Your “Maybe Just A Little Sexy” Friday Evening Open Thread

We're gonna get through this quickly, class, because I don't have much to talk about this week. OK, ok...settle down, class.  Hmmm....let's see... Southwest Airlines still sucks.  Check. St. Louis' Lambert International Airport is still a shithole and should be razed from the planet.  Check. And California still has legal weed (I should know,

AFL Beat: 2018 Round 18

This week, Welcome to Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat! *** Round 18 Recaps and Highlights The Round began on Australian Friday Night (North American late Thursday/ early Friday) with the Richmond Tigers taking on the St. Kilda Saints. Was I going to wake up early to watch this one? Only the fourth quarter and

AFL Beat 2018 Round 17

This week, Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! *** Round 17 Recaps and Highlights The Round started off with my Geelong Cats visiting the Adelaide Crows after upsetting the Sydney Swans in Sydney.  Did the Cats have two road upsets in a row in them? Unfortunately not.  They did well to stage a nice

Your “Paraskevidekatriaphobia” Friday Evening Open Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDt42Vs-teI I don't believe in luck, good or bad.  I do believe in chance and random occurrences, however.  I also believe that our actions, or in some cases our REactions, will determine, or at least influence, certain outcomes.  Life happens. Example #1 (bad): When I was a kid, a friend of mine's brother

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 16

This week, Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 16 Highlights The Round started off with my Geelong Cats traveling to Sydney to take on the Swans. I woke up early for this one as there were no World Cup games on and I had to go to work. Luckily,  the Swans have

Friday Open – The King is Dead, Long Live The King

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is Balls. tWBS is... out.  So,  i'm taking over tonight's Sexy Friday thread and ... I've got some bad news . . . . . . This is your last Sexy Friday. For some of you, that's not a problem.  Truth be told,  Sexy Friday had gotten to be a pain for tWBS to write

“It’s going to be an odd week” Monday evening open thread.

Hey folks! Happy Monday evening! This has potential to be a really strange week. I'm working Monday and Tuesday, off on Wednesday for the 4th then working Thursday and Friday. Who the fuck schedules a holiday in the middle of the week? Work will be slow, I think, since the folks who had the

AFL Beat 2018 Round 15

This week, we are going to do an abbreviated run-through because it's World Cup and things are getting very interesting in Russia. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 15 Highlights Let’s take a look at the ladder, shall we? P TEAM W L T POINTS % 1 Richmond Tigers 11 3 0 44 135.3 2 Collingwood Magpies 10 4 0 40 121.9 3 West Coast Eagles 10 4 0 40 121.0 4 Sydney Swans 10 4 0 40 120.8 5 Port Adelaide Power 10 4 0 40 115.0 6 GWS Giants 8 5 1 34 113.7 7 Melbourne Demons 8 6 0 32 124.4 8 Geelong Cats 8 6 0 32 123.2 9 North Melbourne Kangaroos 8 6 0 32 113.4 10 Hawthorn

I’m surrounded by Lakers fans: Saturday Evening Open Thread.

  banner image courtesy of.   Happy Saturday everyone! Hope it's been a good day for everyone and you were as productive/lazy/shit-all drunk as you hoped to be. I know this is a loung weekend for our Canadian friends which also explains why I am filling in for your regular host Absinthe-Fellow-Rigoberto. Does anyone know why