flatdawgs

Gawd, I hate the off-season.

That's a lake?

No prescription drugs, eh? Well, carry on, then.

Fucking Wagner's probably already recruited him.

That was chock full o' squidly goodness.

Watching hockey, good sir. And nobody gonna replace Biff 😁

The Finns and Estonians are just wrecking this douche in the comments.

Lol! It's the equivalent of "eat a bag of dicks" - "suck a canefield of dicks" in this case. Google Translate does not always do well with slang.

Bolsonaro is a gigantic piece of shit and I'm glad he lost (I preferred Ciro Gomes) but Lula vai chupar um canavial de rola. Fuck that tankie shit.

Go Squid! 🦑 Can't wait to experience the Cup playoffs in person for the first time next Saturday/Monday - may well be the last games of the season but what the hell. The place and city will be a zoo!

Fuck around with Bird Shit Island; find out.

100 point season for the Squid. Unbelievable. Likely out in round 1 but just enjoying the ride (can't wait for the atmosphere at games 3 and 4 vs whomever). 🦑

I live downtown, work downtown, walk between the two. It's a 15-25 minute walk to every sporting event (except for the UW, which is 6 minutes by train) and most concerts in town. There are still tons of great restaurants and bars; new ones are still opening all the time. Yeah, there are blocks here, blocks there you avoid, but not whole neighborhoods. It's good to see things slowly getting better as more people come back to the office (Amazon coming back 3 days/week in May will help a lot there). The winter weather sucks (and I'm from here). Summers? Best. Place. On. Earth.

This is a stretch. The closest B1G school to the West Coast - Nebraska - is a third again farther from both LA and Seattle than they are from each other. (LA and Seattle are basically equidistant to most of the B1G schools; Seattle is actually closer to several). Most of the B1G West is 150%+ the distance between LA and Seattle; the B1G East is 2 to 2.5 times farther away. I know we were told there would be no math, but....

So does the guy in the middle... hey, wait a minu-

That looks interesting, with the oil and vinegar. I have a bottle of condimento de malagueta from Minas Gerais that's just malagueta peppers (mashed), vinegar and salt. It's got a little bit of a kick but is good for perking up feijoada a bit.

Like many of you I've been fortunate enough to have traveled widely, to some pretty obscure places, and there are a lot of them that we underappreciate and who are pretty darn cool. And we ignore them, and don't notice it until China has bought half their economy, or Russia gets their support because the USSR was anticolonialist 70 years ago and the West hasn't given a shit since then... or until they get brutally invaded and fight back like wildcats or they give half of their defense budget to aid a neighbor even though the enemy is on their doorstep too. Yeah, you're very cool, Ukraine, and I dearly wish we'd known that earlier. I also wish we'd notice that about a lot of other places. The world might be a better place if we did.

Was on the bus this am, idly looking at one of the service notices; here they're in English, Spanish, Amharic, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Hindi and maybe a couple of others. For the first time I noticed it was also in Ukrainian - hadn't seen that before. I knew we had a decent sized Ukrainian population here but didn't realize Seattle has the 4th highest Ukrainian population by metro and WA 4th per capita. Apropos of nothing, of course, but it made me happy to see it there, up above the Russian. Then I went back to reading this thread, thankful for all the info you Surly bastards keep me informed with daily.

Looked back the last few years (to 2016, not counting 2020), and Oregon had 9 4+ million viewer games, USC 8 and UW 7. Most weeks during the CFB season there are 3 or 4 of those, generally the usual suspects. Not great, but not as if the LA schools were far and away better. Two WSU grad legislators tried this in the last WA state legislative session with a bill that tied the two schools together athletically. It did not make it out of committee. It did not even get a reading in committee.

Those are all damn tasty in their own way, but for grilled chicken (and a side of batatas fritas) give me a piri-piri from Mozambique or Portugal. 😋

Fun game to be at - not the result I was hoping for but an enjoyable game. Stars were clearly better but it was a battle until the end.

Come on, Trojan Man - nobody at UW thinks of USC as an equal. Part of the Pac's problem is that USC is, and has always been, the conference's only blueblood. When you suck, there's nothing else to fill the gap in national relevance. UW is a strong "next tier" program, but there's no delusion of bluebloodery at Montlake. It's a place where you can be in the conversation. It's not a place where you will be the conversation every single season. USC most definitely is. Much as I hate what's happening with CFB in general, if it's a $40 MM vs $25 MM offer until the next contract, UW and UO would be fools not to jump - and if that's what Fox wants, they're going to get it regardless of some punitive desire for a perceived slight.

Ohio State backing out of the UW series is for two reasons - their stated one that now with the LA schools on board, having to go aaaalllll the way west twice in one of those seasons just isn't faaaaaiiirrr, and their unstated one that UW is probably better than they had expected. Any B1G schools bitching about having to make a 2nd trip west for an OOC game while the LA schools must travel east at least 4 times a season - exclusive of any OOC games such as SC-ND - are a pathetic joke.

Much like Orbán in Hungary, there's a veneer of democracy in Türkiye that Erdoğan still needs to deal with. It's why he's making stupid promises about re-housing everyone within a year. These soft dictatorships win elections by controlling the message via state media, jailing the opposition (if they appear to be too much of a threat) and handing out goodies left and right. Fragmenting the opposition is more important than imprisoning them. Neither country is a single party dictatorship; it's just that AK and Fidesz have all the ingrained advantages. Pinochet in Chile and the military dictatorship in Brazil both lost power via the ballot box - in Brazil to the "Diretas Já" (direct elections now) movement, and in Chile via a plebiscite that Pinochet lost by 11 points. Both occurred because the opposition coalesced against leaders that thought their systematic advantages would hold as they had in other elections. While Erdoğan still has those advantages, enraging his own supporters may well cost him. Perhaps not, but it is still possible (it is also possible, as you say, that it will take a coup - but this tragedy makes that more likely as well).

Fuck Erdoğan. One of the only good things that could come from this disaster (apart from better enforcement of building codes) is him getting destroyed in May's elections. This part of Türkiye is a stronghold of his and - needless to say - they are not pleased with him or his government.