Welcome to another comment of the week post and ramblings by yours truly.  This week I learnt about cigars and some new shows to watch.  There were some long discussions on various things this week that were both informative and fun.  Good to see.

As I mentioned in yesterdays thread it was a quiet weekend (aren’t they all now) for me.  Did some stuff around the house, with the big one being finally taking down the Christmas decorations inside.  The kids now say that the house is bald.  Such a strange way to phrase it.  The decorations outside are going to need to wait for less snow and maybe the ground to thaw a bit before anything can be removed with out it breaking.

As I’m finally on team caffeine (didn’t starting drinking it daily until my 40’s), I have a Keurig.  As I try to be environmentally conscience*, I grind my beans at home and use a little basket thingy to hold the grinds when brewing.  Well I broke the top off the basket this week, so got a replacement online.  When the new basket is placed in the Keurig, I now have a zillion new menu options.  This has me wondering what other appliances have other options. that I just haven’t done the right things to see. I’ve got my eye on you, blender.

*I totally get that having coffee every morning whilst living in the great white north is anything but

As a reminder, this post will cover comments made up to and through the Saturday Night Open Thread. Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post.  Tho this week there is a Sunday thread comment that I included.  I also love the whole meta thing when including comments from the previous weeks’ best comments thread.

Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.

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Apparently Tom Brady is now the Bucs’ all-time leader in playoff TD passes. That’s just sad.
Dunstan

In two weeks, he might be the Bucs’ all-time leader in Super Bowl losses. Let’s focus on that. Keep Brad Johnson immortal.
SonOfSpam

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Had a strange encounter. I wanted to text my girlfriend. AKA future missus right. Instead of texting her phone started ringing, in a minor panic, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, she answered.

We had a great conversation.

I’ve only talked to her twice in the last year.

Slow play.

I asked her if I could steal her away in 5 years to retire in Europe.

She said yes.

Hell yes.
yeah right

Great, but the final test…showing her this site. WHEN?
SonOfSpam

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Robert Burns Day is almost over and I haven’t had a dram yet. Must rectify immediately.
BrettFavresColonoscopy

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listen son, i didn’t barley pass of the least prestigious schools in the big ten for some wise guy tell me there was no election fraud!
Brocky

lol the typo wasn’t on purpose but it fits
Brocky

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Let’s not have another cilantro war, please.
/fills pico de gallo silo
Don T

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Now I’m just procrastinating work but had to share this one:

At word 3 you're bored at word 6 your ears perk up at word 11 your mind is blown https://t.co/KRW9Qsg8nf

— Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) January 26, 2021

BrettFavresColonoscopy

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Ok, everyone, we need more contributors to quotables, so get your ass over there:
BrettFavresColonoscopy

I don’t bother, because my contribution would invariably be the generic one-size-fits-all New Yorker cartoon caption: “Christ, what an asshole.”
Viva La Tabula Raza

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Naughty Miss Piggy, #dear pic.twitter.com/BkKgerZC

— westendproducer (@westendproducer) August 11, 2012

BrettFavresColonoscopy

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hockey talking guy: “So nice to finally see some fans in the stands, here in (checks notes) Dallas. The same Dallas that missed the first week of the season due to Covid cases.”
herodotus450

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I don’t particularly care about who gets into various Halls of Fame, and I can see the problems with taking off-field behavior into account, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying a little schadenfreude at Curt “I think journalists who write stories I don’t like should be lynched” Schilling getting all snippy that a bunch of journalists didn’t vote for him.
Dunstan

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She started out as a football site but now the reason why I love this place so much is that as a dumb putz, I can learn about books, snacks, soccer, destinations, tanks, the odds, photography, food, politics, films, submarines, porn, learning how to spell Proto Riko, edibles, alcohol, the law and so much more! I swear I’ll stay here until the bitter end/when it becomes mildly inconvenient!
scotchnaut

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My kind of drive-in

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Also, my Universal Yums box came yesterday and my next Bokksu box shipped today!

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My daughter’s boyfriend made $50K on that GME short squeeze thing. I think that was on a couple hundred options and like 10 shares of the real stock.

Little bastard doesn’t drink, smoke, chase women (better not, since my daughter likes him for some reason) and lives with his mom – he’s got more money to burn than Bank of Dad does.
BugEyedBoo

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I see Jason Witten retired. He was a 1st team All Pro only two times in his career and I figured it was at least 8 or so because he torched the Giants so badly year after year. I hopped on to his bio page and noticed that he has the record for most catches in one game by a tight end. Yeah, he caught 18(!) fucking balls vs the Giants in 2012.
scotchnaut

Eh, not that big a deal. Your mom caught more balls than that on a regular basis.
Dunstan

I do like guys that go for the jugular.
scotchnaut

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Nothing like an angry spinner on spinner ball of physics! Or witchcraft, considering the way Fusion spun.
Senor Weaselo

“Angry spinner” is the 23rd ranked search term on PornHub.
SonOfSpam

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If hedge funds are bailed out before PR, I may go full Fanon.
Don T

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Thinking about buying this as a gift for a friend. It’s bad, yes? Please tell me it’s bad.

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After the first week of Biden’s administration, I have come to the following conclusions:

Republicans: Still worship a worthless demagogue, and all the Republicans I like are retiring so they won’t be charged as accessories.
Democrats: Acting more smug and entitled that all the Award Show speeches put together.
Parents: Mom still brainwashed. Mom and Dad hate Democrats.
Me: Hate both sides equally.

So in summary, there is no Political God.
Redshirt

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I came for the partially clad women.

I stayed for the multi-billion dollar construction projects.*

*I’m not gonna lie-the construction projects made me cum as well.
scotchnaut

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So we have a PL mixed household. We picked them on purpose. I picked Arsenal because I like the nickname “Gooners”. My wife is Liverpool because she traveled there for a High School trip and has a picture of her walking across the famous Apple Studios crosswalk. My daughter is Chelsea because she is a frontrunner bandwagon climber. My late beagle Stewie was a West Ham fan because, well, he liked ham.

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Big plans for today. Just placed an order for liquor. Then I will pick it up. Then I will drink. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
Dunstan

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Just notice that “jizz” is trending on Twitter.

No, I don’t want to know.
Dunstan

I’d just like to point out that the Multi-National Porn Complex took 31(!), thirty-one years to riff on the “All That Jazz” movie. ALL IT TOOK WAS TO SWAP OUT A SINGLE VOWEL!*

*just in case you were wondering, yes, I do have a job
scotchnaut

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/this happened yesterday

Sober Me: “Huh. A package from Land’s End, addressed to me? I didn’t order anything from them though.”

Drunk Me: [expectant look]

Sober Me: [opens package] “Flannel pajama bottoms? Cool! Thanks Drunk Me!”

Drunk Me: [blushes] “I’ll always be here for you, dude.”
scotchnaut

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Decilitre wants to drink his milk in a cereal bowl, with no cereal and just use a spoon. I can’t see this going wrong.
litre_cola

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Stafford leaving Detroit is truly the end of an era. An era that included zero playoff wins and never getting past the wild card round, but an era all the same.
Brocky

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“A Covid-19 vaccination centre at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was forced to close for an hour on Saturday after protests by anti-vaccine and far-right groups.”

I am already tired of 2021. I mean, really?
litre_cola

I still don’t understand why we don’t just send all the antivaxxers to their own little plague island in the middle of the ocean to see how Lord of Flies plays out with ignorant assholes instead of British schoolboys. We could lure them there with some sort of antivaxx music festival then pull up anchor and observe the action from a safe distance using 5g.
Doktor Zymm

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Related to Don T’s work recollections, I was on a call with another attorney, at home due to the plague, and I hung up with a disgusted sigh and some choice words and my son, who is sitting in my “office” playing video games, (NAWT a conicidence), says: “I wonder if there’s another attorney’s son whose gaming is interrupted by his Dad hanging up the phone and saying ‘Christ, what an asshole’ ten times a day.”
Horatio Cornblower

I showed this to my wife who is also an attorney and she said yes, without a doubt there are. I must admit when she says the phrase, she adds fucking as an adjective for asshole, usually disturbing me reading a book.
ArmedandHammered

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h/t Brick Meathook

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I feel like I should have gotten more done today, what with no football, and I guess I got stuff done, but it doesn’t feel adequate somehow. Oh well, I’ll just play more Civ, that’s sure to help!
Doktor Zymm

at least you’re aware of it.

highlight of my day was dropping something off at the post office.

on a day they’re closed
Brocky

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h/t Don T***

found a funny:

RoboCop: *about to arrest me*

Me: before you arrest me, which of these 9 pictures have cars in them

RoboCop: I’m going to let you off with a warning
rockingdog

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So, the sprots news is going crazy over the revelation that Messi’s last contract (signed in 2017 for four years) nets him a whopping $600 million dollars ($555 million Euros and change).

I say good for him. The dumbass that signed him to that contract is on his way out at Barcelona, so there’s that.
ballsofsteelandfury

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Pro Bowl?

It’s basically Randy Moss and Sam Somthing giving interviews to uncharismaatic players on choppy Zoom connections with some highlights sprinkled in, a shit ton of commercials and
Madden is at 5pm EST.
clint greasewood

I can’t believe that clint’s description sounds better than the usual fare (which speaks volumes on how little regard everyone has for the PB)
bk109

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Every couple of weeks, I get an email or physical mail from at least one of my credit card issuers, offering me a $25 statement credit if I add another authorized user to my card. This always leads to two thoughts:

This is really really stupid. Ok, I get that the issuer (probably) doesn’t know that I’m single with no kids and not running a business, and that I’m paranoid about money and credit, so it’s perhaps conceivable to them that I might have a girlfriend/teenager/employee that I would be willing to issue a card to. But who the fuck is basing that decision on a $25 credit? “You know, up to now I’ve been telling my girlfriend that she’s got her own damn credit cards. But for an extra $25, why, I’d be crazy NOT to put her on my account.”
They wouldn’t do this shit unless a nontrivial number of people actually do think that way.

Dunstan

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Thanks for all the comments and funny and everything else.  A friend of mine signs off emails in a way that resonates with me and everything that’s going on these day, so going to steal it:
Stay busy and safe.

Have a good week everyone.

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