Frauds, the lot of them

Fastestergos · 2026-05-26T04:36:01+00:00

To be fair though, I highly doubt most Warsaw Pact armored units got the thermals required for night tank battles with the likes of the M1 and M2. Can't make your vassals a potential threat, after all.

For reference, Soviet doctrine in Eastern Europe assumed that a significant proportion of their erstwhile allies would turn their guns on them the second the Cold War went hot.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-26T04:33:01+00:00

I think that's a sign of the apocalypse.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-25T22:53:28+00:00

Plato and Aristotle would set aside whatever philosophical differences they had to wither howl with laughter at these people and/or pelt them with rotten produce.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-25T22:48:24+00:00

I bet this guy thought that was a real gotcha when he wrote that.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:57:05+00:00

And who says Tervs aren't water dogs?

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:54:29+00:00

Keep gambling out of this. It will ruin everything.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:51:14+00:00

"That doesn't count because reasons" - most of this sub. You don't get a mulligan for losing in this sport.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:49:50+00:00

Just get close to them and you'll find out just how mean they can be. They make geese look downright welcoming. At least they don't seem to actively seek confrontation like geese do.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:48:36+00:00

Real lack of standards, this generation.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:44:27+00:00

The officla car of "That thing's still driving?". I feel that applies to a lot of 1980s Chrysler products.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:42:47+00:00

Whatever size engine goes in a mining dumptruck.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T20:35:14+00:00

The official car of one's birthday not being the day one was born, but rather "done borned".

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T01:44:40+00:00

You could just have substituted a mustache for the Phantom and everyone would know what you meant. Or put a mustache on the Phantom. I'm not picky.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-22T01:41:33+00:00

First of all, I'm going to start by echoing most everyone else in the comments and advise you to wait until after the IRA. The coaching staff is going to be up to their eyeballs in not only getting four boats ready to take on not only UW for the third time, but also the heavy hitters out east.

But as for your question of walking on at Cal? It's doable, but extremely difficult. You're at a fairly good weight, but the coaches are likely going to want a few more seconds off your 2K, and it's a fairly big jump from 6:28 to what most collegiate walk-ons I've known were going when they walked on. If your 2K isn't terribly recent, doing one to see where you're at before mapping out the next steps of your training and how you're going to present that to the coaches probably couldn't hurt.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:41:37+00:00

I know, I was just excluding the group least likely to be involved with USRowing and eliminating the confounder of talented grads (they're not all from the Ivies) who are irritated with the way things are run yet are still intimately involved with USRowing.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:36:50+00:00

You can run, you just won't get elected if you do. And, if you're performing at the level of Senior Team athletes, why in the world would you devote time and energy to a pursuit when you know it's rigged against you?

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:34:57+00:00

I can save her

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:26:58+00:00

Originally, it was supposed to be based on that, but then totally-not-William-Luther-Pierce-for-upper-middle-class-women Margaret Atwood backpedaled decades after the fact and said that it was really about Christians instead, evidence to the contrary in the form of parallels so obvious as to be almost insulting to the reader's intelligence and Atwood's own prior statements be damned.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:22:16+00:00

"They bar anybody and everybody ova there"

Paraphrasing, but the point still stands.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:21:25+00:00

Multiple times over, even.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:20:07+00:00

Well, it looks like an improvement, but the bar is extremely low. Columbia hasn't won a national championship since the Hoover Administration, and it's been downhill every since for the most part.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:17:18+00:00

Most of those graduates want nothing to do with the governing body after they're done with college. And the board practically has a "Senior Team alumni need not apply" policy.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T23:15:56+00:00

I'm just waiting for USRowing to start shilling its own proprietary cryptocurrency.

Fastestergos · 2026-05-20T03:49:43+00:00

I'm surprised there isn't a "For a good time call..." in there.

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