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Late Night Respite Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  January 5, 202012:03 am| 73 Comments

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Otter in a hat pic.twitter.com/sV8GvkiDNR

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 5, 2020

Two pets, one crumb. pic.twitter.com/AhLFlvI94q

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 21, 2019

For anyone who hasn't seen this beautiful video of a dog who has just been adopted, that look is precious ???????? pic.twitter.com/PcDZCIvjTJ

— Akki (@akkitwts) January 3, 2020

Raccoon loves his plushie pic.twitter.com/zqFvKGIu5A

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 4, 2020

At least eight of the top ten ‘Worldwide Trending’ terms on twitter right now seem to be related to a particular New England sportsball game, and I hear it did not go well for the home team…

China has made a kick-proof TV pic.twitter.com/RRq78gq9Au

— Xavier Katana (@xavierkatana) December 19, 2019

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  1. 1.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 5, 2020 at 12:10 am

    Sending my thoughts and prayers to the New England Patriots.

  2. 2.

    jl

    January 5, 2020 at 12:11 am

    Otter in a hat looks like ready to throw a jab, or chop. Ninja Otter in a Hat?
    Thanks to AL for cute petpix.

    And…. any of those kick proof TVs get to Boston in time for today’s game. I sure hope so.

  3. 3.

    TaMara (HFG)

    January 5, 2020 at 12:12 am

    I think we’re gonna need those TVs to get through 2020. It’s only the 4th and I’ve wanted to put my foot through mine several times already.

    And you’ve probably killed Cole again with another cute otter picture.

  4. 4.

    Jackie

    January 5, 2020 at 12:16 am

    LOL @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:  ? My Nashville son-in-law is THRILLED! Their reward: heading to Baltimore. Gooooo Titans!

  5. 5.

    Kristine

    January 5, 2020 at 12:17 am

    41 Strange may get me through 2020.

  6. 6.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2020 at 12:18 am

    @Kristine: definitely my favorite twitter account.

  7. 7.

    The Dangerman

    January 5, 2020 at 12:21 am

    At least eight of the top ten ‘Worldwide Trending’ terms on twitter right now…

    Ding dong the witch is dead
    Which old witch?
    The wicked witch…

    The Patriots had a helluva run but dynasties blow up eventually and generally it’s not very pretty.

    Maybe they can offer Gronk a few billion dollars to get him out of retirement, but I think he saw the handwriting on the wall and got the hell outta there while the gettin was good.

  8. 8.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2020 at 12:24 am

    In addition Idiocracy and 1984, I think we're now also trapped in a Joseph Heller novel https://t.co/90JdRB2ipe

    — Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) January 4, 2020

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    January 5, 2020 at 12:27 am

    Oh, they’ve missed a trick. When you kick a TV set, it should display a big red sign saying “STOP THAT!” and then make you press the “Sorry” button on the remote.

  10. 10.

    Mike J

    January 5, 2020 at 12:29 am

    Had an all kids sailing class last summer, all 12-14.  Completely lost them for 20 minutes when I pointed out an otter that climbed on the deck.

    Eventually got to sailing, but for the rest of the day you could see them looking for otters.

  11. 11.

    CaseyL

    January 5, 2020 at 12:31 am

    The Patriots lost?

    And they’re out of the playoffs?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (breathe) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Damn, I wish I’d been watching.  Always nice to see that crew lose.

    ETA: That newly adopted pup is just ADORABLE.

  12. 12.

    CAinCA

    January 5, 2020 at 12:35 am

    @Amir Khalid: That’s the version they’ll sell in Canada.

  13. 13.

    gene108

    January 5, 2020 at 12:40 am

    I don’t believe that’s a kick proof TV.

    He wasn’t slapping or kicking the TV very hard.

  14. 14.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 5, 2020 at 12:46 am

    @CaseyL:  Here’s the low-lights (video)

  15. 15.

    Mike J

    January 5, 2020 at 12:46 am

    @gene108: There’s a good chance it’s a piece of plywood covered in green felt.

  16. 16.

    FlyingToaster

    January 5, 2020 at 12:50 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    Sending my thoughts and prayers to the New England Patriots.

    Please, just, don’t. The only hope we have of getting Tom Brady to retire is if we look for other-than-divine intervention.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    January 5, 2020 at 12:52 am

    Tonight, in the third round of England’s FA Cup (the oldest knockout competition in world football) world champions, European champions, and Premier League leaders Liverpool (I just love saying that) face Everton, their neighbours from across Stanley Park.

    Everton just lost the League Merseyside derby 5-2. On previous form alone, one would expect Liverpool to prevail. But their new manager Carlo Ancelotti was, in his previous job at Napoli, the manager who beat Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool in the Champions League group stage two years in a row. And Klopp has a history of fielding second-stringers and youth players in the Cup, then crashing out early.

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2020 at 12:59 am

    @Mike J: you’re no fun.

  19. 19.

    Duane

    January 5, 2020 at 1:00 am

    @The Dangerman: Watching Bill Belichek grimace, squirm and slowly lose by one point was a great football moment. Here’s to the beginning of a lasting Patriot demise.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 5, 2020 at 1:02 am

    @Mike J: Okay, I can see making otters out of plywood for the kids, but why cover then in green felt?

  21. 21.

    CaseyL

    January 5, 2020 at 1:04 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Thanks!  More of a stomping than I thought.

    I like these highlight reels.  All of the excitement, none of the empty bafflegab by color commentators (though I do exempt Romo from that; he’s a joy to listen to).

    I Skype with my Mom every Sunday.  She lives in Florida and is a long time Dolphin fan/sufferer.  Tannehill was a Dolphin for a while, but the team not only didn’t know what to do with him, it didn’t have an OL worth the fabric in their uniforms.  Poor Ryan spent more time on his back than a sex worker.  It’ll be interesting to talk to Mom tomorrow, see what she says about how he’s playing now that he’s got an actual team around him.

  22. 22.

    The Dangerman

    January 5, 2020 at 1:07 am

    @Duane:

    Here’s to the beginning of a lasting Patriot demise.

    I think they are done. Without looking, name the depth chart for QB’s  in New England.  Brady is long gone from NE (I hope to retire to chasing his supermodel wife, but he will probably play a season or 2 longer than he should, kinda like Namath in LA, who finally had to retire when he was told he couldn’t bring crutches or a walker onto the field).

    This ain’t a game for 40 somethings and it’s really amazing what Brady has done but it’s time to call it a day.

  23. 23.

    Mike J

    January 5, 2020 at 1:11 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Gotta keep ’em warm.  The lake is 44F right now. Little felt bathrobes for otters.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 5, 2020 at 1:13 am

    @Mike J: That makes sense.

  25. 25.

    JWR

    January 5, 2020 at 1:20 am

    I’ve been on hiatus from all the (bad) news of late, and so haven’t been following all the comment threads, but I’m wondering whether this story from justsecurity, which was breaking the night before Mr. T’s Dangerously Demented drone strike, had much to do with it’s timing. (If not, I’ll just shut mah mouf.):

    “Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold.”

    This is what Michael Duffey, associate director of national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), told Elaine McCusker, the acting Pentagon comptroller, in an Aug. 30 email, which has only been made available in redacted form until now. It is one of many documents the Trump administration is trying to keep from the public, despite congressional oversight efforts and court orders in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation.

  26. 26.

    James E Powell

    January 5, 2020 at 1:23 am

    In the post-game, a reporter asked Belichick if he had any message for Patriots Nation, the fans who stick with them through thick and thin. He said, “I wouldn’t say it’s been all that thin around here, personally.” Something is truly wrecked inside him if after all his successes he cannot bring himself to show a little grace, decency, class.

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:28 am

    Holy shit Batman!  A plexiglass TV screen!  Pfft!

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:30 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Buys footballs.  Deflates footballs.  Boxes up footballs.  Adds note to suck on these.  Addresses and mails.

  29. 29.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:31 am

    @jl: Officer!  That otter in a cute hat just slapped the crap out of me!

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:34 am

    @Amir Khalid: Or it should flash “Fuck You!” and self-destruct.

    Seriously – kicking a TV…

  31. 31.

    sab

    January 5, 2020 at 1:34 am

    1 a.m. here. Thinking fond thoughts of Quinerly and Poco. Also, my dad’s blind  cat is yowling downstairs.

  32. 32.

    Martin

    January 5, 2020 at 1:35 am

    @The Dangerman: Gronks conditions to keep playing were pretty simple – let me use weed to deal with my chronic pain.

  33. 33.

    sab

    January 5, 2020 at 1:36 am

    @James E Powell: Same guy  we had in Cleveland many years ago. Laughing at my Boston brother in law.

  34. 34.

    Martin

    January 5, 2020 at 1:38 am

    @The Dangerman: He wants to exit on a high note. On the upside NE fixed their atrocious defense. On the downside, they have one guy who can catch a ball. For one game they had two.

  35. 35.

    frosty

    January 5, 2020 at 1:40 am

    @Jackie:  Damn the Titans look tough*. But all hail the team that knocked the Patriots out.
    * Go Ravens!

  36. 36.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:41 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Haha nice.

  37. 37.

    JWR

    January 5, 2020 at 1:43 am

    @JWR:

    Okay, here we go. From CNN:

    This is the bombshell Trump’s team didn’t want revealed

    (CNN) The praise or condemnation President Donald Trump is drawing for the latest US actions in the Middle East in no way diminishes the power of the legal bombshell that just exploded in the United States with new evidence of his behavior regarding Ukraine.

    Newly revealed documents paint an incriminating picture, showing administration officials anxiously struggling to follow orders from Trump himself despite concerns that the order could go against the national security interests of the United States and warnings from the Pentagon that it could be illegal.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:47 am

    @JWR: Oh lookie!  Fresh crimes!  (Goes back to the behatted otter)

  39. 39.

    sab

    January 5, 2020 at 1:47 am

    So the jackals ran Jay off. So 2 a. m and nobody is here, Good job guys.

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:50 am

    @sab: Otter!  Attack!

  41. 41.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    January 5, 2020 at 1:50 am

    @JWR: Thankfully, Congressional Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time. Schumer is pointing to these new revelations as one more reason that we must have witnesses in any Senate trial.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    January 5, 2020 at 1:51 am

    Sports? To put it mildly, Woki Woki.
    :)
    (Marginally NSFW.)

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 1:53 am

    @NotMax: Not Safe For Walruses?

    Ok, now I want to smoke some weed and watch Reefer Madness.

  44. 44.

    sab

    January 5, 2020 at 1:56 am

    @NotMax: Too obscure for me ( granted, that is a very low bar.)

  45. 45.

    JWR

    January 5, 2020 at 1:59 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Oh lookie! Fresh crimes!

    Oh, he wouldn’t do any fresh crimes, especially not now! (Would he?) //

    ;)

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 2:06 am

    @JWR: 

    "what the FUCK happened last night?" ?: Imgur user DevonDay pic.twitter.com/7oHu6Iooso— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) January 1, 2020

  47. 47.

    sab

    January 5, 2020 at 2:08 am

    @sab: @mrmoshpotato:

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    January 5, 2020 at 2:10 am

    Otters! I’m seriously considering going to the LA Zoo tomorrow to see the giant river otters. They’re super cute but about the size of a Labrador, so they would definitely eat you if they could reach you. Because they’re still mustelids.

  49. 49.

    Duane

    January 5, 2020 at 2:11 am

    @sab: I’d think you were joking but there’s no snark marks. Say it ain’t so, Sab. I like Jay’s contributions.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 2:13 am

    @Mnemosyne: Don’t wear your fish costume.

  51. 51.

    delosgatos

    January 5, 2020 at 2:17 am

    “The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong damn story” so sounds like a rotating tagline…

    https://cavalorn.tumblr.com/post/166437475035/zombolouge-vr-trakowski-deducecanoe

  52. 52.

    NotMax

    January 5, 2020 at 2:28 am

    @sab

    The lyrics express it succinctly.

    :)

  53. 53.

    Jager

    January 5, 2020 at 2:39 am

    I’m just catching up, I wanted to let Raven know I haven’t scheduled my P 51 ride yet. I’m going over this week and get all the details. Man O War is equipped with a GoPro on the tail.

     

    The replica crash today was nasty.

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 5, 2020 at 2:40 am

    @sab: I miss all the drama

  55. 55.

    RobertDSC-Mac Mini

    January 5, 2020 at 2:46 am

    @James E Powell:

     

    Considering Belichick coached in Cleveland, a franchise that is emaciated for success, he knows what it’s like to be “thin”. We haven’t had that kind of skid since he has been the head coach with the Pats. So he’s 100% right. And he’s always been deadpan about anything not related to the details of football.

    I’m just glad we got this far. This team had issues in terms of talent and injury.

  56. 56.

    Amir Khalid

    January 5, 2020 at 3:21 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    If the kick damages it beyond repair.

  57. 57.

    opiejeanne

    January 5, 2020 at 3:43 am

    @sab: I missed it. Were we mean to him? I was busy being almost sick most of the day.

    I drank a lot of water and watched “Zero Dark Thirty”, just for contrast from this current shitshow, and “The Martian”. Mark Watney made it home again and I was relieved. Probably watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy tomorrow if I’m still feeling rough.

    My doctor is putting me on a daily small amount of insulin to get ahead of the issue with my blood sugar, probably temporary. I have to go in for some specialty tests on Monday, making sure my kidneys are ok but also looking for markers for something called Diabetes 1.5. It’s a category that’s new and it’s very rare. Treatment is pretty much the same as type II.  I don’t start the insulin until Tuesday. I’m kind of excited in a way that neither means happy or upset, more like very interested to see how this will work.

  58. 58.

    Amir Khalid

    January 5, 2020 at 3:46 am

    @Duane:

    I am not so keen on Jay myself, since he’s directed some of his petulance at me. He’s probably just sulking for a bit; he got told off for tweet-bombing a respite thread that was supposed to be about some of WaterGirl’s lovely flower pictures. I expect he’ll be back.

  59. 59.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 3:46 am

    @Amir Khalid: Sure.  Works for me.

  60. 60.

    NotMax

    January 5, 2020 at 4:15 am

    @Amir Khalid

    tweet-bombing a respite thread

    Yeah, the Johnny Crappleseed shtick was turned up to 11 on that one. Uncool, to say the least.

  61. 61.

    bemused senior

    January 5, 2020 at 4:21 am

    When I put Jay in the pie filter I immediately saw his tweet spam got almost no response, which reassured me that I probably wasn’t the only one who wished he would go away.

  62. 62.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 5, 2020 at 4:34 am

    China has made a kick-proof TV

    Fuckin’ amateurs, I’ll show ’em how it’s done.

  63. 63.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 5, 2020 at 4:42 am

    @James E Powell:

    “I wouldn’t say it’s been all that thin around here, personally.”

    The day the truth is ungraceful, indecent, and unclassy, is the day I say fuck grace, decency, and class.

  64. 64.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 5, 2020 at 4:50 am

    @Jackie:

    Their reward: heading to Baltimore. Gooooo Titans!

    One should be careful what one wishes for, not that they had much choice in the matter. Job well done Nashville, well done indeed.

  65. 65.

    sab

    January 5, 2020 at 5:22 am

     

    Aweet

    @Duppp

     

     

     

     

     

    Awsweet

    Sweetewane: No snark. I like him though  often disagree.

  66. 66.

    Mo MacArbie

    January 5, 2020 at 6:06 am

    Fear not, Jay’s downstairs explaining how yelling at Schumer about Pelosi is the right thing to do about Iran.

  67. 67.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2020 at 8:12 am

    @Mo MacArbie: (goes to look) It’s funny because it’s true.

  68. 68.

    debbie

    January 5, 2020 at 9:14 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    I’m not. I’m laughing my ass off. It’s about time!

  69. 69.

    Duane

    January 5, 2020 at 9:58 am

    @Amir Khalid: Thanks Amir.

  70. 70.

    sab

    January 5, 2020 at 11:18 am

    @Duane: I like Jay’s comments also. I was being snide up above. I understand why folks got mad at him last week in the garden thread, but I don’t understand the rest of the attacks

    We do have a pie filter.

  71. 71.

    J R in WV

    January 5, 2020 at 12:31 pm

    @sab:

    We do have a pie filter.

     
    Yes, indeed, and it works so much better now, too. Plus the little pictures! Endless links to tweets, though… it gets old really fast for me.

    With my security settings, all I see are the links to the tweet, I have to click through to see what he’s linking to. Just, nope. And then he gets all fussy at the least little thing.

  72. 72.

    Jay

    January 5, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    naw, didn’t even bother to see the knee jerk responses, went to bed.

    had a long day.

  73. 73.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    January 5, 2020 at 1:30 pm

    Good afternoon all! Late to the Party but YeeHaw! Titans won!!! Hubby is from Clarksville TN. Plus we always root for whoever is playing against the Patriots (living in Connecticut is weird, teams-wise)   But my weekend is exciting mostly due to not one but two new adopted kittens. Both are rescues but one is a big fluffy bear of a six month old and loves everything. The other is a wiry five month old who loves people scares my dog and hates the other kitten. Oh the drama!!!

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