You don’t have to watch this silly little game. You can do anything you please of course. This is just a spot where you can type whatever the hell is on your mind as you wander by. Me? I just finished “The Thirst” by Jo Nesbo and am looking for “ideers”. I usually try to alternate fiction with non-fiction due to the fact that I ignored the latter for the first 35 or so years of my life. Yeah, I’ve got some catching up to do but I’m getting there. But what about you? Did you load the dishwasher? Did you get some laundry done? Have you cracked open a delicious beer? Let me know below. Now… TO THE GAME!
Lion/Colts: Woo boy. Where to start. Indy’s O-line needs to up their game quite a bit but I don’t see much of that happening so Luck is going to continue to stare into the rafters of his and any other domed stadia while in the prone position. Rods and beams, oh my. Is the Colts D still a sieve? Or has it progressed to colander status? The ghost of Calvin Johnson’s career can’t be bothered. That’s how bad the Lions are. Could they beat their namesake up in British Columbia? Probably, but that’s not saying much.*
Well, that’s it. Enjoy whatever the hell you’re doing but do drop in to say hello.
*[readies self for onslaught of CFL defenders]
RE: Suffering characters
♫ If it takes forever… ♫
You HAD to go there. Never watched it, likely never will. I think you’re lucky some certain folk aren’t around at the moment! ?
First Rule of Euchre, play your Right Bower after all other good cards have been played.
“Touch of Grey” done by The War On Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72OLupNWNho
/getting older every day these days
//that cute, well-constructed tune that I liked way back when?
///well, it has much more resonance these days
Kind of a meta post, but I have to say that coming back to the site after 6 months, it seems to run a lot more smoothly now. Kudos to the tech guys behind that.
Absolutely!
You have a lot of HRTN to catch up on!
/plug
Someone needs to build a Hard Wiki to Nowhere.
I did all that good work.
Did you remember to bring two friends?
And they bring two friends, and so on.
This is from one of the Police Squad Sequels right? Which one?
33 1/3, I think. The worst one, but it had a few moments.
Okay, so I watched the first episode of DuckTales 2017. The voice acting is good, it was well written, and it was well respectful to the source material.
If you get a chance and was a kid watching DuckTales 1987, its worth checking out.
My first reaction: What, new ducktales?!??!?!?!
My second reaction: 1987? That series is way older than I thought, I guess I was just watching reruns when I was a kid.
This fucking cockstain:
http://splinternews.com/white-nationalist-rally-organizer-jason-kessler-is-now-1797797846
He isn’t a cockstain. He’s a dingleberry on the ass of humanity.
That is insulting to cockstains everywhere.
Fuck everything. This is the world we made by doing nothing.
“Enjoy whatever the hell you’re doing but do drop in to say hello.”
You’re not the boss of me! I’ll do whatever I want!
Er…
That’s all I asked. Thanks.
Scotchy, if your looking for non fiction try Catch a Fire the biography of Bob Marley.
Excellent read and good insight into the music industry and the reggae movement.
This here. I’m interested in reading bios that aren’t hagiographies.
Civ 5 is the gift that keeps on giving. I never would have guessed that knowing about the Hagia Sophia would ever allow me to guess the meaning of a word
TV characters who’ve suffered the most:
2. Theon / Reek
1. Jesse from Breaking Bad
Nora on the Leftovers.
I’ll raise it to Kevin on The Leftovers, because he didn’t suppress his pain. TWO DECADES of searching…
You make an astute point but Nora lost her whole damn family!
She totally redeemed herself with the nude scenes however.
The right nudity; is there anything it can’t do?
Dealin’ Doug the car dealer.
I think her name was Tara, from True Blood. (She was the uh, really athletic one)
Mannix
WTF? #teammannix
Sure he solved the case but he got pistol-whipped every single week.
Yes, he got the holy shit beat out of him. The PI version of Craig Morton when he was a Bronco
Vito Spatafore on the Sopranos.
I’ll never look at a pool stick the same way again.
I got it!
Beecher from Oz!
The Mother from “How I Met Your Mother”
Hawkeye from MASH
Donna from Doctor Who (though she doesn’t remember it so its not suffering)
Donna…ouch dude.
“You never forget your first Doctor. Unless you’re Donna. Poor, poor Donna.”
Edith-All In The Family
A clearly intelligent individual trapped by preconceived notions as to how family dynamics were supposed to operate.
Confession. I love my Kitchenaid stand mixer more than is probably normal.
You’ll see why next week!
Re watching You’re the Worst. Why hello again Aya Cash
I don’t know anyone who watches this show, but, it’s so good.
I don’t know where or when it’s on exactly but when I accidentally land on it I really enjoy watching.
I love these NFL commericals…
“See every Preseason game…except for local blackouts…with the package!”
So wait…you expect me to pay EXTRA to watch scrimmage games? I think I will just keep streaming them through foreign websites that have adds for porno and gambling.
At least those ads are relevant.
Booky books – Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents.” Riveting stuff.
Follow up question to my original NFL one. Reverse the scenario…which team has had the most head scratching success with an utterly useless scrub at QB?
My quick nominations –
Ravens with Dilfer (every time I think about him being a Superbowl winning QB), I get a blinding headache and blood comes out of my ears)
NYG – TWO with the Manning that looks and acts like his mother fixed microwaves throughout the pregnancy
JSD patented “Super controversial comment of the day” Patriots with Tom Brady, just because it isn’t just all him going 5 and 7 in Superbowls. Its unreal, especially in the modern era with salary cap to consistently not only win with one guy, but to keep him that healthy for that long. Fuck I hate the Pats but dear god, like Alabama, if you are going to win at all costs, you still have to win.
Last Broncos and Ravens are similar; you know exactly why and how they won, but the QB was just along for the ride and ring.
The Flacco “Elite” thing is funny but he is clearly the best QB in their history and its a straight drop in talent if he goes down. He isn’t a top five QB in the league, but he is in the top 10. So him winning it all isn’t so glaring.
Fucking Dilfer couldn’t even win the starting job and there was a five game series where the Ravens did not score a single offensive touchdown. They won three out of the five of those games just because at the time, the defense was unreal (and the league subsequently change some rules to do that away).
Dilfer is the only Superbowl winning QB that was not resigned after the season and it was a good football move.
The only thing more staggering about how bad he was is that he is still bitter about the fact the Ravens did not resign him.
There were three more TDs in that game when he missed some wide open receivers, but hey.
Manning’s regular season play is…underwhelming. So many interceptions. Giants fans tout the guy as a sure Hall of Famer but I don’t see it. If he somehow wins another Super Bowl (not very likely) they’ll throw his ass in there but he’ll have to bring his D-line with him.
I have no idea how Giants fans are violent drunks. Lil’ Manning can look like utter garbage. Totally confused by coverage and get destroyed by like the Jags…but in the biggest game in their history, he can pull it out like an idiot savant.
I have a theory that the Pats were not ready for an offense lead by a guy who never learned the plays. Like they stole the playbooks, not realizing that the actual playbook was the kids menu from Denny’s that they let lil’ Manning draw all over with crayons.
To me, the last Giants drive of the 2007 SB is his career in a nutshell. Remember that muffed interception by the Pats CB? He then goes on to escape an overwhelming rush and throws it up for grabs in the center of the field. A fourth-stringer manages to pin the ball against his helmet for the catch. That wasn’t genius on Eli’s part.
Year over year that shit results in him turning the ball over at least once a game. His stats bear that out. He didn’t ‘perform’. He got lucky.
I dunno, after the second superb owl win, it felt like the Giants went years without addressing their O-line and Eli had like half a second to release the ball before facing imminent death.
My atheist son is going to a church BBQ function that is celebrating the recent government-approved name change of a trans-gendered person that they had previously kicked out of the congregation for identifying as gay.
I’m on #teamdizzyingchange
Fuck you announcing guy…Unitas never stepped foot in that shithole city.
They should even be called the Colts because there is no history of horses in Indy except for killing them and serving them up in a fat fry.
The Humps are gonna be a giant tub of ass this season, huh?
Lucas Oil Stadium can double as a rendering vat.
That stadium nickname just might get worked into Hippo Thoughts this season…
http://oi47.tinypic.com/6xrddh.jpg
“Now, if you’ll bear with me for a moment …”
I need to cheer myself up. Brought my college drinking buddy into my auction league 5 years ago (he actually LIVES in Northern VA, so it made easy sense for him). Just found out via the final cut-off e-mail from the commish that we are dropping from 12 to 10 teams (blech) that he dropped out, without even giving me the heads up.
The other guy who quit was the Dolfan co-commissioner who I had a decent imaginary friendship with, as well. Sad day.
AND I have to figure out how to re-jigger the auction values in my head for a 10-team league strategery. Fuck everything in this shitty, race war-bound world.
CSB Time:
My wife’s dad was a construction contractor who did business in several small towns in northern Ontario. His parents were desperately poor folks that for some reason hated banks and passed that on to him. He managed to buy a dump truck and being a charismatic guy, was able to build a successful business from there. He bought several properties, improved them and then flipped them. He passed in 2015. Due to the fact that he never put a will together his estate (wifey is the executor) is just now finally being settled.
Last week the sale of the original home was settled and while cleaning out the abode wifey found a significant amount of cash in a drop ceiling. This is in addition to many other ‘treasures’ that have been found at other houses that he had when he passed on.
I just wonder what sort of lottery homeowners might win when they decide to renovate the house that they purchased from this fella. I say this because he was a tad disorganized. When asked to look through his paperwork back in 2005, wifey found 12k in un-cashed cheques.
/ta da
Maybe he left them for the people actually doing future renovations.
“I’m gonna go get, um… A scredriver–another one! That I left at, ah…
/footsteps
//truck door slams
///ignition + tires screeching
When I used to do reno jobs in Baltimore, holy shit did we find guns and drug stashes all the fucking time.
The fucking guns always made me nervous because it would be like some old ass shotgun, that someone precariously hid in a drop ceiling in the basement.
I fucking hated dealing with drop ceilings because you never had any idea what was going to fall onto your head…dead animals, used needles…a loaded fucking cannon.
Not to blame the victim here, but, dude, it’s Baltimore.
That’s part of the reason why my mother was so adamant to get to grandma’s house after she passed away; she knew she had valuable stuff and she was afraid her sister would take it to a pawn shop.
It sucks that some families have to protect valuables like that. Mine included.
It probably says more about me how shocking it is how people turn into animals over a dead person’s estate. But then again my brother and I literally couldn’t give away all of our mother’s things when she passed, so I know I’m the weirdo.
My father hid a stash of credit card collection notices.
My dead ex wife pulled that shit once or SEVERAL DOZEN TIMES herself.
Yay for years spent repairing one’s credit rating.
Weddings and Funerals bring out the absolute worst in people. My MIL is having some serious health issues and at least one of my BILs is starting to swoop in. From previous conversations I have had with other BILs, I know it’s going to be Game of Thrones when this all-but-broke woman dies. A woman that I give money to on a monthly basis so she doesn’t need to move in with us or them. Fucked up, right?
If you want anything from her, take it now. Let them fight over the scraps.
I’m debating between getting up and walking down the hill for free food and booze vs. sleep
Don’t do it! You have to walk up the hill drunk and with a full belly.
Plus it’s with strangers from the neighborhood association.
But I’m trying to be more social with my neighbors. And also booze and food.
Everything tastes better free. Also, you never know who you’re going to meet. Worse case scenario, you’ve gotten a free meal and booze out of it. You’ve got nothing to lose.
Jim Tomsula will tell you that raccoon loin pairs very well with a can of exploded beans.
ಠ_ಠ
Mainly because I dont get THAT kind of tennis. Just the stupid professionals.
Here is a game related head scratcher. Which team has wasted more talent at the QB position?
Miami – Marino has to be number 1.
Cincinnati – Palmer/Dalton (I refuse to believe a Mike Brown owned team will ever win a playoff game)
Indy – Pey-pey and Sloggoth (I think only one Superbowl with the talented Manning should by default be equal to negative 2 Superbowl wins with a decent QB).
Cincinnati: You can even add Esiason and Anderson to the list. The fact that they only made one Super Bowl each with the talent they had is mind boggling.
Oh yeah I missed that…I mean I just made that post of the top of my head and didn’t even look deep.
Its amazing to me, some teams go decades without finding a decent QB…some seem to always have serviceable QB’s….and some always have a good QB. After Esiason, the Bengals hit a dry spell, but dear god, Cleveland as a city would sacrifice the first born children of all the residents to have the same level of play from their QB’s that Cincinnati has had over the years.
Tell me about it. After Klingler/Schreador/Hollas/Blake/O’Donnell/Justin/Smith/Mitchell/Frerotte, when Kitna showed up and got the team to barely average, Bengals fans were ready to canonize him.
Jon Kitna!
I read somewhere (you think I’m going to look it up on a Sunday? Ha!) that Ken Anderson’s efficiency numbers relative to his peers in the late 70’s/80’s were insane. However, after you factor in the pedo stache he comes back to the mean.
1. Agreed. That’s why many Bengal fans get into a twist because he’s not in the Hall of Fame. His numbers match up with people already in there when he played but because he didn’t win a Super Bowl, he’s passed over.
2. Its not a Pedo Stache. Its was the 70s, so its a Porn Stache.
My little brother grew up as randomly a Bungles fan, so I watched lots of their games with him. I can attest that Anderson was indeed really, really good.
I feel that for a period of time those types of ‘staches were interchangeable.
/perhaps I’ve said too much…
See, you could even pass FOAR a Southern fella, spirit animal.
Chargers?
Rivers, Brees, Flutie, Fouts, Hadl…zero Super Bowl victories.
For a second I almost felt bad for them, but then I remembered they’re the Chargers.
Obligatory FUCK THE SPANOS FAMILY
Yes. The Freezer Bowl in Hoth a week after the Epic in Miami was retroactive punishment from God for moving the team to L.A.
Yeah, Deano and the rest of that shit family can go take a flying leap onto red hot pokers.
Ryan Leaf wasted himself.
Does that count?
The Chargers fo’ sho. Fouts and Rivers combined, only making ONE AFC title game?
I’m convinced that the football Gods are punishing Miami for how much they fucked up while having Marino. Even in the age of “Qbs who never win a Superb owl are trash” Marino still is in most people’s top 5 for all-time great Qbs.
For franchises as a whole, it’s gotta be the Chargers. But at least in the Brees/Rivers era, they had Tomlinson
So how is everything? Is Charlottesville still burning? Is Trump and Kim still gonna whip out their nuclear warheads and see who’s bigger? Is LeVeon Bell still unsigned?
http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/raining_david_tennant.gif
We’re all fucked. But theres whisk(e)y, so we’ve got that
I got my hand trapped in a pickle jar for about 3 hours.
But then I fell asleep and my hand got out of the jar on its own.
I still want a pickle though….
Try turning your hand upside-down…. worked for me last time.
Let go of the pickle.
I believe, anyway.
Wait, you’re Tom Hanks?
/suspects JSD woke up with his hand on his pickle
//just playing the odds
As long as you’re not eating one in a bathroom stall…
But that’s just “frowned upon”….right?
The frowning of a lifetime.
“Buy some tires, get free Colts tickets!”
God I love local NFL broadcasts SO much.
Lucas Oil Field sounds like a closed down race track in North Carolina.
They’re using it for events at Gen Con next week, which is funny to me to think of thousands of gamer nerds actually entering an NFL stadium for once in their lives.
Here is a brain teaser…which group is worse to be around…the average NFL fan at a football game…or the average nerd at a Con?
Being an NFL fan I’d have to say NFL fan by a long ways.
NFL fans.
The nerds are generally good-natured, keep to themselves when drinking, and oddly enough as a group tend to be far better looking.
The Jets social media page is really raving about how last night went. In fairness it’ll be the highlight of the season.
She almost saved it.
The J-E-T-S won’t…….
J-E-T-E Jets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHBOJWFHLfg
Great. I go to bed at 6 something only to be awakened just now by something exploding outside my window (I assume it was a transformer).
Fine. Fuck you, God. I’m up. I’m going to see about going to the Timbers game in two hours.
I assume it was a transformer
Megatron must be acting out again. Dude needs to see a therapist.
That’s why he retired
lowland streaked tenrec.
Looks like a rat found and drank some BOLTMAN blood.
“Only 112 feet tall? Pussies.”
— Brian Kelly
“Could they beat their namesake up in British Columbia? Probably, but that’s not saying much.”
Of course they could! The NFL is the best league in the world. With that said, there are players on the Liouns that are better than some of the lower ranking players on the Lions.
GOU LIOUNS
You’d think for being at work where we do television my options for tv viewing would be better than:
Tennis (see below)
PGA Championship
Seabiscuit the Movie
Track and field
Informercials
Lesser footy highlights
Yet here we are. I’d kill for preseason footbaw right now
Is it the porn version of Seabiscuit?
Probably.
Fuck, I hate imgur so much. lol
3rd full day of Mrs. Wakezilla and Baby Wakezillaette being away. Primal Wakezilla is almost completely satiated with his large abundance of beer drinking and horrendous fried food habit of the weekend. His liver is already in midseason form. Starting to get the urge to have a salad, go to the gym and clean the place.
How we doing today, boys?
We are hungover. We blame Low Commander.
Sounds like you had a good time.
Notice I didn’t say it was Low Commander’s FAULT. Great having you. Wish my body could cash these checks my stupid brain keeps writing.
Easy on Boltman there, pal.
A man, BOLT or otherwise, has gotta drink. Whether it’s beer or the blood of heretics remains to be seen.
Did I SPARK controversy?
I’d be LIGHTNIN’ if I said yes.
This comment grounded me.
Oh I’ll be there soon enough. Which is far too soon.
OH FUCK I NEED THAT GIMME GIMME GIMME
Fuck tennis. Fuck tennis so hard.
Indeed
Woke up to my bird making a hellacious noise…because fuck letting me take a nap on a Sunday.
Seriously…never get a fucking parrot. Its like having an autistic 4 year old with a can opener for a face, and it never fucking dies.
I’m MOCKING your comment……..
Way to make things Hawkward!
I’m going to……. TWEET this.
You quack me up
[derails conversation by posting a picture of boobies]
No nipples tho.
😉
Lost in a bottlenose porpoise incident
I don’t get it…
I don’t get it…
I don’t get it…
Good to see you, JSD. Sincerely.
My apologies for my harshness last night (thought not for the point I was making).
Now go choke that chicken. 😛
Contrary to popular opinion, sometimes I do know when to STFU.
(weiner in a pussy)
Just the tip tho.
Lions staff is over the moon about this Golladay(?) kid that just scored a TD. Apparently he’s tearing camp the hell up.
How many times have we heard this exact same thing about somebody who is never heard from again? I still hope these guys improve.
Sure. It’s a part of the whole training camp thingy. There’s a tight end on the Giants that this dumb ass hopes makes the team.
Yes, I’ve got about five Broncos that just after the first fucking game I’m all “Oh an’ he’s goona make dis team a lot better, yo.”
I’ll be reading their names on cut day.
As opposed to camp reports on Cutler’s progress with the Dolphins, which have him tearing up the furniture.
Bark Mingo has ‘treemendus’ speed.
On the booky book front, I always recommend Destiny of a Republic as a different kind of political biography. Recently finished All Franken’s book and highly recommend it as well. On the fiction front, I recommend Straight Man by Richard Russo to everyone that bothers to ask.
Interesting. “Straight Man” is also the title of the autobiography that Aaron Rodgers is currently working on.
Ruddock? What’s a Ruddock?
Sheila From Accounting….LMFAO.
It does have that “I want to speak with your manager” cut.
Pugs and bulldogs are abominations of nature and an insult to God
Bringing forward a question I wrote on Sunday gravy:
Worth a 3rd rounder to keep HODOR? I’m leaning no.
I tried the Hodor/Hilton hookup in fantasy last year so I’m in the “HELL NO!” camp.
Not sure the context. But Luck is easily top ten QB, of which in this leeege you don’t give up. I’d put the Dolts situation in that they don’t seem to be able to get him tools or a defense.
Never mind; you are talking FF. Disregard.
One of teh interwebs said he prolly won’t start until the fourth game….. tuthers say first game.
Who could you get if you drop him?