Happy long weekend to those of you who have one. I unaccountably have a paper due tomorrow. (Who assigns a research paper to be turned in on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend?!)
However, here on the site, we have another full slate of great articles in the coming week. We are really on a roll. Keep the submissions coming! (No, Creosote Achilles, SUBMISSIONS, not submission. No, Q, SUBMISSIONS, not emission.)
Coming up we have posts from: Not Adahn; westernsloper; trshmnstr; Yusef Drives a Kia; wchipperdove; Florida Man; CPRM; A Leap at the Wheel; Bob Boberson; and Animal. Web Dom’s vegan School is out for recess on Labor Day, but we hope to have a post from SugarFree in his usual spot on Wednesday. And, of course, your regularly scheduled opportunities to ignore the links.
I know, I know, “Stop talking and let us get on with the Saturday Night Open Post!”
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College football is back!
Ohio State learned that you can actually use the QB to throw the ball and not just as a RB/sprint option.
Michigan currently playing the altar boy to Notre Dame.
UVA is not losing to an FCS team, which they have done before.
Yeah, I was in my happy place today:)
It’s something that puzzles me about both Bama and tOSU these last few years. They insist on using athletes at QB, when they can recruit actual legit passing threats and have their usual loaded skill positions and defenses combined with an actual QB who can take over games.
But they persist in rolling out the Jalen Hurts and JT Barrets of the world.
JT did improve as a passer but not as much as I think anyone would have liked including the coaches. He was a strong leader , was pretty good at managing the game, and he could make things happen which really messed with the defense. I think the coaches overall thought the pluses outweighed the minuses. There just aren’t that many great pocket passers coming out of high school. Look how hard it is for NFL teams to find a franchise QB. JT was a winner and that goes a long way.
JT Daniels lived up to the hype. He throws a pretty spiral.
USC’s had a lot of great passers over the years. They seem to be able to find them and reel them in. I’m sure the Southern Cal hotties don’t hurt:)
Eh, there’s plenty of quality pocket passers out there, and it’s not like Bama and tOSU can’t get them if they wanted them.
Like, 2013 high school stats the top 10 in yards included Patrick Mahomes, Jake Browning, and Will Grier. Plus Mason Rudolph and Deshaun Watson are in that general range. One of those guys should have been at Bama.
You don’t need some top tier player, you just need to have followed AJ McCarron with another actual QB who can operate a passing offense. It’s a fucking shame watching these WRs and TEs in Tuscaloosa dealing with Jalen Hurts throwing the ball poorly.
Pocket passers who aren’t a generational talent are usually a work in progress during college. They’re having to do more than just put the ball between the numbers of an open receiver for the first time, and accuracy means nothing if you can’t begin to read progressions, time hot routes, and anticipate weaknesses in opponents’ defensive schemes. That’s why pocket passers usually get hot in their junior year and get the hype as seniors. The freak athlete QBs can be studs as freshmen, and they don’t have to know what’s going on. Simply avoid being sacked. If nobody comes open, run for 5 yards. If somebody comes open throw it to them, accuracy not required since the defense is scrambling to contain you. They also open up RPO as an option, which exploits lack of defensive discipline.
You’re doing the internet wrong!
Your comment was thoughtful and has a large amount of explanatory power. That’s now how it’s supposed to work.
It explains why Saban – a close Belichick confidant – isn’t looking for the next Brady; Brady at Michigan was nothing like Brady of today.
Haskins looked solid. Lots of weapons on that team. Secondary and Special Teams need to get their heads out of their ass though. I’m sure Meyer will address that.
OSU is starting strong for a perfect season.
Just to be clear, a perfect losing season for the real OSU.
Meanwhile, KU plumbs new depths of incompetence.
And Boise State bitch slaps Troy.
At least the Broncos don’t let me down (much). It’s an orange and blue day at the GL household.
They will move up this week. There were a number of upsets. Currently enjoying Michigan losing to Notre Dame.
College football is back????
Dang! I must have missed it. Does anyone have the Cal score?
Yep, it’s 5-2.
Joe Kapp saved the penalty with a clutch fumble.
My best friend’s dad was the assistant coach for him during the Big Play.
He’s a hero:
“In December 1981, Kapp made a promise to the football team that he would not consume any of his favorite alcoholic beverage, tequila, until the Golden Bears reached the Rose Bowl. As of March 2011, the Golden Bears have yet to return to the Rose Bowl and Kapp has resorted to drinking rum instead.[6]”
For the sake of New York, I hope that the attendees at the state fair are not representative of the general population. Otherwise, it’s not a good looking state.
Now you see why the sheep look alluring to some folks.
I bet you didn’t know there were so many different kinds of mullets.
Ape Drapes!
Where’s Will Rogers when you need him?
I hate arguing technical support issues with stupid people.
How’s the weather in India? 😛
He does not know what you are talking about. His name is Steve and his wife Brenda makes the best Apple Pie.
Would you now do the kindly?
Do not be forgetting the needful!
This was an American.
Any fans of the Purge movies?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/04/how-the-purge-trolls-trumps-america-jason-blum-first-purge
I haven’t seen any. Kinda looked dumb.
That’s original.
Yeah. Hollywood hates anyone not sufficiently progressive. Who’da thought?
It’s all projection.
If there were such a thing I would spend that night doing the same thing I do every night – mind my own business. I dont have some inner desire to hurt people or steal from them. The people whose values Blum is making into a giant straw man live all around me. Crime here is pretty rare. We have a half dozen arrests in a month and it is always the same thing – domestic violence, drugs, petty burglary – and committed by the usual suspects.
Where is crime the highest? In the rural areas where people have right wing values? Or in urban areas chock full of progressives spitting on those values?
Just more commie clap-trap from the left.
Nope. I liked the purge scare zone at HHN, but that’s as far as I go.
As a result, crime overall is at an all-time low, fewer people live below the poverty line and unemployment is at 1%.-
Also, as utilitarians, shouldn’t the left love this result?
If a Purge scenario came to be, I’d be torrenting the whole night.
The first and third ones were good.
Because they’re cashing in? The world is full of idiots.
I’m picturing an entire theater full of Trigglypuffs…. *shudder*
And antifa and blm.
That’s an awfully poor interpretation. Self-reliance is way more right-wing than left-wing.
I thought we were done with this. It can’t get as bad as the Saw movies making the killer’s motivation a lack of single payer health care, can it?
The killer in Saw was motivated by a lack of single payer health care?
Yeah, it was retconned in one of the later films. Link has the audio, I’d have to hunt for a video link, which would require more effort then I’m willing to make for a bad horror film. (And I love me my bad horror films).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_VI
Oh FFS… I remember seeing it and rolling my eyes at the “plot”.
It takes a lot for more to tap out of a franchise. FFS, I finished the Wheel of Time series, have all of the GRRM books, own Jason X, and went through 3 of the Brian Herbert books. Saw, and the Sword of Truth novels by Goodkind have been the only franchises I can remember tapping out of at this point. I even hate watched the last several seasons of Dexter and House.
Sounds like Blum is more like Hawke’s character in that he wants to abolish affordable home security systems so that only the wealthy have them.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo: Why Socialism Cannot Be Reformed
This is probably old news but first I’ve heard of it.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/01/two-u-s-citizens-stabbed-amsterdam-authorities-say-terrorism/
Those Amish, I tell you.
“No, Q, SUBMISSIONS, not emission”
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this one
Agreed.
You are correct sir.
In the previous thread, you were tasked with finding us some buxom South Asian ladies, and you have failed us.
Thank goodness. I thought you were taking the weekend off.
More articles hype! I’m looking forward to
procrastinating at workreading that lineup.Nobody wants a CPRM article, that guy fucking sucks.
And he smells like old cheese
Well, he is from Wisconsin; fuckin cheese heads.
And not good cheese.
Yeah, yeah! The other kind of cheese!
Frumunda?
Smegma cheese!
Maybe not, but we will take one of his videos…
A video like this?
I’ll be in my bunk.
Awesome. Kansas loses at home to Nicholls State.
In rugby?
Is that a college? And do they have a football team?
Tomorrow is the the Big Party, My Buddy and I celebrate Birthdays 2 weeks apart so, since it’s a 3 day weekend and right in the middle, PARTY!
Today i set up the new lighting rigs and keyboard stands, tables etc. A quick sound check at 4 PM Sunday and we’re ready to go.
The Band: TEPME3
The Music: Electronica, and one obligatory Rock set in the middle somewhere
The Crew are the local Drunks and the Host is the Worst TBH, but My Skills at staying Sober helps the Cause, and his Wife is ver understanding, which is kind of sad……
Rock On!
Have fun pretending you’re not not as old as you are. Usually men your age do that by making stupid decisions with women, glad to see you’re just throwing a party.
Sex is easy, Playing for an audience is Rare and fun for us, being the old ass kickers we are….
We might have a videographer, if so i’ll post something
/Lights Fucking Rule!!!!!!!
Sex is easy, Playing for an audience is Rare and fun for us, being the old ass kickers we are….
So, i may have started reading the thread here the first time. I legit thought Yusef was making his entry into the porn industry. Either that or there was some joke I was missing. Turns out reading the original post of the thread is important.
Yes, as a video professional, lights are very good, one might say neccesarry, so if you pay for video, don’t use fucking lights, otherwise you’re asking the impossible from video. I mean, this gets thrown around alot now on the web, but that is fucking science.
*don’t not use* I was trying to be a smartass and I failed.
I saw where you were going ie Smartass and wondered what happened,
I like lights…
This hurts me CPRM. Right in the small part I call a soul.
If She does it, it will be the Host’s Daughter, she has 1.5 million views for whatever it is she does, IDK, but she has cool equipment and skills, we shall see.
I’ll get Her URL when I can and post it FWIW
*lements Hat and Hair animated 7eps hasn’t even gotten 1,000 views*
I have 10k plus from my Hot wheels AI stuff, go figure….
Crew= Audience
Not sure what this chair is supposed to do.
Are asian men that lazy? *Starts shopping asian brides*
They built the chair, didn’t they? Enjoy the fruit of your labor.
I was going to make a tired and insensitive remark something like isn’t that too much throw for an asian man, but I decided not to do that.
I think it’s a Sybian gone awry.
Are sybians something that are used your *cough* circles? (It’s not something I’ve ever looked into, but knowing that you know what that is, it is now something I oddly want to know the answer to)
LOL I suppose it’s possible if unknown to me but I was a big Howard Stern fan back in the day so I’m familiar with them.
Ok.
Definitely not clicking on any youtube link that references a Sybian. Even at home, the girlfriend may walk in, and that would be an awkward conversation.
“I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there!”
I was shopping for your birthday gift honey.
It has animal print seats, several speed settings, and they keep it in the bedroom. I have a pretty good idea what it’s for, but I have no idea how it’s used.
It’s a love hotel. Not gonna sit there and eat my bento, IYKWIM.
Because they’re charging by the hour?
Women and machines give me an uppercase penis.
I may regret this, but – what doesn’t?
The skele-women sarcasmic used to post.
I think it’s just pre-game kegels.
Burn After Reading.
I think George Clooney played Q in this movie.
You could give someone a fun swirly that thing.
Sasuga glorious Nippon.
The age old Zen question answered. *Apologies beforehand*
That spaceship potato is weird.
reply to straif, the drink is finally doing it’s job.
It’s kneaded human, uh, well, you know. Real. Weirdos.
Well, tonight settles it: I cannot have chips in the house. I crushed the whole goddamn bag.
Which is why we MUST get some legislation to reduce bag sizes. Surely, if I can’t resist eating the whole bag, that’s true for everyone. Therefore, we must have smaller chip bags. People, especially women, children, and minorities, will DIE if we don’t take this common-sense step as a country.
No one needs more than 23 potato chips!
Sounds legit.
What flavor?
It seems unbelievable until you realize that 8oz bag you remember curbing your whole family’s munchies for 89 cents is now 2 1/4 oz and costs twice as much.
I realized that casual snacking on chips and salsa was a huge source of calories in my diet. More than a double cheeseburger.
OT: As I mentioned in a previous thread, I’m watching Once Upon a Time in America, my favorite movie of all time.
This is total drunk talk, but here it goes: Have you ever felt like a movie/book/song/poem has had a significant influence on the person you came to be? I’ve been watching this movie since I was 16, and I can’t really explain it, but I think it played a role in how I think and view the world.
Do you have some work of art that has done that for you, and what is it?
Yes, The Oral Adventures of Craven Moorehead #17.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and The Trees by Rush. Fuck you, I know I’m a stereotype. Personal best was convincing the girlfriend at the time to explain how the Trees showed how terrible attempts at legislating equality works out when she went to an all girls college.
Not even a close call for me. Crime and Punishment.
I got that book for my birthday several years ago… I’ll have to read it sometime.
It explores the depth to which we all sink to when we use reason to justify our conclusions. That would be fine if the reasons led us to our conclusions instead of vice versa. It’s like having a lawyer inside your head that you paid to defend your positions, but that lawyer is not objective or bound by moral concerns. I highly recommend it.
That’s a good way to put it. If you haven’t read him already, you’d dig Jung.
I’ve read a little of his stuff over the years. Being the obsessive freak I am, I need binge read to get the info to stick. Integrating the dark side of the self with the entire psyche is what I remember. Sounds a lot what Dosty was getting at.
The Big Lebowski. It gave me a big lesson on how life doesn’t really make sense in general, but you just enjoy the ride and abide.
El Duderino abido. TW: Morning Joe
https://youtu.be/PICsf2yO7FQ
That’s awesome, I wanna sit down, down some white russians, and chill with The Dude.
Working on the Tacoma. Took it in for a factory recall and while they replaced the leaf springs they told me one of my shocks was blown. They wanted to charge me $500 to do the work. I told them to basically go pound sand because I can get the parts for $100 dollars and do the job in about an hour. Long story short, the fucking tech tightened every bolt to 200ft/ld just to be a cunt. I got one side done but fuck me , I ran out of daylight. Now I wanna go back to the dealership and bust some noses. Fucking assholes.
Get an impact gun and laugh at the tech’s futile attempt to dissuade you.
Also: this. An excuse to buy more equipment.
What a fucking cock. That would enrage me.
Try contacting someone at Toyota that is higher up the corporate chain. Were they an official Toyota repair shop?
The dealer that I bought the truck from. This story ain’t over, Man… I’ve spent about a day and half fucking around while that jerk sits and cleans his whiskers.
It seems to me that overtorqueing the bolts of suspension parts is likely dangerous. Assuming it could be proven, the tech intentionally compromised the safety of your vehicle.
I don’t think I’d trust any of the fasteners that had been abused in such a manner.
That was the first thing I thought, actually.
When my wife’s (former) Nissan got a flat, It took me a 6 foot pole to loosen the lugs. Probably in the 200ft range. Fucking idiots.
BTW, does your Tacoma have Crawl Control? I’m adding it to my SUV next month.
2nd gen so probably not. I use the four wheel in the winter just cause it’s better at stops and starts but I’ve basically babied this vehicle. It’s a 2008 and has @ 80,000 miles on it.
Also funny, my wife has a Nissan too! A Juke! Fuck I feel like an idiot whenever I have to drive that abortion on wheels around. *slips cap lower, pushes sunglasses up* The little fucker has some pep, though. I got it up to 120 mph in turbo mode before my testicles shrank into the wherewithal. It would have gone faster in a younger mans hands.
Abe Lincoln and U.S. Grant: The only libertarian TOP MEN?
Now you’re trolling.
Heh. In seriousness I do wonder that if a war to end slavery and the use of the likes of the income tax and the draft, etc. was just as was the use of the military to enforce civil rights for the freed slaves then what does that say about the anti-war and anti-militarist attitudes of libertarians and what does that say about current American wars and militarism?
That and the Civil Rights act is why I’m a “libertarian as a principle” rather than “libertarian as a political goal”. I’m glad the south lost. I’m glad segregation ended. Although abstractly I believe that both would have ended by market forces, the generations of people in bondage wouldn’t have been worth the cost.
Wait a minute. You’re trolling for drunks like me.
You bastard.
Damn it man. I’ve gone through several pints, and several drams tonight. I’m not in the mood to think. Can I just emote?
Trolling? He’s Tulpa FFS!
RUUUUNNN!
Picard or Kirk?
The answer is always Sisko. I mean, Kirk may have been trapped in the Nexus for some time, but Sisko actually underwent a true apotheosis.
So is Sisko woke or not these days? I can’t tell.
If we take the view that all of Star Trek was actually the delusions of Benny Russell, then Sisko is woke as fuck.
Nice on pulling out the Benny Russell reference, but Jeffrey Sinclair and John Sheridan were the better captains.
Babylon 5 was the better show. William Shatner can do no wrong so Kirk is still the best captain.
What the hell dumb question is that? Some bald headed officious prick or a guy who gets shit done on the frontier. Picard is the Kenny G to Kirk’s Charlie Parker.
https://www.politico.eu/article/john-mccain-the-anti-donald-trump/
That “anti-Trumpness” includes making several secret trips to Syria in an effort to embroil the U.S. in that bloody quagmire.
Notice that in the era of Trump the usual anti-war and anti-American Imperialism talk from the usual suspects has completely vanished? Don’t hear much about the Shah, Pinochet, the Contras or Iraq anymore…
To be fair, Raimondo and company have become extremely strident since Trump announced the U.S. wouldn’t fund UNRWA anymore.
Raimondo carries the legacy of Rothbard’s anti-neoconism so it is no surprise that he is consistent at that…
Jeebus that site is a hot fucking mess.
Also petty personal feuds are the usually the nastiest…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/05/karl-marx-200th-birthday-communist-manifesto-revolutionary
Let go of the iPhone!
Tossing yourself off a bridge works, too.
Go to Walden Pond and live in the past you troglodyte.
One of my customers told me she sticks her head in the sand on purpose, the ultimate facepalm,
She’s trying to attract SAND SMITH.
I’ve been looking for the person who said that society is the mirror by which we see our behavior. We act and the reactions to our behavior gives us a more or less reality based reflection of ourselves. Knowing something is BS, has a grain of truth or even spot on right means we have to express that thought to others. Something along those lines. Any clue? I’m thinking that I read something about that in Aristotle’s response to mimetics in Plato.
I sometimes open a window for people, they see it and shy away, too much thought and responsibility is all can tell
I think this is a place where libertarians are even worse than conservatives. Our reaction to poor behavior is unmitigated disgust. We’re not going to gain wider traction if we can’t find a way to package our message with a modicum of sympathy. As stupid as it was, Dubya’s “compassionate conservatism” recognized how toxic the reaction of disgust can be to a movement.
Wait, “fuck off, slaver” isn’t going to win the hearts and minds of the populace?
Exactly. Change it to “Fuck off, Slavery” and you directed disgust from a human with bad ideas to the bad idea itself.
Tuesday, I’ve decided, I will argue fractions with a Yale graduate.
How do you like them apples?
Can I throw them?
Yale Day School?