Okay, enough for now.
GO BEARS BEAT THE HOSE!
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Rogue trader costs firm $2 Billion in losses
Swiss bank UBS said a trader had lost it around $2 billion in unauthorized deals, and police in London arrested 31-year-old Kweku Adoboli in connection with the case.
Adoboli — a director of exchange traded funds and “Delta 1” working in the bank’s London office, according to his profile on networking site LinkedIn — was arrested on suspicion of fraud, sources told Reuters.
“I can confirm that an employee of the bank was arrested in London in connection with the statement,” a UBS spokesman said.
UBS said it might post a third-quarter loss after the rogue trades, a huge blow as it struggles to rebuild its credibility after years of crises.
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what recourse does UBS have here? $2B isn’t exactly chump change that can be easily written off.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
They don’t have any recourse. The guy will be arrested, but it’s not like they can sue him.
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“Cant get blood out a turnip!”
Thats one of those lawyer sayings that dont make any sense to me. Why would you be trying to get blood in the first place? Are all lawyers undead vampires??? And why are you looking at a turnip anyway? I could think of like 4,000 better places to find blood than a turnip. Fuck, even a radish is more likely to provide blood and there’s still a 0.0% chance you can get blood out of a radish!
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#threadhijack
speaking of vampires, anyone see Deadliest Warrior – Vampires vs Zombies last night?
No? K, i’m a dork then.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
Can you read jack a thread in the DBD?
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what you jack behind closed doors is your business.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
Just get the proper ergonomic set-up, lest you end up like roy
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I thought he hurt his ankle? Nvm, I don’t want to know.
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I’m starting to carpel tunnel. It sucks fucking shit. I had wrist tendinitis as an undergrad from too much lab work. Get PT massages and ultrasound, it worked for me.
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Preferably from the 40+ asian lady at the Tang center with the mullet. She and I would talk about Cal football endlessly.
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Women's Vollyball - No. 1 Cal Continues Conference Hosting CU, Utah
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BERKELEY – On the heels of the 3-1 win over No. 2 Stanford in one of the most highly touted Big Spikes in program history, the first week of the Pac-12 continues for the No. 1 California volleyball team with a two-match series this weekend. On Friday, Sept. 16, the Golden Bears (11-0 overall, 1-1 in the Pac-12) host Colorado (5-4, 0-1 in the Pac-12) at 7 p.m. Cal’s epic nine-day, seven-match homestand comes to a close Saturday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. against Utah (6-4, 1-0 in the Pac-12).
The Golden Bears will sign autographs following both matches. During Friday’s match, the Pac-10 Championship banner will be featured. Head coach Rich Feller will give a pre-match chalk talk beginning at 6:40 p.m. on Saturday. Fans who attend Saturday afternoon’s football game between Cal and Presbyterian and show their ticket stub at the door will receive free admission to the Utah-Cal match.
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Cal opens home schedule against Presbytarian
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Cal will play its first of five home games in 2011 when the Bears welcome FCS opponent Presbyterian from the Big South Conference to AT&T Park on Saturday. The teams from the Pac-12 and Big South, respectively, will meet for the first time ever in the final non-conference game of the season for the Bears.
The contest be streamed live on CalBears.com. The online feed will include the Cal/IMG College radio broadcast of the contest, with the usual team of Joe Starkey, Troy Taylor and Todd McKim calling the action.
Fans who are current subscribers to All Access through CalBears.com will receive the game as part of their service. Others can watch for $7.95, which includes a one-month subscription to All Access, Cal’s multimedia site that includes a variety of both free and paid content.
Cal received a special exemption to be able to stream Saturday’s game because the contest will be played within exclusive broadcast windows for Pac-12 partners ESPN and FSN.
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could've been worse
You could’ve lost $2 Billion
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
pringle – and how does anyone lose $2 billion? Like Barron’s (something like that) in 2000?
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
What you do in the privacy of your own home with blockquotes is fine, but please keep it there, ok?
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Stop being so unAmerican
DON’T TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH HIS BLOCKQUOTES. HE HAS RIGHTS YOU KNOW
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
hey hey ho ho
block quotes have got to go
hey hey ho ho
block quotes have got to go
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Sep 15, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Men's Golf - Cal Opens with Win at Wolverine Intercollegiate
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Three Cal players posted top five finishes to lead the Golden Bears to a team victory Tuesday at the season-opening Wolverine Intercollegiate hosted by Michigan. Cal (281-275-283 – 839, -13) tied a six-year-old course record at 13-under par and coasted to a 12-stroke victory, with second-place Baylor (284-278-289 – 851, -1) the only other team to put up a 54-hole total under par.
“We had three solid rounds, and it was a good test of golf,” head coach Steve Desimone said.
Joël Stalter (72-63-72 – 207, -6) started Tuesday’s third and final round at the par-71, 6,687-yard U-M Golf Course on top of the leader board. Stalter stayed on top most of the day before two bogeys late in his round on the par-four 15th and 18th holes left him in second place one shot behind individual medalist Jace Long (67-73-66 – 206, -7) of Missouri. Long had five birdies, including on each of the last two holes, and 13 pars without a bogey on Tuesday.
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Should I call you Logan, Weapon X?
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You’re not my Weapon X, Logan.
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NinersNation has some really good stuff
49ers vs. Cowboys: Are Alex Smith And The O-Line Prepared To Adjust On The Fly?
Alex Smith spoke to the media today and addressed some of the problems the 49ers had last week and what he expects to see from the Dallas Cowboys this week. You can view the transcript of his media session after the jump.
There are plenty of things to look out for from the offense this Sunday but defending against a tough pass rush is one such issue. We’ll have more on the Cowboys pass rush tomorrow, but given some of Alex’s comments today there are some aspects from the offensive side of the ball to consider.
Two things we saw last Sunday from Smith were his willingness to scramble and his use of audibles. He equaled his second highest number of rushing attempts with seven on Sunday. While he did not have any particularly long runs, he had several runs of five or more yards and also his one yard touchdown run. He was a very solid running QB at Utah, but since the shoulder injury in 2007 we haven’t seen a ton of scrambling from Smith. Harbaugh mixed in some designed runs and second or third run options at Stanford so we might see a bit more scrambling for Smith, particularly with the impressive Cowboys pass rush.
The other area that will be interesting to watch on Sunday is in terms of audibles. The Cowboys like to mix things up with their front seven and with a beast of a pass rusher like DeMarcus Ware it can create all sorts of matchup problems. The use of audibles by Smith and adjustments by the offensive line could be as key to establishing an efficient offensive attack as anything else.
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Tailgating On A Budget
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1. Team Up
2. Carpool
3. Fan Gear for Less
4. Smart Food Choices
5. Get Your Game On
6. Borrow Before Buying
7. Bring the Tailgate Home
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And the best link of all
Your first Jim Harbaugh/49ers Music Video
I have to say, I’m surprised it took this long for somebody to come up with a music video about Jim Harbaugh and the 49ers. In this day and age of the Internet, I suppose I expect a little more. Nonetheless, we’ve got our first significant video covering Point of Know Return by Kansas. Count them among the bands where I know some of their songs (Dust in the Wind) but had no idea what the band was named.
The video itself involves a solid “Har-baugh!” chorus and some shots of San Francisco. Check it out for yourself. Now if the team can put together a nice little stretch of wins we might be able to get some great music videos out of it. We haven’t had a solid cheesy 49ers music video in quite some time. It seems reasonable to hope for the return of such videos. Wouldn’t you agree?
Who’s got it better than us?! NOBODY!
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Silver and Black Pride predicts they will completely dominate their game against the Bills
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When the defensive line dominates, the Raiders win. They are going to win this game, they will need to win it up front. Otherwise, the Bills spread out passing attack will kill the Raiders.
The Raiders need to stuff the Bills runs at the point of attack and force the Bills into passing situations where they need to run pass plays that take long enough for Fitzpatrick to be heavily assaulted.
The good news is that the Bills offensive line does not matchup well with the Raiders defensive line.
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Rangers Cancel Fruit Basket; A's Drop Lifeless Game To Angels
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Well, so much for the spoiler role. The A’s managed to score one run total (on a solo homerun, no less) after putting runners all over the bases early against Jered Weaver. Just a hunch, but the lack of follow-though (and the possible lack of any good hitters—with the exception of Josh Willingham) might be a reason that the A’s are 67-82 as we wrap up a disappointing 2011 season. With their 82nd loss, the A’s have ended any hope of a .500 season, and are likely just going through the motions for the next two weeks.
Contrast this with the Angels’ play. Trailing Texas by 2.5 games (pending tonight’s outcome), the Angels are in a very real pennant race, and they furthered their cause with the game and series win this afternoon. It’s always amazing to me when I watch baseball outside the A’s, to discover how good baseball teams really can be. The Phillies are in a world of their own right now; they have clinched a playoff berth today with their 95th win. Yes, that’s nearly thirty more wins than the A’s have, and when you watch their games, it’s almost like watching an entirely different sport.
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India to give school children 6.8MM free laptops
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In a program that is the first of its kind in India – all children at government schools and colleges in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu will be given a free laptop.
An estimated 6.8 million free laptops will be distributed to schoolchildren, as part of an election promise from the region’s ministers.
The cost is several hundred millions of dollars a year, which critics claim is too high and could bankrupt the government.
They argue that the money could be better spent in areas such as social services and infrastructure, says a report in the BBC. Frequent power outages in the region may also disrupt the full use of the laptops.
But supporters say the advantages override the costs, with many of the region’s disadvantaged children being given access to previously unaffordable technology. They say the initiative will also make Tamil Nadu more competitive with other, more tech-savvy Indian states, according to the BBC.
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SOCIALIST! wait wut?
I remember a few months back, the Indian Minister of Technology (or some title like that) planned on giving out a specially designed touchpad. Wonder if he followed through on that.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
No, the socialists are in Kerala, not Tamil Nadu.
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kolwave is an enemy of the state!
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by TwistNHook on Sep 15, 2011 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
et tu!
My mom just got back from India, and the Customs dude was all, “Ma’am, did you visit the Naxalites?” So, you know, the far-left radical communist Maoist terrorist sympathy clearly runs in the family.
The most interesting Customs reaction I ever got was after the x-ray turned up three suspicious round objects in my suitcase.
“Oh, that’s soap. Sandalwood soap.”
“Soap, hmm? Do you eat it?”
“… No, it’s the kind you use in the shower. … Do you eat any kind of soap?”
by kolwave on Sep 15, 2011 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
?
Of course you do. Why else do they sell flavoured hand-soap then?
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Where does it say it’s flavored?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Sparkling White Pear?
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Doesn’t have to be a flavor.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Um, yes it does. It’s a fruit, therefore it’s a flavour.
Seriously, should I just type slower or something?
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This is not a very difficult point to grasp: It could be a scent and not a flavor.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Um, no, what the hell does a “sparkling pear” smell like? Don’t be dense.
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Nope, I rule in favor of atoms. Costs assessed against Twist.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
wow an objection to a CALumbus Bear ruling. It’s like, without Ohio Bear to back him up, he’s lost all credibility!
If anyone’s credibility is going to be lost, it is because 33SS has returned, not because Ohio Bear is leaving.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
More like, without Ohio Bear to weigh him down, he’s going to be even Supremer!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks, Harsha.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure being Supremer is even possible. I’ll try, tho.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Overruled. I don’t need to stinkin’ Ohio Bear.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
*no
apparently I could use him for spelling
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Objection to your overrule!
Why would you rule in favour of someone who clearly has no idea how to play along with someone being facetious?
Your honour, I ask you, if we take everything seriously and eliminate all humour, what are we left with?
BruinsNation, that’s what.
I rest my case.
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I rule that if you like the damn soap so much, eat it.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Less commenting, more eating of soap.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re the one who had to make me spell it out like I’m Anamika Veeramani.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Does Goodwin’s law apply here?
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Why do you have to drag Doris Kearns Goodwin into this!?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Nice job! Now, can you say it again without weeping?
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Dude, we don’t object to costs being assessed to Twist! Who knows what’ll happen!
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OBJECTION!
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Pears and champagne?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
lol yeah, I’m sure they made soap that SMELLS like alcohol.
Please don’t go into business.
Hey buddy, hand sanitizer called, they want their scent back! lolol
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by Rishi on Sep 15, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hand sanitizer smells like champagne?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Champagne has alcohol.
Hand sanitizer smells like alcohol.
So yes!
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Don’t make me have to rule against you again. Twist can’t afford it.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Do not encourage atoms to grow a moustche. He tried to grow a beard and that ended in disaster!
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I had a mustache for Indian Independence Day!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I am pettily pleased when you eff up Brit spelling. (Wanker.) (You knew atoms was taking you seriously, and kept provoking him.)
For realz this time
Well I’d be in trouble if you ever used them!
I’ll leave you devastated, mutilated, and peforated.
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Here is where I’d like to point out that the picture in Wikipedia’s wanker article is most awesome.
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Sooooooooooo seriously. Scented hygiene products are no laughing matter.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I had soap salad for lunch!
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huh.
Political bravado. Since independence the Indian government has been obsessed with competing with the international elite at the highest of levels and neglected to do the right thing at the lower levels. There’s certainly a lot better things that could be done with that money.
i know :( too bad the voters aren’t smart enough to vote for somebody who’s going to do the right thing for the country, but instead for the headline-stealing noisemakers.
… wait what country am i talking about again?
by Harsha on Sep 15, 2011 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks, RIshi, for doing the DBD and bringing the stories over! You=rock!
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Carla WAS the prom queen.

Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
i fricken LOVE that movie
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
You can pretty much rent out Anacapa Island in Southern California! Or any island that has campsites. If you reserve all the campsites for a weekend, you get to stay on the island and anyone without a reservation has to leave, so you end up having the whole island to your group at night.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Anacapa has 7 campsites for $15 each. Also of note, the ranger is on the island, but is in a separate area than the campsites.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Field hockey heads east:
The No. 11 California Golden Bear field hockey team will play a pair of games in Chicago, taking on Northwestern on Friday, Sept.16 and No. 18 Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 17. Both of those games will begin at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. The Bears will then travel to Ohio to take on Kent State on Monday, Sept. 19 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time.
Top-20 The California Golden Bear field hockey team made their debut on the Kookaburra/NFHCA Coaches Poll, going from unranked to No. 11 in the Week 2 poll, going from unranked to No. 11 in the Week 2 poll. This is the Bears first time being ranked in the polls since the end of the 2008 season and Cal’s highest poll ranking since the NFHCA poll began in 1998. The Bears highest previous ranking was a No. 12 ranking during the 2006 season, a ranking they held from Oct. 17 of that year through the end of the season in mid-November.
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Is it just me?
I think of field hockey as more of an east-coasty sport, so I’m even MORE impressed that Cal is doing so well. Am I off the mark? Grouping it too much with lacrosse? Just stupid….wait, don’t answer that…..
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
I associate lacrosse with east coast douchebags (and uh, Syracuse). I associate field hockey with India.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Of the 39 teams receiving votes in the Field Hockey top 25, Cal and Stanford are the only schools west of Iowa (which, I believe, is the only other school west of the Mississippi.)
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lol Sacramento?

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by Rishi on Sep 15, 2011 7:57 AM PDT reply actions 4 recs
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, SACRAMENTO! CGBIANS! NO TIME TO SAVE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN! ITS EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELVES!
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forget the Apes...
RISE OF THE RACCOONS.
those fuckers are vicious.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
ITS EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELVES!
atoms is sobbing.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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I just spend the last five minutes banging my head against my desk.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
noooooooooooooooooooooo
*spent
:)
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
I guess we’re…glad you’re spent, but that’s seriously TMI, dude.
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by Kodiak on Sep 15, 2011 10:32 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
It was all the thread jacking that did it!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
That's awesome
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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There’s definite truth to that, but I’m mostly going to chalk it up to the head-slamming.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
They’ll need to import more skunks to drive the raccoons away, I guess.
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
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by natteringnabob on Sep 15, 2011 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions
But then they’ll have a gang of skunks. So, they’ll have to import some leopards to take care of those.
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Hmm, but then you’ll have an infestation of leopards.
Viliami Moala will have to come back to take care of that.
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The last thing you want is a tri-rodent gang war (leopards are rodents, right?)… I’ve seen it happen before, the raccoons start selling meth to the skunks, the leopards sell sex to the raccoons and the skunks end up pimping out the leopards under threat of a “backhand spray”… Needless to say violence will ensue, and soon enough you’ll have drugged out roadkill everywhere
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
it’s the new version of the sac grid club
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
he told me it was a raccoon fight club
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
ALL HAIL NORCALNICK!
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YES, SIR!
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Most precisely, that's exactly 6 blocks away from where I lived until I moved in July
I’m not going to say the roving bands of rabid racoons were the only reason I left . . . but it may have been a factor.
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We need more city funding for midnight raccoon ball leagues! Keep young raccoons off the streets and out of gangs!
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by sec119 on Sep 15, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
do they play raccoon-racquet ball?
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
win
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
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by natteringnabob on Sep 15, 2011 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Good thing they didn't use the shortened term for Raccoons...
Media firestorm.
WHAT!??!?!?!?!?!?!
by true torture on Sep 15, 2011 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
who cares
if they call them “raccs”?
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
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by natteringnabob on Sep 15, 2011 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions
lol rec’d
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Men’s tennis dude named to Danish Team:
BERKELEY – No. 80-ranked California men’s tennis junior Christoffer Konigsfeldtwas selected to Denmark’s Davis Cup Team, last week. The third-year Golden Bear will be on the squad when the Danes take on Bosnia/Herzegovina in a Group II promotion match on Fri., Sept. 16, in which the winner will move up to Europe/Africa Group I. Denmark took home the victory in the only previous meeting between the two nations in 2005.
Denmark defeated Monaco, 3-2, in the first round of action, and claimed another 3-2 win over Latvia in the quarterfinal to set up its semifinal match against Bosnia/Herzegovina. Denmark’s first Davis Cup appearance came in 1921. It was a quarterfinalist in 1988 and also reached the Europe Zone Final in 1927, 1950, and 1953. For more information on the 2011 Davis Cup, please visit www.itftennis.com.
Konigsfeldt ranked as high as No. 50 during his sophomore season and finished his second year on campus with 19 singles wins (second on the team). As a pair, Konigsfeldt and senior Nick Andrewsare the No. 5-ranked doubles team in the nation and were ranked No. 21 in last year’s final poll with an 18-10 mark. The duo won the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championship.
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Coach McKeever and NatCough to appear on Chronicle Live last night:
SAN FRANCISCO – California head coach Teri McKeever and Natalie Coughlin, her decorated protégé, will appear on “Chronicle Live” Wednesday from 5-6 p.m. on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. McKeever, who is also the head coach of the 2012 U.S. women’s Olympic swimmers, and Coughlin, the 11-time U.S. Olympic medalist, will discuss the London Summer Games with host Dave Benz.
A veteran of international coaching, McKeever served as a U.S. assistant coach on the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Olympic teams. She was the first woman coach on the U.S. Olympic swimming team and the first woman to be named head coach of the national team at a major international event – the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships in British Columbia.
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Well, this was all very timely.
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Good question
Seems like everyone and their mother are either getting married or birthing little creatures, or both. As men, how do we reconcile the desire to stay committed to a good woman we love with our incessant need to chase new tail? Will choosing one over the other ever satisfy us?
“Women like to settle down, while men like to play the field! Am I right, folks?”
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Is the field natural grass or momentum turf?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 8:24 AM PDT up reply actions
The field is muddy, what do you do, what do you do?
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
i just gagged
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
I say sow your wild oats now so you don’t regret it later on in life!
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Oh like Quaker Oats?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 8:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
too soon, man
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
The problem lies in when one has already found a winner in his 20’s, how does he reconcile wanting to hold on to that while still yearning new relation. Of course if you haven’t been so lucky, keep on doin yo thang.
I have friends who have this problem.
The best solution is really to give yourself time with your friends separate from the girlfriend. Go out, be crazy, drink excessively, whatever. You’ll find that’s enough and won’t have any desire to do anything wrong.
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This. It’s easy enough to do as long as you don’t spend all your time with the gf.
by Missing Barry on Sep 15, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Some guys really have that problem that they seriously cannot go out without their girlfriend. It’s a little annoying and part of the reason for my bitterness, ESPECIALLY if they change how they are around her.
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More power to you. I wish you could teach my friends.
I really miss the one-on-one guy time I used to get.
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I really miss the one-on-one guy time I used to get.
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by TwistNHook on Sep 15, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I know that being a henpecked husband you’re not used to the concept of “guy time”, but it’s not at all what you’re imagining in your sick fantasy.
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It sounds like, and I’m not kidding here, you have never actually spent an adequately long period of time with someone that actually likes you. If you did, you’d know that it’s kind of great.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
And this is why your online psychoanalysis is off… because you’re dead wrong.
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I think your psychoanalysis of what it’s like to be happy while not being single, your experiences aside, is equally as wrong.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
9/15/2011, NEVAIR FORGET
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
lolol Rishi is on fire today
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
cue heavily flanged guitar
Rishi’s boys night out….
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Sep 15, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m now at this stage, as long as I can still get shitty with the boys, I have no desire to look for the opposite sex when out because I have a better one back home
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’M 10X AS WHIPPED AS HIM! Where’s my rec??????????
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His comment was sweet. You and Mrs. Twist, well that just kind of seems like Stockholm Syndrome to me.
Who’s kidnapped whom in that scenario?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
You are contradicting your previous joke which is predicating on me being the kidnapped one (and thus becoming overly sympathetic to my captor).
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Who is pitying the fool in this scenario?
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Exactly, so it could work either way!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
mediocre song
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I hope someday to be a mediocre song!
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great song!~
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I have less than no idea what you are talking abou.t
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Advice from a married guy
It’s all about expectations. I didn’t think about this before I was married 18+ years ago, but spending time with friends without your spouse is SO important, whether it’s a girl’s night watching the Bachelor or doing yoga (that’s what Mrs. BTown does) or watching the game, going fishing, drinking with buddies (I don’t get to do ANY of those things, but I DO get to go 80’s dancing Friday nights…Don’t cry for me Argentina…). Set the expectation BEFORE you say “I do” so there’s no misunderstanding. If it’s a weekend in Vegas with friends every year, go with that so there’s no misunderstanding.
Sometimes it’s not the lack of time with friends that’s the issue, but the response to WANTING to spend time with friends. Amiright?
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by BTown85 on Sep 15, 2011 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is not really the issue for me, though I know it is quite common a problem in relationships. I’m assuming the gf is cool enough to hang out with the guys AND be okay with you hanging out with the guys. (I wouldn’t date anybody more uptight than that anyways; I’ve been lucky in that regard).
Despite the free time and the ability to spend both alone time and time away from her, not being able to pursue other relations is difficult … for me … even if its only those 6 days. As Chris Rock said, “sometimes you just want some new pu***y.” And its actually deeper than that; I sometimes want intimate relations with other chicks. And I love my gf to death!
sharing tissues while watching The Notebook
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I watch it with an IPhone in my hand playing games. My gf would rather watch Goodfellas or Casino, oddly enough. She don’t like Notebook (that much).
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!! RIGHT NOW!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!! SHUTUP SHUTUP SHUTIUP SHUTUP!!!!
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I hated it and I’m a total sap who grew up on Bollywood love stories.
That should tell you something.
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Yeah that you’re an idiot troll fool booger face!!
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by since1997 on Sep 15, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rishi said he didn’t want me to intervene, so you may continue to call him names.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
The explanation would be beyond your booger face comprehension.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Does Andre know about his brother?
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I really liked teh Notebook.
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Well, maybe not all of those things at once.
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I mean just that. I seek intimacy — quality time, conversation etc — that is new and exciting to go along with the new poon tang. Of course, I have yet to act on that when opportunities arise, and that’s what I have trouble dealing with, personally that is.
by salary_cap on Sep 15, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I mean, is it the close bond with a female or is it the physical part?
Because maybe you just need close female friends?
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Physically standing extremely close, but not ever touching or acknowledging has been the way to go, in my experience.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think so. My gf is my best friend. I love her company, she is compassionate, thoughtful, caring and good listener. I’m not saying I couldn’t use more close female friends … but then eventually I’d probably want to bang them if I found them attractive (J/K)
As hard as it is to believe, I never had any urge to wander or whatever when I’ve been in a relationship.
For me, having close female friends that I could talk and hang out with and whatever was enough.
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Well, the whole getting-to-know-you, omg-i-really-like-you-and-wow-you-like-me-too thing when you start a new relationship is exciting and fun, but it’s just a sugar rush and it always wears off.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Agreed
And I suppose that is what I am yearning for … while still understanding that what I got now is worth a lifetime.
Meh. If you’re not ready for a long term relationship, you’re not ready. Just try not to hurt anyone more than minimum.
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I’ll never be more ready than I am now … that’s my hunch anyways … I like LTRs … I enjoy being part of of something bigger than myself … my hunch though is that I will always have this conflict … even at 68 while pumping viagra morning noon and night. Part of me just wishes I never met any good women … No I take that back. I’m lucky in that regard.
I have known men wired like this. Some have broken lots of hearts along the way, some have waited until almost 50 to settle down (quite successfully, I might add), some have found women who can live with the deal they make. There are solutions.
Well said
That’s just it: there are solutions. None of them are ones in which I won’t second guess myself, or bare to live with the consequences (if they turn out to be worst case scenario).
Whatever
I’ve been married 15 years and I am all about the bitches!!!!!!
That said, I keep suggesting to Mrs Fire Starkey that a 2nd or3rd wife would be advantageous for us (extra incomes and all that) but she hasn’t gone for it yet. I’ll keep trying though! Must be my Mormon blood.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 15, 2011 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
You watch Big Love? That looked like no fun, rather than more fun.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
everyone knows that TV isn’t real life. I’m convinced I could make it work
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 15, 2011 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
But committed guys can go out and have all that fun; the dilemma arises when that sexual spark occurs and there is nothing you can do to tame it. You either choose to be a lying scumbag; you lose a good woman; or you pass on it. Nome of these are appealing to me. Hence my growing concern that I (and men generally) will never be fully content, i.e. Happy.
It does kinda suck at times but if she’s worth it, you deal with it.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Yup
The question then becomes: can one be truly happy when “dealing” with it appropriately. I have my good and bad days with this.
Yes, one can be truly happy.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I think you and Matnard should just be friends.
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by Kodiak on Sep 15, 2011 3:58 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
This doesnt seem like a big problem to me, but perhaps I am missing something
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WAIT, PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THINGS THAN TWIST. THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED!
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Jali is concerned you seem edgy.
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Jali, what do you do to relax? How can we relax everybody here?
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I know for a fact that he does not, under any circumstances, walk.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll quote one of my favourite writers on the net!
But as a guy who has had a girlfriend for over a year, many of these escapades are long gone. And I’ve realized that no matter how great your girlfriend or fiance or wife is, there will always be six days a year when your mettle is tested. For me, it will happen when I meet a female fan while on tour, or if I go to a bar in New York and Girlfriend is not there. A hot chick will just want to get down, but I can’t because I have a girlfriend. Every guy has his temptations. But if you really sit and think and add up how many times a year you could have gotten laid if you weren’t in a relationship, it really only comes out to about six days. So when it comes to sex, 359 days a year, it pays to have a girlfriend. The other six days you just need some willpower. That’s the 359 Rule
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So, if I understand you correctly, men are uncontrollable balls of lust, while women just want to settle down and suck the ever living soul of some poor shlub?
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Twist, can you let people actually have a conversation without pulling this schtick EVERY single time?
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I honestly believe that your conversation is fairly inane and based on foolish stereotypes. I’m sorry if you and salary_cap are having trouble bc you found love but you want to fuck your way around for a while first. I think this conversation demeans both men and women.
I’m sorry to get serious.
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I understand where you’re coming from, but I think you’re being a bit sensitive. Nobody is saying that this is 100% true for every relationship or that it is completely explained by gender differences. You’re pushing back against an argument that I don’t believe is being made.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Perhaps you are right, I guess I just felt like comments like this:
As men, how do we reconcile the desire to stay committed to a good woman we love with our incessant need to chase new tail? Will choosing one over the other ever satisfy us?
Seemed so unimaginably broad and incomprehensible to me.
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He’s talking about his own personal experience. It doesn’t have to apply to you if you don’t want it to.
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Seemed like he was talking about “men” in general. I didnt really see him stating anything specific to him. Using terms like “we” and “us” were indicators to me.
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I’ll accept this OK, but I was really gunning for an “If you say so!”
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DAMN YOU, RISHI!!!!!!
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I think it’s a thing that does happen to a lot of men, though obviously not to every guy, and I’m sure it happens to women as well. Monogamy can be hard. Some people argue that we’re not really built for monogamy, biologically/psychologically speaking, but it’s something that has arisen through cultural evolution. It doesn’t mean it’s impossible or not worthwhile, but certainly you can appreciate the fact that there are inherent trade-offs. I felt like that’s what he was getting at.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Some people argue that we’re not really built for monogamy, biologically/psychologically speaking
This is why porn was invented.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Sure, that’s how some people deal with it.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I honestly think you just put 10x more thought into it than he did.
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Hah, maybe so.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe its time to push past antiquated notions of masculinity and femininity.
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uncontrollable balls of lust
can I just point out that this would be an excellent description of Maynard’s playing style.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
what would that make KEENAN ALLEN?
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
controlling said balls
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying it is something lots of men, including myself, deal with.
And for the record, women want dick as much (or more) as men want women. They tend to go about it differently, and part of that is women tend to be nesters and guys have a harder time with that. I like nesting myself, I just go through these ups and downs when one of the six days not included in the 359 rule comes around.
So, its a problem to find the woman you love in your 20s?
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It’s a problem to find a girl you want to settle down with (eventually) when you’re not ready to settle down.
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This isnt worth it.
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That’s why you don’t look for a girl to settle down with. you look for a girl to date, and then when the time comes, if you really like them, you settle down. I think you don’t like it when your friends bring their gf’s everywhere not so much of the way they behave, but because it indicates that they like someone else more than you.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Okay, Dr. Freud. I’m glad you can figure this all out through some words written on a sports blog.
I didn’t know it was an issue to sometimes want to hang out with just the friend and not the gf. My bad.
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It’s totally not up for you to decide. If you had a gf, btw, it would be much easier, paradoxically, to hang out with guys 1×1.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Obviously it’s not up to me to decide, but I’m allowed to express my displeasure at that.
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I mean if you’re gonna throw out superlatives about how all of us non-singles are henpecked and whipped and useless and what not, you should be able to take the reverse…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s why you don’t look for a girl to settle down with
Sometimes it just happens though. I never ever “looked for it”; it just kind of happened each of the 4 times. Like Rishi, I’m not into the games of dating and I tend to quickly go from liking to adoration and love when I find a great catch. I guess I tend to be attracted to women I both find attractive AND respect as a partner, so maybe there in lies my problem with continuing to find these marriage-material women.
I would say that’s silly (honestly), if you find someone you’re madly in love with when you’re 20, or 25 or whatever, you’re not going to wait at all. Have you (Rishi) ever been in love? Seriously? Because you you have this would seem like a silly discussion.
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Hasn’t happened to me. I have seen it with friends who kinda struggled with that for the early part of their relationships and hung on. Was just commenting on that.
I’ve had girlfriends, including those whom I thought I could eventually settle down with. But never been “madly in love”
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If it happens for you, you’ll know it, there won’t be any doubt.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Hey, look at that, Im not alone
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I don’t agree that being in love precludes you from having feelings (lustful or romantic) for someone else. I’ve certainly been in that situation.
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by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
why am I not surprised this is how you announce your return…
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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But would you agree that when you are in love, what else catches your eye must meet a much higher standard than when you are not in love?
I dunno. There’s nothing inherently wrong with someone catching your eye, as long as that’s all that person does. If you have a modicum of impulse control like a normal adult and you value your relationship and cherish your partner, then you’re just simply not going to act on it, but human beings have impulses and they are natural and you don’t need to pretend like you’re a monk and have buddha-like emotional control over every fleeting desirous thought or reflex to prevent yourself from even noticing another human being that perchance you may find attractive.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
good explanation. this is something girls don’t get. impulses are impulses. so of us can ignore them, others think they can get away with them and they end up talking to joey greco or chirs hansen
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So, you don’t think that women have impulses to look at other attractive mates when in relationships as much as men do?
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it is very difficult for me to say, not being a woman. however, my experiences have led me to believe that women are in search of a mate that will care for their offspring and stick around, rather than a male who wants to hump as many females as possible before he dies.
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Why are you spending so much time with Drisophilia fruit flies?!?!?!?!
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*Drosophila
You’re very close, I’m kind of surprised.
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I wrote like a 50 page paper in AP Bio in high school. I vaguely remember that. We had to stare at fruit flies and investigate stuff about them over generation so fthem.
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50 pages …. ?! in high school?! wow.
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I think it was 50 pages. I mean it was like a billion years ago, so I dodnt remember the specifics. Maybe it was 30 pages. Some of them were like evidence pages. So, it wasnt all double spaced times new roman.
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I’ve realized that if it takes you 50 pages to say something you’re probably saying it wrong.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Honestly, I’m fine knowing that my gf really wants to fuck David Beckham. If I were a girl, I probably would too. Just so long as she knows that I find Katy Perry’s breasts to be a gift from god unto us all, and that if I saw them, there would be much rejoicing.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure. Maybe. For myself only, the instance where I developed romantic feelings for someone else was because that new person met a need that my “in love” relationship didn’t. So in fact the bar could just be lower because there was general dissatisfaction with the person i was in love with.
My comment to Cugel was more a reaction against the thought that being in love means happily ever after, problems get easier, etc.. Whether you’re in love or not, there will still be issues to work through in a relationship, and sometimes that means that feelings will develop elsewhere as you work through them.
Fire Starkey. You... complete me.
Sincy, what you say is true, but at least for me (and that’s all any of us can really say) I can’t imagine giving up true love just because I want to fool around with a greater variety of attractive females. If fooling around meant that you would lose the one you loved. Which it usually does.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I agree… unless being with your true love hurts you more than humanly bearable.
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Wow. Speaking from experience … ?
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I never found it difficult to cut ties with a girl if I felt I was wronged, or she was being a cunt. I see so many dysfunctional unhealthy relationships around me — on again off again — and I think to myself: “Why do they put up with that shit.” Life is too short. Spend time with people you get along with.
Once you get comfortable, it’s tough to realise that you’re not in the right place.
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I see that … but what is comfortable about being at each other’s necks all the time? But I suppose such people could look at me and say “why aren’t you content with one vagina your whole life.”
Cliched, but true
When you find one you love enough, the yearning for new relations will begin to approach zero.
I don’t think this is true for men.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I would disagree. That is what I would do! But I’m not going to get involved in another boring fight over this! I’m slowling learning!
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True or false:
Jessica Alba is hot.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions
She is a very beautiful woman. Were to I try to date her, I would probably not be successful. Few men would be. That said, I have no interest in “yearnings for new relations” with her. You can appreciate that another person is beautiful without wanting to cheat on your wife with them.
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ok. you need to think more in the primordial yearning sense. if you COULD do jessica alba, would you, irrespective of your “chances” or “if she wanted to”. if your wife would never know, would you? we need to get to the bottom of this
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I get the feeling taht no body would believe if I were to say “No” in this situation.
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I dont know if that is a compliment or insult.
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Neither. It is a comment on your character that, were you to make such a statement, I might believe it of you.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Considering you are one of the few people who actually know me here, perhaps some of these other yokels would be wise to listen to what you have to say!
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Thats why nobody would believe me!
But internet male syndrome is like “Shes too ugly for me!” This is more like “I couldnt do that even if my wife would never find out.”
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“knees are WAY too sharp.”
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
You’d still know and feel guilty about it, so there’s that.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Sure. Other animals usually don’t have that problem and can go merrily humping away in the forest without nary a second thought. We have civilization.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Close, but actually “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road”
McCartney wrote the song after seeing two monkeys copulating in the street while on retreat in Rishikesh, India, with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He marvelled in the simplicity of this natural scenario when compared to the emotional turmoil of human relationships. He later said:
A male [monkey] just hopped on the back of this female and gave her one, as they say in the vernacular. Within two or three seconds he hopped off again and looked around as if to say, ‘It wasn’t me,’ and she looked around as if there’d been some mild disturbance … And I thought … that’s how simple the act of procreation is … We have horrendous problems with it, and yet animals don’t.
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"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
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No.
Why Don’t We Do It in the Road was on the White Album (which is the song referred to by MR.F.’s comment “I think Paul McCartney wrote a song about this.”)
All You Need Is Love was on Yellow Submarine (and Magical Mystery Tour), but I don’t think that MR.F.’s comment was intended to reference All You Need Is Love.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
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I, for one, would not believe you.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
So I'm really busy
Can you give me the TLDR version letting me know if Ragnarok is going to leave me for Jessica Alba? thanks. I got things to do today
Cal: Bears with Books.
Not only is he not going to leave you for Jessica Alba, he actually believes me when I say I wouldnt ruin my marriage with her!
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No, he isn’t, but if he could teleport to an island and doink her without anyone knowing, and then being able to erase it from his memory MIB style, he would!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
the greatest hour of your life. nay, all our lives.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
that i would never remember? no thanks.
it’s nice of you to think it would take me an hour, though.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Hmmm. Play to 11, win by two? Or regulation full court?
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Half court!
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so you are saying you WOULD if you could remember it? that surprises me!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
well, i’m saying that, in that situation, there would at least be something on which to base a cost/benefit analysis.
your hypothetical scenario seems akin to blacking out for an hour. maybe I magically transported to an island, got down with Jessica Alba, then erased my own memory and transported back? more likely I simply made an ass of myself, misplaced a shoe, and finally passed out on the couch.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
zactly
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
maybe you have already, and you already had the memory erased.
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see? this is my point. without memory, what’s the point in doing anything?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
_that _ hour _
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I can’t remember anytime from birth until about age 2! Therefore I was not alive. Or was I?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never been to Brazil, so it doesn’t exist. And anyone who claims it exists is part of a giant conspiracy.
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In my case, the world would be down one short-arse, ill-tempered, argumentative, bald middle manager.
Plainly my parents made a terrible mistake.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
But it would also be down your lovely daughter! So maybe it all balances out!
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Are you saying that one of my daughters is unlovely?
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
as a side note
does being hot mean she’s good at sex? i mean, what if she’s decidedly mediocre, but just got by on her looks all these years?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Right, that’s all I’m saying. I don’t want to cheat on my gf, but I can still think Jessica Alba is hot as fuck.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay, we agree!
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Comment count at 900 or so, still too early to be agreeing.
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I don’t spend a lot of time on DBDs, but I have noticed that everyone has seemed a bit edgy today. Too much stress over the upcoming Presby game?
Side note: it’s amazing how hearing about friends taking awesome new jobs can be such a demotivator at work and cause me to procrastinate in new ways (read DBDs)
Sorry. I don’t mean tto harsh your buzz. I’ll try to be more relaxed.
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Lol, I don’t mind at all. It’s entertaining. Like Jersey Shore….not that I watch. It’s the girlfriend of course.
There are rules to a DBD?
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I have located 2 so far
Comment count at 900 or so, still too early to be agreeing.
Which I interpret to mean that agreeing is not ok.
Can you read jack a thread in the DBD?
what you jack behind closed doors is your business.
which seems to imply that jacking is ok behind closed doors only.
And lastly, there is a rule that there is no rule regarding headers, just a request.
It’s all very confusing.
Sounds like we have an unwritten constitution like the British monarchy.
I knew wearing this fascinator would finally pay off!
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IM FIST PUMPING RIGHT NOW!!!!!
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z
This is what I imagine you look like right now:

Here I am dancing!

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How about John Boehner’s face tan?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
How about John Boehner’s carrot suit?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
RE: Boehner
At what point did horrible tans become so mainstream that politicians, who have people dedicated to making them looking important and responsible, start getting such horrible tans
June 12th, 1997.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
NERDZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
real 1337 fools pwned with that other sniper rifle.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
scout baby
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Unless you are on a knifing only server
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
low grav knife zombie server
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
lol that takes me back
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions

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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
you and your disdain for headers
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
don’t you work from home?!?!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not even going to make a header joke. Just please use a header next time, especially for such a large image.
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I’ll be sure to include a header next time!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
WHAT DID HEADERS EVER DO TO YOU, SPAZZY???
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Frankly I don’t understand what the big fucking deal is. As though spending all day here is somehow less of a productivity drain than looking at an image of a gorilla for literally a tenth of a second. And to be fair to me, I didn’t know the image was enormous, I thought it was about 1/5th the size.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I honestly don’t care about the “productivity drain” but without the pics, the DBD might look like something work related… the pictures remove any plausibility for those walking by.
Don’t care today, though, workin’ from home.
So don’t keep the screen on the damn gorilla!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s not the “time drain”.
It’s that photos of gorilla smiling are a billion times (est) more noticeable to those around us than simple text on a white background.
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I can tell, from across the room, if someone’s dicking around on the internet, text, images, or no. “Hiding it” only makes it seem worse.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
There’s a difference between hiding an image so it doesn’t show up every single time I scroll and quickly alt-tabbing out of a window.
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the time you spend hiding the image (where you actually have to bring it up on screen) is longer than PgDown
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
You guys can argue about this as much as you want. All I’m saying is that it is a request made by many people who are not me to use a header if at all possible.
Other SBN sites actually ban people for not using headers in some situations. Ive always found that foolish.
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I just find it hilar that spending hours here and commenting 50 times is somehow “better” than having an image of a baseball player on your screen for less time than it takes to register that it’s a baseball player.
I find it very Dilbertesque….“Hide your image because I am EXTREMELY SERIOUS about looking like I am working.”
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, you’re better than the rest of us, Spazzy.
Please use a header. Thanks.
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“It is EXTREMELY important for my job to look like I am, in fact, working!”
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
My peer sits right next to me. One boss is 7 feet to my left. The other is fifteen feet to my right.
So, yes.
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Then work.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I just want to avoid conversations with coworkers about silly images! I don’t need them all up in my space.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I will do it for you, YWC. You are good, and nice.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
If I’m good, then by proxy, my sense of humor and my puns must be good as well. I AM THE KING OF COMEDY!
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Dont know what to tell you. Not sure what is or is not better. Just know what has been expressed to me and others in the past. Just trying to respect those wishes.
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Resize your browser window and they will be hidden.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Theres no rule, Spazzy, regarding headers. We just ask that people try to use headers when they remember to do so to help others out. Its not that big of a deal. I was mostly joking and hoping youd say “Headers killed my father and raped my mother.”
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I posted a response to this in the other, long buried thread from Sunday… but why do you have a fresnostate.edu address? Not why do you use that address as opposed to your spam infect yahoo account, but why do you have that address in the first place?
Enquiring minds and all…
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions
No
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not getting married nor participating in the birthing of little creatures.
by Missing Barry on Sep 15, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought you were gettign your animal husbandry degree from UC Davis????
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Can’t you get it from playing Civilization too?
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by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe Civilization II
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Rick Reilly on blind marching band:
The marching band you see in front of you is like a lot of them in Ohio. They play the 1812 Overture. They form tricky patterns. They even dot the “i” in Ohio.
The only difference is, the “i” they form is in Braille, because this marching band is blind.
They’re the Ohio State School for the Blind Marching Panthers and — as far as I can tell — they’re the only blind marching band in the world.
Brian Rowan is one of the bass drummers. He’s 12. He has a tumor behind his eyes that has already taken the sight in his right eye and will soon take his left. Doesn’t keep him off the field.
“I don’t know why you guys cry so much,” he told his parents — Karl and Shelly — when he was diagnosed. “I’m still going to do all the things I wanted to do. You watch.”
They did. Last Saturday. Standing right next to me at a high school football game in Columbus, Ohio. Didn’t help. Mom was still crying.
Which is the exact reaction that OSSB’s Carol Alger, the woman who thought of this whole idea six years ago, doesn’t want.
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This just took a turn for the Ohio.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Cal 742, Never trust a hoes 5
Bears vs. hose
Went 8-2 last week as my upset predictions for Utah and Colorado went splat in the waning moments.
Season record stands at 17-5.
Some of you might not like these picks. In advance, sorry. I won’t mind being wrong.
All games are Saturday.
Stanford 35, Arizona 24: Two great QBs going at it, but the Cardinal also has a running game and a defense. The Wildcats chances will be a lot — A LOT — better if receiver Juron Criner plays.
Arizona State 40, Illinois 28: In the past, we’d circle this as a game the Sun Devils might blow. But we’re leaning toward believing these Sun Devils are different. And we like QB Brock Osweiler’s play and leadership.
Nebraska 30, Washington 24: Lincoln is a tough place to play for a new starting quarterback, but the the Huskies will give the Cornhuskers all they can handle in what will be the best-played game in the three-game series.
BYU 28, Utah 27: Both teams are coming off tough losses, but BYU is at home, and that’s the difference after the Utes won by a single point at home in 2010.
Texas 27, UCLA 14: Texas has positive momentum after a comeback victory over BYU and it’s highly motivated after getting embarrassed by the Bruins in Austin in 2010. That San Jose State effort by UCLA was hard to stomach.
USC 35, Syracuse 20: With just five starters back on defense, Syracuse will have a hard time stopping Matt Barkley, Robert Woods and company. And the Orange has zero running game, which will make things easy for the Trojans D.
San Diego State 33, Washington State 30: The Cougars are 2-0, but they’ve yet to play a quality foe. The Aztecs are a quality foe and they are playing at home. Seems like there will be just a little too much Ryan Lindley and Ronnie Hillman for the Cougs defense.
Colorado 30, Colorado State 21: The Buffaloes will get the win because they’ll finally get running back Rodney Stewart going, even with a beaten up offensive line.
Oregon 80, Missouri State 2: Chip Kelly will be unhappy with the shotgun snap from the backup center that costs the Ducks a shutout.
California 742, Presbyterian 5: We won’t be taking this game seriously.
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 8:22 AM PDT reply actions
Presby certainly is.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of which: Should I be playing Zach Maynard or Darron Thomas as my QB this week? It seems like the potential for points is approaching infinite.
Play the honeybadger!
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by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Did someone say Eat & Dick in the same sentence?

Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
ironically this guy also makes interesting fashion choices.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I think he meant iconic, as in monogrammed L.L. Bean shirts are an iconic fashion choice for any traveler eating penis
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m wearing a pink shirt today, your influence is strong.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Scary, I’m wearing pink on Saturday night and saving my Charles Tyrwhitt pink shirt for then! It’s number one in command when it comes to the pink shirts!
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scary, that’s similar to what i said i am wearing today because someone else said they were wearing theirs because they saw you said you planned on wearing yours on saturday… similar to what i am wearing today… scary.
I love when i get to use the word tattersall. my all time favorite shirt was a blue and white tattersall Zegna shirt… I think I bought it in 2000… great f’in shirt. Finally had to let it go. It was time. It had lived a good life. Had a great one back in the mid 80s… a Perry Ellis back when Perry Ellis was awesome… Spread collar… very Rick Riley circa 1985 Lakers… Would tie my tie so I would have this really small knot…. good times.
I still own my all time favourite shirt. It’s actually not even that good a shirt, but it was my first-in-command shirt back in high school — a really light, slightly-faded blue shirt that I would always pair with a darker blue tie.
It was the shirt I chose to wear on my first date ever. I honestly don’t think I’ve worn it in years.
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found an old pic...
this is from 2001 (in Africa). You can see the shirt… not the baby’s mine… I miss that shirt…. notice that even with the sleeves rolled, the pattern is vibrant because it’s woven into the material, not simply applied as is too often the case. You can always tell if it’s cheap material because when someone rolls their sleeves the under fabric will be lighter. I just cringed typing that (and yes, I’m being facetious about cringing).
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More exposed awesomeness!!
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I think Im wearing a shirt just like that today.
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I rolled up my sleeves as soon as I got out of court. Threw my jacket in my car and took of my tie. Unbuttoned 1 too many buttons. YOU KNOW HOW IT IS!
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You’re a blue collar lawyer! A lawyer for the people!
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I dont even bill 990 an hour!
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gold chains?
please say yes.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Sep 15, 2011 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Sadly, no.
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I am wearing a blue polo
and a cal sweatshirt
no pink today.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Sep 15, 2011 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Dodgers win!!!!!
Kershaw ejected, wins 19th game anyway
The faithful at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night were treated to a vintage Clayton Kershaw performance. He confounded the Diamondbacks with fastballs and sliders, throwing two thirds of his pitches for strikes, and didn’t allow a run in the Dodgers’ 3-2 victory, preventing a sweep. Unfortunately for the fans, however, Kershaw was only around for five innings.
Kershaw allowed just one hit in his five innings, and that hit was by new villain du jour Gerardo Parra. When Parra led off the top of the sixth inning, Kershaw hit Parra on the elbow with his second pitch, and was immediately ejected by home plate umpire Bill Welke.
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Ejection was bullshit
That ejection was BS. The argument could be made of Kershaw’s reaction to the Parra HR the day before, but look at the situation. He didn’t hit him the 1st at bat and it was just inside.
It should have just been a warning.
Sez you
Umpires have a responsibility to keep control of the game. A baseball game isn’t an exercise in democracy or a negotiation.
Having been an umpire, I can definitely see a reason why he might eject a pitcher under the circumstances you describe.
Sometimes draconian judgments and reactions prevent stupid bull$#it from happening later. And I’m talking about stupid BS resulting from the other team misinterpreting the pitcher’s intent because he hit a batter.
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True.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when they play the last series of the season in Az. I don’t think Kershaw is scheduled to pitch if they don’t change the rotation. Based on comments after the game, I don’t know if the Diamondbacks are going to just let it go. I assume there will be warnings before the games.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Based on how you describe the D’backs comments, it sounds as if the ejection was appropriate, then.
I’d be surprised if there weren’t pre-game warnings.
As an umpire, I was fond of stating in the pre-game that such and such an action would result in an out. Inevitably, a coach would ask, “Will you give a warning?”. My answer invariably was, “This is your warning.”
I know, for Little League most people would say it was too draconian. After all, it’s just Little League. On the other hand, I rarely was presented with having to enforce my edict. In over 200 games, I probably had to call someone out a total of 3 times. No ejections.
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Based on what I’ve read from various sources, there weren’t any warnings before yesterday’s game. There should be in Az.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
So, removing a team’s best pitcher without warning is totally justified?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
If he’s the team’s best pitcher, then he certainly has the control not to hit the batter.
But it is a judgment issue. If the umpire thinks that the circumstances and the pitcher’s demeanor indicate ejection, then yes, ejection is more than justified, it’s called for.
That said pitcher is the team’s ace is irrelevant. It’s not a shield for perpetrating retaliation.
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What about what some baseball people are saying that umpires are acting too quickly now. That baseball should let teams police themselves. ex. You hit one of mine so I’ll hit one of yours and then it’s over.
Maybe now that batters don’t just take first like they used to and want to escalate it makes a difference.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
What about what some baseball people are saying that umpires are acting too quickly now. That baseball should let teams police themselves. ex. You hit one of mine so I’ll hit one of yours and then it’s over.
That sounds like boys who want an excuse to engage in a little chin music. Umpires have always been acting too quickly for some baseball people. The role of the umpires is to ensure that the game proceeds within the bounds of the rules and that a baseball game takes place. It is not the role of the umpires to facilitate a brawl.
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But I guess the point I’m making is that players used to not be so hot-headed. They knew if their pitcher hit someone, that someone on their team would get hit. They knew it was coming and would get hit and go to first. They wouldn’t “escalate” it by jawing at the pitcher or anything like that.
Once each team got hit once, it was over.
The “you hit our best player so we’ll hit your best player”
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Point taken
It used to be a bit more civilized 25, 30 or more years ago. Somewhere along the way, people began to lose a bit of control with their emotional responses.
And umpires have had to adjust for that. When the pendulum swings back in the other direction, umpires won’t have to be such hard asses.
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yeah, really civilized

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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Which is the shocking exception to the rule. Marichal taking a bat to Roseboro was inexcusable regardless of the context.
At the same time, it was so shocking precisely because the general tenor of baseball was less edgy.
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Yeah, I just wanted to bring it up to gripe about that bastard Marichal.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Really? Is that why? Or were you being sarcastic?
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No, that’s really why. The sarcasm was just in service of that end.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions
At the same time, it was so shocking precisely because the general tenor of baseball was less edgy.
Admittedly I haven’t been around for the vast majority of baseball history, but from what I’ve read I don’t think any period of baseball history is more or less edgy than any other.
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It was less edgy when they were wearing shorts and blowing up Disco records on the field!
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I think the idea that baseball players are more hot-headed now is a myth.
The only thing that’s changed is that people have realized that intentionally throwing at batters, and thus potentially injuring them, is a dick move that maybe shouldn’t happen so much any more.
That said, from what I’ve read I think throwing Kershaw out was significantly premature.
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Nolan Ryan is a real traditional type. He’d never repeatedly punch a guy in the head or anything.
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If he’s the team’s best pitcher, then he certainly has the control not to hit the batter.
That’s not always true. Sometimes even talented guys can be a little wild, or have a pitch that got away from him. If the umpire has warned the benches, that’s one thing, but just because you hit a guy once it shouldn’t be automatic, unless there’s some substantial indication that it was purposeful, like the pitch was squarely in the back, or it went at his head, and like you said, the pitcher’s demeanor indicates it was purposeful.
I agree that the ace factor shouldn’t be a shield, but it’s a piece of contextual evidence I’d say. A guy who is hoping to go deep into a game for his team in a close game seems less likely to hit someone on purpose than say, the last guy in the bullpen who usually is in for mop-up duty.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Either the manager or the pitching coach said if we were trying to hit him, it would’ve been square in the back.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
If it was Lincecum you’d be calling for his head on a platter.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
OT a bit. My son pointed out that Lincecum looks exactly like a skinny version of Chumlee from Pawn Stars.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
L _ O _ L
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Let’s give this a shot…



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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks for including a header, d-bag. It made all the difference.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
No problem!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
is it not? I thought it hadn’t been done before. I always assumed those pictures of soccer players were from DC and norcal
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Lincecum doesn’t always have perfect control, either. It would depend on the context. Seriously.
Timmy is actually my second-least-hated Giant, FWIW.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, I also hate him slightly less than the other Giants.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
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Yeah, it’s mostly an act, but it’s an entertaining act, and I for one welcome baseball players embracing their inner weirdo a bit. The culture of baseball is too straight-laced and uptight for the most part.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Interesting you went for alternate spelling of straight-laced.
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I use “strait-laced” to mean “inflected with the dulcet tones of country music legend George Strait”.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't mind his quirkiness at all
I do mind his incessant three-ball counts and his tendency to put runners on base.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
So.. Most Loved Giants
1) None
2) Lincecum
3) The rest of them.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Haha, that’s pretty close, but I definitely wouldn’t go so far as to call it “loved” in any way.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Well I almost put Dusty Baker 1 until I remembered he managed them.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Okay, we can agree that even the pitchers with the best control do occasionally uncork one they want back. But in the main, the comment still stands. Professional baseball players are expected to exercise control. Typically, they have control. Even those pitchers who have less control than others do not make a habit of hitting batters.
Also, because we’re talking about professional baseball players, they know perfectly well what the written and unwritten rules are. Warnings are warranted in certain situations. Sometimes a warning isn’t enough. It’s contextual and it’s exercised as the result of judgment. Same thing with ejections.
Just because a warning hasn’t been given doesn’t mean that an ejection cannot occur. When you have umpires out on the field, it should be because their judgment is trusted and their knowledge of the rules is at the highest levels. If players, coaches, and managers now dislike the exercise of that judgment and their knowledge of the rules because the application of same doesn’t suit their fancy, then that’s sour grapes.
I agree that the ace factor shouldn’t be a shield, but it’s a piece of contextual evidence I’d say. A guy who is hoping to go deep into a game for his team in a close game seems less likely to hit someone on purpose than say, the last guy in the bullpen who usually is in for mop-up duty.
Agreed. At the same time, that doesn’t sound hard and fast, does it? Exercise of judgment comes into play. And just so we’re clear about this, umpires are human, too. But then, baseball is a game played by humans.
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Yeah, I won’t say there are NEVER times when someone should be ejected without warning, because there are definitely instances where the offense is so egregious that you don’t deserve a warning but I haven’t heard anything that was so egregious about this incident that it justifies Kershaw’s immediate ejection with no warning. Nor does Kershaw have a reputation as a headhunter.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Unfortunately the only real argument others have is his behavior right after the HR.
Also, the most emotion I’ve seen Mattingly have ever. He almost moved his facial muscles he was so pissed.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
All well and good
But at the same time, the arguments against the ejection seem to be based on the premise that umpires are too prone to pulling the trigger. That’s a backhanded slap at umpires exercising their judgment.
In this case, I side with the umpire because, based on the descriptions offered, I think he was exercising his judgment and ultimately kept the game under control.
One of the ugliest things about baseball is the unwritten rules of retaliation. It can never be fully eradicated; but it must be controlled.
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Does the quality of the player have anything to do with the justification for the ejection?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
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UCSC is one
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Spent some time in furd dorms, have ya?
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…is that what they call it these days?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Cal Poly SLO.
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So we missed each other on Monday, then?
I was dropping my kid at Cal Poly on Monday. Drove down and back to Berkeley in the same day with the wife and (grown) child.
The dorms are seriously nice. Chris is in Cerro Vista (apartments). I would have loved to have had a similar set-up at Santa Cruz.
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You mean you didn’t enjoy our moldy shoe box rooms?!?!?!!?!? At least we got co-eds bathrooms, nothing like an awkward shit in the stall next to the cute girl from down the hall…
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by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
The problem with co-ed bathrooms when you live in Dwight Derby: basketball players in the showers. They did not plan for super tall people when they put up the shower walls.
You get used to it after a while. If they want to look, they’re going to look. Nothing I could do about it. I wasn’t going to wait for the tall dude to be done before I could start my shower!
To be honest, I don’t think I would ever get used to a huge black dude looking at my dong in a shower.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
was trying to come up with a joke about how you are a huge black dude laughing at Spazzy’s dong, but i failed so hard
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
If I wanted the easy route, I’d just go through your mom.
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by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
a huge pet annoyance of mine… when i am in a hotel and the shower head is designed for someone 5’8… seriously, use the extra foot of pipe!!!
I don’t know about moldy, but I do recognize the “shoe box” description. I was at Stevenson, BTW.
The co-ed bathrooms were okay. Using the Express Lane was an adventure in anxiety at first. Later, not so much.
I think the best thing about the co-ed bathrooms was the shock value to the parents.
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Wait, what? You have a child attending UCSC?
or is this general shock experienced as a young adult without knowing what the set-up was?
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Um, yes and no. It shocked me that the bathrooms were co-ed when I first went to Cal, side note, my son did graduate from UCSC.
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I think I had the same shock as a 21-year old freshman. But I quickly got over it.
I hope your son enjoyed his time at UCSC. Whenever I go back, I’m in a good place.
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I got over it pretty quickly, and I certainly didn’t mind the college freshmen girls on my floor walking around in towels all the time.
p.s. Stevenson was definitely a slight notch above Cowell in terms of comfort, I think they designed Cowell by customizing army barracks to fit a redwood forrest..
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Haha, yeah. My 71-year-old Dad was like, “Wow, boys and girls use the same bathroom and showers? I was born too damn early.”
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
i was there on Tuesday… and what a great little downtown… I did the drive down 1 all the way from SF. Was awesome.
That is a lot of driving in one day!
I’d love to do the drive on Highway 1. How much time from SF?
It’s basically 4 hours in both directions from Berkeley via I-880 and US 101.
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I meandered… So honestly I don’t know exactly… left SF… had lunch in Capitola… stopped at the Lodge in Pebble Beach to have a coffee with friends who were there… Stopped in Big Sur for a bit… got into SLO about 7PM… spent the night… had breakfast with friend in Pismo Beach… lunch in Santa Barbara and saw the mission… had dinner in Ventura with friend… I could have taken a couple of extra days. It is a GREAT drive…
Sounds like a great time.
I think I and the wife will have to schedule that drive at some point in the not too distant future.
Especially like the idea of stopping intermittently as you did and where you did.
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that would explain A LOT
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by EchoOfSilence on Sep 15, 2011 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, that’s awesome.
I will have to make the drive on Highway 1.
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It’s a beautiful drive, too bad there are so many tourists.
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I love going Hwy 1 to SF if I have the extra 20-30 minutes, so much more relaxing than 17 and 101/280. Last time I did SLO to Santa Cruz via Hwy 1, it was a beautiful drive but I ended up driving into the sunset for an hour or so on Big Sur cliff roads, which was not so fun.
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another thing that amazes me… both along the coast and in the mountains is how long the flowers have lasted this year. Must be from all that rain we got… but it’s been beautiful… Right around Big Sur my shuffle started playing this little diddy… doesn’t get much better with the top off the jeep…
Gonna be down this there weekend. Hope its pretty
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
and you’re most likely to get a dorm in your freshman year, the sophs, etc are few and far between. Although I believe you are GUARANTEED one year in the dorms, whichever year.
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First year in college, living in the dorms, especially the units, is the best way to meet people. And since you’re so close to campus, you can walk to class very easily (sorry engineers). It just forces you to be more social and whatnot. Even if you don’t get along with your floor.
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Foothill is right across the street from engineering buildings.
But it also proved to me that you can live in the dorms and not be social.
That said I fucking loved the dorms and would kill to be in that situation again (of course, at that age, too…)
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Dwight Derby/Clark Kerr is the best of both worlds. Plenty social, lovely facilities, not an unremitting overcrowded shithole. WIN!
I visited friends in Foothill my freshman year once.
I vowed to never go back there again.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Are there really any substantial differences between the people placed in the Units compared to Foothill?
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When I was a freshman, there was a substantial difference between the social scenes, yes
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I have no idea what you are referring to, all i know is that I never experienced any real difference. People at Foothill would say “The people in the suites can get clichey” and he people in the untis would say “The people on the floors can get clichey.” Seemed the same to me.
And can I just say that some of the coolest people I know/knew came out of Stern, which prolly has a terrible rep.
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…Cliquey or clichéd?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
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Yes. People who lived in Foothill (myself included) were a lot more studious, science-oriented, introverted, and quiet. This is because Foothill is closer to science and engineering buildings on northside.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
That was not my experience, but perhaps things were differen back in the 1900s.
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Things were very different in the 1900s!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Back in the 1900s, I never knew how to get in contact with anybody if they were out of their house.
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No, they were commonly referred to as “the engineering dorms” back when we were there.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
That is a true statement.
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my suite played starcraft/quake2 and drank a lot. but we were major fuckups, so take it for what it is worth.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
OR clicky? I hear there were some dolphins living in a suite.
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OR clippy? I hear that’s where Microsoft trained its MS Word assistants.
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I liked Stern when I finally ended up there. Nice sized single room, good people, and a sense of camaraderie that I found missing in Foothill.
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debatable. It’s not that you’ll have a shitty time if you don’t live in the dorms, but you’re missing some of late night interactions and the walk of shames in the morning.
HOWEVER, you could have a blast not living in the dorm too—just a different experience. Guess it depends if you live in an apartment waaaay off campus or living in Co-Ops, Frat/Sorority houses, etc.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
Sure, of course you can have fun, but I really feel like the dorm experience is really an essential part of college life. Even if you live in an apartment close to campus, the fact is you’re still in an apartment your freshman year, when you’re new here and don’t know anyone. It makes it harder to meet people and to interact with them.
I was in Beverly Cleary Hall my freshman year, so my floor wasn’t a crazy floor, and as time went on, I spent less time with the people there… but it was fantastic to have that option to just walk down the hall and hang out whenever with whomever.
Everyone kept their doors open when in their dorms. You could just stop by and ask anyone to grab a meal at the DC or come with you to Jamba Juice, because you were hungover as pho, or whatever be the case.
Of all my current friends, I don’t think a single came from the dorms. But I’d stlil do it all over again.
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Unit 1 Deutsch, back when there were only 4 buildings in Unit 1. [said in my best “When I was a freshman” voice]
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I love how much smaller Berkeley gets when you stop being a freshman.
When I celebrated my 19th birthday as a freshman, we went to what was then Mel’s. Six blocks. And yet we all took the bus because it seemed so far away.
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This. And the Zachary’s on Solano may as well have been on the moon.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t even know about Solano past the tunnel until I got a car!
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Agreed. You stay in 1 part of Berkland a lot. Esp if you are in a fraternity and there is a lot going on on frat row. Not that I ever got invited to those parties!
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You crack me up. Did you ever get any further west than MLK Way in your time at Cal?
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During my freshman year or my whole time at Cal?
Because I had a car beginning sophomore year. So I went EVERYWHERE. Literally would just take my car and go out for long drives to get away from it all. Sometimes in the Berkeley hills, sometimes elsewhere.
Man, I miss that too.
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Okay, freshman year, then. Apparently, you were Bay Area Explorer from your sophomore year on.
I can relate to driving through the hills. I did that more than a few times.
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Still is, I think. Not much in the way of obscuring city lights out there.
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I unfortunately have not had a chance to go driving the Berkeley hills at night in the past while.
I’ll have to check it out.
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The view from LHS is spectacular (unless it’s fogged in). I especially love the drive on Grizzly Peak south from Centennial Drive. I’ve often stopped in the turnouts near South Park Drive to take in the view.
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I do love checking the LHS webcam on particularly nice days.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I had a couple kinda secret (probably not actually secret) spots I knew in the Berkeley hills that had really good looking out points.
The best was obvi Tilden Park. It was always awe-inspiring.
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My fave was Volmer peak, where they have the telecommunication towers; great view of the bay.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
very close
http://www.snwburd.com/bob/trip_reports/vollmer_1.html
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I like driving on Skyline Drive late at night with my lights off, navigating with the lights embedded in the curb.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure that’s typical in terms of Berkeley-wandering for freshmen.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
This is very interesting to me, because I grew up (for the most part) in Berkeley. Have lived there for more than 42 of my 51+ years.
It stuns me that freshman could spend so little time outside of the campus area, and when they do, never wander very far from its boundaries.
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Dude, during our orientation, they told us to use BearWalk to get from Unit 1 to Unit 3.
Of course we didn’t wander too far from campus.
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I instantly had images of fraternity hazing and ‘bear crawls’
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
nothing sexy, just crawling on all fours up the many hills while growling like a Bear in heat.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
We were all like that.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
A lot of freshmen are getting used to a new area and there’s honestly just so much near campus, there isn’t a huge reason to wander around Berkeley outside of that area (notable exceptions: Rose Garden, Indian Rock, ninja supply store on Telegraph, Berkeley Marina, Elmwood, ..probably many I’m forgetting).
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Not me, even though all I had was my trusty 10-speed, I explored a large part of the East Bay during my first quarter.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
A 10-speed will take you far. Even farther when you’re in peak physical condition (or whatever is your peak physical condition).
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quarter? What school did you attend?
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I once walked the length of Telegraph when I was a freshman. Because I was bored, and wanted to see where it would go.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Pretty much. I really thought there would be more interesting stuff between here and there, but…not so much.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Take that, Ethiopian restaurants!
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by oskisunbear on Sep 15, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
inbredibly stool crory, co.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I walked all the way down College Ave. from downtown Oakland one night after having to take the F bus back from SF because we missed the last BART train.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
no taxi?
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There weren’t any driving at like 3:00AM or so. We thought we could catch a bus down College, but figured it was better to start walking and catch it along the way instead of just sitting there for god knows how long. We never saw a bus, either.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I did this once, but I lived in an apartment just off Broadway at Pleasant Grove. (College runs from the University to Broadway, and Pleasant Grove is the next intersection towards Oakland.)
It was a nice walk. I should have done it more often.
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You mean Pleasant Valley?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn’t that the one that changes from 55th or 59th at Broadway where the Safeway is? It’s been 7 years since I’ve been in that area.
51st changes into Pleasant Valley.
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51st. That’s it. I just remember which exit it is off the spaghetti interchange.
BTW, that CVS/Payless/Longs/whatever name it is has a Top Dog in the lobby.
and then it turns into the bay bridge
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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coming from SACTOWN the traffic always backs up at University. The key is to stay in the right lanes while everyone merges over to 880 but when it’s real bad I get off and weasel through SP to Mandela and you get right on in front of all the non-fastrakers. knowledge
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yeah i dislike 80 comin in to berk, or the bay in general. you gotta take the solano exit, san pablo it to university, then frontage road instead of hoppin back on 80. it smells but it will pass many a clog if you need to hit the bay bridge
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SP can be pretty shitty in Albany, etc too but I like the frontage technique.
The one thing I do love about 80 is coming around the bend and seeing the Campanile… I’ve made that drive literally hundreds of times and I always smile when I see my beautiful campus
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btw, if you’ve never made the river road trip from or to Sac, I highly recommend it. It’s so choice.
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The one across Antioch Bridge and through the delta? That is a nice drive.
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I will do this on 10/23.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t get confused when the Hwy160 signs tell you to cross a bridge then cross another one back, then I think cross another one back to the west bank. The road quality alternates or something and the good pavement requires a couple shady bridge crossings. It’s beautiful though. As the lady at the GBC would say, NUMMA 160!!! ENJOI
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At any point will I have to drive into a marsh?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
through one, yea, between the bridge and Rio Vista, where the real beauty starts…but the roads are fine. The width of the delta in Rio Vista is Mississippiesque
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I see. thanks.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
my pleasure.. depending on where you’re going in Sac, you might want to hop of the river road onto I-5 here at Hood-Franklin instead of cruising into Jefferson and beautiful West Sacramento
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I would be going to Davis
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
either way then… I-5 up to 50/80 west works or if you take it all the way to Jefferson you can keep north on that and hop on there. Hope you enjoy it. Just make sure to slow down in towns like Isleton where the speed limit drops to 35. I’ve never actually seen a cop but it seems like prime speed trap territory. Not nearly as cool as Bear Territory
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A much smaller Mississippi, but still impressive.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
alternately, frontage all the way from gilman
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6th street instead of San Pablo, you heard it here first.
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Yah. I always confused it. I guess it’s the same as Aaron Rodger’s high school, not different.
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Who’s Aaron Rodger?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Plz esk00z katster frum hur speling an grammah errurz as she iz sufferin frum teh dumbz tuday.
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No prob, I was just giving you a little grief. :)
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
You coulda called me. We coulda hung out!
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this happened JUST as rags and I started dating, so I was all like — that’s weird, dude.
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Would it have been worse if he had said “And I spent the afternoon with Twist”??
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Sometimes you gotta be a little weird to keep the girls interested & curious.
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It worked! If he had walked down college instead, who KNOWS what woulda happened!
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Maybe that’s what I’ve been doing all wrong!
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 7:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Context, please.
I was asking Rishi. If I had said Grove, I would have had ? or WTF? in reply.
Stop rubbing salt in an open wound.
/misses the Berkeley of his childhood
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Well, Scootie did know it as Grove, so I think you have enough evidence to answer your question.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Were you in APATH?
I loved living in Cleary Hall as my floor was kinda fun. But I also had fun living in a suite setting at Foothill (FAST INTERNET TOO!).
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
Nah, I somehow ended up on my floor; no idea how. Our RA was a hijab-wearing Muslim girl… but she was really cool and let us drink in the dorms (as long as we weren’t idiots about it).
I liked Cleary for two reasons, relative to the normal units:
1) WAYYY bigger rooms. People could actually sleep over comfortably.
2) No co-ed bathrooms.
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1) WAYYY bigger rooms. People could actually sleep over comfortably.
I lived in a Triple that used to be a Double. I don’t comprehend this sentence.
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It was phenom. We had room for everything and still had floor space to spare (well, until stuff piled up. you know how it is).
High school buddy visited me and he slept comfortably on the floor in his sleeping bag.
One dorm literally bunked beds up, put the desks underneath, and turned all the free space into a party room.
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When I was there, it was just a few years old, i think. It was way more spacious than the other dorms and the common areas and study rooms were decent too. Didn’t hurt that they had opened up the UNIT3 DC ‘shop’ for late night snacks.
However, having Dollar Chinese downstairs wreaked havoc on my digestive track
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
I had dollar Chinese once and said “NEVER AGAIN”
However, I used to eat at Slurp Noodle House all the time. It was sooo good.
I’m pretty sure my most common non-DC meals were that, a bagel and smoothie (Noah’s and Jamba, respectively), the enchilada plate at La Burrita, and a slice from Blondie’s.
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Mine were:
La Burrita (effing loved super burritos….great post-RSF meal)
Thai Basil
Vietnam Village
Yokohama Station (i think they stayed open pretty late)
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There was once upon a time this tiny little Thai place in the Asian Ghetto. I ordered Pad Thai from there once and they asked me how spicy I wanted it on a scale of 1-20. Being the all-too-proud Indian I am, I ordered a 20. Oh my…
Damnit, now I just wanna go for a long walk and reminisce about my freshman year.
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the one on the left that was totally ghetto compared to thai basil? yeah, that place brought the heat.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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It’s now a tea place I think!
I fell in love with Thai Basil when I was an incoming freshman, but curiously got over it within a couple weeks.
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Thai Basil was the shit, man. Pad see ew!
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by Murray, Present on Sep 15, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
You’re thinking Satay House. That place was awesome. I’d get mega-spicy food there too. It was more of a challenge than a pleasure to eat it, but there was pleasure in the challenge as well.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions
I took on the challenge because the owner told me not to order 20 because I couldn’t “handle it”.
I SHOWED HIM, DAMNIT!!!
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The 1-20 scale was something like this:
1-5 mild
5-10 medium
10-15 hot
15-20 KILLING HOT
I didn’t order 20 every time though. Usually I ordered a 17, but I found that it didn’t matter really, because there was enough variability that anything in the 15-20 range was about the same.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Worse was the time my friends and I bought habanero peppers and decided to eat them together.
Yikes!
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Oddly enough, if they are in vinegar, they’re not tooooo bad. Still hurts coming out ifyouknowwhatimean
Ghost chili, on the other hand, SUCKS SO BAD. I still sweat and clench a little when i think about it.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
There are some good vids of people eating hot peppers. You can see the pain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuctkXZpESU
Some freak out, but others (generally older) do a great monotone, almost to the point where you think they didn’t actually eat the pepper.
Like this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZ0MicBASE
“mm hmm. yup. extremely painful. burns like a fire is within my throat. feels like i swallowed a hedgehog. mm hmm. yyeeuup. yuppers.”
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Replace Vietnam Village with Satay House and that’s pretty much my list. Throw in an occasional Gypsy’s, too.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Haw, the singles in Cleary were tiny. I had to loft the bed just to get room for my stuff.
It was a nice place to live, though.
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Yeah, I know, I peered into my neighbor’s room a few times. But my room was a closet.
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Yeah, there wre two singles on my floor. They claimed to like the quiet so they could “study” or whatever.
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I know, I peered into my neighbor’s room a few times
EWWW GROSS!!
….Ohhhh, peered
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Sheesh. They just called it “Haste-Channing” when I was there. $1 Chinese used to be a little Vietnamese restaurant – great, cheap food. Inefficient as heck. I ended up in APATH by accident. Broke my ankle before moving in, my doc was a Cal grad, he wrote a note saying I needed a dorm with an elevator. Boom. Goodbye Bowles, hello HC.
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You want to fuck all the dudes in Bowles Hall??
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
He did dsay that he loved all that one-on-one time he used to have.
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right across from the parking garage that’s next to Unit3.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Across the street from Unit 3, on Channing I believe. Next to $1.11 Chinese or whatever it is.
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I havent realy read all thew ay down this argument, but I presume its turning into one of those “Rishi experienced somethign in his life a specific way and is really really really really really really serious that everybody else has tod o it that way also.”
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?
In my opinion, living in the dorms your freshman year is an essential part of college life.
The rest is me reminiscing. I don’t know why this is such a f***ing problem for you.
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I got your back here… There is really only one time where living in the dorms will ever be acceptable to you… and that’s your freshman year. And it also happens to be totally beneficial to 99.9% of people in terms of future socializing and feeling a part of a larger community. You can live in an apartment the rest of your life, but you’ll never probably live – or want to – in a dorm again.
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You can live in an apartment the rest of your life, but you’ll never probably live – or want to – in a dorm again.
For me it was the Co-ops (they’re cheaper!) but basically same story.
Also, fuck these damn ads!!!!!
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I think Soph year, now, since it’s guaranteed, is okay too.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
totally not like that at all. Rishi is 100% spot on here.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Really? OK, well, then I take it back. Sorry, Rishi.
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I feel liek you have to say that while leaping out of a plane or building to your escape.
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Dude, if there’s a discussion going on that isn’t a slapfight or particularly offensive, then let it go on. It’s pretty simple.
Wanna do your schtick? Fine, do it once, do it twice. But then just let go.
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Didn’t I just apologize to you?
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Hugging is part of my schtick. I thought you didnt want that.
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worst show evair!
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
i have only seen the last one – it was le bad!
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Unit 2. I just found it very… claustrophobic. To the point where I’d go out just to be alone. I need space and often need a break from people, so it was often too much for me. Plus the construction going on at the time didn’t help. Also, I’m super super introverted.
If I got into Foothill (my first choice), I think dorming would have been a more pleasant experience.
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That makes sense. It’s all relative to the kind of person you are.
Were the people on your floor chill at least?
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I lived in Unit 2 for my first two years. Freshman year, I lived on the party floor which was almost de facto all male (except for the R.A. and one room of girls). It sucked, though I did make friends with people on the other floors. Sophomore year, I lived on a pretty cool floor.
Unit 2 DC had the best food out of all the dorms.
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by Murray, Present on Sep 15, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
What made Unit2 feel claustrophobic to you?
Foothill was fun for me, and I can see how living in a suite with a smaller number of people be less overwhelming
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
I just felt like… there was no place to go within the Unit to take a break from people if I wanted to be completely alone. There were always people in the common rooms because there was 1 common room for every 2 floors, and laundry rooms are loud when people were doing laundry. And since there was construction, there was nowhere to hang out outside. It’s much nicer now because of the underground thing and the central plaza, but it was a bummer then.
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Do you feel alone?
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I had some friends who lived at Unit 2 when I was a freshman. I understand the claustro feeling. It made me glad I lived at Clark Kerr. Great dorm experience for me there.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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Clark Kerr is so far! But the dorm experience was severely underrated. I had a friend who lived there as a transfer, so I used to visit her there every so often. It was nice.
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didn’t hurt that there was a chance you’d run into a future NFL/NBA star. one of my good friends met Andre Carter there
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He said Carter was friggen massive back then. I think he was afraid to leave his room the next couple days #notracist
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
I lived right across the way from Marshawn Lynch. Also, A Rodgers used to come over and bang the girl I lived next door to. CLARK KERR RULES! No late night check in BS!
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Sep 15, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Well its not really even fair. It was like living in a resort. We had a beautiful soccer/football field with a track with views up the hill, basketball courts and tennis courts, a freakin skate park, and great hikes up the hills. We didn’t have to ever check in anyone or sneak booze past peeps. I actually only saw my RA once and never again. And the rooms are WAY bigger.
Marshawn used to roll up that parking lot by building 12 with 3 or 4 girls around him. He once “borrowed” my friends room for a few hours and left a used condom on hid bed when he was done. True story….
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Sep 15, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, well there was this smokin’ hot chick next door to me who joined like DG or something. She always bragged how she was “dating” the QB but we all knew that she was just a dumb Freshman slam piece. I would be all wasted in the hallways screaming “GO BEARS! WOOOHOOO!” whenever I saw him during his walks of glory.
6 1st round draft picks, 2 Super Bowl Champions and counting
by Another Successful Tedford QB on Sep 15, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
That is fucking awesome. Go Bears, indeed.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
my gf lived next to Justin Forsett. We invited him to a couple parties but he politely declined each time.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
What year was Forsett a Freshman?
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Sep 15, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I think a jr/sr.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
In the apartments right off College and Dwight?
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
…probably in the dorms, you meant. Never mind!
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
no, right off College and Dwight lol
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Some of my best friends lived in those apartments! Your girlfriend didn’t live in Apartment H, did she?
One of my friends who lived there always wanted to bake Forsett cookies but wouldn’t because she would’ve felt terrible if they were bad or if they got him sick. It just meant more cookies for the rest of us!
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
hah, no….B. Forsett was in C.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Good, those people in H were loud and terrible singers.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
In my day it was still full of deaf and blind children. Fortunately for you, they were all thrown into the street to be run over by buses before you got to Cal.
too soon! a kid totally got run over my senior year at cal at the piedmont/claremont intersection by CK
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
pqtm
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Z

The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
by norcalnick on Sep 15, 2011 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think part of the memorial is still there.
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
There is a street sign dedicated to the victim. “Todd’s Corner” (Probably not Todd, I feel ashamed at not remembering the name).
by OaktownAggie on Sep 15, 2011 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Clark Kerr > Any other dorm
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Sep 15, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
TH > Clark Kerr
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I would definitely classify Sac State as a commuter school...
According to the school’s site, only 26% of new freshman live on campus and only 4% of all students do.
I don’t call Sac State a commuter school because I’m still bitter I had to live in the dorms my Freshman year.
I had some meetings last week up at Davis… I thought it was a great little place and the downtown pretty damn charming as far as college towns go.
Yeah, my older brother went there. If I didn’t get into Cal, I woulda gone there and probably would have enjoyed it.
I was just pandering to 49er16
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Good thing I have no soul!
I’m pretty sure I would have been happy at any school, as long as they had an active weekend life.
So not UC Merced
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Davis is an awesome little town.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I live in San Francisco now. But there was something just super chill about Davis.
by OaktownAggie on Sep 15, 2011 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I loved going to Sudwerk’s on Thursday nights. Wednesday nights was always so packed for “Dollar Pint Night” (which weren’t really pints), but Thursday night “Dollar Bottle Night” was always laid back.
by OaktownAggie on Sep 15, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh man, going to The Graduate and getting 10 drinks for $10 was always fun. Soga’s was the bar/dancing place downtown. Bernardo’s had the WickyWackyWoo (ridiculously strong drink). Woodstock’s pizza. Riding our bikes around the city, driving East to Tahoe or West to the bay area. Going to the American River bike trail from Sacramento to Folsom.
by OaktownAggie on Sep 15, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Did you feel like there were enough students who stayed behind on weekends that there were sufficient house parties?
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There definitely were, but I tended to avoid the larger ones.
by OaktownAggie on Sep 15, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
They have an In-N-Out…that matters a LOT to me.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Love Davis. Want to go to grad school there.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I lived in a Sac State dorm for a week while attending Boys State in … okay, I won’t say the year. I remember the dorms being nice.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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The dorms were nice, I was bitter because I had an asshole roommate who would eat food that I bought. I was fat and fat guys don’t like when other people eat your food.
neither does this guy (you're welcome Rishi)

by fiatlux on Sep 15, 2011 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
lol
I quote this one every so often when people try to steal sips of my drinks at clubs!
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I need other people’s input here, but that is weird. I think I can say in all confidence that in my (too) many years of going to bars and clubs, I have never had someone try to steal a sip of my drink… I would be speechless if someone did that.
Wait, really?
Maybe my friends and I are just too close, but we ALWAYS steal sips off each others drinks.
Most of the time, I offer people a sip if they want to try whatever I’m having.
But if I just bought myself a $20 AMF and I need to get drunk asap, I’m not sharing.
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Really
There’s definitely a difference in offering someone a taste of a drink… that’s cool. But I have NEVER tried to sneak a sip of someone else’s drink or had someone do that to me… I would be dumfounded if that were to happen… I would stop everything with a “Um, what just happened there???”
Maybe it’s a young person thing… but if you’re at a bar and got, say, a lemon drop or a beer I haven’t seen before… it’d be completely normal for a good friend to ask “hey, can I have a sip?”
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yeah, that happens with girl friends more than my bromies.
However, beer at meals is a different story.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
Again with the making me want beer at ungodly early hours. CGB is an addiction, but I didn’t think it was contributing to MORE addictions.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Now that I think about it, I sometimes do that with girls I’ve just met.
It’s a wonder I don’t have mono.
knock on wood
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it’s ok, the alcohol kills it. and oral herpes.
J/K…NOT A DOCTOR, SO DON’T TRUST ME AND DRINK FROM A HOMELESS PERSON’S BEER CAN
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
I must be old then, because I’m with you, fiat. Offering a taste is kosher, but you just don’t drink someone else’s beverage uninvited.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
No back-up here, it’s just weird.
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
Yeah, definitely happens, especially with my crowd of friends. Only ever really to try something different or to see if it’s worth getting a pint of it.
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
those parts I get… i initially thought people were just copping someone’s drink to get some for free.
I actually have no idea why we do it. Sometimes it’s just to try the drink. Sometimes it’s because our drink is empty and we don’t want to go to the bar RIGHT THIS SECOND to get a new one, but don’t want to miss out on drinking together.
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I have a buddy who used to try soup from my Pho bowl.
so I guess ‘sharing’ isn’t that big of a deal for me either.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
The only reasonable solution is that everyone stops drinking and talking until the other person gets back!
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Even asking is okay, but rare. Taking without asking is unheard of for me.
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
$20 AMF
quoting this so I can pull it out next time you complain about taxes
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
omg me too!
Boys State was so much fun once I decided to go all Honey Badger on it.
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honey badger is the proper way to go about it
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
What is “boys state”?
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Go to the 2nd floor Wheeler Hall’s men’s bathroom, get into a stall, and ask this question.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
So you’re saying it has to do with glory holes?
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
So did you go to Wheeler and ask the question? That’s what I’m saying you should do.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought you guys might be better than google since you actually attended it, whatever it is.
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Thought it was a cool way of referring to Boise State.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I went to Boys’ State at Sac State as well… I can’t help but wonder if it was the same year, since we appear to be similarly vintage.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
All right, I’ll out myself: 1987.
My most notable accomplishments at Boys State:
1. I was sports editor of the newspaper we published
2. I was city attorney for my city and I successfully prosecuted some guy for election “law” violations. I think I put one over on the jury there.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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I’ll be damned. I am pretty sure I went in 1987 as well.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
did you get prosecuted for election law vioations?
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Ran the elections for whatever small unit I was in – county level, I think.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Did they not let you run for governor because you’re Scottish?
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..Boys State is a thing? Was there also one at Ball State?
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
it’s put on by the american legion. lots of good indoctrination goes on there.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
look at this fucking love connection
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Sep 15, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
People, people
FUCK STANFURD
Fack Muck Brown!!
by Berkules on Sep 15, 2011 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
OUCH!
Hey, hatter. There are a couple UCD grads here; what’s your deal?
At least provide a rationale for your irrational hatred.
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
I spent a week in the dorms there for a summer program in high school, they were better than the units.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I don't know if I've shared my dorms/roommates horror stories but here goes:
Freshman year:
I got assigned to a triple in Unit 1. The problem is that this was a double with an extra bed and desk added to it. I mean hell it only had two closets. The whole room was smaller than my bedroom at home. In addition to that my two roommates were… well weird. They were both nice guys no doubt just had interesting issues. One was gay which is not a problem except for when he watched porn. Because my bunk bed was on the opposite side of the room as his desk, I have on multiple occasions woken up to some gay porn. He also spent most of his time giving relationship advice to others via MySpace or on long phone calls and would spend time talking to his 40yr old ex-convict fireman boyfriend.
My other roommate was a social shut in and nocturnal. He woke up and did his stuff at night and in the mornings he would get upset when I opened the curtains because he was sleeping (this was at 8/9am). He spent A LOT of time in the dorm just listening to music or reading in his bed. This is not a problem but he also refused to keep the door open AT ALL and disliked people visiting our dorm. I didn’t get a chance to get to know many people in my floor because of them (a few even confided to me that they would never knock on the door to invite me to go do something because they didn’t like having to deal with my roommates).
Sophomore year:
This time I again got a triple but I went and complained at the housing office and they gave me a double suite. It was even better because it was a corner unit which meant that we got our own bathroom (unlike the other suites). And the floor this time was great and I met some of my best friends there.
But my roommate was a complete asshole and a douchebag. This guy abused other’s good intentions to the limit. He would do things like scam a local Thai temple for free food and say stuff like “I’m a Jew – it’s in my blood” when we tell him he’s an ass. Not only that he would invite his 16yr old girlfriend from LA over without telling me and then lock me out and bang her (he was 23). I’ve also caught him multiple times but naked, dick in hand in the afternoons when coming back from class. He would also spent LOTs of time on the phone fighting with his 16yr old GF over the phone or complaining to his sister about how “life is unfair”. Complete 1st world problems. I’m glad I invested in a pair of really good noise cancelling headphones. He would also leave his lacrosse stuff (he was on the lacrosse team and he made it sound as if lacrosse was more important to Cal than football) in the hallway without ever washing it (it smelled so bad that he got written up – justice!). He would bring his lacrosse buddies to the dorms at 2/3am with food, completely drunk and start laughing at Simpsons episodes on a weeknight! (I had a headache one midterm because I was kept awake because of his shit).
But the worst was his drug problem. This guy was a pot dealer. He had a fucking bucket of pot near his desk labelled “KUSH”. Weird people would come knock on our door asking for him so that they could get their fix. And he smoked a lot. In the room.
Junior year:
I moved into an apartment with 2 friends and a third guy my other friends knew. This 3rd guy was a huge problem. He was 26/27 (oh and he’s probably 30 now and he still hasn’t graduated). He’s a complete idiot. And a horrible person to boot. I could write for hours about his issues but let me instead just summarize a few: he was ex-Navy. He got kicked out because he got high and stole a hummer and drove it across state lines. He was addicted to meth and was arrested in HS. He had two DUIs after turning 21 and we’re sure he got a third that year. I saved his ass from getting beat up or worse by another guy when drunk and he blamed me for putting him into that situation (I didn’t – we all warned him). His Mom apparently was Bi-Polar and had committed suicide when he was a little kid so he always used that as an excuse – I mean almost every other sentence would start with “My mom was bi-polar”. One of the other roommates’ Mom also had Bi-Polar and he fucking hated it when he would start with this. He would get upset at us for eating dinner at 10pm saying that he couldn’t sleep. When we apologized and said that we would eat out he got upset because we didn’t invite him. He got addicted to Ecstasy. And on and on.
This is why that despite having fun in the dorms, I wasn’t keen on getting roommates again. I’d rather pay $1200 for my own apartment now, instead of sharing.
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on Sep 15, 2011 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
no no no you should NOT stop!!! tell us more!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Let's see
My sophomore year roommate:
- He took a really low level CS class (because he needed it for Haas – at least that’s what he said). He asked me for help and I tried to help. But he couldn’t be bothered so he offered to pay me $100 to do all his homework. I refused because $100 is insulting and because I took pleasure in him failing. A few weeks before finals (after the drop deadline) he gets on the phone with his sister and starts crying about how he is going to fail. And then he goes to his advisor and starts crying again. He then managed to get out of the class! I was PISSED.
- He also failed to get into Haas. He then proceeded to write a letter to convince the Haas admission folks to let him in. Unfortunately for him, he wrote it on my computer (when I wasn’t there not that I would’ve cared had I been there) and saved it to the Desktop. Of course I read an unknown document and then showed it to some of my friends (from that floor who also hated him). It was hilarious and downright pathetic. He was begging. He still didn’t get in.
- He got some folks from the floor and other kids addicted to pot. They were so addicted that they would come to our room and fold his dirty laundry for him (his underwear had skid marks) for free pot.
- He invited my friends and I to watch him at a Lacrosse game. I didn’t go because I was not in town but my friends did. Basically he made them go and then ignored them the whole time. Even when they called out his name, he ignored them.
- His Mom told him to get a job for the summer. He got an unpaid internship. And then he called his Mom and starting complaining and told her to pay him because he was working. I still don’t get his thought process.
- He had the worst memory ever. He lost his ID at least three times (and once I found it lying on the floor next to the Underhill parking lot). He used to call me very often asking me to sign him in because he forgot his key or ID. Even at 3am at night.
- Funny story: My friends and I were coming back from a co-op party one night when we ran into him (wasted). He wanted to go to Top Dog. However Top Dog was closed so he went out into the middle of the street, got on his knees and started yelling “NOOOOOO WHYYYY” at 2am. Then on the way back to the dorms he picked up a stick and threw it at a car that was passing us by. The car had three really scaring looking guys who got out and started yelling at us. We ran.
I’ll post more about the junior year guy soon.
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on Sep 15, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
men's lacrosse is one of those club sports right?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes.
Another story! He had to pay to get into lacrosse. But he couldn’t afford it (even with all the drug money – I wonder what he did with it…) so he begged his parents to pay. His mom paid a little so he asked his dad (they were divorced). That guy apparently is cheap and refused. So he called his mom and started crying. Eventually he paid up but I’m not sure how.
In other words, Go Bears!
Sounds like he gone done smoked all his shit. Worst drug dealer evar.
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
RULE #2
DON’T GET HIGH OFF YOUR OWN SUPPLY
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
i don’t deal drugs. i merely exchange drugs for money as the need arises.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
What I meant to say was that he considered himself as someone who had so much drugs that he “helped” out a few of his “friends” by providing some (and by ripping them off apparently – I’m not familiar with drug economics)
In other words, Go Bears!
i’m sure in his mind he wasn’t a dealer, but a judge wouldn’t have thought twice
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
The freshman year guy (the gay one):
Most of the stuff he did never bothered me but it was obvious he had a problem. He got financial aid money and blew it all on video games. When my other roommate mentioned this to him (this other guy had no tact) the gay guy defended himself by saying that I bought games, while conveniently ignoring that I had a job, and that I bought half the games he did. He also was re-taking a class because he fell asleep and missed his final the year before.
The other guy:
He was a fucking pervert. Would always make jokes about how he would like to bang the girls in the hall and how they looked under their clothes and how he would like to [censored – too explicit even for DBDs]. He watched porn quite often and then would save a video or two and then ask me to watch certain scenes and check out how cool or funny it was.
In other words, Go Bears!
erm, the other guy sounds like a normal highscool-college aged fellow, actually
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
the guy that watched a lot of pr0nz?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Well for the most part he was. And don’t get me wrong he is a nice guy. But he crosses the line sometimes. I mean I’d be doing some work and he’d call out from his bed “Hey [RR], you know [name] the girl down the hall? I like her Asian ass. I want to jizz on her face right now HAHAHA”. Completely random. Almost always when in bed which made it more disturbing.
In other words, Go Bears!
My freshman year (also gay) roommate got financial aid and spent it all on shoes. Same thing with my (straight girl) soph year apartmentmate, except she spent it all on clothes.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 6:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Junior year guy:
The funniest story with him has got to be one night when my friend and I were eating dinner and as usual he came out of his room, banging the door and complaining that he couldn’t sleep because we were eating (I never figured this out – chicken strips don’t smell and we weren’t making any noises). So we invited him to join us and he did after go microwaved a potato. He then put some salt and chili powder in it and then started explaining to us about how the Irish (he was apparently part Irish) were the first to invent spicy food because all the Irish had to eat were potatoes and how they couldn’t just eat potatoes by themselves daily. He was totally serious. This friend (he’s the one I visited recently at Ohio St) and I still laugh about that to this day.
- He was a Physics major but couldn’t do basic algebra. He also failed all of his Physics classes. No surprises there.
- My friend took him to see his advisor (apparently this advisor is the one used the football team and is really good). The advisor got upset at my friend for bringing the biggest moron he has ever met to him.
- He didn’t own a printer but always had stuff to print so he would ask my friend to print stuff for him. At first he would sit out in the living room waiting for my friend to get back before asking for printing but then soon after just went into his bedroom and uses his computer to print. Eventually my friend installed a lock. So he came to me. I stupidly agreed until one day he decided to print a 50 page paper, each page containing a full color image. And it wasn’t even for him. He agreed to print it out for this girl as a favor (probably so that he could bang her – he never did). I forbid him from ever printing with my printer again. He still asked.
- He would constantly hit on my friend’s girlfriend and tried to get them to break up. After they did break up (not because of him but because she was a moron) he tried to get in her pants. Didn’t work.
- He finally got a girl. He invited her over to our place and let her stay there without telling any one us. And then he kept us up at night. We later found out that the girl had a kid and she was hoping he would take care of them (HA!) but he instead ignored her and gave her the wrong phone number.
- He went out to a bar with my friend (of the four of us they were the only ones who were 21+) and managed to buy 5 shots of Patron on my friend’s tab and then broke all the shot glasses (which my friend had to pay for).
- He wasted all of his financial aid money on games (he bought a PS3, tons of games and a $80 Monster HDMI cable even after I showed him monoprice.com) and then complained about no money.
- One night when walking back from a party he basically pushed me as a joke but unfortunately I was talking to someone was taken by surprise so I fell down a bunch of stairs and managed to sprain my ankle. I thought I had broken it because the pain was incredible even in my drunken stupor.
- We were playing basketball at a court near People’s Park one night (yes that was stupid). He almost managed to get all the thugs there pissed off at us. And then he threw the basketball at a cop who almost arrested him.
Needless to say my friend hates more than I do. When we heard that he still hasn’t graduated and that he got hit in the head by an empty 40oz bottle when walking back from Clyone, he couldn’t stop laughing.
In other words, Go Bears!
your stories… yeah i can totally understand hating the dorms. i had a great dorm experience. yours sounds more… well let’s just say they’re more entertaining now.
dude…i appreciate that you probably suffered a bit dealing with all these characters, but that shit was fucking hilarious.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
It is funny. Especially the junior year guy. Even my friend who was the most affected agrees. He just never wants to see him again.
In other words, Go Bears!
I would imagine that going through all of that would really help you shrug off some of the petty shit that you may encounter at work. Bravo, though…I don’t know if I would’ve shown such patience/restraint.
Consider it douche-bag resistance training.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
no you shouldn’t!!!! don’t stop!!!! get it get it!!!!
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
throw the ball…
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wow. You win. Jesus christ.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
ex-convict fireman
Isn’t there high demand for those jobs? Why are they hiring ex-cons?
Also your experience sounds really shitty.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
The unemployment facts we'd rather not face
An alarming view of prospective young employees comes from the Defense Department, which has found that 75% of Americans aged 17 to 24 are not qualified to serve in the armed forces. There are three main reasons.
First is inadequate education. About one-quarter of the cohort haven’t graduated from high school, and about 30% of the high school graduates who take the Armed Forces Qualification Test, a test of basic reading and math skills, fail it.
Second is criminality. About 10% of the group has been convicted of a felony or serious misdemeanor at least once.
Third is physical unfitness. About one-quarter of the cohort is too overweight to join the military. Others have drug or alcohol problems, asthma, sight or hearing problems, or mental health issues, or they’ve recently undergone treatment for ADHD. Combine those issues, and over half of young adults can’t join the military because of health problems. Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the health of 18-to-29-year-olds hasn’t improved in years and, by some measures, is deteriorating; smoking, drinking, and inactivity remain prevalent.
…
Young American workers can still stagger us with their abilities. But so many have fallen behind the demands of a modern economy that they can’t get jobs. The problem won’t be fixed quickly. Mission: Readiness calls for more and better early education, which is indeed highly effective — but we won’t see results for 15 or 20 years.
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It's even worse than that, I think
The other element that nobody wants to face is that an economy that transitions away from unskilled and semi-skilled labor is an economy that has nothing for people who are, to be polite, not really capable of taking skilled jobs, education or not.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Globalisation creates winners and losers. The losers who won’t adapt will not become winners.
And I’m not trying to put down anyone. I know it’s tough to find a job. My brother has an MBA and is having difficulty finding a good job.
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There’s a difference between “can’t adapt” and “won’t adapt.” As an immigrant who has moved between three different regions of the US, I have limited patience for people who complain about there being no jobs where they live. I understand that there are intervening variables: family ties, housing ownership issues, etc. – but those are priorities, not immovable constraints.
And, even if they are willing to move, it doesn’t matter if there’s nothing to which one can move.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
MBA advice
More for Ms. Atoms than for me, but… she currently works full time for a tech company, is interested in career advancement, and is thinking about an MBA program, which will almost certainly have to be of the executive/night&weekend variety rather than full time, because she will have to keep working. Her company offers some tuition reimbursement, but it’s like $5,000 a year I think, and of course most brand-name MBA programs are way, way more expensive than that.
I guess what I’m wondering is, is it worth the extra cost, and getting loans or what have you, to go to a brand-name program, or would she be better off avoiding the massive debt and just say, going to a Cal State or something and having it be largely paid for.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Risk assessment
It depends on the job she’ll get. Hopefully she can compare her before-after salary at the same company but it seems to me the outcome is the following:
—Bigger Fish: Majority of students Get reasonable bump up in salary, for which a State School does just fine and a big name school won’t add more earning power but much more debt.
—White Whale: Few get really good connections which DRAMATICALLY improve earning, and those are more likely at big name schools.
So I feel it is more dependent on her ability to deal with risk.
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follow-up
Be sure that the career services people are ON TOP of it for whichever school she’s looking at. And be prepared to pay $400-$500 in student loans after graduation, no matter what. If you accept these things before you go into it, it will help with planning out the next 5-10 years rather than just the next 2 for the program.
Before I made the B-school decision I spoke to everyone I could about B-school AND grad school. It helps.
… also I’m available if she wants. Go Bears, Go girls in business.
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Yeah, that White Whale factor is certainly enticing, but you’re anteing up a lot of $$$$$ for a shot at that, and she’s in a pretty decent place for the time being.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Thoughts
If she is happy with her current firm, the MBA is unlikely to smooth/accelerate her path there and she should not pursue.
If she would like to use the degree to catapult herself up a rung or two on the career ladder working at a similar firm to her current firm, then a Cal State would be fine.
If she would like to change careers, or do something entrepreneurial with her MBA, then she needs to go Big Program.
She should definitely have an idea of what she’d like to do with it in making that decision, though. She works for a blue chip employer now, and having that on her resume is worth a lot on its own. The MBA might not add as much value for her as for someone who works for an unknown firm, especially if she wants to stay in tech.
Yeah, I still need to put you guys in touch :)
I think she really likes her company a lot, but I get the feeling she’s a little frustrated at the group she’s in. There’s been a lot of attrition/turnover in that unit already, which is a little demoralizing, and she’s more than a little unclear about what her career path is in this group, what level they feel she’s at, and how she can get to the next level. It doesn’t feel like her company is very structured in terms of bringing people up and developing them.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
2 nights a week for 3 years. Suckage maximus
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 15, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Totally depends on her situation. For me my career had stalled and because of my lack of Business school background in undergrad (Pre 20th Century European History FTW bitches!!!!) I was going nowhere fast. Did the small, local program with the good connections (which I never used) but learned a ton and within a year of graduating, I had almost doubled my salary. Of course, I switched jobs twice with big bumps each time but still…
Anyway, worked out great for me and I wouldn’t be at my present career level without it.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 15, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Americas unskilled jobs are service jobs, which can’t be outsourced, but will follow where the wealth is. (Another) Part of the problem is that there is no clear path for the talented but untrained to get to get to the skilled jobs.
Cal: Bears with Books.
a ton of unskilled jobs = factory, construction, extractive jobs which no longer exist. it’s why men have been so effed from this past recession, more than women.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Cal Football Reminds Franciscans "Hey Guys, We're having a Party on Saturday"
Cal Athletics Marketing has paid SF Examiner to promote Cal Football in anticipation of this weekend’s game against Presbyterian. This includes an ‘Advertising Supplement’ wrap-around to make it appear that Cal Football is on the front page. Once you open the page it has small blurbs with headlines “Big Plays are Back” and “Zach Maynard Impressive”. You might have also noticed that the workers handing out the paper were wearing Gameday shirts.
Go Bears. As this news develops, I will try to post more. I can’t link because this is an ad, and isn’t on their website. I’ll also try to get a photo up if I can email it to Twist. OR you can get your ass down and take one of those papers you ignore on your way up from BART.
Your opinions, will this reach San Franciscans?
Cal: Bears with Books.
We’re trying to sell Cal Football though, not Examiners.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
So we’re not even selling those!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Not to be Dougie Downer, but while I am glad they’re doing this, it shouldn’t have got to this point. This game should have been sold out in season tickets.
by fiatlux on Sep 15, 2011 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Down away, Dougie
it’s Thursday for the game on Saturday. Its not been very exciting for regular Cal Fans, and I think Athletics was counting on some San Franciscans suddenly coming to games, but it’s not really appeared.
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you must be new to the downtown work environment, you still notice the SF Examiner distribution staff…
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
i got breakfast from lee’s this morning. I hope this does not have a tragic ending.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
The only reason to eat at Lee’s is to remind oneself why they don’t eat at Lee’s.
by OaktownAggie on Sep 15, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
That was on the FiDi recommendations list… I was planning on going there for lunch today! Why do you toy with me CGB!!!
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it was a very reserved recommendation.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
“This place will probably not make you sick in an embarrassing fashion”
“I accept spending money there”
“Service exists”
Cal: Bears with Books.
Avoid the Chinese food by the pound
And you should remain not sick.
by OaktownAggie on Sep 15, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Depends on the truck… if you are talking about that alley off Mission and 1st, those trucks are pretty decent, I hear.
I think this is the one I’ve seen. It and a taco truck hang out near by building.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Kung Fu Tacos? Well worth it, if so.
But it’s Thursday — go to California/Sansome and hit up the Toasty Melts truck.
What’s wrong with Lee’s??
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
absolutely nothin'
say it again!
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
by natteringnabob on Sep 15, 2011 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions
oddly enough
another alum at work mentioned this to me today. He was excited to see info about the games. He was not excited to see that they did not bother to print the schedule in the supplement. (I can’t confirm this; if they did, he obviously missed it).
So, maybe A for effort and B- for execution.
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
by natteringnabob on Sep 15, 2011 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Frank McCourt is still paying his ex-wife.
Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt will keep paying $225,000 per month to his ex-wife, but money once used toward the mortgages of six luxurious homes will come from a $1.1 million escrow account, attorneys said Wednesday.
Attorneys for the former couple hammered out a deal that called for McCourt to pay temporary spousal support to Jamie McCourt over the next couple of months. He was paying an additional $412,159 a month for the mortgages of six homes and a condominium, but that money will now come from an account created after the sale of a home near the Playboy Mansion.
I woulda been willing to be his ex-wife for much less than that! Just $990 an hour!
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$990/ hour * 40 hours / wk * 4 wks / month = $158,400. CalBear81 sounds like a bargain, even if you get nights and weekends off.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
CalBear81 always seems like a bargain compared to me
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Why didn’t anyone watch Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox make out?
Jennifer’s Body is my favorite movie that I’ve done. It was overlooked in theaters, but it does have a DVD following. I can’t believe nobody wanted to see Megan Fox and me hitting it. They had an extreme close-up of our tongues, and I’m telling you, the thing about the scene is that it’s actually really sexy. For a young girl to say that about her own sex scene—it must be because it’s special. I think Megan and I kissed really well together. We have similar kissing styles and it worked. We got it done for the masses, and the masses still didn’t show up.
people who went to watch Jennifer’s Body for Fox’s hawtness were turned off by the fact that she was decaying in the movie.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
I can’t believe that movie made Amanda Seyfried “nerdy.”
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Sep 15, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Why Grant Brisbee is the best writer on SBN
Explaining Stats Through Pictures Of Constipation-Free Women, Part I
The Moneyball movie is coming out next week, which means a stats comet is about to pass through our orbit. Every few years, something happens to make the public very aware that statistics are used in baseball. And when I write “the public,” I mean, “your dad.” You’re the baseball know-it-all in your family, and you’ll be called upon to defend statistics as something other than nerdery, or sorcery.
The first step? Make it clear that statistics have been used in baseball for a long, long time. There are steps that follow this one — pie charts, detailed explanations of OPS+, threats of physical violence, et cetera. You’re on your own there. This article is only supposed to help you with the first part.
You could explain the entire history, point him to Wikipedia pages, or give them books. Not going to work. Takes too much time. You need something quick, punchy. Here, then, is the seven-step guide to pointing out how long stats have been used in baseball.
Twist is hurt.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Utah!
Anyone else worried this could be Ravenous Ute?
A Utah County woman has sued her former employer, claiming she was sexually harassed at work, where she at one point received a suggestive Monday-through-Friday “schedule” outlining what she should wear.
The schedule given to 44-year-old Trudy Nycole Anderson included “Mini-skirt Monday,” “Tube-top Tuesday,” “Wet T-shirt Wednesday,” “No bra Thursday” and “Bikini top Friday,” according to a civil complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court against Derek Wright, the owner of Pleasant Grove-based Lone Peak Controls and D& L Electric Control Company.
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Maybe
It looked familiar. I think it may have been reported before, but now she actually filed the lawsuit.
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On yesterday’s DBD
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The Cal women’s basketball vid from their retreat, where Coaches Gottlieb, Smith, and Park rapped while wearing Cal gear. Deadspin picked it up.
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Warriors fans?
In his first meeting with Warriors fans, new coach Mark Jackson started an impromptu chant of “De-fense” among a confused audience, which has rarely heard that word while missing the playoffs 16 of the past 17 seasons.
“Don’t stand up and clap when we’re a playoff basketball team, because we won’t be standing up and clapping as a team,” Jackson said. “Our ultimate goal will be to hang a championship banner.”
Those kinds of stirring and outrageous statements were the norm as about 3,000 Warriors season-ticket holders listened to a panel discussion with the team’s hierarchy, including Jackson, co-owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and executive board member Jerry West.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/14/SP451L4FH0.DTL#ixzz1Y2deaxWG
So I have second hand info on this event, Mark “Hand Down, Man Down” Jackson was solid in person, and had good answers for all the questions from the audience, Peter Gruber on the other hand, is clueless on connecting with the largely middle class Warriors fans. Jerry West just seems to be there to collect a paycheck, no idea what his role will be.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Gould talks about Beastmode and Jforce
Beastmode is inside of you
The two backs left their names all over the Cal record books, finishing second (Lynch, 3,230 yards) and third (Forsett, 3,220 yards) on the all-time rushing list. Lynch’s 17 career 100-yard rushing games is a school record, and Forsett’s 15 ranks second.
Despite departing to play on opposite sides of the country, the two remained as close as two actual brothers would be.
And by way of a trade in the middle of the 2010 NFL season, the brothers were reunited, but this time in Seattle.
"We never even thought that we would have a chance to play together in the NFL," Forsett says. "I knew the type of player he was and the asset that he could be to our team. I was excited to bring what we had at Cal here."
The trade came at a time when Forsett was just starting to come into his own as an NFL starter. And even though Lynch surpassed Forsett on the depth chart and halted his chance to cement himself as a legitimate starter, Forsett could not have been happier to be playing with his old roommate.
"He was so excited to have Marshawn coming to Seattle," Gould says. "Those guys don’t care about stats. All they care about is winning."
The 2011 season marks the first time since 2006 that the two backs will play together for a full season. And the pair will undoubtedly be looking to rekindle the same magic they shared back in Berkeley.
"We set off each other in the backfield, and we want each other to succeed," Forsett says. "We created a nice combo, both at Cal and here today."
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:13 AM PDT reply actions
Did religion play a part? OMG OMG OMG
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Best names for the upcoming Ohio State-Miami game?
Best two I’ve heard so far:
Ineligibowl
Tit For Tat
(If you don’t get the second one, just think what the scandals at both schools recently have been)
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Yes We Cannon and I are both amused.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi 'called Angela Merkel an unfuckable lard-arse'
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on Sep 15, 2011 10:18 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
doesn’t he have crazy Mafia ties?
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Say what you will about Silvio, but he must have the best looking cabinet of any PM, anywhere, ever.
but of course
it’s chock-full of Italians!
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
by natteringnabob on Sep 15, 2011 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
hahah
That’s funny because Silvio is a disgusting old crone of a man.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
and even funnier
is that he was PM once before. And they brought him back.
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
by natteringnabob on Sep 15, 2011 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
6 Judges Who Went Completely Insane on the Bench | Cracked.com
http://www.cracked.com/article_19422_6-judges-who-went-completely-insane-bench.html
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TORONTO (Reuters) – For actor Nicolas Cage, making the new thriller movie “Trespass” hit close to home.
Cage, at the Toronto film festival along with director Joel Schumacher promoting the film about a home invasion, said that he has actually lived through the nightmare in real life.
“It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My two-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
“I know it sounds funny … but it was horrifying.”
A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack.
He sounds confused
Pretty sure that was just his son having a late night snack

Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack.
Shoot, they left out other necessary explanation:
A leather jacket is an article of outerwear clothing made from the skin of a dead animal, often a cow.
A home is a place where people live, and can be an apartment, a house, a condominium, or a teepee.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Can it be Foothill dorm?
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BTW is anyone interesting in buying a ticket to the USC game at AT&T from me?
It’s in the young alumni section (the corner opposite the large screen – I’ll get the correct section later).
I will also not make it for the WSU game and maybe the Oregon St one as well. And the Presby game but it’s too late to sell now :p
In the end I’ll only be going to one real home game this year: Utah (the other fake “home” games are Candlestick Park and @Furd).
In other words, Go Bears!
Oooh, ooh, I might be!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Halfway to Disney
Mrs Kod got up at 5am…too excited. Girls still think we’re going to a “water park.”. Pit stop at Harris Ranch. Good steaks, a bit oversalted. Peace out, CGB!
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by Kodiak on Sep 15, 2011 10:45 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
How’s your hip holding up?
Also, try not to think about the strong fecal odors than emanate from the Harris Ranch feedlot.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s probably just as well you’re sticking to the original. God only knows what kind of damage you could do with a property as large as Disneyworld.
Safe travels!
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Damage to his body or damage to his wallet?
by Yes We Cannon on Sep 15, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
This is Kod we're talking about here.
So obviously, both.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, this
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Hey now. I resemble that remark. Hip is a little sore, but electric wheelchair plus portable cane-stool are working okay. I just imagine that everyone is a peasant fleeing before the wrath of my death ray equipped hover chair. Hehehehehehrhe. They let us in the handicapped gate to see the fairies, evil lady at Tangled making us wait for Rapunzel. I must not look pathetic enough. Rodgers help me…all this cuteness…(twitch)
Old Toothwrangler
by Kodiak on Sep 15, 2011 4:26 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
You are a nicer father than I am. My daughters have pretty much given up on Disneyworld… although we’re raising such nerdlets that they probably are happier going to Colonial Williamsburg.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
So,which Doctor Who Doctor is their favorite, then?
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That would imply that they are allowed to watch television.
(if they know what’s good for them, they will pick either Tom Baker or David Tennant)
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
i’m anti-tennant to be contrarian.
also, tennant didn’t have pond and rose annoys me to no end.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I don’t watch Dr Who enough to have a real opinion. The David Tennant choice is driven purely by Scottish chauvinism. In fact, I am of the opinion that a Tennant / Pond series would bring both sufficient hotness and also irritate the English, which makes it an appealing if unlikely idea.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
by DC Trojan on Sep 16, 2011 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Dammit woman! Next time, get another 2 feet closer before jumping….DOH!
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 15, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
What does Brenden Bigelow have to do with this?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep.
Still laughing. And still distributing. HAHA
no bear, no care
by EchoOfSilence on Sep 15, 2011 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Screen Passes is to Cal Defense as this gif is to me
keeps reminding me of the ownage that took place over red velvet cake.
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
add reply fail to that too
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Amish mugshots

Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 11:25 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I’d love to see an Amish dude with the beard, but like, a modern cut, like a faux-hawk or something.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
What did they do?
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Not sure, but it didn’t involve electricity.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Nor did it involve operation of a motor vehicile.
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Yikes
vehicle
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They live in Kentucky and didn’t reflectors (taillights and the like) on the back of their wagons. The Amish don’t want anything reflective/colorful on their wagons. They were cited and refused to pay the fine so they got a few days in jail.
I think that’s the gist of the story.
by HeyAlumniGo on Sep 15, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Why do most of them look like goats?

Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
by ikoolykedat on Sep 15, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL UMAD?

Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 11:35 AM PDT reply actions
Uncle Ted chat
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We’re chatting at noon PT or 3 p.m. ET.
Click here to join the fun.
It will be awesome!
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 12:01 PM PDT reply actions
I'm BAAAAAAAAAAACCKKKKK
Go Bears!
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 12:07 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
please be real!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I'm real. I think it's been about a year from when I was booted?
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
it’s just…there have been so many imitators…i’ve had my heart broken before. i want you to be real but i don’t know if i’m ready to love again
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
You loved real good last night. AMIRITE?
CGB: No Regrets. Just Love.
by oskisunbear on Sep 15, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
WTF DOES THIS MEAN
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll be sure to tone it down a notch or two
Avi Baby is legit and the Giants have proven themselves to be a fluke last year. Bye Bye Mr. Peanut.
It pains me to have to set foot in the phone booth on Saturday, but I’ll be there to support the Bears. I just wont give the scum-sucking giants a penny beyond the face value of my ticket. If I happen to miss a few urinals and/or somehow show further disrespect to the Giants I will. Damn Straight.
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Mental Note: Don’t pee next to 33SS
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Praise the GOOCH!
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by oskisunbear on Sep 15, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
over/under on how long this lasts.
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Poast 33SS east bay map pl0x
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
i think that’s carps file
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 15, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
What happened to my boy carp.
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Still around here a lot.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
CaliforniaGoldenBlogs/Twitter/Facebook/Clothing Store
How long have I been gone? Been a while,eh?
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
You serious?
Man, see, that’s what happens when you go on a mormon mission to senigal – lose track of all the important stuff in life such as the popularity of Ke$ha.
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you see Sushine Pumper over there???
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of the same faith, perhaps.
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait, YOU serious?!
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
serious
no internet connection over seas and in the bush
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
wait wait wait wait….am I misinterpreting things? YOU went on a Mormon Mission?
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
That berkeley education has proven to be every penny
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
still lost!
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
NO NO NO NO NO NO
I’M SUING YOU FOR DEFAMATION I HATE NIKKI MINAJ SO MUCH
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by Rishi on Sep 15, 2011 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't know where that is offhand, but...
I found my 33$$ map of India:

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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Pretty accurate summary of my feelings on that area as well. Nicely done.
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the conversations in the header line, but should’t you be using the third person when talking about yourself? I miss the original 33SS.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
This is the original 33SS. Dont make me prove myself.
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Put your pants back on!
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 15, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
pants on the ground

Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
now if only I could find that gif...
no bear, no care
by EchoOfSilence on Sep 15, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I see you changed your real name, now initialled I. O. Seems like it has been a VERY interesting year for you.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I know, none of the internal info makes any sense to me.
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It makes sense if he had some operations and turned himself into a latina woman.
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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 15, 2011 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions
That actually does make a lot of sense.
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But is she a wise latina woman?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
oh lawd
The Swisher is back.
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by Swamphunter on Sep 15, 2011 2:05 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Cal walk-on DESTROYS SAT's
Did you guys catch this? Raffi Chalian got 2350 out of 2400 and got a guaranteed walk-on spot on the Basketball team. He travelled with the team to Europe this summer. BAWLIN
no bear, no care
:)
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
High school coach denies that punting is winning.
For one, Kelley doesn’t believe in punting. His Bruins teams go for it on fourth down, even in the most extreme situations. His playbook is filled with tricks and gimmicks. He often forbids his players to return punts, reckoning that the odds of a fumble outstrip the incremental yards that can be gained from a return. After his team scores, it almost always attempts an onside kick. There are 12 varieties in the playbook — including one in which the ball is placed flat on the ground — and Kelley figures that the chance of recovery outweighs the risk of allowing the opposition to start a drive near midfield.
The funny thing about Kelley: He’s not a mad scientist or an iconoclast, zigging where everyone else is zagging, for the hell of it. Rather, he’s a relentlessly rational sort whose methods have backing in data.
The decision not to punt? According to Kelley’s statistics, when a team punts from near its end zone, the opponent will take possession inside the 40-yard line and will then score a touchdown 77 percent of the time. If it recovers on downs inside the 10, it will score a touchdown 92 percent of the time. “So [forsaking] a punt, you give your offense a chance to stay on the field,” he said. “And if you miss, the odds of the other team scoring only increase 15 percent. It’s like someone said, ‘[Punting] is what you do on fourth down,’ and everyone did it without asking why.”
[…]
With Kelley calling plays, Pulaski scored on its first drive. Naturally, the Bruins then attempted an onside kick, which they recovered. Soon, they scored another touchdown. They repeated the drill — onside kick, recovery, touchdown — again. And then again. With 8:35 left in the 12-minute first quarter, Cabot trailed Pulaski 29-0 and had yet to run a play from scrimmage.
If this guy makes it to college
(presumeably one of the Boise’s of the world), football will change.
But I doubt it would work at a higher level.
no bear, no care
by EchoOfSilence on Sep 15, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
It would probably need to be a little more carefully applied in college, taking game situation and field position and such into account, but it could work. OTOH, I doubt he’d be recovering onside kicks as frequently as Pulaski seems to be.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
one thing that seems pretty clear though
…is that this really goes to show the value of properly executing on special teams. That’s a huge, huge advantage that Pulaski has. Their place kicking team is one of their most important units.
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Also the importance of good ball fakes and well-executed deception.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I've heard this theory before, and I think it would work great in high school, when kids should be focusing on having fun during games.
But like Echo said, in higher levels, it probably would not work.
cal. lakers. dodgers. packers. chelsea.
vols. rangers. galaxy.
Gould is frowning because Marshawn left his feet.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Sometimes it boggles my mind that we, as a society, have progressed to the point where this picture (with caption) is a thing that exists.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
hahah, that’s not what i’m saying at all.
it’s just that, when you consider all of the evolutionary and cultural conditions that had to occur to lead up to this point, it’s sort of amazing. even achieving a basic understanding of why this picture exists would take a hypothetical alien (of average human intelligence) visiting our planet months, if not years.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
LET ME TRY
Mankind evolves from monkeys,
mankind developes requisite speed and agility,
mankind creates culture,
mankind creates sports,
some cultures create written language, one of which has sports,
sports become specialized,
sports get written about,
sports rulebooks get written,
mankind creates the photograph,
photos of sports paired with words,
mankind creates the internet,
cultures get literate enough to actually revert writing skills as a joke imagining that Cats are writing it,
Wry comments written on photographs of sports in phonetic language.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Tom Brady tells fans to drink early, Pats claim he meant water
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When asked at a Wednesday press conference about the notoriously quiet crowd at Gillette Stadium, Tom Brady(notes) issued a tongue-in-cheek message to fans who will be in attendance at this weekend’s home opener:
“Yeah, start drinking early. […] Get nice and rowdy. 4:15 game, lot of time to get lubed up. Come out here, and cheer for the home team.”
In other words, Brady was telling thousands of people to do exactly what they’ve been planning on doing for months: go to the Patriots home opener, drink some alcoholic beverages in the parking lot and then go inside to cheer the team. This was an apparent no-no, as the Patriots later issued a statement censoring clarifying Brady’s comments. “He meant ‘stay hydrated, drink a lot of water,’” the team said unconvincingly.
Good work, Patriots PR flacks. Way to draw attention to a comment that was thoroughly noncontroversial. People drink in the parking lots. Unless they’re wearing an Under Armour shirt, Uggs on their feet and have their hair feathered like David Cassidy, not one of them is going to have more or less because Tom Brady told them to.
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I lube up before big games with water all the time.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
This is the main reason I was late to our basketball playing that one day.
REHIRE NICK'S LEFT ELBOW!
OH GAWD I HAD SOME OF YOUR WATER
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
OH NO ME TOO!!!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I meant I wanted sec119 to deal with atoms’ lubing so I didn’t have to.
Those water bottles were sealed, guys.
REHIRE NICK'S LEFT ELBOW!
Let’s do it! Not this weekend tho.
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Anybody free this Saturday at 2:30 PM? We could play at AT+T park. I doubt anything else of importance is going on.
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Yeah, how about in a couple of weeks?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Either the weekend of the 24th/25th or 1st/2nd would work for me. I’m not sure which day on each weekend I’d be free, but I’d certainly be free on one of the days at least.
REHIRE NICK'S LEFT ELBOW!
I’d probably prefer the 1st/2nd.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
You feel like my brother
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z

Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Awesome.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Cal - 42.5 vs. Presbyhoseian
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:10 PM PDT reply actions
over, or under?
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
BLUE JERSEYS BLUE PANTALONES!
Coach P mad but still has magical secrets for rest of season
Defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast also spoke with reporters today and it’s clear he wasn’t happy (for obvious reasons) about his unit’s performance against Colorado. He said most of the problems that led to the Buffaloes racking up 582 yards of offense were a product of bad technique and miscommunication.
"I was disappointed with the amount of big plays we gave up," Pendergast said. "We didn’t give up a lot of big plays last year. That’s one of the things I was proud about last year. We gave up too many on Saturday. We have to get that corrected."
Pendergast said specifically the big plays by Colorado wide receiver Paul Richardson were also a product of what Cal did wrong, not necessarily what Colorado did right.
"It was not proper leverage by the corners or the safeties," he said. "Whether our guy was expecting help or not expecting help, and it was or wasn’t there, it was because of miscommunication or technique."
Pendergast said the problems with technique spread throughout the defense, from the defensive line, the linebackers and the secondary.
"It wasn’t really anything that they did that we didn’t anticipate," he said. "We just played with poor technique. We had some opportunities to get some pressure on the quarterback and we missed them. We had 4 or 5 sacks that we missed throughout the course of the game."
Pendergast acknowledged that future opponents will probably try to emulate some of the things Colorado did on offense, but said his unit is ready to counter that.
"We have things that would have helped us there that I didn’t necessarily call," he said. "The game was close so you’re not in as much a risk-taking mode in certain situations. They had a great game plan and I’m sure we’ll see similar game plans. But we have a lot of things that we haven’t showed as well."
Pendergast confirmed what Tedford said earlier in the week, that there will be no changes to the depth chart in the seconday. Starting cornerback Marc Anthony was beaten several times by Richardson in Saturday’s game.
"We’re going to stick with our left and right corner," he said. "We have a lot of confidence in both those guys. I have a lot of confidence in Marc. Marc just needs to play better. He knows that and we’ve addressed that, and I hope that he will."
And in the most important development of the day, Tedford said Cal will wear blue jerseys and blue pants on Saturday.
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Sep 15, 2011 3:19 PM PDT reply actions
And in the most important development of the day, Tedford said Cal will wear blue jerseys and blue pants on Saturday.
Take that, Blue Hose!
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
In the most important development of the day
33$$ has made his/her triumphant return. Get with it Raggy baby.
by TheReturnOf33SwisherSweet on Sep 15, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Heard you guys like Honey Badgers.
They’re gonna be in the NBA Jam re-release. They don’t give a shit.
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Hitlers-a-Million? More like Hitlers-a-Thousand, amirite??
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by atomsareenough on Sep 15, 2011 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions
poor moose! clean up your life!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/08/international/i034134D17.DTL
A seemingly intoxicated moose has been discovered entangled in an apple tree by a stunned Swede.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
What are you doing moose
You’re not a bird. Get out of that tree. You are a moose.
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win tix to the usc game.
https://www.facebook.com/CalAthletics?sk=app_158166040897765
(gotta live in norcal. damnit.)
well...damn...
Raffi Chalian is a 5-foot-11 freshman walk-on who is getting his opportunity to play in the Pac-12 and provide depth at the guard position for Cal, but what truly stands out is his academic record.
Just check the test score.
According to Asbarez Armenian News, Chalian did not miss a single question on the SAT.
“Raffi has without question, the highest GPA and SAT scores of any high school athlete I have ever come in touch with over the many years we have been involved helping kids get recruited. Raffi had a 4.8 GPA at Sonora H.S. and a SAT score of 2350 out of 2400. Did not miss a single question, but had 50 points deducted off his essay,” said Bob Gottlieb, Director of Branch West Basketball.
by j.lee on Sep 16, 2011 12:13 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Go Bears!!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 16, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Pfft
I had a 1550 when it was out of 1600.
by OaktownAggie on Sep 16, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
nerd
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
by natteringnabob on Sep 16, 2011 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
1550/1600 = 96.9%
2350/2400 = 97.9%
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by atomsareenough on Sep 16, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
nerd
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
by natteringnabob on Sep 16, 2011 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
nerd
Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
by natteringnabob on Sep 16, 2011 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I got a 3.
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It's about time someone detained that menace.
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