2017 Madness Open Thread – Thursday Evening Block

Hey there, fellow casual office gamblers!  How fucked is everyone’s bracket so far?  At least the drinking and/or drugs can start now.

/ok, increase in volume and intensity

#11W Xavier v. #6W Maryland (6:50, TNT)

It’s not so much that I love Xavier, as much as I find Maryland warmed over dog turds.  They are just fucking awful.  I have the Musketeers advancing in every bracket.  The Big East played some pretty decent ball this season.  Query – how would one ever know if Chris Mack got cancer??

#16E Mt. St. Mary’s v. #1E Villanova (7:10, CBS)

That play-in thriller will actually count as an NCAAT “win” FOAR “The Mount” – isn’t that nice??  I’m sure their moms are like, super fucking proud.

#10W VCU v. #7W St. Mary’s (7:20, TBS)

Shaka Smart replacement Will Wade is doing a fuckton better than Shaka be doin’ at Texas.  Something about the Peter Principle??  Also note that the tip times are less spread out than in the afternoon, which is annoying as fuck (even with the 16/1 in the mix, which won’t be competitive).  Nobody thinks the 7-seeded Gaels are the better side here.

#13MW Vermont v. #4MW Purdue (7:27, truTV)

Finally, we break our Midwest regional cherry!!  And it’s with Purdue, the boringest fucking team with a Top 4 seed.  They lucked into a fairly weak-assed 13, or they’d be out on the sidewalk immediately (and still might be).

#14W FGCU v. #3W Florida State (9:20, TBS)

The Credit Union is back!! But they are no longer Dunk City, and lack Coach Andy and his supermodel wife.  Florida State is a pretty merciless bunch this season, too.  Don’t expect the magic to repeat itself.

#9E Virginia Tech v. #8E Wisconsin (9:40, CBS)

This should feel more like a prize fight than a basketball contest, but probably still quite exciting (like boxing used to be).  VPI has been bitten hard by the injury bug, but has kept playing at a high level.  Wiscy apparently has a deal with Old Scratch, so I have given up writing them off.  One of my kids picked them to win the whole thing.

#15W North Dakota v. #2W Arizona (9:50, TNT)

The ass-whipping of the late-late games.  I don’t see Sean Miller going out embarrassingly early this season.

#12MW Nevada v. #5MW Iowa State (9:57, truTV)

I absolutely love watching the Cyclones play.  They absolutely could take down Kansas.  But this one is tricky, and Iowa State has a checkered history in openers.  I expect the Wolf Pack (no typo, the desert varietal do spell it that way ,, smh) to take this one down to the final minutes.  So…caffeinate appropriately, fucknuts.

 

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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

So my junior year of college (the height of my DRANKIN’ years!) St. Patrick’s Day was on a Thursday, and I had 3 classes back to back to back from 8am-2pm, and a midterm in the last one, because my Professor was a terrible person. I thought it would be cool to put hashmarks on my arm for each drink, where 1 equalled a beer or a shot of 80 proof booze.

I woke up at 6am, had a whiskey shot and 2 Guinness with breakfast, made a very Irish Coffee and took it to my first class in a travel mug. That got out early, and since I lived on campus, I got home and made another for Econ. I don’t think there was a flask involved at this point, but I don’t quite recall. Anyway, was pretty boarderline drunk by noon, but I made it through the midterm and headed home to start the weekend.

I drank at least ten Guineess during the next 2-3 hours, at which point I was dragged to the shitty fake Irish college bar for a while. It gets hazy here, but I remember that someone had misspelled Guinness on the specials board, which infuriated me, and I started lining my jacket and pants pockets with empty Guinness glasses and left. That was their punishment and they knew what they did.

I think I got a ride home after walking halfway, clinking the whole time, and walked in right as one of my roommates best friend and former high school ladyfriend showed up to visit him. I switched back to whiskey, chatted with them a while, and when a story about her somehow getting melted chocolate on herself came up, I blurted out “I’d lick the chocolate off you!” to rather stunned silence from her, roaring laughter from the best friend and death glares from my roommate. After another hour of making an ass of myself and probably blantently hitting on her,, I dragged myself to bed.

Addendum: the next morning, I woke up still very drunk with 38 hashmarks on my arm, at 10:50, giving myself ten minutes to make it to a club meeting, and they were electing officers. I decided to run for Treasurer at that moment, and gave an absolutely horrible speech about why I was qualified, basically because I had a bank account. The speech ended with a very clear “Dear God…” from the Founder/President. I then won, because no one else showed up to apply.

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11120/111208964/4724509-1279138501-xaadr.png

I also later found out I got a C+ on that midterm, but never saw that girl again… No clue why.

Unsurprised

This is beautiful. Thank you.

blaxabbath

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is The Art of the Deal.

Senor Weaselo

Were there any upsets? And if not, do I care?

laserguru

The only upsets were favored.
Or something.

Brackets looking good so far. but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUNXA3srhYI

laserguru

One of the hidden benefits of being a grandfather is you don’t have to hold back.

Your kids have accepted you at face value and you are totally free to be your true self.

So when you are discussing something with one of your grand kids you can say, “Oh fuck yeah, Mark Ryden is cool as fuck! Have you seen his Books of Blood display? It’s fucking incredible!”

Your daughter just sighs when the granddaughter laughs while your son-in-law cracks up and pours you a shot.

Who have I got to hide from?

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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I’m really looking forward to my older age.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Not physically.

laserguru

No man, fuck Whitney Houston.

We need some Don Was.

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

Brick Meathook

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laserguru

Dear Mr. Meathook:

I’ve come up with a So-Cal get together solution.

Give us a date and time, hell, place couldn’t hurt either and we’ll come to you.

We’re accommodating that way.

If you want to keep it close to the Playa, El Segundo area that’s even better.

Because I could stagger home.

Brick Meathook

I just saw this now! (about ten hours after you posted it)

Well I’ll see what I can do! It’s funny, until right before the Atwater pub crawl I had ample free time, and now I’m in Burbank in 10-12 hour shifts 6-7 days a week, not including commute. But I’ll find time!

Gratliff

Now that the college hoops has past, a quick rundown of hockey:
The same Flyers team that embarrassed Pittsburgh yesterday was itself humiliated by an AHL team starting its backup goalie coming off 10 straight losses. This team. Fucking swear to god.

Wakezilla

True, but that Taylor Hall goal though. . .

Unsurprised

Did entropy ever post part 2 of his drunkenedest St. Patrick’s Day?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

No, but I’ll share mine when I get back from my Dads.

Unsurprised

Hooray!

laserguru

Howdy folks!

Who went and took all of the good early games and left me with crap?

Unsurprised

Not me. I’ve been outside and talking to real people. Like a weirdo.

laserguru

That’s good interactin’!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You know what this thread needs? Whitney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA

Unsurprised

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Unsurprised

John Wayne Gacy was never that thin.

litre_cola

From Manitoba they are the fightingsioux fuck

blaxabbath

North Dakota be all like, “we’re wearing green for St Paddys!”

blaxabbath

I hope my comments are showing bc I totally called this UA defensive lock down.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Totally unpredictable.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Evening. I’m willing to bet that banner pic isn’t the first time those ladies have had their faces painted.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Unsurprised

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Unsurprised

Shit. I didn’t realize it had that cut at the end. I’m sorry. You don’t deserve being subjected to shit gifs. From me. From ME.

blaxabbath

I’d put the o/u of Dakota points in the next four minutes at 3.5

Wakezilla

That’s some mighty fine analysis.

So, is the Tar heels really good this year or were they given an unfair 1 seed? I’ve both heard they are the team to beat, yet could easily be out by the sweet 16. …

blaxabbath

Haven’t seen a group of excited Dakotans with this little chance from the get-go since the Dakota Access Protests.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Watership Down got some serious hare game goin’ down.

Brocky

lol

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Brian the Chotchkie’s waiter got some serious flair game goin’ on.

http://www.crapasaurus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/flair-guy-office-space-sues.jpg

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The instant I saw them use a claw to catch the incoming sample container instead of, you know, a fucking net, I knew that the movie “Life” was going to be completely idiotic.

Unsurprised

The Eddie Murphy movie?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Eh, they probably are approximately equivalent when it comes to scientific accuracy.

Unsurprised

Just the good part for the evening crowd.
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JustStopDude

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Brick Meathook

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Fronkenshteen

FONZ DOWN!

litre_cola

Jumanji with the block!!!

litre_cola

We good Hippo

litre_cola

We will end up 4

Brick Meathook

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Don T

Eastern Promises is on! Hey, the VA Tech – WI’s in halftime. Good game.

Don T

What are the odds of both having the same cajun stylist.

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I’m going to go hate watch The Expanse so I whine about how it’s not like the books because *obnoxious elitist voice* THE BOOKS ARE ALWAYS BETTER.

herodotus450

Didn’t know it was book based until aftre I’d started watching it. Is it 1-3 books or a huge sprawling neverending universe of books?

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There are six so far with three more to go. The show has taken liberties with the first two books so far mixing and matching characters and plot lines they want for effect.

They told the story of the first book pretty well, to be honest, but it seems they’re intent on deviating more from the original content.

Plus, I think they’re fucking up little things. The entire plot point involving Venus has, in my opinion, been botched so far.

herodotus450

I can kinda imagine. I thought the first season was pretty good, and the second has the classic, “oh shit, we have to make another season?” scenario.
Doesn’t help that 75% of the time while watching it I’m thinking, “Is that James Franco, or not?” And the rest of the time trying to decide if I want to be annoyed by the accents and quota-filling diversity casting.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Everybody knows future space people are white.

herodotus450

Yeah, but when your show looks like the front page of a college brochure (information packet?) designed to appeal to the broadest audience and offend no one, it’s just a little distracting is all. For example, one of the players on this show is a black, female, australian marine from Mars. So many checkboxes.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Too many mudpeople is distracting to you?

herodotus450

I blame the plot and writing: if they were better, I wouldn’t have time to notice or complain about casting.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
herodotus450

Prolly, if they could ever stop shopping
http://blogs.ubc.ca/sdhillon/files/2011/11/Women-be-Shoppin.jpg

herodotus450

It’s actually something I wonder while watching, whether future space people would all be homogenized together, or whether cultures and ethnicities would become even more separately defined.

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh