Your “It’s A Long Way Coming Down” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets:

  • The Bengals curse lives on: first-round pick Jonah Williams will miss all of 2019 with a torn labrum & surgery to repair same.
    • As noted by Mr. Ayo in last night’s open thread, this is but the latest in what appears to be a clear pattern of fragile drafting by Mike Brown.

  • Tyreek Hill had his meeting with the NFL today.
    • Officials from the league’s Special Counsel for Investigations travelled to Kansas City to meet with Hill.
      • In prior incidents, Hill “pleaded guilty to choking and beating her while she was pregnant”.
        • Pre-NFL misbehavior can be used as an aggravating factor when establishing punishment for misconduct that happens after the player joins an NFL team.
      • As a ground floor, Ravens CB Jimmy Smith got four games for emotionally abusing the mother of his child. There were no allegations of physical violence against Smith.

It’s a terribly slow news day, so why not a little Canadian Prairie ballad?

It seems like a good evening to talk about music.


Tonight’s sports:

  • Beisbol:
    • MLB:
      • Mets at Phillies – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
    • College World Series:
      • Finals Game 3: Michigan vs. Vanderbilt – 7:00PM | ESPN
        • Winner take all game
  • Futbol:
    • CONCACAF Gold Cup Soccer 2019:
      • Trinidad and Tobago vs. Guyana – 6:30PM | FS1 / TSN2
      • Panama vs. U.S. – 9:00PM | FS1 / TSN2
    • MLS:
      • Toronto FC vs. Atlanta – 8:00PM | TSN4
      • FC Dallas vs. Whitecaps FC – 9:00PM | TSN
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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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Don T

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Fronkenshteen

Yeah. No.

Don T

Succintly put: liberal guilt!
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Fronkenshteen

Fuck. Goodnight.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Also only one of them coddles Nazis

Fronkenshteen
Fronkenshteen

Tonight’s banner headline is the perfect amalgam of two tanfastic songs:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TXSl-cuv_iE

yeah right

Damn that’s good.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Speaking of music, Nashville continues to impress, especially if you can avoid the drunken idiots.

You cannot though.

ALXMAC
Sharkbait

Despite all the crap at work today, I’m officially on vacation and am celebrating accordingly. Off to Chicago Friday, then London Sunday

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

You gonna get a chance to check out Delilah’s in Chicago?

Sharkbait

Now I’m going to. Definitely going to whiskey acres distilling at the very least

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Dok took me there when I visited, and it’s still among my all-time favorite bars. En-joy.

ballsofsteelandfury

Woooo!

Game Time Decision

Too late to have you bring me back some shortbread from Fornum and Mason?

/safe travels

Unsurprised

Six beers in 45 minutes. Fuck. This is barely a buzz.

Game Time Decision

What if you drank them via your butt?

Horatio Cornblower

You need some better beer.

Or to wait about another 20 minutes for it all to catch up with you.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Did I tell you I had a can of weldwerks explode in my pantry? What a sad waste of good beer. The lesson is for me to drink those sooner.

Horatio Cornblower

That’s tragic. Weldwerks has some good, if apparently very unstable, stuff.

blaxabbath

Uhhhh, if I could just be totally honest here — I don’t give a flying fuck about the Midwest or their “problems”.

Unsurprised

Unfortunately, by a fluke of geography they will mostly be the last part to drown.

blaxabbath

Then why they always bitching about fields flooding?!

You know who is not getting enough rain? The deserts!

https://youtu.be/U56Ns66Qrb8

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

And we have no interest in your giant radioactive ant problem.

Horatio Cornblower

THEY HAVE NAMES, Y’KNOW!!!!

Unsurprised

Hide the cattle. Unsurprised is drinking.

ballsofsteelandfury

Can’t we just get Biden to beat Trump and call it a day?

Does anyone else stand a chance against Trump? It seems Biden is the only one that polls above Trump.

Unsurprised

Are you fucking high?

Scratch that.

Are you fucking stupid? Have you read the batshit Republican nonsense Biden has been spouting? If he’s the nominee, I’d fucking vote for Trump because there’s more dignity involved when the choice is a brain-damaged, syphilitic loser vs. a racist lickspittle for billionaires who did it all for the love of the game and not even for the decent reasoning that he was corrupt and enriched himself and his family for eternity.

ballsofsteelandfury

But aren’t they all corrupt and enriched? They’re politicians!

Unsurprised

No

Brick Meathook

The hate is strong in this one.

Unsurprised

Dude. You have no idea.

Unsurprised

I never got to Mean Drunk at the DFO pub crawl.

Unsurprised

BTW, just to be clear. I am an asshole, right?

Fronkenshteen

Dude, I’m such an asshole I can’t even share my thoughts here 90% of the time.

blaxabbath

Ppl say Warren already took his best punch.

I like her because she’s his exact opposite. She’s the smart compassionate grandma to his insane child-diddlying step-grandpa.

Unsurprised

People take advantage of grandma.

SonOfSpam

In short, if Biden is the nominee (he won’t be), I’ll happily vote for him.

But I’m looking forward to President Harris or President Warren.

King Hippo

There is a “Mister Deadly” on Archer tonight, and Rikki ain’t even tell us!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Damn you Brick Meathook, you sent me down a hole. Now I want this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWZTTg0hEwI

nomonkeyfun

“brrrrrrrt.”

theeWeeBabySeamus

A scale model A10 that farts. Aside from a REAL A10 name something better. Go ahead and try.

You can’t.

Sharkbait

Evening gents. Survived a 100 person re-structuring at work today. Only to read an email from the CEO touting breakout growth and how this was good for the company. Great optics. Touting growth while co workers are packing shit into boxes.

/drinks.

//How the fuck ya doin?

Don T

Did they call it “rightsizing”?

Sharkbait

“Reduction In Force”

King Hippo

makes it feel MUCH better for the fired, I’m sure

ballsofsteelandfury

Where I work, they send out RIF notices/letters. Same thing for us.

Sharkbait

The callous indifference from the top is what pissed me off the most. I get that RIF has to happen sometimes, but at least show some compassion for fucks sake

Brick Meathook

That’s what you get working for “the man.” I own my own company, folks. Yes that’s right, I’m a captain of industry. And I own a corporation, not some stinking LLC. I do the hiring, and I do the firing, and that’s that. I don’t give a fuck about the employees “feelings.” Of course, I’m the only employee I’ve ever had, which causes all sorts of issues. If I jerk off then technically I’m guilty of sexual harassment.

Unsurprised

Do you need a general counsel? I need an excuse to allow me to practice in California without going through the bullshit of taking the bar exam again (and having to explain some … issues).

ballsofsteelandfury

At least he didn’t say “record profits”…

herodotus450

“Congratulations, corporate drones! Our outlook for the future has our profits increasing by approximately 100 of your pitiful salaries.”

blaxabbath

Man — who is downsizing right now?

Don T

Forgive student loan debt. Those who already paid are not important to those burdened right now. This moral hazard stuff is revanchist bullshit. Debt can be slavery. The usury’s in writing and accepted, but still!

King Hippo

What about some sort of community service element? I would like that as a component of “free-ish” tuition programs going forward, too.

Don T

Oh, I’m all for the snot-nosed getting a sweat. Or a toxic internship. Or—ooh, ooh!—cleaning toilets and enduring old folks.

King Hippo

yeah, maybe that will help the elderly modify their terrifying politics, too

Unsurprised

It’s the same braindead thinking that says we should increase the retirement age since people live longer instead of how we’ve automated and efficiency’ed so much that no one in this country should have to work more than 30 hours a week.

Unsurprised

I have actually been working and it’s amazing how little you working folks have time to think about politics and theory and all the bullshit that I’ve been fretting about for years, but now that I’m on a drunken roll — bring on the motherfucking guillotines already!

Don T

Not for me. I’ve been working 30+ hours since 2nd year of college and I’ve always thought about politics. It’s just that, my personal charm would suffer if shouted “Frantz Fanon is right!” every 20 minutes.

rockingdog

LOL wait what?comment image

King Hippo

THANKS, Star Treek NOBUMMER!!!!1111

Unsurprised

Bullshit. Him taking her to sex clubs in Paris and wanting her to join him in an open relationship where he could pawn her off to every car dealership owner in Illinois under the guise of “free love” is why they split.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It says “contributed”

theeWeeBabySeamus

theeWeeBabySeamus

Maybe soccer doesn’t always suck as much as I thought.

theeWeeBabySeamus

But I do have to point out that it’s the only goal scored.
LOL

Unsurprised

What a shitty goalie

herodotus450

I’m following this debate over Telex, and i have a completely different opinion of who won than my friend who’s watching it via semaphore. It’s like 1960 all over again.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

So after the last two and a half years I feel like the quality I would prize most in a president is intelligence. So far I’ve got Warren at #1 and Castro at #2.

Redshirt

Booker and O’Rourke have had moments, but they still have a scared-shitless look on their face. The guy on the far right gets my vote for the “Screaming Look at Me” candidate.

Redshirt

“Comment awaiting moderation”? Okay, how did I anger the almighty Mods?

BaldingSpiritually

Oh to have Trump lose not only to a woman, but one he consistently mocked with racist nicknames.

King Hippo

I have Harris #1, Warren #2. Really like ’em both. Warren’s workrate impresses me greatly.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I love that I actually have to ask which Harris.

King Hippo

there’s TWO Harrises??

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Kamala and Beto.

Unsurprised

Beto’s VA plan is basically endorsing the government from Starship Troopers, and to point out how insane that idea and its author are, Robert Heinlein was too right wing for the John Birch Society. IN THE FIFTIES. When it was calling Ike a commie stooge.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I ALREADY TOLD YOU I AM NOT RUNNING!!!!

Unsurprised

Only because there’s no Aussie Nazis chasing you so far.

theeWeeBabySeamus

“So Far” being the key phrase.

Unsurprised

Bernie was right about issues going on now 40 years ago, but go on …

Redshirt

You have one job, NBC Control Room. ONE JOB!

Unsurprised

You could have zero expectations for NBC and they would still fuck up

litre_cola

I need to download youtube videos on to my laptop for Decilitre for an upcoming plane trip. What is the best downloader?

King Hippo

just tell him he needs to pray constantly, or God will let the plane fall

litre_cola

It is going to be hell. I know it, you know it. It is a 6 am 2 hour flight. We hope he sleeps and not unleash the kraken.

King Hippo

yeah, better dope his ass up

BaldingSpiritually

jdownloader2. If there’s a better downloader I’ve yet to see it

BaldingSpiritually

Adding to my answer, you download the software, open it up, click on the second tab, think it’s called links. Paste the YouTube link there, click download, sit back and drink.

What I really love about this is whereas most downloaders go one video at a time, this bad boy can download playlists with one link.

Don T

Download “The Wall”, cover your wife’s eyes on the tits part, repeat.

Brick Meathook

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I want that Piper Cub back there. The 747 too.

rockingdog

found a funny:
WIFE: Did you get the baby their shots?

ME: Of course

BABY: [licking salt off wrist] WOOOO

ballsofsteelandfury

I love this and I’m going to steal it.

Redshirt

Sec. Castro got his pitch and hit a home run.

rockingdog

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Don T
Redshirt

I’m actually liking this debate. The roundtalk is enlightening.

Still too early for me to get a favorite. Too many damn people on the stage.

rockingdog

Padres get the win against the Orioles!!!!
cool!

theeWeeBabySeamus

grumble grumble

litre_cola

Late season charge?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I love that I can stream day baseball on my phone now.

[Work production drops significantly]

theeWeeBabySeamus

1 win in their last 12 games.
You have to actually try to be that bad.

Don T

Speaking of music, loud bass or GTFO.*

* 79% reliable.

Don T

Some of the 21%: Bomba y plena. All drums. With the dancers and drums feeding each other.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J09tYXHH0uk

Don T

If it’s sticky and loud, cool.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3hBF_5ooW_M

Redshirt

Transfemale right to abortion?

Unless I’ve missed a scientific breakthrough, a transfemale can’t get pregnant. Gender reassignment is only on the outside.

litre_cola

The fetus can gestate in a box you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Eh, you never know what advances science will bring.

Redshirt

Ha! I propose we change Cincinnati’s name from Lower Cleveland to Schleprock City?

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/2019/06/26/tml-reds-losing-streak-bengals-injuries-cincinnati-sports-curse/1569273001/

Redshirt

How many questions have they asked Warren already? It seems like she’s ahead by two.

ALXMAC

now it’s 3.

ALXMAC

Did they “weight” this like they supposedly did the lineup?

ALXMAC
Redshirt

Despirate Cheap Pop. Everyone take a drink.

Redshirt

Oh, why didn’t they learn from the ’16 GOP mess and fit everyone with shock collars to go off if they go past their time limit.

Redshirt

All I want to know is if they forgive everyone’s students loans, are people like me who already paid off their loans going to get a check or a credit in their taxes?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah, count on it….
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King Hippo

ha, I had the same thought

litre_cola

What about Canadian student loans, is that part of NAFTA part deux/dos?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I DEMAND FREE MONEY!

Unsurprised

You get the satisfaction of a job well done. Meanwhile, I get the cost of a Los Angeles tear-down forgiven.

scotchnaut

I go for bed now.

I wake up at 5am tomorrow.

I get to work at 7am.

I pull out hair for 8 hours.

I come back home and drink and make jokes.

I lather, rinse, cry and repeat.

Unsurprised

Where’s the part where you kill hobos to make leather goods out of their skin?

Horatio Cornblower

That’s the weekend.

Redshirt

Okay. Lets see if the first half of the Democratic mess can get me a candidate I can vote for. Or at least a candidate that seems genuine.

King Hippo

Sen. Warren is super genuine, though I still prefer Sen. Harris.

Redshirt

I don’t know. For her, I see her as “Look at me! I’m the fusion of Hillary and Bernie! Vote for me, Hillnie!”

Brick Meathook

Too bad they’re both women.

ALXMAC

Beto is already nervous AF.

Horatio Cornblower

Is the Democrat candidate not Trump? Then they have my vote. I’m not trying to overthink things here.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Same here.

King Hippo

back to the Canadia well – how about the Vancouver Whiteheads? They’s +463 in the town that killed JFK

Redshirt

Hotel Room TV always has the Fox News channel when its turned on. I wonder if that’s enough to ask for a refund.

scotchnaut

“Soooo… vacation is not what you ever wanted? Why haven’t you drawn any circles in the sand yet? How do you feel this ties into your mother abandoning you emotionally?”

-The Go-Go’s, having a go at being psychoanalysts

ArmedandHammered

If i go into a restaurant and the TVs are on Fox News, i immediately leave.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Do like I do and use the parental lockout feature to shut the channel down permanently.

litre_cola

Rooney just scored a goal from mid field.

King Hippo

he’s good for a league that’s below English Championship-calibre

theeWeeBabySeamus

I did good on Jeopardy tonight.
SUCK ON IT TREBEK. SUCK IT LONG AND SUCK IT HARD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56AFof6qFE

scotchnaut

30 for 30 Deion Sanders Braves/Falcons 24 hour thingy is more about the media coverage than his actual accomplishment.

King Hippo

he was always primarily a media concoction

scotchnaut

30 for 30 Staff: “We’ve got a fuck-ton of reporting footage that we shot back in the day when that Sanders guy did that thing.”

Producers: “Sounds like you can make into something. Can you?”

30 for 30 Staff: [in unison] “Can we? You bet!”

Producers: “Release the starving wolves! STOP! STOP! [takes a collective breath] Release the confetti!”

30 for 30 Staff: [ducks for cover]

Ducks: “WTF?”

Unsurprised

The media jerking itself off? Why I never!

Brick Meathook

At 4:00 listen to the pilot describe the big new buildings they just put up right in the landing path:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxRFIneSTT4&

theeWeeBabySeamus

He shoulda just crashed it into Verrazzano-Narrows and gotten it over with. Nobody likes Staten Island anyway.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Downvoted!!!!! Hmmmmmm….apparently someone DOES like Staten Island.

If you squint really hard you can see Senor’s house at one point.

Brick Meathook

It wasn’t me! I don’t even know how to downvote.

theeWeeBabySeamus

lol

ALXMAC
herodotus450

All this talk about USWNT going to the white (racist btw) house, did they win the world cup already?

King Hippo

Scotchy, should I put 5 dimes down on the Ottawa Furries? I am bored waiting for #BFIB rain delay to end.

scotchnaut

[does dimes to twoonies math] Yes?

King Hippo

Let’s Go Furries!!

King Hippo

and they in teh lead!!

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Friday… You.

ALXMAC
litre_cola

I found her attractive back in the day. I was into the nerdy type.

ALXMAC

In the notorious words of Biggie:
“I like ’em cute, round tits and fat asses
Educated, so I can bust off on they glasses”

litre_cola

Holy shit that brings a tear to the eye.

herodotus450

It’s a terribly slow news day,

You say that like Roberto Luongo didn’t announce his retirement today.

herodotus450

No ring? I beg to differ; what was all that rioting about then?

scotchnaut

Both sons of mine (14 and 16) are phone-centric isolation-ist kids. TA-DA?

herodotus450

Think of the DUI lawyers you won’t have to pay!

scotchnaut

Stupid silver lining…

herodotus450

That list is pretty long, I almost forgot about Dre.

ALXMAC