RoyalAir
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re: Bought my first new TV today in over 10 years.
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/25/26 at 8:41 am to LSURussian
Anyone have experience with a Frame or Canvas TV?
My wife (no pics) is interested in a TV that's not really a TV, and I'm considering one of these. Currently, pricing for Samsung Frames and Hisense Canvas are within a close range of each other. Curious if anyone has either of these.
My wife (no pics) is interested in a TV that's not really a TV, and I'm considering one of these. Currently, pricing for Samsung Frames and Hisense Canvas are within a close range of each other. Curious if anyone has either of these.
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re: Lets watch Tales From the Crypt
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/23/26 at 12:38 pm to MrFreakinMiyagi
The episode with the boarder girl at the farm and the scarecrow is burned into my subconscious.
Imagining Emmitt Till had he lived?
Bruh. What a waste of time.
Bruh. What a waste of time.
It's the context of the hit that made it so impactful. The refs *point blank* screwed SC when they had stopped Michigan on 4th-and-1. Refs gave a fresh set of downs to Michigan, anyway.
Clowney then launches the tailback into orbit and recovers the ball with one hand. As much attention as the Hit got, the crap call should have been the real story.
Clowney then launches the tailback into orbit and recovers the ball with one hand. As much attention as the Hit got, the crap call should have been the real story.
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Could HW have brought in a few more?
Hard to see how he couldn't have. If anything else, Ward would be an excellent receiver coach. He outworked everyone at his position.
re: Anyone else's job requires the Sexual Harassment Videos you have to watch annually
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/21/26 at 10:48 am to nicholastiger
Ours is actually pretty good. Shows some scenarios that aren't harassment, and call it out as such. For example, there's a scene where a guy asks out a girl. She says no, and he says OK. Then she goes to the manager and wants to report it as harassment, and the manager just outright says nope, you said no, and he left you alone.
An unwanted advance that is declined isn't harassment, if that's where it ends.
An unwanted advance that is declined isn't harassment, if that's where it ends.
re: Drink stat just heard at Media Days
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/20/26 at 1:30 pm to MizzouTrue
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So if you don’t have a good team, he’s beating you. And Mizzou isn’t about to fire a coach that’s won 29 games in 3 seasons, they just aren’t
Nor should you. Drink hasn't delivered a title, but damn, man, he's a good coach and he's been successful for you. I'd rather have that consistency than wander in the desert for a decade.
Mizzou will do what they always do.
Be a menace at home. Have a solid, borderline prolific QB, and a tailback near the top if the SEC rushing leaders.
And finish 8-4. As an SC fan, I'd gladly take this, btw.
Be a menace at home. Have a solid, borderline prolific QB, and a tailback near the top if the SEC rushing leaders.
And finish 8-4. As an SC fan, I'd gladly take this, btw.
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Got about 30 minutes into it and it was such a dumb rehash of 2020 and the nightmare that was and how stupid the response of it was in the grand scheme of
How little threat it actually was
That's certainly part of the point of the movie. We spent a long time arguing and hashing out how to stop the spread and all that BS. But the only true danger was still based around how we all treated each other.
re: How much $ will zendaya make in 6 months?
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/19/26 at 8:47 pm to NotoriousFSU
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think she did well in Spiderman and Euphoria, but watching her in Dune is like torture. Haven’t read the books so it’s because I’m not familiar with that character.
She's not well cast in Dune. Villeneueve made some changes to Chani's character and her parent, Liet-Kynes. Those changes don't make a ton of sense, and really only kinda serve to shoehorn Zendaya in the role.
Chani should be a scarappy, but pure and beautiful (in a very girl next door way) woman. Zendaya doesn't really fit, as she's really only attractive when she's extremely made up. Truthfully, I'm not a good barometer here. I really enjoyed Dune the novel, but couldn't slog through part 2 of the movies. They're well made, but they're just missing something.
re: Where does Lionel Messi rank in tGOAT athletes discussion in the world?
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/18/26 at 8:15 am to OleVaught14
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only difference is how much of the world cares about Hockey? Messi became the GOAT in a sport that 95% of the world wants to be the GOAT in. Gretzky did it in a sport that only Canada would pick as the most important.
Messi has more competition due to how many more people play, this is true. But hockey is a significantly more demanding sport, and far more violent. People were trying to headhunt Gretzky for two decades, when that was completely legal in hockey, and no one could touch him. And Gretzky wasn't a goal scorer - he was a playmaker. He has more assists than anyone else has *points*, and still he was the goal scoring GOAT until Ovechkin.
Gretzky, Messi, Jordan are all top-tier, and didn't have rules specifically designed to protect them (looking at you, Brady). All three won everything there was to win, while making their teammates significantly better in the process.
re: Resident toughs of tOT, how would you handle yourself in this situation?
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/18/26 at 8:11 am to shutterspeed
Be like Dalton.
Be nice. Approach calmly and confidently, and introduce yourself. Extend a hand, and ask them to keep it down a bit.
Sure as Christmas wouldn't have my back to them, either.
Be nice. Approach calmly and confidently, and introduce yourself. Extend a hand, and ask them to keep it down a bit.
Sure as Christmas wouldn't have my back to them, either.
Did a search and didn't see a topic devoted to this, otherwise I would have bumped it.
Watched it last night on HBO. Man, a lot going on in this. Makes fun of all sides, and no one comes across as a being The Voice of Reason.
It's pretty divisive because of the subject matter, but if you can divorce yourself from your own viewpoint, it was a pretty dadgum good movie, and strong commentary. Wasn't what I was expecting based off the trailers, though.
The third act goes off the rails a good bit, but I really enjoyed it. I'll be chewing on it for a while. Curious others' thoughts.
Watched it last night on HBO. Man, a lot going on in this. Makes fun of all sides, and no one comes across as a being The Voice of Reason.
It's pretty divisive because of the subject matter, but if you can divorce yourself from your own viewpoint, it was a pretty dadgum good movie, and strong commentary. Wasn't what I was expecting based off the trailers, though.
The third act goes off the rails a good bit, but I really enjoyed it. I'll be chewing on it for a while. Curious others' thoughts.
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don't think "we" have much of a choice. The powers that be ignore the will of the people 100% on this and keep shoving Ramjeet and all his cheating, scamming, demon, monkey, and elephant worshipping kin on us whether we like it or not.
They are an existential threat to Western Civilization and everywhere else they are allowed in mass.
Indians have become the most loathed ethnic group with a quickness unseen.
I have zero respect for Hindu culture, at all. It is literally inferior, and India was in better shape under the British Raj.
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My 2 PSL's at MCB are one of the better investments I've ever made.
So, I'm actually curious how this works. My understanding is that you buy a PSL, and it gives you first dibs for events using those seats. You can then purchase those tickets and resell them, if you're not wanting to go to the event. Is that accurate? For example, did you have first rights to the World Cup games at face value, and then resell them? If so, I can see how this would have paid for itself several times over at this point.
If you wanted to resell the PSL itself, what is that process like?
re: How did Missouri get into the SEC?
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/17/26 at 7:50 am to gamecockman12
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Missouri fans are pretty cool though. They're always good visitors when they come to SC.
Agreed. I thought Mizzou was an odd fit when they first joined in '12, but the SC/Mizzou series has been a lot of fun and pretty damn competitive from the jump. They're a quirky bunch, but I enjoy it. I don't like losing to them, at all, but I don't hate Mizzou. I despise aTm, conversely.
The UTK series with Mizzou is pure chaos. That one, as a neutral observer, is the most underrated series in the conference.
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Waffle House should send menus to all the coaches. Would make an awesome advertisement
Waffle House is like Disco Stu: it doesn't advertise.
re: Lucky on AppleTV
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/16/26 at 8:09 am to LUS Tiger in FL
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She had me after The Queen's Gambit
Agreed. She's not objectively classically attractive, but I couldn't take my eyes off of her in TQG. She's captivating.
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SC may upset someone, they have a tendency to do that, but it won't be UGA.
Only Uga game under Beamer that was truly in contention was Rattler's second year at Athens, when SC was leading at halftime.
I likely agree with you. I don't think SC will upset Uga. I'm more likely to think at Bama is ripe for the upset.
No one, including the folks in Columbia, have any idea what SC has this year. They could be '24 level good, or they could be worse than '25. A lot rides on the new offensive staff.
re: Anyone ever reeeeeally stretched on a home purchase?
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/14/26 at 10:38 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
Did something similar when I bought my first house. Stretch for me = top of my personal budget. I chose to take the stretch, and was definitely house poor for several years when kids were little. Learned to do a lot on a small budget.
Flash forward 10+ years, and I'm glad I did. House has absolutely appreciated, as has my income. But I couldn't afford to move into this area now, even with increased income. But I'm also very stable, physically. No desire to move. I'm now looking at paying off the house early, and doing a second home once the primary mortgage is settled and off my books.
Again, the stretch was based off of my personal budget. I didn't listen to what the broker could qualify me for - I took my own numbers around what I could swing monthly, and worked backwards.
Flash forward 10+ years, and I'm glad I did. House has absolutely appreciated, as has my income. But I couldn't afford to move into this area now, even with increased income. But I'm also very stable, physically. No desire to move. I'm now looking at paying off the house early, and doing a second home once the primary mortgage is settled and off my books.
Again, the stretch was based off of my personal budget. I didn't listen to what the broker could qualify me for - I took my own numbers around what I could swing monthly, and worked backwards.
re: Wife Starts Removing Wall, Then Finds Out It's Load Bearing
Posted by RoyalAir on 7/14/26 at 8:16 am to Big Fat Guy
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Those are the projects you see on "This Old House" with engineered beams and steel plates and they don't tell you it adds $250,000 to the cost of the renovation to take that one wall down'.
'Bout to say, anyone who has ever watched This Old House knows you don't just start tearing out walls. There's always a support structure that needs rebuilding.
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