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These guys had some great tunes back in the 90s, and this is their best one, IMO. Enjoy!
645th comment – I wonder how the gulag did today…?
NoDakRube, if you’re lurking still I sent you an email on your tickets for sale.
Injury report article up here
MT….sending this chap to help ya with that fence. 😂
I have had several like that work with me. It is really sad
Same here. Fortunately, I only hired a few of them over the decades who were so dumb they didn’t even know when they were beat.
“Breaking news”
If you didn’t see this today….oh baby worth a watch.
https://twitter.com/realjoespinosa/status/1567489360886468609?s=21&t=pKm3aXoEg9ONnoCWeDSyWA
Guy’s pretty good I guess..
That gives me a chub…
So, is this right?? You moved right next to your wife’s ex or is it her son and her ex just ranches with him? You graze your wife’s exe’s cattle on your place?
Welp….we’ll see how long he lasts.
Figure he will be injured in pre game warm ups.
Honestly would not shock me in the least. Seriously.
Vikes only one LP on injury report. Coming in healthy baby!
Irv not on there. He’s good to go
Could lay off the guy who has to post the list just by putting Irv on there permanently.
I’m thinking 6 starters out in the first 4 games if we are average, less if we are lucky and more if we are Vikings.
Still 2 more days of practice………
well this was KOC’s entire strategy…light camp and offseason save the body for the pounding in season. We’ll see how it works out for cotton. If we see guys getting hurt left and right throughout the game we’ll know they weren’t “contact ready”.
Looks like Watson will go. I think Lazard is out based on LaFluer said.
both tackles might end up playing now
Hoping Doubs gets some run….would like to see him make some plays and cut in to the starters snaps. I mean we have Cobb and Watkins starting. 5 years ago that might have been something. Put the rookie sleeper in there.
We?
Must’ve thought he was on 5s packer fan account.
Yeah, the Vikings are bleeding fans.
Wait a minute is this my five African profile, Russian profile or Packer Backer profile…shit.
What I meant we as Viking fans will be facing those two old goats. We should be fine.
Lololol
Nice call again, Baldi.
Yeah…he’s already a really good QB. Makes sense.
Can’t rise to the occasion, has to just be business as usual. Reaching for the window to close, Kirk.
Needs to get those 2 qbr 15 games in every season. Wonder which ones this year. Hopefully not giants and jets.
Yeah like Allen against the Jags last year.
i hope brady and his wife can get things figured out.
Same but doesn’t sound to good. I think that drama gonna affect Brady mentally this year.
He will regress
throw a pass at 45 and retire.
ride off into the sunset GOAT
At this point, it’s a pretty good bet that even if he retires she will find another issue to get upset about.
Runway chick, always about them. @i’ve had several@
I don’t even like cats so the catwalk is a no-go zone.
Cannot even imagine the amount of bitch in those women. Fun to look at though
Most of them look no different than my neighbor’s middle school son.
I had a boss that once said something super funny to me about attractive women.
lol, my 75 y/o boss said that all the time until he died at 92
don’t know the story, but i could see her being upset if he changed his mind and unretired (if that’s actually what happened)
but come on baby, goat’s gotta goat.
I think that’s the issue. She wanted him to be done and he didn’t want to be.
she probably is getting annoyed of a handsome boring guy like tom and just wants a little Big Stu in her life tbh
emphasis on little
wants a LITTLE big Stu in her life tbh
Hey buddie…a little twice as often adds up to more!
For the kids, at least. Anyone noticed how dysfunctional our society has become? Me neither.
i’m not sure they have actually “parented” their kids, at any point of their life
Prob right there, some situation of normalcy, at least.
agreed.
Definitely worried about the kids. Never know the whole story, but from what I’ve read, he doesn’t do jack for the family or the kids. Even in the off season, he dives into his other businesses. If this is true, there’s no way kids don’t notice and resent an absentee parent.
We are like. I’m not worried about me, it’s my kids and 3 grands. Spin politics anyway you want but a radical change is needed. And soon. By the way, we wondered what state you are in.
Louisville, KY. Just saw that earlier in the thread. These threads are a tad difficult to go back and find earlier conversations.
Friends of ours’18 year old daughter just attempted suicide (came very close to succeeding). Sad. Has everything she could ever want, parents are well-to-do. Studies showing that suicide rates, especially among younger women, is skyrocketing.
All of it took off around the time social media took off. Correlation does not always mean causation, but you have to wonder……
Also, if you haven’t seen “The Social Dilemma”, you should watch it. VERY good documentary.
Yes. Eye-opening.
That sucks and glad she made it. Hopefully she can get the help she needs.
I know of two families who have gone through that recently, both of them very good families. Really sad.
Yeah, just last week a newscaster next door in Wisconsin offed herself over a failed engagement/relationship, which made national headlines.
wow, that’s sad. what a shame.
There is a reason 25% are on anti psycho medication, leaving 75% untreated
Montana has one of the top three spots for successful suicides in the nation. Very sad. I have heard the rate is particularly high among veterans.
I hope the daughter gets all the help she needs.
That’s terrifying. Yes, bullying on social media has gotten brutal. Kids heads are filled with so much garbage these days: school, media, entertainment, it’s everywhere.
Not just bullying, but countless examples of people who are patterning slime and have no morals or ethics.
Amen.
That is very sad. I hope she gets the help she needs.
I was not aware – yikes
Idk I think the Bears have a good chance and might upset niners week 1. Lance isn’t going to work out and Kittle is out I see.
But the bears are going to be terrible.
They will be. But niners might not be good either. I think they’re a little overhyped. They’ll finish 3rd in that division
Lol…complete opposite. Niners are absolute stacked and Lance is going to set it off for that offense. Bears are going to be terrible.
Niners 35 Bears 13.
Looking forward to our first dabares game. We might finally be favored.
Gotta agree with Lifer here, 49ers roster is loaded, tops in the NFC. They wax the bears with the run game and defense alone. Bears might win 2 games all season.
Still a good chance they beat us at least once.
dude….
we’re talking aboout the bears……………
Bears are gonna get their arses kicked that game.
Lance went to school in North Dakota, he’ll be fine. 49ers defense is going to hold the Bears offense to almost nothing. Could see that being a low scoring affair, though.
I’ll watch just for qb’s. Make that 2:00 call brad?
I did. They’re working on things, so am I.
Might try to re-implement that bubble feature to see how that looks, see if it’s something that can be modified. They’re going to look around at other options. Hopefully we have some action soon.
Those were great games
To Smith…
They’ll just tag him if he hardballs
30M+ for the tag.
And an angry QB.
not a huge fan of the kid if I’m being honest.
Not worth $50 million a year, I know that.
It’s a game, but Goodell and his little band of left-wing socialists still want to push capitalism to the moon. Ironic.
Same. I think he’s overrated. I think the Ravens see that too. Been a bust in playoffs
Lamar is a really good guy. He won’t let the contract thing affect his game or relationship with his team mates. I do think he should get an agent and take the deal. The Watson contract is an outlier.
I was never a fan of the “running” QB, and I understand the concerns folks have. Have to admit he’s fun to watch, but definitely worry about him getting hurt.
I am a fan, since he is fun to watch.
However, if the Ravens were my favorite team I am sure I would complain about him.
Cheap compared to what he’s likely asking. Hopefully he doesn’t hold out, he’s my starting QB.
Why do people hold out when they make tens of millions? I’ll never figger that out.
Runs to much, going to get killed.
Csnt throw either
Fun to watch but i aint paying a qb for that. Bet he misses games, yes, plural.
I thought today…if I was the Ravens GM I’d just say internally, look we’re not paying this guy Watson level money. Just not going to do it. We’ll take our chances drafting and building our roster with that cap via FA and let some other dumbass team overpay the $250 mill guaranteed.
I’m right there with you on that one.
The Vikings have proven you can put a big greasy turd out on the field and people will still pack the stands.
I’d give her a nice bloomin’, that’s for sure.
Always nice to see someone smiling that big.
you wish, mt
Medically speaking of course lol…
He’d make sure she was really healthy
Good good
FYI….
And LOL on the comments…
anyone watching the new Rings of Power series?
I’m enjoying it.
I haven’t seen any yet. I’m wary.
I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I like the LOTR movies, but hated the first Hobbit movie and haven’t watched anything based on Tolkien since.
i read the LOTR books and the Hobbit.
Loved the LOTR movies, hated the Hobbit.
Is this new series based on more book by Tolkien? if so, i highly doubt it is portrayed as the books. They definitely seem to be trying to push a strong female leaders, i’m not against it, if it seems to fit. some doesn’t seem to fit and feels very forced. others meh, it’s decent.
i have enjoyed seeing and hearing names of the worlds and regions that are long wasted away in LOTR, but in their glory in Rings of Power. And it’s fun to see characters in Rings of Power that we know or have heard about in LOTR.
it’s enjoyable IMO.
just being attached to Tolkien characters is enough to make me wary, but I’m sure my wife will talk me into giving it a try at some point
it’s entertaining for entertainments sake.
but i can see some of the things they are trying to push, per normal for things this day and age.
oh great
I do not know of many movies that I enjoyed more than the books.
The one exception is the Reacher TV series on Amazon. Based on one book. That show was a lot better than the book.
The Tolkien books are all better imo than any adaptations.
I still really enjoyed the LOTR and Hobbit movies, even though they butchered things.
It is fun TV. Moving a bit slow, but so does the book “The Silmarillian”
People are pissed because Hollywood casting changed things.
To that I say, it is Fantasy. Relax.
FUCK
THE
PACKERS
oh, whew
I read the first one and was worried for a sec
Must have thought his mom was in Hustler
packers
the
eff
My brother in Christ, sometimes you need to let the hammer drop on the F Bomb.
Especially regarding the packers.
nah.
my hatred for them still comes across enough i think.
save your bombs for Satan and Gregg Williams
I say effing idiot alot. Mostly directed at me when i do something stupid.
I avoid using the ef word at all costs too. But sometimes I blow.
I usually slip after consuming adult beverages….
Dairy Queen chicken tenders with Chick-fil-A sauce?
oh baby.
z
they look like they’re worth a try
Anybody here ever tried any of the heat in bag backpacker meals (not the add boiling water like Mountain House, more like an MRE)? I am trying to decide if I get a stove to boil water or try a few of them next week. The one or two people I have talked to that tried them were not impressed, but they are also picky (one won’t eat fish or venison).
sorry, the only thing that’s like an MRE that I’ve eaten is an actual MRE
These are the ones Scheels in Billings has
MREs have heat tabs that require no stove. I can still get them at the Commissary (retirees are allowed in).
We used to take a handful camping for the first night, after driving, unloading, setting up, not cooking was a good thing. Family and I enjoyed them and they have some new, interesting options (even Vegan/Kosher options).
Don’t know the other options as we alway have some MREs on hand for when the power goes out, living in Granola State as we do (fruits/nuts/flakes).
Yeah these ones have the heater like an MRE. There are some of the Mountain House and Peak meals that are really good. Even when we are in the camper, especially in archery season, we just eat those. It’s much easier to just boil some water than have to cook something and clean up after it.
Yup, in the old skool days had to carry a camp cook kit out backpacking then take an hour finding a way to clean the goobers off.
So much easier to just MRE or water-in-a-bag it with a small backpacking stove.
I stocked up on WISE freeze-dried meals a while back, which taste pretty good. Just don’t look at the ingredients because there are fewer chemicals at a Texas refinery than in a bag of this stuff.
I’ve probably told this story before on here or the DN…the MREs I grew up with were not these kind mentioned with the heat tabs, you tossed them in a pot of boiling water. The two varieties were either a Canadianized version of the British MREs with French instructions added. FTMP they were vile, they had some hideous egg dish and a few other nasty things like Salisbury steak; however, you would not starve relying on them.
The other variety were the American ones. A couple of companies of US Army came to town (Wainwright) to use the exercise area and upon completion of their exercises buried all the leftover MREs (rather than ship them back to the States). The Canadian regulars promptly dug up the buried MREs and distributed them amongst themselves. I have to say there wasn’t a bad meal in the lot. The main course was yummy, they had nice sides and desserts, etc.
TL;DR Lucky Americans
better to hand them out than ebt cards
For quite a while, they were able to use EBT cards at casinos in California. Leftist oversight is not a thing.
Plus 3k calories per pack so you won’t go hungry,
My current Fav is the Chicken Burrito Bowl, honest they have those.
I did not care for MRE. never had the store bought things.
C rations back in the day as well (not me, I did not serve. My father was in the Marines, and there were some times when C rations and oatmeal was all that was in the pantry)
I would get a stove to boil water. Or even a candle lantern.
https://www.rei.com/product/624320/uco-candlelier-candle-lantern
LOLOLOL
https://twitter.com/SkolBros/status/1567571735079157768?s=20&t=7tYL_DzDyj5ruWv5QLRg8A
Ha!
i don’t get it.
Me either but I’m a stupid lib.
do you go to Longhouse before games though?
or tailgate?
Lifer, just because you are a lib doesn’t mean you are stupid. I know lots of intelligent liberals, they are misguided, blind, and pig headed, but not stupid.
Yeah and not all Packer fans are overweight, gravy guzzling, cousin kissers.
This is a point well made….
that’s true
You are being redundant, no reason to say stupid and lib, just lib would include the other.
Of course how stupid of me…
he’s saying that real men tailgate and drink their own beer they brought with ’em, and the wussy Biden voters go into an establishment and pay quadruple price to their beloved authoritarian overlords for their beers
The Longhouse employs authoritarian overlords?
yup. it’s a requirement for consideration
Masks required obviously
I am now the owner of the extended TV-cut 1976 King Kong on bluray.
Envy me, plebs!
When I as a teenager I used to stay up till 1:30 in the morning waiting for the Godzilla…King Kong movies to come on T.V. HBO I think….way back in the 80s
Me too, but there was no HBO when I was growing up.
It was on local TV late, late, late……
King Kong 1976 was an emotionally-confusing movie for me as a kid. King Kong dying was sad. On the other hand, Jessica Lange…
Agreed, she was HOT!
Watched Big Fish on Saturday, with her climbing into the tub on top of her hubby.
TV shut off at midnight back when I was young
How the hell old are you???
I’m 41 and I remember that
Hmmm….I am 56 and remember watching tv and 2 in the morning…but I think we had CABLE…you must of just had over the air?
I think we got cable when I was 6 or so. Before that, we just had the 3 channels. At 11:00 or maybe midnight, they’d play the national anthem, then you’d get some colored bars for a while, then snow.
Cable never existed. 4channels, abc, nbc , pbs and cbs. Nbc was out of Rochester so we could rarely get it. pbs sucked bad. So 2 channels, off from 1200 till 6 or 8 am.
yup. antenna only.
old enough to know the vikings will end the season as losers
When I was 11 I stayed up until 10:30 PM to watch Monty Pythons Flying Circus on PBS, since the first time I watched it I saw boobies.
“Dull life of a city stockbroker” skit.
Come one, come all!! Get your electric car here!!!
As I’ve mentioned, I don’t care either way if you have an electric car or not, but the current leaders of our great nation are just doing politics instead of facing reality.
I clipped this from a Yahoo article.
Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act put the U.S. back on track toward significant emissions reductions, potentially reducing greenhouse gas output by 40% of 2005 levels.
But one miner warned that when it comes to the transportation sector, domestic resources for lithium, the most critical mineral used for electric vehicle production, may not be sufficient enough to meet some of the most ambitious targets. The Biden administration, for instance, aims to slash the sale of gas-powered vehicles to 50% of all new purchases by 2030.
“Yes, we’ll [eventually] have enough, but not by that time,” Keith Phillips, CEO of Piedmont Lithium (PLL), said in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “There’s going to be a real crunch to get the material. We don’t have enough in the world to turn that much [lithium] production in the world by 2035.”
Hence all the renewed interest in space exploration.
Step 1 – discover a planet made entirely of lithium.
Step 2 – build a rocketship that can travel there and back with huge lithium payloads
Step 3 – reap the rewards.
It’s rather simple if you think about it.
Except by that time, it will be evil to exploit another planet.
Can’t have that.
Have to have an electric rocketship, or no go.
My guess is electric will be bad again by then.
Need wind or solar.
I’d consider a hybrid if my frequent charging areas were powered by nuclear
They’re trying their darnedst to shut down the Becker coal plant. Claimed the stack was polluting Boundary Waters Canoe Area, in spite of the wind not blowing that way 99.99999 percent of the time.
That sounds like something tied to the Regional Haze program. Absolutely ridiculous. They are worried about unnoticeable changes from industrial facilities but don’t factor in cars or wildfires.
Fucking idiots. Go to another continent. Hundreds of millions of people burning all the grass every year, wood smoke every day, hundreds of millions of diesel vehicles. These people are so obtuse it is scary
They want no industrial caused haze in wilderness areas within like 40 years. If you were to go to 0 from current levels tomorrow, the difference would literally not be noticeable to the human eye (at least here and the “affected” wilderness areas). For Billings area wilderness areas they considered the haze impact from NOx in North Dakota. A comment one industry made in western Montana pointed out that the National Park Service has a water treatment (I think) facility in Glacier and that should be considered. After going at and nit picking every affected facility in Montana, the NPS replied to that comment and said “we don’t think we have any impact so you shouldn’t bring it up again.” Basically, we are part of the fed so F off.
Mans vanity is why they think we have an effect
There’s over 20 wildfires burning in California alone right now. Haze probably covers all of North America, but they have to blame some guy working an oil rig or trying to heat his house in Baudette.
it’s the lawnmowers fault.
They need to start logging more. It doesn’t have to be clear cutting even. One of the biggest issues with the increased size and intensity of fires now is that for the last 100 years they have managed wildfires with a total suppression objective. This has allowed undergrowth to get out of control. The forests and prairies need fire. Lodgepole will not reseed without fire. Sage grouse need a habitat mosaic (different ages of sage brush that they don’t get with all old growth sage). Fire should be a tool but it is not possible anymore with the overgrown forests. Without controlled logging, fires will continue to get worse and worse “climate change” be damned. Do you notice a difference in the intensity of your campfire between 60 and 70 degrees? No, so why does less than 1 degree supposedly make such a difference? I bet if you put a bunch of dry paper in the fire you’ll notice a difference though.
I was in California when the environmentalists filed approximately one trillion lawsuits against Sierra Lumber to prevent them from logging their own land. They’re the largest landowner in the state.
morans
All coal plants in the US have advanced scrubbing systems on their silos. All that comes out of those plants is water vapor. Period. There’s also 1000 sensors in those scrubbers that warn the plant if anything close to toxic is leaving the plant via silo. Anyone who says coal in the US is polluting anything is mentally deficient. Now…coal plants in other, shittier parts of the world, thats another story.
We are gonna be Cuba with no cars that work after 2035
YABBA DABBA DOO!
Z Smith is gonna feast
Good good
one would think the stars are aligning for the vikings for once…
we’ll probably get railroaded.
we turn backup QBs into temporary legends, after all.
LAST YEAR we did…
it’s a new year pete! ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!
Keep telling yourself that. After 61 years you might gain some wisdom
Someone sounds like they need their diaper changed.
you may learn grasshopper
(sigh)
Their press room looks like a side room at an event hall hosted at a Ramada Inn.
love him or hate him, you have to admit that ol’ Kirk is tough and durable.
SUCKS ALWAYS BEAKERING GONNA BEAKER CAUSE HE SUCKS SO MUCH WITH ALL THE SHART STAINS IN MY UNDERWEAR PROBABLY WHY I HATE HIM CUZ THATS MY UNDERWEAR AND HIS SHARTS
ha ha ha ha ha
I can smell the shart from here
Is this the face you make?
except smiling
speaking of attending an NFL game.
I unexpectedly am stuck with my 4 tickets to the Packers game.
I am willing to unload them at my cost ($180 Per ticket) if anyone is interested.
Section 216 row 14 seats 3-6.
Dont sell them to packer fans
Thats why I mentioned them here….
Can’t sell them to 5.
Five is not really a Packer’s Fan, is he?
He doesn’t seem to be much of a Vikings fan either….
while i do not think he is an actual packers fan, i think he would be happy to see the vikings lose on sunday, so i guess that tells you alot right there….
Come next spring, what is best for this team to win an Owl? 2-15 w#1 pick or 9-8 with 22nd pick after being humiliated by 40 points in their last game?
That’s a good deal for those seats.
It is my cost….wouldn’t want to make a profit on the skolohics webiste.
Man I wish I lived closer. What a great deal!
i’ll go if you go
OMG – if MT and freeze go, I’ll go too
if me, you and MT go, i bet we can get stu to go and pay
LOL omg please
Oh man I wish I could.
you mean this sunday?
Yes, this Sunday
Hmmmm…..
do I really need 720 bucks v
You only go around once…make the most of it!!
You do not need 720 bucks. that will be useless in 3 years with the current rate of inflation. spend it while it is worth something.
Damn. I would jump at that, except I will be at Gull Lake in Brainerd, golfing and drinking lots.
Probably for the best. When I go to a home game at US bank stadium, they lose.
here’s a secret, they lose when you aren’t there too
For those of you attending a NFL game this year, make sure you bring your Brinks truck with you. I just saw a headline about inflation will be hitting the concession stands at NFL stadiums. A hotdog will probably cost you a weeks wages.
I’ll be at the game in Miami, can’t wait. I don’t like hot dogs, anyway, and I don’t drink anymore, so it’ll work out. I’m sure we’ll go through a LOT of popcorn.
I found a picture of you after you buy all that popcorn.
I had a relative who was one of the first Orville Redenbacher farmers. Too bad he filled his last bag a decade ago.
I briefly dated a gal from Valparaiso, the home of Orville Redenbacher. Beautiful country up there in NW Indiana. Can definitely see why corn grows there.
I drove through Valparaiso many a time en route from Minnesota to NorthEast Indiana and one of the colleges I attended.
Generally, I was happy to see ValPa because then I knew I had made it through Chicago alive, even way back then.
Coincidentally, I also briefly considered taking a job in South Bend as a lab tech at the same time. It was the newness of our long distance relationship that gave me pause, as I thought she would think I was moving closer just to be a little too clingy. The consideration of the move actually preceded her as I was looking to establish residency in a state with at least one medical school. Ultimately I declined the offered job mainly because it was further from my “home” in Alberta but secondarily because I thought our blossoming relationship would wither on the vine…which it did anyhow about a month later.
Met my wife about eight months later, at which point I was considering a move to Cali for the same reason. Funny how life works out.
I can see you vibing at Venice Beach.
Popcorn is worth it, I LOVE popcorn.
Popcorn is indeed a gift from God and not subject to price considerations.
“Sir would you like a bucket of Movie Theater popcorn for 18 dollars”
Me: “Yes, I will take two so I don’t have to share”
LOL – true
Aside from the skin color, this is not a bad resemblance.
What are you trying to say?!?
I really love popcorn too.
Once or twice per year, I get popcorn in a movie theater. Real butter please (Alamo Draft House). It is worth it, even though I am normally not eating high carb foods.
Popcorn is way better than candy.
A lot of people have to be feeling it (inflation). I know I am.
I had to revamp my household budget to factor in the large increase of food prices. Pretty soon if you spend $50 at the grocery store you will only need a sandwich baggie to bring the groceries home.
@God Damn Putin!!@
i definitely should be doing a better job staying on budget right now.
pull out the Dave Ramsey envelopes if you have to, Freeze
I love Dave Ramsey.
I expect $50 loaf of bread and $50 a gallon fuel
After a multi-year stretch with almost no raises (I negotiated one small one that put my company at their cap per the hourly rate my contract work was bringing in), I am finally getting a raise of about 10% this month.
Unfortunately, that only shrinks the gap of the inflation level since all this began. (sigh)
Fortunately, the YouTube channel had a record revenue month last month.
work has been insane. i will make more money this year than i ever have before.
i’m sure i will hit a new tax bracket, so that sucks haha
sounds like maybe you’re buying the tickets for Sunday’s game from NoDak
unfortunately i will be spending the day ministering to a dear brother who has lost his way.
fortunately it will be while we watch the vikings packers game.
that sounds like a great use of time
if my wife goes full-lib, I’ll come over and watch a game with you while you give me guidance
Amen
Best guidance there is, never get married. Too dumb to head the warnings, suffer your fate. It happens to most of us.
Had a good friend, much younger, warned him not to get married. Didn’t listen. Married her anyway, She went to a Texas outdoor hunting fishing gal to a city left wing liberal in a few years. Divorced her.
I don’t even know how someone can make that kinda change in a few short years, but then I think back to how my ex changed overnight the day we got married.
Social media did it too her. All the man hating feminazi trump haters.
She will likely live w/cats forever
Funny. My wife is more conservative than I am. Loves garage logic and all things non-left. I am more libertarian.
Leave me the fuck alone is pretty much my mantra.
Her entire family is DFL to the core. Family gatherings are entertaining. Used to upset me, now I just let her rant and stay quiet.
Just bring the AR-15 for show and tell and watch their faces 😉
Interestingly enough, my pay per se has not changed since I started working in 2010. To qualify that, I should mention I am paid purely on production in that I receive a flat fee per volume of studies I read or perform. My analogy is that in the beginning I was paid to fold all of the clothes in the laundry basket, I folded y and I made x. Later, I was asked to fold socks and only socks and because I was good at folding socks and never had to figure out how to fold shirts (except on evenings and weekends), I folded 2y and made 2x. Then it became 3y and 3x. Complicating that was the way we pooled everything, such that half of 3x got put into a pool that was evenly distributed. Essentially my increasing production meant little change in compensation to myself. Couple that with the fact that after ten years of that the actual money you make starts to be less important than staying sane, not burning out, spending time with family.
As a result, I am now back to folding the whole laundry basket, and no longer pool and split resources. However, I am still a victim of my own success as people “love” my customer service and reads, which leads to more referrals and studies, etc…
I’m about ready to cut back on the number of sites I read for, stick to the eastern end of the state – Glendive, Miles City, Scobey, Plentywood, Ekalaka, Terry, Circle, Colstrip. That will easily cover my base salary with a little reconciliation payment every quarter.
It’s nice to have that amount of control, but only if you also have self control and appropriate priorities.
Well done!
We also love your stories. Keep ’em coming.
I must have missed where you went back to work?!!!!
Oh, right. I’m grinding data again. Having a blast as always.
You’ll be able to retire soon if you can just get the wife to take on a couple more jobs…
Data science things, DBA stuff? Enquiring minds wanna know.
I am currently doing SQL Server / Azure data things on a contract.
Youse guys are probably twins at work.
12 months since my last rate increase. But right now I just want the contract extension. I would rather look for work in the spring vs October.
I remember the days when you could walk into the store with $50 and walk out with 4 big bags of groceries! Damned video cameras everywhere now!!!
lol, but you need to take over $900 worth or they just say thanks and come again
I cannot imagine having this kind of inflation with kids still at home. Just with my wife and I, I spent $200 on groceries this week.
I’ve definitely cut back, especially eating out or picking up a nice dinner. Mostly eating cheaper food at home.
i also plan on carrying if i ever go…..
INFLATION DOESNT HIT THE TAILGATE LOT JOE BIDEN SAID SO JACK!!!!!
it hits the liquor stores though
I did not attend the State Fair, and avoided the shooting.
That said, I hear prices were kind of silly for a lot of things, even for fair food.
What $45 is high for a 3 oz of pig on a stick?
Me and Canoe Girl:
2 tickets, bought in advance: $28 total
1 walleye strip bowl $11, was complete crap
1 bacon on a stick $6, yummy
1 chocolate malt at Dairy Barn $9
Returned home put chicken on the grill, sweet potato fries, washed down with Moosehead Lager and some wine or other for Canoe Girl
and you didn’t get shot
We’re not going to stick around until the gangs start shooting in a state that won’t let me carry my moose gun.
2022 NFL QB Power Rankings: Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady headline 1-32 list ahead of Week 1 (msn.com)
They have Cousins at #13. Man, I wish NVF was here to rip on this one.
538 had him at 9…. And black Kirk was just ahead of him.
LOL!!!
Got bonus points for extra melanin
First injury report comes out today. Probably around 3-5PM today
I love playing the passive aggressive game with family.
Got the whole family dynamic putting the fun in dysfunctional. Stepson not getting along with his dad, us, sister, etc…Stepson preg tested cows last weekend and instead of doing it in a batch with his dad’s (my wife’s ex) cows and using his dad’s beautiful corrals had to do a scabbed together version. Oh well.
Before either stepson or dad can run cows in our near pastures, we need to redo fencing around the new shop, extending out to the new cattle guard. Now you would think this would be a relatively easy task for multigeneration ranchers with fencing up the wazzoo covering multiple sections. Oh no. Stepson says I’m not asking dad for help. Meanwhile, I gave a nice Dewalt impact driver and drill to 13 yo grandson and told grandson and granddad (stepson’s dad) that he could work it off helping fence out the cows, which both were excited about (grandson spent much of the summer fixing fence with him, really enjoyed it). Ex is like if son wants it done he needs to ask me, I’m like FFS I can’t fence myself and it’s for both of your benefits vis a vis cattle. Finally talked him off the ledge, he acknowledged he has 30 grand of fencing equipment for the skid steer and enjoys teaching the grandson, etc.
Stepson came down last night and we staked out the new fence line. We need three more “corner” posts to anchor the fence lines, which will get driven into the soil by the pole driving attachment, plus about 25 new steel posts, 2 rolls of barbed wire. The skinny metal posts and the wire are easy, but the big two inch pipe that makes the anchor posts is above my paygrade. He tells my wife and I we need to let his dad know the date we are doing it and that we need three posts from his pile of steel pipe.
My wife called today and he agreed to supply the posts, but said we need to talk to stepson and come down and tell him how long they need to be cut and help cut them. I’m okay with helping cut the posts (they are about 200 pounds uncut) but really, you don’t know how long they need to be? There’s only approximately 200 such posts scattered around the ranches.
Good times.
I’m just going to assume you need the posts long and tall enough to keep family out.
That’s what I try to do since my family is nothing but drama with my 4 siblings.
It’s like Yellowstone around here but with more vitriol and backstabbing.
I just shake my head sometimes. The childish part of me wants to say well no cattle grazing for you! Asking me how long the posts should be would be like me asking what muscles are in the sublingual space.
Possibly sub-lingual muscles, but don’t know.
why gummy worms though?
The usual answer, couldn’t see the gif very well. Could have been Hustler magazine in his hand for all I knew.
This has got to be the most times “Hustler” has been mentioned in any thread here at Skoloholics
Yup. I will probably go another dozen years before I mention it again.
my family was drama-free until I met my mother in law
another reason not to be married
I assumed other people’s families were like my family
(sigh)
lol, good one. Most families are extremely dysfunctional. I got a dose last winter when my psycho lib sister went off on me due to ignorance and liberalism(basically the same thing)
ugh, sisters
fortunately, my sister asks me how to vote.
Of my 4 sisters, I’ve never gone through a year in my adult life where one of them wasn’t talking to either another sister or our mother.
One is approaching a ten-year silent treatment anniversary.
I did that to one sister 15 years ago and it is so much better. When forced to see her, I am polite. Never talk.
The other one just lost all my respect, which there was a lot, last winter because she is a typical ignorant liberal to the point of being a poster child for them. Totally clueless, highly opinionated and extremely emotional. She embarrasses herself a bunch w/me. So sad to see.
My Catholic mother in law had divorced her alcoholic husband long before I met her. She meets me and I am not Catholic, and I am a bartender. And my wife and I marry in a Lutheran church.
In other words, I am SATAN.
Still holds true, 33 years later
Has he thanked you yet for reminding him how stupid he was to get married, every single day for the rest of his life?
Good reason to live a long way from relatives
He’s not a particularly happy man. Were he being honest, I don’t doubt one of his biggest regrets was divorcing my wife. He certainly hasn’t moved up in the world since then. If he were a football fan, he’d probably be the eternal pessimist who spent the off season ruminating how much his team sucks.
Is Kodiak actually your wife’s ex?
That would explain a lot.
lol, oh my, don’t even think that
My mistake, I thought it was the youngsters you were talking about, the ex designing the flag on the building.
lol, nice dig. Fortunately I am ever the optimist. I think we should win at least 4 games this season, maybe even more. I am even more optimistic for 24 at this time. Good chance they screw up our chances though.
I couldn’t pass up the easy lob over the plate.
Yeah, my stepson is an enigma. I’m still annoyed that his girlfriend is basically alienating his kids…and he is letting this happen. The first weekend my wife and I had to ourselves after we started dating (dad always had something going on that meant he couldn’t take them for his every other weekend stint) the stepdaughter called sobbing because he had come home drunk and bleeding etc etc stepkids came back home to mom’s place. I feel very strongly that the kids come first and the exes need to get along. A girlfriend coming in and deciding after five years that we are all supposed to pretend the grandkids don’t have a mother? Fuck that.
One of my sisters had a kid who was trouble from day one.
My sister, being the micro-managing control freak always saying something judgemental ultimately drove him away at a young age.
He ended up getting married, having a kid, the wife was a boozer and druggie even through the pregnancy, kid has some definite cognitive issues, my nephew commits suicide after another prison stint, my sister spends most of her husbands retirement money to get full custody, and now pretends the kid never had a biological mother.
Vikings win 10 games, and get wrecked in the first round of the playoffs.
There, I said it.
Sounds like a Yellowstone episode there John Dutton.
Hope the show isn’t as lame as last season. Almost quit watching.
agreed. 1883 was better than last season of Yellowstone, even with the shit narration.
I think the main writer more or less ditched Yellowstone so he could do 1883.
can someone explain what confidence points mean in the pickem league and do we need to do them?
Usually you assign 16 as highest confidence and 1 is least confidence for each game each week. Then it adds them up based on if you were right or not. Then there’s a winner
ok thank you
The best week I ever had in a pickem league was the first week, when I had no idea what the confidence points were and just left them in their preordained order. I slaughtered my opponents that week. Once I started monkeying with the points I never rose to such exalted levels again.
none of these are “preordained”. they all have zero by them.
also good use of preordained
not really – he’s 99.9% atheist
Peter “my mind is a steel trap” Plays Bass
to be fair, it was a pretty memorable comment
In other words, pick the Vikings to win, but with 1 confidence point.
If you don’t set them, you get 0 points for all of the games. Naturally I expect everybody here to pick the Vikings to win and choose 16 confidence points.
go vikings or go home
I am home
I chose the Vikings, but I think they only got 4 or 5 confidence points
to lose?
Doesn’t that have something to do with the mob?
Or is that confidence man?
Week 1 “Skoldier’s Spreads” is up if you haven’t been to the homepage this morning!
this sounds like a porn site
NFL TV coverage on Sunday.
The Vikings are on where I live.
YES !!!
https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2022&wk=1
It’s on Fox, correct?
Yeah, it’s Fox. They’ll be on here in Bismarck, we get all the Vikings games. Another reason North Dakota is a cut above the other states.
Just another hohum stabbing and resultant death in North Park in Billings yesterday.
Wow, it’s getting rough over there. Is North Park up on the rims, or is that further into town?
Just a couple of blocks from the baseball stadium. Northeast of downtown.
Oh, I see. Billings is getting pretty ghetto.
Yep. I can’t wait to move out of town. I am quite jealous of MT.
Just got lucky with the timing of things.
Read an article a couple weeks ago that said that the big kahunas need workers and the workers moving there are little more than street people and criminals. If they don’t own land/houses, they have little way to move up due to the cost of everything, especially housing, which is in short supply.
My oldest is moving to Billings today. Needs a vehicle. What do you wanna sell?
Going to college or for a job?
Job, internship for school. Engineering helicopter repair parts. I think he is a glorified helicopter mechanic. Staying at an air bnb until December. 10 minutes from work. Hope it’s in a good part of town.
Any idea about the general area or street? If he’s working at the airport (likely), he’s gotta be on the north side, between the colleges or by the hospitals, or in the heights. Second two options would be better. Option 1 isn’t great but it’s not the south side. I lived on the north side for a summer after college and my pickup was only broken into once.
Kid will have to booby-trap his car with bear traps.
Not a clue, but should know in a day or two.
He’ll probably meet the girl of his dreams at BWWs and they’ll live in sin for a while without telling dear old dad in an apartment by City College. Can’t go wrong with a Montana girl.
That’s what I did, but it was Wyoming and it Applebees. I’m sure Kodiak’s son will be at church and meet a wholesome girl there.
He is very nerdlike, but libertarian. He won’t be churchin but won’t be going out at all either.
Unfortunately, in spite of going to Dartmouth, where there are literally thousands of hot, smart and very wealthy young ladies, he is still hooked up with this idiot from Anchorage. I am helpless to do anything about it. She is no prize but I think he is done. Poor kid.
Canoe Girl’s nephew is married to a Montana Girl and they live near Detroit Lakes. She seems way more like a New Yawk City snaub, and it looks like divorce is on the horizon, since there is literally no pleasing her.
Don’t be afraid to reach out if he needs help with something.
Thanks, he needs a car or truck right now. Any suggestions?
I’ll ask a couple guys. They might have something cheap and reliable and I’ll get back to ya.
National game pretty much! Let’s gooo!
Prime time, prime TIME, PRIME TIME……
They shut off my tv last spring so I need to go to a bar/restaurant. Can’t believe no cable available anymore.
wait, what? they stopped offering service?
yep, they shut it off and no longer offer cable, Said I need to go get some gizmo to stream everything from now on. Been off since March, I think. Not going to be here much anymore so just letting it be.
I wouldn’t be there much, either. I see Begich refuses to quit so he’s going to throw all of Alaska into the big Outhouse.
I heard 30%+ of Begich voters voted for the commie #2, which is why the commie won.
I don’t doubt it a bit. Too many commies now, anyway, including MurKommie.
Can you get T Mobile or Verizon internet?
Nope, we have one internet company, GCI. That’s it.
Maybe if you paid the bill……..?
There’s a bill?
Shut off your TV?
yep
Do they have an extra universal remote & just stand outside & shut it off, or do they come in your house? Seems like coming in your house to turn off your TV would violate your rights.
Kodiak’s black and white RCA was draining the juice out of the neighborhood so they couldn’t charge their electric cars. They had to do something…
13″ I bought in 83 for $39 on black Friday.
TV works fine, just no cable coming in anymore. Room mate has a thing to get netfix and prime and hulu I think. I watch movies only now.
Happy that we get the game here in the Ville too!
Where is the Ville Kathy?
Louisville, I believe
Thought she’s in Big Apple.
I don’t believe so. Teddy2Diggs is from NYC, I believe.
and on the DN
I think that’s right.
I thought Nashville, but they will get the NYG/Titans.
Correct, where Teddy and Lamar both played college ball!
hi Kathy!
Hi PPB! So happy to see you be a regular here with us!
Thoughts on tomorrow’s game. I am trying a “Loser Pool” this year. It is like the survival pool we are doing on Yahoo but you have to pick losers. I am leaning towards going with the Rams tomorrow so I can save some of the more obvious teams for later in the year (Bears, Jets, Seahags). What say you guys?
Uff da, I wouldn’t give the Bills more than a 50/50 shot tomorrow.
Seems too risky out the gate. There will be some surprise losers this year that you can pick later.
Picking bad teams for this game might seem easy, but picking road opponents of really good teams will be key.
I forgot to mention that we do get one mulligan as well, but I would hate to use it week 1. I don’t want to go with an “obvious” pick though either and end up getting burned by the Jets or something stupid either.
pick the Giants
the giants will be sneaky good this year, better than the vikings
-five probably
Dabares, Jets and Giants. We could win 4 games this season
At least the Vikings won’t be surprise losers
Bills and over
For us non-gamblers, what does that mean?
Take the Bills to win & cover the spread
and take the Over in the over/under option for total points scored (by both teams)
Bills as the loser or to win? I have to pick a loser for each week.
Rams as losers
Read Bills O-line still have questions but i like Allen.
You seem to really understand this betting thing. You should write an article about it for here, explain the betting to us and give us some of your opinions on this week’s games.
I’m going Bills, only because the Rams lost some defensive peeps.
You think the Bills lose or they win? I have to pick a loser. It’s totally backwards from the survival pool we are doing.
I’m picking Bills to win, and Rams to lose in your scenario.
Will be interesting to see Allen without Dabol
Remember when 5’s lord and savior Josh Allen put up 6 points agains the Jags in a losing effort last year?
Jaguars are going to win 9 games this year
5 more than the Vikings!!
Broke 200 bowling last night. First time ever.
congrats!
Congrats!
Congrats on having adequately good balls.
Shouldn’t you be fishing rather than bowling?
My son was at a birthday party at the bowling alley. Instead of leaving for a half hour, then having to come back, I just got a lane and bowled on my own.
Congrats!
Up until this year, I golfed and bowled about the same score.
120 or so. Golf is improving. Bowling is not.
I have broken 200 once when bowling. second game of three. just enough beer to relax, but not enough to mess with the balance. first game was 125, second game was amazing for me, third game was under 100 as the beer kicked in…
I averaged over 200 40+ years ago. Last time I bowled I was sweating bullets hoping to break 100 and beat my 12 year old.
I go bowling once every 5-7 years, just to be sure I still HATE it!!!
It’s a fun thing to do while drinking beer.
There is real football on tomorrow night
yes please
I hated that show, but damn, she is hot and is aging well.
yelp……………………………….
GF must have had a premonition today and posted the picture of his fire pit. We are starting the day off hot in the comments.
Just passing the time until the season starts and Irk Smith gets injured.
I’m betting he trips over a cheerleader on the way out of the tunnel on Sunday and is on IR for the season.
That’s a high probability bet.
Or breaks another finger putting on his helmet.
Remember Rudolph was injury prone his first couple years, too, but then he became Mr. Durability.
It will be interesting to see if Brady considers him his new Gronk Junior, since he only pulled in 1 TD each of the last 2 seasons with other teams.
I don’t think Brady is going to finish the season.
Yeah, just a hunch that too many negatives are coming into play. That puts Gabbert in the driver’s seat.
Just playing a little hopscotch and skipping over some squares.
Are you calling me square.
Some of the convos are too feisty for me. If anyone’s a square, it’s me!
There’s a good convo on breakfast cereals below
Like Fil used to say, “Midwesterners think ranch dressing is as spicy as it gets”
There are days I identify as a square. Today I’m feeling more oval.
Kurt Warner likes Kirk Cousins
i like kurt warner
i like kirk cousins
i like you, pete
I like chocolate chip cookies
i like peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips
Those are good, too. Also, monster cookies. Yum.
Oatmeal raisin.
But if I had to pick just one cereal to eat every day, it would be raisin bran, followed by Captain Crunch.
cracklin oat bran would be my pick for cereal
oatmeal chocolate chip for the win
also oatmeal cream pies
It depends on what age I am. For now, low carb is the way, so no cereal. Eggs are my cereal.
non child Surly says Raisin Bran is a very strong choice.
Child Surly wants Cocoa Pebbles, Frankenberry, Quisp and Quake and captain crunch and Frosted Flakes on a steady rotation. With Pop tarts in the mix.
Older Surly wants Oatmeal.
I loved Fruity Pebbles when I was a youngen. I eat Lucky Charms with kiddo once in a while now, I also like Raisin Bran.
As I child I loved Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. Now it is bran flakes with a sprinkling of frosted flakes on top for my inner child.
Lucky charms were good as well. Anybody else eat all the oat cereal saving the marshmallows for a glorious sugar rush at the end?
I actually prefer the Malt-O-Meal equivalent of Lucky Charms. Marshmallow Maties are great!
Yeah, I always make sure I have a few marshmallows left at the end.
I can’t eat any of the sweet cereals. I would love to but sugar is my downfall and my wife, who wants me around for a long time, only purchases healthy cereal for me. Of the choices I have I probably like raisin bran the most.
I pretty much eat cereal every morning. When I was a bachelor, I had a large rotation of the kiddo cereals in my cupboard.
Grabbed breakfast at my elderly mother’s one day.
I couldn’t tell the difference between her cereals and a nice cardboard/sawdust blend.
Best if used by June 23rd 1987
I’m going to a high-school buddy’s memorial next Tuesday. Died of an aneurism thing.
I haven’t seen him much since high school, but our class will start moving into the obits more and more.
That’s the way it goes. My father-in-law was telling me about a guy he knows that is in his 90s. He went to his high school reunion and it was just him and one other guy.
Most all the men of my mother’s high school are gone, but the women persist.
I hope I got at least a couple decades left, but you cannot predict when it’s time.
we still won’t see the vikings not suck
Isaiah 22:13
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
Yeah that sucks. Especially when in my mind I’m still the same as when I was in high school.
Same here, except now there’s 2 of me.
alright alright alright
I wish I was that cool.
I like having a healthy shit.
All this hype is scary.
It’s so rare to have a Viking in MVP talk.
embrace it.
it’ll be good for ya.
I’m in it for the comedy at this point.
I have no pre set expectations to this season.
Nope it’s gonna be a crapshoot.
could go either way but it’s an interesting turn of events seeing Kirk for MVP talk.
I think the older generation went overboard on wins, so guys with mediocre stats like Terry Bradshaw got MVP’s, while the younger generation which grew up in fantasy goes overboard on stats, so guys like Aaron Rodgers and his completion rate gets MVP.
Viking MVP’s (AP voting):
Alan Page 1971
Fran Tarkenton 1975, almost 50 years ago, we’ve sucked since
Didn’t Adrian Peterson win MVP once?
Oooooooooooooooooops, yes, in 2012. Don’t know how I missed that.
Ugh, I hate it when I spread fake news and disinformation, lol.
We must shame you and ban you for fake news. Plus you should probably lose your job and family.
He should probably get a promotion and a nightly spot on MSNBC, but only if he promises to continue spreading lies.
I couldn’t stoop that low, even for one trillion dollars a year, which they don’t have since they’re probably losing money.
I moved to Alaska when I was 18 to get away from my family.
More or less self-employed, so no real job.
Does it count if I already got banned with all the other former DN’ers on Daily Gopher?
we lose for the 62nd season in a row is a given. To contemplate anything else is just stoopid
Idk some ppl have the hype some dont. Like PFT just had Vikings ranked at 23 lmao. Steelers we’re 16 with tribusky LOL
Vikes are all over the place. Ppl don’t know how to read them which could be a good thing
biscuit is their captain…..
poor steelers….they will go down with their captain i guess…
We were told that since Kirk was elected captain, that it means something great. Biscuit must be great, and a leader.
perhaps he is a good leader on and off the field.
at least kirk is WAY better than him at football
Dec 2018
I saw that, they had us behind the Browns, who are going to be led by Jacoby Brisset for the first 11 games. They’re high & they likely molest collies.
Let’s just keep things simple and start us out ranked at 32 and hopefully watch them climb the rankings each week.
Likely stay the same all season. What’s the over under for us being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs? 8 games?
A joke
until it isn’t. When we lose by 3-4 scores Sunday we might only be favored in 3-4 games this season. If we lose to dabares it might be 1-2, if that.
Kirks a gamer
Kirk is also limp when it matters the most.
well maybe this year he will bring out his inner bizkit
Yup, and same with Irk Smith. Finally a breakout year!
Kirk as MVP…. While I would love to see that…
i wish i could have a job where i absolutely guess at things, get them wrong almost EVERY SINGLE TIME and still get paid for it…
that being said. go kirk!
Yeah, that would bode well for the team for sure.
@Still collapse in the playoffs though@
if kirk wins mvp, i would be utterly shocked, SHOCKED I SAY, if we didn’t make a deep run in the playoffs
and Micks mom doesn’t pose for Hustler
So your obvious choices are: Politician, weather person, political pundant, NFL pregame host…
Don’t forget social justice warriors, Greta, and many college professors.
Love it. I am on board, no reason not to be… yet lol.
This and Colin Cowherd saying the Vikings are the most underrated team in the league… that kind of hype is worrisome haha.
Let’s get over that hump today…
Seems a bit early for Hump Day, but, what the hell…
Forgot to add the gif…sucks getting old.
Why do they call it “hump day” when most people don’t get laid until the weekend?!?
Joined the survival and pick ’em leagues and made my picks.
Here comes another year of DOOM
0-6 into the bye. Maybe 1-5 if we beat dabares. No Chase Daniels so we might have a chance for once
Nice! I’m glad we got more people to sign up.
We’re coming…..We’re coming !!
Niners aren’t going to be that good. Lance will be benched for Jimmy by week 10