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GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (5 Viewers)
- Thread starter General Malaise
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Tecumseh
Footballguy
I did at first, but at the first Illuminati meeting they had a cooking class option that offered some great alternatives. Who knew babies could be so delicious?
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On the Plus side, you'll probably never be able to get insurance to cover the maladies you're genetically predisposed to.
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Osaurus
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Footballguy
I think the only thing he kept was an old manual typewriter. She had boxes of police reports, gruesome crime scene photos, autopsy reports, etc.
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Bob Sacamano
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Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
I don't judge.
heckmanm
Footballguy
So, I'm mildly locally famous in the craft beer scene. A local brewery chose one of my old homebrew recipes to be brewed and served at the pub a few months back. I had brewed it with my neighbor for our local club, and we both got to assist in the brew day at the pub. It went on tap Friday night to good reviews.
German Rauchbier (smoked lager)
Yes, look at me.
German Rauchbier (smoked lager)
Yes, look at me.
krista4
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
Even with that luvy duvy emoji, I imagine your avatar reaction in this situation.don't.. you won't be able to look away
Sorry, heck.
mr. furley
Footballguy
kevzilla
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OrtonToOlsen
Footballguy
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
OrtonToOlsen
Footballguy
General Malaise
Footballguy
One more thing about Cannon Beach - they have really cool tide pools with volunteers there to answer questions or guide you petting a starfish or sea anemone. Not sure if that moves the needle for you or not, but as a kid who grew up landlocked, I find this sort of thing beyond cool.
Tecumseh
Footballguy
@OrtonToOlsen - Did you ever try stand-up again, or was it just the one time? I've been kicking around the idea for awhile...
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Bob Sacamano
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I don't think I'll ever "get" the reactions we have to celebrity deaths. It's sad several families lost family members, parents, and siblings. I feel for those families. Nobody should have to go through that. I just can't imagine the loss of someone I've never interacted with in my life impacting me that much. I'm aware I'm a heartless monster. I feel like I had this discussion with someone here wrt Cobain. GM maybe? I'm sorry the guy's dead, but I don't think I'll ever understand the overly-emotional reactions (again, apart from the family element).
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Intentionally putting this here, btw. Not trying to #### on anybody in the other thread. Just not something I really relate to at all.
General Malaise
Footballguy
I think everybody handles grief differently. I asked my basketball loving 15 year old who used to say "Kobe" after releasing his shots against me when we would play in our driveway how he was doing yesterday upon hearing the news and he shrugged and said "doesn't affect me; I didn't know him". Which I think is rather pragmatic for a teenager.
Maybe you're his father? We should probably start collecting back-child support just in case. Thanks.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
I’m usually in your camp. Oddly, this one is effecting me. I’d met him a few times. Nice enough guy. Very nice family.
For me it’s a combo of the reminder of my mortality but mostly, the family element. My daughter is 13. One of her best friends is super into basketball. I haven’t heard if she knew them or not. Inevitably, I will know people, directly affected. :( All of the deceased, are from my immediate area. The OCC coach was a pretty big deal around here and touched a lot of people’s lives.
The image that just won’t go away, is the last time I saw Kobe. He was walking his 3rd daughter around the restaurant, she was holding on to his fingers, doing that staggering, I just learned how to walk, walk. He was just a proud dad, enjoying the moment
General Malaise
Footballguy
I was pretty beat up when Gene Siskel died. 
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
To me, this is different. You did have that interaction. I can at least comprehend these things.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I think a lot of it is projecting - how that celebrity made ME feel at a certain point in MY life. It's not rational when looked at the way you lay out above, but that's what I think goes on when something like this happens.
Most of those that hit me hard are musicians.
One athlete's passing that gutted me was Paul Blair. I doubt many here know who he was. He played CF for the Orioles in the 60s/70s and was my favorite player by far when I was a kid. When I was playing LL, I'd stand like him in the batter's box, I'd tuck the glove under my arm like he did when he ran off of the field after out #3, slide like he did, do my practice swings like him, etc... He was a very good player for a few years and then he got his face shattered by a Ken Brett (George's brother) pitch and was never the same. He played another half a dozen years or so.
Anyway, I was at an Orioles game about 8 or 9 years ago and there was a tent set up on Eutaw Street where some Orioles "legends" were signing cards. Most of them were of recent(er) vintage (guys from the 80s & 90s) and there were a half dozen folks in each line. Except, there was Paul Blair with no one in his line. I ####### RAN (last time I've done so) to his chair. I gushed like a damned idiot. The good thing was, I was able to settle down and talk to him for about 5 minutes (because no one was behind me). He signed a card - the only I've ever owned - and I went to watch the game.
He died about a year later and I cried like a baby.
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Footballguy
Unrelated:
I've mentioned in here I live in one of the most upper middle-class white towns in America. Our chamber of commerce needs to lump every non-white group into "other" on a chart of our diversity just to have enough people to create another category on a pie chart.
The Friday before MLK day, my daughter's high school had a "diversity assembly" to honor him. This assembly included:
I've mentioned in here I live in one of the most upper middle-class white towns in America. Our chamber of commerce needs to lump every non-white group into "other" on a chart of our diversity just to have enough people to create another category on a pie chart.
The Friday before MLK day, my daughter's high school had a "diversity assembly" to honor him. This assembly included:
- MLK trivia where none of the participants knew the answers;
- a unity circle where kids joined hands and were supposed to say something they were struggling with, and how they were working to overcome it. none of them had anything to say about the second part, so it was a bunch of rich white kids complaining about things--sort of a "Mean Girls" moment;
- a white rapper performing an embarrassingly bad rap about MLK.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
"gutted, for reasons I’m not sure I totally understand."
Yeah, I guess I'm agreeing with him. I don't understand.
facook
Footballguy
Weather in Oregon around Labor Day is generally glorious. Just cool enough to be comfortable but not cold. You're gonna love it.
krista4
Footballguy
I don't get it either. Like you, I don't mean to criticize those that do feel it. I kinda think *I'm* the weirdo here.
ETA: I mean this generally. w/r/t Kobe in particular, the lionization is especially tough for me, from what I know from various sources. But as to any celebrity, feeling "gutted" or the like, as many have mentioned, isn't something I can relate to. And in that I feel like I'm the aberration.
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kevzilla
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I just ordered this week's groceries on instacart. It informs me that I have now saved over 8 hours of my life not going to the grocery store. Plus I'm probably less likely to die from some pandemic. With this and Amazon, I'm rapidly heading toward becoming a shut-in with some exceptions for gambling, boating and golf, all of which require interaction with only a specific few people.
