Your “It’s The Methadone We Get” Thursday Open Thread

NFL News:

  • Terry Pegula said the Bills are going forward with looking at ideas about a new stadium. The lease on The Ralph goes through 2022, and there’s hints they may move downtown.
  • It’s hard to tell if DeMarco Murray is happy to be in Tennessee or happy to be away from Chip Kelly. You decide; it might be both.
  • Ben Affleck was on Simmons’ first HBO show last night, and Florio thinks he was drunk. You be the judge:

  • If you didn’t read it, Sill has a pretty good analysis of the first show, and how living up your own ass prevents you from seeing the world pass you by.

Finally, Merton Hanks has left the NFL offices to be Conference USA’s new senior associate commissioner, and will be in charge of football & baseball operations. I would hope he’d lighten the rules on penalizing touchdown celebrations.


So, CFL season opens tonight, with your Hamilton Tiger-Cats heading up to BMO Field to take on your Toronto Argonauts, before a probable semi-capacity crowd of aboot 28,000. [They say it holds 30,991, but that might be for the soccer team.] Anyway, it should look better than when they played in a 2/3 empty Rogers Centre / Skydome.

In case you’ve forgotten from The Maestro’s previews – two East Division opponents tonight, so here – the CFL season is 18-games in length, so the quality of play tonight will be about NFL preseason game #3, but without all the swapping out of starters after the first half.

So you don’t think you’ve gone crazy, remember:

  • the field is 110-yards long, with 20-yard endzones
  • teams can elect to start from the 35 after a field goal
  • there’s a 5-yard “no yards” zone around kick returners before they catch the ball
  • all the receivers can be in motion

It’s the football you need, maybe just not the football you want.


Brief Observances:

  • Led Zeppelin won their copyright case over “Stairway to Heaven”. The key phrase from the jury’s verdict is that “original elements of Spirit’s song are not extrinsically similar” to “Stairway to Heaven.”
  • Brexit results are expected at 0600 GMT, so 0100 EDT/2200 PDT. Current polling prior to the vote (the UK does not allow for exit polling) had “Remain” up by only 1%, but who knows what’ll happen when people are actually confronted with the choice.
  • In a city known for bad drivers, here’s a look at what happens when you take Mom’s Porsche out for a drive when you don’t have a licence:

https://youtu.be/TwZwSIrMLmk


Speaking of teenagers, I have to invigilate an English 12 Provincial Exam tomorrow. It’s a fairly straight-forward exercise, but there is some peril. Since it’s worth 40% of the overall mark, you have to keep your eye out for two things:

  1. cheating
  2. freak outs

The cheating is fairly easy to spot. The one thing different aspect this year is making sure kids take off their Apple watches. It’s easy to spot a kid looking at a phone, because their chin disappears into their chest as they try to look-down-but-not-look-like-they’re-looking-down. It’s the freakouts that are hard. It always starts with the pen stab on the desk, and then can go in a bunch of different directions:

  • the cryer
  • the runner
  • the swearer
  • the stabber (in the hand/arm/leg with same pen)
  • the fainter

The key is to locate the initial site of the noise; then you can observe to see where it might go next. It’s a two-hour exam, with an extra hour provided on the end, for all students due to individual “learning differences”.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NBA: The Draft – 7:00 – ESPN
    • Only two rounds? NOT A REAL DRAFT!
  • CFL: Hamilton @ Toronto – 7:30 – TSN; ESPNEWS
    • Here’s a link to the ESPN broadcast schedule for the CFL. All games are available on ESPN3, and 20 will be shown on ESPN2 or NEWS.

You’ll notice a drop-off on the broadcast network once NFL preseason rolls into gear. Hmmm – NO COINCIDENCE THERE!

 

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Unsurprised

Cashback is full of tits.

Unsurprised

I’m disappointed that Emmerich passed on having the ID4 sequel be about humanity being the aggressors, because come on … We’d totally build our own force to genocide the fuck out of that species out of spite.

herodotus450

Wait Brexit really is a combination (rebus? portmantaeu?) of Britain and Exit? I would kick them out of the EU for that travesty.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I think the US financial news channels coined that phrase. I could be wrong. It might have been someone on twitter.

herodotus450

Well, if the vote was to leave twitter, I think we’d all agree on that.

Porky Prime

Seems appropriate.

https://vimeo.com/61727147

herodotus450

Does she count as an English export?
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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Well her value has depreciated recently

Sill Bimmons

welp

Dick E. Phuck

Goddamn Britain…Just…Goddamn.

Porky Prime

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herodotus450

I wish pftc acknowledged the existence of Europe so we could get some scorch-taeks on this england thing

Unsurprised

I felt like an asshole at dinner.

herodotus450

As long as you can still feel your asshole after dinner it’s fine.

Gratliff
Gratliff

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Unsurprised
ALXMAC

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Gratliff

A good time for Whorehouse Blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7Voy9YK1I

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

It seems like it is official they are leaving now

Senor Weaselo

Considering there was an assassination by people who supported it, does this mean the terrorists won? Also here’s the most obvious song selection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

Unsurprised

Indeed

Porky Prime
Senor Weaselo

So this week’s DFO Radio’s the apocalypse, got it.

Unsurprised

So…

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Can anyone explain to me why this change is going to screw up the world economy? Other than the people with the money want it to. Already not on the Euro, already don’t have free access from anywhere in Europe, companies are gonna have to keep the same EU standards on products for trade, trade agreements can be negotiated by saying

http://25.media.tumblr.com/cab41e4e1d446a7afbf73b6acf1e4af5/tumblr_mw2ctuhb8N1rvnnvyo4_250.gif

King Hippo

Here’s the real danger – this WILL fuck up the world economy. Only question, is it FOR REALS “just the tip?” And if the immigrant/Muslim-hatin’, economy fuckin’ rancid cock goes all the way in…

THAT kind of chaos is the ONLY way a fool like Trump could even have a ghost of a chance to be elected.

theeWeeBabySeamus

You saying I should replace my Tang and Oscar Meyer™ Lunchables in my doomsday bunker ASAP?
I ate/drank the rest earlier in the week during the last false alarm.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Gratliff
Spanky Datass

I’m usually #TeamRedhead but she was so stunning in Hannibal I’ll vote blonde here.
On a largely unrelated note, SPLOOSH!
http://cdn3.wickedweasel.com/assets/images/pics/0132/4556/6.jpg

ALXMAC

Doom 2 – Seinfeld: Jerry’s Apartment

https://youtu.be/4Aa2K_firtI

herodotus450

That’s not what Kramer’s apartment looks like!

ALXMAC

Obviously Newman doesn’t answer the door to Kramers apartment like that but cheers to whoever made this.

The Maestro

Gee, I suppose this is the year to take my UK vacation, looking at the state of the pound sterling right now. Hot damn, that is some economic meltdown.

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WELCOME TO EARF!

Love that part.

ALXMAC

Alison Krauss & Ralph Stanley- Heavens Bright Shore

https://youtu.be/PGxR0FobL9U

Spur

How many stretch 4’s do the suns need?!?

Porky Prime

Smallballin brah.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Steroids have consequences.

King Hippo

They have NC State’s own TJ “Buckets Warren! Who fucking else could they possibly need??

/still pays no attention to teh NBA beyond knowing where our guys go

Don T

I’m still on the fence on Spray Tan. At least there’s no structured ownership to hear complains about touches.

ALXMAC

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Gratliff

Fuck it. Let’s do some BABYMETAL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEYUFgLveY

ALXMAC

The Muppet Show. Swedish Chef. Hot Dogs

https://youtu.be/Ln07mhUTXCY

Sill Bimmons

Most of the South and City aren’t in yet.

Still not even a third of the way there.

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BUT DRAMA!

JustStopDude

I got told today that I need to fly out to Phoenix on Monday. Seems I need to inspect and fix a couple of heat exchangers in the middle of the fucking desert. Wednesday, around 2am, I got to board a flight to Charlotte NC so I can arrive to inspect and commission a couple of cooling skids.

One of my project managers tells me this at my desk.

“John…what the fucking fuck is wrong with you?!?”

“What do you mean?”

“WHEN AM I SUPPOSE TO SLEEP YOU ASSHOLE?!?!”

“Well…we can’t push it back because 4th of July is coming up”

I spent the rest of the day coming up with new and exciting ways to eviscerate John. Then again, I will make insane money doing this. Looks like this cat is getting absolutely destroyed at a couple of airport bars on the company dime.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh Candace…you damned tease.

Unsurprised

Tease implies she hasn’t shown off the whole damn kit

indieguy

I have a special place in my heart for fit chicks

Gratliff

“The Vale of Lamorgan votes to remain.”

It must be awful filling out envelopes when everything is named like you’re playing Dragon Age.

ALXMAC

Uninformed op here; does Brexit mean Exit?

herodotus450

Britain + Exit = …

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I’m priming myself for the loud dumbness of Independence Day 2 tomorrow by watching the original tonight. God, the 90’s were a hell of a decade.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I saw Finding Dory today. Does that count for anything?

ALXMAC

Well, was it entertaining?

theeWeeBabySeamus

It was good. Not Nemo good, but not the worst sequel ever.
My niece enjoyed it and that was kinda the whole point.

Gratliff

I watched it with my 9 year old for the first time a few weeks ago. The part where the ships start to settle over the cities freaked him the fuck out. This is the same kid that was on the edge of his seat and cheering during Alien. I was only 12 or 13 when it came out, but I don’t remember being scared by it, aside from some bullshit jump scares.

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It’s a hell of a scene. As dumb as ID4 was, it did dumb so well.

Gratliff

I hope they brought crazy hermit scientist back as a cyborg. I miss Data.

Sill Bimmons

They’re still not even 30% of the way there.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lon4mtlXAT1qb4bkbo1_500.gif

King Hippo

sounds like the vote that’s not come in at all is from cow-fucking country. That’s not saving the edu-ma-cated side of the argument.

There have apparently been rumblings on the interwebs that the killing of the PM was a “false flag.” We may truly be living in the end times, and I have yet to craft my unabomber shack…

WCS

What’s the worst that could happen?

King Hippo

And the LEFT in the Northwest that voted for this lunacy…when Scotland leaves to join the EU, enjoy being the rump uber-minority in an Ayn Rand ultra-Tory paradise island.

WCS

So many Drumpf supporters on Twitter saying this is a good thing for US, because their collective IQ is 46.

King Hippo

It will certainly have them puffing their chests out about how he showed up NOBUMMER on the world stage…

jjfozz

J. Edgar Hoover really liked the cock, according to this movie starring Leonardo Cappuccino.

Senor Weaselo

I hate the crash cymbal. It’s right next to me and I don’t have earplugs. We played like three songs and I wanted to die. Now we have to go back on. Fuck everything.

herodotus450

All you have to do is play a different crash cymbal on your other side with a perfectly destructive interference pattern, so they will cancel each other out and you will hear nothing, easy!

Senor Weaselo

They got us earplugs, thank goodness.

Sill Bimmons

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Unsurprised

DAMMIT, WIGAN

herodotus450
King Hippo

Motherfuck it England, you had ONE JOB!!!

Sill Bimmons

There’s a long, long way to go.

King Hippo

I hope you right and it turns around. There needs to be a British LBJ in the backrooms doin’ some nutcuttin…

ballsofsteelandfury

I was pissed when Scotland blew the Independence vote…

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I wonder if Scotland would want another chance to leave the UK if Leave wins.

King Hippo

If “Leave” wins, sounds like they will try again so they can joins teh EU.

ballsofsteelandfury

If Scotland does get independence, it would make it easier for Catalonia and possibly the Basque country, which needs to happen.

SonOfSpam

Catalonia is a small island off the coast near LA. Why the fuck should they be an independent nation???

ballsofsteelandfury

BECAUSE WEEKEND FUCK HOTELS!

Sill Bimmons

I’m pretty sure that what happens in the UK won’t have anything to do with what happens in Spain, but neither an independent Scotland nor an independent Catalonia is likely anytime soon.

Both countries have hereditary monarchies that have far too much to lose and will intervene to prevent dissolution of either state.

King Hippo

BUT THINK OF HOW MANY GROUPS TEH EUROS CAN HAVE IF ANYONE GETS TO BE ITS OWN COUNTRY!!!

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s what makes it interesting. If the vote can’t make it happen, they’re going back to terrorism.