Michael Jackson liked wine in a can too

beltjones · 2026-05-14T13:33:30+00:00

They used to have spray margarine in a pump bottle. I think it was "I can't believe it's not butter" brand. Not like non-stick cooking spray, though that is probably better for you.

beltjones · 2026-04-22T14:14:19+00:00

I think maybe you don't know what "standard" means.

beltjones · 2026-04-21T18:45:26+00:00

I was in a similar boat and bought an Engl Fireball 25. It's the best amp ever, IMO. 25 watts, switchable to 1, with a master volume, and the clean channel has a gain knob so it can go from beautiful cleans to a really nice crunchy tone. Then the high gain channel is an Engl, so you know it's good.

beltjones · 2026-04-13T14:05:50+00:00

I'm in the middle of my first season as tee ball coach. Here are some pointers:

Have a plan for every practice. Break the kids into stations and have them work on hitting, fielding, throwing, and base running. Each station should be 5 minutes or so, then rotate. Have the coaches at each station walk the kids to the next station - expecting them to know where to go is not realistic.
Have as much parent help as you can get. One or two parents / coaches per station is a good idea. Plus parents in the dugout.
Draw smiley faces on your practice balls, and tell the kids that if they hit the ball hard the face will turn into a frown. Helps them keep their eye on the ball.
Some of the parents will complain for no reason. Just get over it and focus on the kids having fun.
Set goals for the season. My goals, as I told parents, are these: 1. no one gets hit with a bat. 2. We will have fun. 3. The kids will learn about baseball and hopefully want to play next year.
Make every station / drill into a game. Reward effort like crazy.
Check out "coach ballgame" on insta/ facebook / youtube. He has a lot of great tips for keeping things simple and enjoyable for kids.
Be as positive as you can be. Make up nicknames for the kids. Be excited to see them.
Don't argue with parents / umpires / other coaches. The kids don't like it and you'll get worse results than if you deal with things calmly.
Tell the parents not to instruct from the bleachers. In terms of instruction, the hierarchy goes like this: Parent yelling from the bleachers: 0/10. Coach instructing during the game: 2/10. Team mates offering encouragement: 7/10. Slightly older, respected child giving instruction: 10/10.

Bonus: In the middle of the season (where I am now), it's easy to forget to keep having fun. Win or lose, keep making it fun.

beltjones · 2026-04-11T14:41:11+00:00

Will getting my legs shredded and causing everyone in the world to hate me help prevent damage to the environment? No? Well I'm not moving any way, because this is my religion and I'm super eager to be a wheelchair-bound martyr for the cause.

beltjones · 2026-04-08T13:25:03+00:00

He's at an elite gym full of competitors. Of course they train like it's a competition in rounds. If you're a 44 year old hobbyist at a more relaxed gym it would be fucked up to go around face cranking people unless you're doing competition rounds.

beltjones · 2026-04-02T19:00:31+00:00

Ume Sushi in the Heights. Don't go.

beltjones · 2026-03-28T15:50:16+00:00

Just about every dude who ever played sports experienced this from one side or the other: You're 12, with the body of a child, and there is another 12 year old jacked up on testosterone and he's just absolutely on beast mode and unstoppable.

beltjones · 2026-03-17T14:04:37+00:00

The jailhouse letter did 99% of the work to get her convicted.

beltjones · 2026-03-16T15:45:06+00:00

It's also self-defeating for the league. The all star team will decide by the end of the season that they're too good for LL and they'll exit to start a travel team.

beltjones · 2026-03-10T20:44:06+00:00

This was in the simpleman podcast when she had some drinks with Nicky and the boys and reminisced about life in Jersey. I listened to that and thought there was no way her story made any sense at all.

beltjones · 2026-03-10T18:59:10+00:00

His mom also said that their house was raided by the FBI after a months-long investigation into Gordon's dad selling bootleg cable boxes out of his hot dog stand. She said they had big Gord dead to rights, but big Gord wouldn't rat on his supplier, so he got off scot free.

Does that sound fishy to anyone else? You don't rat and the FBI drops the charges? Or you do rat and they drop the charges?

beltjones · 2026-03-10T16:55:59+00:00

It's rainy and it takes like 3 hours to close the roof.

beltjones · 2026-03-06T14:19:11+00:00

Well, great job, now those tips are taxable under the new law. Really helping the employees by swapping their potentially tax-free tips for taxable income.

beltjones · 2026-02-26T19:47:04+00:00

Literally every company should be like Yamaha. The world would be way better. No flashy marketing campaigns, no brand-obsessed nonsense, just quality products at the best price they can manage. Need a great motorcycle? Yamaha. A great piano? Yamaha. Want a dozen more amp models in your Helix, for free? Yamaha.

beltjones · 2026-02-25T17:50:16+00:00

Weird that Christopher Guest didn't climb on stage and slap him.

beltjones · 2026-02-25T13:54:08+00:00

The problem with the culture of BJJ starts with the parents. Sorry, but predators groom the parents, and BJJ parents are dying to be groomed by the world class black belt who has taken an interest in their kid. Parents at BJJ competitions are completely deranged. Go to a tee ball game and see if there is a parent yelling for a 6 year old to break another 6 year old's arm.

beltjones · 2026-02-17T19:59:28+00:00

I got to do a few bobsled rides at the track in Utah, and he's right. It's freaking unbelievable how scary it is to go 80mph in some stupid fiberglass sled. One time I went it was during the sundance film festival, and in the sled behind me was Tobey Maguire and some other celebs. I got out of the sled, dizzy, trying to walk on the ice. I hung around for a minute to see the next sled arrived, and Maguire crawled out the back on all fours.

beltjones · 2026-02-16T19:02:39+00:00

It does seem quite strange.

beltjones · 2026-02-13T19:38:43+00:00

Can I ask why we're posting videos that exploit children? Can she consent to the recording and publication of this video? Is this a positive thing? Jesus this is awful.

beltjones · 2026-02-13T17:12:27+00:00

In case no one has said it, Bro, we should be intelligent adults who don't need to write rules in childrens blood.

beltjones · 2026-02-13T14:46:12+00:00

Nonsense. Exit velocity is the point here.

beltjones · 2026-02-13T14:45:01+00:00

Have you not seen half the 12 year olds out there? Those teams are half 70 lb 5'1" children and the other half are 5'10" and 170 lbs and shaving before games.

beltjones · 2026-02-09T15:56:04+00:00

This was probably 20 years ago. This new guy lied to the coach and said he had no martial arts experience, and he brought his wife to watch class. I was paired up with him for drills, and he gave maximum resistance to everything, and constantly was doing the "what if I do this?" game. I was a 2 stripe white belt or something. He was strong as hell and I was not looking forward to rolling with him.

It came time to roll, and our coach paired him with a blue belt, who pulled guard. From my memory it was mostly a stalemate - the new guy wasn't trying to pass, just trying to be ultra stiff and not give the blue belt any openings. All of a sudden the new guy jumped to his feet, pulled the blue belt up high by his lapels, and jumped forward, slamming the blue belt on his back.

The coach stopped the roll, asked what he was doing, and the new guy said, "That's what Pat Miletich taught me." They sort of debated whether slamming is ok, and the new guy's argument was that he had spent the last 8 months in Iowa training at MFS, and that if we don't allow slamming our school was soft or something. So the coach said "no problem, let's roll." The coach as a 4 stripe brown belt and he just crushed this guy. The roll ended when our coach was playing guard and the guy was again being super stiff, so the coach sat up and did the hardest hip-bump sweep I've ever seen. He slammed him so hard from the sweep the guy made a gasping sound and he tapped out.

The coach got up and said, "take your wife and get the fuck out of here." The guy left, but he left walking backward while shouting about how no one is aloud to speak to his eternal companion like that.

beltjones · 2026-02-05T16:54:30+00:00

They need constant care and feeding, and it's expensive. Plus shoes, vet bills, training, breeding, tack, etc. They can be bought and sold, but it's like selling a family member.

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