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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1046
- Views: 63756
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9310
- Views: 500536
Re: Random Politics
MI GOP Launches 'Migrant Invader Bus' Hoax on Gonzaga Hoops Team Republican paranoia over migrants has reached a new level of absurdity, as a State Representative and the State GOP Chair launched a conspiracy that buses of migrants were invading Michigan. It turns out it was the Gonzaga basketball ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Joe Lieberman
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1839
Re: Joe Lieberman
I also remember how after he got primaried, and beaten, in 2006 by Ned Lamont (current CT gov), he had a temper tantrum about the voters taking "his seat" and ran as an independent, focusing on getting Republican votes and winning.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Joe Lieberman
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1839
Joe Lieberman
Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82 Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died Marc...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
- Replies: 92
- Views: 8848
Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Interesting interview with about the role/responsibilities of a Harbor Pilot:
I’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is how captains like me work with harbor pilots to avoid deadly collisions
I’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is how captains like me work with harbor pilots to avoid deadly collisions
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Le Pro Cycling Thread
- Replies: 259
- Views: 15341
Re: Le Pro Cycling Thread
Update on van Aert: Update on Wout van Aert from Team Visma | Lease a Bike: "Unfortunately, Wout van Aert suffered several fractures in the crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen today. A broken collarbone and several broken ribs were diagnosed in hospital. It is unclear how long his recovery will take...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
- Replies: 6259
- Views: 374468
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Finally finished "Masters of the Air". I thought it was really good, and it was great to see what happened to those guys post-war. Did Croz ever mention to his wife about his thing with the Subaltern? Or did he wait to write his memoir until she died? And Rosie's story was wild...ending u...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Meet Me in St. Louis?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5128
Re: Meet Me in St. Louis?
The Art Museum was cool...and free.
And the Anheuser-Busch Brewery tour made me damn proud to be a beer drinking American.
That's all I got...its been a long time since I was in St Louis.
And the Anheuser-Busch Brewery tour made me damn proud to be a beer drinking American.
That's all I got...its been a long time since I was in St Louis.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Le Pro Cycling Thread
- Replies: 259
- Views: 15341
Re: Le Pro Cycling Thread
https://twitter.com/nbcscycling/status/1766849300758204729?s=61&t=gZTZDOBjToLF3SU951QdDg Everything’s coming up USA these days. Two guys on the podium in a major race? I don’t remember that ever happening. And he just won again... "Matteo Jorgenson alleviated Visma-Lease a Bike's despair o...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
- Replies: 6259
- Views: 374468
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Finally finished "Masters of the Air". I thought it was really good, and it was great to see what happened to those guys post-war. Did Croz ever mention to his wife about his thing with the Subaltern? Or did he wait to write his memoir until she died? And Rosie's story was wild...ending up...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
- Replies: 92
- Views: 8848
Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
3 million pounds of force. The boat is like a 1000 foot skyscraper turned on its side. There is one thing that can probably stop that with certainty and with minimal yielding. It's called land. Yes...this. Seeing the people trying to say that the bridge was poorly constructed, or should have had &q...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 107246
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Good luck, DiS! Yeah, my dad also loves it when somebody, especially a younger relative, asks him for advice. Nothing he likes better than that. (And, I think he would have responded exactly like your father did.) I've had times where I save something up and ask my father for advice for his birthda...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 107246
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
I sent a teams message to my manager, and my senior level manager this message, saying that after long consideration (*didn't mention I'd asked for advice here) over the weekend, I thought this needed to be escalated to HR. Both of them were totally on my side, and my senior level manager said he'd ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Mutherfucking free throws. Extra annoying to lose that way. Go Coogs or Aggies. Whatever. Back when most of you were in diapers I saw NC State win a national championship over Univ of Houston, because Houston couldn’t make free throws. I was 12. Thurl Bailey! And Phi-Slamma-Jamma was fun to watch. ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
So uh…Why is there a half hour layover between the first and second games today? I hate the way they always schedule games on the first Saturday and Sunday. I really don't understand the way they stagger them such that it's a slow start, a gap, and then a bunch of games all overlapping. Or why was ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 107246
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Thanks for all the good feedback on my situation. I've decided I'm going to tell my boss on Monday that we need to escalate the situation to HR and get them involved. This has gotta stop.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Commercials
- Replies: 933
- Views: 67792
Re: Commercials
I know it shouldn't, but the "Lets go SportsBar" from the currently running BW3 makes me chuckle every time.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
I've watched just about every Gonzaga game this year...they are NOT this good. Curious if Spokane (1843’) being an extra several hundred feet above sea level compared to Lawrence (991’) mattered, cuz Kansas looked like they were tired in the 2nd half. Driving home just now I heard Self saying his p...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Seemed pretty even to me.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:12 pm I had the sound off - was the crowd supporting one team over another?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
I've watched just about every Gonzaga game this year...they are NOT this good.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
That was 20 minutes of really high level basketball, by both teams. Fun to watch.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
- Replies: 1598
- Views: 113275
Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
I think I need this one explained to me … 100 miles in 60 hours is (not accounting for sleep) well below walking pace. It isn't a regular road or trail run. From Wikipedia: The course itself, which has changed distance, route, and elevation many times since its inaugural run, currently consists of ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 107246
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Serious question: At what point does it become appropriate to report someone to HR about creating a toxic workplace? I'm asking because of that one co-worker that I've been dealing with for months. He's gotten so bad that absolutely no one wants to work with him. He's pissed off all of the CX people...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 107246
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
I finally snapped with the problem developer. He was yelling at me for asking for something to be put at the top of his priority list in the ADO ticket, not changed in the stack rank list (no one uses that). I finally said "I don't work for you. You aren't my boss. You don't get to tell me what...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Coach Cal....Hot Seat?
1 tourney win in the last 4 years is not a good look for Kentucky.
1 tourney win in the last 4 years is not a good look for Kentucky.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Someone check on AB!
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Rocket Watts is a pretty bad-ass name.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
- Replies: 1523
- Views: 76073
Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
I was among that large viewing audience. (Of course, there were a lot fewer viewing options back then!) Yup. That’s the Final Four that got me into college hoops. Because DePaul was one of the other semi-finalists. And the 4th team in that final four? UPenn! An Ivy League school in the Final Four!
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
- Replies: 1523
- Views: 76073
Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
While discussing brackets, I mentioned “that Bird-Magic Final Four” at my partner meeting yesterday. No one knew what I was talking about. Only one of my partners had even been born yet. Still the most watched Championship game: image.png And one of the last final fours to be played on an actual co...
Re: MLB Spring Training 2024
Reading the comments (I know, always a mistake) on the WaPost story this morning, the two main takeaways were:
andThis isn't a crime!
Why doesn't he learn English?
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2024 Bracket Challenge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1762
Re: 2024 Bracket Challenge
I think I'm in....it grabbed the bracket that I did for the Defector pool.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
- Replies: 3889
- Views: 239954
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
M. Emmet Walsh Inspired this great bit from Roger Ebert: Critic Roger Ebert so admired him that he created the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which states that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Ebert later admitte...
Re: MLB Spring Training 2024
This story stinks, and we are barely scratching the surface yet.
Yuck...
Yuck...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Everyone OK?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4557
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34196
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The post your radio presets thread
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2057
Re: The post your radio presets thread
I always enjoyed WXRT when I lived in Chicago. The movie reviews "Going to the Show with the Regular Guy" were always great, delivered with the perfect thick Chicago accent.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:32 pm I'm still a fan of WXRT but it gets difficult listening to commercials.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The post your radio presets thread
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2057
Re: The post your radio presets thread
For those in the Bay Area...put 92.7 FM on your presets. KEXP bought the station and is now broadcasting live.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2118
- Views: 181755
Re: The Live Music thread...
Adrian Belew to play King Crimson shows centered around Discipline , Beat , & Three of a Perfect Pair LPs with Tony Levin, Danny Carey & Steve Vai. Apparently the first date is Sept 17 in San Diego. Rumors it will be a substantial tour. GIMME Adrien Belew is FANTASTIC to see live. Saw him p...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Everyone OK?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4557
Re: Everyone OK?
I've been busy dealing with the fallout of one of our customers having trouble with their instrument last week, and deciding the best way to handle things was to start calling/emailing our CEO over the weekend.
So that's been fun...
So that's been fun...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2044
- Views: 58923
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
About the only way I can imagine intentionally watching Trump on television is if the Saudis threw a massive soccer contract at him as a humiliating bailout. I remember four years ago watching him give his "Covid is no big deal" speech just as the world was shutting down (NBA being cancel...