There are many varieties of Mexican cuisine available in the US, particularly in larger cities or in places with lots of families who have historical ties to Mexico.
Frankly, asking if we have Mexican food in the US is like asking if France has wine or if Italy has pasta.
Straight gays? There’s a trope for that.
I want maximum chaos. All underdogs or worse-ranked teams must win today.
To be clear, I went to a D3 school with no football team, and I don’t have any money on the games, so I don’t have a personal interest in any of the games. I just support #TeamChaos.
Not a high bar to meet
Concussions could be one thing. But I think there’s enough prestige & cachet in the QB position, not to mention salary potential, that concussion risks ought not to limit the candidate pool overly much.
Personally, I think there are some major factors:
- Seems like there are comparatively few colleges that run pro-style offenses, so too many of rookie QBs only know how to succeed in pass-heavy offenses against inferior defenses, and can’t handle the transition to running the different scheme against opponents who are all pretty good.
- Success in the QB position requires skill in an odd combination of areas: memory, pattern recognition, charisma, super fast decision making, ability to hit a moving target with a ball over a line of tall angry men out to hit you, enough ability to scramble to keep defenses honest, strong enough to take repeated painful blows & keep ticking.
I don’t think anything could realistically be done on the second point, but on the first one it would help if more colleges ran offensive schemes typical of what’s in the NFL.
Problem is, schemes in the NFL are great for situations where teams are closely matched. But college teams often have wide disparities in physical talent that can only be offset through creative schemes.
I always figured that there are 32 starting QB jobs in the NFL at any time, but there are rarely more than 10 good QBs at any time. Most teams will have to make do with mediocre QB play and hope to hell their run game & defense are pretty good.
“Getting nicked” as in getting pickpocketed, swindled, or otherwise taken advantage of?
There are some decent to good video games available on Android & iPhone, of a wide variety of genres.
If you have the self discipline to not let gaming take over all your spare time (whistles innocently while totally not looking in mirror), it’s absolutely worth getting into.
Where to start? I recommend keeping it simple. If you don’t already own a desktop or laptop computer at home, it’s probably easiest to stick with games on your phone.
- ask friends & family what games they play, particularly those who fall on the same side of the Apple/Google divide as you.
- open your app store and look at lists of popular games by genre. Pick a free one, download it, and try it out. If you don’t like it, delete it and try another one.
- if there’s a news or culture site whose judgement you trust & like to follow, even if it’s not a technology or gaming related site, it’s worth spending a couple minutes to see if they have review articles or recommendation lists available. You can even find a related Lemmy community and ask there.
Personally, I play the following:
- an older logic puzzle game
- a free klondike solitaire game
- Egg, Inc - this is an idle incremental game available on both iOS & Android
- Leaf Blower Revolution - just started this one. It’s in the idle incremental genre as well. Available on iOS, Android, and through Steam. Supports cross platform play by way of cloud saves. I picked it up a week ago and it has been fun so far.
I don’t have the reflexes for active combat games. I like RPGs but prefer to play those on desktop.
In context, does she mean keeping them apart on starting tribes?
Jerruh is an idiot for building his stadium along a SW-NE axis.
He should’ve built it along a NW-SE axis instead. Sure, he would’ve had to slide the stadium a little further west toward Collins Street, but it would’ve meant one less reason for him to be the laughingstock of the league.
He could still maybe salvage it if he put some good tinting on the SW windows.
If you like Museums:
- Museum of Fine Arts (1001 Bissonnet St)
- Houston Museum of Natural Science (5555 Hermann Park Dr)
- The Menil (1533 Sul Ross St)
Space Center Houston (the tourist wing of NASA’s Johnson Space Center) is a great place to visit.
If you like big spectacle places, see if you can take a tour of Minute Maid Park (Astros baseball stadium) or NRG Stadium (Texans football stadium).
If you enjoy live theater, options include:
- The Hobby Center (800 Bagby St)
- The Alley Theater (615 Texas Ave)
- Stages (800 Rosine St)
If you think you’ll have the appetite for it, there are lots of good dining options at every price point from a wide variety of culinary traditions. Try some bbq (if you’re from Saudi there are at least some halal bbq options, we have a pretty sizeable halal crowd). Try some Texmex restaurants. Try a pho restaurant. Try a taco truck.
Take a tour of the Hermann Park Zoo (6200 Hermann Park Dr). It’s a big damn zoo with a lot to see. You could also head down to Galveston and visit the Moody Gardens (1 Hope Blvd in Galveston). They have a giant rainforest pyramid and a giant aquarium pyramid. There are a lot of good dining options in Galveston but I don’t know offhand whether any of them are explicitly halal.
Good luck with your visit. The Texas Medical Center has some of the best medical care in the world. I hope you kick cancer’s ass.
Lemmy for scratching the reddit itch
Facebook (by way of a disabled account) for archiving pictures of now-deceased family members
Discord, if it counts as social media, for tracking guilds for a game I used to be addicted to, also servers for subreddits I used to frequent & servers maintained by some of the fanfiction authors I follow
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Who.
Who who?
You’re making a good owl!
My parents told me this was my favorite joke when I was around your daughter’s age. Apparently I used the joke non-stop and my parents still laughed every time because of how much I cracked up at my own joke.
People who don’t return their cart to the cart corral in the grocery store parking lot
Feeling your butt cheeks on the toilet seat just before you lose the battle to hold everything in.