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by $8 blue check mistermix|  October 5, 201411:42 am| 147 Comments

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I assume professional football is still played in this country, right?

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 11:45 am

    I don’t know if I’d call what the Saints have been doing “playing football.”

  2. 2.

    Karen in GA

    October 5, 2014 at 11:51 am

    Iggy wants out.

  3. 3.

    Hawes

    October 5, 2014 at 11:54 am

    Well, not by the Jaguars, but yeah…

  4. 4.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 11:55 am

    @Baud:
    Isn’t playing what you do for fun and work is what you get paid for? I’m taking from your comment that they are getting paid too much for too little or making a hash out of having fun.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    October 5, 2014 at 11:56 am

    @Karen in GA: I’ll bet he does!

    I don’t know if you saw my comment to you last night, but several years ago, I had to jail my cocker spaniel for 8 weeks. That was a very long 8 weeks.

    But Murphy did lower his expectations after while and resigned himself to captivity. May you guys get there sooner rather than later.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 11:58 am

    @Ruckus:

    Nah. You should take from my comment that the Saints have sucked so far this season.

    As far as that “play” means, is it wrong to say that a professional musician “plays” an instrument?

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    October 5, 2014 at 11:58 am

    @Ruckus: I don’t really follow football, but I thought Baud was implying that the Saints are such a lousy team right now that one could hardly describe their actions on the team as playing football.

    Did I get that wrong?

    Edit: No, apparently I wasn’t!

  8. 8.

    Southern Beale

    October 5, 2014 at 11:58 am

    The craziest story you will read out of Tennessee all year.

    At least, I hope so. We’re so damn crazy here, I wouldn’t be surprised if something even crazier popped up.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Yep. Spot on. I wish I could hire you as my comment translator.

  10. 10.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    @Baud:
    @WaterGirl:
    That was my point.
    Obviously not that well made.
    Whata ya want from me, I’m on the left coast and just got up a bit ago. Neighbors had a loud party going till the wee hour, almost cop thirty.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Cop thirty?

  12. 12.

    gnomedad

    October 5, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    Charles Pierce:

    The country simply cannot go on this way, with one of our two political parties completely insane, and with a counter-cultural universe that claims the right to promulgate its own science as equal to the science produced by actual scientists, and with this dangerous lunacy treated as legitimate by powerful people who ought to know better. As I once wrote, it doesn’t matter how many people vote for the anti-gravity party, you still can’t flap your arms and fly to the moon.

  13. 13.

    Betty Cracker

    October 5, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    @Baud: I hope they continue to suck today since they’re playing my suck-tacular Bucs.

  14. 14.

    Wally Ballou

    October 5, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    Unfortunately, yes.

    The heart wants what it wants, but for the life of me I’ll never comprehend why anybody gives a flying fuck about the National Helmeted Slabs of Meat Crashing Into Each Other League, even without postseason baseball and the arrival of hockey season.

  15. 15.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    The one saving grace is that the whole division seems like a tribute to mediocrity so far. At least the Saints are at home, which should help them in this game.

  16. 16.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    @Baud:
    Wow, I am striking out big time today.

    Cop thirty, like beer thirty, about time to make the call. As in it’s 5:30, time to quit work and go have a beer. Or it’s 2:30(am!), time to call the cops and complain about a loud party.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Thanks. I had never heard either phrase before.

  18. 18.

    RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac)

    October 5, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    Lounging after getting up at 5 to go do laundry. Tired as hell and expecting my Patriots to get pasted by the Bengals at home tonight.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    @gnomedad:

    As I once wrote, it doesn’t matter how many people vote for the anti-gravity party, you still can’t flap your arms and fly to the moon.

    No, but you can oppress a lot of people, which is the real objective.

  20. 20.

    Tenar Darell

    October 5, 2014 at 12:40 pm

    I got to my Dad’s with his bagel and lox just early enough last night, after breaking the fast and touching base with friends and family, to watch the ballet from An American in Paris with him. Once again amazed how they got some of those moves in the fountain pas-de-deux past the censors. Kelly was so good at choreographing and filming dance. Also particularly fond of the Oscar Levant scene where he plays all the parts in a Gershwin concerto. (FYI best Levant link I found auto plays)

  21. 21.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    @Baud:
    I’ve been hearing beer thirty for decades, in many places, from many people, mostly at work, including the navy, with people from around the country. I assumed it was rather common usage.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    @Ruckus: I’m sure it’s me. There are big gaps in my cultural knowledge base.

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    @Baud:
    This.
    The Puritans didn’t leave the old country because they were oppressed(OK in their minds maybe), they left because they couldn’t oppress others. It’s worked out well, for them anyway.

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    @Baud:
    Join the club. We have jackets. They are ugly and all but we have them. Some company called members only makes them I think.

  25. 25.

    CaseyL

    October 5, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    @Karen in GA: I love the Iggy Dialogs. Iggy terrorizing the vet was fantastic.

  26. 26.

    Roger Moore

    October 5, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    I assume professional football is still played in this country, right?

    That was yesterday.

  27. 27.

    p.a.

    October 5, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    @Ruckus: which baseball player said “It’s ‘PLAY BALL!’, not ‘Work Ball!'”? Banks?

  28. 28.

    Karen in GA

    October 5, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    @WaterGirl: Very glad it went well. Thanks for the encouragement — I need it. As the pain wears off, Iggy is starting to understand how much being confined sucks.

    And I had a ferret named Murphy for a number of years. She was incredibly cool. I love that name.

    @CaseyL: Thanks!

  29. 29.

    fidelity

    October 5, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    @Southern Beale: Please, please don’t challenge them. We still have the election to get through. I am so glad I no longer have a landline.

    I am with you on the Williamson County mockery, though.

  30. 30.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    @p.a.:
    Have no idea. But it is a game after all, isn’t it?
    I look at it this way, a Dr (and lawyers) practice their craft, sports are played and for the most part they get pretty good money. I work at my job and have to be correct or it is scrap and I get the same amount per hr that I paid someone in 1981. It takes the average person about a decade to become good at what I do so there is the learning curve as well. Maybe this work thing is overrated and I should have had a career that I practiced or played.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    October 5, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    @Ruckus: It’s not just Baud, I had never heard of cop thirty either.

    I’m always glad to learn something even though my days of having to worry about being too loud too late are very likely over. :-)

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 1:14 pm

    I could not have seen that FitzPat INT coming any clearer if I had written the script.

  33. 33.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    He was running a go route, Ryan. A fucking GO ROUTE!!
    You do not throw a back shoulder pass to a F’ng GO ROUTE!!

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I’m always glad to learn something even though my days of having to worry about being too loud too late are very likely over. :-)

    Me too, although I am normally a night owl, but a quiet one.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    JJ Watt has two guys both holding him so blatantly that he just raises his hands straight up like, “Refs, are you f’ng kidding me?”

  36. 36.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    Watching the Rams play and looking at all their young players that could be on my team if we didn’t trade all those draft picks for RG3. I really wonder if there is a worse owner in professional sports than Dan Synder.

  37. 37.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    Does any fan turn on their TV, hear Dan Fouts’ voice and say, “Oh good, Dan Fouts is on air for us today.” ?

  38. 38.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    Yes!!!

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    October 5, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    @Tommy:

    I really wonder if there is a worse owner in professional sports than Dan Synder.

    Not now that Donald Sterling has been forced to sell.

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    October 5, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    @Corner Stone:
    On any given day Fouts can light up the broadcast booth for 350 yards.

    Am not sure why it is in our media-savvy times, the broadcast teams are generally so miserable, and don’t get me started on the pack of yelling men the networks keep back at GameDayCentralBroughtToYouByBudLiteAndRam-ToughDodgeTrucks.

  41. 41.

    Southern Beale

    October 5, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    @fidelity:

    Well we don’t have Stacey Campfield to kick around anymore and he was the primary source of wackajuju.

  42. 42.

    Betty Cracker

    October 5, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    @Corner Stone: I’m sure no one has ever said that, ever. That said, Fouts can function as background noise rather than an active irritant, at least for me. The worst fucking broadcaster in football is Gary Danielson.

  43. 43.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 1:35 pm

    @trollhattan: It is kind of amazing how bad some of the broadcast teams are. There are times I want to almost watch the game on mute. But then again I am thinking calling a game is harder then we think.

  44. 44.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 1:42 pm

    @Tommy:
    Used to watch Lakers on mute and have Chick Hearn on the radio. The games were much better that way. The mold, it was broken after Chick.

  45. 45.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    @Tommy:

    TDIF: First NFL Game Without Broadcasters
    MIAMI DOLPHINS, NEW YORK JETS, TCIPF STAFF, THIS DAY IN NFL HISTORY
    Posted: December 20th, 2012
    On this date in football thirty-two years ago, NBC broadcasted the first-ever NFL game without broadcasters. The executive producer of NBC Sports at the time, Don Ohlmeyer, needed to find a way to attract viewers to a meaningless, season-ending game between the 8-8 Miami Dolphins and the 4-12 New York Jets. Ohlmeyer always believed announcers talked too much, so his daring decision to eliminate play-by-play announcers and only keep the sounds of the game, were approved.

  46. 46.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    @Ruckus: Those days are gone with digital TV. It’s impossible to get the game on TV and radio synched.

  47. 47.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    October 5, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    Fight! Fight in Nashville!

    And it’s barely the start of the second quarter.

  48. 48.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    @Ruckus: That is how I watch Cardinals baseball games. TV on mute and KMOX on the radio. The Fox Sports people that call the game are terrible.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    “Uh. Feel it!”

  50. 50.

    KS in MA

    October 5, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Um, a few Puritans did get burned at the stake in England. Just sayin’.

  51. 51.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    @raven: Very true and sad really. With the Cardinals I bought the MLB app and listen to far more games then I watch. Well I don’t watch many anymore because I got rid of cable a few months ago and only a handful of games are on the local station I can get with my HD antenna.

  52. 52.

    BruceFromOhio

    October 5, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: It got ugly, and its gonna stay ugly the way the Browns offense is performing.

  53. 53.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    @Tommy: The playoff have been on the TBS and FOX 1 streaming sites but you have to have a cable subscription to get them. Both feeds gave me the best streaming I’ve had outside of the Masters.

  54. 54.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Texans ball on turnover after punt!

  55. 55.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 1:54 pm

    @raven: Exactly. People here have mentioned that to me but alas as you noted you need a cable subscription to get them. At some level I don’t get it. If it is an event I really want to watch let me watch it and flood me with ads if you want.

  56. 56.

    trollhattan

    October 5, 2014 at 1:54 pm

    @raven:
    My AV receiver has a time-delay/advance feature buried somewhere in the imponderable menu system that actually allows one to synch the picture and sound. Hell if I can remember where it is, though it’s doubtless present somewhere in the 350-page instruction book.

  57. 57.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    @trollhattan: What kind is it? I have been thinking there must be a way to do that.

    eta Of course Larry Munson is dead anyway so it doesn’t matter as much!

  58. 58.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    @trollhattan: WOW!

    Now, with the all-new SportSync SR-202 AM/FM Delay Radio, you can turn down the sound on your TV and watch the game while listening to your favorite radio announcers.

  59. 59.

    trollhattan

    October 5, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    @raven:
    Onkyo brand. I’d guess the better ones from Pioneer, Sony, Harmon-Kardon, etc. have the same trick, hopefully easier to access!

    Even a few milliseconds mismatch during a movie drives me to hair-tearing distraction.

  60. 60.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    October 5, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    @BruceFromOhio: I’ve been waiting for the Titans to start taking shots at Hoyer.

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    October 5, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    @raven:
    Woot! Just what the doctor ordered.

  62. 62.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    @trollhattan: So it is just a programmable function on the receiver?

    guess so

  63. 63.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    @raven: Just sent an email to my brother who is something of an audiophile. Of course I believe “trollhattan” but something I’ve never heard of. I have a pretty highend Harmon-Kardon A/V unit and I will kick myself if it could do this and I didn’t even realize it.

  64. 64.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    I have a cold and it’s affecting my equilibrium. I really ought to lie down and take a nap but I’m not at home and I don’t feel safe to drive right now.

    Also, anyone here able to help me with a problem? I can’t get onto the internet through my phone when I set it up as a hotspot. The phone connects to the internet just fine. The laptop connects to the phone just fine. But the laptop can’t get to the internet through the phone; it just says “No Internet Access.” I’ve got no idea what the hell is wrong and the folks at T-mobile never got back to me.

  65. 65.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    October 5, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): What’s the laptop’s operating system? What model of phone?

    Argh, I’m about to abandon this game. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

  66. 66.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    Windows 7 on the laptop. The phone is an LG-D415. It worked fine for about a month and now I get what I described above. I think the problem’s in my laptop but I don’t have any evidence to support that.

  67. 67.

    catclub

    October 5, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    @raven: Yes, syncing is a problem. The radio playbyplay is usually better. I wonder if you could get or build an n-second delay app?

  68. 68.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Hard to help from a distance. But I’d try setting up the phone as a hotspot and then find a friend or family member and see if their laptop can see the connection.

  69. 69.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    @Tommy: My laptop sees the connection. Both the phone and the laptop say that they are connected to each other. I just can’t get to the internet with the laptop, but if I open the browser in my phone it can connect just fine. I just hate trying to read anything on that dinky screen. Either the type is too small or I’m scrolling back and forth.

  70. 70.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 2:15 pm

    What the hell is this about?
    Justices Weighing Wages for After-Work Screenings
    Why is the DoJ saying that wage theft is acceptable?

    Integrity Staffing is appealing a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which held that Mr. Busk had stated a legitimate wage claim. That court found that the security check at the Amazon warehouse was “necessary to the principal work performed,” was “done for the benefit of the employer” and was therefore “integral and indispensable.”

    The Obama administration has filed a brief backing Integrity Staffing. Signed by lawyers from the Labor and Justice Departments, the administration’s brief said the Ninth Circuit’s focus on whether antitheft checks were done for the employer’s benefit was “an insufficient proxy for determining” whether they were integral and indispensable to a principal activity.

  71. 71.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 2:15 pm

    Man, that Pittsburgh/Jacksonville game looks like it’s every bit as exciting as I expected it to be.

  72. 72.

    beth

    October 5, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    R.I.P. Paul Revere from Paul Revere and the Raiders. Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find.

  73. 73.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    Rob Lowe really, *really*, needs to rethink these DirecTV ads he’s currently doing.

  74. 74.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    @Corner Stone: So happy I am not the only person that has thought that. Good looking guy. Doesn’t appear to have aged a day in a decade or two. Why would you do those ads?

  75. 75.

    Redshift

    October 5, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Have you done it before? I don’t know about T-mobile, but on Sprint you have to pay extra for tethering, and if you don’t, the result is just like that.

  76. 76.

    catclub

    October 5, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    SportsRadioDelay uses a Linux system to buffer input from an external audio source such that it syncs with a televised video broadcast.

    http://delayradio.sourceforge.net/

    I did not get the files and build it.

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack

    October 5, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    The Matthew McConaughey Chrysler ads are killing me. I keep seeing him as the Zen hippie detective Rust Cohle in True Detective—maybe driving down to the big shootout in the ’hood—and then I hear Woody Harrelson telling him the car should be a place of quiet reflection.

  78. 78.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    @Redshift: Yeah, it worked for a few weeks. Now . . . nothing.

  79. 79.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    @Steeplejack: “Sure you can. You just have to know where to look.”
    I love those commercials. Love them!
    I can’t turn away when I hear his voice waxing philosophically through quiet streets, late at night.

  80. 80.

    Steeplejack

    October 5, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I would listen to Dan Fouts call everything in every sport if it would get Brent Musburger off the air.

  81. 81.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    @Steeplejack: As somebody that worked in advertising for almost two decades, ads are hard to produce. I like the Matthew McConaughey ads for Chrysler. You don’t. It is hard to make everybody happy :).

    Update: I said Chrysler as you did. Aren’t they for Lincoln?

  82. 82.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    @Tommy: I’m thinking more about the sex tape scandal with the “legal” but 16 yr old girl.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack

    October 5, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    They are strangely hypnotic, despite my flashbacks to True Detective.

  84. 84.

    Steeplejack

    October 5, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    @Tommy:

    I actually sort of like the ads; they just really hit the True Detective nerve for me. And, yes, they are for Lincoln, not Chrysler. Viewer fail. Certainly not advertiser fail.

  85. 85.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    @Steeplejack: But a problem both you and I mentioned Chrysler and not Lincoln. I love the ads but that I had to think what product was being advertised is an issue.

  86. 86.

    max

    October 5, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Yeah, it worked for a few weeks. Now . . . nothing.

    If Windows can see the phone as a device and read it as a drive then that means windows networking is trying to connect via the laptop and not getting any response and thinks the network device is not working.

    Go to control panel, then networking and sharing center, and then ‘Change adapter settings’ and there should be some kind of named connection for the T-Mobile phone which is listed as disabled. Click on that and hit ‘Diagnose this connection’.

    max
    [‘Then let it do it’s thing.’]

  87. 87.

    BruceFromOhio

    October 5, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I’ll hang with them. Sucks for sure, down by 18 at the half, though the last score was reasonably competent. After the march back from oblivion that started the Steelers game, they have it in them, it’s just a matter of mustering it timely.

    I hate to count on the refs to protect the QB, but they seem willing to throw the flag today – Hoyer just needs more time to throw. And the defense has gotta put on a kabosh or three, the fricking Titans are just going where they will.

    And if I was taller and richer, I’d be taller and richer.

  88. 88.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    Yes!! TD Arian Foster!!

  89. 89.

    Steeplejack

    October 5, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    @Tommy:

    That’s a problem with a lot of ads: the actor or the “joke” is so good that it obscures the product actually being advertised. I had a moment recently when I could not think which insurance company does all those “Flo” ads.

  90. 90.

    PaulW

    October 5, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    holy sh-tf-ck the Bucs are back in the game vs. the Saints.

  91. 91.

    trollhattan

    October 5, 2014 at 2:47 pm

    @raven:
    Yup. To use terminology The Youngs won’t understand, it’s like advancing/retarding your ignition timing on that distributor thingie. You walk the sound timing forward or backward until it matches the picture.

  92. 92.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    @trollhattan: How did you know I needed to do that to my Chevy???

  93. 93.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    @KS in MA:
    So did many others.
    And I didn’t say they had been 100% successful but you have to admit their reach does affect our lives. And that is what they wanted.

  94. 94.

    Steeplejack

    October 5, 2014 at 2:51 pm

    @PaulW:

    Two pretty good games on the box here in NoVA: Falcons-Giants (13-10) and Ravens-Colts (3-6). Latter game is actually a little boring, but boring and close is better than boring and blowout.

    ETA: And the Colts go up 13-3.

  95. 95.

    trollhattan

    October 5, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    @raven:
    Don’t look now, but your Chevy is Tweeting.

  96. 96.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    October 5, 2014 at 2:53 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Are you connecting by wire or by wifi? And what version of Android is your phone?

  97. 97.

    raven

    October 5, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    @trollhattan: I sanded and painted the radiator tank yesterday so she is happy. Also, I just mowed and did not break a sweat!!! Fall!

  98. 98.

    Jane2

    October 5, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    @Karen in GA: Poor Iggy! I think he deserves a trip to Reno after it’s over…and I know the firearms laws are lax in Nevada, but I’ll bet a paw print won’t suffice, so you won’t have to bail him out.

  99. 99.

    skerry

    October 5, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    Flash mob in support of justice for Mike Brown at St Louis symphony orchestra performance last night. Received applause from the audience and the orchestra.

    But a flash mob at the symphony was an attempt to “speak to a segment of the population that has the luxury of being comfortable,” Laney said. “You have to make a choice for just staying in your comfort zones or will you speak out for something that’s important? It’s not all right to just ignore it.”

    Well done.

  100. 100.

    Betty Cracker

    October 5, 2014 at 2:57 pm

    Bucs just went ahead and then got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct — “inappropriate language” — WTF? Never heard of such bullshit!

  101. 101.

    glocksman

    October 5, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    There are several stray cats that hang around my apartment complex and one of them caught me at a weak moment.
    I opened a can of tuna and set it out along with a small bowl of water.

    Pic 1

    Pic 2

    So I’m a softie for cats.

  102. 102.

    Schlemazel

    October 5, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    I made a hardware store run because my plumbers putty was rock hard [life tip: always buy the smallest plumbers putty available because by the time you need it again it will always be rock hard]. Went to fix the leaky drain on the kitchen sink that during the week made it so we could not use that sink. Tested the drain and it is not leaking. Now I don’t know if I should be grateful it spontaneously repaired itself or paranoid that it is just screwing with me & will leak like a sieve when I stop watching it. White people problems!

  103. 103.

    Schlemazel

    October 5, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    @Betty Cracker:
    It’s new this year – primarily for the N or MF words I guess. Pretty stupid but that seems to be the new name for the NFL

  104. 104.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    @Schlemazel: It was a huge new rule this year. You can’t drop the “N” word. You will be flagged.

  105. 105.

    Dee Loralei

    October 5, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    @skerry: That was beautiful, brought tears to my eyes.

  106. 106.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    October 5, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    @BruceFromOhio: I used to hang with them obsessively, still paying for Sunday Ticket to make sure I don’t miss them, but the two hits on Locker have pissed me off. The least they could do is play clean.

  107. 107.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Android 4.4.2 and I assume I’m connecting by WiFi because I don’t usually have the laptop and phone wired together.

    Also, I’m not trying it right now, obviously, since I’m posting here. I’m currently on the BWW WiFi. It’s only an issue at places that don’t have any other internet connections, like at home.

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    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    Tony Romo, you suck.

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    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:10 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    Tested the drain and it is not leaking. Now I don’t know if I should be grateful it spontaneously repaired itself or paranoid that it is just screwing with me & will leak like a sieve when I stop watching it.

    Water always finds a path. If you’re not seeing it, but didn’t actively fix it, it’s going somewhere.

  110. 110.

    Tommy

    October 5, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    @skerry: I am a St. Louis guy. I’ve ranted here about the city and Brown. I like to think we are coming around to the issues at hand. I note to my friends and family members, about 95% are white, think if that was your child. Your friend. Would you accept what happened to him?

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    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    That’s not a horse collar, refs.

  112. 112.

    glocksman

    October 5, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):

    Is your phone carrier locked to T-Mobile?
    If so, my guess is that it’s set to prevent tethering out of the box.

    Carrier lock is one reason why I paid $400 for my 32GB Nexus 5.

    My $70 Nokia 520 is carrier locked to AT&T and won’t let me tether, yet I can do it with no problems on the Nexus 5 no matter who the carrier is.

    Locally, Sprint has shit for data coverage and T-Mobile is worse.
    Which is a shame because they have some very good plans.

    Currently I’m with Consumer Cellular (AT&T’s network) and have nothing to complain about.
    Tethering works fine on the N5, but I get a ‘call AT&T’ message on the 520

  113. 113.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    Somebody needs to tell Shane Lechler to stop fucking outkicking his coverage.

  114. 114.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:16 pm

    You can’t extend both fucking arms and push off, refs.
    Fuck that.

  115. 115.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    October 5, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I was asking because Android did something with a recent(ish) update that played merry hob with wired tethering.

    Where I would start is looking through the saved wireless networks and making sure you don’t have duplicate entries for the hotspot network. Get rid of all but the oldest if you do.

    If that doesn’t take you back to the old status quo, delete the memorized hotspot network completely. Reboot just to make sure, then recreate it from scratch.

    If that still doesn’t help, find an app called Wifi Hotspot Settings. It’s really just a shortcut to the hotspot settings. Try turning the hotspot on via that screen and see if it makes any difference. (I had to resort to that a few months ago on my S3; every other way of turning the hotspot on was failing to connect to the mobile network.)

    More than that, I’d probably have to have the machine in front of me to poke through settings.

  116. 116.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    When your QB is 11/18 for 93 yds with 6 minutes to go…probably not the best person to keep putting out there each week.

  117. 117.

    max

    October 5, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Also, I’m not trying it right now, obviously, since I’m posting here. I’m currently on the BWW WiFi. It’s only an issue at places that don’t have any other internet connections, like at home.

    If the laptop is connected by WiFi but won’t connect via the hotspot, it’s a problem with the phone and T-Mobile, perhaps as Glocksman suggests. (I don’t know anything about T-Mobile network and how they handle that so I can’t say.) Basically the phone needs to provide a visible relay network to windows and that isn’t working. (Technically, Windows is trying to perform a DHCP connect to get networking settings and then trying to connect to a Microsoft URL to see if the full internet can be heard. It’s failing somewhere. So windows gives up.)

    max
    [‘Did you change something on the phone?’]

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    Betty Cracker

    October 5, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    @Corner Stone: That should be committed to needlepoint!

  119. 119.

    glocksman

    October 5, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    If it’s T-Mobile preventing you from tethering, there are workarounds that involve rooting the phone.
    That said, call them and ask if they allow tethering on your plan.

    If so, have them take care of it.
    If not, root it and try some of the tethering apps in the Play Store.

    Sprint didn’t allow tethering on my Galaxy S2, but after rooting it and installing a third party tethering app I could use the phone as a hotspot with no problems.

  120. 120.

    glocksman

    October 5, 2014 at 3:40 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    WTF?

    So much for the goddamn portal to portal act.

  121. 121.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    Foster! Right in your face!!

  122. 122.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    Namaste, bitchez!

  123. 123.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    @glocksman: I’m not getting it, either. It’s just straight wage theft and abuse of low wage workers.
    It’s like making people clock out and then clean the premises.

  124. 124.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:47 pm

    Tackle, people. Tackle.

  125. 125.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:49 pm

    C’mon refs.

  126. 126.

    Mike in NC

    October 5, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    @Steeplejack: Makes you wonder how many cars he owns. Probably half a dozen. The burden of being wealthy. Just ask Ann Rmoney how hard it is to find help to keep her Cadillacs freshly waxed.

  127. 127.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    Nooooonann!! Noonan!! Noooooonannn!!

  128. 128.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    NO GOOD!!

  129. 129.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    Dan Fouts just totally mind jujubeed the Cowboys kicker. Complete jinx on his ass, if you believe in those things.

  130. 130.

    meepers

    October 5, 2014 at 4:07 pm

    @glocksman: That’s a very handsome cat.

  131. 131.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2014 at 4:09 pm

    That was fucking embarrassing.

  132. 132.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    Wow. These first games are all coming down to the wire.

  133. 133.

    glocksman

    October 5, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    @meepers:

    I thought she/he was a bit thin.
    That’s why I set out the tuna.

    Here’s another pic.

    Pic 3.

  134. 134.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Oh, hey. I see that it’s now Let’s Pretend that the NFL Cares About Women Month.

  135. 135.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 5, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    What the hell just happened in the Lions game while I was looking away?

  136. 136.

    StringOnAStick

    October 5, 2014 at 4:27 pm

    Well, his doc finally got through to my BIL and he’s now on track to complete his radiation therapy; I really think he thought he could ignore his cancer and it would go away. That’s the good news. The other good news is both he and his father have agreed to finally let us hire a home care aide, something their dad adamantly refused to allow a month ago.

    The in between news is I just dropped my husband off for an emergency trip to help his brother get to therapy all this week since his girlfriend’s supervisor won’t let her take a non-day shift (and a big F.U. to Target for not having any flexibility with a 20 year employee dealing with a serious illness situation). My BIL’s cancer involves his feet, and the blistering from the radiation therapy has made them so painful he can only get around by crawling; walking is impossible and obviously he can’t drive, go grocery shopping, etc. Having his feet below the level of his heart makes for excruciating pain so it’s not like a wheelchair would solve the issue right now. He’s about to run out of his FMLA leave and lose his job too – that’s not helping his mental state at all.

    The not so great news is my BIL is now ready to place their dad in assisted living; between the senile behavior and letting his bladder bag leak everywhere, my BIL can’t take it anymore, especially since he can only get around by crawling so he is constantly crawling in leaked urine. The bad news isn’t that he’s ready to place their dad;we’ve been ready to support that decision for a long time now. The bad news is what an incredible fight this is going to be with their dad. My husband was quite stressed when I dropped him at the airport, because this discussion has to begin with their dad now and it is going to be ugly.

  137. 137.

    Baud

    October 5, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    Saints push off rebuilding-year status for one more week. Yay!

  138. 138.

    meepers

    October 5, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    @glocksman: OMG yes, thin… this cat is friendly enough for you to get that close? A local TNR might be able to help while you fatten him/her up a bit!

  139. 139.

    meepers

    October 5, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    @glocksman: Also too, I’m not a god-believing type but you’re an awesome human being for feeding that little kitty..

  140. 140.

    muddy

    October 5, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    @Schlemazel: I predict it will start to leak as soon as the new putty hardens. I have had better luck with it recently, I started putting double cling wrap over before putting the lid back on things. The wood putty and the joint compound were very happy about it.

  141. 141.

    mellowjohn

    October 5, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    not in chicago from what i’ve seen so far.

  142. 142.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    October 5, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    @StringOnAStick: You and your kin have been going through a lot. It must be very hard. Caring for oldsters is tough even under the best of circumstances, but your situation obviously isn’t. Hang in there.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  143. 143.

    Wally Ballou

    October 5, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    Tigers-Orioles scoreless in the 6th. Alex Avilia had to leave the game after taking a foul to the face mask.

    Goddamnit, 2-run Homer by Nelson Cruz. Fuckity fuck fuck.

  144. 144.

    glocksman

    October 5, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    @meepers:

    I have a soft spot for cats and dogs.

    It looks like the cat is saying ‘back off’ in the second pic.

  145. 145.

    burnspbesq

    October 5, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    On the off chance that you’re actually interested in understanding what the Solicitor General argued and why, here’s a link to the brief.

    http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2013/3mer/1ami/2013-0433.mer.ami.pdf

  146. 146.

    meepers

    October 5, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    @glocksman: I don’t know about that. But the esteemable Werebear probably has better insight on the topic.

  147. 147.

    different-church-lady

    October 5, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    Looks like Tom Brady ain’t quite as dead as y’all thought six days ago.

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