re: Texans embracing the Arkansas culture with Texas twist

You agreed with the "throw up in my mouth" comment.

You are the one who responded directly to me with a personal question. Pretty much all of my posts were directed at Porker's posts.

You got upset with something I posted in reply to another poster and "called me out". You're the one getting all excited and taking this personally.

So, you're "unsettled" that we have Texas kids at U of A? How precious.

(imagine this entire post in a very calm voice)

Relax. I'll play the pick-apart-thread game for a bit with you.

I posted this, which wasn't a response to you or a reply directed at you. (still calm voice)

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I bristle at the idea that people think Texas kids only come here because they "can't" go to Austin or College Station. I know its not the case.

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Which is true. I don't like it when people say that, because its a generalization. Note I said "only come here", which allows room for "some of them" coming here for that reason. I know that a lot of kids come here because they get a tuition break and we might be a fall-back school. OTOH, I have a couple of examples, one of which I provided, of kids choosing Fayetteville and U of A because they preferred it, or preferred a particular program. The architecture student's father is an architect. The main two reasons they came here was because his father liked the "more hands on", traditional style of the arch school, compared to the programs they had seen at UT, which to them seemed rushed, and less thorough, and the fell in love with the town. It reminds them of Austin before Bee Cave and that whole area looked like something out of So-Cal.

(still calm voice)

Anyway, to my comment that kids from Texas don't "only come here" because they can't get into UT, you said this:

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You know every kid from Texas who came to the U of A?

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Well, no. I obviously don't know every kid from Texas who comes here. But I know some. Besides, my comment wasn't that "THEY ALL COME HERE BECAUSE THEY LOVE FAYETTEVILLE". My comment was that Texas kids don't "only come here" for the reasons Porker stated. I found his comments to be cynical, inferiority-based, and not in line with my personal, although limited experience.

This part here is you taking something personal. My comment wasn't directed at you at all.

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I never said all of them come here for that reason, but the suggestion that the top 10% rule has nothing to do with it is absolutely a shortsighted farce. Why are people so fricking defensive about this?

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Who sounds defensive in this exchange? Who is taking this discussion personally?

I never engaged you, you engaged me. Its ok. It happens. You also mis-attributed some oil money comment to me, too.

Relax.

those shirts are hideous, but there are so many hog fans here in DFW, I'm shocked there isn't more stuff like this. (there and here)