Sunday Open Thread

Sunday action features the Euro, Copa America, baseball, and Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.

On the European front, Turkey plays Croatia, it’s a funtime Ottoman Empire family reunion.

Northern Ireland plays Poland,

Germany plays Ukraine, I’m guessing it will go about as well for the Ukrainians as Operation Barbarossa did for them.

Copa America features Group B’s final game.

Ecuador-Haiti play each other, Haiti is eliminated from advancing further, but Ecuador can with a win and a losing result in the other game.

Brazil plays Peru, if they draw, they both advance, if one wins, the loser will not advance if Ecuador wins.

Penguins can clinch their fourth Stanley Cup tonight, while San Jose will try to force a Game 7.  Pens outshot the Sharks almost 2:1 Thursday, but a herculean effort by Jones allowed San Jose to live another day.

Enjoy the day.

 

 

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Covalent Blonde

Hey, this was a way better series than I ever thought was possible.

King Hippo

Remember #GinDrunkHippo done told ya an hour ago. Will finish 2-1.

I SEE DED PPL

Sill Bimmons

grrrr

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Sill Bimmons
Sill Bimmons

What it the best birthday pastry/confection/et&c?

I’ve always wanted a crème brûlée for some reason:

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JerBear50
Covalent Blonde

So…. a PP, eh. I’ll just be here chewing all of my nails off my hands. (・_・)

herodotus450

I haven’t seen a Polak giveaway that bad since 1939.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Up***x just got a shoutout on Silicon Valley. WTF?

herodotus450

I knew there was a reason I didn’t like that show

BrettFavresColonoscopy

It wasn’t a positive connotation.

herodotus450

Oh. I knew there was a reason I like that show.

Sill Bimmons

FUCK INTELLIGENT COMMENTARY

CONTENT AGGREGATION FTW

Duchess

“I will send that press release to every tech blog in the fucking country”
“Even Uproxx?”
“Yes even them”

Senor Weaselo

They’re the Zoidberg of tech “blogs,” aren’t they.

King Hippo

HOT TAEK – there is now a 2nd Ice Stiller fan at the bar. The barkeep is a Rangers fan from Jersey who thinks “Mike Emrick is the best announcer in sports.”

Hang your head in shame, Ice Giants supporters.

Senor Weaselo

As an Ice Giants fan, that man is wrong.

Covalent Blonde

Well, he is better than Cris Collinsworth….

Sill Bimmons

So is a hemorrhoid.

King Hippo

Or a door-to-door BIble salesman.

Sill Bimmons

Stupidest. Penalty. Ever.

King Hippo

In response to Brocky’s post below, it took some time to both convince my mom AND my ex-wife…but FUCK birthday cake. It’s awful for you, and neither I nor any of my three spawn really are that wild about, certainly not enough that we cherish it as a special birthday treat. Just let us pick dinner, either out or mom/grandma homemade (or in my case, perhaps an apple pie).

Senor Weaselo

Rebuttal: Chocolate crunchies are the best part of ice cream cake

theeWeeBabySeamus

Ice cream cake…yay.
Regular birthday cake…no so much.

Sill Bimmons

Fudgie’s like half crunchies.

FUDGIE FTW

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Senor Weaselo

Another Weaselo yarn: So for my 21st my friends got me a Fudgie the Whale cake, and on it was written “Happy Birthday Dickbag.” Apparently the guy at Carvel had to double-check with my friend if that was really what he said and what this person receiving the cake’s age was.

Sill Bimmons

The one time I wanted to do a naughty Fudgie they wouldn’t do it for me, so I had to go to the grocery store to buy a tube of white icing to write it myself.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah…icing.

Sill Bimmons

See…I knew that sounded wrong…

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I also think ice cream cake is the exception, but my dad is allergic to eggs so that is all we could have at our house growing up. They changed the recipe for the crunchies in the cake in the last few years to add egg to them, so we still get them he just has to eat around them now

Sill Bimmons

SCOARCHING HOAT CAEK TAEK

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King Hippo

With teh gin comes teh random nonsensical anger. WOO!!!

/prays for no OT

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’ll give you $10 bucks if you kiss a total stranger.
$25 if it’s a guy.

Mr. Ayo

Preach! Cake is a waste of perfectly good eggs, butter, and milk.

Sill Bimmons

We need to cool his hot take cake with a fresh Island song!

JerBear50

I prefer to go with one of these from my favorite pie shop. It’s a swirl of key lime and orange & cream and it’s fucking ridiculously good.
http://www.jjgandys.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Pie_Tropical_Twist.188152354_sq_thumb_s.jpg

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JustStopDude

I rewatched the movie recently…it does not hold up well at all on multiple viewings in my opinion.

Covalent Blonde

What is it?

JustStopDude

Fear and Loathing…

Covalent Blonde

How did I completely miss that whole damn scene?

WCS

I disagree with you, but, have and will fight for your ability to type it.

King Hippo

Reading the book just makes one appreciate the film MOAR. Was made lovingly and cast PERFECTLY.

JustStopDude

I’ve read the book and agree with you that the casting for the film is nigh perfect.

Its just my least favorite HST book.

The soundtrack is also near perfect.

JustStopDude

Honestly…I love Thompson’s writing. That said, he was never meant to be taken as an authentic and trustworthy narrator.

I find the movie just kinds of comes off as hammy. Its so gratuitously over the top that its distracting. Hunter always played up his drug and alcohol abuse and it eventually turned him into a parody of himself.

JerBear50

Vegas isn’t my favorite but it’s far from his worst work. He hit a serious stall in the late 70’s and his writing went to shit for some time.

Doktor Zymm

I can’t imagine they would cancel them, or even move them, unless things get significantly worse.

King Hippo

We will just have some special sad piano music pieces for Bob Costas to shake his own tiny head about some Forrest Gump babies.

Sill Bimmons
Senor Weaselo

Madagascar will not be sending a delegation, if the game Pandemic 2 told us anything.
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Sill Bimmons
JustStopDude

It will be amazing to see which event goes down as the worst clusterfuck due to shear greed and stupidity…the Qatar World Cup or the Rio Summer Games.

I got to go with the World Cup…just because its a “bigger” event in my mind. Even screwing over every other football event of the year…we are still going to see the world’s best athletes competitively heat stroking.

Oh and the “numbers” coming out about workers deaths are so fucking laughably low.

Senor Weaselo

Yes.

JustStopDude

I did a small 10 month job in the UAE…I saw more fucking dead bodies than I did six years in the military.

Covalent Blonde

Yay! A slow-mo Burnsy asscheck!

JerBear50

Can’t decide if this is a hockey reference or a shot at Warming Glow.

Sill Bimmons

Kunitz with the game on his stick…

theeWeeBabySeamus

Holee Phuck….How’d the Pens manage to not cash that one in?

King Hippo

I coulda scored there…and I can’t even really ice skate.

Covalent Blonde

Fuck yeah, Jonesy!

JustStopDude
Brocky

So due to social convenience, finally got around to having birthday cake this evening, where this conversation happened:

“Brocky, why are the cakes you order always some combination of red, black, and white? Black lettering on red frosting, black balloons, do you just not like other colors?”

“I don’t know, maybe if you guys weren’t so lazy that I had to order my own damn cake, we’d get a larger variety of colors, I’ll order a cake shaped like a crayola box next time”

Sill Bimmons

U NOE WHO ELSE LOVED RED BALCK AND WHITE

Senor Weaselo

13-15 year old emo kids? Or is that black and purple?

Covalent Blonde

Brocky, I got you a cake! You like it right?
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Brocky

It’s not red black and white though…

Covalent Blonde

JUST PUT IT IN THE HOLE!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

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Senor Weaselo

Phrasing?

ballsofsteelandfury

Sweetie, you don’t have to yell. With traffic, it might take me an hour though…

King Hippo

I is the only ninja in this KFC sadness pile in a failure bowl bar paying one quarter of a shit to this ice footbaw contest.

None of the teevee boxes are turned to lesser footy. I would ask, but they probably think I’m queer enough already, , smh

theeWeeBabySeamus

WTF bar did you end up in?

King Hippo

The Reel and something. Inside the hotel. Fuck if I’m taking the car out the parking deck.

ArmedandHammered

If he is Cary, what does it matter? They all suck.

ArmedandHammered

in Cary, gawddammit, in Cary

Senor Weaselo

And now a bit showing all the Broadway actors in Law and Order!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

That was funny, especially the last guy.

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Sill Bimmons

Should be Conn Smythe if it ends tonight.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Well that tie didn’t last long.

Covalent Blonde

It didn’t last long, but it lasted long enough to raise my hopes and then shatter it into a million little pieces. Fickle, fickle emotions.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Covalent Blonde

Wow. I really wish that weren’t so accurate.

Senor Weaselo
theeWeeBabySeamus

I’d jump into Mt WannaHokkaLoogi. I’d totally do it.

Sill Bimmons

MORE OF THAT PLEASE

Covalent Blonde

please no more of that. please no.

Senor Weaselo

Combined with “Just put it in the hole” I am now chortling with amusement.

King Hippo

I think this mofo ends 2-1

Covalent Blonde

Hello sadness my old friend.

herodotus450

Murray must Haute giving that goal up to Couture.
/already made that joke once this year, don’t care

Sill Bimmons

Just because it’s a old, bad joke doesn’t mean it isn’t still funny.

Sill Bimmons

Murray might be hitting the wall.

That was a terrible goal to give up.

King Hippo

If you suggest Fleury, I will drive up there and cut YEW!!!

/please suggest, I wish to leave this hellhole

Sill Bimmons

Nope, it’s ride or die at this point.

The past few periods have not been encouraging tho.

Covalent Blonde

Poor little Papa Hippo.

King Hippo

At the bar, game is on, VERY LOUD trivia night in progress. Due to the absolutely hideous beer selection, I am gin drinking.

CHUH CHUH

Covalent Blonde

And the rest of this period will be spent behind the Sharks goal.

Senor Weaselo

Were the shots on goal really 9-4 in the 1st? As someone who hasn’t gotten a chance to watch a ton of most of the games, has it been mostly blocked shots, dump and chase without success, or neutral zone battles?

WCS

Blocked shots; lots of ’em.

Sill Bimmons

Blocks and being forced wide.

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herodotus450

The cat waliking on WCS’s cat finally had a stroke

herodotus450

catboard*

Sill Bimmons

Jesse Eisenberg is the most unlikable actor working today.

herodotus450

Watching a video on abalone farming purely for the simpson’s adjacency. A boloney sandwhich? That’s the kinda joke that just don’t get wrote no more.

Senor Weaselo

I wish I could pull off Daveed Diggs’s sleeves. That is your Tonys update.

Senor Weaselo

*pull off wearing them, not pull them off

bourb0nblues

That Lin-Manuel Miranda acceptance speech tho

Senor Weaselo

Fun fact: He gave my HS graduation speech and I played with my trio earlier in the ceremony, so I can say I’ve been on the same stage as him!
Fun fact 2: The girl who plays Hodel in Fiddler was also in my year, we keep in the most casual of social media contact in response to things that (mostly she’s) doing, and one of these days I should seriously see if we can do lunch and talk about musical things.

Senor Weaselo

Probably should have added
/Douchebaggy name drops

bourb0nblues

That’s a good yarn. Mucho enjoyable.

Sill Bimmons

The officiating has been shocking and appalling.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Señor Weaselo told me the NBA Finals are tomorrow.

Sill Bimmons

Both sides. It’s really incredible how they can get just about everything wrong.

herodotus450

Rust skating so fast he makes time look like a flat circle.

Sill Bimmons

YOUR SHRILL NASAL WHINE AND STUPID COLLOQUIALISMS WILL NOT RUIN THIS FOR ME “DOC”

herodotus450

Refs blow a call, destroying San Jose’s momentum? We probably won’t hear anything about it after the commercial.

King Hippo

as well we shouldn’t. Ruining the moment would be rude.

herodotus450

Instead we got to see Pierre ask inane questions to Sharks coach. Guess what? They need to play harder, win battles, and deflect questions about injuries.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is it weird that I’d prefer to watch the Stanley Cup Final on telemundo?

Sill Bimmons

Listen to it online.

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
King Hippo

I could just go walk by the ocean, but even with the sun down it’s blast furnace hot (but with humidity). I have no clue why this is considered the “high season” at the beach in the South. It’s misery.

theeWeeBabySeamus

That’s why I went when I did and will go back in September.
Not to mention all the fucking people in “high season”. And you know how much I love people.

King Hippo

The very odd tattoos and the cellulose. I guess it raises the self-esteem marginally?

Early-mid October is my sweet spot.

herodotus450

In what scientists are calling “pretty gay,” Pitt up 1-0 on pp goal.

Senor Weaselo

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herodotus450

/deletes folder of XKCD “references” that have been DFO’d

Senor Weaselo

No, keep them coming, because everyone loves xkcd. Or at least us and Dok.

King Hippo

These fucking kids and muthaflippin Ice Stillers owe me for suffering through this wretched stream.

/probably will suffer through rednecks foar thirds 2 and 3

//I don’t gets FS1 neither

herodotus450

With Hippo on the sidelines I’m sure to win Emrick Bingo this time!
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theeWeeBabySeamus
ballsofsteelandfury

What kind of shit cable system do you have that doesn’t carry FS1?

King Hippo

Beach hotel.

My NBC is all static too. The other 50ish channels work fine and dandy.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Seinfeld reruns?
SEINFELD RERUNS!!!!!!!!!!!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I am gonna miss most of the game tonight. I hope the Penguins evening goes like the guy on the right here

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