Boring Times - New Era
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For me, this is the most boring time of the year for sports. NBA playoffs and spring baseball entertain me as much as eating dirt. What boring schidt those ridiculous things are. Football is so non-existent wight now that for the life of me, I can't think of anything worth while to piss people off about.
I also think 2018 begins a new era for the Browns. At least for me. Win or Lose? That's always the thing, however, if the Browns suck again, 2 - 14, how many hang on? How many more " I am really excited about next year" do you have left in you? For me, I honestly have just about had it. I can't really get excited about the Browns any more. Maybe i am just to old or have been through enough of this horsecrap that I no longer have an emotional component in the hunt.
My neighbor is 76 and has a tennis team. His doubles partner is 81. Maybe I will live to see another great Browns era, and maybe I will get charged up again? Life looks differently at this stage. I don't even think I can get much into Ghoolie any more.
I want to GFO of Memphis, and get my wife to place where we don't have to dodge bullets, and where the weather is infallible. Who knows, when I get settles maybe I will have a bunch of you over for a Browns-Raiders game. I hope this summer takes a long time to pass through. I am headed to Vegas for a couple days to look at a future home. I think that is all the excitement a guy needs. Wife likes the former, I like the latter. If it's just me? I am good with a double wide and a 6 car garage and pool.
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I stopped watching NBA years ago. I know who LeBron is, but thats about it.
Im from Massachusetts and not a Red Sox or baseball fan. Everybody there is born wrapped in a Sox blanket at the hospital. I literally dont know a single player and dont care.
The Browns will NOT be 2 - 14. They will beat the Steelers opening day just watch.
Yeah, Vegas weather. Like living inside an oven during the summer. You dont need a BBQ grill. Just cook your steaks and burgers on the driveway.
I stopped watching NBA years ago. I know who LeBron is, but thats about it.
Im from Massachusetts and not a Red Sox or baseball fan. Everybody there is born wrapped in a Sox blanket at the hospital. I literally dont know a single player and dont care.
The Browns will NOT be 2 - 14. They will beat the Steelers opening day just watch.
Yeah, Vegas weather. Like living inside an oven during the summer. You dont need a BBQ grill. Just cook your steaks and burgers on the driveway.
I agree with opening day Carnage. As far as Vegas heat? It is mild compared to the 90% humidity I have dealt with in Memphis. I LOVE Vegas weather. Love the desert, love the mining industry, minerals, big beautiful rattlesnakes and coyotes. Indian camps and stars like i have never seen before. Vegas truly is as close to heaven as I can imagine.
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This is the exact time of year where one of the new upstart football leagues would flourish. I would love watching some football now and XFL or whatever the other upstart is would fill the bill nicely as I wait for the Browns to start.
This is also another reason i personally would LOVE for the Browns to be on Hard Knocks.
This is the exact time of year where one of the new upstart football leagues would flourish. I would love watching some football now and XFL or whatever the other upstart is would fill the bill nicely as I wait for the Browns to start.
This is also another reason i personally would LOVE for the Browns to be on Hard Knocks.
The XFL was a favorite of mine the first time around. I think today sports is a much different marketplace. There are more sports fans now who really don't know WTF they are even watching, LOL. Dude, I honestly would watch just as much of a Lingerie football game as I would a Browns-Steelers game on at the same time.
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Big, big balls. Dude, you don't realize it yet, but as life goes on for you, the rewards of doing something this huge will come back to you in Spades. Awesome, breathtaking. You should be proud of yourself. Bravo, bravo. Thanks for sharing. Magnificent photo.
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Back in my vertical delivery days. To old to do it now.
Back in my vertical delivery days. To old to do it now.
Great photo.
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DO you have any pictures to show? I would love to see them. It is always cool to learn about the real lives of posters, away from all this mental masturbation of being armchair GMs.
I think sometimes we hold on to schidt too long. I know I do. Things really are good here, busy, but so very, very different than I imagined my life would be. Here I am, 63 just about to launch a new water technology that honestly, could be the most important find in water treatment in history. Who knows? We will see. I look at the team now and forget my agitation about it being Browns V2.0, because it really doesn't matter now if the team ever left or not.........those days of Nelsen, Sipe, Bernie, and Brown happened in another lifetime. In my brain, it is as fresh as yesterday. I look at this team and think to myself, WTF, other than the old times, and buddies, keeps me coming back for more?
in one of the Gene Romero Zombie movies, one character asks another why there are so many zombies at the mall. The guy answers, " I don't know, maybe in the back of their brains there is a remnant that makes them want to be near something that was once familiar. I feel like one of those mall Zombies. God, do we deserve a winning team, or what?
I like boxing, but don't know anyone any more. For me, sports is football. That's what I got.
Great pic. Do you gear up for Steeler games like that?
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Great pic. Do you gear up for Steeler games like that?
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USA not in the WC this time right? Ergo...there will be little interest here.
I guess we could root for Ireland, but probably aren't in either. How about the Dutch? Are they in? Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany....they can all suck it. How about Australia? The Aussies are always good for a good time. Or New Zealand?
Iceland? Wasn't there a big deal about Iceland? We could get behind Iceland.
I've spent years watching NFL not having a specific team, so it can be done. But I understand that it takes a lot mostly if it is a competition with national teams.
I've spent years watching NFL not having a specific team, so it can be done. But I understand that it takes a lot mostly if it is a competition with national teams.
Well if your team or my team is not in the competition you still want to have some sort of rooting interest in one of the teams that is in there. So for Americans since the USA is not in the tournament we need a rooting interest and why not Iceland.
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I've spent years watching NFL not having a specific team, so it can be done. But I understand that it takes a lot mostly if it is a competition with national teams.
Well if your team or my team is not in the competition you still want to have some sort of rooting interest in one of the teams that is in there. So for Americans since the USA is not in the tournament we need a rooting interest and why not Iceland.
Well if your team or my team is not in the competition you still want to have some sort of rooting interest in one of the teams that is in there. So for Americans since the USA is not in the tournament we need a rooting interest and why not Iceland.
And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
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Well if your team or my team is not in the competition you still want to have some sort of rooting interest in one of the teams that is in there. So for Americans since the USA is not in the tournament we need a rooting interest and why not Iceland.
And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
Only white people could think they discovered a land that already had people living on it for thousands of years already.
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Well if your team or my team is not in the competition you still want to have some sort of rooting interest in one of the teams that is in there. So for Americans since the USA is not in the tournament we need a rooting interest and why not Iceland.
And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
But the Italians claim it since Christopher Columbus was Italian.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
I stopped watching NBA years ago. I know who LeBron is, but thats about it.
Im from Massachusetts and not a Red Sox or baseball fan. Everybody there is born wrapped in a Sox blanket at the hospital. I literally dont know a single player and dont care.
The Browns will NOT be 2 - 14. They will beat the Steelers opening day just watch.
Yeah, Vegas weather. Like living inside an oven during the summer. You dont need a BBQ grill. Just cook your steaks and burgers on the driveway.
I agree with opening day Carnage. As far as Vegas heat? It is mild compared to the 90% humidity I have dealt with in Memphis. I LOVE Vegas weather. Love the desert, love the mining industry, minerals, big beautiful rattlesnakes and coyotes. Indian camps and stars like i have never seen before. Vegas truly is as close to heaven as I can imagine.
I agree with opening day Carnage. As far as Vegas heat? It is mild compared to the 90% humidity I have dealt with in Memphis. I LOVE Vegas weather. Love the desert, love the mining industry, minerals, big beautiful rattlesnakes and coyotes. Indian camps and stars like i have never seen before. Vegas truly is as close to heaven as I can imagine.
You will grow to miss the humidity. Dry heat is not not what they claim. 117 dry heat? Your oatmeal cookies are ready to come out.
The desert is something else. Amazing that anything could live out there.
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DO you have any pictures to show? I would love to see them. It is always cool to learn about the real lives of posters, away from all this mental masturbation of being armchair GMs.
I think sometimes we hold on to schidt too long. I know I do. Things really are good here, busy, but so very, very different than I imagined my life would be. Here I am, 63 just about to launch a new water technology that honestly, could be the most important find in water treatment in history. Who knows? We will see. I look at the team now and forget my agitation about it being Browns V2.0, because it really doesn't matter now if the team ever left or not.........those days of Nelsen, Sipe, Bernie, and Brown happened in another lifetime. In my brain, it is as fresh as yesterday. I look at this team and think to myself, WTF, other than the old times, and buddies, keeps me coming back for more?
in one of the Gene Romero Zombie movies, one character asks another why there are so many zombies at the mall. The guy answers, " I don't know, maybe in the back of their brains there is a remnant that makes them want to be near something that was once familiar. I feel like one of those mall Zombies. God, do we deserve a winning team, or what?
I like boxing, but don't know anyone any more. For me, sports is football. That's what I got.
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And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
But the Italians claim it since Christopher Columbus was Italian.
But the Italians claim it since Christopher Columbus was Italian.
True
Lots of Italians in Boston, NYC and Providence RI. They then split off to expand the business and become the different families.
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And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
But the Italians claim it since Christopher Columbus was Italian.
But the Italians claim it since Christopher Columbus was Italian.
Indeed. The sailors and the money invested on the enterprise was given by the Catholic Kings of Spain.
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And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
Only white people could think they discovered a land that already had people living on it for thousands of years already.
Only white people could think they discovered a land that already had people living on it for thousands of years already.
It was discovered by the Asian land bridgers and possibly even some Pacific boat people. Columbus thought he found the East Indies. The extra continent was not in their world view of the time.
We like to think we "discovered" it because "stole" it does not fit our world view.
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Semi auto 12 with a red dot?
Semi auto 12 with a red dot?
Tac 870 pump with red dot.
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Semi auto 12 with a red dot?
Tac 870 pump with red dot.
Tac 870 pump with red dot.
All dressed up and dove season is still 3 1/2 months away.
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Well if your team or my team is not in the competition you still want to have some sort of rooting interest in one of the teams that is in there. So for Americans since the USA is not in the tournament we need a rooting interest and why not Iceland.
And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
Except, you forget.....Columbus is supposed to be Italian.
And also....we don't give a shite about the rest of the continent....just the USA.....and the entities that became the USA....the colonies, were founded by the English!..
I mean...what did we get from Spain? The original colonies came from the English. We got the Louisiana Purchase from the French. We stole the Great Plains from the Indians. We kicked Mexico's arse to get Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada....all that after they did the job of kicking you Spaniards out. We got Oregon, Idaho and Washington in another treaty with the British.
So...what does that leave, if anything that we got from Spain? Oh yea......ONE thing!!: Florida. We got Florida from Spain in a treaty in 1819.
So Spain gets to have the state of Florida rooting for it in the WC. The rest of the US?
Iceland, baby!!
The Miracle on Iceland!
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I agree with opening day Carnage. As far as Vegas heat? It is mild compared to the 90% humidity I have dealt with in Memphis. I LOVE Vegas weather. Love the desert, love the mining industry, minerals, big beautiful rattlesnakes and coyotes. Indian camps and stars like i have never seen before. Vegas truly is as close to heaven as I can imagine.
You will grow to miss the humidity. Dry heat is not not what they claim. 117 dry heat? Your oatmeal cookies are ready to come out.
The desert is something else. Amazing that anything could live out there.
You will grow to miss the humidity. Dry heat is not not what they claim. 117 dry heat? Your oatmeal cookies are ready to come out.
The desert is something else. Amazing that anything could live out there.
Ghoolie, after his first week living in Vegas:
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And why not the country whence came the first discoverers of the continent you are in?
SPAIN!
And before you mention the Vikings, they FOUND America but didn't DISCOVER it. Think about the verb discover: dis-cover. They didn't know they had found another continent and the rest of the world didn't take notice till centuries later.
Except, you forget.....Columbus is supposed to be Italian.
And also....we don't give a shite about the rest of the continent....just the USA.....and the entities that became the USA....the colonies, were founded by the English!..
I mean...what did we get from Spain? The original colonies came from the English. We got the Louisiana Purchase from the French. We stole the Great Plains from the Indians. We kicked Mexico's arse to get Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada....all that after they did the job of kicking you Spaniards out. We got Oregon, Idaho and Washington in another treaty with the British.
So...what does that leave, if anything that we got from Spain? Oh yea......ONE thing!!: Florida. We got Florida from Spain in a treaty in 1819.
So Spain gets to have the state of Florida rooting for it in the WC. The rest of the US?
Iceland, baby!!
The Miracle on Iceland!
Except, you forget.....Columbus is supposed to be Italian.
And also....we don't give a shite about the rest of the continent....just the USA.....and the entities that became the USA....the colonies, were founded by the English!..
I mean...what did we get from Spain? The original colonies came from the English. We got the Louisiana Purchase from the French. We stole the Great Plains from the Indians. We kicked Mexico's arse to get Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada....all that after they did the job of kicking you Spaniards out. We got Oregon, Idaho and Washington in another treaty with the British.
So...what does that leave, if anything that we got from Spain? Oh yea......ONE thing!!: Florida. We got Florida from Spain in a treaty in 1819.
So Spain gets to have the state of Florida rooting for it in the WC. The rest of the US?
Iceland, baby!!
The Miracle on Iceland!
Well. Look at your wallet. Open it. Watch that piece of green paper that many people around the world worship. The dollar. Its symbol? $
Why does it have that simbol? Well, during American Independence War, it was not only patriot Americans against silly brits, there were French and Spaniards fighting. Maybe just to kick some tea drinker butt, yes (they've earned it throughout History), but they fought along your ancestors.
And most importantly, one of the main contributions was money. In the chaos of correspondency and coins of that era, one coin had way more importance and flowed the most between American peers, and it was the Spanish Crown. And as many Spanish coins and symbols, like the shield of our flag, it has the two Hercules columns with a band tied to them saying 'Non terrae plus ultra', 'There's no more land beyond this point.' To simple note accounts, people started to simplify and wrote it in notebooks as an S with two vertical bars crossing it.
Those columns were supposed to be guarding the opening of the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, one in Spain and the other in Africa.
As Spaniards were the first modern explorers of America, those columns with that saying became a major symbol, and now you see it everywhere, but many people don't notice.
So yes, you have some reason to be thankful and rooting for the Spaniards
Note: I posted all of this of the top of my head. There might be some mistakes and not be 100% exact.
EDIT: The band says 'Plus Ultra' because we found a land beyond, and it was used as a theme for explorers to go beyond, as that America wasn't "supposed" to be there, to search beyond their limits.
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