Better Late Than NEVAR – It’s a VON MILLER Saturday!!! Open Thread

Talk amongst yourselves about whatever, but all I can say (yes I am fine wth $70M guaranteed, did you fucking watch Superb Owl L or not??) is…

THAT’S GOOD BRONCOS!!!!

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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Redshirt

BREAKING NEWS: MLB tells teams to quit bitching when umpires make bullshit calls.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-reportedly-tells-managers-gms-to-stop-arguing-balls-and-strikes/

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Welp, we know which henchwoman is going to have a tired, sore jaw in a few hours……

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Doktor Zymm

There has been a book called “things you wanted to ask a doctor but were to sober to ask” or similar. The internet is silent on why nipples have so much melanin, and if they should be exposed to sunlight, what is the sun creme regime?

Sill Bimmons

Going to say:

1. Because babies can’t see anything but shapes and colors
f} No
3. None, see f}

Doktor Zymm

Fine use of bullet points.

Sill Bimmons
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Just experience from a couple of former GFs that used to bring the puppies out; apply lots of SPF 50 to the little soldiers and reapply.

Doktor Zymm

Given experience with low cut shirts, this seems like fine advice. You would think there wouldn’t be too much direct sun, what with my head in the way and all, but nope, still unexpected tan lines.

Doktor Zymm
herodotus450

LOT’S manual exams.

herodotus450
BrettFavresColonoscopy

My offer from last night to buy a beer for any DFOer that shows up at Mountain Sun stands for another night.

Redshirt

How to Fix Amazing Spider-Man 2:

Harry: “I need your super blood.”
Spider-Man (lying): “I don’t have super blood. I’m just a regular human who is very strong, have a special suit, have special force training and good at parkour.”
Harry: “Oh, okay. I have no reason to have a personal vendetta if I find out who you really are.”

Doktor Zymm

I love my coworkers. I made a zeitgeist joke the other day, and it was totally received. I still need an audience for my math/fruit jokes though, but that’s probably a lost cause unless I go back into academia.

Doktor Zymm

What’s yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?

herodotus450

Sandeep Acharya’s penis?

Sill Bimmons

Zeaxanthin?

Doktor Zymm

It’s Zorn’s Lemon, and if you find that hilarious, we should party.

herodotus450

I am familiar with the works of Maximilian Zorn. He was no Joe Gibbs though.

Redshirt

False.
1 apple plus 1 apples doesn’t equal 1 apple times 1 apple.
Also
1 apple times 1 apple minus 1 apple doesn’t equal 1 apple.

If you get this joke, you also have no life.

Doktor Zymm

Which number set are you using? Cause not everything has an abelian grape, just saying.

Redshirt

I’m using the rule that

If a × b = ab and ab = a × b, then appleapple = apple × apple

indieguy

god I suck at math
/has art degree
//and low job prospects

herodotus450

Thinking about taking a trip to either Vegas or LA this summer, any harrowing opinions? Though, considering my apathy/disdain for gambling/sunshine, maybe I should just buy a bottle of something nice and go wild and crank the AC to 69.

Doktor Zymm

If you’re just gonna stay in the room the whole time, then whatever is cheapest and has the nicest room. If you’re gonna leave the room, what you lookin for? Both places have fun stuff.

Sill Bimmons

It appears that you have missed one of the many West Coast DFO meetups by not having gone this weekend.

Fear not.

I am floating here the idea of a Northeast Corridor DFO meetup. Somewhere on the Northeast Corridor. For the first time. Again.

http://chronicclimberchick.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/crickets.jpg

Doktor Zymm

If I recall correctly you are NJ, NY suburbs? That is pretty central, especially if everyone takes the Acela….

Sill Bimmons

The Acela is one of the best things about living here.

PK has poisoned that well to the point that Union Carbide Bhopal is like “Hey, you might want to back off on that a little,” but the Acela is just so very, very good.

Moar trainz pleez…

Doktor Zymm

Acela is good, but it could be so much better. Amtrack will never be able to upgrade to fully fast speed trains because they can’t get the right of way now. I loved taking the train DC/NYC, but while I love trains, the time/cash/experience tradeoff just isnt’ worth it Chicago to DC. And there won’t be high speed rail anytime soon across the US. But, if you figure out an East Coast meetup, I’ll do my damndest to make it. I still don’t identify midwest.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

In conclusion, DFO meetup in DC?

Sill Bimmons

Yeah, I’m speaking as a person who rides NJ Transit, LIRR, and SEPTA on a regular basis.

The Acela’s like the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in comparison.

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herodotus450

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Red Rock. Outside the strip, nice nice amenities, and close to really great hiking.

Doktor Zymm

This was a fine day here. I also bought a very fine tiny table, with copper legs. I love tiny tables, super useful.

herodotus450

Gotta be extra careful about checking for one leg on the ground when you play at this table
http://img06.deviantart.net/3d81/i/2012/246/2/6/tiny_snooker_table_by_momsawesomecreations-d5den8j.jpg

Redshirt

Mine are tingling as much as your but for different reasons. I really gotta see a doctor for that.

Sill Bimmons

The clots can’t stick to anything if there’s no inflammation on the arteriolar walls regardless of how much fat is in the bloodstHNGH

/garroted by unknown assailant

Doktor Zymm

My good cholesterol is super high, and I attribute it all to my popcorn with loads of butter habit

Doktor Zymm

I do have a policy of not dating anyone from my corner bar, because you don’t piss where you eat. As far as the particular bouncer in question, I’ve already lost the card. Bouncers are generally pretty good people, with some interesting ink, but you do have to be a bit aware of past and present re: gang ties, moreso in Chicago. DC was better about that….I have a fun story about a tequila tasting….

Doktor Zymm

If you insist. This was, perhaps 10+ years ago? There was a tequila and kamikaze tasting. There were bonus shots for trivia. I’m good at trivia. I met some lovely Swedish people, and we all ended up at my favorite bar at the time. I had a vodka soda (still drink that now, sometimes) and I remember putting it down and talking to the bouncer…and I remember the bar closing and talking to people while sweeping occured, and I remember the taxi, which had minimum of fooling around, nothing too indecent, and I remember (redacted), and I remember missing my train and spending the night over there, and I remember having to wake up early to go teach horseback, and I remember seeing him again the next night and feeling awkward, mostly on my part, and I remember that the bartender who was working that night gave me an open tab for the next two years. So. Good, I guess? I left a really cute hat there too, if that matters.

Doktor Zymm

It was a good hat. Probably not warm enough for Chicago, but a gooooood hat. I could have worn it in autumn.

Sill Bimmons

I got super attached to my hats.

Then my head grew 5 sizes while losing all its hair when I was in my early 20s.

Then all the hats I had looked like little freshman beanies on my giant cantaloupe head.

The attachment waned considerably.

Doktor Zymm

You just gotta get new hats. I still have the same head size from high school. And I still have the same hat that a security guard said she really wanted if they ever confiscated it 😀

Sill Bimmons

Hats no longer become a person of my appearance.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Bouncer is a hard sell. Schedule means there are not many date nights, and although it might be different at the corner bar, there is a species of bar skank that finds the pseudo-authority (even if you’re not muscle-bulgy, like I wasn’t) an irresistable attractant

Redshirt

The one good thing about Ghostbusters II is when they brought the Statue of Liberty to life. And its a good thing it happened in the ’80s, because if she came to life today, she would take a look around and start swimming back to France.

Doktor Zymm

Or fall over due to structural deficiency.

Shogun Marcus

Dancing toaster.

Redshirt

Okay:

1. Walking Liberty
2. Dancing Toaster
3. Sigourney Weaver in a bra

Anything else?

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Oscar was cute, Peter McNicol was really good, and it had a tangential story about Emeritus Patron Saint Joe Namath

Sill Bimmons

To me “Ghostbusters 2” is the definitive proof of the fact that lightning in a bottle cannot be recaptured.

All the elements were there, and there were definitely way more laughs to be had than in any modern comedy, but it fell so far from the original that it was just another movie as opposed to the epic game-changer that created it.

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Redshirt

Am I the only one in the world that liked Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2? I don’t know why they stopped the franchise.

Shogun Marcus

You might have been one of the few who went?

Sill Bimmons

Is that the one with Tobey Parker?

Redshirt

No. Andrew Garfield as Spidey. Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy.

Sill Bimmons

Who did Tobey Parker play in the 2002 film?

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

You were certainly the only one to like #2

Redshirt

Maybe, but it did pick the wrong ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpC0z2P1uaY

Doktor Zymm

I was at a good bar in a horrible place the other day, I had a lovely conversation with the bouncer that I haven’t followed up on (but I do still have the business card that says Ronnie, Security) and despite the douchebros around me, I realized I was having more fun that I usually do on a date. I kinda really hate dating. But I’ve lost my point, this bar had something on the TV that included a bit with a shitton of Von Miller highlights, and dude is a badass. They gave a sacks/game stat, and he’s like third career-wise, and probably first if you account for rule adjustments. I told Pats fan and to be fair, he hasn’t watched much football in the past few years cause job, but he was like, “who is Von Miller?” and then I told him about the chickens and the nerd glasses and the Super Bowl and he said that was excellent and so were my tits and I agreed.

Sill Bimmons

You’re awfully good at this, Trev.

Makes me think you might be an actual woman in Chicago instead of a 16-year-old troll of desperate older men on an obscure football/dick joke blog in Des Moines.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Son of Fek?

Doktor Zymm

Eh, he’s restaurant industry, so if he watched the super bowl, it was DVR. Not an excuse, but yeah, I was pretty goddamn surprised he didn’t know that shit. But…yeah, not going with the kick, I kinda like those bits.

Sill Bimmons

In making a previous comment I became aware of a distinct lack of respect paid on this site to one of the greatest geniuses in cinematic history.

I am speaking, of course, about “Savage” Steve Holland.

If it were just “Better Off Dead” and nothing else we should worship him as a god.

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-30755-look-I-cant-move-my-right-arm-9tyQ.gif

And…well…that’s kind of it actually.

I thought “How I Got Into College” was hilarious because I was going through the process when it came out, and he gave us The Whammy! (seriously)

http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/page/whammy-11452.jpg

So Q-Tip one back for “Savage” Steve Holland tonight and make sure to DVR “Better Off Dead” the next time it’s on.

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Doktor Zymm

I have been drinking. Disclaimer for all behavior in the next 3 or so hours.

Doktor Zymm

Eh, he’s a nice enough guy, but I’m not really into it. It just feels like he’s trying to hard, and he’s not super open minded about anything outside of what he’s decided his identity should be. I’ll admit to being pretty shallow about some things, but I should be able to talk to a dude for 20 minutes without being cuttingly sarcastic if I’m gonna fool around with him.

Doktor Zymm

Cheers, I love the backup 🙂

“Reporting live from Cleveland…”

Unsurprised

Roger Goodell is a national disgrace, but at least he’s not Mark Wahlberg.

Sill Bimmons

See, when you blow your hand off with fireworks I feel like the teaching moment is lost in the result of the act.

Sure you learn your lesson not to mess around with fireworks, and chances are pretty good that you’ll take any necessary future precautions to avoid blowing off your other hand.

But it seems to me that the point of diminishing returns is reached and breached about the same time you strike the match.

Redshirt

For me its when you put a mortar in upside down. Seeing mortar explode in ground level ten feet from your entire family and all the other fireworks and mortars is a great learning experience.

Unsurprised

The lesson is: Stupid people shouldn’t breed.

Redshirt

…or vote…

Sill Bimmons

I just meant the particular instance of the individual and their other hand, but these are all good points of a more broadly societal nature that I hadn’t previously considered.

Redshirt

So how was “Ghostbusters ♀”? Is it worth seeing?

I will happily return the favor next week with “Star Trek III: Beyond Originality”.

The Maestro

I actually saw it last night at the local drive-in. It was, surprisingly enough, not terrible, actually. Kate McKinnon is gonna be a big star as a result of this one, I can already tell. Bill Murray & Dan Aykroyrd cameos were also a nice tip of the cap.

Gratliff

Well, it’s good to see season 2 of Broadchurch was just as soul destroying as season 1. Time to dig into Outcast!

Shogun Marcus

My wife texts a coworker today. Unbeknownst to her said coworker changed his number to a local one. She gets the obligatory “Who this?” It’s quickly determined what has transpired, but douche gets anonymous-brave and turns rude. Wife, knowing the area code of the old number is Boston ends it with “Brady will spend four weeks sucking Giselle’s strap-on while Goodell watches. NO ONE DENIES THIS!” End scene.
*sniff* I’m…so proud.

Redshirt

(21 years 9 months from now)

“…and that my child was the day you were conceived.”

Unsurprised

I would be proud of that story.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

NBA summer league is on the tv in front of me at this bar. My kingdom for an NFL preseason game.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok, finally left the office. Seems like the right time to try the new double IPA next door on my way back to the Airbnb.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Unsurprised

Making it appeal to kids was a fool’s errand.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

And devoid of self awareness when the movie opens with them at an underwhelmed children’s birthday party.

Redshirt

It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t needed, but it wasn’t bad.

Ghostbusters II was like Steve Young, they were both good but they will always be overshadowed by the excellence that preceded them.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It was brought up before, but there are some damn funny dick joke comments on the twitterbook.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-pence-campaign-unveils-new-logo/ar-BBupdvH?ocid=ansmsnnews11

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I am also fine with this; it is the market now. In a team game, he was as much responsible for beating THE BEN, Brady, and Cam as anyone….. especially Brady. One of the best LB playoff performances since LT. Good for him.

Sill Bimmons

I love the smell of Christiefreude at teatime…smells like boiled kale…

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/07/chris_christies_worst_day_ever_moran.html

Sill Bimmons

If Lindsay Vonn had dropped an actual hammer on her foot like she does in that Reeses ad she’d have broken about 15 bones.

The hammer weighs 16 lbs.

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Wakezilla

Check her for HGH!

Sill Bimmons

At the Olympic level hammer throwers are pretty tight:

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Sill Bimmons

If you say you wouldn’t you’re more full of shit than the Augean Stables:

http://pendleac.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Hitchon.jpg

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Best teeth in the UK

Wakezilla

How we doing, boys?

I’ve been going through some DFO withdrawal (fucking work).

What’s new?

Anyone watching the Freemantly/Geelong game? it’s 31-21 Freemantle in a game that is only good if you have it on in the background and you occasionally look up to check out the play.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

It’s been quiet around here. We may need to consider increasing the marketing budget.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

I don’t know about you, but I am certainly #upforanything

ballsofsteelandfury

It was a horrible game. We were lucky we won.

Sill Bimmons

Here we see how the intelligent GM waits until after the 4th Of July to sign their big money pass rusher.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

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So majestic.

herodotus450

Elway would have signed him sooner, but he sends all his missives via Pony Express after the Dumervil debacle.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They had multiple offers on the table for months and had agreed to the total contract values and length quite some time ago; Miller’s agent and the NFLPA wanted him to wait and see what the guaranteed money would be for other signings would be. The signing resulted in about twice the original guarantee offer.

Sill Bimmons

That was a Jason Pierre-Paul joke…you know, Hand Go Boom?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I Got it, I was just being “informative” or pedantic.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

and add to that a reply fail.

Sill Bimmons
Unsurprised

Why didn’t anyone tell me Von Miller is the third Lucas Brother?

makeitsnowondem

Because Von Miller’s the FIRST Lucas Brother.

Unsurprised

Don’t start shit you can’t finish. http://i.imgur.com/9hWvBPp.mp4

Unsurprised

Good point.

Let me rephrase: Don’t start a fight if you aren’t prepared to get your ass kicked.

Unsurprised
Spanky Datass

imgur sucks.
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Sill Bimmons

I lived through it.

That was all I needed.

Unsurprised

Morning

...

Good morning. How about some music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPQSMmznu_g

BrettFavresColonoscopy

How excited is Balls that I’m watching a tape delayed Collingwood game with an Aussie colleague right now?

NO SPOILERS!

ballsofsteelandfury

WOOOOOOOO!!!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

My analysis: Adelaide is really FUCKING good

ballsofsteelandfury

It’s about time defensive players got guaranteed money like QBs. I’m very very happy for Miller.

Also, everyone please enjoy today’s SoCal get-together without me. I’m sorry I cannot attend, but I gave RTD a little something to bring down for you all to enjoy. Hope you like it. Have a blast!

Brick Meathook

What SoCal get-together?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Doing a BBQ at my place in San Diego. People are arrivimg any time.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

It won’t be the same without you Balls, but we’ll drink your share.

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