When your entire ‘security’ staff was hired on the grounds of he knew a guy....
You like cat videos?
You like baseball?
You’re welcome https://t.co/oKOb8uhn36
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 3, 2021
Poor alley rabbit. At least he’s in good physical shape!
Steeplejack
I hate these videos, because they always make me worry about how the poor animal got there and what happened to it later. Ugh.
craigie
They needed a big butterfly net.
Alison Rose
Honestly…I almost wanted to cry. Poor buddy was clearly terrified, the crowd is yelling and scaring it even more, all these people are looming over it. I saw that it eventually made it out into the stands and probably was able to escape that way, but it’s probably traumatized :(
Steeplejack
Okay, I’ll stir the pot. Here’s an interesting thread on how anti-vax groups on Facebook are speaking on code to fly under the radar.
bluehill
@Steeplejack: They have a lot practice given all the code words and symbols they developed for racism, anti-semitism, etc. The pepe memes, perverted US flags, hand signs, Hawaiian shirts – it’s tiring.
Another Scott
Yup, kitty was scared. :-(
Yet more Covid news…
Yup.
These goobers think the Masque of the Red Death was an instruction manual…
Cheers,
Scott.
West of the Rockies
@bluehill:
Hawaiian shirts? Any or all? What do they signify? I have some in my closet.
Anne Laurie
Not an expert, but Yankee Stadium is a big facility in the middle of a heavily urbanized area, and it stands empty most of the time. I’d assume it’s home to a long-established feral cat colony. Tonight’s ‘tv star’ made the mistake of wandering out into public view at the wrong time… but if you watch the video, he approaches the dugout door twice (and the numbnut ‘guarding’ it doesn’t have the sense to let him back in). This is a cat who knows his way around his environment. I’m sure Stripy Dude was terrified, but I suspect he’s seen worse!
West of the Rockies
@West of the Rockies:
Just looked it up… yeah, the Boogeroo Boys (misspelling intentional) sometimes wear them. Well, I don’t don them often, but I wish the Trumpist white supremacists would stick to ugly polo shirts.
bluehill
@West of the Rockies: Service uniform of the boogaloo boys. No idea why, but I’m sure there’s a convoluted story, maybe in this wikipedia entry.
Steeplejack
@West of the Rockies:
The Boogaloo Boys started wearing Hawaiian shirts, and apparently it spread among the far right.
Steeplejack
piratedan
@Steeplejack: Hell, they probably stole it/inspired by that old classic film The Warriors as they show a montage of the NYC gangs travelling to their big meeting. Pretty sure one of the groups sported a crappy Hawaiian shirt motif.
trollhattan
Thinking of those test pilot accounts of when their plane goes south during a flight, “Okay, I tried #1, tried #2, tried #3, tried #4, running out of numbers here.”
NotMax
@Steeeplejack
Lederhosen too constricting?
//
mrmoshpotato
SF(best record) @ AZ(worst record)
Top of 10
9-8
Madness.
raven
Fucking bullshit “Peacock Network.” There is no ability to tape so I have to get up @ 1:30 am to watch the hoop!
Steeplejack
@piratedan:
Apparently it started from jokes about “pig roasts” and “boog luaus.” See story at #11.
trollhattan
Confess “Norwegian destroys 400 hurdles world and Olympics records” was not on my 2021 bingo card.
Steeplejack
@raven:
I feel your pain. Simone Biles’s balance beam event is at 4:50 a.m. EDT. I’m sure they’ll rerun it a billion times, and I don’t need to see it live, but I’d like to see it spoiler-free and not wrapped in a bunch of emo commentator bullshit.
ETA: Jeez, I may actually stay up to watch it. Not like I’ve been getting a lot of solid sleep at night lately anyway.
raven
@Steeplejack: And there is almost no way to not find out.
trollhattan
@raven: This is the untold trap awaiting potential cord cutters. A lot of streaming services don’t even let you rewind in real time. Slo-mo? Fuggiddaboudit.
Fine for most regular teevee, sucks for sports.
raven
@piratedan: I liked The Wanderers better.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Too true. See my ETA.
raven
@trollhattan: Well youtube tv does and I had to pop $5 for this so up it is.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Fie on them. A proud garment they shall not be permitted to despoil.
Gunther Toody wore them with a sport coat. Now that’s stylin’.
;)
raven
@Steeplejack: God, I can hack this but I hope I don’t wake up for Simone!
raven
@NotMax: The old guys in the Wanderers wore em. Great scene when they drop the bowling ball on the dudes hand.
trollhattan
Ya goin’ to hell, buddy, no matter how many Suburbans you drive.
raven
Ricky Rubio is Ted Cruz with a man bun!
JaySinWa
TL;DR Maricopa County Board chair to AZ Senate: Publish and be damned.
https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1422289832416448534?s=20
Roger Moore
@Steeplejack:
A lot of venues like stadiums and amusement parks keep feral cats around to help keep rodents under control. They try to keep the cats from getting out when customers are around, but they are somewhere between tolerated and encouraged. I was a bit surprised this cat didn’t have its ear tipped. In any case, nothing terrible is going to happen to the cat.
Steeplejack
@raven:
I just want to get some closure on the whole soap opera.
Pam Keith did point out on Twitter that by dropping out of some events Biles contributed to every member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team getting a medal in some event.
raven
@Steeplejack: Yea, I don’t think it was all that bed.
NotMax
@raven
When I was (ostensibly) growing up we called that style cabana shirts. Hawaiian shirts tended more to depicting the botanical.
raven
@NotMax: I just bought a bunch of fishing style one’s because of my fucking covid gut
piratedan
@raven: one is set circa the early 60’s and the other is late 70s, different eras entirely and noted change in the city landscape socially. Just different movies but both revolving around gangs.
NotMax
@raven
Sailfish, swordfish or marlin? Please assure me not crappie.
;)
raven
@NotMax: All of them. . .and Ahi. It’s been nine years since we were there!
raven
@piratedan: Leave da kid alone. . .
NotMax
@raven
Slip on a pair of white deck shoes along with the shirt and you can saunter in to the nearest yacht club unchallenged.
;)
raven
@NotMax: I’m lookin and of rough these days. I don’t think I’d blend in.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Those are all old passwords.
NotMax
@raven
Nine years?!
Oh my.
raven
@NotMax: I know!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Oh this is too precious …
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anti-vaccine-groups-changing-dance-parties-facebook-avoid-detection-rcna1480
Hahahahaha what a pack of utter dimwits.
mrmoshpotato
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Umm….
“but he sounds drunk”
More like a litany of slapdick dumbfuckery.
ETA – and now YouTube is showing eye glitter ads!
NotMax
@Enhanced Voting Techniques
Some people never mature out of taking it as gospel there’s a monster under the bed.
Citizen Alan
@Steeplejack: GODDAMMIT!!! I’ve got 8 Hawaiian shirts and now I can’t wear them or people will think I’m a fucking Nazi?!?!
frosty
@mrmoshpotato: Nice one! There was a summer, maybe around 9th grade, when the local station played all the Marx Bros and WC Fields movies. I weep that my boys haven’t seen them: “But they’re in black and white!”
One day I will bar the doors to watch Dr. Strangelove.
raven
back to the rack. . . USA USA
frosty
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Those utter dimwits are fucking us over and killing kids under 12. I get more pissed off by the day.
mrmoshpotato
@Citizen Alan: Please condense that sentence! I want to nominate it for a rotating tag!
Steeplejack
@Citizen Alan:
Just leave the AR-15 at home. You’ll be fine.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Just wait till McGarrett and Wo Fat hear about the perverted Hawaiian shirts
frosty
@Citizen Alan:
Tonight is the first I’ve heard of it and I’m obsessive about the news. I think you’re safe. Just leave your SS death’s head badge in the drawer with the other collectibles. //
mrmoshpotato
@frosty:
If you want to really freak them out, tell them about silent movies with intertitles!
frosty
@mrmoshpotato:
WTF?? I can’t wear my eight Hawaiian shirts because people will think I’m a Nazi???
Is that short enough?
mrmoshpotato
@frosty: I don’t know! I don’t think the magical character number has ever been revealed!
NotMax
@frosty
“So are Oreos. Do you refuse to eat them?”
(Not to mention another even yummier cookie.)
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
So you’re why so many old movies are lost!
Taking “an appetite for film” a bit too literally there.
frosty
@mrmoshpotato:
You’re right! WG (All hail WG!!) only says “Ummm, that’s a bit too long for a rotating tag.”
NotMax
@mrmoshpotyato
The old ones slide down the gullet smoothly. 70mm is a bee-yatch to swallow.
;)
frosty
@mrmoshpotato:
Dammit, that needed a “like” button … or a LOL button. Nice.
Anotherlurker
I refuse to concede the wearing of the Hawaiian shirt to the Nazis. I don’t wear them often, but when I do, I look as sartorialy inept as the next guy.
For some MLB TV tech crews, a day game after a night game on a Saturday night/Sunday day, is Hawaiian Shirt Day.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
I hate
IllinoisHawaiian shirt NazisCaseyL
Read a long twitter thread by a woman who had a “mild” case of Covid, and now has debilitating Long Covid. So many people replied talking about having Long Covid themselves, or knowing others who do.
There is not yet enough data on breakthrough cases, whether getting a “mild” case post-vaccination, also risks developing Long Covid.
Great. I’d say it’s another reason to hate the GQP, but I hate them all so much already. Just saturated with hatred. If they all caught fire and burned for a year, it would not be enough.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Citizen Alan: Perhaps if you combined them with a custom ball cap saying “PUNCH NAZIS” on it, that would make it work? Or what sort of off-the-shelf hat would portray an unambiguous anti-Nazi message?
NotMax
Din-din gonna be a tad later than usual. Someone forgot to begin baking bread until very, very late in the afternoon.
;)
Steeplejack
Looks like (network) NBC will not show Simone Biles on the balance beam until 8:00 p.m. EDT (“prime time delay”). But the event can allegedly be streamed live on Peacock (free) or NBCOlympics.com (free). The balance beam starts at 4:50 a.m. EDT.
Craig
@raven:
Such a great movie. The Ducky Boys were some creepy dudes.
Martin
@Steeplejack: I don’t understand why Facebook, etc. don’t also flag groups for review by correlating membership. They know who were in the groups they banned, so if they see the same people show up in new groups, then have someone take a look at it.
Steeplejack
Just checked out NBCOlympics.com on the computer (Windows 10, Firefox). Live streaming works well; no fuss, no hassle. I watched a few minutes of men’s springboard diving. So I guess if I can motivate myself sufficiently I can see the balance beam event live and spoiler-free. ? Maybe a short nap is in order.
mrmoshpotato
Fun..
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: What’s getting sammiched by the bread, or is it a side?
Martin
@CaseyL: Lewis Hamilton (7 time F1 champion, possibly 8 time this season) got Covid last Dec and says he’s still suffering symptoms. He’s 36 and in better health/fitness than 99% of the human race.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Steeplejack:
JoyceH
What mainlanders call Hawaiian shirts, Hawaiians call Aloha shirts.
JPL
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: true.
I’m streaming the event, although I missed the goat.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@JPL:
you can go backwards – go to the 162:00 mark (see photo)
JPL
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Thank you
JPL
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Even knowing the result, watching that was difficult. Gotta say I got a tad teary eyed.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@trollhattan: YouTube TV let’s you rewind live TV IF you’ve added it to your DVR library which means it’s being recorded. And they give you unlimited space for your DVR library. Takes a little pre-planning to add every sports event you want to watch to your library so not as convenient as a cable DVR.
Low Key Swagger
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: Can you skip commercials?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Go read that quote again – they’ve fucked their own kids over with their woo and lying to themselves it wasn’t them with anti vac stuff.
Ohio Mom
When I read that right-wing nuts have appropriated Aloha/Hawaiian shirts, I wonder how Weird Al is taking this. He has a huge collection of the shirts and extremely good politics. And he’s extremely strategic (how else could someone make a mega-career out of paradox songs?).
Off the google though so don’t know what sort of luck I’ll have.
JustRuss
@Steeplejack: Nice. I never met Mr. Hackman, but I did stand next to him–not in a creepy way–for a couple minutes once. It was cool and kind of surreal.
J R in WV
@JoyceH:
I have several of them, all silk, from my one trip to HI. Aloha y’all~!
Hob
The cat video was frustrating to watch not just because the cat was clearly getting pretty anxious (even though it’s likely that cat was already familiar with the stadium and the crowds, no cat enjoys having to flee vigorously over and over again), but because as soon as it got to the edge of the field anyone could easily see it just wanted to leave the field… and yet those guys kept chasing it around and around until someone finally just opened the fucking door to let the cat go out, which it did.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Low Key Swagger: yes, you can.
I have youtubetv and I love it. Unlimited storage. And portable – I can use it at home on my flatscreen and desktop and on the road using my phone or tablet.