Where the f is pooka? Oh in to block
DanR
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Lot of time left... argle bargle
Just give the ball to pooka and pay me 500k to be the offensive coordinator
Two 300 pound tubs of lard in the middle of the D line ain’t working
this broadcast going to stick with the blowout baseball game?
@kjayhawks No, I copied your nutter butter Qanon BS post before you deleted it. Have a good life and go away.
@approxinfinity ban his ass
@kjayhawks I copied your post. What's wrong with you?
@kjayhawks Seriously, go away, you nutjob.
People watch sports for escape... (escape from what?)
I hate hearing trite talking heads telling me what to think... (you seem able to ignore what they say)
There might be a place to talk about that crap - on the football field is not it... (where's the place, if you're a football player?)
Q nutjob (great)
They booed. Or maybe they were all chanting Yoooooooooooo nity before breaking into the tomahawk chant.
Change the team name. If the Hunts want fans. Bring in some school kids instead of the racists.
Wise Socks? That's not right?
@Texas-Hawk-10 Not as safe as doing a remote show. My sister called yesterday to reserve seats. Reply from the bar was "mistake on the publicity. No reservations." She ended up not going because it sounded like no one really knew what was going on.
Les Miles did the hawk talk radio show live at Johnny's West in Lawrence tonight. With an audience.
I don't get it. Why not just do it in a studio or over the phone? This just seems like one of those easy things to skip.
Hell of a set of hops. He'd be great once Hudy gets ahold of him. Er, wait.
Hey @Crimsonorblue22. She's doing fine, but it's hard. Tested negative on the first round of covid tests at KU, so that was good, and got cleared to be on campus. Half classes in person and the rest online. Some students opted for all online which creates twice the amount of prep work to do both online and part in person, but she's powering ahead. It sounds like she has a great batch of students (as usual), so that helps.
Lawrence got a little more lively in the past month with students back, but campus still seems deserted. Usually I can hear the marching band practicing this time of year, but I don't think I've heard them. That might change in the next couple days if the temp drops and I can open some windows!
The roaring 20s followed the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, so GOOD TIMES are ahead. Hang in there, everyone!
@Marco Where are barbershops and hair salons closed? I got my hair cut four days ago in Lawrence. She wore a mask, and I wore a mask. She's from Lincoln, NE, and we talked about the damn Cornhuskers and Runza (fast food place, based in heaven on earth, LINCOLN). Thankfully, I don't have as much hair as I used to, so it was quick and I worried more about her Nebraska cooties than corona.
It seems to me -- broad generalization -- that a lot of people just want things to be back to "normal" without really evaluating what that is. I personally hate Disneyworld with the heat of a thousand suns because my parents worked there for 25 years, but if everyone buys into a minimal personal sacrifice (mask), it's all doable. Go to Disney and walk around out in the 100 degree sunshine. Bless you. But, do you want to pack Allen Field House right now? Ew.... nope. We could in a couple months if we snuff this out.
I think the problem with relaxing statewide restrictions is it gives ignorant people the illusion/green light that things are peachy fine. (by ignorant, I mean my immediate family going to bars and big social gatherings. Mask not required, so mask not worn). Funerals. Weddings. Even church service. Those are tough choices and I've had to make some of those. At this point, we should have snuffed it out with a consistent plan, but we didn't.
@Marco Do it, man. Go to a packed bar with shitty air circulation and yell in people's faces over the music/ballgame. It's time! Just use common sense... it's available everywhere.
@BigBad That US-USSR semi final game is on Youtube... might have to rewatch it. All I remember is Sabonis had 300 rebounds and Danny Manning had 0 points.
It's irrelevant to look for political ideology because "malignant narcissist" is the one not-so-elusive label to describe Trump.
Narcissists can't shut their pie holes to even deny their own schemes. Usually projection. Sometimes they just blurt it out with confidence because their marks will just lap that stuff up rather than admit they've been conned. Sad. Bigly. Powerful. Strong.
The dumb post office conspiracy theory didn't come from the left. I know orange julius has lost a few marbles and can't keep his billions straight from trillions, but this is literally his statement a week ago:
"They want $3.5 billion for something that will turn out to be fraudulent, that's election money basically. They want $3.5 trillion — billion dollars for the mail-in votes, OK, universal mail-in ballots, $3.5 trillion. They want $25 billion, billion, for the Post Office. Now they need that money in order to have the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. . . . Now, if we don't make a deal, that means they don't get the money. That means they can't have universal mail-in voting, they just can't have it. So, you know, sort of a crazy thing. Very interesting."
Crazy indeed. There's a conspiracy in that hot mess, but it's not one concocted from the left.
Ruining the dang post office (90% approval rating) to own the libs. That's where we're at.
@Crimsonorblue22
That's not good... about as isolated as you can get. I've been to Mount Sunflower... not much (or many people) out there. :disappointed_face:
Joe: he is who he is.
Didn't expect the big swing, but that was a Kirk Gibson home run speech.
The Chicks did a good job with the National Anthem. Two great versions during this convention.
I'm planning to vote in person on election day (my polling location is at a church on my block). They had a good setup for the primary--contactless, poll-workers behind plexiglass, scan ID, signature with pen/stylus combo that you also use to complete ballot, in one door out another. Douglas county clerk does a bang up job.
I really enjoyed the delegate roll call with representatives from all the states and territories. (Kind of like watching the Miss America pageant back in the day, waiting to see what your state's contestant looked like.) Way more interesting than the usual in-person method.
Kansas rep was a giant!
(4th generation farmer, Mark Pringle, from Yates Center, running for state rep, district 13)
@Crimsonorblue22 She's planning to meet half her students at a time on alternate days, but giving students the option to do all-online from the get-go or at any point in the semester. (she teaches graduate classes, so they are smaller groups-- half a class would not be more than 7 at a time if everyone chooses in-person).
Lots of teachers had hoped to be able to let students zoom into live classes (with some online and some in class). They tested the technology and, unfortunately, the online students couldn't hear class discussions clearly enough to make it work. Partly due to masks and partly due to the fact that classrooms aren't set up for that. Can't exactly share a microphone!
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@DanR only in Mizzou, huh? I'm pretty sure they don't have any bans on mass gatherings. But, they have a lot of deaths too. I hope they remain healthy! Does your wife have online classes or in classroom? So tired of this!
@Crimsonorblue22 Funerals and weddings are impossible choices. My wife's uncle died a couple weeks ago and she fretted for 3 days about whether to go -- 90 minute visitation followed by a rosary at the funeral home, plus full Mass church service and graveside service the following morning (traditional catholic funeral with about 200-300 family members through 5 generations). We ended up driving 3.5 hours to Springfield and back just for the visitation (stayed about 20 minutes and left before the rosary part). My wife thought she could follow social distancing... yeah, right... walks in the funeral home door, bursts into tears, hugging her sobbing aunt who she hadn't seen since Christmas.
I was apologizing to her cousin about not being able to stay for his dad's funeral, and he said he'd tried to talk his extended family out of having the full big funeral mass etc. but felt pressured to do it. He talked my 81-year-old mother in law out of coming back for the funeral too. She was upset. Everyone was upset. The entire situation was more painful than any funeral I've ever been to.
Frankly, a funeral ban might've been better. Blame the governor instead of expecting relatives to make those choices.
I'm still amazed that people are trying to solve a million consequential problems rather than the one big problem. Basically, we all already frittered 5 months away, half-assed, for nothing and the problem is worse than when it started. Too eager to eat the turkey before it was completely cooked. Still--at any point, no matter how bad this is--we could suck it up, isolate for 6-8 weeks and this thing is mostly long gone. Will it happen? Nope. Nobody offers that as a solution.
And, we'll have this same discussion in January about re-opening schools.
People have already been talking about this. It's not just the kids. The reasonable conversation to have is how many deaths among teachers, staff, students and family members we're willing to accept... before shutting it down after a couple of weeks or a month for zero meaningful learning for kids, but the experiment sets us back 2+ more months and 50K more dead.
I know it's not possible to just shut down for everyone. My 77 year old mom is flying back from Raleigh to KC tomorrow. I'm picking her up at the airport because... well, wtf else am I supposed to do. She's been in Goldsboro, NC, for 2 weeks to help with my military nephew and his wife who just had their second baby in 18 months (never underestimate Air Force fertility). They probably were not hanging out at fraternity houses at UNC, but it sure sounded like they were going out to eat a lot like everything was all 2019. I'm stocking her fridge, leaving a new thermometer on her bathroom counter, and I'm hoping she can hunker down for a few days to make sure she avoided it... before she drives around town getting her favorite groceries at every store in Lawrence.
College kids are pouring into town anyway, so it's going to get interesting. My wife is a prof at KU, and I can assure you that faculty have all spent their summers putting together 2 or 3 or 4 scenarios for their fall semester syllabi. EVERYONE wants to get kids back in school and college in person, but the stupidest thing will be to try against obviously bad odds ... and fail... for nothing.
@approxinfinity Systemic alienation of white Americans?
Wow.
@kjayhawks So... Harris's great great great grandfather was a slave owner and rapist.
Do you actually think Hamilton Brown was married to her great great great grandmother and their kid inherited wealth?
I think Harris is GREAT. I would've voted for her in the primary if she'd still been on the ballot in KS. All the people I know to the left or right of me can't actually say specifically what they don't like about her... it's always about something someone else might think "Well, black guys aren't going to vote for her because of her AG record..." Too progressive (no specifics), not progressive enough (no specifics). I honestly don't know know what that is about...mostly that comes from guys but a few women too, so I don't think it's a fragile male ego thing.
She's tough. She's smart. She has a sense of humor (indicative to me as having a soul). She mows people down who are ass-clowns, OK--That's what I want.
Who would have been a better pick? Warren? Whitmer, Jim Webb?
@wissox Guessing you're using Safari. Download Chrome or Firefox on your Air. KUBuckets.com works fine on those browsers. (I've not been able to use Safari on my desktop, macbook pro or phone for months... except for one time a few days ago.)
:grimacing_face:
Interesting original question. It's easy if it's someone else that had to go play football or teach or be around a lot of other people.
My wife's uncle died Sunday (not covid). Great guy. One state over... big full Catholic Mass funeral on Thursday with a couple hundred kinfolk. So... go back to normal and hug a bunch of Missourians who have not been social distancing and think Covid is a big hoax, or stay shut down... Hmmm.
@approxinfinity It's not a big deal right now since there are no sports. :face_with_medical_mask:
Short lived excitement. Back to not loading. Oh, well.
Deck lights might boost my spirits, so I'll check into that too.
WHHAAATT? Hey, went to my reflexive "buckets" bookmark in Safari (Mac), and the site loaded! I haven't updated anything, so I assume you did, @approxinfinity -- thanks! . I've been using Chrome for a few months only for this site.
More excited than I probably should be about this, but good things are hard to come by these days. RCJH
Do Jayhawk fans remember Billy Mills? I hadn't heard of him until a few years ago when Lawrence renamed South Middle School after him.
Anyway, whether you know his story or not, this is a pretty good article:
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Here's my K-12 plan: Go back to the old rural school model on a neighborhood scale. All grades taught in each location by one or two teachers with a bunch of online components. No more than 20 or 30 kids per "school." Keep siblings together. No buses. That way if you get an outbreak, it's limited to maybe a dozen households instead the entire town.
I love the masks. Haven't had to trim my nose hairs in months! Thanks to my expressive eyebrows and dancing eyes I'm still able to connect personally with people in Menards, Dillons, the liquor store... well, that's pretty much it.
@approxinfinity I'd eat that. Probably about as good as you can do it for kids!
We mostly just slice in thick chunks and marinate in basalmic vinegar for a couple hours then throw it on the grill (on skewers or in a basket) OR broil/roast it in the oven with parmesan. If you do thin round slices you can actually cook it down a little first then add the cheese, broil, and get it kind of crispy brown in the oven) and it's not as mushy.
If your kids like Thai food, you can dice it and throw it in a curry sauce with chicken or shrimp.
We are still perfecting using it instead of noodles in lasagna. Have to slice, salt, and let it dry out to get rid of the moisture... really too much hassle and there are a lot of better Italian squash casserole/bake type recipes out there with a much lower margin of error.
@Texas-Hawk-10 He's not a "capitalist" either. Capitalists know which side of the bread the butter is on. Name one CEO who is going down Trump's Covid million lives death march. He's a malignant narcissist. Koolaid drinkers are still lined up for more of this? Still? I don't get it. Wake up.
What's Zuckerberg have to do with this?
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Donald Trump is a businessman
Bullshit. Compared to what other successful business man or woman? Who would be his peers? What company would have that guy as their CEO right now. Seriously. LOL. Even the worst bosses like the DeBartolo family would laugh at the idea that Trump is a "businessman." unless you mean grifter. I thought we were past that laughable point.
He's a conman, second tier mafia wannabe, snake oil salesman, and, above all, malignant narcisist.
We can snuff it out in two or three months... starting whenever people start to care.
Is there a highlight video where he actually dunks other than in warmups? (Seriously, I can't find one.) Seems to be a good shot blocker, but at 6-10 (ish) seems to have a shorter vertical jump and less aggression than Dedric Lawson or Ostertag.
This is actually pretty cool. Worth a look
I think we're in the very early part of one of those pandemic movies where someone says, "remember when we used to all pack an arena?"
And the other guy points his gun at you and says, "just give me that can of beans."
I'm guessing at least half, if not more, of the longtime (old) season ticket holders will skip next season, so here's your chance if you've been dying to get some good seats.
If you are young and don't know the traditions, no "whooing" during the chant, don't leave before the buzzer, and no storming the court... ever.