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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:

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Gumbygirl

I deciphered the hieroglyphics, and assembled that fucking cabinet that has been kicking my ass!

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Mr. Ayo

Nice. But that still won’t fit over your toilet.

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Gumbygirl

I gave up on that dream, alas! But this one fits next to the tub, barely.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Is anyone surprised that Gumbygirl has a blue towel?

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Brick Meathook

When I was a mere lad I learned to mow lawn with one of these. Powered motors were exotic.

https://ibb.co/0yLDsspr

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Bogdanski

https://youtu.be/pRoGEWj6ka4?si=KVQZWi2VjpBlWCyZ
Uvulas (look it up)

I can’t believe there’s apparently no video of this

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Brick Meathook

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.

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Gatoraids

BIG IF TRUE

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Brick Meathook

Very true. He was almost indicted by a grand jury in 1962.

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Mr. Ayo

MLB VAR? In this economy?

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Mr. Ayo

YES!!!! VAR works!

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Mr. Ayo

Walk off! Eat shit astericks!

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Just watched that replay. Heads up baserunning by the Big Dumper!

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2Pack

Yeah probably…

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WCS

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.

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2Pack

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.

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Horatio Cornblower

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)

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Gatoraids

hello my baby hello my darlllling, worked for a company that just stole that character and changed his color to be their logo

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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Mr. Ayo

Wait, you can hear me?

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Horatio Cornblower

Very high-pitched shriek you have there “sir”

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Mr. Ayo

I’ve been “removed” so you should be good now.

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rockingdog

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?!?!?

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Jimbo

..

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Horatio Cornblower

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”

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Gatoraids

plan is to ask AGI to hack the 4 trillion in crypto at this point thanks to the GENIOS bill

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Jimbo

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

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Horatio Cornblower

He’s born again in Jesus and completely delusional.

I take it he got the shit beat out of him again?

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Jimbo

I think he actually won but the judges called it a draw.

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Doktor Zymm

Apparently after a while you get to like it

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Horatio Cornblower

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WCS

I honestly thought he was older. And yeah, political shadiness abounds.

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Horatio Cornblower

Yeah, I would have guessed early 50’s.

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Bogdanski

And he wasn’t fighting Jake Paul?

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SonOfSpam

El Trafico always delivers (the over)…3-2 with about 10 minutes left. Fun game (on TV).

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Jimbo

Spanish for The Trafico, ppl forget that.

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WCS

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Horatio Cornblower

This was always my favorite of The Far Side hornets.

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Also, don’t be a dick and throw rocks at nests. Just leave them alone.

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Horatio Cornblower

(top left corner, obviously)

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SonOfSpam

He’s a genius. If he went Scott Adams I’d be really sad.

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Mr. Ayo

Ok, but explain the joke for the bottom one nerd.

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Horatio Cornblower

I would, but I haven’t been attacked by any eagles lately so it’d be way off topic.

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Doktor Zymm

I had that desk calendar!

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

I was given the complete collection, one of my fav comics

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Horatio Cornblower

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WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT4LF7wCTtA

#MurderDeathKill #MurderDeathKill #MurderDeathKill

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SonOfSpam

Elegant.

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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Gatoraids

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

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Horatio Cornblower

Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRO3K1kAlKQ

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WCS

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Gatoraids

love how the dog knows something stupid is incoming

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Jimbo

He’s an idiot, he could have injured or killed those dogs.

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Horatio Cornblower

The Far Side had some great hornet cartoons.

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2Pack

When you put things starting with U up there, I immediately thought of the U bahn… My memories of old Munich are very fond.

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ballsofsteelandfury

It wasn’t filler. I truly like it.

And your contributions!

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2Pack

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.

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Brick Meathook

You forgot U-Boats

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Doktor Zymm

In combination with the S-bahn it’s a great public transit system!

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2Pack

Those Germans do know how to get around.

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Jimbo

-Tell me about. France 1940.

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Horatio Cornblower

The secret is meth!

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Horatio Cornblower

I miss when belly chains were a thing.

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rockingdog

Found a funny:

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

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Gatoraids

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.

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Brick Meathook

https://ibb.co/N6SYYQj3

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rockingdog

Random idea

Stephen Colbert runs for public office, possibly president

That could be rocking

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WCS

Stewart/Colbert 2028

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Fronkenshteen

Why the fuck not?

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Brick Meathook

The Dodgers are wearing incredibly stupid-ass uniforms tonight. They are bad.

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SonOfSpam

Yeah those are bad. I know they gotta do the City Connect stupidity, but It can be done unhorribly.

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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yeah right

I was really disappointed at the accuracy in the penalty kicks.

Was really hoping to drop a Thomas Cribbs school of accuracy joke.

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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yeah right

Motherfucker surfs.

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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SonOfSpam

Goodell gets booed lustily once a year, but Altuve gets it 81 times a year.

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Horatio Cornblower

Cheating little fuck deserves every bit of it.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

– Andy Byron’s wife’s divorce lawyer, being told to “go for his balls”

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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WCS

“That dipshit lawyer down the street is being a dipshit again.”

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Horatio Cornblower

I’m gonna spam your 911 office with calls about white-faced hornet attacks.

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WCS

Not if you don’t know my phone number!

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Brick Meathook

It’s 9-1 . . . 2

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Mr. Ayo

Riding? lol, push or get out of the game old man.

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Horatio Cornblower

Can’t. I’ve got huge

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Brick Meathook

https://ibb.co/1tPgXfP4

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SonOfSpam

That sounds really painful.

Mowing your own lawn, geez.

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Horatio Cornblower

Thanks Trump!!

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SonOfSpam

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SonOfSpam

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.

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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SonOfSpam

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.

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Horatio Cornblower

Gotta help your dog, man.

/my kid gets attacked by hornets

Me: (from inside the house). RUN, STUPID!!!

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SonOfSpam

Beer in hand.

Lookit this little bastard!

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WCS

“Tonight. You.”

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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Horatio Cornblower

Pretty good example of a nest.

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SonOfSpam

Oh shit. Kill it with fire or what have you.

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Doktor Zymm

Seems like the sorta thing it’s better to learn on Wikipedia

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Horatio Cornblower

Well yeah, but then I can’t bring a hornet’s nest into my house.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

That was me running down the street last week.

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Brick Meathook

The Harbor Room, exterior:

https://ibb.co/ZRVZGqXp

Interior:

https://ibb.co/C3zxxWs8

Martini:

https://ibb.co/HD9ks9Nf

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Brick Meathook

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.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Did I show up late to that one and missed you?

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Brick Meathook

I think so. About five days later I returned and we all met at Mo’s in Playa.

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jjfozz

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.

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Horatio Cornblower

It’s even easier to just ignore her and everything she does. Makes life so much better.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

odell beckham jr was ignoring lena dunham before it was cool ppl forget that

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WCS

Seemed she she disappeared over a decade ago, and we were all we all better off for it.

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SonOfSpam

I hated how the ugliest chick on her show was always naked.

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Horatio Cornblower

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.

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WCS

I guarantee Lena is/was always #UpForWhatever

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Brick Meathook

Downtown Playa del Rey, my quiet* little beach front community

*quiet except for the gangbangers and drag racers.

https://ibb.co/mVks6HpZ

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Jimbo

At least its not dragbangers and gang racers.

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yeah right

And you’ve got the airport in the backyard thing.

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Brick Meathook

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.

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Brick Meathook

Just out of frame to the right is The Harbor Room, a DFO meetup spot of some renown.

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WCS

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.

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yeah right

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.

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ballsofsteelandfury

When you have to bring other people in order to make it fun, is it really fun?

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yeah right

With this crew?

It’s always fun.

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Doktor Zymm

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

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I find it to be nice background while I’m reading a book.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I think anything is more fun when you do it with a friend.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Including masturbation?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Sure, if it’s a female friend.

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

Note that we didn’t watch all the game and that’s the mostest basedball I will see this year

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yeah right

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.

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yeah right

Is that Linda Blair in the banner?

Had a raging…

I liked her when I was 14

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Samantha Fox, I thought.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Nope, Linda Blair!

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ballsofsteelandfury

Hat tip to 2Pack

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Brick Meathook

I like it when girl #1 twists her head around 180º

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yeah right

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.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It really is a special film.

Interesting timing because I just started watching KAOS on Netflix, which is also based on Greek mythology.

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yeah right

John Goodman was a perfect cyclops.

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Doktor Zymm

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!

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yeah right

There’s already a Siegfried!

Perfect.

That’s the second time this week.

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ArmedandHammered

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.

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yeah right

I like your style.

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Doktor Zymm

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.

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Doktor Zymm

You are very, VERY lucky if UPS has been reliable for you

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litre_cola

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.

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Doktor Zymm

Total bummer. Hopefully it will show up out of the blue and it’s just the tracking info that’s wrong

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yeah right

Our receiving department will stand with you in court.

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litre_cola

There is even fuck all on illegal stream comp. Book it is I guess.

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scotchnaut

@Hippo-

Is there a spot open in keeper league?

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

Is that the same as the convoluted math league?

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scotchnaut

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.

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

Seems like if there’s a 16 page rule book, you should already have a lawyer on retainer

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