Over-rated: hoping to be half right

by | Sep 21, 2023 | Sports | 133 comments

 

But first, here’s some music to read bullshit by that proves Oklahoma is not a wasteland

It’s important to remember that it’s the state we gave to the Indians so we could keep Mississippi.

Ain’t no changing the weather; ain’t no changing me.

Check out these yummy chord changes from Tulsa.

 

 

SPECIAL PRIME PREP NORTH CAMPUS SECTION

 

Colorado ain’t 22d

  • they best CSU by 15? won in 2OT; we rate this prediction Somewhat True
  • lose to Oregon by 13?
  • lose to USC by 18?
  • lose to ASU by 2?
  • win over Stanford by 11?
  • lose to UCLA by 10?
  • then lose to Oregon St by 7?
  • then edge Arizona by 3?
  • then lose in Pullman by 10?
  • then lose to UU by 9?

 

 

OTHERWISE, HOW THE WEEK WENT

 

Duke ain’t 21st

but bested Northwestern in an honest battle of arguably legitimate student-athletes, …………but since the world of college football is really staffed by a bunch of bought-and-paid-for semi-literate murderers-in-training, kicking around Evanston Tech (motto:  1962 is not as long ago as you think) doesn’t exactly prove anything, and they will find out.

 

Florida State sure as shit ain’t 4th,

and barely survived BC, but no one will admit they were wrong yet.

 

 

 

Oklahoma ain’t 18th

As we explained regarding last week’s triumph by the University of Ted Bundy, beating the University of Will Rogers at Tulsa don’t prove shit unless it’s in goat roping, but Zero U is looking to be more than okay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oregon State ain’t 16

but were suitably comfy in their win over Jack in the Box College.  They might be 20.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th,

but they sure as shit destroyed Sparty on the road.  Last week I grudgingly observed they might be a top 20 squad, and now they are very much looking like my first big miss of the year.

 

 

 

 

 

North Carolina ain’t 17th,

but they handled the Earl Warren College of Nollege cozily and might be a top 25 team.

 

Utah ain’t 12th,

but they hung 30 on Weber state; we’re waiting on bowl season to see these guys unhorsed.

 

Washington State (father-in-law’s alma mater) ain’t 23d,

but they handled North Colorado.  Any why does Colorado need 17 different kinds of universities?

 

UCLA ain’t 24th,

but they beat NCCUHBCUnotAT, so maybe, just maybe, that means they belong in the third tier.

 

 

 

NEWLY STUPID OVER-RATED

 

There are not nine twelve teams better than Alabama:  watch this spot.

 

Michigan ain’t 2d, but it’s not really worth arguing about.

 

See also Texas which ain’t 2d.

 

Miami ain’t 20th.

 

 

 

 

FORMERLY OVER-RATED

we wish to hear their names no more

 

Tulane ain’t 24th

 

 

RECUSAL ZONE

 

Tennessee is barely a top 20 team, but barely, and I knew that after watching Austin Peay last week, but I’m content for others to do that laughing and that pointing for me.  Oddly, Florida, which just beat Tennessee, is still not ranked ahead of them in spite of the generic notion that such order should always be enforced whenever possible.

 

 

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Don escaped Memphis

Don escaped Memphis

all my exes live in Texas

133 Comments

  1. Nephilium

    I am very happy not to see a picture of the Chubb injury up there.

  2. The Gunslinger

    Not college football, but I’m willing to admit that my Chicago Bears are terrible. Sweet mother of all things football what a train wreck of an organization.

    • Nephilium

      What the hell is going on with the coordinator who just left the Bears? I’ve had some crazy conspiracy stories pop up in my news feed.

      • The Gunslinger

        No clue. I know he was not at the game this past weekend in Tampa Bay, but I haven’t heard any actual reporting on what’s really going on. Just “personal reasons”.

      • Nephilium

        Going to look for the story, I see that at least part of the stories (FBI raids) got retracted.

      • blighted_non_millenial

        I’ve seen a bunch of twitter noise but haven’t seen any legit news stories yet.

    • "RFK Apologist"

      The Grossman era is now viewed with rose colored nostalgia

      • The Gunslinger

        Sad but true.

      • The Gunslinger

        Did you know, the Chicago Bears have never had a QB throw for 4,000 yards in a single season? Or throw 30 TD passes in a single season?

    • Grumbletarian

      Worse than New England, who have spotted both opponents double digit leads on early turnovers then made the game look close in garbage time?

      • Nephilium

        All of y’all with teams that have been to the Superbowl can hush and let Cleveland and Detroit fight over who’s had it worse.

      • slumbrew

        If someone had come to me 20 years ago and said:

        “I have a deal for you – the Pats will be the dominant team in the NFL for the next 20 years – they’ll go to the Super Bowl, on average, every other year and win 2/3rds of those Super Bowls, winning 6 in all.

        “In return, they won’t be very good for at least a decade, maybe longer”

        I would have taken that deal and I am currently at peace with seeing a team that could potentially get their shit together down the stretch.

      • Grumbletarian

        I’m not complaining too hard, I just would like to avoid New England becoming a laughing stock like they were in the 1980s. I’ll happily take ‘reliably mediocre’ for a decade.

      • slumbrew

        I don’t think laughingstock is in the cards (aside from last year’s terrible experiment with a couple of defensive guys running the offense).

        Middle of the pack, but for a while.

    • blighted_non_millenial

      The QB School is a good watch on youtube. His breakdowns of the Bears offense the last two weeks have been brutal.

    • Ted S.

      When they had the #1 pick last year, I was expecting them to trade up to the zeroth pick and draft Mitch Trubisky.

      • The Gunslinger

        Ouch. Even worse, I saw a side by side comparison of Trubisky stats and Fields stats and let’s just say maybe Mitch wasn’t all that bad.

      • The Gunslinger

        You mean the Baker Mayfield that just put 317 yards on the Bears’ defense?

      • Nephilium

        That would be correct. The one who’s on a team that’s 2-0, a feat the Browns have not accomplished since 1993 when we still had Kosar and Belichick as part of the organization.

  3. Fourscore

    Great music, Don, but then I’m a country boy that spent too much time in the city. Had to go where the jobs are.

    • UnCivilServant

      Funny.

      Growing up, I always knew there were no jobs in the city. All the work and any productive activity was out in the countryside. Cities were where you warehoused excess people.

      /Rust Belt.

  4. Drake

    I was skeptical of USC being 6 or 5. But they absolutely annihilated Stanford a couple of weeks ago. That offense is scary. Remains to be seen if the defense can hold up against a ranked team.

  5. Fourscore

    Kneelin’s for church.

    • The Other Kevin

      I can’t remember, did he leave the radio for satellite because he was “too hot to handle”? If so, they should let him back on the radio.

      • Brochettaward

        He left after the FCC crackdown following the Janet Jackson nipple-slip. At this point, he’s on Sirius-XM where he has no r4eal accountability in terms of having to prove his value and they pay him as hit ton of money for his Hampton’s mansion.

        He was virulently anti-George The Lesser in those days. Every single day rants about politics because they were censoring him. Ask him today about Russell Brand.

      • "RFK Apologist"

        Talk about living on past your expiration date. Dude was bragging about how he’s woke the other day. I used to know people who listened to him. Now I don’t know anyone that knows anything about him other than his antics in the 90s.

      • pistoffnick

        My hunting buddy likes listening to Howard. I usually try to drive so I can control the radio. Howard annoys me.

      • Fatty Bolger

        He left because they gave him a half a billion dollar contract. The rest of his supposed reasons are just bullshit.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This, which is a good reason! Just own it.

    • Drake

      He used to mock Imus. Now he’s far worse.
      https://youtu.be/WR55WnfXRxY?feature=shared

      Imus stayed true to his beliefs and didn’t turn into an old lady afraid to leave the house.

      • cyto

        Stern chastising Boebert over her dress is one of the most remarkable things of my lifetime. Dude stuck dowel rods up porn star’s anuses and played ring toss…. on the regular. Not in private, on radio and TV.

        And he thinks a “titty dress” is something to be ashamed of?

        Please, Howard. You are embarrassing yourself.

      • Ownbestenemy

        His radio/TV studio was worse than the casting couch. Either it was all on the up and up the things he got ladies to do or he is under the thumb to stay out of court with this ‘redemption’ persona he is putting on.

        Or, team always protects their own.

  6. Tundra

    I don’t watch college football but the game last week was inescapable. Neon is certainly bringing the hype.

    Regardless of the standings, I can certainly appreciate his approach.

    • B.P.

      I was at the game. It was insane.

    • Aloysious

      I’ve never been a fan of Sanders or his shtick. Having said that, it appears that he has matured into someone I can absolutely respect.

      • cyto

        I love the story in that article about standing up for the Colorado State player.

      • Aloysious

        I had to read that twice, because it contradicted my conclusions about Sanders. I’m happy to have been proven wrong.

      • R C Dean

        The thing is, aside from the schtick, he was an incredible athlete, and is apparently very hard working (according to Aikman, at least) and pretty intelligent.

      • RBS

        You can always count on Jason Whitlock to write something that’s counter “The Narrative.”

      • NoDakMat

        True enough, but “The Narrative” is usually horseshit, so what Whitlock said sort of rang true to me.

        But, as I said, I haven’t paid hardly any attention to it, so I really have no opinion. Just bringing in another side to story.

      • Tundra

        Of the many things that Sanders has done and said that make me uncomfortable with his short tenure at Colorado, it is his insistence on defining his actions as God-inspired that bothers me the most.

        Money and security motivated Deion’s Boulder, Colorado, relocation. Nothing else. God had nothing to do with it.

        Whitlock is such a little bitch.

        The obvious fraudulence would be hilarious if it were not so sad. Black elites are the true face of white supremacy. They have no interest in ending oppression. They want to benefit from it. They hate the working class and the poor. They have no moral anchor, no firm set of values. Hypocrisy is their defining moral code.

        Saturday night’s football game was a culture clash. It was elites versus the working class.

        Colorado State represented the working class, a university with a $500 million endowment. Colorado represented the elites, a university with a $2 billion endowment. In this analogy, CSU is the inner-city school and CU is the private, Catholic high school.

        I saw a lot of white supremacists on the field the other night. Looked like a fucking Klan rally.

      • Ted S.

        The working class was the two teams and the regular fans watching it.

        The elites are the sports writers talking about the game.

  7. Drake

    Oregon State, Utah, Colorado, Washington, UCLA…

    Maybe they are overrated. The Pac-12 is collapsing because they can’t seem to get good non-conference match-ups. They’ll chew each other up during conference play but won’t know how they really match up till bowl season.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s collapsing because there no western media market that networks will pay top dollar for.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        This. The whole thing was a money grab, but now that there is a chance of losing a lot of the pot of PAC12 gold (no voting members on the board once you bail!) we all get to see that the whole shebang is just minor league football.

  8. robc

    I have no idea about GT.

    We thumped SC St, but by less than we should have.

    We covered the spread vs Louisville, but probably should have won the game. We dominated the second quarter and then were flat in 2nd half.
    We hung with ranked Ole Miss, cut their lead to 7 with 10 minutes to play in a fairly defensive battle. Then the game went all crazy and we didnt even cover the spread.

    What I do know is that we need a FG kicker. I think we beat Louisville with a good kicker.

  9. Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

    PAC2 Uber Alles!

  10. LCDR_Fish

    Wow….another one of those weird situations where you don’t check all the details on amazon…just got a little bottle of vallejo model paint delivered…..from the Czech Republic….for less than I probably could have bought it in the store locally. (I almost always look at the lowest price option if its the item I want – double checking the shipping addition).

      • LCDR_Fish

        Dark Sea Grey. trying to accumulate a few colors in advance before I start the painting process – will prime first set of models this weekend (trying zenithal format).

        Marines are going to be somewhat “maritime” based – blue lower legs, mostly haze grey with a few other colors. My custom chapter “Vanguard Undaunted” ;p

      • UnCivilServant

        Sounds like you’ve got your plan down.

        Share some finished pieces when you’ve got some.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was going to ask if you’re having fun, but since you’ve haven’t primed yet…

        Was assembly enjoyable?

      • LCDR_Fish

        The Marines are pretty easy (newer ones so far), but the Necrons are a lot more tricky in terms of how narrow/small some of the pieces are. Broken a few trying to get them adjusted – but the plastic cement seems to be working so far. It’d be a lot easier if they were just a little larger. Hexmark Destroyer in particular is tricky.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve never assembled a Hexmark, but the designers got too clever for their own good with the new Necron minis.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Vapid mumbo jumbo

    A key focus of the debate around ESG and climate-aware investing is the extent to which investors are working together to address the realities described above. Naturally, investors’ fiduciary duty requires them to consider, evaluate and make decisions based on what supports the best interests of their beneficiaries. The need to respond to this is fundamentally an individual responsibility. Nevertheless, in the face of the existential threats posed by climate change, it is widely recognized that there are efficiencies gained from working independently in a joint effort.

    Voluntary, private-sector alliances can help inform, shape and drive action when they are seen as credible and involve a critical mass of private-sector actors. Such alliances can also help to significantly catalyze and accelerate government policy and regulatory reform by politically elevating relevant topics and by providing policymakers with the proof of concept and of viability for actions that are needed.

    The U.N.-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) was created to bridge this gap. Members represent funds from across the world, each with their own stances on ESG as a whole, and the specifics of addressing climate risk.

    Members benefit from positive association, a sign to their clients and other investors that they are committed to solving pressing issues with a direct impact on their returns. All members set individual targets and are committed to decarbonizing their investment portfolios and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. While the NZAOA sets baseline recommended minimum science-based standards, members decide individually how to reach their own targets.

    This represents a bottom-up business-led initiative to create value for investors. Once set, these “soft science-based standards” can create a ready-made template for policymakers to shape into smart, business-friendly regulation that is informed by real market experience. This is precisely the level of action needed to support systemic climate solutions, ultimately helping individual members fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to manage risks.

    The benefits are infinite, making costs irrelevant. Trust us.

    • Grumbletarian

      From the halls of the Capitol to the steps of statehouses across the U.S., policymakers are locked in a fierce debate about ESG.

      Terrible meter, and doesn’t even rhyme. I propose:

      From the halls of the U.S. Capitol
      to the States from sea to sea.
      We will fight our fiercest battles
      o’er the fate of ESG.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There is no global conspiracy! Just a bunch of folks conspiring together under the auspices of the UN.

    • R C Dean

      “ Naturally, investors’ fiduciary duty requires them to consider, evaluate and make decisions based on what supports the best interests of their beneficiaries.”

      There’s so much wrong packed into that sentence I’m not even going to try to disassemble it.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    While we may disagree on a whole number of cultural and political issues concerning the financial world, the reality is that climate change cannot be one of them.

    Rather than painting this effort as ideological, policymakers have a golden opportunity to engage with financial institutions to create regulation that is both climate-friendly and business-friendly. We have a narrow window, that is steadily shrinking, to deliver these benefits and avert climate disaster.

    What difference does it make if we impoverish the world, as long as we personally get rich in the short term?

    • Tundra

      Degrowth is communism wrapped in technocracy.

      The goal is to kill billions.

    • B.P.

      “While we may disagree on a whole number of cultural and political issues concerning the financial world, the reality is that climate change cannot be one of them. ”

      Fall in line, or else.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        “How dare you not agree with us!”

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      While we may disagree on a whole number of cultural and political issues concerning the financial world, the reality is that climate change cannot be one of them.

      Never screw with someone’s religion.

      • Lackadaisical

        That goes both ways.

      • PutridMeat

        Never religion someone’s screw?

      • Lackadaisical

        Unless that’s their thing, of course.

  13. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    OK, wise guy. Who is underrated?

    • Trigger Hippie

      ^

      Also, “Who isn’t” means Jack if you can’t tell me “Who is”. Without that context it just comes across as…bitchy.

      • B.P.

        To be fair, it’s hard to tell right now because I figure there have been upwards of two marquee match-ups thus far this season: Texas v. Alabama; LSU vs. Florida St. Which is pretty pathetic considering we’re coming up on week four of the season.

      • cyto

        My Tar Heels played Minnesota. There’s 7 national championships between the two of them. That’s the same as the LSU v Florida St. matchup.

        Beat them like a dog too.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      UW Huskies.

  14. Gustave Lytton

    Despite that idiot Larry Scott and the Traitorous Ten, the PAC is the conference of companions. Even with the loser CO/UT/AZ schools.

    The Crimson Cousin Fuckers and their sycophant apologists can kiss my rosy ass.

    • Ted S.

      [pats conference of companions on head]

      Bless their hearts.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      This. I was born in a PAC8 town, my mother was born in a PAC town, and my grandfather was born in a Pacific Athletic Conference town.

      We know good teams.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Neither is expensive airport booze.

    • Nephilium

      Hell, a $17 cheeseburger isn’t all that surprising at a mid-range restaurant now.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, but hopefully your $17 burger looks better than that McDonalds-looking trash he got served.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yes. And that’s why the economy “seems bad”. You can’t even get fast food for two for less than $30. Every time we go to a sit down restaurant it’s $50 or more. It doesn’t just seem bad, it is.

    • cyto

      X.com community notes for the win!

      I love that they tracked down the exact cost and laid $61 of the cost on his bar tab.

      That is next level.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘One would assume that with that sort of résume he has visited an airport and ordered food before, but apparently, the 62-year-old had his first airport dining experience just this week.’

      sick burn, and props to them for using the gay little tilde above ‘e’ in resume.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Acute accent. Résumé (…she said pedantically).

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Curriculum Vitae, please.

      • Ted S.

        You mean curriculum vitæ.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m just a simple country engineer, ma’am.

  15. Rebel Scum

    I guess it was Wonder Woman’s plane…

    Footage of the debris field of the F-35 jet has been released after it was located in a field in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.

    The crash site was about 80 miles from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina.

    …because I don’t see anything.

    • blighted_non_millenial

      STEALTH!

    • Sean

      It’s 2023, why do we have to put up with grainy videos?

      • UnCivilServant

        Because people stopped buying real cameras and are trying to aim antiergonomic slabs that then can never find their focus because they’re constantly moving.

      • cyto

        Pretty soon we’ll go to 24k cameras that have multiple simultaneous focus planes so you can focus later. I’m already shooting 8k video on a lens that’s half the size of a pencil eraser on a chip that is just as small. Things being hi-res blurry is the wave of the future, man…..

  16. cyto

    This morning Suthenboy related a story of casual racism in food prep that struck a nerve.

    In my family, that isn’t “black people food”. My dad is from rural west Tennessee. He grew up in a region that never left the great depression. 13 kids, dirt floor… the whole 9 yards. Went on to design rocket fuel for the Polaris missile, among others. Great story when told well.

    But that food. That’s “poor people food” where I’m from. More accurately, “country cookin'”.

    Black or white, makes no difference. poor and rural is poor and rural.

    And I HATED it. All of it. Especially my dad’s favorites. Turnip greens. Blackeye peas. even cornbread in a cast iron skillet – the way they made it with a sort of coarse corn meal. bleck. Country Ham. Redeye gravy. Green Beans with a ham hock.

    Where he was raised – fried chicken was a delicacy. Not every day food. On a special Sunday, for Sunday dinner… then, they might have chicken. From the yard. But not much… because it meant the preacher was coming by for dinner. Back then, they passed the preacher around for dinner and that’s how they helped keep him fed. So he got the first breast. 16 people and 2 chickens…. fried chicken was an extravagance. These were poor, simple, salt of the earth folks.

    And when they couldn’t get chicken, they hunted for their meat. My dad carried his 4-10 to elementary school so he could hunt on the way home. Rabbits, squirrels, possum, racoon…. they ate what they could get. And meat was not an every week thing.

    So … I get the reason it was an insult…. .But my reaction is more of a big “screw you” to the folks who took a few stereotypes and turned them into some kind of permanent “no fly zone”.

    Yeah, southern, black, country folk like chicken, watermelon, collards… That’s the poor rural heritage of the south. Does anyone get their panties in a wad if you think Mario Piazzarino likes pasta with marinara? Or is that his cultural heritage, something to be celebrated?

    This idea that “Mexicans eat tacos” is offensive is the problem, not Mexicans or tacos, or people connecting dots, or Chitlin’s or Black folk who like them….

    On behalf of the proud poor folk of the south – bite my shiny metal ass!

    (aside – my dad never took me hunting. Everyone else got to go with their dad. But I never did. He finally told me why when I was in my early 20s. He said “Son, when I was a kid, we didn’t have much. We didn’t have food sometimes. And if we wanted to eat, we had to go out and hunt for whatever we could find. I ate possum. I ate squirrels. I worked my ass of in school to be the first in our family to ever go to college, let alone graduate. I worked hard to get ahead. I make a good living. I worked hard so you would never have to know what that is like. I worked my whole life so you would never have to eat squirrel, or hunt to live. I’m never going hunting another day in my life.” That’s why I take offense.)

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Once we went on a picnic with some friends, one of whom is a black guy. My wife brought watermelon to share. Because my wife is from a different country, she was unaware of the stereotype about blacks and watermelons. In her country people are very adamant about offering food and get offended if someone doesn’t take some, so she was very insistent about pushing watermelon on the black guy. He started saying emphatically, “You brough watermelon? I love watermelon! Oh, boy, that’s great!” Fortunately his wife is from the same country as my wife, so he seemed to understand that she didn’t mean anything by it. Anyway, as we were leaving my son asked, “Does he really like watermelon, or was he messing with us?”

      • UnCivilServant

        I like watermelon, especially now that they tend to actually have flavor.

        (when I was a kid, I swear there was no flavor in there Don’t know if it’s the kid versus adult taste buds or a change in cultivar over time)

      • Lackadaisical

        Agreed 100%.

        I don’t remember watermelons being sweet or flavorful. Maybe like Brussel sprouts they fixed them.

      • Not Adahn

        I grew up with multiple cultivars available in the stores. The long, light/medium green one is tasteless. Black Diamond(tm) (dark green, globular) is better.

      • The Other Kevin

        Watermelon and tomatoes from the store have no flavor. Home grown tomatoes are so much different. One year I grew watermelons, the variety was Sugar Baby. A bit bigger than a softball. Blood red and sweet as sugar on the inside. So good.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Cyto, what county? My FIL’s people were all in McNairy county.

      • cyto

        My dad’s sister was married to the commissioner of McNairy county in the 70s. I actually went with them a couple of times to bust up stills.

        Dad was from north of there in Union City.

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeah, I assumed it was also equally because there wasn’t anything special about the meal…

    • Drake

      My grandfather grew up on a farm in western Tennessee. I have the .410 shotgun his grandfather gave him during the Depression. He also had to use it on squirrels and rabbits to put meat on the table when he was a kid.

      He too had no desire to hunt when he became a successful adult.

      Also ate that same Southern food on special occasions.

    • Ozymandias

      The problem in this country is largely classist, not racist, but a lot of people profit from intentionally conflating and confusing those issues.
      And what’s weird about all of the “systemic racism” in this country is that interracial marriages between whites and all other races have been on the constant rise for decades.
      We are a profoundly NOT-racist society compared to most of the rest of the world.
      https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/06/12/key-facts-about-race-and-marriage-50-years-after-loving-v-virginia/

  17. The Late P Brooks

    The $17 airport cheeseburger isn’t all the surprising.

    80 bucks for lunch? That’s a tank of gas.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Hell, a $17 cheeseburger isn’t all that surprising at a mid-range restaurant now.

    No kidding. I paid $23 (including tip) for breakfast a couple days ago.

    • Lackadaisical

      I just ate out last night: 2 lbs of meat plus two sides, two drinks, I think we paid about $60… but yeah, that is an unusually good deal.

      • Nephilium

        My brain isn’t handling the adjustment that a craft beer is now closer to $10/pint than $5/pint.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        It’s $6 for an imperial at my local brewery. I love a small town.

      • Lackadaisical

        Your brain or your wallet?

        I have pretty much stopped drinking out except for rare occasions because it I just refuse to pay that much on the regular.

      • Nephilium

        Brain. I’ll stand for a round, and toss an amount that’s under the cost of the round. Then have to pull out more money and feel shame.

        And Zwak, I’m talking after tip. So a $6/imperial (probably a snifter or 12 ounce pour) gets up to closer to $10 than $5. The place where the girlfriend and I go for beer and wings during away Browns games still has some locals on for $4/pint which doesn’t help my brain catch up to the new normal.

      • RBS

        It’s tough knowing I can just take a ride to Total Wine and get 4 pints for the price of 2 at a restaurant.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      I go to a breakfast joint were the special (Thursday – half portion of CFS, gravy on the hashbrowns, coffee) comes to $11.50. Hell yeah!

    • Robonerfherder

      Dude, the second derivative of the inflation rate is NEGATIVE.

      You should be thanking President Biden for your good luck.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Five year plans will now be three year plans

    China will speed up the introduction of more policies to consolidate its economic recovery, state media CCTV reported on Wednesday, citing a cabinet meeting chaired by Premier Li Qiang, after the economy showed tentative signs of stabilising.

    With a flurry of support steps kicking in, the $18 trillion economy showed better-than-expected figures including bank lending, industrial production and consumption gauges last month, but the wobbling property sector still weighs on its economic outlook.

    China will stick to deepening reforms and further opening up and will fully mobilize the enthusiasm of businesses, CCTV said.

    “China will accelerate the introduction of relevant policies and work implementation, as well as further consolidate the economy’s upward trend,” CCTV said.

    Maybe they need an Inflation Reduction Act of their own.

    • R C Dean

      “the $18 trillion economy showed better-than-expected figures”

      *outright, uncontrollable laughter*

      Nobody, including (especially?) the ChiComs has a clue what is going on in their economy. The data is garbage, everybody lies, the distortions are probably the only thing holding it up at this point.

      So what do the ChiComs do? More policies! And who is going to send up the numbers saying they don’t work? Nobody, that’s who.

    • Drake

      Nothing speeds up a recovery like more government policies.

  20. Lackadaisical

    New from the dead thread:

    Sensei on September 21, 2023 at 10:18 am
    A photo of the receipt, taken at the Cupertino location of Pho Ha Noi, was then posted to Reddit’s “mildly infuriating” thread showing the policy. It reads: “18.00% Service Charge Included. For parties of 1 or larger, a 18.00% gratuity is applied automatically. If you have any questions, please speak with a manager.”

    What if I identify as nonexistant?

  21. Lackadaisical

    Oh Good CYTO is here.

    Don’t any of the laws that say you can’t say gay (lol) help you out with your school situation? God bless man, I hope so because part of why I moved from NY was to get away from that evil shit.

  22. UnCivilServant

    Why is it people are most likely to want to talk to you during the last ten minutes of your workday?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Because after work would be too late?

  23. whiz

    Hey Don, I like your comments on the teams, but what are your rankings? If you don’t want to be so fine-grained about it (1, 2, 3, … 25), just give them in groups, i.e., top 5 (or whatever the number is for your top group), second 5, etc.

    • Drake

      ☝️

  24. Sean

    Ya know, when shipping comes to 50% of the item purchase price you realize that “good deal” ain’t such a good deal. I really didn’t need it anyway.

    • Sensei

      It’s part of the reason people don’t want to interact anymore.

      It’s not a good sign.

    • Fatty Bolger

      The memes this guy is spawning, lmao.