The Swamp

Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:26 am**

brian wrote:Pretty cool story in Stars & Stripes about my friend's sister and her experiences after losing her arms in Iraq.

If you're worried it's going to be sad, dark or depressing, she calls herself "wondernubs" so you needn't worry.

ETA: To get the damn country right.

Edited to remove tasteless joke after watching video and hearing additional facts.

ETA: included first edit in case anyone read my post before deleting.

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2015 9:57 am**

Every year inside lacrosse does an all name team. This year we have Brickman House from Utica. If he was a baseball player his walk up music is pretty clear. But a guy who did not make the team was Rusty Dessert (which sounds like a dirty act).

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/2 ... team/33504" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:05 pm**

I like to think this story and the website it is about is the reason why the internet was invented. (Well, other than porn.)

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:43 pm**

Want to feel bad about your accomplishments in life? Compare yourself to David Bowie at the website http://supbowie.com/! See what Bowie was doing at your age!

For example, at age 51, David Bowie did this:

He launched his own internet service provider, "Bowienet". "Bowienet" included its own email accounts, forums, community blogs, interactive chat rooms and first dibs on all Bowie related content. Premium members could also pay to be first in line for tickets, and David Bowie himself engaged with fans in the chatrooms. Some high tech shit!

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:46 pm**

Nothing stopping Davenet.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2016 3:03 pm**

P.D.X. wrote:Nothing stopping Davenet.

I don't want to feel obligated to engage with my fans.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2016 11:36 am**

Nice takedown of Barstool Sports' misogynistic "content"

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:03 pm**

2016: Enters alcoholic carbonated fruit beverage market with "Boloco".

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:57 pm**

brian wrote:Nice takedown of Barstool Sports' misogynistic "content"

Definitely worth a read.

Posted: **Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:37 am**

sancarlos wrote:
brian wrote:Nice takedown of Barstool Sports' misogynistic "content"
Definitely worth a read.

And I thought they were just an echo chamber for Boston Sports Complex and pictures of hot chicks. Nice to see they're so much more.

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:56 pm**

'A veritable hell of anguish'.
So, 23 people died from a catastrophe that occurred while they were watching a college football game - the deadliest sporting disaster in American history. Yet it is almost utterly forgotten.

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:59 pm**

Finally a soccer league for the typical EPL fan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nched.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:30 pm**

wlu_lax6 wrote:Finally a soccer league for the typical EPL fan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nched.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Number 1 is open!

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2016 5:27 pm**

Didn't know Gov. Christie was a footie guy.

sancarlos wrote:'A veritable hell of anguish'.
So, 23 people died from a catastrophe that occurred while they were watching a college football game - the deadliest sporting disaster in American history. Yet it is almost utterly forgotten.

I never heard about that. I suppose the earthquake a few years later caused this tragedy to fade from history/memory.

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:30 pm**

I don't know where the hell to put this.

NSFW.

http://cummingordrumming.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:55 pm**

sancarlos wrote:'A veritable hell of anguish'.
So, 23 people died from a catastrophe that occurred while they were watching a college football game - the deadliest sporting disaster in American history. Yet it is almost utterly forgotten.

And everyone laughed when Goodell said you are at risk, even watching football.

Posted: **Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:17 am**

Driving a Truck on the World's Most Dangerous Road

The documentary in this article is 25 minutes, but is worth watching.

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:55 am**

Sure Are Some Interesting-Looking Buildings in China

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:33 pm**

These are really good, a guy takes internet photos and turns them into movie posters.

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:39 pm**

I saw the picture of the dropped/melting ice cream cone and thought to myself, "Bill Murray is in this one."

But, I also thought Benicio del Toro would be in "The Cricket Glass".

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:45 am**

World Champ and Ping Pong Champion
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/nyreg ... ports&_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:54 am**

wlu_lax6 wrote:World Champ and Ping Pong Champion
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/nyreg ... ports&_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That was a neat read. Thanks.

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:13 am**

Concord man arrested for not returning VHS rental 14 years later

The cops were pretty cool about it, but the movie involved...

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:33 am**

Microsoft's new AI chatbot went off the rails Wednesday, posting a deluge of incredibly racist messages in response to questions.

The tech company introduced "Tay" this week — a bot that responds to users' queries and emulates the casual, jokey speech patterns of a stereotypical millennial.

The aim was to "experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding," with Tay able to learn from "her" conversations and get progressively "smarter."

But Tay proved a smash hit with racists, trolls, and online troublemakers, who persuaded Tay to blithely use racial slurs, defend white-supremacist propaganda, and even outright call for genocide.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsof ... ?r=UK&IR=T" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:40 am**

I've never been prouder.

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:06 am**

It's kind of unfathomable that Microsoft didn't predict or expect that something like this could happen. I'm awed that they didn't think to have some kind of filters or exclude lists of words or SOMETHING at least. No way someone doesn't get fired over this.

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:21 pm**

They have been focusing on their car maintenance software.

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:42 pm**

brian wrote:It's kind of unfathomable that Microsoft didn't predict or expect that something like this could happen. I'm awed that they didn't think to have some kind of filters or exclude lists of words or SOMETHING at least. No way someone doesn't get fired over this.

Hopefully not. This was a dumb mistake, but it doesn't seem like a fireable offense to me. Unlike the dancing girls of last week. Heads surely rolled over that (although they were almost certainly contractor heads).

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:55 pm**

So even the fucking robots are gonna be racist.

Posted: **Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:59 pm**

Posted: **Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:55 am**

Coach fired for suspending dating players. Rules were probably there to protect everyone (after a previous issue), but can't win.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/womens-bas ... 00544.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:25 am**

Jerloma wrote:A Swamper makes good in Providence.

Named as permanent last night.

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:59 am**

I can't look at that photo, him all serious and shit, and not crack the fuck up. Congrats dude!

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:45 pm**

Jerloma wrote:
Jerloma wrote:A Swamper makes good in Providence.
Named as permanent last night.

That job always seems to me like a professional sports team coach...hired to be fired.....best of luck

Posted: **Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:26 pm**

Delaware posted this to Facebook--I don't know a lot about New York, but thought this was amusing for the window it gives into provincial attitudes:

Where is upstate NY? Voters are split

"Anything north of New York City" is basically the most stereotypically New York City thing.

When I lived in California I remember seeing people flip their shit about whether the Inland Empire included the easternmost parts of L.A. County.

Posted: **Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:32 pm**

I've spent like 2 decades of my life trying to determine the "am I upstate" question.

Posted: **Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:53 pm**

A_B wrote:Badass cooler...it's the...wait for it....coolest

http://www.geek.com/mobile/the-coolest- ... r-1598948/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I knew there was a post about this product in here at one time...

Failed Kickstarter Wants Backers to Pay $97 for Faster Delivery On a Months-Delayed Project

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2016 8:01 am**

China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2016 1:53 pm**

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps named his new son, "Boomer". For crying out loud...

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2016 9:16 am**

Johnnie, my boy Pat McAfee is sponsoring an Indycar for the 500, right up your alley...

http://www.shirtsforamerica.com/

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