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How big a need is CB?
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NVF first with golf BS
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Mt proclaims long lives warm water caress on his “nether regions”
Every month Wren “blows out the butt essence”
According to foreskinface a black QB with be an indian
DE loves a penis draft
More golf
MT thinks there will be a shortage of wax in Brazil because of GB owners
More golf BS
NVF says you can watch multiple holes
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I haven’t followed the “hush money” trial of Trump. so no idea what the premise is. It’s not illegal to pay someone to not disclose things they know, as far as I know. I have signed dozens of non disclosure agreements in my career. This is basically the same thing to me. Dunno, but it seems like the liberals are just doing anything they can to discredit Trump and paint him in a bad light to the public. Yet, when he was the President, the country did great.
OK, as we close in on draft day, KAM has to have tried working out a deal with the Washington Commanders (Pick No. 2), the New England Patriots (Pick no. 3) the Arizona Cardinals (Pick No. 4), and the Los Angeles Chargers (Pick No. 5) to possibly trade up. The Cardinals and Chargers would represent a thriftier cost, but of course no one really knows what any of the top teams would take to get their draft spot. Also, the Vikings aren’t the only team looking at a trade up deal.
So with all that said, is it practical to trade JJ, Darrisaw, or some other player(s) along with a number of top draft picks, to go after one guy?
I read some commentary by Rob Gronkowski and Tom Brady that sort of surprised me about their time in New England. Apparently Belichick was not an easy guy to work for. Gronkowski said there were times when he would be sitting in the parking lot, and not wanting to go into the facility. Brady apparently felt the same way.
Starting to hear lots of stories now about Belichick. Still, given all the championships, he must have done a lot of things really well.
Also heard Edleman say last week we went into every game knowing we were better prepared than any team we played.
Yeah, BB did a great job, game planning against his foes. Always seemed to know what the other team might try to do. Not sure if he had a spy network, or he was just a GD genius.
Played golf with my son Sunday morning. It got very hot and I was exhausted at the end of a five and half hour round. Shot 85 though, so it was a decent day. Wedges weren’t quite as sharp as the last time I played, but in general, I hit the ball pretty darn good. On the 18th hole I hooked my drive into the woods, then hit a miraculous hooking 7 iron, that bent 40 yards around the trees, to about 30 yards from the pin. Hit a wedge to 20 feet, missed the par putt, and tapped in for bogey. The 7 iron out of the woods was really a great shot. Son was impressed.
Very nice! Take advantage of that time with your son. I played golf with my father up until the time he could no longer get around a course. We also brought along my son for many of the adventures. Just a bunch of hackers, we are not any good at all, but it was fun. My father is now in a nursing home and my son is constantly deployed (military). I miss those times. Kind of a “Cat’s in the Cradle” scenario, with my son. He is now just like me, when I was deployed all the time.
Yes, funny how that works. My son hits the ball well, and he’s an amazing chipper. I usually putt around the greens, but he chips everything. I envy that touch. We had a great time, and the two guys we played with, I had played with before. One guy is quite good, the other is terrible. They are really fun to play with though, because the guy who is terrible, plays really fast. He knows he sucks, and he’s good with it. We laughed a lot yesterday, and I beat my son by 3 strokes. So I got that going for me.
85 is pretty darn good for a round that takes that long. Always loved playing with me son – still and will always miss that. Was watching some guys on TV yesterday that could have used your shot making ability – bending a 7 iron 40 yards is one heck of a shot!
Yeah, I knew it was going to be slow. We watched 5 groups go off in front of us and the pace of play was immediately obvious. Hurry up and wait, and that sun beat down on us. Thus, we just tried to make it fun, and play steady. Just ignore the pace of play, talk, joke, etc. I was really tired when we finished though. That last tee shot was the only foul ball I hit all day. It was a bad swing… really bad. Then I hit the miracle shot out of the woods and my son was like “damn”. No idea where I mustered the swing from, to pull it off.
It’s still Friday? WooHoo!
Well, at least we’re upright and breathing.
SKOL and FTP!
Happy Monday Skolhols
FTP
Happy Monday Jackson Vike! Ten more days until we see KAM’s plan unfold. I have hope!
Seems like all the Florida boys are up early.
Old men waking up early…
Gotta pee and feed the cat…
Took The Teacher grocery shopping in Tehachapi yesterday.
We went in and it was just starting to rain, looked threatening. We came out to a full on snow storm. Snowed several hours, was sticking except for the roads. It is the middle of April in SoCal, WTF.
I was wearing a blue sweater and by the time we got the groceries loaded and the cart put away it was a white sweater. Kind of a fun adventure since once we got off the plateau (4000 ft) it turned to rain and then partly sunny by the time we got home.
Global warming, whoops – meant climate change.
Jane Fonda said “The climate crisis is a manifestation of racism, misogyny and patriarchy”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jane-fonda-decries-inaction-climate-apologizes-young-sorry-weve-created-issue-you
Had to be cause it sure isn’t science.
But it is Science,
Political Science.
Phycology is also involved but that is considered an ‘Art’ since it is not ‘Proveable’.
Hanoi Jane can shove it up her activist ass.
Whenever someone talks about a Horror Movie I ask if Jane Fonda is in it. (whore-r movie).
And Jane Fonda is a manifestation of bad breeding.
And mental illness.
UGH. Can’t even stand to look at her.
You weren’t a fan of ‘On Golden Pond’?
That was a ‘chick flick’ my ex demanded to see.
She became my ex shortly after that.
No way. Never.
Just did a mock draft.
Got JJ at #11 and Newton at #23
I have done that, good start to a draft.
There are 10-12 DTs in the draft with similar ratings, 6′ or more, about 300 lbs, RAS in the high 8 to high 9 range, reviews talking fast twitch/good leverage/explosive/quick/etc.
Don’t know enough to distinguish them so sometimes I settle for one later and get another position early.
I did it again and took a high ranked CB at #11 and JJ was available at #23
Depending on the site you use JJ can be had into the 30s.
Less realistic than others IMHO, but they are all unrealistic.
Doubt i could par a hole at Augusta if i started on the green.
Only have to putt if you start from the greens right?
Don’t believe you would do any worse than the guys we are watching on tv.
Nobody wants to win @ the Masters.
Feels like the Vikings prevent defense.
‘Feels like the Vikings prevent defense.’
Ewww, glad I am not watching or even following it then.
Augusta National showing her teeth.
For sure tough,fast greens. But have you ever seen a collective group put like this.
Don’t know if it’s pressure, or the greens are just hard as shit to putt. Tiger missed about 12 putts today he should have made easily.
Probably been watching the Masters for 50 years. Every year, on the weekend especially, they let the greens dry up and get very fast. They are for sure tough, but there’s usually 4 or 5 guys (the leaders) that can handle and put them well still. Not this year.
Think Tiger just wore out. But in his prime, He and Jack have both said they preferred and putted their best when the greens got really fast.
Tiger needs the Senior circuit and a cart.
Twins scored 6 runs on 1 hit.
2 walks and error and a HR all helped.
They might actually win this one.
Stay tuned.
They managed not to screw it up.
Was hoping El Tigre could finish even par for tourny, not happening.
Nope… crashing today.
Masters warning Day over clothing. Guessing he felt a free reign to promote a sponsor.
J. Ryan pitcher well, 1 ER in six innings and 12 SOs. But he left the game behind 3-2 and on the hook for the loss if Twins don’t score again.
Can’t generate hits, esp in scoring position as often as that happens. Of course SO’s, we are good at that.
Tiger crashing
+3 thru 7 ain’t good. Shot at 80 at his point.
He’s physically hurting. Might not finish today.
+6 thru 9? Something wrong.
Twinkies down to Detroit already after losing to them 8-0 last night.
Given Correa’s injury added to all the ones they had already they are digging themselves a big hole. They are already 4.5 games back with 3 teams in front of them and they are not playing anywhere near good baseball.
Plenty of season left to get their ‘stuff’ together but they are not showing much to hang any hope on.
It’s a long season with plenty of time to get their act together. In the end, it’s always about pitching.
I said that there was ‘plenty of season left’. Their pitching will probably come around. My concern is that will all of these injuries by the time they get healthy they might have to deep a hole to climb out of. Pitching can get injured as well. #nojinx
I was aware you said that. Just making point baseball is 162 games, there will be injuries. And due to length, the entire roster and pitching staff does get tested for most all teams. No poke was intended.
I felt no poke.
Just thought mayhaps I was misunderstood.
I get that a lot.
#grin
Stick a fork in them. They suck. Bring on draft, OTA’s, camp, hell, soccer too.
sorry they ‘only’ lost 8-2 last night, my bad.
Was going to correct but you got point across.
Appreciate the grace.
Sub .500. Book it.
As weak as the AL Central is .500 might be enough to put them in the playoffs.
Maybe owners can sell their Pohlad pocket protectors to generate revenue and gather talent.
Looks like the Golf Channel here today.
Oh well.
Taking The Teacher grocery shopping today, Have to be careful as the moving company says that they can’t move any food, liquids or plants.
So we have to use up most of what we have here and transport the rest ourselves. It is going to take some planning.
Choices – golf, Cousins, Taxes, Trans, Biden/Trump, sexual habits of male golfers – what’s your choice.
Mock Drafts Duh.
Speaking of which Sweat, DT, Texas, 366lbs has dropped from a low 40s ranking into the 90s.
I wonder if that has to do with his DUI? At least he is easier to target in the mocks, not sure how realistic it is though.
The DUI is the main cause.
Larry Tunsil of say 10 years ago dropped big time after video of him using a bong days before the draft.
Draftees need to have the “don’t be stupid” as the number 1 thing on their list from January to draft day.
50 spots seems a big drop for a misdemeanor DUI.
Heck it could even a positive if he learns from it as J.A. seems to have from his speeding incident. #nojinx
I have no idea of course, but if his head was on straight I would love for the Vikings to get him, big IF I know.
Teams aren’t risking a second rounder on a guy who is already in legal trouble. I still say he is selected by 64 though.
Yeah, 90 seems too far back.
Red flags are not always correct, lots of good players had them.
Time will tell on Sweat, lot of potential though.
Correct.
Not smart enough nor know college players well enough for mock drafts.
How about pretty women.
I prefer ‘Attractive’ women as ‘Pretty’ is only skin deep.
I know more about College players the more I mock. Sites have evaluations posted with the players so they give you stats and strength/weakness of most player.
I have found this one the most realistic as they have JJ ranked 8th overall vs in the 30s like some. You can build quite the draft if you can get JJ in the 30s.
https://www.profootballnetwork.com/mockdraft
Figure I could follow along during the draft better and be disappointed more the more I knew.
Rory missed like a 3 footer for par on the first hole.
I’ll say this about Tiger yesterday. He had to play the final five holes of his opening round before arriving at the first tee to start his second. For a man who said earlier this week that “every shot that’s not on a tee box is a challenge,” 18 holes is more than enough. Especially on the hilliest course players face all year. Add in the cold and windy conditions that make it difficult to loosen up a body pieced together by screws and rods and fused joints, and it seemed that the factors had conspired against him this week.
Yet he played very well, and looked pretty darn good, overall. I’m hoping he shoots a great round today.
He did play well.really well, especially under the circumstances. He still has the best short game in the world and it showed. A couple of random thoughts.
It must be really important to Tiger. Read he is playing on pain meds and cortisone. don’t know about that long term.
Back to sort game, Tiger hit 8 GIR’s and 4 were par 5’s. Means he only hit 4 of 14 other holes. Great short game saved him. Not to take anything away, but he has to start hitting more greens.
Now, the rest of the field. This is the worst group of ‘elite’ players with respect to short game that I can recall ever seeing – putting and play around the green. If Tiger was putting for Scottie, he’d be 12-14 under right now.
Because Tiger is light year’s ahead of field WRT short game, I think he could win. Putting is scoring and scoring is what wins.
I hadn’t heard Tiger was on pain killers and cortisone shots. Might be though. Tiger is flying in the face of the naysayers at the moment. Read some comments on-line about how he shouldn’t be allowed to play in the Masters, because he can’t compete, all he’s doing is trying to make the cut, etc. Just total denigration, without any basis in reality. I don’t know if Tiger will win, and likely he won’t, but I had a feeling he would be competitive. Let’s see if he can pull off a great round today.
Yea – playing on pain meds makes you wonder.
Just because he can put, and the rest can’t, he has a chance
Schoffler and Deshanbeau each miss two or three short puts a round – it’s just crazy. And Rory, plays half brain dead.
It’s really unusual to see such a group of players that are so ‘untidy’ around the greens.
You were right about him making the cut.
I was skeptical he could do it. I even thought he might withdrawl before the second round ended. He just hasn’t been able to finish a full tournament.
He looks good. Not limping.
I still wouldn’t be shocked if he doesn’t finish the tournament, but it looks like he found something to help him get through the day. Whether it’s adrenaline or something else.
I would love to see him go on a run, but I highly doubt it.
Here’s how I see the Vikings at the moment going into the draft:
QB – weak
RB – decent
WR – strong
TE – strong
O-line – needs help
D-line – needs help
Linebacker – decent to good
Edge – needs help
DB – needs help
Think TE is ‘needs help’ until Hock gets back, whenever that might be.
WRs need a speedster to spread the field, some decent ones late in the draft.
We need quality depth across the board.
Drafting decent, athletic players and letting the coaches polish them up is the way to go, IMHO.
I will dust off my cleats…I lost a step or 2 off of my blazing 4.9 40 time but I can still catch.
Sounds like a lot of needs.
First day off since February.
Slept in until 6:00.
👍
So Tiger played 23 holes, starting in 57 degree weather with heavy winds, and got through the day playing pretty decently. Now all he has to do is get hot tomorrow, and move up the leaderboard.
That a reference to Perkins waitresses?
Maybe…
Is that divided by three so ‘almost 8’??
Yeah, 200 comments for a ‘Dead Zone Friday’.
Your favorite subject – golf – saved the day.
It ranked right up there with Taxes and Trans.
Taxes stuff ok but could probably do without the trans stuff.
Even I would have ranked golf above the Trans Stuff, probably.
Rahm loves his effenheimer’s. LMAO.
He gets hot sometimes…
Oh No!!
The Golden Bachelor is getting divorced after only 3 months.
MT will be devastated.
Those types of shows are a complete waste of airtime. How many of these actually workout?
Almost none.
Are you saying that some do work out??
One or two have out of the hundreds.
Will have to take your word for that.
I don’t care enough to look that stuff up myself.
Spieth finishes at 9 over par… just a bit outside.
14 and 15 this morning killed him. And interestingly, he actually hit a good wedge shot on 15 that lead to the quad.
OK, Tiger sets the record for consecutive cuts made at the Masters (24).
Well, you won again – too much wisdom for me.
He actually hit less than 50% of the greens in regulation. He must be the putting leader at this point.
Lots of grit. Made a number of 6 and 7 foot putts for par. Several 5 footers too.
He’s always been a great putter. Watching the rest of these guys put – they are poor for world class golfers.
Now for Tiger he’s got to worry about that old golf adage – ” there’s two things in the world that don’t last – dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.”
At Augusta National in winds gusting to 30 and 40 mph, everybody is putting (and chipping) for pars.
Difference. is Tiger can put and the rest are poor at it.
Also set the record for number of Perkins waitresses banged at 24
I would hazard a guess that there is some Perkins Managers that managed to bang more waitresses during their long and storied career.
Possible, but not when you factor in geographics, I’d bet nobody banged more across the country
You forgot Tiger went to ‘sex addict’ school years ago so he stopped being bad. and has recently given up sex completely for golf.
‘given up sex completely for golf.’
#allegedly.
Sounds good and the press loves hearing crap like that.
We had a resturant manager start working at the prison and someone asked about banging waitresses and reply ‘Of course that is a perk of the job’.
Yeah I’m sure Tiger has thousands of Eskimo brothers in the EBDB
I had to look up Eskimo Brothers again,
still don’t know what EBDB is,
something obvious I suspect.
Eskimo brothers database
Makes sense, you would need someway to keep track of that stuff, especially for the ‘busy ones’.
Tiger finishing his 23rd hole of the day, and no limp, no gimp. Probably dead tired, but going to make the cut.
Bunker winds on 18, never seen before.
Me either… that was crazy!
Saw earlier Edge’s Carlin post.
the funniest skit on golf I have ever seen is Robin Williams ‘Describes Golf Perfectly.”
If I knew how to attach things I would, but don’t
But if you google this it’s good for a great laugh.
this one?
Oh yea, that’s the one. Thank you.
Even non golfers may get a kick out of this.
There are several edited versions of it on YouTube.
Didn’t know which one was the best.
This could change the whole draft for the Vikings.
Per Mike Florio at @ProFootballTalk
, suggests the #Vikings could be waiting to see how the NFL disciplines the #Falcons regarding Kirk Cousins tampering and that there could be a pick swap between the two teams https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f440.svg
The NFL announced the #Cardinals – #Eagles verdict just before the 1st round of the draft in 2023.
“The end result could, and perhaps should, be that the Vikings will have the 8th and 23rd picks. Which makes their potential effort to trade up into the top 5 a little easier. Or maybe they’ll just stay put at 8 and wait for a QB they like to fall to them.”
That would be a pleasant change. It would also cost Denver and L.V. more to trade up to get ahead of us. Hope it works out.
Also welcome aboard, grab an oar.
A Viking Longship Oar not a Gopher Oar.
Florio is really reaching here and honestly over-playing this by a mile. He is just out there flapping.
If it is shown that they did tamper, supposedly there is evidence of it, then us moving up 3 spots is not excessive.
And there is precedent of just such outcomes.
Probably won’t happen because Vikings though.
I don’t think there’s any “there” there. Just Florio stirring the pot IMO.
But wouldn’t that be awesome!!???
Him stirring the pot and showing there is precedent and only swapping 3 picks isn’t crazy also can’t hurt the possibility of it happening…
I think that there is more than ‘just stirring the pot’ going on.
I have not the info to know if anything actually happened. Lots of smoke but no telling if there was an actual fire or not.
Speculating on the possibility is interesting to some, I am more a ‘watch and see’ type myself.
In general have my doubts about florio.
I have no doubt that it is clickbait, but that doesn’t remove it from being a possibility.
And more than likely it would be next years draft before they got anything figured out.
In the example cited in the article the tampering happened the same year that they ‘pick swap’ happened.
He’s an idiot, teams that tamper get fined and/or docked draft picks, like the dolphins for tampering with Brady, huge fine and draft picks. The role doesn’t allow for picks to go to the other team, he’s full of shit.
The Cards-Eagles agreed to settle the case by swapping picks and the NFL signed off on it.
You can look it up, it is on the internet and everything.
For a coach, not a player, also the league didn’t decide it, they approved it, also, it for mid round and late picks. The league can’t dictate pick swaps per what I’ve read, but maybe I’m the one who’s full of shit
Oh your are right, one was due to tampering and the other was due to tampering.
Totally different things.
And a No. 66 pick (third round) in 2023 from Arizona in exchange for the No. 94 overall pick (third round) in 2023 and a 2024 fifth-round pick. 28 pick drop – an additional pick is completely opposite of a 3 pick swap.
Again don’t know that anything happened or is going to happen but saying that someone speculating is ‘an idiot’ and ‘full of shit’ seems a bit over the top.
Florio is an idiot and full of shit, might not be on this though, it is possible the Vikings and falcons work out an agreement IF tampering is found to have occurred by the league and they decide to impose discipline, which hasn’t even happened yet and might not happen if it does until after the draft
Agreed.
If the NFL went to Atlanta and said ‘work something out with Minn or we will impose the discipline’ who knows what they will work out.
Don’t know if Florio is any more or less of and idiot and full of shit than any other expert now a days.
The Zona-Poopeates swap happened the same year as the tampering, 2023, but that might have been due to the agreement.
There are more unknowns than knows at this point. Normally I would say it is silly to argue about but it is the slow season and we have argued about sillier things on this site.
Sounds a lot like someone else
You really shouldn’t down yourself like that…
I am finding in my Mocks that in the later rounds I am looking for athletic and high RAS guys. I actually believe that our current coaching staff can actually train them up to be better football players.
The is very strange, uncharted territory for me.
Kellen Mond signs with the Saints.
Saints sign former third-round QB (msn.com)
I didn’t think he deserved that.
But I worked in Prison for a decent paycheck so I guess it is worth it to him to go to that shit hole.
I hate the Saints a little less now that Gregg and Sean are gone. I would actually cheer for the Saints over the Broncos…
That fanbase was fine with BountyGate screw them.
Every time I flush a deuce I imagine it flowing to N.O.
K, Broncos vs Saints… who you wanting to lose?
0-0 tie
I am on team meteor.
I don’t get why this is so hard. I mean at this juncture I hate Philly fans more than Saints fans. I would cheer for the Saints over Philly and Denver. Fuck Sean Payton, Phuck Filly
Oh I can be an equal opportunity hater.
Can still hate the Cowboys for ‘the push off’ even after all these years.
I understand that it is a rare gift.
Not that rare, just have to be of a certain age…
Are you implying that I am a grumpy old man??
You would be right in many cases. I don’t believe it is my default setting however.
Maybe, I just happen to share your push off hatred having seen it as it happened.
Ahhh, by ‘of a certain age’ you were referring to the timeframe when ‘the push off’ happened.
That too.
SoCal nailed it about the FT* fanbase – they’re proud of bountygate, wear it like a badge of honor. It’s the same fanbase that got called ‘Classless Pigs’ on MNF by Dan Dierdorf (after they cheered Wade Wilson, THEIR OWN QB being injured)
Philly fans also suck.
If those teams are playing I’m rooting for whatever outcome is best for the Vikings.
And also for Team Meteor.
I haven’t been to a movie theater in over five years, and living in GDV makes it all the more likely that trend will continue, but I have to admit I would like to see Civil War on a big screen with big loud explosions.
I also want to see this movie in the theater.
The Teacher likes to go to The Movies, usually RomComs or Disney ones.
Normally she goes with her BFF friend but occasionally I get dragged along.
Last one was the Woke Indiana Jones. It wasn’t as bad as advertised but not actually good either.
It looks like some straight to DVD quality Hollywood slop to me but, thats just me.
There’s a new movie coming out called IF, it’s a children’s movie John krasiniski, Jim from the office, made for his kids, I’m looking forward to taking my daughter
I was shocked, shocked I say, to read a Mayo Clinic study (short term data mind so not the best powered study) that found that taking puberty blockers may lead to permanent physiologic and musculoskeletal abnormalities. Are you trying to tell me you can’t just stop taking the drugs four years later and you won’t just start going through normal puberty? You mean people aren’t like ice makers?
It doesn’t matter since it will help those poor mentally challenged (aka trans) teens.
Yup. There have always been confused teens struggling with body issues as they go through puberty, now they have a nice category and a strong support system to lead them down the path to misery.
I’ve been saying the whole time through this Trans situation becoming bigger and bigger. I think there would be WAAAYYYY less people trying to convert if we just would have accepted people who were gay, or cross dress. I do think there are a lot of folks if they could just be gay or cross dress and be accepted they wouldn’t feel the need to go under the knife. That goes for kids too. Let the kids explore shit while their young. But instead we have those gay conversion camps where the suicide rate is insane because we sinners tell these kids that their sin makes them such an abomination in the eyes of god if they don’t change so the kill themselves. It’s awful. I do think some of this is on our society being totally intolerant of the gay community to begin with.
There might be some of that.
I think the bigger issues is when teens have questions (and all teems have questions) now people want to Virtue Signal and push Trans/Gender Issues.
Who was that actor/singer who stated ‘I am so glad that back when I was a Tomboy no one tried to groom me to change my sex’. Yeah the woke raked her over the coals.
think Edge makes a good point.
I lived in DC area for over 45 years and it is very liberal. and I worked for a company that had over 20,000 employees with many gays. It was excepted and really no one thought much about it.
Yet, in all that time, in a very liberal area, I never met or even heard of one person who went under some king of operation. Now, that was five years ago, so maybe things have changed.
Things have certainly changed.
Here in Calif (the gay capital of the US) they just passed a law and now any kid 12 and over can run away from home and the government will take them in, support them, and help them transition no matter what the parents want.
I think it has a lot to do with just wanting to feel not judged and recognized instead of ostracized for the person you feel you are. If we just would have just accepted people for that I’d bet the house that there would be WAY less people who feel the need to go under the knife, there would be a lot of folks who would have done their exploring/experimenting in their youth and figure out they aren’t actually gay (but many are). Because what person who is being accepted for who they feel they are, not judged and treated differently would want to put themselves through agonizing surgery and such… I am sure there would be a few but way less.
I am not nearly ‘in touch’ with feelings as the Woke are.
So we will just have to agree to disagree.
As long as they keep kids and my tax $$ out of it I don’t really care what the others do to support their psychoses.
Your kids? What if you you have a grandkid that ends up Trans? “In touch with woke feelings” those words just scream right wing indoctrination. It doesn’t make someone “woke” to show everyone love, compassion, and acceptance (doesn’t mean you have to agree with them). It just makes you a decent person and someone following the basic teaching of who I assume is your lord and savior. So there’s that.
You seem very knowledgeable on this. And you’re correct about judging (others).
A question – why do you think as being gay has become more and more acceptable, the trans type operations has actually increased. Would think it would be the other way along the lines you suggest.
Being gay is more acceptable. Being a cross dresser is not. Sure there are places it’s more acceptable and probably more acceptable overall but there is still PLENTY of judgement and shit being thrown these people’s way. Try it, cross dress a day, see if you feel you are looked at in a judgmental negative way or not. The people going under the knife aren’t just gay, they feel they are in the wrong skin. Weather that is body dysmorphia or not, I tend to think it is but their life is not my life.
Its called mental illness, and it comes from a shitty up bringing or a lack of something when they were growing up and being raised. Trans that is. Not gay. Most trans people are gay and they should just be gay.
It’s worrisome man. I have a friend who is currently posting all their post opp surgery pics, completely torn down face and rebuilt, parts of jaw bone taken out, etc… etc… face just looks mangled right now. It’s your life, your money do what you want but damn, my first thought was this could really turn out bad to begin with and most likely turn out bad down the road. If she’s more happy the rest of her life cool, guess it’s worth it but wow.
Was watching the commentary this morning, think the doc said this gender dysphoria is 9:1 females to males. Similar to anorexia and other eating disorders. Sad.
This friend of mine is a natal Male going to Female. When he was Tim, he had a very burly voice and very masculine face. So getting the face changed, among other parts. Not sure how you change that very deep gravely voice… It is sad. She has had a very crazy past. When I knew him as Tim he had a crazy last 10 years. Lots of drugs, lots of chaos and self destruction. But this transition to Kim seems to have really settled her. I get the idea that all that crazy self destruction stemmed from that whole woman being trapped in a man’s body issue and seems MUCH happier and grounded now. So, again, in that regards I’m happy for her.
I’m not versed in such things but believe the deep voice timbre is permanent.
Happy Birthday Dave!
Didn’t see but Spieth a 9 on 15th. Ouch..
Yeah, Spieth is struggling. Just off thus far, and I don’t see him recovering. Not making the cut this week.
Can we not post pictures from imgur here anymore??
Happy Tax Day everyone.
Sent mine out yesterday, don’t want the Government to get my money any earlier than required since they just give it away anyway.
We need a new tax system!!!
You a ‘flat tax’ guy?
The idea seems to have merit.
To a degree.
If you have a system with 52% paying taxes and 48% not, and those numbers are getting worse, yo’ve got a problem. You will run out of enough people paying.
Do you think that if the US switched to a flat tax, that people who don’t pay taxes now, would be paying tax?
No matter the scheme, people on the low end will never pay taxes.
The “tax the rich” line wouldn’t end IMO.
Not to mention Earned Income Credit where people who don’t pay any taxes but get a rebate anyway.
Maybe some flat and then some consumption. And, as you suggest, people on the low end will not pay if pay is et right.
But more need to contribute.
No system will please everyone and be perfect.
Fair would be nice but no doubt fair would be Racist and abuse the Poor.
Absolutely.
Everyone needs to pay something.
But common sense has no place in our political system.
‘But common sense has no place in our political system.’
I regret that I have but one Rec to give this sadly.
Can you imagine, and this would never fly, but if you didn’t pay like just $100 in taxes or some token amount, you couldn’t vote.
Maybe, but there’s a lot of poor white folks too.
Those don’t count in the Woke World.
Obviously a racist idea since its only reason would be to keep poor people of color from voting.
#sarcasm
Jim Crow is on line 1.
Is that like the Jim Crow 2.0 in Georgia that resulted in the biggest voter turnout in history?
#throwinglabels
They say every democracy is doomed to fail after approximately 200 years.
Once the voters realize the government will give them money for nothing, they will only vote for the free money.
‘Once the voters realize the government will give them money for nothing, they will only vote for the free money’
Exactly this.
I love the “rich need to pay their fair share” doctrine. The sheep lap it up like molasses. The rich do pay their fair share, it’s called a progressive taxation system.
Believe the top 1% pay 41% of taxes and the top 10% pay over ninety.
What a ‘fair’ system.
Penalize success and hard work, great way to get reelected.
And it was once believed that American was built on hard work.
That was racist and sexist and some other ‘ists’ that I don’t understand.
But as there are more and more people who don’t pay then they will vote for those that exempted them. It is Science, Political Science.
Also given Tax forms in Calif is insane. 6 pages for the standard form and another six for the Adjustments to the Federal numbers.
My main issue with a flat tax, is there is no incentive to upgrade equipment for businesses. The current system makes it beneficial to upgrade equipment every 5 years.
The flat tax would de-incentivize purchases which would make the economy stagnant, at least for a while, until businesses had to upgrade due to equipment failures.
Can’t you have different incentives for business and personal.
Then you would still have people complaining that corporations don’t pay taxes.
@no one would ever say that@
I f’d up my return. I TT it, my return is getting rather onerous any more, if I were to print it out it would run 500+ pages. My first time filing an extension and I screwed it up. My CPA buddy said just fill out taxes with info you have on hand, if the late K-1 comes in before the deadline fine but otherwise file a 4868. Well I filed a 4868 no problem BUT I also filed my taxes. Me dum dum.
I pray I don’t get hit with big time IDC’s as that will trigger AMT and I would probably have to do a revised return. I’m okay with amended…fingers crossed.
USPS returned my tax forms to me last year. They couldn’t explain why they sent it to the return address.
I took it back to the post office the nice lady said ‘just put it in and new envelope and re-mail it’.
I had to point out to her that it was my tax return and if I did as she suggested that the new post mark would reflect that it was late.
She said ‘ohhhhh’ and had to jump thru some hoops to resend original envelope with original post mark.
@I love our local post office@
Tiger hit 4 of 4 fairways with his driver this morning finishing his first round. Hits the fairway on his first drive of his second round. 5 for 5 with the driver today.
If a book website has been sending coupons weekly for the last several months, does that mean they are really trying to grow, or does it mean they are floundering and about to go under? It has been rare to get coupons from them in the past and now weekly or more since the beginning of the year. I find it odd.
They are for sure trying to off load books that likely are not selling.
But it’s possible they are struggling and have some business issues.
I don’t think this website has any of its own books. I believe it all 3rd party sellers.
‘does that mean they are really trying to grow, or does it mean they are floundering and about to go under?
I’d go with Yes.
Fleetwood finishes bogey, bogey… misses a four footer for par on 18. Gonna be interesting watching the players putt today.
http://www.google.com
The only Fleetwood worth talking about is Mac.
That’s the Rumor.
Tiger tees off for his second round in about 15 minutes. Has to shoot 4 under today in my opinion, and hope DeChambeau blows up.
Believe you will win the bet, but Tiger has to do a lot better than hitting 9 GIR’s.
Well, he’s hitting the ball off the tee very well. The wind makes hitting greens really hard, especially gusting over 35 mph. I think the whole field has to deal with the conditions, so if Tiger isn’t hitting greens, likely the rest of the field isn’t either.
Don’t think so. Rory, scheffler miss a green, they get a bogey. Tiger’s short game is still so good he gets it up and down. He could easily be five over right now.
And he’s solid off the tee – provided he has room to hit a cut. Almost every shot he hits above 8 iron, is a cut. That’s Ok, but does limit opportunities some.
Jack hit a cut at Augusta and did pretty good, not to mention Tiger has five Green jackets.
Jack used to hit 16-17 greens in regulation.
And Jack spent two weeks practicing on hitting draws just for the necessary shots he needed at Augusta.
And when Tiger was younger, he could work the ball both ways very well.
The cut at the Masters is all players within 10 strokes of the leader.
I doubt DeChoko is -13 under after the second round.
No… The 10-shot rule was done away with in 2020, and now the low 50 and ties qualify for the final 36 holes at the Masters.
Gotcha.
I must have forgotten about that.
Top 50 right now is a +2.
Tiger hanging in there.
Feel much better about or upcoming draft after watching KAMs presser yesterday.
He seems to understand getting the best value out of each situation.
“There are multiple guys we love, and multiple guys we love if we can get them for the right price”.
He also said something to the effect that a player they need to trade up for would have to be worth the price of the other players that they would have gotten with those traded picks.
Glad you’re back on board the “Rebuild the Skol” train
That’s sensible, but normal to me. Kind of a “no duh” comment. In the end, just don’t do anything stupid is the best plan.
I hope for ‘doing something smart’ but I pray for ‘not doing anything stupid’.
AFA Cine
Yeah, when you start trying to be clever in the draft, you end up fooling only yourself.
I often wonder if Ricks trade back in 2021 that turned into Darrisaw was more an accident than a plan.
Seemed like he felt there was other OTs available so he traded back and was surprised when Darrisaw was still there at #23.
I was told, if you’re going to blame him for the bad picks you have to give him credit for the good ones.
He clearly knew that Darrisaw was going to drop to the spot where we picked.
I give him both credit and blame.
Lots of his picks looked good at the time but later not so much.
Is that they fault of the pick or the lack of coaching and support the player got later??
But I was referring to that pick, which turned out great for us, Darrisaw + 2 third round picks.
Happy Friday to our favorite VIKINGS forum!!
Leave the DN out of this.
Bahaha I should swing in there and go back to D day when free agency opened and see the weeping and gnashing of teeth.
I haven’t been there since I came over here. I don’t really miss it.
I will say we need to track this guy down and recruit him. Need more of this mindset around here.
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Same here. Read Ludford’s draft post because Ben shared it on here, but didn’t bother to log in.
I told my wife the other day that she has to wait to die until after I do. The thought of dating again after 40ish years would be terrifying. Plus, maybe it’s just me, but it seems like women now a days are just so much more needy. I need my space.
Married a woman 17 years younger than me for that reason…
crap, my wife is 2 years older than me. WHAT WAS I THINKING
Me too, Freezey, my wife is 2.5 years older than me….
We are dumb dumbs.
Mine is 13 years younger than me.
Same, girlfriend is 13 years younger than me.
My wife is 11 years younger, I still plan on out-living her (wish me luck).
Mine is only 2 years younger than me. I’m cutting it close…
Six years younger for me.
My wife is 6 years younger than me also, so the odds are pretty good that I go first. I just wanted to let her know that it wasn’t an option for her to go first. I’m really set in my ways and can’t imaging trying to train in another woman. That’s a difficult enough task for a young man.
The Teacher just said that she would probably go first given both of our families medical history.
I told her that was fine as long as she waited until I was too old to notice she was gone.
lol
You’re a brave man. At my age, the thought of a young women gives me a lot of differing thoughts.
I told her up front, the only reason I married her was to change my diapers…
I actually used to bet my nephews ‘diapers’ when they were teenagers. For example, ‘I bet you 100 diapers you can’t finish everything on your plate’ (they were both undersized).
I told them they didn’t actually have to change them themselves they could just pay for some hot young nurse to do it.
Just checked the ‘Notes’ on my phone and between the 2 of them they owe me just over 8k diaper changes.
Mine is 5 years younger and I have those blood pressure issues, so I think I’m safe. Though it’s like pulling teeth to get her to workout with me. haha. Am I doing myself a disservice by being healthy? haha
You’re a man so you have that going against you.
What makes a man…?
i think there are robots one can buy now
I was just starting to figure dating out when I got married.
I think I’d be really good at it now, no matter how weird it has gotten. Not because I am super amazing, but because I was really, REALLY bad at it previously.
So I have nowhere to go but up. Going from horrendous to average is a big leap!
You have a point. One time in high school apparently a girl was hitting on me and I had no clue. My brother had to point it out to me that the reason she wanted to go jogging with me was because she was interested in me.
You think dating in your 70’s or 80’s is going to be anything like. that?
It will probably be wheelchair races.
Knew an old guy that once told me, ‘first thing you want to do when dating an older women, is check her bladder control.”
Ewww. I may have to stick with the robot that freezey suggested.
My wife is nine years older. Hopefully we die within seconds of one another. Being within 100 yards of the epicenter of a strategic nuclear detonation would be awesome!
When I got divorced from my wife, we had been dating since high school so… yeah going back into dating was worrisome and I was 35 at the time, especially for someone who does not like to go hang out at bars lol. BUT dating apps are where it’s at now. It’s where I met my current wife and I am LOVING life!
The needy thing is odd to me too. Like my wife’s younger brother, his wife makes him share his location with her at all times on his phone. Like, wtf? I think the foundation of any relationship is trust and that screams trust issues.
Loving the Ascension of the Summary to the Mythical Words Up Top.
Even if I didn’t get a mention.
Which had to be racist of course.
I concur. On all three of your sentences.
All Three?
Seems odd.