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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Having trouble with your golf game?

« on: April 15, 2024, 07:05:35 PM »

It's a fine line... Definitely easy to get information overload to a point where you're just twisting yourself in knots. I admire how bubba Watson has purportedly never taken a formal lesson, but he's also an exceptional talent. If you don't fully understand the mechanics it can be very valuable to have someone who does say "hey quit moving your head around so much" or w/e and like bam game changer that just fixed a bunch of your issues

Golf is very weird. Its really the only sport I've tried where I really really struggled. I'm def shitty at other sports, but I could always at least be average. When I first just started going out there, I obviously sucked ass, but started getting a bit better on my own just by playing. Then I took some lessons and learned some things and got a bit better. Then, out of rough ridin' nowhere, I couldn't even hit the ball 30 feet. Just over and over I would be slicing, chunking, etc. It just happened and it lasted for like a month or more. That is the hardest part mentally for me. I feel like I'm doing the same thing I did before, but the results are crap and I have no idea why. As I said above, I hope i'm a bit past that as I've kind of figured out that if the ball does this, I probably did that and can adjust a bit. Learning to play golf past 40 is not recommended. I'm making my kids play so they at least learn the basics early.

I wish I would of learned to play as a kid but my dad never played so I ended up taking a 1 credit hr golf class at ole ksu and had a buddy who worked at Colbert hills who would let us play the par 3 for free. That class was the only instruction I've ever had and my grip is pretty messed up now from figuring out what works for me. Ended up shooting an 88 at Hodge Park in Nkc last weekend so I'm happy with that.

About 4 years ago I went through a stretch like you were talking about where I just couldn't hit a ball, literally went home after losing 10+ balls on 7 holes on a 9 hole round after work.

Stopped playing for about a month and I was back to normal.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Ireland Pak 2025

« on: April 15, 2024, 05:16:46 PM »

I'm confused, are we supposedly playing notre dame in ireland next year or just playing notre dame or just playing some other random team in ireland?

pls help

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shame Yourself

« on: April 15, 2024, 04:21:27 PM »

Since the JoCo library eliminated late fines I just return my books whenever I want.

i don't think there's any shame in playing by the rules, ben ji man.

What if sometimes you hold onto them so long the library assumes you lost it and charges you for the book....(They drop the charge when you return it)

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shame Yourself

« on: April 15, 2024, 03:30:59 PM »

Since the JoCo library eliminated late fines I just return my books whenever I want.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kansas City things

« on: April 12, 2024, 04:35:09 PM »

Even a worldwide news agency can't remember that KC is in Missouri.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kansas City things

« on: April 12, 2024, 04:34:00 PM »

"Kansas Fed"

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1778897309792719355?t=C7ln2GALbwCw4GNupjFkBw&s=19

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 05, 2024, 11:01:40 PM »

Ben ji: So, um how long does wheat stay good In that silo that hasn't held grain in 10 years?

Dad: At least 2-3 years maybe if you fumigate it.

Ben ji : so you really just wanted a barn full of feed and a silo full of wheat in case the apocalypse came and once you have that you will just lease out the land?

Dad: The barn is full of feed and once the silo is full of wheat I will feel pretty good.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 05, 2024, 10:51:44 PM »

It went something like this

Ben ji: So why not do it now?
Dad: I'm waiting until we harvest the wheat and fill the bin.
Ben ji: So you're going to hold 8k bushels in the bin that hasn't held grain in 10 years... why not just sell the harvest?

Dad: China/Ukraine/Russia/war you will thank me  as it's our backup retirement/survival plan.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 05, 2024, 10:45:11 PM »

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Was having dinner with my parents tonight and my dad mentioned how half his dream farm scenario was complete because he had some feed bales inside of the Morton building/barn.

Then we started talking about his "turn key" solution for when he is too old in a couple of years where he basically just leases the land to our land baron 2nd cousin.

....

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: April 05, 2024, 10:33:32 PM »

It’s pretty wild how much of our society sits around planning for that stuff. I have an aunt and uncle who do. They have an entire basement filled with jarred preserved chickens and weird preserved food.


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You are going to love my newest FARM update I got from my dad....

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: April 03, 2024, 07:25:54 PM »

What usually happens in situations where a team leaves a city? What percent of fans say "eff this, I'm a Cardinals fan now" vs. what percent say "I can't turn off my Royals fandom"? And what if they change their names, does that change the percentages? Also, it's rough ridin' baseball, so how many fans just stop following the sport all together? It's pretty tough to be invested in baseball if you're not watching a team regularly.

I haven't watched a royals game on TV in a couple of years (besides randomly being at a bar/restaurant where it's on TV) due to the whole Bally's fiasco and have definitely lost interest in the sport.

I still go to a couple of games a year but if they left I would probably never watch another baseball game in my life.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: April 03, 2024, 10:22:46 AM »

Where should the chefs go on the Kansas side? Obvious suggestion is the legends in kck but what if JoCo decides to whip their big ole schlong out and say "I'm the captain now"

Put arrowhead 2.0 out where the great mall of the great plains was?

Scrap the office/apartment plans for brookridge country club and stick 2.0 at 435 and Antioch?

Looking at google maps there is a bunch of undeveloped land near K-10/Renner/Ridgeview.

Maybe put it just across state line from Loch Lloyd so that Mahomes can drive a golf cart to work?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Heart over Height – the Markquis Nowell thread

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:37:23 PM »

The fake argue with tang only to drop a perfect alley oop from mid court with 1 min left in a tied game in overtime.... WOW

I just remember chest bumping my bros as we are all screaming WTF just happened. Just pure pandemonium when it happened.

And that was just the icing on the cake from a great game by nowell.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:15:25 PM »

Here’s the thing, these people have a lot of the most valuable resource on the planet, time. It’s not an industrial efficiency issue. They work 24/7/365. And the irl last thing they want is someone taking something from that.


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So they are bored and would rather drive out to a pasture to check on the cows than fly over them with a drone?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:04:51 PM »

Also made me think of when I was hunting a WIHA honey hole a couple of miles from the cat ranch on opening weekend and saw a small plane circling over me a while back.

When I was leaving an older gentleman with a poney tail pulled up next to me and let me know he was watching me and thanked me for staying on the WIHA land and not going onto his adjacent 200 acres of CRP that is absolutely loaded with pheasants (all the birds I flushed would fly directly into his land) and no hunting signs. He explained that he was "re wilding" his land etc.

I've seen him a couple of times since then either flying over or just driving by.

I bet he would love the crap out of a drone.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: March 23, 2024, 08:57:39 PM »

https://twitter.com/RobSomerville1/status/1771681513165205509

I believe I asked earlier about the feasibility of using drones to check on cattle and some peeps responded that you must be in visible contact with the drone to operate legally....

But honestly if you are in BFE and just running it within 5-10 miles ish if the main farm I would imagine your chances of getting in trouble are pretty small?

No idea but I'm definitely interested in the capabilities even if I will never utilize them.

I also assume they would be helpful in flying over row crops to inspect them etc.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Recent motion picture viewing - Add your own!

« on: March 23, 2024, 05:07:39 PM »

I watched the new roadhouse on prime last night. It was a solid 5.5/7 if you suspend all belief of an actual roadhouse type bar with chicken wire protecting the band in the Florida keys. Nothing great but a solid action flick even tho Connor McGregors character was a little over the top and unnecessary.

Still not as good as the OG roadhouse with swayze.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: March 20, 2024, 05:06:26 PM »

I will be letting my son play tackle starting in the fall...and he will be in 4th grade.  Wife and I were on the fence on this for quite some time for the obvious reasons.

Ultimately, we made our decision to let him play tackle due to the fact we are convinced he will get hurt playing flag.  He has played flag for KCFC for 4 years now.  Last year we played in the top division, and it was super competitive.  There were multiple moments I thought we were going to see a mid-air head bang as the kids were going after a pass. 

My son also plays RB...and he is very athletic at this point in his life.  There were times kids would attempt to tackle and would get more aggressive than they should because of the level of difficulty he presented when going after his flag.  Many of the injuries he sustained playing flag were due to collisions happening trying to bring him down.  He would get a knee to the hip or thigh for example. 

We are moving to tackle in hopes that the pads protect him a bit more.  At this age they at least don't hit each other hard. 

That being said, I don't think every kid is ready.  My son is big-boned.  Some of his friends are super tiny and I would not be comfortable letting them play tackle if they were my kids.

Also - KCFC has weight limits on ball carriers.  That also gives me comfort that these kids aren't trying to tackle a kid who hit a growth spurt at an early age.  If they are too heavy, they are required to be on the line.

Thanks. Its one of those things where starting them early and teaching the fundamentals is good, but also opens them up to more head shots at an early age so I see both sides. I LOL at the weight limit thing. When I was a kid they had those too and it was very obvious that A)it was a self reported thing and B)if they did weigh the kids, one or two teams in my pee wee league starved the kids over the summer so they could hit weight at the beginning of the year. Every year it was terrifying playing them. This dude was a monster RB and just smoked us all.

KCFC is pretty strict on weight limits.  Anthony Sherman took his kid's team to tackle starting last year, and decided not to do the KCFC league because of the weight limit.  I think they play on the Missouri side somewhere.  I've also heard he is running the Oklahoma drill with these kids....which is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion. That is Sherman in a nutshell and his group of kids go all out for bball and baseball.  They are peaking early and will get burned out before high school. 

Our coaching staff is going to be extremely anal about fundamentals.  You would think every team would think this way...but I honestly have no idea and I don't trust most people who are so adamant about tackle at this age.

We play through MYFL in Nebraska and it is very strict on weight as well. Definitely not self reported. We have a designated weigh in day and have to have the whole team show up and get in line for weight. Then "stripers" are assigned to kids over the weight and they can only play on the line of scrimmage and can't carry the ball. Called striper because there is a stripe around their helmet. Our team didn't have a single striper last year. Most teams had a handful. Gave us fits on the interior line but ultimately we kicked most of their asses anyway. I think striper weight in 5th grade was 130 lbs+.

We used to call them fat patches when I played out at heritage park back in the day. Definitely needed though. You don't need the 5-9 160lb'er who has a beard running over some 5'0 100lb 7th grader whose balls have not dropped yet.

IIRC we also had a "Heavyweight" and "Lightweight" division in grades 5-7ish.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: March 20, 2024, 04:27:37 PM »

I think Toney will be back next year if only as a kick returner and #5 WRish.

Hollywood will get close to 1k yards, really interested to see how he fits in with Rice. I think we rest Kelce more during the season so those extra yards can go to brown/rice.

Reid strikes me as a Snyder type that is going to keep coaching until he physically can't anymore or he gets sent to the old folks home. The only reason he would retire after next year is if there is some behind the scenes health stuff going on.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: March 18, 2024, 09:34:11 PM »

Who brews the tallgrass beers now? I used to love the 8 bit beer which doesn't taste as good as I remembered but I do love their Tight Rope IPA. (All purchased in KC)

Last I knew tallgrass went out of business 5ish years ago but in the past couple of years they have been trickling back into KC.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: White people name, White people shame

« on: March 18, 2024, 09:28:53 PM »

Dakoda is in forever in spell check hell

Yeah i think that won the prize for me.  Dakoda. 

Any time I think of the name "Dakota" (or Dakoda, as it were), I think of this post Daris made 14 years ago:

townie #7- hey emily how are you?
townie #11- not great. jimmy deployed in november and the boys are really rebelling without him to put them in line.
townie #7- oh. that sucks. i remember what it was like when dakota deployed. it was tough.
townie #9- you know what cheer the boys up?
townie #11- no. what april?
townie #9- tickets to da cats. fear the beard.
townie #11 great idea. i'll go get one of those new holiday paks right before i head into work.
townie #7- i didn't know you had a job.
townie #11- oh hell yeah. once jimmy deployed i had to get out of the house every once in a while. just started out at bobby t's on monday. i'm loving it. i'm still engorged from the latest pregnancy and it really is showing in the tips i'm collecting.
townie #7- that's great em. go cats
townie #11- fear the beard.
townie #9- yeah. fear the beard and eff obama and the terrorists.
townies #11 and #7- eff yeah. cheers to that.
townie #9- can i bum a smoke from someone?

What a trip down memory lane that thread was....still lol'n at this

THIS IS IT
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: What happened to Kate Middleton?

« on: March 18, 2024, 09:20:00 PM »

Obama visited the royals this week and escorted kate back to a secret layer underneath a pizza place in DC.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Weird emails/texts from your parents or grandparents

« on: March 18, 2024, 09:18:02 PM »

In the next couple of days a new group text will pop up.....I'm pretty sure its because they are olds now and their phones are so cluttered with notifications they get confused. My mom was getting blown up with 10+ notifications an hour from random things so I had to go through and turn all the notifications off for these randome "Allow Notifications" buttons she had pushed on random sites.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Weird emails/texts from your parents or grandparents

« on: March 18, 2024, 09:15:09 PM »

My parents have an adorable habit of accidentally leaving the family group text chat, getting confused and starting a new one. Happens a couple of times a year. Here you can see where my mom left and my dad didn't realize, posting a picture of him almost winning a fortnite match then realizing it and leaving too.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: goEMAW encounters

« on: March 16, 2024, 06:03:37 PM »

pretty normal, he was with his wife (in ku gear) and we exchanged pleasantries for a minute or so before they left to where they were originally going and then i thought i saw MIR giving me the finger from across the way.