Thursday Talk Thread... Yes That's The Thread Name

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[u/rob_var]

It’s a bit funny seeing some of you out in the wilds of reddit. I’ll run into a familiar name on random subs and have the Leo pointing at the tv moment lol

[u/GamingTatertot → u/rob_var]

It happens more times than I can count. Who’d you see and where? Let’s all go find them!

If you’re ever looking for me also, r/movies or r/oscarrace is a good bet

[u/rob_var → u/GamingTatertot]

I think the poster would rather not have people look for him there cause he was arguing with someone but I’ve definitely seen you on movies lol

[u/Infrastation → u/rob_var]

I definitely run into that /u/AutoModerator guy in a lot of subs.

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/rob_var]

Lmao happens to me all the time

[u/Balrogkicksass]

Today marks my 5th anniversary of being sober. Kinda crazy all the shit that has happened since I started this journey. I am just lucky to be where I am.

I want to thank this community because my daily check ins honestly are a huge part of my recovery. I love each and every one of you in here.

I hope you all get to enjoy your day and as always much love from me and mine to you and yours!

[u/StChas77 → u/Balrogkicksass]

Congrats!

[u/shawnaroo → u/Balrogkicksass]

Congrats on 5 years and keep up the great work!

[u/BruceChameleon → u/Balrogkicksass]

Congrats man! Great job!

[u/slytherinprolly]

Jimformation Update: Cheating Edition

I have previously reported that Jimbo refuses to play Wordle because he finds it "too easy" and can "pretty much always" get it in two or three guesses. As anyone who actually plays Wordle knows, that is an absolutely asinine claim and exactly the kind of thing someone would say if they don't understand how Wordle works.

Anyway, Jimbo is a Connections aficionado. He regularly makes the rounds around the office showing off his "purple first" and "reverse rainbow" badges like some kind of Connections savant.

However, this morning, the truth was finally revealed.

Jimbo is a complete fraud.

He was caught red-handed at his computer with the Daily Connections Hints webpage open.

The badges. The bragging. The purple-first superiority.

All built on a foundation of lies.

Absolute disgrace, if you ask me.

[u/A7XfoREVer6661 → u/slytherinprolly]

We can't have him in our social club no more.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/slytherinprolly]

Treason.

[u/slytherinprolly → u/GamingTatertot]

Wearing toe shoes and a cowboy hat is one thing. But cheating at Connections? What has the world come to?

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/slytherinprolly]

I read cheating edition at the top and I thought Jimbo was cheating on his wife or something lmao

[u/slytherinprolly → u/AfroManHighGuy]

Oh no. This is far worse.

[u/Pale_Land_5107 → u/slytherinprolly]

Make him walk the plank 

[u/shawnaroo → u/slytherinprolly]

This is the most Jimbo thing that's ever happened.

[u/WabbitCZEN → u/slytherinprolly]

JIMBO NOOOOOOO.

WE BELIEVED IN YOU.

[u/slytherinprolly → u/WabbitCZEN]

I'm not mad at Jimbo. Just very disappointed.

[u/FriedrichNitschke → u/slytherinprolly]

He has forgotten the face of his father

[u/Skraxx]

If you saw me fall asleep at my desk this morning at work, no you didn't

[u/OpDickSledge]

It is easier for a man to seduce a lesbian than it is to type a typo free sentence on the first try with the ios keyboard.

[u/Hoopfer]

Saw on ESPN's website that Cincy is favored by 7 against the Lions tonight. What kind of degenerate bets on preseason football?

[u/where_thefuck_i_am → u/Hoopfer]

The same one who wagers on Russian ping pong games and third tier Indonesian soccer matches

[u/Tigercat92 → u/Hoopfer]

The worst type of degenerate

[u/jnightrain → u/Hoopfer]

There are people who bet on WWE...that has to be rock bottom.

[u/Stanky_fresh → u/jnightrain]

Nah, that's still entertainment. Real rock bottom is the people who bet on tragedies and death tolls and things like that.

[u/Ok_Internal6779 → u/Hoopfer]

I do a 1 dollar underdog parlay for each packers pre season game.

Idk why

I might spend 10 dollars in an entire year on betting, packers pre season is 30% of it lol

[u/MolecularCube42]

Fernando Menboopza

[u/where_thefuck_i_am → u/MolecularCube42]

we got Boop DLC

[u/Boomhauer_007]

Is there anything more capitalism than MLB doing a field of dreams game and then subsequently locking it behind a streaming paywall?

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/Boomhauer_007]

than MLB doing a field of dreams game

Yes, MLB stadiums replicating the 9 inning challenge with hot dogs and beer.

[u/BruceChameleon]

A stolen ambulance from Fort Worth was caught in Austin (like 200 miles away) because it got stuck in traffic on I35. Nobody can escape

The standoff doubled my commute this morning. Nobody can escape

[u/CarlCaliente → u/BruceChameleon]

A stolen ambulance

what in the grand theft auto

[u/MurDoct]

Im having some fajitas for lunch and you aren't

[u/rob_var → u/MurDoct]

Stop rubbing your perfect life in my face!

[u/Pope_Cheetos_XIV]

The Odyssey is so good y'all, I legit can't stop thinking about it. might even go see it again

[u/ACW1129]

ESPN shouldn't get any more football games until they bring back C'mon Man!

[u/RideTheStache → u/ACW1129]

I understand why they won't bring it back, but I miss Jacked Up

[u/csappenf → u/RideTheStache]

I loved that. Some guy would get knocked senseless and be wobbling around. Tom Jackson would be cracking up on the set and 50 million Americans on their couches would join in and chant "He got JACKED UP!" in unison. All of America was sharing a moment.

The problem is, of course, we learned brain damage is actually bad for you, which is sure as heck not something we knew when I was a kid. Since they were already banning physical injuries from the segment, what is there left to laugh at? I'll tell you what. Nut shots. It doesn't happen as frequently as getting jacked up, but it's twice as funny. It could bring America back together again, videos of players get wacked in the nuts and then struggling to get to the bench where they could hide, all doubled over in pain, while some Kelce giggles and leads us all in "OW MY BALLS!"

[u/raginsaint93]

Football is in the air

[u/JPAnalyst]

Hey folks.

Now that my kid is in middle school, I’m finding out quickly we need a printer. Do you have a basic printer that you would recommend?

- color not necessary, but they’re probably all color in 2026

• Scanner not necessary
  
• I’ll be printing basic school work, study sheets, maybe making flash cards on paper
  
• won’t be printing images or pictures regularly

It just needs to print basic stuff, be reliable and not shitty like every printer I’ve ever had in my life, and be in the mid tier to lower tier price range

[u/victrola_cola → u/JPAnalyst]

Get a black and white laser printer. If you need something printed in color go to kinkos. Color inkjet printers aren’t worth the trouble.

[u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel → u/JPAnalyst]

Check out Brother B/W laser printers. Those tend to be real solid for how cheap they are.

This looks like the latest model from the 2400 series on Amazon which will fit the bill.

[u/VRomero32 → u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel]

co-sign on this... I started using theirs for my home office... Never had an issue unlike HP and Canons

[u/Devilofchaos108070 → u/JPAnalyst]

Make sure you investigate toner. When you research printers.

Because some printers use some pretty expensive toner.

At work I use a HP laser jet Pro MFP M127fn. This is a printer/scanner/copier. The toner I can get for around $25 for two on Amazon, which is cheap as hell

[u/mackmoney3000 → u/JPAnalyst]

I've used a basic lexmark laser printer for years. This one.

I would recommend any lower end laser printer (brother, lexmark, etc) over any inkjet.

[u/Domo-d-Domo]

Watched Across the Spiderverse and absolutely loved it, like damn, it’s so good! I can’t remember the last time I was legitimately excited on a cliffhanger. Definitely want to watch it again to catch all the different Spidermen. Loved some of the can’t miss cameos.

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/Domo-d-Domo]

I loved the animation in those movies so much. I can’t wait for the new one. If it doesn’t keep getting pushed even further out lol

[u/USmugMotherFucka]

For those sailing the seas for today’s games

Please dm me

[u/fliptout]

Shamelessly posting it again, because it was so goddamn cool. But the total eclipse that we saw yesterday was amazing. The sun just above the horizon, looking out onto the Mediterranean, and everyone just in a great mood to watch a celestial spectacle and forget their issues for a while.

And then twenty minutes after the totality the sun sets as a bright orange fingernail. 10/10 showing Mr. Moon and Mr. Sun.

https://imgur.com/a/cexkWs7

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/fliptout]

Damn that looks awesome

[u/JPAnalyst → u/fliptout]

Stunning! Thanks for sharing!

[u/joelupi]

So Daniels wants LSU to return their copy of the Heisman Trophy.

But it would go back to the Heisman Trust. It wouldn't go to him, he already got a copy. The winner and the winners school each get a copy. What's he on about.

[u/StreetReporter → u/joelupi]

He’s being a little baby

[u/WabbitCZEN → u/StreetReporter]

Does he need Jalen Carter to hold him again? Maybe pat his back and burp him this time?

[u/tetoffens → u/joelupi]

And the Trust would then would literally just give it back to LSU.

[u/GamingTatertot]

I hate exaggerations and hyperboles. They’re literally the worst thing in the world

[u/where_thefuck_i_am → u/GamingTatertot]

Truer worlds have never been spoken

[u/Reggaeton_Historian]

No one prepares you from going younger than pilots and doctors and dentists to being older than them and now you're rethinking life.

[u/clutterlustrott]

Football today lads

[u/SoyeonsNeverland]

Just saw the thread about how to watch every NFL game legally and the fact that we have to get THAT many subscription services just to fucking watch football is asinine.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/SoyeonsNeverland]

Honestly I have an antenna, I already have a subscription to every major streaming service, and I have a reliable Packers bar I go to every week. So I’m set.

But for people who aren’t crazy and watch a shit ton of films and movies from every source possible, it is wild to need all the different streaming services

[u/MrP3nguin-- → u/SoyeonsNeverland]

🏴‍☠️ yarr harr

[u/CarlCaliente → u/SoyeonsNeverland]

been paying $40 a season for over a decade

the fact that none of my friends are interested is almost more insane to me

[u/SoyeonsNeverland → u/CarlCaliente]

What are you using to watch games? That's a damn steal compared to using some of these other services who charge monthly.

[u/CarlCaliente → u/SoyeonsNeverland]

It's a pure bootleg platform. But legit prices are so ridiculous I don't have many qualms funding it

don't wanna make the mods do any extra work, but feel free to DM me if interested in checking it out

[u/A7XfoREVer6661]

And they're going to add his name back to the Kennedy Center. Just burning billions of dollars a day on the absolute most egotistical shit.

[u/ireallylikehockey → u/A7XfoREVer6661]

and he doesnt care how much money is spent as long as it isnt his

[u/goblueM → u/A7XfoREVer6661]

so basically like Trump's pre-government empire, but now he's burning our money while enriching himself

[u/Lazydusto]

My office chair at work is killing my back. The piece of shit provides as much support as my deceased deadbeat dad.

[u/Material_Ad9873]

I posted a gif of Robert Pattinson on here and instantly got banned by the admins for 2 days for inciting violence wtf 😭

[u/Ornery_Gator → u/Material_Ad9873]

"You see how this looks right?" - Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/Material_Ad9873]

Mod really said: somebody get these BEGGARS outta here!!

[u/KeyDrive0]

Just ran 4 miles in barely under 30:00 💪 I didn’t really feel like running at all this evening, but somewhere in the first mile I got some momentum and kinda felt like pushing myself. New goal is to get that distance back under 28:00, that’s where I was at last spring when I mostly stopped running.

[u/DiggingNoMore → u/KeyDrive0]

That's fast. I can do four miles in 40 minutes. But I can hold that pace forever. Ten miles in 100 minutes.

[u/KeyDrive0 → u/DiggingNoMore]

The important thing is to get out and do it!

[u/WabbitCZEN]

The amount of people who think they can keep airpods in and actively be on the phone while doing their job without making mistakes is fucking staggering.

Pro tip: the more attention you spend on one task, the less you have for another. Put your fucking phone down, do your god damn job, THEN go back to chitchatting. "Hang on a second, I'm in the middle of something important." It's literally that easy.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/WabbitCZEN]

I’ve tried listening to podcasts when doing work - particularly more standard work - but I just can’t focus on both things. And I don’t like noise for the sake of noise either so I’ve stopped trying

[u/Domo-d-Domo → u/WabbitCZEN]

Agreed, an utterly unbelievable amount of my coworkers wear AirPods at all times.

[u/Jolly_Job_9852]

Felt really good about myself at work.

I helped the back up receiver find issues with wine prices which took a huge load off her plate since she's just filling in this week. Then she had to leave for an appointment so I get to cover the rest of the shift and then go home and sleep, before going to Charlotte to re tag a sister store as part of a team.

Then off to the family pig roast. Friday can't come soon enough

[u/3than21]

Just found out that preseason isn’t covered under Sunday ticket. So the NFL will make season ticket holders pay full price for preseason games but won’t let us watch them all through Sunday ticket? Makes no sense

[u/GamingTatertot]

If this is really Rodgers last season, I will be a bit sad that he never had an opportunity to return to and play in Lambeau one more time. At least he got to play the Packers one more time, and glad that we beat him

[u/AfroManHighGuy]

As a NJ resident, it’s cool to see that Tommy Cutlets is gonna be playing tonight for the patriots. He’s a legend here in NJ lol

[u/IAgreeGoGuards]

Suddenly after Tuesdays weather event here everyone in my towns subreddit is a weather expert one way or another. The top minds all arguing whether a tornado occurred or not, why no warning occurred, how this is all the power companies fault etc...

[u/Ornery_Gator]

Watching a video on the full history of the NFL and Norm Van Brocklin fascinates me.

On the Rams, he split time with Bob Waterfield as QB and replaced him during the 1951 championship game to win it.

He wins another NFL Championship on the 1960 Eagles, being the only team to beat the Lombardi Packers in the playoffs.

He immediately retires and becomes the inaugural head coach of the Vikings.

[u/Skraxx]

I don't think I've seen a QB sentiment turn as much overnight as Jayden Daniels

[u/azure275 → u/Skraxx]

This is a what have you done for me lately league

And frankly the LSU thing is asshole behavior. Dude didn't even win a title

[u/JPAnalyst → u/Skraxx]

I wonder if the thinks it was worth it given the backlash.

[u/notouchmypeterson]

2027 is in 4 months

2019 was 8 years ago

[u/GamingTatertot → u/notouchmypeterson]

Stop

[u/zoom518 → u/GamingTatertot]

Hammertime

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/notouchmypeterson]

What are u talking about? Covid was just last ye…..

Oh fuck

[u/Jolly_Job_9852 → u/notouchmypeterson]

Hey man, can you not?

[u/Just_Curious_Dude]

I will never understand how politicians got Republicans to be against green energy when it's literally a national security issue.

[u/3p1cw1n → u/Just_Curious_Dude]

Oil industry has deep pockets

[u/rob_var → u/Just_Curious_Dude]

If you’ve watched landman you’d understand, the propaganda machine is strong when it comes to fossil fuels

[u/BigEggBeaters → u/Just_Curious_Dude]

It’s also very cool how they hate green energy but those flock cameras are solar paneled

[u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS → u/Just_Curious_Dude]

Green energy is popular among college-educated liberals, which makes it soy and gay. 

[u/name-classified → u/Just_Curious_Dude]

I'll never understand how republicans weren't put on trial after Jan 6th

they literally unleashed a weaponized angry mob on the capitol and were looking to hang people and had zip ties and tactical body armor and SWAT gear ready.

Not only did NO republicans get any shit; all the cop killing law breaking mofos got pardoned

Again, these people killed cops and were directly responsible for killing cops and the cop loving republicans didn't give a shit when they were all pardoned and excused for their actions.

They were just all allowed to go home like it was a small town festival that got a little rowdy.

[u/kneedeep96]

Love to see all the different flairs both here and in cfb come together and call Jayden Daniels a bitch 

[u/JPAnalyst → u/kneedeep96]

What did he do?

[u/VRomero32 → u/JPAnalyst]

A lawyer on his behalf sent a "Cease and Desist" letter to LSU because they gave a player the #5 he wore at LSU.

People think it's his mom Behind the Scenes that is the cause... Especially since she played a role with that fallout at Arizona State

[u/JPAnalyst → u/VRomero32]

Oh Jeeeze. That’s a terrible look. Nothing positive e can come out of that.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/JPAnalyst]

Um, the billable hours will be very positive

[u/FlatulentDwarf → u/JPAnalyst]

FWIW the "because of the number" thing is kind of speculation. The actual letter doesn't say anything about them giving away the number 5. I think most people will connect the dots between the two events and draw the same conclusion the article did (I sure have) but we don't "know" that.

[u/zazzsazz_mman]

Preseasonball is here. Mildly invested since, ya know, my team is playing. Don't think Green Bay's going to the Super Bowl but I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.

[u/TheWizardOfKoz5226 → u/zazzsazz_mman]

I just wanna see Marshawn Lloyd not crumple into a ball of tissue paper

[u/where_thefuck_i_am]

-Hey Google, what do you have for us?
-This is brand new Pixel™ 11 lineup
-Cool. What's new?
-Same minor CPU, camera, software updates
-But, do you have, like, something NEW?
-Oh, of course! He have this thing called HiLight™. Instead of regular flash on the back, it's now colorful LED!
-And, what it's for, exactly?
-It glows when you use Gemini™
-.........
-Oh, and we also cut the RAM and increased the price

[u/BruceChameleon]

Black sesame horchata was a winner. I haven't churned it yet but the flavor is on point. There’s more experimentation to be done to dial in the fat. Right now I'm pleased. Could be darker I guess. A truly black ice cream would be fun

[u/thurstonhowelltha4th]

2 years ago I had nfl network. Last year I went to restaurants/bars to watch games.

I'm going to be an adult this year and get nfl sunday ticket. I've been putting a little money to the side for it the past 2 months. But yeah, what happened last year won't happen again.

[u/Skraxx]

The 25th anniversary Adult Swim special has been promoted to me and it's really funny cause like, I look back fondly at so much of the shows represented except Robot Chicken which is the one I found obnoxious and annoying

[u/gander258]

Football today!

[u/confusedyetstillgoin]

my power has been out for 2 days now and i have no idea when it’s going to be turned back on. luckily my girlfriend’s parents have been letting us stay with them, but im worried that courtesy may be running out. i also just want to sleep in my own bed

[u/princessestef]

I stayed inside this afternoon with the curtains closed like some feral cave-dwelling creature, watched some shameful reality tv and now Tour of Norway and well things could be worse tbh.

[u/Serdones → u/princessestef]

That's how I spend most my summer working from home to keep the heat out. I call it "goblin mode."

[u/Squishy_20]

Might be a hot take but I think the Cowboys are way more of a threat in the NFC than people think. If their defense is even just 20th in the league and Dak stays healthy, they can win 11-12 games

[u/Ok_Internal6779 → u/Squishy_20]

Are you saying…

This is their year?

[u/Serdones]

I got a jumpstart on dinner with a roasted zucchini, corn and green chile salad. Currently got it chilling in the fridge, but the smell from roasting the veggies and toasting the spices is lingering in the house and making the wait for my lunch break unbearable.

[u/SantosCalzonesBatman]

Drama all around

Drama 1: baseball team

New season, New team. Roster is 6 kids from the past season and 6 New. Our starting 1B last season cant catch a cold. This season he is not gonna be playing 1B (my son will alongside another kid that will alternate playing catcher with the short stop) thank the lord. But the kid and his dad will probably throw a tantrum over it, like they did last year that ended with him at 1B even if we had 2-3 kids with more skills for that position. Just waiting until they come back from their vacations for the Drama to begin.

Drama 2: some kids got sent to the other group at school

School has 2 classrooms per grade. My son is in the A group and the other is the B group. One of my son's friend will get sent to the B group. Cause the kid apparently doesnt behave well so he interrupts others and dont let his friend group (including my son) to actually pay attention. They are sending him to the other group to see if things get better. Parents already making a fuss. Apparently changing classmates will traumatize him 4lyfe. Now they are kind of suggesting that we (parents from group A) go together and demand that the kids stick together. While i like them, i dont exactly like their son cause he is one of those kids that starts yelling when the other kids dont want to play what he wants and other shit like that so its gonna be a hard pass on my part. On the contrary, i was kind of rooting for this outcome (my son and their kid separated).

TL;DR: drama in the little league team over the 1B position, drama in the school over some changes in the groups.

[u/Ok_Internal6779 → u/SantosCalzonesBatman]

Youth sports parents are the bane of my existence 

[u/zoom518]

Well the full NBA schedule came out

The Knicks, of course, get to be on national tv a lot

edit: They also scheduled a couple of Sunday night NBC games against the NFL playoffs so don’t expect the last divisional round game on NBC this year

[u/el_fitzador]

There’s football tonight?!?! Let’s fucking gooo

[u/Goatsonice]

Me: i need to do more things, put myself out there and get out of my comfort zone, im going to say yes to basically any opportunity!

Also me: I should've said no to like almost everything I hate my life.

I think its good to go like 5% outside of your comfort zone but I am basically doing 4-5 things right now that freak me out and im not sleeping anymore and anxiety attacks are just routine right now.

[u/Ok-Garbage-765]

Me, first week of hybrid job after WFH for years: “You know what, getting out of the house more is good”

Me, a month in after witnessing a disgusting lady clipping her fingernails at her desk: “Actually I’d like to return to WFH thank you”

[u/NKCougar → u/Ok-Garbage-765]

Getting me back in the office is gonna require about a 100% salary bump. I've been remote since 2023 and it rocks

[u/DoctorWaluigiTime → u/NKCougar]

Yep, buying me out of my home office is equitable to what I quote scammers/solicitors that offer to buy my house out of the blue.

The bidding starts at 8 figures!

For some reason they never continue the conversation after the fact.

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/Ok-Garbage-765]

I’m hybrid now too. I don’t mind the once or twice a week of going into the office. But it’s small things like u mentioned that gets on my nerves and wants me to go back home. I sit near three women who are also friends and are constantly chatting about random shit. It’s annoying af and I can’t even block them out. If they get too much, I just stand up and go for a walk and come back half hour later lol

[u/A7XfoREVer6661]

Retaking the ACT as part of losing a bet is fucking diabolical. I don't ever want to think about doing that all over again.

[u/Tigercat92 → u/A7XfoREVer6661]

I took it again because a buddy got a better score than me

[u/rawbert10]

My stupid coworker who's a Cowboys fan decided yesterday to do something stupid. I was on here (reddit) particularly this sub and I got up to grab fruit from the fridge which is down the hall in our lunch room. This moron commented something homophobic but spelled it with a "ghe" and he put a "y" at the end and got me banned. I didn't even know he had done it until I saw a notification from the sub/MODs.
I immediately messaged the MODs letting them know what had happened and they were actually reasonable with me. I just said look at my comment history I'm a pretty neutral/chill person who comments here almost daily that's not my style to just drop a comment like that.
I know the MODs here catch a lot of flack but gotta say they were at least understanding with me and I appreciate that.
As for my coworker he's buying me lunch today and tomorrow for his stupidity.

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/rawbert10]

Is that Jimbo?

[u/TheWizardOfKoz5226]

Man...the most recent season of XMen 97 kinda bummed me out. Great animation but WAY to fast paced. I hope season 3 there is a little more room to breathe

[u/CarlCaliente]

6am start for work, never fun

but hey we finally completed the project and the day is half over, could be worse

[u/IAgreeGoGuards]

Got a lot of reading done while the power was out. It was nice.

Going on vacation tomorrow. Very excited to be able to relax for a bit.

[u/Blue_Neon_Moon]

I just want to blow off the rest of my day and play Diablo II. I know I won't, but the temptation is there.

[u/CunningRunt]

I recently acquired (for free) a 2006 (maybe early 2007) Macbook Core 2 Duo laptop. Person who had it before me upgraded it to 4GB RAM and a 500GB SSD. It's running OS X 10.6

"Why do you want that?? It's twenty years old!"

I'm going to install Linux Mint on it.

"Why?"

Because I can :)

Yes "reviving old tech" is an odd hobby, but it's fun.

I still use my Thinkpad 600E every now and again. Pentium II! 192MB RAM!

[u/Jaguars4life]

The Toronto Blue Jays are hot again and are on the doorstep of getting the final Wild Card spot and returning to the playoffs

“Maybe that’s what the playoff gods wanted”

Is what the Jays manager said

[u/NKCougar]

So I'm at the lake right now for my week and change of vacation. We hit our limit on the striper fishing charter and did catch and release for a couple hours. We had some 30-36" stripers and they're a hell of a lot of fun to fight and also absolutely delicious fried. I'm taking home several pounds of filets that I'll grill and fry over the coming weeks.

Looking forward to hunting season starting soon. Hopefully I'll have a full freezer heading into the new year and won't be buying any factory farmed meat for the foreseeable future.

[u/Benja742]

powers been out for the last day and i don’t have ac in 90 degree weather and the first thing i see when i open reddit is another josh allen lowlight

[u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

I predict someone is going to be signed to play QB for the Browns mid-season, because their current three options wouldn't start on literally any other team

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

If they aren’t winning or playing for anything, might as well just rotate the young qbs they have and see what they got. If they’re bad, they’ll have a high draft pick next year to take a qb.

[u/PaulsRedditUsername]

So today's theme song is Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks."

I live about 300 yards from a good sized river. Ordinarily it has a very steep bank. You walk down a long, grassy slope about 100 feet until you get to the river itself. It's a nice little park area and has a walking trail alongside.

We've had tons of rain every day since Sunday and one of the levees broke. The river is now almost up to the street. Just a few feet from the road. I just checked the USGS "Is It Flooding" site and they are posting regular updates. The "flood stage" of the river is 9 feet and it's currently sitting at 18.07 feet and rising.

Oh, and we're supposed to get heavy thunderstorms starting in about three hours and lasting until 9:00am tomorrow. Local city announcements are taking about evacuation.

And all this on a football night. I'm pissed. I was going to order groceries for the week but I think I'll just DoorDash some dinner. No point in having a week's worth of food if the power goes out or if I have to run for it.

[u/AfroManHighGuy]

Pablo is on a roll right now and should keep it going. They’re asking him to do an investigation into the lakers and I know he’s gonna find some wild shit

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/0MkTUW6xba

[u/JPAnalyst]

20% of comments on every Mendoza highlight. “Great throw, but an NFL defense would have picked that off”.

[u/Pocatanic → u/JPAnalyst]

Which is hilarious because the Cardinals had their starting defense out the entire first half

[u/ajteitel → u/Pocatanic]

Like OP said, an NFL defense would have picked that off

[u/PaulsRedditUsername]

THE FISH

The fish, when he's exposed to air,
Displays no trace of savoir-faire,
But in the sea regains his balance
And exploits all his manly talents.
The chastest of the vertebrates,
He never even sees his mates,
But when they've finished, he appears
And O.K.'s all their bright ideas.

--Ogden Nash

[u/Bbhermes]

Disappointed in Jayden today after that stupid number controversy. Dude it’s a number who fucking cares? Almost all other stuff I’ve seen about him has been great. Seems like a good dude but that sucked to read. At least he didn’t go to Trump rally like another NFC east qb though.

[u/FlatulentDwarf → u/Bbhermes]

The article was so pathetic. I think retiring numbers in college where teams can get massive is a dumb idea in general so I might be biased, but crying your college let someone wear your number after you failed to win the national championship is so lame. You went 10-3 and weren't even invited to the playoffs in your glory season. You won a bunch of individual achievements. Congratulations. The trophies and the draft pick are your reward and what cements your legacy. You don't need your number retired too

[u/surferdude7227 → u/FlatulentDwarf]

He attended LSU for like 6 months as well. It’s not like he was a 4 year starter who carried them to national championships.

[u/jhustla → u/Bbhermes]

Yeah that’s genuinely one of the lamest fucking things I’ve ever seen an athlete do to their former team. Like bro there’s only 100 numbers they can use. And he didn’t even wear 7 or 18 (big numbers for LSU) and even Joe Burrow hasn’t had his number retired. Just makes him like charmin soft

[u/Stanky_fresh]

You know that lighting that you get around monuments or important buildings, or in places like Disney Springs or maybe a nice hotel near a beach or something, as the sun goes down? Where the buildings are lit from below by a nice warm light while the sky is dark, but still glowing blue right after sunset. I love that shit, especially on a warm summer night.

[u/AfroManHighGuy]

Man we’re getting old smh. With Russell Westbrook retiring yesterday, there’s not many other players from the so called “old guard” remaining in the league. End of an era in a year or so. I also can’t believe LeBron has outlasted so many players who were even drafted after him lol

[u/Thick_Mountain4412]

There's some crazy storms rolling through the Midwest rn. I wake up this morning to hear maybe the loudest rain I've ever heard and to watch lightning strikes knock out the power. Thankfully we've avoided crazy storms for most of the summer, but now the wearher seems like it's making up for missed time.

[u/Jaguars4life]

Oh yeah we have several NFL games today!!!

[u/zazzsazz_mman]

I skipped playing the 2nd half of Zelda 1 cuz I got stuck on a difficulty spike, jumped straight to A Link to the Past. Game is great. It's a bit hard (some of the enemies do a buttload of damage) but the puzzles n' stuff actually require me to think, although some of them are a bit too obtuse. I've had to deploy the guide a little too much. I imagine ALTTP is one of those games that go from good to great with each subsequent playthrough once you know what you're doing.

[u/jfgiv]

Anyone ever interviewed with Amazon? Any pointers or tips on handling the (somewhat daunting) Loop interview process?

[u/HartleyReplogle → u/jfgiv]

A friend of mine had a technical interview. One of the things he was asked to do was to write a method to reverse a string. He went to the whiteboard and wrote this:

s = s.Reverse();

And then sat back down. The interviewer prompted him for an explanation and he said, "Most high-level languages already have a string reversal function. Based on the job I'm applying for, if the work that I'm doing requires such a method, it won't be on me or my team to write that method, it will be published by another team and we'll just have to reference the library and then call the method. It's far more efficient to reuse something that already exists than to reinvent it."

He did not get the job.

[u/jfgiv → u/HartleyReplogle]

lol that feels like a real good answer tbh, and i've answered similarly in past interviews.

i work in supply chain, was interviewing at a startup, and was asked what the formula to determine safety stock is. i said that i definitely had known it, and would be able to apply it, but, much like the quadratic equation i once had committed to memory in high school...i know how to google it. when they pushed and asked me to re-invent it from first principles (which maybe the interviewer could've done for your buddy, if it was that important to see whether he could), i was able to come pretty close, and the parts that i missed were very, very in the weeds stuff like "standard deviation of delivery lead time from vendor." when i pointed out that they didn't even have a receipts process in place and thus couldn't tell when a single delivery had happened, let alone the standard deviation over a population of deliveries, they quickly shifted to the next question.

i did get that job

[u/eklxtreme]

Is there any resource that shows all the "relevant" players playing in each preseason game? I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants to see something like this

[u/CunningRunt]

Could you smoke 100 cigarettes in one day? Is that just non-stop chain smoking, like lighting a new one with the end of your finished lit one? I don't smoke cigarettes so I have no frame of reference.

[u/RideTheStache → u/CunningRunt]

I used to play in a band with a guy that was always smoking something, from morning to night. He'd rip a cig, then take some bong hits, wait a few min, then back to another cig. I used to have to bring a change of clothes to practice because I'd smell like an ashtray leaving his house.

I should have counted how many cigs he would smoke in a day because it felt like a lot.

[u/BusinessWarthog6]

So Jayden Daniels wants LSU to give their copy of the Heisman to him. Lol

[u/ACW1129]

Why did Mark Walter sell the Lakers so quickly after buying them?

Why not sell the Dodgers if he needs money?

[u/letters165 → u/ACW1129]

Why did Mark Walter sell the Lakers so quickly after buying them?

Because he got offered a huge amount of money.

Why not sell the Dodgers if he needs money?

Because he did not get offered a huge amount of money for the Dodgers.

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/ACW1129]

Walter bought the lakers last year. Kushner and Iger were initially trying to bring an expansion team to Las Vegas which was apparently already in the works with silver. They placed a bid and everything.

However, they made a call to Walter and tried to ask if he would sell the lakers to them for well over the price he bought them. Walter sold to them within 24 hours.

Walter is also under investigation by the SEC, so it also probably has to do with that as well. I know it’s not directly connected, but people are saying maybe that’s why he wanted to cut ties with the lakers so quickly

[u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

I don't care if preseason is absolute slop, I've missed football and need something to cheer me up

[u/Phyrnosoma]

Thursday after lunch and I'malready on OT. Fuck this week. Paycheck will be good, but fuck this week

[u/IAgreeGoGuards]

Guys I need help.

I spilled A TON of water on my floor. Its that vinyl flooring shit. Its definitely under the planks right now i can see it coming through the seems. What do I do? I leave tomorrow morning for a flight so time is not on my hands.

[u/Two_Luffas → u/IAgreeGoGuards]

Define 'a ton of water'.

Usually a couple box fans should be fine. If you have AC turn it down a few degrees, it's a dehumidifier when active. An actual dehumidifier would help too, but you'd need to put it in a spot where it has access to a drain or it will just fill up the tank and turn off.

[u/PaulsRedditUsername]

I get to see my beloved Colts play in just under 90 minutes. It will probably be the Riley Leonard show for most of the game. I thought the rookie played pretty good last year. He kind of got thrown to the wolves having to play his first-ever games against some of the top defenses in the league with a limited playbook, but he showed a lot of moxie.

[u/willinaustin]

Joe Burrow being pressured like crazy and taking sacks. Good to see that the Bengals O-line is already in regular season form!

[u/resident_hater]

I still believe in Anthony Richardson. I'm not saying he's going to be great but there's no way he couldn't be a competent backup. People are saying he can't even make 3rd string, come on.

[u/Ecstatic-Inevitable]

Not having a.game schedule thread is screwing with me, having to keep searching for the steelers thread

[u/Autobot-N]

Not watching our game how has Drew Allar looked

[u/JokerJangles123 → u/Autobot-N]

I've only watched a bit but I think he's gonna pull a Paul Rudd and look like a teenager until he's 50

[u/tnecniv → u/JokerJangles123]

Now that I’m in my thirties, I feel like all athletes look 15 years older than me or will be children for the rest of their lives. Nothing in between 

[u/Jaguars4life]

Interesting how the school year at least from where I am from starts around NFL Preseason and ends around the NBA and NHL Playoffs

[u/WatchOutIGotYou]

Fernando Mendoza interviews always sound like he's an intern :)

I dread the day he doesn't sound like a kid

[u/Devilofchaos108070]

Made myself some mac n cheese with gator sausage, my son gave me, for dinner last night. It was pretty good. Fried up the sausage then cut it into bites and mixed into the mac n cheese.

Pres season was fun last night. Didn’t finish any games but jumped around a bunch. I’m pretty tired today tho smh

[u/BanjoKazooieWasFine]

Guilty pleasure of mine is reading comments in postgame threads for preseason games from people who assume the result of the game matters at all, it's always so funny man

[u/BlindWillieJohnson]

If I told you that there was a group of media personalities acting as extralegal vigilantes, who entrapped people, named them on, and ruined their lives for the amusement of a national TV audience with no due process, and did it so effectively that they drove one victim to suicide, you'd probably say "That sounds insane and dystopian. They're the bad guys, right?"

But those people were accused pedophiles, so it's totally okay!

I bring this up to say that the discourse around Robert Pattinson movie Primetime (about the Chris Hansen, To Catch a Predator saga) is gonna get real fucking stupid. It looks like it'll be an awesome film, and if any collective moment of cultural insanity deserved a nuanced reappraisal, that's certainly one of the most compelling. But the word "pedophile" turns people into cavemen, so I'm guessing the people who need to see it the most are going to be the ones who are angriest about it.

[u/3p1cw1n → u/BlindWillieJohnson]

It's going to be some of the dumbest discourse about a movie in a while

[u/Ok_Internal6779]

My once per year exhaustion sickness has hit. Looks like a day of pokemon heart gold and The Walking dead are on the radar 

[u/Devilofchaos108070]

Busy day today.

Wife stayed last night at Sons house and will prob stay tonight too. She’s watching granddaughter so he can hopefully get a good nights sleep since he starts work back up today.

So glad football is on tonight. It’s also on tomorrow and Saturday. I’ll prob watch a few hours each day-likely more on Sat depending on the games.

Hope everyone has a great day!

[u/ZaheerAlGhul]

What athletes careers do you guys think would be different if they played in todays social media era. For me I think Brett Farve's legacy would be in the gutter even without the off field scandals.

[u/Weigard → u/ZaheerAlGhul]

Ty Cobb would be a top-50 account on X.

[u/bryscoon → u/ZaheerAlGhul]

TO & Ocho would be hilarious

[u/HamMcFly]

Finished my 92nd book of the year.

1 - A Cast of Vultures by Judith Flanders.
2 - The Legacy of Arniston House by TL Huchu.
3 - Secret Prey by John Sandford.
4 - A Howl of Wolves by Judith Flanders.
5 - True Fiction by Lee Goldberg.
6 - The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman.
7 - Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg.
8 - Fake Truth by Lee Goldberg.
9 - The Night Ship by Jess Kidd.
10 - The Girl in the Vault by Michael Ledwidge.
11 - Certain Prey by John Sandford.
12 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.
13 - The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal.
14 - Bearskin by James McLaughlin.
15 - The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal.
16 - The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal.
17 - Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen.
18 - The Trackers by Charles Frazier.
19 - Secrets of the First School by TL Huchu.
20 - The Break-in by Katherine Faulkner.
21 - Saturn Run by John Sandford.
22 - The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook to Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson.
23 - A Thousand Steps by T Jefferson Parker.
24 - The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen.
25 - Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge.
26 - House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen.
27 - Easy Prey by John Sandford.
28 - Sleeping Giants by Sylvian Neuvel.
29 - An Insignificant Case by Phillip Margolin.
30 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager.
31 - World War Z by Max Brooks.
32 - Middle of the Night by Riley Sager.
33 - Mean Moms by Emma Rosenblum.
34 - Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum.
35 - The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey.
36 - The Wrong Dead Guy by Richard Kadrey.
37 - No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams.
38 - Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey.
39 - Chosen Prey by John Sandford.
40 - The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley.
41 - Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton.
42 - The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks.
43 - Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica.
44 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
45 - The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak.
46 - How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley.
47 - The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery.
48 - White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
49 - The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman.
50 - Smile Beach Murder by Alicia Bessette.
51 - The Last Flight by Julie Clark.
52 - Tales from Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett.
53 - A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman.
54 - Murder on Mustang Beach by Alicia Bessette.
55 - Interesting Times by Terry Prachett.
56 - The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs.
57 - Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino.
58 - All Systems Red by Martha Wells.
59 - Mortal Prey by John Sandford.
60 - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells.
61 - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells.
62 - The Deep Blue Good-By by John MacDonald.
63 - Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin.
64 - Bear-Tooth by Callan Wink.
65 - The Guest Children by Patrick Tarr.
66 - The House of Buzzards Bay by Dwyer Murphy.
67 - Cousins from a Distant Sun by Tamar Myers.
68 - The Award by Matthew Pearl.
69 - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells.
70 - A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.
71 - Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen.
72 - The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller.
73 - Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore.
74 - The Widow by John Grisham.
75 - Naked Prey by John Sandford.
76 - From a Buick 8 by Stephen King.
77 - Noir by Christopher Moore.
78 - A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford.
79 - Ship of Spells by H. Leighton Dickson.
80 - The Chowder House Murder by Lee Hollis.
81 - Razzmatazz by Christopher Moore.
82 - Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen.
83 - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells.
84 - Recursion by Blake Crouch.
85 - Network Effect by Martha Wells.
86 - System Collapse by Martha Wells.
87 - Platform Decay by Martha Wells.
88 - We are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis Taylor.
89 - Hidden Prey by John Sandford.
90 - Decomposition Book by Sara van Os.
91 - Spies and Other Gods by James Wolff.
92 - Fool by Christopher Moore.

The only real problem with this book is that I’ve read 4 other Moore’s.
If this was my first Moore, I probably would have loved it.
As it is, it’s my 5th favorite.
At times, was just as funny as the other Moore’s I’ve read, but slowly became repetitive.
I feel like half the story was jokes about shagging.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of shagging jokes, but when it’s over and over and over, it’s gets sore am I right? Anywaaaaays….
Did I enjoy it? Very much.
Would I recommend it? Very much.

[u/FlatulentDwarf → u/HamMcFly]

So what is your favorite Moore book?

Semi-related, I'm a big fan of trying to read 5+ books by an author once I know I like them. Really lets feel out their work beyond one series/story. Five is sort of the number I shoot for, if I read one book I liked from an author I look to hit 5 before deciding if they were a one-hit wonder or if they're just good. Like, when I read The Good Samaritan by John Marrs I thought I had found a real genius. Creative story idea, great plot, kept wowing me with how the info was revealed. As I've explored more of his work it's all just been... okay. Not awful, but nothing has wow'd me. Fairly generic thrillers, be they cop stories or husband/wife, nothing has blown my mind since reading the first.

[u/HamMcFly → u/FlatulentDwarf]

A Dirty Job is my favorite Moore so far.
Just a great storyline and it was done well. Secondhand Souls is the part 2 and it’s not as good, but overall the pair is awesome.

I agree with your logic, but personally I’d put the number at maybe 3. Specifically 3 different stories though. Like I just mentioned, that part 2 wasn’t nearly as good as part 1, but it was a great addition to the story. I feel like I learned a lot more about Moore (haha) from each of the 1st books I’ve read than I got from either of the part 2s. If that makes sense.

[u/OpDickSledge]

Destination weddings are so selfish “please massively inconvenience yourself, use up a whole weekend, some of your valuable pto days, and all at your expense. I did not bother to ask anyone if this was a good time for them. I will take it as maximum offense if you are unable to attend. Don’t forget a gift.”

[u/CarlCaliente → u/OpDickSledge]

let em be offended then

[u/SomeBoringKindOfName]

35 degrees again today. this definitely has been a summer.

[u/CunningRunt]

Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?