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Badger of Basra posted:Working for UT admissions, I heard this all the goddamn time from people who either sent their kids to private schools that didn't rank (St. Mary's Hall in San Antonio, St. Andrew's in Austin, etc) or kids who went to Memorial High School in Houston. They all had resumes with lots of mission trips and studying abroad and all that poo poo. I hated having to admit them when normal kids who just did band and some AP classes at their public school might have to miss out. I tutored his kid when he was around 8. What's the whole deal with him and the UT admissions?
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:I was salutatorian at my high school (public, semi-suburban, mostly Hispanic) and between merit and need-based aid it actually ended up much cheaper for me to go to a higher-ranked (although I suppose you really shouldn't put much weight on rankings Was it the Princeton of New England?
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hobbesmaster posted:Maybe they can just start selling off roads to private companies and charge to raise the speed limit? This is a direct reference to SH130 --the tollway that bypasses Austin. Right?
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zoux posted:I doubt very much that doctors routinely ask about guns in the home. Accidents, homicide, and suicide are top 5 in causes of death in teenagers.
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karlor posted:San Antonio got hit pretty bad. Lots of downed trees and the power outages/blocked roads that result from that. Fortunately the city has been installing larger storm drains whenever they repave a road, so that definitely helps with the flooding. That's one tourist trap!
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e_angst posted:So after the BlackLivesMatter/BlueLivesMatter showdown protest at the capital, protestors decided to walk out into I-35 and stop traffic. How did anyone tell that I35 South was shut down and not business as usual?
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"Friend Tiger" I said gazing directly into the tigers eyes. Friend Jon, came the response- not spoken, but...licked.
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The best tacos are from either unnamed places in a gas station or shacks in a parking lot labeled "Tacos" and nothing else.
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Alkydere posted:As an Austinite...I'm so, so sorry and would like to apologize. I feel tainted just by association. Torchy's isn't bad, but they should not be considered eligible for a proper taco competition. I will also accept the alternate answer of any taco place has the word Lingua displayed anywhere.
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A vote for #Texit is a vote for anarchy! A VotE 4 #TEXIT is A vOtE foR An@narCHy!
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Shifty Pony posted:gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress. Did they strike down the parts for "Don't mess with Texas" signs?
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Aliquid posted:Is Ken Mercer of the SBOE related to Robert Mercer? Alternatively, Lee Harvey's south of I-30.
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The most vulnerable of the Texas US Rep races for Republicans look to be (in descending order) 14, 27, 25, 6, and 32, though even 14 was something like R+11 in 2012.
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Clinton also added a significant number of votes to Obama's 2008 tally, which compared with the other states is a huge difference.
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Xibanya posted:I'm from Georgetown am I allowed to complain or what? Only if you invested with this guy: http://techcrunch.com/2017/02/16/transcend-vr-sues-investor-mike-rothenberg-for-fraud-and-breach-of-contract/
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Parrotine posted:Addison is a great area to live in, arguably one of the best in the whole Dallas/Fort Worth area. This is the first time I've ever heard someone say they like Addison.
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Dallas is to the United States as Addison is to Dallas
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Also, when the gooniest motherfucker Harry Knowles emphatically disagrees with your negative views on women, you really need to rethink your position.
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LanceHunter posted:Pflugerville's foundational myth is that the dad-joke of putting replacing a regular 'f' at the beginning of a word with 'Pf' is outrageously hilarious and should be done whenever possible. I always thought it was a fart joke. Which is also a dad joke.
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Trabisnikof posted:Really? Who wants to spend their time and money dragging themselves across their congressional district to lose. Being a candidate sucks. Oh yeah and also, hope you know how to campaign (and who to hire) cause you're not going to get much help in that department. Pete Sessions district suffers from this kind of thinking. Voted Clinton. No Democratic challenger.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yte4t-bv52s Imagined dystopian 2000s Detroit looks like Dallas. Checks out. In general, Dallas has some really good examples of brutalist architecture. Dallas City Hall. Dallas Public Library. The Medical School. Plano Senior High School. Those are all really neat examples. Lote fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:DFW Airport is my favorite. It's like a brutalist maze. They're getting rid of it though. Terminal C and E are the only ones where you can see it and they're in the process of renovation.
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Zil posted:I work with a guy who has lived in Georgetown all his life and he talks about how going down 35 the first thing you would see when coming into Austin was the Old San Francisco Steak house. One, you're using the word driving with I35 instead of parking.
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Dallas is a perfectly good average city. The worst part of Dallas is the people that try to compare it favorably to New York, LA, or Chicago. Or the Houston v Dallas slap fight. Just look how amazing Dallas can be at being good enough but definitely not great: Dallas's biggest QB was Tony Romo. Dallas gave the world Chili's in 1979. Without Dallas, there wouldn't be Texas Instruments, GameStop, Dave & Busters, Fossil Watches, Furitos chips, La Madeline, and Six Flags. I hope the strongest reaction to that list was "huh" or "that's cool, I guess" or maybe "I didn't know that company is still around." Yes that company is still around because it's Good Enough! So next time you're in Dallas. Find the nearest giant B and G placed randomly throughout the city. Muster up your biggest ¯\(°_°)/¯ and pose proudly for that picture that will get deleted after the trip or buried in a Facebook album because it's definitely not great enough for Instagram. The only Dallas company that breaks this mold is Southwest Airlines, and they can  and have their headquarters someplace cool.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Austin is the most amazingly wonderful place to live, so hip, so fun Said the transplant as he self soothingly rocked himself back and forth in his car, during his 2 hour daily commute.
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If they actually build the high speed rail between Dallas and Houston, that will be huge for both cities for development. Also it would finally be something Houston (and Dallas) could point to as making it world class.
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skipdogg posted:I think it's a perspective thing of living in the city. My wife's Aunt and Uncle are planning a trip to San Antonio next year for a week and I was all "Why? What the hell are they going to do here for a week?", but then I realized there's tons of touristy stuff to do here, but we never do it because we live here. I've lived here over 10 years now and I never go to the river walk, rarely visit Market Square, have never been to Six Flags, and have only visited SeaWorld once. There's the Alamo, the various Missions, there is the HIll Country to visit, the zoo is decent, the Witte finished it's recent expansion, the Pearl brewery area is hopping these days and Austin is only 90 minutes away. It's such a shame that San Antonio is rebelling against its "Keep San Antonio lame" movement.
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Back Hack posted:It's been ten years since the last time it snowed in Houston, and it one snow that melts instantly upon touching the ground. This is reminding me '97 ice storm, snow stuck around then too before everything froze over. It snowed 10” in Dallas and Houston 4 years ago. I went to work and staying like an idiot and had to drive back.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I've heard Tarrant County described as a bellwether county but I'm not sure how true that is. The prez result there in 2016 basically matched the state as a whole. Tarrant County / Fort Worth was the largest city to vote for Trump. If there are problems there for Republicans, that’s really not good going forward. I’m looking forward to seeing what the county does.
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Guarantee this is because of the University of Texas endowment and it’s oil holdings.
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/987509783602368512 Seems pretty straightforward: Positives: The Emancipation Proclaimation, Reconstruction, the victory of the North in the Civil War, Sherman’s March to the Sea
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zoux posted:Good god Yeah. The Rangers need a new stadium  Arlington (and any of the smaller cities in DFW) would literally burn money than spend it on public infrastructure. Cowboys and Rangers games and even leaving Six Flags on a busy day are a waking nightmare trying to get out.
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mastajake posted:Wait, who would we be stuck with? Or would it just be DFW? HouAustin can keep Waco. Dallas would get Tyler and Texarkana so it’s a wash. Can Dallas be friends with San Antonio? I would rather have a Dallas / SA pair than Dallas Austin at this point.
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Quandary posted:Dallas has no interest in college station and their weird fake arny thanks. Yeah. Bryan and College Station can be it’s own thing. Like Montenegro or San Marino. Doom Rooster posted:Houston doesn't deserve top billing in that pair. I propose just going with Auston. If you do it my way, it becomes the New Yorker pronunciation and people from Houston would be pissed. 
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duodenum posted:I don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but Malcolm Gladwell's podcast did a thing recently on the possibility of Texas dividing itself. How when Texas was admitted to the Union, it was given permission to subdivide, and that congressional permission still legally stands. All it would take is action from the Texas legislature. That would also have the effect of seceding the House permanently to Democrats
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Austin is terrible. In 10 years, Austin will officially become a parking lot from which people post on twitter about how “progressive” and “weird” Austin is and how much they love live music even though they haven’t gone to a concert, ever.
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Shear Modulus posted:dallas (dfw) is the worst (non-college-station) part of the state Someone hasn't been to east Texas. or San Angelo.
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Quandary posted:An overturned tanker this morning in Dallas shut down all lanes of both 635 and 75, in both directions. North Dallas traffic is a warzone right now High five! The Tollway, Coit, Hillcrest, and Preston are probably anarchy right now.
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Gotta find some way to refuel and stop Tiffany is Marty.
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