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:
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:
- cheating
- 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!
Cashback is full of tits.
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.
Wait Brexit really is a combination (rebus? portmantaeu?) of Britain and Exit? I would kick them out of the EU for that travesty.
I think the US financial news channels coined that phrase. I could be wrong. It might have been someone on twitter.
Well, if the vote was to leave twitter, I think we’d all agree on that.
It was a play on the original “Grexit”, which came about during the Great Recession when the EU was forcing austerity or leave on the Greeks.
Seems appropriate.
https://vimeo.com/61727147
Does she count as an English export?
Well her value has depreciated recently
welp
Goddamn Britain…Just…Goddamn.
I wish pftc acknowledged the existence of Europe so we could get some scorch-taeks on this england thing
I felt like an asshole at dinner.
As long as you can still feel your asshole after dinner it’s fine.
Apropos of nothing, Hajime no Ippo
http://pa1.narvii.com/5904/4e41f032ad6d8c77d89d7c21f1f33cf56c64878e_hq.gif
https://youtu.be/-aperQxsDio
A good time for Whorehouse Blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7Voy9YK1I
It seems like it is official they are leaving now
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
Indeed
http://youtu.be/TcJ-wNmazHQ
So this week’s DFO Radio’s the apocalypse, got it.
http://66.media.tumblr.com/3ee75f4d47b4837776346f54d3a4303c/tumblr_moac45MiOM1ric2iqo1_540.jpg
So…
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
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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.
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.
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Oh shit. Sherwood voted to leave.
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Troversial opinion: Gillian Anderson hotter as a redhead
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I’m usually #TeamRedhead but she was so stunning in Hannibal I’ll vote blonde here.
On a largely unrelated note, SPLOOSH!
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Doom 2 – Seinfeld: Jerry’s Apartment
https://youtu.be/4Aa2K_firtI
That’s not what Kramer’s apartment looks like!
Obviously Newman doesn’t answer the door to Kramers apartment like that but cheers to whoever made this.
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.
WELCOME TO EARF!
Love that part.
Alison Krauss & Ralph Stanley- Heavens Bright Shore
https://youtu.be/PGxR0FobL9U
How many stretch 4’s do the suns need?!?
Smallballin brah.
Steroids have consequences.
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
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I’m still on the fence on Spray Tan. At least there’s no structured ownership to hear complains about touches.
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Fuck it. Let’s do some BABYMETAL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEYUFgLveY
The Muppet Show. Swedish Chef. Hot Dogs
https://youtu.be/Ln07mhUTXCY
http://67.media.tumblr.com/2aa52f3a87758da99c11621352847963/tumblr_o98twiN8ot1ric2iqo1_1280.gif
Most of the South and City aren’t in yet.
Still not even a third of the way there.
BUT DRAMA!
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.
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Oh Candace…you damned tease.
Tease implies she hasn’t shown off the whole damn kit
I have a special place in my heart for fit chicks
“The Vale of Lamorgan votes to remain.”
It must be awful filling out envelopes when everything is named like you’re playing Dragon Age.
Uninformed op here; does Brexit mean Exit?
Britain + Exit = …
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.
I saw Finding Dory today. Does that count for anything?
Well, was it entertaining?
It was good. Not Nemo good, but not the worst sequel ever.
My niece enjoyed it and that was kinda the whole point.
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.
It’s a hell of a scene. As dumb as ID4 was, it did dumb so well.
I hope they brought crazy hermit scientist back as a cyborg. I miss Data.
They’re still not even 30% of the way there.
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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…
What’s the worst that could happen?
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.
So many Drumpf supporters on Twitter saying this is a good thing for US, because their collective IQ is 46.
It will certainly have them puffing their chests out about how he showed up NOBUMMER on the world stage…
J. Edgar Hoover really liked the cock, according to this movie starring Leonardo Cappuccino.
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.
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!
They got us earplugs, thank goodness.
Wigan voted to leave? Guess George Orwell was finally right.
DAMMIT, WIGAN
My infatuation with Lera Lynn is growing exponentially, if you know what I mean.
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Motherfuck it England, you had ONE JOB!!!
There’s a long, long way to go.
I hope you right and it turns around. There needs to be a British LBJ in the backrooms doin’ some nutcuttin…
I was pissed when Scotland blew the Independence vote…
I wonder if Scotland would want another chance to leave the UK if Leave wins.
If “Leave” wins, sounds like they will try again so they can joins teh EU.
If Scotland does get independence, it would make it easier for Catalonia and possibly the Basque country, which needs to happen.
Catalonia is a small island off the coast near LA. Why the fuck should they be an independent nation???
BECAUSE WEEKEND FUCK HOTELS!
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.
BUT THINK OF HOW MANY GROUPS TEH EUROS CAN HAVE IF ANYONE GETS TO BE ITS OWN COUNTRY!!!
That’s what makes it interesting. If the vote can’t make it happen, they’re going back to terrorism.