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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
GPC, thanks again for posting this link a couple of years ago. Once again the most bet team, 90% money, didn't cover. Why is it though that the line doesn't move dramatically when they bets are so one sided? I had a heard a few years ago that the sharps put out lines to try and get it overweighted on one team when they like the other but not sure how accurate that is.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
The bookmakers are pretty smart, and their initial line is (typically, I think) pretty good. They won't really move the line based on who Joe Shmoes bet on (I think the Super Bowl is an exception), but when a sharp syndicate or bettor bets it can move lines.
I have heard that Billy Walters, the most infamous NFL bettor in Vegas, bets the "wrong" side of games to get a better line (for a bigger bet) the other way.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Thanks. Yeah that's what I have been doing when I bet which is pretty infrequently these days.
Notorious T.R.E.
Showdown!™ Administrator
Chemical X
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Yeah, I think if you want to bet NFL sides and you're not a super-smart math dork, it's probably the best way to go about it.
sports_fan
Footballguy
I cleared out my work email today. Completely empty. I'm pretty sure I should have kept a lot of them but damn it feels good to a clean inbox.
bentley
Footballguy
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
You folks haven't lived until you've experienced 6th grade teachers replying all to most of the emails you get.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Like, every day?Mr.Pack said:
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Last time I cleared out my inbox I deleted over 10,000 messages. No shtick.
cstu
Footballguy
Considering they're almost nothing but sugar this is probably the best use for them.Mr.Pack said:
krista4
Footballguy
I'm feeling sort of guilty.
My grandfather's wife died this morning. She was 93(?) and married to my grandpa for 18 years, but I didn't know her that well. She was fine to me, but was pretty awful to my mom for reasons no one has ever understood. A bunch of other weird stuff happened like they have been supporting her 50-something-year-old son and let him live with them for years, which has been very hard on my grandpa. So all in all I don't have a highly positive view of her, but she's never been anything but fine to me.
Anyway, the visitation is Thursday and funeral is Friday, which is exactly the dates I am in SF for work and then an extra day for fun on Friday night/Saturday morning. We're coming back Saturday, and I've booked us to fly out to visit on Sunday for a couple of days (this is across the country from me) just to support my grandfather.
I keep thinking of that "you go to the funeral" ####, though, and feel like I should be canceling the work trip despite it being not good from a work POV and also losing me a bit of money to change flights, cancel non-refundable hotels, etc. Obviously if it were my grandpa I'd do it anyway. Hard to do for a woman I didn't know well and who wasn't too kind to much of my family, but still I'm feeling bad.
WWGMTAND?
My grandfather's wife died this morning. She was 93(?) and married to my grandpa for 18 years, but I didn't know her that well. She was fine to me, but was pretty awful to my mom for reasons no one has ever understood. A bunch of other weird stuff happened like they have been supporting her 50-something-year-old son and let him live with them for years, which has been very hard on my grandpa. So all in all I don't have a highly positive view of her, but she's never been anything but fine to me.
Anyway, the visitation is Thursday and funeral is Friday, which is exactly the dates I am in SF for work and then an extra day for fun on Friday night/Saturday morning. We're coming back Saturday, and I've booked us to fly out to visit on Sunday for a couple of days (this is across the country from me) just to support my grandfather.
I keep thinking of that "you go to the funeral" ####, though, and feel like I should be canceling the work trip despite it being not good from a work POV and also losing me a bit of money to change flights, cancel non-refundable hotels, etc. Obviously if it were my grandpa I'd do it anyway. Hard to do for a woman I didn't know well and who wasn't too kind to much of my family, but still I'm feeling bad.
WWGMTAND?
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Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Vote Grandpa.
krista4
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
I say cancel the work trip. Unless it's going to screw up work stuff royally.
SF is crummy now anyways.
SF is crummy now anyways.
krista4
Footballguy
Rats. You're telling me what I think but didn't want to hear. Appreciate the honesty. My whole family is saying "It's OK" but I feel like it's not.I say cancel the work trip. Unless it's going to screw up work stuff royally.
SF is crummy now anyways.
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Truck is very rarely right except about strikeouts and Andre Drummond rebounds, but I agree with him here.
5-ish Finkle
Footballguy
What's Grandpa say? If he says "it's okay" then it's okay. In my book anyway.
Hope that doesn't come off as me being a giant a$$. I get the "you go to the funeral" @#$!....to a degree. In general, they idea of them is pretty morbid. You hang around staring at a corpse. Much bigger fan of wakes. I want to be cremated, mixed with the ashes of my wife/dog if they went first and then fired out of a cannon. Screw having everyone stand around ogling my husk(although, who could blame anyone? I'm sort of hot and grow hotter with every single year).
If Grandpa is truly okay with you missing it, then it really boils down to how you'll feel in a year if you don't go. If the answer is "sort of ####ty" then you go anyway.
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Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
I would give advice but Saturday night, after my mom's 80th birthday party, I made my sister so mad #### lost her #### and became semi physical. But it was worth it/long time coming.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
this. if grandpa is ok with it, he's the only one that matters, other than you. those are the only 2 voices that matter.
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krista4
Footballguy
Grandpa asked immediately if I could come, but when told I couldn't was understanding about that, but then perked up a lot when hearing that I would come later. My mom is an only child, and my only sibling is a ####, so I'm kind of all he has in terms of grandchildren who are good to him. When he said he understood I know he did logically (despite being 95, he's sharp as a tack), but I'm not sure that's enough.
####.
I actually try to picture the visitation and funeral and whether my presence makes a difference. And not to be too personal or morbid, but my grandmother - to whom he was married 50 years - died tragically (suicide) and he was understandably devastated. He has been married to this woman for 18 years, so it's not like it's a new relationship, but I don't get the feeling he liked her much over the last many years, and she was old and had had health problems, though she actually died from being hit by a car a few weeks ago. I'm just saying it's a lot less emotional, sudden, and sad for him. He seems very much at peace with it and in fact was making some "end of life" decisions that were pretty extreme and difficult such as deciding to stop giving her fluids and nutrition. So, though I know this is some justification I'm giving for not going, it is not nearly so devastating.
Still, burying your wife for a second time ain't easy. On the plus side, my mom - who has become a saint in recent weeks - is going to spend 10 days there.
krista4
Footballguy
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Damn. I shouldn't have posted that because
1 it is ambiguously coy
2 It detracted attention from your legit and difficult situation
Please ignore.
krista4
Footballguy
Too late! I don't mind the latter, and I don't think it was so bad on the former.
krista4
Footballguy
Blech. Gonna go sleep on it. I really appreciate the good advice in here from you guys. Actually made the reservations earlier today to go out there Sunday but am considering a change. Oh, one other fun fact: it's apparently Breeders Cup in Louisville this week and there's nowhere to stay! My family is already full up now, but I suppose I could find a friend's couch...
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Frostillicus
Footballguy
If it would make gramps happy I say do it.
krista4
Footballguy
Yeah, gramps is a super-special guy.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
I believe Breeders is actually in Lexington @ Keenland, but Louisville is close enough to explain lack of available hotels.
Condolences
krista4
Footballguy
Aha. Yes, Lexington is not only close but tiny and probably doesn't have great hotel options.
If you guys need a "faith in humanity" story, by the way: my mom and stepfather couldn't find a hotel within 100 miles for their first three nights there and now are staying with... My stepmother's sister and family. Yes, my mom, who was divorced from my dad when I was five, is being welcomed by the sister of the woman my dad married a year later. They might have met twice at most. Such an incredibly generous gesture.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
If Frosty agrees with me then I change my mind because he's a filthy, movie-stealing #####.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
View: Rick and Morty is as good as Archer.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
You're worse than a 30-something divorcee and a heartbroken teenager. Combined.
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Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Yeah?
The guy that did Community is in charge of that, I think...Dan Harmon? I was gonna check it out just based on that.
But better than Archer? That's a bold statement.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Krista, do you want to see your whole family or just be there for your gramps? Sounds like you don't want to see everyone but feel obligated.
I'm going the other way from tonight's advice...unless you want to see everyone, then don't go. Make some excuse about planes blowing up on the west coast and Obama and ####, but book a flight back to Louisville in a week or two and spend some good solid time with your grandpa. One on one rather than just another person in his face during his worst week ever.
Not to sound harsh, but as an honorary crusty old ******* I think I might be right. Your family might think less of you, but gramps will totally dig it.
I'm going the other way from tonight's advice...unless you want to see everyone, then don't go. Make some excuse about planes blowing up on the west coast and Obama and ####, but book a flight back to Louisville in a week or two and spend some good solid time with your grandpa. One on one rather than just another person in his face during his worst week ever.
Not to sound harsh, but as an honorary crusty old ******* I think I might be right. Your family might think less of you, but gramps will totally dig it.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Maybe not better, but it's right there. Harmon co-writes and co-produces with another dude, Justin Roiland, who does the voices of the titular characters.
I would imagine that both shows share a lot of fans. I tried to watch Uncle Grandpa because it was a funny name that both amused and angered my child, but it was too far out there for my liking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFPwKEBmxI
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Uncle Grandpa is awful. The kids like it but it seems like anytime I've turned it on its just Uncle Grandpa yelling DEEEERRRRRRRRPPPPPPP!
I won't let them watch it. There's a few really weird kids shows
Clarence
Steven Universe
Gumball
I won't let them watch it. There's a few really weird kids shows
Clarence
Steven Universe
Gumball
Abraham
Footballguy
This. You go to the funeral.
krista4
Footballguy
The only other family member who lives in the area is my dickmitten brother, so I'm going only for my grandfather.
I appreciate the crusty old ******* perspective.
Thanks.
