Post Race!

[dday9]

I see Bonker Gudd in the lobby. He needs to post something incoherent in the post race.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Strange the perceptions you have without even knowing it. I never pictured gang violence in CT. Living in CA all I picture in CT is rich white people and the movie White Christmas. Glad your Ok.

It's different there: The sweater vests vs the gucci gang.

[dee-u]

Hmmmm... tried uploading it to an image sharing site and it seems to work

[dday9]

Oh no! I'm so sorry!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I actually first thought you had a REALLY shiny floor. Then I realized what it actually was. DDay totally understands you.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Flooding is one thing I don't have to worry about....well, at least not flooding from outside. Flooding from inside is a different matter, as plumbing issues could happen. Outside, I'm essentially on the source ground. Water flows downhill from where I'm at, when there is water to flow.

[2kaud]

I'm about half-way up an inclined road - so if I get outside flooding then we're into Noah territory. However I few months ago I did have an inside water leak. I have a couple of wood floorboards in the kitchen just laid and not nailed so that I can get easy access to the floor void. I noticed that there was a ridge where 2 met and that they were now overlapping. When I took them up I discovered a leaking water pipe joint and the dampness had warped the floorboards. Luckily the leak wasn't bad and the water was only in one place which was fairly easy to get out. After having the joint fixed I left the floor boards up for a few days so that the void dried out. Everything is now OK. However I hate to think if all the floor boards had been nailed...

[dee-u]

We get flooded almost annually but that was the highest one we've experienced. A colleague and his family went to the top of their roof since the flood was higher than him already, I think he is 5'7". Many families suffered the same fate, they were already on top of their roofs during the typhoon.

[Shaggy Hiker]

When I lived in the Florida Keys, I couldn't convince my landlady that she had to evacuate if a category three or higher storm was going to hit the Keys. She said we were on the high ground, which was kind of true, but we were at seven feet. She felt that a storm surge was nothing but big waves. I couldn't convince her that the ocean level could rise 12 feet, or more, which would make the house pretty doggone wet.

Never did get hit, though.

[homer13j]

Never did get hit, though.

At least not yet. But you know it's just a matter of time.

[FunkyDexter]

Sorry to see that DeeU. Hope everyone's OK.

[Shaggy Hiker]

At least not yet. But you know it's just a matter of time.

Yeah. On average, the Keys get hit once every seven years, but when I was there, they hadn't had a hurricane in decades. Much, perhaps even most, of the development down there had happened after the last big hurricane. There was a fair amount of speculation as to what would happen when it DOES get hit again.

Since that time, I think they were hit by a cat 1 storm, but nothing big.

[Shaggy Hiker]

By the way, as you know, the Browns now suck...but so does the entire AFC.

I'm a bit baffled by some of the teams, this year.

[wes4dbt]

By the way, as you know, the Browns now suck...but so does the entire AFC.

I'm a bit baffled by some of the teams, this year.

Come on, don't insult the whole AFC just because the Browns let you down. Some of us still like our teams. lol

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm not a Brown's fan, myself. I just have some friends who are, and I try to keep them from wallowing in their misery too much.

Having grown up in New England, you can probably guess which team I'm a fan of, though I tend to follow the whole league.

Still, I might as well insult the whole AFC, this year. The three best teams are all in the NFC, and it's not clear whether a team from the AFC can crack the second three. The AFC is just a mess. How the heck can the Bengals lose to the Jets? Either the Jets made the Bungles look bad, or the Bungles made the Jets look good...and the Jets certainly aren't good.

[wes4dbt]

The AFC is just a mess. How the heck can the Bengals lose to the Jets? Either the Jets made the Bungles look bad, or the Bungles made the Jets look good.

Now your just trying to sound like sapator. The Bengals are much better this year but being a consistent winner isn't easy in the NFL. Especially for a team that hasn't been a winner for a long time. Every team has talent and a lot of the time one or two key plays will determine the outcome.

I agree that the NFC has the three or four strongest looking teams at this point of the season but I disagree that the whole AFC is a mess. I even believe the Browns can still be a factor if they can get healthy.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, SOMEBODY has to win the conference. Going into the season, I thought that the top teams would be Bills, Browns, Titans, and Chiefs. The chiefs are really struggling to an amazing extent. The things that made them so good for the last couple years just aren't working. The Titans are going to win a super weak division, and the Bills are very likely to do the same, but the Browns need to get healthy. The AFC north has always been a dogfight, though.

[wes4dbt]

Yeah, no one in the AFC is making a dominate statement by blowing people away. I'm not impressed by the Bills, Ravens, Titans, Chiefs. The Raiders are playing better than I thought but they have some real problems with their offensive line and running the ball. But there's 10 more weeks left, plenty of time for any of these teams to get healthy, gel start playing better. Unfortunately there is also plenty of time for injuries to players.

I read the Ram's got Von Miller from Denver, that's scary. He's not in his prime but that defense was real good without him, now it should be even better.

At the end of the year, "there can only be one".

[Shaggy Hiker]

There can be only one!

[homer13j]

Bungles will be Bungles and Browns will be Browns. Should be a good game between them on Sunday.

A Browns win and an ex-Browns loss moves the Browns from last place to a half game out of first.

Been a strange season so far and it's only week 9.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The AFC North is about the most interesting division in football, this year.

[Shaggy Hiker]

May you play in an interesting division...is not an ancient Chinese curse, but it could be.

[wes4dbt]

The NFL is strange, there are so few games that after each game over reaction occurs.

Start of the year

NO stomps GB and people are writing off GB

Rams beat TB and they are claimed as the best team in the NFL

The next week the Cardinals beat the Rams and now they are considered the best team.

Then GB (that was written off after the disastrous first game) beat the Cardinals.

So go figure, lol

[Shaggy Hiker]

Any given Sunday...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Playing a 'best of seven' series for the championship would be a better judge of which team is better, except that injuries are so common that by the last game it wouldn't be the same team that was fielded for the first game.

[wes4dbt]

Holy crap, best of seven. lol

Yeah, one game a day for seven straight days. Why not? They are suppose to be tough guys. My parents walked 10 miles uphill, barefoot, in a snow storm everyday just to go to school.

Actually I like it being one game. Anything can happen and anyone can win one game.

[homer13j]

Well, every political candidate I voted for today (mayor, city council member, municipal judge) is losing big time.
5 0f the 6 judges (all corrupt as ****) up for re-election are running unopposed.
And the downright idiotic anti-police ballot issue that I voted against is winning by almost 60-40%.

I love my city. I just wish it still loved me back.

[dday9]

Here's a fun fact. I've never voted for a president, senator, or representative who has won, though I have voted for a governor who has won (once).

Then again it is hard for a party that historically gets 1-3% of the vote to win.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, every political candidate I voted for today (mayor, city council member, municipal judge) is losing big time.
5 0f the 6 judges (all corrupt as ****) up for re-election are running unopposed.
And the downright idiotic anti-police ballot issue that I voted against is winning by almost 60-40%.

I love my city. I just wish it still loved me back.

Most of the ones I voted for lost, as well. In some of the races, I really didn't care. Both candidates looked pretty good, to me, so it's no big deal. We managed to elect a wacko to the school board, though.

In the last election, the local candidates were so similar that if you removed names and pictures, I'm not sure that even the candidates would have been able to tell which answers were theirs in the candidate Q&A that got published.

[wes4dbt]

Any given Sunday...

Yeah that seems even more true the last couple of years.

Rodgers just tested positive for COVID so he is out for the GB vs KC game, that shifted the betting line by 8 points. lol

Henry is out for the Titans. Where does that leave them? Be interesting to see if they can win without him but you would have to think that's a fatal blow for this year.

Then there's this *******, Henry Ruggs for the Raiders that was driving 150mph drunk and rear ended another car on Tuesday. The driver of the car he hit died. The Raiders have released him.


Things can change quickly.


Edit: Sorry I had no idea that word wasn't acceptable.

[dday9]

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[dday9]

You posted?

[dday9]

:O I posted!

[dday9]

The post race lives!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah that seems even more true the last couple of years.

Rodgers just tested positive for COVID so he is out for the GB vs KC game, that shifted the betting line by 8 points. lol

Henry is out for the Titans. Where does that leave them? Be interesting to see if they can win without him but you would have to think that's a fatal blow for this year.

Then there's this *******, Henry Ruggs for the Raiders that was driving 150mph drunk and rear ended another car on Tuesday. The driver of the car he hit died. The Raiders have released him.


Things can change quickly.


Edit: Sorry I had no idea that word wasn't acceptable.

I was going to say that six asterisks is acceptable, but seven is right out.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Didn't need to say that, though, as you clearly broke the site.

[Shaggy Hiker]

So, whatever that word was....don't say it again, cause you killed the site.

[wes4dbt]

So, whatever that word was....don't say it again, cause you killed the site.

It wasn't even a swear word.

It was,

[dday9]

Mule?

[wes4dbt]

Mule?

The back half.