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. Seriously. There isn’t.
This weeks cheesy motivational quote is:
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars [in bed].
Khalil Gibran
this is just a long way of saying you can’t stay in be forever or you’ll get bedsores.
As a reminder, 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.
Tennessee just released the blueprint for beating the Calfless Joe Burrow-led Bengals: Press the receivers, Strong Zone on Intermediate Routes, Send Everyone Not On Pass Defense to the ballcarrier.
Burrow can’t throw deep, so the defense can play closer to the line of scrimmage and defend the Line to Gain. He still has the accuracy so you can’t Jailbreak Blitz every play, but he doesn’t have the mobility to extend the play, and he can’t pick up 5-10 yards if the defense leaves an empty space in the middle of the field committing to the pass rush or routes.
Its not a lack of ability or panicking. You can see Burrow trying to do what he always does; he just can’t do it right now. The sooner the Bengals can figure out, the better chance they’ll have to salvage the season and maybe have a more-mobile Burrow available in December.
The AFC North is going to be a gauntlet. Browns are averagely-average. Steelers are still trying to figure it out. Ravens are the only team with a chance to run away with the division, but not quite there yet.
11 wins may be enough. McCarron may get you there. Perhaps even Browning with this offense. But not Burrow. Not at the moment.
Redshirt
I very much enjoyed the first bit of real football I was able to watch this season!
The Bearsenscheisse continued, I met a few nice Bills fans and one horrible Bills fan who I wish I could have punched in the face. In addition to stealing my seat, she also kept loudly complaining that Red Zone wasn’t only showing the Bills game at the end of the early game window when there were multiple close games.
The seat stealing thing actually kind of worked out for me though, since some very nice Vikings fans offered me a seat with them. The NFC North really is the friendliest division, we talked about Birdmurderdome, Urlachers new career selling baldness cures, and how funny it is that the Bears are building a bigger stadium when they can’t actually fill Soldier except for Packers games, so they’re basically just making room for more Cheeseheads.
The Commies might actually be a pretty good team next year, if they’re able to overcome the Snyderstench and retain players. The offense held up to the Iggles far better than expected, and if the game wasn’t such a ‘learning moment’ for their rookie CB the defense would have been pretty damn effective.
Doktor Zymm
Redshirt
Evolution of a fan.
BugEyedBoo
Janis Joplin died in this motel, room 105. You can still stay the night in there.
Brick Meathook
I’m pretty sure someone has died in most motel rooms
Doktor Zymm
“Lets not talk about the number that died behind Canadian motel dumpsters.”
-S. Naut, Ontario
LemonJello
Regression to the mean is absolutely breaking a lot of Patriots fans lately. It’s kinda funny watching people calling for Belichick to get fired, and for the Krafts to sell the team. Forgetting what the past 20 seasons had. I’m going to the Saints game on sunday. It should be interesting to say the least.
Sharkbait
In fantasy news no one cares about…
My league has a 10 way tie for 2nd place for those of us st 2-2, and somehow I’m not the 12th guy in last place.
This feels weird
Brocky
Mr. Ayo
During Jones’s last INT
Sharkbait 2.0: Massive wet fart sound
Mrs Sharkbait: Yes. Exactly.
Sharkbait
Lots of good people die every day and yet Berman is still wasting oxygen. Just doesn’t seem fair.
LemonJello
/nods in Henry Kissinger
King Hippo
Sharkbait
My dad gave up on this game. He suffers through ALS, but still goes to work every day and still tries to do things for himself. If anything, he is redefining the word “strength” every damn day.
But this game is too much suffering for him to put up with.
Redshirt
This seems like a game between two teams that just don’t want to be there.
LemonJello
then what in the holy hell are we gonna see thursday
fleshwound_NPG
I’ll be at FedEx, and I can only imagine it’ll make a monkeyshit fight at the zoo look like a battle of the titans.
LemonJello
Cool, I’m no longer in a time out… So, uhhh, g’day all and uhh, I am sorry for whatever I did (Unless it’s something I’m not at all sorry about, but…)
bk109
“I know how you feel, I never know why I’m in Time Out.”
-Eli Manning
LemonJello
The Dr. Mrs. and I had a disagreement this morning while walking the dog because a tree started falling down in slow motion (you could hear it cracking and everything) and I wanted to stand at a safe distance and watch, while she wanted to ignore it and go home. She was clearly in the wrong, cause how often do you actually get to watch a tree fall down?
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Some people want to watch the world burn and others want to vacuum it.
ballsofsteelandfury
So my neighbor with the cows is at it again. Now that the State, in all of it’s infinite tyranny, has repressed is ability to allow everyone else in the neighborhood to take care of his cows, (for free), he is turning his attention to trying to expand a gravel pit operation he’s been running off and on on his property. The problem he has is that he’s mined everything he can right up to the buffer that was imposed back in ’95, even before I got here. So per the notice I just got today he now wants to push well past that boundary, (still his land), bit confined to the side that comes closest to our property.
Clearly doing this in retaliation. Not going to lie, I kind of admire that sort of vindictiveness.
Horatio Cornblower
HA! I just totally misread that map. He’s way over on the other side of his property. Where he’ll be (literally) undermining his son’s ability to sell the house next door.
This is why I took today off from work.
Horatio Cornblower
They said if Hillary won in 2016, we’d have taco trucks on every corner. We’ll never know I guess. But Biden won in 2020, and now there’s a taco truck on my corner, so I say Let’s Go Brandon!
Dunstan
THESE FLORIDA BASEBALL TEAMS TODAY LEMME TELL YA I CALL THEM RON DESANTIS IN AN ELTON JOHN SHOW THEY WANT THE FUCK OUTTA THERE
fleshwound_NPG
Wear Your Helmet Folks: Otherwise your parents might get a phone call at midnight on Monday night from the hospital asking you to wander down and see your kid’s face/head covered in blood. He’s out of the woods (literally and figuratively) now but he’s got as souvenirs:
14 staples in his head
a concussion
a skull fracture
two separate brain bleeds
/third time in six years he’s ended up at the hospital in a scary situation. Fuck.
scotchnaut
Oh man, sure glad he’s (kinda) okay. That’s terrifying.
Bike or motorcycle? Gotta assume the non-motorized kind.
SonOfSpam
ATV. (All Terrain Vehicle-not sure you know the acronym-but they’re insanely popular here) It was the last run of the day, of course.
scotchnaut
Yeah, those things look fun as hell but statistically they’re pretty dangerous.
Again, very glad it wasn’t worse.
SonOfSpam
Someone I grew up with crashed one when we in middle school or something. He almost bought it, but thankfully didn’t.
I’ve somehow managed to avoid sitting one since then.
WCS
Between ATV’s and snowmobiles, my wife’s extended family (which is large) has lost three members in the last ten years. Each one was driving back home or to camp after sunset.
scotchnaut
What your comment says:
Between ATV’s and snowmobiles, my wife’s extended family (which is large) has lost three members in the last ten years. Each one was driving back home or to camp after sunset.
What Deanna Favre sees:
………………………………………………………….extended……….. …………..large……………………members………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………
/sorry, just making sure our stock of dick jokes doesn’t run low.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
No Word of a Lie: I checked in here on one hour’s sleep last night on the open thread to make some jokes and read what all you guys were saying just so I could sorta decompress. It did the trick and I was able to get a few hours more of very much-needed snoozy time.
/thank you.
scotchnaut
I’d watch…
BeefReeferLives
THE LAST TIME I SAW THIS MANY BEARS SO HAPPY IT WAS THREE FOR ONE SHOTS AT THE MANHOLE STRIP CLUB
jjfozz
Gonna get sappy for a econd:
If it werent’ for tis communicty, and the fun you al bring on a daily basise, i woudl be a scrayz crazy as a shit outse rat.
jjfozz
I’m sorry, but Kevin Hart peaked in 40 Year Old Virgin
jjfozz
“I once peaked in a 14 Year Old Virgin” — Matt Gaetz
Dunstan
THIS GAME I CALL IT KOREA OCTOBER 1950 BECAUSE THE COMMIES HAVE A LOT OF GROUND TO RETAKE BUT JUST MIGHT DO IT
Doktor Zymm
THIS GUY LEMONJELLO, I CALL HIM WCS’S PRINCESS BECAUSE I’M MISSING A PERIOD AND NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT
LemonJello
🗣️THESE WASHINGTON COMMIES I CALL KEVIN MCCARTHY BECAUSE THEY ARE ABOUT LOSE IN THEIR OWN HOUSE.
clint greasewood
Stupid Kid Update:
He woke up this morning and told us, “I don’t want anyone to know what happened to me unless I tell them.”
The kid has a fuckton of friends/co-workers that blew up wifey and my phones while he was sleeping for 44 of the last 48 hours. (his phone was dead)
Me: “That ship sailed in the same way you sailed over the handlebars of your quad Monday night.”*
*I’m embellishing a bit
scotchnaut
We are in FedEx. I am 3 beers in. Lady LemonJello and I may be on the field at halftime. I will throw up the DFO gang sign if possible.
LemonJello
We have a gang sign? I thought that it was just a wanking motion.
litre_cola
commies unis looking like wish.com stillers
fleshwound_NPG
Holy Smokes? I made the banner. Incredible week so far as I won $10 on a $2 scratcher.
clint greasewood
Sharkbait
Meanwhile, I’m faced here with a dilemma… I can either see why the grandparents (that disowned me for me not helping out my fuckup cousins with money an’ a “good word with my bosses… and a place to stay for free for a couple of months” ) are trying to call me repeatedly. Or I can order room service and play some Starfield (while listening to some college football I know fuck all about). Decisions, decisions… Also, wtf is malort?
bk109
Malort is Chicago sewage infused with alcohol.
Mr. Ayo
And they only bottle it one day a year!
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
THESE GUYS GEORGIA’S RUGBY TEAM I CALL THEM GRANDMA AND GRANDPA MANNING AT CHRISTMAS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE HUGE SPOILERS.
/not really, Wales has already clinched its knockout round spot, but Georgia is really outdoing themselves here.
//and of course Wales scores a try while I am typing this up.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Is there time wasting in rugby? Because it would be fun to accuse the Georgians of…Stalin
King Hippo
Currently cut off from the developed world glamping with Wifey for her birthday. Her natural habitat is the boutiques. In our 41 years married we have never camped, I knew better. This is jagged edge for her. Thank God she has a fuckin painting class at 5. And double thank God the pool is still open for me. I could use thoughts and prayers.
2Pack
Some of those Glamps use only 300 thread count sheets; pray for 2Pack
herodotus450
With this loss Notre Dame moves up to #8
Brick Meathook
So I walk into the basement today.
My 15 year old is sitting with his friends.
It’s 1 pm.
“Why is there an open beer on the table?”
“Oh, that’s from last night.”
I pick up the beer. It’s ice cold.
I’m doomed.
jjfozz
Men, OH, MEN! Has is been a whirlwind of a fitbawl weekend at Fortress LemonJello!
A quick-ish recap:
Thursday – Lady LemonJello (survivor of colon cancer, 8yrs clear and counting) got free tickets/parking to Commies vs Bearsenschiesse as part of the NFL’s Crucial Catch promotion. This got us down on the field at halftime, which honestly, was pretty amazing. Unfortunately, this meant we missed all of the 2nd quarter and a good chunk of the 3rd. We actually stayed to the end to watch the group orgasm of the Bears faithful as their club was victorious. And to avoid traffic, which the Commies fans helped by bailing on their team early.
Both of us had taken Friday off, so we weren’t in that much of a hurry.
Fun Fact: here are the jerseys I saw in and around FedEx that WERE NOT playing in that venue: Atlanta, Carolina, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Miami, Cincinnati, Los Angeles (Chargers), Dallas, Indianapolis, Las Vegas.
Friday – yardwork.
Saturday – it was Homecoming weekend for TangerineJello so we spent the day with her at Shenandoah, watched a play she worked on sets and props for (Into The Woods) and then got to watch Shenandoah lose to Bridgewater, in a game I would describe as on par with high school football.
Sunday – up and ready for DUUUUUVVAAAALLLLLLL!!!! I may have scared the dog yelling at the team and opening questioning how much Buffalo ball washing Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner would perform live on-air.
All in all, not a bad long weekend.
LemonJello
Found a funny;
date: [inviting me inside] make yourself at home
[holding my head under the sink to drink straight from the faucet] thank you
rockingdog
It’s nice to be here for a football day for once, even if it’s because of the absolute worst reasons. (Senorita Weaselo and I were on our way to go play a concert when we got hit by a driver making a left to try and get on the highway. Also, it was her birthday, so thank goodness it wasn’t worse or on her side, because I didn’t need her joining the 27 Club the day she turned it!)
Physically I think we’re okay, but mentally I’m absolutely shot, and I’m worried about my poor car who’s been through a lot the last year and a half and scared that this finished him off.
Senor Weaselo
sean payton is by rule now unemployed and actually has to leave town by sunset
fleshwound_NPG
rodgers – unvaxxed, didnt survive the turf monster
kelce – vaxxed, apparently survived the turf monster
makes u think
fleshwound_NPG
/+1 4thPill
//+1 5thPill
King Hippo
One pill, two pill, red pill, blue pill
Aw crap
Doktor Zymm
I’m going to the 49ers/Seahawks Thanksgiving game. I dunno why, we all know the 49ers are gonna demolish every team the rest of the season.
It’s my first Thanksgiving game ever, though. Guess I’ll be eating turkey at the bar.
ThePirateSloth
Hooray! It’s already garbage time!
Doktor Zymm
Sharkbait
Brick Meathook
This is a dik-dik. It’s amazing how much difference a vowel makes when you’re deciding on a dik-dik or a Dak-Dak in your living room.
Doktor Zymm
WOOP, I SAY. WOOP
Petronel
MOST OF US WOOP WITH YOU
/is Mr. Nel surviving the P*ts tank season ok?
King Hippo
Mr Nel sez: “I’ve been a fan of the P*triots since the ‘70’s, You think this is new to me?” 😉
Petronel
THIS GUY FRED WARNER I CALL HIM A SKETCHY SWINGERS PARTY CAUSE YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHO’S HOLDING YOUR BALLS AFTER YOU TRY THE PUNCH
Doktor Zymm
There once was a QB named Dak,
His throws, catches often lacked,
He may be a ham,
Even throwing to Lamb,
But canned meat can’t be crushed when it’s sacked
Doktor Zymm
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He is turning his attention to trying to expand a gravel pit operation he’s been running off and on on his property.
Your neighbor is Zephaniah Mann?
Given recent events, can we all agree that the British have fucked up the world royally?
Fish and chips are good; the rest, not so much.
There’s plenty of blame to go around. In general, ex-British colonies are less messed up than colonies under other post-WW1 colonial powers. As for the Middle East, it’s harder to find a socio-political player that hasn’t contributed to that mess than it is to find a book that Lea Michele has read
Shall we say the British are bad at drawing borders?
Wouldn’t matter if everywhere in the world had open borders!
But yeah, they’re pretty crap at that
I’m going to disagree with you here, Balls. The British Empire at its peak (under Queen Victoria) did a hell of a lot more good than bad. They spread global trade like no other entity, which includes all sorts of things still in use today like international banking, insurance, communications networks, etc. They were mostly private enterprise (represented by The City in London) governed, overseen, and protected by The Crown (represented by Westminster in London). Private enterprise always goes too far but at The Crown was the mechanism for imposing a moral code.
The Commonwealth of today represents how the colonies all bought into the system to this day; they just wanted a bigger slice of the profits. India basically gave themselves to the East India Company and that’s a fact. A hundred Englishmen from the other side of the planet did not conquer a billion Indians by force. It was business. Britain didn’t conquer Hong Kong they leased it, and built it into the best part of China. China had valuable tea but you didn’t see them sailing to Europe to sell it; The Empire built functioning markets at both ends and connected them with great efficiency.
It was the other “Empires” that did most of the fucked up stuff: Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Russia, the Dutch, and most of all Japan.
By the end of the 19th century unfortunately The Empire had finally bred all of the enlightenment out of the British elite and they were churning out weaklings. World War I also killed off an entire generation of the strong ones, which had never happened before in the Empire’s history. Hitler and Mussolini (and the Japanese) knew this and were waiting for their chance to strike. The Empire really died in 1911 and it was petroleum that did it, far before the end of World War II, when the dirt was finally shoveled over its grave. The post Great War boundaries were due to the miserable failure of the Ottoman Empire, and the fact that the locals were completely backwards. At versailles they just drew lines on maps because what else were they going to do.
Sure, there were bad spots but the good outweighed the bad. Everyone deserves self-determination, and they eventually got it (for good and for bad) but don’t go calling the British evil because they weren’t. They made money, and money makes the world go round, and the colonists wanted their fair share of the money (see U.S. Revolution). And to this day most people on this planet who aren’t miserable peasants are direct descendants of the British Empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Astros fans on Twitter are referring to an Alex Bregman homerun as a BREGGY BOMB and now I hate that cheating franchise even more than I thought possible.
Good thing the city doesn’t have a football team or I’d probably hate them too.
This is what happens when you put playoff expectations on Sonny Gray.
Here’s my dad’s signet ring he got during the Berlin Airlift. He was a radar specialist at Tempelhof AFB in West Berlin. They guided in a converter belt of transport planes arriving every three minutes, 24 hours a day, often in zero visibility, using voice commands via radio based on the radar screens. At their peak they were airlifting in 5000 tons of vital supplies per day, exceeding all expectations and breaking the Soviet blockade.
After his discharge he got his EE degree and pioneered Instrument Landing Systems for RCA, Philco-Ford, and Navy Sea Systems Command.
The ring is made from melted down brass shell casings. This was almost the only metal the German jewelers had as millions of empty casings littered the former Reich.
Today is apparently World Mental Health Day. Fittingly, I finished the dystopian novel I was reading and am extremely depressed. Think I shall start another.
Also, I really do fear that humanity is fucked, and we have next to no chance of pulling away from the vortex.
Dystopian novel? Which one and is it any good (I’m about 20 pages away from finishing Trinity’s Child), so I want to have my next read on standby?
Trinity’s Child was excellent. Our old (presumed ded) friend Viva La Tabula Rosa rec’d that one to me.
Just finished Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” and have just pulled “Oryx and Crake” from the Amazon box (first of a Margaret Atwood trilogy).
“Swan Song” was a jjfozz recommend, and was also very good (and long, which to me is a bonus)
oh snap, and “Far North” (which I read right after “Station Eleven”) might be the very most depressing thing I have ever read. HIGHLY recommended.
Kurt Vonnegut’s a no-go for me, but Margaret Atwood seems a solid rec. By the way, if you get the chance – read The Last Ship (which has absolutely nothing in common with the Bayhem TV series) and Resurrection day (an alternate history novel about the Caribbean crisis going to shit)
added to the list! This was my first Vonnegut (this book was one of a “cite list” in another book I was reading, so it made for an easy bulk Amazon ordering), and it was awfully strange. Almost gave up a few times.
Atwood is great with punishing hopelessness, so I am pretty excited. Deffo get “Far North” – that is an absolute home run recommend.
Uhh, since this appears to be a popular title, I’m assuming you mean the Marcel Theroux one?
yes, that rings a bell
Since it rings a bell and the summary seems good enough on its own, I may as well order it. Now I just need to find where I’ve put the cable for the Kindle (since I don’t want to put it online and get saddled with the updates that annoyed Zymm)
I goggled, is definitely the right one.
This bit of your statement kept rattling around my dicksih brain until I remembered that I have the perfect book (or in fact two) for that mood- “Down to a sunless sea” by David Graham (if you can’t find it legally, I can send you a link) and Shute’s “On the beach”. And there’s also “A canticle for Leibowitz”. There was also a soviet book that I’m on the cusp of remembering the name of, but that’ll follow in a bit (minus the manic AAAAAAH, that’s right shout)
The book I was thinking of is actually a movie – “Dead Man’s Letters”, I’d recommend it, but only if you can find it with half-decent subtitles (which somehow always seem to be an issue with Russian movies). On the book front – something a bit less bleak – the Strugatsky Brothers’ Inhabited Island is also that you may find pretty damn good (and unlike Russian movies, that book got a good.. ish… translation to English)
Canticle was life-changing good. David Graham book ordered!
Watching ‘Dawn of the Dead’ today, (I mean, I’m working, but I had that on in the background), because it’s a more upbeat story than the news, and there’s no baseball on. My wife walks in and says “You’re such a little boy.”
I begin to launch into a diatribe about why ‘Dawn of the Dead’ is bullshit because the undead move at a rapid sprint in this movie and seem to have come concept of planning and consequences and it is goddamn canon that zombies have neither of those and she spins around and says “save it, nerd” as she leaves the room.
Your foreplay is weird, but then I think we all knew that.
At least with the war in Ukraine there’s the potential for positive news (i.e. “Russian troops go home, Ukraine wins!”). No such deal with Gaza. The best you can hope for is “Israel destroys eighty buildings believed to harbor members of Hamas, human shield casualties successfully limited to the low hundreds.”
“low hundreds” is awfully optimistic, but as you said, it’s just horrid all the way down
You really don’t understand how stupid that statement is, right? For context – at this point it’s about as likely as “Israelis concede that Palestinians have legitimate gripes, set sail to whatever country their families emmigrated from”
Edit: that’s odd, I distinctly clicked reply under Rikki’s naive comment, yet it is listed as an answer to Spam. I wonder what nonce I’ll see from wordpress next *shrugs*
I don’t usually -1 comments but that is a dickish thing to say and I don’t appreciate it.
Horatio “working,” dramatization:
On a brighter note – not only did I finish my Lend-Lease Sherman (M4A2 with the 75mm) on the government’s dime (since I needed something to keep me awake, while waiting to see if I’d luck out and be on duty when the Russians kick their counter-counter-offensive) … I actually made 20$, because a Canuckistani bet me that there were no diesel Sherminators (let alone ones sent to the Soviets) 😀
I just picked up a case with an adult male who stand 4’5″ and I am going to have to transfer it to another attorney because there’s no way I get through the deposition without bursting into laughter at the internal Lowratio jokes going through my head.
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So you are struggling with mixing business with pleasure huh Brah…
“I have a client who’s listed as 4.5″ too, but I think he might have been exaggerating things.” – Brett Favre’s attorney
Did he beat a bunch of tojos to death with a big piece of Fatty?
The 4’5″ adult male was inside the case?
CALL ME LOWRATIO ONE MORE TIME
Not kidding, but I did (or rather, I had something reeeeeeeeeaally bad happening in Israel, since it was the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur kerfuffle)… That and the Israelis complained back in like July that there’s an influx of Ukrainian and Afghan arms flooding in the neighbouring countries. Still, I’d rather have lost the 5 fiver than what we’re seeing right now
Edit (since we can’t bloody edit actual posts anymore): Even in my wildest over-caffeinated moments I didn’t expect Mossad and Tzahal to shit the bed so horrendously, tho
That’s what I don’t understand – was the entire intelligence apparatus asleep, drunk or on vacation? And who’s falling on their sword for this fuck-up?
From some things I’ve heard, it’s simple over-confidence, coupled with offloading good security practices to automated systems (supplied by the lowest bidder). There are some rumours going on that Hamas managed to take out a lot of officers around zero hour, but even if that’s real, it only speaks about the lack of planning and training. After all, the military tends to be organized in such a way, that if push comes to shove – next man up’s in place from the top of the cake eaters down to the lowliest junior NCO.
Frankly, at this point I’m wondering what a shitshow a ground sortie in Gaza will become, since I’ve got visions of Grozny, only in 4K and realtime.
Someone here linked to a decent article talking about how Israel isn’t what it was even in the mid-90’s thanks to the increasing concessions given to the religious right on education and military service, as well as turning the military away from an institution focused on external threat with a better-armed police force used to deal with internal issues.
That, plus them learning the wrong lessons from their past wars, plus to be honest – the mistaken belief that if things truly go to shit, the US will be able to save their kosher bacon analogue. Ah, and the arrogance again, that they can pull off special ops abroad (that are barely distinguishable from terrorism) and that no one would dare do the same to them, because “if all else fails, the US and their nukes will save them” *shrugs*
While walking the dog this morning, I wore my Raiders cap with…what’s the opposite of shame?
Unbridled hubris?
No, definitely not that far from shame.
Yeah, he’s not a Patriots fan from 5 years ago.
“We’re gonna live forever!!!!”
Annnnnnnnnnndddddd cut to the present.
YEAHHHH!
Less shame?
did the bandanna match the hat?
/woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
A boner?
Wow, look at Mr. Cool over here who’s never had to explain a shame boner.
… I know I’m going to regret this in like 5 minutes, but … “the fuck is a shame boner?”
Lowratio knows. Oh, he knows.
Someone wasn’t an altar boy
lol, I’m not sure those were even a thing in eastern orhodoxy. Then again, my religiousness only extends to final minutes of football games and that one time the two “you’re going to die” lights in the Cessna lit up over the Gulf of Mexico 😀
There are alter boys in Eastern Orthodoxy.
Then remembered how much I love the NFL in junior high and that was it for that.
SWAG!
I missed the LemonJello recap, that was a helluva week. Who was the most egregious player whose jersey you spotted?
Nothing stood out as egregious; plenty of Singletarys, Urlachers, Paytons, Sayers, even a Cutler, I think. There was one guy that went all-out 80s Ditka with the sweater vest, tie, aviator sunglasses and mustache.
There was a whole section of next to us of people wearing orange Bagent T-shirts. The Bears fans in front of us explained that he must have invited all his West-by-god Virginia family to the game.
Another note from the TNF game: we were coming off the field as the Bears were coming out of the tunnel – and I have to say, I was surprised at their size – not that they were huge, but just normal sized humans. Weird.
I LOVE the term “Bearsenscheisse” for the Chi*** Bears.
Wonderful recap GTD.
I would like to be there. Gorgeous!