I hope all y’all are well, and staying sane-ish. [Why give up on madness now, when it’s brought me this far?]
Saturday gave us the two fixtures that I cared most to watch. As usual, the NFL playoffs did a great job of confounding pre-kickoff expectations. I had zero faith in Baby Buster [Jared Goff] who overall threw pretty well, especially given the conditions and his broke-ass THROWING hand thumb. But I had absolute faith in Aaron Donald and the RRRRRRRRRRAM IT!! defensing unit, especially with starting LT David Bakhtiari out.
A.A. Ron [Rodgers] and Bay of Green tore them a new asshole, except when Lazard was dropping easy TD catches.
In fact, it was the PACKERS’ front seven that turned the tide, pressuring Buster into his shell on both key Q4 possessions (first, down 7 and with momentum, then down 14 and needing an immediate reaction).
Sometimes, a picture says it all. After a meek 4th and 14 capitulation, GB churned out first down after first down, bleeding the clock completely dry. As they say in Lesser Footy commentary – a professional job, done. 32-18, and the NFC title runs through Lambeau fo sho. [Troof. Legitimately afraid of them in the Super Bowl]
Which leaves us with a Ratbirds invasion of WNY. Pray for Rev. Mayhem’s liver. [Joke’s on you. I went with wings and ether- aka the North Tonawanda Twister]
First half…again, played against expectations. By being a mutual derp-fest. [Yeah, a bit] The placement kickers went a combined 2-for-5 (including back-to-back doinks – Hail Sha(‘)nk(‘)hor – by DFO’s second-favoUrite serial kicker, Justin Tucker), and that’s all the scoring we got. 3-3, but with Lamar! looking like maybe he had his mojo back on the final Q2 drive.
But BUF started Q3 with a 7-minute TD drive, and BAL countered with the same…except that Lamar!’s 3rd and goal TD pass…went the other way. [WOOOOOOOOOOOO! 101 YARDS!] Give the Bills Mafia defense credit – they shut down the Ratbirds run game cold, and turned Lamar! into a pocket passer. Then knocked him out of the game. And it was Brokeback [Josh Fuckin’ Allen] who had the 2nd half mojo. Stefon Diggs was pretty much unstoppable, too. [DIGGSTOWN, BITCHES!] One expects a massive test in KC next weekend, but #ThePauls have defied expectations plenty this season. [I am…cautiously optimistic either way] Anyway, this fucker ended 17-3. Tyler Huntley did look better than he had any plausible reason to, so there’s a BAL positive. [Troof II: Cruise Contol]
Enjoy this morning’s fine sampler of Lesser Footy (Knifey v Spurs, 9a on NBCSN, followed by Peacock doubleheader that I will have access to, but likely not watch), but nap strategically. We starts like 90 minutes earlier on Divisional Sunday.
Btw, isn’t it time for one of you fine deep cover Illuminati Ancient Alien Lizards to kickstart the first game thread?
It’s called “the refresh button”.
Good attempt at deflection there, but it wasn’t there when I asked… And I have all the proof I can fake to prove it! 😀
Edit: So, now tell us – as a confirmed Deep State operative, can you tell us why… WHY is there fuck all good on telly of late?! HMMMM!?!??
If I’d known the game was starting so late I would have kept hibernating
I’m wrapping things up and trying not to miss my team taking the Browns, putting them in a brown paper bag, lighting said paper bag on fire on someone’s porch, ringing the doorbell, and running away before the person answers said doorbell.
The person that doorbell belongs to: Baker Mayfield.
I didn’t know the stadium he lives in had a doorbell and a porch!
Funny, this kinda reminds me of a couple of things the Yinzers were saying last week…
Btw, any suggestions for naming the two puppies (in case someone’s wondering they’re a Tevuren/Groenendael mix) ? One is almost certainly gonna be called Wal (for Wallonia), but the other’s still TBA
If I ever get an other cat, it shall be Don Carlo (since I fervently believe in giving cats middle names).
Why would one want a cat, let alone more than one? :p
scrawls down names FOAR enemies list
Only good use for a cat is as a silencer
Sheeeit, I needs to hunt yew down now!!!
/says the guy who has never fired a gun to the motherfucker who owns multiple tanks 😀
You shouldn’t worry about the tanks – they’re totally demilitirized (plus, 125mm ammo isn’t exactly easy to buy) … the .40S&W on my hip, the other stuff in the cabinet OR my
My boy has a middle initial. Meet Henry J.
If you’re going to call one “Wal,” why not go with Waldorf and Statler?
Don’t get the reference and I do kinda want something Belgium-related to reflect their breed 😀
Its a “Muppets” reference. They are the grumpy old men in the balcony
Ah, that’d explain it – I’ve never watched the muppets as a kid, nor did my kids ever get interested in them
Romelu for the best #9 I will ever see on Merseyside?
The obvious would be Flanders
Yeah, that’s my standby – that or “Dale” for Passchendaele (both the song and the battle)
Duchesse?
Wasn’t Hercule Poirot Belgian? Is either of the puppies a fictional detective?
And we have a winner, Hercule fits well! (Especially given that I’m currently watching the pup sniffing around my desk looking for clues where I hid the beef jerky 😀
Fido
Fideaux
It’s a dog so you can have fun with the name.
Beaker
Tank
Coach
Bailey Jay
Whatever name gives you comfort.
And all those names work whether the dog is a boy or a girl
Doggy McDogFace
Obvs
If they’re siblings, maybe Wallachia? Of course, their shortened nicknames would be the same so it might generate confusion. Also, wrong end of Europe. Never mind.
Job done, Ole!
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been detained by Russian police at passport control after flying back to Russia from Germany for the first time since being poisoned last summer, Reuters reports.
Vladdy does not fuck around.
And nothing of value was lost, because Navalny’s a literal non-entity (in the grand scheme of things) in Russia, despite his valiantly retarded antics. Seriously, the biggest proof one can see that it wasn’t Ole Vlad trying to kill that joker is that he’s still breathing, lol unlike… Litvinenko (lead coffin) or Nemtsov (gunned down in front of the Kremlin). In fact, the only person with something to gain with this alleged poisoning was Navalny himself (aka basically pulling a slightly less bitchboi version of the Jussie Smollett maneuver)
All very true. Like you said if Vlad wanted him dead, he would be dead.
Yep, I’m not saying Vlad and the Flunky Bunch aren’t capable of killing someone, quite the opposite in fact. I’m just saying that it doesn’t fit, because Russians are a bit more pragmatic than what people assume and don’t kill just for the evulz.
ie – Litvinenko (and the way he was killed) fit rather well, because it wasn’t just the fact that they removed a threat, they did it in a way to send a message that you don’t fuck with Russia/Putin unless you want to risk dying in a world of hurt and in a way that can’t be stopped by even world-class doctors
Nemtsov – quite the same – threat gone AND in a way to warn that “nowhere is safe and not even billions can save your arse”
Also, both are done in a way that’s attributable to the Kremlin, but afaik nothing’s been actually concretely proven (because of the methods used)
Otoh – Skripal and Navalny? Doesn’t fit, ’cause the utility of killing either isn’t there, it’s done in a method that’s inconsistent (and traceable as fuck) back to Russia and especially the former is literally pointless as you gained fuck all by a successful hit, but risked significant blowback if you fucked up
Ironically, one the most effective ways to off Navalny (who was flying at the time) ironically would’ve been a syringe full of air, which’d have thrown a bloodclot (an actual know problem when flying) and given that Shirtless Vlad’s tight control of the country, a coroner would’ve conveniently missed the injection mark and … voillez “natural causes” that don’t show up on a toxicology screen 😀
Significant blowback from Trump?
Trump has other problems… like finding a non-extradition country’s embassy willing to take his calls 😀
In fact, I’m pretty sure that the West in general will whinge for a bit (to save face), but do fuckall else, ’cause Navalny was causing them more headaches in Germany than in lockup in Russia (if anything, he’s actually worth more as a very much ded martyr than as a opposition leader)
I read that New York is going to lay 67 felony charges on his dumb ass on Thursday. Let it be so!
That’s why I’ve got a bet going with the wife that he’s actually gonna bolt early and actually no-show the inauguration 😀 We’ve also got a side bet on where he’d land (I’ve taken the Phillipines and North Korea), she assumes Saudis or UAE (basically the “Idi Amin” package) 😀
Kingdom of Saud. They like flashy tacky gold stuff, just like him.
More trouble than it’s worth for them, plus unlike Idi Amin, he can’t actually pay cash for the service 😀
found a funny:
billionaire: we’re all in this together
everyone: you lost money too?
billionaire: haha no i am somehow richer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikeporZ5cog
Head coach Jets, Robert Saleh. First Muslim HC ever.
I dunno, there’s a questionable history of Muslims with Jets in New York.
Banner-worthy?
Too soon for that, tbh
Btw, speaking of Jets and New York, I was talking to an architect buddy of mine about the twin towers’s design … and when I send him this pick \/ , he almost shat a brick
In case someone is wondering, a building shouldn’t be nearly as see-through as this
That’s not from construction??
After construction, before the lightweight partitioning for the floorspace got installed from what I’ve heard. These lads (and scottish-muslim, transsexual engineer-o-lawyer… not being sarcastic, she self-identifies as such) made for a better explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Qop_64qqk
I’ll copy a rather apt description from reddit about the tower’s construction and from the vid I linked to, they pointed out how little margin for error (or extra loads) those lightweight floors had so much so, that when the building started falling – the outer walls remained intact for a bit, all the while floors were pancaking
There was no concrete exterior anywhere. It was all steel, and (relatively) lightweight.
Yup and given the questionable quality of the fire-retardant coating on the steel frame (also covered in that YT clip I linked to), it’s a bloody miracle the buildings lasted that long. What I don’t get is why no one ever considered outfitting the buildings with helipads for evacuating people post ’93, where the risks of having one (imho) were vastly outweighed by the potential utility (just imagine what good even a couple of CH-53’s outta McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst could’ve done
Inshallah!
And fury
lol, only thing Navalny shows is how retarded the West is when it comes to picking its “partners” in Russia and also how little critical thinking happens in the Western mind, when the classic “OHNO, it’s the Russkies” mindset gets into play 😀
Edit: Here are a couple of questions no one seems to’ve asked nor answered with regards to this alleged poisoning
Heh, I actually missed this in the BBC article which illustrates one of my points:
Needs more fury.
Man, I walked a lot and drank a lot yesterday (nawt simultaneously). That was the first time this year I’ve been properly drunk, so very considerate of Ballsitchmore to play like poop while I was sleepies after walking back to the hotel. Now have coffee and french toast, but not drinking during today’s bouts as I’m headed up Mauna Kea tonight
Mmm, coconut syrup is very coconutty
You are up very early on vacation!
as they say, teh early Doktor gets the coconut syrup
I’m trying to roughly stay on west coast time, plus the morning is a good time to do outdoors stuff!
Wut
Man, I hate that creepy Fat Hitler Fuck so very much.
that pus-seeping penis really makes the cartoon, tho
I’m more concerned about the nipple placement
Squint your eyes and he looks like a fat Hitler.
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oh, no question!
He has crazy eyes. They should probably dig up his basement.
Stryper, that’s a good one!
If you enjoyed the video from last night of the BMW engine being assembled by robots with rarely a human in sight, Mercedes AMG takes the complete opposite approach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0UHvkR_qY
Looks impressive, clean and efficient, doesn’t it? … Too bad that they neglect to show how dirty and unhealthy the inital casting process actually is (unfortunately I’ve seen behind the curtain at a couple of Linamar factories and it’s about as ugly as a wonky Kebab places’ kitchen)
Luckily (for VAG), that doesn’t stop me from buying their stuff… Then again, if me doing my own maintenance on the 4.2 V8’s engine hasn’t stopped me, nothing bloodywill 😀
I’ve rebuilt a number of small block and big block Chevy V-8s, as well as a number of VW flat fours, but not in over 20 years. I just can’t comprehend the complexity of these newer engines.
I can help with that – basically imagine your worst mechanical nightmare (lots of moving parts and with zilch in terms of margin for error) …and add enough electronics everywhere to make even the smallest tasks a real :bleep:er 😀
Still better than the W12, which is basically 2 V6 only slightly less complex than ^ glued together and driving a single shaft 😀
When I look at that stuff, I imagine it’s like what Otto Lilienthal would think when presented with a Pratt & Whitney J75 or a Saturn booster.
Given that both are actually closer to his time than to ours, I bet that he’d go with “Nice, and what did you do the next 70 years?” 😀
Btw, it’s amusing how it took humanity less time to go from
to
than it took for the latter to finally leave active service (it got retired in 2020 by the JASDF, but it’s still flying strong with the Greek, Turks, ROK and Iran)
It only has a winglet on one side in the rear??
… uh, no, it has symmetrical tailplanes if that’s what yer asking, it’s just the perspective. But as this is the F-4 Phantom II, aerodynamics would probably be unaffected in the slightest (as this plane’s jokingly referred as the proof that big enough engines make anything fly well :D)
That’s one hell of a perspective. I can’t see the other one and the angle looks extremely weird. It makes sense it should have two, though.
It helps that they’re relatively small and canted, so what it can be way easier to obscure by a small perspective shift 😉
Unrelated – the neighbours down the road were giving away some puppies, so … when do you mad lads reckon I should tell my wife that we have 2 more dogs?
After flowers and breakfast in bed?
It should be fine, especially as we already have 4 already… Well, “we” only when it comes to playing with them, but when it comes time to walking them or other less than pleasant activities – wifey and the kiddos disappear faster than flight logs to Epstein island 😀 Oh well, for the time being – I’m gonna bank on no one noticing the 2 belgian shepherd mix puppies, while working on plan b 😀
Jeebus, SIX dogs? You are worse than my sister smh.
/she also likes the SAWX, married into it
Six, with the smallest being a black lab, everything else be bigger 🙂 All are great with children (and up to and including tolerating the kiddos riding them like ponies at one point), but are quite protective when there are strangers (to them in the house) – no growling or barring of teeth, but I’ve noticed that they always stay nearby and somewhat tense (but lighten up after awhile, when they “confirm” that there’s no threat) … Basically the ultimate babysitters 😀
You Have Been Forewarned: There will be a lovely “Sleeping with Bieniemy” pun in the first game intro.
Droppin Deci off at my folks who sadly move back to the cabin in 3 weeks, anywhoo let’s gooooooo!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW8UlrtcEac
… Let’s goo, yet you post a White Stripes song, so talk about mixed signals :p
The only tune of theirs I enjoy. Although I would have a go at Meg!
Well, you’re certainly entitled to yer (questionable) tastes :p
Mormon Hill nawt playin today. I believe makes New Orleans better. He just fucks up everything. I do not understand why Payton continues to soak with this guy.
It means one crushed rib away from Rapey Jameis. And of course, Payton is the kind of dude who constantly needs to show he’s the smrt-est guy in the room.
BRING OUT CRAB LEGS TO BEAT BRADY. Brees out for the season and we get a Baker Mayfield Jameis SUperb Owl. Make it so 2021!
Would be fun, but I am mentally prepping for Mahomes v A.A. Ron.
My brain rejects a State Farm Superb Owl. Or maybe would kill my last actuarial science horcrux.
Maybe they can get Jake from State Farm to do the coin toss.
There It Is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duHVOIdfKq4&ab_channel=SPORTSNET
And yet Ottawa Ottawa’d as usual…
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi6oMbIylL0
My raycess former lady friend (described below) was also a big Sens fan. She considered herself more Ottawan. If that is a word.
… no true Quebecois would ever call herself an Ottawan 😀
Fact.
By the way, the only thing less likely one may hear from yer Frenchies (or all Canuckistani for that matter) is probably
I am an Alouettes fan is a rarity as well….
Please tell me you mean the Hornet squadron and not CFL team…
Speaking of the Nordiques:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POD5IbT9vQ
I got a Nordiques fridge magnet in Quebec City. Lovely town.
On a completely separate subject – fuck the French language… It’s not hard, damn it – just spell shit phonetically (or at least close enough) like real fucking language groups.
Translation:All my life, I thought Arsene Lupin’s name is pronounced similarly to “Le Pen”
Languages wud b easier if all y’all wud just talk English smh
German or the Slavic languages, actually, if going by pronounciation, but no – I don’t mind the French language (or the French for that matter… Even, or rather ESPECIALLY the Quebecois), but the spelling is migraine inducing
I have zero aptitude for languages, therefore it’s bad!
But seriously, Quebec is one of my favourite places on Earth. I travelled it with a French Canadian lady friend, who handled the communications for me.
Too bad she was such a virulent racist.
You sure she wasn’t just arrogant as shit? After all, Quebecois can’t be a tad less humble than most 😀
Edit: Btw, you can at least give other languages a try, especially if you’re attaching it to another hobby that drives yer interest (aka basically how I taught myself Russian and conversational Swedish)
When she showed me around her apartment complex – she pointed to one wing and said “that’s where all the naggers live.”
So…pretty sure she was racist. There were…other incidents, too.
Yeah, that’s definitely racist as shit. Now, if she’d just said the poors or “the bad part”, that’d okay (well,as okay as class-ism and arrogance can be, but we’re grading on a curve here), but not when dropping the hard N-word
The pronouns and masculine feminine issue has always triggered me in French, I am completely fluent but a far better speaker and reader than writer which is 100% due to lack of practice.I will not bitch as I hear from Mrs. Cola that Germany has 3 gender markers!
Das ist nicht gut!
I wonder if there is a correlation between German ancestry and support for the N-GCp?
3 gender markers, that can and will change (both themselves AND the noun/adj. they refer to) when Dativ, Genitiv and the gang come into play :p
There’s actually a correlation between the use of genders in a language and sexism. Languages like English, where gender exists but is not interwoven into the entire language, do better than both languages where it’s an integral part of every word, which do the worst, and languages where it doesn’t exist at all!
No kidding. My pencil is a girl, but my pen is a boy?
Wrong. I don’t have a penis!
HOW DARE YOU PRESUME A PEN’S PREFFERED PRONOUNCED?! By the powers vested in me by noone in particular, you’re hereby cancelled for 2 consecutive nanoseconds!
I’m back!
Only the best languages spell phonetically.
-Colonel Obvious
Shouldn’t that be Coronel Obvio?
Truly, there is nothing worse than “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and I am very glad that creepy motherfucker is ded.
…who ded? Also, don’t worry – Everton will too grow up to be a real football team hated across the world… eventually? :p
Dunno whether he was who coined the song or performed it for the mouth-breathers of Anfield. I have tv muted.
Ah, definitely just performed/covered it for the mouthbreathers. The song itself (especially in its original variant) is from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (yes, the same lads that did the |King and I” and “The Sound of Music”)
Then may they burn in Hades as well.
… right, burn in hell because a song from a rather decent show* was co-opted by the fanbase of the one true Liverpool team:D When Sheffield can field two good teams bearing its name, you start asking yourself why only one team is deemed fit to carry the (allegedly) proud name o’ Liverpool, whereas the other has to carry the name of a borough where it never actually played (that just came up on a football trivia show, lol – apparently Everton was only based in Anfield and Walton 😀
*edit: I realized that I know a bit more about musical theatre than the norm, which means that wifey’s attempts to bludgeon some culture in me is working
Everton is the original football club, it is the Shite that are the breakaway entity.
They performed YNWA at one of my daughter’s recitals, and I left the church until it was over. YES, I am that petty.
Musical theatre bores me to tears. I can watch artsy foreign films, even appreciate a symphony or art gallery. But take me to a musical, I will only think about baseball lineups or football formations.
Oh, cry me a bloody river.. at least you didn’t see one of the best romantic comedies of all time (that also featured rather prominently Arsenal) get remade with such a fucking unlikeable turn by Jimmy Fallon, that it almost made me hate the Sox!
Also, pointing out that Liverpool are the younger,hip-er of the teams doesn’t help yer case, especially when they beat you lot by every metric – including the amount (and severity) of stadium disasters 😛
It is far better to support a nothing club that is a great day out to go to the stadium and in a fun neighboUrhood. Right? Right?
/gets relegated again.
Ah, but it’s even moar’n’BETTAR fun (especially when you’re sitting 10th-ish in the league table) to prod supporters of a club with a serious “little brother” complex, while waiting for your roast to marinade 😀
Well below Everton in the race for Europe.
So what? This just means that we can’t be bounced/underperform in Europe if we’re not IN Europe!
Check’n’ma…I’m gonna go cry under the shower for a bit, brb
Legit best day of my sporting life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yaqH4MLT80
I WAS THERE! (well, for the first leg in Torino) Twas great, especially the part where I spent half the evening in a police station after the game (fixing a computer snafu and drinking wine) 😀
Amazing!!!! I have been an FFC supporter since my 1st match there in 2003. Hooked for life.
For me it was love at first FIFA98 – one look at the crest with a cannon and it’s been lovely misery ever after 😀
I fell asleep during the 2nd QRT of BAL @ BUF. Man, my whole day turned out opposite than intended.
-had to field a ? PHONE CALL
-my “No human contact” weekend expectation shot, I left the house to buy beer
-beer + enchiladas > Ambien
Just watched the rest of the game. Won’t say anything about Lamar! ‘cause it will sound either meaner than intended or waaaay condescending. Anyway, Harbaugh is out of the dance. Happy, happy days ahead.
With apologies to Rev, they’re a feel good team for now, but Buffalo being great again is going to become annoying really quickly.
Well, it’s gonna be a riot one way or another, only difference is whether it’ll be angry drunk’n’ slurrin’ or happy slurrin’ when people get arrested 😀