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The Vikings are still 2-1, and they are traveling to London for their next game, as they travel to Tottenham Spurs Stadium (goofy name if you ask me, but better than Wembley, named after one of the Fraggles) in London to take on the hated Saints. The one thing I do enjoy about London games is that kickoff is early so you can get the game over and have the rest of the day to do important things, like go fishing. Kickoff on Sunday is at 8:30 am central time.
I look for this to be a battle. Winston can be a decent QB at times, but he can be wildly inconsistent as well. If the Vikings can get pressure, something they haven’t done enough of the past couple weeks, then they could force Winston into making mistakes. If they give him all day to throw, it could be a long day, so let’s hope they figure out a way to generate pressure. They also need to do a better job in coverage and in stopping the run, as they’ll be going up against Kamara. In the end, I see the Vikings coming away with the W. For some reason, the team has played very well in London historically, and we honestly have a much better team.
With the early kickoff, does anyone have anything special planned? A get-together or crazy breakfast meal? I’m thinking of making a triple pig fatty, shown here on Tailgatemaster.com, tailgating website of Admiral Big Gun. I’ve made this a couple times in the past, and it is as amazing as it sounds/looks. If you haven’t tried one yet, and you own a smoker, then what are you waiting for?
Minnesota Vikings News:
Skoldiers brings you his Week 3 Report Card: Vikings vs. Lions.
From Vikings.com, here are all the highlights from Sunday’s game.
Video of the Day:
Here’s a great one from Chris Knight called My Old Cars. Enjoy!
Gotta troll now and then to get some double takes
RIP Coolio
59.
young.
801st!! Fuck yeah!
Bosa likely done for year
That really hurts them. Not contenders anymore
A torn groin has to hurt haha
I tore mine last year. It used to be a super-groin. Now it’s just a groin.
Is that like Cooks torn labia?
@he did that already@
We were lucky last season, I expected us to balance out this season and lose 6 starters
After 61+ seasons in a row, we become accustomed to it. It will eventually rear it’s ugly head as always.
Or are a few healthy years due to balance out years of crazy injury situations?
Special report…..
Trade tricks
Hmmmm…. What’s she planning on doing with that cylindrical object?
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1575258672816689152?s=20&t=3n0_nxbCovgu-HazhDE5VQ
I feel like no comment is necessary here. My imagination already went off the deep end.
She obviously loves her microphone in more ways than one
I’m sure it has the full electronics package…
😂
This probably tops the list of best uni’s…. 🔥
You expecting much from this hurricane where you’re at?
Maybe some tropical storm wind gust to 50+ and some rain but not much more than that IF it tracks due north and doesn’t go east to the Atlantic. Not too worried. Florida is getting absolutely demolished.
That’s good for you guys. Yeah it looks pretty bad. My wife’s cousin recently moved to the Tampa area so this is their first hurricane experience. Doesn’t sound like much fun.
It’s not, at all. The “fun experience” wears off real quick when you have a massive clean up, you’re out of power for a week or more, it’s balls hot out with no ac, everything is closed down or in theses folks case mostly destroyed. They’ll be a fair amount of folks that won’t want to stay there after this completely blows up their world.
Sounds like a typical Wednesday here. Blowing 40+ and pouring rain today. Everyone is safe, sound, warm and dry
Your guys get in ok?
Not pleasant but made it in yesterday afternoon before the shit hit
It would be fun to boat over during the summer. Maybe I can hijack Canoe Girl’s pontoon, lol
Lol, the Cincinnati zebras
Lol….I love this…….sound on.
https://twitter.com/annamelissa/status/1575179922527559680?s=21&t=wMuEQkQHWooaZDi54rYOSg
It is quite the coincidence everyone be shot was a criminal, or not, idk
That’s what all the lib rioters were in every city
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-index-week-4-2022-season-rankings
Cousins 4 slots below Tom Brady. Of course, Brady HAS sucked this year, only 3 TD passes in 3 games.
MT, I know you don’t always go all the way down to the bottom of the comments, so for full disclosure I called you a comic book murderer.
an eye for an eye
Why in the world would someone murder comic books?
It’s a religious thing I think, lol
When he was moving he threw away a bunch of older comics books. I’ve been giving him grief every since.
I was a prodigious collector.
Makes me sad, too, when the matriarch tossed my collection, since “no one in the family read those”.
Growing up in the 60’s meant that they’re now worth some cold hard cash.
Or the folks burning a brown shopping bag of baseball cards from 1960-1970. Had all the greats
Yup.
I wish I still had my collection of Tonka Trucks. Now they’re made out of mostly plastic that crumbles in the sun.
I bought some Tonka stuff at a yard sale for my kids 15 years ago. Made them keep it.
Well deserved. It was as if millions of comic book characters cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
So my mother calls me and tells me there is a big pile of doo doo on her back deck.
I’m happy to report it was not from a homeless man, just a homeless raccoon.
Thought 5 went up north this week… not hanging around your mothers deck….
I wouldn’t mind if he brought some non-IPA beer and cigars. And chocolates for mom. And a shovel.
All those sound very 5ish
Homeless raccoon >>>>>>>>>homeless man
Yeah, she can’t even stand it when a bird poops on her bird feeder. It’s like a national emergency.
She sounds very tolerant
Did you do the right thing and open the door to give him a home?
You know how older people are these days?
You could crash a helicopter into their back yard and no big deal, but if the raccoon knocked one of her precious ceramic cardinals off a shelf it would be armaggeddon for the raccoon and she be torturing it like a Mengele.
Think i heard aints oline not that good so imagine he’ll sit.
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Literally paid actors
Politicians and news media.
All of them
YOURE ALIVE
Am I not supposed to heb
Read the Bank is the backup plan for chiefs/bucs.
That’d be nice for the pocketbooks of Hennepin County.
i should try to go, watch the GOAT one last time
Imagine cheap.
i wish
Apparently, that is the plan.
The circle of life, radiology style. Study drops, older individual with multifocal CNS lymphoma. Sign. Next study drops, young lady with unexpected pregnancy. The ups and downs of human emotion, digitally presented.
Was the young lady happy about it?
I wouldn’t know. I like to assume so, but plenty of potential there for drama.
I also glanced at a brain study the first case had in 2015 – saw I read it – looked closer – phew – nothing there. That’s what fuels my anxieties.
these days, i would expect the young lady to have the same reaction as the older individual.
but…i have never thought about this until your post.
you do see quite the variety of things that induce quite the variety of emotion from the patients, don’t you.
For sure. I diagnose an unexpected badness at least once a day, usually more. Sucks but that’s the job description.
I might have said this before, but it is weird to me that my shop and many others suppress pathology results from the patient portal for 72 hours, to “give the surgeons time to call and discuss the results rather than have the patient receive devastating information alone” but my reports are available instantaneously. That older individual won’t be reading my report and thinking gee this is a bunch of gobbledegook but overall it sounds fine.
what is your exact job description.
are you a radiologist? something more?
Gougeriologist.
haha
I’m a general radiologist. After residency (four years of general radiology training) I did a fellowship (extra training for a year) in neuroradiology. In Billings I got bookended into doing neuro all day unless I was on call, I’ve read well over 80,000 brain and spine studies over the years and have probably seen everything under the sun neuro wise in that time. The move to Glendive required me to step back into general radiology. I do it all except read mammograms. That is taken care of by specialized radiologists who do nothing but breast imaging.
my old youth pastor is a radiologist, and i think a really good one at that.
he used to teach radiology classes as well, but now i think he’s just fulltime readings only.
It’s a great gig. Know a little about a lot of things but not a lot about little things.
Something something mammograms…
My mom passed from CLL lymphoma. Diagnosed at age 50 fought it for 15 yrs until no chemotherapy’s worked and she was tired of fighting. She’d still be alive if not for that. Blood disorders are my families bugaboo. If you can dodge them we live to 95-100 generally.
Great longevity! You’ll be posting for a long time yet.
Small world. My dad was diagnosed with CLL at age 54, lymphocytosis with smudge cells on a CBC done for preop purposes prior to a herniorrhaphy. Never was treated as the lymphocytosis was stable for decades. In retrospect was technically not CLL but that is what they considered it for many years and he was basically a stoic that wouldn’t get a bone marrow anyhow. Years later when I was in med school I examined him and his spleen was easily the largest I have ever felt, or for that matter seen on scans. Years after that they diagnosed him with splenic lymphoma (which was likely the primary all along), had a splenectomy of the largest spleen the surgeon had ever seen by far. He felt great for the next year which I am glad that was the last time I saw him, feeling well and full of energy for the first time in years. A few months later he died of acute myelogenous leukemia from transformation of the lymphoma, very fast death and I did not make it home to see him die. All in all I’m glad he didn’t suffer very much at the end. Had just turned 78.
Life is good, Death sucks…
Sorry you and MT lost fairly young parents (Age 65 and 78)
My mom is 88 and living on her own, my dad checked out at 93 a few years back. I feel fortunate.
For sure there are days I wish I could talk to my dad. Like I said, I am glad the last time I saw him in person he was healthy, happy, we had a nice long walk and talk. The funny thing is that my mom is nearly that age now, and, I am opening up my soft parts a little here, she just isn’t my mom anymore. I don’t know if it’s her brain, or stubbornness, or what, but she won’t talk to me anymore, won’t leave her room at the senior living center, etc. I mean I have called my parents every week since moving out at 17, through good times and bad times, but it has reached the point I can’t do it anymore. She has checked out, won’t tell me why she won’t do anything anymore, won’t eat, etc…I mean I was on the phone with her for thirty minutes Sunday and she said about six words. Literally just sat in dead silence for two plus minutes several times. My sister says she is very angry at everyone for how things played out. Really she is acting exactly as her dad did at the end, some stubborn genes there.
TL;DR version I held it together when I talked to my dad on the phone minutes before he died, we exchanged I love you’s and after I hung up the phone I bawled like a baby despite the fact we were never that close in adulthood. I’ll miss my mom like heck but my reaction will be different if they call me and say she died.
Man thats tough to see her change like that. Its like you said she is not your mom anymore…My mom certainly had anger issues at the world after dad died, and she can still be a bit cranky and depressed about everything, and I get that…but she still wants to talk to her kids and is thrilled my family is visiting her over Thanksgiving, she has not “checked out”…..
I feel for you…
Thank you!
Pretty good genes there NoDak.
Yes, good genes for sure…pretty long lives on both sides, some make it past 100…I am in my late 50s and overweight….working on it, but I hope my genes pull me through….
Getting old is a MF’er I have sympathy for MT’s mom. Yes some handle growing old and becoming less independent with mortality knocking at the door well but some do not.
There’s regrets, resentments and fears. We certainly can’t judge until we’re going through it ourselves. I think endless empathy and understanding is all we can offer.
well said, Lifer
Yes., totally agree….shit I am agreeing with Lifer….:)
Lifer bucket boi
Ha! guilty as charged…when the man is right he is right – usually he is left…
what is she angry about and what about the “how things played out”? in terms of being in a home?
My kinda bullet points on the matter.
-dad died. She had to start doing things she never did her adult life, like plan meals, do all the shopping, pay bills. I don’t think she took time to grieve.
-thrived at playing cards and helping prep same with senior activity center.
-COVID. Extreme isolation.
-began getting extremely paranoid. Refused to see the doctor about it. Insisted she was fine on her own in Wainwright, far from any other family (my sister lives in Calgary 4 hours away).
-drove her Explorer through the wall of the senior center. Fortunately no one in the kitchen. Scrapes and bruises.
-full inpatient workup. In hospital for 30 days. Doc says nothing really wrong with her, but recommends senior living. She insists on Battle River Lodge in WW.
-Fails to thrive. Depression? Anxiety? Stops doing adequate self care while waiting for spot at Lodge. Nothing packed or given away in her condo even though move out day rapidly approaching
-Can’t get out of bed one morning. Bed soiled. Ambulance called. 30 more days in hospital. Even more workup.
-sister empties condo. Doesn’t want to move to Lodge even though spot opened up. Can’t go to condo now. Talks about getting a car so she can drive hahahaha apparently doc said he thought she could no way mom you aren’t taking out schoolkids in the crosswalk.
-Fails to thrive in Lodge. Gets UTI, no self care, Lodge starts calling with concerns. Back in hospital another thirty days. Doc finally signs medical POA over to my sister and I.
-moved to great facility in Calgary blocks from my sister. Refuses to do any activities. Skips meals. Went from 130 pounds in April to 115 pounds a week ago.
So pissed that she’s not on her own, has no car, not in her hometown. I think she realizes she looks like a complete fool but is too stubborn to snap out of it. Refuses to confide with doctor or advocate for what she needs.
dang.
i’m really sorry to hear all of this.
i can imagine how hard it would be if you had someone in your life that helped with all sorts of everyday life things poof, gone.
my grandma had a really hard time moving from her townhome to a facility. it wasn’t a fulltime care facility, so she had her own apt, but she really was not happy with her children for encouraging that.
thankfully alot of us grandchildren lived close, so wecould all visit regularly and then have her great grandkids visit too etc…
sad though. i’m sorry to hear that
Thank you! I’m feeling sad today, for no particular reason.
probably because we had a little tiff
Yup.
Knock down a couple cold ones MT.
Sometimes when I am sad and I drink…it makes me a little sadder, but kind of in a good way….
I much prefer to drink when I am happy….
drinking while sad is a bad idea for some.
I’m like you – if I’m sad and have a beer, I often get wistful. It’s a more pleasurable kind of sad, I think.
That is the correct term “wistful”
bam!
I’m about ready for a beer myself.
Me, too. Going to crack open an almost-soy-boy beer, Fulton Lonely Blonde American ale that I ended up with through no fault of my own.
We’re behind you, old chap.
Prayers and thoughts for not only your mom but for you, too.
I have those days too
I have a somewhat similar situation with a loved one where they refuse to budge on a certain matter that is a cause of extreme stress and unhappiness for myself as they let it ruin their life. Tried to reach them every way I could think of: heartfelt dialogue, counseling, pastor and so on and so forth.
They refuse to listen, and they don’t even have old age as an excuse. I finally gave it up. I can only do what I can do. If they won’t meet me anywhere on the scale, then I don’t get any life points for letting it ruin my life, as well.
One of these days, a major facing-of-the-truth is going to come up, and I don’t think they have the tools to handle it, and it will be a bad day. But I can’t control the choices they make. I can only do the best I can.
i didn’t realize you loved five like that…
sorry! here you are baring your soul and i make a joke.
i’m sorry you are going through that. sounds like you have done it the right way though…confront, then counseling, then meeting with pastor etc…if someone doesn’t want to change they won’t change.
Five will come around. I just need a one grand romantic gesture…
That’s heartbreaking.
Wow, that’s rough, so sorry MT. Give yourself permission to feel sad and mourn what is ultimately the loss of both parents.
When my aunt (who thankfully never lost her mind) was unconscious for the last week or so, we did all kinds of things that we knew she would have enjoyed, such as played her favorite music and even had musical friends give her private, soft, concerts. I don’t know if she was aware of these things or they gave her comfort, but they gave US comfort that we tried.
May I suggest that you do some little things for her while expecting nothing back in terms of response from her. Maybe think of it as a gift from your Dad to her. Examples: tell her what your favorite lullaby was as a child, and sing it to her. Tell her some family stories or favorite or funny memories. Think of a trait that your kids have that reminds you of her or your Dad. Any little things that you know she would have enjoyed if she were still in her right mind. These things may or may not bring her some comfort, but they will bring you peace that you tried.
Thank you, Kathy. Great advice.
she’s one of our best ’round these parts
Aww, thank you so much PPB.
One of the guys Kathy. Please take that the right way.
I take it as a great complement, thank you!
It’s rough when that happens. My mom’s dementia got real bad and with that came some anger. It was also hard to talk to her because she asked the same question multiple times in a 5 minute phone call. Then she had several strokes and was bed or wheelchair ridden and that really was tough on her. She was very independent since dad had gone. While all of us kids were sad when she passed, we mostly wished it would have happened sooner so she didn’t have to suffer so much.
Dementia sucks bad….sounds like she had a tough road out…hard on her and her kids…..
Sorry to hear about that.
I think your different reaction will be because you’ve already done part of the grieving process.
I can imagine getting there myself. There are times when I feel fed up “up to here!” (holds hand over head) with people, even my kids.
Thank you!
The thread is getting very quiet. You guys have moved on to a new thread, haven’t you?
hey guys…
I think everybody started celebrating drink beer day a little early.
Ben posted the summary and then everyone bugged out.
It’s Ben’s fault. He scared everybody away. Need more content and to make his summary outdated. What’s everybody’s favorite caliber for:
1.Deer Hunting
2.Large game (elk, moose)
3.Predators/other varmints
#2 oh the recoil.
It’s not bad… feels less snappy than a .300 Win Mag. Not sure why.
It’s on the low low end of bear guns, certainly less than .416 Rigby’s, which are the current fave of bear hunters.
I’m probably going to upgrade to a longer-distance .338 Lapua at some point. I’d like to go sheep or goat hunting without them laughing at me as I struggle to get my old carcass up the mountain and then watching them flip me the raspberry right as they disappear over the top.
I got a chance at a screaming deal on a Lapua with a NightForce scope. I put ten rounds through it and said no thanks. I hate recoil.
It’s a war of equipment. That particular problem requires a shooting vest with approximately an R-40 of insulation at the shoulder, and swapping out the recoil pad with an old mattress.
betas notice recoil. I expect you have a reducer on your 17 HMR
Sticks and stones. Would be an interesting experiment, you set up at 1000 yards with a 416 Rigby and me with a 6.5 CM, aiming at one another. One bullet each.
lol, the ol buffler guns, 45-90 shoot 1000 yards all day long
I have one built in 1894, It’s a classic Winchester 1886 model
Yeah, I have a Springfield Trapdoor 45-70 that can lob a car-sized pile of lead a thousand yards, but you could probably see it coming and step out of the way it’s so slow.
416 Remington-325 gr
416 Remington-400 gr
416 Remington-300 gr
Classic!
little loud, lol
The summary is almost as long as the thread.
Might be the answer to Z key. Check in at 1 and read Bens summary.
Thread Summary Today:
Some information was posted painting the Vikings as a top 5 pass blocking team, they’ve looked improved but not top ten.
A question regarding math came up regarding Bradbury being the 6th ranked center out of 30 when there are 30 teams
Kodiak referenced bandcamp
Hump Day gifs were posted, including one for MT’s private reflection time
Theme parks were discussed
Woke companies include Disney, Gillete, Target,
Wrenage apparently struggled getting up and is incredibly hairy, also went to the dentist
VP and Freezey might be serial killers
Everyone thinks the Vikings will win Sunday, some think it’ll be a cakewalk even, which means they’ll lose in epic meltdown fashion.
PPB posted some TL;DR analysis
Skoliberals is finally back from holiday and back to work
KOC is much more aggressive in the last 2 mins of the first half than most coaches
Jameis Winston sucks and has a broken back, most hope he plays instead of the Red Rocket
Eggslusher named the fanpost thingy so he’ll be the first to post
PPB said B-Rad is transitioning nicely
Shaving was discussed
A small number of people who are clearly delusional and very wrong said they are fine without the z key, but hey if you want to navigate the thread in rudimentary fashion like a caveman who am I to judge.
Pastors were discussed
Some Iti planks on his bike in races
PPB doesn’t know how to fix a stove and had to buy a new one, a discussion on appliances ensued
Michael Pierce (former Vikings) went on IR, per Lifer he is a “useless sack of shit”
A reminder of the cheating from the 2009 NFCCG was posted
Stonks confused
No sign of five, he’s still in bed like the rest of the lazy millennials despite not being from that generation, have to admire the commitment.
ITS NATIONAL DRINK A BEER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol
great summary, ben…
as always.
I accidentaly posted before I was done, you might have to refresh.
rip five
too damn long, summarize more. Now get off my lawn.
I MADE THE SUMMARY!
Now you’re going to post Dan Levy all day just to piss me off.
funny thing is, i love that show MT viking…
plus, i have always tried to find poop’s creek gifs…
Everyone’s in a topsy turvy mood today. I for one find it sentimental to see two gay men find true love together on a TV show. I have zero problem with gay men or lesbian women. We all don’t have to like the same things. If thy eye offends thee pluck it out.
i’m unsure why you are mad at me or annoyed at me.
i love that show. i don’t love THAT specific part of the show.
and i think you are supposed to pluck your eye out if it causes you to stumble/sin
Envy, hatred and malice are mortal sins. Some people have these feelings re: LGBTQ+
I can’t glean your tone or meaning from a few words. I just thought DE would appreciate a meme of the Tina Turner song in exchange for posting my favorite gif. I could GAF the specific scene it referenced.
I am going to give you a hard time once in awhile so the others don’t realize you’re my favorite.
i hold zero hate towards anyone.
i have a little envy towards mark hamburger, a minnesota boy who played a little pro baseball, who one of my college girlfriends grew up with and she would frequently send him “care” packages until i found out and put the stop to that.
i have no malice towards anyone besides the saints…
it isn’t easy discerning tone for sure.
we’re good dad.
i mean Mt.
You hated me recently for a gif I posted… the one with the milk? But I guess you just hated the gif (which indeed was gross, that´s why I don´t like the embedded gif feature – you can´t see the whole thing until it has been posted).
I’d like to post a couple thoughts on this myself.
I don’t hate people. I love people. Love speaks the truth.
Here’s how I look at it. Do I think there are any homosexuals that have not committed some non-sexual sin, such as lying/theft/blasphemy/etc.? No, I do not. Do I think there are any heterosexuals that have not committed some non-sexual sin? Again, no.
I think everyone’s a sinner aside from sexual sin.
And I’d happily help a couple of lesbians change a flat tire.
Exactly….love the sinner hate the sin….
I have friends and relatives who are gay…some of whom are absolutely awesome people…doesn’t mean I approve of or necessarily condone their lifestyle…
Although personally I have found most gay people fairly normal (as normal as cisgender, anyway) but the trannies are nuts…I am sorry, they are crazy, but I would still help them change a flat tire…
Yeah, if I don’t know you I’m not stopping. There are too many crazy people.
That is probably the prudent course…
I wholeheartedly agree but I saw an ad recently for the new movie “Bro’s” and it made me incredibly uncomfortable lol. My issue not the movies just not use to those images apparently.
Or maybe I should have posted this.
For the record I have stated I think the Vikings will lose again. I know it’s hard to imagine, but yes, I predict a loss.
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Everyone except Kodiak thinks the Vikings will win Sunday, some think it’ll be a cakewalk even, which means they’ll lose in epic meltdown fashion.
I’m on record to not being on record. I think it’s close. The D sucks. Change my mind.
Have we lost an overseas game?
2-0
Name of your sex tape
Dude need to be put in a home ASAP.
Simply shows how pathetic they will stoop to destroy western civilization
Stonks up half a K in active trading as everyone tries to guess which way the market is going to go.
Just wait until yer old, sonny
I will! That’s when I’ll care lol. Im just giving you grief <3
Damnit now my capital losses are going to turn into capital gains! I blame Ponder.
So I was at Menards the other day. I have a habit of drinking one six-pack of soda once a year for a few days and go dry on it the rest of the year.
I pick up a 6-pack of 20-ounce Mountain Dew.
16.9 ounces each. Effing Scamdemic is an excuse for downsizing everything.
Sitting in the Mpls airport to go back to PA. 5 days of fishing in detroit lakes with my 84 year old dad and brother. We cleaned 75 fish. A good trip…..
Nice! I mean, catching fish and getting out of Minneapolis.
Bringing any back? If so, what are the rules for bringing that stuff on a plane?
The rules state you should cook fish in the plane microwave…
I brought home 12 walleye and 20 big sunnies (9 to 10 inch range), us a few crappies. Wife loves MN fish.
TSA always looks carefully at them, and they count! I always bring a small cooler on wheels, with dry ice
We fly thousands of pounds of fish and game every year. Rules are the same as everything else
So, shoving it all into 3 oz bottles?
Jeez sometimes I forget how bad we got screwed. Not only by the cheaters but the refs
ugh.
why.
Refs were just bad on sunday, both ways
I will pas on rewatching that, thanks.
Yowza
WTF is going on? This is a historical first. No starters on IR through 3 games.
we must not have had to report ours yet?
dalvin should be on it i would think..
also, i feel so bad for the saints. poor saints.
4-5PM it’ll post
ok, that makes sense.
we should have a couple on there.
but goodness, that saints list is a big’in
Yet. The plane will likely crash on the way to London or have a rough landing and Irv will go on IR with whiplash.
We can only hope he goes on IR. That act will immediately make the team better.
Lol Metallus
what round was metellus drafted in?
5th
No 6th
so based on this information, we should have drafted Cine in the 6th.
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
He’s only got 1 game compared to 3. Likely would decrease alot
i know. i’m just trying to further my CINE IS A BUST bit.
although. if i’m starting to believe my bit, is it still a bit?
Yup, I’m still believing in Cinenara
Bust until he gets on the field and shows us hes not a bust
Just ST snaps are disturbing.
@nah. way better than drafting a hurt WR Jameson Williams@
Don’t need him. They shoudlve just taken Hamilton. Booth on the wrong track too
i’m sure hamilton isn’t playing yet……right???
Baby face is back for the Jets
Does it really matter what the Jets do? I mean, they lose no matter what, so…
until they play us
Beat me to it
Hide your mothers.
Lol, he’s welcome to go after my 88 year old mother. Good luck getting anything out of that relationship.
Russian recruits told they will need to get their own sleeping bags, medicine and first aid kits.
Told to have their family send tampons for bullet wounds.
Good times
Judge walked 4 times last night. LOL.
They’re scared
Nobody is going to give him the Favre/Strahan treatment?
Nobody’s gonna give him anything to hit, not when he’s swinging the bat like he is.
bRad, your woke friends are concerned about name “Braves” and the chop. Not 401K’s or anything.
What happened to maris too
After that happened once I’d be putting Judge 1st in the order.
Cool. F that guy and the yanks. He seems like a good dude, but I hate the yankees.
Today’s musical selection from BSF is a billy bass performing DMX:
If the mouths actually synced up with the words this would be gold
Our ole friend done for season
Wow, he played in 3 whole games? Lucky! We never got that many games out of him in 2 years.
Good old WReck getting rid of Linval to hire that pierce of nothing.
He’s a useless sack of shit.
ok, three hours of meetings. I will check Part 2 later for Ben’s recap.
I’m in a similar boat – I gotta jet soon
You’re ready to launch?
Some of you may remember me troubleshooting my oven a couple of weeks ago.
I’ve exhausted all of my alternatives and ordered a new one. Should be here in
ONE MONTH?
Great. Looks like I’m cooking everything on the stovetop (or in the grill) for a while.
Did you service yourself?
unsuccessfully
people wonder why i have a 25 year old oven/stove still…
it’s because they don’t build them like they used to.
i will keep my old fridge and my old oven as long as humanly possible.
newer isn’t always better.
yup
you can come over for dinner any time you need. you and the fam.
that’d be a long drive!
worth it though
Who’s cooking?
Probably his slaves, I mean kids.
Freeze and I will team up while our wives split a bottle of merlot
Well, at least they’re drinking merlot instead of some fruity crap
Yep, I have a chest freezer that was likely built in the 70s, thing still runs great. Appliance guy told me to just keep using it, it’ll probably outlast anything new that I’d buy. He said if you don’t go commercial, you’ll maybe get about 5 years out of one.
I just buried the LG side by side after 4.8 years… they replaced the compressor twice and then gave me $1200 of my original$1600 back in a check.
4.8 years for $400… not bad.
WORST Buy walked away from the whole thing even though I have a letter from the SR VP that they were going to stand behind it…
LG has other retailers..
You get what you pay for, cheap crap is cheap crap whether built 25 years ago or 2 years ago.
well the fridge and oven came with the house when we bought it.
everyone says we should get rid of them and go all stainless, who gives a crap about “ALL STAINLESS” if you have to replace them every couple of years
I dunno, seems like the dumb people have been in charge of home remodeling far too long. They seem to spend all their time fixing up the kitchen and the crapper.
Nothing about generators, bigger shops, tornado shelters, massive storage, room for the toys, a game processing plant room, trophy room, and making the garage bigger so you can get your 12-foot tall coal-burning 4×4 monster truck in the garage.
i was surprised to find my 2 car garage is actually a 3 car garage now that i’m parking all my mini EV vehicles in there…
You should be blessed, as I am, at the wisdom of our dear leaders, who would never stoop so low as to blow up pipelines.
hey kids, i know you don’t remember a time before ww3, but things used to be fairly decent.
we could play outside…
we could play catch…
ahh the good ol days
Yup, remember that time we could go out without Putin colluding with criminals and shooting everyone?
Pfft I’m sticking with a joint failed in the pipeline. Or a commercial ship dragged anchor over an exposed portion. Why would the US Navy be so stupid as to damage a pipeline with a surface warship when they have more submarines than any other Navy. For that matter the Germans have some nice quiet diesel electrics.
How do you get something that generally takes oxygen to ignite, like fire, under water, and almost simultaneously.
Explosives…
3 explosions simultaneously according to seismic information and immediate leakage following. Not suspicious at all.
they REALLY want a distraction from the midterms……so much so…they don’t mind maybe causing ww3
What finer distraction? They’re all about eggggcelents
I believe in the theory of mass… My car is bigger than yours so in an accident… I WIN!
Good luck with your skateboards!
Crumple zones are one of the better inventions on cars of the last few decades, except when you have to spend 5k to fix the bumper on the squirrel you ran into.
But big vehicles with crumples are far better than little vehicles with crumples.
Just like big ammo is better than little ammo, all other things being equal.
Yep, lug nut rule. He who has the most lug nuts has the right of way.
I’m old, so I remember when all the little foreign rice-burners had 12 or 13 inch wheels and 4 lug nuts
We’re installing a backup genny this week.
You end up with the Generac?
Yes
Yeah, they buy low grade stainless though most of the time, crap like LG and samsung. If you’re going to replace them buy a quality brand like bosch or the higher end line of something like Kitchen Aid.
when my old dishwasher finally went out, i did replace with a Bosch, more expensive, but haven’t had a single issue
Yeah, you likely won’t anytime soon.
Canoe Girl’s Bosch stove has no markings on it for which burner you are turning on. I’m always turning on the wrong burner so I plan on digging out an engraver one of these days.
That seems odd.
I don’t know how I’m supposed to remember which one to turn on. MY MIND DOESN’T REMEMBER STUFF LIKE THAT”
We had a Bosch dishwasher in Roch. My wife hated that thing.
We are “all stainless”. Gotta keep up with the Joneses. We’ve actually been pleased with them, and they were not expensive.
In Billings, our “mansion” had Viking stainless appliances. The refrigerator/freezer was a tank, hated when I had to move it to work on things. Oven took forever to reach temperature. Also the oven almost put me in the ground with 220 volts when I was replacing the display and buttons with the power on and no one else home.
So all in all I would say you should go stainless if you want to be in the cool crowd, but you don’t have to spend a lot. Just use Consumer Reports.
I boycott Commiesumer Reports
Oh no are they woke?
Not much any more, but back when I was a young plebe they had Ralph Nader on the Board and he was always pimping foreign products and advocacy, due to America being evil.
It looks good?
i don’t have money to have something just to “look good” haha
I cook three times per week on the grill or the smoker.
The oven is for during blizzards or tornados.
I gotta get better at it.
I’m a decent griller for typical grill food, but doing oven stuff in a grill is weird
Good thing I never did any baking, except for brownies. I suppose they would work in a grill, though.
Adrenaline and his @brownies.@
We’ve done pizzas on the grill…..foil wrapped potatoes…….foil wrapped veggies….corn on the cob…..
With potatoes, I like using Yukon Golds. Toss them with some olive oil and a dry rub. I typically use a honey type seasoning like the one below. After that, just put them on the top rack, flip occasionally and once they are getting a little softer you should be good to throw your steaks on.
That reminds me, I need to order some of ABG’s seasonings. The 15 others I have in the cupboard are not enough.
Give this one a try. Amazing on chicken and pork.
https://www.facebook.com/14SpiceSaintPaul
Looks like they added Cajun and a Rib Rub varieties to the regular 14-spice.
I mix up my own rub, found a recipe on Amazingribs.com for “Meathead’s Memphis Dust.” It’s great for pork.
https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/spice-rubs-and-pastes/meatheads-memphis-dust-rub-recipe/
That’s the one I use too for my ribs and pork butt.
Will have to try that. Sounds damn good.
I use reds a lot, slice into medallions, season with some Lawry’s garlic salt, pepper, maybe some ranch dressing – wrap into a foil packet (poke a couple holes in the side to keep them from blowing up like a balloon and opening the packet).
Do about the same with yellow crookneck squash and green zucchini, but they only take a few minutes to cook.
Communists?
I love grilled zucchini too. Again, I go with olive oil and then some combination of garlic seasoning on long slices. Put them on the copper grill mat for a couple minutes and done. The copper grill mats are awesome for vegetables, fish and even chicken. You get a better heat than putting foil down (it ends up blocking the heat so you’re just baking I feel), and with stuff that likes to fall apart you don’t lose half of your dinner.
I cube potatoes and sweet potatoes, mix in a bowl with some olive oil, a bit of garlic, salt, pepper, a bit of regular veggie oil, and a bit of water.
Spread it out on rectangle of tin foil, fold the top closed, put on top shelf of grill. Sometimes add mushrooms.
Easy peasy.
I’ll do baby reds in foil still but have gotten away from it more and more. You just end up with baked food so why not just cook it in the oven.
On grill day, I don’t like to crank up the oven, and everyone seems to like my taters and sweeters.
That means I only have to Tim the Tool Man one piece of equipment.
I’ve heard wonderful things about homemade pizza on the grill
It’s good. I’m sure some people will swear by a scorching hot grill, which is fine. It will give you charring similar to wood-fired oven. But I like my heat manageable. Grill one side to light brown crust (light coat of olive oil or avocado oil on both sides), flip, add toppings and when everything is heated through and cheese is melted, it is done.
Same, I rarely use our oven.
One month. You are lucky. We had inventory sitting on backorder for nearly a year. @Maybe the supply chain is back in order.@
Did you check that it was plugged in?
“Hello, this is tech support. My name is Steven Ashuaragunonensky, that’s A, s, h, u, a, r, a, g, u, n, o, n, e, n, s, k, y. How may I help you?”
“The database prints out gibberish when I print the report for cost per gizmo”
“Ok, let me go through my checklist of possible problems. Is your computer plugged in? Is it turned on? Is the network cable plugged in? Are you logged in with yer personal ID? Are you signed onto the database? Does it work? No?
Ok, I’ll have to put in a ticket to escalate this”
Hey MT, not sure if you saw my reply on the first thread yesterday. I was in a meeting all afternoon, came back, replied to a bunch of comments on that thread before I saw there was a new one up. Anywho, I do have one of the Solo Stoves. If you are thinking about getting one, I highly recommend. I was leery at first, but I got a good deal on it so gave it a try. If you don’t over fill it there is no smoke, the fire is super hot and I especially like that you don’t get as much popping and embers flying. That is particularly comforting when we are in the mountains and I am worried about burning the forest down.
We just got the Bonfire model, haven’t used it yet as the wife is concerned a spark will ignite a conflagration in our grass. I have a ton of oak dunnage left over from the shop construction material. Literally a ton.
just a ton?
Might be a ton and ONE POUND of wood. You see, the reason I am so excited as Montana does not have much oak. Pine not the best firewood. But oak burns hot and goes all night long.
ah, a ton of oak is an exciting amount of firewood, even if it’s not a lot of leftover material from a decent sized project
I’m familiar with the benefits of Oak firewood – I’m flush with it on my property and cutting/chopping it is a burly task
as they say: it warms you twice
I’m jealous of your oak trees. I hope to slowly nurture a bur oak to maturity as it gains sustenance from the ash of my last dog buried in the root ball.
I have the Bonfire as well. What’s nice about it, once it is started and heated up there are little to no sparks. All I ever burn is pine, because as you said that’s about all there is here. There is also a screen you can get for the top and a base for it. It doesn’t seem to get super hot on the bottom but slightly discolored my grass when used in the backyard. I would get the base if you will use it on your concrete so you don’t break that. It will probably be ok, but the oak especially will probably burn a little hotter and may cause issues.
Good
he needed ONE day to rest and get healthy
meanwhile winstons back is broken
Saints are already in London. Vikings going at last second. We’ll see what the better idea was
5 tomorrow, assume PM.
acclimation to the new time zone isn’t that important if they follow the team’s sleep plan
I’ve never been affected much by time change crap. Hop on a plane, get there, sleep at night like a big baby who needs to get up twice a night, as usual.
I was stationed in Berlin for 3 years, travelled back and forth for Christmas each year. Jetlag was always worse flying east. Hopefully they book a plane with a lot of beds.
Absolutely good. Need him to play so we don’t get torched by Dalton The Backup…again
Yup, Dalton has his days. Winston is like the Irv Smith of the Saints or whoever he’s playing for.
Go through security first? It’s after the game, how dumb. Has nothing to do with being home team once the game ends. Stupid NFL.
Kirk isn’t vaccinated.
Will England let him in?
The whole tone of the conversations so far this morning seem to be more bright, upbeat, and sophisticated…its almost as if a huge dark cloud is missing…I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Don’t worry, Kodiak just woke up.
Yes Kodiak did just show up….and we are better for it…
He brings balance to this small part of the world.
doomer balance for the homers?
Yeah, like a cloud on a day that’s too hot out.
that’s because you rubes don’t realize we suck as bad as we do. I need to level the kumbaya that greasy adolf and rosie Oconnel bring to the situation
Embrace the suck
five is more humor than anything else for me
I genuinely enjoy him
don’t tell him I said so though
LOL, same
He’ll probably be around. He’s probably just sleeping off the 2 hipster beers he had at dinner last night.
And I enjoy five as well – he is pretty funny
Those session beers hit him hard usually. He’ll probably sleep until noon.
Hopefully he didn’t fall and hit his man bun trying to get his skinny jeans off.
ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha
two 10 oz session beers
5 is on the road to Kabetogama.
is that a euphemism?
Yes, where he will become a fisher of men, or something equally pithy
i told like dissing people when they aren’t here to see it.
that being said..
five…
is….
actually a good dude. i email with him often. he’s a teddy bear
he’s a big softy
he sent me a christmas gift last christmas
awwww
was it a TRUMP 2024 can koozie?
He just sent me something I asked him to bring back from Zimbabwe.
He sent me 10 billion dollar and 20 billion dollar Zimbabwe bills as a good lesson on inflation for my son’s social studies classes.
I just want to give him comments to reply to. Don’t want him to come in cold when he gets here. Also, Biden is the best president since Carter.
Also, it’s kinda funny that I think the longest thread on here right now is about 5 not being here.
That got me chuckling
the ol’ peanut farmer
hey! peanut farmer! build me a house!
LOL
He’s adorable. Really reminds me of a Saturday morning cartoon bully.
Meh. He’s fine sometime but can get super annoying sometimes. It’s like groundhogs day over and over and over and over… again.
We get it dude… you’re a packer fan and everything SUCKS
He did send me some FIRE cigars a few months back. Did enjoy that
His love note in the package was pretty funny too
ha!
You have to just ignore him if he’s getting under your skin
I’ve found that helps me with Lifer, anyhow
Also in the works is a mute function so people can mute people sometimes. Might be a bit though on that one.
I’ll use the Mute button when people get too enthusiastic about the Vikings.
LOL
Happy national Drink a Beer Day
today? really?
excellent
Apparently. I thought it was every day, but I guess its an actual official thing today.
that makes it “drink TWO beers” day in my book
I like where your head’s at. I can get in line with this sort of mandate.
fair is fair
Like we all needed an excuse. But seriously, love Oktoberfest seasonal beers.
dang, I meant to get to Aegir last night for an Oktoberfest, but I was roped into babysitting my niece with short notice.
Fortunately she’s awesome.
Do they have a seasonal release? Not that it matters I can’t get there lol. So far for like national releases my favorites have been Shiner’s Oktoberfest and Left Hand Brewing. Sams, Leine’s, Schell’s were good too. Just those other one’s were better. Wooden Legs in Brookings, SD always has a good release, going there next weekend, I’m excited.
yeah, they always have an oktoberfest this time of year
I was just out that way, wish they were open at zero beer thirty.
How’s that any different than any other day? Or do most people not drink a beer every day?
I don’t. But you knew that already.
That is true, but you do drink root beer
I drink root beer, but not every day.
That’s kinda like national bj day, which should be celebrated 365 days a year.
on February 29th, you’re on your own!
she needs a break every 4 years
Definitely cannot drink a beer on Wednesday. Definitely not.
I usually don’t, actually. I have to stay up until 2am for my second job on Wednesdays.
A beer with dinner makes me want to go to bed by 9
MAYBE I could have a beer at 2 then take a nap, then I’ll be fresh as a daisy tonight
If I could only have one beer, this the one I would have.
So whaddaya think? Taints spank us 31-10? Run for over 200 yards. Beaker is still a shart show? Who’s going on IR this week?
so far…from what i have seen…
our opponents run game hasn’t cause us to lose a game yet…
perhaps this week will end that run? perhaps not.
It will start a new tradition and be taken advantage of by dabares next week
We were talking about a new tradition yesterday. It was suggested by PPB that we do a zoom meeting on the day we’re officially eliminated from the Super Bowl, or something like that.
I saw that. My reply was that it would be the day after greasy adolf fucked up the draft again. That’s when we all know we won’t win the Owl.
If it does I hope its the saints, Kamara has been a worthless draft pick.
Kamara could run all over us
I see an even-ish game if Quirk plays at his average level and turnovers/injuries don’t play a major role
big IFs, admittedly
Has Kamara ever ran all over the Vikings though?
I think the Vikings held him to only 6 TD’s one Christmas day. Ruined fucking Christmas for me forever.
you’ve got to compartmentalize, man
I was watching that game in a cold root cellar with my Saints fan son in law. What a treat. Abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous.
wait, wait, wait.
why were you in a root cellar on Christmas?
and why is your son-in-law a fan of the *aints?
1 I’d stuff the kids in the cellar
2 unforgiveable
He probably became a football fan around 2008ish.
Ugh. That sounds like abject misery. Enduring that game was bad enough, but watching with an ‘aint’s fan…woof. They’re nearly on par with FTP fans as far as unbearability. My bro in law is an FTP fan. I refuse to watch games with him. My respect for your patience and maintained love of family.
Oh trust me he was very subdued at the end, trying to make me feel better, oh my goodness this is just ridiculous I feel bad for you. Nobody likes to watch their team destroy another in front of a relative who is a fan of that team, unless they are Dahmer.
A lot of wisdom in his words. Let me chew on them for a while.
Or unless that team getting destroyed is the Packers.
i always laugh when MT viking swears in such a hyperbolic way
I’m beginning to think there are two of him
Every Christmas he doesn’t run for 6 td’s is a joy. Embrace the suck via perspective
i remember when the packers duo was supposed to run all over us…
and then i remember when the eagles and hurts was going to run all over us.. (and he killed us through the air)
and i didn’t watch a single minute of the lions game, but they probably ran all over us, BUT we still won..
so my point to kodiak….i have yet to see a team BEAT US by running all over us
Except we have the worst run D in the nfl, so we have that going for us. Which is nice.
actually, we’ve improved to #31
worst run defense in the league is now the pukers!
well there is a tiny silver lining. One team sucks worse than we do. Noice
I think we get a double digit win. Think JJ bounce back in a big game!
hopefully JJ didn’t start a year 3 slump one week late
if he doesn’t do much this week, I’ll start to get concerned
He’ll get Lattimore.
so? people with JJ’s clout are supposed to get theirs regardless of the CB
Sure it’s being discussed, more motion, i say.
He isn’t as good as the pukes broken coverage made him out to be.
That’s crazy!
i am supermannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
but seriously, one of the more impressive parts of the video is he got his feet to pedal as fast as the pedals were going at the end, without skipping a beat. these guys are animals.
Thats crazy is that for real???
That’s pretty cool. All I can think is that if you wiped out in that position it would hurt really bad.
i wonder how fast he’s going.
crazy that it’s uphill too.
Another comedian!
Soon to be the cause of many crashes as less talented cyclists try the same move.
The double take by the guy on the motorcycle.
Not the Vikings killer!
LOL, Andy Dalton killed the Vikings the last time he played them.
Who didn’t with the rare exception
Was Tre’Quan Smith practicing?
What about Andrus Peat?
That offense might be ripe for a destruction.
puker fans are probably complaining how we have all the luck.
Stupid puke get Brady without his top 3 WRs… and now Pats with freaking Hoyer at QB
Hoyer played pretty well when the Browns came to the metrodome a few years ago
Hoyer would destroyer us
He did that day
I got to witness it in person
That’s because we sucked way back when too
We’ll get the full injury report later today for both teams
crap, dalton gonna kill us
well of course
Dental appointment a success…
Time for a nap!
I wish. I got a lot of cat videos to watch at work today. Someone has to do it.
Hopefully thats on the 23rd floor
Did you hear about the guy who fell off the 100-foot ladder?
Good thing he was on the bottom rung.
better than the Anchorage fireman who was on the top rung. Splat but he lived
Yikes, missed that.
FREEZE.
HOW ARE THE LIGHTS?
unfortunately i didn’t get a chance to put them in.
i was in a pastoral search committee meeting much longer than i thought it would go, so i got done with that and went straight to bed last night. exhausted.
i will try to get them in tonight. but i have church and YG to lead, so might not have a chance. UGH.
LOL
Those are pretty good excuses. Tell you what. You just let me know whenever you’ve got something to report.
will do.
thanks for being excited for me.
it will happen and i will report soon.
you could be praying for our search committee as we set out looking for someone to fill some pretty big shoes.
Make sure you find out if they are Packer fans during the interview process. Our old priest, while otherwise a great guy, was a Packer fan. It was funny one lenten service he mentioned he wasn’t a fan of Lent because he had to wear Viking colors.
that’ll be the first question i ask. good thinking.
Replacing a pastor is so difficult. Will do.
That’s always a tough job. As hard as you try, you really don’t know who you will get until they have been there awhile. I hope when you are interviewing that you are including the spouse also. Sometimes that can make or break a pastor.
should have new blood every 5 years at that position.
LOL
this is the worst advice for a church ever.
Interesting. I had an uncle who was a pastor for 60+ years. After 5-6 years he considered his work done w/the congregation and would move to help another. If you can’t help them in 5-6 years you never will.
so what would happen to the church that he left after 5-6 years? and what work was he doing that he was able to wash his hands clean and say i’m done?
Everyone in the congregation was saved…and he had no new parables to tell.
THAT would be amazing.
I like happy endings.
Discipling can take a thousand lifetimes.
His attitude was new people for the job. Same ol’ same ol could only do so much
That might work for Lutherans. Some of the rest of us need a lot of work.
Exactly
Worst advice ever
Hire my psycho sister, she needs a job
to install the lights? or replace the pastor?
i would be a very quick interview…..
She’s a Lutheran Pastor. Not sure what flavor you are
I’ve found they’re the nutsiest
May not be the popular opinion, but the lack of a “z key” function doesn’t bother me that much. I would be happier to see improvement on the read/unread carry over after refreshes, after returning to the page, after logging in on a different device and not having everything marked unread when you start.
I’m with you, but I understand why lots of people want the Z
I get it, I just don’t have that hard of a time navigating here with the center click of a mouse. Getting unread comments mixed in with 100 read comments though after having to be productive for a bit is a bit annoying though. I don’t need to read everybody’s “hot takes” 2 or 3 times. Usually once is more than enough.
That’s why I usually keep my takes luke warm.
What does the center click do? The little wheel, how do you use it?
Click the wheel, then you can just move your mouse up or down a little and it will keep scrolling (the farther you move the mouse, the faster it will scroll). Left click or roll the wheel to stop. You can scroll left and right with it too, but that only comes in handy on big spreadsheets typically.
Yup, most mice will show up and down arrows when you press down on the wheel, but some don’t
Thanks. I either forgot it did this, or never knew.
I have no idea what a z key is or does and why I should lament not having one…
You can’t miss what you never had… mostly…
At a certain other website it marks the comment you are on as read and takes you to the next unread comment. It is handy, but mostly I think the old guys here just don’t like change.
hey!
i don’t think i have ever used the z key when there was a z key to use.
Slacker.
Lifelong non-learner
no, i have just seen you all B word about it, for years talk about it, so….
That really is annoying. I do love me a z key however, especially when there are 500 comments to slog through on days I’m busy at work.
Since you only have to mouse over a comment to mark it read, I find it quicker to just scroll. I just get annoyed when I try to refresh and reset the nesting then there will be 2 unread comments amid 100 marked unread that I already read. I just ignore them unless I happen across them later.
Refresh a second time when that happens, it’ll fix the issue. It’s weird, but it works.
Yeah but if comments are added in the middle of the double refresh it marks them read. That’s usually what I do but the OCD part of my brain watches the total comment count to make sure I’m not missing any comments.
The other one is this morning for example. I logged in on my phone while getting ready for work. Read the 20 or so comments, then by the time I got to work and logged in on my computer, there was 100 or so comments. 80 of which were marked read.
Oh, that is odd. I can bring it up & see if there is something they can do.
Man, I’m glad I opted for the insurance on our Disney World tickets. That’s an ugly storm moving in over there, and we’re supposed to fly out on October 11th.
i can’t believe you support disney.
get your head out of the sand, brad.
now don’t mind me while i watch some disney shows on my disney plus app.
only Disney product I knowingly support is the Simpsons, and even then they’re not getting a cent. I’m watching physical media.
pron?
No, Simpsons seasons 1 – 20 on DVD
i have seen a number of simpsons episodes, but i am by no means a simpsons expert…
but one of my favorite episodes is when bart takes a job as a caddie at the local country club and learns that sucking up is what makes the most money.
i think every second of that episode is HILARIOUS
I haven’t seen that one! I think I’ve only seen 5-10% of the episodes that came after season 20.
oh, so that one is AFTER season 20? sheesh.
i HIGHLY suggest you see it. it’s HILARIOUS
I’ll see if I can steal it from Groomers Inc
it’s called Wad Goals, season 32 episode 13
streaming that today. Thanks
let me know if you think it’s funny
The true gems are seasons 4-7. Some in season 3 and quite a few in 8, 9, 10. I can’t say I’ve seen many beyond season 10.
OK. that Simpsons episode was very funny.
Up there with the time Homer invents his own religion.
I don’t support them, I’m just going there to do my penance as a parent and ride on some fun rides. Also, it’s a place to stay while we wait for the Vikings-Dolphins game.
i kid.
i have many friends who draw their line on things like NO DISNEY but then spend hundreds of dollars a week at Target. you can’t draw the line for ONE business, and then give another business who stands for and agrees with all the things the business you are against, stands for.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of boycotting businesses, that’s more of a lib thing.
I sometimes boycott…Remember when Gillette did its woke Men should be Panzies commercials – there is too much toxic masculinity? I switched brands and have never gone back.
Jeremy’s Razors, I hope
I have a Viking Blade safety razor and feather brand blades, I don’t know if either are woke.
Feather blades are legit.
The Viking blade is not woke, but I had purchased some other brand. Maggard, I think. Great for a smooth shave.
Now I just use the trimmer and keep the beard short.
Yeah I usually shave 2-3 times per year and otherwise just have a beard. I tried a bunch of different blades and feather is the best I’ve found so far.
i just don’t shave anymore….
a solid option
same
i pretty much just trim my beard from time to time. that’s about it.
sometimes i move my hand too fast and trim shorter than i would like, that makes me mad. then have to take the whole beard shorter than i would like.
get a trimmer with a guard – makes it pretty easy
i usually do that. but sometimes i’m lazy and i just want to trim the unruly beard hair and do that without the guard. idiot me.
in japan – heart surgeon number one – steady hand
I knew you’d get it
i have watched that show more often than i should admit.
I’ve considered that, too. Could grow my beard back out again.
DO IT
Same, I got too much else too worry about.
Some corps are worthy of being boycotted, I get it. I just don’t get too worked up over little stuff, I guess. Things like that Gillette campaign are worth boycotting, IMO.
I’m all for it
seems like a conservative thing to me – free capitalist market correction
Some friends used to mock me for taking the family to Disneyworld several times when the kids were young. The look on the kids faces when something cool happens is worth the money. They understood that once they took their own kids a few years later.
Also, went to the black hills and spent more per day that we did at Disney world. Flintstone land is not quite as nice as Disneyworld…..
Now that the kids are adults, I am done with that place until the future grandkids are old enough to go on rides….
Flinstones Village closed permanently, we usually went there once per summer growing up.
Did it really? I remember going there when I was a wee lad. Bummer.
what happened?
multiple homicide?
No, the family that built it and owned it for its entire existence sold it like 5 years ago and the new owners apparently couldn’t come to an agreement with whoever owns the rights to flinstones trademark or whatever so its still a campground stuff its just not all the fun flinstones stuff.
Perfect part was waiting for a show to start, and Barny had the head of his costume off while smoking a cigarette. Right in plain site of 25 kids waiting for the show.
Yeah, I’ve never been to Disney World before, we didn’t have that kind of cash when I was growing up. I don’t make money to just horde it. Screw that, I’m going to enjoy life, & I’m going to spend time with my fam, especially my kiddo.
horde first, enjoy later
you’re transitioning nicely
Gone Fishin is transitioning? Not sure I want to know about that.
The first thing he had to do is shop for a wig
Is he going by Brenda now?
One of my neighbors used to be a Brenda. Man, she was always moseying over with cookies and stuff.
Nice and I should have said “Is he/she/they”
Are you staying on the grounds?
While a bit spendy, it seemed worth it to me. Early admission into the parks, and just took the bus/monorail everywhere.
Also, we did the park hopper. IF that is still allowed it was worth it. go to a park, when it turns into stroller hell, go to epcot for a few hours. Then back to park.,
We make a deal with our grandkids, one park and one park only in Orlando. They usually choose Magic Kingdom. Also, they had to be nine or older. Everyone should take their kids/grandkids there at least once.
We’re doing all 4 parks, plus we have the water park passes. Can’t wait. I’m kinda’ an adrenaline junky, so I’ll probably have as much fun as my son.
Have fun. Wear sunscreen. Pack some water and refill at the water fountains. Try to minimize how many meals you eat at the theme parks.
Not necessarily in that order.
I take my kids to Valley Fair (rides and stuff)
Nintendo World is coming to the US in a year or two, I think – we’ll have to see if I pull the trigger on that now or wait for grandkids
What is Nintendo World?
Those water parks are an absolute blast. Swam with the sharks at Typhoon Lagoon. Summit Plummet at Blizzard beach is a great waterslide.
Have fun!
Are they as good as Wisconsin Dellls?
I’ve been to Six Flags in CA, Six Flags over Texas, both Disneys, Knott’s, Great America, Marine World, etc.
The one I always like the most was Busch Gardens. Not that crowded and lots and lots of rides with not much lines.
I’ve been to none of those, will probably end up going to Disney World at some point though.
The lines and mass of humanity kill me now. Might take my grandkid to Sea World next year if the fish-huggers don’t close it down.
Yeah I’m not looking forward to it.
I’d rather spend time in a herd of cattle. They might crush you to death, but at least they aren’t screeching in your ears and letting the world know about their exasperation.
We took the kids to Disney World a few times. I always hated it. It was a 1000 degrees, you stood in line for a half hour (or longer) for a ride that lasted 5 minutes (or less). And we did that over and over. I hope my grandkids don’t want to go.
Been to both, and yes, the waterparks in Disney are better than any at the Dells.
Been to Kalahari, great wolf lodge, Noah’s ark, etc.
Disney knows how to build things and make money. Not in that order.
My wife tells me the Royal Caribbean private water park is the best she has been in. Was scheduled to go, then the plague hit.
Can’t wait. I love water parks, too, so we’ll have a good time. I’ll just have to try to ignore all the other people.
Be long gone by then. Disney is the evil woke.
Oh my, hadn’t thought about your trip, so sorry.
Oh great, now Nickerson is gone. There goes the season.
Good news for Booth IMO. He’ll see the field on defense before Cine will.
Well, don’t count your chickens… hopefully he’s not subtraction by addition.
Interestingly enough (not really), I have never counted any chickens.
Well apparently the Vikings have much better talent and depth at the S position than they do at CB, which seems to be true as Metellus grades 82, Bynum 65, Smith 65, whereas PP 61, Dantzler 58, Sullivan 56, and rookie Evans 55.
TL;DR – Safeties are at least average, CBs mostly below average.
not nickerson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know, right? I’m devastated.
i guess i will need to get rid of his jersey now.
Put it in the closet next to MT’s Sloter jersey.
you could have left it at put it in the closet next to MT…
Don’t get your Nickers(on) in a knot!
Extra TE on the practice squad?
Maybe Mundt and Ellefson are gonna be the guys now.
BYE IRV
We can’t lose Smith and Nickerson on the same day, for goodness sake.
That would be like losing one guy, Nickerson.
Hey GF, it appears the Front Porch has slowed way down so it will not be a daily thread. But if you want it to succeed, shouldn’t it be bumped up to the front page? Right now it is buried so deep that any random viewers will not be able to find it.
Hi Five. I know you will appreciate this post.
high five
We can’t really bump articles back up which is annoying. I think that was on Brads list to the developers to get the home screen tweaked.
We can “clone” them but all comments would be lost
Ahhh. Maybe it will need to a every other day thread or something just to keep it on the front page.
We’re going to shoot for doing it daily, try to be consistent with it. It’ll grow, just have to give it time.
same as this thread
Yeah, I’ve asked them about that, and about the placements, getting more “main” stories on top of the page with the image.
I just figured out how to “sticky” articles. They stay on the bottom but not the main page article for whatever was the most recent posted
You should post the link for this thread at the bottom of the Front Porch article so everybody has to go there first.
I’d like to have about 3 of those main page articles instead of just one. Maybe the most recent 3.
I could see two big spots on the front page – one for the latest daily open thread, and one for the front porch – and then maybe a row of thumbnails below that for all of the proper articles
Sorry Pete, that’s a Disney owned show.
I don’t think they get anything from gifs being posted! 😀
I just re-posted the front porch for today, it should be up there. Sorry, we didn’t get one up yesterday.
I expected it to start slow, I was honestly surprised by the activity the first couple days. It’ll take time, but we’ll stick with it & get it going. It’s nice to have the other option.
Options are nice. I like it on the Open, but I do like to post on the Porch also, just for fun. Plus I like Rob and someone needs to keep him company.
Yeah, and I think it’ll continue to grow. We were contacted by quite a few people who were interested in something like it, so I think they’ll eventually make their way over there.
Do I get the privilege of the first “Fan Forum” since I named it? Also, do I get to set the rules on the article? Because that might sway me to write a piece that would enrage Five (doesn’t take much with that delicate snowflake) and say no political speech or swearing haha.
LOL, we’re using a similar set of rules for the site, with the exception being this open thread, which is wide open for all discussion. The rest of the site operates on the same set of rules.
You can certainly have the inaugural post.
you’re gonna let a lib have the first crack at it??
TOTAL LIB
Five has you doing his bidding for him huh? haha
NO, they are going to let me have a crack at it.
careful, eggs and cracks don’t mix well
Pffft, omelets, fried eggs, egg salad, deviled eggs, hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs all disagree with you.
pipe down, eggslusher
Lol Winston this year so far
I never did like Winston, from his first season on. Too many big screwups without many hugely goods
Yup. Plenty of talent, but low ceiling.
this could bode well considering we haven’t allowed a single point in the 4th quarter this year…
OR
this will be the first game we allow 4th quarter points…
OR
He goes off for multiple TDs in the first half because Vikings 1st half defense sucks the last couple games.
yes, this is also a very good chance…
or he sucks because he sucks
I think he’ll throw 2 TDs in the first half to NO players
I think he’ll throw 2TDs in the second half to Vikings players
Vikings win
that sounds delightful
I think his last year in TB he threw like 8 pick sixes that year including multiple in one game.
25th ranked defense sucks all the time. Dumb coaches help, but can’t be counted on
I likey
What a breath of fresh air. I am sure at some point it will bite us in the ass but those are the risks you take and personally I think it’s worth the risk.
Love his aggressiveness – Yes a big breath of fresh air….When we got the ball before half against the Lions with 40 seconds and 1 time out I was really surprised he was aggressive…..loved it
Absolutely. I’d rather go down swinging.
i’m not crowing him or the vikings when i say this…
but i do like that SO FAR it seems to be completely opposite than what we did last year.
Not only was zim a pansy and never tried to do much at the end of the first half (perhaps we did sometimes, i don’t remember many times though), but our end the halves defenses were so bad.
so it’s just nice that SO FAR, it’s seems to have changed a bit..
Banned for “Pansy”
The Pansy Police will be here in a minute from Purple Pansies…