alajones
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Huntsvegas |
| Biography: | North Louisiana, Huntsville, and various other stops around the world. |
| Interests: | LSU, Saints, Cubs, hiking, woodworking, working on cars, camping, beer drinking |
| Occupation: | Educating the utes of America |
| Number of Posts: | 35920 |
| Registered on: | 10/23/2005 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: UCF grads jeer commencement speaker who praised AI
Posted by alajones on 5/13/26 at 3:52 pm to Jim Rockford
3/4ths of those graduates used AI to do their academic work for most of their college careers. Hypocrites.
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re: Funeral etiquette for military personnel
Posted by alajones on 5/13/26 at 7:51 am to prplhze2000
I would think it would honor yalls relationship
re: Peleliu WW2 Chat
Posted by alajones on 5/13/26 at 7:41 am to sledgehammer
quote:MacArthur gets a lot of hate on this board. Some is justified, a lot isn't.
MacArthur gets a lot of hate for the invasion of Peleliu,
MacArthur gets a lot of crap for the Philippines and Korea. Some of it is fair and some isn’t. Nothing could have been done to prevent the Philippines from falling to the Japanese. Military leaders knew this as early as 1904-5. MacArthur wasn’t given the necessary resources to properly defend the island. And he did a pretty shite job of it anyway. However, he was much more valuable to us as a General leading the Army than he would’ve been in a POW camp. He was one of the first to recognize how valuable land based air support would be and organically stumbled into a sort of island hopping campaign before it became the official strategy. As a commander, he knew what he was doing.
In Korea , he wanted to blow the bridges crossing the Yalu River and attack air fields in China where Soviet aircraft were being based, but Truman would not let him.
He also could be a massive dick. Like for no reason. And torpedoed officers careers if it looked like they might outshine him. He was obsessed with his family legacy and was also just kind of an oddball. But a genuine really intelligent person.
I think his legacy has rightly taken some hits over the last few decades. But he was still a very good commander.
Is this considered Art Deco or Modern Art?
re: FBD Burger Battle
Posted by alajones on 5/9/26 at 5:07 pm to Gullah Gullah Island
FBD at a lobster place in Virginia
I actually heard that on The Rest is History podcast.
re: Post Interesting Facts About Famous People
Posted by alajones on 5/6/26 at 9:57 pm to Ramblin Wreck
George Washington had a terrible relationship with his mother. When he was president, she wrote letters to newspapers lamenting her destitute status.
He didn’t even go to her funeral.
He didn’t even go to her funeral.
re: Post Interesting Facts About Famous People
Posted by alajones on 5/6/26 at 9:52 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Ronald Reagan was a lifeguard. He saved 78 lives. The last came as governor of California when his lifeguard instincts kicked in during a party at the mansion. He jumped in a pool and saved a 7 year old girl from drowning
re: Controversial Opinion - Teachers don’t deserve pay raises
Posted by alajones on 5/2/26 at 4:45 pm to TexasTiger08
quote:Yeah. It’s interesting. The other common misconception is how much power teacher unions have. None except maybe in large cities, not in Louisiana. It’s easy to get rid of teachers. Most administrators don’t or don’t need to there is already so much turnover.
The blanket statements tossed around by those about the teaching profession are interesting to say the least.
re: Controversial Opinion - Teachers don’t deserve pay raises
Posted by alajones on 5/2/26 at 4:06 pm to Pauvetibete
quote:I don’t think you know what this means. Teachers don’t retire with full pay. And it’s all over the place anyway depending on when you were hired/ state retirement system, etc.
have a full pension
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best healthcare
Teaching is my second career. I was in the govt. contractor biz for a while. It’s about average.
I have no issues with my pay. If it were just me or if I were a single parent, it would be difficult. I do love the time off.
It was pretty disappointing. Especially after seeing the CBS Sunday Morning bit that sung its praises. The first act was the best. Once I realized what was going to happen, i was pissed the entire third act.
Frick that movie.
Frick that movie.
alajones2 and I have been binging this series for a few weeks. I’m going to give it about a B-.
It’s not Golden Girls LOL, it isn’t Frasier level witty, it isn’t compelling like West Wing. It’s just kind of…fine.
Jean Smart is great. I feel like the writers of the show lean way too hard on self destructing conflicts with her. Like, it’s okay to have obstacles for her to overcome without them being of her own making.
Do they realize what an insufferable Gen Z bitch Ava is? Is it on purpose?
How easy would it have been for her to tell TV exec a-hole that she’d welcome a lawsuit and she could Me Too the frick out of him? Why is that elephant in the room just ignored?
I love Jimmy and Marcus. They steal a lot of the scenes they are in.
Anyway, it’s pretty funny, but Ava is very unlikeable. She sucks a lot more than she doesn’t.
It’s not Golden Girls LOL, it isn’t Frasier level witty, it isn’t compelling like West Wing. It’s just kind of…fine.
Jean Smart is great. I feel like the writers of the show lean way too hard on self destructing conflicts with her. Like, it’s okay to have obstacles for her to overcome without them being of her own making.
Do they realize what an insufferable Gen Z bitch Ava is? Is it on purpose?
How easy would it have been for her to tell TV exec a-hole that she’d welcome a lawsuit and she could Me Too the frick out of him? Why is that elephant in the room just ignored?
I love Jimmy and Marcus. They steal a lot of the scenes they are in.
Anyway, it’s pretty funny, but Ava is very unlikeable. She sucks a lot more than she doesn’t.
I’m repeating what I say in all these Bond threads.
The next Bond needs to be a serial series and a Cold War period piece. And Amazon needs to recognize that their target audience is over 40.
The next Bond needs to be a serial series and a Cold War period piece. And Amazon needs to recognize that their target audience is over 40.
re: The 1970’s were glorious
Posted by alajones on 4/25/26 at 9:04 pm to lsufan1971
One day someone will create a psychological dissertation about Saturday morning cartoons. Unless you are a later Boomer, Gen X or a very old Millennial, you don’t get it.
It was the one time a week that the TV was exclusively for the kids. It gave us a sense of empowerment. Nothing but a bowl of cereal and a 25” console TV. Dad played golf or fished, mom did whatever the hell she did on Saturday mornings, and it was grand.
By the 90s, cable was everywhere and you could watch cartoons 24/7. But when we only had 4 channels, Saturday mornings belonged to us. And everyone knew it.
It was the one time a week that the TV was exclusively for the kids. It gave us a sense of empowerment. Nothing but a bowl of cereal and a 25” console TV. Dad played golf or fished, mom did whatever the hell she did on Saturday mornings, and it was grand.
By the 90s, cable was everywhere and you could watch cartoons 24/7. But when we only had 4 channels, Saturday mornings belonged to us. And everyone knew it.
I held off for so long, but a lot of my music and TV watching comes from YouTube. So I pulled the trigger.
Totally worth it.
Totally worth it.
Isn’t that the one in the Bugs Bunny cartoon?
re: What movies are you supposed to see you never have seen?
Posted by alajones on 4/12/26 at 10:17 pm to UltimaParadox
I’ve never seen Lonesome Dove even though I’ve wanted to for thirty years.
Also, I love the LotR trilogy but haven’t seen the extended versions.
Also, I love the LotR trilogy but haven’t seen the extended versions.
A lot of this falls on studios mandating diversity requirements in writer’s rooms. Writers are as much to blame as actors. They aren’t public with their politics, but they wedge it into TV shows.
re: $5.99 per pound for a bell pepper
Posted by alajones on 4/12/26 at 1:55 pm to StringedInstruments
I love Publix. I’m willing to pay a little extra for employees who are in uniform and don’t hate their job. Plus they have a good beer selection.
Their “sales” are ridiculous. Borderline unethical business practices. I go in there for months and buy the same stuff. Then one day, it’s had a price increase, but if you buy three, you get it at the previous price.
Their “sales” are ridiculous. Borderline unethical business practices. I go in there for months and buy the same stuff. Then one day, it’s had a price increase, but if you buy three, you get it at the previous price.
re: Father/Son Quality Time
Posted by alajones on 4/9/26 at 6:05 pm to tigersaint74
My son and I have been taking section hiked on the Appalachian Trail since he was 17. It’s a great experience for both of us. So far, we have hiked over 700 miles.
Not up for that? There’s plenty of day hikes in various national parks.
Not up for that? There’s plenty of day hikes in various national parks.
Regular candy bars (Reese’s Peanut Butter cups, Twix, Snickers, etc.) that are shaped like eggs, placed in the freezer, and eaten a couple at an time over the next few weeks.
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