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

I forgot to post this yesterday, but the CFL also gave us Pamela Anderson since she became famous after being spotted at a B.C. Lions game.

http://www.vancouversun.com/cms/binary/11356985.jpg

Wakezilla

This shit is getting funny. ‘Leave’ campaign fear-mongered about Turkey joining the EU. Cameron’s likely successor, Boris Johnson, is a man who’s part Turk.

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Horatio Cornblower

See? If they’d kept the Turks out back then they wouldn’t have to be dealing with Boris’s shit right now.

Unsurprised

Boris as PM?

The UK has gone Joker-level insane.

litre_cola

Woke up in Paris to this, I wonder that the French papers are saying? They are eurosceptic as the next, I think the Dutch and Danish will be next, and then they have their elections here where the right wing will want to lock down the borders. As little as 2 years ago my passport was only checked once when I landed from Canadia and here it has been checked at every single point of entry. Seems the regression is happening.

WCS

Le Pen has already stated they want a similar referendum.

Wakezilla

French and Dutch groups are now calling for an EU referendum.

And in more uplifting news, Trump lands in the UK in 5 hours. LOL!

King Hippo

Still don’t see any difference between Trump and HillyBob? Watch teh real world consequences as the dominoes fall, as fascists around the continent breathe new life as a result of Trumpism.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Shit like this and Trump are why I continue to lean against having kids.

Brick Meathook

As an American, I would like to express my deepest condolences about the sinking of Britain (or England or the UK or whatever they call it now).

That immortal land gave us Shakespeare, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, Monty Python, and Benny Hill. I do hope that Her Highness Elizabeth II was saved from drowning.

Britain (or England or the UK I still don’t understand the difference) survived the Spanish Armada and the Luftwaffe. How could they all drown like this?

If there’s a bright side to this, perhaps we should appreciate that there will be slightly less soccer coverage in the future.

God bless them and God Bless us, everyone!

Wakezilla

I’d wager cash that there’s no way in hell they sign Article 50 of the treaty of Lisbon. They’ll have another referendum and stay will win in a landslide with what has happened with their currency

Brick Meathook

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Wakezilla

Pig lover enthusiast David Cameron will be the man remembered by history for causing the collapse of an EU. That and for the pig thing.

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Wakezilla

Thoughts:

When the vote is that close, the government historically makes the people do another referendum. I expect that’ll happen before Cameron signs A50 of the Lisbon treaty. . . Which won’t happen as he’s stepping down.

With that said, there needs to be way more blame on the politicians than the people who voted to leave. Saying it was just racists who voted yes is elitist and short sighted and part of the reason why ‘leave’ won in the first place.

WCS

Cameron is stepping down in October. The British Pound is down ~11%.

something something pound town

Wakezilla

Cameron will be holding Archduke Piggly closely tonight.

WCS

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Aww, Piggly…

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Finally landed at Dulles. I know I said it the other day, too, but fuck this day

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Brick Meathook

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I was gonna post more because I paused my show but certain tumblr sites now have another dickish layer of protection on their images. I will figure out how to bypass it tomorrow. I can always win no matter how hard they try

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

That was me fighting the coding. Looking back it sounded bad

Wakezilla

How do you get around them?

What about Instagram? That became a tough mofo to crack now that websta changed in June

Spanky Datass

Are you familiar with the tumblr mosaic viewer?
http://tmv.proto.jp/
Just copy then paste the name of the tumblr from the regular page (everything before .tumblr.com) and hit the magnifying glass symbol. The images will appear as thumbnails and you can right click, open in new tab/window and the pic or gif will be in a very user friendly mode. Sorry I’m so late with this. SCOTCH WHISKY WOOOOO!

Brick Meathook

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Unsurprised

People have way too much time if they’re even ripping and streaming the evening (national) news.

Anyway, I would suggest Another Period. watchseries (dot) li/ serie / another_period

ballsofsteelandfury

Third story: Cops shot.

Finally, the Brexit makes it on the news!

ballsofsteelandfury

And they quickly move to a story about a shooting at a pot dispensary.

Fuck this shit.

Unsurprised

Is the pot okay!?!

ballsofsteelandfury

And the top story on my local news is……

A fucking brushfire hundreds of miles away from LA outside Bakersfield.

I hate our media.

ballsofsteelandfury

Second story: Local brushfire!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

http://67.media.tumblr.com/80bad74aa9b58a806091003208b84856/tumblr_o93mz3l13w1rj4j4jo1_1280.jpg

My next goal is to find a TV show to watch so I don’t post more. See you in 3-15 min when I give up and post the 3 I already have queued in my mind

ballsofsteelandfury

That fucking freaks me out, man!

laserguru

You!
You already know how I feel about you, Moose!

Unsurprised

I eat my pain.

OOOOHHHHH

Erectile dysfunction being a side-effect of anti-depressants is the acme of cruelty

http://116.imagebam.com/download/i9LFuYFozRdVkbYfIDXOLg/49060/490595535/aprilovee_3-15-2016.jpg

Unsurprised
Unsurprised
Dick E. Phuck

It really has been a while since I’ve been on this site. I should come on here more often. Goodnight ladies and gents. I gotta go to bed. It’s almost 2:00 here.

ballsofsteelandfury

Glad to have you! Come any time!

PHRASING BOOM!

laserguru

I don’t think I’ve taken enough to thank you MTWV.

I’m damn glad you’re part of the family.

ballsofsteelandfury

Seriously. Those ladies you post really pick me up.

laserguru

Is this where I Post the “Phrasing”? thing?

Whoaa double question marks!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I know I have to hear a 5 hour racist rant from my dad about the racist people in the UK voting to leave. So, for tonight I think I will reading any more articles. Enjoy some boobs

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

will not*

laserguru

If I had to TL/DR my day…

It involved HR.

It wasn’t me!

This time.

Motherfucker.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
laserguru

I can almost feel a heartbeat

laserguru

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
laserguru

Nice!

Now I’ll never sleep!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
laserguru

I have no point of reference.

Oh, Hi everybody!

Porky Prime

So does this qualify as #firstworldproblems?

Senor Weaselo

At the moment yes. We’ll see if it remains #firstworldproblems

laserguru

I was really disappointed with my cleaning service attempt today.

/dreadful.

//true story

Unsurprised

You just can’t buy good help these days.

herodotus450
Porky Prime

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Dick E. Phuck

I just took a piss and my urine was crystal clear. What does this mean!?!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

You are drinking a lot of Coors Light tonight.

Porky Prime
Dick E. Phuck

THESE BRITISH. I CALL THEM WEBCAM GIRLS BECAUSE THEY JUST FUCKED THEMSELVES REAL HARD.

ballsofsteelandfury

BANNER QUOTE!

ballsofsteelandfury

I now look forward to the following events:

– Scotland getting independence.
– Northern Ireland joining Ireland.
-Catalonia getting independence.
-Basque country getting independence.
-England becoming cheap to visit.

Sometimes, it takes dumb decisions to effect change.

Senor Weaselo

Hooray for Europe doing god-knows-what!

Unsurprised

Most likely event? Nothing.

Porky Prime

If this were the 70s with only four channels and no net, wouldn’t the Brit Exodus seem more like the game changing world event that it actually is? If the Berlin Wall fell in 2016, would anyone outside of Europe give a fuck for more than five minutes before going back to Candy Crush?

ballsofsteelandfury

Jesus, I’m old enough to remember that! Holy shit, our world has changed!

Porky Prime

Seriously though, even as a little kid, I was aware of world affairs to a certain extent because you couldn’t escape important news interrupting the goddamn A-Team and taking over the evening. Ive read a few news reports but I haven’t heard a SINGLE PERSON I KNOW talk about it or recognize what I was talking about in regards to Britain’s vote. That’s just where we are. And it majes me realize how massively misinformed we all must be, because it means no one is paying attention to real news, just what comes up in the Facebook feed. No wonder Trump is still here.

ballsofsteelandfury

It’s sad and true. The worst part is that people don’t care. I really don’t understand that mindset.

Unsurprised

Irrational self-interest. The neoliberal economists were half right, but the half they were wrong about has totally fucked us.