Monday Night Open Thread – US vs. Uruguay and Bunnies to brighten a dismal news day

Whelp, not really going to talk about the SCOTUS decisions except to say, “I hope the bribes are worth destroying your country”.  So I am in need of some cheering up.  I present to you recent pictures taken by the rabbit sitters.  The solid black bunny is my one of my best friends and is named Noir.  The black and white female is Orson (named after Orson Wells as she has not met any food item she does not love) who is now Noir’s companion, bit of an age mismatch since Orson is less than a year old and Noir is 7.  The solid tan colored bunny is Flan and his companion in fuzzy white and brown is Snickers.  All of them are a lot of fun and a bit of a hassle, but they are helping me smile.

Not sure if the US team will make you smile or groan tonight, but they are playing Uruguay tonight at 9 pm EST on FS1 according to ESPN.  The other match tonight is Bolivia vs. Panama which is also at 9 pm EST on FS2.

Enjoy the bunny pics:

 

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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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Brick Meathook
WCS

holy shit did one go all sorts of ways…

I genuinely think I just saved someone about to go into cardiac arrest — that’s good!

I had absolutely pants-shitting moment where I thought I sent responders to the wrong address for said caller, especially when said caller was definitely starting to lose consciousness — that’s bad!

I sent them to right address, and the caller never passed out — that’s good!

Caller’s daughter was upstairs the whole time, and only bothered to show up when PD had to kick the door open downstairs to get inside —

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fleshwound_NPG

as ive said before i was NEVER in favor of “equal pay” at all. give the uswnt team all the monies and attention. forever.

the men are a bigger waste of time than the la clippers

fleshwound_NPG

USMNT

“Aw shit, the women gotta bail us out. Again.”

Est. 1999

Senor Weaselo

You know who’s the most pissed at today’s ruling?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHoqWQB3Cp4

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WCS

Headless body of Agnew?

Gumbygirl

Robot Nixon!

Brick Meathook
TheRevanchist

Man, this US team sucks. Probably because of Pubelessdick. He’s the worst.

2Pack

Ciao tutti

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rockingdog

Found a funny:

if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great

Doktor Zymm

Learned a new thing about funeral strippers today!
https://bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43137005

WCS

Everyone stays stiff when we put the FUN in funeral!

Gumbygirl

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WCS

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Senor Weaselo

I want to see them and the dancing pallbearers perform together!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9V78UbdzWI

Doktor Zymm

That would be amazing

Doktor Zymm

I just filed a BBB complaint against the Las Vegas monorail and I feel very Simpsons episode

Mr. Ayo

Were you not properly railed?

Sharkbait

That’s more of a Shelbyville thing.

WCS

Ogdenville, really.

WCS

I hope you wrote “BITEY” in title line of the complaint.

TheRevanchist

Demand to speak to the manager. You know the owner!

Horatio Cornblower

Interesting choice to run an ad talking about shutting up all the UMNT doubters when the USMNT just shit the bed in the round-robin of yet another international tournament.

But I suppose they’d already paid for the ad space, so whatever.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s like the YouTube ad I just saw talking about how great Biden did in the debate and SEND MONEY NOW!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Why do they need campaign donations? They should just openly solicit bribes from rich people in exchange for official acts; that’s totally legal now.

Senor Weaselo

“Hel-LO, they’re called gratuities!” -SCOTUS

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

In other news, Hurricane Beryl is now officially a Category 5.

Horatio Cornblower

Saw that. A bit too far south of Mar-A-Lago for me.

Sharkbait

This is fine.

Senor Weaselo

Still waiting on Hurricane Tuxedo Mask!

Sharkbait

Come on Jurgen. You KNOW you wanna manage the USMNT

Brick Meathook

Ecuador’s flag is just a half-assed immitation of the U.S flag.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

How did you get the bunnies to use the camera?

ballsofsteelandfury

So Panamá and Canadá are representing CONCACAF in the knockouts. Just like we all predicted.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I adore your use of accents there.

Senor Weaselo
Horatio Cornblower

I dunno man, in hindsight maybe an offense that consists of “Pulisic tries to dribble through four people while everyone else stands around with a thumb in their ass” wasn’t the one to go with.

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Doktor Zymm

Plus then it’s a hand ball if someone kicks the ball into one of their asses

Horatio Cornblower

JUST KICK THE BALL!!! KICK THE FUCKING BALL!!!

SonOfSpam

-woman whose friend is being assaulted by Lance Armstrong

blaxabbath

I like that the same women who four years ago recognized Trump was an absolute no are now like, “TV says Biden gonna lose! I’m just gonna [anything but vite Biden] to show how unhappy I am!”

It’s always a fun joke to make the “we are at the end of the country” jokes. No one laughs at, “and here is where I will be standing at the pivot…”

As long as Trump keeps the internet on so these bitches can sit on their asses and Facebook about the attacks, I actually think they’ll just be happy to have a reason to be on Fabebook 14 hours a day playing “analyst”.

I wonder what color square everyone will post to show that “it isn’t my fault”.

blaxabbath

Sorry. Neighbors. Had to vent at not them, I understand.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Have you considered taking our your frustrations through petty revenge at th HOA board? I’ll bet they have.

blaxabbath

We don’t got a hoa.

Mr. Ayo

I think it’s time to widen a certain canal by about 480 miles.

Horatio Cornblower

Not for nothing, with everything else going on, but Matt Turner’s kicks and throw ins have been awful tonight.

WCS

Is this the Second Gilded Age we’re in? Maybe the Third?

SonOfSpam

Feels more like a Gelded Age.

WCS

The Broncos have been living that since Battleship Manning finally anchored.

Doktor Zymm

I think pre-2008 was more gilded, this is more like the early 1900s but without the ability to buy cocaine over the counter

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“How about some fentanyl?” – the Sackler family

SonOfSpam

“Cool, no prescription needed; in fact, you should charge triple”

-SCOTUS

Horatio Cornblower

Given the way the officiating is going, and the way the Uruguayans are taking advantage of it, at this point I think it’s up to the US to simply ensure that Uruguay does not have enough healthy players to advance past the next round.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THIS VAR OFFICIAL I CALL THEM THE ROBERTS COURT BECAUSE THEY ARE CORRUPT AS ALL FUCKING HELL.

SonOfSpam

Pretty bad day for all manner of judges.

ballsofsteelandfury

That was…. Some call.

Wow

Horatio Cornblower

Unless they have an angle we didn’t see it’s just blatantly wrong.

And if it is that wrong Berhalter needs to be making a much bigger deal out of it right now.

ballsofsteelandfury

The only thing I can think of is that they are saying that the header bounced off the US defender before it got to the goalie. That would make the scorer onside.

Anything else and it’s offside.

Horatio Cornblower

The latest angle seems to show that the US defender had a toe past the Uruguayan player, so it was onside, despite the shrieking by whoever’s doing color.

SonOfSpam

SCOTUS now working VAR.

Horatio Cornblower

We need some VAR intervention here.

Mr. Ayo

That’s not ROCKING

WCS

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Mr. Ayo

We love you Bolivia!

rockingdog

Thatsssss ROCKING!!!!!

Mr. Ayo

An excellent exercise of Miranda rights!

Horatio Cornblower

We’re all going to be happy when Berhalter gets shown the door after this, and then US Soccer is going to replace him with Gareth Southgate.

ballsofsteelandfury

Oh that’s good!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Because it comes with a free frogurt?

rockingdog

Also it’s kinda weird that there are BYD Car ads in the background when I don’t think you can actually buy a BYD Car here in USA

ballsofsteelandfury

There’s a BYD dealership in Downtown LA but I think it’s just a Chinese government front.

rockingdog

This feels like that USA vs Portugal game from a couple World Cups ago…. 😬

Horatio Cornblower

It’s also completely irrelevant unless Panama somehow trips over their dicks and gives up two goals to a Columbia team that is, well, ‘not good’ I think is the term I’m looking for here.

ballsofsteelandfury

Bolivia?

Horatio Cornblower

Them too.

Horatio Cornblower

(absolutely no idea where I got Columbia from)

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Freudian slip?

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Horatio Cornblower

One time in college I got drunk and fell asleep in the box and boy was my girlfriend pissed.

Doktor Zymm

Bunnies! They are fuzzily adorable and I luuvs them.

rockingdog

Found a funny:

This might be more impactful on the election than anything Biden said tonight

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Horatio Cornblower

Now we just need them, and everyone following them, to vote.

Senor Weaselo

Spit on that thang (being the Trump campaign).

Horatio Cornblower

“If you get confused when we say ‘Conmebol'” it’s because you really don’t pay attention to international soccer and, frankly, we’re just not going to pander to you.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

What about when I say Ligmabol?

Horatio Cornblower

What’s ligma…GODDAMMIT!!!

rockingdog

Is the USA really gonna win this game?⚽️
Cause that would be Rocking!!!

Gooooo USA! 🇺🇸

Horatio Cornblower

Absolutely not.

Horatio Cornblower

Where did they get this official? Toys ‘r Us?

ballsofsteelandfury

Come on! We all know it’s Foot Locker!

Horatio Cornblower

US guy was way offsides there.

Brick Meathook

Goddamit, I think Trump’s going to win in November unless a miracle happens.

Such as my candidacy.

Get on board now and secure yourself a sweet ambassador post.

Sharkbait

Brick 2024!

ballsofsteelandfury

Brick Balls 24!

I’ll be VP

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I thought you liked working from behind rather than underneath

Mr. Ayo

Brick 2024!

Horatio Cornblower

I am humbly requesting to be appointed ambassador to Baltimore.

Mr. Ayo

How will you deploy jjfozz against our enemies?

Horatio Cornblower

There’s really only one option. 1). Provide bourbon. 2). Point in direction of enemy. 3). Provide gentle push in said direction.

Sharkbait

He cant possibly [REDACTED] all of the [REDACTED] from every single bar can he?

Mr. Ayo

Excellent plan. Fully endorsed!

Horatio Cornblower

I’m weirdly optimistic that Biden’s horrific debate performance will make Trump so confident that he becomes completely unhinged over the next few months and that, combined with the Supreme Court just doing, (waves vaguely), that will push just enough voters to realize you’re voting for a Presidential team, not necessarily an individual.

But I also went out to dinner and had two beers, so it may just be the buzz.

Sharkbait

Sub. Fucking. Scribe.

ballsofsteelandfury

Panamá just scored!

Horatio Cornblower

Some of these officials just need to be slapped senseless on the field.

Sharkbait

Lotta people need slapping today

Horatio Cornblower

Fair point.

litre_cola

I know where teh Hippo stands on the matter, are the rest of the futbol yanks Gregggggg in or Gregggggg oot?

ballsofsteelandfury

Ooot

Sharkbait

Take a dump truck, fill it with money, and back it up to Jurgen Klopp’s front door.

Mr. Ayo

The first G in his name stands for Gone. The second G in his name stands for Goner. The third G in his name stand for Gonest. The fourth G in his name stands for Get The Fuck Out. The fifth G in his name stands for Garbage.

Horatio Cornblower

But have you considered that this will limit further opportunities for nepotism?

Mr. Ayo

This camera angle on the USA’s demise fucking sucks. Ban KC!

Mr. Ayo

At least BOL-PAN has assistant lady refs. Much better watch.

WCS

For the law-talkin’ types here: Coupled with today’s Court ruling, if Biden IS reelected, would invoking the 25th Amendment actually more difficult to remove him? Does mental acuity and age count as “immunity”?

Horatio Cornblower

The key here is how you define ‘official acts.’ And the answer to that is ‘whatever the Court decides it is’ is any given situation. So if Biden, for instance, decided to officially declare Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito as not only corrupt, but also aiding and abetting treason, the Court would surely declare those to be ‘unofficial.’ If Trump, for instance, were to declare that immigrants were to be machine-gunned as they waded across the Rio Grande, well, that would be ‘official.’

Really, the key here is to be a straight, white, upper-middle-class-or-better, male, and then none of this matters.

Everyone else is pretty much fucked.

Suffice it to say I am rooting hard for the next virus that makes the animal-to-human jump. And none of this pussy 1-2% fatality shit either, Mother Nature; you come correct at 85% or better or you GTFOH.

Mr. Ayo

Also, is violating the 25th amendment a crime to begin with?

Oh wait, they think being homeless is a crime, so yeah.

ballsofsteelandfury

Sorry, but we needed some sanity on addressing the homeless. Encampments have to be cleared. They’re not safe for anyone.

I’ve had to deal with that at work for two years. Everyone was handcuffed because of the law. Things had to change.

Horatio Cornblower

I have a lot of sympathy for people who’ve been proved out of housing options, and absolutely zero for people who’ve put themselves in that situation through their own horrible choices.

The NY Times had an article a few weeks ago where they spent an inordinate amount of time on a couple who had moved to Portland because they heard that a) there was a very liberal attitude towards the homeless and b) heroin was cheap and easy to get.

Sorry, you lose me at b.

ballsofsteelandfury

The building where I worked caught on fire because of the homeless. They broke in an tapped into our electricity making it dangerous for both them and us. We called Child Protection Services as there were two kids living in cardboard boxes across the street from us.

No one did shit. They all blamed it on the laws that were in place.

Sharkbait

So what you’re saying is, if Mrs Sharkbait and I follow through on a potential vacation to the UK in December, we should conveniently lose our passports in the Thames then.

Sharkbait

Assuming Mr. Starmer and LaboUr are in charge.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Even if they’re not. I’d take the Tories over the GOP in a heartbeat.

Horatio Cornblower

Buddy, I don’t know how closely you’ve been following the news in the rest of the world, but what’s happening here is not unique, and frankly isn’t as bad as it is in some of the rest of the world.

It feels great to threaten to leave the US, and I’m not going to lie, I’ll be doing some retirement scouting when we go to Montreal later this year, but there’s a whole lotta fascisim going on right now worldwide.

Sharkbait

I saw France got fucked in their snap election. Maybe St. Martin is the key. It’s far enough away from France to leave the crazies there, and if all else fails there’s the Dutch side.

Horatio Cornblower

Macron absoultely shit the bed on that one.

ballsofsteelandfury

I think it’s more a rejection of leftist policies rather than fascism but tomatoe tomatoh.

Horatio Cornblower

It’s a reaction to mass immigration, and don’t kid yourself otherwise.

For the record I have very little sympathy for people immigrating illegally for economic reasons. Get in line like everyone else. But the movements you’re seeing pushing everything to the far right have a lot less to do with ‘legal vs. illegal’ immigration and a whole lot more to do with ‘my new neighbors don’t look/sound/worship/dine like me and I’m scared.’

ballsofsteelandfury

Europe is accepting a LOT of refugees. That’s not even legal vs illegal.

It’s your country taking care of people from other countries. That shit doesn’t fly here. Even under Biden, we don’t accept refugees in the types of numbers that European countries do. Not sure why we would expect it to fly in Europe.

Horatio Cornblower

I’d just prefer not to see a bunch of Christian fascists pump up that issue to take power and fuck the entire country, and probably the planet.

ballsofsteelandfury

The bigger problem is that the ruling party doesn’t do anything to improve the problem.

When the “adults” don’t bother to help you, the alternative becomes more attractive.

Doktor Zymm

THIS

And the UK is currently on the ‘more fucked than the US’ list. Fully 25% of children in the UK right now live in poverty right now. Average heights are actually decreasing

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

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DOES IT HAVE TO BE A VIRUS?

Horatio Cornblower

Honestly, I’d vote for him in November.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/espn-responds-criticism-prince-harry-espy-award-honor-1235936824/

This is hilarious and stupid on multiple levels, but the obvious also needs to be said.

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Sharkbait

Finished my antibiotics today. Good thing to because I want to hook up a bottle of rye to my veins

Brick Meathook
Brick Meathook
ballsofsteelandfury

They’re adorable!!

Gumbygirl

Buns! Keep ’em coming, they are a balm to the weary soul

Game Time Decision

The zoomies will make most of DFO tired just by watching

ballsofsteelandfury

I feel the same about buns!

Gumbygirl

I’m prettay sure we aren’t talking about the same thing. Perv.

ballsofsteelandfury

But I’m your favourite perv!

Mr. Ayo

For in the grim dark future there is only war-mongering rabbits!

Game Time Decision

They haves big *random gestures* teeth

WCS

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