Fish and chips is a favorite of mine. Apparently that is not shared by other people in this county because there is only one fish and chips place left in the entire county that I am aware of. The others all closed down.

I have decided on buffalo wings.

wv wrote:

Interesting topic. I did not realize the TV ratings were down.

I also, did not expect to read this sentence today:

” The younger generation no longer congregates around a large box; they carry small ones everywhere they go, constantly staring at them like zombies peering in to a sardine can full of brains.”

Personally, i don’t watch the NFL because i can’t afford TV. Its just about money.

I mean, for me to pay
for a TV cable or satellite hookup would cost somewhere between 60 and 100 bucks a month.
And watchin TV is just not worth that to me. Now if i could pay for the individual shows/games i want, then I might pay for TV. But i dont want to pay that big a monthly fee for a vast-wasteland of tv-garbage.

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It doesn’t say how much they are down, I noticed. This could just be an article written because it’s the guy’s job to write something every so often.

Billy_T wrote:

bnw, it would be a little easier to accept some of your defenses regarding Trump if not for the fact that you dismiss all criticism of him and say it’s all part of some conspiracy. All of it. To you, he can do no wrong, ever. Despite mountains and mountains of evidence proving he’s a crook, a conman, a serial liar, you dismiss all of that — automatically.

This is from a WaPo op-ed by a guy named Robert J. Samuelson:

The pledge to “make America great again” is not an economic project. It’s an exercise in mass psychology. The idea is to get people to displace their anger and frustration onto groups that (in Trump’s view) have eroded America’s “greatness” — Mexicans, Muslims, the Chinese, political and financial elites, and “the media.” The Trump treatment is to peddle hatred and resentment for his political gain.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/make-america-great-again-is-not-a-policy-its-an-exercise-in-mass-psychology/2016/07/17/e316d5a2-4ab5-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?utm_term=.3207affa8672

I think he is largely right, and I would add “intellectual elites” to the list (even though Trump hasn’t attacked them, his supporters show disdain for them). This is the deal: Trump is promising to make all these groups suffer, and to transfer comfort to white, working America. That message has such strong appeal, that his supporters are completely deaf to everything else. Completely deaf. They will not hear it. They are latched onto that core message with vise grips.

And, as president, Trump would make good on the first part of that promise – to make those groups suffer. He won’t follow through on the second part of that promise and anybody who understands the impracticality of bringing industry BACK to the US, and understands Trump’s personal business history knows exactly why he won’t fulfill that promise, but his supporters care only about that one core promise. Nothing else. And they will not be shaken, no matter how much evidence is piled up before them. Trump supporters have no interest in objective evidence, and it is apparent most of them do not even understand the process by which objective evidence is examined, or possibly even understand that there is one.

I think he’s dreamy.

All I can say is that what I saw of Goff in the pre-season told me that he wasn’t anywhere NEAR ready. Nowhere near.

Add to that the facts that he never took a direct center exchange, or called a play in the huddle, or was asked to read defenses…and he is 21 years old.

I am floored by the success of all the rookie QBs who have started this year without looking like a Keystone Cop. This may turn out to be a great class of QBs, and an entirely unexpected one pre-draft. And maybe Goff is the worst of the bunch, and maybe he’s the best of the bunch. I dunno. But I think he would look like a Keystone Cop if he played right now based on what I saw. Not all the time. Because he looks like he’s good. And that would show. But for all the energy he could bring, he would also shoot drives in the foot here and there.

I don’t think I want to see him start this year until he has played successfully in mop up duty.

bnw wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

I don’t think there is anyway around the fact that we have been insanely “liberal” in our gun policies, protecting the virtually unlimited purchase and usage of deadly pieces of metal. No other product gets this kind of pass on public safety concerns, and no other product kills or maims more often.

Use of tobacco and alcohol both kill and maim far more than private ownership of firearms.

I wonder, do you have a tendency to change the subject much?

When a critical statement is made about something you like, do you feel like saying, “Hey! Over here! Look here instead!”

nittany ram wrote:

Well it’s normal to test positive for the virus because of the vaccine. In other words, his immune system made anti-rubella antibodies to the vaccine. So he tested positive not because he has the measles (an actual infection) but because he had been vaccinated. We expect people to test positive for Rubella in our lab because that means they’ve had their MMR vaccine and almost everyone does test positive.

Yeah obviously I’m taking the courses online but I did have to go to the MSU campus during the previous two summers to do lab work. It’s a big campus. Similar to Penn State’s but not as pretty.

The LA board of health (whatever it’s called) called my son up and confirmed what you just said. So he missed 8 of the first 15 days of school for an illness he did not have.

They can, but they won’t.

I will watch a debate if:

1. The Head Moderator can turn off a mic when a candidate speaks out of turn. Nobody gets to rant over someone else’s answer.

2. There is a panel of 10 fact-checkers with laptops sitting to the side like a PBS fundraiser, each with a red light they can press when they call BS, or a meter of some kind that rates the statements as True, Mostly True, Somewhat True, and False. The panel will be made up of Political Science majors/graduates, and specialists in Rhetoric.

3. A candidate who refuses to answer a question, but instead jumps off to some other point, gets a timeout until he or she is strong enough to answer the question.

4. The mic gets cut off when time is up. There will be a light that goes on when the candidate has 10 seconds to wrap up an answer, and when the 10 seconds is up, the mic goes off.

5. Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Samantha Bee are the moderators because they are the only serious journalists left in this country.

This is separate from you thesis?

And is this a MS or a PhD?

Did I tell you my son got Rubella from his vaccine?

nittany ram wrote:

Nah, I can’t because MNF is on tonight.

And truth be told even if it wasn’t I’d find something else to do instead. Watching those two hellspawn try to out lie each other does not make for compelling television viewing.

I have too much work to do at school, but even if I had the time, I’m not sure I could watch it. I would just wanna barf the whole time, and I would feel like complete shit after watching it. It would just upset me. The only reason to watch is the spectacle of a powerful empire smugly going down the drain.

Count me out.

Hillary is going to sell Crazy Donald and her own “experience,” and Trump is going to sell Crooked Hillary and how he will clean up every problem lickety-split, and they will each drop some coy one-liners, and that will be that.

The media is going to want fireworks, and they will spend their post-mortem blabber talking about the most heated moments of the debate, and then decide there was no knockout blow delivered, and award some hashmarks on each side of the ledger. I have a feeling it is going to be pretty boring, and the media will decide Hillary won slightly (because she is smarter and better informed, and that will come across), and the Trump supporters will see that as proof the media is biased, and make their standard complaints there, and the whole thing makes me tired thinking about it.

Trumaine Johnson has been a disappointment so far. I don’t know what all the statistics say, but to my eyes he just isn’t as good as last year, and I would hazard that is because he doesn’t have Jenkins on the other side. I hope Gaines can come back and put a lid on somebody.

And I want more sacks. Where are my sacks?

We have never had a visitor. Our driveway is steep and long.

And just up the road, the land levels out and all the houses are crammed next to each other.

Another thing about Vinny. He wasn’t a homer. He was a baseball fan. Some announcers just go all nuts over the team they work fan, they are biased fans of the team.

I always appreciated the way Vinny would call exciting plays the same way whether they were the Dodgers, or their opponents. The man loves baseball, and he respects all the players and managers who play(ed) the game. He had a kind of reverence for the game, and that came through in good times, and bad, in exciting games, and boring games.

67 years calling games for the same team. Talk about unbreakable records. The man started calling Dodgers games when he was 20 – during the Truman administration – and retired at the age of 87. DiMaggio’s hitting streak will be broken first.