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Minnesota Vikings News:
From SI.com, JJ Watt is stepping back onto the football field.
Pro Bowl tackle Taylor Lewan is filing a lawsuit over a knee surgery in 2020, according to CBS Sports. Reminds me of Sharrif Floyd’s situation.
The Chiefs are not expected to exercise the fifth-year option on RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire, per NFL.com.
Video of the Day:
I was rebuked for not playing this yesterday, so here you go. This is Gordon Lightfoot, may he rest in peace. Enjoy! And stop yelling at me, @I’m very sensitive@.
Oh…last thing…apparently we’re getting dumber by the day (see pic).
See how dumb you are and answer 8th grade level questions below. Don’t cheat or you have no character. I’ll give the answers in a little while.
Grade 8 Sample Test
Only about 20% of eighth-graders passed the national civics tests in 2022, with many unable to answer basic questions. Test yourself with five sample questions from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Question 1
At the time Columbus arrived in the Americas, most of the area that is now called Mexico was controlled by people called the
A) Inuit
B) Apache
C) Aztecs
D) Iroquois
Question 2
Which of the following is an example of people using power without having the right to do so?
A) A governor vetoes a bill passed by the state legislature.
B) A group of people against nuclear power march outside a nuclear power plant.
C) The owner of a newspaper prints her own opinions in the newspaper.
D) A police officer arrests someone because the person looks suspicious.
Question 3
What do all constitutional governments have?
A) A bill of rights
B) Legal limits on political power
C) A President as the head of government
D) Separation of church and state
Question 4
Susan B. Anthony was a leader who helped
A) children win the right to an education
B) women win the right to vote
C) older people win the right to get social security
D) immigrants win the right to come to the United States
Question 5
Indentured servants were different from slaves because indentured servants
A) came from the West Indies
B) were paid less money
C) did much easier work
D) were freed at the end of their term
C,D,B,B,D
Yep… easy
Now everyone can copy my answers.
Use spoiler tag…you’re acting like a 7th grader.
Ha!
cmon. I don’t know if anyone is missing those…. We all went to school a while ago and KFey is probably taking his bedtime bath.
im pretty bad at the spoiler tag anyhow.
They were easy…only took me 15 min to complete but I went to public school in Wva.
2nd on is kinda bullshit though.
that’s social justice liberal mind crap.
I would’ve said something like
”Writing an executive order to forgive student debt.”
Well you like a police state with shake downs and profiling.
you’d think your example would be calling state election officials asking them to change vote totals but hey, guess fascists minds think alike.
I was mulling over answering for that reason…
C d b b d
Copycat
I didn’t look at subsequent answers, just went question by question, took all of about 90 seconds, but good to know you’re also not dumb
IDGAF
TLDR and seems political which I’m avoiding lately
Sounds like potato is on the mend…be glad to get him back.
GO TWINS! Can you beat the lowly Sox on the road? Doubt it. Baldy and analytics.
Dead
Lots of love for Mekhi Blackmon today.
I’ll bet there won’t be a single article written about a rookie that says “this guy sucks”. All you’ll hear from now till the end of training camp is how great they’re looking and how excited the team is about them. The media will feed us a steady diet of hype sammiches from now till September.
And then the heat of actual battle will temper all the hype and reality will be upon us.
True… right now if you were to go to any teams website they’re all raving about their rookies.
You mean….its all not true??
This is from a national network not local so it’s less expected.
I did see a handful of reports for differnt players… Bijan was one that they aren’t “as good as they were drafted to be”
it’s all opinion but when a National org writes an article it carries a little more weight than homerville
If I wrote articles you could bet your ass there’d be at least one, “this guy sucks” article, but alas I have no time for that tomfoolery.
Voluntary workouts. They give a list for that?
Gotta have something to talk about
Hey what do you know…another day another gunman on the loose. Thank god the guns aren’t the problem.
Lifer, the folks beating this drum about the guns are the problem (inanimate objects) vice the violent people insult our intelligence. Guns are not the problem. Violent people are. The violent person who drove a vehicle into a crowd of people for instance… was the vehicle the problem or the person?
We are on the brink of societal collapse, if not there already. It’s fucking people but left just ignores. A Hispanic that has been deported 5 times kills 5 people. I have a few hunting guns but i bought a Glock for protection when i realized how fucked up society is getting.
I’m going to bring my subaroo…run over you and take your new Glock.
(You can thank NVF for giving me the idea)
Turning in my guns. Going to look for a shoulder holster for a butter knife when society scum come after me.
I unfortunately lost all my firearms in an ice fishing accident.
Think you mentioned. They don’t come cheap either. I still think in the “new” world you need to protect yourself and family. IMO.
what?? How the hell did you manage that Kramer?
It’s too bad that they’re all gone.
lost my crypto wallets too.
big loss all around.
oh well.
You might want to get a check up from the neck up me boy.
Done lots of ice fishing but never took a firearm.
I had all of mine.
bottom of the lake they sit forever….
Ok Davie Crocket stick to chickens.
If I hear one more person complain about Kirk Cousins contract….I will find you.
They don’t have a salary cap though
SB BABY!
Better extend him now
At a work conference today and tomorrow so haven’t been on much. Anything cool or the same thing like every other day?
Lighting Split Rock lighthouse tonight for Gordon. Fitting.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/05/03/kirk-cousins-i-want-to-be-with-the-vikings-so-hopefully-i-can-earn-the-right-to-do-that/
Looks like he’s trying to push out a dookie
Brad just trying to drive more KC debate to drive up clicks and comments.
@Follow the money yo!@
LOL
It’s a link to an article. I’m not sure why it looks like an image.
Extend him!
Hope they do since they passed on a QB that’s relevant
If any fan believes this, you are a sucker.
He could have signed a contract, but said no.
He offered the contract and the Vikings said no.
Probably both.
But Kirk just wants his money over being a Viking.
You can believe that if you wish… the Vikings though could have taken the very good deal he offered (per reporting) but they chose not to.
As I said, Cousins will not allow a GM to control him. No trade clause and guaranteed money (regardless of the amount) are baseline for him. If the Vikings can’t accept that, then there will be no new contract after 2023. That’s fine by the way for both parties.
Team cap was to make the league more competitive, they don’t say how to spend it though. Sports are pissing me off.
Fast, card-dealing fingers ✔️
Lucky Knock-Off Minnesota Vikings Operation Iraqi Freedom ‘collectible’ card protector ✔️
6-pack cooler with Diet Coke and beef jerky ✔️
Kenny Rogers ‘The Gambler’ cued up on greatest hits CD✔️
Ample supply of high-grade marijuana to keep me ‘focused’✔️
Rehearsal of popular poker phrases such as ‘Life is tough on the river’ and ‘Looking at a double belly buster gutshot straight draw on 4th street’ ✔️
’Alright Meeester Son Uv A Beech, let’s play some cards…’
• Teddy KGB
GF’s comment about sexual abuse training got me thinking. Did I tell you guys I got served (with a subpoena not a tennis ball) at work a couple of months ago? (At my home campus in Billings the subpoena process goes through the legal department so you just get a phone call from one of the paralegals who forwards the preliminary details). The rad secretary told me a deputy was waiting by appointment desk, needed to give me something, I thought what could this be? Walked out and she handed me the subpoena, explained that I should call the number closer to the date, etc. I became aware that the waiting room filled with patients and family members was watching my every move. Dumbass.
When she served me on the spouse, I wisely told the secretary to just send her back to my office.
Alleged child abuse case. State calls me to testify as to custody/nature of injuries.
Why wouldn’t they give you a heads up?
The deputy? I assume she wanted to keep the process as confidential as possible, and there is no legal department here at this small rural hospital so she had no choice but to serve me personally. I was just stupid in not realizing what a spectacle it creates when a doctor gets handed something from a deputy. I’m sure the rumor mill was buzzing.
Yeah that would suck. I was subpoenaed years ago when I worked in group homes about an allegation of abuse by another staff member similar to this, but they called me and told me they’d be serving me a subpoena to testify though didn’t state specifics so I was like hey, I’ll just swing by the police station.
Way to waste a good pitching performance by Ryan rocco. Just had a day of and that’s the bullpen you put out there? FIRE BALDY.
BullPen gave up 1 in the 6th and 1 in the 8th.
Then with a placed batter on 2nd in the 10th all it takes in a single.
Reliever got the 1st two outs and the 3rd batter got a single = ball game.
Not sure that there is much blame it’s not like there was a meltdown.
Twinkies should have gotten more than 2 runs in 10 innings.
IMHO of course.
2 usually isn’t enough runs to git ‘r done.
Lopez. 2 run dong.
Just went through sexual abuse training. It’s required in order to coach baseball, which makes sense. That’s some rage-inducing shit to listen to.
So you are now certified to be a sexual abuser?
He’s certified just like Lifer.
Good news you get discounts on duct tape, Zip Ties and ball gags.
I have a certificate and everything.
Yup. Infuriating. Even more difficult to work with that population – most, if not all SO’s jam out to civil/criminal commitments to mental health facilities, many of which are privately operated and poorly funded, at least here in Nebraska. It’s a huge reason why I got out of that line of work.
That would be tough. Not an easy industry to work in, that’s for sure.
It’s good that you got the training. Hope it never comes to pass that you need it but could be that the time you spent doing it turns out to be well worth the effort for some poor kid.
‘some poor kid’
The Teacher found out that one of her students (1st grade) was in a foster home and being raped nightly by another foster kid.
The foster mother ‘deflected’ by saying the school wasn’t doing enough to support the kid.
The Teacher had to be interview by CPS just to tell them she knew nothing about the situation and the foster mom never asked for any additional help.
Often the closer you look the uglier it gets.
She found out about the situation at the interview when they asked why she wasn’t do more about it.
I pray for kids in Foster Care now a days.
The foster parent should immediately have taken steps to remove the raper and is guilty of neglect. The teacher should have immediately reported it CPS as a mandated reporter, if she didn’t, she’s actually guilty of a crime as well.
How could she report it if she didn’t find out about it until they interviewed her about it?
Don’t know what the foster mom knew or when she knew it.
I misunderstood, I now see she found out at the CPS interview, I don’t read so good. I reread the comment, if the foster parent is trying to deflect, they knew about it and didn’t do anything about it or at least they didn’t report it.
The Foster Mom deflected when it came out. Supposedly it was going on in a closet at night.
As a general rule The Teacher has to report anything that raises a red flag.
She reported to CPS earlier this year when a student told her he couldn’t get any help with homework because he was at home alone every evening (again 1st grade).
When the parents found out they filed a complaint against The Teacher for it. The Admin staff kindly apologized on her behalf.
#Dangedifyoudoanddangedifyoudon’t
I mean the teacher is legally required to report any suspected maltreatment, including neglect, how dare she actually fulfill that obligation.
Frustrating no doubt.
I get to hear her vent everyday when she gets home.
Then she apologizes for it.
I tell her when working at the prison I did my share of venting so I have no problem with it.
Admin just wants as few problems as possible. Apologizing to the parent is the easiest way to make issue go away. Until it isn’t of course.
LOL, that’s funny, spent my day in one of the state prisons today
My son worked for awhile in the one prison in ND, He said it was nothing like the war zones we have here in Calif.
The Teacher often told me she had some of my ‘future clients’ in her classroom.
One of the programs I run is a back to work transition for convicts. Recidivism rates are drastically lower for those that come through it, but my team can pretty much tell immediately who is going to go back w/in 90 days. First question we ask them at these transition fairs where they’re all pretty close to getting out is what’s your plan, where are you going to live, their answer tells me if their going back or serious about staying out.
When I worked Reception we would see the same inmates come in year after year.
When asked they would say ‘hey I got my 6 months at home’.
I sure hope not.
Me too.
What do they train you on? Like behaviors to look for in children that indicate they are or have been abused?
Yeah, how to spot abuse, how to interact so that there is no room for accusations, how to react if a kid confides in you, etc.
For you guys that play golf and were talking about that video suggesting throw the club. I’m no pro, and certainly free information is well……, so take this as a different thought. I think that suggestion will actually make your swing worse. Most high cappers actually “cast” the club and asking them to throw the club is asking for a mess. To me. it’s far better to think like “allow” yourself to release the club properly. And it you don’t have the club in the right position, all the release in the world is worthless.Release will happen automitically if you “let” it happen. Most don’t “let” this happen and they instead let the hit impulse happen, try to “hit” (release) it and screw it up. There is no way in the one second or less from end of backswing thru impact that you can time you release properly – far or thin shots all day. So what’s the answer
Answer – hold club lightly and learn to swing the club FREELY without tension back and forth. A great, in fact perfect release will happen naturally in you simply LET it happen and NOT try to make it happen. But hand and hand with this. the club Must first start down and then Forward from the proper position.
Long winded sorry. Didn’t know how to explain better. Again, just my 2 cents.
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Sorry!
You’re good. I said a while back any talk of golf gets that response. Can’t make special circumstances. Just being more of an ass to be an ass. You enjoy something post about it! If it’s golf you get a snore gif from me lol.
Do you have any advice that will help me get it through that little opening under the windmill? That one is tough for me.
Unplug it.
Solid advice
I try and hit one of the blades, seems to work best, or ask the man on your bag. Putt putt golf rocks.
FDA approved a vaccine for RSV in those 60 or older. Great news.
Great news for who?
The elderly or the pharmaceutical companies?
Yes
Mainly the elderly. Same with the second Alzheimer drug hitting the market, significantly slows progression of the disease. I might have hope yet!
LOL.
Yeah. My mom is going down that road.
If I live that long, I will be as well.
My maternal grandfather had Alzheimers. Otherwise there is no recent family history of same. I thought my mother has Alzheimers but her memory is still great. I’m no mental health expert but she seems to have severe agoraphobia, maybe because of generalized anxiety, and is essentially anhedonic.
English please.
Doesn’t like to leave her room at the senior care facility.
Doesn’t do any activities. Won’t even watch TV or go down to the library to grab a book (the library is like 40 yards away down the hall).
You know, medical advances are great but if they can keep your body upright til 90 but mind goes at 70, is that living? Crap bugs me.
That’s why I spend time on here. Keep my mind diverse. Push my comfort zones every day (not just here).
Second alzheimer drug? So there’s something other than L-Dopa now? My grandmother had parkinsons late in life and at one seemed pretty obviously overmedicated, at least to me in my layperson experience with only being certified in discus/moses and not a real medical professional. She was having paranioa and confusion, like one time she threw sprite on people in an attempt to bless them and save them from their impending damnation, as well as strange movements of her head in like circular ways and she could never be still, she was always moving some part of her upper body and not like the shaking from parkinsons.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65471914
Is that a link to Ivermectin?
Parkinsonian movements come in many varieties. Some have the constant shaking palsy, some have severe body rocking, some are stone stiff.
The addition of paranoia and confusion to Parkinson’s is very common, as Parkinson’s is quite often accompanied by dementia (3/4 of people with Parkinson’s will develop dementia). “Parkinson’s dementia” is less disabling than Alzheimer’s, but Parkinson’s with Lewy Body dementia is very disabling.
Very sorry that she had to go through that.
That is helpful, I just saw it as new behaviors that I associated with medication side effects.
I’m trying to get rid of some leftovers so I had an eclectic lunch today. An egg salad sandwich and half a pork chop.
And the egg salad was on a hot dog bun since we’re out of hamburger buns.
I know everyone cares.
When considering what to have for lunch I look in the fridge and ask ‘what needs to be eater next’.
Threw some stew onto a tortilla with some cheese yesterday.
Sounds like a solid plan.
My kids think we’re breaking the law if we have brats on a burger bun.
One of these days I’m gonna shape hamburger like brats and see what they think.
They have brat patties now too. Give em a run with those. 😁
Variety is the spice of life. I had the last of some red beans & rice, and a brat.
For some reason the only way I enjoy a pork chop is slathered with Tabasco. In my youth I loved pork chops slathered in apple sauce. Now the thought makes me a little nauseous.
You know what you call a pig that knows karate?
Porkchop!
Why did the math book need help?
It had a lot of problems!
It has lots of problems.
What do you call an alligator wearing a vest?
An investigator!
Egg salad sounds really good. Maybe I will make that tonight.
No lunch today. We are in planting season. I’ve learned it is better to skip all early meals because I will be eating fieldwork food all the way into the night, which usually includes too many cookies and chips.
Got to stay lean and mean so I can maybe beat GF in a race someday.
I would put the pork chop on the sandwich
OTA’s May 22, i believe. Wish they had more coverage of it.
They only allow so much and it’s all HYPE!!!
Good for that young man. Great job working hard to come back from that.
Nice!
I don’t see a loss on the schedule.
Battled Addison everyday in practice so he should be use to NFL level talent to a degree. I liked the pick also. Sneaky good draft the more purple kool-aid I drink.
Gotta show up on the field.
Let him go against JJ for some practice.
I’d heard this many years ago, but was just reminded of it by a comment from a co-worker.
“Lord willing and the Creek don’t rise…..” isn’t about water.
Some old historical guy, in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was summoned to Washington DC by the president. He would have to travel through the territory of the Creek indians, who were known to rise up and attack white people found on their lands.
So, he wired back to DC “I will be there on such and such date, Lord willing and the Creek don’t rise.”
For GF:
LOL
GF, something to mention to the techies. Can they make the comments show in your local signed in time instead of Central time?
That I don’t know. I can find out. It may be something I can change in settings.
You could also move east to be in the central time zone.
Commenting closed and kicked off again. WTF is that?
Hop on the bandwagon chief we’re going for #6!
Dallass/suter lose. Good night. Eff them.
Seattle is going to be a damn tough out. I’d love to see Dallas beat them as I see Dallas as the easier opponent in the conference finals but who knows? Gotta get past LV first.
Don’t like LV either, beat them.
So much fun today.
Sat noticed front outside faucet was dripping. Went to tighten the valve and it came apart and gushed water. Managed to get it stopped and back to ‘only dripping’. Called the plumbers I use Monday morning, and they came out that afternoon. Said the valve/regulator/hose bib/related pipes are all worn out and need to be replaced, $1,300.
Oh and they couldn’t shut the water all the off at the meter as it was old, so Tuesday got the water district out to check meter/shutoff. They cleared the Angle Stop of crud from a street repair that last fall. Now that water can be fully shut off the plumber is back to complete the repair (they couldn’t do the repair with water still coming in). So plumbers are off getting required parts/water district has come and turned the water off (plumbers not allowed as they would be responsible if anything breaks).
Once the plumbers are back and complete the repair I have to call the water district back to turn the water back on and then I will be back to normal.
@Ahh the joys of home ownership.@
Talk about lucky!
‘If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all’.
Great Hee Haw song from back in the day.
Dude that is NOT a $1300 job. I replaced my own for under $50 in parts.
That was my first thought. I guess it depends on how much pipe needs to be replaced? BTW the valve and bib are synonymous words, not sure what the “regulator” is. I had a leaky faucet at our place in Rochester and initially just wanted to swap it out but the stem to water pipe connection was not in a place I had tools to get to and I feared I would break the pipe torquing on the bib so just ended up doing a repair. Replacement if you can put a pipe wrench on the frost free connection to water is easy. Even easier if it is a shark bite.
$1300 yikes.
Price is high but this is Calif, company does good work and they respond quickly and back up their work, willing to pay a bit more for that.
The valve is below the regulator and the hose bib is above it.
Water district workers said the same thing about all of it needing replacement.
It is also where the outside water feeds into the house so a 2nd set of pipes and valve feed into it as well.
More complicated than I can handle and after having to gut/rebuild 2.5 room last year when the shower drain leaked I am not taking any chances.
You should get a medal for living in SoCal. Nice to visit, nice to leave.
After my experience in Rochester nursing that stupid faucet with gentle repairs (I was in same boat no shutoff between my main shutoff and that faucet, but at least my main shutoff worked) I was poking my head up in the ceiling panels of the houses we looked at in Billings (I refuse to pay home inspectors as they have zero liability for their reports). The one we bought had mucho shutoffs. When I did the plumbing for our shouse I put shutoffs everywhere. Nothing puts the clamps on your balls more than doing what you think is an easy plumbing project and having to shut off the main water supply…three hours later and two trips to the hardware store one’s wife gives a rather steely glare when you suggest worst case scenario we’ll stay in a hotel tonight and just go poop at the neighbors.
I have found with home repair, especially water/power, it doesn’t make sense to half-ass it. I know my limitations and have heard of too many people ‘fixing’ it them selves only to have professionals having to come and and fix their ‘fix’.
One year from now we will be busy packing for Idaho.
Whereabouts in Idaho?
Boise suburb, Nampa.
Voted the ‘Best Run City In The USA’ 2x now.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-run-cities/22869
Nice! Enjoy!
They called the valve a ‘ball valve’, a traditional ‘wheel’ type where you just turn it.
The Hose bib is where they hose connects to the pipes with a shut off there.
Regulator is there to control the pressure between the city water pipes and the house.
Ball valve with a wheel? That doesn’t sound right. A ball valve typically has a handle and is quarter turn on and off. With a wheel you are normally looking at a gate valve. Probably doesn’t matter, just curious.
I understand, just using the terms the plumber used.
I am getting a handle with the quarter turn as a replacement.
Wheel came off the valve Sat. when I want to tighten it, Took awhile to get back in and the water stopped.
That reminds me, I need to exercise my plumbing chops and put a hose bibb on the end of a 1″ black poly pipe I have coming up through the floor of my shop. I put a curb stop outside next to the hydrant (the doodads that drain water at the base that you see especially near wells and in barnyards) so I can shut that water off if I desire,,,but it will be nice for spraying off vehicles in there. I’ll do some redneck wood mount for the spigot.
I love little plumbing chores, feel a sense of accomplishment.
I changed the oil for the first time on my outboard, the maintenance section also said to change the gear oil and no matter how hard I looked couldn’t find the drain for the gear oil…a little googling later I realized that an outboard with a jet doesn’t have gear oil you just grease the impeller after every use. In a couple of years I’ll drop the impeller and sharpen the blades with my angle grinder, should be fun.
@I am a natural handyman@
@me too@
I figured out that 22 years playing army didn’t to much for my ‘handyman skills’.
Take apart and put together an M16, no problem.
Replace (tear out/reframe/rewire/install/finish) kitchen ceiling lights? Not so much.
So they’re putting in another shutoff that you wont need to do all this dumb shit ever again?
Replacing the shutoff that got worn out.
As long as it last a year I don’t really care.
But given my luck if I tried to fix it on the cheap it would give out next winter and cost me much more.
Not only that but you would have to disclose water damage in the house sale.
Only if I ‘knew’ about it.
If I only ‘suspected’ not so much. lol
Rocco from the plumbers union would like a word with you.
I’d take that wrench from stonewash beta boy and crank his nuts off. kinky.
LOL
Bills are starting to trickle in for the shoudition…$15 K to build the wall in the moat and $7K for a whole buncha PEX to put in the floor of the castle.
Given the Aaron Rodgers saga I thought the Gordon Lightfoot media selection would be “If You Could Read My Mind”.
“If you could read my mind”. LOL. Scary thought.
I’ve been watching this for an hour and fifteen minutes and she still hasn’t gotten to the drowning victim.
at least she is working up and nice sweat.
That makes two of us.
I think exorcists should also battle vampires. They already have the basic equipment.
I am ready for football season to start. I like the distraction of the fantasy games during the week. Guess I will have to settle for Wordle for now.
LOL, so triggered
I feel every bit of his pain.
That’s a him?
He’s pretty cringe
Dunno what kind of restaurant that is but it looks like a shithole.
Video
https://twitter.com/jasrifootball/status/1653764700302180356?s=20
Eh…
Doesn’t look like aggravated assault.
She is not exactly putting up a big fight.
Guy’s a douch though.
“Ew…guy kisses like a jellyfish and tastes like Binaca. No thanks.
WAIT! His brother is super rich! He attacked me!”
LOL
I don’t mean to excuse the behavior, but the term “aggravated battery” seem to me like something where someone beat the shit out of another person
Yeah, I agree. Blown out of proportion, unless I’m missing something.
mt viking, i go under the knife tomorrow…
50/50 shot of waking up i guess?
As long as you don’t have Joan Rivers anesthesiologist you should be fine. Good Luck!
thanks lifer, that made me laugh
FESS?
tonsillectomy
Oh that’s right I remember you mentioning that – didn’t you have sinus issues too?
Best of luck man, rest up and be pampered for a couple of days and you’ll be back changing batteries in no time.
As an aside, my Vulva threw a CEL and I put the code reader on it…P2297…O2 sensor or air leak. My go to guys didn’t want to fart around with a Vulva so I called a dealer in BIL, gotta love female service advisors (I’m extremely unwoke). “Yeah we’ll have to take a look at it if it is the sensor we’ll have to order it you know how shipping is probably take a couple of weeks” I asked why a Vulva dealer wouldn’t carry O2 sensor didn’t get an answer and then asked if they could like order it in advance…”Well you’d have to pay for it and there’d be no refund” Just for fun I asked if I could bring in my own aftermarket sensor and got the satisfying “Um I’d have to check with the service manager on that”.
Serves me right for getting out of my Ford and Lexus comfort zone.
Based on the above Tweet, it sounds like the same odds that Pat Mahomes Sr has of raising a good kid.
I just checked WebMD and it says you have cancer.
The snow is almost all melted here. A few tree rows still have some snow where the sun doesn’t hit.
In the 70s yesterday and today, so nice out. The drive along the river has some great scenery.
Warm temps today most of the snow is gone for us as well.
Shouldn’t hit the 70’s though.
I don’t think it hit the 70s when I was over there last year in June. That was friggin cold by the lake. When I got done running in that race, it was only in the 40s.
When I worked in Northern Michigan, there were a lot of “Mother’s Day” snowstorms.
Let me check……
I remember working in Ontario…it was 2013 if I’m remembering correctly…
Went to bed at like 2000 because I was tired and we had an early morning, an it was 70.
Woke up to a foot of snow on mothers day. LOL
Mother’s Day appears snow free right now.
But there is a cold push trying to happen………
Good god that is depressing.
LOL, it’s been a long fucking winter, man.
Tell the wife…I’ll fly you 1st class anytime to see your family if we can move to Fla.
Believe me, I’ve tried. If I had my way, we’d move somewhere down there. There are awesome spots in KY, WV, TN, NC, FL, even northwest AR. So many nice places to live down there.
Well I’ve lived and frequented most of those states. WV I’d say avoid unless you move to the eastern side of the state. NC is the bomb best place in the south, ocean, mountains, has it all. FL is a nice place to visit would not live there again. KY and TN are ok.
I love the Smoky Mountains. I lived in Chattanooga for a while, also lived in Fayetteville AR, which I LOVED. I could live in quite a few areas, but I’d want to keep a place up here, too. Would be nice to have a place to get away to in the winter.
Does this even make sense? How long until it comes to MN…
Idiots
Remember when electricity was bad and Natural Gas was “clean energy”?
Well electricity still is if its from coal or something……
or natural gas….
Ive got a windmill up already to go with my paddlehouse on the stream.
I’m good.
Well, then why is there a huge push for Electric Vehicles if it is bad?????
They can just price it out of reach for everyone. I read about some of the heating bills in my old stomping grounds in Alberta, carbon tax doubled the bills. Talking $800 for NG.
Now MDU wants to hike rates for electricity in Montana by 20% for residential customers.
Early on in the project I mentioned I wanted to make the roof of the shoudition solar ready, like no obstructions or sewer stack on the south side. My wife scoffs but scoff she would not if electric keeps going up.
I think on a “personal” level solar is just fine. You’d be able to spin the meter back and make money with just yourself no problems.
The issues comes in when your’e trying to power a municipality. no bueno.
Yup. We get a ton of sunshine in this part of the world (don’t miss the overcast in SE MN) and if the rebates are right and an installer was offering a deal I might just take a swing at it. Doesn’t hurt to have the roof ready is the way I look at it.
Better to have a plan ahead of time.
Until the electric companies complain about losing money.
In Delaware, the Utility Commission just allowed the Power Companies to stop allowing carryover credits for solar use.
Which means if your solar gives you more credits than your electric use, you can’t carryover the excess.
They also now charge “distribution” charges rather than electric use charges.
Power Companies will not be allowed to go bankrupt.
You’re not wrong.
People will get stuck paying X amount to not even use the power thats “hooked up” to their houses.
Just put on an extra layer and quit bitchin.
That would lead to heat exhaustion.
Typical libtard response.
Correct.
Now if someone can invent a way to store and distribute solar energy as a single holder at your residence, that will be the ticket.
Assuming the government doesn’t step in and save the power companies from going broke.
Better sharpen that AX old fella….I’m working on balloons right now that say
“Kill NG in MN”.
Get ready.
Fires will be outlawed.
Follow that money trail….there are some folks getting filthy rich off this insanity—Gore!
The so-called “green” party and the socialists are doing the same in Germany. Another move to exterminate the middle class and de-industrialize our nations.
Report: Antonio Brown is batshit crazy.
2nd Report: Any coach/player that gets involved with a team owned by AB is dumb.
What a fucking shithead….I hope he goes to prison soon.
The stunning part to me is how he even had the cash to own a team, and that they let him own the team, given his history of not paying bills.
No kidding, you wouldn’t even have to do a background check to know that he’s a bit unreliable. Morans.
The New Jersey Packers
Kind of a funny read.
https://fansided.com/2023/04/30/vikings-rumors-dalvin-cook-zadarius-smith-trade/
Meh.
didn’t really say much.
what’s the likelihood of keeping both?
Zero.
One is gone. Wouldn’t shock me if both were traded.
Kinda what I’m thinking, although they may keep Z Smith if Flores wants him. I’m not sure how much Flores wants him.
No way…I don’t think they trade either and if they do stick a fork in our pass rush. Flores will bang the table to keep them both.
I think there’s a better chance now after the draft of keeping both.
I do still lean toward Z gone and them keeping Hunter.
Zero change both are gone given we have nobody else outside an unproven Davenport who’s never played as an OLB.
You don’t think they’ll get rid of Cook?
I’ll be surprised if Cook stays on a $14 million deal. It doesn’t seem that they’re trying to re-negotiate a deal, so I assume he’ll be cut or traded.
Cooks gone. Why resign Matty and draft another RB if they keep him?
Likely waiting for a post June 01 cut or trade to save more money. Also, he likely still can’t pass a physical
That’s what I assume, too. Not sure on the physical. Won’t matter if they cut him, I suppose.
Sorry I misunderstood..Cook yes I think he is likely gone. Hunter and ZDarius is who I think they’ll keep both. Seems they have a plan to supplement the RB room, beef up the passing weapons, let Cook go and then take care of Hunter and Z.
I’d like to see them both stay.
Together with Davenport could be fun to watch if they actually want to apply pressure to the qb.
That was 1/3 of the issue last year along with shitty corners and scheme.
Flores has to be able to apply pressure to make up for the lack of top level talent. Hence why he got Pace I believe hoping he might come in on passing downs to rush along with Hunter, ZD and Davenport.
PJ II and Wonnum are in the mix as well as adding lowry to the line.
Maybe some noise will be made.
Barf… They both suck. They should get a max of 5 snaps a game and that’s generous.
I think they need to do whatever it takes to keep both Z and Hunter. Vikes have all the leverage.
LOL.
ok.
I never said they were all pro.
Wonnum had 5 sacks last year and 8 the year before…
Which lead the team in ’21.
Jones had 4 sacks last year.
Neither Z nor Hunter appear to have any interest in playing hard for the Vikings.
Z wants out.
Hunter wants money.
I think they both want money.
I get Hunter more than Z…because Z turned down more to come here and now he wants more?
Yep.
Agreed.
What to pay Hunter and how long is the real question.
Doesn’t really fit the mold of the Kwesi signings.
Part of me thinks he’s trying to clean out the “Zimmer” guys.
Piece by piece.
Not throwing the baby out with the bathwater but little by little.
Next year when Harry is probably gone…that defense will have really nothing left of the Zim years.
Relatively young, and injured.
PERFECT Kwesi signing.
Nah he’s going to be 29 this year.
Not old but not 25-26 either.
What do you pay him? How much?
Hard decision – he DID play a full season last year, but he didn’t put up elite numbers.
Granted, he was asked to do things differently from what he’s used to, but was he asked to contain more, or was he just ineffective at getting to the QB?
Hand in the dirt, or standing up – once the ball is snapped, getting to the QB is getting to the QB.
I would give him a 2-year incentive-laced prove-it deal, base no more than $10 mil. Prove it, and renegotiate. Another year of meh, see ya.
10 is a little low for me… might be more insulting than anything.
I’d be around 15-18m on a short deal like you say with lots of incentives.
For Hunter?
He is toast with the Vikings.
I’d be shocked if he is re-signed in Minnesota.
Getting to end of prime. Missed games last 2 years. Not sure what he thinks he’s worth but prob more than what i think.
Yep.
You and me both.
I don’t think he missed games last year but the prior two he did.
Corrected. Think he had 7 games those 2 years. I think.
I think this is the most likely case.
Gotta start the negotiations somewehere.
First person who mentions a specific amount loses, though.
Perfect time to trade him, TBH. Max value, minimum loss of production as he’s set to decline soon.
Could be. They should both thrive in a Flores defense.
I think they have a trade lined up already. They just can’t announce it until post June 1
For Z Smith? Waiting doesn’t really save them anything on his contract.
If you’re talking Cook, then I agree.
WTF is he babbling about? Had nothing to do with pay, the Diggs thing was that Diggs didn’t like the team’s future offensive approach.
It was definitely a lot of babble.
I dont know if there was a coherent point to any of that.
I wasn’t following the Mentos conversation, either. I’m aware of the Mentos-Diet Coke bombs, but that paragraph made little sense.
I’m telling you though that they may not resign JJ. I still think they likely get something done, but it’s not out of the question crazy after drafting Addison like some people on here and twitter think. Through it out on Twitter and got roasted but alot of those people have small peanut size brains.
We’ll see but I put the odds around 70/30 JJ gets extension in purple but not an auto-lock
I think there’s a 99.99999999999999999999999% chance that JJ signs his second contract with the Vikings.
No way. 70/30 at best.
Drafting Addision spiked those numbers. See my other reasoning why too.
There is no chance that they get rid of JJ. It won’t happen.
That’s what Chiefs fans thought about Tyreek and Titans fans about Brown.
Exactly. JJ is not a lock to stay here like some people think.
JJ doesn’t have a choice for a minimum of 2 years.
Longer if they tag him.
Quite different. JJ has no baggage and is the most popular non-QB football player in the NFL. I seriously doubt the franchise wants to lose that asset.
Good god Mr Wrongness…what are you thinking.They are not letting the best playmaker in the league go. They’d have a fan revolt. Suggestion…whatever your gut tells you say the opposite.
IF we could get a few 1sts for him, I could see him leaving after this year. I mean everyone said there is no way we are trading Moss, at the time we traded him.
I don’t think its impossible but no where near 30% likely as of today.
a 35mil WR is a luxury that’s for sure..but it is also a great safety blanket for a rookie qb.
“We are not trading Percy”
Right?
Now we see whos going to make a play for picks in 2024 to move up.
AZ already did… who’s joining them.
He was NOT the best player in the league at the time.
I think a big tell will be what they do with Kirk this offseason. If nothing done by season, I think he’s probably gone.
Then that means we have the loser 5th round QB running the show in 2024, another rookie, or Nick Mullens. Either of those options signal 3-4 years of suck, so at that point…. is it worth paying JJ 30mil+ per year?
Why?
Bc they’ll suck until they find a QB. The 5th rounder is not the answer and Nick Mullens isn’t winning 10+ games
oh.
Why can’t they draft one next year?
or trade for one or sign a free agent
Correct
If Addison is as he’s billed to be..
this offense will be hard to top.
Plug and play almost any qb.
Yep, especially if you can get a bit more out of the O-line.
If JJ is tying his contract to what happens with Cousins, he is a complete fool.
The Vikings can’t resign JJ…only JJ can resign JJ. The Vikings could; however, re-sign JJ…or not re-sign JJ.
Well, God could resign him, too, I suppose.
I know.
It gave me a chuckle, which is why I posted it.
Everybody just sleeping in today?
Just finished my 3rd meeting of the day. Started at 4 a.m. with Europe. Have to travel to MacDill AFB for meetings with USSOCOM in about an hour. My wife made me scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice, and coffee. Love that girl.
Sounds like a busy day. I get to make myself some sort of breakfast at work. My wife was asleep when I left. I’m leaning towards a couple Girl Scout cookies.
Yeah, tomorrow is worse… have to be in at MacDill at 0700 and we’ll wrap up around 1700. Then we’ll be going to dinner as a team to cap things off. Won’t be home till about 10 p.m.
Oh joy. Friday’s gonna be a long one for me 6 to 5 or 6 but I should at least be home for dinner. Better than 10.
Hope you enjoy hearing the investments in supporting Ukraine are increasing across the board from all NATO nations.
Everybody should just stop pouring even more resources into FUkraine. Most of the money is stolen anyway.
Nothing to talk about
I was at a prison
Wednesday, huh…
Bad language
That is funny as shit… thanks for giving me a laugh this morning.
Damn, that’s hilarious
Love it! That is a lot of quality swearing in under a minute. 😂
that was fun. this time of year, the local course has what is basically concrete like bunkers. Not fun to hit out of.
Hate Bobby Knight but apparently he and I sound a lot alike on the course. Maybe I hate myself.
Good morning.
Happy Hump Day.
FTP
If you haven’t watched the new Wednesday series, I recommend it. Better than I expected.
I haven’t watched that. I didn’t watch a ton of shows this winter.
Thanks, I did watch it, and I was mildly surprised that it did not suck. Was pretty good, actually.
If Cook leaves…I think we’ll be ok.
Lol yesterday it was different.
Key statement today that went right over your head Mr. Receipts
“If Cook leaves”
It’s not if it’s just when.
Liferdumdum
High!
High?