Your Not So Super Tuesday Open Thread

As a Canucker on the outside looking in, I Bart Scott* for next Tuesday. All you brilliant folks are going to really bring it-I feel it in my bones/inherent boner. A reality show star may end up representing the GOP…and the corporate media will take the whole situation seriously! [drinks copiously in anticipation]

Games-wise most everything is underway already. As per the usual the NBA gives us a big load of nada. The hockey has NYR/NJ and NYI/MIN-tis good times in the larger New York area, isn’t it? Most of college ball is happening already-ALA/# 16 UK, #2 KU/# 19 BAY and #6 MSU/OSU are the most watchable tilts.

*can’t wait

/all complaints about the open thread posting late should be directed towards Old School Zero

 

 

 

 

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I was up at 5 am, you can’t expect quality unique pics every time.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/106cde309d8e927ba66c2a7acdad0af0/tumblr_inline_n9g0w9rw3u1r2es7n.gif

theeWeeBabySeamus

Quality seems fine from where I’m sitting.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Name the movie.
Bonus points if you know the cat’s name.
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theeWeeBabySeamus
theeWeeBabySeamus

OK, either you buttnuts’ 80s horror movie knowledge sucks, or you’re just ignoring me. Either way, this went over for shit, eh?
Pet Sematary.
Cat’s name is Church.
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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Evening, all. Sat shiva tonight for an cousin/aunt-ish figure. We weren’t all that close but brought back some good memories and it was hard to see my closer cousins mourn their mom. Hug your loved ones/enjoy the good whisky.

WCS

That sucks. Sorry to see that, bud. Hope you and yinz are doing as good as you can be in those circumstances.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Thanks, WCS. Far less stressful than what you, Porky, and Rob have been dealing with these past few days. Hope everything continues on the up and up.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

One more Xena. Give me the address of the fanfic site your write

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WCS

SEXY PRINCESS ZELDA! SEXY PRINCESS ZELDA! SEXY PRINCESS ZELDA!

Senor Weaselo

I’d definitely take Zelda over Peach.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Every time I try to look up a TV show or movie it always is linked to some guy. Fix that Dickbag, CA. That being said.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Sparty is bitchslapping tOSU in Columbus, that’s always fun.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

This one is great, I can’t find the original. I have an ap that made me see fullscreen

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjaBLt1jDNCz5mD6YiJhEMpCFifviB-NQXBxEskZIXSz-VEDCd

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I just watched The Flash

http://i.imgur.com/lPRZXE9.gif

Lothar of the Hill People

I feel like being high-minded and artsy for a moment.

You might’ve heard about a woman who lived in New York and Chicago. She died a few years back. She spent most of her life as a nanny to some wealthy kids on the Gold Coast, but what most people–including the kids–didn’t know is that she was a brilliant, self-taught photographer. A horde of photos was traced back to her (most of them were in a storage unit that she was in arrears for, and they got auctioned off and found in an attic years later), and bit by bit, we’re seeing what a brilliant photographer she was. She did mainly street photography, some portraiture, and some landscapes. Mostly B&W.

She was immensely talented, and you will be amazed.

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

And as a teaser, this one is just plain awesome:

http://vivianmaier.maloofcollection.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/VM1973K05660-09-MC1.jpg?d9d3a3

theeWeeBabySeamus

Agreed. Her eye is (was) excellent.
Thank you for sharing this.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Speaking of being high minded, I sent you (LOTHP) a douchey message the other day through the private dick joke page to share my views on bourbon. Probably should have replied in thread but was drunk.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I thought he was the bad guy the whole time. I don’t care if they try to take it bake in someway later. #TheFlash

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

or back if you want to speak in english

Senor Weaselo

Hey Sharkbait, meet you in the Angry Dome?

http://i.imgur.com/KMNsuuW.jpg

Sharkbait

Done

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American Pie Story

hi

Sill Bimmons

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Sill Bimmons

hey

theeWeeBabySeamus
Unsurprised

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Sharkbait

New Jersey is the worst.

Though I have a feeling that locale is about to change now that I’m finally caving and watching Making A Murderer.

Sill Bimmons
Unsurprised

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theeWeeBabySeamus

That ice cream cone has no clue how lucky it is.
Fuck you, ice cream cone.

Unsurprised

Better version

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theeWeeBabySeamus

So…when cats learn to use computers, will they take over the world? Nope.
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theeWeeBabySeamus

It’s always fun to get to WTF territory early in the evening.

Sill Bimmons

Still not sure when I’m going to stop caving my sides in laughing…

Unsurprised

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh dear lordy lordy….pt deux.

Unsurprised

I just hit the motherlode.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I love you guys…
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Is that Dick Back Cat?

theeWeeBabySeamus

LMFAO….I didn’t even notice that.

Gratliff

Flyers pack it in for the season and Ghost Bear’s streak ends. Fuck you all.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

One more and I am out for 42 min to watch The Flash (sorry if this shows up like 3 times with similar text, got an error and hit refresh, when the page worked it never showed up)

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theeWeeBabySeamus

IIRC correctly, she had the crazy eyes.

theeWeeBabySeamus

CRAP…one more try…
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

~c200

theeWeeBabySeamus

To be clear, it was only APPROXIMATELY c200…there were no guarantees.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I know I posted this one before, don’t care NSFW

h
ttp://i.imgur.com/TPEaSUM.gif

Lothar of the Hill People

Cross your fingers for me, fellas. I got a call that the FBI is back on the case on my background check (which had been put on hold thanks to the GOP and their fucking sequester). Maybe someone uncovered my application and said, “Hey, this guy speaks Arabic, and lived in Syria and Pakistan… maybe we should, you know, finish getting him hired!”

And this happened mere hours after another government agency opened up a posting of 40 (!) jobs I’m qualified for.

With my luck, I’ll do something stupid, like turn down one job thinking I’ll be offered the other, and then the second agency will rescind the offer or something.

(I love teaching, but it ain’t paying the bills. And I’m getting increasingly frustrated by students who are getting dumber and lazier every fucking semester.)

Sill Bimmons

حظا موفقا

Lothar of the Hill People

Heh. Dunno where you got that, but my brain sees that as “lucky luck.”

موفقا and حظ are virtually synonymous. Of course, Arabic does have this mechanic wherein you use the adverbial form of a verb to convey emphasis (e.g., saying the equivalent of “he hit him hittily” means “he hit him very hard”).

It works, though. Thanks.

Sill Bimmons

Was supposed to read “Best Of Luck!”

Best Of Luck!

Sill Bimmons

It’s just SO FUCKING AWESOME that you knew that.

Lothar of the Hill People

OK, this is where my less-than-fluency bites me in the ass. So, موفق is the noun/adjectival form (the difference is in short vowels that aren’t usually included; you figure out which form it is from context). It means “serendipitous,” or “chance,” or, in my brain, “lucky.” حظا is “luck.” No ambiguity.

Add the alif to the end of موفقا, and you’re either indicating a case change, or making it adverbial (or you could be making it a dual–referring to two people, but that would be weird). It’s hard to tell, because the difference between the case change and the adverbial are diacritics that, like short vowels, are usually not included and you infer them from context. If it’s an adverb, that would mean that the alif at the end of حظا isn’t there to mark case, but to indicate that it’s the adjective form. So it’s not “luck,” but in fact, “lucky.” And the موفقا is an adverb modifying the adjective “lucky.” So you can’t be “lucky lucky.” You’re “serendipitously lucky.”

Which would be the best type of luck to have, right? That’s where your “best of luck” came from.

This is actually the type of thing that drives me away from Arabic. I remember working hard on translating some stuff, having it not make sense, and then working for hours to hammer it into some coherent form. Except that the third word of the piece I was translating was a word that is colloquially used for “camel,” and my translation was not only 90% wrong, but 10 times as difficult as it would’ve been.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Lothar of the Hill People

Good thing I have an Android phone, then!

Though, come to think of it, I’ll have to adjust some of my online habits. When I first got the hiring referral and the background check started, I swore off certain web sites. When everything got suspended, I kept my online nose clean for several months, and then when things looked like they were permanently shelved, I resumed some bad habits.

Now I’ve got to expunge browser history, and it might be time for me to change ISPs again.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Don’t forget to responge after you expunge, otherwise it looks suspicious.

Flavor Nation

“I’ll do something stupid”
I’d quote Sideshow Bob’s little ode to Selma re: the fireplace, but maybe not the best time given the desired gig.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The idea of you leeching off my taxes is fine with me.

Sill Bimmons

PROBABLY

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Because of my Deadpool watch this afternoon

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

So I have been rewatching TWD the last couple days. You know the season where they are stuck at the farm. The fact they are stuck isn’t the problem just way too many Lori and/or Shane ::rubs head:: scenes in it. The rest isn’t that bad. Well that and Andrea also ruining her scenes

Sill Bimmons

Is this a shark jumping?

This looks to me to be a shark jumping.

Plus yet another 1 to Amy Poehler.

Know your limitations:

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Unsurprised

Margot Robbie, though.

Sill Bimmons

I DON’T RECALL ANYONE SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT MARGOT ROBBIE NOT BEING AWESOME

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Unsurprised

My bad.

Sill Bimmons

THAT’S RIGHT

theeWeeBabySeamus

She gives good wood. I have some now.
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theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh dear lordy lordy….I’ll be back in a few minutes.

litre_cola

When are we starting the WNBA live blogs?

Who got next?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Unsurprised

A bargain at half the length.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’d just pony up the extra buck for the rat I think. Unless they do a two item combo for like $7.50, then that’s the way to go.

Sill Bimmons

Is the Bork Tenderloin a celebration of the judicial rejection of the man?

Because if it is, well…

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Sharkbait

We can laugh at their inability to dunk and forget their focus on fundamentals.

Shogun Marcus

I seem to recall there’s more than one Gillian Jacobs fan/stalker (cases pending). She seems to have been on @midnight last night. The more you know.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I miss my old shitty desktop with a 2TB drive that I could just save every show I stole with no worries about space including all of the ones I have on DVD, I have almost no space left on this 320GB drive, where half of it is programs or games installed that used to be nothing.

Wakezilla

How. How do you explain to people why sports media is not covering the Fetushead sexual alert crisis transcript is a big deal when they’re all “Depy, they already settled out of court so who cares? Derp”

Ice Titans are kicking the ever loving piss out of the Ice Argonauts. Of course Filip Forsberg gets a hatrick after move him.

/kicks can.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Isn’t the NFL Combine going on? Why aren’t we liveblogging that? We are gonna do the draft which is probably worse

/ please don’t actually liveblog it. It is probably over for the day anyways

Sill Bimmons

Workouts don’t start ’til Friday: RB, OL, ST.

Sharkbait

Jerry Jones needs to be sitting in a luxury box in a white seersucker drinking a mint julep during that.

Sill Bimmons

His suit isn’t the only white seersucker in the owner’s box if you catch my drift…

Wakezilla

Wooo! Fat men running really fast!

Beerguyrob

But someone has to cover the Rich Eisen 40!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Trying to watch Dayton/St.Loo is like stabbing oneself repeatedly with a spoon. It hurts but no damage done.

Unsurprised

Turns out I didn’t miss any of my classmates and I’m glad I left Salem.

Just one more day. Although eventually I’m going to do this again in Washington.

Unsurprised

Good witch.

Sill Bimmons
Sharkbait

Ice Giants getting fucked by officials.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Literally? And if so, what channel?

Senor Weaselo

Also the aforementioned lack of defense. And bad equipment decisions, (dammit JT).

Sharkbait

Kalinin had tape on his hand as well.

Senor Weaselo

Apparently the difference is JT didn’t get cut.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I finally saw Deadpool today, I thought they did an amazing job actually portraying him on screen this time. I admit I only have read a bit of his stuff but have had quite a few friends who love him that referenced him all the god damn time so I feel like I read more of his stuff

Shogun Marcus

Never speak of Origins…no one does. For good reason.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Yeah, I assume you are referring to the fact the that it bombed only because a torrent came out of it the week before it premiered and that is the only reason

Wakezilla

Not even Deadpool. Hey-yo!

Senor Weaselo

So, would anyone like to play defense for the Ice Giants, or would they like to spend the entire time in their zone, normally started on odd-man rushes?

Sill Bimmons

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Beerguyrob

I see you have fully immersed yourself in an Alan Vigneault team.

Sill Bimmons

He said “watchable tilts.”

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Shogun Marcus

Glad I’m not the only one who double-took that.

ThePirateSloth

>have weekly web conf calls with “senior technology” “experts”
>must answer 2-3 emails from these “experts” at meeting start time asking for the meeting number, phone number to call, meeting url
>give link to download meeting client that saves this info
>”experts” still have not bothered to download the client, still connect thru a web browser and phone call

How in the fuck are these people still in senior positions is beyond me.

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Fellatio

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I gotta go back and rewatch that whole series again sometime soon.

King Hippo

Just think, this time tomorrow I will be turning off the teevee box because my side will be down like 22-5 to U*NC. Huzzah, something to look forward to! Teh offseason rulz!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

How’d we ever manage to score 5?
It’s a miruhkul, I tell ya.

litre_cola

Sad day for the Ice Bombers, the captain’s last day in the frozen wasteland and then he will get shipped out to an Ice football team that wins.

Sharkbait

Im half optimistic/half nervous to see what the Ice Giants are going to do. Will they sit tight? Or will they keep giving out first round picks like candy?

litre_cola

Yeah they have been rumoured to want Stall be he is sure expensive.Plus you are right they throw around draft picks

Wakezilla

I just came across this job posting for a Policy, Science & Innovation Officer position for the British Government. One of the qualifications was having a Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of professional experience in a policy, social science and economics setting and either an engineering or science based setting. Also, you need to have knowledge of government, policy, science, climate and innovation in British Columbia as well as the UK.

The duties were also as diverse as the requirements and all for 68K/year. . . Canadian.

This job sounds like a heart attack waiting to happen as it seems like it’s two very different kind of jobs rolled into one and insanely stressful. On a related note, I remember this job position being available 8 months ago.

http://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/281×351/75696_1.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/17/article-2294737-18BB77D2000005DC-371_634x869.jpg

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

*Steak an’ blowjobs are not included in compensation package. Reach-a-rounds negotiable.

King Hippo

How many gallons of maple syrup does that translate to??

Kungjitsu

They’re communists. They don’t know what a gallon is. They use the metric system.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Unsurprised

America and Burma — military fascism for less.