Saturday Night Off-season Open Thread 2

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In these Off-season Open Threads, I’ll sum up the week that was, provide you with TMI-style information, and throw some random spaghetti at the wall and see if it sticks.

This week, I took Tuesday off to make it a Four Day Weekend. It rained both Monday and Tuesday, so I didn’t get a chance to go play golf, but it was really nice to just sit at home in bed while the rain lulled me to sleep.

I slept a lot. It was very nice.

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Last time, I mentioned that I had just finished my latest workout program and I was testing out my strength. I got new PR’s in bench press, deadlift, and squats. I’m very close to doing 800 lbs for all three lifts. I hope to get there sometime this year

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I came back to work on Wednesday and, boy, retirement cannot come fast enough. I’ve figured out I’m at less than four years, which is good. The GiveAShit is still on the fritz.

I’ve always encouraged my employees to take vacations or other time off to address their personal life stuff but I’m going to double down on that this year. Company loyalty is a myth. Take care of yourself and your loved ones. They are the reason you work.

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To further comment on BFC’s comment from the other day when I requested post topics:

Balls takes up curling

I have discovered that the Pasadena Ice Rink actually has offered Learn To Curl classes in the past! Nothing is on the schedule for the immediate future, but if anything pops up, I’m doing this!


Balls revisits the LA live music scene

There is a Cruel World festival at the Rose Bowl in May featuring Adam Ant, Blondie, Duran Duran, Gary Numan, General Public, Heaven 17, Ministry, Simple Minds, Soft Cell, The Alarm, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Stranglers, The Motels, Tones on Tail, and a bunch of other bands. Tickets are $229 + $27 in fees for a total of $256.

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Does anyone have any other suggestions for me to write posts about?

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The AFL season starts on Thursday Night/Friday morning March 7 with a weird Round Zero. I don’t know exactly why the AFL is doing this, but there will be four games in Round Zero. The teams that play in those games will then have a bye in Rounds Two, Three, Five, and Six. Then, there will be more byes around mid season. So, those 8 teams will actually have two byes.

Yeah, I don’t get it. It’s weird. However, the game itself is amazing, so I’m rolling with it. A more detailed preview will be coming soon

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Your weekly Psych gif:

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Your weekly hot girl pic:

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Your weekly music video:

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I’m assuming there are sports on tonight, but honestly I don’t care. Today, I’m debuting a new feature! I will pick a historical event and you share where you were and what was going on there. Of course, I will share my experiences.

Today’s Historical Event:

Where were you and what were you doing when Princess Diana died?

I was in Vegas with friends. The news broke in the early evening and tons of people were talking about it in the casinos and bars. Did I try to take advantage of girls going crazy about Diana’s death to get laid? You bet your ass! Was I successful?

No, I was not.

What say you? Where were you and what happened where you were when Princess Diana died?

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Gumbygirl

The Church is/was a damn good band. I heard Reptile on Sirius yesterday, love it.

Doktor Zymm

Sleepy time for Zymm, will probably resume talking about how awesome Jackie Chan is tomorrow. Goodest of Nachts y’all!

2Pack

Bouna notte Cara

yeah right

Boa noite!

Horatio Cornblower

Good night, good night, don’t let the volcano lair bugs bite.

Gumbygirl

Sweet dreams!

Doktor Zymm

“You have to help me with this report”
“What report? I didn’t see a thing”

DAMN RIGHT

Doktor Zymm

All of the Hong Kong police in 1985 other than Jackie Chan were pretty crap, good thing they had Jackie Chan

yeah right

Today I ordered a NO shame pizza. We’ve got this place that does a New York style pie and their execution is flawless.
Perfect crust, perfect cook. Just the right amount of toppings to crust.

I got half cheese only and the other half had sausage, mushrooms and fresh garlic.

Remember that combo because Holy shit.
The thing about these guys is they survived on being a slice and soda place for decades.
Close to the high school and kids gotta eat.

They have their own delivery guys so no bullshit second party delivery fees.

And it’s always hot and fresh. Straight out of the oven hot.

I love these guys.

They’re my second favorite pizza place in Pedro.

yeah right

Damn Skippy!

Doktor Zymm

Sounds great, although I always want onions on my pie. And because you clearly want us to ask, what is the first? 🙂

yeah right

Buonos.

Mike drop.

Gumbygirl

Oh hell yes. I picked up some Portillos tonight on my way home from Riverside. Italian beef with half sweet, half hot peppers, so good!

Doktor Zymm

Dot Matrix data theft is the BEST data theft

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Lousy narc with her stupid virgin alarm…

Doktor Zymm

Does it ever make sense to say “be careful” to someone? It’s just a thing you say to show you care in a slightly patronizing way I think?

WCS

“You’re an idiot, but you’re my idiot.”

2Pack

If they are doing something risky it’s just fine.

Doktor Zymm

I guess, but it’s not like they’re only going to be careful in a risky situation just because you asked them to. Maybe it’s more of a way of saying “please don’t die” without naming the fear. Still feel like just saying something like “I love you” would be better, although I have admittedly never encountered a situation where someone I loved had to go face bad guys. My perimeter defenses usually get them with no issues.

2Pack

Yeah really when I think about it I get a be careful for a lot of pretty moundan stuff that I do all the time. Runs, bike rides, hiking, long road trips any travel really. So is a pretty good go to goodbye line.

Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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WCS

(GTA V WASTED NOISE)

Doktor Zymm

It’s a trap Jackie Chan! (But he’ll fight his way out in spectacular fashion so it’s okay)

yeah right

That music line up at the Pasadena thing sounds legit but nobody will survive once Uncle Al and Ministry hits the stage.

I’ve never had a pair of button fly 501s flap from the sound coming out of a pre- amp in my life until I saw them live.

yeah right
Horatio Cornblower
Horatio Cornblower

Their version of Supernaut resulted in one of the biggest mosh pits I’ve ever seen during a Lollapalooza in the early 90’s. By the end of their set all the sod had been torn up, their were 3-4 trash bonfires and the whole thing looked like we were about to reenact Lord of the Flies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnkzmvHOIc

It was awesome.

Doktor Zymm

SO MANY CAKES IN THE FACE! I love it

Doktor Zymm

Oh shit, I forgot the bad guys in this movie used Guy Fawkes masks before it was cool

Not really I guess, it’s more a sort of generic mask which is where the mask that actually has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes actually came from, but whatevs.

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Doktor Zymm

Bonus of $32.80/day? SCORE OFFICER CHAN!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

The Dyck puns on Letterkenny are starting to wear me out.

Horatio Cornblower

They could have skipped that whole thing and been better for it.

I can’t recall who the actress is who plays Anita Dyck but she’s pretty well known.

Doktor Zymm

“I didn’t do it alone, it was all thanks to careful planning my superiors”

Should I try to use that in an interview?

2Pack

Go with peers and leaders who have developed me so much over the years

2Pack
yeah right

Good start.

Buongiorno!

yeah right

One day I want to buy you breakfast.

2Pack

One day I think we will Buddy.

yeah right

I can see that.

Horatio Cornblower
Doktor Zymm

Just absurd core strength, my abs hurt just watching Jackie Chan be amazing

2Pack

Yeah but could he beat Cliff 2 out of 3?
/ no hitting in the face

yeah right
Doktor Zymm

Ok, this is a treasure trove.
Going with Jackie Chan because JACKIE CHAN.
Police Story 1985

Doktor Zymm

It’s a Datsun!

Doktor Zymm

FUCK YES

Doktor Zymm

They may have destroyed an actual hillside shanty town there, but it’s pre-China Hong Kong so there would have been compensation even above and beyond getting to watch Jackie Chan be AMAZEBALLS. Those assholes who are all about superhero films just haven’t seen this because this is what action films SHOULD be, and superhero nonsense does NAWT measure up

Doktor Zymm

Ok, so I have a MAX subscription for a month now, and it seems I could watch Barbie, which I will at some point, but right now I want moar early 90 stuff

Doktor Zymm

I did NAWT realize, but they have all the Miyazaki stuff. This is a gold mine

yeah right

Watch the Sopranos.

From the start.

There’s lots of 90’s.

Horatio Cornblower

The most recent season of True Detective was pretty good. Jodi Foster is fantastic.

yeah right

Great ending. And I rarely say that.

Doktor Zymm

Woody has the stupidest goddamn 1992 shorts, but they’re like 70% pockets so even though he looks like a dick I’m jealous

Doktor Zymm

The genius of early 90s sports films is that they make the sports play scenes exciting no matter what you know about the sport. Basically if you know what scoring points looks like, you find the play compelling. And they can even work in specific skill stuff, like the white man actually dunking in an important moment. Although they maintain realism by making him even more emotionally incompetent than me

Doktor Zymm

And the bad suit guidos are actually nawt awful as a deus ex machina

2Pack

I was actually given a set of warm ups, I would not call them “sweats”, as a Christmas gift in the early ’90’s.

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Doktor Zymm

Rock those!

Gumbygirl

Swishswishswish

yeah right

I was at home with a shitty 13300 modem in a trivia room on AOL when Diana died it was late. Like 2 in the morning late and I was drinking beers and blowing the smoke from my cigarette out the open back door while the wife and girls slept.

It was right around this time when my brain was working on an exit plan for a marriage that I didn’t want to participate in anymore.