Good morning! I realized we have lost our Hippo to Championship Manager 2020 so here is an abbreviated Open thread. I still have things to say SO STRAP IN, or just skip the words like most do when I start talking!
Hope everyone is safe and if you are in Georgia the State good luck to you! (BC Dick has relatives who were out on date night down there last night) It appears that sports are starting to come back slowly. We had some spicy Korean futbol this weekend to go along with the Korean Beisbol that started this past week. Have you selected your fave squad? I was up early due to toddler yesterday and watched some K-League action. It is very strange with no fans but hail be to Gamblor! WE ARE BACK BABY!
Our adopted Belarusian team FC Slutsk lost yesterday but they are still top of the table. Fancy horse on the crest, maybe a Catherine the Great throwback.
Next week some good futbol begins with Deutschland starting up with no fans as is to be expected. Our friend Balls sent me this so I could see how the Bundesliga will be doing testing etc. (It is from E*PN so if you boycott do not open). There is a bunch of stuff out there for who to pick as your new side in Germany but I am not here to lead you down that path. I like watching Dortmund as Haaland and Sancho are phenomenal and I will always, ALWAYS post this when speaking about German footy.
I do not believe that the Canadian Premier League will operate this year. This would be a 2nd season and any momentum from last year will be killed. Unlike the big sports this league runs on gate numbers and playing behind closed doors really won’t make them much money. The sponsor of the local team here is Westjet the 2nd airline in our country, wonder how things are going for them?
With the NFL releasing their schedule and the lack of testing how comfortable would you be amidst 60k in close quarters, in a parking lot, and then seated in a stadium? I did see that the Lolphins have contingency plans to allow a Chargers like attendance figure. I am genuinely interested in all of your thoughts whether you will attend your beloved NC State, or RAMMIT live?
/How nice is it going to be when Kroenke opens up his new digs and no one is there???
To the seasons that aren’t complete over here like NHL, NBA, end them, now. I am sick and tired of hearing theories up here in America’s hat about how the NHL may, could, perhaps resume. I fully Jay Cutler this one.
I have a good idea, let’s us bring sports back when people do not have a chance of catching this disease.
In saying all this,
- Will you go to events when allowed?
- Have we completely lost teh Hippo to Championship manager?
- How is the booze/weed/pill situation at your place? (Thanks BC Dick! for the bud)
- Do you think NBA, NHL etc will come back and what happens if Covid rips through a team? End their season?
- What are you up to today? I just ate an edible and am now going to the grocery store.
- If we got Jay Cutler and Suzy Kolber together would our DFO/KSK world implode upon itself?
He was distant and aloof? HEY CAVS, YOU MARRIED A CAT WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU EXPECT???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-EJxUCyVJ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmxaY_OVvWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U7rDh8x-Lw
Will you go to events when allowed?
Hell, I’m still gonna have to play them.
Have we completely lost teh Hippo to Championship manager?
Yes.
How is the booze/weed/pill situation at your place? (Thanks BC Dick! for the bud)
I have… one can of Lagunitas IPA. From a while back. Living at home makes me a little skittish regarding drinking.
Do you think NBA, NHL etc will come back and what happens if Covid rips through a team? End their season?
I think they will because people are silly. This is also why I was more partial to the Cactus/Grapefruit version of MLB trying to save 2020 rather than the ECW version, because it seemed a little easier to close the circuit. I’d think all leagues would need a moratorium on trades and would at the least need to do some roster finagling. As for what happens if/when a team gets hit? Who knows.
What are you up to today? I just ate an edible and am now going to the grocery store.
I have another video recording to do, so I’ll do that at some point.
If we got Jay Cutler and Suzy Kolber together would our DFO/KSK world implode upon itself?
Also yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpfbcXTeo8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwlh24rZLVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_My0kV5v_0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4O5iodyOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0IUR4gkPIE
“Wish someone had played this song for *me*…” – Peyton Manning
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tWCEG6lV0ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKS4VDb5boo
1. Will you go to events when allowed?
Eventually. Love me some live sports but not wearing a mask for 2+ hours so not until there’s a vaccine for it
2. Have we completely lost teh Hippo to Championship manager?
God I hope not. Half the fun of my Saturday morning is trying to figure out what he’s saying
3. How is the booze/weed/pill situation at your place? (Thanks BC Dick! for the bud)
Still have a bunch of beer. Not a big drinker to begin with and haven’t felt like drinking much lately. Not a weed guy
4. Do you think NBA, NHL etc will come back and what happens if Covid rips through a team? End their season?
I don’t expect the big three to start until fall of 2021 as we’ll still be fighting the whole covid and covidiots until there is vaccine for those that believe in the science and not whatever some shyster is pushing
5. What are you up to today? I just ate an edible and am now going to the grocery store.
Went for a jog in the snow this morning. Wtf mother nature, I know I’m in Canada and all, but its May and it isn’t supposed to do that in Southern Ontario. Watched some Netflix and will bbq some chicken dinner. Will try to clean a bit too today
6. If we got Jay Cutler and Suzy Kolber together would our DFO/KSK world implode upon itself?
No, We’d have our royal family. She’s the matron Saint of the old place and he’s our spirit animal. Itz perfect
Snow? Sweet lord. High of 24 here today. Also Canada.
We are a chill 12 C today but no snow. Perfect weather for going to the Cavalry FC gam DAMMIT!
Yeah that sucks. They cancelled the West Coast League team’s season here. It’s only for the college summer so they don’t have much time in the first place but goddamn it. That’s my favourite local sport to watch.
Was -1 plus (minus?) Windchill so was bundled up. Its currently 4. Sucks out there. But prob better to keep everyone indoors
a good long read about contraries
http://www.anjol.de/documents/100802_heyoka_neu.pdf
Watching some great late Clattenburg era TPB and enjoying a rye and a J I rolled last night.
Couple folks from the curling team were going to come by for drinks in my back yard at regular distances but they bailed. I do just fine on my own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH_bAExt1_A
Weekend reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months
That is a GREAT story! Thank you for sharing it!
(wipes tear away from cheek)
I’d be making a “baseball is boring” joke while not watching baseball right about now…
1. When allowed? Nope, although I have a little more confidence that California’s version of “allowed” will be a little safer. Honestly I’ll miss music concerts more than sports. But people are gross, and the people who race to go to sports events and concerts as soon as possible will be the grossest and least considerate and most likely to infect others. Imagine 15,000 of those “I ain’t afraid of no virus!” morons packed into a building. Pushing past you on the concourse. Coughing at the urinal beside you. Sloppily eating arena food behind you. There ain’t enough Lysol in the world.
2. I know the lure of sports simulations. But he’ll be back.
3. I have a spreadsheet and an app to tracking my wine inventory. Beer is running a little low, but local breweries are doing delivery or curbside, so no worries. Not a weed guy.
4. I think that question is exactly why those leagues can’t come back yet. They just don’t have a good answer to the question.
5. Going to try to take care of business today. Deal with the backlog of dishes, clean the kitchen, take out the trash and recycling, and then either order groceries online or mask up and make a run. Will then reward myself with a steak dinner tonight, with potatoes roasted in goose fat and broccoli. And wine. Oh yes. There shall be wine.
6. Jay can’t handle a woman of Suzy’s quality.
How are we to say what Jay can or cannot handle, never having seen him try?
Brazo detecto sees her fathero kissing his mistresso. Stay tunedo!*
*learning Spanish was much easier than I thought it would be!
It is that funny Spanish they speak in Portugal.
Found a Brazilian police procedural on The Netflix. It’s called The Invisible Guardian. I like it because the lead female detective has a lot of skin in the game.
Best thing about that graduation ceremony was the easy parking, attending in my pajamas, and getting up to leave the second my son’s name scrolled by. Best. Ceremony. Ever.
“Also, the PJ’s hid my boner!”*
*what Horatio left unsaid
Not much to hide……
[slowly backs away, hands up in the air]
“Whoa, whoa, whoa.”
Not girth,
not lofty height,
have we here.
Now if only my gradation could be done virtually, heyoo.
1. No, didn’t go before; there are people there! Think about it.
2. I hope not! I miss teh Hippo.
3. I have a planning spreadsheet and never come close to running out.
4. Teams seem to be testing and controlling, but it will stop them in their skates. I want COVID-19 to rip through the protester group. Is everybody fucking fine with heavily armed white boys playing army in fucking public buildings?
5. Working for a while…. then the usual. Edible mistimed with a grocery store can be financially devastating; BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!
6. JAY WITH HOT MILF ACTION? Rex Grossman going deep on Martha Stewart? Rex Ryan adding another Hippo disapproved fetish?
I’m shocked that the NCAA is doing the right thing and saying no sports until all campuses are open.
Puts on tinfoil hat.
The students can’t make money off their likeness or whatever if they ain’t playing
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4jYWOqHPEA
The Jaguars have signed Mike Glennon to backup Gardner Minshew.
Hahahahahahahahahah
Wow, I wonder if lower tier quarterbacks will start using those neck rings like the women in Africa so they can somehow inexplicably get decent backup jobs.
For a second I thought you said “neck ringworm” and was like, no, that’s more of a Tampa Bay thing.
Wow, the number of ringworms Glennon could host on his neck! He would be an epidemic all by himself.
1. Nope
2. Yep
3. I had to stop drinking for reasons and I have no supplier for weed since my ex-roommate became a pussy whipped asshole.
4. Is there money involved, if yes, they will be back. If covid rips through the team they will try and get extra draft picks out of it.
5. Cleaning house, I wish I had an edible.
6. Nope, but it would be fun watching as she uses a lazer pointer to get him out of her seat.
Yes, I don’t think Jay has a future in front of the mic or camera either.
He looks exactly like my cat Henry! Minus the glowy neck thing, but double down on the evil death stare.
These flea collars are certainly advanced now.
This song-she’s known because of Pulp Fiction but man, it’s a great standalone tune. The horns, the plinkity (hey! new word!) piano-it’s all there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9l0YBKcGnY
A bit portentous, but cheaper than a philosophy course
I nearly always return the shopping cart all the way to the store. This is not in any way a civilized thing to do for my motivation is usually to get a glimpse of a woman in shorts or yoga pants because they congregate at the store and ….. Minimum is putting them in the cart return place and shoving it like a madman into the other ones, because that is fun. If you just leave them in a parking space you are just a fucking asshole, an uncivilized, selfish piece of shit (unless you are old, arthritic, injured, or otherwise have pain of movement); you are making it so people can’t pull in the parking space. If there is an abandoned stray go ahead and drive it into the store and use it, that way you can make sure and check it out and make sure it does not have that fucking wobbly wheel or the loud squeaker wheel, either of which will diminish your proud reputation of an experienced food shopper.
legit
Yep, I hate starting to pull into a spot and their sits an unreturned cart. I usually take the strays back on or to the corral, otherwise it upsets my sense of order.
This has touched a nerve-
If I see a cart in a parking space-on my way to the entrance *and* there is a cart parking hutch nearby-I’ll always grab it and take it to its rightful home. That way I’m able to erase some asshole’s impact on the world (in a very small way). It’s sorta perfect because you’re also doing a good for a future stranger that can never know what you did. I say this because I’ve done some good things in anticipation of being commended for it.
/Scotchnaut gets to the Pearly Gates
St. Peter: “Hey, you’re the guy who cleaned up all those grocery carts! Good job!”
Scotchy: “Yes, I’m in!”
St. Peter: “But about those hobos…”
Scotchy: ‘Ah, shit”
St. Peter: “Have you thought about, maybe, blaming something else?”
Scotchy: “A really sharp knife?”
St. Peter: [shakes head] “Starts with an ‘S’…”
Scotchy: “Socialism?”
St. Peter: “Jesus Christ!”
Scotchy:: “No, that won’t fly-doesn’t even start with an ‘S’. What about ‘Sunny Sundays?”
St.Peter: [under his breath] “This guy couldn’t possibly be more stupid. Yes, SUNNY FUCKING SUNDAYS”. [waves a ton of souls through the gate]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFFgbc5Vcbw
and best scene it’s used in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k2bJ7a5VQo
As a Sally myself(shhhh, don’t tell anybody!) I truly despise most Sally songs. But this one is a banger! Little Richard was absolutely amazing. Can you imagine what it was like to be a flamboyantly gay man in the 50’s? He was a fucking hero!
Will you go to events when allowed?
Not for a while. Let’s see how many people die after the first NASCAR race and then I’ll make a decision.
Have we completely lost teh Hippo to Championship manager?
That or he OD’d on opium
How is the booze/weed/pill situation at your place? (Thanks BC Dick! for the bud)
Amply stocked on booze. Down to my last 40 beers but have enough whiskey to make it at least another quarter.
Do you think NBA, NHL etc will come back and what happens if Covid rips through a team? End their season?
Lysol the court? I think the NBA will try and start around Christmas, which is when people start to care anyway. NHL, Bettman will fuck it up but yeah I think they’ll play and play through an outbreak.
What are you up to today? I just ate an edible and am now going to the grocery store.
Trying to be lazy but have a few hours of work to do. Will go for a very long walk later.
If we got Jay Cutler and Suzy Kolber together would our DFO/KSK world implode upon itself?
I’d watch that porn.
Now taking the 3 year old to the car wash. I told my wife he is coming home soaked.
Are you taking the Rose Royce?
Faroe Island Premier League is on! Lot of Viking looking dudes.
My plans today should have involved watching my son march as he graduates from UConn, but thanks to Covid that’s not happening. Instead they’re doing something on YouTube where each school will be read off and then the names scroll by in alphabetical order. I’m expecting to see something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlBzSi-rkE
HORATIO: [pauses video] That’s my son’s name, right there. Osric Cornblower.
RIKKI: Looks more like “Oscar Cobblepot”.
LITRE_COLA: No, it says “Oliver”. “Oliver Collington”.
JJ FOZZ: [punches HORATIO in the gut] That’s for taking credit for other people’s parenting!
RIP to the King of Rock & Roll:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7EKpydNWqKc
Here’s a fun and true story. Back in the very early 80’s Little Richard was a cab passenger of mine. Very cool guy, I had no idea who he was until he paid me. It was a long fare too. He was in my cab for probably half an hour.
As he paid I looked at him and said “Little Richard.”
He laughed and said “Now you notice?”
I’m also doing a grocery store run today.
This weekend is an all kitchen weekend. Read all about it next week!
I won’t attend live events without a vaccine.
The right house is fully stocked on all of the various substances.
I think baseball will return with no fans but NBA and NHL are done for the season.
Korean baseball is totally watchable.
I’m dropping 65 bones for the UFC pay per view tonight and would love to invite everyone over but…
But what? You don’t have enough beer for us all?
Even Moses wore a mask when he went out in public:
Found a funny:
My wife leaves a word jumble for each me every morning.
Today’s word was: I WANT A DIVROCE.
Haha good one, honey. WEIRD VACATION, indeed.
Going to events – Nope. Unless The Hives play somewhere. I’d go to Sweden wearing a Trojan Magnum burqa.
I have seen them in Melbourne, London, and Calgary. I even caught Chris Dangerous’ drumstick in Melb at the Corner Hotel. Still have it!
I think only Litre will appreciate this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaTUT9_qyXQ
Here are my answers:
1-Will you go to events when allowed? NOAP! I didn’t before and I certainly won’t now.
2-Have we completely lost teh Hippo to Championship manager? I’m afraid that’s affirmative. I’m positive that game has a female character with nice shoulders.
3-How is the booze/weed/pill situation at your place? (Thanks BC Dick! for the bud) I’ve got plenty of booze and there are no shortages that I know of. I’m thinking about picking up some gin and experimenting with some of the cocktails Sharky has been sharing with us.
4- Do you think NBA, NHL etc will come back and what happens if Covid rips through a team? End their season? I don’t think they’re coming back, considering their seasons would normally end in June. Just call it a year and get ready for next year.
5-What are you up to today? I just ate an edible and am now going to the grocery store. I’m writing my Monday Eventual Balls Thoughts post and drinking. Not necessarily in that order.
6-If we got Jay Cutler and Suzy Kolber together would our DFO/KSK world implode upon itself? Jay Cutler’s ass shot at the beach should be on a poster at the DFO Clubhouse.
This is a rundown of the teams on the Jags sked this season. I can’t get thru it without laughing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1pO0yj3D3Y
The new Seinfeld stand-up special on netflix is Meh
What’s up with that?
Watched in last night. Totally agree with the meh.
“Really? I thought the opposite.” – a seamstress
Off to the grocery store,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMcse4e2wC4
Great job on short notice, Litre! You’ve earned yourself some weird Asian snacks!