Hello there fellow DFO’er. Hope you’re well today. And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain. There’s no reason as to why some comments make it and others don’t.
For the ‘Murica folks, welcome to the work week, hope you had a good long weekend. For the rest of us, it’s another Tuesday. I had planned on half assing a lessor footy preview for my intro again, but there’s a right proper preview coming from the lessor footy folk here in the club house as the next post. So, fuck, need to find something else.
Checks interwebs. Habs won in OT. Good, no one wants to be swept in the finals. And pushes out the rioting in Montreal another day. I do find it funny that the next game (Wednesday) maybe need to be moved due to hurricane Elsa. Note to Gary fucking Bettman: this is why playoffs need to start earlier. Now I get that any season at all was a fucking miracle, but there was no need to have eleventy billion games against the same 4 teams in each division. A bunch of these games could have been cut without anyone noticing and then playoffs would have ended in June, like Lord Stanley would have wanted.
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. Note that during the offseason, I’ll probably look at the Sunday posts.
Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.
Second round pick:
Pi. I made it to the self-trepanning scene. Had to tap out after that.
Fronkenshteen
You can’t watch it again since Pi never repeats.
SonOfSpam
Donald Trump Jr. is the only guy on Earth who has a ton of cocaine and no friends.
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) June 29, 2021
SonOfSpam
TB in 3. The Montreal team bus takes a wrong turn and ends up in the polluted bay and they all are hospitalised for weeks and forfeit the last game
Game Time Decision
A VERY wrong turn to end up in Tampa Bay between games 3 and 4, both of which take place in Montreal.
herodotus450
Oh we have Rand McNally over here. Good day Mr. McNally nice to see you.
litre_cola
Making twitter jokes about Ellen throwing stuff at her assistants sustains me. It’s like, throwing-water-bottles-at-your-assistants soup for the soul.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
“A good start here by Germany against England”
/Germany starts a simultaneous second game against Russia
“Ah, these lads will never learn”
Horatio Cornblower
I knew this German team wouldn’t be good, but this is just pathetic.
Wakezilla
THIS GERMAN MEN’S PROGRAM I CALL IT THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, BECAUSE IT HAS COLLAPSED!!!
Horatio Cornblower
Screwed the Putsch as it were.
Warthog
Haven’t seen a Muller fuck up something that badly since Billy Barr was AG.
SonOfSpam
Do we think the German fans are conflicted about the bed-shitting they just watched?
LemonJello
I move we create an “International Kick a Global Warming Denier in the Privates Very Hard Day”.
Any objections?
Redshirt
[looks outside, sees that it’s getting windy]
It’s like nature knows if it gets too windy I won’t be able to clean up the leaves in the yard.
[hugs nature]
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
litre_cola
So the town that set three straight Canadian temperature records just burned down in a forest fire.
Officials are stumped as to the cause.
Beerguyrob
Just your daily reminder: MLS is still a minor league that blows.
TheRevanchist
“What’s her number? Oh, wait, didn’t see the word ‘league’ in there.” — Matt Gaetz
Dunstan
I need to get to bed early so I can get my stuff done tomorrow at a reasonable time. Good night!
Gumbygirl
Don T
Don T
That goal was miraculous, in that the dead Italian in the box, (make your own jokes), was instantly revived.
Horatio Cornblower
Admin
July 2, 2021 2:26 pm
Just checked into the Skopje Marriott, which is incredibly nice. The city itself looks excellent from the short walk I had from the bus stop to here. Goddamn it feels good to be somewhere random again! Lots of open air bar/cafes showing the games, and it is nighttime here, Friday night even, a traditional time for communal sports viewing. First impressions are that the city monuments have Soviet scale, but a more neoclassical style. I’m totally into giant horse statues with fountains on a tiled square next to a porticoed casino.
Doktor Zymm
I’m totally into giant horse statues
Enjoy your trip, Catherine the Great!
SonOfSpam
I mean in fairness, what do the Swiss know at firing shots against other nations?
Senor Weaselo
I haven’t seen someone hit that much wood since the Houston 500.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
/Phone Rings in the DFO Clubhouse:
//Horatio picks up the phone
H’llo
Collect Ouija-Board call from tWBS, will you accept the charges?
Horatio: (thinking) Well, I know Green Day isn’t British, so how bad could it be? (out loud) Yeah, sure what the hell.
tWBS: Hey man, love to tell you all about the Afterlife but first could you play Garbage?
Horatio: Probably inevitable given it’s your musical draft choice.
tWBS: Har-de-har-har funny guy. Think you’ll like Hell? Anyway, I meant Garbage the band. Shirley Manson’s in it, and it always rains in England, so it fits.
Horatio: Sure, man, I’ll put it in. Hey! What was that about Hell!?
tWBS: -click-
Horatio Cornblower
THIS GAME I CALL IT THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA, BECAUSE UKRAINE IS NOT GETTING IT BACK!
Horatio Cornblower
“3-0? Now this is a football score.” – Marty Schottenheimer
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
“Let’s not get too crazy.”
— Norv Turner
WCS
I didn’t know I was OCD until I watched my son mow the grass for the first time. On the one hand? So proud. But my god, it looks like the job was done by a blind man running from bees. If you could’ve harnessed the mental energy I was putting into willing him to not miss spots, you could’ve bent spoons.
Fronkenshteen
“Jordan Pickford has 18 clean sheets? He must be a billionaire!”
-Jim Tomsula
scotchnaut
I think Denmark can win this if they watch for two things; keeping an eye on their opponent, and maintaining a proper mix of offense and defense.
In other words, Czechs and balance.
/dodges rotten fruit
//wonders how Lindsey Graham got here so quickly
SonOfSpam
A good day to all of you, gentlemen! I have spent the past 12 hours mourning King Leopold’s defeat to the surprisingly mighty House of Savoy, whose cultural sensibilities have never caught on in Africa. The Roman descendants will need everything they have to overcome the Iberians, who are quite skilled in raping and pillaging if the moon hits their eye in precisely the right way. That said, neither will be any match for the Three Lions in the final, who by the grace of God are most certainly destined to win this tournament. Time for some Chicken Kiev!
Cecil Rhodes
These Ecuador kits are phenomenal.
litre_cola
I’ve always wanted to build my own Ecuador. Where’d you get it, Amazon?
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
I like supporting small local businesses, so I picked up a Liechtenstein kit at Kitty’s Country Kits (right off the 91) last month. When I finish it, I’ll go for a bigger one.
Word of advice, start with Monaco. You get casinos and a nice sea view right in your garage.
SonOfSpam
Redshirt
Farmer’s Market PSA:
Unless the name of the farm is identified (and even then…) sellers are oftentimes folks that buy fruit/vegetables at a wholesale price at a centrally-located ‘produce hub’ and then re-sell elsewhere.
Large farms have contracts with either restaurant chains/grocery stores or food service companies like Sysco or Gordon’s. Smaller (mom and pop) farms usually don’t have the time/energy to sell to folks on the weekend-they’re taking care of their harvest back home. Yes, there are tons of exceptions to this generalization. The majority of folks that re-sell have a background in farming or connections and are aware of the enormous profits that can be made selling at retail.
scotchnaut
Oh boys and girls. I am sitting in Wisconsin getting ready for my first day at the job on Tuesday. I have been off work for over a year. I am terrified. I know they are smart and persued me. I have a 9 month contract. Still terrified.
Help me invisible internet friends, you’re my only hope! Extended stay America is awesome. Wednesdays column may be weird.
I’m with ya. My first day at new job is Tuesday. I’m also nervous.
Redshirt
You are the very best candidate your new employer could find. Keep that in mind and do what you do. It’ll be fine.
scotchnaut
Thanks for all the comments and funny and everything else.
Stay busy and safe out there.
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Well it looks like Litre wins the southern hemisphere gently-used fleshlight, on account of I didn’t realize semifinal 1 was yesterday and I was still at Senorita Weaselo’s and therefore not at my computer.
The last three days I’ve received emails from the third party doing my background check for my new job asking for more information and documents. Isn’t that your job assholes? Why am I doing all the legwork for you?
it’s always tempting to send them the wrong stuff
We’ve got a lot of folks starting new jobs here. Good luck. I’m just trying really hard to finish my job. I’m getting that “ready to retire” mindset going.
Same here. I love my job and I often figured I’d be there as long as I was physically able, but after the latest round of retirements, I’m now the old dog and I’m feeling like a short timer.
You just made yourself an enemy.
Mrs GTD has less than 10 years before full pension.
yes the date is already on the calendar.
You should see the ridiculous hoops we are jumping through trying to get Gumby disability, and that is with a company we hired that “handles” it for you. We’ve been turned down twice, and now have a court date for September. It’s fucking insane. He gets job offers almost every day, for waaay more money than he’ll get on db, but he can’t work because he’s sick.The man has worked every day since he was a teenager, he’s not one of those “ow my back” fakers. I am really pissed off!