I’m going continue the bit with the lists. Tonight, I present to you a list of things I like that start with the letter U:
- UV rays (in moderation)
- Uvulas (look it up)
- USA (Yes. Despite whatever problems people perceive we have, this is still the best country in the world. If you disagree, I invite you to move and find out.)
- U-bahn (in Munich)
- U-turns
- Undies
- UPS (expensive, but reliable)
- Univision (for soccer and sexy commercials)
- Ultras (the Monster drinks)
- Uniqueness
- UB40
- Umami
I could go on. However, I need to move on.
So, aside from THAT, what is there to talk about?
Golf Update
I play another tournament tomorrow. I finished in second place in my flight for the one that had a July 4th theme and we were forced to use only 4 clubs. Tomorrow’s tourney is a two-person better ball team event at a course I’m familiar with. Let’s see how it goes.
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Sports Update
We are truly in the desert of sports. The soccer tournaments are essentially over with only the Women’s Euro and the Tour De France available for viewing pleasure. I refuse to recognize baseball as anything other than an opportunity to nap. Same goes for televized golf.
I guess there’s still NASCAR, but Kyle Busch hasn’t won anything in ages, so my interest has waned.
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Other Updates
I have started getting addicted to cold showers. I never knew they could feel so good! The workout program continues as does the Body Fat loss challenge at work.
Is everyone prepping for their Fantasy football drafts? I will, as usual, improvise based on whatever the Yahoo rankings reflect. Word to the wise: Draft a kicker early!
I am happy to report that it’s been a relatively cool summer so far in LA. I understand y’all in the East part of the country have been suffering from suffocating heat and humidity. I truly feel bad for y’all. I hope conditions improve.
In other news, I am looking forward to increased chaos in college football. The whole thing needs to be blown up. The upper division really needs to be split in half.
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In this space, I will tell you what I’m drinking as I type this post. Today’s drink is: Celsius Fizz Free Pink Lemonade.
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Your weekly Psych pic:
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Your weekly hot girl pic:
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Your weekly music video:
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One last thing:
Seriously, hat tip to Brocky:
I deciphered the hieroglyphics, and assembled that fucking cabinet that has been kicking my ass!
Nice. But that still won’t fit over your toilet.
I gave up on that dream, alas! But this one fits next to the tub, barely.
Is anyone surprised that Gumbygirl has a blue towel?
When I was a mere lad I learned to mow lawn with one of these. Powered motors were exotic.
https://ibb.co/0yLDsspr
https://youtu.be/pRoGEWj6ka4?si=KVQZWi2VjpBlWCyZ
Uvulas (look it up)
I can’t believe there’s apparently no video of this
FACT: Ronald Reagan was a crooked union boss, selling out the Screen Actor’s Guild twice while he was president, favoring his patrons at MCA and himself personally.
Disagree? Come fight me bro. Say when.
BIG IF TRUE
Very true. He was almost indicted by a grand jury in 1962.
MLB VAR? In this economy?
YES!!!! VAR works!
Walk off! Eat shit astericks!
Just watched that replay. Heads up baserunning by the Big Dumper!
Yeah probably…
It’d be pretty messed up if the parrot only talked to that one guy for like the first week, just so he was absolutely going insane in everyone’s minds.
Yeah like the old Looney tunes cartoon about the guy who had a talking frog, but the frog would only perform for him so his money making plans never panned out.
Michigan J. Frog.
Got a T-shirt with Michigan on it. A true classic.
(Michigan is the classic. The T-shirt’s just kind of cool in a very nerdy way)
hello my baby hello my darlllling, worked for a company that just stole that character and changed his color to be their logo
If I were sitting anywhere near the lunatic at Safeco Field who can be clearly heard shrieking on the broadcast one of us would already be dead.
Wait, you can hear me?
Very high-pitched shriek you have there “sir”
I’ve been “removed” so you should be good now.
There’s a clip of Sam Altman telling investors, totally deadpan, that the business plan is to build AGI, then ask it how to make the money back.
Lmao wait what?!?!?
..
People like Sam Altman, to quote Steve Martin talking about Ronald Reagan, “have what it takes to bring America back to what it once was: an Arctic wasteland, covered with ice”
plan is to ask AGI to hack the 4 trillion in crypto at this point thanks to the GENIOS bill
Just watched Manny Pacquiao fight, he’s 46. Why subject yourself to getting punched in the face at that age. It’s gotta be gambling debt or something
He’s born again in Jesus and completely delusional.
I take it he got the shit beat out of him again?
I think he actually won but the judges called it a draw.
Apparently after a while you get to like it
I honestly thought he was older. And yeah, political shadiness abounds.
Yeah, I would have guessed early 50’s.
And he wasn’t fighting Jake Paul?
El Trafico always delivers (the over)…3-2 with about 10 minutes left. Fun game (on TV).
Spanish for The Trafico, ppl forget that.
This was always my favorite of The Far Side hornets.
Also, don’t be a dick and throw rocks at nests. Just leave them alone.
(top left corner, obviously)
He’s a genius. If he went Scott Adams I’d be really sad.
Ok, but explain the joke for the bottom one nerd.
I would, but I haven’t been attacked by any eagles lately so it’d be way off topic.
I had that desk calendar!
I was given the complete collection, one of my fav comics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT4LF7wCTtA
#MurderDeathKill #MurderDeathKill #MurderDeathKill
Elegant.
Ground wasps also hurt like hell, but we had a nest in our yard a few years ago. I just avoided it, mowed around it, and they never bothered anyone.
Fuck this guy.
going to send this to a neighbor who was battle a hive next to his kids soccer net, not sure how he ended up winning it probably gasoline
Classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRO3K1kAlKQ
love how the dog knows something stupid is incoming
He’s an idiot, he could have injured or killed those dogs.
The Far Side had some great hornet cartoons.
When you put things starting with U up there, I immediately thought of the U bahn… My memories of old Munich are very fond.
It wasn’t filler. I truly like it.
And your contributions!
I was thinking about these girls I met at the Hofbrau haus just the other day. No idea what triggered that, but it brought a big smile.
You forgot U-Boats
In combination with the S-bahn it’s a great public transit system!
Those Germans do know how to get around.
-Tell me about. France 1940.
The secret is meth!
I miss when belly chains were a thing.
Found a funny:
“keep politics out of kids movies”
disney in 1973:
went down a rabbit hole on this at work after pulling another the beggar image in chat. very appropriate as noted, but bit of let down at the time because was first major movie without Walt and his senior advisors didn’t quite know what to do. Kid me always thought this was an 80s movie.
https://ibb.co/N6SYYQj3
Random idea
Stephen Colbert runs for public office, possibly president
That could be rocking
Stewart/Colbert 2028
Why the fuck not?
The Dodgers are wearing incredibly stupid-ass uniforms tonight. They are bad.
Yeah those are bad. I know they gotta do the City Connect stupidity, but It can be done unhorribly.
The LA Dodgers have an iconic uniform and should not do the City Connect uniforms.
If the Yankees ever do it there will be a disturbingly large fire started in the Bronx very soon after, although since it’s a fire, and in the Bronx, no one will notice.
I was really disappointed at the accuracy in the penalty kicks.
Was really hoping to drop a Thomas Cribbs school of accuracy joke.
Watching the Mariners baseball game, (shut up, I like baseball), and the crawl announces that the Orioles have signed their first pick, Wehiwa Aloy, and I refuse to believe that’s a real person.
Motherfucker surfs.
Oh if he were the #1 pick in the Pro Surfer’s League draft I’d be like “yeah, sounds about right” without knowing anything other than the name.
Goodell gets booed lustily once a year, but Altuve gets it 81 times a year.
Cheating little fuck deserves every bit of it.
– Andy Byron’s wife’s divorce lawyer, being told to “go for his balls”
Mowing the lawn this afternoon I took a white-face Hornet sting to the temple. Goddamn do those little bastards hurt.
Can’t imagine what anyone driving by thought, seeing a lunatic driving a riding lawnmower in circles while screaming vulgarities and swinging a baseball cap at a winged demon.
“That dipshit lawyer down the street is being a dipshit again.”
I’m gonna spam your 911 office with calls about white-faced hornet attacks.
Not if you don’t know my phone number!
It’s 9-1 . . . 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
Riding? lol, push or get out of the game old man.
Can’t. I’ve got huge
https://ibb.co/1tPgXfP4
That sounds really painful.
Mowing your own lawn, geez.
Thanks Trump!!
Never heard of this little bastard before. Off to Wikipedia…
It is taxonomically an aerial yellowjacket but is known by many colloquial names, primarily bald-faced hornet, but also including bald-faced aerial yellowjacket, bald-faced wasp, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, blackjacket, white-tailed hornet, spruce wasp, and bull wasp.
Motherfucker has more aliases than Sean Combs.
Looks like they haven’t made their way here yet.
90% of the time you can stand right outside the nest and they won’t bother you as long as you don’t bother them, but if they perceive you as a threat look out. Those motherfuckes will come out en masse, they can sting repeatedly, and it hurts like hell.
Bravest thing I’ve ever done was charge into a swarm of them when my first dog had pulled his line into a bush that had a nest in it, resulting in them attacking him.
Got the dog off his line and into the house and took multiple stings myself. Fuck did that hurt.
Then my Dad went out and nuked their nest to hell and back.
Good on you for helping the dog; that earns you a beer next time I’m in Connecticut.
Speaking of which, it’s quarter to nine here and I’ve had no beers yet. Rectifying that after I hit Post Comment.
Gotta help your dog, man.
/my kid gets attacked by hornets
Me: (from inside the house). RUN, STUPID!!!
Beer in hand.
Lookit this little bastard!
“Tonight. You.”
They make enormous nests, too.
One year, after a couple of frosts, I brought one in from one of our bushes, intending to cut it open and get a look at the inner workings.
And that’s when we learned that, while the drones all die when it gets cold, the queen, roughly the size of your thumb, hibernates in the otherwise empty nest, waiting for warmer weather, or for some absolute dipshit to bring the nest into a warm kitchen, before reemerging to go start a new colony.
Mrs. Horatio didn’t find this information nearly as fascinating as I did.
Pretty good example of a nest.
Oh shit. Kill it with fire or what have you.
Seems like the sorta thing it’s better to learn on Wikipedia
Well yeah, but then I can’t bring a hornet’s nest into my house.
That was me running down the street last week.
The Harbor Room, exterior:
https://ibb.co/ZRVZGqXp
Interior:
https://ibb.co/C3zxxWs8
Martini:
https://ibb.co/HD9ks9Nf
This is where I first met BFC and then Seamus, who showed up late after hooking up with the infamous pot store clerk in Venice. By the time he arrived I had to leave for the airport ten minutes later. The Uber arrived and I handed Seamus a wooden bowl with a storage compartment full of quality bud. Between the pot girl and having an imaginary internet guy give him more weed ten after meeting him surely contributed to his love of Southern California and/or blew his mind.
Did I show up late to that one and missed you?
I think so. About five days later I returned and we all met at Mo’s in Playa.
It’s easy to hate LeNa Dunham . And wow, that’s a bad thing. Wait, she’s an untalented fucking HAcK who hit the zeitgesti at the righ titme. good job,. you suck shit.
It’s even easier to just ignore her and everything she does. Makes life so much better.
odell beckham jr was ignoring lena dunham before it was cool ppl forget that
Seemed she she disappeared over a decade ago, and we were all we all better off for it.
I hated how the ugliest chick on her show was always naked.
I believe that was a frequent topic of discussion in the Warming Glow days. Never understood why people kept watching the show. Just change the channel, man; Lena Dunham can’t force you to watch her show.
I guarantee Lena is/was always #UpForWhatever
Downtown Playa del Rey, my quiet* little beach front community
*quiet except for the gangbangers and drag racers.
https://ibb.co/mVks6HpZ
At least its not dragbangers and gang racers.
And you’ve got the airport in the backyard thing.
I love LAX. My three favorite airports are LAX, National, and Dulles, both for looking at and flying in/out of. So I’m flying into BWI (at 1:00AM) this next trip.
Just out of frame to the right is The Harbor Room, a DFO meetup spot of some renown.
When yinz come for the Draft, you can meet me at by the fountain at Point State Park. I’ll be wearing a Steelers shirt.
In it’s defense!
/ sips a glass of water
Baseball has been excellent this year.
I’ve been to a game in Toronto!
With Game Time Decision and Taj.
And I’m going again in September to see the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles and the cool parts of Orange County.
With many of you!
Let’s make this a thing.
When you have to bring other people in order to make it fun, is it really fun?
With this crew?
It’s always fun.
Baseball is legit fun in person, and I can’t stand watching it on TV. It’s essentially spending a nice day in a biergarten with a baseball game and organist instead of an oompah band
I find it to be nice background while I’m reading a book.
I think anything is more fun when you do it with a friend.
Including masturbation?
Sure, if it’s a female friend.
Note that we didn’t watch all the game and that’s the mostest basedball I will see this year
We ẅatched enough baseball.
Great viewpoint from centerfield. It’s just fun to be around your imaginary friends.
That was a really fun day and thank you for carrying my yogurt in the Toronto version of Whole Foods.
Is that Linda Blair in the banner?
Had a raging…
I liked her when I was 14
Samantha Fox, I thought.
Nope, Linda Blair!
Hat tip to 2Pack
I like it when girl #1 twists her head around 180º
Just finished “O Brother where art thou.”
That movie is perfect from start to finish.
As are basically every Coen Brother’s movies.
We need another film you two.
It really is a special film.
Interesting timing because I just started watching KAOS on Netflix, which is also based on Greek mythology.
John Goodman was a perfect cyclops.
It’s not a Get Smart spinoff? Oh man, how great would a Get Smart spinoff of KAOS based on Greek mythology be? Siegfried and Troy!
There’s already a Siegfried!
Perfect.
That’s the second time this week.
NC has become Florida. Hot as shit during the day, while being oppressively humid, thunderstorms every afternoon, the nights are as humid as the days and almost as hot. Fuck summer, fuck climate change, and fuck NC Repubs for making this place a figurative as well as literal hell.
I like your style.
Annoyingly, you also just described Chicago during the summer, which totally isn’t fair since the winters are also hellish and spring is only like a week.
You are very, VERY lucky if UPS has been reliable for you
We had our 1st cross border failure in 8 years? Don T’s parcel made it to Poland, then Hungary and then delivered across the street I think and none of my neighboUrs will admit that they had it. 2 of them even sent me their ring camera videos. This one is on Canada Post.
Total bummer. Hopefully it will show up out of the blue and it’s just the tracking info that’s wrong
Our receiving department will stand with you in court.
There is even fuck all on illegal stream comp. Book it is I guess.
@Hippo-
Is there a spot open in keeper league?
Is that the same as the convoluted math league?
No, there’s another league. Math Hard League has a 16 page rulebook. The other league, you can only join if you have a lawyer on retainer.
Seems like if there’s a 16 page rule book, you should already have a lawyer on retainer