Your “Thank Gawd The National Nightmare Is Ovah!” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL BRADY NOOZ!:

  • It’s the Bucs.   
    • Two years at $30 million per season.
    • The Chargers lost out because Brady apparently wanted to stay on the east coast for Gisele family reasons.
    • The Onion, of course, has it all in perspective.

  • Just after he goes, his center has left for the Dolphins.
    • Ted Karras goes for one year at $4.0 million.
    • Karras is the second starting offensive lineman added by the Dolphins in free agency, joining Ereck Flowers, and also is the second former Patriot to join Miami along with linebacker Kyle Van Noy.

Other NFL News:

  • Since the league year started at 4:00, here’s what I was able to find:
    • Nick Foles was traded to the Bears for a draft pick.
      • Continuing his spiral into Sam Bradford territory, Foles was exchanged for a fourth-round pick in the 2020 draft.
        • He spent one year with the Jags, got paid $30.5 million, and leaves with an $18.75 million dead cap hit.
    • To roil Low Commander, the Chargers are looking at Cam Newton, since Marmalard went to the Colts.
      • It buys them time to better develop Tyrod Taylor, or allows them to cut Taylor & draft a future Cam replacement.
    • Bruce Irvin is going back to the Seahawks.
      • He left for more money in 2015, and makes his way back after stops in Oakland, Atlanta, and Charlotte.
    • Eli Apple to the Raiders.
      • His third team in three years, after being drafted by the Giants in 2016 & traded to the Saints in 2018.

Today’s internet good dog is courtesy the President of Ireland, who’s Bernese Mountain Dog “Brod” interrupted an International Women’s Day event to seek him out.

For those of you not into dogs, may I offer you some pussy?

https://twitter.com/Playboy/status/1240093038325596161

Over the line? Possibly. Some quality wordplay? Yes.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NFL:
    • Free agency updates – NFLN; ESPN / TSN
  • Wrasslin’:
    • AEW Dynamite – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN2
      • Their first COVID-impacted show.
    • NXT – 8:00PM | USA
      • Likely a clip show, given what’s happened on Raw & Smackdown.
  • Classic MLB Baseball: ESPN Classic
    • From 1984: San Diego at Chicago Cubs
      • 8:00 PM | Game 1 of the NL Championship Series.
      • 10:00 PM | Game 4 of the NL Championship Series.
    • From 1987: St. Louis at Minnesota
      • 12:00 AM | Game 6 of the World Series.
      • 2:00AM | Game 7 of the World Series.

Tonight’s …entertainment?:

  • Lego Masters – 9:01 PM | FOX
    • The remaining contestants are given the opportunity to showcase their creativity when they are tasked with interpreting a story that is read aloud from a book selected just for this competition.
  • America’s Top Dog – 9:00 PM | A&E
    • Six winning K9’s and one champion underdog battle it out for 25K and the bragging rights for the ultimate title of America’s Top Dog.
      • It’s like “American Ninja Warrior” for police & search dogs.

So far, aside from closed borders & the melted value of the Canadian dollar, World War III seems to be progressing nicely on the home front.

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Mr. Ayo

Hope everyone had the chance to read the The Ringer’s version of P*ts Fans React Reasonably.

https://www.theringer.com/2020/3/18/21185159/tom-brady-patriots-buccaneers-boston-sports-talk-radio

Rick in Plymouth, who called Tuesday one of the “darkest days in Boston sports history.” “I’ve got no Bruins, I’ve got no Red Sox, now I’ve got no damn Tom Brady.”

WCS

WARST FACKIN YEER EVAH NO ONE DENIES THIS

Sharkbait

I hate the sports fans in this city. SIX titles. SIX! Enjoy the ride fuckface. It wasn’t going to last.

Viva La Tabula Raza

San Antonio Spurs fans (self included, though I was not surprised when it happened) discovered this truism a couple years ago.

Viva La Tabula Raza

As a lifelong (since age 9 in 1968) fan, I’m so happy about the 19 years of success we’ve had this century. That being said, I’m also happy to see everyone come unglued over the inevitable demise of the “dynasty.” That includes my loved ones up in the ancestral homeland. Told ya, Billy; told ya, Chris,; told ya, Ollie; told ya, Chuck; told ya, Jack. The sun only shines on a given dog’s ass for a given amount of time, then moves on. Been telling them this since the mid 00’s when those boys were in their teens. Now I get to go “tolja so.” Get ready for some more 2-14 seasons. Nice szsygy for the twilight years of my life.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Disneykakke.

scotchnaut

“The Goofy 500 started out as a NASCAR race but devolved into something else that was entirely different.”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

“Not sure how to bet this one but I’m taking the under when Frogtown Comes to Hell in the second leg. I mean, that’s a no-brainer!”

-Hippo

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

What’s the home field advantage? Way better than the Chargers.

rockingdog

Apparently baseball is close to being back in Japan
and early reports from FedEx say demand is coming back in China.
Yay!

herodotus450

(Pulls jar of piss away from lips)
Oh? That’s… good.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Aged?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Lots of clever wordplay goes on at this site. If you appreciate clever, crackling dialogue, recommend that during this crisis you go spend 4 bucks on one of the streaming sites and watch The Lion in Winter. Fucking brilliant. Katherine Hepburn got Best Actress for her part, Peter O’Toole rocked the house as usual, first film appearances of Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Just a fucking great movie. Might want to put on the subtitles, it is first and foremost a British movie.

Sharkbait

Peter O’Toole is fucking gold in everything.

Viva La Tabula Raza

One of my favorites is Murphy’s War. Saw it in the movie theater when it came out in 71. He ended up married to the female lead. Brick Meathook would love the flying scenes. Worth a look.

rockingdog
rockingdog

I will watch americas top dog

Sharkbait
ballsofsteelandfury

I looked into that and then I realized that Pornhub exists and came to my senses.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

In Britain, a “fanny” is the equivalent to “pussy” or “cunt” in America. A British woman I worked with In Kabul, who had previously worked in Atlanta and was putting her children through school there at the time, told me she was quite astonished when at a PTA meeting the announcer told everyone to “get their fannies in their seats.” See also, phone call between Daniel Craig and Sienna Miller in the movie Layer Cake. Even if you don’t give a fuck about fannies, watch that movie any way. It is fucking awesome.

ballsofsteelandfury

That movie is why he became James Bond.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I would not hesitate for one moment to gainsay your postulation. I know when I heard he was gonna be Bond in Casino Royale, I got the 45-year-old man’s equivalent of a cinema stiffy, only because of I had seen Layer Cake. I loved that guy. Still do, sorta, but that Cowboy vs Aliens thing was an abortion, same as Lucky Logan. Dude, stop trying to do American accents, you suck at it. Just bang Sienna and Eva Green and your own damn wife and I will be happy to follow your film career.

Redshirt

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Ginobili says, fuck you, bat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHtL3NYb4Y

Viva La Tabula Raza

Second Congresscritter diagnosed. This time a D from Utah (Democrat from Utah? WTF?). Prediction: Martial law declared this summer, elections “postponed” indefinitely due to health risk, coronation of the new king 31 Dec, both houses of Congress dissolved 01 Jan 2021. Happy fucking new year, y’all.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

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rockingdog

Sheesh

Col. Duke LaCross

My rep! UTCD4 in the house!

For an extended period of time.

Gratliff

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Viva La Tabula Raza

This country deserves to die.

herodotus450

Pretty sure it’s fake; isn’t Lou Dobbs dead?

Gratliff

#TeamCOVID

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

True intent.

Gratliff

Colbert Report literally wouldn’t have a lane in 2020
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scotchnaut

There’s no doubt in my mind that the woman on the left is Harvey Weinstein’s daughter.

ballsofsteelandfury

Who has two thumbs and just called Australia to get his Authentication Code for the Watch AFL app re-sent to him so he can catch all the action?!?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

What would he say? Don’t be such a cocktease. We haven’t all seen all of the same thing all our lives, now, dammit.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

THANK YOU! That will now be my mantra.

Sharkbait

Binging Succession. I hate all of the characters. But its a fantastic show

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

German, French, AND Spanish? In one curriculum? Localized entirely within this classroom!?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

She’s not from the US.

Redshirt

That may be true, but at a moment’s notice from her, I would throw you and everyone else in here into the Boston Harbor in a heartbeat just for the opportunity to disappoint her in three minutes.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The joke was that in the US we are too stupidly xenophobic and arrogant that we don’t teach language for shit. That said; agreed, except three minutes? 27 seconds and that includes an apology.

Redshirt

I’m factoring in the 2 minutes 33 seconds of standing stiff (rim-shot) for being awe-stuck at what I’m seeing.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

Yeah but then we’d have to hire more teach–
(notices Moose’s solid gold apple)
Oh, so it looks like Big Teacher got to you too!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“Golden Delicious.”

Gratliff

It’s crazy to me that all Jake Roberts had to do was get to a point where his blood had more plasma than cocaine to go back to cutting great promos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcmyM15cwBU

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I have officially resumed drinking. Thanks, Monkish.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You are lucky it is not Priestish.

Redshirt

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“What are you doin’?”

“Just hangin’ out.”

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scotchnaut

Is that Dorothy Parkour trying to scale the Algonquin Vertical Table?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Okay, that works.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Redshirt

The advertisements for all the restaurants have changed slightly since they were ordered to only do Take Out or Drive Thru orders only.
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WCS

So that’s why the fries smelled like shoe polish…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Well, you should not have gone straight for the powered doughnut!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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ballsofsteelandfury

AFL TIPPING COMPETITION IS HAPPENING AGAIN!! FIRST GAME IS TONIGHT AT 1:40 AM PACIFIC!

APPEASE GAMBLOR AND JOIN US!!

HERE’S THE LINK:

https://mobile.footytips.com.au/competitions/?competitionId=401652

litre_cola

Put it on SLACK too Balls.

ballsofsteelandfury

Done. On #gamblor

WCS

The Stillers signed the third Watt brother, who’s a GRITTY LUNCHPAIL FULLBACK, so the Yinzerdom remains unaffected by the disease.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They should be highly…….. charged.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

All my aunts are in their 70’s or 80’s, so I would never experience the confusion you are apparently experiencing. Well, maybe 50 years or so ago.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He is also having one of those deals that makes *certain* subjects and searches very popular on Pornhub.

Gratliff

The Algorithm is a perpetual fauxcest machine

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Encouraged.

Gratliff

Looking at what environmental scientists are saying about the last few weeks, all we need is a few pandemics every year to undo global warming

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

The Earth Abides
—I am a geologist, with a degree from the University of Texas that says so.

jjfozz

Tomorrow, if I tell my boss to eat a rare cuntburger, and I get shitcanned, can someone get me a job?

Gratliff

How are you with small children?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Shit, that made me laugh.

jjfozz

AS long as I’m hammered, I’m really good with them.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

“A little TOO much going on here if you ask me.”

-Pieter Bruegel

Redshirt

Uncle Fozz’s Day Care Center
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Viva La Tabula Raza

That is really a fucking phenomenal response.

Col. Duke LaCross

Hah!

jjfozz

My wife is so over the top right now, I’m looking otu from under. Huh? sorry been drinking since 5 fuck all this shit

Viva La Tabula Raza

5 AM or 5 PM?

WCS

Both.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL MICK THOMPSON!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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It can be both…..

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Exercise at home helps.

Gratliff

Sen. John Cornyn: "China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats & snakes & dogs & things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu." pic.twitter.com/N4TIlGFqAL

— The Hill (@thehill) March 18, 2020

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Gratliff

Also, swine flu was from Mexico, so it tracks

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

And wrong.

ballsofsteelandfury

Well, there is something else at play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54

Gratliff

Will not tolerate hit pieces on pangolins
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I’m really surprised that Cornyn and his ilk may not inform themselves and come up with a measured and informed response.

He’d be happy if the US was deregulated as such.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

A bunch of these species are endangered or will be shortly.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Who needs real animals when you can have mechanical ones, like in Blade Runner? Don’t have to feed them or clean up after them.

nomonkeyfun

He didn’t mention Yurtle the Turtle’s “China Family”

Yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW4cSKWPre4

Viva La Tabula Raza

Waitaminnit, isn’t that guy even worse? Maybe I dreamt it, who could be worse than fucking Yertle?

Unsurprised

That depends. What is your stance on killing miners?

WCS

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I am unable to view the image that you posted.

Gratliff

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Hey people, I really hope everyone is safe with enough shampoo to get through this.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

How many neckties are you wearing?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“I don’t get the reference.”

-David Carradine

jjfozz

“yes! oh yes! oh shit, wait! uggh gurgle gurgle”
-David Carradine two minutes later

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Balls, did you see the AFL is going to still have the season but shorten it to 17 rounds? Wtf, mate?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Redshirt

I said that same prayer. Then Puberty hit me over the face with a 2×4.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You were lucky it wasn’t a scattergun like lots of kids.

ballsofsteelandfury

Works for me!

Gratliff

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I can fap to this…..

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is Bucco Brady original Photoshop work? Because that deserves an award.

SonOfSpam

Agree. That’s amazing hustle.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

How does this not have all the +1s?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I love her too…..

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Happy Weird Wednesday DFOlationists!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WW knows how to social distance.

scotchnaut

“It rubs the lotion on its skin or it gets the lasso.”

-WW

Redshirt

Related, also a reminder that I relate a lot to Poison Ivy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QyPWqP7bLo

Also:

Mook: “Get her! Without any plants around, she’s just a weak helpless woman.
Poison Ivy: “Uh, who has hands.”
(two headshots)
Poison Ivy: “And the Goddamn Second Amendment. Though I am for common sense background checks.”

yeah right

Great news. My client contact told me that my operation will remain at full staffing levels for the time being.
Shit yes!

Redshirt

My job is uncertain, but we have a capability to produce material to make us an essential operation. It wouldn’t surprise me if we get an urgent order from some customers and start running it 24/7 on multiple production lines.

Some people may be stuck at home 24/7. We may be working 12-hours a day, 7-days a week, praying for COVID-19 to come and kill us all.

yeah right

We’re the same, considered mission critical for launch support operations.
Just as long as that front door keeps opening, I’ll keep coming in.

Redshirt

I have two weeks vacation, one month of Emergency Money in Savings, and a fully stocked liquor cabinet. I’m prepared for the worst case scenario.

Redshirt

Trump is right. Calling the Coronavirus the “China Virus” isn’t racist as all. Its just words and words by themselves don’t hurt.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve had four Chili Dogs and now I gotta go take a massive Trump.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Well, we know you have LOTS of TP.

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Gratliff

The Spanish Flu started in Kansas. Never underestimate the power of othering.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

He meant Wedgwood Virus, but the name slipped his mind.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Make sure your robot is disinfected before you bang it.

Gratliff

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I was kind of hoping the dog would do a leg hump, but a lass…..

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

“We like the fact that she’s farting in the baby’s general direction.”

-The French

Brick Meathook

TODAY’S CORONA FACT

Here’s the Corona spy satellite, which took stereoscopic 70mm pictures with swiveling lenses, processed the film on-board, ejected the film, which then did a fiery reentry into the atmosphere and was hooked mid-air by a special plane. 144 different satellites were launched. At first, the recovered film had fogged edges; this was due to a well-known phenomenon in photography where unexposed film is dragged across rollers and generates static sparks. This phenomenon was already called the corona effect. Weird!
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SonOfSpam

It turned out to be useless, though, when every pic it snapped was that of a lime.

Viva La Tabula Raza

The coolest part was the retrieval by C-123 or C-130. They used a very similar technique in one of the Bond films, I want to say Thunderball but I may be mistaken and I ain’t gonna waste 10 minutes of my rapidly diminishing allotment of those same minutes to look it up.

Senor Weaselo

ESPN’s Streak for the Cash is not quite at full GAMBLOR yet (on account of being free), but yesterday you could pick whether the first Mega Millions or Powerball or whatever number would be even or odd.

SonOfSpam

They have the first AFL game live (tomorrow at 4:25 AM EDT). I gots my W5 on the champs.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Same with cunnilingus. Just a little powdering of baking soda on the upper lip when done, and all evidence is gone.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Well, I like the glazed doughnut look so I can have an olfactory memory later.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Tastes like chicken, smells like fish.

WCS

They shut down the liquor stores in Pennsyltucky.
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SonOfSpam

Time to dust off the still, cousin-wife.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Apparently some Florida Republican congressman is infected. From the article on Raw Story:
“Several other politicians have gone into self-quarantine after possible exposure to the virus, many prompted by interaction with an infected attendee at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).”
Even if there were no COVID19, every single attendee of the CPAC is infected with something even more insidious than the Coronavirus. I call it Psychotic Conservatism, and I don’t think there is a cure.

WCS

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

CPAC19

Redshirt

Stolen, er Borrowed from Scrubs (“Our Story”)

Republican: “I just enabled Donald Trump to shape the country for decades, and now I got a nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach. I think I got that Chronovirus thing.”
Democrat: “Its called ‘guilt’, you Vulcan!”

Viva La Tabula Raza

So, they sent out an email yesterday afternoon telling us that the Fitness Center located in our little USAF compound leased from Port San Antonio, formerly known as Kelly AFB, would close at 3 PM and clean out your lockers, boyz and gurlz. I did my Nostradamus impression and didn’t bother going into the orifice this AM. They announced the closure of ALL Fitness Centers across Joint Base San Antonio (which consists of Lackland AFB, Medina Base (where many nukes are stored), Randolph AFB, Camp Bullis, Camp Stanley (where a lot of bio and chem weapons are stored), and Fort Sam Houston (home of the black calvary Buffalo Soldiers, back in the day) at around 9 AM today, and we got the MAX TELEWORK email from the boss just past noon today, which was a little later than I expected.
So yesterday, while I was at the office, my phone started fucking up, just when it was becoming apparent to me that I was going to have to rely on it to do my job. Managed to stop by Verizon and have a new one overnighted. Received it by 1 PM today (I was pretty impressed with that), drove down to Verizon to have them do the switch (I’m sure I would have “OK Boomer you fucked that up” without the assistance of the youthful manager of the store). He told me several Verizon outlets in SA had already closed for the duration, his store was at minimal staffing, and business was down 55% from this time last year. Bonus: stopped off at the packy and added a couple of 1.75’s of Puerto Rico and Scotland’s finest to add to my hoard stash.
Shit is fucked up. I “replied all” to the MAX TELEWORK directive with a request for some direction from leadership and/or contracting regarding what we need to tell our construction contractors going forward. Do we expect them to continue to work in the field while the majority of us at the USAF Civil Engineer Center and the contractor’s management staff are able to telework, or will there be some kind of forgiveness mechanism put into place if the field management, laborers, and trades are not willing to show up due to the risk?
The End Of The World As We Know It is at least interesting, if nothing else.

SonOfSpam

“MAX TELEWORK” is my nom de plume.

(That means “name I use when I pay for tranny-handies”)

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Hey, you stole my gimmick!”
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litre_cola

Anyone else eyeing the Guatemalan Primera Division matchups tonight? Have my eye on Petapa to win both halves.

scotchnaut

“‘Who isn’t?’ is the more salient question.” -Hippo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqPlb5PLBvg