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So I'm not sure exactly what I'm hoping for out of this thread, but here goes. Maybe somebody else has a similar story and will find this helpful. Or maybe it can just be used to promote acceptance. Some of you may have seen me mention my 16-year-old daughter Talia in the past, mostly in the Political Subforum. Most notably here in the Pete Buttigieg thread, where @Sinn Fein managed to get the architect of Pete Buttigieg's campaign to shoot a happy birthday video in an attempt to dispel the conspiracy theory that Buttigieg was just faking being gay. Anyway, in late March, the c

I've chronicled a bit on here my wife's and my rollercoaster ride of trying to have kids. From improbably unlucky bouts with IVF to fostering children (see the "trouble getting pregnant" thread) and having the state clear us for adoption only to essentially tell us "just kidding" a short while later (chronicled mostly here in this thread: https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/759463-preparing-fordealing-with-the-loss-of-a-child/page/5/#comments ) it's been a ride. That ride ended today with us adopting two chidren (including the little boy we had from his birth until two when the state

Man alive, the last 20+ months have been....interesting. I have been homeless for...awhile. 661 days Or 1 year, 9 months, 22 days Or 21 months, 22 days Right, so...a long while. Before I forget, @El Floppo - sorry, dude. You confronted me like, IDK, 18 months ago? But I was in denial and going through trauma and my head was all effed up. I should have come clean and laid it out. You’re a good man & would not have been judgmental at all. In hindsight I should have allowed you to know my story. Next lunch is on me. Anyway, how d

I don't know what to say. I've felt gutted, distraught, for the last few hours. But the above sums it up pretty well. Tom might be the person I've communicated with the most on here, without ever talking to him or meeting him IRL. We grew up at the same time in the same place and had so many of the same memories. And of course our shared musical interests brought us together, too. He still owes me his write-up of "Across the Universe," a Beatles song perhaps no one loved more than Tom and I did. But more than anything, we became close because he was just the kindest and most caring

If it hasn't started already there's likely to be a mighty exodus(Until about the Draft) and seasons have already ended for some players/managers) and leagues. I know it's been a tough season for everyone and I wanted to thank all of the great folks who came in here while craziness surrounds your everyday real life and help build an escape that has soothed and also helped speed along the last many months going back to Week 1. I hope next year we aren't reliving this same event, that it was a one time occurrence and things will go back to normal whatever that definition is. Honestly I have

I will make a wager. If this stock hits $420.69 before this earnings call on March 31st, I will pass out 100 FBG subscriptions to the gents in the stock thread.

Faust is the first one for me. He links a lot of good info, enough to make this a one stop fantasy football hotspot when combined with the opinions of the regulars here.

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I can't believe it's been 6 months since we re-opened. That last update was mostly meaningless. We tried take-only for just a couple of days. All it did was make customers mad, which of course is not generally a good idea. So, we've been chugging along. Business not what it used to be, but much better than I expected it would be. Plenty good enough for now. And really, 4 months of zeros changes perspective a little. Any day getting the opportunity to wake up in the morning and be able to go to work is such an incredible blessing. Anything that happens from there is just an added bon

Good morning. Value/dividend picks today for those seeking current income, and some long term moderate growth. These stocks are highly defensive. MDU EXC VZ GIS GSK PFE LMT These are not sexy in today's GME/AMC/SPAC/Bitcoin frenzy/roulette wheel casino market we see right now LOL. These are real stocks, with real earnings, and real strong and growing dividends. Buy them with the utmost confidence for long term compounding and a defensive sleeve for your portfolio. Take care folks.

Thanks for the thoughts guy. I'm still hanging around. I'll give a longer update one of these days.

hey brohans in 1914 the christmas truce or weinhactsfrieden was when both sides in world war i all had an unofficial truce and stopped fighting for christmas so rudnarski and joehan in the spirit of weinhacten can you unban otis and tanner and some of the other guys that we are missing around here they seemed like good dudes and even though i dont know them in real life at all i enjoy reading what they write and the threads they start and keep going and maybe they will stay out of the political forum if they can come back and anyhow i bet they were banned for political posts and now maybe that

Both should be able to post now. Merry Christmas everyone.

Hey gang, sorry for being a horrible iFriend. Let's be honest, I love you guys and think about you all the time. Let me get the bad news out of the way first. My Mother has lung cancer. It's malignant. She just turned 69 and hasn't had a cig in almost 40 years. Dad doesn't smoke either except when I'm a horrible influence on him and we're getting drunk together. SWEAR TO GOD, SAVE IT, everything will be okay one way or another. I admit that I'm scared to death that if she were to pass Dad would be right behind her. They love each other so much. Scared but that gives me comfo

Looks like a log-in to Tumblr to me.

I quit drinking about a year and a half ago. Haven't had any alcohol since June of 2019.

I posted it in a music thread last night. MoCS boogying down 💃

Australia has had months of little to no community spread and even then it was confined to one state. By and large Australians are running around doing the right thing, sport was and is still happening with crowds. Christmas shopping, the economy, restaurants are all doing great. Yesterday there were 30, not 300, 3000, 30000 or even 300000 cases, confined to the northern beaches of Sydney. That area is locked down, while the potential spread is dealt with. People are wearing masks. Contact tracing is putting people into quarantine. People are behaving responsibly while the governmen

Just hit my biggest slot jackpot, $11.5K, on a $2.50 bet. This was a big shock, it was on a Dragon Link slot called Golden Century. They paid me in cash, I was kinda of surprised, I was expecting a check since it was a large amount. Biggest slot win I had before was $2K. I know playing slots is not a smart way to gamble, but it is so entertaining and every once in a while you can get real lucky. I was a little leery walking out of the casino with that amount of cash. I did a couple of laps around the floor of the casino to make sure I wasn’t being tailed. Also, I know you are not r

"We" don't saddle anybody with debt -- the student decides on their own whether they want to go to graduate school, and they also decide whether to borrow to finance their degree, whether to pay for it in cash, or some combination of the two. People who want to cancel student debt need to explain why people who chose to borrow should retroactively get their purchase for free, while people who chose to pay up front should get nothing.

One is an ugly, decrepit wasteland ruled by an assortment of villains hoping to impose their will on peace-loving people everywhere who otherwise just want to be left alone to tend to their gardens. The other is an invention of fantasy author JRR Tolkien.

The President told MAGA to do it MAGA said they were going to do it MAGA filmed themselves doing it Afterwards, MAGA bragged about it Clearly, it was ANTIFA’s fault

So they're finally following the CDC guidelines for the pandemic?

Trump should be impeached again. If he's not impeached again, he must be prosecuted. The penalty for attempting to remain in power by corruptly overturning an election cannot simply be that it didn't work. If that's the only consequence, every President who loses an election should try to illegally remain in power by whatever fraudulent means he can think of. The upside if you succeed is that you can become king. The downside if you fail is ... what? Nothing? That doesn't seem like a good set of incentives.

I just want to thank guys that put a lot of work into dynasty and rookie rankings and give them their due. EBF, ZWK, and others put a lot of work into their stuff and are constantly thinking about things and producing content. This isn't really to single anybody out, but I think these guys are in the front of my mind as guys that (at least once upon a time, like Xue) contributed regularly to dynasty and rookie threads in the specific sense that they took a ton of broad-based information and winnowed it down for us laymen. Zyphros now also especially contributes in this sense, as does barackdho

Hey guys, I'll write more later, but I'm happy to announce that our baby girl, Lenka Ruby, was born at 5:16pm. She was 6 lbs. 11 oz. and 21 inches. Mom and baby are both doing great. Such an amazing Christmas gift.

For anyone who has ever wondered how authoritarians manage to take power in "modern" democracies, here's your first hand evidence that the USA is not immune. Thankfully it appears that the system is holding, but we've seen more than enough first hand evidence that many modern Republicans would happily ignore democracy if given the chance.

I voted for him. I don’t like him but I stomached him - just not interested in what Democrats have to say in general type of thing. But that’s beside the point. Now that he has pretty clearly lost - I just want him to shut up, finish his term, and go away. I really do.

Hi. I am back from the virtual gulag. I have been a frequent visitor lately, due to my penchant for telling the truth. Or maybe because I still visit the Political Forum and tell the truth there. But, I digress. Got some genuine good news. I received and accepted an offer from a large internet retailer named after a river/jungle over the past week. My start date is a week from Monday. The job sounds well-suited to my skill set and relatively interesting. One of the advantages to this employer is that if I do the job for a while and find another internal role I am more interested in, mov

I don't have an opinion on the birth certificate thing, but I'm ready to hitch my wagon to any argument that succeeds in getting rid of gender reveals even if it's a really stupid argument.

Brad Heath Retweeted Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Texas-led effort to toss out election results in four key states that Biden won 6:31 PM · Dec 11, 2020·TweetDeck https://mobile.twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1337540459938377729

We're back! I'm not quite ready to start, but thought I'd start the thread so we can all organize ourselves, block out time on our calendars, buy lots of booze, let our families and friends know we'll be unavailable for a few months, etc. I'll let the regulars check in here for a couple of days and then @ anyone from the earlier thread that I want to make sure sees this thread! I'm actually more excited for this thread than I had been for the first. Maybe it's a little bit of confidence gained from the nice reactions to that one, but largely I'm stoked because I suspect that most peopl

I assume you mean in the primary, not the general. I don't remember where I had Biden initially ranked in the primaries. I know I preferred Buttigieg and Klobuchar, but I don't remember who else I had ranked higher. I think I had a bunch of people ranked higher, and probably had Biden outside the top five. In hindsight, I should have ranked Biden a lot higher. He's what we needed right now. Not only is he very solidly in my retroactive top five, but I might even put him at #1 ahead of Buttigieg just because I think it's important, right now, that we have a President who's been in Was

he was a dear friend. Tom had an incredible way about him inasmuch that he had the ability to take the most mundane/random topics and make them the single most fascinating correspondence - he made you feel like you were the most important person in the room - a selfless trait that was exhibited in his real life day to day, taking care of those he loved, giving of himself 'til it hurt. there was one constant through our countless PMs and convos - and that was his propensity to share everything of himself ... i recall him first bouncing his photography about, and asking me to highli

So Belichick can win a trophy without Tom Brady.

Moment of humor because otherwise I just kind of feel like crying (stolen from Twitter): “Tommy Tuberville gets sworn in and the Capitol’s defense immediately falls apart.”

I realize I haven't updated this thread in a few months, probably because everything seems to be going fine. Peter's name has now been legally changed and we're dealing with some different bureaucratic challenges to change all of his legal documents (passport, birth certificate, etc.) He's continued with the testosterone and his appearance has gradually been changing. It's hard for me to judge because I've known him his whole life but my perception is that strangers he encounters just assume he's lived as a male his whole life. I went with Peter over to a neighbor's house a couple times be

The other day we got some junk-mail disguised as a Christmas card from Shutterfly. I put it up on display in our Christmas card holder in the kitchen. At different times in the day, I caught every single person in my house staring at it and asking "Who are these people?" The Riveras

Here's the problem with that position (from my point of view, and I venture to guess the point of view of everyone that is not a supporter of Donald Trump and/or the GOP currently) (and I truly don't mean this as an attack or gotcha at all, I'm just using the post as a starting point): Words mean things. They always have and they always will. No one, no party, no group, no religion, no country, no government, ever uses them perfectly every time. However, clinging to the overriding cultural norms of the use of words - especially in politics, law and government - matters a great deal. A

2020 Thankful For My Blessings Run Pre-Run Mumbo Jumbo The purpose of this run initially was to hopefully jump start some training for myself and maybe a few others here. Obviously this year has been rough, and despite all that I have tried to stay positive as much as possible. My kids are dependent on it, even though my insides and stress level have been in turmoil since all this Covid started. So the point for me today was just take some time and think about what is really important and be thankful for that. My training coming up to this has been spotty, as you all

I’m a 180 from this guy. The mainstream media’s normalization of Trump’s psychotic, infantile behavior these past several years is inexcusable. Never has a public figure been treated with kid gloves like this man was. He said and did things on a daily basis, day after day for years, that are completely unacceptable in any professional setting, and the media essentially stopped reporting it, I suppose out of fatigue more than anything.

This is way early. Pro Day workouts and the NFL Draft will drastically change my draft board, but I figured I would share this as a work in progress. Links to Shark Pool player profiles are provided (compliments of @Faust) where they were available, otherwise, I just linked to some highlight tape, so you can familiarize yourself with the player, if you wish. I left off my player analysis for now, as well as my "range of comparisons". I will add those later, but it seemed a bit premature yet. Most of my rankings are penciled in, with the idea that they are very, very preliminary.

So far, Biden has succeeded admirably in meeting my #1 expectation of not being Donald Trump. He hasn't done anything crazy like nominating AOC for CIA Director or whatever. All good on my end.

I tell my wife I earned a year of tuition for kid 3, her response "that's nice, did you unload the dishwasher?" 🤷🏽‍♂️🙇

Seems to be happening a lot lately? I mean, if you need to delete the PSF to get this engine running smoothly, by all means now is the time.

This is part of the problem Joe. Your friend has a good message. He sounds like a terrific guy. But he's parroting lies from conservative media. He thinks this is a message of healing but it's still sowing division. It's like when Trump posted a message yesterday saying "the election was stolen, you guys raiding the Capitol are patriots, but you should go home." I mean, sure the "go home" part sounds good. But it does nothing to dissipate the anger that people feel as a result of having been manipulated by right wing media and right wing politicians.

Congratulations! If you’ve made it this far you have your ignore settings properly set.

I don't care what anyone says ... the "coaching people not to be their parents" is so solid.

The kids called my mom 'Nonny' (rhymes with 'Nonnie'). Which is pretty cool since we both have/had important Nonnies in our life. After my mom/Nonny died (about two years ago now), a pair of mourning doves started visiting us. One will remain up on a wire and the other will forage around the yard or garden, drink from the bird bath (got that for my wife on mother's day) or hop around the bern where we planted a dogwood on top of my mom's ashes. Even for a godless heathen like me, I find it comforting and so when it started, I began saying "Hi nonny!" when the dove would come visit. She