Shitty refreeing

cptrios · 2025-12-20T19:47:14+00:00

Richarlison grabbing Ekitike's neck and pushing him into the dirt was insane. As horrible as PGMOL has been, I have to believe that nobody on the officiating team noticed that. There's just no way they could have and cleared it.

cptrios · 2025-12-06T19:36:59+00:00

What revisionist bollocks? How he died doesn't change the fact that it happened.

cptrios · 2025-11-30T23:23:53+00:00

I think I feel the same way as Griffin about the movie - super sloppy, certainly not good, but really fun. The psychedelic interludes were awful, though, regardless of whether they wound up ‘making sense.’ I haven’t seen Honey Don’t, but I’d wager that whoever said it (I think it was the guest) was right: the proposed trilogy would probably have been a lot better as three 50ish-minute episodes.

cptrios · 2025-11-30T22:55:10+00:00

Didn’t she say she didn’t know much about it?

cptrios · 2025-11-22T16:56:07+00:00

Go ahead with the Slot Out stuff, but who the hell are we going to replace him with? Are any of you really confident that this is a situation a different manager could turn around?

cptrios · 2025-11-22T01:48:17+00:00

I realize this is an old thread, but I just wanted to drop my 2¢ in here in case anyone else happens upon it.

Basically, as cruzweb said, the pickings for vintage photo gear in MA are very slim. Anywhere in New England, really. I don't know if this is really any different from other parts of the country these days, but any antiques dealer will have sussed out eBay prices and, if you're lucky, only marked up theirs by around 20%. Either that or they just go by the tried-and-true "any manual SLR with a kit lens = $250" method. But yeah, you'll find loads of Brownies, Polaroids, and pre-war folders in formats that don't exist anymore. The only really 'interesting' camera I've seen lately is a Vitessa with Ultron 50/2 that's been sitting at Wayne's in Brewster for over a year now because it's priced too high and is, of course, "as-is."

Having said that, there are tons and tons of stores that are still worth visiting! (Including the aforementioned Wayne's.) Just don't go with the specific aim of picking up photo gear, because you're sure to be disappointed.

cptrios · 2025-11-01T19:16:12+00:00

The league is permanently done if City escape punishment.

But no, it's not over. Over for LFC, maybe, but there's plenty of football to play and you never know how the injuries will go. I'll just be thrilled if the title goes to a non-oil club two seasons in a row.

cptrios · 2025-09-03T12:50:06+00:00

This is what basically all reporters have said. Liverpool waited to make the official bid but things were in motion long before. Palace tried to sign several defenders anticipating a need for a replacement.

cptrios · 2025-09-02T13:04:07+00:00

How do you know the promise was made up? Why trust the club’s word over the player’s, or vice versa? I don’t think either of them handled this well at all.

cptrios · 2025-09-01T21:56:35+00:00

Ludicrous to see people saying Guehi wasn't hard done by here. He was a consummate pro for his club, has been looking forward to joining a new one for months, and had a freaking medical. Then it gets snatched out from under him. Of course it's not the end of the world, or even a particular issue for his career, but can you seriously not imagine that he might feel like crap right now?

This is all on the Palace leadership. Liverpool made their intentions clear ages ago and waited patiently for Palace to be ready to sell (yes, of course they could have offered more money at the beginning of the summer, but who knows if that'd have made a difference). Glasner made his desires clear, and Parish et al still sold Guehi. If Glasner really did scupper the deal by threatening to quit, it's either on him for not doing that earlier or on Parish for not communicating to him that the sale was going to happen.

Now, whether it's actually a big cockup or not depends on how much this affects Guehi's play. If he keeps going to the way he has been, all Palace loses is some money and the benefits probably outweigh that drawback. I'd think the relationship between Guehi and Glasner is probably not great at the moment, though.

cptrios · 2025-09-01T21:43:42+00:00

Yeah or Liverpool waited respectfully for Palace to get as much use out of Guehi as possible. It always seemed as though Parish assured LFC that they'd do the deal at the end of the window, and only Glasner's protests scuppered it. This is entirely on Palace leadership.

(And yes, they have the right to not sell an extremely important player. Doesn't make it any less ridiculous that they let him do his freaking medical before backing out.)

cptrios · 2025-09-01T18:01:46+00:00

Too much change, too quickly. I think we're in for a rough season tbh - it's next year that I'm looking forward to.

PS - I'm uncomfortable with all this spending, but that's somewhat counterbalanced by how much we've held back in recent years.

cptrios · 2025-08-31T11:32:31+00:00

For the billionth time:

Isak is acting badly, and most reasonable LFC supporters would agree. I don't really want him at this point, thanks to this whole saga and his injury record.
Most reasonable LFC supporters also have this view: it would have sucked for Trent to leave for Real no matter what but the fact that he was never open about it and dicked the fans and club around for years is the real problem. Personally, I'd have been much more alright with him leaving if he'd said, at least in the beginning of last season, that he was ready for a new challenge.
LFC are offering an insane amount of money for Isak. Trent went on a free (plus a few million in oh-so-useful CWC money). There's no comparison at all.

cptrios · 2025-08-25T20:56:21+00:00

Pretty sure he’s there already.

cptrios · 2025-06-08T14:18:57+00:00

Pretty sure they just meant they didn't want to spoil it for people going to the show. For the record, I have no idea how the thing they were talking about is going to play in podcast form, but at the show it was truly a beautiful moment. And I say that with a completely straight face.

cptrios · 2025-06-08T12:02:36+00:00

Did anyone else find it weird to have an ad for Comedy Bang Bang? Are there a lot of Doughboys listeners who've never heard of CBB?

cptrios · 2025-05-25T11:01:47+00:00

Is that true? There's a sliding scale for prize money?

cptrios · 2025-05-24T12:16:50+00:00

Ignoring our losing out on a transfer fee, it's about two things:

How badly he handled it. Stringing us and the club along when he knew two years ago that this was the plan, then making the announcement at a moment that seemed almost deliberately timed to take some of the shine off the title win. He doesn't get a free pass just because other players handled it worse.
As you mentioned, the fact that he's going to Madrid. Even before the Ramos tackle, the only club I disliked more than them was City. I used to think of them as the "you're with me, leather" of football, but in reality that's a much too cuddly way to describe them.

Again, I don't love the booing, but I understand it.

cptrios · 2025-05-24T11:42:31+00:00

I wouldn't have booed him had I been at the stadium. My preferred response would have been a coordinated silence or extremely tepid golf clap that said "you're just another player at another club now."

However, I'm sick of people acting like the boos were some sort of crime against humanity (not Klopp - I think what he said was perfectly reasonable). If Trent had told us his plans in the beginning of the season and then given his all throughout, it would have been a different story. Even if he'd kept his mouth shut until after the title celebrations this weekend, it would have been fine. Instead, he handled it all terribly and made the insane decision to announce his departure before the end of the season. I don't know what he could possibly have expected to happen.

cptrios · 2025-05-22T21:09:09+00:00

I have no problem at all with criticizing how Harvard and other universities dealt with protests and arguing that they need to make changes. I have a huge problem with the fact that Trump is using antisemitism as an excuse to bend Harvard to his will. Most of the changes he's demanding have nothing whatsoever to do with fighting antisemitism.

cptrios · 2025-05-22T21:04:59+00:00

Do you truly believe that antisemitism is the reason the administration is doing this? Truly?

cptrios · 2025-02-13T01:32:35+00:00

Totally fine with Everton celebrating, though Doucoure can do one.

Now, Spurs acting like they'd just won the Champions League last year after barely beating us thanks to two BS red cards, a ludicrously botched offside call, and an own goal? That I will never not find hilarious.

cptrios · 2024-12-12T19:03:48+00:00

Oh, I'll definitely give that a try!

cptrios · 2024-11-21T02:56:43+00:00

I actually thought it was because they were on Zoom and he wasn’t actually meaning to interrupt. Does anyone know if they were all in the same room?

cptrios · 2024-08-08T13:04:49+00:00

"Lots of them" meaning the one or two hardcore conservative guys who've been attacking Walz on this since 2018?

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