RIP. Same age as my dad, who I think rather enjoyed his satire - this kind of sharp humour was right up his street.

@Mik said in Grill update.: Went to a Neapolitan pie place in Northern Kentucky tonight. Excellent Margherita pie. Crust was very good, but not quitee as chewy as I like. Their San Marzano tomato sauce was probably the best I’ve ever had. Delicious. It would be a much harsher world without San marzanos

@Mik said in Hey Lufin - Steelers QB update: Looking good for Howard. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/tomlin-s-steelers-force-rodgers-exit-as-qb-crisis-deepens/ar-AA1JmrIS :eyeroll: Howard might possibly have a Tom Brady or Brock Purdy type of amazing career, but that’s doubtful. Right now he needs to fight to make the #3 spot over Skylar Thompson, and that’s not a sure thing. The kid has been okay when he’s been in with the #3s, but that’s going up against the #3s as well. However, as is always the case, the backup QB is always the most popular man in town. Especially when they are young and recently drafted. Now make them young, recently drafted, from a somewhat local school watched by the locals, AND won the National Championship. So you have a bunch of Yinzers all over this guy like brown on unprocessed rice. Rodgers is coming in as kinda unpopular, and he knows it. He also knows this next year is going to be the swing year as far as his legacy goes, so he is going to say and do the right things, and I am sure he will be a decent mentor for the kid. At the same time, Roethlisberger has pissed off a good portion of the fanbase because of his treatment of Rudolph and Pickett, so he is trying to show support for the young guy. At the same time, the simple and unadulterated facts are: Rodgers is the #1 and will be the number 1 so long as he’s healthy. Mason Rudolph is the #2 and has looked the best in camp so far. He will be the starter each and every game Rodgers can’t go due to injury. Howard is a break glass in case of emergency #3, and if Rodgers AND Rudolph go down. And if that happens, Pittsburgh will still go out and get a Ryan Tannehill or someone with experience to come in as the starter. Next year, Pittsburgh has 13 draft picks stocked up, the draft is in Pittsburgh, and it’s going to be a great QB class. Pittsburgh WILL be putting together a trade to get one of the top 3. After that, Rudolph is the likely bridge, but Howard will get a fair shake at #2 while the rookie learns. That will be his one real and small shot. The far likelier scenario is they want Howard to develop into the future QB’s steady #2z

@Horace said in Maybe don't cheat on your spouse at a Coldplay concert?: That is a brilliant way to play this. Genius even.

It is difficult to be poignant when one misses the point of the subject matter entirely.

It made me needlessly cover my outdoor furniture.

Nothing wrong with goals.

@Horace said in $10 million: You should have seen the quote for the version of the book that broke the Epstein list wide open. [image: 1753462981936-2d90be15-c2c3-4ad3-bcf1-0b6a298a5824-image.png]

Dancing on graves may be as actionable as publishing sex tapes without consent. That habitual scofflaw should be removed from society, so the rest of us can feel safe.

Who's the heroic figure not wearing the hard hat? They should put that guy in charge! Actually, scratch that, there's a bunch of other dispensable people in the background without them too.

@xenon said in There go those goal posts: @Horace said in There go those goal posts: When you begin from the notion that the Trump campaign was always full of shit about their implications of all that dirt in the Epstein files, it begins to make a lot more sense. Occam is still firmly in the camp that there is no there there in those files. My best guess is that the government has little if any convictable dirt in the files. But this has become a cultural shibboleth. Either you believe that Epstein is illuminati or you don't. A lot of people in Trump's base believe it. That in and of itself is a problem for him now... TBD if people will forget about it. The Trump haters can't stop talking about how his base is totally fractured over this. I don't know how much of a point they have, but I do know that they think they can will a crisis into existence, if they just scream loudly enough that Trump is in crisis over this. I will grant that Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, and some other podcasters that helped get Trump elected, are deeply troubled by what they consider to be an obvious coverup. If they can grow their coalition, maybe someday we'll elect someone who'll fabricate whatever evidence their base wants to see.

@LuFins-Dad said in Operation Bring Back George: I’m pretty sure the whole forum is all about dicks of one sort or another… If George were here, Aqua’s Sister would have commented on this.

We’ll see. In his first term he campaigned on allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. Then he got elected and Pharma rolled him in one meeting. Biden then got it done, at least a start, with 10 drugs.

@Mik said in Community Notes remain undefeated: I’d like to see data not 20 years old. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/#Life expectancy at birth, in years, 1980-2023

Pennies compared to what the government normally wastes money on.

One thing that occurred to me last night… I think there is a generation of kids out there now who know the Weird Al parodies better than the original songs… White & Nerdy achieved a lot more commercial success than Ridin’ Dirty… and kids that only heard American Pie a couple of times in their life can sing The Saga Begins by heart…

It was rather generous.

RIP. I saw him with Black Sabbath in 1978 just before he got kicked out of the band - it was their 10 year anniversary tour. The backing band was Van Halen!. It was easily the loudest gig I've ever been to, although it was my first one so maybe that affected the memory a little.