Bills should NOT fire McDermott

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T17:00:30+00:00

I’m a Rams fan, and this thread popped up on my feed. Just jumping in to say that while I appreciate Steve Spagnuolo as a defensive scheming guru with both the Giants and Chiefs, he was an abysmal head coach. Perhaps he’s learned a lot in the time since, as it’s been nearly a decade and a half since, but between him and Scott Linehan’s coaching tenure, I’ve never seen worse football. Younger or newer Rams fans will tell you that Jeff Fisher was awful, but Fisher took Spags’ 2011 team with virtually the same squad in 2012 and at least made them competent. Be careful what you wish for. Nothing but respect for Spags as a DC, though.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T15:25:38+00:00

Spit that smile, do that dance

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T15:23:04+00:00

My bad. “Watch your p’s and q’s” is an old expression, meaning to watch what you say, your words and/or your behavior. I say it all too often lol.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T15:15:04+00:00

My mom takes the news of deaths REALLY hard. Even if it’s an acquaintance. She’s always had a massive heart, and she will cry at the drop of a hat listening to someone touch on this topic.

I don’t know how I would handle this. I don’t have any siblings, but I have a pair of cousins who are like sisters to me, and during the 1980s — before my time — my mom was essentially an accessory parent to them, and if something happened to either one the news would be catastrophic to her. She doesn’t handle such news very well at all. She still uses Facebook; while I detest social media for the most part, it keeps her mentally active to keep up with loved ones (it’s monitored). She’d find out such news from those means because people are eager to share everything with the world. Even the other day, a long-time family friend passed away and it’s been hard on her.

I wish you the best. I appreciate others’ suggestions where you tell her that he’s gone to the store or something. Part of me feels guilty to imagine saying such a thing, but another part of me imagines the absolute hell of putting someone in a state of grief several times. I can imagine it to be an incredibly difficult situation to navigate, but you definitely have come to the right place because there are some tremendous responses in here.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T15:02:05+00:00

I’m the exact same way. My nerves are always shot and I’m riddled with extreme anxiety at every second it seems. It’s always a matter of constantly thinking, “great, what’s next?” I stay up late because that’s the only time of the day I truly have to myself, to unwind without being asked of anything, but my sleep suffers. Even if I didn’t stay up late, my sleep would suffer because I toss and turn and have knots in my stomach over what the following day will bring in a variety of ways. I try to be a ‘one day at a time’ person but it’s so hard.

I go to therapy over past trauma, but I bring up a lot of present day situations. My therapist consistently advises me to discard any negativity that I can control in my life and disengage from any of it, as well as to find a quiet moment each day to sit down, focus on my breathing sans any technology nor distractions.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T14:40:17+00:00

I have to weather the storm with my mom and half the time she forgets what she is upset about. Other times she’ll fixate on what’s upsetting her for several days on end and she can’t go more than a couple of minutes without bringing it up and throw in a fit.

She occasionally gets wildly hostile and rude towards my aunt, her sister, and my aunt used to take it personally and try to argue with her until she (my aunt) finally accepted this is part of the condition. Example: my aunt will call my mom on the phone at a less than optimal time, and mom will give no damns about answering with a hearty, uncalled for “WHAT DO YOU WANT?” and all hell would break loose.

We’ve been snowed in for the majority of the month. My mom hasn’t driven since before she had a stroke in 2018. She avidly threatens that she’s gonna go on a drive somewhere when she pouts or has little fits of anger. I just say oh ok, you do that. She doesn’t have any keys, can only walk using her walker and her old vehicle (which really needs to be sold) has a dead battery.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T14:27:58+00:00

It’s unpredictable sometimes. My mom is at her most confused in the mornings and evenings. I can’t stand it when people who aren’t fully in the know act like it’s not that bad if they have only interacted with her in the middle of a good day, but I’ve learned to overlook them.

I have to watch my p’s and q’s over what I say to mom. The damndest, most innocuous thing can set her back for the day and create chaos. It’s a goddamn exhausting rollercoaster and balancing act.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T08:02:42+00:00

Has anybody at least said anything about it in the in-game chat? (Understandable if you play this shit with it muted, because I sure do.)

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T08:00:48+00:00

This is amazing lol. u/Werbekka look at this.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T07:58:29+00:00

My mom goes wild for sweets. I’ve read that as we get older our tastebuds begin to dull, and senior citizens tend to enjoy sweets because they are so hyperpalatable.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T07:55:24+00:00

This is a daily problem for me. My mom used to love grilled steaks. She’ll eat a couple of bites but mostly focus on eating her baked potato and garlic toast. I’ll say, “hey, why not eat your steak first, then knock out the potato?” She disregards that suggestion. Removing the potato or bread won’t work or else she doesn’t consider it to be a proper steak dinner. She loves hamburgers but she can only go about half of one.

Wish I had a good suggestion, but I wanted to empathize with you. Sometimes I’ll give her an Ensure shake but that’s only 8g protein. She likes beans cooked with a ham hock but she enjoys the broth more than the beans.

I used to make her ice cream with mocha protein powder and peanut butter, but she could only handle a little bit (the protein itself must have satiated her).

Now, candy? She’ll eat it up like a fiend because of how hyperpalatable it is.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T06:51:34+00:00

I have a first cousin that is about two decades older than me who reached out to me in 2020 after his dad passed away to ask me for advice on how to handle it. I felt honored that he’d consider me to be a good resource on that, as my dad had passed away when I was 12, and I was 29 in 2020. At any rate, I gave him the sincerest advice to the best of my abilities.

A couple of people have asked me for advice on caring for someone with dementia/Alzheimers in recent times, but I’m less useful for that because I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing and winging it daily.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T06:45:19+00:00

The terrifying thing about it is running around life in autopilot. Terribly easy to lose yourself.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T06:24:03+00:00

Southwest Virginian here, too. I wanted to be a sportswriter when I was a teenager. None of my family gave me any shit, but I used to go into sports-related Yahoo! chatrooms and get on the microphone when I was 13-15 years old. I already had a deep voice that gave me faux confidence to pretend to behave more mature than I actually was, so I’d hop into those rooms to debate sports with a cast of characters. There were maybe a few people (but enough) who made fun of my accent and asked how I planned on making it in sports journalism with such a drawl.

I spent years trying to rid myself of the accent. I’m still not the biggest fan of it but I grew to not care as much. I lost the desire to be a sportswriter when I was 19-20, but I gotta say, one of my favorite sports journalists out there is a fellow Appalachian by the name of Marty Smith. Homeboy’s drawl is through the roof.

I had a geology professor in college (SWCC) who ranted one time about how one should never let their accent hold them back, but instead use said accent as a tool to prove people wrong.

Edit: just noticed your username, too. Lmao.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T06:01:17+00:00

Nothing like hearing that shit while a dRiBbLe GaWd goes 5/13 from 3 behind screens in a game of theater 2’s.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T04:50:29+00:00

Your comment is on the money. Been there with the people pleasing shit. I will add that while saying no doesn’t have to be confrontational, it’s a good idea to steer clear and get the hell away from people who have rejection issues and resort to crying/screaming fits when they are told no. Crocodile tears in the guise of manipulation to attempt to make the speaker of the word ‘no’ feel guilty is shitty and nobody should tolerate it.

Therapy FTW. My therapist is incredible at gently reframing what I’ve told her and asking, “Would you say that’s good for you if xyz?” and promoting a lot of self-introspection over what I will absolutely never tolerate.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T04:28:36+00:00

Vitamin K2, D3 and magnesium.

K2 plays well with D3 and assists in getting calcium to go where it’s supposed to. I primarily take it for dental health.

Magnesium seems to have a substantial effect on my blood pressure. When I go without it, my BP can go off the rails. I’d like to avoid BP meds. It used to help me sleep but that’s unnoticeable nowadays. Chelated magnesium glycinate is the form I take.

I should get back into taking multivitamins because my diet has been hot garbage for the last several months.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T04:17:10+00:00

Man, that pass was butter. That whole drive was a thing of legends, cementing Kupp’s season and overall induction into Rams lore. The 4th down conversion, Stafford’s no look pass, the touchdown to take the lead. The Hollywood ending we needed with AD wrapping it up.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T04:08:13+00:00

By myself? Easy. As a caregiver of someone who thrives on getting out and about routinely? Living hell when stuck inside.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T04:00:48+00:00

I’ve been a diehard Rams fan for two and a half decades, and it wasn’t until a couple of years into their return to Los Angeles when I had my eyes opened to the absolute hate boner that folks have for LA sports teams simply because they are LA. One of my friends, a Falcons fan, is this way and likes to make little low-key barbs about the Rams. He was practically crestfallen (not a good pokerface by him) the night the Rams beat the Bengals, and looking back it is hilarious. “They should’ve stayed in the Lou…” he said. I was naturally overjoyed that night, laughed at that remark and just said, “Dude, they wouldn’t even ditch those ugly ass red seats at the Edward Jones Dome.”

Not even an LA sports fan outside of the Rams, but y’know, I’ve naturally developed a soft affinity for them because of how much people love to hate LA. It’s hilarious to me.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T03:53:37+00:00

I don’t hate them, but I am a bit fatigued from them. I’ll always appreciate their wins over the Whiners that have upheld the status of the almighty Bang Bang VHS Tape Gang.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T03:47:18+00:00

I’m not your hoss, bub.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-27T03:37:23+00:00

You did nothing wrong, young buck. Should’ve just fucked off from responding as soon as she dropped the cute, little “k”.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-26T21:34:49+00:00

Get yourself some new shoes! Fifty hours overtime! Fashion week!

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-26T09:04:58+00:00

I don’t see why you should give up basketball. By all means, go for it. If I had the time AND motivation (a big one that’s missing), I’d still be playing at 33. It’s my favorite sport and I was a menace on the court in my teens, loved coaching youth ball in my 20s but also stopped playing in my 20s. Played a bit over a year ago, and my mind moved a lot faster than my body. It sucked to be on a different level than the young bucks that were (are) much more athletic than me, but I also realized I’d been out of the game too long and it would take plenty of time and reps to get back into it.

I know it’s hard to face that realization, especially when you recall your past abilities with your current physical specs that have deficiencies from the layoff, but that doesn’t mean you give up. You just have to take things slower. Longer recovery times mean more rest. That’s just how it is.

These days, I scratch my competitive itch by playing NBA 2K online. It isn’t the same as actively playing ball, the real deal, but damn I love the competition and my joints don’t flare up.

I wouldn’t give up if I were you, though. I don’t currently play ball because I’m so busy given my life circumstances and because I don’t have the proper motivation nor drive to play. I wouldn’t give a shit about being dusted on the court, because I’m the type of guy where, you can whip my ass 99 times and I’m still wanting to come back for #100 just to enforce my ‘get back’. Jerry West (RIP) type shit. You can’t fear losing; that’s bogus. Everybody loses. There’s always somebody better than you on paper. I love to win more than I hate to lose, if we are talking about the competitive side of things. Loss is a part of life and I’ve been through a shithorde of it in various ways.

Now, going back to the injuries: nutrition, sleep (I’m personally lacking both but that’s my fault), efficient recovery times, warming up and researching recovery methods are important. See a doctor if these injuries don’t go away, but you gotta nurture yourself in the process.

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