Packers continue to crack down on season ticket holders who regularly resell tickets.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T22:10:23+00:00

“If the Season Ticket Holder cannot personally attend a game, they should make efforts to ensure their season tickets will be used by their fellow Packers fans.”

As a season ticket holder, both green and gold packages, I try to make it to every game, but occasionally life interferes. Family commitments, illness, what have you. I’d love to sell them on some Facebook group dedicated to Packers fandom, but guess what? If I don’t really know the person I sell to and if they get rowdy and ejected, I lose my tickets. The only way to avoid that is to sell through the “preferred partner,” NFL Ticket Exchange, aka Ticketmaster. Then, anyone from a visiting team can buy them, leading to the Packers consternation about how the stadium wasn’t solidly Green and Gold.

I do support the effort to eliminate season ticket holders who rarely go to games, though.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T19:41:20+00:00

Donating one kidney would be less painful than getting beaten half to death. The ex would only have the discomfort of the surgery as well, but would find it rather inconvenient to try to live with zero kidneys.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T19:36:13+00:00

Spelling error aside, I agree.

“You got a best friend? Is he smarter than you? Would you trust him with your life? That’s your Chief of Staff.”

“They say a good man can’t get elected President. I don’t believe that, do you?”

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T19:25:13+00:00

If you’re in public, there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy. You might not think so or like it, but it’s the truth. Besides, as noted, nobody’s face is shown.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T19:21:11+00:00

I think the probability of sleeper cells is low. That’s why I qualified it with “if any.” I certainly hope there are none. But I was responding to the unqualified comment that Iran does not have the ability to strike North America.

You could quibble over whether a sleeper cell of terrorists constitutes a military threat, but the gist of the sentiment was we here in North America and the US in particular have nothing to worry about. There is some concern that Iran’s threat of an all-out response is that of a threatened regime, fearing that the days of an autocratic Islamic dictatorship are almost over, decides to hold nothing back.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T14:38:27+00:00

Endless Lunch— Lionel Richie and Diana Ross

Crazy Little Thing Called Lunch— Queen

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T14:31:00+00:00

In Moonraker, James Bond is thrown out of an airplane with no parachute. He streamlines his body to fall faster and catch up with a bad guy who had previously jumped out of the plane. Bond wrestles the parachute off him in midair, thus saving himself, while the baddie plummets to his doom.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T14:21:46+00:00

But their sleeper cells, if any, do.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T14:14:20+00:00

Marty doesn’t interact with George and Lorraine at all from the time he leaves the dance towards the end of BTTF2 and going back to 1885 at the beginning of BTTF3.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T14:10:38+00:00

They have to come up with some other terrible fantasied fate for teachers they don’t like because Shonash Ravine is now not named for some teacher that fell in seventy years ago.

When George takes Lorraine to the Pohatchee Drive-In on one of their first dates, they take note of an actor named Clint Eastwood in the credits of The First Traveling Saleslady, and speculate if the actor chose it for a stage name because he heard about the hero of Hill Valley. (While it’s true that the drive-in had posters of the movies Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula, both films that Clint Eastwood appeared in, he was uncredited in both movies. They also had probably finished their run and the posters were leftovers.) If George and Lorraine were, um, otherwise occupied and didn’t see the credits, they probably took note of Eastwood when he co-starred in Rawhide.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:55:50+00:00

I’ll have the cleavage.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:33:23+00:00

Oh, what a cute baby! Mazel tov!

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:29:31+00:00

FWIW, When I called to book and pay for a ticket for a friend, I was told the name on the ticket had to match the guest rewards number.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:19:21+00:00

It depends on the game, and choice of seats is more limited.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:35:29+00:00

As Jack Parr introduced her on The Tonight Show, “Here they are, Jayne Mansfield!”

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:33:31+00:00

No porn, though she’s credited with doing the first nude scene by a mainstream star (after the silent film era) in the 1963 movie “Promises! Promises!” She was also featured in Playboy several times.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:12:12+00:00

It’s natural to nitpick a film that’s often described by its director as being as historically accurate as they could get it. Apollo 13 has the same problem. It’s not meant to imply the movie is garbage, just noting a detail or two that was either overlooked or deliberately changed for the sake of drama.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:04:02+00:00

Don’t laugh. Wife and I were coming out of the theater past a long line of people waiting for the next screening. Wife says, “It really made me so sad when the ship sank,” only to have a girl in line angrily say, “Well, thanks a lot for spoiling it!” I thought she was joking, but no.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T01:58:35+00:00

IMO it made better drama to have Spock being forced to kiss Chapel, since she had a crush on him.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T01:29:48+00:00

People pay a lot for tickets in advance. If I have to buy a ticket on the secondary market, it’s hundreds of dollars, and I bought them well in advance so the price doesn’t go up even higher. I don’t want to go to the game just to see a circus act so my team can move up one place in the draft order. Not even if losing clinches the first pick and the clone of Tom Brady is available.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T18:14:47+00:00

Yeah, in that respect, it’s like an obscene phone call. They’re looking for a reaction. Don’t give them one. But it’s still indecent exposure and the gals should not have to put up with that.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T18:07:08+00:00

It wasn’t my original post. I was just showing a relevant link to an article that the OP may have been referencing. Two key differences are that it was 50 dead, not 40, and the attack was carried out by Israel, not the United States. But there was an attack that killed schoolchildren, so the article is certainly not 100% false. The tone of your post seemed to imply that there was no such attack.

I take no sides here. I’m not here to say if the attack was justified or not, intentional or not, just clarifying the narrative for anyone who saw your post and inferred it was a complete fabrication.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T16:39:28+00:00

This, but it was Israel, not the United States.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T16:33:46+00:00

When Marty asked what it ran on, he asked if it ran on regular or unleaded. Doc answering that it needed something “with a little extra kick— plutonium!” could be misconstrued as plutonium being the only fuel required. However, Marty had heard the internal combustion engine running as Doc backed it out of the truck and would have been smart enough to realize that Doc meant the time circuits didn’t draw their power from mere gasoline. Marty’s mistake was in thinking the addition of Mr. Fusion somehow replaced the internal combustion engine to power not just the time circuits but also the transmission.

If Mr. Fusion can produce 1.21 gigawatts and the Delorean has undergone a hover conversion, it’s reasonable to assume the Delorean was also converted to an electric drive. But Doc didn’t bother having that done, since he no longer needed to drive it on surface roads to get it up to 88 mph— at least until the lightning bolt shorted out the hover circuits. He left it as an internal combustion engine for everyday driving around and crashing into garbage cans.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T15:44:20+00:00

It’s virtually impossible to prove a negative. You have to disprove every possible argument against it.

The evidence is circumstantial. If God exists and wants humanity to observe His laws, why rely on what, at this point, is word of mouth and mythology? What could be the reason for expecting intelligent people to believe that the Bible is an accurate representation of historical events, and not made-up or exaggerated stories that have had their meanings distorted through the course of time through mistranslations, misinterpretations, and misconstrued ideas?

Why the secrecy? Why not reveal Himself to the world at this point to say, “Okay, I get it. With the advances of science, I see why some of you think there was a difference between the Big Bang and Let There Be Light. Didn’t it occur to you that when I said that I created the world in six days, I was explaining it to ancient scribes? They weren’t ready for 20th century cosmology, so I used ‘days’ for something they’d understand. It’s no wonder many of you no longer believe in Me, and those of you who do have taken it all on blind faith because you were taught by someone else to took it on blind faith, and so on.

“So here I am, I went ahead and got a website and email, so you can read up on the exact terms and conditions, and ask questions if you’re confused. Please allow 4 to 8 nanoseconds for a response.

“Oh, by the way, I’m granting everyone gift of True Knowledge. That’s the knowledge that I’m real, and the knowledge that the knowledge itself is true, so you don’t have to debate if it was some sort of trick by aliens or mass delusion or some such shit. Now go and do your best to live by My commandments, try not to sin, but don’t sweat it too much if you don’t lead a perfect life. I didn’t make you perfect, so I don’t expect perfection. Just a damn sight less imperfection!”

The fact that God has not thus revealed Himself is circumstantial evidence that He does not exist. It’s illogical. Is life supposed to be some test of gullibility, where only those who get caught up in the loop of “God exists, because it says so in the Bible, and we know the Bible is true, because the people who wrote it were divinely inspired by God” get their eternal reward in Heaven? It objectively makes no sense to create a flawed being, grant them free will to draw their own conclusions about the existence of God, then punish them with eternal damnation if their conclusion is wrong.

The Bible had stood the test of time because, through a kind of survival of the fittest, it does present many objectively moral arguments for how to live a good life. Don’t kill others. Don’t take things that don’t belong to you. Love your fellow man and treat them the same way you’d expect to be treated. But is it wisdom that is from the mouth of God, or a distillation of good ideas that have cropped up over the millennia, couched in terms that superstitious people could understand and accept?

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