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I doubt this actually happened. If it was true how many labor laws were broken? I remember going out with my dad when I was 14 or so on some of his lawn service jobs. This was in the late 60s when the industry wasn't what it is now. I wasn't allowed to even touch things like the mower or electric clippers. I was regulated to raking and pulling weeds,( even though I could mow a few neighbors lawn on my own) Also in the fast food industry, you weren't allowed anywhere near things like the fryer or meat slicer unless you were at least 18 or older.

yes. that phrase is a huge peeve of mine. Blaming others for your lack of ability to draw in employees, as if you are entitled to a work force. Employees have options now. Employers have to fight for them like they do customers. There's people who want to work. They just don't want to work for you. Look in the mirror.

that guy never lifted anything over 10 pounds in his life. He's never so much as dug a hole.

Rome is a hack. Out.

I got the Huge call of the Day once, it was right after his Detroit tour stop. Bill Laimbeer was there and was a bit lubricated and when I referred to him as "Billy Slam-Beers" I think that's what won it.

Concur 100% and the "do you care" part should extend to: do you care if Europe is a strong, stable security partner. do you care if America represents any kind of values whatsoever -- particularly the kind purported by and sung about by dudes who drive pickup trucks and claim to love Jesus -- red state America, i am looking in your general direction. Hint: rhymes with Lee Greenwood's proud to be an Schmerican do you care that a notoriously bad actor Putin is emboldened to control western political systems via his influence operations in the horseshoe ends of the right and left wings of various political parties I could do more but i got to get to work.

If you give in to Putin now, and concede Ukrainian territory, he will obliterate the rest of Ukraine within the next 12 years. It will all be Russia. So the only question that matters is, do you care?

I got an exact replica of that Axel Foley jacket for Christmas. I'm stoked to wear it on Sunday.

Here's your private investigator:

I only started watching VEEP this week. The characters are great. Very funny dialogue. I’m hooked. 😂

come on, man. you listen to too much valenti. calling out an old boys network and telling jerry jones to **** himself is one thing, hiring a private investogator and calling the integrity if the league - and your multi-billion dollar product - into question is beyond stupid and will never ever ****ing happen. i expect this from mcs when he's high, but you? come on.

I don't believe that was Weaver on the pod because I don't see 50 million "umms" in the quote.

We had a hundred million people watching the riot at the Capitol a mere three years ago, too, but that doesn't make any difference with red hats who deny that, either.

If Weaver truly believes that a defense first mentality can work, the organization needs to make a complete pivot away from basketball. All scouts and personnel people fired and replaced by scientists and engineers. Every dollar should be spent on researching time travel and finding a way to build a time machine. That’s the only way it could work.

portrait of the douchebag as a young(er) man. it really sucks to have a despicable person as your owner. if youre going to be despicable and own a company that takes advantage of society's most vulnerable at least be competent at running the franchise. incompetent despicability is the worst kind of despicability.

The easy answer to that is: "That's because there is ZERO ****ing crime in that area (dip****)."

i felt pretty good against louisville. i knew that villanova game was a lost cause. that was a great villanova team. please dont sully this thread by mentioning michigan basketball.

Ya know for all the talk from the league blaming the Lions, even the video they put out, said "You have to stand in front of the ref, gesture to your number, and report." Of the 2 lineman in question, only one did that. Taylor Decker.

I guess I just think pedophilia is a very bad thing and you think it's no big deal. My mistake.

I know the knock on Hutch is that he hasn't actually completed the sack that often this year but I think in his defense it's hard to do that when you are the only one in the backfield, you basically have to immediately hit the QB from their blindside for that to happen. If other guys were there to help collapse the pocket where the QB couldn't go anywhere he'd probably have atleast another half dozen or so sacks this year.

the Hawaii/Kiribati one is interesting. That is a big gap of land between Hawaii and anything else. Kiribati is famous because it was the site of the first landing of Nimitz central pacific drive at Tarawa.

Rodgers deserves jokes about his COVID stances. He among others who spout his line of thinking have gotten people killed.

I had a chat pre pandemic with someone who picked up a part time job at one of the big box chains. The way she was jerked around over schedule and hours was outrages. Not knowing her schedule until the day before, last minute changes, demands that she work on days off, etc. This was a temporary retirement gig, not a career.

"Yeah I know that person was driving drunk but you were driving 55 in a 45 zone" MTG is a huge flamethrower of toxic vitriol and downright meanness towards people. Kimmell didn't suggest anybody punch her. He's a comedian doing jokes on a the comedy portion of his comedy show where jokes are told. That is not even in the same ****ing ballpark as an NFL quarterback talking about current events on TV and suggesting out of the blue that someone is going to be named on a list of pedophiles. Why are you so concerned about him being able to do that?

Which country is closest to you depending on where you are in the US.

while we are keeping score Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress | CNN Politics

No one wants to work for assholes who jerk you around on schedules and hours

there's a difference between making jokes about covid and making jokes about someone being a pedophile. Come on.

The a-ahole burn Kimmel used cracked me up

I just watched Oppenheimer last night, caught that reference!

washington has had some offensive stinkers in there. watch the arizona state tape. if you can make them one dimensional, you've got a decent chance to control penix. play a lot of zone, or throw johnson on oduze. but to win they need to control the game on the ground and not turn the ball over. washington's dline is not bama, or even ohio state. grind it out, control the clock, use jj's legs for once. be creative but not reckless. and for god's sake, dont muff any more punts.

Isis/Iran. Two scorpions in a bottle.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire...

I just don't see any improvement under Lalonde.

For those who are curious. He last called a Lions game when we played the Ravens in Baltimore. Before that, he worked Week 18 Sunday Night in Lambeau last season. He is also a professor at Texas Tech and enjoys long walks on the beach with his dog Fifi. I made one of those up, you can decide which.

I know it's a common criticism, but I'm not sure how much moving them to full-time would help. I don't think the issue is in the number of hours they put in. In-season, they are effectively full-time, putting in more than 40 hours per week when you account for travel (probably even if you don't). They are reviewing film on Wednesdays and Thursdays, flying in on Friday, having meetings galore to prepare for the game on Saturday, and working the game on Sunday, before flying back on Monday and doing it all over again the next week. Before the season, they are putting in hours starting in the Spring, with meetings and trainings all over the place. I would guess it averages to 10+ hours weekly, even accounting for the deadest portions of the offseason. Is there an argument to be made that their work as an accountant or a lawyer or a teacher detracts from their performance as an official? Maybe, but I'm not sure I see the connection. At the end of the day, my performance at work should be evaluated by my supervisor on the basis of my performance at work. Not "yeah but maybe you could do better if you didn't do other things where you're not here"... It would feel weird to have an employer tell me due to a change in policy, I can't play an instrument in a band, or collect and sell knick knacks, or whatever, off the clock... For the record I do neither of those things... If I did though, I'd probably feel like those things make me a better employee, not worse, and I'm sure NFL officials feel the same about their "other" jobs... Not to mention I'm just not sure what they would do year-round that they're not already doing in terms of preparation for games. What I think accounts for the largest portion of criticisms in NFL officiating is really irreparable, and it's just in the evaluation and promotion systems in place, and in how people get good at any skill - repetition. You look at MLB, NBA, or the NHL, and there is a tiered system in place to promote officials. An MLB official has probably worked over 1000 baseball games in their life before working his first MLB game. By the time they are in AAA, they are being evaluated in over 100 games per year (900+ innings and who knows how many pitches) to see if they're ready... NBA and NHL is less so, but still probably well over 600 games... An NFL official though? If we generalize and assume an NFL official is hired at 35 after working ten years of college football and five years of high school football, that means they've worked about 170 football games in their life ((12 games * 10 seasons) + (10 games * 5 seasons))... At the tail end where they're being looked at closely, there are still only 12-15 opportunities each season to really evaluate these officials... And if they're in an off-ball position like the back three, there are plenty of games where they don't even make a call! You can make them full-time, but you can't create more high level football games for them or their recruits to officiate. But then you have problems like Brad Allen not paying attention to who he is talking to. That's not fixed by telling him he can't be the CEO of some nonprofit. He just needs to do better.

be careful what you wish for. either the rams or the packers will be hard for the lions because of their offenses. i think the lions can handle the packers' defense. if the lions were going to lose, i'd rather NOT lose to the packers. and i'd feel a bit better about losing to stafford if we had to lose.

This is entirely too easy

What a deuchebag. Or would Dunce be better here...?

and what's shameful about that list is we are talking about rape. Rape of young girls. By high powered men. Systematic. They turn it into cheap punchlines. Someone on twitter pointed out that in spite of what we know, the only person in jail is a woman. Granted, she deserves every punishment possible given to her and probably more. That NPA agreement signed in 2007 by Acosta on behalf of the US government needs to be dealt with and investigated. But who investigates?

Here's roughly 16 minutes of therapy that's helping me move on...

now we can go back to 3 or 4 posts a game! cause no one cares until they lose 28 in a row again. bogey and burks shooting well tonight. trade em both while you still can!

It's not new, nor is it specific to young people. Many old people get their news from fox news influencers and many gen x get their news from influencers like Joe Rogan

While I mostly agree with the beginning of your answer, (i.e. JFK, Viet Nam eras), maybe because I am in close physical proximity to the 9/11 NYC attacks that day, and for awhile bunch of days/months going forward… including memorials for people, in towns that I lived in that died in the attacks, or at jobs in the city, that when I was commuting more than a few of these people were on the trains that ran from the northern part of Jersey and into Hoboken, and then eventually into the World Trade Center* (* For transparency sake, the train I took was from North Jersey into Hoboken; I then switched to the PATH train that went to 23rd St., as opposed to the PATH train that went through to the World Trade Center). It therefore did have a pretty huge psychological impact on me. The practical impact - less so…. But both enduring. 22 years later, and I still have a preference for getting into the west side of lower Manhattan by the George Washington Bridge going down the W. Side Highway as opposed to going further on the east side in New Jersey and taking the Lincoln tunnel into Manhattan. And why ? because I absolutely hate that ride’s Manhattan view once the towers were down and the ground is still smoldering. I went down to Jersey City to deliver some supplies for all the emergency workers who are working down there and crossing over the Hudson every day you bring them bags and bags of shampoo and soaps and toothbrushes and towels, and socks and gloves and eyedrops, anything you can think of. I needed to drop them off and you just look up at that skyline. It would weaken my knees and make me want to pass out in the beginning. Now, of course, everything is rebuilt over there, but I still hate that ride and will prefer to start way uptown in Jersey and take the George Washington to hit Matt Manhattan . I don’t know that I’ll ever change that.

Welp. i pulled the trigger and got myself a Player Plus Tele. It'll be here the 8th. I don't know how to post photos, but she's a beauty...

About a week and a half ago I was on the hunt for a Jr. I stumbled into my local music store to find a Heritage H137 and it practically played itself. On Saturday I received a message from one of the guys at the store showing off their latest acquisition. Now I have to sell the heritage.

Is there a photo of Fidrych which is not a classic? What a wonderful character he was.