A Thursday Afternoon Carpenter Existential Experience!

WCS - February 15, 2024February 15, 2024

Greetings, hola, guten tag, ni how, and yadda yadda. I swear the month of February exists only to mess with people's sense of time, space, and perception. 2024 is already six weeks old, we never really had winter in Yinzburgh, and I can't tell if the days are getting longer (sort

Your “Happy Groundhog Day” Thursday Night Open Thread

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BrettFavresColonoscopy - February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

Banner photo credit: some random pinterest page Did you know that there's a Meteorologist Hall of Fame? I hope not, because if you were aware of that, I could probably extrapolate a lot about your life, none of it good. Regardless, the latest and purportedly last inductee is none other than

Mittwoch Holiday Week What The Crap Else Are You Doing This Week Thread

WCS - December 28, 2022December 28, 2022

Welcome reprobates, degenerates, and occasional nice people. It's that weird middle-of-the-week day in between Christmas and New Year's, and this year it happens to ba Wednesday for Peak Weirdness. Kids don't have school, and most people I know who have actual job-type-job take this week off, too. Where does that

Your “What’s He Doing There?” Monday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - July 12, 2021July 12, 2021

NFL Nuggets: Putting rumours to rest, Washington says their eventual name will not be "Warriors". In a message to fans, the team president Jason Wright was pretty blunt: The franchise will feature absolutely "no ties to Native American imagery" going forward. "We have 89 years of history in this league

Tuesday replacement for the replacement for the replacement open thread

Game Time Decision - April 13, 2021April 13, 2021

Hi all and welcome to a GTD only day. muhahahahaha With the site having issues on the weekend, balls was not able to write up any of his midweek posts in his free hour on the weekend (what a slacker), so I'm filling in for him today. For those keeping track

Your “It’s All Terrible” Thursday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - March 25, 2021March 25, 2021

NFL Nuggets: The big news today is about vaccines. Dan Snyder is going to buy out the minority owners of the Football Team. It will likely cost upwards of $875 million. He reportedly has to get a debt waiver from the league, since teams cannot be owned with debt on the

Random Tuesday in January open thread

Game Time Decision - January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

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Hey all, I hope you're well or well as can be considering all the shit that going on ( pandemic, politics, vaccine roll out, whatever). In my corner of the world, it was announced today that as of 12:01 AM Thursday that the province of Ontario is under "stay-at-home" orders. Which

It’s only Tuesday open thread?

Game Time Decision - January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

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Hey all, hope you're well and sticking to whatever resolutions you made. I plan to start to eat less crap and just less in general. We also started a new budgeting thingy, so want to continue with that as well, with the hopes of someday retiring with moar than a

Last Tuesday of 2020 open thread

Game Time Decision - December 29, 2020December 29, 2020

Hey all, this is your "crap I've got to write the open thread for tonight and just remembered even thought I've been sitting around all day doing sweet fuck all" Tuesday night open thread. Hope you are all well and that your sugar and gravy levels are returning to normal

Your “Later Gators!” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - November 24, 2020November 24, 2020

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NFL Nuggets: I'm just going to let the headline do the talking: Mike McCarthy channels inner Gallagher, smashes watermelons before Cowboys' win over Vikings Apparently, to make his point in front of very large African-American gentlemen, Mike McCarthy made his point to the team by having coaches roll watermelons in

Your “Hurry Up Please, It’s Time” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - November 17, 2020

NFL Nuggets: It's all about the pain today: Bears quarterback Nick Foles is day-to-day with an injury to his right hip and gluteus maximus. Initial tests showed no fracture to his hip, so they are hoping it's just bruises & he will be ready to go after their bye.

Your “The Skies of November Turned Gloomy” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - November 10, 2020

NFL Nuggets: Ben Roethlisberger is among four Steelers added to reserve/COVID-19 list, joining already quarantined teammate Vance McDonald. They all will be isolated for five days. Each will have to pass COVID-19 tests throughout the week if they want to be able to play in Sunday's game against Cincinnati. When