Your Scattered Thursday Night Open Thread

First things first. The verdict for a certain driver that went down for the count in Wawa is in. He’s on the PUP list with a blown ACL. (they happen outside of sports?) One fun thing (in retrospect) to do is figuring out the logistics angle when something like this happens. There are 7 delivery runs, 3 guys that can drive a transport, (because another fella is on holiday) 1 guy that can drive a 5 ton straight truck and some warehouse dudes that can drive three ton vehicles. It’s a delightful dance of mixing and matching, gentle coercion, low-key favors and hair-pulling. (but not that kind, Balls)

Hey, the Olympics are almost here and some sports stats site has predicted that Canada will win all of 22 medals! I have to take the way over on that one. [puts finger to earpiece] “What’s that? They won 24 the last time around? Oof!” Ok, we’re just not that good on that stage. But here are a few folks that could add to the tally.

Summer McIntosh:

She sounds like an early-blooming apple but she’s a kickass swimmer that is favored to win gold in two events as she is the world champeen in the 100 Butterfly and the 400 Medley.

Andre DeGrasse:

Remember when he blew everyone’s mind back in 2016 as a kid that came out of nowhere to place in the 100, 200 and 4X100? And then he did it again in Tokyo. Here’s hoping he can rise to the occasion once more. He seems to have that ‘clutch’ gene.

Ethan Katzberg:

He’s a Hammer Throw guy that is the current world champion and owns the longest throw since 2008.

Nepotism Takes a Beating:

The Bronny James-owner of a 26.2 field goal percentage-scored all of 12 points last night! If you watched it you’re a part of his eventual redemption arc that will be made out of whole cloth by everyone in your socials.

He Woke Up From A Dream For The Last Time:

Bobby Newhart passed away. And Yet Mel Brooks Still Lives! (I don’t think I’m doing this correctly) You want deadpan comedy? He was your guy from the 60’s onwards.

The Most Constricting Ring Ever:

The Bengals have gladly welcomed Tim Krumrie into their Ring of Honor and perhaps thought it would be a bad look if their all-time rusher wasn’t included as well. So welcome, Corey Dillon-your plaque and ham and cheese sandwich wait for you at the back entrance of the stadium when the ceremony ends. I was a huge fan-much like King Henry, he was a power back that if given a bit of space at the second level could outrun any linebacker. Of course he ate up cornerbacks that tried to tackle him.

Enjoy the evening.

 

 

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Anytime we have future technical issues at DFO we can always remember that time the CrowdStrike bug hit and we were unaffected.

2Pack

Yeah… we are made of much tougher stuff!

2Pack

we should be flying shit.

2Pack

and holding all the peoples money for them…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Did somebody call for a flying turd?” – Mitch Trubisky, cranking up to heave the ball downfield

Game Time Decision

we’ve been lucky with the WP plug-ins as well, as we haven’t had any that were affected and needed to be removed. Good Jorb internet dad ( not that he will see this)

WCS

As some of yinz may know, there’s a global interwebz outage due to Powerstroke (huh huh heh heh) blowing up their own servers. If you don’t know, you will soon enough.

Anyway, it shut down our internet at the 9-1-1 PSAP. In reality, all this did was prevent me from screwing around on here in between calls.

Good luck flying anywhere on this blue and green rock today, though.

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk/index.html

WCS

crowdstrike, powerstroke, whatever

LemonJello

And here I thought “crowd strike” was a USAF phrase for when one of their MQ-9 Reapers put a Hellfire through a schoolbus.

WCS

birthday party

LemonJello

outdoor wedding

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

food bank

DJ TAJ

What would you do if your dead mother walked in on you while you were masturbating?

Unsurprised

I saw a TikTok of Hank Azaria trying to make a Beefeater smile by doing Simpsons voices. You and I and he know damn well the only one that guard wanted to hear was Apu.

rockingdog

Looks like The NY Times finally Woke The F*ck Up!!!!

Now they just need to do different versions of this 6 times a day for the next 3 months and the coverage will be “even.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/18/opinion/trump-presidency-record.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U0.8EYc.qe6hp7l3duxA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSha

Unsurprised

Doesn’t matter. He’s a lock.

Redshirt

The ballons are just like Trump, round and bloated.

WCS

They also kill a lot of birds. Or, was that windmills?

Hey, whatever happened to that Ben Gazzi guy? Did Congress ever catch him for stealing Hillary’s emails or whatever? Did Trump mention that during his speech? He was REALLY into that eight years ago, and it seems like I’d have heard something about it since then.

Redshirt

I’m sorry to interrupt but how can JD Vance call himself an Ohio State graduate and FUCK UP THE OH-IO CHANT!

Its a Call and Response Chant! You go “O-H” or “I-O”. You don’t spell the whole state name, you fake ass poser!

SonOfSpam

He’s too stupid to do the stupid chant? That’s quite stupid.

Senor Weaselo

HOW? HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP?

Dunstan

Look, he’s just a hillbilly from … uh, Middletown?

Redshirt

Yes, Middletown. From the desolate, remote forgotten…checks map…suburb of Cincinnati and Dayton.

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WCS

You went to high school with JD, didn’t you? That’s your secret shame.

Redshirt

Not quite. Wrong side of town.

Dunstan

Look, hillbillies can be anywhere. I once heard about some in Beverly. Hills, that is!

Doktor Zymm

And not even quite Appalachia, such a clownfraud

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rockingdog

Found a funny:

[first day as an astronaut]

COMMANDER: we are about to enter zero gravity

ME: ooh i can’t “weight” lol

COMMANDER: lol

THE REST OF THE CREW: lol

MISSION CONTROL: lol

Gumbygirl

Is it weird that I want this? Neigh, it is awesome!

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SonOfSpam

I mounted my steed
And farted and peed
When he calmed down a bit
I dropped a nice shit

Gumbygirl

I’m nominating you for a Pulitzer.

ballsofsteelandfury

A Poolitzer

Redshirt

SPOILERS:

(morning)

“Well, I think I’ll watch the 5th episode of the last season of Cobra Kai. I’m sure it will get my mind off my father who is slowly dying.”

(10 minutes later)

(crying) “I should’ve went to work early, damn it!”

rockingdog

He was Rockinggggg!

Gumbygirl

He really was awesome! 94 is a helluva run, but he lost his wife last year. I’m sure he was ready.

Redshirt

Trump is more subdued. Trump is more introspective. But Trump is still Trump.

Doktor Zymm

Apparently the Never Trumpers are having an anti-convention at a brewery that sounds way more fun than the actual con

WCS

Punching myself in the groin all week sounds way more fun than the actual con.

Doktor Zymm

True, it is quite a low bar

Senor Weaselo

So, what have I missed at FascistCon? Don’t answer that.

SonOfSpam

Grindr servers crashing

WCS

Vance looks like the only one happy to be there.

DJ TAJ

He has a Trump boner.

litre_cola

So since Billy Graham cam on after Hulkamania we have the say your prayers covered. Who is going to get everyone to take their vitamins?

WCS

I’m sure Alex Jones has a large cache of “supplements” for sale.

Brick Meathook

Drove past the LA Clippers new arena today in Inglewood, the “Intuit Dome,” across the street from SoFi Stadium. I still don’t know what the fuck “SoFi” is.

Inglewood still bills itself as “The City of Champions” which is funny now that it’s the home of the Clippers and Chargers.

https://ibb.co/17jNX87

Doktor Zymm

I think it stands for SomethingFinancial

Brick Meathook

I thought it was SomethingFiction

SonOfSpam

SogoddamnFishy

litre_cola

Inuit dome is the Catholic church in Iqaluit. Not a joke.

Gumbygirl

Did they tear down the Forum?

SonOfSpam

No the Forum is still there hosting bands like The Cure maybe

litre_cola
DJ TAJ

Worst live band I have ever seen and I’ve seen a few shows having worked in the business all those years and all. Sometimes the truth has teeth

Unsurprised

I keep confusing SoFi, which is just a bank founded by Silicon Valley dickheads to Soft Bank, which is the one owned by the Saudis. I’d rather bank with the Saudis.

2Pack

Ciao Tutti

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WCS

Does Billy Simms count towards great players trapped on shit teams?

WCS

Fucking overdoses… KNOW YOUR LIMITS, CHEESEDICKS.

herodotus450

3 YEARS to make a second season of a tv show, Severance. These damn zoomers need to stop being so LAZY

SonOfSpam

They made a show about JPP’s fingers???

blaxabbath

I will take it to the nursery but thought some of you tree vets may have a call here.

Got about this year old lemon tree. It’s got a shoot (well, this is the question) popping out. The color photo it really blends with the stake so I colored it on the other image.

Last image shows with the shoot being pulled to the side. It’s like the tallest part of the tree now.

Should this be cut off or is this how these bitches all grow?

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herodotus450

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SonOfSpam

Alls I know is lemons are like 39 cents at the store

ballsofsteelandfury

I have a lemon tree in my backyard and it grows in weird directions. However, as long as you keep it pruned normally, you’ll get fruit.

litre_cola

Let er go the first couple of years to settle.

Then sell lemons to the Simpsons.

Dunstan

What do you think this is, Shelbyville?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Not sure if you’ll see this but usually fruit trees are grafted onto better root systems, so a shoot like that is from the original root system and is likely to be useless to you from a fruit-growin’ perspective.

WCS

Sorry to say, yinz are stuck with me again.

2Pack

I wish you a slow night of cheerful commenting.

Dunstan

Anybody done any tv shopping lately? My existing one is a little old and doesn’t support most streaming apps, so I’ve been thinking of replacing it. I’m not terribly fussy about having something super high quality, and would like to cheap out and stay under $500 — is there anything to look out for? Looking for something in the 50-55 inch range. (Deanna F. faints)

Doktor Zymm

Talk to me when you’re projector shopping, I highly prefer them

herodotus450

Try an RCA or a GE, I hear they’re great.

SonOfSpam

Sorny

litre_cola

Magnetbox

blaxabbath

Brick gonna be like SAMSUNG FRAME!

Brick Meathook
SonOfSpam

Avoid TCL.

Vizio, LG have been fine for me. No reason to go more than a few hundred. They all have wireless now and pretty much any app you need.

Depending how far away you sit from the TV, you may wanna get a soundbar for movie-quality (ish) sound, but I haven’t cared enough to do that.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s interesting you say to avoid TCL. The TCLs we have all work great. I have a Westinghouse that constantly loses WiFi connection and a Sharp that also has problems staying connected to Wi-Fi.

SonOfSpam

Yeah, I got very angry at my TCL, so I hate them.

Super scientific.

All good so far with Vizio, 3 TVs total over the years.

Game Time Decision

I’ve got a TCL from Costco but have turned off all the smart stuff on it and use a nvidia streaming thing for the smart stuff and for better sound
No issues with it

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SonOfSpam

Well sure, they work great in Canadia.

Game Time Decision

I guess they need to be kept cold to work, shrugs

WCS

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herodotus450

“Well now this truely is, a Krumie Ring of Honor.”
And truer words were never spoken about the Bungles

blaxabbath

We did some hulu bitching earlier. Just letting your all know I am watching The Terminator for FREE on the Kanopy app. I got it through my Las Vegas library subscription.

It’s way better than watching the RNC — PLUS the opening scene depicting life in 2028 looks fairly palatable next to the foreign-funded lunatic agenda for the nation,

Brick Meathook

I turned on the Republican convention on TV and I swear I only lasted about 4 seconds as some dude (looks like Billy Graham Jr) started to pray.

blaxabbath

That’s Kari Lake.

SonOfSpam

Is it true that as a local newsskank she was friendly to visiting athletes?

blaxabbath

I’ve never heard that. I mean, these people are absolute freaks but, best I understand, she’s always been a bit more of a self-indulgent bitch whose mouth and opinion run faster than her sense of logic and — now this will surprise you — tact.

SonOfSpam

“Fuck, that’s impressive!”

-R. Pitino

Redshirt

Hulk Hogan is up. Maybe it’s a good thing Kamala isn’t the candidate, yet.

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Doktor Zymm

The Hulk is running for president?

Redshirt

Oh, God. I’ll take Hogan over all of the rest. We can throw in Undertaker as VP and Paul Heyman as Press Security.

SonOfSpam

I prefer Freddie Blassy due to his stance on pencil-neck geeks.

litre_cola

This is just superb work.

SonOfSpam

At this point, nothing is impossible.

He already has Bubba The Love Sponge’s endorsement.

Brick Meathook

JD Vance has those weirdo mascara eyes. I don’t trust him, he’s guilty of something.

Plus, he’s “anti-pornography.” Just like the most vocally homophobic guys are usually highly closeted homosexuals, the most vocally anti-pornography guys are usually great connoisseurs of porn and hookers. It’s the Jimmy Swaggart Rule.

https://ibb.co/d2SW58Z

SonOfSpam

Man, if ever there was a guy who didn’t deserve a cool-ass last name…

Redshirt

Yeah, the man that single-handedly won Bengals games in the late 1990s to early 2000s and broke the NFL record pretty much in the 2nd half against the best rushing defense in the league and knowing every play would be a run, was passed by the fans multiple times. True, we had a backlog but he should’ve been in the 2nd year. Fans just forgot how good he was. If he was on a good team, he’d have multiple rings and be in the Hall of Fame.

Just watch the 2nd half and tell me that not Madden on Rookie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGUJ7zz7Q30&pp=ygUUMjAwMCBiZW5nYWxzIGJyb25jb3M%3D

Doktor Zymm

I really think there should be a whole separate Hall of Fame dedicated to great players stuck on crap teams their whole career

Redshirt

I’m a huge Bengals fan but even I would question dedicating an entire wing to Bengals players.

WCS

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//Stone Cold Steve Austin’s music begins blaring

ballsofsteelandfury

You could have a wing of Bengals and Bills players

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Call it a Wang Wing?

ballsofsteelandfury

Paging Horatio!

Here’s next Monday’s Mock Draft post

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The only real question is whether Barry Sanders or Calvin Johnson goes as #1 overall.

Redshirt

Sanders. He not only had the Rushing Record but the chance and ability to put it out of reach of being broken but walked away because he was tired of being a Lion.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Gale Sayers would like a word.

Sanders still wins, but Sayers and Butkus are in the conversation.

Gumbygirl

Marino. I know he’s a douche, but come on man!

litre_cola

“I would like to argue, I am the greatest.” – T. Owens

BrettFavresColonoscopy

He at least made it to an Owl. Sayers and Sanders never even saw the playoffs!

blaxabbath

They do.

In the Wealth Hall of Fame.

Unsurprised

The Lions would have their own wing

SonOfSpam

Corey Dillon was a fantastic back.

More underrated than Akili Smith.

Sharkbait

I was stoked when the Pats snagged him in 2004.

Redshirt

JD Vance wrote Hillbilly Elegy? He’s from Middletown, OH, that is suburban at best. From a geographical perspective, I’m more of a hillbilly than Good Ol’ JD will ever profess to be!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

May you both have equal time as Vice President.

Senor Weaselo

Disagree. May Redshirt have equal or greater time as Vice President.

WCS

$100 says if he was in high school in 1998, he’d be the type with low-riding FUBU jeans, frosted hair tips, and claiming he’s from “the hood.”

Redshirt

Vance: “Yeah, I’m wearing my gang colors in public but I’m not afraid.”

McDonald’s Employee: “Sir, that is a Marching Band uniform.”

Vance: “Yeah, so what?”

McDonald’s Employee: “It’s April.”

Doktor Zymm

He’s 38, so he probably was in high school in ’98

Doktor Zymm

He also wasn’t poor, so the whole ‘rural poor’ thing isn’t even half correct. He did have a shitty family life, but I assume the same is true of lots of people who go to Yale

blaxabbath

…and were diddled by the previous generation of pius conservative leaders.

Oh wait — surely Vance made it through the Midwest Touching Gauntlet that was ran by generations of molesters and their apologists without ever himself having been sexually victimized by an elder in the structure. It was all the other victims who were the ones ACTUALLY victimized.

Gumbygirl

Gumby and I are up in Big Bear for the night. One of our friends from Birmingham came out to visit, in July, for Chrissakes, so we thought we’d bring him up here where it isn’t so miserably hot. He drove down to the Salton Sea yesterday, he’s a maniac like Taj! Poor Gumby barfed the whole way up here, he gets horrible motion sickness. But he’s had his morphine, so he’s feeling prettay damn good now.

ArmedandHammered

If you mean Birmingham Alabama, they might be thinking heat which dries you out – what a novel concept.

Doktor Zymm

Does the Salton Sea smell as bad as I hear?

Brick Meathook

It smells worse. Buts it’s creepy cool.

WCS

Does “ennui” have an odor?

SonOfSpam

Is that French for meth?

Gumbygirl

He said it wasn’t horrible, but remember- he’s from Alabama. Bless his heart.

Doktor Zymm

It’s actually pretty common to blow out an ACL outside of sports, although other knee injuries are even more common

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ballsofsteelandfury

When you said, “The most constricting ring ever”, I immediately flashed back to a bad experience with a cock ring…

BrettFavresColonoscopy

There are no bad experiences, just lessons learned.

/Checks medical chart

I stand corrected

ArmedandHammered

probably was not that great for the chicken either.

SonOfSpam

You’re not supposed to chew it off the other guy.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Then why was the lube edible?!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

My television viewing for this evening will consist of watching a bunch of angry, screaming, illiterate, brutishly violent monsters attempt to take over a nation and of course I’m talking about the Warcraft movie.

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Game Time Decision

We are watching better call saul

Dunstan

I’m watching Newhart. Which actually, I was already doing last week

blaxabbath

High T male right there.

Give him a vote!