Good evening everyone it is I the substitute for Beerguyrodrigo who I believe is currently running bootleg jeans down to America. I hope he doesn’t get busted and will send me some candycorn m&m’s for me to do a Baking with Litre post. For those of you who just come to the fair city during footbaw season you may be wondering what the hell does this guy have to say? Will there be stoner talk? Maybe. Wine talk? Hell yeah. Plus I will try to fill in with the sportsing as best as I can which really isn’t important as Ratbirds v Jaguras is on 1st thing in the morning tomorrow. I promise no futbol chat for once.
As some of you may know, legalization is coming next year up here countrywide and things are going to change a lot. It seems that the provinces are deciding how they distribute it and each province will have a different policy. Ontario has come out and said they will not privatize the sales and it will all be done through a government store, like their alcohol sales are. Both federal and provincial governments will tax it and be the sole legal distributor of the sticky icky apart from medicinal users who can still get it by mail. There is a few problems with this policy that jump to mind. First of all, Ontario is going to start out with only 40 dispensaries for the whole province. Your geography may not be up to snuff on Canadian provinces but Ontario is huge and this is not nearly enough coverage for that many people in that big of a landmass. Second thing that springs to mind is their pricing and how they are going to be competitive with the black market if they tax the hell out of the stuff. My medicinal pricing is on par with what I used to get from my guy Chad (seriously), but with Chad for Green (in my phone) I was getting strains of weed without knowing their potency. Now I have become very aware the percentages of THC and CBD as the strains with super high THC sketch me out a bit so I order accordingly. In my mind the provincial governments up here should take a page out of Denver’s book when recreational consumption was legalized. When I visited Denver after legalization it was a great setup everywhere I went. Security was high (heh) in these places and there was security everywhere. I am sure there are cons to the system which one of our Colorado DFOers are more than welcome to point out below. It was privatised but the government still got their cut so everyone involved was pleased, consumer, dispensary, and government. I will continue to order my medicinal through the mail because I have to do very little and it comes directly to my door with my mailman.
Most of you who tune in during the offseason will know that I am a wine guy as well as a medicinal marijuana user (double threat). Well the seasons are changing and as are my wine drinking habits. My ritual on Thursday in the fall is to grab a bottle of red , fire on the interwebs and watch the coloUr rush game until my eyes bleed. Summer has passed and it is starting to get chilly up here so white and roses just will not do. Last time I did this I spoke about trends and how certain regions and grape varietals come and go. As of right now the popular red varietal is Malbec and the region is Mendoza, Argentina. If you like this variety (I don’t) definitely buy stuff from Argentina as the plantings elsewhere haven’t had the time for the vines to mature enough. If you are wondering about French Malbec it is something that you would rarely by itself due to French wine laws. In France Malbec is predominantly used for blending in Rhone. This time of year I gravitate towards Pinot Noirs from Oregon, or Merlots from Washington as those regions are closest to me here and the quality is phenomenal. Later in the season I get into bigger red when the snow is outside and it is -20 degrees. As for value this time of year I look to Spain and Rioja’s little brother Navarra as they still use the same 2 grapes Grenache and Tempranillo but the are a lot cheaper and are still great quality.
On to the sportsing!
College Football: Times are whatever you see on the screen in front of you when you look it up.
Irish v Michigan St FOX
Washington at Colorado FS1
UCLA at Stanford ESPN
Also Hawaii at Wyoming! Go CowboUys! ESPN 2
There still is baseball games going on and Bumgarner is on the bump against the Dodgers so there is that.
There is Ice Football Preseason but the kids are still all playing so it isn’t worth your time. READ A BOOK WILL YOU!
In soccer there are some MLS games if you are so inclined. (not futbol)
There is a CFL game but nobody up here will be watching it either. Toronto v Montreal.
Remember if you are in a restaurant/winebar/lounge/Tomsula’s boxcar that house wine is the money maker for the house and the next couple of cheaper glasses are great value as they are trying to get rid of that wine.
As tempting as it may be, don’t argue with a robot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fDHRrUN0hA
Oh how I do miss me some ass mode.
Well, you better keep an eye on that shoulder.
Ventilated.
Which Kardashian is this?
How dare you besmirch Demi Rose’s reputation with such slander.
So, Demi Rose Cardassian?
Breathes well.
Wow. Nice.
FUUUUUUUUCK
My brother is right on the cusp of undergoing some kind of bariatric procedure to help him lose weight, but he’s having a bunch of (to me) irrational doubts and concerns and I wish I knew how to help him cut through the bullshit and realize that those doubts are all just the last gasps of the same thoughts that caused him to regain all the weight he lost after a couple of his friends and then our mother died in an 18 month span.
What are his doubts, if I may ask?
FWIW, surgery/anesthesia is never to be taken lightly in any case. If he’s having doubts, don’t dismiss them out of hand.
you lose the ability to #ShameBinge
That is genuinely one reason.
I understand, but it’s not about the surgery. It’s the psychology of what it means. That he needs surgery, that he feels pressure to lose weight and really change his life if he does it, but mostly it’s the fear that even if he does lose as much weight as he hopes to that he’s still going to feel miserable because his depression and self-doubts aren’t just rooted in being fat. And I keep telling him it’s a holistic process where dealing with those psychological aspects are part of what he’d have to do to lose weight no matter what. He’s seen a therapist a couple times but doesn’t think he’s ready to go fully into it, and I figure whatever is causing that doubt is related to this.
OK, lots to digest there (no pun intended, sorry) so forgive me if I miss something here.
But the bottom line from where I’m looking (and hopefully understanding) is you think maybe he’s not mentally/emotionally where he should be to be taking on a life change like this which will require his intestinal fortitude?
It seems that way. He’s also making an interesting point that this is one step in a whole set of changes that he would have to make involving seeing dieticians, therapist, etc. But he could do all that without the surgery, and should, and so why not try the non-invasive method of doing all the other work before adding in the part where someone has to cut him open? This seems like a reasonable take, but also seems ripe to excuse not doing anything.
I see your point regarding it possibly being an excuse. And you very well could be correct, FWIW.
But also totally am on board with the commitment and lifestyle change necessities, surgery or not. Sadly, there’s no easy answer for you. Sorry. It sucks.
I don’t know him as you do, of course. But you’re correct that surgery or not, he’ll need to make a commitment going forward. The surgery itself is that commitment for a lot of people. But if he’s having second thoughts, maybe it’s not for him.
Maybe encouraging him to live healthier, making little changes (eat better, exercise more even just walking, etc) is a better way to start for him maybe?
How old is he? How much of an immediate health issue is this?
He’s 36, and he’s in decent health aside from his weight. I think if he does all of the other stuff (diet, exercise, therapist, get better sleep/CPAP even?), he can lose the weight without surgery. That’s basically what I’m doing and how he lost all this weight ten-twelve years ago (tbf, metabolism changes a lot in those ten years).
We’re going to discuss it more in the morning. I appreciate your insight so far. Thanks.
No problem.
Hope he figures out and does what’s best for him. It’s not always an easy thing to figure out.
Exercise with him. Positive endorphins and shit.
He’s in L.A. He snapchats me every day from the gym, which he’s been going to every day this year, He’s not losing weight, even though he also only eats one meal a day (which, caloric content of what that meal entails aside isn’t good for losing weight). We talk all the time about exercising and such, but the normal route just seems to be insufficient for him at this point.
Wow. I like video replay, it’s a good thing.
But do we gotta review every fucking thing now?
THIS. Absolutely needs to be some common sense “materiality” threshold.
25 years later, the idea that Seagal could ever beat up TLJ is just laughable.
Well I reckon that WCS, sunrisesunrise and I will be up early, who else is watching Jguras (Fulham) v Ratbirds, and do we know how to watch it yet?
streams on Yahoo I think, and y’all better it’s mandatory
No way I’m getting up at 6:30am. It’s hard enough to get up by 10am for the first games.
ayo you are central time. No. Excuse.
What?!?
At least he’s not black?
Or Asian.
Trust me on this one….oy.
/Bill Parcells puts down the baseball bat. For now.
and it’s not like we ask you to put pants on for church. In fact, we actively discourage it.
https://nflstream.yahoo.com/
I may be up anyway, but I’m not going to watch. I’ll liveblog, though.
Yeah, as a native Baltimoron, I’ll be watching. Sigh.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/ravens-insider/bs-sp-ravens-jaguars-how-to-watch-london-20170921-story.html
Rhyming Boy with boi, cant beat that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k
and ppl still say she not deep. haterz!
Oh, I’d like to go deep, don’t get me wrong.
Exactly.
Montez just fell down on that play like he saw the white sails of John Cabot
Damn, that was a good hit.
Pauls-Clots tomorrow. If we’re ever going to see a 2-2 tie, this is it.
Pauls-Jets beg to differ, but that’ll be a 5-5 tie.
7-5 OT win
to think, that’s the CHRISTMAS PRESENT fixture for those sad fucks
You call it Christmas present, I call it DEEP HURTING.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjCjgjk9n0o
“shall we kill ourselves or go to the Jets/Pauls game this Christmas?”
“why not BOTH??”
Thousands of peoples Christmases are already being ruined by watching or attending the game, so a ritual dual sacrifice/suicide during the game isn’t going to make things any worse for anyone there. Plus, you’d be famous!
#ThePauls
#DefinitiveProgress
Did you ask for a Fek Check earlier?
^Should have thought of that earlier.
18-12 for Wichita
Damn, YOUDUB, hell of a catch.
So the scariest part of the movie ‘It’ was when I turned around and yelled “Hey, shut the fuck up!” at this one kid who was talking for the first 15 minutes of the movie. I spent the rest of the movie wondering if I was going to get shot walking out.
When the lights came on I turned around to see what I was dealing with.
He was 12.
Also ‘It’ is not very scary. Like at all.
12 huh?
Better a kid than some “retired” police officer in Florida:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/justice/florida-movie-theater-shooting/index.html
seriously, I can’t remember the last time I got mad at NRA members, but them defending this fucker made my blood boil
All Cops Are Bastards
UCLA’s regular defense has returned to my teevee box
(Image that just says “boobs”)
Hmm. I might be able to do that.
My pants just got tighter.
call me kooky, but something about tall, lithe blondes just does it FOAR me
You’re a WASP white male.
Duh.
ahem, spelling out “white” after WASP is redundant. PLEBIAN
LMFAO. I’d call you a cunt if you weren’t 100% correct.
You fucking cunt.
That’s Mister WASP cunt, thank you.
Also, get ready to laugh….
I’m trynna pick up Hurns off of waivers. How fucking funny is that?????
Ok kooky.
How does one make an offering to SHANKLOR when it’s blocked?
A line through the appropriate letter, like in Icelandic.
Start cutting off kicker toes to make amends?
RONALD WEEEEEASLEY!!!! IT’S LEVIOSAAAAAAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reop2bXiNgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4
I love classic simple internet
We does Ron look like a young Trump?
Hey guys! Who else just got in from playing naked hide-and-seek in the cornfields behind their house?
for your sake, hopefully a hairy bear named “Dirk?”
I didn’t realize Buddy lived in the Canadian Breadbasket. Kinda figures, though.
oh shit, UCLA wins tonight and Rosen will be a certified Chryst-killer!
Shut it down. We have a winner.
He’ll have to change his name to Rosenberg after that.
Wow.
Black guy and Jewish guy doing synchronized sideline dance, oh American Fuhrer fo sho not gon’ like dat!
That movie scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
No shit.
It was basically nothing more than Jaws, with a bear stand in. But still.
Aaron Rodgers used to whack to the title.
I don’t get the arousal, but OK.
Should have used karate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWAPA4Eb_rk
Rosen is Closin’
2nd and 35 in the Hawaii-Wyoming tilt? NFL BLITZ!
I shouldn’t have eaten that other half of my salmon. I’m painfully full now. It is a good excuse keeping me from doing laundry, though.
what this voodoo, UCLA defense HITTING PPL??
Sooooo….. Last FG wins in Palo Alto?
As long as FG stands for “Freedom Grab,” or “Federal Grant,” or … something.
Is there going to be a DFO-Con in Vegas again?
It has recently been brought up, but nothing concrete in teh worx just yet.
November pls.
I volunteer to keep the rivebrogs going for us shut-ins!!
Bullshit.
You ain’t getting out of it two years running. I damned well wanna see your pilled up arse running around a sportsbook betting on everything you can find.
I’ve earned it, dammit!!!!!!
I will start working now. A few more posts and I will say I have to go.
Yes, Nov please.
Early December was mentioned, same as last year.
Again, nothing concrete there, and honestly we’re short on time for early December at this point soooooo….we’ll see.
Fucking damn rabbits.
Cassandra, no!
So I just came from a waitresses 23rd bday. I am 40. These folk are just as fucked as I was so really status quo.
After that first sentence, I have to say I was expecting a better story.
You disappoint me.
Old me would have had one for you
Old me…would have sobered up and made sure everybody got home safely. I was never really any fun.
humanity is a doomed endeavor, it would be nice to have my metabolism, ability to drink, and delusional (albeit faint) hope that life might improve back, though
Yeah, we’d all love to be 15 again.
Fuck everything.
Ricky The Dog: Hey!!!! Not cool man. My penis needs that stuff. No, not the horseradish you ignorant fuck.
Teodor you quirk!
Someone check on Fek.
Twitter issues?
Iowa… whew…
Frk?
He’s doing fine. Back with Detroit, he might make the big club, but doing fine.
The important thing to remember is that the victims of Penn State have once again learned…you don’t speak up against Penn State.
glad I didn’t watch any of that horseshit. FUCK OFF, IOWA
I was so happy to see his character killed.
Penn State forces their entry on the Iowa endzone
HOLE E. SHEET. Penn State with a walk-off touchdown with no time left.
Ouch iowa.
Seven seconds left. Pedo State 3rd and goal at the seven.
AFA not able to stop (The Red) Baron II from adding the extra point, SDSU back on top.
kicker short from 56. Make it 31 in a row.
Things are moving slowly in Lexington.
I might be getting bored now.
Had the line, just not the leg.
Wow, 30 losses in a row to the Gators. That is pitiful.
Pedo State down, 19-15, with 58 seconds left and fourth and two.