Your “Well, The Sun Came Up” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • More fallout from Seattle Monday Night-gate, 2016-edition:
    • Florio is doing the Lord’s Goodell’s work this morning by having TWO stories quoting Mike Pereira about why having full-time officials wouldn’t be worth it. He cites costs & which refs might give up their full-time job, and relative improvement in accuracy.
      • When asked what a side judge would do all week to get better, Pereira told nugget baron Peter King “Read the rule book? Watch a lot more tape?” in another attempt to curry favour with his (former) master.
    • Oh, and it turns out Buffalo’s spike was technically illegal under the rules.
      • I’m sure it makes Rex feel better to know he got one in his favour.
  • Stadium boondoggles:
    • San Diego escaped theirs.
      • the Spanos family released a letter through the Chargers website. You can read it here, but the money quote is:
        • “In terms of what comes next for the Chargers, it’s just too early to give you an answer. We are going to diligently explore and weigh our options, and do what is needed to maintain our options, but no decision will be announced until after the football season concludes and no decision will be made in haste.”
    • Arlington passed theirs. So their 22 year-old current baseball stadium will soon be mothballed.

To close out your football coverage on a slight election note: as expected, the marijuana statutes passed in California, Florida and Massachusetts, bringing the number of teams that play in pro-pot states (medicinal or recreational) to 10. The League still stands by its position that federal still prohibits all use, and that will remain their League-wide standard.


A couple of things about last night’s results:

  • Of all the places I looked, Cracked has the best answer to how what happened happened.
  • A fair amount of class in both Trump’s acceptance speech and Clinton’s concession speech.

I’m already seeing #Michelle2020 on the Twitter.

I’m not going to lie, I never saw Trump being elected. Perhaps it’s the Canadian / impassioned-foreigner-with-an-interest in me, but I never figured he had a serious chance outside the traditionally red states. For all his foibles, Reagan had governing experience prior to running for the nomination (1976) and winning (1980). I guess time will tell if it was more pro-Trump or anti-Hillary that pushed blue-states red.

I guess in Hillary people saw this

And in Trump, people saw this.

 

There’s four years to determine if it’ll be this,

this,

this,

or this.

I did not enjoy watching the exchange rate plummet and my pension drop 10% overnight. But, since I never planned to retire in Mississippi or the Carolinas, I’m not too concerned about that, and I doubt the expected drop in 2017 tourism concerns the America First crowd. Whadda you think, Joe?


Tonight’s sports:

  • NBA Basketball:
    • Nets at Knicks – 7:00 PM | ESPN
    • Raptors at Thunder – 8:00 PM | Sportsnet1
    • Warriors at Nuggets – 9:00 PM| TSN
    • Rockets at Spurs – 9:30 PM | ESPN
    • Mavs at Warriors – 10:30 PM | Sportsnet1
  • NHL Hockey:
    • Blackhawks at Blues – 7:00 PM | NBCSN
    • Senators at Sabres – 7:30 PM | Sportsnet
  • College Football:
    • North Carolina at Duke – 7:30 PM| TSN2
    • Bowling Green at Akron – 8:00 PM | ESPNU
    • Toledo vs. Northern Illinois – 8:00 PM | ESPN2

Plus there’s South Park (10:00 PM), who no doubt had to rewrite tonight’s episode and the whole rest of the season.

SIMPSONS DIDN’T DO THIS!

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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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entropy

Honestly, Marvel studios EVP Lady, if your office suddenly turns into a plane or an airport, you probably have bigger problems at hand than being able to write shit on the screen of your fucking laptop.

Senor Weaselo

Do you mean like “Holy shit you’re inside the building equivalent of a Transformer”?

entropy

That or her psych meds either stopped working at all or suddenly kicked into overdrive

entropy

Tonight’s “You’re The Worst” has me questioning where they’re going with this storyline…. and quite frankly the writers’ sanity. Wouldn’t the entire Pro/Con of Aya Cash just be Pro: she is Aya Cash, and the only Con is that she’s not on the couch next to me?

entropy

“Obama Fords Her a Nixon” sounds like the worst old person sex act EVER.

Senor Weaselo

Paging Buddy Cole!

Senor Weaselo

Is it bad that I’m imagining what would happen if Trump Forded her a Nixon? Shit would burn, wouldn’t it?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Woooo, done with my work for tonight. As a reward I shall now FINALLY watch last week’s Westworld.

Have a good night folks.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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entropy

“Are we very old friends?”

“I wouldn’t say that. I wouldn’t say that at all.”

theeWeeBabySeamus

That was a great scene.
Wonder how long he banged her for?
No, that’s not a spoiler, just my theory.

entropy

I’d keep a copy of Dolores in my office at all times…. for “research” purposes, of course.

Brocky

night night.

Brocky

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Getting up in 3.5 hours to fly to the other coast of this beautiful country with a shitty electorate. See you all around the bend.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Tonights South Park is re-running right now.
I highly recommend it.

WCS

Oh! I member!

Brick Meathook

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Sharkbait

I’m out. Catch you all later.

Senor Weaselo

Hey everyone, how you all holding up?

Brocky

I’ve stopped involuntarily punching random objects.

its a start I guess

theeWeeBabySeamus

I still fear for your dog.
😉

Brocky

He’s nimble with good survival instincts. quick little fucker. doesn’t seem to have good depth perception though.

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/072011/1311789498_dog_jumps_into_hedge.gif

theeWeeBabySeamus

But is he properly inflated?

WCS

Well, yesterday started with the funeral for a 15-week-old child of one of my best friends, and it somehow got worse. So, by definition, taking the garbage out and making grilled cheese for dinner, made today better!

theeWeeBabySeamus

I was gonna follow up and ask about that btw, until I realized the tension I’d perhaps otherwise created. Hope the best for them going forward. That thought has frankly haunted me a bit for the past few days. I can’t even imagine.

Brocky

My goodness that is heart breaking to hear. I only wish you and those affected the best.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Managed to make it through today without drinking. That was important to prove to myself that I can still control at least one thing.

Brick Meathook

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WCS

Might just be you and me tonight, my elken friend.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m in and out. Multitasking while sober takes some getting used to.

WCS

Just say masturbating. We all know.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Shhhh dude…be cool!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Giftastic.

WCS

So, does Brad Pitt only do World War II movies now?

Brick Meathook

I only watch World War I movies these days.

Brocky

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WCS
Sharkbait

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Now you tell me, after I decide to go dry for a week.
Assholes.

Sharkbait
theeWeeBabySeamus

Need to give the liver a rest heading the Vegas-ocalypse.

theeWeeBabySeamus

And to clarify, I drank last night for sure. Hell, I busted out the tequila even.
Today is day one.

WCS

So… the Daily Show should be, umm, shall we say, interesting tonight.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Samantha Bee killed it. Really great.

theeWeeBabySeamus

LMFAO @ Cartman

Sharkbait

At least there should be some decent comedic fodder coming out of this disaster.

theeWeeBabySeamus

FWIW, I’m in the midst of writing Sexy Friday soooo, yeah….Perusing photos of half nekkid girls does seem to help.
😉

Sharkbait

Looking forward to 4 years worth of sexy fridays as therapy.

Mr. Ayo

I’m doing the same. Except the writing part.

WCS

I think most of us are still in a state of drunken shock and horror.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah, hungover anguish was my thought as well.

Lothar of the Hill People

Valium for me. First time in 24 hours my mind isn’t racing 1,000 mph. I tried to sleep at 3 this morning, but every time my eyes closed, I saw another consequence of Trump being elected.

You know one of the worst? His fucking smarmy kids.

But yes, valium is my friend.

Sharkbait

I watched the last 45 minutes of that at a bar after voting yesterday. It should have been a sign.

Shogun Marcus
theeWeeBabySeamus

Happened to catch the Subway ep of Seinfeld earlier. Had forgotten how funny the Elaine bit was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL0DfKy5NU

Brocky

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Brocky

for the record, I know this joke is in horrible taste, but as a Shih-tzu owner, I feel qualified to make it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

For the record, as a Vet I thought it was funny.

Brocky

If I’ve learned anything from my brother, a veterinary specialist himself, vets offices are just like doctor offices, they always make fun of their patients.

Mr. Ayo

Not to be racist, but I though it was funny

theeWeeBabySeamus

South Park is funny as fuck tonight.

theeWeeBabySeamus

RUN GERALD, RUN!!!!

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

“Hey it’s okay. You be numb to this by time you’re 18.”

Don T

That gets him a grace sum of 60 yards in penalties. Or 25 in a game, whichever comes sooner.

Sharkbait

HE can save America:

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JustStopDude

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JustStopDude

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herodotus450
Sharkbait

I should play Portal again.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

“Mr. Trump we have a question from Buddy Cole: ‘President-Elect Trump, when Melania blows you does her face look like she just ate a bag of Cheetos dust? Toodles!'”

Sharkbait

“Follow up from Sharkbait: Mr. President Elect, is Chris Christie your towel boy? Or is that duty reserved for Mr. Guliani?”

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Chris Christie will be managing a Best Buy in Parsippany in a year.

LemonJello

Assistant managing. Let’s not get too crazy.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Well there is one consolation to this election, Anthony Weiner is now single!

Come on honey, Grindr is just a few letters away! You can pretend I’m Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver if you want!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Mmmm….grinder….”

– Andy Reid

Brocky

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Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

He looks like a lovely bear but if his time management skills are indicative of anything in the bed…!

JustStopDude

Someone explain to me how I did the same thing…and I am a registered sex offender, but he gets to go to horse riding camp…

http://a57.foxnews.com/media2.foxnews.com/BrightCove/694940094001/2016/11/05/780/438/694940094001_5197947962001_WeinerFNF.jpg

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

He is SO hiding a hard-on in that photo.

Unsurprised

This is fine. It gives me an opportunity to be completely selfish because I have nothing to bother fighting for that won’t get me killed. So I get to focus on just myself, which is something I’ve only ever done a few times to my benefit. I cannot and will not worry about the rest of the world. The world will take care of itself. I need to take care of myself.

I will add one thing: Fuck the Democrats. I’m out. For good. They have been so magnanimous in defeat because they have a tremendous amount of experience being the fucking losers. Fuck ’em. Any other party in any other country would be declaring total war against Trump and Congress. Fuck Obama and his bullshit. I’m not rooting for Trump. I want him to fucking fail and I don’t care if the entire world burns to the ground beneath him. In 24 years of getting their asses kicked, the Democrats refuse to do the one fucking thing their base has asked of them: To actually fight like their constituents fucking matter. And they won’t do it. Trump asked black voters why not try him, it’s not like electing Democrats has done them a goddamn bit of good. Same with Hispanics. At least going forward they will know that they’re dealing with bad faith actors. The patronizing bullshit and backstabbing by Democrats is just wily enough to keep the weak weak and the rich even richer.

So, yeah. I have better things to do than hand-wring.

JustStopDude

What exactly are you expecting them to do? A riot? Low level insurgency? Full open warfare?

I’ve been on the ground in a country where the election cycle includes riots and secretariat violence. You don’t want that shit. It is terrifying.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

For me, I’d interpret it to mean a level of complete intransigence in every possible way on par with what the Republicans have demonstrated during Obama’s presidency. Violence against our fellow citizens is never the answer.

Unsurprised

Indeed.

It’s amazing isn’t it that the Republicans still managed to win even for that brief period when they were the minority in Congress? I can’t imagine how.

JustStopDude

The Dems are experts at grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory.

They managed to pick the absolute only politician that could lose to Trump. Even then, the Clinton campaign was fucking hilariously inept. I swear to god it was like they got the same exact people that did President Clinton campaign, where he was the good cop, and Sen Clinton played bad cop…only this time they did a role reversal, completely ignoring the fact that 1) President Clinton sucks as an attack god and 2) Clinton’s legacy as president, especially among younger people, has not aged well at all. Sec Clinton can’t be the good guy. She doesn’t have the perception among voters as being good cop.

Add in fucking Podesta, who was warned by THREE separate underlings that his account was hacked and he needed to change his password…and HE STILL HASN’T DONE IT! The guy running the fucking campaign cannot use a fucking email account.

Every state that Clinton lost in the rust belt to Sanders, funding and ground resources were pulled to be placed into Florida, a state she had zero fucking chance to take even if the stars were aligned. They basically assumed they would get PA, OH, and WI so they placed zero real effort on the ground…again…states she could not take from a self described Socialist during a two person primary.

So you get the worst candidate possible, you play to her weaknesses, and then run the campaign in the most ass backward fashion possible…. and now we got a president elect that in December, has a civil case against him for raping a minor.

I COULDN’T WRITE THIS MOVIE SCRIPT…

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

That Google notification of “A Foreign Entity has tried or gained access to your account” is insane.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

That poor fucking horse…

Unsurprised

Yeah, well

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

He didn’t say violence was done TO the horse.

Unsurprised

Not concede. Not congratulate. Obstruct and oppose. The Democrats are suckers because they think they’re supposed to govern. Americans don’t want governance. They want to destroy their enemies, and instead these feckless venal assholes have been blowing the bad guys for over two decades and expecting them to somehow lose.

Brocky

Patriots fans reacting to Eli Manning’s great escape. almost 9 years ago. go

Horatio Cornblower

The crowd is belting out the national anthem at the St. Louis-Chicago hockey game right now.

I’m going to take this as a sign of our coming together as a country and resist the urge to make nasty comments about Red States.

I expect my ability to do this successfully to last roughly a week.

Sharkbait

Worth a shot at least.

Gratliff

Some background noise to get through the night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3kdmOQlqfQ

WCS

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Right now I feel like the moth in this joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6QzDrT_x8

Croooow
Shogun Marcus

As requested. Groucho always helps me smile.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=O0fmC0hVIa4

JustStopDude

Straight up…nonstop for me has been MST3K…

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“Believe it or not….this movies on…it should end an hour ago!”

Sharkbait

I’m distracting myself from yesterday and today’s events by going through my DVR from when I was away with Mrs. Sharkbait. Lizzie Caplan sure does help take the mind off of things.

JustStopDude

I’m not going to lie…

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs4/1431912_o.gif

My ride into the office was not easy this morning…

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Well, I almost burned my apartment down trying to cook some bacon wrapped filet tonight. Can’t decide if that’s a good or bad sign.

Sharkbait

I sense there is a story here…

BrettFavresColonoscopy

No story. Fat got too close to the heating element on broil. Fire ensued. I salvaged the meat. Deeeelish.

Sharkbait

As long as you saved it.

scotchnaut

A great number of us are in a bad place right now. I invite every one of you to post-

-a song
-a favourite player
-a game
-a moment in entertainment

that made you laugh, forget or remember simpler times

/I’ll go first

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

BrettFavresColonoscopy

This song makes me think of a trip a decade ago that I took with two buddies to Montreal. Also the stripper who said her name was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep7FWnbAaCI&app=desktop

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Possibly my favorite song ever:

Probably a little too apt for this exercise though…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I like this idea very much.

Sharkbait

My favorite vacation spot since I was a kid. Nauset Beach on Cape Cod:

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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Apparently there are two different things Spanos came out with: a letter (above) and a statement – http://www.chargers.com/news/2016/11/09/statement-dean-spanos-owner-chairman-board-san-diego-chargers

From the statement: This has been a long campaign, and I’m sure we all want to put aside stadium talk for a while and focus on the rest of the Chargers’ season.

Yeah, no. I want to know EXACTLY what the fuck is going on with the stadium before it’s too god damn late. Mid-January is the current cut off for going to LA, and with the way things are going, New Years is going to be the end of the season. Now is the time to talk about it and have a contingency plan, which should have been in the works months ago, because there’s no way Measure C was going to pass.

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scotchnaut
ballsofsteelandfury

Remember, California elected Arnold Schwartzenegger as Governor and we didn’t die. And he had NO governing experience.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

He won because of the BOLTMAN vote.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yes, but Arnold didn’t make it part of his platform that he was going to throw his political enemies in jail.

ballsofsteelandfury

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Horatio Cornblower

That’s not going to happen. There are quite a few things that Trump talked about doing that aren’t going to happen and I’m going to be very curious about how that affects the mid-terms and 2020.

And no I’ve mentioned elections 2 and 4 years away and respectfully request that someone kill me.

Unsurprised

Yeah … You sound like Sill swearing that ANY MOMENT NOW Trump was going to quit.