Your illustrious host for the Sunday evening Open Thread is in Toronto this weekend for the Canada-Jamaica World Cup Qualifier game.
This is important for two reasons:
- Canada needs just one point to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since the 80’s
- Litre has been running a Twitter account posing as Canadian goalkeeper Milan Borjan’s pants. It should be noted that Borjan famously plays in sweat pants instead of shorts. The Twitter handle is Borjan Pants. Well, Mr. Borjan is aware of it and likes it so much that he sent Litre a pair of pants and has made arrangements to meet Litre at the game!! Please see below:
So, if everything goes to plan, Litre will be good and drunk with members of the Canadian National Team celebrating Canada’s qualification by the time you read this.
All I have to say is that I’m looking forward to the Boots On The Ground post!
UPDATE: CANADIA WINS IN A ROUT! LITRE IS DRUNK AF!
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The NCAA tourney continues even though all of our brackets are trash. In the DFO contest, Señor Weaselo has a commanding lead and should take this baby.
On the Women’s side, Litre has the lead with 690 points (The Mighty 690!) with Game Time Decision right on his heels with 680 and me with 650 and Spam & teh Hippo tied at 640. All our potential champions are still in play so it’s still up for grabs!
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Your sports choices tonight are USA-Panama or Honduras-México. Other than that, all you’ve got for entertainment is what we used to call The Gay Super Bowl (The Oscars).
Not sure if it’s PC to call it that anymore, but I think it’s appropriate. It’s like the Super Bowl in many important ways:
- No real people can attend the actual event.
- People host parties to watch it.
- The people at these parties typically have not seen anything related to the show. ( Don’t watch football = Haven’t seen the nominated movies)
- They’re all distracted by other things (Super Bowl commercials = Red Carpet Fashion)
- People can and do gamble on the outcome.
- No one from Cincinnati ever wins.
- At the end of the night, we always wonder why we bothered to watch again this year.
I myself have not seen a movie in the theater since COVID started. Rikki probably has friends that have been in some of the nominated films but got cut out at the last minute. At least they still get paid.
Spam set up a DFO Oscars pool on ESPN. Here is the link if you want a Gently-Used Fleshlight:
That’s all I’ve got. Have at it in the comments.
The NCAA tourney continues even though all of our brackets are trash. In the DFO contest, Señor Weaselo has a commanding lead and should take this baby.
First off… da fuq? How? Second off, if Kansas beats Nova GTD wins because he has them winning it all, and if Nova wins the tourney, Herodotus wins. Third off, yes I know it’s 2 AM local time and I have to be up in 5 hours, I still have paperwork to print out because I just spent the last hour updating my performer’s bio while still keeping it a page. (Ideally 500 words, but I’m currently at 660. I’ll pare it down some other time.)
It’s been a weird evening, I’m exhausted from all the drama! Good night buckeroos!
https://youtu.be/0wJvwXLEt_E
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Cincinnati 💔 on Twitter: “#SellTheTeamBob https://t.co/8r7fspSS2G” / Twitter
I’m gonna reenact the brouhaha
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Bill the Cat will never not get a +1 from me.
Ack Thpth! Indeed
It’s just a shame that Bill’s body kept Donald Trump’s poor excuse for a brain alive for a while.
https://twitter.com/MattBrownEP/status/1508280698796453900
No one’s topping this.
Yeah that’s awesome.
https://twitter.com/NoEscalators/status/1508278830007529484/photo/1
I’ve come around to Mrs. Krabapple’s point of view that he’s faking it. Look at that lean in. Hands behind back, leaning forward, face clenched.
If someone’s taking an unexpected swing at you, and you’re not an idiot, you’re moving back, you aren’t smiling, and your hands damn sure aren’t behind your back. It’s a work.
Totally agree
It wasn’t a punch, though. If it was a punch, he could see it and respond enough to absorb it. It was a slap so he’d have no way to respond until the face enters his peripheral vision.
The other hand, if you did insult a man’s wife and if you see him getting ready to slap the taste out of your mouth, you stand up and take the slap.
Which means he knew a slap was coming. If it was real, he wouldn’t know if a punch or a slap was coming until it was too late.
Punch, slap, whatever, if someone’s coming at you and you’re not in on what’s about to happen you’re not leaning forward with your hands behind your fucking back.
I think maybe you’ve had more experience with fights than Chris Rock.
I had plenty of fights growing up, but I haven’t been in a “hostile dude approaching me” situation in decades, so I can’t say that my instincts would be all that good, either.
https://twitter.com/LaporteReporte/status/1508303188876828680
Look at this one. He’s been hit. Hands still behind back, but not off balance. I have not been in a fight in years, but I know enough about hitting and getting hit to know that a) I have no business getting in fights with anything other than small, defenseless rodents, and b) this is not what happens in any kind of real, physical disagreement.
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I have now spent far more time on this than it deserves, and will not mention it again, unless there’s a decent joke in it.
If Jada is soooooo sensitive about her bald head, maybe she should put a wig on it.
Also Will’s clearly laughing at the joke initially.
Will Smith’s career has come full circle. It started and ended with one little fight.
https://twitter.com/willsmith/status/1508271651221217285
For those of you using the “What is Dunstan drinking” tiebreaker in your Oscar Pool, the correct answer is “Suntory Whisky.”
But the real winner there is me.
Well, I am (very very secretively) witty and suave, and Scarlett Johannsen (in my dreams) adores me.
Amazing shot:
Better hope Colin Jost doesn’t come up and slap you.