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It was a good football weekend for Vikings fans as the Lions and Packers both lost yesterday. The Vikings are technically in second place in the NFC North now, not that it really matters at this point, but it’s much better than being in the cellar. Hey, it’s a start!
Now, the Vikings just find a way to win against the 49ers tonight. If they can manage to do that, they’ll be at 3-5 with 6 consecutive very winnable games following this week. The next six games (after tonight’s game) are @ Packers, @ Falcons, Saints, @ Broncos (I might go to that one!), Bears, and @ Raiders. You never know what could happen.
The Vikings-49ers game thread is scheduled to post at 6:30 tonight, so make sure you join us!
Minnesota Vikings Discussion Topic of the Day
What do the Vikings need to do tonight to get a win?
I think it’ll come down to offense. The defense SHOULD be able to hold SF somewhat at bay, expecially considering how banged up the 49ers are right now. In my opinion, it’ll all come down to the offense being able to sustain drives, get first downs, and put some points on the board. They need to do beter than what they’ve been doing.
Minnesota Vikings News:
SI.com reports that “all signs point to” Christian McCaffrey playing tonight. I’m not sure which signs they’re referring to, maybe some road signs around the city of Minneapolis or something, I’m not really sure.
Here is how to watch, listen to, and stream tonight’s game, courtesy of Vikings.com. They also share some final thoughts on tonight’s game.
NFL.com shares four things to look for in tonight’s Vikings-49ers matchup. Also, the Lions were destroyed by the Ravens yesterday. Might that loss be what sends the Lions into their annual tailspin? Wait and see!
CBS Sports has an updated 2024 NFL draft order.
Here are your NFL week 7 scores and highlights, courtesy of ESPN.
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This guy is a Vikings fan
https://twitter.com/1000waystod1e/status/1716548596756332900?s=20
Ouch X2.
Game thread is scheduled to
post at 18:30.
I was about to post one then saw that you had it scheduled.
Accurate
Few hundred pounds light from the ones I see on TV.
Alright boys, I am out!
SKOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a good one.
SKOL SKOL SKOL
Today’s itinerary….
and Mjolnir should be on toke number two by now!
Good for you!!
A bit behind – Goose absconded down the street. There’s an old lady that lives down the block that he’s partial to – she’s given him peanut butter cookies when we go on walks. So I had to go retrieve him.
Nicely baked now though!
Get er done!!!
I have officially started pre-gaming.
I poured 3 oz of Beefeater over Ice to start. Will crack the 6% tall boys after
6% tall boys…perfect!!! I have found when they get over 7.2 they get a little icky…but 5.5 to 7.2 is the sweet spot.
Will there be a game thread? I think I will hop on it during some commercials and or half time
Don’t know…will be watching with my bride, even though she puts cherry tomatoes in my salad…..so can’t be commenting.
Yep, it’ll post in an hour or so
Decent amount of red jerseys downtown. Time to get outta here
Nah, go kick their ass! That is what a real fan would do.
Too late. I’m home now and got a 2.5 lb salmon fillet baking in the oven. I use a garlic citrus rub, and a little honey to give it a nice glaze.
salmon sucks.
Red? I thought Minnesota was Blue as hell!
Just the cities JR….
Same here.
But it is spreading in some places based on the recall results, sadly.
I live in a very blue city in a deep red state. Unique state legislation here. Unicameral. Allegedly non-partisan. My political views are probably more Libertarian for a lack of a better description – but I detest the idea of being identified/tied to one party. Lincoln and Omaha have historically been blue cities dating back the last 35 years or so.
I consider myself an Independent Conservative.
Of course that means voting the opposite of Woke which means you can’t vote Democrat so you have to vote Republican.
Someday we will get better choices.
That would be nice. I’m not holding my breath. I expect it to get a lot worse before it gets better. Like wholesale suffering worse.
It appears we have a choice between a senior suffering from dementia and being controlled by the progressive wokists or an egomaniac who says means things but generally executes pro-American policies. Wish we had a better option, but the choice is obviouis.
You mention Patton below – quite an ego and an aristocrat,
but the only tank commander on earth that could rival Rommel
Yes, I said he was a stud. I am in favor of studs. Do you think any of the top brass (number 1 through 4 for example) in todays military are studs? I don’t think so, I have listened to their speeches and they seem to be generally more focused on making sure the trannies feel accepted than on actual military preparedness…I am at least 3 beverages into game prep so I may be rambling a bit.
Politics and ‘box checking’ are more required to get ahead in todays Army.
Yes and Yes!!!
No rambling – probably am. I think Patton was a stud too.
My Dad’s brother served under him. Once told me this. At first, most of troops didn’t like him – the Old Blood and Guts stuff. But, he said as time wore on, they started to realize the Germans were scarred of him and because of his tactics, they were actually in a better position than if they were with any other commander.
The woke commanders today couldn’t carry his jock. or Nimitz’a or any of those guys
He would never be allowed to lead in todays military.
Not today, not woke enough.
But if we were in a real war some of those guys with edge to them would have to move up for us to be successful.
I wonder who the candidates would be if Trump was convicted of an actual crime and Sniffer was proven to be a crook or just fell out due to old age.
That might give us better options, at least different ones.
Wouldn’t that be nice…..
Amen.
As long as we have “these” two political parties, I don’t think so.
getting to be that way in every state
This should clear up some of the confusion on a couple of earlier comments
Never found it appealing. Iv only had one partner and I was never even tempted to put my mouth there. Now around the other way on the other hand….
You wanted her to put her mouth THERE??? God you ARE sick!
Interesting discussion of evolution.
Reminded me of a line from Killer Angles – paraphrase – You and I may have come from Apes, but General Lee didn’t come from an Ape
Loved the Killer Angles book. Great historical fiction.
If you ever have the occasion to go to to the battlefield, most all the certified tour guides recommend the book as a sort of a pre-read.
I should re-read it if we do go…its always been on our list but we have not made it there yet.
We are spending a week in DC this spring, nephew is graduating from the Naval Academy…I don’t know how close some of the civil war battle fields are to DC.
“We are spending a week in DC this spring”
We will keep you in our prayers.
My son is spending his spring semester studying in DC at the DC Pepperdine campus.
Pray for him…and I am serious.
Lock and Load.
The Pepperdine Campus here in So Cal actually goes out of it’s way to have some conservative faculty members.
Crazy I know.
This is why we sent my son there (his choice), a not nuts university with a strong academic reputation. There are very few.
So glad we (and he) didn’t want to go to any of those high profile liberal cess-pools
If he is willing to support terrorists he would fit right in at those places.
In fact it seems to be a requirement to fit in.
Yeah, no…he actually has an interview for an internship at the Federalist Society tomorrow, that is more his style.
Good for you, and him.
Bull Run Battlefield is like 30 miles West. Gettsyburg is only 2 hours drive North. Other spots in between.
I am sure we will catch 1 or 2 of them, thanks for the info.
By the way, the Academy is a pretty neat place to walk around too.
Yeah, we will be there a whole week, I would think we will spend some time at the Naval Academy.
Assure you – it is a moving experience, esp. Pickett’s Charge. You’re thinking these are the bravest men that ever walked the earth.
I have read enough to know how absolutely nuts some of that stuff was. Yes, I am sure being on the actual battlefield is quite moving.
Read about The Bloody Angle, they had to be ‘not quite sane’ by that point.
I meant the one at Fredericksburg, toughest fighting of the war.
Seems that they named one Bloody Angle at Gettysburg as well.
For NDR That’s less than a hour away.
Crazy to read about.
“nearly 24-hours of constant combat, some of the most infamous fighting of the entire war that left both armies stunned. Sometimes separated by just a few feet of dirt,”
If I remember correctly. that day was the bloodiest (still) in US history.
I believe that was Antietam. 3,675 killed, 22.700 total casualties.
You’re right – that’s correct.
Have stood in the trench there – that’s an experience too.
The bravery of those guys – both sides!
The Napoleonic Wars in Europe were quite insane as well.
Estimates of 2.5-3.5 million Combat deaths, + injuries + Civilian casualties.
And People say that the world is less safe today.
Try reading some History.
So true – let’s hope as it is being rewritten some things remain untouched.
True Fact.
Lee went thru four years at West Point and never earn a single demerit.
Having been thru PLDC and misc Army courses I wonder if that was a political thing (His father had been a hero of the American Revolution and governor of Virginia, and uncles and other relatives had signed the Declaration of Independence, served in Congress, and otherwise achieved notable reputation) or if he was just that good.
Kind of like the Dolphins vs the Eagles last night, might have been some bias.
I’m not sure.
You may have heard this. Had a good friend, recently passed, who taught at War College. He said some of Lee’s tactics had been taught for generations of officers.
They have now been removed. Sad
Well, they don’t work in skirts and high heels…..o.k. that was a cheap shot.
U.S. Grant believed in pushing the attack forward until victory. Didn’t matter about the losses.
He figured that attacking/failing/attacking again would cost more troops than pushing thru the first time.
Plus the North had a manpower advantage so they could better afford the losses.
Doubt that is taught any more. Although the Germans and Russians used it quite a bit in WWII.
infantry = “bullet catchers” or so says my brother-in-law who was a Lt. colonel in the army.
“Your Job is not to die for your Country but to make the other guy die for his’.
Patton.
Patton was a stud….but he was of the damn the casualties full speed ahead – sometimes necessary, but I have never been in the front wave…
the old axiom.
“Troops are resources you are giving to get the job done, spend them wisely.”
Gen McClellan lost a lot of battles because he was tentative. Probably lost more troops as a result.
I know, I get it…Sometimes you are better off tearing off the band aid rather than peeling it off a little at a time.
Old joke about Infantry Officers — you know how you can spot an old Infantry Officer, they limp with both legs.
Believe Lee was removed because of his “politics.” Not tactics.
Cancelled?
I wonder if Jonas Salk was found to be racist, like told an off color joke, if we would throw away the polio vaccine, I think this administration would.
From my understanding, second hand, his aggressiveness, battlefield planning, and especially his way of passing on orders had almost been a staple of the program for years.
Now, they have dropped all mention of him and moved on to others.
So my brother-in-law is extremely proud of his son for graduating from the naval academy. AND HE SHOULD BE….but there is no way I would let my son (nor would he want to) participate in todays “Woke First” military…No Way.
Actually, graduating from any of the service Academies is quite an accomplishment.
But, the Woke stuff …. better keep my mouth shut.
Service Academies have the toughest standards.
Not just academic, but the military training at the same time.
‘The hotter the fire the tougher the steel.”
Well he was racist, that much is true, therefore any contribution he made to mankind must be thrown into the trash bin of forgotten history.
Yeah…. He was. But Ty Cobb once beat a man in a wheelchair to near death for heckling him and he’s in the HoF.
Everybody has done some terrible shit at one time or another.
He was a product of his time.
Heck Abraham Lincoln had been called a racist and had some of his statues pulled down due to some to the things he said.
He was a politician and had to lead the US to where he believed they should go. He was walking a very fine line, but in the end he accomplished many great things before they killed him.
Yep
For sure – product of his time. While a US military officer – he was at heart always a Virginian. Allegiance to state was a big deal at that time, and not understood today.
They planned to Offer him a Generalship in the US Army but he accepted one in the Confederate one first.
Woulda/coulda/shoulda.
You can drag skeletons out of any historical figures closet. Or you can see what they did within their time and see how it has impacted up positively until this day. Some people prefer hate.
Haters are going to hate…
Of course what it really is is a power struggle. Who wins with pushing people towards cancelling others? It buys votes and tries to tip the power from one group to another.
I have learned that ‘your perspective on any thing depends on where you stand in relation to that thing’.
And of course you have people who just want to lie about things to get more money/power.
Heck even the Gettysburg Address was controversial at the time.
I get a lump in my throat reading it today. It was perfect.
Course I am biased as I share a birthday with the man and so I have always been interesting in his/the history of that time.
Speaking of military tacticians, I wonder which is better, a desert Fox or a swamp Fox?
The best tacticians make the most of what they have to work with, be that desert or swamp.
Pardon my French, but you all are…….
Yes, yes they are….I tried to stop them.
Does Bosa move around alot on D-line?
I asked a question! Put your evolution BS aside!
We are well-versed in theology, evolutionary science, and apparently ass-eating, actual football stuff??? Not so much.
I suggest just Asylum for blog name.
Actually don’t think he move around much (not like Micah). But he is very, very active after the ball is snapped.
Not sure how much he plays on the interior…. Comes off both edges – and can do it standing or with his hand in the ground
Exactly
alright, alright, alright……
Anyone else watching the manning cast version of the game tonight?
I kind of enjoy that vs just watching the game, pending on who the guests are.
Also, it is fun to watch both of them cringe when QBs mess up.
I’ll definitely be checking that out.
“it is fun to watch both of them cringe when QBs mess up”
With Kirk and Mr Last Pick of the Draft I am sure that won’t happen…..much.
I think both hold on to the ball too long.
I think Mr Last Pick does better at avoiding pressure, but Kirk sets that bar so low.
There will be some bad throws by both, I am sure.
I think SFs scheme has lots of quick throws in it.
The Vikings no so much.
So Kirk will be required to hold it longer and since SF has better O and D lines it is not a good setup.
Good time to start running the ball – well.
Yes, I enjoy the Manningcast, one of the perks of the free Hulu and ESPN+ I get from the disney streaming account.
If you can tolerate geeky Kirk. They have him on their cast tonight.
I dont have BSPN, might have to sail the high seas to get their broadcast
Summary:
Wrenage doesn’t know what days the Vikings play
VP think that in order for the Vikings to win they need to score more points than SF
1b4Idie doesn’t see the Vikings winning, welcome to the club doomer
VP is sad because he isn’t transcendent
Freezey enjoys his nephews extreme disappointment
MT thinks its great that a bunch of millennials who want to work part time and from home are going to built our military arsenal
Stu is not bothered by his fantasy team or the Vikings both sucking because he doesn’t have to read mean tweets
Kfey said you know him, he’s the big dumb giant lib here
BSF shows up and does Skolly type stuff
Stu thinks NYC would be safer if rats had gun rights
Wrenage has to go get cocaine
NoDak discusses his failure to be good at golf
Theory of evolution discussion
Stu doesn’t believe in the theory of evolution because humans don’t have wings
FloridaSkol might have evolved from a pig
Hun doesn’t believe science has ever changed or been wrong
anything is possible under the sun because MT’s doohickey ended up in his wife’s watchamacallit
Mjolnir and his buddies used to drive through his drunk teachers front yard
Wrenage doesn’t know why he should be worried about AI when the baboons are working for the railroad
Asswipe B found an alternative career spray foaming in the event he is fired from gouging
NoDak wishes Freezey lived closer so FF could make mechanical repairs for him
MT impresses his wife with knowledge from her ex husband
FloridaSkol is ready for the hopium with ice cold ribs
Stu is logging off forever because Kfey unzipped during an ass eating discussion
NoDak’s wife puts stuff he doesn’t like on his salad but he doesn’t think its worth dying over
According to Socal President Lincoln posted on the internet that cherry tomatoes suck, Mjolnir says Historians report Vikings hated them
Norse1 reports Hamas have hearts of gold
LOL this is a fantastic summary
Truest statement on there
Well done! Lol
Well done Dum Dum!
i’m dying at the humans don’t have wings comment.
ben you are so unfunny
Maybe he hasn’t finished Evolving into Funny.
I don’t have wings so I am not evolved
Well done… Mr. Withee would be proud.
Hope Flores throws everything at Purdy tonight.
Hamas released2 more hostages. Hearts of gold.
I keep wondering what we had to give up for each one.
6 billion plus a weapons cache.
hopefully some additional to Ukraine as well
American taxpayer. (the ones who work)
Because of the Rich Men north of Richmond.
I am going to have to pull that up.
I enjoy watching people react to that.
Some are clueless, some cry.
Our 12 inch snow forecast has been diminished to 8 inches excpected..by the time the event actually happens it will likely be down to 4 inches….
I think I understand how females feel.
That is definitely a real thing.
This is what happens when y’all get me to be on here all day. Tomorrow we’ll discuss the moon landing and the reason we haven’t been back there outside of the official NASA response of “we lost the technology”!
Ohhh could we?? That sounds great.
I’ll bring the tin foil….
Let’s face it, if we can land a man on the moon, the Vikings can draft a HOF QB.
Love it.
Fran Tarkenton on line 1.
Drafted by the Vikings in Round 3 1961.
Elected to the NFL Hall of Fame 1987.
I dont think we “lost the tech” NASA has had their budget canibalized and cut pretty much SINCE the moon landings. Its a money thing.
Maybe, though with 25 billion dollar budget I would still think it’s doable. Lol like I know. However they already have the craft that did it the first time. If that campbells soup can got them there once I bet it could again!
True, I just dont think theres much to gain from being on the moon. Aside from having a base and another launch point for other vehicles, wouldnt have to use much fuel to get them off the moon
You guys are so lost…not only did we land on the moon, but we stayed there, we have had bases there since 1978, I saw it on the history channel.
No no no that was the Nazis
Yes you did! Well done.
did you know fire actually evolved from water??
you don’t say?? fascinating…
Well if a certain book said so I would imagine many would believe.
everybody poops?
no lies told in that one….
I have read that book, we have a copy here at the office.
The Democratic National Platform?
You are right about that.
That evolution discussion sure took off today. Didn’t see that coming.
Lol I said I wouldn’t get into it but…
Argument seems to be the difference between Evidence and Proof.
When to you have enough of the 1st that it rises to become the 2nd.
No Proof of Sniffer being crooked, but lots of Evidence.
Same for Evolution or God-like being.
Same for Turmps elections,
The 2016 for libs, the evidence = truth.
For 2020 there is no Proof but just as much Evidence.
Seems like if it reinforces your beliefs it take much less Evidence for it to become Proof.
Just my humble opinion of course.
It’s a great topic to discuss if everyone is open to listen. However that is far more often to not be the case. Guess we haven’t evolved that skill yet
i think all topics should be open for discussion, collapse thread if you don’t like it.
Except the one about eating ass a few sections down. That topic should not be open for discussion.
wow, where have i been today!?!?!
LOL
Surprisingly little Vikings talk for a game day thread.
Historians proved long ago that Vikings also hated cherry tomatoes.
I think President Lincoln posted that on the Internet so it must be true.
That made me laugh out loud. Well done.
@And Kirk, we should avoid that one as well.@
Wait, are some people against eating ass?
Never ate Donkey/Mule myself.
I am sure that there are people who have before.
yeah, I guess it falls under the don’t knock it till you have tried it.
Figure it would have to be a survival situation.
Or a ‘Hold My Beer’ type of thing.
Lots of Topics for a discussion of Proof/Evidence.
We could go Global Warming even.
oh GAWD don’t touch that topic, I think the ocean levels just rose 0.0001 inches today, depending on whether the wave was measured correctly.
And Random Pacific Islands will be underwater as a result.
scary stuff. Oceans rising so fast now I think Obama and John Kerry just bought more matching ocean front properties in Cali
The Sophisticated Elite just need to fly to more Climate Change Conferences to solve the problem.
As long as they don’t get too many people on them and to over
wow i missed it all…
and i have all the answers too.
y’all are idiots.
Oh the Answers abound.
Finding the Correct one is the tricky part.
So, more cherry tomatoes in my lunch salad…..
I have decided its not a hill worth dying for.
Do you have a dog? Goose loves tomatoes.
I have found that they fit in the trash just fine.
I try to avoid that by not getting them in the first place.
Or placing them back where they came from in the 2nd place.
good advice.
Am I an outlier? I like cherry tomatoes on my salad.
I love ’em. Sometimes Mrs MT/NDR mixes up our lunches.
LOL,
I like a salad with lots of greens, some onions, some slivered carrots, a little shredded cheese, some sliced boiled eggs, and a couple tablespoons of mixed nuts. She does a great job except for the cherry tomatoes…
The beatings will resume this evening.
tossed salad???
I prefer to eat it, but yes if you wanted to throw it I suppose you could……
Yes, tossed salad.
OMG you would
florida? florida…
Tomatoes are good and are good for you you heathen. EAT EM!
Tomatoes are good. Cherry tomatoes are evil.
ThIS
They…taste the same? lol
i don’t mind tomatoes cut up and in things, but not cherry tomatoes or like whole sliced tomatoes. i’m not 97 without tastebuds
I like them, for some reason.
But if there are ever brussels sprouts on my plate, they get ignored.
Brussel sprouts and kale are the devil
Is it just me, or did the Dolphins get screwed last night? I mean, 0 penalties for the Eagles looks like a line for the Packers against the Vikings. Perhaps you could say most, if not all, of the Dolphins penalties were legit, but I saw several, obvious uncalled ones on the Eagles. That’s a case of “the NFL is definitely rigged” and they wanted Philly to win, I think. Usually they balance out at the end of the game with a bunch of insignificant calls to make the box score look better, but man…. there should never be an NFL game with 0 penalties on one team, especially when the other has 10+.
You make a good point.
That did indeed, League like Philly
MIN 13 SF 12.
With a Danielle Hunter strip/sack, scoop & score to seal it…..
I love this – however I will expand as you must have hit “post comment” a bit too quick;
—Min 13 SF 12 with 4 seconds left following a squib kick by MN. Purdy drops back and throws the hail Mary – WAY short of the endzone BUT WAIT THERE”S A PENALTY!!! OH NO PAUL THEY GOT MN FOR PASS INTERFERENCE AT THE 29 YARD LINE OH NO!!
MN 13 SF 15 – END
That’s pretty good, I would have gone the “……throws the Hail Mary…….AND IT’S PICKED OFF BY HARRISON SMITH ON THE GOAL LINE….blah blah blah…..but wait, there’s a penalty…..blah blah blah…..Vikings lose…….blah blah….”
Horse apiece…….
SF 27 MN 10. Kirk involved in two turn overs, strip sack and a pick
If we are goin go pick odd scores, then I am going MN 3 SF 2. Both QBs get hurt on the first play, second string get hurt on 3rd play and emergency QBs suck.
CMC will play tonight, not surprising, nothing yet on Williams but listed as doubtful
Thought Williams out. Risky playing McC i think.
Diggsy declining interviews. Guessing he’s happy. Can’t wait for a heavy dose of Mattison.
I hope he gets 0 snaps because im going against him in fantasy and Kene comes in and steals the show
For those who live in the West this is the youtube channel I watch daily for weather, guy tells it like it is, shows you all the models and what could happen and is bang on in telling you forecasts. He’s based out of Wyoming. This is for the snow this coming week here in Gods country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yUkbuaGFis
Nice site, have never seen it before.
Yeah hes pretty obscure, only around 1000 folks watch his stuff on the daily but I love it. He usually lets you know a good week out if theres potentially for major weather, then as it gets closer you get really accurate rain/snow totals.
I’ll check this out. I’m a weather nerd.
He posted a video a week or so ago explaining the difference between La Nina and El nino and expectations for this winter.
We like the little boy who swims in the ocean, we DO NOT like the little girl who swims in the ocean.
Im good with snow and cold until like mid Jan, then im done with winter. And considering we actually had some sort of fall this year maybe winter wont feel as long. Last year it was legit 6 months
Sexist.
I use Mike’s Weather Page. A good way to track all the tropical storms down here.
For those of you who imbibe in alcohol or other mind altering substances to dull the pain that is a Vikings game, What time are you starting pre-game festivities?
Eh, ill crack a few at kick off after I eat. Im trying to debate what I wanna do for food tonight yet. I cooked last night.
Wings
Eh, have to be boneless. I might pick up a Za from Papa Murphys….and try their new Monkey Bread and be a fatty
I personally detest boneless wings.
Same.
I don’t detest them but traditional is so much better… main reason is you know it’s actual meat.
Bone-in best, yes. Used to do a fair amount of BWW but quality diminished and price goes up. Like everything these days.
Family went there a few weeks back, food was cold, wasn’t that good… I mean wasn’t gross but for the price you pay it wasn’t worth it. I love finding good wings.
D Spot for really good wings in the NE metro.
Really, really good wings.
Yup, I can’t afford BWWis any more.
Bone in dry rub is definitely the way to go.
Sauces done right where they apply and cook and caramelize them up are good.
I don’t mind sauces, I just really like the flavor of certain spicy dry rubs.
I am also a proponent of wings and ribs to be dry. Though there are some wings I like to “dunk” in sauces, I generally don’t like me hands to be full of sauce.
This. All. Damn. Day. I love a good Cajun dry rub on wings.
I love a good traditional wing with hot buffalo sauce on them. We’ve got a few places around here to get a good wing, so we are lucky in that aspect. Cold beer and a good wing – always a good day!
I like the flavor but they are a pain in the ass to eat. Im not a toddler I dont like sauce all over my hands and face.
all I read
Nothing wrong with that
It is if the neglect that part of their body
JUST STOP!!! EVERYBODY JUST STOP!
no keep goin
*unzips* ….im almost there
nevermind logging off now forever
K byeeeeeeeeeeeee
Flats are easier to eat than drummies.
At B dubs you can ask for all flats. Just twist them apart, ez.
Since you’re here, and I’m here, wouldn’t that make it our time? And what’s wrong with a little feast on our time?
4 pm. Beers. Margarita during game.
My goal is a light buzz by game time, maintain till halftime and then tapper. So yes probably about 3 or 4 pm for me.
I work until 5…AM IN THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS AROUND HERE?!
Well, tonight my oldest has no activities, I prepared a lasagna for dinner last night, and the Vikings play at 7 so I will likely crack the first beer at 5pm
Reasonable…Sounds delicious. The Wife made chili last night at my request so that will be our meal tonight.
Chili sounds good too, I’ll be curious how the lasagna turns out, my kid requested it last night so I had to substitute half an bag of mozzarella only other cheese I had happened to be cotija, I’ll be curious to taste it out.
Lasagna is delicious, but it is work.
I’ll be hunting until dark, get home about 7:30, 8:30 central time. I am off work tomorrow as well so a few Cold Smokes and Double haul IPA’s
Nice to be off the day after a Vikings night game, that is why I am tappering by halftime. I have a full day of work tomorrow, with stuff I have to acrually get done.
6pm.
Smoked some ribs yesterday. Ice cold IPA and ribs tonight. Let the hopium begin.
Ice cold IPA…perfect.
It’s almost back to IPA time. I love Fall and all the Octoberfest style Marzen, Dunkel beers… but I am getting to the end of my stock pile and ready to move on lol.
Scotch Ales and Bock styles are my favorite.
Next favorite is whatever is cold and free.
What kind of crazy person eats ice cold ribs. Psychos that’s who.
Lol, good catch.
4:20.
A couple gummies are much better for my liver vs booze.
This is likely true…
I will maybe start the game listening in a tractor. I will follow that up with a plateful of canned salmon, a microwaved potato and Van De Camps Pork’n’Beans while I watch a bit on TV. Then I will be asleep by nine and check the score in the morning.
You must be really old….
What are the rest of us supposed to do?
You brave souls who endure the Vikings totally sober have our admiration.
You will suffer, that is what you are supposed to do.
I’ll be deep into porch joint #2 by 4:00…..
This is the way!!!
I’m no teetotaler but I don’t like to drink evenings before a work day. SNF and MNF and TNF suck for that reason. Maybe I’ll sip on a Busch Light after supper.
Wife is making potato soup so after I get the dogs walked, brushed and fed we can eat and settle in for the game about 6:20 MT.
Now
I am trying to hold off until at least 3pm.
I’m just allong for the ride and getting ready to head home
My weekend:
So couple of years back my wife asked for and of course received a little mini bike to putt around on. It seems I use it more than she does (funny scene of a 6’5″ guy on a minibike) to run the dogs when they are acting under exercised. I even have a big trail cut around one of our pastures that will double as a XC ski trail this winter.
Of course when I was as far away as possible from our place the chain popped off. I got my heart rate up pushing the bike, chain got caught in axle, freed the chain, push the bike, chain gets caught etc…until I got close enough that my wife saw me, then I got to lift the mfer into the back of the side by side.
She said oh we’ll have to take it in to get fixed, I’m like oh my it is just a chain I am sure I can get it back on it’s not much different than a bicycle. I bet it’ll take me five minutes (nothing takes you five minutes except “that”). It actually took me ten minutes but I got abundant praise for fixing it…I love getting wifely praise.
Would’ve taken Freezey the entire day, and his wife would have rolled her eyes at him.
one day is VERY generous.
Did you get anything other than just praise? That’s when its worth it.
That kinda goes with the foot rubs and back rubs.
Guy was working at our place with an excavator Saturday, had to take down sections of fence and knocked down low hanging tree branches. Cut up the branches, loaded up those and the remnants of the tree that fell in about eight loads on the side by side…then was out there with the fence stretcher and post pounder restretching the piece that got loosened by the tree falling and replaced all the fence the excavator took down…she came out and helped me by keeping the strands of wire from tangling up, said “wow I am really impressed how much you can do with the fencing!” That is just gold for me. Funnily enough of course I picked up the knowledge from her ex husband.
MT is the only one I can talk who understands what it is like to be overly tall…and incredibly good looking…
Everyone thinks it is all slam dunks and an endless train of super models, but it is also uncomfortable chairs and an endless train of super models.
Excuse me? I’m overly tall (6’4.5”) and also devastatingly handsome….😎
I think Wrenage is like 6’9
But not handsome.
One woman’s ugly is Christine Brinkley’s Billy Joel!
He’s short
6’7, but, yeah, 6’9 in heels.
HAWT
That’s me limbering up for a fun run pretty much. The only real difference is I would have my T-shirt tied in a knot at my midriff.
You’re in the club!
You know another fun thing I discovered about overly-tall? I went to an amusement park, and I am tall enough to ride all the rides…but I don’t actually fit in them!
Same – but I’m guessing I’ve got you by at least 100lbs (sitting at GD 303 for weeks, can’t seem to break 299) 6’7” is tall no doubt – my dad was 6’8” in his heyday. Closer to my height now thanks to gravity and scoliosis. He was also large but has slimmed down to about 230 now.
Like Mjolnir, I am 6’4.5, but I am not devastatingly handsome so I can’t be in your club.
Thats also why I have no supermodels I am fending off.
Handsome is as handsome does. You’re in the club!
YES!!!
Hey Stu
Would be nice to have an offense and QB that could execute both of those
You are correct KFEY, our starting QB cannot run those plays.
Have yet to see an example on an RPO where Kirk keeps the ball, and either runs 20 yards for a TD or runs, tricks the defense and throws for a first down.
No, I have not, which was why I was agreeing with you.
That is NOT to be confused with saying I want Minshew over Cousins, just acknowledging that is something Cousins can’t do.
Ah I assumed sarcasm ha. Id take Minshew on a cheap two year deal with only one guaranteed while our fresh QB of the future learns the ropes next year. Thats all thats all Id want him for.
bring back Keenum
He had big balls
For one season, sure! He’s gotta be getting up there in age too not? Miracle was 5 years ago.
well sure, it would also be nice to have uncle rico’s arm strength and throw footballs over those mountains…
but alas…
he’s the man
“Fear the Stash”
Yeah, I do remember this from a couple years ago, pretty cool moment
According to the National Weather Service, we are currently forecasted to receive 12 inches of snow From Wednesday through Friday.
And so it begins.
Up in Minot land it looks like yes. Bismarck will miss the first wave, get about 6 in in the second (giggity). I sold my shitty 5 hp snow blower in June and havent bought a new one yet….
I have a nice snow blower but it needs servicing, pretty sure old gas needs to be drained and spark plug maybe replaced. There is currently no one in Minot who works on small engines.
If only Freezey lived closer……
Theres a guy in Washburn that might help you out. Retired, repairs and sells snow blowers as a hobby.
Snow blowers are easy to service. Good grief man, you can drain old gas and gap or change a spark plug.
Nah, I will ask a buddy to help me out and then pay him back with alcohol…
MT the extent by mechanical abilities ends with changing door knobs. That is usually a 2 hour project for me.
Are you me? That being said if changed the spark plug and the oil on my lawn mower so…
Well come on up! I will buy you a case of beer of your choice.
need the battery changed?
That’s weird, typically local hardware stores like Ace service stuff like lawnmowers and snowblowers.
Yes, the local hardware store had just such a gentleman that I utilized for years.
He died and they haven’t been able to find anyone else.
Well that sucks.
The guy spraying foam at our place would hire someone without experience on the spot for $30/hr. He cannot find anyone. Guess I found a career if I get canned.
Its awful that no one wants to work. Talked to my guy who did my garage floor last year. He offers 20 bucks an hour plus a share of the profit when each job is done. Says usually someone will stay till they get their 1st check and then he doesn’t see them anymore. He imagines they get their drug fix and then they are on to other things.
In the 1800s a baboon named Jack successfully worked as a railway signalman in South Africa. Tell me why I’m supposed to be worried about AI when baboons are capable of this? We all know what the end result of this is…
this kind of wants me to get into the evolution discussion but I won’t
What’s their to discuss? If you don’t believe in evolution please submit your research, get it peer reviewed disproving evolution and go claim your Nobel Prize in Science…
Well I certainly don’t believe it’s settled science that’s all. Just because a dude theorized this happens and everyone buys in whole sale is silly to me. Don’t we share like 99% DNA with pigs? Did we evolve from pigs too?
I find it equally as plausible that:
-a magic man in the sky created all beings; or
-every being came from some single-cell thing in the ocean – and then out of convenience of food (??) some decided to start walking on land and then some decided that to help hold things we’d get disposable thumbs
I have no clue how we got here, no one does, all theories. People who believe God created everything are equally as crazy as people who believe in evolution.
I got here in a 2009 Pontiac Vibe…
GAH DAMN that’s a hell of a ride
Stuman taking the nuanced stance. I like it!
everything is nuanced, people know literally nothing, and it’s extremely arrogant to believe that any science is “settled”
I got here cause my parents had unprotected sex
You may have been conceived in the lab, are you sure they had sex?
Can confirm
@You must have been captain of the debate team, and got straight A’s in Philosophy classes@
Why not both? You can actually see evolution/ natural selection happening in current species. Where people lose perspective is humans are not capable of understanding how long a million years is. Look up ring species for one example of evolution in action. I’ll explain more of curious tomorrow when I’m not running around the hills.
Yup, really tough to even wrap your head around that time span… We really can’t.
I would be interested to know concrete evidence of something “evolving” in our period of recorded history. Finding a bird or snail that seems just like another one doesn’t really prove it to me. Only shows me we haven’t discovered every animal ever. I don’t suspect we ever will if every ‘evolutionary cycle” is in the millions of years.
Bacteria…viruses…
Exactly, you can’t argue with these folks. They will say, “Show me a…” then you show them what they asked for then they move the goal posts.
Yup
I think you’re missing my point entirely. I’m not saying you are right or wrong. I have no idea what happened. I’m saying y’all are completely arrogant by telling christians that they are.
A virus can theoretically change thus some monkeys turned into man.
It’s not a theory that bacteria change to survive (recombination). When penicillin was introduced it would eradicate everything. Now bacteria smile and say “nice try”.
You know more than I do in this realm, so OK.
A virus/bacteria can change, and since we all came from a bacteria then monkey will/can turn into man.
Yes, I willed and prayed and begged and pleaded for my doohickey to end up in my wife’s whatchamacallit so anything is possible under the sun.
Well that settles it
yes, just as the covid virus mutated and hence we have to have a vaccine of the month to deal with it. Of course things mutate.
If only we could just have a vaccine that evolves to fight the evolving virus and bacteria.
Bacteria is out for the season IIRC.
Ha!
Again,
I’m saying the idea of monkey turning into men as we know it now is as far fetched to me as there being a higher power creating it.
You are just trying to steer the argument into a certain place so the whole conversation goes into a death spiral. I would submit that humans of today look different than the humans that built the pyramids. More gracile bones, taller, thinner fingernails, etc…does that mean that a pyramid builder couldn’t mate with Taylor Swift no but they would stand out (or not stand out) in a crowd.
Had a HS science teacher that brought in his HS yearbook from when he graduated in 1952 – showed that compared to our then current yearbook and how people’s faces back then were rounder and how the current yearbook showed the kids with sharper, more elongated faces and cheekbone structures. Was fascinating. Also, he was a bad alcoholic and lived on the edge of town and me and my buddies would routinely drive thru his front yard….
I’m not trying to devolve anything. Trying to make people less arrogant and more willing to listen. My opinion both are true, things can mutate and there’s likely some higher power at work. Keeps me sleeping peacefully at night.
If a flat earther says evolution is fake and the sun is inside a dome I’ll listen. All things created by God? Sure tell me more.
Critical thinking doesn’t only involve thinking exactly as the school book tells you to. There’s another book that others use that says something a bit different.
You’re thinking to short term and not taking into account millions of years
That’s the point, evolution takes longer than”recorded history. ” there is a lizard I don’t remember where. They inhabit all of the area almost all the way around a mountain range. If you start at the let’s say to right and work your way around clockwise, they can interbreed with the ones next to them. By the time you get all the way around the mountains though, the two across from each other can’t breed. That is the definition of two different species and is a living example ah the evolution gradient. You’ve got to remember it’s small changes and takes forever. I’ll try to do a better job explaining it and give ya some more examples when I’m in a computer. Another place people get hung up is thinking that evolution goes against a belief in God which isn’t the case. Nobody is saying that there isn’t somebody putting a finger on the scale.
lol, best part about science is it doesn’t give a shit what you believe. Again, if you actually disagree, present your peer reviewed research paper disproving the theory of evolution and get your Nobel Prize…
“Just because a dude theorized…” it wasn’t just one dude, that dude’s work has been built on and adjusted a lot. Gravity is a theory as well… Earth goes around the Sun… theory… your ignorance is showing. I don’t say that to be mean but people throw the word theory around in the context you are don’t understand what a theory is.
Also your typo of “disposable thumbs” makes me laugh… absolutely something I would typo as well lol.
Evolution is proven, it’s 10000000000% proven. We have seen it, we know things evolve. Us from lower primates is WAAAAAYYYYY the majority belief, even by religious scientists.
I agree evolution is real, but to say we came from apes is not necessarily proven. If that were the case, shouldn’t there be Cro Magnon men walking around?
No, we branched off from them, they died off. Not a hard concept really. I don’t have all the answers either but people just to say they don’t believe, well that’s fine, but science doesn’t care what you believe. But the, if we came from monkeys then why are there still monkeys argument isn’t a good one.
I think it’s pretty obvious that Homo Sapiens dispatched of Neanderthals, etc…times get tough, food gets short, it’s kill or be killed.
Homos and neanders also banged.
Any port in a storm I always say.
who wouldn’t wanna bang a neander
I do like athletic women….but nah…..
Nice flat head to rest my beer on.
and big ears for pulling.
No, because Homo sapiens killed them.
Lol OK smarty pants. I don’t say evolution isn’t real, I say it’s as likely the truth as there is an actual God. Prove to me he doesn’t exist? If you know better than show me your peer reviewed studies bla bla bla.
Stu doesn’t give a shit what you believe.
I believe things can mutate, sure, historically mutations have been looked at as “odd” and “weak” and usually snuffed out, not sure why we were the chosen ones over the other sapiens, or monkeys, but lucky us? Or maybe something perfected us after all the other trial runs. Idk. You don’t know. Darwin didn’t fkn know.
It’s all quite literally best guess with some “well ya see now this bird looks exactly like this bird but there’s an odd adaptation here in it’s coloring and thus it must be “evolving” to use this new color to it’s advantage”
I don’t fully care either way, I think it’s extremely arrogant to say it’s 1000000x proven. Lol. And this coming from a guy who hasn’t gone to church in years – so I’m not some bible thumper – just don’t believe everything I’m told.
You could have saved yourself some time and just said If evolution were proven 10000000000% it wouldn’t be referred to as the theory of evolution, it would just be evolution.
It would have benefited every monkey and dude since beginning of time to have wings and we never evolved for that. We have near identical skeletons to birds, why aren’t we just the same now after all these hundreds and thousands of years
Do some critical thinking there.
Never
The secret to the discussion is that the “evidence” is meaningless. Both sides have the same evidence. It is all about the bias used to interpret the evidence.
Objectivity has little to do with it. Creationists generally admit that. Scientists do not.
Sigh, not understanding how theories work. It doesn’t mean guess. Again, gravity… theory. Earth goes around the sun… theory.
Gravity is a law
It isn’t arrogant. Evolution is a real thing we have seen occur in viruses, bacteria etc… I was be hyperbolic, not arrogant. There’s a difference.
My dad always asked me if I was born in a barn….so, maybe I evolved from pigs…
Well, at the very least you could self identify as a pig.
been called it many times so clearly others see me as pig too
Think I’ll identify as a man-bear-pig.
If you want to use a bird example, read up on galapagos finches and their breaks.
Exactly, believe in science. It has never been wrong, or changed.
“Evolution” to say that species adapt and change very slowly over time to account for various advantageous things is 100% real, IMO. But to say we came from apes is idiotic, again IMO. You can go as far as to point to all the “majority beliefs” about all the lies over COVID and the jab, and yet, the majority was WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY wrong. That alone should humble such a believer in “the science” like you.
^^^ My man is getting where Big Stu is coming from
We did not evolve from monkeys. We evolved from a common ancestor. Our closest ape relative in the evolution tree is binobo chimps, but we are still on different branches of the evolutionary tree like a whitetail and a moose.
Think i evolved from a politician not subject to a term limit.
If so, how did we develop logic, reasoning, planning capabilities, and all other higher order cognition? Just slowly came from nowhere while the other common ancestors died off or diverted to monkeys? Too many holes in logic for me, just like the Big Bang Theory (a random explosion created everything from essentially nothing).
Over time the smartest humanoids survived better and reproduced more and over thousands and thousands of years you get to where we are. Like I said, evolution happening doesn’t mean there isn’t a good who started and has guided the path.
Evolution is a myth and earth is flat. You’re welcome.
Ben Dum Dum
now this is a wild idea imo^
Nothing much to talk about today, So….
Played my last round of golf yesterday. Shot a 90, made could contact but couldn’t get up and down from off the green, I believe I was 0 for 12 in getting down in two when just off the green, have to get some of those to go. Oh well, pretty fun year.
“made could contact but couldn’t get up and down from off the green”
I run into this problem with the wife all the time…
The do make drugs that are helpful….
Is this permission to use cocaine?
Because it sounds like permission to use cocaine!
Be back later. I have to go get cocaine. NoDak told me to!
I don’t have you pegged as a cocaine user, possibly weed, possibly magic mushrooms, but not cocaine.
I mean, you have to be on something to watch all of those shitty movies.
That is a reasonable take.
I watched the Alligator People the other day. I felt like it was not a complete waste of time, not a great movie, but not disaster. The torso suit at the end was really bad though, as you mentioned.
It was fun in its simplicity. I enjoyed watching it. I like those 1950s flicks. I should review more of them.
The cream of the crop is still The Incredible Shrinking Man and Invasion of the Body Snatchers probably.
Pretty sure being a kid in the 1950s would have been a blast.
I have never seen either. Interesting side note, I found that movie on youtube and it was actually very clear picture for the 50s. I’ve seen stuff from the 90s that had piss poor quality of video on youtube.
Definitely check out The Incredible Shrinking Man (57) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (56). They are bonafide.
The 1977 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is good, too. The 1993 version is a bit odd, yet I still kind of like it. The 2007 version was okay but kind of toothless.
Really, it is hard to really screw up the “loved ones being replaced by duplicates” story.
The Incredible Shrinking Man is one of my favorite watching experiences ever. As a kid growing up where we had no TV, I got like ABC and CBS. The Incredible Shrinking Man was one one random Sunday afternoon on a snowy channel. Had a blast watching it.
Putting or pitching problems?
I would say Pitching more than putting. Seems like I could never get it closer than 8 feet from just off. Then I just barely missed a lot of 8 to 10 footers, but I needed to get some of them inside of 8 feet. I haven’t played much the last 3 weeks (damn job) and they say your short game is the first thing to go.
8 foot not great, but not bad either. Good putting cures a lot of ills.
Indeed short game is first to go.
You could have stopped right there.
Regarding the Lions…
To quote the immortal Denny Green “They are who we thought they were!!”
I posted this yesterday – but it was so good I’m posting it again. Chicken Pot Pie from scratch. Unreal.
How much pot did you use?
Lol…. Zero
YUM!
I finally found a petition we can all agree on.
Please sign and pass on.
100% NYC gets safer if every one of those rats was strapped
Hopefully Ben posted this already. Vikings are like 94% favorites to win. It’s just math, bruh
Sadly we love to be the exception, not the rule
Accurate
Yessssss. Love sucks. Rodgers injury means no 1st rounder for the trade iirc. Now all we need is a bunch of Packer rubes to shell out hundreds of dollars for a piece of paper that says they ‘own’ the team….. oh wait…..
Yeah but really they won’t count because when you are an owner you can just “write off” any losses… so who’s the smart one now?
Didn’t know toilet paper was a tax write off, intersting
well now you know
I stand by my original post.
I didn’t know the Vikes wanted Brock Purdy as an USDA.
I already posted that, but good job Skolly.
No one reads your posts though
“excuse me, 911? yes we’ve just witnessed a murder”
Not my fault you’re illiterate, but speaking of which, wonder how Lifer is these days.
You know he is sitting in the background reading all of these comments, just on the edge of complete explosion.
Probably, once in a while I’ll say something negative about him just in case he is reading and it may trigger him to respond, like the fact its kind of funny he ended up a stupid lib considering grew up a sister slamming inbred hillbilly from WV.
Doomed to be mid for an ETERNITY!!!
Its week 7, obviously this early in the season one game can make a big difference between a high draft pick vs making the playoffs, what a dumbass tweet.
Also going to have this song queued up for when the clown show offense gives us some entertainment tonight – laughs will be had
Kirk is gonna have lots of stats tonight so I beat Ben.
Fuck the Falcons for not sitting Bijon yesterday and marking him as out before the game. He told them he felt like shit the night before and the morning of and they did nothing. Single handedly cost me a fantasy match up. I have Allgeier on my roster specifically as a handcuff for this and I would have won if I swapped them. Beyond pissed.
Cry more lib
Kiss my hairy ass Ben
LOL, luv u2 bb
U2 sucks….
this is a message I fully endorse
Correct
That they do
If Kfeybaby was a superhero
Libman55
Oh you know me, big dumb giant lib over here
Damn KFEY, I thought all of the libs in Bismarck/Mandan were eradicated long ago. Stay safe!
lol, as long as there are active colleges in Town there will always be Libs in town, either the professors or the white women.
Yes, two big groups of libs, college professors and white women. The women just CARE SO MUCH…everyone deserves nice housing, free healthcare, free food, free childcare – those are things you should not have to work for.
And they say that while most of that stuff is being provided to them already either from mommy and daddy or some dude the suckered into supporting them. Its far from all women here but there’s for sure a population of them.
I have both in a Yahoo public league – but I started Allgeier. Was listening to ESPN radio at 5 am yesterday and they mentioned that Robinson wasn’t feeling well and considering that Allgeier has had stand alone value himself I rolled the dice. Glad I did.
It didn’t matter – was going against Kelce and AJ Brown. Lost.
Damn, lucky you caught that. The team and or the people that sniff around for updates for Fantasy never reported it, he was healthy to start the game so I kept him in.
I’m in the DN FF league on Yahoo (against my will). I’m leading my matchup by 8 points. I have Kittle, he has CMC.
What are my chances?
If we (Vikes) keep Kittle out of the endzone I’m thinking you’re toast. Luckily for you (bad for us also) is I’m guessing Kittle gets at least a TD, but likely is limited for a ton of catches/yards.
Also, lucky for you (and us) CMC is a bit dinged up and could be limited, though a limited CMC could still be worth a ton in fantasy value (more catches outside, less runs through middle).
Long story short I’m thinking you’ll be fine because Kittle will get a TD – that helps.
How is the DN lately? Haven’t been there in a long time. Everyone still good vibes and all touchy feely since we degenerates are gone for good?
wow, couldn’t be more homophobic could you….
>>
So does Peter Bukowski
Bukowski’s dog has a shirt that says “I got that Peter in me”
That’s gross, true for sure though
I pop over once in a great while. They still argue about Kurt all the time. Thank goodness for this site where that is never an issue.
I don’t frequent there much at all since Skoloholics was created.
I was in their FF league in the past, and there’s no “I’m not playing” option that I can find on the FF webpage. I didn’t even draft – just got a notification after the draft that I’m gonna lose.
Probably pretty good if CMC doesn’t play.
I’m also in that league and I completely forget that for weeks at a time. I just looked and I’m ahead of Chunk by 4 points but he has SF kicker, Purdy, and Addison going tonight, I have Mattison and Hock. I will lose.
Not good
Inflation up (govt taking away 10% of our spending power/expendable $$ just cuz)
The brink of going to war
Taxes up (guess we all make over $400,000/year??)
Fantasy team loses
Vikes playing a really good team in primetime (ugh)
But all of this does not bother me one single bit and I am so happy and so much better off because I no longer have to read tweets
It was never required to begin with
what? That’s not possibly true. When someone who is orange tweets you MUST read every single one and find reason to be outraged, and thusly call for his immediate resignation/firing/impeachment/jail time.
Are you really telling me right now that people could have simply, just, like, not read them if they didn’t like them? idk man you sound fu*kin nuts right now and are obviously a white supremacist
Correct on all accounts. I always marvel at certain people’s ability to bitch nonstop about social media when its so easy to block/ignore/mute all the things that so easily offend them, its almost like they just want to be miserable.
the outrage machine. People feel it gives them validation if they can engage and ride a high horse on every fucking subject. Weak people
Yup. It’s easier to be pissed about everything than to think about anything….
Love it!
I just think it is awesome that the cost of servicing our debt goes up and up with the interest rates, so we have to borrow money from China to pay the debt interest, so we can send military supplies and aid overseas to fight China and Russia, and we’ll rebuild our arsenal here at home with a bunch of millennials who want to work part time and from home.
Seems like we are in a downward spiral for sure…
But hey, no mean tweets!
LOL
Gameday. Lets ride
The Vikings will probably lose tonight, but on a positive note, the Lions lost and its becoming abundantly clear that Jordan Love is not only NOT the next HOF Packers QB, he probably isn’t even a starting caliber QB in the NFL. The Bears may have found their franchise QB though, or at least found one closer than Fields.
Careful with crowning a Bear’s QB after one start…
I crown him better than Fields.
Have the Bears found their Purdy-like QB? The kid played well.
He did play well, and outside of one terrible throw against the Vikings he played really well.
unfortunately Love might be so bad that they are going to be in the top 10 to draft a possible new franchise QB….
i wouldn’t mind love showing signs of life so that they don’t do that…
Yeah, he might do just enough to make them not draft a QB, but in all honesty, a QB who can’t complete at least 60% of his passes is garbage in today’s NFL.
Minshew would like a word
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO???
Minshew completes over 60% of his passes.
NU UH NOT IN 2022 HE DIDNT
Didn’t he ride the bench in 2022?
he had like 50 attempts
I didn’t know that, also didn’t know you were such a Minshew aficionado
google is my friend but I do think Minshew is a stud and I’d like to have a beer with the guy
Yeah he seems like a super cool guy
Goooooooose morning Skolohomies!
FTP and Detroit lost
Iowa lost
NU won and is above .500 for the first time in a while
Good weekend.
Happy Monday and Skol!
The Floyd of Rosedale finally returns to MPLS for the first time in almost 10 years. Much like Jerry Kill’s inability to beat Wisconsin, PJ Fleck lost to Iowa his first six seasons but finally out conservatived Ferentz for the win. If the Gophers manage to beat Wisconsin again this year it will be the first time in 33 years that the Gophers have beaten Wisconsin and Iowa in the same season.
Also, the tears of Hawkeye fans bitching about a punt return being called back because the returner called for a fair catch are delicious, LOL.
I love the win, but, that was a very questionable call by the refs.
if the rule states any motion by your left hand means fair catch, well then don’t have motion by your left hand.
just as much as i hate the rule about fumbling out the endzone, this rule is really dumb too…but oh well…play any ounce of better throughout the game against an inferior opponent, don’t leave it up to ONE PLAY.
love watching the hawkeyes lose in minnesota sports fashion haha
It kind of is, but the returner is very obviously waiving his hand. The rule states a fair catch is ruled when the player waives his hand above his head. From the replay I saw he clearly waives his hand at about head level. The only questionable part is did he have his hand high enough. The refs determined he did. Cry more Iowa libs.
And throw more trash on the field like it’s Norman, Oklahoma in the early 90’s…
I thought Iowa was better then that. Apparently not.
I hate OU. I have a bunch of family in Oklahoma and there is a schism between them when it comes to CFB, most are OSU fans the rest are OU fans. Personally I like OSU much better because their mascot is way cooler, but I also just like the OSU family members better than the OU ones. Plus, I just love Mike Gundy.
I missed most of the game. I turned it on just after the punt return that was called back. After about 10 to 15 minutes of real time, I told my wife, I did not see much football, but I did see a lot of drama.
You didn’t miss anything. Offenses sucked, the Gophers QB was the worst I’ve ever seen the first half, though he was better the second half and there was crazy wind. Very boring game.
i have a pretty stinkin epic story of my nephew (9 years old) who has been indoctrinated into the hawkeye koolaid drinking idiocy by my brother in law.
punt return for a td, nephew runs over to my dad’s house (they live right next door), my dad is behind by 5 or so minutes, so my nephew says “i’ll watch with your gramp” (keep in mind, he saw the punt return for a TD and INSTANTLY left to go to my dads house), so he’s watching and watching BOOM punt return for TD, nephew stands up and starts screaming “WE WON WE WON GRAMP WE WON HAWKEYES WON HAHAHAHAH IN YOUR FACE THEY WON!!!!!”
My dad says come on now, there is still 1:30 left, don’t ruin the game for me, gophers still have time (my dad is delusional of course), but wait….the reverse the call, NO TD. my nephew asks my dad, wait….gramp, what is happening? my dad explains it. my nephews face turns ash, and he says “i need to go talk to my dad” and leaves the house never to return hahahaha.
i love that story so much.
I love that story too, I bet your BIL is whining about the punt return too.
well i doubt his son came up with “the refs cheated us out of a win” on his own…
kind of like i teach my kids “we hate the packers because they are all cheaters” haha
That’s awesome. Nice little lesson about sportsmanship and counting pre-hatched chickens…..
Yes, Iowa tears fuel my car….
with cleveland being out, does that mean Risner is starting?
if this has already been discussed this weekend or reported, OOOOOOOOOOOPS
Yes, Risner gets the start. Let’s see what he’s got left in the tank!
Yup. Risner starts.
Yes, Risner is starting, it would be better if it were at RG and Cleveland were playing but at least the Vikings have some depth now.
Well what’s interesting is Ingram started playing much better once there was a threat for his spot in Risner getting signed. Hopefully that continues.
He’s still mostly awful, given up the 2nd most sacks in the league, 10th most penalties, and is the only olineman to strip sack his own QB, he’s still the weakest link on the oline and should be replaced, but he has been slightly better since Risner was signed. My favorite Ingram moment was when he said he played well after strip sacking Kirk and giving up a bunch of pressures and a sack.
and my much better he went from dumpster fire to garbage can fire
True it was a pretty low bar with no where to go but up.