JawjaTigah

re: World Cup Daily Thread - Tues., June 23

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/23/26 at 7:57 pm to metallica81788

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Ghana advancing

England Ghana game today sucked. Ghana was swarming all over like a kicked in fire ant mound. But they were focused and seemed like a draw was their game plan all along. England was impatient and seemed clueless. Couldn’t put any plays together, popped off too many shots on goal. England won’t go far.

re: FIFA watered down the World Cup with the expansion to 48 teams

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/17/26 at 5:07 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan

It’ll fix itself as the Cup progresses.

re: FIFA watered down the World Cup with the expansion to 48 teams

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/16/26 at 6:57 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan

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many matches feel meaningless and far less compelling than when every point truly mattered.

A lot like college football expanded playoffs now.

re: A World Cup board would be welcome

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/16/26 at 9:08 am to TimeOutdoors

I didn’t know we had one. Previous OP withdrawn.

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A World Cup board would be welcome

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/15/26 at 7:41 am

We need one for this World Cup campaign.

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re: NOLA-area throwback: Clam shell parking lots and driveways courtesy of Lake Pontchartrain

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/9/26 at 10:23 am to Trevaylin

As a kid (1950-60’s) I remember frequently passing mountains of dredged clam shells at the Higgins, Inc. lot right next to the old Hwy 90 bridge crossing the Industrial Canal. Often so fresh they stunk of rotting clams.

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re: As America nears its 250th year, 55% of Democrats would rather live in another country

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/9/26 at 10:17 am to uggabugga

Good. Please go.

re: NOLA-area throwback: Clam shell parking lots and driveways courtesy of Lake Pontchartrain

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/9/26 at 9:05 am to Tarps99

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The dredging stopped because dredging them stirred up the water in the lake. Sediments that sank in the lake bed would get suspended again the water.

The dredging stopped when the right people realized the undredged live clams were natural bottom feeding water filters. Allowing them to live and thrive and filter away instead of paving roads with them led to an improving water quality in the lake.

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re: The Civil War, How Might It Have Been Avoided?

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/2/26 at 7:07 pm to Auburn1968

Was there not some issue concerning the economic power of the agricultural South versus the economic power of the emerging industrial North and the voting balance in Congress as new states were admitted to the Union - would each new state be Slave or Free?

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re: America's gold is missing and President Trump knows it.

Posted by JawjaTigah on 6/1/26 at 7:56 pm to Timeoday

Goldfinger got it all.

re: Sam Altman: We see the future where intelligence is a utility like electric or water and

Posted by JawjaTigah on 5/26/26 at 4:57 pm to JawjaTigah

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In essence, quietly build your own audio visual library.

Very quietly and privately. Keep
Nazi book burnings, Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 and other dystopian texts in mind. Once the source of intelligence (education) becomes an established utility for which money must be exchanged for the privilege, then public libraries and private libraries will be declared illegal and made subject to govt confiscation/destruction. Owners of such will likely be declared criminals and subject to prosecution. It will be hard to keep credit card purchases quiet, but plausible deniability that your books, cds, dvds were lost, stolen or thrown away might buy space or time.

re: Sam Altman: We see the future where intelligence is a utility like electric or water and

Posted by JawjaTigah on 5/26/26 at 3:35 pm to Ailsa

Buy books now while you can; including reference books of every kind (dictionaries, thesaurus, encyclopedias - fiction & non-fiction, classics, art). Buy anthologies, novels, textbooks, music, cds, dvds (and players & screens for those). In essence, quietly build your own audio visual library. Don’t depend on streaming or the cloud or anything you can’t directly own or control. They will devour and control all forms of knowledge with a quickness.

re: should i recommend Confederacy of Dunces to my sons?

Posted by JawjaTigah on 5/25/26 at 5:07 pm to selfgen

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what do you think?

NOLA born and raised. Loved this hilarious book when I read it. It almost seems like a running NOLA Insider joke. Will your Lafayette kids “get” it. I suspect yes, but will they appreciate every subtlety? Maybe yes, maybe non. But pondering makes my valve commence to turn.

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re: Donald Trump Says We Have Experimental Drugs That Can Raise the Dead

Posted by JawjaTigah on 5/25/26 at 4:50 pm to AlterEd

Like nobody has ever seen.

re: how many bitching about gas prices are 50lbs overweight and havent walked a mile in a year

Posted by JawjaTigah on 5/23/26 at 2:51 pm to LegendInMyMind

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So, now we're down to telling folks to walk their asses everywhere?

Remember Jimmy Carter insisting we all turn down the lights, walking thru the White House turning off each room’s lights? Then lowering the highway speed limits to 55 to conserve gas?

re: Gas hits $4.15 pg

Posted by JawjaTigah on 5/23/26 at 2:39 pm to jammajin

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I suspect the bar isn’t set very high at DU.

You never did deny still living in your mommy’s basement. And letting her credit card cover your expenses. Thus one might conclude this is how it is in your delusional world. Do you like that kind of logic?