• Texas Chat Thread - Everything is bigger in Texas!
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I know there are a few fpers around San Antonio.
[QUOTE=zzzz;38548247][h2]Ok everybody in the thread who has posted their location so far is on the map, though I may have got some wrong. Check it out![/h2] [url]https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201825791996832637707.0004cf0f5ed64e60b5099&msa=0&ll=33.000314,-96.666641&spn=0.140368,0.264187[/url][/QUOTE] Put this at the top of the OP.
[QUOTE=zzzz;38548247][h2]Ok everybody in the thread who has posted their location so far is on the map, though I may have got some wrong. Check it out![/h2] [url]https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201825791996832637707.0004cf0f5ed64e60b5099&msa=0&ll=33.000314,-96.666641&spn=0.140368,0.264187[/url][/QUOTE] You forgot to add me. I live in Alamo Heights, same area where grafnugi is
[QUOTE=green bandit;38553779]I know there are a few fpers around San Antonio.[/QUOTE] Guilty as charged. We should have a SA meetup.
blorgyboy lives 2 minutes from me. [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=blorgyboy;38548744]I own several, most of which are surplus or otherwise old. I currently own an M1 Garand, Mosin Nagant, Remington Model 788, and a 10/22 I've had since I was just a little anklebiter.[/QUOTE] Hi neighbor.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;38560362]blorgyboy lives 2 minutes from me. [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] Hi neighbor.[/QUOTE] creepy [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] hhcheese lives 15 minutes from me at the most
[QUOTE=zzzz;38560389]creepy [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] hhcheese lives 15 minutes from me at the most[/QUOTE] Yeahs its creepy, i've probably bumped into him plenty of times at the little gas station down the road. Probably go to school with him too. Given that he has a shit ton of guns too (and old ones too), i may know who he is too! Does your name start with a J and end with a Y
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;38560409]Yeahs its creepy, i've probably bumped into him plenty of times at the little gas station down the road. Probably go to school with him too. Given that he has a shit ton of guns too (and old ones too), i may know who he is too! Does you're name start with a J and end with a Y[/QUOTE] Jay perhaps? :v: [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] I guess put BrutalMoose down for Denton since he's going to school at UNT. And no I haven't run into him, Denton isn't that small.
I was originally planning to go to UNT, but ive decided to enlist in the navy because i have zero cash to pay for college/don't want loans. Ill go there though afterwards likely.
I really hate deers man, so many of them in the Hill Country, especially up near Lake Travis. They just don't move when they see you, then run around after you've stopped, mostly just hopping in to peoples fences.
Love hate relationship. They're cool when they're 3 feet from you when you're not in a car, and uncool when they're 3 feet from you, when you're in a car.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;38548360]Whats with the Chilean flag in OP?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ubertaco;38508587]H-Town represent![/QUOTE] Ho rep Also, the University of Houston seems pretty cool When I went there to cover a debate tournament for the yearbook, they had the Punisher, Mortal Kombat 4, and Street Fighter 3 Alpha arcade machines and the Ripley's Believe it or Not pinball machine was cool
I live in Fort Worth and fuck I want to live in mineral wells so badly.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;38560525]I really hate deers man, so many of them in the Hill Country, especially up near Lake Travis. They just don't move when they see you, then run around after you've stopped, mostly just hopping in to peoples fences.[/QUOTE] deer get temporarily paralyzed when they see headlights
Also Texas has best football. Go A&M!
texas has best everything. Anyone else here going to Baylor? Baylor gives pretty hefty scholarships for my SAT score (2230) and they have a pretty excellent premed program, so I think I'm going to apply there later this year. [editline]26th November 2012[/editline] and their medical school's really good too
Except their student body is known to be crazy as fuck when it comes to religion. Hopefully when it comes time for me to go to med school (8 years from now, 4 years after navy, 4 years after pre-med) the UT med school would have been built in Austin by then.
[img]http://wildwoodmark.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/augustus-mccrae.jpg[/img] Howdy.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;38593927]Except their student body is known to be crazy as fuck when it comes to religion. Hopefully when it comes time for me to go to med school (8 years from now, 4 years after navy, 4 years after pre-med) the UT med school would have been built in Austin by then.[/QUOTE] i'm not an open atheist so i don't really care about what the other students are or think then again, once i'm there i might, but whatever lol
New Cidem lives like 5 or 10 minutes from me. We're best bros.
[QUOTE=zzzz;38594481]i'm not an open atheist so i don't really care about what the other students are or think then again, once i'm there i might, but whatever lol[/QUOTE] Also don't you have to take a few religious classes while there? As it is required.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;38594831]Also don't you have to take a few religious classes while there? As it is required.[/QUOTE] i don't think it is, but if it is i don't really care. im good with religious history, and i doubt they'd preach pure religion, that's what church is for [editline]26th November 2012[/editline] [quote]I have a friend who's Muslim, and she really likes it here. From my experience, people aren't going to condemn you for being Muslim (of course, I'm sure there are exceptions, but you'll get intolerant people at any university, religious or secular). I'd say that as long as you don't mind any of the stuff I mentioned earlier (classes, chapel, Christian ideology, visiting hours in the dorm, etc.) and don't mind being surrounded by a good number of Christians, then you'll be fine. Of course, I'm in BIC, and honors people tend to be more liberal, but I still don't think you'll have a hard time overall. Even not all of the professors are Christian. Oh, and from a PM Twenty8 sent me when I was considering Baylor: [quote] Personally, I'm Muslim (gasp!) and lean more towards the liberal end (double gasp!), so yeah, there definetly is diversity, but you have to look for it. I'd say the average person is somewhat religious, from a well-to-do family, and doesn't really involve himself or herself in politics. As far as professors go, I honestly can't say I've had a bad one, or one that I felt treated me differently. Actually, in my religion course, my prof. knew I was Muslim and he really appreciated my prescence. There are even a few Jewish professors as well. All in all, it's a mixed bag, but most people are more open-minded then you might think.[/quote] [/quote] there you have it [editline]26th November 2012[/editline] so yes, I suppose there are classes you have to take, but I'm betting its like, bible study or religious history or theology or something
I could sit through a religious history class at any college if they offered a good scholarship. Hell, religious history's actually interesting most of the time.
Nothing wrong with religious history. It's a major part of human history.
Thread's dead posting cool space stuff in Midland. [QUOTE][IMG]http://i.space.com/images/i/18242/original/lynx-art-reference-people.jpg?1339087328[/IMG] The Mojave, Calif.-based XCOR Aerospace and the Midland Development Corporation unveiled plans today for XCOR's new Commercial Space Research and Development Center Headquarters in Midland, Texas. The research facility will be used to test XCOR's Lynx space plane, a reusable, winged spaceship that is designed to carry two passengers and science experiments to the edge of space. The company also plans to eventually develop and test components for an orbital version of the Lynx vehicle in Midland, company officials said. "We are pleased to be establishing our R&D Center in Midland, Texas, where the weather, surrounding landscape, the airport, and the local & state government environment are ideally situated for the future growth and the ultimate realization of a fully reusable orbital system," Andrew Nelson, chief operating officer of XCOR Aerospace, said in a statement. "With future suborbital operational sites on the East and West Coasts of the United States and around the world, plus a manufacturing and test facility geographically separate from our R&D facility, Midland will truly be at the heart of XCOR’s innovation engine." Local government officials applauded XCOR's decision to establish an aerospace foothold in the state. "This is a great day for Midland and a huge step forward for the state of Texas," Texas governor Rick Perry said in a statement. "Visionary companies, like XCOR, continue to choose Texas because they know that innovation is fueled by freedom. Whether on the cutting edge of biotech, communications, commerce or privatized efforts to serve the needs of the next generation of space explorers, you can find Texas at the forefront of the movement." The new R&D headquarters will be established in a newly renovated 60,000-square-foot hangar at the Midland International Airport (MAF). Construction of the office space and test facility will begin early next year, company officials said, and is expected to be complete by late autumn in 2013. "XCOR will be upgrading an existing hangar at Midland International Airport," Marv Esterly, director of airports at MAF, said in a statement. "This new R&D facility has the potential to open the door to even more economic development at our airport and for our community."[/QUOTE] Source:[url]http://www.space.com/16494-xcor-aerospace-texas-test-site.html[/url]
is football in texas as crazy as they say?
[QUOTE=Wake;38606492]is football in texas as crazy as they say?[/QUOTE] Just sports in general really. Although Football being bigger as far as overall funding from schools goes. A lot of places say they have a legacy to uphold and get pretty crazy about it. This also contributes to amazing bands in high schools across the state.
Football is serious business. My old Highschool spent 6-9 million dollars on their sports complex. [editline]26th November 2012[/editline] American Highschool football stadiums are often bigger than Canadian Footfall stadiums [citation needed]
Our highest paid official (government or civilian) is Mack Brown, Longhorns coach. Football is serious.
[QUOTE=Al Bundy;38606567]Just sports in general really. Although Football being bigger as far as overall funding from schools goes. A lot of places say they have a legacy to uphold and get pretty crazy about it. This also contributes to amazing bands in high schools across the state.[/QUOTE] True that. The bands in the surrounding areas are pretty much para-military in how they run things.
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