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Jinnistan wrote:
1000th post, folks. Spritz me.
(belated)
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Anyone else been getting weird random spontaneous downloads of "htm" files?
I've gotten two over as many days. Looked them up, and they seem harmless, not viruses, maybe phishing scams. If anyone gets one, my advice is to delete them and not open them. Anyone get infected, let me know.
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Christmas plans were stalled due to last week's weather and my filthy neighbors (I got sick), so I'll get to my grandparents this weekend for the new year. I think they'll drop the ball around 6:30 PM.
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Jinnistan wrote:
Anyone else been getting weird random spontaneous downloads of "htm" files?
I've gotten two over as many days. Looked them up, and they seem harmless, not viruses, maybe phishing scams. If anyone gets one, my advice is to delete them and not open them. Anyone get infected, let me know.
Yes, I started getting phishing spam around the beginning of December, but some of it entirely in Cyrillic. It’s my double encrypted, ultra private, for medical and financial purposes only.
NOBODY knows this email. These motherfuckers.
I’m headed to the eye surgeon now so I’ll be useless in front of a screen for the rest of the day.
BTW, that Korean flick I was looking forward to, “The Witch: Part II: The Other One” suuucks. Skip it but still see the first one, “The Witch: Subversion.” I stand by that one.
Words of wisdom, Lloyd.
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Anyone else notice that we had about 9 visitors at one point this afternoon?
Somebody's been snitchin'...
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Jinnistan wrote:
Anyone else notice that we had about 9 visitors at one point this afternoon?
Somebody's been snitchin'...
Any number of parties, including anyone googling their own movies, political/current events...
..."Jinnistan"
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These lurkers need to start signing up accounts.
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5000 posts in 15 months.
I wonder how Kateland is doing?
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Guys, should we do a dedicated horror thread this year?
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Yeah, I’d be down.
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I don't follow hockey, but since I do follow Bill Burr I've been able to hear some of his issues about the Toronto Maple Leaves and how they're giving Burr's beloved Bruins a run for their money. According to him, the Maple Leaves haven't won a playoff series since....2004?
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I don't follow hockey, but since I do follow Bill Burr I've been able to hear some of his issues about the Toronto Maple Leaves and how they're giving Burr's beloved Bruins a run for their money. According to him, the Maple Leaves haven't won a playoff series since....2004?
They won a playoff series last year, then immediately self destructed. But, for the most part, the either always flub the first round or, for decades before that, don't even make the playoffs (and this was during the years where only five teams out of 21 would miss post season play)
And it looked like they were imploding again, going down 3-1 in the series. Looking absolutely lifeless in a couple of those games. Were getting lambasted by the media here (as always, because Toronto treats its hockey team like the UK treats its celebrities), and probably deserved it more than usual, then...somehow....they rose to the occassion and played probably two of their best all round games of the year. Most amazingly, even really well defensively, which is usually a complete after thought to these guys. They generally are seemingly quite happy to get down by 4 goals before they decide they've had enough of losing and suddenly start scoring at will until they win these games they seemingly had no right to.
But it suddenly seemed like the tide was turning for them. That this team, who is ridiculously stacked with offensively players, was suddenly not just playing like a bunch of spoiled brats who want to rack up their stats, but playing like an actual team. And they were doing the same thing last night, even without their better goalie, and with their star player ailing. They had completely shut down Boston and it was a 0-0 game until the last five minutes or so when we scored. It seemed like that's all that would be needed, considering how much they had limited Boston to barely any scoring opporunities the entire game (in fact, the last three games). It seems like they overcame the impossible. At least for thirty or so seconds, when they let Boston score one right back, sending the game to overtime. Which they promptly lost in about a minute.
At least it wasn't an embarrassing way to go out, which is usually how they do it. And yet in some ways this was more painful, since even when they finally get their shit together, it's amazing how quickly it can all go south for them.
It's a curse. I've mentioned this before, beginning as far back as the 70's, when the miserly and (turns out) pedophaealic monster of an owner named Harold Ballard, intentionally gutted the team of all of its talent because he didn't want to pay for anyone good, realizing Toronto would still sell out all its games regardless of how bad the team was. And they've been trying to climb out of the hole this one man put them in for fifty years now. Just an unending slog of terrible seasons and near misses that end in heartbreak.
The worst part of it though is honestly realizing I have to go back to work tomorrow and just listen to the vitriol of everyone I work with about how they are never watching another game again, and every player needs to be traded, and just having to nod along knowing that (in part) they are correct. But, also, like anything else, most of the things they are going to say are going to be completely stupid and I'm going to be embarrassed listening to them and I won't be able to escape.
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I found this old tweet by Burr, and even though I don't know anything about the Cleveland Browns, I bet is probably bang on.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are the only team that can make Cleveland Brown fans feel lucky.
I often try and wonder if there is a more miserable sports franchise, in any sport, which compares. And if there is, I then ask if that team also has the bottomless pockets that the Leafs have had consistently for decades. I'm pretty sure we are a unique misery in the history of sports.
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crumbsroom wrote:
I found this old tweet by Burr, and even though I don't know anything about the Cleveland Browns, I bet is probably bang on.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are the only team that can make Cleveland Brown fans feel lucky.
I often try and wonder if there is a more miserable sports franchise, in any sport, which compares. And if there is, I then ask if that team also has the bottomless pockets that the Leafs have had consistently for decades. I'm pretty sure we are a unique misery in the history of sports.
It goes back to that cynicism you mentioned, where an owner simply decides that business is good enough so they stop bothering to invest in talent as long as the local loyalty is strong enough to continue to buy tickets. I thought of the Browns immediately (although I guess they're had a post-Covid rebound). Worse, sometimes these teams will invest in young talent, but only for the purpose of trading them off when they start to blossom. It becomes a cycle - take a dive to get the early draft picks, get great young talent at rookie contract prices, and as soon as they're set to renegotiate those contracts, trade them off to teams who are actually serious about winning. And trade them for what? More draft picks! (I'm speaking here of the NFL system, but I think the NBA runs pretty much the same.)
I don't know much about baseball, but I imagine Mets fans are in a similar bucket most of the time.
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I feel the Mets are the closest example of this that I can think of, with my limited sports knowledge.
And I think this trading off of young talent is sort of what the Leafs did in the past, constantly finishing last to get the highest draft picks (except for the Eric Lindros year of course, where they traded away that draft pick for some total bum of a player who I can't even remember, I think it was a defensman that was blind in one eye). But what shows that absolute rot in this organization is that they didn't only lack talent on the ice. They had it in spades in their scouting department, where we constantly drafted total trash that would never even make it to the NHL as much more than a third liner (if at all)
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I guess this is the closest to a sports thread on here, so....
Baltimore needs to put Mark Andrews on a Greyhound out of Buffalo before trading him tomorrow.
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What are you guys eager to watch?
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You gotta have something, guys. I got Black Bag and Mickey 13 (17?) sitting here, Sinners and Ash. New Andersons. Even whiffs of Malick's Way of the Wind.