Your Tuesday Temptation Island Talk Open Thread

You can tell that 2021 is already a better year than 2020 because TEMPTATION ISLAND is back!!! Yes, it's true that we can have nice things even though we masturbate. Back again as host is the dreamy Mark L. Walberg. That blue shirt matches his eyes. Perfect. The first episode is

Subsequent GTD reflections

Welcome back to the comment of the week feature post ramblings. Hope you all are keeping warm and starting to shovel out, lots of cold and snows out there recently.  For all those that wanted to move upstairs to Canada, welcome to your new weather. For the rest, it will

AFL Beat 2021 AFLW Week 3

This week, The AFLW is wearing more Indigenous guernseys! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! So, remember when I said last week that we are starting to see which teams are good and which ones aren't? Well, we had a few upsets this week that showed there may be more contenders than

Hue Jackson’s Hall of Fame Scammers: Lou Blonger

Welcome back to another exclusive sneak preview of the Hue Jackson School of Scam Artistry! With football now having wrapped up for the next few months, I've now got myself a little more time to devote myself to scamming those most deserving of it. That's surely not you - after all,

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

AFL Beat 2021 AFLW Week 2

This week, The AFLW has pride! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We are starting to see which teams are good and which ones aren't. Sharp-eyed readers will note that we got some different games from what was on the revised schedule. As you remember, the Giants and Crows had to fly

Hue Jackson’s Hall of Fame Scammers: Victor Lustig

Welcome back to another exclusive sneak preview of the Hue Jackson School of Scam Artistry! We're just days away from the Super Bowl. I've made a killing selling counterfeit merchandise - apparently the Ravens didn't like hearing about that in my interview a couple weeks ago. Greg Roman better watch his

Subsequent GTD reflections

Welcome to another comment of the week post and ramblings by yours truly.  This week I learnt about cigars and some new shows to watch.  There were some long discussions on various things this week that were both informative and fun.  Good to see. As I mentioned in yesterdays thread it

AFL Beat 2021 AFLW Week 1

This week, The AFLW season got started! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We had some upsets, some not-so-upsets, and a lot of bone-crushing action. Let's get right to it! *** Week 1 Recaps Carlton Blues 27 - 33 Collingwood Magpies The Pies got off to a hot start in the first half only for

Hue Jackson’s Hall of Fame Scammers: Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy

Welcome back to another exclusive sneak preview of the Hue Jackson School of Scam Artistry! You know who doesn't get enough credit for scamming? Tom Brady. The man's a legend. A sixth-round pick, fluking his way into ten Super Bowl appearances and a supermodel wife? All by not eating strawberries or

The D of S, Vol II: Epilogue

Senor Weaselo stands at the edge of the Purgatory's peak, the edge of the Earthly Paradise. Yes, Glasgow Fog in hand. His duty complete, his charge handed over to the holy light of Beatrice, there is nothing left to do but watch the ascension. From afar of course. Getting caught

Subsequent GTD reflections

So, good news and bad news.  First is that we're still going to have a weekly recap of the bestestestest comments by you fine folk.  The bad news is that the new authoUr of this series is GTD and his warped sense of, well, everything will be pickering the comments.