BR Tiger
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Number of Posts: | 4714 |
| Registered on: | 3/23/2004 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: The reality of travel baseball
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/28/26 at 12:21 pm to boosiebadazz
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t’s crazy and I know it’s crazy, but here we are. To her credit, my wife also knows it’s crazy but is still struggling with the “what if she misses out?” aspect of it all.
She will miss out. No matter what decision you make, she will miss out on something. If you decide not to have her do competitive dance, she will miss out on those experiences. If she dies do it, she will miss out on other opportunities not related to her dance team. Life is a series of trade-offs. Every day we make decisions. Every decision has multiple paths, and when we go down a path, we never get to know “what if” we had chosen differently. We may in the future choose that other thing, but the experience will be different. To me the question isn’t what if she misses out on something, it’s “what is more ok for her to miss out on?”
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re: RIP Ferrari: New EV “Luce” revealed
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/25/26 at 5:20 pm to JohnnyKilroy
WTF is that abomination of a nose?
re: The Return of the Spitfire
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/22/26 at 7:36 pm to FearlessFreep
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opened this thread hoping to see this:
As did I. I keep talking myself away from trying to find one like I drove in HS. I’m not enough of a car guy to have the knowledge and enjoy it enough to keep it in good driving condition. But man it was fun to drive.
re: Anyone else’s gas bill double since Delta Utilities took over from Energy in Baton Rouge?
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/22/26 at 1:06 pm to cajungoalie
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We had three bills in a row that were about 300% higher than entergy..but the last 2 or 3 bills have gone back to where they were pre-delta.
This is our experience as well. Something seems to have leveled out and I don’t think it’s our gas usage. We haven’t done anything different than previous years.
re: How many ticks have you had in your life?
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/21/26 at 3:10 pm to Nome tiger
I don’t remember ever having any ticks. Now chiggers- that’s another story. When I was younger those damn things loved me. Miserable experience when you get a bunch of those.
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Any info on why it's a fricking YEAR? Seems like that should maybe buy him an hour, or maybe a day or two max. But a fricking year??
Yeah- about an hour. Use the successful IV to pump him up with saline. His veins will be easier to find and the second line can be used started.
re: BTR is Going to Have to Add an International Gate for Basketball
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/21/26 at 3:01 pm to Keltic Tiger
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How many translators will be on the bench? Assuming some speak English, most / many don't?
I would assume they all speak English. Two reasons: 1. most of the rest of the world is multilingual. English is the language commonly learned as a second or third language. 2. These guys have been playing on teams with international players. It would be common for English to be the language they use to communicate with each other.
re: Which one of you Denham Springers had the FBI at your non-profit daycare today?
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/20/26 at 8:36 pm to ElderTiger
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Despite all of the publicity, these day care centers are popping up everywhere.
After seeing this story I looked up this place. It’s not a daycare. It’s a nonprofit that provides food/meals to people who take care of other children in their home. I had no idea that was a thing. (Providing free food to them, not home based daycares).
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Ok.... they have figured out the physics to travel large distances very quickly with advanced propulsion or travel inter-dimensionally.... but radar, in its extreme infancy, crashed the crafts?
That’s the theory. If you don’t like it, you can come up with your own theory and see how that works.
Here’s a theory- just for fun. Maybe there have been one or two crashes of non-terrestrial crafts which were recovered by the government. All the others were actually crashes of craft that the government was testing which were built based on reverse engineering the retrieved craft.
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Is it pronounced ghostynixon?
I was thinking Jos-ten-zen
Maybe we have a constitutional convention and create one that doesn't require amendment voting on everything.
It will never happen. That would require legislators to actually make decisions instead of passing the buck via amendments.
It will never happen. That would require legislators to actually make decisions instead of passing the buck via amendments.
Aluminum fencing components in BR?
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/17/26 at 3:34 pm
Anyone know of a fencing supplier around Baton Rouge that would have components for a “custom” aluminum fence panel? Our backyard has a commercial style fence by Specrail, a national fence supply company which went out of business a few years ago. I need one panel (less than a panel, really) and one post to finish the fence after some work that extended the fence line by about four feet. I have found several places online where I could order the post, rails, and pickets that would be the closest match to our fence and I could assemble to match the rail spacing on our fence. (The rail spacing is the biggest issue with off the shelf panels- they are all a little different.). However, when I go to checkout, shipping is outrageous- like 2-300+ to ship one fence post, 3 rails, and some pickets. I assume it’s because they are used to shipping large quantities of material and use freight companies rather than retail shipping companies.
That leads me to ask- any companies anyone knows in the area when I might be able to purchase and pick up the materials?
That leads me to ask- any companies anyone knows in the area when I might be able to purchase and pick up the materials?
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Traitor Cassidy openly pandering to Democrats to switch over and vote for him
That’s not how it works. If you are registered D or R you get the ballot for that party for the primary races. Only if you are registered “no party” do you get to choose R, D or none. If you choose R or D you get to cast a vote in that party’s primary and will only be allowed to vote in that party’s runoff prior to the general election. If you choose no party then you don’t get to vote in any primary. Only the general election items on this ballot.
re: Shaq Graduated with Masters
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/16/26 at 11:48 am to DeafVallyBatnR
Someone said it’s like his 5th degree. He has multiple advanced degrees.
re: Clarence Carter RIP
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/14/26 at 6:34 pm to Buck Magnum
Aw, shite.
Jellyfish. Don’t know how I missed them first time around. Discovered them a few years ago.
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How did he go from stage 4 metastasized cancer to nothing in 5 months?
Where did you see that his cancer is gone? I haven’t seen that reported. He was receiving hormone therapy if I recall correctly, possibly with immunotherapy. That combination would typically stop the growth and shrink existing tumors for a while. His cancer had metastasized to his bones. Once that happens the cancer is never going away. He will die with cancer. But at his age and likely other health concerns, he won’t die *of* cancer. Prostate cancer certainly can kill. However, with modern treatments, it is more likely that the cancer will be controlled (stopped from growing) even if it is not possible to eradicate it, and the patient can live many years until they die of something else.
re: LSU baseball future
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/12/26 at 11:25 am to AlecRock23
Out of the major sports, baseball is the one that is (imo) more mental than physical. In football and basketball the team can outphysical their opponents if there is a mental issue. In baseball, the physical is still important- you need to be able to hit the ball hard enough, run fast enough to beat the throw or to get to the ball to catch it, etc., but the mental is much more prominent in the game.
This year’s teams issues were primarily mental. You could see they had the talent to beat anyone at times, but it never clicked in a way that led to sustained success. Jay will flush this season and next year will be better.
This year’s teams issues were primarily mental. You could see they had the talent to beat anyone at times, but it never clicked in a way that led to sustained success. Jay will flush this season and next year will be better.
That’s real? Not an ad that Pratt put out? Because it sounds like an ad for him.
re: Louisiana legislators present 4 options for new congressional maps
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/7/26 at 5:39 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
None of those make sense. Districts should make geographical and cultural sense. These don’t. I’ve seen other maps drawn up in the past few days that make much more sense. No way Bogalusa and Monroe should be in the same district.
re: Buying crawfish in Texas, what the hell is this?
Posted by BR Tiger on 5/5/26 at 6:15 pm to Meauxjeaux
It’s AI slop.
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