Recent content by ClonesFTW

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    Milan's Zoom Call

    Unless major changes come soon I’m about a year or 2 away from being done with it. I’ll still be in Hilton for every game, but I’ve never cared less about general college athletics than I do right now.
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    Chicago Bears bought Arlington Heights track only to build in Indiana?

    Significantly less people are going to do this than before.
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    Dumbest Thing You Believed

    I believed the stock market was a fair game. *chuckle*
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    Fan Boundaries with Student Athletes

    My rule is simply never tag a player in a social media post. If I run into an athlete in person great, but no other communication to a college athlete.
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    *** 2026 Tennis Thread ***

    Wow, Sinner going to be nearly a -300 favorite for French and Wimbledon? Takes the wind out of the sails a bit.
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    Anyone Know What's Happening to My Grass?

    My yard is having its weirdest start to the summer in years, haven't changed anything but have random dead spots that I haven't had before. Not sure if that is common for everyone based on conditions this winter or if I got behind on something.
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    What’s happening to Des Moines?

    Accurate. Downtown lunch hour was lively up to 2020, I have never seen it return to the amount of people it was.
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    CF Demographics Poll

    I would estimate the amount of posters below age 25 was much higher 10-15 years ago. Heck in the mid-2000’s there were many at my HS reading/posting on Iowa Preps during football season.
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    What % of your takehome pay are you spending on living expenses?

    The average debt ratio on mortgage-backed securities is about 39% most recently. That uses gross income and does not include utilities. Adjusting for net pay and adding utilities the average homeowner is paying over 50% of their net earnings just on living expenses, over 70% when including...
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    20 Ribeyes for $40 Scam

    So disrespectful to the original chicken sandwich.
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    20 Ribeyes for $40 Scam

    Probably the only way to reduce the price considering its only gone one way since the late 2000's.
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    20 Ribeyes for $40 Scam

    I've thought about doing this before but when I looked up cost of energy to run a deep freezer + cost of the freezer the savings were pretty minimal over the course of a year opposed to just buying 5-6 lbs of beef when it's on sale once a month. I suppose if you continue to do it year after year...
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    20 Ribeyes for $40 Scam

    Ground beef price has increased nearly every year in the last 15 years, what am I missing that would stop that?
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    Random and Misc Car Talk Thread

    My first car in HS was a Ford ZX2. Team Zetec here… lol