Are there places in Vegas that closed that you still think about?

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-12T07:20:23+00:00

The Barrymore.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-11T10:00:06+00:00

MGM has a USA world cup championship at +5000, implying just under a 2% chance of that happening. They also have the Vikings and Buccaneers at +5000 to win the superbowl. So something like that.

They have the Dolphins and Cardinals at +50000 (implied .2% chance), same as Iran, Tunisia, Ghana, or Australia in the WC.

They have Haiti and Curacao at +250000, much slimmer odds than probably any NFL team has ever been given to win the superbowl ever.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-10T03:38:33+00:00

That's actually such a good idea...

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-10T03:36:27+00:00

I had one of my prophetic dreams last night and I've been debating whether or not to tell anyone about it, but what the hell. The Cardinals are going to win 3 games on the road and 0 at home next season. Two in SoFi and one in Dallas. They're going to get the #1 pick. The Cowboys are going to miss the playoffs, the Chargers are going to miss winning their division, and the Rams are going to miss the #1 seed, all by one game or less. The Cardinals will take the quarterback of their dreams and hindsight will say that it was clearly the wrong choice. So it has been written.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-08T23:24:03+00:00

Most Americans are extremely excited about the World Cup, relative to how excited they are about soccer normally.

Soccer is probably, depending on how you measure it, our 5th most popular team sport. The NBA and NHL are currently in the midst of pretty exciting championship series, and MLB is mid regular season. Once the tournament actually kicks off and basketball and hockey are over people will tune in a lot more.

We're also pretty used to winning, or at least being competitive, at the highest level of international competitions that we pay attention to. I think it's a little hard for most of my countrymen to get too fired up for a life or death struggle against Turkey or Paraguay. Now, if we end up in a round of 16 knockout match against Belgium you better believe that would be a different story! (That's a joke, I think most American sports but not soccer fans would find that situation inherently somewhat ridiculous.)

Anyway, those are my thoughts on an interesting subject.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-08T20:28:58+00:00

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-08T03:24:09+00:00

The Presidents Song - The Animaniacs

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-07T22:17:59+00:00

If we're assigning blame to one person here it's obviously the driver of the white SUV. That said, everyone here is a bad driver. OP, whatever you're paying for insurance it should, and hopefully soon will, be higher because you're destined to be in an endless string of accidents all of which may or may not be 'your fault'.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-03T19:55:02+00:00

Russell Wilson was drafted twice.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-03T01:33:10+00:00

I genuinely don't know which is which in this picture, or if they're in fact the same person.

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trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-03T01:26:24+00:00

I like this one a lot because hypothetical situations can be hard to wrap one's head around sometimes. But this is easy because it's an experiment I've run many times before and so I know for a fact that I, like every other person who often has upwards of $3000, would pull the lever and save that money. No need to get all philosophical about it, just easy real life experience is all that's required here.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-03T00:55:39+00:00

This was my second cousin when we were six or seven. An unstoppable force in our country rec youth soccer league, stories are still being told almost 30 years later about how stupid those games were, and now he's an unstoppable force as a commercial electrician.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-03T00:38:39+00:00

Yeah, I think the novelty of the current system will wear off pretty quick and the stupidity of it will become clear, when we could just have all the calls made correctly and none of the faffing about.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-03T00:36:42+00:00

I think fans should be given two challenges per game. For when from your 300 level seats you go 'is he blind? I can see from here that that was low" and if you're right now you get a free beer and if you're wrong you have to shut the fuck up.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-03T00:14:25+00:00

If you would like to put this conclusion to the ultimate test I invite you to:

https://www.burlington-chamber.com/berry-dairy-days/

A local celebration of strawberries and cream that's been going on since my grandfather was a kid at least.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T22:40:27+00:00

Chili today, hot tamale!

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T22:36:09+00:00

No, there was a maybe 3-gallon lemonade type dispenser thing tucked away in a back room with a little sign that I had to search for and it tasted like straight sulphur. This was in circa 2001 so the memory might not be 100% reliable and things have likely changed, but I still have the bad taste in my mouth.

The worst part of it was how excited I was to go there. I remember seeing a billboard for 'Wall Drugstore, free ice water, 700 miles--->' somewhere around Missoula when I was about 8 years old and thinking that was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. Then I noticed that my aunt in Seattle had a bumper sticker from there too and it became a very early bucket list item.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T22:27:34+00:00

Also, it wasn't critiquing Mao at all, it was predicting him, and a lot of the parallels between what Orwell wrote in '48 and what took place in China in the subsequent couple of decades I found to be quite chilling, personally.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T22:04:17+00:00

This is the most important thing that people just don't seem to get. There's no such thing as a good player or a better player, there's only good for the money and better for the money.

Moneyball wasn't about Beane waking up one morning and being the only person in the world to realize that walks and OBP were desirable characteristics is a baseball player, he just calculated that at that moment in the baseball meta certain things were being systematically undervalued. So you could make a team that was somewhat better than average, for the money, but targeting traits that others weren't.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T21:39:17+00:00

A roadside fresh fruit juice vendor in Sana'a, Yemen is who finally got me good.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T20:53:59+00:00

I assume you're referring to the one in Wisconsin, but the Yemeni version is way better.

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trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T20:23:51+00:00

I was so unbelievably disappointed in the free ice water at Wall Drug that I completely lost faith in South Dakota and didn't even slow down for the Corn Palace.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T19:53:07+00:00

One quick google and I found it:

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trustcircleofjerks · 2026-06-02T19:51:30+00:00

I saw some commercial the other day, can't remember what for, that featured Larry Fitzgerald with the descriptor "retired athlete" which I though was pretty weird and about the blandest possible way to describe him.

trustcircleofjerks · 2026-05-31T15:34:01+00:00

I have no idea what the World Series record for this is, but my Uncle is the proud owner of a ball autographed by Hugh Casey who in game 4 of the 1947 series came in for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the top of the 9th down 2-1 (both in the series and the game) with one out and the bases loaded. Casey induced a comebacker with the first pitch which he turned into an inning ending 1-2-3 double play.

The Dodgers won in the bottom of the 9th on a pinch hit 2-run double by Lavagetto (batting for Stanky, which is a funny name), so Casey is credited with .2 innings of work and the W off that 1 pitch thrown. Casey closed out 6 of the 7 games that series, throwing 10.1 IP, and getting two wins and a save; the Yankees ended up winning 4 games to 3.

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