Your “Just the Hobo Facts, Ma’am” Sunday Night NFL Football Open Thread

-The term ‘hobo’ came about in the northwest United States in the late 1800’s.

-Strictly speaking, a hobo is a homeless person that travels from place to place to find temporary work. The Spanish word for hobo is obrero temporal. In Arabic it is almutasharid.

-Hobos tended to avoid the South because they would be sent to forced-labor camps.

-The National Hobo Convention takes place every year in Britt, Iowa.

-Robert “Sidetrack” Silveria Jr. was a serial killer that admitted to killing 28 fellow hobos before he turned himself in. He is currently serving two life sentences in Wyoming.

-Famous individuals that lived the lifestyle for a period of time include Jack Dempsey, Louis L’Amour, Jack London, George Orwell, Robert Mitchum, William O. Douglas and of course, Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac.

-During the Great Depression it was estimated that as many as two million men resorted to ‘hobo-ing’.

-“Wild Boys of the Road”, a 1933 film about teenage boys forced to adopt the lifestyle due to financial pressure, has an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

TO THE GAME!

Eagles/Niners:

-Here’s the Philly wr corpse-Ward, Hightower, Burnette, Fulgham and Butler. Aside from Ward they have 18 receptions this year. As well, Jason Peters was just put on IR and they only have 3 healthy corners.

-Deebo is back on a limited snap count and Kittles owners aren’t feeling as helpless as a kitten up a tree.

-Mullens threw for 343 and a TD last week without those weapons but it was the porous Giants so take that with a grain of something.

-Wentz has thrown two interceptions in each game this year-expect that to continue.

Have at it.

 

 

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Remember, I started Nick Mullens over Wentz in part based on the wisdom of this crowd

Unsurprised

But we’re all idiots!

Gratliff

Y’all don’t want to listen to my advice to never listen to our advice

Mr. Ayo

That’s on you. Always do the opposite of us.

Horatio Cornblower

Buddy, if you have Nick Mullens and Carson Wentz on your team you are beyond help anyway.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Straight jacket?

Recovery Whiskey

The Blair Walsh Bowl

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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New season of SBSP looks different.

WCS

My bad, coach. (Part two)

Doktor Zymm

Why did they play the first 3 quarters again? They clearly just needed this one.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Extended warmup.

Unsurprised

Filler between truck, insurance, and piss-flavored water ads

Gatoraids

Beat oven

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Hippo judges this.

Recovery Whiskey

Beat hard down

Edit: Didn’t beat hard enough

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Last week was the first time in a while since I saw a gif or jpeg of her, and after being sick of seeing her all over tumblr and elsewhere I’m onboard again.

Petronel

Beat Harder!

Petronel

Dammit

Petronel

That’s better

Dunstan

But failed to penetrate the end zone on that conversion

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Recovery Whiskey

The Kaepernick Curse rolls on.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Dunstan

Well, I guess Mullins will have to go back to his music career:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG9C0VwruXE

The Maestro

Guess it’s time for the Niners to sign Stavros Halkias to play QB.

Gatoraids

Staavy baby

Unsurprised

Ian Fidance knows how to stack nine men in the box.

Gatoraids

Collin Kaepernick head explodes off screen in front of Congress

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

While kneeling.

Mr. Ayo

Beat Hard sighting!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brocky

good lord is there anything this woman can do and not look adorable AND hot at the same time?

Doktor Zymm

Pfffft. More like the ’06rs

Petronel

Holy shit. I forgot we still had BeatHard.

Recovery Whiskey

C J Beat hard !!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Gratliff

BEAT HARD

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I need some recovery here, pal.

Mr. Ayo

Iggles going to win the east on a tie tie breaker?

Gratliff

That’s actually what happened after the famous McNabb tie

Recovery Whiskey

Mullenscepted!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

That was ugly.

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Gumbygirl

I would have made it the whole way on the Oregon Trail if those barrels of Fulghum hadn’t fallen out of the wagon when we crossed the river.

Unsurprised

You won in the end by not making it to Oregon.

Dunstan

Seems like SF’s QB would like a …. Mulligan on that throw.

(puts on sunglasses)

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I cannot hear variances of this joke enough. [mashes plus one, ruin mouse…. again]

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Recovery Whiskey

Gonna be hilarious if the only team from the NFC West to lose to the East is the Santa Clara Forty Niners.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Wow, that oughtta do it.

Gratliff

THINKING ABOUT THE SUPER BOWL

Petronel

Oh FFS

Gratliff

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Doktor Zymm

Aw, how disappointing that the NFC might not go winless this week

Sharkbait

Not over yet.

Sharkbait

Ok now it is

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Since these are both NFC teams…..

Doktor Zymm

I forgot the word ‘East’ although I guess you could say it’s implied

Gatoraids

More blood for the blood god

Sharkbait

NFC East! Catch the excite!

Gratliff

ok

WCS

My bad, coach.

Recovery Whiskey

I just left watching this game for 40 mins and came back to the same score. Didn’t miss a thing.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Jinxed it…..

Recovery Whiskey

Got back just in time, lol

Horatio Cornblower

Carson Wentz has put up 11 points on a 3rd-string defense and Cris is sucking his dick like it’s his job.

If the girls I went to high school with had the same standards that Cris apparently has then maybe ‘Captain of the Debate and Dungeons & Dragons clubs’ wouldn’t have been quite the dead end I found it to be.

ballsofsteelandfury

Cris just loves sucking QB dick. Any QB dick will do

Brocky

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

if collinsworth sucked as many actual dicks as he does metaphorical ones, he’d make Asa Akira blush

Horatio Cornblower

I can see why, she seems very reserved.
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Doktor Zymm

Check out the facial expression of the hoodie dude

Viva La Tabula Raza

Stamp club and Chess club, for me.

Horatio Cornblower

Ah, the thinking man’s sport

https://vimeo.com/68875087

Gumbygirl

I was in a lot of stuff, but my favorite one was the Get High in the Parking Lot Before School Club.

Gratliff

An interesting point about those insane plays he was making in that highlight reel they just showed is that he lost all those games. I kind of wonder if he’s becoming a headcase because he doesn’t really get rewarded with success when he does some superhero shit. Meanwhile, he has a team with a HIGHLY SUSPECT POSSIBLY TERRORISTIC training staff that at one point sort of lied to him about having a broken back and leaves him with like 30% of a team every season.

Unsurprised

Can we just lock up everyone in the NFL except the players?

Doktor Zymm

The NFL is keeping Hollywood Upstairs Medical School in business

Dunstan

Dungeons & Dragons & Debate? Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJJSJGP0Og

Brocky

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Horatio Cornblower

Witch, off screen: “BLOW YOUR GODDAMN NOSE AND I’LL LET YOU LIVE!!”

Gratliff

Sort of looks like Sasha Banks

Brick Meathook

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Sharkbait

Real life McPoyles?

WCS

THEY’RE BACK

Dunstan

#ProudBoys

Recovery Whiskey

Battery Throwers’ Union 666

Horatio Cornblower

She took some shit for posting that on Instagram, and when that news broke I thought it was weird too, but that I also thought ‘hey, you know what, I’ve never had a miscarriage so maybe I’ll sit this one the fuck out’ and I feel like that was the right choice.

Gratliff

Jason Whitlock, however, had other thoughts

ballsofsteelandfury

He wanted to eat it?

Gratliff

If only he was just that stupid

Horatio Cornblower

He and I had the same thoughts about her posting the pictures from the ER/surgical room, but only one of us had the decency to realize we had no idea what she might have been feeling during such a loss, and while I am not used to being the decent one, I am here to tell you that out-decencing Jason Whitlock is a low, low, low bar.

Gumbygirl

That’s how I feel about it too.

ballsofsteelandfury

My mom miscarried before she had me. It just happens, like you said.

Gratliff

I remember my mom having one when I was 7ish and I know it fucked her up, but she’s pretty fucked up anyway, so it’s hard to say how much because my mother is very fucked up as a baseline. They’re very common on my wife’s side of the family along with other pregnancy complications. It was a constant source of fear during her pregnancy with our son.

Gumbygirl

How sad for you both.

Petronel

Apparently a lot of miscarriages happen so early that the woman may not even know that she’s pregnant yet. Wikipedia says that 30% -40% of fertilized eggs miscarry. It’s not unusual, it seems.

ballsofsteelandfury

This is why I’m leading twbs through hell and you’re a nice guy that finds quality pics.

Horatio Cornblower

This ad for The Voice telling me that the full video is available on YouTube seems more like a threat than guidance.

ballsofsteelandfury

All I could think of while watching that was last week’s brilliant Christy Tiegen joke.

Unsurprised

Nuts. I missed that one.

Recovery Whiskey

They’re 44 mi from the location of these aerial shots.

ballsofsteelandfury

I hate that shit

Mr. Ayo

— Every pedestrian in downtown SF

WCS

Sarah Palin can still see Russia from there.

/listens to earpiece

Oh, we’re not doing that anymore. My apologies.

Viva La Tabula Raza

They do the same thing for the Patriots. Always showing shots of Boston. Providence is closer to Foxboro and has some cool old buildings and nice places that would show well. Fuck, they haven’t been the BOSTON Patriots for half a century.

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Horatio Cornblower

I think I’ve mentioned this before but I nearly started a brawl at a trivia contest when the guy running it claimed that Foxboro was in the Greater Boston area.

Unsurprised

Justifiable homicide

Sharkbait

Not to mention the teams/production crew all stay in Providence

Doktor Zymm

This must be an exciting year for the practice squad dudes, they’re ALL gonna get to start before the end of the season

Brocky

I’ve contacted my old college buddy to let drew rosenhaus know I’m available for when teams come calling

Brocky

month of macabre continues…..

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I always really like blair witch, and I’ve always resented the attitude towards it. it was a relatively novel concept that did a lot with very little.

maybe it’s my time hiking as a youth that made me all to aware of how quickly things can go bad when you’re out in the woods by yourself, but as missing person cases continue to happen into the new century, blair witch seemed more plausible than not.

like the reveal of Luke’s father in empire, it’s all but been ruined by parody

Doktor Zymm

I liked that Blair Witch was shot in Maryland! I think it was ruined by the pre-release hype. People came in with really unrealistic expectations.

Dunstan

I think part of the problem is that it’s not very rewatchable. A lot of the enjoyment the first time comes from the tension of waiting for something to happen — someone to jump out of the bushes or whatever. The first time you watch it, the film gets a ton of mileage out of essentially no action scenes. But the second time you watch it, you know nothing’s going to happen until the end, and all the tension is gone.

litre_cola

When I first watched it I thought it was real. Blew my mind.

Brocky

I had a similar experience to dunstan, a lot of hype and a lot of tension.

I don’t think I ever really thought it could be real, but the lack of an actual monster sighting made it scarily real

Horatio Cornblower

The sequel didn’t help any. Holy god was that awful.

Horatio Cornblower

I’m paraphrasing something I saw on twitter, but basically I don’t understand why the witch is the bad guy in Blair Witch. The kids came into her woods, knocked over her totems, and generally made asses of themselves. She moved to the woods and left signs up saying ‘fuck around and find out’ and they fucked around and found out.

Unsurprised

That describes a lot of horror movies

ballsofsteelandfury

The gold panties make that photo

Unsurprised

That’s just paint

ballsofsteelandfury

Even better!

Brocky

I’ll need to go under cover to check

Unsurprised

I stand corrected

Doktor Zymm

For giggles, here’s the list of workers that are already exempt from AB 5:

  • professional service contractors who (a) maintain their own business location, which could be their residence, (b) have a business license, (c) can set or negotiate their own rates for the services performed, (d) can set their own hours outside of project completion dates and reasonable business hours, (e) are customarily engaged in the same type of work performed under contract with another hiring entity or hold themselves out to other potential customers as available to perform the same type of work; and (f) can customarily and regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of the services.
  • securities broker-dealers or investment advisers (or their agents and representatives)
  • certain medical professions, including physicians, surgeons, dentists, podiatrists, and psychologists
  • veterinarians
  • lawyers
  • architects and landscape architects
  • freelance writers, photographers, photojournalists, videographers, and editors
  • performance artists who set their own terms of work
  • engineers
  • private investigators
  • accountants
  • individuals who perform underwriting inspections, premium audits, risk management, or loss control work for insurance and financial service industries
  • individuals who provide appraisal services
  • home inspectors or manufactured housing salespersons
  • individuals who are conducting an international exchange visitor program
  • competition judges
  • direct sales salespersons
  • commercial fishermen
  • licensed real estate agent
  • repossession agent (when free from the control and direction of the hiring person or business)
  • subcontractors for construction contractors (when certain conditions are met)
  • subcontractors for construction trucking services (when certain conditions are met)
  • individuals performing services for a certified motor club (pursuant to a contract between the motor club and a third party)
Horatio Cornblower

So basically everyone?

ballsofsteelandfury

I don’t see strippers there…

Doktor Zymm

Unless they’re stripping at a certified motor club

Horatio Cornblower

Bullshit. You’re like that kid in ‘The Sixth Sense’: you see strippers everywhere.

ballsofsteelandfury

This deserves a banner

Unsurprised

You know who got fucked the hardest by this independent contractor stuff during the pandemic? Hairdressers, estheticians, tattooists, and manicurists.

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Gumbygirl

Competition judge? For some reason, that one made me snortlaugh. Could be the weed(it’s the weed.)

Horatio Cornblower

Me. freelancing my way to fortune judging pulling contests at county fairs.

Yeah, I said “pulling contests”; do with that what you will, degenerates.

ballsofsteelandfury

Do you give extra points for the “Stranger Danger”?

Unsurprised

Meanwhile Uber drivers cannot do their job without the app, which makes their “independent” status a total fraud.

Doktor Zymm

I’m guessing they’ll go to a franchise model if 22 doesn’t pass

Doktor Zymm

That’s how service industry workers get screwed, and no one’s bothering to advocate for them

ballsofsteelandfury

Speaking of Uber and Prop 22, I wonder if all the strippers in California moved to Nevada…

Brocky

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Mr. Ayo

Oh that looks tasty

ballsofsteelandfury

Thank you for your service.

Brocky

pictures like this make me think society is too hard on those who would purchase a woman’s bathwater

Brocky

btw, elizabethcturner on IG

Unsurprised

She’s a gem. My brother did shoots with her years ago.