Super Bowl XXXOU812 is upon us. Who will win? The cheaters from New England or the dirty players from Seattle (editors note…this Raiders fan wishes his team still cheated…but hey, we’ve got a bunch of nice fellows). My prediction is that one team will likely outscore the other team. Keep on loungin’ in the free world!
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It’s so muggy that droplets of water are falling from the sky.
I always root for the AFC in the Super Bowl, unless Denver is the AFC team, so GO PATS! I’m a fan of Tom Brady but I do love how Seattle plays defense. Hopefully it’ll be a good game and hopefully I don’t burn the chicken on the grill.
Same except my Will-Not-Root for list includes New England. Seriously, fuck Boston.
I like Boston. I’ve been there twice and really enjoyed it both times.
Take it easy on Boston. We are still feeling grumpy because of all this FKing snow.
I should add that I’ve never been to Boston in winter. Loved it in the summer though.
I still haven’t shoveled a path to my back door, but I think I’m going to do it now because then I can take out the trash. On the other hand, they are predicting another foot of snow for tomorrow, so maybe I’ll just fill up my living room with garbage instead.
Ouch…we haven’t had any snow this year which is odd but great. Just spray the trash with Lysol and you should be fine.
Within a few years it will be just another story that Boston uses to make its suffering insufferable.
Awesome. You nailed it.
so much win
0.12(18)+ 0.02x = 0.06(18+x)
This problem is for the math lovers here so they know I support their love of the dark arts.
I just checked and Techmo Bowl 87 has the Los Angeles Raiders winning the big game.
Tim Brown getting elected to the Hall of Fame made me happy. Brown is the last athlete I cared about in that way you care about such things as a kid. Ah, to be 14 again…pimples, no ability to drive, awkward conversations with girls, mullets…ah.
Anytime you have to make a big decision does the Jeopardy music play in your head too?
Best Super Bowl snack?
Kale chips
Katy Perry
Thanks, and go As.
On a stick.
I used to have big Super Bowl parties. Now, I have a 3 and a 1 year old.
I hear that. Yoenessa is two and Coco is two weeks (!!!). Our super bowl party is going to be putting it on TV and falling asleep.
Yeah baby! Sleep!
I feel like the same people who write it as Superbowl also write alot instead of a lot. How did I come to this conclusion? Science.
sorry. i just can’t see how anybody is fooled. to me it still looks like a clark kent bowl without glasses.
The Clark Kent Bowl is nowhere as interesting as the Bruce Wayne Bowl.
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The More You Know…Always use full arm motion.
Fuck yeah, Super Bowl lounge!
I wonder if Jesus has told Russell Wilson yet how many picks he’s going to throw? GO TOM BRADY!
Over/Under on funny Super Bowl ads is 2.5
This just in…Napa High School’s defensive coordinator for the JV team Pete Peterson has turned down an offer to become defensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders.
So mad we didn’t just keep Tarver. He had them playing really well last year, and the D promises to be largely the same set of starters in 2015.
I was fine with getting rid of Tarver. I was hoping Jack Off Into A River would be able to bring in a good DC but so far no go.
If JDR had a new DC already chosen I wouldn’t complain. New guy getting to choose his own staff and all that. But we had a decent incumbent. Dumb to just let him leave and still be flailing a month later.
My guess is he got turned down my Mike Smith. I think whoever they find will be no worse than Tarver and hopefully the new guy won’t wear eye black.
I feel like we don’t talk enough about David Soul here on Free Kraut.
Only one hour until the Puppy Bowl! My first bet of the day is on Boomer for MVP. There’s like 50 dogs, but he fits the historic MVP profile of “Big and Fluffy.” $10 on Boomer at, call it, 18-1. I’ll also put $5 on Miss Martian at 20-1.
Degenerate gambler alert!
Yes, this and Derby Day are two of the my favorite days of the year.
I watch the Puppy Bowl for the love of the game because I’m a purist.
Damn, I knew I should have bet on Henry. That was the name of all three of my hamsters.
My grandma’s cookbook is a family treasure. It has the best ways to bake in a shiv in any cake.
Bill Belichick feels like the Don Shula of this generation of coaches. Great in every way, but he didn’t change how the game was played. He was just great at making his teams competitive year in and year out.
I think it’s cool that the 49ers hired a Nintendo character to be their head coach.
Mitt Romney may not be running in 2016 but he’ll always be the Republican Nominee of my Heart.
Our Super Bowl Menu at Casa del Bed
BBQ Chicken…breasts for me, thighs for Miss Hawaii and Dad.
Garlic mashed potatoes
green beans sauteed in olive oil
chips w/homemade salsa
Bitter pills that the Raiders haven’t won this thing since 1984
Breasts for me too!
#teamwhitemeat
I’m going traditional for my Super Bowl spread — warm barley, brussels sprouts, and spinach salad.
Wings (Buffalo style) for a mid-afternoon snack.
Brisket (aardvark style) for a late dinner.
Super Bowl Pick
New England Patriots 27
Seattle Seahawks 20
Unless Jesus decides Russell Wilson needs to win. I’d like to think Jesus prefers the much cooler Tom Brady though.
Enjoy the Super Bowl or if you don’t watch the Super Bowl enjoy being a communist.
I was hoping to both enjoy the Super Bowl and be a communist, can I do that?
what if I don’t watch the game, but read this lounge and check deadspin every once in a while to see if anything funny happened?
Oh yeah, and area small step from being a communist anyway?
Yeah, they had that “This land is your land” car commercial, so anything is possible.
It’s Puppy Bowl XI. Super Bowl XI was won by the Oakland Raiders. I take this as an auger of an excellent day to come.
Given that it’s the NFL, and the game is in Arizona, I’m guessing that Katy Perry will not open her set with I Kissed A Girl.
Goats ate the Puppy Bowl playbook. How I wish they had been around to do that for Bill Callahan before XXXVII. That, and making Barret take his meds.
Too soon.
OK, Henri the existential French cat philosopher wins the kitty halftime show:
“Like a simple-minded cat with a laser dot, it is a sad fiction. The only bowl I care about is too often empty, and rarely super.”
If the online odds are correct, right now you could get Seattle +1.5 at a -105 price at Bovada, and New England pick ’em at +100 at5 Dimes. Make both bets and a one point win by the Patriots scores big.
Having 30 gallons in my basement casts a harsh light on my beer problem … the keezer only holds 20.
(Tangentially, both the London Pride and the Guinness I kegged this morning are tasting pretty damn good. Roll on March 28th.)
I can’t get a good feel for this game. No one compelling reason to pick one team or another. Lines seem to be show a little late movement towards the Seahawks. But I don’t see enough to make a bet either side, really. I do like Under 47.5. Call it $100 on that at -110.
I’ll play a few props too. The one I really like is Yes, there will be a 2-pt conversion attempt at +350. Put $50 on that. Also $30 on No, team that scores first will NOT win the game, at +135. And as the resident Katy Perry fan, I’ll put $10 each on Katy’s first song being E.T. at 12-1, and on her hair being Blue or Green at 3-1.
Yo, is too late for me to get in on that Tom Brady passing attempts over > Kobe Bryant stats bet?
It’s a lock!
The Groundhog Day parlay is funny too. I like to imagine some degenerate up all night sweating out what that big rodent is going to do tomorrow morning.
So I guess the Fuck Boston parlay would be Punxsutawney Phil sees shadow and Seahawks win the Super Bowl 11/4.
Whoo hoo, perfect record!
Small profit for the NV sports books, not our best year but not a loss either.
Resolved: Super bowl commercials are the worst commercials. They’re always overstuffed and obviously made by a committee terrified of wasting its ad dollars, and my sense is they are intentionally abrasive and loud to cut through the party chatter. I appreciate creativity in advertising, but these ads usually suck IMO.
Yeah, since the premium is being noticed they do tend to the overbearing. But just like the annoying ones are really annoying, the good ones can be really good.
I only saw little pieces of the broadcast. Based on that, my favorite was the Steve Buscemi/Jan Brady one. The one with McDonalds cashiers guilting people into calling their mothers filled me with rage. The Kim Kardashian one perplexed my children.
I was thinking “Boy do I not want to be there when dmoas is at the counter and the McDonald’s cashier tells him he can ‘Pay With Lovin'”.
[Drops pants] Who do I need to give some lovin’ to in order to get my fries and a shake?
I wanted to see the outtakes with the customers whose moms were dead.
“I just buried her and I came in here for a Happy Meal to cheer me up. Thanks a lot Obama, I mean McDonalds.”
I saw a nissan one with a race car driver and that stupid cats cradle song that made me want to punch things
Oh good. Derek Jeter will be at the SNL 40 year reunion. I was worried he’d miss it.
Let’s kick this bitch off.
Howdy stranger!
Holy terrible questions, sideline reporter wearing flesh-colored jacket.
The thing where the little pictures of the players occasionally blink creeps me out.
For the record, Idina Menzel stretched a 45-second verse into a 2 minute, 4 second style-athon.
The ad for the halftime show of the game you’re already watching is hilarious. It’s an ad for not getting up and going to the bathroom.
Or switching to the puppy bowl, or kitten bowl, or whatever.
Ow?
OK, cruise ship JFK ad. Whatever you say.
ha! 86 minutes of 0–0, as nerve-wracking as U20 gets, with its ample energy / unsharpened skill set pairing. (you wouldn’t believe the one that lil simeone bounced off the crossbar.)
then my guys quickly make it 2–0, very nicely too. last play, the goalie is about to kick it in, with the clock just over the 2 of stoppage, the whistle’s probably gonna blow with that ball in the air. just when…
the lights to out. the uruguayan stadium staff has spoken.
Seriously, though, who the hell is Innocent
ErmagherdEmagheraThanks, and go As.
iono.
who’s that other argentine in SJ? there’s two now!
also: the lights *go out. (couldn’t see what i was typing in the dark.)
Snore
I just realized why all the cars in that Bud commercial had Missouri license plates.
Missouri loves company?
The Show-Me (How To Drive) State
Also, I had not realized Missouri had packs of fierce wolves.
Were they coyotes?
Google tells me there are wolves in Missouri.
I think they mostly drive Camaros.
Thought the avocado ad with the “world’s first draft” was pretty funny.
WTF was up with the Seahawks coming on to the field to “Bittersweet Symphony”?
I think that means their win bonuses go to the Rolling Stones.
Yay, Oakland in the house!
It would be hilarious if Marshawn Lynch was the MVP.
Shout out to Kenny Stabler!
Fiat on Viagra wins the first half.
The most memorable so far. Sadly, the dominant motif has been sappy heart-tugs.
And, in the worst news of the day category, I have to go on a conference call at 5:00.
FK yeah – meeting cancelled.
I had not realized Jeremy Lane’s injury was that grotesque (warning to the squeamish).
I didn’t see the injury, but he came off the field in an air splint. I knew it was going to be ugly.
Theismann-esque.
heh, from the comments “doubtful”
Wow. That looks photoshopped. Like bad photoshopped.
Wow.
Holy crap – Ryan for the Patsies did absolutely nothing to stop last last TD.
There’s not three other NFL head coaches who run a play there I bet. Fantastic call, good for them. Fun half!
True true.
Valiant effort by Miss-E there, but then they have to bring me down with a FKing power ballad.
That was quite a spectacle. Great show.
Yoenessa danced along to the whole thing. Apparently the target audience is tired two-year-olds
0-3 on my Katy Perry predictions: black hair, Roar, and she did Kiss a Girl.
That was a very believable performance by Katy Perry.
Welp, back into my cave. ✌
Make sure to get some fresh air from time to time.
It would be pretty awesome if someone could figure out how to use the technology of the video beneath her dance floor for under-ice during figure skating routines.
Yeah, that was really cool.
How the FK is that not offensive PI?
this has been the quietest superbowl on social media. Usually I can tell whats going on from my facebook feed or here. Now I have no idea.
Its odd
From what I have read on fb and deadspin, i assume its 14-0 seattle and its the 3rd quarter
Holy shitballs.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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This.
Dumbfounded.
There aren’t three other NFL coaches who make that call either.
Heh
Indeed. Why?
so, we can get back to ignoring football now?
Don’t cheat me out of these last few commercials Ed.
So, Ed…you only like boring sports then?
can’t type. I am making tea while watching the National Cricket league
Ed wins the lounge.
FK Bob Kraft with a cactus.
He sounded drunk off his ass.
so, we have a happy witch? is that what I am to understand?
Brady MVP. FK this shit. For all his heroics, the Pats lose if Butler doesn’t make that pick.
Edleman should have won it.
Thanks, and go As.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is a bad play call at the goal line.
I’m frustrated by the offsides. Was looking forward to the awkward “we want to kneel out but don’t have room” series.
Agreed. And you would think that is what the LOB is supposed to be meant for. Dont jump, push em back the half yard and we have a total cluster on our hands.
Anyone know what the typical field position is following a post-safety kick? And does the clock run during the runback, or what?
Clock starts when the kick returner makes contact with the ball.
and even if they hadn’t gone offsides, I don’t really see a way that Brady can’t just fall forward twice and end the game anyway
Thanks, and go As.
There’s always the small chance of a botched snap or the defense timing it perfectly and blowing it up, no? Surely the QB sneak results in a loss or a fumble occasionally.
While I’m talking about football, from my position of ignorance it seems like the criticism of Carroll is way over the top. It was probably not the percentage play-call, but that’s a touchdown if the defender doesn’t make a great play. It feels like this is a symptom of our modern cult of management, where we make everything about the person holding the video game controller, rather than about the players.
1. Some chance, sure, but Brady is especially good at the QB sneak.
2. I agree on the criticism being overblown to some extent. “Beast Mode” is a catchy slogan and all, but as MikeV just pointed out elsewhere in the thread, handing the ball to Lynch in short yardage is no guarantee, especially when it’s what the defense is expecting. And as you say the actual play could have easily gone the other way.
But still a coach is always going to catch shit when a play call
a) fails
b) basically decides the Super Bowl.
The way I see it, it was NOT a bad call. It wasn’t the best call, but not a bad one. The real blame should have been on the pick itself, but even then it was just a really good defensive play. Given that there were zero intercepts this season in that situation in the entire NFL, it’s foolish to call it a bad call. And that’s not even taking into account that EVERYONE was expecting four straight runs.
Wasn’t enough time on the clock to have 4 straight running plays, they only had 1 timeout left.
Thanks, and go As.
2nd down, call a run play (presumably something creative rather than a dive up the middle). If it fails, call a TO. On 3rd down, call a pass play, like a fade route at the back corner of the end zone so that the only outcomes are the receiver making the catch or pass incomplete. If incomplete, on 4th down, give it to Lynch again – what the hell, if he can’t score from the one, they don’t deserve to win.
Forcing the ball into the middle of the defense was just dumb.
Yes, this. I’m ok with a call that is not Lynch up the middle. But an interior slant when the D is packed in tight had all kinds of potential to go wrong.
They have the top rushing offense in the league, so a run makes sense.
They have the top rushing QB in the league, so a play where they spread the field and give him a run option makes sense.
Their passing success in this game had been mostly on throws to the outside taking advantage of their WRs’ height advantage.
The quick throw to the inside seems to be playing away from all their own strengths.
Darth Hoodie not calling a timeout caused that.
Thanks, and go As.
When you don’t trust Marshawn Lynch to gain one yard, with a timeout in your pocket, you deserve to lose.
Interestingly enough, Lynch was only 1 out of 5 on attempts from the 1 this season.
Thanks, and go As.
Fun game. We’ve had a pretty good run of Super Bowls as of late. Only two of the ads made me laugh so the under takes it.
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All right, another week, another month, and another round of bloggy ecstasy! Let’s begin with this little 90-minute diamond, videotaped by Bill Graham’s personal B&W crew in the old Winterland Ballroom right here in San Francisco… land of ten-thousand-dollar studio apartments and the tech bros who rent them. Take a journey through time with us for a prime DVD of Van Morrison and his band, tripping into the mystic on this day back in 1974 :P
This Argentina situation…yikes
which latest turn?
This
yeah, reading that now.
and the translation is still a couple of notches tidier than the direct news. in the middle of all this, prosecutor fein is taking 2 weeks of vacation starting next week, for example, and there’s mention that the gov’t doesn’t want her on the case anyway, so it’s unclear whether she’s going away as a defensive retreat, a surrender, or a show that she just doesn’t give a damn.
Where is she vacationing?
didn’t say. but buenos aireans only vacation in three places, mar del plata, punta del este, or brazil.
Miami has to be on that list.
wow. you really have your finger on the pulse of argentine culture!
i’d lovehate to hear about the loud annoying over-staying under-tippers at dinsey world who made you notice.
The only part of Miami I’ve ever been to is the airport. And there were Argentines (and Colombians and Venezuelans) everywhere.
that’s the only part of miami i’ve been to too. so i guess i’m just perpetuating the stereotype.
One time en route to South America, I saw Pedro Martinez (plus entourage) in the Miami airport.
i saw Tupac at LAX at 3 AM in sometime between 92-93 while I was in the terminal with my roommate waiting for her red eye. He only had one dude with him
I saw Peter Crouch (plus the rest of the Stoke City team) at Heathrow.
I saw Joe Dimaggio at SFO.
from my FB archive, SFO, 4/19/11:
saw harald oimoen at the airport. didn’t actually recognize him, but i saw a bass case with DRI stickers on it. then i saw a guy with the DRI logo on the ankle of his chucks. the case kept going around our luggage carousel. he was off at another one. [mrs AV] kept goading me, “you so wanna be helpful.” what i wanted was get on the intercom, “paging mr. imbecile… mr. dirty rotten imbecile to carousel one please.”
What’s the deal with judges refusing to hear the case?
i don’t really understand. partly it’s a weird justice system, partly the news is written obliquely for those who already know part of it, so i’m kinda lost.
nisman made his newest accusations during a judicial feria (time off, like when all of congress is not in session), so there was an interim judge who took it. yesterday when sessions began again, that judge declared himself incompetent to investigate (the judge is active, not just listening to sides but also moving the case forward) though i don’t know why. so that puts the case in the air and it would have landed on another judge, but he already had a writ to return the case to the first judge. and now the president of judicial chambers has to decide where it goes.
this is further complicated in that it’s about the two-week-old nisman accusations, and the original go-nowhere case is still bouncing around. so there’s someone saying the new parts have to be added to the old. someone else is saying they’re different.
it’s a hot potato. nobody wants to be the last one holding it.
Well then, this shouldn’t be a surprise.
dude. that’s like, HOURS old. the appeal process is ON!
in the garbage? what is this 1952?
No one EVER thinks to look there.
the president’s in china on a scheduled tour. she tweets:
in other words: there are 102 argentine companies and more than 500 chinese companies signed up for this seminar. more than 1000 attendees at the event. are they all from my youth olganization, and came only for the lice and petloleum?
in china. the president. (yeah, the one doing the dougie or whatever at a press conference during the biggest crisis she’s facing not facing.)
Is Argentina like Brazil, where everyone seems to find Asian stereotype jokes hilarious and is deeply confused when someone points out the offensiveness?
oh. i thought you were going to say, where every four years some teenager puts his name in the mouths of european managers with a 9-goal run in the local U20 tournament. (giovanni simeone is the new neymar.)
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but seriously, for the most part yes. or, they don’t get *how* it’s offensive when they see it as being all in good fun. but they reported this tweet in the front pages of the papers, so at least there’s awareness of offensivity (edit: actually, i’m seeing the majority of articles don’t react to the tweet because it’s racist and offensive to the chinese. but because this isn’t the time to be joking around and thus offensive to argentines). even though some of the articles say things like, the president’s tweet is seen as a bad joke and being spun as racist. or that the US is indignant over something it shouldn’t get into — “the tweet fell in the hands of the US press, who’s very sensitive over these things“.
meanwhile, there’s also a community of chinese expats growing since the 90s, especially in BsAs, and there’s a whole level of supermarkets run by chinese people, so there’s maybe some sensitivity through contact? though maybe with a dose of home-grown / home-misunderstood racism too. you don’t go to the cheap supermarket. you go to the chinese, or the super chino. and they guy who works there? he’s also the chinese. here, a state-sponsored TV ad.
and the nickname “chino” is still in wide use for any kid who, at nickname age, has eyes that are even slightly less round than usual. see, for example, la china suarez.
but their point of view would be that we in the US are too sensitive to not-really-racism. and point to the norm of humorous racial insensitivity in countries such as mexico where there’s a chain of asian-named stores with the slogan “plecios bajos, plecios balatos”; or spain, remember that olympic team making sqinty eyes for the camera?
in fact, the president’s next tweet said, “sorry (sorry in english, which is a cutesy fake apology — sowwy!), but you know what? the excesses of the ridiculous and absurd can only be digested through humor. if not, they can be toxic.”
um… WHAT?
Very similar indeed. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried and failed to convince someone they shouldn’t do the Spanish basketball thing even though “their eyes look like that, don’t they?”
In Brazil, you have the additional wrinkle that they assume every asian person is Japanese.
Sorry about your crazy president, man.
she’s nuts.
Spanish are full of similar jokes and stereotypes. I think their favorite one is where they take the stab both at Asian and the Catalan (“Asian person is urinating in a public place, Catalan police sees it and shouts ‘Escolta!’, the Asian person responds ‘Es colta pelo golda’). Rajoy would have probably tweeted it, if he knew how to set up an account.
I know I’ve been away for awhile, so here’s an update on what I’ve been up to: nothing. You can now return to your normal lounge activities. I may be here more frequently, so brace yourselves.
FK this, I quit.
Thanks, and go As.
What? I started wearing more deodorant, like you asked. What more do you want?
“Wearing deodorant” does not mean tieing a package of speed stick to a string and then using it as a necklace. You may need to try again.
Excuse me, sir. I tied TWO containers of RIGHT GUARD, and I hung a third from my belt, thank you very much. Do your research and save yourself from making such ignorant comments in the future.
In truth, I’m a Mitchum man.
Bic Mitchum?
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t know who that is. Is he a colleague of Dr. Chim Richalds?
An ozz for every table!
I hope life has been treating you well, Oz. You’re a big reason why I enjoy this site.
Thank you, Bed! Likewise. Life is more or less adequate, thank you. How about yourself?
I’m doing well for the most part. With a full time job, full time family, and going back for my PhD I’m more than a little tired but life is good.
The kids must be starting college by now, right?
I had a weird dream last night. I was watching a game on opening night and they were showing stuff around the stadium, an awesome video board, a new video out of town board behind home plate (which was weird, but kind of neat). And I was sitting there wondering where the fuck the game was being played, then they showed the grass outfield and I realized it was Coliseum. And they didn’t bother fixing the grass from the last football game played back in December. And I was furious and ranting and raving and mocking Fosse about the “best grounds keeper” being unable to lay in new fucking grass from opening night. I feel like this is a bad omen.
You want grass in the middle of a drought? There won’t be grass.
I have three extra FanFest tickets for Sunday if anyone needs them, at the STH price of $5.
Bed bait, or Bed nightmare fuel?
Hmm…well, I did scream when I saw it so I’m leaning towards nightmare fuel.
A real man always has an onion near by to chop just in case he needs cover for a good cry.
The trick to not crying when you chop an onion is to avoid getting emotionally attached to it.
Or to wear contacts
Or to make someone else chop it.
A real man can clean his gun while whipping up a nice Bruschetta.
A real man can quote lines from any Dirty Harry movie.
A man’s got to know his limitations.
A real man only drinks American beer and only dates foreign women.
And for me that is achieved by drinking foreign beer and dating an American woman.
hear, hear!
Don’t you drink your own creations, being mad scientist and all? At least you stopped there…
if its born to a foreigner on US soil, I think it has duel citizenship.
I’m leaving it.
I do, but since I brew mostly American styles with all American ingredients on American soil it’s hard not to call it American (and hence foreign).
A real man never uses words when a scowl will do.
A real man hates up and likes down.
A real man never uses silk sheets.
A real man thinks golf is something people do while waiting to die.
A real man doesn’t gamble…he bets on himself.
A real man only drives foreign cars and only marries American women.
A real man contradicts himself and doesn’t care.
A real man liked Blue Thunder more than Airwolf.
So I was a real man at the age of 8.
There are legends told of your masculinity as a child.
It’s too bad I wasn’t able to hang on to it.
A real man writes poetry but he never reads it.
A real man knows the color orange exists but he doesn’t acknowledge it.
A real man can pull off any first name…even Conrad.
One of the annoying things about Germany, is that most people don’t use the international alphabet, so when you have to spell something, it’s not “Bravo-Oscar-Juliett-Alpha-November”, but some form of “Bertha-Otto-Julius-Anton-Nordpol”. And for”K” they use “Konrad”, which is totally confusing…
So few people know it here too, and I’m guilty as well though I know at least some of the standards. Most people here are more “N as in Nancy” mode.
Really? I never had an issue with it with someone from US
yep. and you have to say the whole “as in” thing, but you can vary the example a little.
B as in boy, O as in octopus, J as in jay, A as in apple, N as in nancy.
also, lincoln adam paul david.
lastly, kaufmann.
Good samples. I gave myself a quick test and I only got 11 of the 26 NATO equivalents right off the bat, whereas in several my response was the second on the list (Mary, Nancy, Roger).
Christ what a Nordpol.
Wow. I’ve been using it mostly on support hotlines and while sailing and never encountered any problems. Nor anyone using “as in”. The only thing is that when using a digit, it is common to say “number” in front of it.
cinnamon toasted apple jacks
I prefer to have fun with it. P as in pancake, R as in repo, A as in asshole, N as in negligee.
read the thread, ed
I only every use it for “S” in my last name. I use “sam” as my go to.
For a while I was using other words to fuck with the court reporters, but I stopped.
I have a couple of those things
Airport Rep: Could you spell it out for me?
Robert Loggia: Certainly. Robert Loggia. R as in Robert Loggia. O as in “Oh my god, it’s Robert Loggia.” B as in “By God! It’s Robert Loggia.” E as in “Everybody loves Robert Loggia.” R as in Robert Loggia. T as in “Tim, look over there! It’s Robert Loggia.” Space. L as in “Look! It’s Robert Loggia.”
food clerk: your name?
AV: AV
food clerk: how do you spell that?
AV: with capitals.
food clerk: “What states?”
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Charlie Tango Tea-Kettle Barbecue
another international alphanumerical oddity i’ve never thought about… what do they call 9/11 in europe? just found out in spanish it’s called 11-S. (for our US-locked friends, 9/11 in *every other country in the world* means november 9.)
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cute spanish-specific oddity: the pop news clickbait on clarin just induced a doubletake. not just because of the photo, which was kim k’s butt. but because the headline said she continues to explode it. bbbrrrrrppt.
ha ha, no. in spanish exploit and explode are spelled the same. my bad!
oh wait. 9/11 still means september 11 in china, korea, hungary, iran, japan, lithuania, and mongolia. but you have to write the year first, 2001/9/11.
and the US is not entirely alone in its format. belize agrees. and canada pretends to understand.
in canada, I was age 31 at the time
I really wish we’d do a standard of Year/Month/Day, I’d accept Day/Month/Year, but Month/Day/Year is just stupid.
I endorse the format, the link, and the underlying nerdiness.
I dislike dots replacing dashes or slashes
Eurohater
This format also works well for organizing folders of photos on your computer.
Yep. And for programming purposes.
Explota, explotame, explo
explota, explota mi corazón
Here it’s just “11. September” which is the date itself.
True, in Spain it is 11-S, and they also have 11-M (3/11 Madrid bombing)
A real man has never seen a Rachel McAdams movie.
A real man is never wrong…he’s just sometimes not right.
A real man knows when to walk away but he never runs.
I got the laptop fired up this morning and started my routines. Got here and was freaked out that we traded someone.
51 new comments told me it wasnt Sonny, or Coco, but maybe someone like Abad or keebs.
Then I saw the beginning of a Bedgasm and knew we were still situation normal.
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My mouth just started watering, expecting to me to pop some Ecstasy
I see they have a bag of balls. Do we know who got traded?
Didn’t they tell you? I’m afraid you’re a Red Sox fan now.
hisssss
*yawns*
Thanks, now I am going to yawn for the rest of the day.
My boss is forcing me through a process of “having me write a policy document”. His process is to have me make adjustments, send to him, then several days later he gets me on a call, tells me he hasnt reviewed it, then we we screen share for an hour while he rewrites it in the most painful detail ever. He has created a 2 part, approx 60 page document to outline a process of filling out a form and holding 3 meetings.
But yeah-it’s Jennifer making me yawn…
I’m currently fuming. We only have a pharmacist on duty for certain hours. Any weird doses of IV drugs RNs have to mix. So we now have new equipment for sterile mixing. Certain RNs were excluded from the orientation on the new equipment (me). “There are a limited number of slots available.” Okay, so I exclusively work when the pharmacist of off duty, but I’m not considered important enough for the training? Whatever.
I need some courage to apply for a new job.
Do it! When you think about it, applying doesnt even require courage. Having to choose once you get an offer might, but applying just requires typing printing and sending.
And did they say why you were excluded? Or was it just that they only had like 1 class that could hold 10 people?? Your reasoning is sound and it wouldmake sense to go tell someone an additional session is needed.
They have sessions all week, multiple sessions per day. I didn’t even get the email for the times, and no one responded to my email about why I was excluded.
Not that you dont already know this-but thats just stupid. As someone whohas scheduled training for years, there is no reason you couldnt all get into sessions in a week. Yeah even as someone who hasnt applied outside the same company for a decade plus-you need to at least see what’s out there.
That’s all of their equipment? Why load it on a truck? It’ll fit in the back of a Subaru.
My reaction to Ken Norton Jr. being named DC of the Oakland Raiders is…
A. OMG!!! WE’RE GOING ALL THE WAY!!!
B. Meh…whatever
C. His Dad kicked the shit out of Ali
D. The quarterback must go down and he must go down hard
E. Volunteer work
Loved his Dad. Junior, though, still has too much 49er stink on him.
His daughter and mine went to the same school in Sunnyvale. I remember seeing his SUV in the drop-off lane several times.
My new Oakland Athletics home baseball cap arrived in the mail today so I am all ready to not post about baseball this season.
I’m going good ol’ boy redneck tomorrow and going shootin’. The other boys will be shooting at boars while I hunt Broncos…and by hunt I mean shoot my mouth off for the most part. If I had to shoot my own meat I’d become a vegetarian that day.
I have to say that story that Brian Williams tells about being at The Battle of the Bulge is amazing. His reporting from the Lincoln assassination was also terrific.
I find his eye witness account of the Crucifixion of Christ lacking.
Fun fact for the day that may or may not be true…Compounds in Twizzlers can take up to seven years to completely leave your body.
So far this Warriors – Hawks game is great. Both teams look excellent. This kid Korver with ATL may have both the sweetest shooting stroke and the worst facial hair in the league. All tied at halftime.
all i saw was the 2nd half. hated it.
Well, ATL shot the lights out and got all the calls and the Warriors still stayed close enough to have hope. Call it a good loss against a strong team. But tomorrow they better kick some Knick ass.
Sending-off?
Sending-off.
was slightly disappointed during my second viewing when i figured out the guy wearing black isn’t the ref.
Well…that happened.
Did you bag a hog?
I bet he Dick Cheneyed one of his pals.
No – Dick Cheney Bedded one of his pals.
yay! my boys are going to the olys.
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oh em gee The Walking Dead is back tomorrow.
Yes! Very excited. Also the debut of Better Call Saul. And Shameless and Girls and Episodes and Ultimate Survival Alaska and Downton Abbey. These Sunday shows are taxing my DVR; would it kill them to mix in a weeknight?
Shows I watch regularly:
The Walking Dead
The Mindy Project
Castle
Sirens
Nightwatch
Shows I’ve given up on:
Vikings
New Girl
Suits
Chicago Fire
Regulars (no particular order):
Sirens
Modern Family
Good Wife
Walking Dead
Blacklist
Elementary
Justified
Brooklyn 99
Mad Men
Major Crimes
Louie
Gotham
Madam Secretary
blackish
I’ve mostly become an HBO/Showtime/AMC snob, but blackish is really really funny. I still watch Modern Family too, but it’s slipping.
Agreed on MF. I hope it doesn’t drag out its demise too long.
No one likes a snob.
RIP Coach Dean Smith, the best there ever was.
Damn. Not only a great coach, but also a genuinely good person from everything I’ve heard. It was never hard to root for his teams against the teams coached by that guy down the road.
Thank goodness for the introduction of the shot clock to college basketball, though. That “Four Corners” in its extreme form, oh boy.
we talk about generational differences here sometimes. frontline: the like generation — the scene when none of the kids could define what selling out is. “a concert that’s, like, totally sold out, like, no tickets left.”
not sure if generational or completely personal, the way the frontline theme song starts always reminds me of a totally different song.
The passing of Dean Smith got me thinking about famous people whose deaths would make me feel a sense of personal loss. For sure Bob Dylan and Reggie Jackson. Maybe Jimmy Carter. Can’t really think of anyone else.
Speaking of Dylan, apparently he gave an epic 30 minute speech on Friday while receiving some kind of music award. Well worth the long read.
Dont know if I would say “personal loss” but along those lines, for me shit will be getting real with the loss of Prince, Jim Plunkett, and Rickey.
Methinks Prince and Rickey will both live to be very very old, and possibly uploaded into their own server networks when their bodies conk out.
Oh, also Ali, of course.
Jerry is the only one who’s ever struck me that way. Lennon was shot while I was in college but you probably had to be 5 years older than me for that to have that kind of impact.
I think we’re too cynical about sports and politics for anyone in those fields to be a “personal loss”. It would take something of the magnitude of the A’s plane crashing.
* – Sports: The loss of Bill was tough but I think I’d stop short of “personal loss”. There will be a lot of Dodgers fans who will feel that way about Vin. These guys do become family members for six months a year.
Robin Williams.
Thanks, and go As.
Dale Earnhardt for me. I stopped following the sport after that.
TWD = WHOA
Being mindful of spoilers, that episode was beautiful. Really unlike anything they’ve done before. Quite artful.
Idealism kills. All of the ghosts Tyrese saw were idealists, even the evil ones. Now he’s one too.
Great way to bring back old characters too.
I like how we actually saw the ending of the episode at the beginning, we just didn’t know what we were watching. I thought for sure it was Beth’s funeral. It was a… poetic episode.
And here we have a Walking Thread without need of it’s own post.
Fan Fest was terrific. Most of the new players looked a bit shell-shocked when they first came out of the tunnel and stepped into bright lights, fog machines, and 15,000 shrieking fans. But they got over it. R.J. Alvarez and Chris Bassitt were very charming in their panel, Alvarez revealed his nickname is “Shaggy”, Bassitt described himself as a jokester, both expressed a willingness to array the unicorn backpack. Marcus Semien’s dad asked an audience question during one of the panels that didn’t include his son. The saddest moment was when Ryan Cook revealed that Cespedes had been his best friend on the team. That when Cook would appear without Cespedes the other players would ask “where’s your girlfriend? “
The funniest bit was Reddick and Billy Butler discussing the deal to get Butler 16, which involved an xBox and a winch for Reddick’ s truck, because of their Georgia accents, Coco pretended to mishear this: “He got you a wench?”
The most interesting moment, a fan question about the three people living or dead you would want to have dinner with. Coco went first and said Muhammed Ali, MLK, and Obama.
Awesome to hear how it went. That does make me feel pretty sad for Cook :(
I love Coco so much.
He also said “dag nab” in answering a question, and said if possible, he hopes to retire an A.
The used merch sale was better this year, not as good as the 2012 one. I didn’t go there until 1 pm, I heard the lines were very long at first and I had to wait about 5 minutes even then, but since they drop prices every hour, I was able to come away with a Milone gold jersey, a Savery road jersey, an A’s Bowling Bash bowling shirt, two Stomper toothbrush holders from last year’s kids club, an authenticated 2012 champagne cork, a locker nameplate from Deryk Hooker (not sure why he even had one since as far as I can see, he never made it past Sacramento), and a Holy Toledo pin for $100, tax deductible since it goes to the Community Fund. I passed on a Nakajima white jersey because I don’t especially care for the white jerseys, but now I’m kind of regretting it.
opening day player introduction used!
I would ironically wear the shit out of that Nakajima jersey.
The Stomper toothbrush holder gets a lot of use in my house.
Langerhans Home Jersey!
Thanks, and go As.
TIL we have a player called R.J. Alvarez
Thanks, and go As.
I wouldn’t have guessed that Cook and Cespedes were best friends in a million years. Since when do pitchers, let alone relief pitchers, hang out with star position players who speak a different language?
maybe Cespedes was a giants fan too?
huh. that’s frustrating. my x… y… _ <- key doesn't work.
is it weird the big US news outlets aren’t saying much on HSBC? i end up reading things that i’m not sure are completely nutty or not.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/whistleblower-ag-nominee-in-1-billion-obama-cover-up/
60 Minutes did a big piece on HSBC last night, and never mentioned Lynch, and only in passing anything that our government is doing.
If you’re writing about the US government’s failure to prosecute corrupt corporate banking, focusing on a single individual’s role in a single case seems like cherry-picking.
Obama scandal! President Romney would surely be aggressively pursuing billionaire tax cheats, and the offshore banks that enable them…
… starting with himself.
Theory strongly discredited by who is reporting on it at that link, and the website hosting it.
of course.
just saying that in world newspapers it’s front page if not above the fold (the guardian is, like, angry!). the NYT has it as a more news link to a back section. and when you look for US papers that treat it with importance, what you get is dismissible. and look at the angle of the wording in the NYT link (presumably the piece’s former headline).
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/hsbc-shares-decline-amid-swiss-tax-avoidance-claims/?_r=0
i’m not pointing out some huge deal. just funny.
Big money owns our media. They get to tell use their version of the story and ONLY their version of the story. That’s nothing new.
Hello and here comes a 38th anniversary special to make you feel much… better. Recorded and broadcast on BBC-TV on 2/10/77, Skate Away On The Thin Ice Of A Tuesday with us as we blog out with our codpieces out — on one leg, of course — for Jethro Tull and their tour for SONGS FROM THE WOOD.
Happy Thursday and happy 60th birthday to perhaps the most prolific of all producers these last, oh, 35 years. He’s conceived of, masterminded, played on, and released so many albums you kind of wonder where he gets the time to restring the bass. Why, he’s the first guy to record Whitney Houston! In 1978! Blog with us now for a DVD of yet another of his ridiculous assemblages of talent, brought together by who else but Bill Laswell, born this day in 1955.
Guys, I’m worried about this weekend. Dr. Hottie, the shit magnet, is working. Friday the 13th. Valentine’s Day. Fifty Shades of Grey coming out. I fear we may have an ER full of weird old people with sex injuries.
Empty your phone of old pictures and bring your charger!
No.
In other news, since you have some free time :(, you should start watching disgusting youtube medical videos. I just saw someone with a giant harden stone of dirt and lint in their belly button. Pro tip: Never have the sound on in medical videos.
There is a backwoods pericardiocentesis video on a patient with hemopericardium that is scarousing. I always enjoy a good fasciotomy video too.
At least four of those words frighten me
I’m posting this everywhere because it’s FKing rad.
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Better if you just listen; the video kind of detracts from the experience.
Hey there lovers! Hope you’re enjoying the holiday. I’m here with an appropriate celebration of a treasured romantic songwriter, born this day in 1947. He didn’t live awfully long, but while he did he left us a whole bunch of records people will play in 1000 years… if the record industry would only print them up again! Oh, yeah… he also had a pretty awesome child as well. So blog to your hearts’ content with us for two of the most legendary out-of-print albums of all time, and dig upon the legend of The Starsailor, Tim Buckley.
