Figured after the latest fireworks, we could use a calm sanctuary where ABL can drink her beer in peace.
Also, too- Final Four tonight. Who we rooting for?
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Figured after the latest fireworks, we could use a calm sanctuary where ABL can drink her beer in peace.
Also, too- Final Four tonight. Who we rooting for?
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Elizabelle
Go VCU!
Although dang that they’re playing Butler, who I would otherwise root for.
Rooting for VCU-Kentucky final.
Punchy
Fireworks? Which thread needs the blogcop?
Anyone else rooting for injuries in the UK/UCant game?
Angry Black Lady
VCU!
Beer!
Liberal Sandlapper
VCU!!!
Love a good underdog story!
Yutsano
By my own constitutional decree I cannot in good conscience root for Huskies ever. Therefore Go Cats. And VCU if only because Butler’s been to this dance before.
Just Some Fuckhead
VCU, but it’ll be nice to see either VCU or Butler make it to the final. Ain’t it great it worked out that way?
stuckinred
@efgoldman: Me too!
maody
@efgoldman: Absotootly.
James E Powell
VCU because Shaka Smart is the coolest name in a very long time.
stuckinred
Anybody seen the Manatee? I needs help with my differential.
Malovich
Just to keep things even here and to help the economy…
http://i.imgur.com/757PM.png
A jobs ad for a ‘social media company’ for writers to ‘make up facts and statistics’ as long as they can ‘repeat specific talking points’.
I’m sure it’s just to stir up some excitement and dialogue in our country, eh?
From http://desmogblog.com/right-wingers-using-craigslist-to-recruit-trolls
cat48
@johncole
NATO renamed Operation Odessey Dawn. When they took over on Thursday, they stated it would be:
MAJeff
Butler. Cutest coach.
WaterGirl
@stuckinred: Manatee on open thread at 5:52. The open thread posted by john on April 2, 2011 11:46 am
Edit; I also posted there to tell him you were here.
joe from Lowell
The Red Sox.
stuckinred
@WaterGirl: thx
joe from Lowell
@cat48: Thank God.
Odyssey – a story about a leader who gets lost and ends up getting into all sorts of adventures all around the Mediterranean, losing numerous crew to many horrible monsters, until he finally finds his way home years later.
Dawn – the beginning of something.
So, that’s just fucking great. The Pentagon needs to find some English majors they can run these things by.
The Dangerman
VCU looks much, much faster (15-9 now) and I love their D.
JGabriel
Ringo?
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FlipYrWhig
@MAJeff:
You know that that’s gonna break John Calipari’s heart.
The Dangerman
OK, they are much faster cause they are going small, thus losing the boards. No rebounds, no rings.
MizB
I am not deterred by the Huskie Hate here. GO UCONN!!!!
Mark B
UConn is the best team left, and Kemba Walker is the best player. Of course, Calhoun is a cheater, but I had them picked to win it all before the tournament started and I see no reason to change my mind now. Cheaters never win is a lie.
Martin
FTFY!
Don’t give a shit about hoops, but in case the Yankees decide to bust in on college ball in their ceaseless quest for ever-dickish behavior, I thought I’d just get that out there preemptively.
And I’m almost done with all I can do this week on building my new fence. Last of the concrete just got poured. I finish up next weekend when the last of my parts gets shipped (fucking fuckety lumber fucking yard).
The good news is that I lost less than a pint of blood and my bruises collectively are less than one square foot in size (though the one on my forearm, where the gas post hole auger hit me after I struck some unknown concrete is a frightening combination of black, purple, and green. I’ve never seen my brown hair stand out in bright contrast to my skin before. My muscles are in full-out revolt as I raced the project up a day out of concern that it’d rain.
But it’s turning out fantastic so far, so I really have no complaints.
arguingwithsignposts
I’m rooting for both VCU and Butler and against the top dogs in the NCAA other bracket. So whatever.
ETA: @Martin – at least your reactor core hasn’t melted down yet. the sea water bath would be a bitch. :)
Mr Stagger Lee
I got to go with Butler though I won’t lose sleep if VCU wins. I just don’t want to see a dirty program like Kentucky win, and Connecticut well I prefer their women’s team.
gbear
This evening I’m rooting for the original New York Dolls. Picked up a used CD called Great Big Kiss. What a sloppy mess. I wish I would have been that cool in 1973.
Pet question: How long should I give a cat to adapt to being an only cat? Her other cat buddy passed away two months ago and she doesn’t seem to like being a solo act. She’s very vocal and wants attention but it’s not really my attention she wants. I’m vacillating between wanting to give her more time to get used to being alone and wanting to go get her a new buddy (once again making me Captain Duncel here).
Triassic Sands
There’s a distressing article in the Guardian about job center employees are tricking people into violating rules so they can be penalized and denied jobless benefits (at least for a time). According to the whistleblower (aka traitor) it’s a cost saving measure. I wonder if that is a product of who is in power in GB or just a sign that conservatism (aka bad government) is running amok outside the US too?
You’ve really got to be a lousy human being to do stuff like that. Or if you’re a Republican, I guess it’s just patriotism. No government succeeds like the government that fails. (I think the young Bobby Dylan said that.)
Libby
Rooting for the underdogs. Always. Although oddly, I had a feeling when I filled out my bracket UCONN would win, but I didn’t pick them. Wanted Wisconsin to win because the state jump started the workers’ movement.
Larkspur
@MizB: OT, mostly, but I have a good friend who knows nearly everything there is to know about the NFL and nothing about basketball, either college or pro. She once confessed that she had been thoroughly confused by UCONN’s repeated appearance in the Final Four, because she thought it was supposed to be a U.S. competition, not U.S. and Canadian, and anyway, how did the University of the Yukon get such a good team to begin with?
Joe Lisboa
Pulling for VCU tonight, despite Adorno being largely right about underdogs in general: “In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.”
I guess that makes the NCAA analogous to late capitalism, which actually works now that I think about it.
R-Jud
@Triassic Sands:
Thatcherism, baby. It’s 1979 all over again over here.
Cacti
Anybody but John Calipari.
Then again, if Calipari does win, it will only be a few years before the NCAA strips it away.
mr. whipple
Butler/UConn.
*uck Kentucky.
General Stuck
gO {{{KENTUCKY)))
All you haters can bite me.
mr. whipple
Too much, too soon?
In my teens I had one of these.
Mnemosyne
@gbear:
We were able to tell with Keaton after Boris died because he just got more and more agitated the longer he was a solo cat. I think we were only able to wait a month or two before he drove us crazy enough to get him a kitten.
It sounds like your cat has already decided: she doesn’t like being an only cat, and she wants a cat buddy. When you go looking, be sure to mention to the rescue or shelter people that you want a cat that likes other cats. You’d hate to get a second cat that doesn’t want a buddy.
mr. whipple
When did coaches start being kids?
joe from Lowell
@joe from Lowell:
No no no, wait: set me up again.
THE LIBYAN REBELS, YOU RACIST FUCK!
;-)
MizB
@Larkspur-I can see how that could happen if someone “heard UCONN” & never saw their name in print. I’m so old I can remember when Dom Perno was the coach & Corney Thompson was the star player.
WaterGirl
@gbear: You may want to check out the new video werebear has up on youtube.
She describes three different kinds of cats, and if I recall correctly, it’s the omega that likes other cat buddies. I found the whole video really interesting!
FoxinSocks
@gbear
I second what Mnemosyne has to say. Your kitty needs a friend. Cats have this reputation for being solitary creatures, but most of them are surprisingly social.
Corner Stone
Fuck her.
Grow the fuck up. This obsession of yours is pathetic. -ABL
stuckinred
Did you all know that 80% of Differential Pinion Shaft Lock Bolts are broken upon removal?
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Anybody but Kentucky or UConn. Mike Wise said it best today in the (com)Post:
The entire piece is worth a read:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/at-the-final-four-plenty-of-reason-to-root-for-vcu-or-butler/2011/04/01/AF1BBCKC_story.html?hpid=z1
stuckinred
@mr. whipple: Did you see Shaka taking charges and diving for loose balls at the half? Fucking great!
FoxinSocks
BTW-Spent most of the day at an adoption event, chatting people up about a certain Jack Russell in West Virginia. No leads so far, but I’m getting the word out.
Corner Stone
@stuckinred: I did. But you didn’t ask me.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Her.
WaterGirl
@stuckinred: I know that, but only because I clicked your link on an earlier thread. :-)
@FoxinSocks: it’s great that you did that. Thank you.
MikeJ
There’s a guy named Veal playing? Does he comment at FDL?
stuckinred
@Corner Stone: Hell I asked everybody, here’s not too great video. Ironman Drill
gbear
@Mnemosyne: Thanks for that good advice. I kept hoping that Halley would like being an only cat but she doesn’t seem to be going that direction.
@WaterGirl: I think my Halley is a gamma. The cat that passed away was definitely the alpha in the house.
stuckinred
@MikeJ: You know THAT was the final blow for me over there.
robertdsc-PowerBook
No interest in college BB. Playing Homefront on the PS3.
Elizabelle
VCU up; first time since first half
I want VCU but want both these teams to win
chauncey1186
Go Bulldogs!!!!!!
Been many a year since I attended the great Pumpkin Sacrifice and lobbed one off the top of Ross Hall. ‘Course that was also where I (almost) caught my first felony for stealing composites and charters from “frat row”.
ahhh…memories….
Corner Stone
@stuckinred: I busted more knuckles by the time I was 19 than I can count.
Specifically why I haven’t done it in some certain amount of years. Always needed special knowledge or special tool to do it right.
Had a grease friend of mine who was mechanic for his dad’s race team. That little mofo could turn a wrench. Hell of a good car thief, too. So I’m told.
I think he ended up picking a fight with the wrong guys and is sadly no longer with us.
WaterGirl
@gbear: Hmm. Maybe it was gamma, not omega? (I hope there’s not a quiz from WereBear.) I will have to watch the video again.
My cocker spaniel (sadly, no longer with us) missed his buddy so much when he died that he developed a limp and a terrible skin rash. The vet wasn’t able to do much with either problem, but the limp disappeared the day after I brought home a dog buddy for him, and the rash disappeared soon after.
it sounds like you are reading your cat right, and i hope you are able to get a new buddy for your remaining kitty.
stuckinred
@Corner Stone: This special tool for this job looks strangely like a bolt with a 1/8 hole drilled in it to guide a extra long drill bit and two easy outs.
trixie larue
@joe from Lowell:
Go Bosox!
gbear
@mr. whipple: Oooh cool.
In 1974 the band that I’d been in since high school was sort of adopted by a singer who was into The Dolls, Iggy and Rod Stewart (when Rod was still very cool). We were playing some Dolls covers, but about half of our set was songs by The Stones, The J. Geils Band, and Free. It was a bitchin’ four-piece band.
I got freaked out at the idea of becoming a glam band (I was SOOOO closeted at the time, and back then even playing glam didn’t mean gay was cool in the Minneapolis). I really regret not having the courage to stick with that band. We were playing at the places that became the haunts for The Replacements and that scene about 5 years later.
I coulda been a contendah…
The Dangerman
Both teams as advertised; both very well coached. Still love VCU’s halfcourt D, almost like they are playing with 6 on a side. All over the place.
stuckinred
@efgoldman: one hundred and sixty-two fricking games!
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@stuckinred:
Oh, that doesn’t sound good. Was it one of those times that you found out it broke because you heard something go SPROING!!! and parts rattled around where you can’t see them? So you don’t know how they should go back together?
I hate it when that happens.
stuckinred
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Nah, this is deep inside the differential and the pin itself is doing it’s job even though it’s broken. The problem is that I need to take the axles out in order to replace the seals and wheel bearings so I’m in a trick bag.
Elizabelle
This might end up a better and tighter game than the final
stuckinred
@Elizabelle: Or the thugcoach fest coming up next.
gbear
@stuckinred: @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Duct tape. Just sayin’…
alwhite
Its basketball – I’m rooting for a giant meteor. :)
stuckinred
@gbear: Here’s a vid of what I’m doing.
stuckinred
@efgoldman: gotcha, this is my favorite thing in sports.
gbear
@stuckinred: Best of luck. I’m going to guess that you don’t get to do this while sitting on a stool in a clean, warm shop.
stuckinred
@efgoldman: Actually I’m working on my 66 Chevy Fleetside but the drive train is pretty much the same.
The Dangerman
Wow; how many bunnies has VCU bricked?
stuckinred
@gbear: Nah, I work in the street in front of the crib.
stuckinred
@efgoldman: They’re gassed but goddamn they were fun.
Mr Stagger Lee
The Butler stole the glass slipper! I think they will take on Kentucky(cue in the theme song from Justified)
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@gbear:
Here’s all you need to know about repairing stuff:
If it doesn’t stick, but it should: DUCT TAPE
If it sticks, but it shouldn’t: WD-40
And my dad’s two (contradictory) rules of car repair:
1 If it works, don’t f*** with it.
2 As long as we’ve got it opened up, we might as well replace everything.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: And the golden rule
NO STP IN THE GARAGE, KEEP THAT SH** OUT OF HERE!
Mark B
@stuckinred
I’ve done a similar job on an MG, although it’s considerably different in the details. Those cupped shims tend to wear out, so you replace them to remove the play from the differential.
burnspbesq
@General Stuck:
The only hater that matters is the NCAA Committee on Infractions. They will catch up with you eventually, the same way they caught up with UMass and Memphis.
Y’all should never have run Tubby off. You’ll get the death penalty this time, and there will be no Jamal Mashburn and the Unforgettables to bring the program back. All you’ll have left is Ashley Judd.
mr. whipple
@gbear:
I never wanted to play that stuff, so simple it’s boring, but liked it :)
General Stuck
@burnspbesq:
Fellate me.
burnspbesq
@General Stuck:
Not if yours was the last dick on earth.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq:
In some circles, this is not exactly a negative.
stuckinred
@Mark B: Yea and I have to track down where the giant gear tooth that was sitting in the bottom of the case came from!
Arclite
Was routing for VCU to win…
SO UCONN COULD HAVE AN GUARANTEED WIN ON MONDAY!!
GO HUSKIES!!
(UConn, Class of ’92)
General Stuck
More than enough.
GO CATS!!
Arclite
@MizB:
At least one person in this thread has brains.
Mark B
@stuckinred
The job that people usually do on the British cars, besides replacing worn out parts, is usually to change the ring and pinion in order to get a higher ratio for more comfortable highway driving. It’s not for the faint hearted. Luckily I haven’t had to do that job, since it requires quite a bit of skill to get the clearances right.
RE: the missing gear tooth. Probably left there by the last person who fixed the differential and didn’t clean it up. It’s happened to me before working on old cars, finding an extra part or fragment lurking in the bottom of the oilpan.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@MAJeff: And, as already mentioned, the coolest name.
General Stuck
@efgoldman:
Play nice with a dookie? teehee, what you smokin’, me and burns been shucking each other for a couple years now on B ball. This year KY is in the final four, and Dook got their perfumed asses handed to them, bwa haha hahahaha.
MizB
@Arclite-“Elvis voice” thank you, thank you very much!
stuckinred
“COULD have a guaranteed win”
Sheeesh.
Svensker
@Larkspur:
I know football but nothing about baseball. The first baseball game I got taken to I wondered why all the umps were named AL.
Yutsano
@Svensker: I have to say the Yukon story made me giggle, if for no other reason than my ex is from there.
gbear
@mr. whipple: I’m still a HUGE Mott The Hoople fan. Rock and Roll Queen was always my band’s last song of the night. I’ve got a reel-to-reel of the band playing at the C.C. Tap (now C.C. Club) in early 74. I need to find someone to burn it to disc for me.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@stuckinred: Sorry to hear that man.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@efgoldman: Adolph Rupp is spinning in his grave. The end.
MikeJ
@efgoldman:
Not if you ask the guy who does overnights. I promise you he’s underpaid and has nothing better to do.
stuckinred
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Ah, it’s no biggie, I decided to tackle this knowing full well it might not go well.
mr. whipple
Ouch.
MikeJ
@efgoldman: Hail brother! I also was that guy. And I agree, my roommates who had better dayparts were underpaid too.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
Even in the SEC, she’s a defensive liability. She couldn’t guard me.
mr. whipple
Heeeheeee. Kentucky had to bench the goon w/foul trouble. UConn builds a nice lead.
Ruckus
@stuckinred:
Jobs that big on equipment that old almost always have ten things wrong when it seemed like there was only one. And you never find them all until it’s 8pm on a Sat or Sun and you have to drive to work on Mon. It’s like watching a crap flower bloom, it just gets worse as more pedals open up.
stuckinred
@Ruckus: Yea, this is my hobby truck so it’s cool.
MikeJ
@efgoldman: AC/CHR for me.
bemused senior
You male chauvinists! I’m rooting for the Stanford Women. (Fear the Tree!)
But VCU for the men.
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: If you’ve got something to say then why not just put it in a comment? It’s pretty chickenshit to come along after and edit it into my comment.
Showing me you’re The Man? Well, you ain’t the man and you ain’t never gonna be.
I don’t have anything to say to you. You clearly can’t stop thinking about me though… as evidenced by your 9 hours of maniacal commenting replete with “ABL is garbage” and other assorted ridiculousness. Just grow the fuck up. -ABL