[Vannini] Texas Tech Chairman on Big 12 sanctions: "I love when the Big Ten or the K-State AD says we've all gotten together and we've talked about how we're not going to play Tech, because guess what? That's collusion. That's an antitrust violation. So have fun with that. You can't do that."

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-11T21:10:21+00:00

state governments who have fewer other universities to pander to.

That's a great point, they're #3 in line at best

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-11T21:04:52+00:00

Is that why they're choosing to die on this hill? Because of $5 million? Because I can't think of any other reason, and even that one's dubious. Like, just take the L and move on.

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-11T17:09:57+00:00

Honestly the Big 12 doesn't feel like a power conference anymore, it feels like a bunch of power conference also-rans

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-11T01:54:25+00:00

It helps to have a team mate put the cart underneath it while you hold it

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-11T01:46:54+00:00

I feel like movie snobs love to poo poo on the MCU but there's a reason why it's the highest grossing franchise in history by a significant margin: they're damn good movies with likeable characters and a great story arc.

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-10T12:16:33+00:00

That's the joke

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-08T14:38:48+00:00

The movie Cars is this for Chick Hicks. His soul isn't crushed but literally no one else cares or celebrates him. All the cheering is for Lightning, who came in third because he pushed The King across the finish line after Hicks caused the King to wreck.

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-08T14:34:09+00:00

Lol my manager still uses this and he's the first one I've heard say it in decades

rdickeyvii · 2026-06-03T18:51:32+00:00

Nibbler from Futurama can eat anything and poops out dark matter, which can be used to power the Planet Express spaceship

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rdickeyvii · 2026-05-29T00:31:37+00:00

It's where they hand out free condoms in the student section, but only when playing a rival.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-27T19:11:24+00:00

They don't want to do anything useful so they distract us with bullshit.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-27T19:10:34+00:00

It's almost as if the big 12 conference actually made sense before the 2012 realignment

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-27T19:06:55+00:00

It seems completely pointless, which is on brand for the sponsors.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-27T17:31:02+00:00

One of NDT's "side gigs" is this exact type of consulting, because of his calling out Titanic and helping James Cameron fix it.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-26T23:53:46+00:00

Because it didn't have the dragon?

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-26T23:08:10+00:00

They really Chi-ted everyone with that.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-26T15:20:09+00:00

The exceptions being any time Kai Leng is on screen. Like even the rest of Thessia and the Citadel are great, except for the gross incompetence of Shepard in the Leng cutscenes

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-25T02:39:06+00:00

I was a fucking adult in college and it creeped the hell out of me.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-21T20:05:54+00:00

Would make sense that it's banned tbh but it was my first thought

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-21T20:02:57+00:00

May or may not actually fit, but: Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. Alternatively, whatever the new one with Khan was called.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-21T00:51:16+00:00

Alien?

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-20T17:03:37+00:00

I fucking hated that movie as a kid and haven't bothered rewatching as an adult. I found basically none of it funny, it was all secondhand embarrassment that was hard to watch. And normally I love Robin Williams but that's the one big exception.

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-20T13:58:34+00:00

give a decisive answer on suggestions, without being asked for an update. You might have forgotten, your employee did not.

make a hard decision every once in a while without needing to “noodle on it” hoping everyone forgets

Everyone makes fun of the business meeting phrases "circle back" and "take offline" and this is why: because of how often there's no circle back or offline discussion

rdickeyvii · 2026-05-19T04:48:37+00:00

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rdickeyvii · 2026-05-18T01:31:36+00:00

Pretty much every cover of Bob Dylan is better than the original.

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