Your “Let’s Take a Few Baby Steps” Thursday Night NFL Exhibition Football Open Thread

DFOing Good

scotchnaut - August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

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It seems like forever since I did one of these. (I really should write more during the offseason but by the Super Bowl I feel burnt out-woe is me-and then after that it requires effort on my behalf, so that's a no-go) The baby steps refer to getting back into

The English: Are They Human? Case Study 5: The Battle of Fishguard

The Maestro - September 24, 2020September 22, 2020

Despite controlling one-third of the world's landmass and one-quarter of its population at its peak in the late 19th century, one really has to wonder if the English are even civilized in the first place. As Indian historian and MP Dr. Shashi Tharoor stated in a 2015 speech at Oxford

Your “Uh-Oh, Company’s Coming” Saturday Evening Open Thread and NFL Broadcast Maps

laserguru - November 18, 2017November 17, 2017

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Banner image courtesy of: Howdy folks! I feel it is my responsibility to remind everyone, well us U.S. residing folks anyway, that Thanksgiving is Thursday. Like, next fucking Thursday. As in 5 goddamn days Thursday. And you haven't even been to the grocery store yet have you? HAVE YOU!?! What are you thinking? That can

Commentist Beer Barrel: The Happiest Place on Earth

make it snow - September 11, 2017September 10, 2017

It's been a while, hasn't it? I don't know about you guys, but a lot's happened in the snow household since I last wrote about beer here. We've gotten married (yes, to each other!), we've quit our jobs, and in two weeks we'll be moving to the land of my

Historical Badasses: Drukpa Kunley

Historical Badasses

The Maestro - February 2, 2017February 2, 2017

When we think of religions based around sex, I think it's safe to say that most of us probably gravitate immediately to the Branch Davidians of Waco and/or perhaps a few hardline Mormon citizens of Utah; no matter what you think of, though, chances are that it's likely a creepy

Historical Badasses: Thomas Fitzpatrick

Historical Badasses

The Maestro - January 25, 2017January 25, 2017

We've all done some stupid shit when drinking; dancing, fights, arguments, hook-ups, whatever can be done, humanity has done it many, many times over. But there are very, very few people who can claim to have drunkenly committed grand theft airplane and lived to tell the tale... not just once,

Commentist Beer Barrel: Every Puppy Has Its Day

Commentist Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - December 18, 2016

Hello, Commentists! Sorry for my absence these past two weeks, but I was out wandering the woods with Hillary Clinton last week and couldn't find a signal. Did you know she wrestled a grizzly bear out there? Mainstream media won't talk about it. I don't know what they've got against her. Losing can

Commentist Beer Barrel: Welcome To Your Local Brewery

makeitsnowondem - November 27, 2016

Even in a pretty miserable year—and let's not kid ourselves: this has been, by any measure, a pretty miserable year on the global scale—I've got a lot to be thankful for. Most of all, of course, there's my beautiful fiancée lady snow, to whom I became formally engaged this past

Commentist Beer Barrel: Skål!

makeitsnowondem - August 21, 2016

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Denmark got a big Olympic win today, overcoming France for the gold medal in handball. I thought about burying the lede on this, in case any Commentists log onto the site while desperately avoiding Olympic handball spoilers, but... look, I just didn't think that was very likely, y'know? I'll apologize

Commentist Beer Barrel: Cocktail Hour

makeitsnowondem - August 1, 2016August 1, 2016

If there's any one trend in beer that I've been especially hesitant to adopt, it's the beer cocktail. When I want a beer, I just want a beer, not two or more beers mixed together. I want to drink the thing that a brewery carefully crafted, put its heart ans soul

A Year Ago: KSK in Memoriam

The Commentist Party - July 31, 2016July 31, 2016

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A year ago today, KSK Smelled Us Later, Forever. It's hard to think it's been so long, or even so short sometimes, but I know that many of us feel that we owe the good folks who Made U-----X Great Before a debt of some kind. We've heard from Ape,

Commentist Beer Barrel: Hair Of The Dog

Commentist Beer Barrel

Old School Zero - May 21, 2016May 21, 2016

Portland has been commodified. It started a while back when all of us super cool and better than you Portlanders talked it up to actual cool people from actual cool cities like NYC and LA and SF and other places that can legitimately go by initials that aren't their airport