Man, I’ll never forget you, vodkamanrick, or gindudebill, or whatever your name was… As it turns out, it’s tough slogging when the rest of us have to pull extra duty in the content mines to make up for your GLOREE BOY vacation time.
So… a theme for this evening… well as it turns out, there is, ultimately, extremely little going on all over the world. I believe weekends like these are classically referred to as “the dog days of summer.”
What the fuck is up with that moniker? What is it even supposed to mean? I’ve always construed that as a rather negative connotation, with us lot trying to deal with supposed boredom and/or restlessness of trying to deal with constant high temperatures, humidity and the lack of structure in many weekend days at this time of year. And if, theoretically, that’s what you’re trying to convey, then why pick on dogs, a universally beloved creature, as the metaphor for this feeling? Why not something all of us can get behind disliking… like mosquitoes, or horseflies, or snails? I dunno. Just something none of us particularly give a shit about.
At any rate, with the utter lack of any overarching theme to tie today’s Open Thread together, I turned to Google to see if there were any events happening worth writing about.
Turns out that there is. July 9th marks the following events:
- Martyrdom of the Bab (A key Baha’i figure, apparently)
- National Barn Day (They recommend you drive around all day and look at barns. Yes, really.)
- National Fashion Day (Though you’d have figured they would do that during, like, NYC Fashion Week or something though, right?)
- National Sugar Cookie Day (The most boring of cookies, which seems fitting for the dog days of summer)
- National “Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Omelet” Day (FUCK YOU I DEMAND A 12-EGG OMELET AND A NAP IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS WHEN I MAKE MY BREAKFAST DAMMIT)
But most importantly…
- National No Bra Day.
I knew there was something worthwhile celebrating on a random July weekend.
So enjoy celebrating this incredibly important holiday however best suits you, whether it’s with significant others, possible new “friends”, or maybe in the comfort of your own home in pleasant solitude… seriously, we don’t judge. Just celebrating is enough.
The TV lineup for this evening:
- MLB: your last games before the All-Star Break happens.
- Tigers vs. Indians, 8 PM EST (ESPN, TSN1, 3, 4, 5)
- NBA Summer League Games:
- Timberwolves vs. Nuggets, 6:30 PM EST (ESPN2)
- Trail Blazers vs. Celtics, 8:30 PM EST (ESPN2)
- Gold Cup Soccer:
- Curacao vs. Jamaica, 7:00 PM EST (FS1)
- Mexico vs. El Salvador, 9:30 PM EST (FS1, TSN2)
- LPGA: Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic, Oneida, WI, 5:30-8:30 PM EST (Golf Channel)
- Tour de France: Stage 9, 9:30 PM EST (NBCSN)
Anyways, Happy Sunday to you all. Tomorrow is Monday, yet another work day, the start to yet another soul-crushing work week, commemorating time’s relentless pursuit of destroying everything that is good and worthwhile. Make the most of this evening, folks. You’ve earned it.
Goddamn, I’ve always considered myself pretty proficient at that, but I guess I need to put some more work in.
THANKS OBAMA!!
Just watched Super Troopers with my buddy and his gf that had never seen it. We had to restrain ourselves from saying every line, think we cut it down to only 30% of them.
Goddamn I can’t wait for the new one to come out. I can’t remember the last time I thought that about a sequel.
They’re still waiting for a release date and “marketing plan” from Fox Searchlight.
Yeah, Jay was on the Craig Ferguson show a little while back and was promoting it. I’m referring to him as Jay because I’m not gonna attempt the last name. Ridiculous that they’ve had this much difficulty making a movie considering the cult status of the first one. I guess they had to crowdfund it though so the studios couldn’t fuck with the script.
That is a truly wonderful thing. Or things, I guess I should say.
JFC!
so…. this is an interesting wrestling move
She’s got like 3 meteoras left in those knees.
Fewer if she hasn’t planned for retirement.
Doesn’t she do her best work on her knees?
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/slides/photos/003/765/312/f1e6d36a0f9bb83e57add90bd843957a_crop_exact.png?h=533&w=800&q=70&crop_x=center&crop_y=top
Alrighty then. Time to lose the pants and go catch up on terrible TV n junk.
Night gents….
There is no way you were ever wearing pants.
I’ll have you know that until about five minutes ago, I’ve had pants on all day.
AND UNDERPANTS TOOOOO!!!!!!!!
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!
c’mon now, preacher isn’t that bad
FtWD
/feels shame
Also, do hand bra’s count as bras?
http://mtv-hu.mtvnimages.com/flipbook/katy-melldekoracio-14.jpg
http://www.kappit.com/img/pics/201511_1436_becdd.jpg
You could call it a bralls!
is it allowed if it worth $20,000?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbJABjVH-0k&ab_channel=GabrielVeritas
I have spent like 3 years turning my dad’s barren yard into something nice with a wide variety of bushes, flowers and other things. The neighbors have since planted trees (bushes with a tree like structure to them so I can’t just pull them up) underneath the fence basically so they half grow on our side and make it look like shit. I don’t know the point of this comment it just bugs me.
Fuck dem neighbors’ bushes. Home Depot is your friend….
Does anybody have respect for no bra day?
/raises hand
//man tit falls out of bro
///lowers hand
Ruhspekt!!!!!!!
this is defiantly lower Wacker drive!
So, apparently we’re making ether jokes
Esther jokes?
Aether jokes?
/revision/latest?cb=20170315205118
/Gratuitous… Fire Emblem reference? Yeah sure
lol, reminds me of how i used to annoy my friend, a huge fire emblem nerd, by deliberately mispronounce Ike’s Final Smash from smash brothers brawl as
GREAAAAT….. ETHERRRRRRR!
He took issue with me picking a character from a franchise i had never played
Anyone watching the Gold Cup?
Only if it involves a shower.
Da! Coming right up, Mr. President!
Has a great talent with balls.
Would bang.
But no, not watching.
I could die between those thighs Goldeneye style and be happy.
I cannot disagree.
You mean the announcers?
If they have thighs and and ass like that which could crack walnuts?
Negotiable.
Is that the one with two girls?
I don’t drive downtown much, but I’ve leared to avoid the GPS, its no help.
pretty much for almost any major city I say
Am I the only one that uses the electronic map in the car as a FUCKING MAP and never uses navigation?
I don’t get lost.
(also, you shut up!! hehehe)
I am legitimately incapable of multitasking, especially in stop and go traffic.
its not necessarily anxiety, but I can’t risk taking my eyes off the road.
I USE PAPER MAPS, A COMPASS, AND A MECHANICAL PENCIL
GODDAM RIGHT! LIKE GOD INTENDED!
And here I thought you were a NASCAR fan.
I am. I don’t need a machine to tell me to turn left.
*While driving.
The navigation saved me in LA; that said I just argue with it here (big surprise).
Another WWE Pay Per View, Another Alexa gif
Wow, she’s really unraveling since I dumped her, huh?
well, unraveling in the sense she’s apparently double jointed now.
so, you’re technically right
Oh, I already knew she was double jointed.
Speaking of double jointing…brb.
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/2015/02/elaine-dance-seinfeld.gif
Why should you Wacker, she’s a nice dame. She never did nuttin’ to nobody in her whole life.
That’s why you gotta hang a hard left and just let the cop cars pile up behind you when they’re in pursuit. That way the pile-up prevents anyone else from driving into the lake.
Who said ether?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXGVDnPU9o&ab_channel=Movieclips
That’s what the song I posted is about. It’s sort of a tribute to HST. Last verse of the song–
Well you can call me Mr. Raoul Duke
I’ll know what you mean
Blinded by a quart of rum
And a dose of mescaline
The Mint 400 didn’t slow me down
I kinda like the speed
The failure of our generation
For a couple bags of weed
This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGC2pOpohUE
Flaunting her disregard for no bra day!
You are a braver man than I. I haven’t been since high school when I took my g/f. I just can’t stand being around crowds like that.
//also an old, and kind of a cranky one
Pork and Mindy is an awesome name. I hope the food lived up to the name.
Deep dish pizza at the Cubs game… are you visiting from somewhere else?
Another unwilling wisconsinite?! Sweet jebus, I’m native so I got no excuse. Whereabouts?
EEEEWWW…so sorry. Do you spray for ticks and roaches after every Paul Ryan home visit?
That makes sense. Of course a Wisconsinite would want to cram 8 pounds of hot cheese down his gullet on a hot summer day at the ball park.
I DUNGH SHEE NA PRABUM.
/mouth full of cheese curds while one hand holds a slice, the other a warm glass of milk.
//that was mostly foar hippo, our resident cheese connoisseur.
Oh SHIT another Quad Cities guy!
Me and OSZ are waiting on your Happy Joe’s, Hungry HOBO and Whitey’s Ice Cream Takes!
Old school Moline, Davenport and Rock Island boy right here!
Parents worked on the Arsenal.
What you got Joliet Jake?
I am watching the “Fear the Walking Dead” midseason finale. What the everloving monkeyfuck is wrong with me??
Have we reached the over-saturation point for zombie themed media?
I was done thinking about this shit when Pride and Prejudice and Zombies came out. I stopped consuming when the Will Smith abortion came out. Except for Shaun of the Dead.
Legend was such a brilliant fucking book and an absolute shitshow of a movie.
How many “finales” do they have in a regular season? Three? Four?
I lose count. 2 hours of clichéd melodrama 2nite woo.
You might wanna sit down…remember, we do because you asked. And because we love…
And Smithers? LEAVE THE RAG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXu8eHlwihw
I officially tapped out on the entire franchise at the midseason finale of the latest season. I can’t believe they fucked up Negan so bad.
Yes. Yes, I can.
I apparently non-ironically celebrated national no bra day finishing a two day 39+ mile walk to raise money for breast cancer research/treatment.
Do breast cancer survivors need bras?
Hence the non-ironically.
Though it depends on single vs double mastectomy and post-surgery choices.
wow. I don’t think I drove 39 miles this entire weekend.
Apparently, Alexa Bliss can do this at will.
Yeah, her boyfriend also says she bumps into doors a lot.
THAT’S GOOD HUS…*becomes nauseous*
Somebody said she has another trick she can do with her………… I gotta take this call.
she’s a gift that keeps on giving.
That would make up for a lot of the annoyances of air travel. I would not be nearly as irritated to be stuck on the plane for an extra hour if she was wandering around bringing me drinks.
The inaugural brisket smoking has come to an end and was successful and quite tasty. 10 hours for a 6 lb brisket, but it was worth it. If it was not NC in July, I can see hanging out outside and drinking a few beers while the grill does it’s thing. Next up, pork shoulder and various arguments about the proper barbecue sauce for said pork.
Vinegar sauce or FTW. You make a flat or a point?
The flat. I agree about the Vinegar sauce being from NC, but some of the others joining will probably disagree, but they can eat the sides then, leaving me more porcine goodness.
I’m good with a nice mustard sauce too, but I can’t abide the sweet sticky shit. I’ve been wanting to do a full packer brisket but I just don’t want to drop that much cash, not to mention it would be a tight fit to get the whole thing on my smoker. Points are tough to find so I think I’ll be sticking with flats.
Guy I watched on youtube did two 15 lb wagyu packers to do a comparison between two grills. Did not want to think about how much that cost.
I see a lot of sites that push the idea that you should only be using prime or at worst choice. I get that if you’re cooking for a competition, but sometimes I wonder if they’ve lost sight of the fact that the entire origin of barbecue was feeding poor people as cheaply as possible. As much as cooking shows and sites have helped me grow as a cook, they’ve also kind of fucked us by driving up the price of cuts that used to be dirt cheap by making them trendy.
Cuts of meat are less important than skill of the cook. That is universally true.
Yeah, it’s about knowing how to handle it. That’s why a lot of poor cultures produce the best food. It inspires creativity when you only have a little to work with. It fucking infuriates me that grocery stores now charge 4, 5 bucks a pound for fucking soup bones and ox tail. It costs damn near as much to buy flank, skit, or hanger steak as it does ribeye or porterhouse.
Sweet fucking Jesus, Hamilton is getting on my last fucking nerves…
So the internet is still slow as fuck all. Now, if I want to go smoke, I have to go to the front desk after every smoke, right up on the elevator to the fourth floor, and then on the 7th floor, the front desk guy has to let me onto the floor through the locked fire escape (you can only go out…not go in).
The only elevator is not reading the top floor room keys so you can only get up to the forth floor. The other elevator that was working this morning is stuck between two floors.
At least in Mumbai, the Indian food would be better and I would be tripping balls on malaria meds.
Me too. Fuck musicals.
Rise up!
He can’t, elevators are busted!
In April 2006 Hamilton served as grand marshal for the 79th Annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Virginia.
Has anyone seen my keys? They’re white metal with black pla
Wait, never mind. I found them.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/snortable-chocolate-that-gives-ecstacy-like-buzz-is-being-marketed-like-a-drug-us-senator-claims/ar-BBE49K9?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Glad Chuck is taking action on the important stuff.
Coco Loko! It only reminds me that 4Loko is a shell of its former self…
Shit, I better get it now.
You know, as opposed to regular chocolate which is just fantastic for you. And of course, of fucking course it’s made in Orlando. I swear to god sometimes I think this state is trying to punish me for loving it so much.
Actually chocolate is good for you; just not the sugar, etc. that go with it.
No Bro Day? Shit, guess I better go, then.
Nah brah.
So I had to call my luthier if he could fix me chin rest because apparently sweating my balls off playing opera in an old warehouse in Brooklyn took a toll on it and now it has a two-tone pattern instead of an even colored varnish. Unfortunately I can’t see him until Tuesday but… hey why is everyone asleep?
Is that like your furrier?
It’s like a violin furrier, sure.
You have a horse?
THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME IN BELGRADE IN ’54
You pissed off Tito didn’t you?
Somebody else saw this coming.
Oh, I thought you were a cello player for some reason, not violin. Should you find yourself around Tampa let me know. I’ll take you out to some of the jams I play and you can ‘billy it up with us.
That is entirely tWBS’s fault. SEE WHAT YOU’VE DONE?
I’ve been trying for awhile now to hook up with some string players just because I’m tired of having to play more mainstream stuff at jams because no one knows the shit I listen to. It’s hard enough to play with musicians you’re not comfortable with, let alone trying to introduce new music on top of it. I damn near broke down and bought one of those cheapo six string banjos a couple weeks ago. I still may when finances allow for it.
Be well, everyone. Do take care.
I always take care, but I never know what the fuck to do with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9do7HRaGd00
You too Buddy!
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nothing? Are we not hyped to see Joe Who Is Samoan murder the Beast Who Has a Dick On His Chest?
Also, the Armored Dothraki Prince vs. The Ender of Ambulances?
That being said, jesus christ, what a shit name for a show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY
i’ve heard worse.
wcw having “new blood rising” after the new blood group had disbanded.
“the bash” was shitty just because they couldn’t fully commit to using an old wcw name.
Hooi has a wedgie.
they’re having a moment of silence. I think it’s for the Chargers.
All work and no football makes Redshirt a dull boy.
All work and no football makes Redshirt a dull boy.
All work and no fooyball makes Redshirt a dull boy.
All woek and no football majes Redshirt a dull boy.
All work and no footballcmakes Redshirt a dull boy.
All worj and no fgootball makes rEdshirt a dull boy.
All work and no football makes Redshirt a dull boy,
all work and no football makes Redshirt a dull boy.
All work amd no football makes Redsirt a dull boy;.
#18 on Jamaica has the best hair. That should be worth one goal, at least.
There’s white people in Curacao? Did they forget to get back on the boat and didn’t have cell phones?
The crowd at this Gold Cup match at Qualcomm looks like they’re at a Chargers preseason game…
No bra day, huh? I need to make some phone calls…
/is in favor of no bra day
Whew, that’s better, my moobs were killing me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS8nXc3X-6k