ONo Warhammer – Monday open thread

No Warhammer tonight – I have yet to find the time to get my home computer running again.  I do plan to have everything back together.  Actually even if I do get it back up, I may just share of of the most horrible acts of vandalism perpetuated on a desk by rabbit kind.  Going to do the Dad thing and see how many I can salvage.

I turned 58 at the beginning of the month and was actually in San Diego so my wife could attend a work function.  And, as I stood outside the hotel lobby awaiting a delivery from the dispensary,  that I decided on what to have as a rest of my life goal – and that was to be stoner, more like Spicoli than Brad Pitt in True Romance.  I can enjoy the fruits of my life of toil while completely stoned.  Enough of facing reality – time to be high as a kite and read a book.

I have no idea as to what is on tv, so watch Shogun I hear it’s great!

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ArmedandHammered
Mid 50's geek/nerd, avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, manga, Chinese Web novels, and British mysteries, cult movies are my thing (have you seen Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter?)
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rockingdog

Found a funny;

Wins for Oppenheimer and Godzilla Minus One mean this is the first time a movie and its sequel both won Oscars the same year.

Redshirt

Joe Mixon out in Cincy.
Zach Moss in in Cincy.

Looks like is Moss and Chase Brown in the backfield. Still need to figure out the line, but this can work. Bengals offense is built around passing, this just commits it.

Joe Mixon is a good player. You all joke about his college idiocy, and he’s earned it, but he was a stand-up guy in Cincy and a hard player. I wish him well.

(Offer void if he goes to Kansas City, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Houston, any of the division rivals, of course, 49ers…)

Doktor Zymm

I’m always wrong about these things, but Ballsitchmore is gonna pick up SOMEONE at RB and it might as well be Beaty, hey, at least he hasn’t stabbed anyone!

Doktor Zymm

*as far as we know, and I doubt any player in the NFL today has the media savvy to hide something like that

SonOfSpam

Might be Derrick Henry, which seems unfair.

Redshirt

With Lamar Jackson healthy, any decent RB is unfair.

SonOfSpam

Right move for the Bengals. It’s Joey Trumpfan’s team, so this makes sense. However, Tee wants out. Might be a good idea to lock him up.

Redshirt

Will Compton on X: “Excited to see what the internet does with this one https://t.co/FWx0see5Jd” / X (twitter.com)

The only saving grace (other than I have is that Joe maintained minimal contact. If anything I’m more offended with Burrow wearing sunglasses inside. Making pleasantries to Dicktator is one thing, but take off the damn shades, Joe!

Bosa on the other hand looked like he was about to kiss Trump on the cheek.

SonOfSpam

So a MAGA music guy passed away over the weekend.

Sorry, it was not Ted Nugent.

It was Eric Carmen.

SonOfSpam
Gumbygirl

My sister had the album. It was scratch n’ sniff, smelled like berries.

Brick Meathook

I just found out that my friend George the ex-Marine died last week.

He was a good man.

https://ibb.co/DttXDvm

SonOfSpam

That’s a quality beard, he’s one of the good ones.

Cecil Rhodes

Gardner Minshew in a Raiders uniform just feels so right. If Uncle Rico had gone pro, there was only one team he could have possibly played for.

King Hippo

Congrats to Fronk’s Uber Riders for also making the NCAAT. Quite the academic year for them, sportsball-wise.

King Hippo

Jacoby Brissett back to New England. I kind of hope they go Marv Harrison, now.

Horatio Cornblower

They’re gonna wind up with that kid from LSU, it’s going to be a disaster and I am going to fahckin’ love it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I WILL NAWT BE MAWKED!

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Horatio Cornblower

The Eagles have signed both Tony Pollard and Saquon Barkley (!) today.

Doktor Zymm

Pollard went to the Tits. Also Josh Jacobs to Green Bay which is interesting

Game Time Decision

A A Ron Jones was cut from GB

Horatio Cornblower

Oh yeah, that’s right.

The problem here is that I’m sober.

King Hippo

Using one’s brain while sober is like, the BLURST of ideas.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I made sangría in preparation for this evening, so sobriety is a problem I DO NOT HAVE!

King Hippo

I’d say they are gonna go run heavy again. Imagine Hurts and Saquon one-upping each other on Leg Day.

Doktor Zymm

Saquon will probably be happy to play on an offense that has other people in it

WCS

Here’s my HAWT YINZER TAEK:

Russ is on IR before the end preseason.

ballsofsteelandfury

If he signs for the veteran minimum, I’m okay with it.

Doktor Zymm

Yeah, $1.2m is cheap as hell, absolutely no reason not to sign him for that

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

There are plenty of people who could afford to just pay Russell Wilson to hang out and watch football with them for $1.2M.

King Hippo

I suspect he will win 11+ games with the Tomlin cromulence multiplier effect. He wants to stick it to Fatty Payton in the worst way.

If not, the Das Raycess from the talk radio callers will be, I’m sure, quite reasonable and measured.

LemonJello

STILLERS NAHT GANTA SUPERBOWL?

Doktor Zymm

Maybe, if they wanna buy tickets

King Hippo

And speaking of global atrocities…how angry are Bearistocrats! supporters at the prospect of the club building a FUCKING DOME?

Horatio Cornblower

They haven’t figured out how to draft a quarterback in, what, 40 years, and they’re going to figure out how to build a domed stadium?

Please.

Doktor Zymm

They’re gonna try to get a Super Bowl aren’t they. Idiots.

King Hippo

Owl Envy is quite the drug, inshallah

Horatio Cornblower

You like that, huh!? You like that!?

https://twitter.com/DMRussini/status/1767255891357602065

Falcons fans: No, not really.

King Hippo

I may not love Dingleberry as a quartered back. But the minute he retires, I offer him an assistant GM job. That motherfucker KNOWS the bidness of sportsball.

Horatio Cornblower

I mean, he is better than Desmond Ridder.

Brick Meathook

There’s an article about Cousins in today’s WSJ that is exactly about that, how he really worked the pay system to his advantage. I’m trying to share a non-firewall link to it but no luck.

Doktor Zymm

Since when do the Falcons need help choking in the post season?

Sharkbait

Nope. Not suspect at all. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

Thankfully my flight this weekend is on an Embraer, not a Boeing.

Horatio Cornblower

I think from now on my vacations will be limited to “places I can walk to”

Gumbygirl

That guy was straight up murdered. There is no way he offed himself. He was excuted to testify against them, it’s been his sole focus for years.

Gumbygirl

I meant excited!

Horatio Cornblower

Good old “Sources” is never wrong. I’m sure this is totes reliable.

https://twitter.com/Blitzfbl/status/1767340325297905961

King Hippo

Curious as to yeah right’s reaction to the Portugal elections. Sounds like their version of Trumpism has taken off.

yeah right

It’s scary as hell. Good thing I’ve still got a few working years left so let’s see what shakes out.

Italy did it too.

King Hippo

The entire world scares the shit out of me.

yeah right

I think it’s also an over reaction to their current housing crises.

The golden visa and the NHR tax breaks they enacted solved the financial crises there but it also trashed the affordable housing in the bigger tourist area.

The golden visa holders are buying up property and driving cost up while the formerly affordable housing is getting converted into Airbnb joints.

It’s a poor country wage wise and the younger population can’t afford rent.

This is a sure sign of demanding drastic change without thinking long term.

Horatio Cornblower

The NY Times had a story a month or so ago about the Portuguese getting pissed at foreigners buying up property and pricing the natives right out of housing. They mostly seemed upset at people who were buying up homes and then renting them out as vacation properties and to be fair, those people should be drawn and quartered.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s exactly it. Luckily, you’re a white guy and you’ll spend money there. You’ll be good.

yeah right

I read an article and the average 33 year old still lives at home in Portugal.

It’s fantastic as a tourist because everything is so inexpensive but the workers, many of them work in tourist related jobs, don’t get paid shit.

2Pack

Relax, Georgia is doing just fine, slid to the center some like they usually do in order to get things done. This just in… I no longer believe the press outright. If they tell me tomorrow’s Tuesday, I check a calendar.

Doktor Zymm

That’s exactly what BIG CALENDAR wants you to do!

Doktor Zymm

They’re mostly just coming into line with the rest of Europe, the continent as a whole has been drifting right since the influx of refugees 10+ years ago. Happened in the 70s and 80s too, although not so much in Portugal since they only got rid of their fascist regime in the mid-70s

ballsofsteelandfury

I think it’s a mistake to call anything that’s not left or center “Trumpism”.

There is a very real dissatisfaction worldwide with the existing power structure. The liberals that have been in charge in many Western democracies have fucked up housing (here included) and people are pissed. No one in the established parties comes up with any new ideas or solutions, so people are willing to look elsewhere to send a message.

Doktor Zymm

Yes! (although fucking up housing has a long and noble history that the entire political spectrum has contributed to, the current incarnation has been a downward slide since the post-WW2 building boom)
Also gives Trump wayyy too much credit. There have been far-right parties throughout history, Trump didn’t invent Nationalism, or Populism, or Calling People Names, or even Bad Hair.

ballsofsteelandfury

Yup. If anything, Trump is a symbol of how much dissatisfaction exists. I mean, if people are willing to put a con man in the White House, how much do they hate the status quo?

Doktor Zymm

I wish I could just turn up at job interviews and have them hire me because I have no experience and am completely unqualified

ballsofsteelandfury

You should get into politics…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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blaxabbath

Very good write-up, Armed. Props for recognizing your final calling in life.

Gumbygirl

As a retired stoner, I approve of his plan. Join us, we have weed and cookies!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Movies from my draft board that are invited to camp:

48 Hours
An American Tail
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
One Crazy Summer
When Harry Met Sally
A Fish Called Wanda

Horatio Cornblower

One Crazy Summer was drafted as a tandem, which I disallowed. So either it’s off he board, the movie it was drafted with is off the board, neither is available, or both are available. I’m not really sure which.

I would have sworn that Wanda was an early 90’s movie but nope, 1988.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Shit missed that. Let it stand.

Sharkbait

I still claim it.

Gumbygirl

I thought Peewee was 90’s too!

Horatio Cornblower

Shogun is pretty good. I do think that the main character probably would have gotten his head lopped off by now if this were a documentary.

yeah right

Been enjoying it. I read all of the Clavell books and it’s been faithful so far.

BugEyedBoo

The old 80’s miniseries stuck pretty close to the book.

yeah right

That was Richard Chamberlain. I remember that.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Ooh I wonder if they’ll do King Rat.

yeah right

Gaijin was solid too. I also liked Nobel House but it got too big in scale for a film.

yeah right

Oh shit. I think they did. Wasn’t George Seagal in that?

Redshirt

Add this to the Conspiracy Folder, in between LBJ orchestrating the JFK Assassination and Hollywood insisting on giving Wanda Sykes a career.

https://bengalswire.usatoday.com/2024/03/11/nfl-admits-compensatory-pick-error-bengals-earn-third-round-selection/

Mr. Ayo

It’s here!

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ballsofsteelandfury

Nice! Are you going to video it?

Mr. Ayo

Tempting, but no. I will provide progress pics though.

Redshirt
Doktor Zymm

Is the age recommendation physical age, mental age, or some other age? Maybe emotional age because throwing over 1000 tiny metal parts on the ground in frustration seems like it would be hazardous.

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Mr. Ayo

Most of them are tiny screws. You’d be finding these things for years if you threw them to the ground.

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Game Time Decision

How big will it be, can’t figure out the scale

Mr. Ayo

I don’t know yet. Think about 2 feet wide and 1 foot tall

Mr. Ayo

Here’s the main fan to give you a better idea.

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Mr. Ayo

Fuck, already broke my 1.5mm hex screwdriver tip. Now using a backup allen key like a fucking underpaid slave.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Just the tip?

Mr. Ayo

Sadly, yes. The rest is just fine.

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Doktor Zymm

Was your hex screwdriver of russian manufacture?

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Mr. Ayo

Chinese I think. It came with the kit.