So, did you remember to move your clocks ahead?
Yep, I figured. Daylight Savings Time is a hit & miss proposition with most people. We love it in the summer, when we get that 10:00PM daylight, but we hate it right now, when it means mornings are dark again & I can’t see the skunks when out walking the dogs.
On the Best Coast there is currently a debate about whether to stay on it year-round. Most people, being sheep, want to because “SUMMER!”. In BC we had an online poll, alongside anti-vaxx petitions, that determined 75% of people were in favour of the change. Now, we can’t actually do it unless the rest of our “trade partners” – CA, OR & WA – are willing to make the change with us. That requires congressional approval, which left-leaning states surely won’t get in an election year. So our genius of a Premier – John Horgan
made the statement that we “might just go it alone”, which has all the effectiveness of prayer. Because absolutely no one expects us to have to change clocks every time we cross the border, and most seniors will vote against him because “Wheel of Fortune” won’t come on at the same time anymore.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Vegas at Flames – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Blues at Blackhawks – 7:30PM | NBCSN
- Avalanche at Sharks – 10:00PM | NBCSN
- NBA:
- Raptors at Kings – 9:00PM | Sportsnet1
- NCAA:
- Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Tournament: Championship – 8:00PM | ESPN2 / TSN2
- Big East Women’s Basketball Tournament: Semifinal II – 8:30PM | FS1
- MLS:
- Portland Timbers vs. Nashville SC – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN5
- Los Angeles FC vs. Philadelphia Union – 10:30PM | FS1 / TSN5
- XFL Football:
- Tampa Bay Vipers at LA Wildcats – 9:00PM | ESPN
Good luck with the week ahead. Myself, I have Spring Break in about a week, and hopefully drinks with a visiting Maestro tomorrow night. We’re going to plot ways around Scotchy’s hobo killing.
Culling the herd in real time.
So? Did any of them die?
I am not sure I will sleep very well tonight, alcohol or no alcohol. It is well within the realm of possibility that the stock market will be down 10% tomorrow.
You are worried way too much about this.
Also, the “market” is your index stocks. Not everything will go down. I’m pretty sure the makers of Lysol are doing well right now.
As tWBS says, there will be a correction and this thing will blow over.
I suppose I’m not as worried as I seem. But it is a big deal and is very much history in the making.
So was Trump getting elected. Hey, we’ve made it through worse.
Given that stock market highs are something that IMPOTUS constantly touts as a reason for his reelection, it is very possible that he will do something batshit crazy (like start a war) to get it juiced again.
Nah, it’s a bump. Buy buy buy! We’ll all be dead very soon anyway so who cares.
I just made a sad sad post on yeah right’s “croque madame” post of earlier today. Go read it and weep, and then come back.
A little over a year ago the former tWLS wanted breakfast food at dinner time. No worries, I get that mood sometimes too. But on this night I was not in that mood. But we chose a place where she could and I could….not. The name of the place was Great Eggceptions.
She…hell I forget what she got. Who fucking cares? But I ordered a Roast Beef and ham on and onion Kaiser, fries on the side.
The waiter asked if I wanted an egg on it.
“You put an egg on my sandwich and I will murder you and your pets”
Not a direct quote, but kinda close.
“I’ll murder you, your wife, your children, your pets, burn your house to the ground, salt the earth, and piss on the ashes. Then, I’ve have Dave drive donuts on the lot.”
— tWBS actual quote
“Deserve’s got nothing to do with it”
Damn. That looked like bologna on wheat. A shame. And you’ll never know if the place next door could’ve done it right.
Good play though. Tip on service, not on egg topped sandwich capability.
The tip was not getting murdered!
My condolences.
I enjoyed the one I made this morning.
This XFL game is actually really entertaining.
I am too busy watching the global financial system break down in real time to mess around with the XFL.
I hope you’re buying because the suckers are selling.
The world is a shit sandwich, and I’m somewhere between the slices of bread.
The mustard?
Damn, Detroit couldn’t pull it off in regulation. Good on them stealing a point from Tampa, though. Also, let’s keep WCS in our thoughts during these troubling times.
It was a fun series
16, 359 days
There exists a happier timeline where Mario says “fuck this” in 2000 or whatever and the penguins move to Memphis or some shit. Really feel like we missed out on a good time.
XFL FATMAN TOUCHDOWN
I cannot wait for the supply chain shortages and stoppages to finally kick in.
I also need to get a bidet.
Those are two very interesting and seemingly unrelated thoughts.
Turlet tickets, eh? Bidets should be mainstream. Much better than spreading cheek in the shower.
The best reason to not change clocks is the complete absence of a good reason to change them. Standard or daylight, just stop doing this pointless exercise.
Watching The Big Sleep right now. It’s lauded as a sort of flagship film noir example but to me it seems almost like a parody of the genre. It’s good but I don’t think it beats Double Indemnity, The Prowler or the Maltese Falcon in my books.
Lauren Bacall and Martha Vickers though. Zoiks. Some ladies they are. It is a fine movie, it is.
The Big Sleep is not really a “film noir” as it used to describe certain Hollywood movies of that era. It is a premier example of the “hard boiled detective” genre of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler (among others). It’s a great movie. It’s son is 1970’s The Long Goodbye by a Robert Altman and it’s grandson is The Big Lebowski by the Coen Brothers. Watch those three in a row.
Definitely saw a lot of stuff that went into lebowski there. I considered the hard boiled detective as a fixture of film noir. As far as I’ve seen. It isn’t a very well defined genre though, no?, other than the gritty, cynical style and content, and the dirty dirty sex (suggested).
Haven’t seen the long goodbye. I’ll remember that.
Yes, the Venn diagrams overlap but they’re still different. He Walks By Night, D.O.A., Kiss Me Deadly, and most everything shot by John Alton were “film noirs,” which was a term applied retroactively so it’s a gray area.
I can tell I need to get drunk and stoned on many nights and watch a lot more of each kind.
Asphalt Jungle by John Huston, also. But most “film noirs” were true “B-movies”; lower budget but inventive and daring and often brilliant.
Pictured: possibly the naruto chick I hooked up with
I’m assuming you have to get that far to find the start button?
Well fucking done.
XFL might have had it’s first on-field fatality.
BAH GAWD HE BROKE HIM IN HALF
11 more and they’ll tie the WWE!
We’ll need an entire team to be found dead before the end of the season
Did I say 0.498 I meant 0.484.
[checks again]
Wait, no, I meant 0.482.
Ha ha, just kidding 0.476.
I don’t care if its casually using slurs, this meme legit made me spit out my drink
Any man who watches Anime should not expect to ever see a girl nekkid. No matter what color she is.
Well someone should have told me that before hooking up with that girl wearing a naruto hoodie.
Both are fair points, I suppose.
Also, you should amend that to nekkid in person because there’s whole sites dedicated to cosplay nudity
lol zoomers are going to be the first generation of kids to watch less anime than their parents
Of course, it being Browns, they did just a terrible job
Ooh that’s good
I’m assuming the “Abridged” parody series don’t count?
(My reference, from an episode not over a decade ago.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc-4zcyW7ps
Goku lives a few houses down from me. Not kidding:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003944/
I was expecting Sean schummel but got OG English goku instead
Also Bob from ReBoot!
I officially just dropped the fucking mike with tonight’s meal. Almost brought me to tears.
Fucking hell that was incredible!
If only there was someway to share it with you.
https://www.wikihow.com/Ship-Perishable-Food
No need. Today was the first day over 50, so the menu from here til the first snow is meat + fire.
That’s the spirit!
Its ALWAYS grilling season
I shovel the driveway and then around the grill
California is on board with the proposed time change thingy. Protect the left!
LA Rams’ new logo got leaked. Or the LA Chargers’ new logo. Or they are merging operations for the 2020 season, I don’t know.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-new-los-angeles-rams-logo-reportedly-leaks-and-people-arent-impressed/
[St. Louis breathes a sigh of relief]
That legit looks like an xfl logo
Hey, give the XFL a little bit of credit.
They’re gonna need more than a little bit of credit to write the paychecks soon.
It looks more like a hurricane than a set of ram horns.
Why mess with good things ? Let’s turn the flyers logo into a bright pink crow with a ponytail and rollerblades too.
Evidence of how time changes:
2014 – “Madam Secretary” debuts on CBS: My reaction: “Oh come on, why do we need a show about a Hillary Clinton-expy? Quit trying to force Hillary down our throats or get us used to Hillary! We don’t want her!”
2020 – “Hillary” debuts on Hulu: My reaction: “Okay, she got screwed royally in 2016. I’ll let this occur. I won’t watch it, but I’ll allow it to happen.”
I haven’t watched it but judging by the back and forth on Twitter, it appears that it chalks up 2016 to sexism and not running one of the worst presidential campaigns in recent memory, which makes everyone happy, then chalks up 2008 to sexism and not running head-to-head with one of the best, most charismatic political minds of a generation, which makes white women happy. Waiting to see what happens when it chalks up scheming against Bill’s accusers to sexism by them towards her.
Honestly, I’m sure it’s just rah rah rose colored glasses bullshit, and certainly nothing as disgusting as Amazon offering that criminal fuck D’Souza’s Hillary slander piece, but still not over the 2016 shitshow. Yes, I know she won the popular vote, but since 100% of the DNC isn’t screaming to abolish the electoral college, I can only assume they’re okay with throwing away everything they work for in stupid ways every couple elections. Hopefully, it ends with her acknowledging that spending the last 10 years of her career cynically building a reputation as a strictly business war hawk in order to become the DNC’s default presidential nominee did her no favors and that she never should have strayed away from her child welfare roots.
When I voted for Obama in the 2008 Primaries, I thought I did it because I found his arguments appealing and Clinton coming of as someone feeling she was entitled to my vote. I didn’t realize its because I was a sexist asshole who refused to vote for a woman.
“If your fault I lost. Because if it wasn’t your fault, it would be my fault. But it can’t be my fault. So in conclusion, its your fault.”
It’s going to be fascinating to see how they spin their bullshit “You voters failed the nominee” spiel when Biden gets his ass kicked.
Besides blaming Bernie Bros, of course.
Also a good idea: telling non-voters, who are disproportionately poor and minority, that not voting is a vote for Trump. That’s a winning twist on the “It’s your fault. We did nothing wrong.” excuse the DNC has put out since Dukakis.
Minor nitpick — I won’t fault the DNC for not screaming to abolish the electoral college, because it’s futile for now. Until the GOP loses the EC while winning the popular vote, at which point there might be a chance. (And if you think that’s a crazy thought, remember that John Kerry almost pulled it off in 2004, and Gore was almost on the other end, too. Stuff changes.)
At least the house is finally empty. Time to get hammered and write some useless shit about Australian women.
No, not that one. She still hasn’t sent her hit team to North Carolina to kill me though. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing.
That’s bad. That means she hunting you for sport. I recommend you settle your affairs and send farewells to your loved ones.
LOL. I need to do that anyway because my liver is already hunting me for sport.
My liver is hunting me, but it’s more like self-defense.
Arizona does it alone. Also, California wants permanent Daylight Saving Time. So does Washington and Oregon. It’s gonna happen soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States
– Some has been named Bloomberg
Daylight Savings Time makes no sense in today’s world.
When it was instituted in the 1910s, it sort of made sense because the world wasn’t a 24 hour world. When the sun went down, everyone’s day was over.
Nowadays, media has a 24 hour operation, stores are open 24 hours a day, so there is no need to adjust the times. If someone needs to wake up to the change in the sunrise time, they can adjust their sleeping schedule because they have alarm clocks and media, medicine and technology to help them adjust.
Did I say 0.6-whatever I’m sorry I meant 0.502.
0.498
(watching The Matrix movies)
If the Agents have all control of all Humans in the Matrix, than why did they make a big deal of arresting Pre-Neo, tipping off Morpheus and crew that he was most likely bugged? Why didn’t they go into the code why he was sleeping and bug him then and not make it publically know they were on to him?
And how did Cypher get himself out of the Matrix when he logged himself into the Matrix behind everyone’s backs to make a deal with Agent Smith?
If the Matrix is supposed to be an allegory for Jesus saving those from being slaves to sin, than why the orgy in part 2? Is it like my theory about the Kate Winslet nude scene in Titanic and its sole purpose was to keep everyone’s attention in a long movie, like a intermission with sex and/or amazing boobs?
How did Agent Smith go out of the Matrix? He is literally a pattern of zeros and ones. Speaking of which…
Why didn’t the Machines delete Agent Smith when he was going out of control? Did the Machines consider a Anti-Virus Program akin to Slave Control?
How did Neo show his Matrix powers in the real world? His powers were essentially a glitch in a program. Glitches don’t work in real life! I know, I tried!
How in the hell is there gonna be a part 4 if Neo and Trinity are dead and the machines agreed to let everyone go who wanted to go?
And finally, why in the hell am I watching the Matrix movies?!
Wait, they’re doing a Part 4?
It was directed by a man who is now a lady. This may hold a clue to that which you seek.
Matrix 4: Neo’s Upgrade to Nea
My understanding is that the original character Switch was supposed to change genders inside/outside the matrix.
That makes sense. Don’t get me wrong, in 1999 when Matrix came out (pun not intended), there would’ve been rioting in the streets, but nowadays it would’ve been welcomed and be a bit clever since their “Projection of the Digital Self” is essentially their avatars.
She’d need to be pretty quick about it; I think they killed her 25 minutes into the first one.
This was explored in The Animatrix that some people’s Matrix avatars are of different genders or races because that is their “idealized self.”
On the Internet, no one knows you’re a duck.
There were other elements like how not just the humans of Zion would be mostly non-white, but also that the people most likely to escape the Matrix would be the ones who always recognized something about the system/world was off, i.e. minorities (racial, gender, etc.)
It’s Chinatown.
And how did Cypher get himself out of the Matrix when he logged himself into the Matrix behind everyone’s backs to make a deal with Agent Smith?
Not that this is official, but I’ve always thought the scene where cypher is looking at the code and saying he sees a “blonde, burnette, and a redhead” was some sort of hint that he understood coding and could talk to the agents
Yeah, but he didn’t send them an email or an IM. He was in the Matrix. He even made the comment about the steak he was eating wasn’t real and it was the Matrix telling him its real. Besides Smith took the time to create the fancy restaurant to appeal to Cypher’s longing to return. There would be no need for that if its an Microsoft Outlook Window.
The only way I could think of would be if he created a recall program that could pull himself out, but if that existed, that would’ve rendered the 2nd half of the movie moot.
I think people have been bitching about that plot hole for 20 years.
My understanding is that the orgy scene came about because one of the Wachowskis was really into the rave culture at the time and insisted on it, even though everyone else thought it didn’t belong.
I think I read that in Rolling Stone, so probably take that with a big ol’ grain of salt.
Cause it’s entertainment. You want deep thought get a philosophy book I guess.
My wife just got mad at me for theorizing that he might pass it on to his ugly wife.
[I don’t know what Ted Cruz’s wife actually looks like, I just think it’s funny that he hasn’t stopped licking IMPOTUS’ boots after he called her that]
See guys! The coronavirus isn’t all bad!
Meanwhile…
https://m.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500-futures
Oh, I misread that. I thought it was down 2,800.
By the end of tomorrow, it might be.
Like I’ve told people over the past week…the markets will correct in a few months. Or we’ll all be dead and won’t need any money. Stop worrying.
THIS!
We just had a Billionaire blow half a billion dollars on a no chance presidential campaign. If the markets were going to fail, Bloomberg would using that money to buying up all the gold he could and moving it offshore to ride out the Depression.
2020 has gone too far.
https://247sports.com/Article/College-football-graphic-showing-Big-Ten-logo-in-rival-colors-angers-fans-144619004/
Watching a replay of last night’s Bruins games, for the fights, and I know I say this a lot, but letting Jack Edwards announce anything is a crime against humanity the equivalent of racism.
I hate racism, unless it’s funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ij4a6x_mPs
(NSFW N-word usage)
https:// www. youtube.com/watch?v=mjU03P_6nbQ
https:// www. youtube.com/watch?v=BHqL7dNujNc
I mean, the equivalent of racism is pretty much what he’s going for
This spring forward fucking rules. Fall back can fuck off. Decilitre got up at 545 today!!! I know it is fictional as we moved the clock but last year it stuck. In the past months we have been up at 330 to 430 no matter the bed time. This gives me hope. Which will be crushed in the morning when he gets up at 330.
Just change the clock in the babies room to be like 4 or 5 hours ahead; he won’t even notice because babies are
stupidcute.He has no clock. It is his fucking internal one.
Just give him a good shake. It’s like a snooze alarm.
[shakes head sadly, remembering the time she told her husband to give the baby a shake, and how ten minutes later he called her from Wendy’s asking if she wanted anything, too]
– Tammy Reid
Buy the kid a watch.
And some Benadryl.
What time does he go to bed?
Usually 730. That being said he goes to bed at 6 he wakes up at 4. Goes to bed at 8? Wakes up at 4. So we have settled on 7-730 so we can have an hour and change to ourselves. That involves me getting stoned and us watching trash tv.
How much longer must we suffer under the yoke of farmer tyranny?