Whether your parade is more German
than Sesame Street,
or more North Korean
than Japanese puppet,
I hope all the Commentists are having a nice evening with friends, family, or favorite bottle.
As you eat tonight, remember that Joey Chestnut won today’s Nathan’s contest with 71 eaten.
If you recall, I once ate a dozen at a regional qualifier
and then didn’t eat for nearly two days. Maybe pace yourselves.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB:
- Phillies at Atlanta – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Blue Jays at Red Sox – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- CFL:
- Tiger-Cats at Alouettes – 7:00PM | TSN / ESPN+
- Futbol:
- LA Galaxy vs. Toronto FC – 10:30PM | TSN
Looks like most of you might have to talk to relatives tonight. Good thing it’s a holiday.
Played the stone cold shit out of some acoustic guitar tonight.
I have not heard that Stone Cold Shit song before, but I’m sure it’s good.
Los Angeles sounds like a war zone right now, and it’s only 8:30 PM.
Imagine San Pedro.
I’m imagining San Pedro:
Genderella
Ghost Lusters
Girth, Wind and Fire
Great Sexpectations
Guess Who Came At Dinner
Honey, I Blew Up My Tits
Honey, I Blew Everyone
Howard Sperm’s Private Parties
Hump Up the Volume
Hung Wankenstein
So we went to sign the papers for the house yesterday so it can all close tomorrow. Because underwriters are a complete joke, my loan officer had me play some game with the cash where my “approved” account would deposit part of the payment and my wife’s account would wire in the rest of the down payment.
So I’m meeting with the title gal and she gives me the wire info and I explain I actually have TWO wire transfers to make so do I need TWO transfer info sheets? She says no, none of it matters so long as this code is attached to the total value of my deposits. Fine.
I leave and head to BofA to make TWO wire transfers. BofA guy is like, “hey, I can save you $30 if we transfer the funds from my account and my wife’s account to our joint account then make ONE wire transfer. He also does mortgages, of course, and agrees that, so long as we have this code, the one transfer is fine. So I sit there for 20 mins as he shifts money and mines I’m in Vegas for work and, you know, he could set me up with their branch business banker guy. Not today, bud. My baby is anxious. My wife is anxious. And I hate BofA and just want to hand over all this money. The wire transfer goes through.
Last night I see I missed a call and have a message. It’s the mortgage company in CA. They only got one wire from an “unapproved” account (for the total amount with the associated code) instead of TWO wires and so now there is a problem. I called her back but it was too late so I guess we need to get this ironed out tomorrow. My RE agent didn’t seem too concerned but I’ve pretty much done everything this whole process so she may just not be concerned that SHE will have to do anything other than tell me to sit at the bank for five hours and iron this shit out.
Anyone have any insight on this? Seriously, if it weren’t for my wife I’d have probably just walked from this purchase like five times just because I’m frustrated with dealing with so many “professionals” who are anything but, IMHO.
WTF? I have limited experience, but three houses in I’ve never had this type of experience.
I see it on the contractor side so I assume it’s the same with the admin side — everyone is so busy that subpar service is just the standard as we really through sales.
I’ve heard the horror stories of other, just have not ran into it myself. My experience has been; here, let us loan you a shit ton of money and I’ll get my cut. I have only dealt with people who have been recommended by others and have not bought in a whole new area. Same realtor for all three purchases and sales; dude knows what he’s doing.
I Got this agent on a recommendation but she’s not the recommended person; she’s part of the “team”. The best person was the mortgage guy and now he’s off being a pithing coach for the Mets or something so now I’ve just got a bunch of people shrugging guessing the other guy didn’t give the right advice.
I’m hoping it’s as simple as signing some form or writing a brief explanatory letter but we’ll see. Now it’s all 11th hour shit and this is exactly the stress I was trying to avoid.
DOWN WITH THE HATED BRITISH!
Was that from the revolutionary war archives at Trump Library?
No, that’s from the Apollo 11 moon landing. Trump likes the confederate flag.
We’re watching “When They See Us.” It makes me sad to think that teenage me probably would have been racist as fuck in how I viewed things.
I feel like Just Gonna Send It guy should be an honorary American.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-rWEjbXUAEhwEi?format=jpg&name=medium
OK, that’s not really SFW either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCRMavglkI
Sorry; this is very NSFW.
Money shot.
That’s about four fetishes in one gif.
found a funny:
I forgot the words to the National Anthem, so I just sang the theme song to America’s Funniest Home Videos instead.
Nice to see Bills Mafia making a holiday appearance.
Fake. You can tell because nothing’s on fire.
Hulk totally looks like a baby mama.
‘roids will do that to you.
Here is my anthem today. Fuck the president and his enablers with a double guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_tyWt_9Bfs
Completely ran out of plus ones.
Because I was only given the one.
“It’s July 4th. Do whatever you can to fight Socialismuslim!”
-The GOP
Somebody in North Dakota has a ruler.
That’s a hard job!
Donnie Sutherland, Walmart Spokesman, discussing the company’s expansion plans-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4
Surprised Nobummer and the libruls haven’t renamed them Firewelfare yet smh
I love SO MUCH that this is a real thing you can order for your ammosexual needs.
I’m the goose.
My coz just sent me that. Great minds indeed.
What got me was the Pepsi.
The more I look at that the more I think he’s going to fuck the goose, then eat it.
You do you.
Just to further out myself, I graduated from Sherman E. Burroughs High in Ridgecrest California class of ’79.
Still got a lot of knuckleheads there who didn’t smarten up and get the fuck out of that high desert griddle but none the less..
Best to all my desert rat friends tonight.
Ridgecreststrong!
Was I supposed to use this sign?
#?
Mine was similar; get out of town.
Every album they put out, they just gets better and better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpbblMR_jUo
Agreed. I would attend a big sweaty ass festival to see these guys. Really.
YES. Big fan of that crazy Aussie stoner.
I’ve spent the last hour reminding myself that I have to work tomorrow.
Had a killer grilling session though.
Fair exchange.
Had a killer grilling session though
How many fingernails did you pull out? Our operations in Ghana… are they compromised?
/asking for a ‘friend’
It’s safe.
“Yeah… right.”
-Lawrence Olivier
Scotchy gets me.
My teeth hurt.
That’s special.
Rendition.
How can one NOT be in love with Sharon Van Etten?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBBRTiE4p0s
of all the Ron Swanson gifs I have seen today, this is easily my favourite
The Capitals offer sheeting (not a sex thing I promise) Marner would be the comeuppance that Canada deserves, 200 years in the making.
Robert Milnes would like to question why this particular date is being used.
So they didnt put Decilitres bag on the flight last week. Had all his clothes, diapers etc in it and they had to drive it 2 hours to deliver it the next day.
Return leg they have lost his cart seat. Gave us a 40 dollar replacement which he is too tall for. I have yet to recieve 1 apology from a human. We are still waiting for his seat and it may get delivered tomorrow. Seriously I think he would be safer in a cardboard box with bungee cords.
I am fuming.
What airline? United?
Westjet
make them bring you free booze
Maybe they’re trying to break the “Canadians apologize for everything” stereotype?
#BreakingBarriers
I mean, really, you crash everybody probably dies anyway.
LOL.
He was obviously raptured.
On last August’s drive from Donksville to Raleigh (in a car with no SiriusXM), one of the things that kept me sane were 3 Parquet Courts CDs. This was a great find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRG3R2FmGlY
I’m on my 4th (non-alkie) ginger beer. Fentiman’s (that and Q is my favourite varietals).
hey, I told the bitch I only bats righty ,, smh
To be fair, that’s one more hit that Chris Davis got this week.
What do you have on tap for drinking tonight? Or now.
On the Dirt SeaTruthers broadcast today (2nd come-from-behind win in a row FOAR #BFIB), they showed a CAT drinking from a stadium water fountain. Blew my fucking mind, man.
did it specify Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana for location?
Could be Florida.
Marriage material.
“Critics contend that David Cronenberg’s edit of his film “Crash” was focused a bit too much on the movie’s subsequent release in Japan.”
That’s a deep cut.
I thought that would go over like gangbusters but here I am… thankful that one fucking guy got the reference.
But I got it HARD!
Don’t you fucking laugh, you bastard.
Just had 3 hour car ride with someone explaining why Trump is good. Send liquor.
let me guess – either (i) rabid evangelical; and/or (ii) has “disrupt” or “thought leader” in they LinkedIn profile?
(iii) Republican convinced that Democrats want to destroy the country. At one point I was looking at the crops pass by and wonder if I can survive bailing out at 70 mph.
That theme has been beaten into their heads for the last 20 years. I understand why it has taken root, but if they spent ten fucking minutes just thinking about it rationally, they would see that it doesn’t make any goddamn sense. We live in this country too! Why would we want to destroy it?
spent ten fucking minutes just thinking about it rationally
Not possible.
In regards to anything.
My Advice: When driving, don’t stop and pick up grifters.
unless you have special scotchy plans in mind, amirite??
This one time I ran out of duct-tape.
is annoying when they squirm, agreed
My treat. Just send me your fax and Social Security #s
A rich Puerto Rican Prince!!
Murrika!!
*America’s foreign policy since 1946.
Happy Ungrateful Colonial Subjects Day!
I am reading in my empty, completely quiet home. PERFECT holiday for Hippo.
What you read?
It’s more coloring, but still.
*Cheap Shot Fired
hey I only move mah mouth hole a little on them big words
“Fay” by Larry Brown, as I continue through the Commentist recs
Final take on Perdido?
did nae see that ending coming. Liked that very much.
“Everyone loves a parade!”
-Leni Riefenstahl
My 4th has been great so far. It started with Rage Against the Machine, peppered in some Rise Against, Propaghandi, listened to the entirety of Clutch’s Earth Rocker while making chili, and I just got back from Booze Bros Brewing with a stupidly cheap 4 pack of 1-800-Tropics.
My parents are coming over in an hour for chili dogs, the house smells amazing and I’m cracking another beer while booting up Spiderman on PS4. This is how you take a day off.
https://youtu.be/7dYojHK7cu0
That’s good hustle.
Fuck yes, young patriot.