Oh — didn’t see you all there. Good morning. Pull up a….well, I’m just leaning on the counter.
I know. i was expecting Sunday Gravy too. Guess it’s after the S Bowel.
So I guess you’re all getting along pretty well around here with the sudden cancelation of Quotables; a laboriously clunkering Twin Picks (which, like many things in CIN, [insert killer AJ McCarron joke that makes SOS look like an absolute fraud of a humourist]; and the still-unfinished Serial production.
I’m home alone today (well, last night, wife comes home late this morning and we go together to get the boy this PM). I’m pretty out of touch on who is responsible for stuff or what the agenda is (see how my posts always end up stepping on people) but, personally, I don’t like commenting on a night post the next morning. I like my defined spaces. No I’m not arbitrarily knocking out this wall, twat who has an opinion on the place I spend majority of my time. Fix your tired eyes and smile more.
Think of my drop in as an early Super Bowl Media Day appearance. Like the weird Academy Awards they give out at like 10am, Blax is a perfect washed up first guest. And why? Because, in NFL terms, I don’t charge anything.
By the way, I was driving yesterday morning and saw a “See Something, Say Something” billboard for Phoenicians to contact authorities because our city is more at risk for terror attacks with the Big Game in town. Couple thoughts:
1) What is the real statistical increased likelihood of a terror attack due to the event? I mean, if it’s that significant then maybe we need to reconsider that, you know if there’s an impending terror threat, the city should give the NFL their profits up front and just add it to a rental car tax that cannot be enforced? Or maybe let San Antonio deal with all this nonsense and focus on hanging out and not having a bunch of bullshit going on all day when I’m trying to just pono up down here before my grass dies/is-in-a-car-wreck all summer?
2) If I have to run a “we need everyone in the city to keep this enormous event safe or else the game and entire city is going to get Chinukedtm” ad, then we should get to say Super Bowl. We’re talking about national security and I have to tiptoe around speaking in code so I don’t violate the intellectual law of a monopoly that surely needs pointed protections in the media.
Anyways, I’m working on the company website this morning. No good sports on that I know of. It’s early Feb — how you all looking for your next 60-90 day projects/plans/obligations? End of Q1 is just around the corner.
Just had a wonderful lunch/drink session with RTD and BFC. Thank you gentlemen for the lovely time!
Now what’s going on around here?
Btw, the Pro Bowl was on in the brewery but everyone, and I mean everyone, was ignoring it.
Quit slandering us by calling us gentlemen.
Not much going on here, glad y’all had fun!
Quarter burger bar at the strip club on Sunday at noon?
Eli! Peypey is peeved!
Dammit Popeyes. Why do you have to be gat. Damn. Tasty?
Oh look, it’s Stabby Ray. That’s enough Pro Bowl for me!
Incompetent referees are more fun when its not your team getting screwed over.
Eli: “I’ve no clue how Toys R’Us went bankrupt. Over.”
NFC QB: “Call a play, goddamnit!”
Eli: “Pass play. Make sure the guy catches it on his helmet! Over.”
QB: “THIS ISN’T A WALKIE-TALKIE!”
Eli: “Got it, Big Bear-we’ve got a CB situation here. When does the convoy start?”
Good grief. The Refs are even trying to fix the Pro Bowl Flag Game?!
I mean, this game is broken…
Its a few years ahead of schedule, but we had our first penalty for Defensive Tackling.
Dave Rappoccio on Twitter: “PRO BOWL BET If the NFC Wins, I draw nothing, because I do not care about the pro bowl If the AFC wins, I will draw nothing, because I do not care about the pro bowl If there is a tie, I will draw Eli and Peyton making out” / Twitter
That escalated rather quickly.
What the hell did they do to the Pro Bowl?
They should have done the games thing today. That’s more compelling viewing.
No let’s wait another month. We could have a Jenga challenge
“Our second, third and fourth-best players at every position in the league-and now they have jizz towels!”
-The Shield
I’m just amused by the commentators trying to do serious analysis.
I’ve completed my first run at packing for my Seychelles/Madagascar/Mauritius trip. Think I might actually be able to bring my own fins, but nawt sure I want to haul them around Madagascar for 2 weeks. I’ll have about 5-10 dives most likely, and I really do like my own fins better, but rental fins aren’t horrible.
“Your own fins can be overrated.”
-Nemo, the fish from the children’s movie with the crippled fin.
“I don’t want to be a crippled Fin.”
-Tua, after concussion number infinity
Ya know, people say Zymm is secretly a trout but I just dont buy it.
Steelhead, I’d bet.
Rainbow!
Brown trout!
My latest rabbit hole?
I’m reading about some lesser-known Gilded Age robber barons because I came across a YT channel that is devoted to old mansions. You can have your Morgans, Vanderbilts, Fricks, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Astors. I’m down with-
James Fisk-stockbroker specializing in railroads.
Daniel Drew-financial broker that was double-crossed by Fisk and Jay Gould, ended up bankrupt.
John Warne Gates-killed it in the barbed wire business and founded Texaco.
John D. Spreckels-cornered the sugar-refining business.
Charles Yerkes-built The Loop in Chicago and controlled the vast majority of the city’s transit systems.
The Takeaway?: Create some sort of monopoly-be it in the business itself or shares in that business or provide financing to those who are trying to do the same thing.
My favorite is when those guys go bankrupt and in the gutter and then, somehow, miraculously, 4 years later, they’re back in the game with some new company with only a small $1 million loan from the bank they rupted on earlier.
“Harry, Your My Hero” sign in the crowd. I realize your just a kid but your stupid.
/just venting
You’re
/ ducks the hurling bowling ball
I corrected his grammar once. Once.
– Hobo in Northern Ontario
Sorry I just got back from Dick-Moves-R-Us! Not thinking about future repercussions. Us Hobos do need to look out for each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4StcC5DtZA
They’res know knead to be like that. Weather or naught he deserves it.
Sadly, you’re the product of an underfunded school!
I wish I had a super bowel. Just squeeze it out like a tube of toothpaste. Would be a major improvement over this messy back-end hassle the good lord clearly threw in at the last minute.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A0RHSJO
Oh yes. How that didn’t make the trip over the Atlantic is beyond me.
Angel 1: “A third of the prototypes are having faulting waste disposal protocols and lack the subroutine to tell them its time to expel solid waste. Do we have time to debug these issues.”
Angel 2: “No. God wants us to get started on something called “football” and “beer”. Put the prototypes into full production!”
Satan’s last act before falling from heaven was single ply toilet paper.
Just be glad you aren’t a jellyfish, they shit out of their mouths
I’ll give you that. But fish, steelhead trout for example, never have to worry because they basically live in a giant toilet. Hmm. Ok but birds have one orifice for everything! Well. Dang. I’ll get back to you when I’m done in here.
You say that like the air isn’t full of fecal particles
I thought that was from Trumptards talking too much shit.
Grealish is getting assaulted by the the dirty Hotten Tots.
Could use a strike from that beastly Nordic dude.
60-90 days? Hmm. Let’s see:
-get an office FINALLY. Maybe even start wearing shirts again for work.
-dive headlong into the Shempiens knockouts, staring next week! Best afternoon work truancy for TUE – WED. Might even post threads for the games.
-Be good natured about turning 51. Hah hah, another PR statehood joke. How creative. No! That how my brow looks at rest.
-keep alive the streak of “Not raising my voice for work stuff” that started on late December, 2022.
-Plan a coupla trips for 2023. Colombia and Italia are leading. But I’d go again to México instantly.
-tell Blax to stop with the self-deprecation. Your writing rocks.
For the record, I think the US should be opening up statehood globally. We got soft when we stopped growing. We supposed to the best of the best. Hey Taiwan? Want away from China? Make it worth my while. I’m even down to relegate a few states. You all been to French Polynesia? With the improvements to air travel, maybe we want a little more Brando and a little less Key West.
Hell, what’s the oil route? Can we just buy that up Alaska style?
But you all gotta learn english. That’s a thing.
You say growing, I say conquest. Nah, man. Partners, friends, visitors: I’m all for that.
Y aprendan español, menG.
Hollar if you hit northern Italia
Will do! Thanks man.
I miss quotables. It’s the thing that got me actually commenting here and not just lurking
80% possession and one dumb giveaway pass in the middle of the field and Kane of all people gets the goal. smgdh…
The entire King’s African Water Pistols regimen is cheering with delight here in Mpulungu! Onward, insurgents of Tottenham!
Morning. I finally got a lot of sleep last night and am still exhausted.
You think you’re tired you should see the team of medical school dropouts that harvested your organs after that hooker slipped you that mickey.
oh man, you ain’t even had no kids yet (that yew KNOW ABOUT). Wait until you try making up that sleep deficit…
It can never be done.
All I really want from 2023 is for the Redshite to finish 11th.
Channel surfing I see even the betting sites have attractive ladies hosting footy programs. Well done Italy. And Napoli won again.
Napoli are having quite the season, eh?
indeed.
Good lord, Forest are staying up, aren’t they?
The peoples demand another season of Steve Cooper’s beautiful face.
When his players tell him that they want to play in a game, he has very different ideas in mind!
Headed up to Salisbury, CT, there to watch the annual ski jumping competition. Compressed into one day this year, because global warming isn’t real but somehow northwest Connecticut not only has no snow, until the last two days it wasn’t;t even cold enough to make the fake stuff.
Whatever, it’s a chance to drink beer outside in the winter, (hello, high school), while watching teenagers do stupid things that can absolutely kill them. (hello, high school again).
If anyone is in northwestern CT, (you won’t be), stop in and I’ll buy you a beverage.
Wow so all the enjoyment of a northeast winter without the beauty of snow.
Is CT northeast?
I suddenly get Dutch futbol on one of my streaming services. PSV v Feyenoord, don’t mind if I do.
Blax I sent ya a message on Slack about Phoenix in March.
Me: Takes 2 seconds to open Slack.
litre_cola:
I too do not like commenting on previous night threads. Thanks for doing this!
Btw, how did Serial end?
It’s like I tell everyone in my Q-Anon newsletter: all stories end however you wanted them to have ended. Exactly like that.
I have no idea, I found Sarah Koenig too annoying.
Since we gots current and ex-military in the Clubhouse, what WAS the deal with them balloons? Was China just high af and bored?
You just do stuff. It’s all things.
The worst way to understand any of this is to look as closely as possible. Naturally, this is where Fox News is going to take dumb people.
Could just be as simple as PRC trolling us.
Yeah, this is my theory too. Why do you need a spy balloon when there are already a billion spy satellites in orbit?
I’m still pissed they didn’t shoot it down until after it crossed the country. Is someone actually trying to tell us that they didn’t notice it flying over the Pacific??
I understand the talking point is that the tech onboard had been disabled by the US prior to it surveilling the county. So it was basically maintained in place (floating) and analyzed as long possible before it was exiting air space so we had to down it and, I assume, damage the hardware pretty well.
Also, you know, we just wrapped up an absolute sieve of an executive administration that is aiming to inflict enough pain on the US populace that they’ll win and, “ah fuck it then” election in ’24. So a goofy balloon stunt would be the most important thing to MTG unless someone shoots a dog to the corner of the solar system we’ve never seen.
I think NORAD was watching it the entire way.
Like the Santa Tracker, lol!
I would like to think that we started collecting and/or jamming on the thing as soon as it crossed into our airspace. I would also like to think that we are recovering the payload for examination. We will see.
I think we’re stupid and damaged and it’s fun to fuck with us. I also think the Qanon horseshit is the winning entry in a contest amongst a group of Russian intelligence agents to see whose completely manufactured batshit idea could gain the most traction in American society. I think the same thing about George Santos. Every day he remains an active member of Congress, I think, “Someone’s betting on this”.
Heh, speaking of “what are the odds” – this is how dumb I am. I actually said this, OUT LOUD, to my then-wife and mother of my chill’uns:
What are the odds of me getting out of bed to check to see if the baby if still breathing, AND (i) she isn’t; and (ii) I’ve arrived just in time to do something about it?
I guess I should have married a fellow engineering grad, smgdh.
My wife has “Eureka!” moments like this all the time; where she’ll demand I get out of bed to check some obscure thing that, if things had gone wrong, it would be pointless to know about/fix until morning anyways.
Sorry you guys have to endure that stuff. But bigger events are really less likely to catch any flak because they bring with them enhanced security. The vulnerable one would be a JVNFL regular season game drawing over 80k… and Barney Fife as security.
Very valid.
Yeah, if ISIS really wanted to fuck up a bunch of people something like the Red River Rivalry, with all those Texans whooping and hollering, would be the way to go.
The address of the stadium is (giant hook labeled FBI hauls Horatio offstage)
“Do you think I care? I really do not.
Roll Damn Tide.”
The best part of that would be a bunch of rednecks not knowing who the “bad guy with a gun” is, so they just start shooting each other.
It’s a good thing they don’t have games in San Diego anymore; my understanding is that stadium security were a bunch of easily distracted jerkoffs.