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So, not really cash at all then.
I have not made a final decision. Cash would be easiest. But I want to do the gift card so that my friend can use it on tools and manly stuff and not have his wife spend it on bed skirts and pink hand towels.I can just as easily up the gift card value if that's what's called for.
Women are like elephants...they never forget. If you go the route you're going now, his wife will make a mental note of it and will give you the stink eye. Sending her chubby friends to dance with you will pale in comparison to the treatment you'll get after the wedding. Your heart is in the right place, but when it comes to weddings, you should give a gift they will BOTH enjoy. Go get a Benjamin from the bank, throw it in a card, pilfer a poem, ??, profit, done.
best wedding related post since '04, imo
 
My neighbor's wife just had an affair and is asking for a divorce. She hasn't moved out yet, but is in the process. She found an apartment, but doesn't want to move out until they have a separation agreement. She makes more then him, so may have to pay child support. Who knows. They have a 5th grader (a girl) who sometimes comes over to play with my son and daughter. Wife is an uber-bich. And talks to him like he's an idiot. Always has. He's a nice guy, if a little introverted. In good shape - he runs all the time, bikes to work. And he's a decent person. And plays the fiddle in a band. I have a beer with him and watch the game occassionally. I like the wife too, even though she's somewhat of a wench. But whatever.

Anyway, the guy has been moping around for weeks now, and I finally snapped. Saw him this weekend and told him that she did him the biggest favor of his ####ing life. He's been living in misery for years, his kid has had to live in a disfunctional and tense house, and this wench just gave him a get out of jail free card for his life. AND he can do it guilt free.

He was like "I didn't think about it that way."

I told him that in 6 months he will be ####ing half of the 28 year olds in DC, with impunity. And he was like "really??? Do you think so." And I was like, "sure, if that's what you want." And he was like, "well, that does sound kind of nice." And I was like "YOUR ARE GOD DAMMED RIGHT IT SOUNDS NICE."
dysfunctional. HTH. ;)

Sweet J, you know he's going to need a good wingman. I hope you're up for the task, GB. This could be a very very VERY good tributary for this thread to flow into. :popcorn:
1. Noted. Assmunch.2(a). If he was a little younger, I'd set him up with my kid sister. And yes, that sentence does make me want to throw up in my mouth a little.

2(b). A good friend would do the right thing and be a wingman. And then report back.

 
'Wrighteous Ray said:
'flysack said:
I've just been offered a second job as a cab driver.

Part time, one or two days a week, 10 hour shifts. You get 32% commission + tips. Which means drivers usually make like $70 a day + any tips they make. So I'm thinking what? $90 for a 10 hour shift, or $9 an hour. If I do two days I could bring home an extra $140 a week after taxes? Maybe a bit less. This is all guesswork. I suck with numbers.

$9 an hour is pretty bad though. :mellow:

Yet, there's a weird allure to driving a cab. Maybe it's the old writer in me, but I'm betting there's some great stories to be found on that job. Plus I hating working with a supervisor in my face and during those 10 hours you're basically on your own.

I have to be crazy for considering it. It has come to this.
Seems pretty cool to me. Except when drunk dudes barf in your cab and you have to clean it.
As a drunk guy that takes a lot of cabs home from bars, this sounds like hell on earth.
Yea, I was thinking that too. The crap pay just isn't worth it. As Mrs. Fly put it, "you'd make more sitting in a toll booth in a parking garage." Toll booth?

"Whatever, you know what I mean."

My neighbor's wife just had an affair and is asking for a divorce. She hasn't moved out yet, but is in the process. She found an apartment, but doesn't want to move out until they have a separation agreement. She makes more then him, so may have to pay child support. Who knows. They have a 5th grader (a girl) who sometimes comes over to play with my son and daughter. Wife is an uber-bich. And talks to him like he's an idiot. Always has. He's a nice guy, if a little introverted. In good shape - he runs all the time, bikes to work. And he's a decent person. And plays the fiddle in a band. I have a beer with him and watch the game occassionally. I like the wife too, even though she's somewhat of a wench. But whatever.

Anyway, the guy has been moping around for weeks now, and I finally snapped. Saw him this weekend and told him that she did him the biggest favor of his ####ing life. He's been living in misery for years, his kid has had to live in a disfunctional and tense house, and this wench just gave him a get out of jail free card for his life. AND he can do it guilt free.

He was like "I didn't think about it that way."

I told him that in 6 months he will be ####ing half of the 28 year olds in DC, with impunity. And he was like "really??? Do you think so." And I was like, "sure, if that's what you want." And he was like, "well, that does sound kind of nice." And I was like "YOUR ARE GOD DAMMED RIGHT IT SOUNDS NICE."
:goodposting: Let him churn the idea in his unused manbatter for awhile, then tell him about the success of GMTAN divorcees Zooks, Guster, and -fish-. It can happen! You can find your random make-out knuckle shuffle 22 year nympho.

 
By the way, I just royally ####ed up something fairly big with my boss, a semi-political here in my Department. I heard that she was uber-pissed about it. And she's a ####ing viper too. Will cut your heart out and eat it in front of you. And I LIKE her, which makes it worse.

Anyway, I just walked down to her offce, and she was in with her deputy, finishing something up. I said, "I was thinking I could have 2 minutes to come in and do a mea culpa. . ." She was super nice, and smiled, and said, "why don't we do it tomorrow, becuase it's going to take longer than two minutes."

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

I'm going to go find an oven to stick my head in.

 
By the way, I just royally ####ed up something fairly big with my boss, a semi-political here in my Department. I heard that she was uber-pissed about it. And she's a ####ing viper too. Will cut your heart out and eat it in front of you. And I LIKE her, which makes it worse.Anyway, I just walked down to her offce, and she was in with her deputy, finishing something up. I said, "I was thinking I could have 2 minutes to come in and do a mea culpa. . ." She was super nice, and smiled, and said, "why don't we do it tomorrow, becuase it's going to take longer than two minutes."FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.I'm going to go find an oven to stick my head in.
Details? What'd you do? :popcorn:
 
By the way, I just royally ####ed up something fairly big with my boss, a semi-political here in my Department. I heard that she was uber-pissed about it. And she's a ####ing viper too. Will cut your heart out and eat it in front of you. And I LIKE her, which makes it worse.Anyway, I just walked down to her offce, and she was in with her deputy, finishing something up. I said, "I was thinking I could have 2 minutes to come in and do a mea culpa. . ." She was super nice, and smiled, and said, "why don't we do it tomorrow, becuase it's going to take longer than two minutes."FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.I'm going to go find an oven to stick my head in.
Details? What'd you do? :popcorn:
Gotta run. I may post some details from a different account tomorrow. But it generally involves something incredibly boring involving protocol re: interacting with contractors. I basically had lunch with somebody I shouldn't have, in a public place.
 
Sonata it is. I still cannot believe I'm buying a Hyundai, even if its for the wife. BUt we drove a dozen cars and liked this one the best. Got it cheaper than anything except the Mazda6, but its more nicely equipped (power seats, bluetooth, etc.. Throw in the 60K bumper to bumper and I had to do it. A lot of car for 19.8 and they even gave me what my tradein was worth.
How did the Sonata rate vs the ALtima?Same size? Likes/dislikes?
 
So, not really cash at all then.
I have not made a final decision. Cash would be easiest. But I want to do the gift card so that my friend can use it on tools and manly stuff and not have his wife spend it on bed skirts and pink hand towels.I can just as easily up the gift card value if that's what's called for.
Women are like elephants...they never forget. If you go the route you're going now, his wife will make a mental note of it and will give you the stink eye. Sending her chubby friends to dance with you will pale in comparison to the treatment you'll get after the wedding. Your heart is in the right place, but when it comes to weddings, you should give a gift they will BOTH enjoy. Go get a Benjamin from the bank, throw it in a card, pilfer a poem, ??, profit, done.
:goodposting: Know what makes your friend happier than tools? A happy wife that likes his friends.
I hadn't thought of that. Thanks dudes.Now I feel bad for the other friend I got the Home Depot card for last year. The wife likes me, but they do kinda fight a lot I've noticed. :unsure:
Seriously? i strongly disagree. If the wife's going to give out the stink eye to anyone who doesn't add to her pink towel collection, you should contribute any possible act to hasten the demise of the union. At least let the guy have a honeymoon before yielding to complete #####whippedness.Right now Michaels is selling $50 Lowes gift cards for $40 each, go get your buddy a few of them.

 
As a drunk guy that takes a lot of cabs home from bars, this sounds like hell on earth.
Yea, I was thinking that too. The crap pay just isn't worth it. As Mrs. Fly put it, "you'd make more sitting in a toll booth in a parking garage."
Hold on here...I think you're on to something here. Sure, it's going to suck when you pick up drunk guy who is taking videos of himself taking shots of Prestone, but think of all the hot chicks we've seen over the years on Taxi Cab Confessions! :excited: :excited: :excited: Hell, your night might consist of 8 Tres and 1 uber hot, very slutty bi-curious coed who wants you to stop off at 7-11 and pick up the girl in the cutoffs jean shorts and pigtails. You can't NOT do this. YOU HAVE to do this.
 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Stick with the positives. For example, your hotel room is likely quite a bit quieter than your house at any given time. You can also order a Belt-Buster without getting the stinkeye. Just stay away from the steak fingers. They're not steak...though they might be fingers. :X
 
'Jaysus said:
My wife had a baby boy 2 weeks ago. I am not so sure that he looks like me, but he certainly looks like his big sister (who people have claimed looks like me - poor girl). Anyway, so at least the same guy got my wife pregnant both times.

P.S. holy cow this kid poops a lot. Oh, and big sister has cried more today than little dude has since he was born. Girls are crazy.
Oustanding
 
Looks like I drank too much againWent to a benefit Saturday night and proceeded to get #### faced. So of course I had to let anyone who would listen, that my wife and I are expecting our 3rd childMaybe I should have mentioned it to my family first.....Mrs Wrigley is not happy with me :doghouse:
Congrats Jaysus and Wrigley. :thumbup:
 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Oof.I was coming in here to complain about having to go to Luxembourg tomorrow and then Copenhagen on Friday, but I guess I'd better not do that now.(But really, I don't want to go. :( )
 
So, not really cash at all then.
I have not made a final decision. Cash would be easiest. But I want to do the gift card so that my friend can use it on tools and manly stuff and not have his wife spend it on bed skirts and pink hand towels.I can just as easily up the gift card value if that's what's called for.
Women are like elephants...they never forget. If you go the route you're going now, his wife will make a mental note of it and will give you the stink eye. Sending her chubby friends to dance with you will pale in comparison to the treatment you'll get after the wedding. Your heart is in the right place, but when it comes to weddings, you should give a gift they will BOTH enjoy. Go get a Benjamin from the bank, throw it in a card, pilfer a poem, ??, profit, done.
Alright then. Now my next challenge to is get my date drunk enough to hump me. If that doesn't work I may have to take a chubby bridesmaid home. :banned:
offer to hold her ID/Wallet in your pocket so she can keep her purse in your car and won't have to worry about when she dances.
Ohhhh, you're good.
 
Sonata it is. I still cannot believe I'm buying a Hyundai, even if its for the wife. BUt we drove a dozen cars and liked this one the best. Got it cheaper than anything except the Mazda6, but its more nicely equipped (power seats, bluetooth, etc.. Throw in the 60K bumper to bumper and I had to do it. A lot of car for 19.8 and they even gave me what my tradein was worth.
How did the Sonata rate vs the ALtima?Same size? Likes/dislikes?
A cushier ride- not in a good way- I think I got a better driving experience in the Altima. But comfort was probably a little better with the Sonata. Comparably equipped the Altima would have been $5K more and had a 3/36K bumper to bumper warranty vs 5/60 for the SOnata. So the Sonata was a much better value. It also gets better gas mileage. I did not feel like it was a downgrade at all, the two seemed very equal overall.
 
'Notorious T.R.E. said:
wife just made me TWO breakfast egg sandos...english muffins, tillamook extra sharp reserved white cheddar, fried egg, tobasco (sp?)....there's not a better egg sando out there. I think we could sell these out of a food cart.

Shuke, do I have your permission to use your likeness designing our food cart? I have....an idea.
When a cheese needs six adjectives and the sandwich has four ingredients, I feel like its being sold by the Tillamook Super Grand Awesome Happy Fancy Marketing team.
Sooooooo goooooood....
It's a fine white cheddar, but you're really overplaying this hand.
Just trying to make small talk. :kicksrock:
I like. I'd take Black Diamond over it, but it's close. There's also this new brand of pre-sliced white cheddar at Costco that I like, can't recall the name though.
Can't imagine anything tasting better than Tillamooks aged white cheddar, but I'll try anything. We are considering a Costco membership for the first time in years. That place sets my blood pressure to a bad number. When I shop, I like to go in, get what I need and flee like a man committing a robery. Costco is like dancing in quicksand with overweight sloths blocking every move you need to make. The free samples only adds to the madness. I'm too high strung for it. This is why I would encourage everybody to try shopping at Rite Aid just once to get a glimpse of the easy life. :thumbup:
I have the short Costco trip pretty much down to a science now. The addition of self checkout is a huge bonus.
Now we're talking....they didn't have that last time I went. An Express Lane wouldn't have killed them either.
Not sure if they have these at Costco, but at Sam's Club if you're a business member, you can go in at 7am (2 hours before the store opens). You don't even have to own a business...just make something up when you're filling out the application. There's virutally nobody in there that early, it's great.
 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Stick with the positives. For example, your hotel room is likely quite a bit quieter than your house at any given time. You can also order a Belt-Buster without getting the stinkeye. Just stay away from the steak fingers. They're not steak...though they might be fingers. :X
Ended up at Joes Pizza and Pasta. It wasn't awful. They also didn't serve booze, so my suspicions are confirmed.I don't know if you can watch Good Morning West Texas via the internet, but I will be on at 6:17 am tomorrow.Thinking about asking one of our PR people to pick me up a sixer of High Life in the next town over. We pay then enough that she would probably do it.
 
What kind of jerkwater towns still don't sell booze?

You jokers need to remember this next time you want to make fun of Bakersfield.

 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Stick with the positives. For example, your hotel room is likely quite a bit quieter than your house at any given time. You can also order a Belt-Buster without getting the stinkeye. Just stay away from the steak fingers. They're not steak...though they might be fingers. :X
Ended up at Joes Pizza and Pasta. It wasn't awful. They also didn't serve booze, so my suspicions are confirmed.I don't know if you can watch Good Morning West Texas via the internet, but I will be on at 6:17 am tomorrow.Thinking about asking one of our PR people to pick me up a sixer of High Life in the next town over. We pay then enough that she would probably do it.
Ask the concierge where the local bootlegger is
 
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What's the protocol on wedding gifts when bringing a date?I am attending a gb's wedding next month and I RSVP'd as a single attendee and have a cash gift in mind. My buddy suggests I bring a date to keep the bride from pushing her chubby bridesmaids on me. I probably will bring a date, but I'm not sure if I need to increase my gift by 50% - 100% for the extra person I'll be bringing to the reception. Please advise. TIA.
How much cash we talking about?
Originally ~$75/Home Depot gift card.The girls at work say no increase is necessary. But then again, they're dumb girls so :shrug:
Hmmmm.....Did they register at Home Depot? My advise (which is only based on going through two marraiges and attending too many more to count) would be to eat the HD card and give them $100 in a nice card with a poem you steal from the internet.
They registered at Target, Potty Barn etc...^33% sounds reasonable.
I'm taking the gf to my gb's wedding this weekend. Without her I would have given $100. With her in tow, I upped it to $150
 
local dive bar is having a meat raffle this weekat 2 pm on a weekday wtf :hot:
Dumb Wisconsin people.
For those of us that don't live in places where local drinking establishments don't feel the need to give away meat on a regular basis: What would be the optimal time to hold a meat raffle?
Weekdays: happy hour-ish 5-6pmWeekends: early afternoon 1-2pm
:thumbup: I'll be sure to remember that next time I'm in Manitowoc.
 
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FML

I'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.

On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.

Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Stick with the positives. For example, your hotel room is likely quite a bit quieter than your house at any given time. You can also order a Belt-Buster without getting the stinkeye. Just stay away from the steak fingers. They're not steak...though they might be fingers. :X
Ended up at Joes Pizza and Pasta. It wasn't awful. They also didn't serve booze, so my suspicions are confirmed.I don't know if you can watch Good Morning West Texas via the internet, but I will be on at 6:17 am tomorrow.

Thinking about asking one of our PR people to pick me up a sixer of High Life in the next town over. We pay then enough that she would probably do it.
Will they put it up here?
 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Oof.I was coming in here to complain about having to go to Luxembourg tomorrow and then Copenhagen on Friday, but I guess I'd better not do that now.(But really, I don't want to go. :( )
#zerothworldproblems
 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Oof.I was coming in here to complain about having to go to Luxembourg tomorrow and then Copenhagen on Friday, but I guess I'd better not do that now.(But really, I don't want to go. :( )
#zerothworldproblems
:lmao: :lmao: Put "zerothworld" in "words the use of which should be increased immediately".
 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Oof.I was coming in here to complain about having to go to Luxembourg tomorrow and then Copenhagen on Friday, but I guess I'd better not do that now.(But really, I don't want to go. :( )
#zerothworldproblems
:lmao: :lmao: Put "zerothworld" in "words the use of which should be increased immediately".
"zeroth" gets used at my work fairly often :wall:
 
local dive bar is having a meat raffle this weekat 2 pm on a weekday wtf :hot:
Dumb Wisconsin people.
For those of us that don't live in places where local drinking establishments don't feel the need to give away meat on a regular basis: What would be the optimal time to hold a meat raffle?
Weekdays: happy hour-ish 5-6pmWeekends: early afternoon 1-2pm
:thumbup: I'll be sure to remember that next time I'm in Manitowoc.
call mei know a great greasy spoon downtown :wub:
 
FMLI'm at a Holiday Inn Express in lovely Andrews, TX which is about 70 miles from where I have to be at 6 tomorrow. Why here? Because the hotel where I made my reservations two months ago called last night to tell me that they were overbooked and I didn't have a room. As a courtesy, they weren't going to charge me a cancellation fee. By that time, every other hotel in the area was booked so here I am.On top of that, I went to the gas station next door to get a post-workout beer and they don't sell them. So Andrews is apparently also dry.Here I sit with no shower beer and plans to hit Dairy Queen for dinner.
Oof.I was coming in here to complain about having to go to Luxembourg tomorrow and then Copenhagen on Friday, but I guess I'd better not do that now.(But really, I don't want to go. :( )
#zerothworldproblems
:lmao: :lmao: Put "zerothworld" in "words the use of which should be increased immediately".
"zeroth" gets used at my work fairly often :wall:
I had no idea you worked with Pickles. What's he really like?
 

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