HemiBeers

If there's any proof that the Lions are the worst professional franchise, today caps it.

 

Stafford - ex Lion

Ashaun Robinson - ex Lion

Aaron donald - could and should have been a Lion (instead they drafted Eric Ebust just ahead of him).

Beckham - could have been a Lion (drafted right after Donald).

Kyle Van Noy - high Lions draft pick who they gave away to New England and they won a SB the same year.

 

Good for Stafford. Flawed at times, but no one can give him shit now for not being a winner. That last drive was either gonna be a TD or a Stafford pick.

 

Would not be surprised if Stafford retires. Has had back problems. Great wife and family, made lots of money, going out a winner...what else is there to prove?

washington

giants

pittsburgh

philly

 

talk about potential to stink on ice.... lol

nfl east... .500 wins the division....same as it ever was.

 

can only do so much with mediocrity. but being a car ride away the fights in the stands would be epic.

NFL should spice things up and realign the divisions. Create closer rivalries and fill the stadiums easier. Blame this on cabin fever and too much Idle time being off work the last 2 days. This will probably never happen, with all the stupid owner politics, but it's a fun exercise. Try out your list. I tried grouping the teams together as close as regionally possible. Exception being the 2 new york teams. Sort of abandoned some of the old AFC / NFC alignments. Moving things around, Carolina always ended up stumping me. Never thought Dallas should be in an East division.

 

NFL realignment

 

buffalo

new england

baltimore

jets

 

cincy

cleveland

indy

tennessee

 

new orleans

carolina

dallas

houston

 

denver

arizona

kc

las vegas

 

washington

giants

pittsburgh

philly

 

green bay

minny

chicago

detroit

 

tampa

jacksonville

miami

atlanta

 

la rams

san fran

seattle

la chargers

Dallas still gets the annual easy path to the playoffs, lol

...and Detroit wouldn't make the playoffs if they were in the same division as the 3 other weakest teams. I didn't bother with the NFC north because regionally it's already dialed in and there would be no hope for Detroit anyway.

NFL should spice things up and realign the divisions. Create closer rivalries and fill the stadiums easier. Blame this on cabin fever and too much Idle time being off work the last 2 days. This will probably never happen, with all the stupid owner politics, but it's a fun exercise. Try out your list. I tried grouping the teams together as close as regionally possible. Exception being the 2 new york teams. Sort of abandoned some of the old AFC / NFC alignments. Moving things around, Carolina always ended up stumping me. Never thought Dallas should be in an East division.

 

NFL realignment

 

buffalo

new england

baltimore

jets

 

cincy

cleveland

indy

tennessee

 

new orleans

carolina

dallas

houston

 

denver

arizona

kc

las vegas

 

washington

giants

pittsburgh

philly

 

green bay

minny

chicago

detroit

 

tampa

jacksonville

miami

atlanta

 

la rams

san fran

seattle

la chargers

 

I'm Jimmy G. Despite being a grossly inferior quarterback that throws 2 or 3 interceptions every game I always beat Rodgers and the Packers. So before you buy insurance advertised by an arrogent non vaxxing cheesehead you could miss out on another year of not playing in the superbowl. Then you have more time to do your own research.

Now Rahhhgaas has more time to do his own research.

 

Would love to see an Allstate commerical with the Mayhem guy dressed as Garapollo. I'm Jimmy G...despite being an inferior QB you cant beat me...

 

The rest writes itself.

Hey y'all, long time no bitching.

 

Subject: Hiring and retaining qualified employees...how not to do it.

 

So I work for local government. Past couple of years my wage scale, which is preset for everyone, topped out and reached it's max. So no auto-raise or COLA adjustments. Raises were shit anyway, so I didn't worry about it.

 

Today I get an email from HR stating that I was off of 'red line' (where they mark you as frozen) for whatever reason and now my hourly pay will be adjusted to the new scale.

 

So I got a raise of 12 cents per hour. Not even 4 bucks a week after taxes. For 9 years of loyalty.

 

If this wasn't automatic I would have told them, ya know...just don't bother. Just keep it and at least I won't feel insulted. Maybe if I want a real raise I'll panhandle on the corner during lunch hour. I thought about spreading the wealth and sending HR 3 donuts a week, in a big box, for their staff of 10.

 

Reminds me of working at Long John Silvers as a cook during college in the early 80s. Worst job ever. Min wage of $3.35 an hour. But if you took on extra duties, they would pay an extra 5 cents an hour for each duty. Manager tried promoting this to me and I told him....naa, not worth it to me. At that rate I could have worked up to $4.25 an hour and be an asst manager! whoopy f***ing dooo!

 

The ironic thing is, that 5 cent raise at LJS is a larger % raise than the 12 cent raise they gave me.

 

They really know how to motivate a fella. Next year I'll work hard and maybe double my 12 cent raise!

 

A normal person would just quit, but that's it...I'm definitely retiring next year after my anniversary date.

Aaron Rodgers has the COVID. He is reportedly unvaccinated.

He is OUT for Sunday's game at Kansas City, and he may miss next game at home v. Seattle.

 

But hey.....he's having FUN! He had his Halloween party! He's having the time of his life!

He should be out for more than 2 games..what a jerk.

 

Do a Google search on his girlfriend. She is a real piece of work.

 

Let's not do a Google search, as she is irrelevant to the issue.

 

He's a grown man, who should be making grown man decisions about his health and his team's success.

 

And as a grown man, he should be forthright and honest about his big boy choices, and not use weasel words he apparently doesn't understand in order to avoid clear answers.

Confirms he's unvaccinated...and an arrogent selfish douchebag that would rather take medical advice from another arrogent douchebag Joe Rogan. Although that's been established for some time.

 

All I want for Christmas is footage of his career ending injury.

1. Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station (14:55)

2. Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (7:15)

3. the Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (8:32)

4. the Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (9:47)

5. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (23:09)

6. the Beatles - Hey Jude (7:11)

7. Molly Hatchet - Fall of the Peacemakers (8.02)

8. Alice Cooper - Halo Of Flies (8:21)

9. Violent Femmes - Never Tell (7:10)

10. Sisters of Mercy - Dominion (7.05)

11. the Cure - From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea (7:42)

12. Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (17:42)

13. the Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (7:28)

14. Kansas - Song For America (10:03)

15. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road (14:18)

16. Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death (6:53)

17. XTC - Jason and the Argonauts (6:07)

18. Neil Young - T-Bone (9:13)

19. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (43:46)

20. Soundgarden - Searching With My Good Eye Closed (6:31)

21. Bob Dylan - Highlands (16:33)

22. Manowar - Battle Hymn (6:55)

23. Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U. (7:04)

24. Megadeth - Holy Wars (the Punishment Due) (6:39)

25. Midnight Oil - Scream In Blue (6:22)

26. Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns (8:19)

27. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time (7:48)

28. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (7:04)

29. Triumph - the City: War March/El Duende Agonizante/Minstrel's Lament (9:32)

30. Def Leppard - Overture (7:40)

31. Scorpions - Still Loving You (6:27)

32. Haken - Cockroach King (8:14)

33. Jane's Addiction - Three Days (10:50)

34. Blackfoot - Highway Song (7:13)

35. David Bowie - Blackstar (9:57)

36. Styx - Clair De Lune/Ballerina (7:09)

37. Muse - New Born (6:03)

38. Tool - Schism (6:47)

39. James Gang - the Bomber: Closet Queen/Bolero/Cast Your Fate to the Wind (7:03)

40. the Allman Brothers Band - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (6:54)

41. Gowan - A Criminal Mind (7:21)

42. the Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin (7:38)

43. White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit (7:20)

44. Meatloaf - Paradise By the Dashboard Light (8:28)

45. AC/DC - Overdose (6:10)

46. Velvet Underground - Heroin (7:12)

47. Gov't Mule - Thorazine Shuffle (6:46)

48. Toto - Hydra (7:30)

49. Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life (11:14)

50. UFO - Rock Bottom (6:32)

51. Uriah Heep - the Magician's Birthday (10:28)

52. Black Country Communion - too Late For the Sun (11:21)

53. Metallica - One (7:26)

54. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (17:05)

55. the Doors - the End (11:43)

56. Devin Townsend - Funeral (8:06)

57. the Firm - Midnight Moonlight (9:14)

58. Voivod - Killing Technology (7:33)

59. Deep Purple - Child In Time (10:18)

60. Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good (8:56)

61. Mastodon - Hearts Alive (13:40)

62. Ghost - Cirice (6:02)

63. Elder - Halcyon (12:48)

64. Ten Years After - Love Like A Man (7:38)

65. Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain (6:36)

66. Bad Company - Shooting Star (6:17)

67. Frank Zappa - Inca Roads (8:45)

68 The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler (6:53)

69. Buffalo Springfield - Broken Arrow (6:13)

70. Def Leppard - Rocket (6:34)

71. Wishbone Ash - Time Was (9:42)

72. Prince - Automatic (9:27)

73. UFO - Love to Love (7:38)

 

74. The Black Crowes - Thorn In My Pride (6:03)

75. Zebra - The La La Song (6:12)

76. Introduction - Chicago Transit Authority (6:35)

 

*cough* ELP *cough*

Hey Lorraine,

 

So sorry to hear of your condition. Since I don't get on here much these days I wanted to wish you the best and let you know you are loved by myself and everyone on the forum.

Good comparison and tough to pick since they started about the same time. Let's break this down by the pieces.

 

Vocal - Sting Vs Bono - there's not enough coin flips to decide which insufferable dick to choose. Tie.

Guitar - Andy vs Edge - Andy is very accomplished and more interesting to listen to. Edge is pretty much a one-trick pony. Andy.

Bass - Sting vs what's his name?, oh yeah Adam - Give this one to Stink because Adam is non-descript.

Drums - Stewart vs Larry - come on man not even close - Stewart.

 

U2 had a much longer active career...but does anyone care about them since the 90s? Best band goes to The Police.

 

Best singer - not choosing a favorite egomaniac but coin flip says Bono. ugh.

 

Best Album - I like the first 3 Police Albums, same with U2. But The Unforgettable Fire is highly underrated IMO and an interesting left turn for U2, so that's the one.

trade him to minny for cousins. the cap numbers just about match up.

 

let's get that pissed off brett farve ex-packers thing going again.

But there's alot of subliminal ideas going on with Rush material that could imply 'the deed'. Maybe make a playlist of some of these and she might catch on.

 

Stick It Out

A Passage to Bangkok

Beneath, Between, Behind

 

Hoping that doesn't lead to 'Cold Fire'

It's all overplayed, which is why i never listen to the radio. I prefer the solitude to enjoy the conversation with my other personalities.

 

radio airplay is only intended to keep your attention long enough to hear their commercials.

I guarantee you that I can throw a club further than Alex. That's the whole point of the game isn't it?

So I looked into the history, and I'm not seeing a second Kalamazoo factory. This is interesting. Let me see if I can find out anything about Heritage.

 

The founders of Heritage sold to a real estate development company called Plaza Corp a couple of years ago. The founders originally worked for Gibson and were at the point of retiring. Plaza Corp did some renovations in the plant and continued to manufacture Heritage. But I find it hard to believe that they plan to keep a manufacturing plant and a hotel within the same site.

 

Plaza Corp has bought up all the real estate in Kalamazoo and turns them into brew pubs and overpriced condos. The local joke is they want to rename the town Plazamazoo. Plaza has no interest in keeping Heritage going as an entity...they just wanted another site for a brewpub.

 

I sit in my new office and see the latest Plaza bastard child building that just opened as a hotel. f***ers took our parking lot. Occupancy looks realllllly light since they opened.

Local news today that the original Kalamazoo Gibson plant is being bastardized into another Hard Rock tourist trap.

 

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2021/03/hard-rock-brand-hotel-coming-to-kalamazoos-historical-gibson-guitar-manufacturing-site.html

 

This plant currently houses Heritage Guitar, but that's likely going away. What's really amusing is that this plant is in the worst part of town and not on any major street. Instead of letting the old building die a graceful death, let's whore out it's history for all it's worth. This is the birthplace of Alex's classic white 355 he got in the 70s.

Hold Your Nose

Presticle

Roll the Boner

 

As I remember during this time, I would still buy the albums, play them a few times and toss them into the pile never to be seen again.

I thought this was a RIP thread. Damn it.

 

:rage:

Wired was my choice - first Beck album I bought. Stanky Funk Fusion.

ok, latest vax distribution rant from me.

 

So my 89 year old mother in law finally got her first vax today. This was done in a former Pfizer office building right across the Pfizer plant where the vax is made. Biden just made a visit there on Friday. So every logical bone in your body says she gets the Pfizer vax right?

 

Nope she got Moderna. :wtf:

 

I get my second on Tuesday. The first was Pfizer. The 2nd needs to be Pfizer or I will do some serious questioning about mixing manufacturers.

Death...the only thing that will finally shut him up.

 

Any questions on where I stand?

Feedback was a 21st Century Album.

 

Oops.

I've come up with a new texting acronym that I use on my adult children and other younger people. This is at the end of the texting conversation.

 

NGCYR

 

Now Go Clean Your Room.

My landlord came over today and informed us that his son wants to build a home on the 5-acre parcel of land our rental is on. In this county, there can only be one residence on any 5-acre parcel.

 

We have to move.

 

Where? And with what? The average rent out here is well over $1,000 a month. We can't afford that. We can't get any help from DSHS because our monthly income is $300 more than their limit. I want to know who sets these amounts, and I'd like to see the person who does live on what they think two people can live on. In today's economy, it cannot be done.

 

I am too old for this and too worn out.

 

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: That sounds like awful news! Didn't you guys just move there a year or two ago? Moving is such a chore and especially with your husband being ill. I'm really sorry to hear this and I hope the son that wants to build breaks a leg or something.

 

I don't suppose the landlord would want to look into getting a zoning variance to allow you to be on a corner of the property or something? Or could you spread the word at church about looking for housing? My prayers will be with you sweetie. :hug2: :hug2:

one house per 5 acres? 5 acres would be plenty of space for 6-7 houses where I live. sounds excessive to me.