Maybe the third or fourth-best aspect of having abandoned the NFL is not having to deal with that trite jerkwad.

When I first saw that picture of a withered old man wincing, I wondered why a coach was wearing player garb, thought the nondescript black uni might have been a scout team getup. Then I realized it’s Matt fucking Ryan, the quarterback you pick in fantasy once all the good ones have been snapped up, and you start to…

Yeah.  Futzing with something is tinkering, if somewhat ineffectually.  Fucking with it means you’re going to break it or ruin it.

I’m still waiting for the NHL to hold a game on a frozen lake somewhere.

Yeah, I don’t think this is a solution. The letter-writer obviously doesn’t have space for those long-term campers, so your suggestion isn’t feasible. If it was, the long-term campers wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.

Bonus points for the patron who self-justifies with “Well, nobody asked me/us to leave...”

Good that you admitted defeat. I looked briefly but couldn’t find a good ‘throwing in the towel’ GIF (or GIF, as the youths say.)

It seems to me you played waiter-roulette and lost. Sometimes when the vibe is right you ask for a little consideration or substitution and you get it gratis. Sometimes they tell you “ ‘No Substitutions’, can’t you read the menu, Einstein?” And sometimes you get what you ask for, but they ding you for the extra…

I’m a librarian

That’s the test, isn’t it? If no one is waiting to use your table, if there are empty tables all around you, if the staff swing by occasionally to check on you and there’s no edge or impatience to their tone, you’re not hurting anybody.

Yeah, there’s a bit of a meme about the failed writer(s) hanging out at Starbucks banging out the great Canadian novel or next blockbuster screenplay, because that’s how J.K. Rowling did it.  The persistent appearance at the coffee shop is ‘proof’ that you’re working on it, even though you detour to Facebook for hours…

Yep, nothing is ever a ‘startup’. By the time you hear of it or think of patronizing it, some repulsive cadre of billionaires stand to profit. You’re not just ducking into WalMart for some electrical tape and some Gatorade and you don’t really mean to, ‘but it’s convenient and just this once’. You’re heading into a…

I do believe the short-fingered vulgarian is a short-sleeper not by choice, but as a part of a holistic lifestyle, as a consequence of his catastrophic diet, sedentary lifestyle, no exercise, absent physical fitness, and obesity. It’s a result of sleep apnea, not an attempt to be more productive in any way.

Well, you explain it to us simpletons then.

Link please.

Did you say Hugh Millen or Matt Millen?

+1 stroke of genius

Nonsense, Rolf Benirschke was the real killer.

Like, I get someone trolling or making a biased disingenuous argument, but I don’t get his agenda.  He wants to convert everyone to the notion that Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers are essentially equivalent QBs?  That fails every test.

I did however give a anti-Vikings best man speech in Minneapolis last year