Your “Really, It’s Wednesday?” Evening Open Thread

Back at work today. Mid-week sick days just make things awkward. It’s like getting a second Monday but with two-days worth of workload.

NFL Notes:

  • Tom Cable has withdrawn from consideration for the Niners head coaching job, so it’s all but assured that Kyle Shanahan is the man expected to be fired after the 2017 season.
    • Considering Cable couldn’t turn water into nonfat macchiato in Seattle with the front line, it makes sense.
    • No word yet on a GM to accompany Shanahan down that yellow brick road to Jed’s place.
  • Trying to change tack after a recording outed him as a speaker of bad words, future President Mike Tomlin again raised the issue of the ‘faulty’ visitors communications system at Gillette Stadium.
    Don't feel too bad for him.
    Don’t feel too bad for him.
    • Meanwhile, Julian Edelman referenced the comments on WEEI, saying “that’s how that team (the Steelers) is run.”
      • Probably getting him in trouble with Grumblelord, who prefers his players say & do nothing, because PATRIOTS WAY!
        • He’s cool with Tommy though, as SI talks about the “everlasting circle of brotherhood” of men blessed enough to have caught his balls over the years.

  • People seem upset that Deshaun Watson doesn’t want to go to the Senior Bowl. Why should he?
    • He didn’t skip a Bowl game day-of; he played & won.
      • Jabrill Peppers is someone who needs an excuse.
      • He defeated Satan Saban in a game for the ages.
    • He still has to go through the Combine.
    • The coaching staffs of the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns will coach this year’s Senior Bowl squads.


Finally, The Slants had their Supreme Court hearing today in their trademark law case surrounding their name. The hearing before the justices is to have them consider whether a law barring disparaging trademarks violates the band’s free-speech rights. They were denied trademark protection under a section of the 1946 “Lanham Act”, a federal law that bars registration of trademarks that “disparage” or “bring into contempt or disrepute” persons, institutions, beliefs or national symbols.

  • Arguments made in their favour involve successfully trademarked acts like NWA & Uncle Kracker, Afro Saxons & Dago Swagg clothing, Baked By A Negro bakery products, and Retardipedia & Celebretards entertainment services.
    • The government is relying on a 2015 ruling in which the Supreme Court said the state of Texas could ban specialty license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag.
  • It matters to DFO because the case has been tied into the Washington [*Redacted] s and their inability to trademark their name based on the same statutes.
    • The [*Redacted] s were denied the ability to join the case, and would have to make separate application to have their trademark approved should The Slants win.
      • A Virginia federal appeals court has put the [*Redacted] s case on hold pending the outcome of The Slants case.

Here’s a video; I liked it because it made fun of people.

Not my cup of tea, but they have an appeal. A decision is expected in June.


Kimmel had a bit last night where he had Marmalard & Joey Bosa on to pledge their allegiance to Los Angeles.

I guess there was some ceremony today in Inglewood to officially launch the Chargers as an LA operation. If there’s any justice, Dean Spanos’ car was liberated during the ceremony by those kooky 111th Street Crips.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Penguins at Habs – 7:30PM | Sportsnet
    • Coyotes at Jets – 7:30PM | Sportsnet360
    • Bruins at Red Wings – 8:00PM | NBCSN
    • Panthers at Oilers – 9:30PM | Sportsnet
    • Sharks at Kings – 10:30PM | NBCSN
  • NBA:
    • Raptors at 76ers – 7:00 | TSN
    • Bucks at Rockets – 8:00PM | ESPN
    • Thunder at Warriors – 10:30PM | ESPN / TSN4
  • NCAA:
    • Oklahoma at West Virginia – 7:00PM | ESPN2
    • Kansas State at Oklahoma State – 9:00PM | ESPNU
  • Australian Open: Second-round play – 9:00PM | ESPN2 / TSN3

WHOOPS I FORGOT EDIT – new “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” tonight – 10:00PM

NOW IT’S A DANCE PARTY!

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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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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

This guy has some good moves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCOW0VIjHw

Mr. Ayo

I’m not going to dig up the actual video to embed, but here’s the link:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s9j4ux/the-colbert-report-stephest-colbchella–013—special-guest-stephen-colbert-

Mr. Ayo

OMG, that’s not the right link either. Moderators, delete all of this!

It’s here and terrible: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/daft-punk-watch-bryan-cranston-2136911

theeWeeBabySeamus

Stop it Senor!!!!!
Please, for the love of God, and all that’s still holy….please stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5aq5HcS1A

Senor Weaselo

Sorry bout that. Here’s The Roots instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWmu4-u80K4

Senor Weaselo

Did someone say ’80s dance? This was on the radio on my way to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs

Mr. Ayo
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I can in no way dance. Shitty 80’s music makes me always try anyways @mr ayo

Mr. Ayo

Same. And you asked for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7x9UUMmuTw

theeWeeBabySeamus

No comment.
But screw you.

Mr. Ayo

Lighten up! It’s 2017. No more hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs

Mr. Ayo

And if you don’t want to be put to sleep…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY0NEQd3_co

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Was the site really laggy for everyone today or was that just me? I am just curious

Mr. Ayo
theeWeeBabySeamus

It was you. You suck.
(in truth, my interwebz haz sucked lately so I’m the wrong person to ask…but fuck you anyway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnisBb2rVOg

theeWeeBabySeamus

Reply fail…this was ‘usposed to go up to MTWV’s comment above.
I suck.

Mr. Ayo

Wut? Your initial reply was apt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I had closed all my tabs, was ready to leave. Then felt like I had to post this one before I take off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlogyj7nFE

theeWeeBabySeamus

I never did tell my Amarillo TX story.

Short version….don’t leave Amarillo TX, headed for the NM border….without filling up the gas tank. There are literally NO gas stations b/w Amarillo and the NM border.

/might have drifted into NM on fumes

Senor Weaselo

THIS WEEBABYSEAMUS, I DON’T CALL HIM BOBBY TROUP, BECAUSE HE DIDN’T GET HIS KICKS ON ROUTE 66!

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Senor Weaselo

THIS SENOR WEASELO, I CALL HIM CHINESE KNOCKOFF BECAUSE HE DID A SHITTY JOB WITH THE CONVERSE!

Unsurprised

Why are you going to New Mexico?

Mr. Ayo

Ha, ha. Time is a flat circle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgikGBh6pbI

This was a Reagan thing, right?

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

My computer was slow to load tWBS. He had the right idea. RHCP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXEXoBGqUl8

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I am going Rolling Stones for no real reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg

WCS

Okay, we are NOT going down a “trip” on memory lane to reinvoke my FF7. I will not allow that to happen. Fuck that game, fuck the writers, and fuck Capcom. That fucking game, and it’s “inspiration” coincided with ol’ WCS losing the girl he loved at the time, so… fuck it.

Here’s something else to entertain you all, while my cat continues to confound the dog. It’s rather funny.

WCS

RE: The Mick

It’s not mind-blowing, nor, is it the cutting edge of comedy. It’s not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, and isn’t paradigm shifting, either. It’s… it’s funny at points, and, it can be entertaining. I don’t hate it.

Mr. Ayo

Alright, so not as bad as I expected, but not worth the effort either.

Damn shame, I wanted that stupid bitch Dee to succeed.

Mr. Ayo

Speaking of Sunny in Philly, anyone watch The Mick and have any positive feedback?

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I have watched every episode. My review is it is on. It isn’t bad but it tries to be both a FX comedy and a network comedy and that somehow makes them fail at both. I am really hoping it figures out what it wants to do.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Not TJ Miller and the middle kid suck, the rest of the cast does good things with the material they are given.

Brocky

that is a great description.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
laserguru

I need to share something.

I work in a production environment.

Big machines. Big important output!

I had this great technician, let’s call him Harris.
Really cool cat. Family was from Hawaii. He was right at retirement age.

This guy?
This fucking guy?

He didn’t wait around drinking coffee, shooting the shit and reading the newspaper, he actually stood out on the production floor just in case a machine broke down.
Unbelievably good man. Also really quick and efficient with his repair.

All he wanted.
All he wanted was to retire so he could do his two favorite things. Fish and work in his garden.

He reaches retirement. Great party. Cool send off. Wonderful human being.

He dies of a stroke less than a month after he retires.

What the fuck are we doing with our lives?

We spend 75 percent of our waking moments either driving to, performing or winding down from a job that we would rather not be doing in the first fucking place.

We waste our most formative and productive years contributing to something that we would normally not have anything to do with.

Fuck.

On a lighter note in 12 more years I can possibly retire without living off of welfare and cat food.

Sorry for the melancholy note but this was depressing as hell.

Go Atlanta?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I hear ya. My job hears ya.

laserguru

God love you brother Moose.

theeWeeBabySeamus

As someone whose last name really is “Harris”…

Fuck it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

And also hang in there yeah right.
Shit sucks…but now and then, as you know, it pays us off if it decides.

laserguru

I know brother Seamus. As one Irish monk to another I’m still pushing forward.

But I still hate the fucking Eagles, man!

Mr. Ayo

Ouch. Makes me feel less guilty about working 24 hours a week with 3 days off.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Brocky

never apologize for ffvii,

maybe ffvii fangirls, but that’s about it.

God FFVII has a great soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3srk8Dkuo

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
WCS

Fuck that, and fuck that game for toying with my emotions. Seriously, from that point forward, I swore I’d never let myself get emotional invested in any kind of game, be it board, video, or otherwise.

Brocky

made the final defeat of sephiroth all that much sweeter.

….

that is if you don’t count the countless spinoff titles he appeared in.

Mr. Ayo

Needs more handcuffs

Brick Meathook

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Brocky

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Speaking of opioid addicts.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Somebody call me?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Naw, you are not a flaming asshole hypocrite.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m not entirely certain you’re correct here.
I’ve been called much worse lately, fwiw.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I am a sucker for orchestral versions of video game music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXLoBe5Ug6o

Brocky

I saw distant worlds, the live final fantasy concert, they played a track from each of the main games, and this was the ffx listed one. it was so kick ass.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I always wish I had a bowl to smoke when I listen to this song/a;bum, it works at all other times though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozgmyx919a4&feature=related

theeWeeBabySeamus

Shit, these days, I wish I have a bowl to smoke if the wind blows.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Senor Weaselo

“[Durant] has the length but not the girth to bang with these four and five men.” Jeez, Chauncey Billups, are you even going to try and do phrasing?

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

Touchdown Seahawks.

WCS

You know, as much as I hate the fact that Il Douche is about to become Herr Fuhrer, dealing with a teething infant constantly is absolutely worse, at least in the short-term. For fuck sakes, kid, everyone has pain. My right knee has the a migraine headache every time it rains, or the temperature drops below 40. This shit is insufferable.

theeWeeBabySeamus
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Your statement makes no sense to me, maybe you are being sarcastic, hopefully so. That’s how I read it at first anyway.

Brick Meathook

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Senor Weaselo
theeWeeBabySeamus

Ha!!!!!!!
What you did there….I see it.

Brocky

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Senor Weaselo

Way to sell that catch!

Brocky

I know your being sarcastic, but god damn is sting awesome

theeWeeBabySeamus

You can call me “Gordon”….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH0vjLwMyc4

Brocky

Not that Sting, this Sting!

Brocky

Not that Sting, this Sting!

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theeWeeBabySeamus

😀

Brocky

that’s not even a double post. wtf

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
WCS

“The T-1000 was a pansy.” — that guy

Brocky

2 points:

1. i like to believe he actually swallowed the damn thing, and it just went up his sinus

2. How the frig ya been moose?

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

Another theory; he had one of those dry desert snots that turn into granite in your nose.

Unsurprised

Americans are goddamn idiots an d deserve nothing good. Trump is just a reminder of that fact that the average person in this country is a fucking moron who could never survive without all of the coddling and handouts the government provides. I am in full FUCK YOU mode towards everyone who voted for him, for third parties, and who didn’t vote. I’m in full FUCK YOU mode for everyone who couldn’t be bothered to know what is going on in the world. I am in full FUCK YOU mode towards every piece of shit who thinks their vote doesn’t matter because it does and they don’t even realize it because they’re too lazy and/or stupid to know better. I am in full FUCK YOU mode towards everyone who thinks they aren’t going to be affected – like myself – even if they probably aren’t in many ways because there are plenty of other ways that their indifference and stupidity is holding them back on a daily basis. I am in full FUCK YOU mode to everyone because this is the world we deserve – the one that fucks us in the ass until we shit blood and die of sepsis because we don’t know better and no one else gives a fuck about us and, let’s be honest, we never really gave a fuck about ourselves. It’s so easy to be fat, dumb, drunk, high, and/or lazy. This stupid country has engaged in countless horrific acts in the name of our own ideals because it was founded by self-righteous, hypocritical, arrogant assholes who, even among their best and most moral, considered entire classes of people as subhuman and beneath them. I am in full FUCK YOU mode because when this ends, no one in this stupid fucking country will have learned a MOTHERFUCKING thing and so all the pain and noise and bullshit will have been for nothing. All the people bitching about Trump, wailing and gnashing at teeth are too blinded by their idiocy to the fact that their tactics and strategies are fucking stupid and will fail because those tactics ALWAYS FUCKING FAIL. The party in opposition is corrupt, myopic, and incompetent. They took the greatest organizing machine the world has ever seen and fucked it up. They created a system to elect a single man to a term-limited office while managing to lose offices gerrymandered IN THEIR FAVOR over and over and over again. I am in full FUCK YOU mode because I wasted 25 years of my life on this shit and I don’t have anything to show for it except a fat ass and constant misery. I for one welcome everything evil and dumb that comes our way because fuck us for being idiots. We deserve every inch of the anal raping we’re about to get.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Solid hate. If you ditch the US are you still gonna abduct me and bring my with you? I just need to know if I can get rid of my Unsurprised getaway bag

Unsurprised

I’m staying right here. I want to be lubed and ready for my deep-dicking.

Unsurprised

My point is just that if you think I have any camaraderie or sympathy for the usual suspects of marginalized people, losers, etc. I do not. I am eager to see the opiate addicts die. The poor trash. The racists and sister-fuckers, the mouth-breathing idiots who don’t know why the world is always shitting on them. The people who constantly go out of their way to piss off everyone who might otherwise want to help them. I am so thrilled to know that the people who voted for Trump – the old people, the ones living off the government, the ones fucked over by people they should know better than to trust, the easily-manipulated, and the ones who just think the world owes them ANYTHING? They’re gonna get fucked way harder than me because I have nothing to lose. I’ve done worse to myself and I don’t even have any good stories to tell as a result of it. This fat old loser fuck is the least of my concerns.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I have like 4 days before I am back in class and going to every single job fair/business connection event. Back to my current RW. Buffy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-xnvdtuRRo

WCS

I wouldn’t worry. After Friday, Il Douche will close all colleges and universities, mandate enrollment at Drumpf University 2.0, and you’ll never have to do another assignment or paper.

Senor Weaselo

So… Bollywood videos with bad lip reading a la 2008?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AHq78O7BX0

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I remember the argument now, and I use that term loosely because I said one thing. He lectured me for 5 minutes on how the founding fathers set this country up as a Republic instead of a Democracy to prevent the will of the people choosing a leader. I countered with “No they did it to prevent a dictator/king taking over and allowed the electoral college the ability to change their votes for that reason”

Senor Weaselo

Don’t forget the Senate too!

WCS

If you want to get mad at me for saying (typing?) this, then I completely understand, since he is your dad, and you can rip on him all you want, because he’s family. That said, your dad really is an asshat.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I love him but yeah he is, you are fine. Even if he wasn’t I enjoy you guys enough to at worst get mildly annoyed if you say shit.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Excellent “chance” photograph. It looks like a hallucination or a “vision” that would stick in your mind for a while.

http://68.media.tumblr.com/a0af5b277ea8f16e198ee0222df61ffa/tumblr_oi8dz5pSlo1sqmlcfo1_1280.jpg

theeWeeBabySeamus

Dude…yo dude. Pass me the pipe….I think I just saw a buffalo in the left lane.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Unsurprised

Do bison have the right of way?

Senor Weaselo

Westbrook triple-double alert: Got it with 17 1/2 minutes to spare

Brick Meathook

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Senor Weaselo

How does the flipping of that palm whatever-that-was make any sense from a physics standpoint?

Brick Meathook

Physics?? That’s witchcraft!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It’s fucking Ballywood.

*Withdrawn if you were being sarcastic.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Hopefully you were being sarcastic.

Senor Weaselo

That was the correct answer.