Yeah, the quality of play today was…not so great. But hey, it still passed the time. I am also reading Anne Applebaum’s “Gulag” history, so you can imagine what a ray of sunshine Hippo (and Other Hippo) is at present. At least I could keep the windows open today, the delta between winter and “swampass” tends to be fleeting at best.
I did like the Ukrainian flag homage from the Premiership (see banner pic), although I fear society will start losing interest soon. If it hasn’t already.
We also started a mini-discussion among DFO’s Politburo – is China or Russia the bigger asshole, overall? I mean, Putin is obviously showing more of his butt cheeks at present. Feel free to discuss. Things learned today:
- Beesus is resurrected-ish.
- Relatedly, Norwich is so, so dead. They can’t even pretend otherwise no MOAR.
- It’s a little jarring to hear Jesse Marsch speak, since he lacks the Brit-speak accent (or other Euro-twang).
- Leeds still looks most likely to go down with Norwich and Watford, though. Their confidence is shattered, and I’m not sure there’s much quality, either.
- Good God, though. Team White Lives Matter sure took a ROCKING second-half hiding today, despite Chelski sleepwalking the first 45 minutes.
- The “poison chalice” of Europa play has caught up to Fronk’s Hammers. It’s a brutal schedule if you lack robust squad depth.
- Please avert your eyes from tonight’s Coach K rimming. NO, IT’S NOT MARGINALLY BETTER FOR THE HOLES TO WIN. If “giant meteor” finally comes good, it will be on the news later.
- NC State made history today, losing 20 for the first time EVAR. Didn’t even need the inevitable “one and done” from the ACC tournament (that nobody but Dook fans will watch).
That’s all, I’m plum out of brain cells. Carry things forward, por favor.
Holy shit, I did not realize Coach K called out his own team during the postgame speech. What an absolute piece of crap.
It won’t happen, but I’d love to see two more Duke games where the starters just throw every ball into the stands while glaring at him.
I have this theory I’m working on, may be a post someday…
College coaches = authoritarian = conservative
Pro coaches = collaborative = liberal
Anyway, yes, Coach K is an asshole.
Self-righteous hypocrite, and anyone who says otherwise went to Duke and is therefore not worth listening to anyway.
https://twitter.com/DocStaples/status/1500283170859716609
Walton repeatedly insisting that the ball is off the USC player when the replay *clearly* shows a UCLA player throwing it out of bounds.
And the call is reversed. USC ball.
And now Bill called an offensive fall or a technical on USC, only to find that the refs blew the whistle because the clock wasn’t running.
SoS, I love you, but Walton suuuuuuuuucks.
Walton is a YUUUGE UCLA homer. That’s part of his thing.
He just said that UCLA was great at free throws and the kid clanged both of them.
I’m fine with the homer stuff, but you can’t watch a replay that clearly shows a UCLA kid palming the ball as it goes out, claim that USC touched it last, and not take a rash of shit for it.
Walton sees the world through baby blue and yellow glasses.
Pretty sure hey just tripping balls (no pun intended) 24/7, which for the record I am A-OK with.
But UCLA won the game as god herself intended.
USC definitely shot themselves in the dick there.
I am sitting through the absolutely insufferable Bill Walton just to get to Sports Center so I can watch them
gnash their teeth and rend their garments over Coach K.
I will not be wearing pants.
As a West Coast guy, I love Bill Walton.
And the more people hate him, the more I enjoy him.
It’s a shtick and it makes people crazy. Just chill and enjoy.
No one loves Bill Walton more than Bill Walton.
You probably think Johnny Most was better than Chick Hearn.
Never followed pro basketball. I did like Most openly approving of one of the Celtics attacking Bill Laimbeer. Sports needs more announcers encouraging physical violence
Sure, we all wanna see Laimbeer get his ass kicked. But still.
This is a big red line.
One of the funniest things I’ve ever read was from old friend Frank Spring. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was on his usual Twitter bullshit, this time about a movie where the name had nothing to do with what happened in the film.
Frank writes: “Credits roll on ‘The Thin Red Line.’ Me: OK, *FIRST* of all….!”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
You sick bastard.
It’s been raining off and on here all day. In the desert. And it’s chilly. I will try to remember this day in August, when it’s 120.
“Ah the good old day”
/combusts
As for the Ohio forecast:
I love the desert like I love selling drugs to midgets: in small doses.
Found a funny;
Feels extremely silly explaining to my 4 year old that, yes, there’s a Batman movie out but “sorry, it’s for grown ups”
I’m still upset it’s called “The Batman”. Does that mean all the others before and after are just a Batman, total frauds impersonating Robert Pattinson?
I’m still pissed. I didn’t see one Batwave in that movie!
The Batman Cartoon 2004 – Season 1 & 2 Intro Theme. DNO – YouTube
(walks into clubhouse; everyone is in a smiling post-climax coma)
Aw, what did I miss?
The Lakers have been a dumpster fire, but they’re in a close game with the Warriors with about 3:30 left (on ABC)
And LeBron has 52 for some reason.
LOL Dubs are notttt Rockinggg
Fingers crossed they show up for the playoffs!
Lakers win a fun game, LeBron finishes with 56,
LeBron has to prove himself now. He’s fucked the Lakers for years to come and will probably be playing elsewhere. Gotta keep his value high so someone wants him.
Yes that makes sense
/backs away slowly
One other good thing: Greg Hardy just got his ass kicked, getting TKO’d in the 1st round of the UFC jerkfest. (It’s on PPV so I read about that because yeah like I’m shelling out $60 for anything not related to drinking)
I’m not saying that if you go on Y**T*b* and search “Greg Hardy UFC 272” that you can watch Greg get rag dolled by a guy paler than a vampire before getting punchedfucked right into a 7-5 record, but I’m not not saying it, either.
I hurt my knee walking the dog today, (the sleet storm has basically left a sidewalk of ice on every path in the woods), and now it throbs every time I go up and down stairs.
My beer fridge is in the basement. Does anyone know where I can hire a Sherpa? My wife’s getting pretty tired of my bullshit.
Solution:
1 Slide down the stairs ass first.
2 Grab two ice cold beers
3 Place beers on knees as you ascend stairs.
4 Drink
5 Profit
Having trouble picturing 3, but I may try it just for shits and giggles.
Why leave the basement?
Not heated. All the more reasons I need a Sherpa.
LAYERS MOTHERFUCKER
It’s a great three-season room. You’re all invited from St. Patrick’s Day until Thanksgiving.
No hobos, for obvious reasons.
Her vows explicitly said “In sickness”. Tell her to suck it up and honor her oath.
You tell her. I’d like to keep my one good knee.
Can’t she just put some in the upstairs fridge temporarily? I mean until your knee is better, not until you drink ALL of the beer. Or until you drink all of the beer, why the fuck not?
I think now is a good time to remind her that she did take Horatio to Karaoke at the Elks Lodge…
He needs to save that one for something really big. That’s a Get Out of Jail Free card!
All that means is that she has an incredible sadistic streak.
Our couples dance to Hot Chocolates “I Believe In Miracles” brought the house down.
This is why everyone needs an emergency beer fridge in the bedroom.
That’s upstairs.
It now occurs to me that I should put beers in the fridge 15’ away from me, and on the same floor.
The Blue Jackets just tied the Bruins with 1.8 seconds left just as Jack Edwards was winding up for some of his patented homer bullshit, and between this and Duke I am going to orgasm to death.
Horatio (Artistic Interpretation)
Robin Williams Live On Broadway clip 2 (topic: SEX) – YouTube
NSFW Language and Sexually Suggestive Language…but safe for YouTube
Not inaccurate
ESPN now suggesting that the poor Duke kids lost because the emotion of it being dear, sweet, Coach K’s last game just got to them in the 2nd half.
Man, if only Coach K hadn’t made that impossible to avoid by setting himself up for a season-long hand job by announcing his retirement at the beginning of it.
Fuck him, fuck Duke, and God bless UNC (but just this once)
First goal ever at FC Charlotte scored by…the greatest club in the world, the LA Galaxy.
And it was an absolute golazo.
Charlotte’s gonna bring in Darnold any minute.
That’s Rocking!
Also read Charlotte FC breaking Atlanta’s MLS attendance record!!! Whoa!!
74K plus, which is pretty good considering it’s shit soccer.
you shut your whore mouth
LOL
Elden Ring. Ready Player One. This year’s Cincinnati Bearcats and Xavier Musketeers College Basketball seasons. Why are all the recent disasters occurring in Ohio?
I’m so fucking tired
Better than being tired of fucking.
I wish
[monkey’s paw curls]
I’m retired of/from fucking
Duke losing to a bubble team means they’re out of the tournament, right?
https://twitter.com/tatefrazier/status/1500281104997117954
All these crying Duke fans are warming my dark, black heart.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1500283361415335940
Did that brunette write “cum” on her forehead?
Maybe? Can’t trust a Dukies ability to spell.
“No, she didn’t write it herself.” – Jokey Smurf
Money well spent.
https://twitter.com/DukeMBB/status/1500178844141203460
https://twitter.com/rodger/status/1500284234770092032
Tbe antibiotics I’m taking for my shoulder are totally kicking my ass. I haven’t been able to drag myself off the couch all day, but I did win my battle with Spectre/Spectrum.
yeah right reporting for duty!
I really, really liked Spielberg’s West Side Story a lot.
Now for some lighter fare.
Look! Les Miserables is on!
Hehe, duty.
A Browns game? At this time of year?
(btw this is one of my favorite images of all time)
I’ve seen happier kids in Kyev, this week.
That’s a fucking banner but the context is needed to fully understand the genius of this comment.
I humbly propose it gets the banner anyway, just for the double-takes whenever someone see it on the banner and when it comes back for the Banner Tourney.
We should have a thread about pictures of sad fans for each team.
sadben.jpg (650×440) (totalprosports.com)
Inspired by a side conversation with scotchy – what would you rather endure (1) Tony Bennett witnessing to you about Christ; or (2) Coach K witnessing to you about Satan?
Bennett. You’d at least get some songs.
With Coach K, you’d get him talking about his subordinate Satan.
Plus, be hard to get K’s sulfurous stench out of your clothes and carpet. I am sure Tony at least smells nice.
Obviously Bennett, he’s bringing over all sorts of good snacks and booze and coach k is yelling at me to lose weight.
Went for a hike and then stopped at the taco truck. It may be time to just pass out and call it a day.
cover yourself with leaves and you’ll be fine, just maybe not “and dandy”
Where was the hike? The air must have been wonderfully clear.
In the Santa Monica Mountains behind Malibu. The part of the Backbone Trail near Newton Canyon (?). It’s about a 5 mile hike total, some ups and downs but never too much elevation gain at one time, which is what kills me.
I actually did better than I expected — it’s been a while since I got out there, but I needed very few rest stops, and pretty sure nobody passed me on the trail. But I will sleep well tonight.
We’re on the same side as the Taliban?!
Props to you, 2022. I did not see that one coming!
Ukraine: Taliban Releases Statement Regarding Russian Invasion (unilad.co.uk)
I mean, when even the goddamned TALIBAN thinks you’re being an asshole…
Even Cuba’s going “..the fuck, Comrade?!”
Cuba, Nicaragua decline to back Russia in U.N. vote on Ukraine | Miami Herald
During World War II, The Japanese were committing civilian atrocities so bad that even the German Gestapo advised them to tone it down a bit.
Now that’s bad.
Hahaha That’s Rockingggg!!!
China is the bigger threat.
As any proper mystery writer knows, you always have to follow the money.
China is the bigger long term threat, but the unstable leader who dgaf is the bigger threat we don’t make it to long term.
To me, the bigger concern is “are you a rational actor.” I think non-Trump leadership can deal with almost any rational actor.
China is at least ballpark rational.
Depends on your definition of rational.
Actually, China seems perfectly rational. Evil, but rational. That’s why they are worming their way into Taiwan instead of invading it like Old Man Vlady.
They need to keep selling their crap to us. We need to buy their crap. It benefits no one to get aggressive. We don’t have that kind of interdependence with Russia. And Putin is nuts.
Yeah. China wants to be left alone to sell us toys and commit a little light genocide.
Wait who are we talking about here
Hippo? But also Putin.
Hippo is DEFINITELY unstable…
Give him some bare shoulders, though, and he’s right as rain.
ah just took charge of my 6,800th match with Pretend Man City HOW DARE YEW question Bernard Gilkey’s stability!!
China is bigger but they have taken over Russia as America’s Biggest Adversary. That’s why Putin is going batshit crazy.
China knows that it can’t go to war with America as it will end with a Nuclear Double KO. That’s why its just slowly worming its way into Taiwan instead of marching in like Putin.
I’m not so sure. I don’t think the US will fight for Taiwan.
We absolutely will not. Rightly or wrongly, most folks see Ukraine as substantially more of a “stand-alone” nation than Taiwan.
Plus, the Ukes are white and all.
Agreed. Technically, Taiwan is a part of China. This would be like someone trying to fight US for Puerto Rico.
And that someone is Don T.
Putin is going batshit crazy because China is now the USA’s biggest adversary? That’s fucking hilarious.
I think Putin thought that his chances to take Ukraine were just going to get worse, so he pulled the trigger. Unfortunately he’s been sitting at the far end of his table a little too long sniffing his own farts, and thought his scheme would end up a net plus for him. Now he’s looking at Russia as a pariah state.
A side note: I’ve read in a couple of places that coincidentally enough, now that the Russian troll factories are closed, the Twitter fever swamps are a little less fetid.
Forget soccer, I did the whitest sport of all today, skiing. And now my back hurts so I’ll revert to drinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_08qMnW7XI