Wednesdays Suck Open Thread

I have no scientific evidence to back this up, but consistently in my life, bad shit disproportionately happens on Wednesday. I do not make doctor’s appointments, nor take my car to the shop on Wednesdays. I am always uncomfortable when a key basketball or footy match is scheduled for said day. That was the best part about Europa League (European footy’s NIT) – all the games were on Thursday, which is my GOOD LUCK day!

Anyway, that is my 1/16th-assed (h/t OSZ) attempt at an intro for your Wednesday open thread. I am off into the bitter cold to grill meatloaf burgers for my kids. It’s 27 out, and I may get to see flurries! Being North Cakalaky, panic is sure to ensue.

Your better sporting contest include: Nebraska at Sparty (6:30 EST, BTN); Texas at West By God Virginia (7:00, ESPNU); K State at BayBay (8:15, ESPN News); Villanova at Seton Hall (9:00, CBSSN); and Florida State at Louisville (9:00, ESPNU).

NBCSN has an Ice Footbaw doubleheader starting at 8, with 4 teams I know nothing about; and ESPN is showing the NBA if you consider that a sport for some ungodly reason. ESPN2 has Down Under el tenis (the sports unit was SO FUCKING EASY in high school Spanish, eh?) starting at 9, if you want to be all cultured and shit.

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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theeWeeBabySeamus
theeWeeBabySeamus

That’s Courtney Thorne Smith in the background. Hubba hubba.

Beerguyrob

He was also in Ski School, an underappreciated gem of the genre.

ballsofsteelandfury

Ski School, man, Ski School!

theeWeeBabySeamus

I like Charlie’s attitude….I don’t get anything that’s happening so I’m gonna drink beer and eat snow.

theeWeeBabySeamus

LMFAO….good for Charlie. He needs the stress relief.

theeWeeBabySeamus

So….how’s Dennis gonna screw this up?

WCS

With crack rock.

theeWeeBabySeamus

That would be too much to wish for.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yay, Tatiana. I applaud thee.
LMAO at Dennis…only when you are clean will you know my power.
Great line…might have to use it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Scary when Mac and Dee are the voice of reason.

theeWeeBabySeamus

DID YOU CUM IN MY BURRITO????
A pathetic vibe indeed.

WCS

Cans 4 rent

Don T

Well, I just got hit on by 1.5 women that are older than both my older sisters. It’s a group of 4; two blew a raspberry and the half was enthused until I told her my name.
Alcohol is magic.

theeWeeBabySeamus

It only takes 1, Don T. It only takes 1.

theeWeeBabySeamus

LMAO…I AM the jerkoff who bought the mountain.

WCS

Huey Lewis on Always Sunny. That’s incredible.

WCS

CHARLIE SAVED THE BEER

theeWeeBabySeamus

Dee, Mac and Dennis ski pretty good for Philly dumbshats.

theeWeeBabySeamus

So….are you dicknuts doing another rivebrog this week?

WCS

I like Bring Back Matt, I loathe WordPress or whatever the fuck server it’s on. It makes me change my password every time I close the tab. FUCK THAT.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hell do it here then…what the fuck else we got to do.
Oooooh….skiing. Yay injuries.

WCS

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Texas can eat all the severed cow dicks.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Just like every other day then.
Fuck Tejas.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
theeWeeBabySeamus

LOL, probably so. The whole “real life couple” thing frankly scares the shit outta me.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I love that the show has them hate each other and being repulsed every time the idea of them hooking up is brought up

WCS

To be fair, Mac feels that way about all chicks.

entropy

Charlie: “Oh, this is 2006, and you still like chicks.”

Mac: “What do you mean by that?”

Best exchange from last week’s episode.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I missed that line. I think that means I should do a rewatch right now

entropy

It’s paraphrased, but really one of the funniest bits from the episode. It’s when Charlie and Mac go to the strip club.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Shogun Marcus

That might be why David Tennant put the mind games on her.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Senor Weaselo

I’m watching Mythbusters implode a tanker because I missed it on Saturday. Destruction is always a wonderful thing.

American Pie Story

hey when you get to Japan can you try these for me?
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Yes, those are chocolate covered French fries. It’s for… research purposes.

American Pie Story

It’s white chocolate, per the ~cool kids at BuzzFeed~
Then again, it’s Japanese McDonald’s white chocolate.

Shogun Marcus

That’s numberwang!

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m considering a pros/cons list of putting in a pool.
Pros….
http://aqu52.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/fantastic-ass.gif

theeWeeBabySeamus

Cons….
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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Blues v Wings.| Sabers v Avalanche | Wild v Ducks is not a good slate of games. I guess it is a Wednesday in the middle of the season

litre_cola

Times are tough up here. Oil is down, our dollar is garbage , and 0 Canadian Ice football teams would make the playoffs if they started today.

ballsofsteelandfury

I get home in an hour. At that point, prepare for hockey talk because I just went to the Kings-Stars game last night and it reaffirmed my beliefs that:

1) hockey is the best sport to see live
2) Gary Bettman can DIAF.

WTF IS THIS CHALLENGE SHIT?!?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Fuck the Stars….says the psuedo-Yotes fan.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Pens have a soft spot for me. And ‘Canes of course.
But my real loyalties lie with ‘Yotes and Caps.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I have said number 1 on here multiple times. Also, I am on board even if it is a Kings game

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Misread, thought that was on tonight

Beerguyrob

I would pay several dollars to watch Andy Reid coach an NHL game, draw down the clock, and blow his challenge.

American Pie Story

I would pay to see that live.

ballsofsteelandfury

This may happen soon.

theeWeeBabySeamus

She seems…confused.
I think I better lend a hand.

Sill Bimmons
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Yeah, still way into that.

theeWeeBabySeamus

She’s quirky more than drop dead.
Quirky is cool.
Kinda like Kaitlin Olson and Krysten Ritter.
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theeWeeBabySeamus

LOL, Inorite?
Plus…Krysten Ritter….best death scene ever.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Talking to my sister and she has been telling me how great Jessica Jones is all night. So I was gonna post some Krysten Ritter but I had assumed I was alone in liking her

theeWeeBabySeamus

No Sir!!!! She is much appreciated by us weird fucks.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Wow…that’s too small to appreciate. Take it to the top…

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

For the record. Binge watched it the first night/next day. I have seen it. She had thoughts on David Tennant though

entropy

I dunno, Krysten Ritter is pretty Drop Dead in my opinion:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eWh9h25mXt8/T6MfiOgtCWI/AAAAAAAAHIo/VshpmnL3Isw/s1600/479.1.jpg

ballsofsteelandfury

Me too. I dig.

theeWeeBabySeamus

When you think College Bball….you think, NEBRASKA.

theeWeeBabySeamus

That Shaka Smart kid is a credit to his race.
Whichever race that might be.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh come on….I set you up perfect for the Q-word. 😀

scotchnaut

The Raptors DeRozan and Lowry are the best of buddies. This was made manifest when the latter, after his breakout year, was in contract discussions when it was clear that 5/6 teams were eager to court him. When DeRozan was asked about how the Raptors would deal with his buddy signing somewhere else he said, “It’s not going to happen. He’s really happy here.” Sure enough Lowry re-signed and may have possibly missed out on millions of bucks but is happy where he’s playing and doesn’t think anything less of his best buddy who innocently undercut him during negotiations.

/things are different up here if you allow them to be

scotchnaut

They are the Raptors backcourt. I shouldn’t have expected anyone to know this.

theeWeeBabySeamus

The Pack figuratively shot up an orphanage last night!!!
Hey Ohhhh!!!!
Up High…don’t leave me hanging.

/just kidding Sill

Sill Bimmons

no kidding implied

Beerguyrob

Plus, getting paid in USD right now means they are living 45% better right now.

theeWeeBabySeamus

OK…I’m ready for The Walking Dead to go ahead and get their shit together and start up again. Which has almost nothing to do with Maggie Greene…
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American Pie Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KBomuCgXXM

good tunes for a shitty day

American Pie Story

you’re welcome!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Good song.
Two snaps up.

Shogun Marcus

You ever have that dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

theeWeeBabySeamus

No pyramid, no robes, no pickles, no naked.
Otherwise, yes.

Beerguyrob

Question: Am I Antonio Cromartie in the dream, and are the pickles babies?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Sweagen…Cocksuckah.
Whut’s up, homos?

Shogun Marcus

Hangdai fucking Wu.

JustStopDude

It took me 6 hours to travel 3 hours away. Someone please explain to me why Southwest Virginia and Tenneesse do not believe in using snowploughs. Fucking four inches and I was passing a steady stream of jackknife tractor trailers and abandoned cars.

Oh and I can’t get a taxi to the airport at 5am so I have zero clue how I am suppose to get to my flights to Japan.

ballsofsteelandfury

Sleep at the airport Marriott and charge it to the company?

American Pie Story

Charge an Uber to the dick who made him fly there?

Sill Bimmons

The hippocampus (named after its resemblance to the seahorse, from the Greek ἱππόκαμπος, “seahorse” from ἵππος hippos, “horse” and κάμπος kampos, “sea monster”) is a major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in each side of the brain. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. The hippocampus is located under the cerebral cortex;[1] and in primates it is located in the medial temporal lobe, underneath the cortical surface. It contains two main interlocking parts: Ammon’s horn[2] and the dentate gyrus.

In Alzheimer’s disease, the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage; memory loss and disorientation are included among the early symptoms. Damage to the hippocampus can also result from oxygen starvation (hypoxia), encephalitis, or medial temporal lobe epilepsy. People with extensive, bilateral hippocampal damage may experience anterograde amnesia—the inability to form and retain new memories.

In rodents, the hippocampus has been studied extensively as part of a brain system responsible for spatial memory and navigation. Many neurons in the rat and mouse hippocampus respond as place cells: that is, they fire bursts of action potentials when the animal passes through a specific part of its environment. Hippocampal place cells interact extensively with head direction cells, whose activity acts as an inertial compass, and conjecturally with grid cells in the neighboring entorhinal cortex.

Since different neuronal cell types are neatly organized into layers in the hippocampus, it has frequently been used as a model system for studying neurophysiology. The form of neural plasticity known as long-term potentiation (LTP) was first discovered to occur in the hippocampus and has often been studied in this structure. LTP is widely believed to be one of the main neural mechanisms by which memory is stored in the brain.

Sill Bimmons

Probably…

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

There was at least one person who loved Uma so I looked for a pic. All the animated ones are covered in blood and the one I found is tiny. Sorry

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Shogun Marcus

Ok so perhaps time has changed my perspective. Think not seeing her all the time has something to do with it.

scotchnaut

West Virginny has climbed to #6? Good for them. When he was at Cincy I didn’t like Track Pants at all but since then he’s grown on me.

litre_cola

Doesn’t Huggy wear ridiculous turtlenecks too?

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

One more Lizzy Caplan because I have had it open in a tab for awhile

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Sill Bimmons

The hawkey is still sadly horrible and awful, continuing David Stern’s personal lackey Gary Bettman’s purposeful ruination of the best sport in the world beside rugby.

If they don’t increase the ice size and the net size hawkey is totally doomed in the US.

Goals make hawkey fans.

Saves and central ice congestion make frustrated people who can’t stand the fucking game.

Wayne Gretzky wouldn’t score 50 points, let alone goals, in this stupid fucking league.

Sharkbait

I always suspected him of being an NBA secret agent.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

College hockey has that. And and awesome penalty kill song w/ fan involvement they play the whole time it is going on. At least in WI

Shogun Marcus

As long as it’s not high school. NO CHANTING!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Widen the ice to international standards but don’t change the goal size. Restrict goalie pad size instead. I love hockey how it is and don’t want it to start down the path football is going where it is gonna be shitty is a few years because every year they try to pander to idiots that won’t watch anyways.

Sill Bimmons

You can’t resize the goalie equipment because they will cry “SAFETY OMG!!!111!!”

And they’re right. They shouldn’t have to sacrifice their safety for more goals.

Just make the nets 2″x 2″x 2″ larger and every single hit post from the last 100 years will go in.

Sill Bimmons

5 x 5 x 5 cm foar you Canadaites and other furriners.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

How wide is your leg? If you say 18″-22″ you are a fucking liar. The pads have gotten to the point they should be moderated if they are gonna change a rule. Still fine with current rules. 12 in a row for the Hawks

Sill Bimmons

This is logical but not practicable.

The goalies will NEVER give up their huge equipment, not should they.

Increasing the size of the playable dimensions of the ice and the goals is the only way to maximize hawkey fandom in the general US population.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Can I agree your logic is correct but still hate you for suggesting it?

litre_cola

I believe they should widen 1 in x 1 in x 1 in and make the posts inward slanting as has been experimented with. Sadly they will not widen the rinks due to the loss of seating near the boards. Yes they cant see the forest for the trees by having less OVERALL asses in seats.

Sill Bimmons

5 white guys with swords on their feet and scythe-like sticks in their hands whacking a rondel of frozen rubber at 100 mph at a net guarded by a white guy whose sole job is to stop that rondel from scoring is somehow less popular in the US than the basketing-balling.

This is not an accident.

DIE GARY BETTMAN DIE

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

One more Lizzy Caplan before I actually find something to do

http://dailygarlic.com/userImages/lizzy-caplan-gif-42220.gif

Sill Bimmons

Can somebody please explain Aubrey Plaza to me?

Again, not saying that she’s ugly or anything ridiculous like that.

I just don’t see the SEW HAWT ATTRACTON EHRMAGERD

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Help?

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I love the dark, silent, sarcastic woman. If it isn’t your thing it isn’t your thing. That is ok

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Shogun Marcus

Hippo Buttons is now a band name.

Sill Bimmons
Shogun Marcus

I feel the same about Uma Thurman.

Sill Bimmons
Sill Bimmons
scotchnaut

Thanks for filling in the void, Hippo. You’re good people.

Sill Bimmons

I was about to email DTZM to see if there was an open thread for tonight.

Old School Zero

WOO 0.0625!

WOOOOOOOOOO!

Sill Bimmons

NONREPEATING FRACTION WOO

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Sitting around bored. Hooray for the open thread

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Sharkbait