OT- Sunday night Drinking/Walking Dead/Oscars
Slow day on the board so here is your Sunday night miscellaneous thread.
- Walking Dead looks like it's finally going back to being awesome.
- Billy Crystal doing his thing with the Oscars again.
- NBA All-Star game (for you NBA fans)
- Any thoughts on Comic book men? (Pawn shop for nerds)
Have at it MGoBoard.
February 26th, 2012 at 8:52 PM ^
Can we pool our collective investigative powers into determining why the sports world and national media have embraced Pitbull so intensely? You can't watch any major event without having this goon perform at halftime.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:37 PM ^
Why the hate for Pitbull? I understand he isn't talented, but he's roughly equivalent to Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, pretty much every "rapper" post-1999, and Katy Perry... Pitbull is just better at marketing himself. Congrats Pitbull - you win in the game of capitalism, he's laughing all the way to the bank. If you don't like him, don't watch his performance and don't buy the products he endorses, those are the only actions/words corporations are going to listen to.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:05 PM ^
Why the hate for Pitbull?
"but he's roughly equivalent to Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, pretty much every "rapper" post-1999, and Katy Perry... "
There you go.
February 26th, 2012 at 11:20 PM ^
I don't think you remember how tough it is to watch a college football game without seeing Pitbull and his stupid commercials.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:15 PM ^
Infatuation with talent-less people (and trying to lay claim that they are talented: see the Grammy Awards). And yes, man do I dislike Pitbull and the noise pollution he puts out.
Edit: This was all in response to the first poster's comment on Pitbull, the fine lad he is.
February 26th, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 9:00 PM ^
I'm drinking a Short's Aorta Ale and reading corporations/family law. Ugh.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:02 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 9:08 PM ^
Killing an 1,800 word paper tonight.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:18 PM ^
Finishing a Dos Equis Amber Ale my uncle gifted me over Xmas, while watching the NBA All-Star Game (the dunk contest was soooo underwhelming, but I enjoyed the 3-pt shootout - congrats to Kevin Love).
February 26th, 2012 at 9:22 PM ^
Can the motherfucker(s) who's been serially negging me tonight step out into the light and reveal himself? I've been pretty transparent about who I neg and why, but this is just pathetic and cowardly. You can't hurt me, bro.
But yes, I'm drinking rum and coke and flipping between the all-star game and TWD. Guess which has been more compelling?
February 26th, 2012 at 9:23 PM ^
It's not me, but whomever it is seems to have negged everyone in this thread.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:27 PM ^
Must be the mime.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:54 PM ^
Usually the only non-trolling posts I won't upvote are the "this wasn't flamebait" type posts, but I went through and plussed every post on the thread.
Negs need to go back to counting for both the person getting negged and doing the negging, so people who neg an entire thread will eventually not have the ability to neg anymore.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:32 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 9:34 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 9:38 PM ^
It is transparent on OPs of threads. I used to do NBA updates and I'd have all my posts within the thread caved but no downvotes on the OP so I could never figure out who was doing it. It's just silly.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:27 PM ^
ealier. Absolutley phenomenal. Now hanging and drinking a Molson Canadian - the finest lager ever brewed. And wondering why the __ _____ Company needs me on-site at 0530.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:04 PM ^
Probably one of my favorite dishes, we ordered it for just about every meal, just about every day while we were in Spain.
February 27th, 2012 at 8:37 AM ^
But which kind of paella? I'm all about the mariscos, personally.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:40 PM ^
I'm the on call doc in the ER. Funny how no one gets sick when there's good sh*t to watch on TV. I worked the Super Bowl too and spent my time reading posts about TV shows on mgoblog.com. Deja vous.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^
Halloween 2009 was on a Saturday and I took my wife to the ER in the early evening. We thought it might be busy, but the place was empty. We live in central Oklahoma and the OU football game was still going. We asked about how empty the place was, and the ER doctor made the comment that as soon as the game was over the place would fill up, and sure enough, as we were leaving, just after the game finished, the people came pouring in.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:44 PM ^
If anyone wants to invest in some Schaudenfreude, I worked in Hollywood for the last several years. I'm watching the Oscars with my mom, here in Michigan, and I saw the bit where actors were talking about why they got into acting and what movie did it.
I, having been an actor, then having went to UM for film instead, fell out of it and like many filmmakers had little respect for actors. This was intensified when I worked at a major talent agency in the talent department. One of those actors I worked with was Rashida Jones.
In seeing this Oscars-loving-actors spectacle, I went on a tirade saying why I thought that actors were pawns and why they don't matter and why their talent is limited. My mom pointed out that my phone was on beneath me. It turned out, somehow my iPhone had dialed Rashida Jones, and it had been recording that whole thing on her voicemail the whole time.
FML.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:50 PM ^
Call her back, apologize, and tell her I said hayyyyyyyy.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:02 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 10:04 PM ^
Ok.
I negged this.
Why? Because you could google this. You could search on IMDB. You could youtube it. You could do a lot of things that don't involve posting on mgoblog in order to find out who Rashida Jones is.
(but she's an actress, I know her from The Office, Parks and Recreation, and I Love You Man).
February 26th, 2012 at 10:30 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 10:36 PM ^
I Googled her and once I found out she was on the Office I realized why I had never heard of her because I never watched that show other than a passing minute or two. Dreadfully stupid. The hand held/shakey cam is terrible.
She did graduate from the Michigan of the East: Harvard. So she has that going for her.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:10 PM ^
You worked at a talent agency associated with Rashida Jones and your "little respect for actors" was intensified?
I can only wonder how her "respect" for talent agencies has crashed after hearing what a douche you are.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:19 PM ^
Thank you for calling me a douche. I really appreciate it.
Also, I love Rashida and many actors. You lost the point of why there's Schaudenfreude to begin with.
Again, thank you for calling me a douche.
February 26th, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
I feel left out right now. You can call me a douche in exchange for me calling you a douche. I'd also like to take this time to make sure that the douche users on this site don't actually exchange real douches with other douche users. That's not sanitary. So unless you want to die, don't trade douches.
I bet that you never expected to read about douches on MGoBlog tonight, did you?
February 26th, 2012 at 10:23 PM ^
Now. I marked this as flamebait because you directly called another poster a name, which could result in a flamewar.
#transparency
February 26th, 2012 at 9:46 PM ^
I have to go pick up megangoblue at about two when the team bus gets back from Myrtle Beach, so no drinking for me tonight. I put some cherries in some cheap rye, so maybe I'll snack on a few of those.
I am going to try making Brian's wife's recipe from her front page redirect incident this week, so we'll see how that goes. I just spent like forty bucks on some pretty esoteric (for me at least) supplies from the grocery store, so it better be damn good.
February 26th, 2012 at 9:51 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 10:00 PM ^
Action packed episode of TWD tonight. Any theories on the symbolism behind the lone walker in the distance as Shane and Rick were driving?
February 26th, 2012 at 10:04 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 10:05 PM ^
The recruit that got away?
February 26th, 2012 at 10:06 PM ^
Hang on, I DVR'd Walking Dead. Just got back from work, bout to watch it and let ya know.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
Big thing that came out of the episode tonight was the whole, bit vs scratched debate when it comes to being infected.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:10 PM ^
I didn't quite catch that and now I feel herpderpy. I saw the burnt bodies and that they were scratched and not bit but didn't understand the significance.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:15 PM ^
Rick and Shane also talked about it after they killed those two security guard zombies. My question is, if the infection comes just from being scratched, don't you think it would also be volatile enough to spread via infected blood getting into open wounds? Rick and Shane had all kinds of cuts and scrapes in this episode, and there was definitely some blood mixing.
Of course, I'm not saying that they will become zombies, but I see it as a minor error in the show.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:18 PM ^
My theory is that everybody is already infected and that once you die your brainstem reanimates and you become a walker. A bite, realistically speaking, would be very dangerous for all the dead infectious tissue in the mouth would make one very ill, but wouldn't necessarily kill you or accelerate the process of becoming a walker.
February 27th, 2012 at 12:48 AM ^
It is very significant, the theory you have below is about as close to giving it away as it gets. The way they deal with the infected/living changes.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:11 PM ^
TWD series is pretty awesome, but its just holding me over until the final season of Breaking Bad.
Walter White is a bad ass
February 27th, 2012 at 1:21 AM ^
Walter White is a bad ass
Indeed. But I'm kinda-sorta bummed Comcast On Demand does not have Season 4 available right now. I missed most of that season and I'd like to catch up before Season 5. They'll probably put it up as a run-in to Season 5.
"Oprah, Barbra Walters, and your wife. You got to !@#$ one, marry one, kill one...GO!"
Which one I marry is easy ... but the other two? I'm still pondering that. And the answer is not obvious.
February 26th, 2012 at 10:14 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 10:48 PM ^
February 26th, 2012 at 11:03 PM ^
James Earl Jones was just presented with a life time achievement award. Go Blue!
February 26th, 2012 at 11:51 PM ^