Void Remains, Week Two

Count down the hours until Scotchy heralds in our last full NFL weekend.  Oy.

Another weird Prem weekend, two fixtures per day.  Arsenal will likely disembowel Palace for the early risers (7:30, USA), followed by a broadcast network-televised slap fight between Robins Hood and Praise Beesus (12:30, NBC).

Only one watchable game tomorrow, the Hammers invading Team Knifey (9:00, USA).  All kind of meh.

Of course, the larger news is the increasingly unsubtle writing on the wall that the Premier League is indeed going to put Everton up against the wall.  As a warning to others.  The Robins Hood may follow.  I am not complaining, just resigned to the fact now.  The era of the comically inept/possible money laundering dipshit owner is coming to an end.  And nobody wants to inherit the mess.  Fuck knows what is actually going on with the beautiful stadium that didn’t get financed properly or built in time.

As I write this, I have two episodes left in the brilliant, bleak as fuck and THEN SOME, new season of Fargo.  It is good brain fuel for when one is abandoning all hope for human society.  Perhaps I will finish it Friday night?  Closure is always nice.

My heating system has been a pain in the arse all week, and it is straining the edges of Hippo’s sanity.

100% committed to maintaining my absolute boycott of watching MLB.  My sim leagues are all that I do, to keep my few remaining maths/game theory neurons active.

Here we are now.  Entertain us!

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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bk109

By the way – quick PSA: When you get a new car, regardless of brand or class, do a quick wheel alignment test and have it dialed in so it’s not just “in the green”, but done right. And yes, there’s a noticeable difference between simple “within spec” and “done right”, especially at highway (or even better – autobahn) speeds.

SonOfSpam

Watching USMNT playing against Slovenia, and the female sideline reporter just said one of the US midfielders “plays box-to-box” and that made me happy.

bk109

By the way, Hippo, if you want a good suggestion about a book series about the end of the world (and what comes after) – try the Bobiverse a try – “We Are Legion (We Are Bob)”. 😉

Horatio Cornblower

Alright, time to put on some long underwear and take my dumbass dog for a walk.

I have no idea at what temperature he would not want a walk, but apparently it is not “20 but feels like 6 and you have very short hair, stupid”

SonOfSpam

Not sure your dog needs long underwear but maybe Connecticut dogs are built different

Horatio Cornblower

He has a very handsome sweater that he hates but will be wearing anyway.

SonOfSpam

We had a smallish terrier (RIP Skittles) who loved dressing up. He’s been the only one.

scotchnaut

He loves being with you, not the walks necessarily.

SonOfSpam

Just read out a series of letters and numbers over the phone for my daughter.

“D as in Djibouti, Z as in Zapp featuring Roger, K as in Knuckle…”

I am super helpful.

Horatio Cornblower

“P as in pneumonia”

SonOfSpam

also pterodactyl

WCS

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scotchnaut

I choose to pronounce the silent “K’s” at work. I actively seek out words to put into phrases.

“What’s the code for plastic Ka-nives?”

“I hurt my Ka-nee on the weekend.”

SonOfSpam

Makes sense that a Ka-nuck would do that.

WCS

Jack Harbaugh still watches film and berates his sons on the phone post-game.

That John and Jim didn’t become Maronivich Twinsies is a minor miracle.

Horatio Cornblower

Missed all the activity today because I was taking a pistol permit class. I now have certificates that will allow me to purchase and carry guns in Connecticut, Utah, and 39 other states.

I have never fired a pistol in my life. This should not be that easy.

BugEyedBoo

You might want to practice a little bit if you actually want to hit anything.

WCS

Lowratio has an expired Mexican EMT license, so there’s on-site medical staff in case of emergency.

Horatio Cornblower

You laugh, but I get my opiates and steroids for 20% of what Americans pay.

bk109

Yeah, plus I’d add that if getting the license is for actual personal defence and not because it’s required by work or a firing range, Horatio should read up on what ammo he actually needs to get (my current load is 3 Glasers, followed by a mix of 180gr JHP & 180 extra spicy

Horatio Cornblower

We actually did spend a lot of time of why having the right ammunition for your gun in important. Who knew that guns exploding in your hands was bad?

bk109

lol, that’s a given. I was thinking more along the lines of over-penetration, stopping power, ricochet risk…

Horatio Cornblower

I have to give the instructor credit, he spent a lot of time, and showed a hilarious video, dealing with things like that.

The video was some guy firing .50 cal. rifle at a car door 100 yards down range. You hear the bullet come whistling back, (apparently doors are bad for target shooting because their relatively soft construction makes them prone to ricochets), and clipped him in the side of the head.

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bk109

*FMJ extra spicy (+P).

Horatio Cornblower

My father was in the military and has told me that the best way to ensure you hit what you’re aiming at with a handgun is to throw the handgun at your target.

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WCS

The French military then.

bk109

Or someone still salty about the replacement of the M1911A1 with the M9?

WCS

Everyone knows someone who will never not be.

bk109

Only if you consider replacing something “that just worked” * with something that was an underpowered, unreliable, inaccurate, less ergonomic, Italian-designed piece of shit reason enough to be salty..

*I never did find out why the powers that be didn’t just accept a slightly bulkier grip so one can use a staggered or double column magazine and called an A2…

blaxabbath

Just saw a commercial for HIV medicine, biktarvy.

So… do just weird looking people get AIDS in 2024?

SonOfSpam

should be taking ivermectin obvs

Senor Weaselo

“Hey Senor, St. John’s played another close game against a ranked opponent.”
“Okay, so did they win?”
“They played another close game!”

SonOfSpam

Felipe Lopez ain’t walking through that door

Horatio Cornblower

Well, Rick Pitino is known for making things close without actually finishing them out.

scotchnaut

There was certainly more dribbling than expected.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m going to pretend that it’s 20 degrees warmer than it is and have mai tais tonight.

bk109

Why pretend? A good drink is a good drink regardless of the weather. Hell, here it’s like -18C (so 0-ish? F), but that doesn’t stop me drinking mastika (or mastiha?) the way the Greek (bar) gods intended – chilled enough that it forms ice crystals in the bottle.

Horatio Cornblower

It’s 20 F here in CT today, but feel like 6 F with the wind chill.

So, you know, if you’re dumb enough to go outside in your underwear on a breezy 20 day it feels like 6.

Doktor Zymm

Heaven’s Hill Bottled-in-Bond

BugEyedBoo

Finished watching Reacher S2 last night. I liked it but it’s almost a parody of the tough guy genre.

Then we watched Free Guy. First two acts were good but the movie failed to stick the landing. It was worth watching, though.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

On Matt Ryan’s scale of Pretty Good (where 1 is “kinda good” and 10 is “almost great”) I’d have rated the second season of Reacher as a 3 – kinda sorta good.

BugEyedBoo

I didn’t feel my time watching it was completely wasted, like it was when I watched Saltburn or Leave the World Behind. A lot of watching it is, “I can’t wait to see how he’s gonna kill this guy/these guys.”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It met my expectations completely, and never pretended to be anything it wasn’t. Definitely had zero trouble finishing it; it was nice and tidy.

bk109

Sure it was that, but you’d agree that it wasn’t as good as Season 1, though.

BugEyedBoo

S1 is better than S2.

SonOfSpam

A man does not know what to watch next.

A man’s wife wants to watch the Capote thing next, and a man remains uninterested.

Don T

I’d be in for Capote just for the cattiness. Rawr! /paw slash

Horatio Cornblower

The commercials for that show were how I learned Calista Flockhart is still alive.

bk109

Eh, why not give Cross Of Iron a try? Who knows, maybe your better half will appreciate a movie about the clashes of idealism vs cynicism and nobility vs ordinary people as told through the lens of a bleak as fuck WW2 war movie 😀 That, or she’ll hate it enough that you’d forfeit the right to pick the movies, so you’ll at least be relieved of that particular burden

yeah right

Watched that a few weeks ago. That movie had more explosions than any other movie in like fucking EVER.

Fucking Peckinpah man.

Col. Duke LaCross

Started The Curse last night. Hilarious AND unsettling.

Horatio Cornblower

‘For All Mankind’ on Apple is pretty good alternative history so far.

bk109

Speaking of Apple – The Silo’s worth a watch as well

Horatio Cornblower

Very much. They need to get to S2 with a quickness, before I buy all the books and ruin the ending for myself.

bk109

Hugh Howey. There’s a decent anthology series edited/curated? by him with various short stories that do “just before the end”, “the end” and “after the end” scenarios. ( “The end is nigh / now / has come” )

bk109

…Wait, I thought everyone knew they were actually on a generational ship and that the outside is just a projection to keep people inside. Well, before the final twist, that it wasn’t a generational ship, but actually a VaultTec-style eveeel experiment!

… Kidding! Though I do vaguely remember a shitty SciFi series/movie with that premise with Tricia Helfer and … uhh, forgot the bloke’s name from Cougar Town.

Senor Weaselo

It’s Senor’s morning and afternoon off, where he gets to think about how expensive his life (mostly car insurance is) and how he just wants to move under the sea wheeeeeee!

Also, because Senorita Weaselo also works at the same studio I work at two other days a week, I’m here watching the owner try and work the dents out of a French horn involving a plant stand and a vice. So far no luck, it’s just a little too far on the horn.

BeefReeferLives

Hey, submarine insurance isn’t cheap either, just ask Brick…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Jimmy Hat (artist’s conception):

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Cecil Rhodes

Colleagues! Please do not forget to tune into the Afrikan Euros today! At this moment, Mauritania and Angola are exchanging diplomatic niceties on the football pitch — interestingly enough, they have decided that all trade decisions will be made by the nation that wins this match. Little do they know that all of their natural resources actually belong to me!

2Pack

I’d like to see Yeah Right cover this as a side dish on the next Sunday Gravey please.

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blaxabbath

“I get mine down at the bath house!”

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yeah right

Seen all of them. Season 3 had Mahershala if I’m not mistaken and it was damn good.

BeefReeferLives

Ayup. Deep shit, especially with the way it used time, aging and memory loss as part of the narrative.

BeefReeferLives

Yup. Good stuff with lil Jodi & Sol Star. Looks like we’re in for a hard dive into Inuit mythos. As a primer, enjoy the 1st installment of Terry LaBan’s “Muktuk Wolfsbreath: Hard Boiled Shaman (pages 7-14):

https://breakthroughvisuals.com/wp-content/Cud/Cud%20v001%20001.pdf

yeah right

The first episode was dark as fuck. Almost a horror story.

SonOfSpam

Yep, and it ain’t gettin any lighter most likely.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THIS TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 3 PROGRESSION I CALL IT PHOTOGRAPHS OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA BROADCAST ON FOX NEWS BECAUSE AN INCREASE IN LIGHTNESS SHOULD NOT BE EXPECTED.

SonOfSpam

That’s depressingly good

Brick Meathook

If you ever want to hear a funny story, it’s about that one time my submarine almost sank. I know because I was on it at the time. Our commanding officer was relieved of duty as soon we got back, and a new skipper reported aboard.

It actually is a pretty funny story, the way I tell it.

Brick Meathook

God help us if we ever had to do that.

Brick Meathook

Even if we sunk in the Cooper River of Charleston harbor, with only five feet of water above our hatches, we would have died. Life is unfair; death is even more unfair.

scotchnaut

Forgetting to lock the screen door? That’s grounds for a court martial.

BeefReeferLives

Sounds just hilarious. Fuck Brick, you should write it up. Sounds like great material for a film, and you are in the industry.

Horatio Cornblower

Someone already did, (although I don’t think Brick is quite old enough to have been on this sub), and it’s a good read.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/cover/9780060194802

yeah right

Fargo had a fantastic season. In the discussion for top 3 seasons ever.

The Kirsten Dunst, Jessie Plemmons season and the first with Billy Bob round out those others.

litre_cola

Day of errands. Kill me now.

Game Time Decision

Haha same
Taking my dad for blood work is not how I want to spend Saturday morning
Hoping this goes quickly and I can start my errands

ballsofsteelandfury

In LA, we actually have a service that comes to your house to do blood work. It costs about $60 but it’s well worth it for the convenience.

Game Time Decision

My dad is wayyyyyy too cheap to pay for something like that

Horatio Cornblower

Start charging him $80 for the ride.

yeah right

We’ve got cold rainy shit weather. The batmobile is parked in the garage and secured.
Got some cooking to do and some football to watch.
Currently covered over my head with a warm blanket and I ain’t going any fucking where this weekend.

AND?
Loving it.

Don T

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“THIS GUY MAWRISSEY IS A FAHKIN’ WEIRDO. HE ASKED ME IF THERE ARE MANY PACKYS IN BOSTON AND I TAHLD HIM THERE’S SO MANY YOU WON’T KNOW WHEAH TO BEGIN AND THEN HE JUST SHOOK HIS HEAD AND IMMEDIATELY CANCELED HIS TOUAH DATE HEAH.”

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Doktor Zymm

Four Roses distillery this morning, only had spots on the 9 am tour

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

This:

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Game Time Decision

I assume you took the last spot
/jelly

Don T

I’m at half of Ep. 7 of Fargo. It’s hawt fiyah! I rrrrrreally wanna finish it today, but it’s one of those joint watch dealies 😶

scotchnaut

/found a funny

“Ask your doctor if still being alive is right for you.”

Game Time Decision

[Pulls something in his back getting up to check the temperature outside]
Do I want to be? Is there another option?