Author: Don T

Losing the Anxiety – Monday Open Thread

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We’re halfway through the preseason. Not really; that’s a soothing miscalculation because there’s two more preseason games. But I can lie to myself like that noooo problem. And yet it’s true: the season will get here soon, and the games are fine as a nothing better to do. Not enough to

Your 🎶Football Football Foooooot-uh Baaaaaalllll🎶 Open Thread

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You know, in this pandemic… NEWS  By which I mean, NFL News dammit—it’s August already wooo!! O, unrelenting march of time: blessed be your proportional dispensation of both the terrible and tolerable. Indianapolis QB Carson Wentz will have foot surgery, will be out 5 to 12 weeks per head coach Frank Reich. Let’s turn

European Euros 2020 (In 2021!) Roundup and Last Group Games Thread

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Two weeks of daily European Euro action end today, to the delight of work productivity enthusiasts and other Dementor-types. My answer is holding accountable every employer who has spent the last year scheduling mandatory talks on mindfulness and workers' emotional state. Take frequent breaks, they say--how about a single, two-hour

Better Than You, Swarthie: Argentina Preview – Copa América 2020 (In 2021!)

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Some Hispanic folks will try to out-white anyone by pointing to European lineage, paleness, or micropenis. The President of Argentina volunteered anecdotal evidence. Last Wednesday, el presidente Alberto Fernández received a state visit, in Buenos Aires, from the Prime Minister of Spain. Fernández was getting  smarmy with a colleague from la

Luv Ya

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tWBS died a year ago. It’s still shocking because tWBS was so alive—combative, emphatic, warm... He could take any Russian in a freezer vodka contest, an evening equally likely to end in a hugfest or duking it out with strangers. He was a personable devil and a great friend. tWBS

Ted Talk: 17-Game NFL Regular Season

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While taking a diversity webinar unmuted (Ed.’s Note: WHY?! ffs…), DFO was coerced into broadening its serial killer voices beyond Northern Ontario. Theodore J. Kaczynski killed three and injured 23, and is currently serving eight life sentences at the— Ted Kaczynski: Is it necessary to list my achievements? My ideas

“Is the World Off?” Saturday Open Thread

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We end a week dominated by Gamestop and stonks, and my guess is there’s no trading on Saturdays because NOTHING is happening. I dunno, ??Personal Musings Alert?? when it comes to money, I’m neither a gambler nor speculator. Working for a living is fine enough for me, and there is nothing sweeter

Your “No Disrespect Dammit!” Thursday Open Thread

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[Banner via Mar-a-Lago live feed] Next Sunday is Championship Sunday, the best sports day of the year, I think. But with its high highs comes the Wile E. Coyote plummet. Come next Monday, it’s the Superb Owl and then The Emptiness of Life* until August, interrupted by signings and the Draft.

Your “This Ain’t Over Yet” Pre-Wild Card Thursday Open Thread

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Self-righteous crap and crying: what a way to start 2021. Never underestimate media and charisma. Yeah, charisma; folks in leadership positions do acquire it, even despite personality. Also, overexposure turns the mind into mush. So when a powerful figure speaks, the minions do not require a direct message to stoke irrational

2020 Quotables – Week 11 (Results)

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¡Hola! This is Don T, long time Quotables lurker, first time Winners poster. Enough formalities: This “lurking” thing… I don’t like it. In this suffocating hellscape we call Real Life, a “lurker” is somewhere in the Voyeur to Psycho spectrum. The stalker vibe clings to a lurker like incompetent quarterbacking to