OT: Trolls and March Madness
I was in a local park about two weeks ago playing catch with my wife. Alanya is petite but a natural athlete and she's got a great spiral. We use an NFL sized ball, so it's a wonder that she can throw so well, but that's my girl. Anyway, it had been a few months and I think we were both just trying to avoid injury. She stabs at the ball when she catches and invariably jams a finger. So much for my coaching-up.
We had been there about 20 minutes when this six or seven year old kid riding a bike came round the paved path that surrounds the park.
"Needle dick. Needle dick. Fuck my ass. Needle dick. Fuck my ass."
It was obvious the kid was desperate for attention. I looked over at his family, or what I assume was his family, and there were five kids, all rapid fire births, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and a young couple-maybe younger than Alanya and I.
We played on. The kid circled round and near us again.
"Fuck my ass. Needle dick. Bukkake. Bukkake. Needle dick."
I turned to Alanya and said, "that kid is going to be trolling Field Gulls in a few years."
I have not watched a single college basketball game since last year's tournament. Can anyone fill me in on the angles and rooting interests? UW is first for me, and then I usually pull Pac-10
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UW has been maddeningly inconsistent
Eminently beatable some nights, totally dominant on others. Cal can absolutely shoot the ball, but struggles when the 3’s don’t fall. It may be a 1 bid year for the Pac 10, possibly 2 at the most.
Outside of the Pac I think Syracuse is a fun favorite to root for Orange b-ball is all those poor bastards in upstate New York have to live for, and also because Andy Rautins has been on the team for 12 years. Either Michigan State or OSU will win the Big Ten with unwatchable ball. Kentucky is pretty dominant, and fun to root against under the helm of slimeball Calipari. Gonzaga once again fields a U.N. team.
UW is horrifying to watch on the road
I’m a Romar fan and he’s been fantastic for U-Dub but way too many times this team craps itself against the bigger teams, especially on the road. Like the Seahawks, too many of U-Dub’s road losses have been blowouts. Huskies lack a great shooter and are still trash at the free throw line and it cost them the Texas Tech game.
Right now Washington’s best chance of avoiding the NIT is winning out (beating Oregon and Oregon State) and at a minimum get to the Pac-10 conference championship game in the tournament.
New Mexico is ranked in the top ten in basketball. I can’t fathom that.
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Agreed. They need 4 more wins minimum
And every road game is an opportunity for me to unleash 30-75 expletives. Especially when Matthew Bryan-Chris-Wilcox-Amanning fails to secure a rebound 1 minute after a fastbreak dunk + shimmy dance.
I don't get on college players often
But MBA is never going to develop. He’s a disaster picking up rebounds.
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Is the Pac 10 going to get more then one team this year?
Gonzaga and Duke always hold my rooting interest
Only way Pac-10 gets more than one team is if Cal doesn't win the conference tournament.
Otherwise ASU and UW are unlikely to make it.
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I don't buy that, one of UW or ASU will get a bid
Most likely ASU. Theres no way the selection committee only takes one from a major conference.
Perception is everything.
If there were 7 or 8 teams from the Big 10 or ACC duking it out with records in conference similar to the Pac 10 this year, the talk would be about how deep and talented the league is that every team can compete on every given night.
But because it’s the Pac10, it’s seen as every team having weaknesses instead of a balanced conference.
Not that I don’t disagree, the Pac10 IS down this year, but it isn’t terrible like some “experts” are saying.
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 1, 2010 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
It is terrible
When the best two wins are (and only “quality” wins): UW over A&M at home and USC over Tenn. at home, we’ve got a problem. Cal has 0 quality wins, ASU has 0 quality wins. The pac-10 did nothing to deserve a good rep nation wide in the non-conference season.
I don't fully disagree.
I’m mainly just pointing out that if another “Power Conference” had such issues, it would be chalked up to “battling it out in conference” whereas when such issues occur in the Pac10 it means the conference is down.
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 3, 2010 12:12 AM PST up reply actions
I haven't watched a single college basketball game since the Sonics left
I haven’t watched a single basketball game of any variety since the Sonics left. I just can’t bear to watch the sport anymore.
I'm not that bitter.
Maybe because I have never latched on to any NBA team. But I find the NBA less and less exciting to watch.
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Ouch.
Sonics were the NBA for me, but I was always more a college guy.
By the way, my high school (Onalaska) is going into the State A tourney in Yakima undefeated. They’re a darkhorse at best coming from a weak league/district, but I’ll be catching Wed.’s games.
The two best sporting days in the country— Day 1 (and 2) of the NCAA Tourney (which are of course the best televised) and locally something you wont ever see on TV= Day 1 of any high school state basketball tourney.
Everyone still has dreams of a championship/trophy/even just a game upset against a favorite.
You get to sit in the stands and just watch basketball all day long. Kids playing their asses off for their teammates, their school, and in the small school tourneys, for their whole towns. It’s truly great entertainment with a heart.
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 1, 2010 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
Excellent!
When did you graduate? I’m ’93.
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by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 2, 2010 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
Same
The whole sport is pretty much dead. 80’s-90’s NBA basketball is what I fell in love with.
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 1, 2010 8:44 PM PST up reply actions
Precisely
Worst is seeing and avoiding KD highlights. Then a [Zombie Sonics] score goes by on the crawl and I think FUCK YOU.
Killed the NBA for me, but didn't totally ruin college.
I still watch the occasional regular season game and try to catch a good chunk of Madness.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have a realistic shot of getting home court advantage in the first round.
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It's like the movie Major League, only it was real, and it was basketball, and most importantly, it was our fucking team.
Bastards.
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by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 1, 2010 5:55 PM PST up reply actions
They were one of the worst teams in the NBA the year they left Seattle
Then all of a sudden became good and matured rapidly.
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Well, that's what happens when you draft a couple of young studs
Durant and Westbrook are going to be perennial All-Stars.
Fixed.
“The Oklahoma City Thunder Zombie Sonics have a realistic shot….”
by thebyron on Mar 3, 2010 12:00 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Glad I'm not the only one who absolutely refuses to call them the Thunder.
What a stupid nickname.
Is that the light at the end of the tunnel, or the headlights of an oncoming train?
Three months until the World Cup.
Come on USA!
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And the legendary Martin Tyler will be calling most of the games on ESPN
He’s brilliant. The best soccer announcer of his kind.
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Just great voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKpFEYqN6FA
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Fantastic
I love Martin Tyler’s game calling ability.
Yes. He's fantastic.
Heck I’d love to hear how he sounds on NFL games since he’s called Super Bowls on the radio.
Calabro was terrible and even if he didn’t have many commitments he would’ve gotten canned.
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Oh my goodness, Landon Donovan (6:24 in)
http://www.skysportshd1.com/video.php?v=28452
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Beating England
how sublime would that be.
by jacobstevens on Mar 2, 2010 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
It's not a tough group we drew
Algiers, Slovenia. We’re not much better, but it ain’t murderer’s row. Even England is probably weaker than the past 2 cups.
by jacobstevens on Mar 2, 2010 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
What a surprise, The Marriage Ref got bad reviews
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0111649220100301?type=marketsNews
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Another NBC show gets bad reviews and is likely to tank?
Well color me surprised.
In other news, Jay Leno takes back the Tonight Show tonight. Yawns ensue but at least old people will have someone to listen to as they fall asleep at night.
Some of the guests he has on are the worst ever.
Palin? Favre?
He’s not winning anyone over.
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Kevin Eubanks is leaving in the Spring as well
And he’s the top sidekick.
Oh yeah they’re doomed.
NBC’s dive began the moment they lost the NBA rights. I miss the theme music!
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Kevin Eubanks is leaving?
Who the hell is going to laugh at Leno’s jokes now?
His audience.
I mean NBC totally wrecked this situation and lost both of their meal tickets.
Leno’s show will take a dive in ratings and get canceled.
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Its interesting how they laid the seeds for their destruction years ago, too.
I’m not sure how that contract looked, but Conan and Jay knew for years this was coming.
And everyone watched the impending train wreck.
I think I gave up on NBC after getting a thorough view of how they cover the Olympics. It’s an insult to the American public.
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I wore out my girlfriend's patience after a few days.
I was continually amazed at how bad they could make the Olympics. I mean it takes a special kind of stupid to fuck up live sports and NBC really outdid themselves this year. I had to contain my outbursts after a while, I guess continuous slurs against NBC didn’t add to the viewing experience.
My thumb was incredibly sore pushing the mute button
Several times per day.
Tape delay shouldn’t happen in this day and age where everyone gets results online and DVR usage is increasing.
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Wait, he tells jokes.
I would’ve never guessed from his monologues. Semi-joking, but I think the other late night hosts are funnier than Leno.
by seattle_since_81 on Mar 1, 2010 5:39 PM PST up reply actions
I love those segments.
The rest of his show? Not so much.
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They're so painfully unfunny.
Surprise! Newspapers have occasionally amusing wording and people are stupid.
If he wants Headlines
I can just send him the Edmonds Community College newspaper every 2 weeks.
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Kimmel sucks.
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And so does Jimmy Fallon.
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I honestly care so little about the NBA now I didn't realize NBC doesn't have them.
Nor, actually, do I care.
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 1, 2010 4:30 PM PST up reply actions
Goddammit, Jerry Seinfeld, why?
Seriously, are you trying to make people forget how good Seinfeld was?
Anybody read the story about Sean Payton stealing Jerry Jones wine?
It was amusing. For the record, every time I hear "Who Dat!" I want to stab someone in the jaw. It’s like hearing "I ain’t got no…"
Third post in a row.
Who’s stoked to watch Hubble3D on IMAX?
by DJ C-Raig on Mar 1, 2010 8:25 PM PST via mobile reply actions
I can't wait.
I’ve been looking forward to it since I saw the initial previews.
Forum trolls are annoying because they shit in your community
MMO trolls are bad because they ruin your escapism. Real life trolls are the worst. I don’t mean under-the-bridge trolls, I mean Ryland Stucke who you see every day at the gym who says some shit like “Hey broseph! Did you put on a pound or two!? HaHa! Check you later playa!” or that dipshit postbac lady in your Anatomy class who asks 40-thousand questions and then is insulted when you get a better grade.
I've already been forced to place two facebook status updates based solely on people in Washington's driving.
Been back in state a month. This whole, “keep right except to pass” thing just doesn’t work at all. Also, you lose the right to be upset when i pass you in the right lane and then slide back in front of you when you never change lanes and go below or right at the speed limit with nobody in front of you.
Also of note while driving—- I got flipped off today.
It was a lady. I merged close to her— I was about 6 feet from her back bumper. Then switched lanes and went beside her.
Did I mention this happened at 4:00 pm in Olympia when there was a small gap between her and a semi behind her. It was the only place to sneak in…
Oh yeah, and she took the time to flip me off with her “driving” hand while her other hand was keeping her cell phone next to her ear.
Bitch.
Look, maybe I was close, maybe tailgating briefly, but you are breaking a law too, cell phone lady. I didn’t flip you off for driving with one hand while talking did I?
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 2, 2010 2:04 AM PST up reply actions
Postbac (what does that even mean?) lady in your A&P class who asks 40 thousands questions is the worst
I had a 40 year old in one of my history classes at CWU who couldn't understand how I did well on the tests.
Her “notes” were full paragraph word for word. I’ve never seen anyone work so hard taking notes. She’d get like 8-15 pages of notes a day, I had 1 or 2 — like most students.
I’ve also never seen anyone with such a complete lack of ability to dissemble information.
She asked too many questions too.
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 2, 2010 2:08 AM PST up reply actions
If anyone is in the Portland area, I recommend
OMSI: After Dark. It’s awesome. It’s 21+, you explore the museum while drinking; child free. It’s like a nightclub for geeks, nerds, and people who hate nightclubs.
Well looks like Activision has killed another game dev studio.
According to Kotaku they fired Infinity Ward (Call Of Duty, Modern Warfare) studio head Jason West and stormed their building with security today. Chalk up another franchise that the Bobby Kotick led Activision has murdered.
He's just so bad for the industry.
He doesn’t want anything innovative. He wants easily accessible IP that he can exploit every single year into a stack of sequels. He has even said this himself. He is the Anti-Christ of developers. I remember reading an article on him where he basically said he had no interest in video games, he just realized that it was a growing market, and so invested heavily into it. He went on to say that his goal was to take all the fun out of video game production, and create an atmosphere of focused depression. Or something along those lines.
I wish every company was run like old Mythic, before EA.
Well his antics cost them Harmonix, now it's probably going to lose them their biggest cash cow in Infinity Ward.
He can’t keep alienating his developers and expect the shareholders not to notice.
Those comment still hit to close to my current work situation.
Final Cut Pro used to be a digital playground for me. Now I dread opening it.
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 2, 2010 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
I'm way more excited for the Karate Kid remake.
Jackie Chan and Will Smith’s kid? No way that isn’t awesome.
I just puked in my mouth a little bit.
If they don’t play “Cruel Summer” by Banarama during that movie Pat Morita is going spin in his grave.
How bout that Bruce Lee-Macchio claymation commercial.
What was it for, Nestea or something?
“Arnold? From Happy Days?”
by jacobstevens on Mar 2, 2010 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Comedy Central bought a pilot back in November to air a sports parody show produced by The Onion
I’m so there.
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That sounds good.
Generally speaking I think the Onion is much funnier in print than it is in video, but it’s still a good idea.
Thats awesome.
I don’t really understand the methods they use to look for water but I’m a little surprised they just now found that.
If you want to laugh--then cry--at the stupidity of people
Type “why are” into Google, and see what pops up.
First result--why are black people so loud
Jesus wept.
Is that the light at the end of the tunnel, or the headlights of an oncoming train?
Looks like I have an enemy. Funny what searching for info about Dan McGwire can reveal.
Why quote John Morgan? He’s a joke who can only make himself look good by banning any serious criticism on his blog. Unlike all real football people, he thinks he can effectively evaluate football players off TV replays. He has no qualifications and almost never explains any of his opinions, as though everyone should assume he’s an expert. If commenters were allowed to debate his opinions as they are on this blog he would be shown for the fool he is.
What I find funny is that this site is so often accused of banning users to avoid dissenting opinion.
We give trolls more than enough rope to hang themselves with.
You should see Fearless' new sig.
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I guess that ends the very brief period he will be unbanned.
Always nice when giving someone the benefit of the doubt is immediately repaid with passive aggressive sniping.
Wait he was going to be unbanned?
I could’ve sworn you said he didn’t want back.
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His actions implied that, including not posting anything after being unbanned
He was unbanned for a day or two, I think.
Not to insult our younger members, but he's young, and once I figured that out, his behaivor sort of made sense and I wanted to give him a chance
No offense taken....and I've been there before anyway.
Not to read minds, but I wonder if he has his mind set on “big names”. I think that’s why he wanted Keim as GM and not Schneider because the former made the “boom or bust picks”.
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Yeah I just said "not to read minds" and I went on a comment about wondering what goes through his mind.
Smooth.
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I don't think it's that
and I won’t put what I do think it is right here, because that wouldn’t be right, but I did think he could grow out of it.
And maybe he will
and he probably thinks I’m a jerk, which is nothing new to me, but you know, I thought Fearless could be a cool contributor here, and it sucks that’s probably never going to happen.
He said a lot of funny things
But ever since the Curry pick he kinda lost it.
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I didn't know he was unbanned
Maybe he didn’t know either because it would be weird to put the sig in after being unbanned.
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Wow. Then he must've not wanted back in.
That’s kinda asking for it.
The Seattle Seahawks offense is driving......right into a brick wall at the end of the tunnel.
Been gone for a few days at the "A" tourney. This, after our conversation, forces me to just shake my head.
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 7, 2010 1:27 AM PST up reply actions
I wonder if it's Dan McGwire himself.
’Tis a conspiracy!
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Well holy shit don't do a google image search for that.
by Nate Dogg on Mar 3, 2010 6:06 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
That gave me one of those abrupt, bursting laughs.
But why would you image search it before Wikipedia-ing it?
A really bad split second decision
“Hey, I want to be a doctor someday. I’ll just look at the pictures and figure it out. Gotta get used to this kind of stuff sooner or later.”
It took me a disturbing amount of pictures to realize this was not something I should be looking at at work.
Eh...you'll get over that reflex quick
It was somewhere around between sawing through a female cadaver’s pubic symphisis, and watching as a Doc showed me how a 16 year old kid’s face had been smashed in that I lost that sensitivity. I left the cave, now I can’t go back in….
Yeah, I think I might be getting there
I was staring at the one with the guy laying his finger across the penis doing what I can only imagine is creating a mental target for his butcher’s cleaver when I realized “Hey! Thats a penis and you’re at work. You should probably go to the wiki page now.”
Or you could be like my wife, and actually be fascinated with the stuff
I think her favorite quote is “I like surgery” from Spinal Tap.
Well, I suppose I am
Which is why I chose to go into Medicine. I just found out quick that there is a big difference between reading a text book, or watching a documentary, and actually being there when the saws come out. The majority of the time ER surgery is not delicate or “surgical”. I found that there is a part of my self that I turn off when I go into work, and shit just can’t hit my emotions. Except dead children, I don’t think I will ever get over that, and it’s how I learned I never want to go into Pediatric surgery or work in the NICU.
Side note: Scrubs is probably the most accurate portrayal of hospital life than any other TV show.
Scrubs jumped the shark.
It used to be funny.
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Double side note:
Your wife like Spinal Tap and Clash of the Titans, and can throw a mean football? You picked a good one I think.
She creams you every time?
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I'm tired of backpedaling 80 yards every time she says go long
It’s like I’m dating JeMarcus Russel with nicer legs.
Sounds like it.
I’m happy for my wife. Not that I don’t care about my cat, but I care more about how my wife feels, and she’s very attached.
I have a great story about a penectomy performed in my ED last week!
I won’t relay it if people don’t want, it can be a little…uh…uncomfortable. But there is a good lesson involved about the most dangerous of heterosexual intercourse positions.
You would be surprised how many males break their penises with this position.
Best case scenario: Your tunica albuginea tears. You get massive swelling, blood leakage. They open you up, skeet your Cash n’ Prizes with sutures, and in a few months you can pop a b again.
Sometimes: Not only the t. albuginea tears, but also the corpora cavernosa. You can no longer get an erection without the use of a hydraulic or pneumatic pump operated manually. You may even develop Peyronie’s Diesease (bent penis).
In this instance: Dude ripped it up something fierce, but luckily he got his business sutured up quick. He tried having sex before he was fully healed and the stitches were out. Infection. Penectomy. Sans penis.
I’ve seen 4 broken dongs and I’ve been in the ED for a little over a year. Every single time the culprit has been….Reverse Cowgirl: The greatest of positions. I can tell you about GBS too. I’m not kidding, it means Gay Bowel Syndrome.
My geography teacher tutored D'Marco Farr and Ed Cunningham
That’s the best personal life related OT piece I can come up with.
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This is interesting
A new study shows a fairly profound correlation between early marijuana use and schizophrenia/psychosis.
by DJ C-Raig on Mar 4, 2010 12:57 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Um it was sorta a surprise.
Wanted to get my own thing going but this is about a month earlier then planned.
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 8, 2010 8:12 AM PST up reply actions
Jesus Fuck this is one of the worst things ever to grace the internet
and I say this having been to 4chan once or twice.
by BrianL on Mar 6, 2010 11:08 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Just make sure you find new work before it gets old...
I actually start Monday, and am glad to be back at it.
Bird Law in this country isn't governed by reason.
by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 7, 2010 1:37 AM PST up reply actions
Meaning back to work...
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by Tyler Jorgensen on Mar 7, 2010 1:37 AM PST up reply actions
i can do a maarch madress post if u want
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