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Wait, Alpha you actually think an entire generation has panic attacks, in everyday conversations? I just...I mean...WTF

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 10:42 AM) Nice Russ! Congrats! I had a 2012 for a bit, and you are right, they didn't change much...enjoy! Picture! Took it up to Michigan this weekend, man I've got to use cruise control or I go wayy to fast in it =)

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 10:16 AM) What year? I've been looking at that and the Volvo vc60 for my wife. I went with a 2011, so definitely an older model. I looked at newer ones (online at least) but the price was right on this one and there wasn't a big difference in styling between them.

Ended up buying a used Audi Q5, loving it so far. Had a work event at the Field Museum last night and finally got to drive on Lake Shore Drive (one of my favorite roads to drive on) and had a blast with the windows/sun roof open.

Going to my first ever march, March for Science, this Saturday in Chicago. Interested to see how it goes!

lolz

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 01:45 PM) Read an article somewhere yesterday that said Bernie definitely would have defeated Trump. It said the voters that put Trump ahead would have never gone Republican if Bernie had been the candidate. Wish I could provide the link, but I read it. At this point, who cares? Why waste time with hypotheticals that can't happen anymore?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 01:28 PM) I'm just saying he's 70 and doesn't figure to live but 10 more years if the odds are correct. Let him golf. Lots of people golf and work at the same time. I said, if he said during the campaign he'd never golf or rarely golf, then call him on it at every news conference. Otherwise let him golf. I feel like Trump has been working a lot. I don't see the golf as being a big deal unless he has broken a campaign promise to take rare vacations. If he has, shame on him for lying. Sick of that. He blasted Obama as much as he could for his "vacation" usage.

I always used European ATMs when I traveled to Europe. Just find a trustworthy bank one, they are everywhere, and use it. If you have a Schwab account it's free ATM usage worldwide FYI.

Werner says sources confirmed Coleman will be the 3rd assistant. I don't hate it, I also don't love it (Martin would've been huge). Time to go get Ayo now.

Not sure if there is budget to get in a bid war for Martin, and it's not a slight against Illinois, we already have the largest staff budget in the Big Ten.

Oh man just saw it, he made some of the funniest, most memorable skits ever on the Chappelle Show.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 08:37 AM) So Illinois wants no shot at Dosunmu or Horton-Tucker? Plus you want to try and open up a pipeline, which was probably the only reason Groce wanted Tate. From what I've heard, Dosunmu isn't influenced heavily by the Irvins, but no idea how accurate that is. Underwood and staff will need to have good relations up there, but winning solves more problems than a few delayed phone calls.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 08:50 AM) So it sounds like Chin Coleman will be brought on as an Assistant at Illinois. That should help with the Mac Irvin Fire people. Chuck Martin from Indiana was rumored as well but likely going to South Carolina. Nothing official yet, but looking like that.

I'd have a really hard time not intervening with that s***, just complete abuse of power right there.

Congrats shack! It'd be hard to leave that basketball court though!

Sounds like both Tilmon and Illinois are going to mutually part ways. And by mutually, I mean Illinois doesn't think it'd be healthy for a lot of reasons to continue to recruit Tilmon and that he's sold on going elsewhere, so they aren't going to pursue him hard a 3rd time.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Apr 5, 2017 -> 03:35 PM) Honestly, I'm not even that mad about it. We knew that firing Groce had a good chance of causing Tilmon to leave, and quite frankly, it's hard to even imagine him staying with Groce at this point. Does it suck that Tilmon strung us along for so long? Of course. But, I'd take Underwood over Cuonzo Martin + whatever recruits he could guarantee, and with that point of view, I'm not worried about short term losses like Tilmon, 5* or not. You can't get out of an NLI if your coached stayed, so the whole "groce couldn't keep him" shtick doesn't quite work. But I agree, long term we are in a good position with Underwood. There's no guarantee for either Illinois or Mizzou with our coaches, but I like our position.

Bmags, I have no doubt Illinois was dirty in this recruitment. But the fact that they pretty much went dirty once, then again at Signing Day to keep SLU/KU away, and now have to again? Just ridiculous, there's fair reason for Illini fans to be upset/exhausted by this recruitment.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 2, 2017 -> 03:10 PM) Just watched it, that was somehow even better than I expected. How the hell did they fit so much into 23 minutes? Dan Harmon is insane. Seriously, the first time I watched it, it was about halfway through. That still felt like a full episode.

The trailer for GITS looked awful, and with Josh proclaiming it as great then I know I can pass

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 29, 2017 -> 04:37 PM) It's hard to respond because there's not much specificity here but to be fair to greg, it's not atypical for people to follow politics around the election and then stop caring after. I am so sick of the whole golfing though. Throughout GWB's presidency he was the vacationing and golfing president ridiculed by the left. Then Obama golfs ten times as much as GWB and the left would go to war defending him. Trump's golfing just like the past two Presidents have. I care less about the golfing that every president does and I am far more concerned about the ridiculous amounts of travel expenses Trump has racked up with all the security and everything that goes into it the giant production that is moving the president around. Well sure, but it's an easy thing to ride on and point out the hypocrisy of Trump. Are there worse things he's done? Sure, but this one is just low hanging fruit with a lot of soundbites to go with it. How was his HC proposal in line with democrats? I think I missed that part. You can cut expenditures and not impact only social programs. Not only is he cutting social programs, but he's increasing military funding and building a stupid f***ing wall. Yea, I'm pretty outraged at that, and if your concern is illegal immigration than so should you, because that s*** will get exploited so easily. So you just defund it? If change is needed, fine, change it. Don't just give up. I'm tired of this, just because I personally wasn't affected doesn't mean I can't be upset with his policies. Maybe I actually care about people other than myself.

I believe just stating UHC isn't viable for the US and stating "economics" after that is pretty weak.

It was amazing how bad of a coach that Romar was at UW. Not shocked at all they moved on, in fact I applaud them for knowing that no matter the talent, Romar was not going to get the job done.

Yea I don't really think there was a possible win in that situation.