This game reminded me why I gave up on "in game chat."
So painful. So much negativity.
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This game reminded me why I gave up on "in game chat."
So painful. So much negativity.
Same here. I'll watch with my Class of 2017 daughter but avoid online chats or active "anonymous" interaction.
Watched with my 17 year old son abd chatted with my 19 year old daughter. No chat rooms.
Stupid Girl Scout Cookies.
Hot take. Girl Scout cookies are fine. They're not great. They're certainly not life-altering. They are pretty good. They aren't in the league of homemade cookies. I don't think they deserve their reputation.
Standing water in the dishwasher. Annnndddddd...my Sunday morning just got booked solid.
I literally do not miss them at all. Not even a little bit. My Splurge is two or three beers a week and sushi maybe once a month or so. I used to really miss Pizza but Marcos has those crustless pizza bakes, which is literally just a pan of toppings and sauce, and those are 90% of the way to a gigantic slice of pizza. So even that temptation is gone.
Do you have the ability to fix this problem? Our first house was a 1920s farmhouse which was beautiful and had every problem imaginable. I learned to do most repairs around the house we made a combined $19,000 our first year of marriage), but for plumbing issues the only tool I have is a checkbook. Good luck!
My expertise extends to checking the drain and drain lines for clogs, which requires some disassembly. If the motor, etc is in need of replacement, my patience to learn how to fix is shot. I'm sure there are a lot of things I COULD do if I invested the time, energy, and trial-by-fire attitude of the modern DIY Mr. Fix-It but alas...
I guess I'm not following the logic here.
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I am hearing that people in the little blue bird 'verse harassed one player enough after last night he deleted his account. Absolutely shameful.
not necessarily, though I'm sure you know if it's getting old or not...anything beyond 10 years has to be suspect (and it generally costs us $125 just to get the repair dude in the door). Our repair had to do with an old, faulty drain hose...the dishwasher itself was fine, but the first two dolts they dispatched to fix it were not up to the task...I hate broken appliances (our dryer died of old age a month ago)...the problem now being that with nowhere to go, people are buying new appliances like crazy, and lots and lots of models can't be had without a several month wait, ack!
That is ridiculous. If, as a fan, you are that invested in the outcome of a game, you need help. I'm always upset/mad/grumpy when the team loses but am able to recognize that it doesn't really change my life much at all. I continue to be disappointed for the team/players/coaches but not disappointed in them.
I watched enough of the game yesterday to feel disappointed but not enough to be upset. Sports during the pandemic have been hard to care about, except, somehow, for Primoz Roglic in the Tour de France.
New favorite event at the World Track & Field Championships (introduced in 2019), btw, the Mixed 4X400 relay, 2 males, 2 females on every team. Pull it up on the youtubes if you haven't already seen it (and if you're even remotely a track fan.)
Speaking of relays - I LOVED the luge relay event at the 2018 Winter Olympics. LOVED IT! These are the kinds of new events that make for very fun TV watching, IMHO. I am considering, post-pandemic, going to Lake Placid the next time they host a World Cup luge event.
A few more posts and we will have gained 100 on beer. Well, until they start posting again.
That's gained 100 since yesterday. If we do that everyday for a month, we'll have re-earned our thread name.
I have deep thoughts about this (shocker). You get to choose a team or individual to aupport and follow. This is completely voluntary. What you are entitled to as a fan is effort and good citizenship. Not one othet thing. Not wins. Not gameplan. Not personal decisions. Not coaching strategy. Nothing. And I don't think the opinions of fans about any of those things are valid. We have free will and people get to feel how they would like. But as a fan who is not the coach or a player your opinion on any of those things is as valid as your opinion on the orbit of the moon.
Co-sign. It's been such a strange a stressful year+ that I've found it's much harder to turn off my brain and engage with things like sports and movies that were previously pretty good escapism entertainment. Regardless, I've always been into sports for the fun and spectacle and not the negativity and criticism, even when my teams lose. That's probably why I always secretly liked guys like Roy and Gary Williams that other fans publicly hate --- without a fun, charismatic villain, who's Bond, you know?
French toast w/ candied pineapples, sausage, and a fried egg + the emasculating inability to solve a household appliance problem. Hell of a pendulum swing for a Sunday morning.
Cheers!
I'm pretty sure that the only thing getting most of us through the pandemic are deep thoughts. Some of them aren't that great to have to carry around with you all day, but it's what we've got.
Research question: Have all single malt distilleries managed to turn an emotion into whisky like Laphroaig has done with revenge?
For such research purposes, I had another shot of Craigellachie last night, this time in my favorite shot glass, the one with a quote painted on the side that reads, "The problem with some people is that when they are not drunk, they are sober" W. B. Yeats. I decided not to let drinking scotch out of a glass quoting an Irishman be a problem. (I had to wash the glass first as it was dusty.)
Alas, I could not assign a single emotion to Craigellachie. It's rather smooth in your mouth and doesn't kick you in the pants until you let it start trickling down your throat. So, no single emotion, in the end Craigellachie is the taste of The Equalizer, it's all fun and games until Denzel starts the clock.
How soon is too soon to eat lunch after breakfast? Asking for a friend.
One of the joys of my current living situation is that I get to clean up leaves twice a year.
While not the hottest of peppers, good jalapenos can still loosen up the sinuses.
In early '80s Dukedom the Sunday brunch - Hilton (I think) and later the Europa was the best kind of high class date. One price, elegant breakfast and lunch fare, bubbly maybe. All you cared to eat.
Which is a long way to getting to my suggested answer: How soon? When your plate's empty.
His name wasn't really Rip Torn, was it?
It’s a major award!
Not quite - was about 22yo and worked with LandSat program - working on identifying crop yields around the world based on satellite imagery. Both manually using a magnifying glass and automatically by developing statistical algorithms that would classify type of crop based on digitized stats from differing wavelengths. Never worked with so many former CIA people.
Learned a little about how bureaucracies work - if there was a surprise audit of workers showing up for work on time (8am) we would get early am phone calls at home from coworkers warning us to come in even later. Auditors left around 9:30 so if you waited until 10 you wouldn’t be counted as a late arrival. Our stats always looked good!
Leftovers for days. But not the rapture kind of leftovers. Those would be weird for me to eat for dinner.
Are you saying I'm the Mr. Burns of the team?
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I've got a reggae channel on the Pandora playing and it just hit me with Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Go home, Pandora. You're too drunk for jukebox karaoke.
It's okay. Ever since one of my professors told our business school class that every team had a social loafer to promote accountability and intra-team conflict, I call 'dibs' on that job right away. It really is the best job.
There is no one - and I mean no one - who does not like unearned success.
When we would have group work in college I would tell the group that I was going to do the entire assignment but they were free to help with research or just accept the grade. I wanted to do it all so those nimrods didn't screw it up. This also is probably not surprising.
Nice. We had a business school team member who was DEFINITELY our social loafer. Came from old cotton money. Limpest handshake I've ever encountered. Not even like you miscue and one of you grips too early so it feels like the other person is limp...this was a serious dead fish. We had a legit conversation (me yelling at him) about 'the war of northern aggression'. He's a real estate agent in Florida now and posts a lot of Fauci conspiracy theories on Facebook in between listing postings. GAWD, now I'm pissed off.
Latest Zoom horror story. My boss was on a Zoom presentation with about 100 college students last week and one of the students started, uh, taking care of himself with Guns 'n' Roses playing.
This is now the 3rd time that people I work directly with have seen giggly bits on work calls.
There was a funny moment on the Golden Globes just now. The first award winner started his speech on mute.
Every once in a while I see something and think, "man, I really hope s/he/it/they are recognized for this wonderful work". In those cases, I might have a rooting interest in an awards show. I like the monologue and sometimes presenters have nice bit. And, if the PwC debacle is always a possibility, well...
But, yeah, award shows are generally a drag. I do like parades where I can sit on the side of a sandy road and drink bloody mary's. My mom made me go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on a very cold day in the early 1990s and people in the building above kept hurling chunks of bagel into the crowd.
Chubby Checker? Rocky Road?
We'd gained 100 or so but they've surged and cut in by about 50. Still under 2,000.
Getting to the age where you are more likely to go to a funeral than a wedding is a very weird thing.
Father Time is undefeated
bracing ourselves, wind chills of -25 tomorrow morning, 50 mph winds, oh what a beautiful morning! Spring looms. I have suspended outdoor grilling for the day, going with pork tenderloin has on the stove top...that is all.
25 mph winds here, that is plenty windy enough.
Back home from the Outer Banks. March already.
The French with a bold move.
I'm cool with any country that has a President name Macaron...
If anyone wants to spiral into loathing for your fellow man, there is an absolutely horrible story coming out of NH about a state run youth center.
Catholic Church, USA Gymnastics, Hollywood, Government programs. You almost can’t spit without hitting these types of things it seems.
This is obviously not the same at all but my wife worked for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for a while. They had to have staff psychologists. Our radars are unfortunately attuned to these types of stories.
The thing that gets me is the institutionalization of abuse with multiple adults involved and complicit. Not just someone operating by themselves. Abuse becomes part of the fabric of organizations and it is jaw dropping how many people look away or don’t believe it’s occurring.
There are issues there that go back many decades, and were I to outline them, I'd probably get a DBR vacation...one bit of info: for many many years, the biggest newspaper in the state was owned by a man named William Loeb, and his views shaped New Hamster for a long time. Now that a lot of people are moving in from the Boston area, the craziness has moderate quite a bit, but it's still there in abundance.
A disciple of Loeb's, for example, became governor, and demanded nuclear weapons for the state's National Guard...much more recently(just a few months ago) the NH Legislature opened up at an outdoor ceremony in which large numbers of maskless legislators taunted opposition party members for wearing masks.
Your wife's former job and my former job were inextricably linked. I saw the aftermath. As for institutions, they incorrectly try to shield and protect the institution in a crisis. This is absolutely the incorrect thing to do. What you do is you protect the individual who may have been harmed by something or someone within the institution. It is crisis management 101 but this happens with alarming frequency.
Alright. Too heavy a subject for LTE. Moving on to a lighter subject.
Can whipped cream ever be too frothy?
Is there a way to unironically drive an El Camino? Is there a chance that the driver of said car feels like it is cool to drive the mullet of vehicles? It's the car version of the Mississippi mudflap that my friends rocked growing up.
I love El Caminos and other cartrucks (truckcars?). I feel like about a '71 SS could be driven unironically, because to me it is just unequivocally bad[butt], but YMMV.
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Yes. When you are 6 years-old and the El Camino you are driving is a vintage, purple metallic, Hot Wheels car.
Like this one.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hot-Wheels-...EAAOSw8-VgKqcO
My younger brother had a purple Hot Wheels El Camino as a kid. It wasn't metallic though.
Lest you think I am talking junk about cars you should know my history. I drove a 1985 orange Dodge Omni hatchback in school and you couldn't roll the windows down or cinders would (like it was coal fired) somehow blow around the car because the ceiling was collapsing. I drove a minivan for 15 years because I loved the minivan and my wife was mortified by it. I have never once owned a car that was worth more than $18,000. I don't care at all about cars. They are merely a means of conveyance.
Ooo, I found an even better one! This one is much closer to the color of my brother's original. https://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-Hot-Wh...IAAOSwjVtf7j5I
Luckily I didn't keep my matchbox cars, Star Wars action figures and ships or my baseball cards.
I'm considering buying the Hot Wheels car too, but, I will defer to wilson. Also - I'll probably buy the one still in the package. It's a reissue, I think, the first one I posted is vintage (I think).
Oh - my 2002 Winter Olympics hat arrived today!
I've got my eye on a giant decal of the side graphic from the Bandit (as in Smokey and the Bandit)'s semi to put on the side of my RV.
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Just looked over at the beer thread. They don't know s%*@ about no meat, toy cars or lawnmowers.
Boobytrap spelled backwards is Partyboob.
We have spring for the next week and then summer starts.
We are starting to pick daffodils. And my hyacinths are coming up.
Rub it in...-1 American degrees this morning, stiff breeze, wind chill in the -20+ range, but we are rugged (which in this case means hiding inside until the wind stops). But there ARE hints of mud season...please send some warmth our way, we'll trade that for some plumbers who can fix your burst pipes (that's THE worst, I know)...
It's windy.
Oh, you're on to something... a "partyboob boobytrap" is ...
...a palindrome of your own invention. And it even seems to mean something!
Novel, additive, insightful. I suggest you take author credit - and we'll hope to see it published in a collection some day.
I have slowly come to see "Parks and Rec" as a better show than "The Office"
Both lost me after a while.
Couple of comments -
A friend dated Brandonowicz in high school. Didn't have anything good or bad to say.
I think Parks and Rec is the superior show because of a superior ensemble cast. You can watch the show and be in love with a half dozen characters at once.
Leslie Knope is most a non-character. She's sort of the lens through which we see everything take place. Michael Scott is a well-meaning oaf who has a large effect on the action.
Both ar excellent shows. Nothing on P&R is as cringeworthy as Scott's Tots.
Bandanaquilts?
See. I think The Office had deeper bench of genuinely funny, more richly observed (in the everyday sense) characters. After they hooked up, Jim and Pam became useless and I enjoyed when bad things happened to them though I did appreciate the writers understanding how bad Pam sucked and having a viewer call her on it in the final episodes. So, the central love interest in Parks and Rec was a more dynamic pair for sure. Rashida Jones is boring in both.
1. Ron Swanson
2. Dwight
3. April
4. Creed
5. Michael
6. Leslie
7. Donna
8. Jerry/Gary/Larry
9. Jim
10. Jean Ralphio
Totally mailed this in.