Subsequent GTD reflections

Welcome back to the comment of the week feature post ramblings.  With it being the lead up to the Superb Owl, things were a bit quiet to start the week.  The Thursday open thread started with music and old stereos and then somehow moved into wine.  It’s a good read if you missed it. Balls stumped us again Friday night with the connections between his music videos. I’m have almost no music history or knowledge, so never going to be of any help there.  Saturday morning brought out all the footy folks and while there’s no footy to English option in Google Translate, non-footy fans can still follow along. And to stay on brand there was lots of chat about the NFL hall of fame inductees on Saturday night.  Oh and great work by BeerGuyRob and LowCommander with the full week of open thread hate. Those are always a good read.

For the game yesterday, there was over 1300 comments.  But I think that taking out all the ones taking shots at Andy Reid and his son, there would be, like, 200 comments.  And a big thanks for scotchy for his hard work all season with the game threads.  Time to hibernate and re-charge for next season.  And looks like there will be a bunch more “COVID” deaths in northern Ontario soon, with the lockdown expiring soon up there.

As a reminder, this post will cover comments made up to and through the Saturday Night Open Thread. Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post.

Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.

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So I guess Dustin Diamond was not “Saved By the Bell” after all.
Dunstan

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If DFO ever runs out of money to stay alive, I’m going to create Iron Maiden-style concert t-shirts and label them “RTD Worldwide Banging Tour”.
ballsofsteelandfury

“Two Minutes At Midnight”
“The Number of the Least”
“Asses High”
“Cum On Her Hills”

Iron Maiden’s songs are wonderful for this idea.
SonOfSpam

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Goddamn it’s good to have you back Beer Guy.

As one of the resident old folk I’ve got a couple of predictions. In a few months when we reach a certain comfort level, there’s going to be two equal opposite reactions. We’re going to have an open sexual revelation that’s going to be insane. Everybody is going to want to fuck.

On the exact opposite end we’re going to see the exact extent of the mental illness crises that’s been ravaging the world for the last year. It’s going to take another toll.

We do indeed live in interesting times.
yeah right

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Oh, men. MEN. (And women.) That was some intense shoveling.

So Madre Weaselo, who works in a hospital lab, has to go to work tomorrow. She normally parks in the driveway on snowdays for this reason. The other reason is because our street is on a fairly main road so the plows actually come by.

This means however she has to spend a bunch of time digging the plowed snow out of the driveway if there’s snow/plowing overnight. So Padre Weaselo and I took another pass at it before bed to lighten the load.

A shovel died a hero, but we managed to break that plow wall and make sure that it was actually wide enough to fit the car back into because all the piled snow had come back into the driveway area. And then I threw my good shovel into the new 3 foot pile of snow javelin style.

This, this is how they felt when city walls were sieged and scaled and destroyed.
Senor Weaselo

“Call Senor Plow, yes that’s my name, that name again is Senor Plow!”
Dunstan

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Time to spark some football conversation:

Cleveland should trade OBJ and Mayfield for Watson. If they want to be a better team, they need to get rid of the baggage that drags them down. OBJ can make some superman catches, so at least the they get a number 1 receiver and a QB that is will bridge them until they can draft a new QB.

Cleveland doesn’t need either of those guys to be successful and maybe even beat the spread one year against the Chiefs (but not win, because that would be a really dumb take).
TheRevanchist

The Steelers trade Ben to Cleveland who sends Mayfield to Houston who sends Watson to Pittsburgh.

I mean, Ben was the winningest active QB at Cleveland until this year.
ballsofsteelandfury

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h/t Brocky

Can we take this guy, and the LA assholes who shut down the mass vaccination site and toss them all in a biohazard chamber along with a selection of our finest pathogens?
Doktor Zymm

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Arsenal is shitting the bed so horrifically, this game is now the #1 watched program in Germany.
SonOfSpam

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Whoa, the first half of this had more Brett Favre in it than Deanna ever did.
BrettFavresColonoscopy

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The quintessential joke about the Trump era remains:

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party
Dunstan

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Know whoM I hate? Jon Gruden. I really really wanted Rich Gannon to win a Super Bowl. (After getting crushed by Siragusa some years back in the AFC Champ.)
All Chucky did was take Tony Dungy’s team, against his old team coached by Callahan, plus Barrett Robbins going AWOL.
His MNF stint killed all my goodwill foar Chucky.
Don T

“Son, you don’t know the HALF of ‘getting crushed by Siragusa.’”

— Kathy Siragusa
blaxabbath

“Lady, you don’t know a QUARTER of ‘getting crushed by Siragusa.’”

— a hoagie
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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The phrase “White Privilege” gets thrown around quite a bit but I don’t think it applies to me until the thin cracker I’m using as my creamy Brie conveyer stops splitting in half. There. I said it!
scotchnaut

Creamy Brie?

Go on…
Horatio Cornblower

I’ve grown quite fond of you all in the years here at DFO and at KSK, but with one command from her, I would kick you all in the testicles or female equivalent just for a slim chance to disappoint her in less than a minute.
Redshirt

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This may be the most Florida Man thing I’ve ever seen…
LemonJello

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Wife: “I don’t feel like messing up the kitchen. Will you order pizza and wings?”
Me, feigning disappointment: “Ok, I guess…”
SonOfSpam

SoS: (Externally)-Sigh- If I must…

SoS: (Internally)

Horatio Cornblower

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Here’s a very sexy ship snapping in two in a very sexy way on a very sexy sea.

Listen to the sexy Turkish captain call out “Mayday!” In a very sexy way:

Brick Meathook

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My Dry January, +4 because of course the first day of February was a Monday without football, ends tonight.

And dear sweet the lord baby jesus how I’ve missed you.
Horatio Cornblower

I haven’t seen someone fall off the wagon that hard since Make It Snow’s annual playthrough of Oregon Trail
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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Was just telling my wife the errand strategy for the day and she looked at me and asked “You are going to put on pants, right?” just in case you were wondering if I was nailing Saturday or not.
Horatio Cornblower

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5 Fixtures In Four Slots: The Sasha Grey Story
Horatio Cornblower

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h/t bk109

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Wow. Jared Allen is twelfth all-time for sacks. Led the league twice. Four time all pro. It’s easy to overlook the small market guys but that’s a no brainer resume.
Also: that nerd sure doesn’t understand the locker room. It’s amazing the disconnect between these stat jockeys and sorts, football especially. They don’t seem to understand that the game is played by violent enormous men and without a certain level of anger and hate the game cannot be played well or at all even.
BC Dick

“But he didn’t answer my question with a smile & a ‘thank you’.”
Beerguyrob

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Aaron Rodgers is your NFL MVP, in a vote that clearly doesn’t take family into account.
Horatio Cornblower

Peter King thought MVP stood for Most Valuable Parent and voted for Andy Reid.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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John Lynch is in.
WCS

“I can’t tell.”
–Mrs. Lynch last night
BrettFavresColonoscopy

“Gurrrrrl, tell me all about it.”
-D. Favre
SonOfSpam

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When Covid is subdued, I propose a double cross-country DFOcon. Start in CA, drive to the East coast in the US, head north to America’s Hat, then back west again through Canada.
Doktor Zymm

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Who can debate against Calvin Johnson? When you’re the best at your position for multiple years it shouldn’t matter if you had a shorter career. Boselli too. He was dominant but pro football is hard on a body so he got injured. Not that any of it matters.
BC Dick

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I had to delete the last post of this but this is two edit versions later so it’s completely different.

I shot this last night at 3:00 AM. It was actually a test but it came out almost pretty good (until the end) so I made a political manifesto out of it.

Running time 2 minutes 38 seconds

Brick Meathook

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By the way, I’m rooting for the Chiefs in this one solely based on the concern I have for UTree (and the entire population of Pittsburgh) spontaneously combusting or having their heads asplode at the sight of AB getting a ring
bk109

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Well lizard people, it’s snowing in Queens again. Fortunately it’s not two feet.
Senor Weaselo

We covered this at the seminar – we don’t advertise that we’re the ancient alien space lizard astronauts…. What’s next – you reveal to the upgraded monkeys that we’re treating this planet as a goddamn MMO version of The Sims?!
bk109

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You’re locked in a room with three people. One of them says “I’m a thought leader!” The second says “I’m a futurist!” The third says “I’m a contrarian!” You have a gun with just one bullet. What do you do?

Sure, you could try to get them to line up in a row and hope to kill all three with a single bullet, but good luck getting the “contrarian” to line up. My strategy would be: explain to the contrarian that conventional wisdom says that murder is wrong. He will then join you in beating the thought leader to death. The futurist will just stand there and smugly declare “I predicted this on my blog back in 2015,” until you’ve finished killing the thought leader and can then gang up on him. (He will die sputtering “called it!”) Then shoot the contrarian.

Yes, I’m having a weird morning.
Dunstan

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So I’m seeing that the Charmslinger won the Walter Payton Man of the Year award, which is pretty fucked up because isn’t he an android?
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

He’s definitely not an iOS device.
montythisseemsstrangetome

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I’m probably gonna eat wings. Have you guys ever had wings while watching football? There’s this thing that people do where they watch football and eat wings. You should try it. I’m glad to be opening your minds to to new concepts like eating wings and watching football. You’re welcome.

Also beer.
montythisseemsstrangetome

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Thanks for all the comments and funny and everything else.

Stay busy and safe out there.

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