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01-19-20, 01:46 PM
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had my first near miss today. Lady backing out of her drive way, looked right at me approaching her and continued to back up. My thought process was she would leave me room to pass, wrong. She kept going, and almost squished me into a car parked on the other side of the street. She thanked me with a choice finger and went about her day.
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01-19-20, 01:49 PM
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01-19-20, 01:52 PM
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Damn, if that was 4-6cm bigger even I would grab that.
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01-19-20, 02:01 PM
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Fixed. And yes, you are correct.
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01-19-20, 02:04 PM
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I could be wrong; I'll probably be wrong on one of them. However, defense is bigger than people want to accept. Even the high-offense teams that win tend to win when they also have stout defenses. For all the talk of how great Brees is and how great the Saints offense is... they got their ring during the Bountygate year. I can't remember a mediocre defense winning the SB, no matter how much people talked about their offense. Am I missing one?
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01-19-20, 02:05 PM
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Do eet.
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01-19-20, 02:09 PM
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Ah yes. That was before my fandom, but I should also clarify that this is in the context of the mantra I've heard for the last decade that it's a quarterback league, offense is king, defense has been hamstrung, and the path to victory is a #1 overall QB and a defense that can maybe slow the other team a bit. My position is also fed by all the accolades I've heard for Rivers and Romo, who are supposed to be up there with the greatest but can't sniff a SB berth, along with all the scorn for Eli who won it twice with a smothering defense. I just literally can't remember the all-offense-meh-defense approach ever working.
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01-19-20, 02:17 PM
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I blame fantasy for this. That way lies basketball. Give me a slobberknocker any day; I was happy with that Bama-LSU 9-6 game.
01-19-20, 02:20 PM
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01-19-20, 02:26 PM
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01-19-20, 02:33 PM
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01-19-20, 02:55 PM
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01-19-20, 03:05 PM
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But it's only $30 and would save me a trip to the city for Superbowl. Internet is my only option. I swore off tv many years ago
01-19-20, 03:07 PM
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Gonna be a scorcher here today. I'll try to take a pic later.
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01-19-20, 03:10 PM
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In the process of booking my last flight to the US(barring a funeral). I have filled in everything. Personal particulars, credit card, all of it. I hit the button that asks if I want to save the card and I find myself right out of the site. That tab is gone. Wasn't meant to be. Booking is as much of a pain as actually traveling. I look forward to it being over.
01-19-20, 03:19 PM
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01-19-20, 03:23 PM
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01-19-20, 04:00 PM
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IKR. They want to think it’s only me.
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