Preparing For The Footy Sunday

Look, we can has fixturez today.  Don’t worry.  But holy shitsnacks, does tomorrow’s slate look amazing.  First EVAR Merseyside Derby for Hill Dickinson Stadium, followed by City of Men hosting King’s Afrikan Water Pistols.  Don’t forget to tune in for this glorioUs footy double-dip.

Arsenal, of course, are getting all the bottle-based shade tossed their way.  But should they manage just a Draw?  Still absolutely in the catbird’s seat.  And I just still don’t see a Title winner in this City side.  Too erratic.

Our Gooner palz are still alive in Shempions, too.  They’ll slog through 180 (ok, probably 210) scoreless minutes with Atleti, for the right to get shitcanned by either PSG or Bear Team in Budapest.  But no way are they “resting” anyone in League play.

What Saturady lacks in quality, it makes up with quantity (fully FOUR windows), starting with Mighty Whitey away to local derby-frenemies Praise Beesus (7:30, USA).  Followed by a mid 10:00 window featuring Geordie Arabia/Bournemouth and Leeds/Wolves.  Leeds would basically clinch safety with a win, so there’s that.

But the quality picks up in the evening (local time), as Squeaky Bum Spurs host the Trashbirds (12:30, NBC).  That will be murderously tense.   Brighton are chasing Europe (and facing their old manager), so expect intensity from all parties.  Men Untied visit Chelski late (3:00, USA/Peacock), with only ONE senior centre-half available for selection.  Who doesn’t love some bloody-minded CHAOS?  Bet the over!

But Hippo. wut if ah ain’t care about teh footy?  First, it’s ok, just like how I don’t really care about Bettman-ized HAWKEY.  Second, fuck right off. 

Thirdly, here’s a random thought I had while in the car.  I tend to drive just like my general political disposition.  That is, centre left.  I am happiest when the highway goes 4 lanes, so I can be in the next-to-left.  I feel harried by the lunatic brigade if I stay in the farthest left lane too long, but when there are only 3 lanes, I can get annoyed in the dead centre.  And FUCK A DUCK, don’t get me started on the far right lane.  Which my ex-wife used to nag me about ALL THE TIME if/when I wasn’t actively passing someone.

She wasn’t a right-winger politically, though.  Just had these really weird risk-aversion-isms, here and there.  If anything, she’s just a bit to my left.  Maybe my theory is absolute bollocks?

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scotchnaut

I’m going to take a bath with Hilary Mantel. I’m guessing that she regrets the terms of that fundraiser but I’ll run the water to her preferred temperature because I’m a nice guy.

Horatio Cornblower

I doubt she’ll care much about the water temperature, what with having been dead the last 3+ years.

scotchnaut

No wonder it only cost $25!

SonOfSpam

Ok Chelsea continues to blow goats (the soccer team, not some rando girl named Chelsea, although there’s probably video of that somewhere, maybe someone else can search for it)

Mr. Ayo

Oh look. Another Seattle hockey team eliminated from the playoffs. RELEASE THE TORRENT!!!

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Mr. Ayo

My man, if you love thighs like me, this team is a gold mine. But I have no specific crush. Yet.

BC Dick

Ladies hockey is flush with thigh gold. I’ve got a crush on Sarah Nurse.

Mr. Ayo

Oh hey, she’s here with me right now

SonOfSpam

Well, at least they’re celebrating the Aanhpi people. Bout time.

Horatio Cornblower

Not much of a Brady Tkachuk fan, but unlike his twatwaffle of a brother, he does fight people his own size.

WCS

DC Defenders defend Audi Field in DC, notching another victory over the hated Street Louis Battlehawks, 28-22! DC moves to 3-1, Street Louis now 2-2. Both teams split the regular season series, 1-1.

¡Viva beer snake!

It’s not quite Stillers-Brownies, but it’s still one of the biggest rivalries in the UFL. DC avenges the season-opening loss to the Battlehawks in Street Louis. A fantastic start to a weekend full of playoff hawkey, UFL, based ball, and yinz soccer-ness.

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SonOfSpam

Is this like a Weaselo “Nocturnes” thing?

Horatio Cornblower

I think the Nocturnes draw bigger crowds.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ugh do I need to go to a Defenders game at some point? Will they even still exist next month?

WCS

You owe it yinzself to experience the beer snake in person. I’d have been to a few games meself, but, DC is four hours away.

Doktor Zymm

If we’re ever in town at the same time and there’s a game I’ll go with you so you’re not alone with the one other weirdo in the stands

Horatio Cornblower

Need Litre’s take on this first, then Trent Green’s

https://bsky.app/profile/hammancheez.bsky.social/post/3mjs6nrpuhc25

Gumbygirl

I’m going to test this theory on my Scottish SIL!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Be careful, they’re a contentious people.

Gumbygirl

Eh, I am so much meaner than she is!

yeah right

Eiffel tower and crepes tomorrow and I may do the whole bottle of champagne challenge to see if it’s any more dangerous than the whole bottle of cava challenge.

It may be but I’m here to do the sacrifice.

For love.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Word to the wise, they check at security for bottles of wine, so pick one up afterwards. I saw a few people ditch theirs in the bushes rather than have them confiscated at the mags. They do sell champagne upstairs, though.

herodotus450

Scotchy’s Sens are, rightfully, being punished as an organization by being forced to play extra hockey after the end of the season, like kids in detention. Not like some other, classy, teams that are giving their hard working players a break after a long season.

scotchnaut

You can’t put a price on GM Steve Yzerman showing his players how to use a 7 iron on their approach to the green. That’s a special kind of bonding experience.

Horatio Cornblower

There’s no bigger fan of the Ottawa Senators in the clubhouse than me right now, including Scotchnaut, and I don’t know, or care to know, any of the players on the team.

Just beat the fuck out the Vichy Whalers, my new favoUrite team.

scotchnaut

I respectfully disagree. You’re one of those Horatio-Come-Lately’s to Sens fandom. Where’s your Radek Bonk jersey?

Horatio Cornblower

/points to original post

Who?

BC Dick

Beans to that. Where’s your Melnyk sport coat?

scotchnaut

Are you thinking of The Coat of Too Many to Count Fuckups?

BC Dick

Yes I am. The coat is composed of 90% slime. The rest is bad decisions and contempt for the fan base.
Could be worse. If you’re a Vancouver fan like me you get 100% contempt, ineptitude, and the worst trades imaginable.

BC Dick

So the bar for being the biggest fan of the Sens is not knowing anything about them.
They have the dumber but probably less nutsacky Tkachuk brother. I think they traded Zdeno Chara and had a real prick of a Russian for a while. And a good Swede. Or maybe Swiss? Now I’m the biggest fan.

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Horatio Cornblower

Didn’t Daniel Alfredsson kill a guy?

BC Dick

Did he? I have to look that up now. Probably the most polite murder on record

BC Dick

Nah he didn’t kill anyone. He just didn’t save those kids in the sinking school bus. Which is his right

Horatio Cornblower

Someone on the Senators was in some horrible car accident. I’ll look it up (waves vaguely) later

scotchnaut

Oof! It was Danny Heatley when he was playing on the Thrashers. You’ve also accused Margie Atwood of allowing her husband to commit sexual abuse when it was actually Iris Murdoch.

I’d insist that you brush up on your Canuckian history before you cross our border this summer because Treehouse Beer Fog is real.

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Horatio Cornblower

It was actually Alice Munro.

Although now I gotta look up Iris Murdoch, just in case there’s some sort of epidemic up there amongst Canadian authoresses.

scotchnaut

I adore this reference.

scotchnaut

It was Mats Sundin and it was metaphorical. This what passes for high drama in Ontario hockey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfOZ93tlGV4

BC Dick

Oh Mats, I remember his cash-laden bloated corpse floating around the rink out this way. Almost as bad as he who will not be named, except with a wisp of effort at some points.

scotchnaut

Not sure about Alfie but Pelle Lindbergh definitely offed a dude.

litre_cola

If there ever was a meteor game, this is it.

SonOfSpam

As a marginal Villa supporter, I’m kinda rooting for United, which is nice because Cunha was clinical there.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

120 Minutes Playlist Project Update: Backfill is finished, so I’m moving on to 1993. And you can’t get much more early 90’s MTV than 10,000 Maniacs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9ncAkKSNM

Mr. Ayo

Does Palmer not have friends or do they all hate him enough to not tell him how terrible his haircut is?

Honestly, makes him almost more punchable than Garnacho. How does Chelski attract these assholes?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I thought it was pretty funny that Russini didn’t have a friend or two who was willing to lie for her and tell the Athletic that “yeah, I went on that hike, it was legit”. I saw a comment from an Eagles fan claming that “I got friends that I haven’t talked to in years that would’ve been claiming they were there and vice versa” and I believe them 100%. You’re just trying to help someone save their job, it’s not like you’re being called on to testify that Ray Lewis and you were watching Disney movies the whole night.

Horatio Cornblower

From what I understand there is a not insignificant number of people who are pretty happy to let Russini hang herself on this one.

Doktor Zymm

That’s kinda the point though, she’s far from the first person to fuck someone they aren’t supposed to, so either she’s awful or her friends are awful or quite possibly both. Also possible she gave up all her friends for marriage and work which would just be sad seeing as those didn’t turn out so well

Doktor Zymm

There’s an annoying habit that I’ve mostly seen in California where the really slow cars all drive one to the left of the far right lane instead of in the right lane where they belong! They do this even when it’s 3 lanes and the left lane is an HOV lane, so they are functionally driving 10 mph below the speed limit in the left, passing lane. And these same dipshits complain online about people passing them on the right.

WCS

Roanoke, East Virginia drivers have this wonderful habit of never, ever pulling up close to the vehicle in front of them at stoplights. I’m not exaggerating when a one could land a helicopter in the space between the vehicle at the red light and the next one back.
It’s not just me that noticed this. My ex-wife and parents both mentioned it separately whenever they experienced it, too.
I know I once missed a red light/green light cycle because of this, and likely more than once.

Senor Weaselo

Are they Uber drivers by any chance? I see cars with livery plates doing 40 on the Belt at like 12:30 in the morning

Mr. Ayo

Oregon drivers are notorious for this. One of those assholes called the cops on me for passing on the right when they were going BELOW the fucking speed limit in the left lane.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

How did you find this out? Did the cops actually contact you?

Mr. Ayo

Yes, they pulled me over and told me what happened. The funny part is since they didn’t witness it, they couldn’t actually ticket me for anything.

yeah right

Rule number one.

If you’re getting passed on the right?

You’re fucking up.

There is no rule number 2.

Doktor Zymm

THIS.

Although I would grant an exception if the person passing you on the right is doing so on the shoulder at 90 mph, but I’ve only seen that twice

WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mm7c7vGCGU

SAFETY DUNCE IN DC

DC Defenders sack Street Louis QB Harrison Frost in end zone for the two! It’s now 22-12 DC

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Fronkenshteen

That Simons goal just sent West Ham down.

Mr. Ayo

Not so fast. Spurs still got this.

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SonOfSpam

The Ham is alive!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Vengeful Ham” is the name of a nightmare that Andy Reid had one night.

/his nightmares are so cinematic that he gives them titles

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Not about ham (it was actually Mad Cow tainted beef) but about Andy’s dreams.

WCS

PLAYOFF HAWKEY IS BACK

This upcoming week will be one of the weeks of all time… Are any of yinz coming here for the player auctions?

scotchnaut

[rubs hands together excitedly] “I’ve dreamed of this day!”

-Jerry Richardson

Gumbygirl

I thought about it, but then I’d have to hang out with my family. Nope!

Mr. Ayo

Good day to be onsite.

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Senor Weaselo

Time to start pitching “Cannibal Holocaust: The Musical!”

blaxabbath

I agree the way the public behaves on the roads is similar to the public’s politics. But, at the end of the day, it’s just about how many ways you want to avoid saying, “stupid people”.

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Mr. Ayo

COYS?!?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Coyness is nice, but coyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’d like to.

litre_cola

Come on Brighton get your shit together

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

My cat is staring at me because she’s immensely dissatisfied with her breakfast and as I’m eating this tasteless bowl of oatmeal I can certainly sympathize with her frustration.

Gumbygirl

Henry did not enjoy his either. I’m fasting in solidarity.

2Pack

Napoli has gotta win today or I’m calling it. Inter will take it this year baring some unholy derp on their part.

I’m here for you Marika…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I should (get AI to) code a plugin that replaces any images of Marika with one of Bryon Noem.

2Pack

you animal

Horatio Cornblower

Funny, that’s what Byron says to his reflection in the mirror during “dress-up time”

2Pack

They lose so Champions league, yeah likely, but no Scudo this year. Inter is a couple games from clinching.

Horatio Cornblower

No excuse for how Arsenal played them last week, but watching Bournemouth against Newcastle I have to say, they seem

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yeah right

Great header pass!

Woo Cherries!

Horatio Cornblower

“50,000 Geordies in need of a lift”

To say nothing of a basic dental plan.

BC Dick

I don’t understand how a woman’s Newcastle accent sounds like summer birdsong in a meadow but like a mating elk from a man. Maybe that’s just in the tv shows I watch.

Horatio Cornblower

I should definitely click on this link for a tinnitus cure featuring Dr. Phil, right?

LemonJello

Is the cure beating Dr Phil against a large bell?

Horatio Cornblower

Well shit, now I have to click.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Don’t bother, it’s just audio of Phil droning on about something, which causes you to turn it off and think to yourself “you know, this tinnitus isn’t so bad. It certainly beats some of the alternatives.”

LemonJello

“LET’S FOOKIN’ GO, LEEDS!”

yeah right

Got Cherries Barcodes on my room TV.

IN François!

scotchnaut

Can’t believe this got by the community but Joy Harmon passed away on Tuesday. She could clean a windshield like nobody’s business.

joy
2Pack

bonners at half mast boys.

yeah right

Just crushed an outstanding double cheese burger and a couple of “bier blondes” while having the best people watching seats anywhere on Rue De Beaubourd in Le Marais.
Visited the Picasso museum today and for my money?

Fuck the Louvre. The Picasso museum was the SHIT.

Footy starts at a proper time here too being 7 hours in advance of DFO central time.

Cheers people. Wish you all were sitting right next to me as I hoist another one.

PARIS fucking RULES!

2Pack

Welcome to the time warp.

scotchnaut

Again.

Horatio Cornblower

it’s just a jump to the left.

yeah right

But honestly?

It’s the pelvic thrust.

Gumbygirl

That really drives them insane.

Horatio Cornblower

Let’s do this again.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah Right is the Andrew W.K. of traveling.

blaxabbath

I’ve always felt the only way to see Paris is by walking around.

yeah right

Got that shit covered surfer boy.

Fronkenshteen

what a save by Leno

Gatoraids

fuck em

-C. O’Brien

litre_cola

This will fucking ruin my weekend if they lose from this shit game.

litre_cola

Coffee and nic pouches just aren’t doing it for me this morning.

Fronkenshteen

Even the announcers are getting pissy with this match.

litre_cola

Well Fulham away to the Bees and Cavalry FC against scumbag Forge I demand 1 win.

litre_cola

Iwobi hurt. Garbage.

Don T

I’m not sure if Arsenal can win the mother of all trophies. Gotta do more research.
More research:
https://twitter.com/theretrovay/status/2044520432234336694?s=46

litre_cola

Oh I woke up at 5 am for this. Don’t make me regret this Marco!!!

Don T

Atleti is on fiyah! They play the Copa del Rey final today too, against Real Sociedad.
Btw,
Tired – Iran Lego propaganda vids
Wired – Cholo Simeone propaganda vids
https://twitter.com/goldegodin_/status/2044706904522330398?s=46

Horatio Cornblower

The tattoos by her shoulders each say “Hippo, my eyes are up there”

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