The Swamp

MaxWebster

we draft on Saturday, i have the 6th pick. i kind of have to take him if the first 5 pass on him, but i hope they don't so i don't have to think about it

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:50 am The Acuna knee news was unsettling. Probably nothing. Unless it is something. Glad my draft is late this year.

MaxWebster

U.L. "Toothpick" Washington staple of my childhood baseball watching. Always played with a toothpick in his mouth; Little League coaches had to yell at us to never copy UL. No-fun jerks. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2...

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man <geek alert> - no lie i've been waiting for this since i was 9 :) - flashback to 1979 elementary school, us watching a west-coast eclipse on tv and them mentioning there'd be a total eclipse in 2024 was just too fking science fiction to believe it'd ever arrive and yet here we are. where we live...

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Ali??

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now i'm actually sorry i even brought it up LOL (when i started at this job ~4yrs ago they'd also just hired what turned out to be the worst person i've ever worked with and the only way to cope with her on a daily basis was to put together a list of her bullshit phrases - like this one but the exte...

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this matchup is gonna put mister d out of a job

Ryan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:21 pm

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no question this nouning-of-verbs is something that really grinds my compete level

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a) i didn't know Whataburger was/is an actual real restaurant until sometime in the last year, maybe due to the Swamp. Thought it only existed in the mind of David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest's "Whataburger tournament" or something) b) I accompanied a friend and his son to Shake Shack in...

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it's altogether too easy to pivot into that lane isn't it

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:41 pm
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:03 pm Or "What is the ask?" grrr
In my new role as dealing with Customer Support tickets, I have found myself saying that...and hating myself as the words leave my mouth.

MaxWebster

you've already got another on the side? jeez man...

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:48 pm Was talking about this with the GF last night ..

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it really doesn't matter obviously but then again...i think it does.

that kind of bullshit corp-speak drives me nuts. it's like in sports when they talk about "growing the game"

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"can I do an ask?"

- uttered by someone just now in a Teams meeting

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they did! but i'm not a squeak-purist

- just can't use anything like <shudder> shredded cheese. how gauche.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:02 pm Did the curds squeak? I've thought about making them since my wife was so into them in Wisconsin but just never have.

MaxWebster

true

a) i did make poutine at home last week - good cheese curds.
b) also can buy Coffee Crisps at Wegmans.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:26 pm Like how Buffalo has the best Canadian food.

MaxWebster

holy shit dude - 51lbs since August??? I cannot fathom that kind of discipline - tb that is worthy of some big congratulations. Boom mofos - 187.2 - goal of getting into the 180s achieved. Gotta say, reaching that goal felt pretty goddamn great. Not sure why, but something about that was important t...

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no, that's a fair point in general - it's very literally impossible to cover everything significant. I just think something as deeply impactful and directly related to so much uniquely American history as the Tulsa (and Wilmington!) massacre should have been on *someone's* radar - and I don't think ...

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i'm the exact same (history major etc etc). I think it was Watchmen that fking taught me about it and then i went down that terrifying rabbit hole. I do think it was overlooked, but what does that really mean, right? I mean at some point mid-20th century if it's not in any books you can't blame some...

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yeah i don't know anything but please don't fk with your own garage door / springs. my dad almost lost his hand when i was in college because he thought he could be a hero (narrator: he couldn't). it's a shitty and unfun thing to pay for but absolutely a 100% outsource situation.

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jfc, NextDoor is full of off the rails lunacy. I forget that we got an account when moving into our house 5yrs ago and once every few months i happen over there and over 50% of it is "someone drove slowly by my house at 2:34am i have them on my Ring camera..." we are so fucked.

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wow congrats Dave that's awesome

(also kinda wild that i remember when you started dating - man we are old here on this board )

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shit Syb, I'm real sorry.

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i've always hated "the code" and so-called "unwritten rules" which...you know....aren't rules. somebody dig up the 2004 Bertuzzi thread (....no don't, actually...hoooooboy) I agree with sc in that the culture is broken in so so many ways and maybe it's just that the culture has a...

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A+++

couldn't agree more - Reilly will get a bunch of 'atta boys behind his back.

I hope more guys slapshot empty netters in - who gives a fuck. play better.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:15 pm Hockey has a culture problem.

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:D honestly the best part was me pulling into my parents' driveway (i live ~7 minute drive away) and taking the tv out of the passenger side while watching my dad's reaction. classic 78-year old "what in the hell..." slackjaw. but it WORKED dammit - who's laughing now OLD MAN!?! I respect ...

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1. Article in the Athletic speculated this morning that future ESPN+ or whatever will likely be around $50/month. Like....how is this any better than cable used to be? 2. I miss the old NHL.tv. (2b. I miss the old NHL while i'm at it...) 3. as for sharing access/connecting to "home" networ...

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this is me almost all the time. :/ I used to wake up in the middle of the night and then my brain would take off at 100 mph. Two or three times a week I'd end up on the couch so I could read and listen to ambient music to get me back to sleep. Usually took at least an hour. A_B i'm sorry man - it's ...

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i don't know if it's a local/WNY Wegmans thing but in their delis here they sell a spicy cheese that's not a silly monterey jack (congrats to that lobby for successfully pushing a completely lame cheese) but it's a cheddar base with jalapeno and cayenne. Wegmans markets it as their own but i'm 99% s...

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fk form - i think you just stare down the server and own it. and although the mayo doesn't sound great to me, your horseradish cut with mayo sounds interesting - i know you don't like the premade sauce but there's this one from (the recently absurdly overly priced) Stonewall Kitchen that is i think ...

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the middle finger is blurred ("my word...what COULD be happening there??") but not the word shit.

this world is weird.

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you know what kind of roll this belongs on tho.... I really like it, too. There are certain sandwich situations where its absence is unacceptable. So I'm thinking this might have been a bad take? I agree. It’s a must in roast beef sandwiches. Have you tried mayonnaise though? Not a big fan. Mustard,...

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...Chapter 4? (sorry sorry) Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a reorganization bankruptcy usually filed by businesses. In contrast to chapter 7, the debtor remains in control of business operations and doesn’t sell off all of its assets. Instead, the businesses will attempt to change the terms on debts, such...

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it wasn't until i discovered the late-60s Kinks that I got it - their mid/late 70s stuff just seemed a bit lame but the trio of Something Else...Village Green...Arthur - those are fantastic. I was always a huge Who fan but looking objectively, their peak (~1968-73) was so painfully short (the Dwight...

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absolutely - Neil Peart actually gave their song that title as a very specific tribute to CFNY

TankFarm2023 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:55 pm Perhaps our Canadian friends have already pointed this out, but CFNY was using the tag, 'The Spirit of Radio' long before the Rush song.

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i can't decide whether this BC Lions card is more awesome than the Felix Millan card hiding to the side

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:03 pm

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RIP

(I honestly had thought he was already dead at least 2x in the last decade)

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i am strongly pro-duff.
\m/

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long post/quote alert I've been getting this labor-related newsletter from Hamilton Nolan for a while - of late I more than often don't read it because directlinetodepression but he leads with a picture of the Newton strike and as one who grew up in almost an entire extended family of teachers it ha...

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enough time has passed that i don't remember my opinions on Jimy either :D but another thing I'd forgotten - this is from Craig Calcaterra's newsletter today: Most people would probably say that Williams’ top achievement as a manager was winning the 1999 Manager of the Year Award. Personally, I thin...

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yeah - a just question. there's a lot of nostalgia (from me, mostly) for the "grimy" era and it certainly was a lot cheaper to get around. hard to not look through a lens of " back in the day " - good question on whether it's better or not - probably/objectively is. it's just dif...

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