Will the two quasi-Nordic lovers continue traipsing across the European battlefield? Or will the dirty English pigs (and Ian Darke’s really bad-smelling tongue) have their wicked way? Tune in, 3p EST on ESPN. I may watch on mute, but God as me witness, there will be no match commentary unless England go two behind. And maybe not then, since all blame will belong to Jordan Pickford, since he doesn’t play for one of the Big Six/Sky Five.
In short, fuck everything and find some 2nd-world action. HAIL GAMBLOR!
Litre: Well I just lost the words I wrote (thanks wordpress) so I see how this day is going to go.
It has come to this, for the ABE’s (Anyone but England) camp our eggs are in the Danish basket. They do play a sexsi brand of football but losing Eriksen early really hurts in matches like this. It would be more delicious for England to lose in the final to the Italians but let’s just get it done now Danes shall we?
My inlaws have Danish ancestry and their love of Akavit runs deep. I decided to dress Decilitre appropriately for daycare today.
Kasper Schmeichel showed some pretty good with in a press conference this week.
Kasper Schmeichel was asked what it would mean for Denmark to stop football ‘coming home’ with victory over England in their Euro 2020 semi-final at Wembley on Wednesday; Schmeichel: “Has it ever been home? I don’t know, have you ever won it?”
[…] to borrow a line from Senor Weaselo, he didn’t want to change his name to The […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgc-cF4wC3Q
I made gumbo!
Nice.
File or okra? I’m good either way, though I think I like okra better.
File.
Having that weird feeling of your team losing in the final, especially in a year you weren’t expecting much. It sucks. But they exceeded your expectations by far. But it sucks.
Will need more alcohol to sort this out.
If you weren’t expecting much…is good? Or hopes raised then dashed? Sounds like the booze plan is a good one.
Yeah, it’s very mixed feelings. And when I have trouble with feelings, alcohol is always there.
Sounds like the problem was hoping. Shouldn’t let yourself do that.
“Less hoping, more roping!” – David Carradine
As a Canucks fan, it’s been ten years since I had to care about playoffs.
I think the 3 minutes of rowing I did this morning is totally enough to compensate for the beef pie, 1.5 bottles of wine, cheesy poofs, and mini-churros I had for dinner
You might be overtraining. Take the day off tomorrow, you don’t want to hurt yourself!
It’s good to have sensible voices in the house!
Mini churros shows you are being careful about portions.
Like, would anyone legitimately give a shit if Erik Prince was assassinated? I presume his heirs would dance a little jig, and I’m sure his little warlord army would be upset about being out of a job, but let’s say a country (let’s say Israel) wanted him dead, would anyone actually try to retaliate if they succeeded?
But then who would succeed Erik King?
Who?
Betsy DeVos’ brother? The guy who runs Blackwater/Xe?
Oh, yeah, no one would give two shits. Maybe one small, poorly textured shit
“Hey, Ralphie, I like the way you used the corn for texture.”
—Cheech or Chong?
NFL News Break: N’Keal Harry has requested a trade and also requested that he be able to travel back in time and be drafted in the fifth round so that there are no high expectations of him and also be gifted with hands that can catch a football on a regular basis.
I want to travel back in time also, mostly so I can catch my enemies doing stupid shit and then point and laugh when they are at their most vulnerable
Safe to say that a certain wrestling-loving dude that has a new job in Wiscy might have larger priorities atm. I guess this is our evening thread as well. Please unfold your giant dick joke here?
I’ve been advised by my probation officer that I should avoid unfolding my giant dick around others.
Being a giant dick, however, is ok.
Thanks, by the way, for throwing out a link to the Lawyers, Guns And Money blog. Really like the posts and the comment section doesn’t make me want to wretch. Yet.
Any blog named after a Zevon song is ok in my book
I’m guessing you’re an automatic subscribe to my “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” thingy then?
I may have sung that song drunkenly home from bars on multiple occasions.
Hopefully, he did not go on a
So, did Wisconsin steal JJD’s Wednesday evening post or what?
Some Beerguy might also not have been paying attention.
Good luck Jake!
I just had to use a lighter to open a bottle of wine because they buried that damn thing in a chunk of wax about a centimeter thick, and all attempts to cut, chip, or peel the stuff had failed. At least I am now 100% ready for a glass!
I found this article at The Athletic rather weird.
The ‘Uber Incident’: Did a secret video destroy an NHL career? – The Athletic
I suppose the Law of Headlines applies: when a headline contains a question, the answer is no.
Short version: a few years ago, some Ottawa Senators were taking an Uber back to their hotel during a road trip in Phoenix. They started bitching about the team’s video coach. Unbeknownst to them, the Uber driver’s phone was recording them, and when he apparently didn’t like his tip or them, he decided to upload it. I remember it being a minor story at the time.
This article tries to pretend that it’s a huge deal that has haunted this one guy, who subsequently bounced around several NHL teams, was demoted to the AHL a couple of times, and ended up playing in the KHL. Yet there’s not a single quote, blind or otherwise, from an NHL coach or GM who says it’s a concern — to the contrary. And as the writer eventually acknowledges in like paragraph 35 or something, maybe this is just kind of a typical career path for a late 20s journeyman defenseman? (It is.)
When I started reading it, I was all set to complain about the injustice of the NHL handwaving serious misconduct like DUIs and domestic abuse but punishing a guy who just had the bad luck to be secretly recorded saying some pretty mild complaining about a coach. But I just don’t think there’s any there there.
That year the Sens were 28-43-11. Wideman was considered to be a okay player on a shitty team-meaning that he didn’t suck as much as the other players at his position. The fact that Formenton, White, Tierney and Chabot are still with the team and Wideman, DeMelo and Duchene are not (all of these players were at the same meeting regarding the video and were certainly not all in the same cab) tells me that there was a ‘teaching moment’ that the team deemed necessary and he was, like the other ex-Sens at the meeting, just another guy caught up in ‘player churn’.
Yeah, I don’t have trouble believing that the Sens moved him because he was expendable and they wanted someone to take the hit — after all, that guy was still a coach with the team.
But I seriously doubt any other team looked at him and said, “oh, we can’t have that guy on our team — he once complained about a coach in a private conversation with teammates, and Lord Stanley knows no other players do that…”
If he was blackballed across the entire hockey universe then I think it’s safe to say that the Senators video coach is more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Uuuuuggggghhhh! The pool tracker didn’t take my pick for this game! I picked England and it didn’t take for some reason. Fuck!
I picked Denmark specifically in the hopes that it would cause England to win. That reminds me, better go pick Italy for the final right now.
I just did. Dammit, I went from 2nd place to 3rd, because apparently I am a dumbass and didn’t double check that my pick was submitted. Such a Gumbygirl mistake!
Ok, but it’s like Final Jeopardy, right? You can wager all of your remaining points on the final?
I don’t think that’s how it works.
Sorry, I was being facetious
So was I, jinx!
Sure, two hours later…
I’m busy as fuck, doing IMPORTANT THINGS!
I was too lazy to get my phone that I left downstairs.
Now I have to root for Italy. Thanks, Danmark!
I was at the gym and following along on Twitter, but am I to understand that UEFA did what it needed to do to ensure an England-Italy ratings bonanza?
WHO. YA. GOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXzzHM8zLw
Is it… is it coming home?
Ha ha, no. England is just choosing the most devastating way to lose.
Time for the winning team’s anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02D2T3wGCYg
thats ROCKING!!!!
Well that ended up sucking.
=oligarchs. pointing at a teenage Melania