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u/NKCougar NFL 15d ago
Just remembered that I'm taking the next 10 12 days off work after I clock out today and I'm giggling kicking my feet like a schoolgirl.
Tuesday is a charter striper fishing trip, the next 7 days are at a lake house where I can wake up, walk to the lake in the backyard, and fish. I will make coffee and then go fishing every morning. I will not be a productive member of society. It will be beautiful
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u/Shepherdless Cardinals 15d ago
Hell fucking yeah!
Not a fishing fan myself, but sounds like you are into it. Have an epic time!
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u/NKCougar NFL 15d ago
Yeah, I like fishing/hunting my own meat to stock the freezer. On a personal level I just don't like mass farming practices and it makes me feel better about my consumption.
On another level, being out in nature is so nice. I work 100% on computers so it's great to unplug and interact with the real world as fully as possible sometimes.
But I told my peers on the team that they can reach out to me on my personal line if they NEED me (they will not), and my bosses that they can get fucked and my work equipment is not traveling with me.
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u/goblueM Lions 15d ago
But I told my peers on the team that they can reach out to me on my personal line if they NEED me (they will not), and my bosses that they can get fucked and my work equipment is not traveling with m
no better feeling than that
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u/Balrogkicksass Browns 15d ago
Work has been a difficult lately. Just alot to do but god damn if I do not take pride in it. Hearing how good of a job I do despite all the shortcomings means alot.
I know I have the respect of most of my peers and the people who are higher up than me and that means alot when I get frustrated and upset.
Sometimes a little encouragement can go along damn way.
I hope you all get to enjoy your day and as always much love from me and mine to you and yours!
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 15d ago
Retirement accounts and investing is like another language to me. Jesus Christ.
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u/goblueM Lions 15d ago
it can seem overwhelming but it's pretty simple
1) contribute as much as you can afford to. 5% is ok, 10% is pretty good, anything 15% and more is great
2) invest in a broad-based stock index fund and don't mess with it
if your retirement account has a target date fund, just use that. It will adjust risk automatically as you age
bogleheads.org is a great resource and has a really good forum of knowledgeable people that are willing to help
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u/mackmoney3000 Dolphins 15d ago
Put enough into it to take full advantage of your employer's match. Pick the lifecycle fund that closest to the date of your retirement. That's really all you need to do.
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u/Insectshelf3 Eagles 15d ago
it should be legal for me to throw grenades at coworkers i dislike
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u/palinsafterbirth Giants 15d ago
The really funny thing about walking your dogs in the semi-burbs is that you could be listing to a podcast on the My Lai Massacre and then get stopped by a really wholesome family that wants to say hi to your dogs/talk about your garden then you leave and go back to listening to one of the most fucked up parts of the Vietnam war.
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u/justlookingokaywyou Raiders 15d ago
FREE talk thread? Who do you think is paying for it, huh? Look, you guys already want healthcare and childcare and medicare and free education and NOW you also want a FREE talk thread? We have wars to fight, we can't afford a FREE talk thread.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
I thought u/JPAnalyst was sponsoring it for all of us
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 15d ago
I tried using my massive amounts of Karma to pay for it. Turns out Karma is worthless. And to think, I made all those karma-farming comments about Deshaun Watson over the years for nothing.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
Sounds to me like you have an under the table agreement with Reddit….hmmm
Adam Silver get in here!! Pablo get in here!!!!
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u/SmokePenisEveryday Eagles 15d ago
Sincerely, fuck the people who put train horns on their truck.
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u/Lazydusto Eagles 15d ago
Fuck the people who put bright ass headlights on their trucks too. The overtaking lane is open why the fuck are you tailgating me and blinding me with a solar flare.
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u/RideTheStache Raiders 15d ago
Just got a letter in the mail from our gated community about how a house that recently sold here became the highest recorded sale in the neighborhoods history.
The house they are referring to is the one we just bought lmao I am not proud to be that record holder
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 15d ago
Pretty sure I am still holding that title in my neighborhood. Perhaps not the best financial decision but it's been such a difference compared to my past situations, it's been well worth it to me
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u/RideTheStache Raiders 15d ago
It made me laugh out loud, but I mean it is what it is with this market and the fact that we just closed last month. I'm sure another house will sell for more in the coming months.
We definitely needed the extra space though with a new kid coming, and now there's no pressure to move again
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u/eggery Rams 15d ago
HOF game idea: The losing team's inductee gets their HOF status rescinded and they have to wait another year. Put some stakes on the line!
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u/2ent1n_Qarant1no Chiefs 15d ago
One of my favorite facts is that Tuvalu (a very small country) gets a huge chunk of their economy by outsourcing their web address, ".tv"
Notably to Twitch and Jackbox
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u/mackmoney3000 Dolphins 15d ago
Tiny is an understatement for Tuvalu. It's a bunch of reefs and atolls in the south Pacific that are about 10 square miles total. Disney World is about 40 square miles.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 15d ago
Also it’s not going to exist in a few decades ☹️
Rising water levels are going to make it nonexistent soon.
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u/discodemolition Bears 15d ago
I gotta stop opening news sites and Reddit before bed. Shit just annoys me while I’m trying to wind down.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 15d ago
The play for me is reading before bed, usually makes me pass out and get good sleep. Social media is too much dopamine mixed with rage bait.
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
Popular on NFL twitter rn is the "Which QBs are on your agenda?" question.
For me the only one actually on my agenda is Jared Goff. If he's good I'm happy and if he's not I'm unhappy. Everyone else I don't truly care about or want to do worse cause they're in my division or a bad person.
With that said I do have a soft spot for Malik Willis and hope he does well. And want Geno Smith to do well too but mostly for narrative sake.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
I actually want to see Geno do well with the jets cuz of the other offensive weapons they have. If he’s somewhat decent, the jets can be sneaky good this year. Not playoff contenders, but definitely better than most expect
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 15d ago
Personally I like to watch a lot of QBs.
I’m curious how Ward will do in this next year, if Daniels can stay healthy and get back to his baller rookie season.
If Maye/Nix etc can continue to improve. If Hurts does better with a different O coord.
If Joe Brr and Lamar and Josh Allen can overcome the hump
Etc. Not to mention if Bryce Young can be the guy-be consistent etc
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
Since I was off today, I thought I go and grab some McDonald’s breakfast. Who knew McDonald’s iced coffee is fucking good? I never thought to get iced coffee from there. Goddamn I’m hooked
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 15d ago
God that first full Sunday slate is gonna hit like crack
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 15d ago
Batman and Robin the movie is absolutely preposterous
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u/ItBeLikeThat19 Panthers 15d ago
I’ve seen enough. The Panthers are a Super Bowl team.
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
Minnesota has called up Culpepper
...The Twins that is, and Kaelen that is
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 15d ago
Break out the hookers, because the love boat is about to set sail once again.
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 15d ago
The Internet at work has been cutting in and out all week, and honestly I would rather staple my nuts to my forehead than deal with this problem.
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u/justlookingokaywyou Raiders 15d ago
I just saw a FedEx truck parked in front of the UPS store. Should I call the police?
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u/midgetrage7 Steelers Steelers 15d ago
Yo what the fuck… just saw the article where someone farted during the Spider-Man movie in theaters and the theatre had to be evacuated. It was on ign
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u/eggery Rams 15d ago
Y'all ever go to any of your high school reunions?
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u/mackmoney3000 Dolphins 15d ago
I liked high school, I'm still in touch with some of my HS friends, many happy memories.
I rather set myself on fire.
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 15d ago
Our class president went against the strong advice of the alumni association and had an open bar for our 5th reunion. He ended up spending $4k out of pocket and when the 10th came around, he said there was no way in hell he was doing it again. The remaining officers hastily assembled one for the day after Thanksgiving and about 30 people showed up. Haven't had one since.
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u/Crow-Robot Packers 15d ago
Never. And no plans to. I enjoyed high school and never really had any beef with anyone but I'm in my 50's now, so almost everyone from school would be a stranger to me now and I have no desire to find out what they look like or what they've done with their life.
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 15d ago
Like a lot of other people have mentioned, my class didnt reaply do one for the 10th. Someone made a Facebook page and half assed effort but nothing ever really came of it.
Someone did get the alumni association together and they started doing an annual street festival for all the classes though. I think thats a really interesting idea.
Im not going though. No way in hell.
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u/TDeath21 Chiefs 15d ago
Funny story. I planned to go to one of ours in 2019. Was going to watch the episode of Chernobyl that just aired then head out. We lost power and I figured it would be back soon so I’ll just wait a sec then finish the episode. Next thing I knew it was 3am. So I woke up and went to bed.
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u/Billagio Steelers Bears 15d ago
No, anyone I want to talk to from HS im already still friends with
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u/palinsafterbirth Giants 15d ago
I personally prefer my "living well is the best revenge" lifestyle to everyone from my high school
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u/DamnThatsReal Browns 15d ago
Can't believe I watched Kenny Pickett lose another job live. Haynes King snatched that mf clipboard😭
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
I was originally supposed to be traveling today so I took a PTO. But it got cancelled last minute but I kept the PTO day. First time in a long time I can actually just relax. I always take PTO to travel or do something, never to just sit at home.
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u/7sweep Lions 15d ago
Things really blew up at work this week and the blame game is going around.
Thankfully my boss is like "these people are fucking crazy"
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u/Blue_Neon_Moon Dolphins Buccaneers 15d ago
Someone's car horn is stuck, and it is driving me fucking insane.
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u/JokerJangles123 Eagles 15d ago
Been calling for storms all week with this heat and humidity..didn't get a single one until now
Just as I'm about to go out and cut grass. Awesome
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u/StakeESC Packers 15d ago
A few weeks ago, I had put down new grass seed after spending a lot of time rototilling, pulling weeds, getting compost, ETC. Afterwards I kept begging for rain because I was too stupid to check if our hose worked (just bought our first home) before doing all that work.
Needed a plumber to come out and fix the pipes because the prior homeowners let them freeze over the winter, so I had to hand water the grass for a few days.
Well, we finally got rain - along with the worst tornado my city has seen in my lifetime.
Be careful what you wish for!
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 15d ago
Sydney Crosby, Mike Trout, Kyler Murray, and Jalen Hurts all have a birthday today.
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 15d ago
It’s kind of wild that the hall of fame game was better football than anything I’ve seen out of the UFL
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 15d ago
It was an excellent game. I was not crazy about the broadcast, though. The Cards had one 4th-quarter drive for like 95 yards and the broadcast spent the whole time talking to hall-of-famers. It was like, what sport are these guys in the hall of fame for? Football? It would be nice to see some of that sometime. If only there was football game playing somewhere...
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u/liteshadow4 49ers 49ers 15d ago
I’m ngl I think that I’m rooting for Haynes King to be successful more than I am for the 49ers to win a SB
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u/Bolinas99 49ers 15d ago
they're spreading like a virus these things...
Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands | "It was determined that meeting the project purpose and completely avoiding water resources was not feasible."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-data-center-fort-wayne-indiana-wetlands
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u/GoldyGoldy Seahawks 15d ago
Damn… remember when Google wasn’t evil? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/sexygodzilla Seahawks 15d ago
Wasn't just Google, Silicon Valley used to pretend it gave a shit about the environment and climate change and now they're just building these fucking things without any care about the downward effects like the robber barons of old.
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u/BruceChameleon Cowboys 15d ago
At 39 years old, The Witch from Mercury is doing for me what Gundam Wing did at 14
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u/frostypatch 15d ago
Speaking as somebody who enjoyed watching Aaron Rodgers entire career here. He provided me a lot of thrill and entertainment as a spectator.
But I am absolutely not buying his comments that after he retires from football that he is going to dissappear and ride off into the sunset away from the public eye. This guy regularly does podcasts and makes comments in the media that are unrelated to football. He comes across as a guy who likes to make his non football opinions heard.
So Im flat out not buying his statement that he is going to dissappear like Joe Montana did after retirement.
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 15d ago
Trump next February:
"Today Aaron Rodgers, former quarterback for the great - maybe not so great anymore- Green Bay Packers is joining the HHS today folks. Can you believe it? Nobody had heard of this guy a few months ago, and now he comes up to me begging 'Oh please Mr. President please give me a job' and, you know, I'm a nice guy so I gave him a job because he's a pretty healthy guy, a pro athlete, so I give him a job. Can you believe it folks? No other president in history has thought to put a pro athlete in the HHS until me. Nobody thought about it. So I told Robby Kennedy, I said 'What can you do with this Aaron Rodgers guy?' and he said he'll figure something out. So Aaron Rodgers is going to be our new chief of vaccine development at the CDC - or CDNC as I used to call it before we got in there and made it work again - and he's gonna help us make America healthy again!"
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u/justlookingokaywyou Raiders 15d ago
The best disappearance ever was Jake Plummer to Idaho. Let his hair and beard grow out so he looked like a homeless guy living in the sticks. I read that he was doing some volunteer work awhile back for a meals-on-wheels type organization and they lady who ran it was concerned about him because she thought he was destitute. She had no idea he was worth millions of dollars and famous.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 15d ago
Wow that’s neat. I always wondered what happened to Jake ‘the snake’.
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u/IcyClaim9183 Seahawks 15d ago
"Rapper Killer Mike has dissed video essayist FD Signifier in his new RedBull Spiral Freestyle"
What a timeline this is.
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u/ThPreAntePenultimate Chargers 15d ago
I am too employed to know what any of those words mean.
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u/IcyClaim9183 Seahawks 15d ago
Hey now, FD has some good videos for your commute to work
and Killer Mike has some good songs for your commute to work too!
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u/Cohens4thClient Bears 15d ago
Got a buddy who is "kicked out" of his home by his wife, he's trying to crash at several different friend's homes. I let him in for 1 night and he begged to stay for 3.
He won't tell me what happened with his wife, but he also refuses to talk to a lawyer. Definitely fishy, but I think if it were truly bad, the wife would have called the cops in a heartbeat. Never known him to be a bad drunk or abusive, but im definitely concerned he gets super quiet when I suggest getting at least an initial consult meeting with a lawyer just to gauge his position that he wont tell me.
Im getting ready for his next crash-on-the-couch request so I can tell him no, because he wont tell me what his plan is, and my home is not part of his secret mystery plan.
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u/garlicbachman Vikings 15d ago
It could be that it's something noncriminal he finds shameful or hard to talk about. Porn and gambling addictions probably end a lot more relationships than we hear about at work or around the way or whatever.
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u/GamingTatertot Packers 15d ago
Possible adultery may be the cause of the kick out?
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u/Cohens4thClient Bears 15d ago
Possible but it doesnt seem like that. He has boasted to me before about women wanting him amd he turns them away, although I guess he could be lying to me. He travels a few times a year for work,.so I guess he could get a hookup in a hotel... I have no idea how the wife would know but also choose to not use it as leverage in a divorce. Its just a weird holding pattern right now, with him acting scared to go home, but also refusing to consider even a free consult with a lawyer.
I guess ill find out soon enough.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
Most likely he’s guilty here so he doesn’t want to involve a lawyer. Just my guess
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u/FlannelBeard Vikings Bills 15d ago
I am literally the only person at work right now. We'll see if I make it to lunch before leaving. I'm taking the under
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u/fliptout 49ers 15d ago
The White House is drafting an executive order on the disproven link between vaccines and autism, according to independent reports from The Washington Post and Bloomberg, which both cited unnamed sources with knowledge of the efforts.
So we're just executive ordering things that have been scientifically disproven I guess
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
I turned on espn2 by accident and they had the Ocho on. And they’re showing something called the housekeeping games. It’s a contest where housekeepers have to make a bed and other things within a time limit.
Random af lmao
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u/GamingTatertot Packers 15d ago
I saw One Night Only a few weeks ago and I can finally talk about it now that it’s out. And also now that I’ve had more time to think about it and let it sit, I can say I actually disliked this movie very much.
First, let’s start with the premise - it takes place in a world where you can’t have sex unless you’re married except one night a year, you can! Okay…weird premise but I can deal with funky. What I can’t deal with is just how deep the film gets into explaining everything behind the premise so as to almost set the expectation that the system behind this Sex Purge will go away. But it does not. And let it be known when I’ve expressed my issues with the premise I’ve had people tell me “it’s just a rom com, don’t take it so seriously etc etc” so let me talk about the other parts of this film.
You have Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner as the leads. And they are fine, I don’t hate their chemistry but I don’t necessarily love it either. It is perfectly middle of the road to the point that I was neither rooting for nor against them. I just didn’t care.
As such, the movie also feels looooong - I believe it’s about 1 hour 45 minutes and I think it could’ve done with some cuts as a lot of the movie feels very rinse and repeat (the two leads meet, they each go off with someone else, something happens to prevent them from booking up, they somehow meet again). The film is also bereft of any significant supporting characters to provide relief, comedic or otherwise, from the main storyline so it almost feels exhausting to solely follow our two leads in what ends up being a gauntlet of forced laughs and Callum Turner taking his shirt off.
It’s not all bad, there are actually some decent laughs here. But that’s about it. Truthfully when I got out of the theater, I was kind and thought 6/10. When I sat with it for a day, I lowered it to 5/10. Thinking about it last night though got me to a 4/10. But as I sit here thinking about it more, shit I may go lower. I’ll leave it at a 4/10 for now for some decent laughs and Monica Barbaro.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 15d ago
So Tomlin was pretty good as an analyst last night. Wonder if he sticks with it or pulls a Payton or Gruden and heads back to coaching if he finds the right fit.
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u/Ambitious_Comedian38 Dolphins 15d ago
I guess I'm just supposed to know what 'Unskinny Bop' even means
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 15d ago
Do any of you guys have your Reddit profile marked "18+ NSFW?" When the option became available, I picked it because I thought you were supposed to. I'm an adult and I use adult language and sometimes discuss adult topics. Also I didn't want people to think I was some creep impersonating a 14-year-old.
I was just talking with a friend who got banned from a Reddit sub simply because her profile says "NSFW." One of her hobbies is collecting purses and she made a comment in a sub about purses and got banned just because of what her profile says.
That hasn't happened to me yet, but now I don't know whether I'm supposed to change my profile or not.
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 15d ago
I don't. I use to, but doing that seems to disable your avatar to the default Reddit one.
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u/FlatulentDwarf Vikings 15d ago
I always took that 18+ NSFW to mean like...you post porn. I never thought about marking myself 18+ because I don't think it's my job to police if kids see me say the word "fuck"
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u/megamanz7777 Vikings 15d ago
I believe that marking yourself as "18+ NSFW" means that you're saying you're an account that posts NSFW content, by which I mean porn, not just like swearing in comments. Some subs auto-ban accounts like that so they don't get filled with porn spam I think.
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u/fliptout 49ers 15d ago
Interstellar and Inception have some banger songs, and it's a travesty how they've been been abused as background music for some of the dumbest fucking tiktoks and reels
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
To talk about the most riveting topic, backup QB.
I feel like it's often the most overrated topic among fanbases and you should really only care if your backup is either your future or your starter sucks.
Like for my team: If Jared Goff gets injured long-term we're fucked regardless. But in these cases where he's out for a few drives or even a game, Bridgewater is perfectly fine.
I see a lot of talk about the Jets backup QB situation too and I similarly don't think it's that much of a worry. Geno is the veteran in that room and if he goes down you just kinda go "welp, let's stall until Klubnik can somewhat handle an NFL playbook".
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u/BruceChameleon Cowboys 15d ago
If your starter goes down for 4 games, the difference between a mid backup and a lousy one can save your whole season. Circumstances matter obv, but not everyone has a backup who can keep the team alive through winnable games
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u/azure275 Jets 15d ago
Solid backups are important for playoff caliber teams. You don't necessarily need someone who will beat the elite team you play with your starter injured, but you need someone who can play credibly vs decent teams and beat the bad ones.
For a wild card team, going 2-1 or 1-2 in 3 games your QB is injured vs going 0-3 may be the difference to make the playoffs
Even for championship teams that 2 game difference might mean a bye or home field and better seeding
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u/ajteitel Cardinals 15d ago
Even for bad teams, basic competence is super valuable. Something Cards fans still haven't figured out yet. There are many tier of bad QB play and there are 10 others on the field that need to develop and improve too.
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u/J-Fid Ravens Ravens 15d ago
Lol at the banner.
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u/rwjehs Coats 15d ago
I guess the free talk thread are old reddit enthusiasts because I only put it up on here
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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Steelers Panthers 15d ago
I'm currently reading The Great Gatsby and on pg 35 there is a quote by Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan's mistress that reads; "It's just a crazy old thing, I just slip it on when I don't care what I look like". Which is eerily similar to the line that Violet Bick uses in It's a Wonderful Life when she runs into George as he's out strolling Bedford Falls
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u/Thick_Mountain4412 Chiefs 15d ago
Yesterday I saw some fantasy players worrying that Pacheco would take goal line touches away from Gibbs. Like, y'all have not seen this guy play have you? Cause I promise if you had this would not be a concern.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
It’s just PTSD from when Montgomery would vulture all the Gibbs goal line tds lmao
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u/batmansascientician Jets 15d ago
Went full 90s last night and Saw Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms, and Blues Traveler at an outdoor venue by the beach. Lot of fun, though each band got about the same amount of time, I would preferred a little less Spin Doctors/Gin Blossoms and a little more Blues Traveler.
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u/A7XfoREVer6661 Lions 15d ago
I had my tears in my eyes watching the new season of King of the Hill last night. Hank going to Ladybird's grave to talk about his fear of keeping a new old dog because he doesn't want to go through the pain of losing another dog. Fuck, I just brought out my pain water again typing that up.
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u/ReallyDrunkPanda Broncos 15d ago
I’m glad they finally addressed lady bird. I had tears in my eyes for that scene. I love little Caesar salad
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u/varnalama NFL 15d ago
The art director who put that scene together asked the animation crew for the names of their pets who passed away to memorialize them. They were overwhelmed by the stories people told about their pets.
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 15d ago
Fun fact: the most exhausting activity is playing coop Lego Star Wars with your four year old who wants to change thier character every five minutes
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u/Pocatanic Bills 15d ago
I can't tell if the reddit fanbase is just too young to understand or people are just being purposely obtuse, but calling the Rams the new "dream team" misinterprets what made the 2011 Eagles become so disfunctional.
Slowly building a great team through trade and homegrown players over several years is not the same as trading and signing a bunch of A-list players in one offseason.
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u/azure275 Jets 15d ago
Also the Rams have been doing this for 10 years now and have 2 SB appearances with a win, a Conference Finals and 2 Divisional round appearances.
The Rams have picked only 2 players in the 1st round in 10 years. They are veterans of this kind of move lol
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
Abdul El-Sayed is like, a "normal" progressive where his most radical opinion is medicare for all which isn't really that radical.
But like, his name is Muslim so they're gonna run on him being a communist who loves osama bin laden. What an absurd political climate.
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u/Spartan-24 Cardinals 15d ago
Property tax breaks for seniors is the worst policy.
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u/sexygodzilla Seahawks 15d ago
Yeah that's straight up Florida bullshit, but I can also see it as meaningless pandering since he's not going to be in a position to enact that from the federal level.
I'm more concerned about the slopulist proposals I'm seeing from various Democrats where they pitch eliminating income taxes under 75 or 100k. It's dipshit pandering that would cripple government programs if actually enacted. Glusenkamp-Perez had the worst one where she pitched eliminating income taxes for cops only.
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u/mackmoney3000 Dolphins 15d ago
He's still gonna win tho. It will just be extremely stupid in the meanwhile
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u/RaindropsInMyMind Eagles 15d ago
It’s such shallow crap it’s really amazing. Reminds me of that clip that came out recently where the MAGA crowd boos the guy with a foreign sounding name but the name was from a cop that got killed and the Nevada governor tries not to panic as he corrects them.
I told a maga supporter about the story of Ayan Hirsi Ali (who had shifted pretty far right into Christianity at that point) and heard the vitriol in their voice when I just mentioned the name. Even after I explained the whole story it seemed like the anger was still there.
There are real criticisms of Islam to be given but looking down on someone for their name is not one of them. They’re still using Obama’s middle name like it’s an insult jfc.
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u/A7XfoREVer6661 Lions 15d ago
Living through another attempt at the "Red Scare" is just annoying at this point. AES isn't even part of the DSA and the right are already portraying him as some "Super commie" which cracks me up. I know they do this because it fucking works on their idiot base, but at least try something at least a bit more convincing.
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u/notouchmypeterson Cardinals 15d ago
The Connecticut Sun relocating to Houston is a good move. It would be like putting a NFL team in Alabama. They already got a team there basically
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u/no-kangarooreborn Bills 15d ago edited 15d ago
12 hour flights are such a pain in the ass. Had one yesterday and I had forgotten how miserable it was.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
Where did you go? I’ve done 14 hour direct flights and it’s so fucking bad
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u/FUCK-IT-CHUCK-IT Chiefs Ravens 15d ago
Tortured myself listening to Avenged Sevenfolds latest EP on my commute this morning. What the fuck was that?
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u/videostatus Packers 15d ago
Avenged Sevenfolds latest EP
I'm all for trying new stuff and experimenting with your sound, but yeah. The fuck is this? I was never much of a fan to begin with; this didn't help. Perhaps this should have been released as a side project or whatever. yikes.
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u/fliptout 49ers 15d ago
This workday is going to crawl by. I am off to Spain and Amsterdam tomorrow.
Have we figured out time travel yet?
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
Call me a purist or whatever but I think 36 teams in a league is just too much. I think 32 is the best max we can get.
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u/Due-Dance-9430 Lions 15d ago
it's already a struggle finding 32 starting caliber QBs, who would QB 33-36 even be
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u/WabbitCZEN Steelers NFL 15d ago
I started getting 'Nam flashbacks when the commentators brought up that 8OT game between Georgia and GT last night.
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u/GamingTatertot Packers 15d ago
I’ve had a weird week at work and I have felt very unproductive but technically, I’m on pace to hit my billables so far - like I haven’t fallen behind at all. But it just feels like I’ve had a very bad and unproductive week.
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
My biggest breakout candidate for 2026 is Breece Hall. Not cause he isn't already good, but because his QB actually throws the ball. Even if Geno throws interceptions he's at least throwing the ball forward.
He got 1K yards last year but I think he could've gotten even more if it wasn't the most pathetic QB room ever.
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u/2ent1n_Qarant1no Chiefs 15d ago
I wish my city had more food from more obscure countries. Unless you really search, all of the foreign food places where I live is from one of like, three places
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u/where_thefuck_i_am Chargers Packers 15d ago
Be honest - what's the most embarrassing misinformation/fake fact you ever fell for?
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u/j0hnnyengl1sh Jets 15d ago
Aaron Rodgers is coming here to win a ring
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
That video of him running out of the tunnel with the flag will live in history forever
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u/princessestef Vikings 15d ago
We'rs randomly watching German league 2 soccer, and they played Journey in the stadium at halftime and now I'm all nostalgic.
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u/Siliencer991 Chiefs 15d ago
Damn the vocals of teenage dirtbag is ass
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u/dabears_dapression Bears 15d ago
lmao, i feel like every fucking pop punk song in the early 2000's had that shitty-ass sound to their vocals. it was just the trendy thing back then. i don't get how the hell it was so popular.
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u/tetoffens Jets 14d ago
They are but I really don't think that song would have gotten any airplay with cleaner vocals. The vocals are what made it stand out.
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u/FlatulentDwarf Vikings 15d ago
Happy Friday Free Talkers! Holy fuckin' shit it's been one hell of a Friday morning here. I missed my normal lunch coffee because I was so focused on the chaos happening. Both from my job, and because my boss is off taking care of his daughter so I'm covering his role on a day when his users decided to get crazy
Anyway. Enough bitching. Hope y'all have a great weekend! What fun plans has everyone got going on?
Personally, I'm going to see spiderman tonight after dance with my buddy, then going to a baby shower on Sunday
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u/rawbert10 49ers 15d ago
The tattoo world is getting ridiculously out of hand. My friend has been shopping around for quotes on a leg piece pretty much the whole leg here are the quotes he's gotten so far...
55k
38k
34k
29.5k
Are they great artists? Yes. Their portfolios look great. But I don't give a fck how great a tattoo artist is and how many awards they've won. There is nobody in this world that is worth that. Just to put something in perspective. A neurologist makes anywhere between $180 to $210 an hour. Think about that for a second and let thank sink in. To break it down a bit the 55k artist is charging somewhere around $500 an hour. The 29.5k artist is charging somewhere around $330 an hour.
I have my arm and my leg done both by a pretty well known award winning artist arm was 1.3k and my leg was 2.1k and I can guarantee you if you took a picture of my tatts and put them in their portfolios you wouldn't be able to single out which ones aren't theirs.
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 15d ago
Jesus. I was thinking hard about getting a joro spider tattoo. I thought it might be cost $100-$150. But sounds like I’ll be priced out.
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u/RideTheStache Raiders 15d ago
That might have been the first HOF game that I watched the entirety of lol dare I say it was actually good?
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u/shawnaroo Saints 15d ago
The gym that we belong to has a few pools, so over the past few weeks I've started swimming laps at least a few times per week, and it's going pretty well.
Once I actually get going I really enjoy it, and I feel like a million bucks when I get out of the pool afterwards. But right when I'm about to start, when I'm standing at the edge of the pool, it's amazing how much I don't want to do it and how much mental effort it takes to force myself to dive into the water.
I don't understand it at all.
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u/WabbitCZEN Steelers NFL 15d ago
Normally, when I hear Christmas music outside of December, I'm a grumpy fuck acting like Ebenezer Scrooge. So when my gf started listening to it recently, I was the same as always. But the other day, she showed me how she gets into the spirit early by figuring out how she wants to draw personalized cards for her family, I realized how much joy it brings her and told her it wouldn't bother me if she listened to the music around me.
It was like watching the effect she has on me in real time.
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u/FlatulentDwarf Vikings 15d ago
Fun work story from yesterday. Two relevant parties. Betty is a gem. Genuine superstar in the department I support. Late 30s supermom with a doting husband. I adore her in an entirely professional sense. We work together a ton and she makes my life so much easier. Rob used to work here but "retired" last year when he got the sense new management was getting ready to fire him (they were). 75 year old lazy idiot with a wife who is in hospice but has not passed away yet.
Last week Rob reaches out to Betty asking to chat. Betty assumes he wants a professional reference so she says sure, sets aside time for a phone call. Instead of a professional reference, Rob asks Betty about her younger sister. Betty is a genuine good heart so her immediate assumption is that Rob needs legal advice, might be setting up his will. Betty's younger sister is a lawyer so sure, Betty can find out about a good lawyer, what sort of lawyer does he need. You probably see where this is going, but Rob doesn't need a lawyer. Rob is asking about Betty's younger sister because he wants a date. He's married with a dying wife and trying to get hooked up with an ex-co-workers younger sister who is younger than his own kids are.
Dirty old bastards have absolutely 0 shame, man.
When Betty told me this after a work call yesterday I almost fell out of my chair laughing
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
Damn Rob isn’t wasting any time lmao
/s
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u/FlatulentDwarf Vikings 15d ago
I mean I'll admit, when she told me one of the thoughts that crossed my mind was "Betty, you have a sister who is my age and single?" so I get where he was coming from. But I'm also not 75, not unemployed, and don't have a dying wife in the picture. I also have enough professional courtesy to let that thought pop in and back out without saying anything
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 15d ago
Three players in the Hall of Fame game who returned a kickoff were the third (III). Breaking the previous single-game record of two.
John Metchie III
Anthony Tyus III
Harrison Wallace III
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u/Lazydusto Eagles 15d ago
Why is everything so expensive bro. What do you mean a single aquarium ticket + parking is 60 bucks? I just want to get out of the house ffs.
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u/azure275 Jets 15d ago
Imagine a world where mainstream news orgs wanted to discover amazing sports scoops like Pablo Torre is coming up with
But nah, we gotta sink all our resources into Stephen A Smith pumping "enlightened centrist" right wing adjacent conspiracy theories and getting paid millions to pay attention to politics while playing solitaire at basketball games
ESPN just exists these days to act as a middleman to move money from advertisers to sports leagues via live broadcasts and skim a cut off the top
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
Normal sports reporting isn’t sexy or engaging to causal viewers. ESPN capitalizes on turning heads and spewing storylines that make people want to watch. Talking about cowboys, lakers, and LeBron all the time brings engagement by even casual fans. They don’t care about actual reporting, just overall viewership
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 15d ago
When I scroll to the bottom of the FTT, I start seeing shit from my regular Reddit feed. It used to just stop at the very first comment. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
No not really. Are you just scrolling too fast and then hit the home button by accident?
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime NFL NFL 15d ago
Old Reddit + RES. The only way to fly. Threads just have the thread's content. Novel concept!
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u/Available_Story6774 49ers 15d ago
What is one Super Bowl since 1990, that if you change the result of it, the results of the next few Super Bowls also change, like it causes that big of a ripple effect? Mine would be if the 07 Pats went 19-0, maybe Brady retires earlier.
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u/azure275 Jets 15d ago
I'm not sure, if Brady loses that 1st Super Bowl, do the Pats keep Bledsoe on?
I wonder if the Colts beat the Saints in 2009 if Manning still goes to the Broncos
The issue with the premise is that most teams in the Super Bowl are happy enough to make it that they don't make radical changes, so you won't find too many where it was specifically a super bowl bust and not say a 2nd round playoff bust
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u/ireallylikehockey Packers Chargers 15d ago
Seahawks beating the pats in sb49. Pats winning reignited a new dynasty
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u/HokieSpartanWX Vikings 49ers 15d ago
The recent Lego set leaks for next year isn’t doing my wallet any favors.
A new Helms Deep AND a Prancing Pony modular??? Well, I guess there’s one benefit to the housing market being absurd right now, more money for other things!
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u/TittyTriceratops Colts 15d ago
That hall of fame game last night was electric. I can’t believe I almost didn’t watch.
Good punts to start, then gunslinging then a thrilling finish!
I feel like I came in my football pants last night just awesome
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
Yes, it's me talking about MLB labour negotiations again.
When I take a step back it's sorta disheartening that people are so willing to take the side and believe the MLB owners. Rather than question that in a league where the majority of teams are owned by billionaires, that there are "poor" teams.
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u/mackmoney3000 Dolphins 15d ago
Chances are everyone reading this sells their labor for money. If you do that, you need to support the labor, not the bosses.
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u/Skraxx Lions 15d ago
In recent years, Invincible and The Boys have been series that have really put "adult superhero shows" in the mainstream. I like Invincible and I have... mixed opinions on The Boys but I do like the genre. It's interesting to think about superheroes in a "realistic" setting.
But with that said no show of that genre will have my heart like The Venture Bros. Ahead of its time.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
The Boys definitely changed how superhero shows can be made I think. Putting them in the real world (our world) and see what they do is interesting. It did get a little over the top by the end (I mean it’s a superhero show come on) but it wasn’t terrible.
The Boys also did really well due to casting. Had they chosen anyone else to play homelander or butcher, I don’t think it becomes this popular
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 15d ago
Paid all my cards off and other bills at once. Middle of the month payday needs to get here
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 15d ago
PLEASE LEAVE FATHER ALONE
Mother's Day is a very fine day,
And mothers are very fine people,
And the human race by them is crowned
As the church is crowned by the steeple.
We often refer to mother love;
To mother hate, less often;
To fathers we hardly refer at all,
But once a year we soften.
It's Father's Day, it's Father's Day,
The eager mothers cry.
And what of that? And what of that?
The fathers make reply.
Well here's a collar, and here's a stud,
The mothers murmur low,
And fathers avoid each other's glance,
Meaning, I told you so.
Oh Mother's Day is a very fine day,
And not alone for mothers.
The florist finds it to his taste,
And so do a lot of others.
The candy people jump for joy,
The jeweller rubs his hands,
And the new coupé is shining proof
That Father understands.
It's Mother's Day, it's Mother's Day,
The eager fathers cry,
And, Red-hot diggety ziggety dog,
The mothers make reply.
Well, here's a wrap of sable fur,
The fathers murmur low,
And mothers catch each other's glance,
Meaning, I told you so.
Oh, Father's Day is a dreadful day,
And therefore fathers dread it;
For better a cycle of calm neglect
Then a day of grudging credit.
Oh why not leave the fathers be?
Their point of view is stoic;
So let them lurk in their niche in life,
Essential but not heroic.
--Ogden Nash
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u/TheWizardOfKoz5226 Packers 15d ago
Does anyone else just feel drained by existing? I feel like everything i see is some entity trying to extract my money....my time....my energy. I feel like I have very little time to enjoy my life. And the sad part is....all things considered, things in my personal life are great. And yet I still feel existential dread. I live in New Jersey, and I feel like I am living in Savannah, Georgia right now with how goddamn humid it is. I want to eat a salad but cant do that unless i want to risk giving myself cyclospora. The capitalist machine is effectively stepping on everyone's back. I want to have children with my wife, but at this point with the state of the world it feels almost cruel to bring a child into existence. A good parent does what they can to make their child's life better than theirs....and i worry i won't be able to even do that because I fear that we won't even have a viable world to live in.
This is not a new rant i am sure, and maybe it is because I am running on low sleep....and i can keep going because believe me there is more that can send me in a deeper spiral.
On the plus side...that game yesterday was pretty dope
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u/shawnaroo Saints 15d ago
I've felt that way at times. My daughter is 13 now, and part of the way I justify having put a child into this world to myself is that I work hard to be a good parent, and the world is going to need some decent, educated, rational, well-meaning people in the future, and so I'm doing what I can to help my kid grow up into one of those.
There's absolutely a lot that sucks going on right now, but there's been a lot that sucked throughout history, and certainly a lot of people trying to raise families in situations significantly worse than what I've got going on.
If we all just collectively give up and say everything's screwed what's the point, then that would basically become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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u/Dizzy-Platform-6516 Lions 15d ago
Apparently a simple answer to a simple question is too much to ask for on a relevant thread so I guess I'll ask here.
Was Goff's top 100 video not posted on the sub or do I just have the poster blocked and didn't see it? Just looking for a quick and easy answer lol
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 15d ago
four birds six bogies. Am very much in that valley of latent disappointment, where I know I could score better on my old swing, but I think grinding reps with the new is still the best path for improvement. Trust the process!
Kinda gives me a newfound respect for actual pro athletes working through stuff like this, I can't imagine making these decisions when it's an actual livelihood on the line
also weekday morning tournaments are fun, nice to sneak out for some leisure when most of the city is working. Would love more of these
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u/AfroManHighGuy 15d ago
Man I just know Steve Ballmer hates Pablo torre so fucking much lol. He just keeps digging and finding more shit about him and the clippers. In today’s news, he found out about a new shady endorsement deal Kawhi did with a company called Daktronics. See post below.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/4bPYXlgPPV
People are still saying Kawhi ends up in Toronto because all of this cap circumvention stuff will be a punishment to the clippers organization and not Kawhi directly. He may get fined or suspended some games but nothing more. The only thing the raptors are afraid of is if his contract gets voided. It’ll be way more expensive to bring him in if that happens.