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Guerillas in the Mist: Tuesday Open Thread

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

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All-Star Game.

Again.

Get hype.

NFL News:

-As far as I can tell, Brandon Aiyuk has not dropped any additional videos this week. That is completely unacceptable. The only taste of the Good Shit we’ve gotten this off-season has been the wideout rhapsodizing about how pathetic the 49ers are and how he’s going to sign with Washington 25 seconds after he’s released. I don’t want to read about yet another hedge-fund tech-dude buying a franchise for the equivalent of a small nation’s GDP*- I need the real human drama of a grown man shitting on a Joe Montana jersey and then using the jersey to wax a gigantic burgundy-and-gold pickup truck labeled Josh Harris 4 Pope while a techno remix of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary” plays in the background.

*No, seriously. Vinod Khosla, cofounder of Sun Microsystems and venture capital funder of societal scourges OpenAI and DoorDash, is paying $9.6 billion for the Seahawks. That price is greater than the reported GDP of more than 50 countries and independent territories. Nearly three times the GDP of World Cup darlings Cape Verde. That’s legitimately obscene.

-Viva España! THIS LA ROJA, I CALL THEM “THE SPANISH ULCER” BECAUSE THEY RUTHLESSLY SLAUGHTERED A BUNCH OF FRENCHMEN MANY CONSIDERED UNBEATABLE!

That’s right, bitches- Peninsular War humor. Get on my middle-aged-white-dad level.

 

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BC Dick

What’s the heat everyone is bitching about? Is it 110? In the shade.
People here complain if it’s not 35/95 for weeks on end. 110 is complainable.
Otherwise. Just buy granny an AC and get over it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9D_t-d7an70&ra=m

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Tengo sueño, voy a acostarme y hablaremos en inglés mañana…hasta Inglaterra perderá a Argentina.

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yeah right

One thing they finally corrected with the all star game is everyone wears their proper team uniforms.

Second year they did this since it used to be the norm in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

No more Team Abomination unis that they wore for decades.

Baby steps.

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Doktor Zymm

Very last minute upgrade again! It seems the person who had this seat preordered the cheese plate, and that is a-ok by me, love a good cheese plate. Cheeeeeeese!

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2Pack

I trust it came with some high quality crackers or designer bread rolls.

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blaxabbath

What do guys in the dugout talk about during the ASG?

Gambling, I assume.

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Gatoraids

ASMR Game?!

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Usualmente chocha

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yeah right

Crypto.

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BC Dick

Cocaine and pussy.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

In MLB it’s called beaver.

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BC Dick

Because of the wood bats?

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blaxabbath

I ain’t gonna pay all that money to go enjoy the All Star Game just to have to think about cancer.

It may make me want to consume less of the stadium carcinogens.

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Senor Weaselo

I did not have to stand up to cancer in 2008.

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blaxabbath

The thing i don’t think people understand with the billionaires is proprtionality. “The dude who wants to buy all the steel in the world doesn’t effect my price at the steel yard’” is nothing I ever hear. But you equate this with energy, water, etc and they just jam their heads back in the sand and call you a jerk.

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Fronkenshteen

Slow night, so I thought I’d just drop some relaxing background music. Herbie Hancock, this time as a quintet and, for my money, his funkiest lineup. Danish TV clips are like “Peel Sessions”; superior in every way, and this one is no exception. But if you’ve got shit to do around the house, just keep this open in a cleverly en-smallened window and let it run while you work. These guys cook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsZifvSVSI

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Fronkenshteen

Or perhaps take a listen to the work of this absolute HERO who expertly edited together all the guitar solos out of many of the recent Zappa live releases into single YouTube videos. They’re fantastic for people who love to hear him shred but think his sense of humoUr was awful and his lyrics were mostly just stupid. It’s like if Fugazi tried to be wacky. Anyway, here’s the solos from Zappa ’73 at The Roxy. Since it’s a nightclub, he brought a smallish group for the run. Hot shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYAr29-mKpA

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Fronkenshteen

Also, it’s fun to watch the bear in the banner image air drum to this video.

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yeah right

You work in some Stanley Clarke and we’ve got a session.

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BC Dick

Yup. Everyone wants the people they like to be smart and right. Sometimes they’re just good at stuff.
I like that Bobby brown song.

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Bogdanski

Damn, this is so good. What year is this from?

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Bogdanski

Nevermind, just did basic internet stuff and figured it out. I just didn’t want to switch tabs and have the music stop. Thanks for this

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Redshirt

…and Junior Caminero just broke his hand by being Hit by a Pitch. This is why there should be no All Star Game. You’re one bad pitch or step away from losing your best player in a meaningless game.

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blaxabbath

Dude’s an All-Star but can’t protect himself?

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Redshirt

I’m more curious why a pitcher is throwing a slider up and inside in an exhibition game. If I’m a Rays pitcher, I’m returning the favor the next time I face a Cardinals batter.

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Senor Weaselo

There can be only one devil magic?

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blaxabbath

Probably because the batter isn’t paying attention because he thinks this is some grabass pro bowl nonsense.

Is this still for world series advantage?

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Senor Weaselo

No. I think the winning team gets a bonus.

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BC Dick

Absolutely. I think maybe twice if you can fit it in.

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BC Dick

Fuck em. No one died. They can play a game and take the risks.
They could trip on a sewer grate and break all their fingers.

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Gumbygirl

Ugh, I just commented on the early thread. I didn’t have anything important to say, just bitching about the heat. I guess I’ll make myself something for dinner, I have to root around in SIL’s fridge. She rarely has anything good, but we shall see.

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blaxabbath

Smooth move, Exlax!!

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scotchnaut

Wifey Today: “Nephew is spending the day with me as I work from home.”

Me: [to myself] “Huh, that’s…odd.”

Me Again: [starts doing some math] “Hey, are SIL and BIL in a bit of trouble?”

Wifey: [silence]

Me Also: “Ok then.”

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Redshirt

If they are both your in-laws, I have questions. Not the stereotypical “West Virginia” questions, but legitimate questions.

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Don T

FRA 0 – 2 ESP was very compelling, plus the upset of the Mundial. I’m still happy about it. Imma go out for ice cream 🙂

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Debemos publicar comentarios solamente en español esta noche en honor del partido.

¡Disfruta tu helado de celebración!

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Don T

ACTUALIZADO:
Compré paletas de helado y pizza de pepperoni (Red Baron, microondas).
En serio, este timeline no es TAN malo 🤪

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Le mandé un mensaje de felicitaciones a un amigo español, y inmediatamente respondió “¡y encima ganar a Francia!”

Obviamente odia a Francia, como toda la gente allí.

Last edited 18 hours ago by BrettFavresColonoscopy
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blaxabbath

I translated an unsolicited letter to a Korean steel mill today. Printed it and put it with my English version. No idea how it went.

I take my role as a dipshit contractor seriously. I’m never gonna let anyone raise the bar on their expectations of me.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

En español, por favor

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BC Dick

Upset of the mundial? Didnt they beat them the last two times? This wasnt David v goliath in 1972

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Doktor Zymm

So the House just passed permanent DST. Ignoring for the moment the entertaining fact that they seem to think this somehow magically creates an extra hour of daylight in the winter, it’s a very depressing development should this actually come to pass. We’ve been over these arguments before, but it comes down to the fact that while lots of people would LIKE a bit of daylight later in the day during the winter, quite a few people NEED that daylight in the morning. People quite literally die without it, and I don’t see that making it a bit more pleasant to get drinks after work is worth that.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Also, what the fuck is the point of having time zones if the hours of the clock no longer have a direct relationship with the postion of the sun in the sky? Just switch everything to GMT.

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Doktor Zymm

It would make way more sense to shift around work hours on a seasonal basis or just allow people more flexibility to do what works for them, independent of the clock, but that’ll never happen for the same reason that so many workplaces are ditching remote work despite it having massive net benefits

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blaxabbath

What net benefits? Slackers slacking off and new people now integrating to the team/family?

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Doktor Zymm

It increased productivity, increased worker retention at lower salaries, allowed more parents to work, allowed companies to access talent pools they couldn’t previously, and had minimal impact on team collaboration. They’ve found that the only thing that correlates with back to office mandates is the narcissism of bosses, they want people to fawn over them in person.

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Redshirt

This!

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Senor Weaselo

Didn’t it pass in like the 30s, and they quickly realized it was a stupid-ass idea to do it year-round?

Actually that tracks for this Congress.

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Doktor Zymm

It was in the 1970s, a bunch of kids died getting to school in the dark plus everyone hated it so yeah, it got repealed pretty damn quick. But apparently every person in the House old enough to remember that is either suffering from dementia or has a better reason for not being able to remember the 1970s

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blaxabbath

It was their hey-day of raping pages?

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Doktor Zymm

Gross, but probably true

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BC Dick

Didnt a bunch of kids die going home in the dark without it? It’s dark all the time, why not remove the unnecessary change that causes heart attacks and car crashes. Or at least correlates to an increase in them.
Team no time change here. It’s a made up bullshit thing so let’s remove as many complications as possible.
If it’s so great, change working hours to match daylight.

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BC Dick

Making it nicer to get drinks is a straw man and you know it. Kids are already going to school in the dark.
I’d be fine with going to the other time with earlier daylight. But changing times has been proven to increase car accidents and heart attacks and all with no discernible benefit.

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ballsofsteelandfury

How am I the only one with a comment?

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WCS

Not anymore!

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

No comment

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Redshirt

Here’s a reply.

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ballsofsteelandfury

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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