Jump to content
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing

General Malaise

By General Malaise,
in Footballguys Free For All

 Share Followers 3

Recommended Posts

heckmanm

heckmanm 4,345

Posted
Posted

Yesterday we said goodbye to Big Red, our 13YO dachshund. He had nerve degeneration in his hips that was getting progressively worse the past few months. His younger brother was with us at the vet and seems to be holding up well. They’ve been inseparable for 11+ years. :cry:

  • Sad 23
Link to post
Share on other sites
  • Replies 86.4k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Officer Pete Malloy

    5008

  • General Malaise

    4481

  • El Floppo

    4188

  • kevzilla

    3043

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Bob Sacamano

(Deep Breath) -cos tried to have hoors deliver an ice cream cake to GM's bachelor party, but ice cream cakes in Detroit are in lower supply than minority hockey players with MBAs and rising home

Henry Ford

Moo.

Homer J Simpson

HELLO FROM REHAB!!!!   Not sure if anything's been shared but Sunday dinner at my parents' a couple weeks ago was in fact an elaborate ruse to stage an intervention.  Actually it wasn't very

Posted Images

Dan Lambskin

Dan Lambskin 13,612

Posted
Posted
6 hours ago, heckmanm said:

Yesterday we said goodbye to Big Red, our 13YO dachshund. He had nerve degeneration in his hips that was getting progressively worse the past few months. His younger brother was with us at the vet and seems to be holding up well. They’ve been inseparable for 11+ years. :cry:

Sorry man.  We thought we were losing our 14 year old hound dog to a stroke a few weeks ago, but it just ended up being some sort of vestibular condition.  We know it’s just a matter of time with him though 

  • Thanks 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
5-ish Finkle

5-ish Finkle 3,343

Posted
Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Dan Lambskin said:

Sorry man.  We thought we were losing our 14 year old hound dog to a stroke a few weeks ago, but it just ended up being some sort of vestibular condition.  We know it’s just a matter of time with him though 

 

8 hours ago, heckmanm said:

Yesterday we said goodbye to Big Red, our 13YO dachshund. He had nerve degeneration in his hips that was getting progressively worse the past few months. His younger brother was with us at the vet and seems to be holding up well. They’ve been inseparable for 11+ years. :cry:

Y'all know I just can't handle the dog stuff, like, at all.😭  Very sorry to hear.  They are sooo much better than people.

My rockhead turned 8 on Wednesday.  He's still just as energetic and spazzy as ever....but I can see his eyebrows and face getting whiter more readily.   He still happily engages the folks/dogs he likes cranked to 11, but more and more often just wants to be left alone by anyone he doesn't already know (Which, I am recognizing in the moment, pretty much makes him the "me" of dogs.  Yay?)   Vet says he's in fantastic shape, but "can see telltale signs of some arthritis in his future".   I, of course, now feel like a total a$$bag for letting him do agility stuff/jump hay bales/race when he was younger.  

I really need another drink, but he's currently asleep on my foot.

Edited by 5-ish Finkle
  • Like 1
  • Love 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
Joe Bryant

Joe Bryant 10,238

Posted
Posted
On 11/18/2020 at 10:34 AM, General Malaise said:

Yeah, it's going to be hell on servers and others relying on tips and patrons to dine-in/drink-in.  I hit BWW to see my favorite bartender and after 3 beers, rounded my tab up to $100.  She's legit scared about making rent this month and beyond and she said she's fortunate because she doesn't have kids.  Other servers who do are stressed to the max about Xmas gifts.  Sucks.  Sucks sucks sucks. 

I know lots of other people are affected too but the service industry people are getting crushed. I hate it. 

  • Thanks 4
Link to post
Share on other sites
Dan Lambskin

Dan Lambskin 13,612

Posted
Posted

I bought this ####ty Bird from Kroger and have been hiding it in various places, waiting for my wife to find it.

she’ll hate it.  
 

A few years ago I found some sort of wooden rocking Christmas pig that I put out and she hates (like a rocking horse not like Axl Rose rocking)

  • Laughing 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
El Floppo

El Floppo 27,867

Posted
Posted
38 minutes ago, Dan Lambskin said:

I bought this ####ty Bird from Kroger and have been hiding it in various places, waiting for my wife to find it.

she’ll hate it.  
 

A few years ago I found some sort of wooden rocking Christmas pig that I put out and she hates (like a rocking horse not like Axl Rose rocking)

To make you feel better and not have to wait for the outcome with the wife, I hate it. Ywia.

  • Sad 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
SWC

SWC 15,164

Posted
Posted

i hope you bromigos had a good thanksgiving and i hope that your holiday seasons are going as well as they can given everything going on best wishes take that to the bank 

  • Like 7
Link to post
Share on other sites
Uruk-Hai

Uruk-Hai 7,467

Posted
Posted
44 minutes ago, DA RAIDERS said:

search function sux0rs.

 

any of you have the hulu live subscription?  and do you like it?

Sorry that response was so short. What are you looking for in a Hulu-type package?

I canceled because I was really only concerned about getting my local channels and found locast.org to take care of that without having to pay Hulu's $40/mo. Before Hulu, I had Sling. I found both to be about the same (for me), but both have different packages that can make getting exactly what you want a little more expensive.

Link to post
Share on other sites
DA RAIDERS

DA RAIDERS 4,504

Posted
Posted
13 minutes ago, Uruk-Hai said:

Sorry that response was so short. What are you looking for in a Hulu-type package?

I canceled because I was really only concerned about getting my local channels and found locast.org to take care of that without having to pay Hulu's $40/mo. Before Hulu, I had Sling. I found both to be about the same (for me), but both have different packages that can make getting exactly what you want a little more expensive.

considering ditching direct tv.  i don't really watch regular tv.  what i do watch, i don't need to see it when it airs.  i do watch sports.  :shrug: 

Link to post
Share on other sites
Osaurus

Osaurus 8,909

Posted
Posted
31 minutes ago, DA RAIDERS said:

considering ditching direct tv.  i don't really watch regular tv.  what i do watch, i don't need to see it when it airs.  i do watch sports.  :shrug: 

Plenty of cheaper alternatives out there for sports. 

Link to post
Share on other sites
Mr.Pack

Mr.Pack 2,557

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, DA RAIDERS said:

considering ditching direct tv.  i don't really watch regular tv.  what i do watch, i don't need to see it when it airs.  i do watch sports.  :shrug: 

I have YouTube TV. have had it while we got used to it before ditching DTV. It has a decent interface a nice DVR and up to 5 people can share it.

  • Thanks 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
mr. furley

mr. furley 12,220

Posted
Posted

some years ago @Dentist was looking for a new vacation destination and pooh-pooed the ABC islands because of the steady tradewinds, saying that winds had basically ruined a previous vacation. 

at the time i thought that seemed like a nonsense reason. a little wind never really bothered anyone. so it's breezy, so what?

well, i'd like to retract that sentiment as we have basically had steady 15 - 25 mph winds every day since last fall. there are days where we're under 10mph, but those are far outweighed by high winds and i've got to say it's really ####### wearing me out.

what should be pleasant, sunny weather days are ruined by 20+ mph winds with gusts over 30.  when it's gloomy, cloudy and cool the extra kick in the bag of 25 mph winds to drop the temps another 15 degrees is just over the top.

apologies for anything untoward i may have said about you, your family, your profession and/or your potential future progeny.

  • Thanks 2
Link to post
Share on other sites
5-ish Finkle

5-ish Finkle 3,343

Posted
Posted

Also....WTF is with just dropping "the ABC Islands" like everyone knows what that is?  Did you put on pince-nez and extend your pinky when you said that around mouthfuls of goose liver?  

Sounds like somewhere you go if you're a big fan of, like, Alex Trebek or David Muir, or Urkel, or some ####, but no....it's the freaking Dutch Antilles?  COULD YOU IMAGINE just typing that instead?   

  • Thanks 1
  • Laughing 4
Link to post
Share on other sites
El Floppo

El Floppo 27,867

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, 5-ish Finkle said:

Also....WTF is with just dropping "the ABC Islands" like everyone knows what that is?  Did you put on pince-nez and extend your pinky when you said that around mouthfuls of goose liver?  

Sounds like somewhere you go if you're a big fan of, like, Alex Trebek or David Muir, or Urkel, or some ####, but no....it's the freaking Dutch Antilles?  COULD YOU IMAGINE just typing that instead?   

I figured it was a wisconsin thing. Or place. Or something.

  • Laughing 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
Osaurus

Osaurus 8,909

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, mr. furley said:

some years ago @Dentist was looking for a new vacation destination and pooh-pooed the ABC islands because of the steady tradewinds, saying that winds had basically ruined a previous vacation. 

at the time i thought that seemed like a nonsense reason. a little wind never really bothered anyone. so it's breezy, so what?

well, i'd like to retract that sentiment as we have basically had steady 15 - 25 mph winds every day since last fall. there are days where we're under 10mph, but those are far outweighed by high winds and i've got to say it's really ####### wearing me out.

what should be pleasant, sunny weather days are ruined by 20+ mph winds with gusts over 30.  when it's gloomy, cloudy and cool the extra kick in the bag of 25 mph winds to drop the temps another 15 degrees is just over the top.

apologies for anything untoward i may have said about you, your family, your profession and/or your potential future progeny.

You might want to skip most of Wyoming as well. hth

  • Like 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
GroveDiesel

GroveDiesel 9,026

Posted
Posted
48 minutes ago, the rover said:

Except for Kev's post,  I really don't understand what's going on here on page 1722.

That’s the way I feel right now taking the internet safety training my company is requiring.  
 

Actually, that’s not totally true. I get all this stuff, but this training was developed by some serious nerds that have no idea how to communicate effectively. Telling me what URL and HTTP are abbreviations for does absolutely nothing to educate me on computer security and it’s just a waste of my time. 

Link to post
Share on other sites
Osaurus

Osaurus 8,909

Posted
Posted
32 minutes ago, GroveDiesel said:

That’s the way I feel right now taking the internet safety training my company is requiring.  
 

Actually, that’s not totally true. I get all this stuff, but this training was developed by some serious nerds that have no idea how to communicate effectively. Telling me what URL and HTTP are abbreviations for does absolutely nothing to educate me on computer security and it’s just a waste of my time. 

Wait until you get to https. #mindblown

  • Like 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
El Floppo

El Floppo 27,867

Posted
Posted

Headline on my Google news feed just now...

"Neanderthal who fell down a well and starved to death over 130,000 years ago had buck teeth"

 

It's like Google completely gets me some times.

  • Like 4
  • Thinking 2
Link to post
Share on other sites
GroveDiesel

GroveDiesel 9,026

Posted
Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Osaurus said:

Wait until you get to https. #mindblown

Did you know that the s means that you have a secure connection, but it doesn’t mean that it’s safe because you could be securely connected to a hacker’s website? 

Also, the part after the :// is called a sub-domain. What does that fact have to do with internet security? Well, nothing, but they told us anyway.

And I guess I’m a significant security risk because if I enter the door lock code and I’m heading into the office when someone is getting to the door with a heavy box in their hands, I’m going to let them in rather than closing the door on them forcing them to put the box down and enter the code themselves while glaring at me through the glass. And in case you didn’t know, that’s a social engineering tactic called “tailgating”  to gain unauthorized entry.

But I think I’m good on the Smishing part.

Edited by GroveDiesel
Link to post
Share on other sites
Osaurus

Osaurus 8,909

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, GroveDiesel said:

Did you know that the s means that you have a secure connection, but it doesn’t mean that it’s safe because you could be securely connected to a hacker’s website? 

Also, the part after the :// is called a sub-domain. What does that fact have to do with internet security? Well, nothing, but they told us anyway.

And I guess I’m a significant security risk because if I enter the door lock code and I’m heading into the office when someone is getting to the door with a heavy box in their hands, I’m going to let them in rather than closing the door on them forcing them to put the box door and enter the code themselves while glaring at me through the glass. And in case you didn’t know, that’s a social engineering tactic called “tailgating”  to gain unauthorized entry.

But I think I’m good on the Smishing part.

This is good stuff :lol:. My company forced me complete some module about being bribed in a foreign country. Like I’m ever turning that down. 

  • Laughing 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Followers 3
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   1 member

×
×
  • Create New...