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 had a VERY interesting work week. At different points in the week there were 1) police, 2) investigators, 3) death threats, 4) verbal altercations, 5) audit responses, 6) electric dump trucks, and 7) a shitload of rain falling on me at a work site.
It’s weeks like this that make me think I don’t need to retire just yet.
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I also completed Week Two of my latest workout program. As I mentioned in the comments last week, I’ve been doing iterations of a workout program called “Iron Curtain”. It’s a four week program modeled after the training regimens of the Eastern Bloc countries and it’s heavy on weight and short on reps and rest periods.
This is the fourth consecutive month I’ve done it and I’m getting tremendous gains. I am getting stronger and bigger. If you are interested in discovering any new workout programs that fit your particular goals, I highly recommend the programs that Jeff Cavaliere offers here: https://athleanx.com/
I’ve got a few of his programs and they’ve each worked for me. Each has different goals, so they’ve served me for different purposes. My goal right now is strength and size and it’s worked pretty well.
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I am very much looking forward to next week as I will be off for almost all of it. The funny thing is that I’m taking off Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and working Monday and Friday.
The reason for such a quirky schedule is the activities I have planned. Tuesday will be set aside for golf. Wednesday will be set aside for a quick getaway with Lady Balls. Thursday will be sleep/recuperation day. Wish me luck.
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On a separate but related topic, has anyone ever done this?
Any tips will be greatly appreciated!
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I have joined a new golf club. Don’t worry, I’m still part of the old golf club. I just added a new one. I found out that some of the guys from work play in this club and I got invited. It’s not associated with any particular golf course and instead hosts monthly tournaments at different golf courses throughout the greater LA area. I figure it will be fun to play with people I know and like and it will also give me good experience at different golf courses.
Here’s the really funny part: It’s associated with a major international airline. It’s apparently for employees of that airline and “friends”! Apparently, all my friends from work are friends of the airline. I am REALLY curious what the swag will be!
I’m also curious as to how many sexy flight attendants will be playing. With my luck, zero, but I will definitely keep you updated.
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The AFL season started this week with a weird Round Zero. Here are your results:
Sydney Swans 86 – 64 Melbourne Demons
Brisbane Lions 85 – 86 Carlton Blues
Gold Coast Suns 99 – 60 Richmond Tigers
GWS Giants 114 – 82 Collingwood Magpies
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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’s Historical Event:
Where were you and what were you doing when the Berlin Wall came down?
I was in college at UCLA. It was my sophomore year and it felt like a big deal. The world as I knew it was never going to be the same. I remember that the big question in my mind was what would come next. Would the entire Eastern Bloc collapse?
It turned out the Eastern Bloc eventually did collapse, but I did not, in my wildest dreams, anticipate the fall of the Soviet Union. But that’s a topic for another Saturday Open Thread.
What say you? Where were you and what happened where you were when the Berlin Wall fell?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFStival
Sure enough, heading home now.
http://quickmeme.com/img/9e/9e08003cf599c02c6477a04f4ba1eb3936065ef582d6aa22d757dc0fb88f9b23.jpg
Update: We are very not done and the choir leader estimates we’ll be done around 3. Meaning 4.
My advice would be to fake an injury to your bow hand.
THIS GUY SEÑOR WEASELO I CALL HIM ROBIN HOOD…
I was at the Coliseum for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PlhJOzH0gY
(Highly unlikely mine pictured)
Jesus, I don’t think you can get more 90s than that.
I’ve seen Incubus and Staind.
Incubus was better.
Incubus is meh, and Staind can get fucked.
STP and deftones were the reasons I was there, and they both kicked my ass to day.
Staind is terrible in all ways.
STP back in the day was special.
Alice In Chains and N*Sync co-headler
Oh, throw Hootie & the Blowish and Jewel on the other stage.
I watched the wall come down on West German television in my home in Ludwisburg. I was on my second tour there. It was the best place to live through that.
That must have been wild!
It was great to share that time with the Germans. After having patrolled the old border it was such a strong feeling of success and righteous.
That’s awesome!
I was at this one too.
All 3 days.
JESUS!
IT’S LARGE!
They forgot Gang of 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_DfXTnOR8o
That’s what she said!
Again, Friday was the best day.
That Friday was crazy. It was so fucking hot!
Heat exhaustion, dragged my ass up a hill. Very cool people spritzing me down with water bottles.
Then Boingo came on.
I’ve seen the resurrection.
I never did a festival. But I did this all day one and it was epic folks.
Holy shit Accept!
https://youtu.be/B_3TlrZLpQ0?si=9zlb7awk1jE7OkRg
They were excellent that day, as was ACDC as usual. VH sucked.
Same thing about van halen at US Festival. Dave was shit faced and it was embarrassing.
The first time I saw Van Halen was in Anaheim and their very first big festival with Black Sabbath, Boston and Sammy Hagar and they were killing it.
That’s the only time I can say that.
I saw them in 78 touring with Black Sabbath. 3 buddies and I did a very blurry road trip from Italy to Germany for the concert. VH was outstanding then but by 84, like you saw, sloppy and disappointing.
The reason why the guest list was short on Sunday was because the Dead played for like 4 hours with the intermission.
People were flying kites and blowing bubbles and it was fucking beautiful man.
Kids running around, throwing Frisbees with the sun shining.
Tripping for breakfast.
Tennesee’s girl coach should wesr sleeves.
Quit trying to make girls sports a thing man.
I love that all of a sudden I care enough about fútbol to look up what time the Man City – Liverpool game starts tomorrow. Caring about stuff is fun!
can we as a country bput a bufkcing end to goddamn sick likcing dsl? seriously i’m gonna be fucked up fo ra week. a week!
I’m gonna start wearing Hey Dude shoes. Nothing is a greater cancer to any brand than seeing it aligned with me in any/every capacity.
So, bad use of the ad budget there Hey Dude.
THIS COLLEGE BASKETBALL TEAM THE ARIZONA WILDCATS I CALL THEM LEBRON JAMES JR’S TRICUSPID VALVE BECAUSE THEY ARE OPERATING OUT OF RHYTHM!
….damn…. that’s some laser guided shaded right there
THIS GUY BLAXABBATH I CALL AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MACHINE HOOKED UP TO BRONNY JAMES BECAUSE HE IS LIGHTING SHIT UP TONIGHT.
So… we’re giving anime recs to Fozz?
I suggest Non Non Biyori.
I don’t really get anime either.
But i think cartoons should be cartoony. And that’s okay because we all hate pants.
I walked on USAA when they resumed advertising on FoxNews after the Insurrection.
I’m not saying my new bank is any better. They just suck at things that are a lower priority in my life than funding the bullhorn to [I don’t really care what you call it — there’s no misunderstanding who we’re all talking about when we talk about These People].
That’s why libertarians are the best Americans.
He’s probably going to be absolutely dominated for all the minutes he plays in the tournament and will be a Tournament liability because he’s still young —
But I like Motiejus “Mount” Krivas.
Okay, anime ain’t ever done gooing ir fo me
you could have ana nime where tehy character came out, gaveme a bottle of whistle pig and a handjob and i still would not beinterested.
In all matters of taste, the customer is always right.
I mean if you like violence, sex trafficking, more violence, cartoon boobies, violence, and the kind of violence where people get disemboweled and their guts end up sticking to the ceiling and then drop down a few seconds later, you might enjoy Blue-Eyed Samurai.
Come for the ultraviolence, stay for the octopus bestiality.
Gonna write this joke down so I don’t forget it, then recycle it the next time Essendon shits the bed:
Essendon Bombers: it’s Australian for “Jets”
Bronny hit that dagger three at the buzzer.
No other guy on the court tonight is more comfortable playing like this game may be his last.
The dog has some sort of digestive thing going on where he’s just constantly farting and I am about to donate him to medical science.
Boogie Ellis playing his 5th season of ncaa ball for a 13-17 team.
Tm I’ll be glad when this old player madness is some other kind of madness.
I hear you loud and clear…
Good soundtrack.
Aslt least on nes.
Im back, as alwasy mrs fozz is passed otu from her eperience
Announcer for the USC-Arizona game just blamed the university administrations for the demise of the PAC-12 because they got arrogant and overemphasized academics and didn’t recognize how much money football brought in.
Aren’t we about overdue for an extinction level event asteroid?
SO OVERDUE
Hey if the only alumni who can make a living are the pro athletes, then that’s what it is.
Bronny James was in the right place to stop that pass. Just like how that functionally significant Congenital Heart Defect was in the right place to stop his circulatory system last year.
Look, I don’t wish Diet Lebron any ill will or harm, but if this is where Blax is going…
Just got back from a hall of fame induction for my rival high school. I have had about 34 beers and am knee deep in b ourbon
goin to go bend one into the wife and i’ll be back
So *that’s* why she calls you Captain Hook…
Bad Heart Bronny better hope the Pac-12 is the only thing dying at the USC Arena tonight.
Here’s a first, and certainly a sequence of words I’d never considered in this sequence before: A YooToober I follow is going to jail, and then possibly prison.
Crime in 2024 is weird.
What kind of weird shit are you into?
Fightin’ Horatios hammering Providence by 25 on Providence’s Senior Night.
Wonder if the Providence fans will handle themselves better than those Duke assholes did this afternoon.
CUT TO: a disgruntled-looking* Bill Belichick in the crowd, who thought “senior night” meant something else
*more disgruntled than usual
CUT TO: a disgruntled, frustrated Matt Gaetz in the crowd, who thought “senior night” meant something else
Who refers to 8th graders as “seniors”?
Mark Chmura?
I have no idea who that guy is. Nor do i get the general joke as to what he did or represents (guessing a hot take guy who diddles in his private life) but Mark Chmura always makes me laugh.
Damn you’re young!
Mark Chmura was a Tight End with the Green Bay Packers. He got caught in a hot tub with a 15 year old, IIRC.
17 Year old
https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/2001/0204/1062562.html
I’m not upvoting diddlers, but thanks for the assist.
My gig ends at 1. I’MA TAKE AN EXTRA HOUR HOME DRIVING TONIGHT.
With any luck I’ll be in bed next to Senorita Weaselo by 3:30! Or parking will be trash and it’ll be after 4:30. We have a 1:30 call for a concert tomorrow where I have to pick someone up.
We’ll be back later to see how I do.
I had just started university. Then hurricane Hugo hit in September, ‘89: no water for weeks, electricity would come later still. Sometime during those days, the Berlin Wall fell and I found out weeks later. But I mostly remember reading The Ilyad during that time because 1. it was assigned for my Humanities class and 2. I got really into it, there being fuckall to do with no electricity.
Also back then there was no internet, or Burger King.
Oh there have bern BKs in PR for as long as I remember. FUN FACT: the Whopper Jr. was invented in Puerto Rico.
Wait, how does that work? It’s not like bottled water was a thing then. What did you do for water?
Fill everything with water, flush the toilet once a day.
Before the storm, of course, heh heh. I had some other pointers too way back
https://doorfliesopen.com/2021/08/30/pointers-for-the-apocalypse-monday-open-thread/
That was one motherfucker of a hurricane. Smacked us right in the ass, all the way inland to Charlotte – and was still a Cat 5 despite being two hours past landfall.
Never experienced anything like it, and not hoping for a repeat.
And drag their body home on their shield!
The Berlin Wall came down on 11/9/89, which would have been first semester of my junior year at UConn. I looked up the day and it was a Thursday, so the odds are high that I was drunk.
Berlin wall- we were in Scotland. It was interesting watching it on tv from a European perspective.
I missed the first part of it, but the ESPN announcer in the Duke-NC game just described something as “nothing more than a crypto-fascist metaphor for ‘war’.”.
Ah, it’s a reference to Back to School.
I thought he was talking about zone defense!
I think he was; he used it as a springboard for the reference.
So a bit off topic, but earlier today, I was working a shift at my second job, and someone left me a note on top of the product that doesn’t have a spot on the shelf
I’ve been chuckling over this for a few hours now.
As for the Berlin wall Fallin, I was alive when it happened, but I couldn’t tell ya where I was
Did anyone else watch the GWS-Collingwood match?
A) WOOOOOOOOOOOO
B) The game was not as close as the final score indicated.
C) Fuck Mason Cox with a rusty pitchfork.
Given that Essendon lost its final two games last year by margins of -126 and -70, I’m having a hard time getting super excited for the upcoming season.
Hey I was at that GWS murdering of Essendon, great match!
It was wonderful! Congrats!
For the Berlin wall, I was living in San Diego, married and youngest right was just born. Remember it very well.
I’ve had nuru massage.
Recommend highly.
Don’t get arrested would be my tip.
I recall watching the wall come down, but don’t remember exactly where I was. Maybe just at home?
Absolutely none whatsoever.
It’s weird, because I was nine, going on ten. I remember a lot of that time of my life, but not the Wall. I can recall the oil spills in Pittsburgh, and Exxon Valdez, and even when Budd Dwyer off’ed himself. Berlin somehow slipped through.
I was at home watchin’ TV, but I was a little bit too young to understand why it was a big deal.
Here’s some history. US Festival 1983. Third day. Pictured is yeah right, DJ TAJ and friends.
You get to figure out who is who.
I had no idea that Divinyls were a thing (a big enough thing to be on the same billing as some other titans up there) before I Touch Myself.
They were really good too. Their first album is excellent.
I always thought Friday was the best day.
$20 PER DAY!!!!
Exactly. The first one in 1982 I bought 3 day passes for 45 bucks.
I wonder if those boys in Motley Crue and U2 ever made anything out of themselves.
You’re in one of those tents in the background.
My guess: DJ TAJ is in the back wearing jean shorts. Yeah Right is bare-chested on the right side.
Give the man a cigar!
Actually I’m bare chested on the left side back.
With the glorious long hair and the only tat in the crowd.
Nice legs!
Yeah I was cut.
Cab driving days in Barstow.
You want stories?
Of course!
Huh. I was right about Taj, but I had you in the yellow tshirt.
Nope. Always the long hair in the crowd.
Yellow shirt is best friend, best man Jersey Mike.
I’ll ride to hell with that man.