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The lack of an NFL tilt tonight tells us that there’s not many more weekends left to watch the football. Only five left as a matter of fact, unless you want to watch the Pro Bowl and no one wants to do that. So I guess I’ll just throw some news bits and poorly thought-out observations together.

Things:

-The Ravens purchased some Dalvinsurance for the playoffs. Pretty smart the way they go through running backs-just a matter of time before Gus Edwards cracks an ankle or somesuch. It’s telling that on a sports update the 28 year-old was called a ‘veteran’. The only other individual to be called that would be a PTSD-suffering drone operator that made a wedding explode or something else along those lines.

-Should college basketball scratch one of your itches (you really should get that looked at) ranked squads James Madison, Arizona, Gonzaga and Memphis are playing tonight.

-Front-runner for the NFL’s MVP LAMAR! is taking a seat this weekend as are other brethren Stafford, Purdy, Mahomes and Flacco. Qb’s that should be sitting it out but can’t because things went sideways at one point include Hurts, Allen and Tua.

-The junior hockey-playing Americans beat the Finns 3-2 courtesy of a late power play goal. They’ll play Sweden for the gold medallion tomorrow. The mighty Canuckians bowed out in the quarters-hey, you can’t win every single year.

-Pat McAfee, (saw someone call him “Larry The Concussion Guy” [snorts]) noted enabler/therapist of a certain crackpot qb that he pays a million bucks to every year had Disney lawyers wander by his office, no doubt. He offered the “He was just talking shit” defense regarding comments made about Kimmel that may not hold any bong water in a libel trial but you guys can weigh in on that.

-Per ESPN-who have run a bunch of simulations of the games being played this weekend-the draft order should be as follows 1) Bears, 2) Commies, 3) Pats, 4) Cards, 5) Giants and 6) Chargers. Does Chi-town keep Strawberry and trade down for assets or do they move on and draft one of “The Chosen Ones” to replace him? Only Horatio knows for sure.

-Soccer News! Beitar Jerusalem fell to Happel Haifa 3-2 today-the former’s defenders, sometimes called “The Wailing Wall” have to do better.

-NBA News! The season is too long.

Scurrilous rumors and nutball conspiracies are welcome in the comments.

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Brick Meathook

2 AM in the morning here, Pacific Time. Working on a Marvel movie but taking a break to watch a real movie

The Man Who Would Be King (1975), written and directed by John Huston from the Rudyard Kipling story. Sean Connery and Michael Caine as the two leads,

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Horatio Cornblower

One of the best movies of all time.

Poor Peachy.

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Brick Meathook

Poor Danny.

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Doktor Zymm

The Bears are about as good at developing talented draft QBs as the Hindenburg was at being fire retardant

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[prepares hot cup of tea for wife, makes the extra effort to present in such a way that she can grab the handle] – Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Nah, fuck that shit, imma grab it by the bottom and burn my hand.” – the Dr. Mrs. Deadly, Esq.’s subconscious, apparently

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2Pack

Did she go to the next step of frantically spilling it all over you both?

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WCS

“The perfect excuse to use the wet/dry vac!” — Other Dr. Mrs. Deadly, Esq. subconscious

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Horatio Cornblower

“The what vac”?

-Ben Shapiro

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Redshirt

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litre_cola

This is complete bullshitthat there is no Thursday night game. Flex some meaningless tilt so we can gamble and talk shit.

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Redshirt

Browns-Bengals is a game that screams Thursday Night Football. Browns don’t want it to happen. Bengals don’t want it to happen. The fans don’t want it to happen. Nobody wants it to happen!

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I mean, this is the Deshaun Watson era Browns. Whether or not you want to happen is irrelevant to them. It’s happening.

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Redshirt

That tracks. The Browns are getting a happy ending that Watson had no hand in the situation.

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Gumbygirl

I guess they would have had to give the teams at least a weeks notice, to have some time to prepare. And they probably would have tried to choose a game with zero playoff implications. I looked at the schedule, we would have been treated to the Jest/ Patriots. We’re probably better off without a game, as painful as withdrawal is.

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2Pack

Evening folks

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Brick Meathook

Dulles Airport

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Zoom in so we can see John McClane

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2Pack

That’s what I thought, ventilation shaft angle?

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Redshirt

In Die Hard 2, he was rarely on the concourse. He spent most of his time in the restricted areas, in the tunnels under the airport or at the church. Which says a lot about airport security pre-9/11.

Do we need to have a refresher thread to discuss all four Die Hard movies?

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Brick Meathook

Baker Street, London. Also with my old Sony RX100.

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blaxabbath

How do you look up like what flight has the best cabin? Like, depending on what plane you have, you may have better arrangements or whatever. What sites cover that?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You mean something like this?

https://www.airlines-inform.com/aircraft-reviews/

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I use seatguru.com to get granular once I’ve IDed my flight.

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Brick Meathook

Charlevoix Metro Station, Montreal

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blaxabbath

AI.

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Brick Meathook

Not unless you call me Brickland J. “AI” Meathook IV

This was shot with my old Sony RX100M5A. Now I have a Sony A7R3 with a fantastic lens arsenal but I never use it and shoot with my iPhone.

I only crop photos in post and maybe do a +/-1 stop (max) exposure correction, but I usually don’t have to. I rarely locally dodge or burn.

I always shoot wide for cropping but otherwise my exposures are near-perfect. That’s why they pay me to do VFX in Hollywood.

I’ll share some more.

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Gumbygirl

What does the J stand for? My guess is Jehoshaphat..

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Redshirt

Disregard. Youtube trap. 2024 sucks ass.

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Gumbygirl

I remember, it’s Jay. My son’s middle name was Jay too.

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Mr. Ayo

A new year to Release The Kraken!!

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litre_cola

My goodness you have great seats.

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Mr. Ayo

*expensive. But yes they’re great.

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Redshirt

Why is there no TNF?

Week 1-17: “Screw player rest, fatigue and safety, we want money”
Week 18: “Last week of the season. Competitive balance for playoffs.”

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herodotus450

The Bruins are losing: that’s good!
To the Panguins, who are therefore by definition, winning: that’s bad.

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Don T

I don’t see Kimmel suing. All that Man Show ogling supports the “Just kiddin’” defense. Plus Disney wouldn’t want folks being reminded of that. I’m sexist NAWT a pedophile only plays in court.

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Horatio Cornblower

What the Bears should so is trade down and get an offensive lineman and additional picks. Fields isn’t consistent, but he shows promise. Williams didn’t impress last season and the last North Carolina QB the Bears took was Trubisky, so I doubt they’re looking at Maye without anything but fear and loathing. Fields is under a rookie contract for one more year, let him play it out and see how he does, sign a decent veteran back up and address the terrible line.

What the Bears will do is panic and draft Williams or Maye, alienate Fields and do nothing to address the line.

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WCS

Bearsenscheisse

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LemonJello

It’s Chicago’s best export!

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Brick Meathook

The only other individual to be called that would be a PTSD-suffering drone operator that made a wedding explode or something else along those lines.

Wow!

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WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL6xuXXESDg&ab_channel=JAYKOOL
Turner was a HAM, too.

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Brick Meathook

I used to have a short wave radio (receiver only) that I got just to listen for the crazy spy broadcasts that I read about on the early internet. I never heard any. But I did hear the ham operators and they were actually pretty interesting.

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Gumbygirl

Gumby’s Uncle Stanley was in OSS during WWII, later a CIA agent. He had a really cool ham set up in a room behind his garage.

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LemonJello

“Not as cool as my ham setup!”
-Andy Reid, standing in front of one (of several) smokehouses

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WCS

Pour one out for my Uncle Turner. Cancer is a real bastard.

Guy was lowkey one of the funniest, wittiest people I knew. He was almost silent, but he really started the MST3k-ness for me as a kid. He would constantly riff on Bubby Brister, Neil O’Donnell, etc. which later keyed my enthusiasm for the Satellite of Love.

Thanks for the laughs, and see you on the next world, Uncle Turner.

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SonOfSpam

Sorry for your loss. It’s a shame that good people have to die. We don’t have enough.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I’m replacing them as fast as I can, damnit!” – Antonio Cromartie

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LemonJello

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Damnit, yours is better.

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SonOfSpam

Also, worse.

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scotchnaut

Sorry to hear that WCS.

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Don T

Sorry for your loss, man.

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Gumbygirl

I’m so sorry. Cancer sucks.

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jjfozz

Right now I’m raising a glass to Uncle Turner. Condolences.

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2Pack

My condolences to you and your family Buddy.

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

Fuck cancer

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