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Have been baking d4rk's birthday cake all morning and the cat has been constantly underfoot or sitting on the cabinets above the oven. Cat now smells like carrot cake. Could be worse!

Their White Zombie Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls peyote hallucinating moment in Beavis and Butthead Do America is one of my favorite things of all time. skip to 2:10

Not a total basement battle, but maybe a scuffle in the hallway/stairwell to the basement? You know, where people hang all their junk on the walls so there's the plastic bag full of plastic bags getting knocked down the stairs, some brooms getting in the way, maybe tripping over the cat... Just don't murder Zetterberg or f up his back and I'll be happy.

I'm dead today from staying up to watch that awesome hockey game. Best hockey I've seen all year. And I'm not ashamed to admit I cried a little when they got their medals. So proud.

I like it

Enjoy the lovely Farch weather, dude

I've been hearing about their supposed romance non stop, so I really started staring them down. When she's not performing, Virtue doesn't really look into it. She'll hug and all, but he always initiates. I won't deny he's nuts about her- he gazes at her longingly a lot. I haven't really gotten the same vibe going the other way though. They've been skating partners since they were 7 and 9, respectively. I dunno what that does to a relationship- 20 years of competing together, growing up together. Is that a deep love/bond or a romantic one? The American pairs duo Scimeca and Knierim are married. She was thought to be dying of a horrific disease even on their wedding day. It's a hell of a story, and they're the first married couple to compete together at the Olympics. That relationship definitely grew on ice, though. then again, who really cares? they bring it on the ice and I enjoy watching them. I'll forget about them in about a month until the next Olympics.

Shibutanis, probably. Yeah, it is unusual to have bro/sis doing that. But they're far from the same kind of... uh... fire and passion... of Virtue and Moir. Who practically bang on the ice.

Picabo Street comes to mind, too. We always pin our hopes on a few faces. Used to be Picabo, Bode Miller, Apollo Ohno, Michelle Kwan. Right now it's Mikaela Shiffrin, Vonn, Shaun White (still). But we're really not that good in these games this year. Mikaela was suffering from the norovirus going round the Olympic Village during her runs (hah). Vonn is up there in years for the sport as a woman/half made of metal at this point. White is probably done now. So next we've got Chloe Kim for snowboard- gonna need another blonde for skiing.

I think it depends on the location, but usually when I notice it, it's someone shout-talking into the phone in what seems like an effort to be noticed, hollering business/important-ish sounding advice and buzzwords. My dad is guilty of this. His volume increases like 400% and he loudly laughs, business business business, and it's really pretty embarrassing. Especially since he's usually a pretty soft spoken man, if he speaks at all. Putting on a show, really. That and I think your ears hear half a convo/answering cues and you aren't actually hearing the responses, and part of you feels involved although you aren't. Maybe? lol get out of my head

I might definitely have some cool news regarding this soon.... but check it out! This is a graphic novel in partnership with the NWHL- art done by pro comic artists, and the publisher/creative team is here in Buffalo. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1698370626/kicking-ice-a-graphic-novel-about-womens-hockey?ref=9exz2w

Media bias versus extremely biased article. The truth is in the middle and still sh!tty, and there's no way to spin that. I'm out of here for today. I have a sick dad and a lot of work to do.

These guys. 100%. On the fu*king news trying to reach their kids. Some people love attention, no matter how negative. It's also a very American thing to find a connection to any event, especially a tragedy. On the positive end of that, it's a desire to relate and understand. But on the worst side of it, it's grief/disaster tourism and attention seeking. Look at me, give me pity and love, my friend's niece's cousin's friend's mail person's dog sitter's sister went to that school 7 years ago!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221 You're sadly correct

d4rk mentioned I've been on Oxy/percocet before. Never really a problem after a surgery- I take a couple for a day or two and then quit. But. I always have them on me because of kidney stones. It's not to make the pain go away- it's to make the pain tolerable until I can either pass the stone or get to a hospital. Anyone who's had a kidney stone knows what I'm talking about. Last summer, I got a migraine at a friend's cabin about 3 hours from home. End of the night, luckily, but I knew the car drive was going to be hell. So I popped one. And I understood why people get addicted. It was like a warm happy blanket was tucked around me- the pain melted, just cozy, heavy, warmth took over. Until the car sickness/nausea/pounding heart appeared. Yep. My hometown has been destroyed by heroin/oxy/fentanyl. A third of my graduating class (which was a good 360 people) have had problems with it, either them or a spouse/family member. Many have died. Every trip home is "remember x person?" "Oh yeah, the homecoming king/etc?" "yeah.. he's in rehab". That's the ones whose families are wealthy and can help them out. The rest are living in cars in parking lots or couch surfing or sleeping rough. On school shootings- when I taught at RIT I always had two plans ready per classroom- good hiding spot for the class (often tough with huge glass windows) and escape route. I felt sh!tty for even feeling like I should consider it, that maybe I was just overreacting. Glad I never had to try them out. ANyways. My complaint: My father is having exploratory surgery tomorrow- essentially a wire up an artery into the heart to look for blockages and determine if we're in "needs bypass surgery" territory. He's 71. I'm terrified. Kinda been a wreck all week. My brain is just conjuring up all kinds of unbidden images and bad thoughts. He's solidly into meth now. He looks horrific. He was a very handsome guy- probably 90% of the reason my friend was with him (she's a bit daft about men). He's the human equivalent of a bombed out car frame. Hollow, dirty, strained.

Good lord. My parents just bought a huge new house- 3284 sq. feet, 4 beds, 4 bath, right next to one of the best schools in the area, 3 floors, 3 car garage, new roof, sunroom, etc. $315,000. And at the time (and now still) I was like, guys, that is SO much money. But that's NW Ohio for you... Everything is sticker shock to me. We're looking at things in the 60k range that are ex crack dens. I mean, I was checking to see if I'm eligible for food stamps earlier this week.

I looked him up and he looks like a lion. A stoner lion. Awesome. So if I was born in 89 and am a Millennial, what the hell are we calling all these gold medalist 17 year olds born after the actual Millennium? Zygotes? Toddlers? Wee ones? Gen Z? More successful in their short lives than I'll ever be? Dang.

I love that top one. 200k? Jesus Crispies we're fu*ked someday. Just got an in for a dream job-involves sports and art at a good company. Yay Jo! You say. Where is it? You ask. Fu*king Florida. I can't relocate. God Dammit why can't I get this kind of luck in this damn city? The Buffalo art scene isn't that jaw dropping why the hell can't I crack it arghghh kill me

Yeah. First half is just so great. Second half is like they went "oh we have to be a comic book movie now" and mucked it up with scary IRS official-lookin' Ares.

Got into the sport vs not sport fight with someone on here 4 years ago. Not doing it again. Shove the semantics, respect the difficulty of what’s being done, enjoy the Games.

I hate figure skating scoring. It’s a direct result of all the people whining about it being too subjective and not quantitative or sport enough. You are better off attempting a quad or triple and falling on it than if you change it to a lesser jump and land it beautifully. Currently, the Russian and the Canadian both fell on their butts a couple times and baubled simple elements but because they had quads included in their programs, they will win over the perfect, flowing program Rippon skated. A quad-triple toe loop is 14 points, and if you fall on it, one point deduction. I see the idea- incentive to push the sport. We have people doing quints after all. But I think the heart of figure skating is good form, figures (footwork), and flow. Rippon has that, and beautiful triples. But no quads. Sorry. Former figure skater. Will get off my soap box now.

Well, at least it’s not like we were making a playoff push. Totally sucks, Jacky boy

Painted Hilary Knight like I said I would. Tough to find good ref of women's hockey players- in play they have a cage covering the face, and otherwise it's promos where they're all airbrushed and made up and it lacks that energy I want to emulate. But still!

Neat. d4rk n I figured that was the case- different snow conditions and then multiples of each in case of problems/damage. They were talking about the Austrians in this case- but I'm sure it's similar. Still though. Sponsors, teams, etc- the money. It just blows my mind. Even to just get a start in the sport. Friend of mine babysat one of the Canadian snowboarders when he was little... he grew up skiing/boarding down in Ellicottville. I've only ever known one Olympian. Gold medalist in Beijing- sailing- Joanna Tunnicliffe. My mother knew Scott Hamilton growing up.

Only if/when the traditional biannual Olympics Controversy happens. The coin flip isn't it- too puny an issue. Your choices include: Russia not competing(doping), N and S Korea combining as Korea, transgender athletes, figure skating judges being biased (wow aren't we all shocked, SHOCKED I tell you), what is and isn't a sport, lopsided advantages (think US/Canadian women's hockey vs all other teams), and Secret Bonus Round Yet To Come To Light! I'm here for good stories and being amazed at the evolution in tech/gear from 4 years ago to now. And body types. Example: Lugers- My god, that stuff is awesome. The specialized pointed booties, the nails on the fingers, the uvex facemask that doesn't fog up (and the paintjobs on the helmets!). Skiiers- neoprene suits but I was trying to spy the padding/reinforcements on them. They were saying some of those skiiers bring 100 pairs of skis, minimum. Incredible- imagine the money!!! Body types- with downhill training runs last night, there were little short powerful meatballs and 6'5" 230# giants, equally matched for good times. I figured the sport would homogenize in body type, as most sports kinda do to each role (big defensemen, lithe little forwards, powerful legs on cyclists, etc). I'm endlessly fascinated by this stuff. Some of those lugers/bobsledders have healthy lookin' guts on them, too! Not the chiseled, svelte, 6packnobliques you visualize when hearing "Olympian". And age! The top contender for slalom and downhill is a 37 year old 6'3" or something giant of a man. What are that guy's knees like? It's incredible. Wow. Aynsley. That's... that counts for sure. I forgot- d4rk and I discovered our new favorite name of the Olympics last night: Wylie Maple. Wylie Maple. Now that's a name. That's the name of a man who showed up in Deadwood, stole Wild Bill's girl, drank the best whiskey without spending a single coin, enthralled the inn owners, and rode out at daylight, leaving a legend behind.