bigtruckin1775

re: KFC original is still the best

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 8/13/20 at 12:03 pm

Blue Store.... Followed by Popeyes is the only answer.

Food and Drink

Should we join the ACC?

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 8/7/20 at 9:32 pm

Hyperbole, but come on. I see lots of excitement about Vandy and Mizzou. What happened to anybody, anywhere? I like big time games against big time opponents. It’s why kids come to LSU. I worry the weak entitled mellinals are becoming a larger population of our fan base.

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re: Whatever happend to Anthony Kim

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 2/9/20 at 6:24 pm

Cocaine. Plus he didn’t love the game and his insurance policy was rather large from what I hear.

Golf Board

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re: Lane Kiffin is vastly overated.

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 12/8/19 at 11:57 am

I disagree. Davis made him draft Jamarcus and Lane didn’t want him. USC was on probation. Lane was great at Bama with Sims who was trash. He re tooled Bama’s offense in a summer for Hurts. Ole Miss is going to be very competitive in the near future. Saban will retire and Joe Brady will leave us for greener pastures one day. When that day comes Hotty Toddy will have a very real shot at SEC titles.

SEC Rant

re: First year attorneys, what are you pulling in?

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 10/9/19 at 8:56 pm

BigLaw pays 190k before bonus.

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re: It bothers me seeing states like Georgia, Texas, and NC just leaving Louisiana in the dust

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 7/20/19 at 3:39 pm

Stop letting the litigant lawyers run our state and then enact a pro business tax and regulatory scheme. If we don’t, we will be just like Mississippi.

re: Top States for Business 2019

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 7/10/19 at 10:29 pm

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Yet Louisiana has been leading the nation in GDP growth for a few years now.

No. We’ve actually gone down in terms of GDP per capita if you account for inflation. Are you one of the illiterate ones?

Not sure if the numbers confuse you... but we’ve gone from ~48.5k to ~44k in the last 5 years ... this is not growth. Source=US Bureau of Economic Analysis

And our population is shrinking.

We have the worst government in the US including at the local levels. With all the resources we have the fact we are so close Mississippi in every measurable category is pathetic.

re: Top States for Business 2019

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 7/10/19 at 8:15 pm

Corrupt litigant lawyers run our state. Is anyone surprised the regulations aren’t pro-business? At least Gordon has that awesome building.

re: Disneyworld, Louisiana

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 7/9/19 at 12:03 am

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Yeah this is brand new in the past four years.

Typical Louisiana answer... "the problem was here before Edwards showed up so lets not hold him accountable for failing to fix an easy problem".... Pathetic.

This is why Louisiana's economy will become a cross of Western Europe (tourist driven because of NOLA) and Appalachia (heroin and ambulance chasers) if the voters don't fix it. Your state sucks and you keep electing crappy people who don't care about Louisiana but only care about filling their own pockets.

Louisiana is home, but I left because the economy sucks for educated folks. The plant/oil jobs are great, but there aren't a lot of white collar options. Louisiana's GDP per capita has been falling for the last 8 years... sad to see such a beautiful place full of culture run into the ground by idiots. We could have had DISNEY!!

re: Disneyworld, Louisiana

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 7/8/19 at 11:01 pm

And yet y'all still elect people like Edwards (the Edwin variety) and the litigant clan of Edwards (the John Bel variety).... Not surprising given the state is in the bottom of the barrel in terms of education... Hey, got my undergrad at LSU, threw the deuce left. Would have loved to base it in my home state, but you people vote for morons. Keep letting people like Gordon Mckernan create jobs instead of companies that actually produce stuff and soon my home will be as destitute as Mississippi. Chase off the media companies employing 1,000s of people producing movies... stupid stupid stupid.... nothing has changed. Wonderful state run by shitty people. Why do y'all keep voting for corrupt job killing democrats. Y'alls car insurance rates are LOL... that's all Edwards and his litigants. Dumb.

Edit: Oh and Roemer (the Buddy and Chas variety) own the YOUNG TURKS!!! Think about that.... Bunch of commies down on the Bayou. Louisiana is quite possibly the most unAmerican, crony capitalist commie place in the US. Sad. Keep voting MAGA at the Federal level though... I actually appreciate that.

Why does Mondo Duplantis compete as a Swede?

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 5/14/19 at 7:34 am

I get his mom is Swedish, but the kid was born and raised in Lafayette. Anyone know why he competed for Sweden when he was younger and if he will be a turn coat and compete for that euro trash instead of the Red, White, and Blue?

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re: Alabama LSU equal talent myth.

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 4/28/19 at 4:54 pm

I think you make a ton of good points except

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Saban is no coaching genius

He is a defensive back wizard. One of the best. He also schemes incredibly well on the defensive side of the ball generally (the Clemson and Georgia Southern games come to mind as outliers).

re: LSU coach does not matter when playing Bama

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 4/19/19 at 12:41 pm

You dumb. Bryant and Saban are arguably the two greatest ever. They're not good, they're great. And Stallings was coaching against the worst coach in LSU history. Go home, you're drunk.

SEC Rant

re: Have we discussed the new economy class seats?

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 4/2/19 at 2:12 pm

I refuse to fly economy. It's gotten unbearable on the "major" carriers. Southwest is the only airline I fly if I can help it. It's why they're gobbling up market share.

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re: How can anyone defend the conversations from the tapes?

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 3/28/19 at 6:16 pm

It's like life... almost everyone speeds. If you drive the speed limit you're a square and will get passed by everyone... Now, not everyone does 120 with a dead hooker in the trunk. We weren't doing 120 with a dead hooker in the trunk. At most doing 76 in a 70.

2019 vs. 2017... baseball

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 3/27/19 at 9:39 am

The posts and topics look eerily similar to 2017 after we lost to McNeese, UNO, Tulane, and lost 2 of our first 3 SEC series.... what happened the 2nd half of that year? With all the melts happening before we've even gotten through 25% of SEC play, and us only being 1 game out of first... you guys are making me think this could be a year like 2017. Hell, we have 4 of our top 6 bats from 2017 still on the roster. Wild! Just wait till the young guys start coming around because we will be throwing up some some bombs. Keep the melts coming cause this team is staked and we will be ridding com May. Bookmark it.

re: Anybody ever say "screw it" & cash out retirement while relatively young to pay off debt?

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 2/28/19 at 2:18 pm

Look, if you ignore the fact that all these other posters are dump and/or have a "friend" who has done something stupid, from a pure MATH standpoint, it's about comparing rate of return. I suspect I'm the only one here who has any kind of fund/PE background, because all I'm hearing from the down voters is: I know a guy who cashed out and bought a truck and now is screwed...The assumptions I make when answering your question are: 1)you're not an idiot and don't currently run a personal budget deficit, 2) you passed algebra 1 and and can do rudimentary math problems. It's a simply TMV problem. Instead of paying money on your debt at a high interest rate, pay it off with your IRA money and start putting the money you were paying on your debt towards your retirement. You will have more when you retire in the long run this way because math says so. It's so simple. Don't listen to these idiots. .

Money Talk

re: "Emotional support animal" mauls 5 year old girl at Portland Airport

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 2/27/19 at 5:16 pm

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If the owner says it’s an emotional support dog, then it’s one.

You're wrong. The ADA covers service animals, not ESA. BIG BIG difference. All airlines require documentation requiring a licensed therapist to prescribe an ESA.

re: "Emotional support animal" mauls 5 year old girl at Portland Airport

Posted by bigtruckin1775 on 2/27/19 at 5:12 pm

The real problem is the chop shop shrinks who give people a certificate for 20 bucks after an online questionnaire. There are people who actually need ESA's... Lots of my buddies I served with have ESA dogs that really do help with their PTSD. The service ones are obviously way better because the animal is trained. It's companies like this and the owners who should be held accountable. The airlines can't police this BS.