I thought the finale was great. The series as a whole seemed to blow its wad on the Boba Fett story arc, and I don't really see a path to a second season. As someone pointed out on twitter last night, it appeared to be a series to tie up some loos ends while furthering the Mandalorian story.
Bingo. By the end Grogu and Mando are getting the most focus, which is . . . fine, as I like those characters more anyway, but I don't think the series really justified itself as a "Boba Fett" show.
After a couple of Jurassic World movies with the old, incorrect looks for dinosaurs (they do explain that the gaps in the dinosaur DNAs were added by people to make them look like what was expected), they are finally going to fix that in this film by giving us (still weird looking to me) dinosaurs with feathers.
Simmons/Harden trade deal is done. Sixers threw in Seth Curry, Drummond and picks as well. I feel like they should have just waited till the offseason, when they could have got him for nothing. Curry has been really valuable for the Sixers, so that will hurt them. Sixers will be better, but they will be slower and less fun to watch IMO. Kyrie's the key here. If he is able to play at home during the playoffs and Durant returns, B'lyn becomes the favorites again. Man, Simmons, Kyrie and Durant. Sean Marks has his hands full with that brain trust!
It's a decent haul by Brooklyn but I'm skeptical that it makes either team better. Both teams have a wide range of outcomes before and after this trade, only difference is the wildcard that they need to have work out now (in addition to Durant's health for the Nets). I would have liked this trade more for Sean Marks and the Nets had they got Thybulle as well (as previously rumored).
Thybulle and Simmons on the same roster with Durant floating as a third defender would be an absolute nightmare defense to face. Good luck getting the ball past midcourt. I think Maxey was also a non-starter for Philly. For all of his faults, Simmons has a game that's really adaptable to any offense. They still need a rim protector, but B'lyn's main issue besides Durant and Kyrie''s unavailability has been on the defense end, and Simmons helps in a huge way.
This is an insane trade. I guess Sixers really feel like they need Harden now to compete this season. I could see this trade backfiring. Their bench will be weaker now.
Haha. In their defense, Harden's intentionally played poorly before to get himself moved out of a situation. We'll know pretty quickly if that's what's been happening here as well.
Been a wild trade season. Basically everything that has been speculated about has come to fruition. That never happens. Yeah, I think Philly should have waited given that they also had to include Curry and picks. Even if Harden had a change of heart by the offseason, I do think Beal and Lillard will be moved. I'd prefer either of those options long-term over Harden. He's still one of the top five offensive players in the league, but he is also beginning to show some age. They may have only a two-year window with this roster and I think B'lyn is stronger in the near and long-term as a result of this deal.
Mini rant - So Nathan Chen won the gold in Men's figure skating yesterday (Yay! USA! 🇺🇸) but the Japanese silver medal winner was complete trash from an artistic perspective. Sort of a new style in which only jumps count, and the rest of the time they wave their arms a bit, and wait to jump. Chen was good, the American who finished 6th (no quads) was better as an artist as was the French guy who fell once.
The Japanese guy was artistically better a couple days ago on the short program. Had more personality too, and was even smiling. Last night it was like he turned into a robot. But the short program does count for 1/3 of the score. Chen's short program was super awesome, as was reported in the news, the highest scoring short program in history. Both technically and artistically wonderful, better than the long program, I thought.
I don't follow figure skating that closely, but I think the complaint about it being almost completely about jumps were there even before they revamped the scoring system.
Isn't that kinda like the difference between pairs and Ice Dancing? Ice dancing is like the artistic wave your arms and pairs is just a bunch of throws holds and jumps?
Great source for them 5 miles from here, in the smaller of 2 Mexican restaurants in Jefferson, the nearest town with more than a single convenience store. And lots of other good Mexican food.
Trainspotting. Not in theater, but in Wheeler. Made the mistake of drinking beforehand. The visuals were, shall we say, too intense for my frame of mind. Watched it later.
I remember seeing a preview of Blue Chips at Wheeler and nearly the entire bball team was there. Campinelli made a cameo in the film and the team booed him. Harsh.
Man, it's been a LONG time since I did this. If I paid for a ticket I'm going to get my money's worth.
Back in my college days I used to do a lot of theater-hopping (pay for one, then stay in the building and see two more), though, so I would just bail on a movie sometimes if I thought it was really bad. Two that I remember were Freddy Got Fingered and The Watcher (with Keanu Reeves playing a serial killer).
Some art house movie called Broken English way back in HS. I actually would have stayed because there was nudity and I was like 16, but my friend just got and up and left like 30 mins in and he was my ride so I followed him!
My most recent movie in a theater experience (like probably a lot of people) was the most recent Spider-man. I went on Opening Day in the afternoon, so I ended up sitting next to a guy (probably my age) with a 8? year old. The dad was really into the film but the kid wanted to leave before the final fight because it was too loud so they left. At least the dad was there for the gratuitous big reveal shot (which the kid didn't care for).
Had a really disturbing experience watching the first Borat movie at the Pleasant Hill Theater. We had some young bros seated behind us and they didn't seem to understand the satire and they kept making really incredible loud and horribly insensitive comments throughout the film. I wanted to confront them, but also knew it would get ugly, so my wife and I just snuck out.
I have not done this, unless you count the IMAX projector fail at the Metreon when I dragged my family to see Superman Returns. I think the movie cutout with about 10 minutes to go (during the predictable climax). I forced my entire family to rewatch the entire movie (run time 2 hour 34 minutes) later that night and they all hated me for it.
What's possibly worse, that movie was a converted 3D for IMAX. Because it was not designed to be in 3D, the quick cuts during the action scenes were rather disorienting.
Ones that were built for it can be better. I thought movies like Avatar and Gravity were really aided by the 3D. But there was a stretch of movies where it was clearly grafted on after the fact and it was really bad.
I have never walked out/turned off of any movie, theater or home and I’ve never fallen asleep during a movie at the theater or at home. I am one of those, finish what you start movie watchers.
Agreed. I’ve only recently started turning them off bc there’s too much good schitt on nowadays to waste time…I’ll even stick with a show for 10 episodes just to finish. Even with Mimic I walked bc it was scaring my little sis at the old Emeryville theater by the Public Market rather than being a weak movie, which it kinda was tho…
Walking out due to someone else being scared is okay in my book. Unless it’s your little brother and your are watching Jurassic Park and he is scared of the velociraptors and you make him stay to torment him, which I did when I was in 5th grade and he was in 3rd grade.
ugh, I got dragged to Rugrats in Paris on Xmas day with a herd of children from the family. That forced me to stay and my hatred of the Rugrats franchise has burned hot ever since that horrible day
You missed the highlight of UCSC Banana Slugs with the second mention. They shoulda at least dropped a cropped image of the Fiat Slug logo in the article. A photo of Sammy would have been okay.
I will hate Stanford forever and ever but I will give them credit and respect for changing their old nickname and mascot long before teams in professional and other CFB programs did so from public pressure.
That is probably the strangest one for me but what I find even more strange is that they never used a live tiger. Seems like something a school in the south would do until they were forced to not do it.
Not to mention Clemson, who is in the same backyard and has a similar profile to LSU and Auburn, though in a different conference. Let's use some imagination, people!
The El Palo Alto, e.g. "the high stick" is a redwood tree with two trunks growing alongside San Francisquito creek separating Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Technically the mascot should have two trunks.
Correction: the 2nd trunk fell down in the 1880's. The tree according to studies of its rings is 1041 years old, so it started growing in 981 A.D. during the time of the Song dynasty in China, the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad or the rule of Basil the Bulgar slayer in Constantinople.
Hah, I was just explaining this to my wife the other day, how what we call a "buffalo" is really a bison, and her eyes just rolled further back in her head the more I talked.
And since we're atomsing, I will note that USC is the Trojans but their mascot is Traveler - the horse that Tommy Trojan rides upon. Tommy Trojan is not the official mascot of USC.
The Miata has quite a few. More when the top is down. One thing I want to do is replace all the bushings. Since I don't have a press I was going to make a makeshift bearing remover powered by a drill.
when I was first driving, my dad handed over his Peugeot 505 which was the nicest car in the household on paper, because I had the longest routine drive. That thing had all sorts of dashboard rattles that would go away if you hit the dash - so I kept an old flip flop in the car and would hammer away, which freaked the hell out of people the first time they saw me do it. Towards the end the a/c would cut out if you hit a bump which led to people being freaked out when I'd be aiming for potholes to get the cool air back.
Some of the White House documents that Donald Trump improperly took to his Mar-a-Lago residence were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the “top secret” level, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove — which has not previously been reported — is likely to intensify the legal pressure that Trump or his staffers could face, and raises new questions about why the materials were taken out of the White House.
Former teacher and current GOP candidate for State Rep (Sherman, north of Dallas) doesn't like trans kids and is upset that she couldn't allow other kids to make fun of them.
This scheiss angers me. It also takes me back to my high school years and a US Supreme Court case wherein a student refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and was suspended due to that stand (or non-stand, if you prefer). The student alleged violation of First Amendment rights and won.
Subsequently I chose not to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance as was the custom during Homeroom. The principal subsequently issued an order that if you didn't stand for the pledge you would have to declare why. I wrote an opinion piece for the school newspaper denouncing the move as intentionally chilling First Amendment rights of free speech.
Because the paper was overseen by a faculty advisor the principal read the opinion piece. Ultimately, the principal rescinded his directive but the opinion piece was never published.
Looking back on it now, I realize that I was dealing with weak-ass Nazis then. They're still weak-ass Nazis.
Maybe it's because I was a cynical kid in high school (still am, actually), but I always thought it was bizarre how strongly some school administrators hold onto these largely meaningless, performative rituals. Most kids have been saying the Pledge of Allegiance since they were 5 or 6 and probably haven't given it anything more than a passing thought. In fact, students who sit or who stand but don't say anything are among those who have actually given some critical thought to the Pledge and what it means.
I spent 24 years as a public school teacher enforcing a "no-hats-in-the-building" policy that never made sense to me. Was way more hassle than it was worth. Plus you'd get kids being defiant, refusing to remove their hat and ultimately getting suspended. Ridiculous. Thankfully the pledge was mostly gone from Berkeley schools by the time I started teaching.
There is a line of thinking that puts allegiance atop the list of desirable traits. It's still the backbone of the military, but its also present in a large number of entities where power/control is or is perceived to be central to success. It's also dangerous, which becomes apparent soon after the object of allegiance demonstrates that its questionable whether its up to the responsibility that that methodology requires to work.
Allegiance in the military is absolutely essential. Can't operate military units successfully without it. But you have to be careful that the allegiance is to the nation for which the military fights and not a specific commander.
Same principle animates businesses and governmental agencies. When allegiance shifts to a person or clique, the whole enterprise is in danger.
I don't think this is what B'lyn wants, but I think it will end up better for them. Having three ball dominant scorers creates a lot of redundancy. For all his faults, Simmons is one of the best defenders and facilitators in the league. He solves a lot of problems for them. They'll always be at the mercy of Kyrie's unpredictability and inability to stay healthy, but the team makes more sense all of a sudden.
<quote>Harden has missed Brooklyn's past three games with a hamstring injury, leading to speculation that he's purposely shutting down to send a message on his waning desire to remain with the Nets. The team announced Wednesday that Harden also will miss Thursday's game against the Wizards.</quote>
What a lameass if that's true. I certainly wouldn't want that shit on my team.
Never should have even been on the bases for the Jeter flip play. That boob Art Howe had Eric Byrnes on the bench...Byrnesie scores easily and is in the dugout by the time Spencer overthrows 2 cutoff men & we’re never subjected to a 20 year Derek Jeter orgy over that play.
I was there for that game! Probably most famous game I attended live I think. Honorable mention to Cain’s perfecto, The Kevin Riley Game, and Beastmode Equipment Cart
Lakers lose to Blazers team of Justice Winslow, Ben McLemore, Greg Brown, Trendon Watford, Keljin Blevins, Dennis Smith, Jusuf Nurkic, and Anfernee Simons.
Not sure how the Pac 12 can compete with this....
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-generates-777-8-million-in-revenue-in-2020-21-distributes-an-average-of-54-6-million-per-school/
Nice of WFC to post an Addicted To Quack lead photo. Beaver/Huskie/Coug centric sites would not be so friendly.
DBD AV
Better Call Sauls' final season starts on April 18th. https://deadline.com/2022/02/better-call-saul-premiere-dates-sixth-final-season-1234930761/
I though the finale of BoBF was quite satisfying, I found the 80's punks riding 60's scooters to be quite amusing.
the fact that they were called "mods" was an amusing nod to 60s scooter culture
It worked both ways!
I thought the finale was great. The series as a whole seemed to blow its wad on the Boba Fett story arc, and I don't really see a path to a second season. As someone pointed out on twitter last night, it appeared to be a series to tie up some loos ends while furthering the Mandalorian story.
Bingo. By the end Grogu and Mando are getting the most focus, which is . . . fine, as I like those characters more anyway, but I don't think the series really justified itself as a "Boba Fett" show.
I for one never understood the fan boys (& girls) fascination with the character - totally mystifying.
He was a cool looking action figure. That's about it.
So it was the helmet all along.
New Jurassic Park trailer.
https://youtu.be/fb5ELWi-ekk
After a couple of Jurassic World movies with the old, incorrect looks for dinosaurs (they do explain that the gaps in the dinosaur DNAs were added by people to make them look like what was expected), they are finally going to fix that in this film by giving us (still weird looking to me) dinosaurs with feathers.
Simmons/Harden trade deal is done. Sixers threw in Seth Curry, Drummond and picks as well. I feel like they should have just waited till the offseason, when they could have got him for nothing. Curry has been really valuable for the Sixers, so that will hurt them. Sixers will be better, but they will be slower and less fun to watch IMO. Kyrie's the key here. If he is able to play at home during the playoffs and Durant returns, B'lyn becomes the favorites again. Man, Simmons, Kyrie and Durant. Sean Marks has his hands full with that brain trust!
It's a decent haul by Brooklyn but I'm skeptical that it makes either team better. Both teams have a wide range of outcomes before and after this trade, only difference is the wildcard that they need to have work out now (in addition to Durant's health for the Nets). I would have liked this trade more for Sean Marks and the Nets had they got Thybulle as well (as previously rumored).
Thybulle and Simmons on the same roster with Durant floating as a third defender would be an absolute nightmare defense to face. Good luck getting the ball past midcourt. I think Maxey was also a non-starter for Philly. For all of his faults, Simmons has a game that's really adaptable to any offense. They still need a rim protector, but B'lyn's main issue besides Durant and Kyrie''s unavailability has been on the defense end, and Simmons helps in a huge way.
And Seth fills the role they they thought they were paying for in Joe Harris.
This is an insane trade. I guess Sixers really feel like they need Harden now to compete this season. I could see this trade backfiring. Their bench will be weaker now.
I agree, great job by Brooklyn here. Have the Sixers seen Harden play this year???
Haha. In their defense, Harden's intentionally played poorly before to get himself moved out of a situation. We'll know pretty quickly if that's what's been happening here as well.
Been a wild trade season. Basically everything that has been speculated about has come to fruition. That never happens. Yeah, I think Philly should have waited given that they also had to include Curry and picks. Even if Harden had a change of heart by the offseason, I do think Beal and Lillard will be moved. I'd prefer either of those options long-term over Harden. He's still one of the top five offensive players in the league, but he is also beginning to show some age. They may have only a two-year window with this roster and I think B'lyn is stronger in the near and long-term as a result of this deal.
Olympics
Mini rant - So Nathan Chen won the gold in Men's figure skating yesterday (Yay! USA! 🇺🇸) but the Japanese silver medal winner was complete trash from an artistic perspective. Sort of a new style in which only jumps count, and the rest of the time they wave their arms a bit, and wait to jump. Chen was good, the American who finished 6th (no quads) was better as an artist as was the French guy who fell once.
The Japanese guy was artistically better a couple days ago on the short program. Had more personality too, and was even smiling. Last night it was like he turned into a robot. But the short program does count for 1/3 of the score. Chen's short program was super awesome, as was reported in the news, the highest scoring short program in history. Both technically and artistically wonderful, better than the long program, I thought.
I don't follow figure skating that closely, but I think the complaint about it being almost completely about jumps were there even before they revamped the scoring system.
Isn't that kinda like the difference between pairs and Ice Dancing? Ice dancing is like the artistic wave your arms and pairs is just a bunch of throws holds and jumps?
DBD Desert Oasis? Room enough for 15. Comes with a backhoe, track hoe, and other hoes.
https://nnrmls.paragonrels.com/publink/default.aspx?GUID=442d8fd1-3d10-42e4-b16b-b1ee6c5c4acd&Report=Yes
Central and South American hand-pies
Javi's has the best hand pies in Oakland
Popoca in Oakland for pupusas. El Patio in Berkeley for arepas.
I for one love empanadas. Do pupusas count? I love those too.
Great source for them 5 miles from here, in the smaller of 2 Mexican restaurants in Jefferson, the nearest town with more than a single convenience store. And lots of other good Mexican food.
I love all empanadas.
As opposed to English pasties?
Excuse me?
A movie where you walked out of the theater. Theater only.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - circa 2013, got up and walked out around 30 mins into it.
Trainspotting. Not in theater, but in Wheeler. Made the mistake of drinking beforehand. The visuals were, shall we say, too intense for my frame of mind. Watched it later.
Ah the movies in Wheeler! Totally forgot about that, was fun
We saw a prono there once.
I remember seeing a preview of Blue Chips at Wheeler and nearly the entire bball team was there. Campinelli made a cameo in the film and the team booed him. Harsh.
The Wiz. I can't think of one since. I paid my money, it's hard to make me leave.
I used to love that movie as a kid, but rewatched it during the initial 2020 shutdown and man does it stink on ice
Man, it's been a LONG time since I did this. If I paid for a ticket I'm going to get my money's worth.
Back in my college days I used to do a lot of theater-hopping (pay for one, then stay in the building and see two more), though, so I would just bail on a movie sometimes if I thought it was really bad. Two that I remember were Freddy Got Fingered and The Watcher (with Keanu Reeves playing a serial killer).
Some art house movie called Broken English way back in HS. I actually would have stayed because there was nudity and I was like 16, but my friend just got and up and left like 30 mins in and he was my ride so I followed him!
My most recent movie in a theater experience (like probably a lot of people) was the most recent Spider-man. I went on Opening Day in the afternoon, so I ended up sitting next to a guy (probably my age) with a 8? year old. The dad was really into the film but the kid wanted to leave before the final fight because it was too loud so they left. At least the dad was there for the gratuitous big reveal shot (which the kid didn't care for).
Had a really disturbing experience watching the first Borat movie at the Pleasant Hill Theater. We had some young bros seated behind us and they didn't seem to understand the satire and they kept making really incredible loud and horribly insensitive comments throughout the film. I wanted to confront them, but also knew it would get ugly, so my wife and I just snuck out.
I have not done this, unless you count the IMAX projector fail at the Metreon when I dragged my family to see Superman Returns. I think the movie cutout with about 10 minutes to go (during the predictable climax). I forced my entire family to rewatch the entire movie (run time 2 hour 34 minutes) later that night and they all hated me for it.
I think you earned that hate.
What's possibly worse, that movie was a converted 3D for IMAX. Because it was not designed to be in 3D, the quick cuts during the action scenes were rather disorienting.
Those 3D conversions were terrible. Like cardboard cutouts of the characters sitting in front of the screen.
I've never seen a 3D movie, never will.
Ones that were built for it can be better. I thought movies like Avatar and Gravity were really aided by the 3D. But there was a stretch of movies where it was clearly grafted on after the fact and it was really bad.
I have never walked out/turned off of any movie, theater or home and I’ve never fallen asleep during a movie at the theater or at home. I am one of those, finish what you start movie watchers.
Agreed. I’ve only recently started turning them off bc there’s too much good schitt on nowadays to waste time…I’ll even stick with a show for 10 episodes just to finish. Even with Mimic I walked bc it was scaring my little sis at the old Emeryville theater by the Public Market rather than being a weak movie, which it kinda was tho…
Walking out due to someone else being scared is okay in my book. Unless it’s your little brother and your are watching Jurassic Park and he is scared of the velociraptors and you make him stay to torment him, which I did when I was in 5th grade and he was in 3rd grade.
Nah bro, started The Santa Fe Trail and realized it was a weird pro-South film, quit about 20 minutes in, and there have been others.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033021/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
The closest I got to walking out, well not really but it was just a strange movie was also at Wheeler when we saw Mulholland Drive.
David Lynch films have that tendency
My parents took me to see Jaws when I was 4. I just remember I ended up just hanging out by myself in the lobby while my parents watched the film.
WHOA 👀
The 70s were strange times for parenting. No wonder I need therapy. :)
I have never done that, but my wife and my best friend's wife both walked out of Alien, after the alien made the first appearance.
Well, we walked out of Fargo - after the power went out at Jack London 25 minutes in - but that wasn't voluntary.
9 1/2 Weeks
I would have walked out of Gnomio & Juliet, but I was asleep at the time.
ugh, I got dragged to Rugrats in Paris on Xmas day with a herd of children from the family. That forced me to stay and my hatred of the Rugrats franchise has burned hot ever since that horrible day
I desperately wanted to leave Holmes and Watson. Worst movie I have ever seen by a factor of 10 million
It was really quite a stinker.
I've never walked out on a movie. I've known people who did walk out on a movie, but I haven't.
Mimic
The 3 movies that Mira Sorvino did after she won an Oscar for Best Actress: Tales of Erotica, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, Mimic.
Romy and Michelle is the best of that bunch and kind of a cult classic comedy.
I did like her in Beautiful Girls
FBS teams that have a different mascot than their nickname (eg, Stanfurd uses a tree rather than a stupid color).
Oski makes the list at #2
https://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/creepy-weird-college-mascots-ranked-nervous
I literally laughed out loud at "Grover's left nut".
See? This is what happens with all the pedo references floating around when talking about Oski.
Ugh.
Decided to google some weird college mascots and found this
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/the-weirdest-names-in-college-sports
Delta State University Fighting Okra is my favorite.
I first learned of this mascot on an episode* of "Good Eats." If Alton Brown approves, I approve.
You missed the highlight of UCSC Banana Slugs with the second mention. They shoulda at least dropped a cropped image of the Fiat Slug logo in the article. A photo of Sammy would have been okay.
Tennessee Volunteers and Smokey the dog
Oklahoma Sooners and a horse mascot
Hunh, I thought it was a schooner thing.
I will hate Stanford forever and ever but I will give them credit and respect for changing their old nickname and mascot long before teams in professional and other CFB programs did so from public pressure.
Miami Hurricanes and Sebastian the Ibis.
Speaking of goofy birds, Tulane has Riptide, a goofy-ass Pelican vs. Green Wave
The Auburn Tigers naturally have an eagle as mascot
That is probably the strangest one for me but what I find even more strange is that they never used a live tiger. Seems like something a school in the south would do until they were forced to not do it.
LSU might have copyrighted use of a live Tiger in the SEC.
That's the other thing that's weird about it, having two teams in the same conference with the same nickname. Why not just be the Eagles?
Also have both Georgia & Mississippi St bulldogs, although Georgia was there first.
What is with the lack of creativity in the SEC?
Not to mention Clemson, who is in the same backyard and has a similar profile to LSU and Auburn, though in a different conference. Let's use some imagination, people!
The El Palo Alto, e.g. "the high stick" is a redwood tree with two trunks growing alongside San Francisquito creek separating Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Technically the mascot should have two trunks.
Correction: the 2nd trunk fell down in the 1880's. The tree according to studies of its rings is 1041 years old, so it started growing in 981 A.D. during the time of the Song dynasty in China, the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad or the rule of Basil the Bulgar slayer in Constantinople.
Basil (lame British name), but Basil the Bulgar Slayer! Now we're talking!
Navy. Midshipmen are repped by a goat.
Army Black Knights have a mule.
Tarheels vs. Ramses the Ram
Ole Miss and Tony the Landshark
Didn't know the Landshark was an offical mascot. I just remember when Marshall Henderson would do it during games at Ole Miss.
Tony the Landshark replaced Rebel the Black Bear within the past decade.
I guess I didn't know they also had Rebel the Black Bear as a mascot.
The Bear was relatively short-lived (I think) compared to its predecessor Colonel Reb.
Colonel Reb is crying...
I suppose a confederate soldier or Robert E Lee was viewed as a bad idea.
Uh yeah
Crimson Tide & Al the Elephant
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues...
Two more Pac-12 entrants:
Ralphie the bison for the Colorado Buffaloes
Swoop the hawk for the Utah Utes
Swoop the hawk makes much more sense than a student dressed in red face and running around like a Ute warrior.
FIFY -
Swoop the hawk makes much more sense than a student dressed in red face and running around pretending to be a Ute warrior.
Thanks
"Bison vs. Buffalo"
Somewhere out there, Atoms just got a warm fuzzy feeling
Hah, I was just explaining this to my wife the other day, how what we call a "buffalo" is really a bison, and her eyes just rolled further back in her head the more I talked.
And since we're atomsing, I will note that USC is the Trojans but their mascot is Traveler - the horse that Tommy Trojan rides upon. Tommy Trojan is not the official mascot of USC.
Why is there never a Tiffany Trojan?
pqtm
The HORSE is the mascot?! I had no idea. How embarrassing for Tommy.
Can't blame them, horses are much more useful animals.
Bring back George Tirebiter!
this is the correct answer
Small thing you notice
Rattles inside a car. I find them annoying and distracting. Thankfully I've vanquished all the rattles in my car.
The Miata has quite a few. More when the top is down. One thing I want to do is replace all the bushings. Since I don't have a press I was going to make a makeshift bearing remover powered by a drill.
when I was first driving, my dad handed over his Peugeot 505 which was the nicest car in the household on paper, because I had the longest routine drive. That thing had all sorts of dashboard rattles that would go away if you hit the dash - so I kept an old flip flop in the car and would hammer away, which freaked the hell out of people the first time they saw me do it. Towards the end the a/c would cut out if you hit a bump which led to people being freaked out when I'd be aiming for potholes to get the cool air back.
¡CHANCLA MECÁNICA!
PLTM
Sounds like Jeremy Clarkson's dream car--one whose maladies can be solved entirely with a rubber mallet.
Yeah, when they drink, the movement is off. Different inertia or momentum.
Today in Covid
Elsewhere in college
Cal OOC curse locked on. Detonation imminent.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/02/10/report-auburn-bryan-harsin-actively-trying-to-fire/
I like how Auburn updated its P&P on a tuesday afternoon
https://sites.auburn.edu/admin/universitypolicies/Policies/EmployeeDutytoCooperatePolicy.pdf
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
My state going to hell in a handbasket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/10/facebook-jan-6-virginia-attorney-general-miles/
But her emails!
Some of the White House documents that Donald Trump improperly took to his Mar-a-Lago residence were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the “top secret” level, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove — which has not previously been reported — is likely to intensify the legal pressure that Trump or his staffers could face, and raises new questions about why the materials were taken out of the White House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/trump-records-classified/
Another not so bright protest.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/an-ohio-man-tried-to-divert-police-with-a-fake-bomb-threat-in-ottawa-canada-to-protest-mask-rules-but-he-actually-called-local-police/ar-AATHPBK?ocid=msedgntp
this is "our" for me & Scootie: egregious Met police commissioner Cressida Dick has been forced out by Sadiq Khan, not before time.
THANK THE SWEET BABY JESUS.
https://youtu.be/Nty5ZpdZiRs?t=32
Tucker Carlson posts clips of himself wondering out loud whether Kamala Harris planted the pipe-bombs at the Capitol building.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1491624569702170626
What a compleat tool
a propagandist without a master (other than his ad sales) - I miss the days when cranks like that were confined to AM radio.
Former teacher and current GOP candidate for State Rep (Sherman, north of Dallas) doesn't like trans kids and is upset that she couldn't allow other kids to make fun of them.
https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1491193256545243139
Jewish kid asked to apologize for speaking out against teacher/students doing Bellamy Salute in school.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/jewish-mountain-brook-student-who-witnessed-nazi-salute-says-school-asked-him-for-apology-for-speaking-out/
This scheiss angers me. It also takes me back to my high school years and a US Supreme Court case wherein a student refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and was suspended due to that stand (or non-stand, if you prefer). The student alleged violation of First Amendment rights and won.
Subsequently I chose not to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance as was the custom during Homeroom. The principal subsequently issued an order that if you didn't stand for the pledge you would have to declare why. I wrote an opinion piece for the school newspaper denouncing the move as intentionally chilling First Amendment rights of free speech.
Because the paper was overseen by a faculty advisor the principal read the opinion piece. Ultimately, the principal rescinded his directive but the opinion piece was never published.
Looking back on it now, I realize that I was dealing with weak-ass Nazis then. They're still weak-ass Nazis.
Rant off.
Maybe it's because I was a cynical kid in high school (still am, actually), but I always thought it was bizarre how strongly some school administrators hold onto these largely meaningless, performative rituals. Most kids have been saying the Pledge of Allegiance since they were 5 or 6 and probably haven't given it anything more than a passing thought. In fact, students who sit or who stand but don't say anything are among those who have actually given some critical thought to the Pledge and what it means.
I spent 24 years as a public school teacher enforcing a "no-hats-in-the-building" policy that never made sense to me. Was way more hassle than it was worth. Plus you'd get kids being defiant, refusing to remove their hat and ultimately getting suspended. Ridiculous. Thankfully the pledge was mostly gone from Berkeley schools by the time I started teaching.
There is a line of thinking that puts allegiance atop the list of desirable traits. It's still the backbone of the military, but its also present in a large number of entities where power/control is or is perceived to be central to success. It's also dangerous, which becomes apparent soon after the object of allegiance demonstrates that its questionable whether its up to the responsibility that that methodology requires to work.
Allegiance in the military is absolutely essential. Can't operate military units successfully without it. But you have to be careful that the allegiance is to the nation for which the military fights and not a specific commander.
Same principle animates businesses and governmental agencies. When allegiance shifts to a person or clique, the whole enterprise is in danger.
MTG and the gazpacho police.
https://www.tmz.com/2022/02/09/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-confuses-gazpacho-soup-gestapo-nazi-germany/
Incredible slip by MTG. Oh wait, she's just stupid.
I join her in her fight against both the Gazpacho police and their collaborationist allies in the Vichyssoise
TFG calls President Biden incompetent, but misspelled the word.
https://twitter.com/GeoffEarle/status/1491464695395586056?t=STV0jMutxOkLUkRsck---A&s=19
PRO
[ESPN] James Harden wants a trade to the 76ers.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33259122/james-harden-wants-trade-philadelphia-76ers-formally-request-deal-due-concern-public-backlash-sources-say
Officially cementing his team poison status.
I don't think this is what B'lyn wants, but I think it will end up better for them. Having three ball dominant scorers creates a lot of redundancy. For all his faults, Simmons is one of the best defenders and facilitators in the league. He solves a lot of problems for them. They'll always be at the mercy of Kyrie's unpredictability and inability to stay healthy, but the team makes more sense all of a sudden.
I agree. This is the best move for the Nets and Simmons. Simmons isn’t a scorer and going to the Nets takes that pressure off of him.
Second such request in two seasons. And if he ends up in Philly, he'll probably be making the same request this time next season...
Heh... Sorry but even if he doesn't formally request it, there will be public backlash.
James Harden wants trade to Philadelphia 76ers, won't formally request deal due to concern over public backlash, sources say
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33259122/james-harden-wants-trade-philadelphia-76ers-formally-request-deal-due-concern-public-backlash-sources-say
from the article:
<quote>Harden has missed Brooklyn's past three games with a hamstring injury, leading to speculation that he's purposely shutting down to send a message on his waning desire to remain with the Nets. The team announced Wednesday that Harden also will miss Thursday's game against the Wizards.</quote>
What a lameass if that's true. I certainly wouldn't want that shit on my team.
Yep. I'd have a hard pass on being a party to it.
Of course he does. The jig is up in Brooklyn.
Dubs lose to Jazz. It doesn't help that Looney, Lee, Payton, and Moody had a combined 7 points over a collective 94 minutes played.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401360647
And Klay sat this one out (with Draymond still out). Not a shocking result in Utah.
Utah is good, or will be when everyone is healthy.
Yes, especially in their own building.
Let's check in to see how the #2 overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft is doing.
https://www.al.com/sports/2022/02/former-no-2-pick-greg-robinson-facing-drug-charges-again.html
RIP Jeremy Giambi. Dead at 47, no announced cause of death.
https://sports.yahoo.com/former-mlb-player-jeremy-giambi-dies-at-47-235739774.html
Sad news.
Never should have even been on the bases for the Jeter flip play. That boob Art Howe had Eric Byrnes on the bench...Byrnesie scores easily and is in the dugout by the time Spencer overthrows 2 cutoff men & we’re never subjected to a 20 year Derek Jeter orgy over that play.
I was there for that game! Probably most famous game I attended live I think. Honorable mention to Cain’s perfecto, The Kevin Riley Game, and Beastmode Equipment Cart
The story in this morning's Chron hints at depression and that he died by his own hand.
RIP, Jeremy.
whoa
Antonio Brown links up with Kanye West's Donda Sports. AB is going to go broke, isn't he?
https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/antonio-brown-announces-hes-landed-a-new-job
I'd like to be a fly on the wall at one of their staff meetings.
Lakers lose to Blazers team of Justice Winslow, Ben McLemore, Greg Brown, Trendon Watford, Keljin Blevins, Dennis Smith, Jusuf Nurkic, and Anfernee Simons.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401360648
Blazer management overtly trying to tank, and Lakers are still out-played. Looked like a Cleveland-Detroit baseball game had broken out.
CAL
No Bears were invited to the combine
Need everything in their bag to outlast one of the worst P5 teams in the country...Beavs still 0-for 2022...
Good to see the looks on KK & Sam’s faces after the win, tho! They were pumped
Go Bears!!!
In a way it's too bad the Bears won. Cuz we won't get the coveted number 1 lottery pick in the draft. Oh wait, that's the pros!