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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Max Cringe
« on: August 18, 2025, 07:25:35 PM »From what I can tell, the boomer/x contingent of the Texas board absolutely loves the Gavin stuff so that's depressing
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shame Yourself
« on: August 18, 2025, 07:01:08 PM »I got scammed in Athens. so embarrassing
anyway day one, we landed at like 1pm, everyone was insanely jet lagged (including me) but I wanted some sunshine so I left the apartment and decided to wander around the neighborhood, maybe grab a beer. An old guy stops me and asks me for the time. Now, my bullshit meters are immediately going off and I basically tell him to eff off but he was old and nice so I show him the time. He asks me where I'm from, NYC, "Oh, my brother is in Astoria, he has a restaurant there". OK what's it called? and I'm pretty sure he said "Moussaka" which was also bullshit but he says - "I have a cafe, I'll give you his card" or something. So I am like what the hell it is a tame tourist street in broad daylight what can happen. So we roll up to his "cafe" and it's actually a shitty lounge type bar. there's a group of what looks like tourists in a booth and one lady at the bar. the guy invites me to join him for some ouzo so I'm like "why not - drinks are reasonable in greece". and then immediately the lady slides over and is like "hey buy me a drink too" and it was clear she was a prostitute but I'm not interested in that (and I'm jet lagged so again, not thinking clearly) and was like fine and then the bartender was like "buy me one too" and I said yes to this too! (I KNOW IT WAS SO STUPID!!!!) Anyway I have a second drink but didn't buy anyone else one and the lady was from Ukraine really wanted me to pay her for something so I ask for the bill.
IT WAS 110 EUROS
massive shame myself. in hindsight the guy just got me to agree to a ton of slightly more suspect things when I should have told him to eff off when he asked for the time.
anyway
Let me get this straight. You never mentioned feeling physically threatened in any way. Yet you didn't just peace out? Perhaps you committed a sin of the mind and viewed picking up the bill as your penance
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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!
« on: August 18, 2025, 06:13:06 PM »Spracne, off topic but do you enjoy the sound of Brian Hanni's voice? Do you tolerate it? Or does it make you want to sharpen two wheat stalks, jam them into your ears until you can no longer hear but then keep pushing until they go into your brain and you are deaf and also dead?
I never have to listen to him call a game, so my exposure to him is mostly just people like you guys talking about him. Obviously, the cornball, cheesedick schtick is not good. But I've heard his straight calls are not bad.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: have these new mhk eateries been discussed yet?
« on: August 18, 2025, 05:48:36 PM »The thought of my kid (new KSU Cats student) not having access to Pizza Shuttle for Sunday night nourishment is breaking me inside.I will IRL cry if Pizza Shuttle goes out of business.
Well it's time to grieve, I have. The potential sale to the owners of the Lawrence and Topeka pizza shuttles feel through. It's over. FWIW, I had shuttle this summer and it was mid, at best. They didn't even have the logo on the boxes anymore.
How could this have possibly failed? The jingle, the personal size, the drunken staple, etc. It was also in a tiny ass kitchen that couldn't have cost much to operate. Anyone have the inside towny scoop?
Student enrollments trending down for a while now. Tenuous position in the big leagues. Mashed Tater Face and Faith Face appear stagnant yet somehow entrenched--the athletic department equivalent of staglation, rankling the 'Stang.
It's the way of the West. Always has been. Folks come around while the coming's good. Folks leave just as well when the coming done came. Best you just follow on down the river. There's better, more civilized folks after a ways.
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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!
« on: August 18, 2025, 05:31:29 PM »
Who says that's the press box? Just because there are press people in there?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Recent motion picture viewing - Add your own!
« on: August 18, 2025, 05:27:34 PM »
Any Hateful Eighters? or just Western Haters?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: White people name, White people shame
« on: August 18, 2025, 05:22:01 PM »
Jaycub
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: pos 'pubs being complete pieces of crap
« on: August 17, 2025, 12:34:26 PM »https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/KHho4zdOZc
It's wild reading comments like those, because it's exactly like it's coming from Bill the Butcher's crew in Gangs of New York, only it's real and it's right now!
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MAHA
« on: August 17, 2025, 11:02:38 AM »
How do I get into the supplement game? Are there like, thousands of generic supplement companies out there just waiting for a political lightning rod to come along and coopt their hokum?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MAHA
« on: August 17, 2025, 08:43:33 AM »
Is that a real tweet?
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Kansas State Football / Re: ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas
« on: August 14, 2025, 05:33:33 PM »
visions of lopak and skibe
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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!
« on: August 14, 2025, 05:12:14 PM »
Holy smokes! 
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: August 14, 2025, 04:55:38 PM »
Guys. You gotta read these excerpts from Laura Loomer's deposition, attached to this https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.434676/gov.uscourts.flmd.434676.100.0.pdf
^^also, her personal cell phone number and other stuff are in there
^^also, her personal cell phone number and other stuff are in there
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: pos 'pubs being complete pieces of crap
« on: August 14, 2025, 04:51:42 PM »Ease of access is a dumb reason for not regulating anything. The laws just need to make sense and the tools need to be developed.Age verification for porn sites is good in and of itself.
For the performers, absolutely. But nic I’ve got some bad news. Kids are going to see teh pr0n. They just are and there is no safe guard that will mitigate it in any meaningful way. (This is not a new development. It’s literally always been this way)
that's a dumb argument that i've heard used against gun control regulation
75% of kids look at porn. But give us all your personal information and we’ll realistically get that down to…72%
Also, invalid comparison. Nobody is going to die because someone didn’t exercise good porn safety
To mocat’s point, acting like either of those presents an insurmountable barrier is intellectually dishonest. Obviously I think we should prioritize guns, but that’s not mutually exclusive with limiting minors’ ability to access adult content.
The age verification stuff only affects olds and other people who don't know how to use computers. The kids are alright.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 13, 2025, 05:53:38 PM »He was on quite a roll there and was probably knee deep in shipwreck enthusiast poon
speaking of scuttling, you know Bob opened those seacocks ...
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: pos 'pubs being complete pieces of crap
« on: August 13, 2025, 05:43:42 PM »I agree gay marriage should be legal. I also think there’s a decent argument the Supreme Court overstepped in declaring it to be so.
That said, even hardcore conservatives on SCOTUS have to believe that the juice of forcing the issue back on states isn’t worth the squeeze of appearing to be a partisan pendulum that swings based solely on the party in power.
ONE WOULD THINK
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 05:44:04 PM »I lived in a hood with a marina on the Inter-coastal - lots of boats and boat nerds
I live between the ICW and the Atlantic. And you calling it the "Inter-coastal" is sus af.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 05:32:01 PM »
I live less than 800 feet from one of the world's largest oceans, yet I'm neither a boat nerd nor learned like one.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 05:17:44 PM »Monthly jobs reports are a statutory requirement. If we would like better data, and thus fewer revisions, perhaps we should restore funding to the BLS.
you are going to enrage some dummies with this kind of talk.
What will fix the problem #slowdug? Apparently a $728m dollar annual budget for this one little faction of the DOL wasn't enough. So $1b a year - $2b a year - how much?
For starters, they could bring back the advisory committees that DOGE disbanded. Part of their function was increasing response rates to the monthly surveys and modernizing the survey process. We've also not had "crap reporting."
I'm sure EJ Antoni will be able to navigate these waters, however.
Who measured the effectiveness of this committee and their functions? Are you implying that there's now a block on BLS staff collaborating with academia and outside sources? if so, please provide a link.
Over 2,000 full time staff dedicated to one function.
Are you under the impression that the monthly jobs report is the only function of the BLS?
No - I am sure there are numerous sub functions.
But in typical you fashion - you keep avoiding other parts of what I am saying and/or asking. Very onbrand for you and others on here.
Only extreme hyper-partisans don't get the political implications of a election impacting jobs reports - that ultimately turn out to be massively overstated (or understated). Only hyper-partisans continue to try and pooh pooh away the 2 if not 3 times during the Biden administrations that jobs numbers turned out about to be very very wrong.
They are not and were not massively overstated or understated. Regardless, if that is your stance.. why would we then stop efforts to improve the jobs surveys, institute a hiring freeze, fire the experienced commissioner, and hire this Twitter moron? Seems like that would make it worse.
I don't know why I bother to interact with you. You are ignorant of complicated topics, either unknowingly or on purpose, and yet there exists no area where you don't think of yourself as a subject matter expert. rough ridin' frustrating individual. Have some self-reflection and consider that perhaps thousands of trained economists know what they are doing, if you are able.
Yes, but then we wouldn't all get treated to the Dax Experience (TM), which you can only find right here at gE.c
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: August 09, 2025, 12:59:05 AM »Meade mentioned so this goes here
https://x.com/ksmesonet/status/1954046373676142741?t=mNE9xJBYa51qd5NO0YK6lA&s=19
That's like some real life UFO crap
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Post Your IRL Crimes ITT So The Feds Can Come Bust You
« on: August 08, 2025, 06:18:48 PM »
Did you learn anything from the ordeal, WM?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: August 06, 2025, 06:57:36 PM »
Wtf? lol
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Kansas State Football / Re: KSTATEO!
« on: August 06, 2025, 06:54:03 PM »
An ohlde but a goodie
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 06, 2025, 06:19:26 PM »The amount of people that think iPhones and chips(not delicious potato chips) are going to be built in America is way too rough ridin' high.Why not? Just a slight improvement in robotics could allow onshoring. And we can and do make chips here, so I dunno what you mean.
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