I don’t know about y’all, but I’m enjoying the SHIT out of these Olympics. My strategy has been to watch the replays on Peacock for particular sports and to watch the surfing live. All sports and no fluff with really minimal commercials.
The only thing I’ve missed was Colin Jost reporting from Tahiti but I caught up to that in YouTube in five minute snippets, so I’m good.
Today’s topic is a continuation of “shit we had/did when I was growing up that kids today will never have.”
Holy fuck, I may be really aging myself here. My teachers used to teach class with these things. They would write on top of the paper and we could see it. Technology! Btw, yes, this was a recipe for falling asleep in class.
I had three Swatch watches because I was classy like that! One for formal occasions and two regular ones. At least as regular as they got back then.
Yes, I had this. I am still pretty pissed that I don’t know where the hell it went. I know at some point it stopped working, so maybe we threw it out but damn that phone was cool! Someone should revive that thing and make millions.
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Golf Update
My next Match Play tournament game happened this week and I won again! I also took a day of vacation on Tuesday to play and I’m playing today. I’ll probably need to write it up on a Balls Magazine post, but I did really well on Match Play and I was able to lower my handicap. I am now sitting at a 30.0. SO CLOSE!
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Politics Politics Politics Politics
Nothing new. All is calm on the campaign trail until there is a debate if there actually will be a debate. At this point, I’d rather see a boxing match with those big oversized gloves. That would be more fun.
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As a quick reminder, the full Summer of Soccer schedule is below. The Olympics footy tourneys have started!
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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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One last thing:
Lasst uns spelien zwei!
Additionally
Brie hasn’t been seen ’round here in a while… well, I guess until now…
In 93-94 I had a loud yellow and orange Swatch that I wore in uniform. I was a fairly high ranking NCO so few were brave enough to call me out on it. One guy did ask me, “do they let you wear that” which was an odd question because obviously I was. By then my career and rep was secure so I could afford to be a bit out there.
Probably cuz DADT.
I think this AI generated image is implying that knee pain is caused by your sins forming an extra femur
That splains it.
Something like 35 hours total between now and Tuesday morning.
Not-Too-Distant-Future WCS’ advice? Take the law into your own hands.
I would have been giving unsolicited advice on day one.
HAIL CHAOS
lol, walk off walk!
🔱 Up!
I’m starting to think this Cameron Brink lady is pretty.
Trader Joe’s strawberry jalapeno crackers
…is not a complete sentence
Racist
Hi, I just signed up for the 12th spot. I’ve been around since KSK, just never seem to have the time to comment in real time. I remember Seamus and would like to honor him and his freezer vodka (although I just suck it down room temp). And also take part in the Lowratio league and all that entails
Woohoo! Now you’ll comment more when you need to bitch about FF
I know, cuz everyone wants to hear about my fantasy team
Welcome to the land of disappointment!
I’m moving Casa del vino up.
I don’t care what the rest of y’all doing.
Fucking love the concept of this league.
I know a lot of folks here reflect about how this community has got them through some shit so let me get this off my chest. Even though I wasn’t posting, just reading; all your conversations got me through: birth of two kids, MIL dying, mom surviving cancer and all sorts of other events that I know if I had commented there would have been support.
That said, I’ll destroy you all in fantasy football… or more likely limp over the finish line like a water-logged gerbil
/ Richard Gere looks up
Dammit man. I’m glad you’re here.
Talk to us if you need support.
These are the kinds of comments that keep me motivated to keep producing kontent.
Water Logged Gerbil ain’t a terrible FF team name
Mmm, gerbil; perhaps the wrong small mammal to express my whole fantasy football gestalt but I’ll stand by it. My team name in my last league was “koaching by kotite” and only one other person got it. I imagine more folks here will
Are you a Jets fan? You poor bastard.
I was just checking on the relegation odds for West Ham United (16/1 fyi, and they are going DOWN this year) and noticed Man. City sitting there amongst the poor boys at 10/1. Are they about to get punished for their (many) financial indiscretions by getting flushed down three divisions or something?
One can hope.
Up the Cherries!
KNOW WHO ISNT GETTING RELEGATED? MIGHTY WHITEY!
Fish: four bass in about 30 minutes, none big enough to take a picture of. One of them got hooked funny, and it was bleeding pretty good. I hate it when that happens.
Excellent advice
Prob the same table for can I eat it
I like how uranium is just “maybe not a good idea” and not “you’re gonna die.”
The half-life on uranium is so insanely long (700 million years on the low end) that radioactivity is not that big of a concern. It’s toxic on the same level as lead, so not something you want getting into your body, but otherwise relatively tame.
Any of the alkali metals (Na, K, etc.) literally explode why they come into contact with water so I feel like they should be flashing neon orange saying “NO NO NO”.
That’s exactly why you Really Shouldn’t lick them
Doing stuff while drunk at 38 degrees C, is a fucking effort.
The lesson is: never do stuff.
Boy howdy
“Under those conditions, there’s nothing better than getting naked and really burrowing into the cushions of your favorite couch.”
-JDV
In this heat, he would stick to a leather couch even more than usual.
That what lube is for.
[Ben Shapiro’s wife joke but it’s too hot and my melted brain can’t think of anything good]
So I did the math, and that’s really hot, especially for America jr/
Keep hydrated; to be safe, drink both beer and wine.
I am with my BIL, there has never been no beer. Wine is a good gamechanger idea. I like the way you think, you are going to go places.
(rehab)
Nap time!
Put on a jacket before you freeze!
This is a really good read: https://time.com/7007211/olympic-boxing-controversy-female-bodies-essay
I found this very illuminating with regards to the current “controversy”:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1ehpx9x/ioc_release_statemen_adressing_2_female_boxers/lg3d32i/?context=3
Yeah, I mean there’s a huge issue with stuff like sex testing anyway, but it’s not even relevant here, it’s just a bunch of assholes who want to be sure everyone knows their shitty opinions
On the sex testing side, listening to this podcast which is super interesting: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1253921751/introducing-tested-from-npr-and-cbc
#3- “Look.. Heather left behind one of her Swatches… She’d want you to have it, Veronica. She always said you couldn’t accessorize for shit.“
Heathers is the ultimate 80s movie