+0.200.

It may be a post hoc thing, but I did not open any other credit and did not miss payments or the like during the time. They might have done a credit check on me. Could be the cause, but not that much.

That’s actually a neat strategy.

I suspect that. What bothers me is that they knew about the cash purchase of a car. The reporting agency was GMAC.

CMT? Fuck. I should have bought more stock in a company that makes cardiac crash kits.

Needs more complaining.

Can’t paying cash for a new car can hurt your credit rating as well? My dad was a cash buyer, but that’s all he ever did. I bought a Jetta back in the early 00s cash money. I then needed to get a new car for my wife about 6 months later. I had to take a loan on that one as she was just out of grad school and her…

I am not saying ban it. I am saying arrest all Pop Warner coaches and parents who “make men of their boys” by playing a game where concussions are “just part of the game! Shake it off, you pussy!”

You’ve never been around Pop Warner football. Maoist China had more free will.

Football is basically organized child abuse.

This or traumatic tear of the aorta. I had a subarachnoid bleed that ended my playing college ball that was caught because the doctor said “Can you point to where on your head the sharp pain is rather than the headache?” I was in surgery within 30 minutes to stop the bleed.

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This is like the chat log in my head.

Heh.

Shitty transmissions on Yamahas of that era.

There’s always exceptions, even to this post.

This is incorrect. One does not lose one’s place on the depth chart because you are injured. Long standing practice.

Škoda, goddamit. I don’t know what it means in Czech, but in Slovene it means “Too bad.”

He’s destroyed the University of Wisconsin. We are talking bombed it like Dresden. If you had told me, two decades into my career in academia, that people would be calling me from Wisconsin system schools looking for “outs” and willing to give up tenure to get away from him, I would have told you that you were crazy.…