In one week, we begin the start of “Futbol Summer”.
I know you’ve been inundated with a lot of posts about countries you may never have visited. Or have wanted to visit. Even, possibly, been barred from returning to. Disirregardless,
even though there are still a few more previews to come for the Euros & the Copa, please have a look back through some of the posts in order to better prepare yourself for the onslaught of Lesser Footy goodness that awaits us in just a few short days. Because everyone who writes for the site has different ideas about how to label their work, I have gone through all of the posts & added (in some cases) the category “futbol” to them so each of the previews can now be more easily found under this one designation. (And, again, FUCK Block Editor!)
We hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much as we have enjoyed going back down memory lane to drag out from our subconscious little nuggets of data to help give you an idea of our life experiences. In a few cases, it will likely also keep you from visiting there. But losing a few hundered tourist dollars is the price Putin has to pay for sending his bot army to attack our site.
It’s more than Trump ever did.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Bruins at Islanders – 7:00pm | NBC / CBC / Sportsnet
- Game 4 – Bruins lead 2-1
- Bruins at Islanders – 7:00pm | NBC / CBC / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Bucks at Nets – 7:00pm | TNT / TSN4
- Round 2, Game 1
- Bucks at Nets – 7:00pm | TNT / TSN4
- MLB:
- Red Sox vs. Yankees – 7:00pm | FOX / TSN2
- Cubs-Giants or Dodgers-Braves – 7:00pm | FOX
- Fisticuffs:
- UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai
- Prelims – 5:00pm | ESPN+ / TSN2
- Main card – 7:00pm | ESPN+ / TSN5
- UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai
- AFL: (I can’t tell what’s live – fucking Tv schedules)
- Carlton vs. West Coast – 1:00am | TSN2
- Fremantle vs. Western Bulldogs – 7:30am | FS1
Looks like a good night for commentin’.
This is the man Republicans are so deathly afraid of of. Here he is, clearly diapered, and with his pants on backwards. All hail king donald!
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“constant as a northern star” is a line in at least two songs from the 70s: “A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell, and “Right Down the Line” by Gerry Rafferty. Are there others?
Well, it’s from “Julius Caesar”, so there has to be, somewhere in time.
Google did find me a Prince cover from a Joni tribute album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lJ0f75oSL4
Gentlemen.
And others.
That’d be me.
I like to be inclusive.
Your post last night inspired me. I’m trying to kill off my own bottle of Kilchoman (the Machir Bay)
I love that stuff. 100% Islay is still my favorite but the Machir Bay keeps its place in the cabinet.
Oh, sorry, was that you? I may have gotten my B-names mixed up…
Yeah I’m the non-hobo murdering scotch enthusiast
Happy to help.
Lifetime has a TV movie called Soccer Mom Madam. It’s got soccer. It’s got moms. It’s got hookers. Could it be that bad?
What, no cocaine? Pffft.
Holy shit. Also very much NSFW. Especially if you work in a bar.
https://twitter.com/jasongillearn/status/1401221666584227848
Florida?
I didn’t think to check. It’s apparently an Outback Steakhouse. I mean, I know their schtick is corny, but this seems extreme.
LOL, apparently it actually is Florida! Way to live up to your stereotype lady!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655177/Naked-Florida-woman-tasered-police-trashing-restaurant.html
I know it’s blurred out but she looks great for 53
One of the benefits of owning an older, smaller house is that it’s well-built and generally easy to maintain. One of the main drawbacks is no central AC. Today and the next three days are all going to be humid and over 90, so today is that annual day of misery where I haul out all the individual bedroom ACs, take out the storm windows, and install them individually, as well as the one larger unit, (which is absolutely going to be the death of me someday), while sweating Todd Marinovich in his probation officer’s office while waiting for the urine to come back.
I am currently celebrating with banana chocolate chip ice cream.
I applaud your lack of laziness, in Chicago I never removed my window AC in the winter, I just got an insulated cover for it. Of course, I also had super old windows that provided essentially zero insulation anyway, and radiator heat that kept the place way too hot even when it was frostbitingly cold, so it’s not clear there was any benefit to removing it.
Oh, I’ll likely be bitching about having to take them out come September/October. And no matter when I take them out, there will be a heatwave the next week.
The sun belt equivalent of this is leaving the Xmas lights up on the double-wide all year long. Extra credit if you disconnect them from a power source during the spring and summer.
If Greenland is still shut in September, I think I’ll go Faroes/Scotland instead. There’s a Michelin starred restaurant in the Faroes, and I can fly into the beach runway at Barra airport. There’s also direct flights between Barra and Islay.
All I know about tourism in Greenland I got from this book.
I’m not eager to go.
Oooh, pre-trip reading!
Spoiler alert: Crocker Land is a mirage.
(It’s a good read, if occasionally depressing)
Guy I worked with on the environmental end of things had to manage the cleanups and compliance at Thule AFB up yonder in Greenland. At the time (early ’00s), I remember him telling me that the base had a couple dozen USAF uniformed types, and around 450 Danish contractors, just about all of them gay. That always struck me as an ideal location for those guys to live their preferred lifestyle.
I also might be able to go in November if/when my Thailand cruise gets cancelled. It’s increasingly looking like most of SE Asia won’t be opening up this year. And thinking about it further, if Greenland isn’t open, then the Faroes won’t be either, but easy enough to spend the time in Scotland instead!
Islay is nice, though probably a little boring if you’re not into whisky, golf, or the landscape
I like at least 2 of those things, and I’m willing to try golf
I loved it. Went about 15 years ago; I timed it to be there during their spring jazz fest — not because I’m a huge jazz fan, but it gave me stuff to do in the evenings. But I wouldn’t hesitate to go any other time of year. Say hi to my plot of land at Laphroaig*
*-I think they discontinued that program, so they no longer pretend that I own a square foot of Islay.
We’re probably co-owners of the exact same square foot!
pre-shelled pistachios seem like the pinnacle of modern technology and progress and debauchery, but they end up tasting kind of… stale.
Proper take
You’ve really got to get that red food coloring all over your hands.
instead of going to overtime, one of the team’s should just be randomly picked to lose. That would incentivize some fucking action in the third period of tied games.
Damn teenagers, hanging out in their street gangs!
People having fun in… Buffalo?
https://twitter.com/carlocolaiacovo/status/1400266314648858624?s=21
That’s a nice stadium. Was there for a Bisons game
As the owner of a large breed & hairy dog, that’s at least a thousand dollars in cleaning right there.
Do the Ripley thing & nuke them from space.
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/home-living/get-rid-of-skunk-smell-on-dog/
Oh, it doesn’t totally cure it. It comes out of the pores for about a month.
Yeah, I’ve had two dogs, including our most recent, that have been blasted in the face, (are we still not doing phrasing?) by skunks. BGR speaks the truth: those remedies will greatly reduce the smell, but there’s going to be at least a faint reminder coming off of them for weeks, if not months.
We had one of those in our backyard a couple of days ago. A little bigger than those, but not much. Chased off our murderous outdoor cat, so I admire its courage, but am less enamored that it may have taken up residence under the shed.
If I could go back in time, I’d go to a few billion years ago and put a big rock on the ground or smash my feet on it somewhere so that the tectonic plates shift slightly differently so that in our time the city of Boston no longer exists.
The huge upside to this is the elimination of Mark Wahlberg from existence.
I am all for this endeavor.
And right on cue, a knuckle dragging waste of an egg slobbering mass of human garbage from Boston spears a guy.
I assume this is a hockey reference, because I don’t think the bedlam coming has got to the point yet where spears are being used. There are still plenty of guns out there…
Without having seen the play I’m going with Marchand.
Crowd sourcing here. In theory the Superb Owl is here in LA this season. Not sure how they allow that since the stadium hasn’t had a year of occupancy to work out the infrastructure issues.
Anyway.
Who should play the halftime show that would pay homage to LA?
I’ve got an idea or two but want to hear yours.
Gary Nunan*?
Meant Numan. The Cars guy. Get it?
I thought you meant Danny Noonan from Caddyshack. World needs ditchdiggers too.
Tha Dogg Pound.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PzwydMMu7ws
Hell yes.
The crew they put together for the above NBK song would be pretty fun.
I guess it depends on the timeframe you want to evoke. Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, reanimated corpse of Warren Zevon, maybe Guns n Roses.
I will probably think of more.
My second thought. Guns and Roses would be epic if they could keep them restrained. It’s got the Dad Rock and the Jock Rock. This should happen.
Tom Petty was a big fan of LA for the 40+ years he lived there, even sang a few songs about it. Too bad he’s in the same condition as Warren.
I guess there were a number of big hair bands that got launched off of the Strip and MTV, but I think GnR is all-encompassing of that genre.
I guess the Eagles, but I hate the fucking Eagles.
Oh Jesus. It’s going to be the Eagles isn’t it?
Stay out of Malibu!
Get yer own fucking cab!
I like that I have lived long enough that liking the Eagles is now a bold contrarian position.
Rancid or Pennywise are not mainstream enough. Dre and Snoop don’t appeal to rednecks enough. Let’s hope they have enough sense to stay away from Gwen Stefani.
So, expect Billie Eilish, because we can’t have good things like Rancid.
I thought Rancid was a Bay Area band?
You’re right. I always assumed LA, because that’s where I have heard them playing more often.
I suspect Dre and Snoop might have more redneck support than you think. They’re probably not considered ‘family friendly’ enough though.
Snoop was my first thought and I hear he’s petitioning for it.
I saw him live and it was fantastic. There’s no way he fits the bill because you can’t restrain the Dogg Pound.
I have seen Pennywise at least a dozen times, they are phenomenal but you are correct they aren’t mainstream enough.
I mean, Pennywise has played every place in LA, at least 10 times over. They should be offering a frequent flyer pass by now, every 5 times you buy admission, you get the 6th free.
I only associated that name with Tim Curry in the storm drain. But I am not very hip at all any more.
Fuck Authority live is a solid life moment.
Hell yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5arZGgyGSc
It’ll be holographs of Tupac and Jim Morrison “performing” The Weeknd and Fall Out Boy.
Nostradamus predicted this and then immediately killed himself
I would take Brian Wilson and any remaining Beach Boys that aren’t that cock Mike Love.
Social Distortion and X.
You are all wrong. The correct answer, and you should have known this since they just got elected to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, is the Go-Gos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M
Someone exploded an IED at a beer garden in Boerne, about 20 miles from me. The civil war is getting closer, I guess.
https://www.rawstory.com/improvised-explosive-device/
Yikes. Impressive they already have someone in custody though, must be an amateur as I would have thought one of the major advantages of bombing is that you can be far away and difficult to trace by the time anything happens. Unless it turns out this was just another gender reveal gone awry…
Apparently there might have been some fishing contest skullduggery. Been to that lake a number of times; it’s the water supply for Boerne, so no internal combustion engines allowed and it’s real clean.
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/bomb-explosion-reported-near-boerne-lake-investigation-underway/273-0f2f356c-c964-4d1d-8182-bae24b5f568a
If Carl Hiassen novels have taught me anything, it’s that fishing contests are filled with cheats and murderers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Whammy_(novel)
“No whammy no whammy no whammy…DOUBLE whammy? Damnit!”
Hiaasen’s storylines are so insane. I love that guy…
I only read one of his, ‘Sick Puppy’, and Hiaasen’s got some issues. he does write a good book, though.
My favorite of his is ‘Skinny Dip’
…I was saying Boernes…
It’s pronounced “Bernie” so it took me a couple minutes to figure out that you weren’t making some political statement and were referencing Monty Burns.
I live downtown and someone just got smoked by a skunk. Toronto has its trash pandas and here for some weird reason we have skunks here. At least once a week someone’s dog in the neighboUrhood got a blast.
If it weren’t for the odour issue and de-scenting probably being inhumane, I would totally have a skunk for a pet. Trash pandas are probably too smart to ever be domesticated.
Skunks sure are adorable.
Raccoons too.
Here in Texas the skunks get real active during mating season (I guess) and you smell skunk driving down the rural roads for the entire month of February.
Breaking golf news
Ouch. Duly noted. Anyway, Third-round leader of Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial Tournament, Jon Rahm, had to withdraw after his round today after testing positive for The Rona. Dude had a six stroke lead with one round to play. Damn.
Okay, back to sprots and other things you really care about.
I was following that. Turned the tour on and said where the fuck is Rahm?
Hell of a thing. This shit is still out there people.
I know there are specific athletic strengths you must have in order to excel at golf (and bowling), but both of them seem to me more of a hobby than a sport.
If the activity doesn’t involve running at any time, it’s not a sport. If the activity *only* involves running it is also not a sport.
Also, adding running to the activity (i.e. speed golf) does not make it into a sport.
In the 90’s, they called that “extreme golf”. It was really, really dumb.
It’s aged out and become “disc golf”.
So actually most Olympic events are not sports? I’m okay with that.
That’s right! They’re athletic competitions! No less worthy of respect, but not “sports”.
I’m sure there are others, but I know that you can drink booze when you golf or bowl.
Typical Scottish castle
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGEyBeoBGM
The Corryvreckan is a dangerous bit of water in the Inner Hebrides between the isles of Jura and Scarba. It shipwrecked George Orwell when he was living on Jura while writing 1984 in 1948.
Some crazy people scuba dive the whirlpool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkekcTMEHPc
“In memory of Duncan”
Gee, wonder what happened to Duncan.
Also the name of a great whisky by Ardbeg
Can confirm
I spent the afternoon cider tasting, with either a goat or Satan yelling at me from the roof.
A delicious selection was to be had.
Evenin, hangover subsided by 4 pm which is nice. I can’t believe BGR didn’t mention the Canada v Aruba hawt futbol aktion!
I couldn’t find a channel listing for it when I typed this up last night.
It is on OneSoccer, a Canadian streaming service only true futbol nerds have…
Then, I regret nothing.
Wooo! Bet Essential Quality 7 across the board!
I am very happy for you, but never take Gamblor advice from me again. You will end up in a cardboard box under the freeway!
Not again!
Is it one of those nice roomy refrigerator boxes? That would be an improvement over some city apartments I’ve seen.
Here’s a nice one
Not sure a fireplace is a good idea!
The gray horse won! This is absolutely a sign of an imminent apocalypse. Stop, drop, and roll!
I learned that move from the Sandy Duncan show.
Wow, blast from the past! She had a glass eye, like my grandfather Church, but I’m willing to bet she didn’t get hers playing polo.
I’m kind of astounded they aren’t delaying the Copa, seeing as pretty much all of South America is a hotspot right now.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
Zymm, Bolso has everything under control. I mean he survived it.
That’s darn nice of you to do that BGR! Thank you!
Damn shame Baffert isn’t here to see this.
Russia: It’s still ran by the same jackasses that ran it before “the fall of communism”, so no real change there.