OT - What are you doing right now?

Ozzie_Isaac

frazzdaddy said:

@Ozzie_Isaac @lousubcap

That smile made it all worth it. Thats a happy young lady. I think he's digging the new gig.

Awesome!  You did a great thing, for both of them!!

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

Right near my neighborhood.  I have no idea what the story is behind this.  Another bad day for someone....

Hulk Smash!

kl8ton

Ugh I do not want to go back to MI 

Botch

kl8ton said:

Ugh I do not want to go back to MI 

You'd better hurry, your sidewalk needs shoveling...    

bubbajack

Beautiful place @kl8ton. Stay as long as you can!

alaskanassasin

Did you guys run off Steve?

frazzdaddy

Hook_emHornsfan_74 said:

Never thought I would be typing this, but getting ready for work tomorrow.  After being laid off since last April, I finally have a new job.  Was beginning to think I had retired early.  Not going to lie.  Feeling a little bit anxious about going back.  Feels like I am starting over.  lol 

How's the new gig so far? 

alaskanassasin

Sea2Ski said:

alaskanassasin said:

shtgunal3 said:

@alaskanassasin Nubian?

Good Eye sir!

Congratulations @alaskanassasin

Thanks guys. back in late August I distinctly remember asking swmbo, gee honey do you want me to pen up that buck so we don't have effing baby goats on the coldest day of the year?  "Ohh no I am not too worried about it."

 She is right now sitting in her car on a zoom meeting with a freezing baby goat and a bottle.

 Luckily the other two nannys seem to be farther out by a week or so, hopefully they can hold off at least through this weekend cold snap.

 

PigBeanUs

Stumpbaby makes a rare appearance at greeneggers. 

His early posts are all-timers. Funny dude. Had (may still have) some painful health issues, but was always upbeat. 

If you ever get a chance, read his TRUE story about the Easter Bonnet. If I were a better man, I’d search and link it, but I am driving right now. 

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

Did you guys run off Steve?

You mean @thetrim?  Possibly, although I am pretty sure he has made appearances here in other forms...

fishlessman

PigBeanUs said:

Stumpbaby makes a rare appearance at greeneggers. 

His early posts are all-timers. Funny dude. Had (may still have) some painful health issues, but was always upbeat. 

If you ever get a chance, read his TRUE story about the Easter Bonnet. If I were a better man, I’d search and link it, but I am driving right now. 

dont seem to see it on line anymore and the video update is a dead link. good to see him posting, looks like 3 good days in a row

frazzdaddy

https://eggheadforum.com/search?Search=stumpbaby

Funny stuff

frazzdaddy

Watching weather models 

Hook_emHornsfan_74

frazzdaddy said:

Hook_emHornsfan_74 said:

Never thought I would be typing this, but getting ready for work tomorrow.  After being laid off since last April, I finally have a new job.  Was beginning to think I had retired early.  Not going to lie.  Feeling a little bit anxious about going back.  Feels like I am starting over.  lol 

How's the new gig so far? 

It's going.  My old bosses opened their own shop when the company got sold.  The plan was for us all to move there eventually, but covid had other plans.  I am having to knock the rust off some and relearn the old stuff plus the new changes they have made.  It's amazing what I have forgotten in the past nine months.  At least the people are all the same.  Feels like I haven't missed a day in that aspect.  Just trying to get back up to speed.  Thanks for asking!  Oh and getting up early still sucks.  lol

Acn

Breakfast of leftovers...turnip greens, red peas, and bomba.  Didn’t look like much, but it was real tasty.

CPFC1905

Foghorn said:

JethroVA said:

Yep, for me to get interested in futbol, either the field needs to be much smaller or the goals need to be much bigger.  Too much jogging up and down the field without much going on.  

Yeah, @JethroVA, I've always maintained that for most Americans to get into the sport, the goals would need to be about 50% bigger - so that the number of goals in a futbol game would start to approximate the number of scores in a US football game. 

This made me think and then do some Goooooglin'.

First of all I compared our football with your spaceman whispering secrets to each other version. Yes, more touchdowns occur in spandex - teams averaging around 2.5 per game each while the noble art of football attracts 2.8 goals per game (Premier League, only)

But on the other hand your lads manage about 11 minutes, of 60, bumping in to one another compared to 55, of 90, in the gentleman's pursuit.  And I am lead to believe you have to be there for more then 3 hours for that 2 boiled eggs worth of fun.  

Soccer was never as a spectator sport and only in recent times, since the 90's, has it become big business.  The rules have never been amended for the benefit of the observer.  Why else is 90 minutes done and dusted inside 100, with no entertainment before, halfway or at the end?  

It goes like this for the fervent minority who attend,  
go to pub at mid-day & swallow 8 pints,
get in the cold decrepit ground (not stadium) just after kick off,  
leave to go to the bar before half time,
visit the 'facilities' to get very wet feet and possibly a trouser leg too,
spend £10 on a small beer and a tepid pie of indistinct content,
get back to your seat after kick-off,
abuse fans who leave early for being 'not real fans' without irony,
go back to pub then eat a curry and stumble home,
repeat every other Saturday, for a couple of years,
then carry on but paying child support and seeing your kids on the other Saturdays.

Naturally that's not all fans of the beautiful game.  Some never procreate.

So if it's fun you want, can I introduce you to test match cricket?  India v England starts tomorrow - scheduled for five days per match, 6 hours per day. Could end in a draw although unlikely.  What do you reckon @Eoin ?

lousubcap

@CPFC1905 - enjoyable and well written read.  I will pass on the cricket although I have attended a one day match when posted to Australia for CY 1995.  As I vaguely recall the social norms were running at a bit higher level than the any of the other spectator sports.  

HeavyG

CPFC1905 said:

Foghorn said:

JethroVA said:

Yep, for me to get interested in futbol, either the field needs to be much smaller or the goals need to be much bigger.  Too much jogging up and down the field without much going on.  

Yeah, @JethroVA, I've always maintained that for most Americans to get into the sport, the goals would need to be about 50% bigger - so that the number of goals in a futbol game would start to approximate the number of scores in a US football game. 

This made me think and then do some Goooooglin'.

First of all I compared our football with your spaceman whispering secrets to each other version. Yes, more touchdowns occur in spandex - teams averaging around 2.5 per game each while the noble art of football attracts 2.8 goals per game (Premier League, only)

But on the other hand your lads manage about 11 minutes, of 60, bumping in to one another compared to 55, of 90, in the gentleman's pursuit.  And I am lead to believe you have to be there for more then 3 hours for that 2 boiled eggs worth of fun.  

Soccer was never as a spectator sport and only in recent times, since the 90's, has it become big business.  The rules have never been amended for the benefit of the observer.  Why else is 90 minutes done and dusted inside 100, with no entertainment before, halfway or at the end?  

It goes like this for the fervent minority who attend,  
go to pub at mid-day & swallow 8 pints,
get in the cold decrepit ground (not stadium) just after kick off,  
leave to go to the bar before half time,
visit the 'facilities' to get very wet feet and possibly a trouser leg too,
spend £10 on a small beer and a tepid pie of indistinct content,
get back to your seat after kick-off,
abuse fans who leave early for being 'not real fans' without irony,
go back to pub then eat a curry and stumble home,
repeat every other Saturday, for a couple of years,
then carry on but paying child support and seeing your kids on the other Saturdays.

Naturally that's not all fans of the beautiful game.  Some never procreate.

So if it's fun you want, can I introduce you to test match cricket?  India v England starts tomorrow - scheduled for five days per match, 6 hours per day. Could end in a draw although unlikely.  What do you reckon @Eoin ?

Probably best to break Americans into cricket with the Aussie Big Bash League (whose "superbowl" is this weekend).

Shorter duration matches and brightly colored uniforms (loaded with sponsor logos so it will remind them of something familiar to them - NASCAR) to help draw their attention.

nolaegghead

CPFC1905 said:

Foghorn said:

JethroVA said:

Yep, for me to get interested in futbol, either the field needs to be much smaller or the goals need to be much bigger.  Too much jogging up and down the field without much going on.  

Yeah, @JethroVA, I've always maintained that for most Americans to get into the sport, the goals would need to be about 50% bigger - so that the number of goals in a futbol game would start to approximate the number of scores in a US football game. 

This made me think and then do some Goooooglin'.

First of all I compared our football with your spaceman whispering secrets to each other version. Yes, more touchdowns occur in spandex - teams averaging around 2.5 per game each while the noble art of football attracts 2.8 goals per game (Premier League, only)

But on the other hand your lads manage about 11 minutes, of 60, bumping in to one another compared to 55, of 90, in the gentleman's pursuit.  And I am lead to believe you have to be there for more then 3 hours for that 2 boiled eggs worth of fun.  

Soccer was never as a spectator sport and only in recent times, since the 90's, has it become big business.  The rules have never been amended for the benefit of the observer.  Why else is 90 minutes done and dusted inside 100, with no entertainment before, halfway or at the end?  

It goes like this for the fervent minority who attend,  
go to pub at mid-day & swallow 8 pints,
get in the cold decrepit ground (not stadium) just after kick off,  
leave to go to the bar before half time,
visit the 'facilities' to get very wet feet and possibly a trouser leg too,
spend £10 on a small beer and a tepid pie of indistinct content,
get back to your seat after kick-off,
abuse fans who leave early for being 'not real fans' without irony,
go back to pub then eat a curry and stumble home,
repeat every other Saturday, for a couple of years,
then carry on but paying child support and seeing your kids on the other Saturdays.

Naturally that's not all fans of the beautiful game.  Some never procreate.

So if it's fun you want, can I introduce you to test match cricket?  India v England starts tomorrow - scheduled for five days per match, 6 hours per day. Could end in a draw although unlikely.  What do you reckon @Eoin ?

@CPFC1905

Finally heard from @Eoin today via whatsapp.... After dealing with an employee who knew better but unintentionally decided to blow up a very expensive and massive battery, he bought a new "lair" where employees can work unencumbered with battery explosions, at least in theory.  Some official entity (I assume) is doing an environmental survey.  Not sure if this entails identifying various owls flying the mail overhead and requiring warning lights so they don't collide with his roof or if it's more mundane, perhaps an endangered ant pile resides in a parking lot crack.  I'll relay you'd like his reckoning on a matter of upmost importance.

Eoin

CPFC1905 said:

Foghorn said:

JethroVA said:

Yep, for me to get interested in futbol, either the field needs to be much smaller or the goals need to be much bigger.  Too much jogging up and down the field without much going on.  

Yeah, @JethroVA, I've always maintained that for most Americans to get into the sport, the goals would need to be about 50% bigger - so that the number of goals in a futbol game would start to approximate the number of scores in a US football game. 

This made me think and then do some Goooooglin'.

First of all I compared our football with your spaceman whispering secrets to each other version. Yes, more touchdowns occur in spandex - teams averaging around 2.5 per game each while the noble art of football attracts 2.8 goals per game (Premier League, only)

But on the other hand your lads manage about 11 minutes, of 60, bumping in to one another compared to 55, of 90, in the gentleman's pursuit.  And I am lead to believe you have to be there for more then 3 hours for that 2 boiled eggs worth of fun.  

Soccer was never as a spectator sport and only in recent times, since the 90's, has it become big business.  The rules have never been amended for the benefit of the observer.  Why else is 90 minutes done and dusted inside 100, with no entertainment before, halfway or at the end?  

It goes like this for the fervent minority who attend,  
go to pub at mid-day & swallow 8 pints,
get in the cold decrepit ground (not stadium) just after kick off,  
leave to go to the bar before half time,
visit the 'facilities' to get very wet feet and possibly a trouser leg too,
spend £10 on a small beer and a tepid pie of indistinct content,
get back to your seat after kick-off,
abuse fans who leave early for being 'not real fans' without irony,
go back to pub then eat a curry and stumble home,
repeat every other Saturday, for a couple of years,
then carry on but paying child support and seeing your kids on the other Saturdays.

Naturally that's not all fans of the beautiful game.  Some never procreate.

So if it's fun you want, can I introduce you to test match cricket?  India v England starts tomorrow - scheduled for five days per match, 6 hours per day. Could end in a draw although unlikely.  What do you reckon @Eoin ?

India - England test might be a bit of a high level to start out on watching cricket. Hoping for a good series, but did see the team stats in the paper today - India have 6 in the squad averaging over 40, we have 1. 

Eoin

nolaegghead said:

CPFC1905 said:

Foghorn said:

JethroVA said:

Yep, for me to get interested in futbol, either the field needs to be much smaller or the goals need to be much bigger.  Too much jogging up and down the field without much going on.  

Yeah, @JethroVA, I've always maintained that for most Americans to get into the sport, the goals would need to be about 50% bigger - so that the number of goals in a futbol game would start to approximate the number of scores in a US football game. 

This made me think and then do some Goooooglin'.

First of all I compared our football with your spaceman whispering secrets to each other version. Yes, more touchdowns occur in spandex - teams averaging around 2.5 per game each while the noble art of football attracts 2.8 goals per game (Premier League, only)

But on the other hand your lads manage about 11 minutes, of 60, bumping in to one another compared to 55, of 90, in the gentleman's pursuit.  And I am lead to believe you have to be there for more then 3 hours for that 2 boiled eggs worth of fun.  

Soccer was never as a spectator sport and only in recent times, since the 90's, has it become big business.  The rules have never been amended for the benefit of the observer.  Why else is 90 minutes done and dusted inside 100, with no entertainment before, halfway or at the end?  

It goes like this for the fervent minority who attend,  
go to pub at mid-day & swallow 8 pints,
get in the cold decrepit ground (not stadium) just after kick off,  
leave to go to the bar before half time,
visit the 'facilities' to get very wet feet and possibly a trouser leg too,
spend £10 on a small beer and a tepid pie of indistinct content,
get back to your seat after kick-off,
abuse fans who leave early for being 'not real fans' without irony,
go back to pub then eat a curry and stumble home,
repeat every other Saturday, for a couple of years,
then carry on but paying child support and seeing your kids on the other Saturdays.

Naturally that's not all fans of the beautiful game.  Some never procreate.

So if it's fun you want, can I introduce you to test match cricket?  India v England starts tomorrow - scheduled for five days per match, 6 hours per day. Could end in a draw although unlikely.  What do you reckon @Eoin ?

@CPFC1905

Finally heard from @Eoin today via whatsapp.... After dealing with an employee who knew better but unintentionally decided to blow up a very expensive and massive battery, he bought a new "lair" where employees can work unencumbered with battery explosions, at least in theory.  Some official entity (I assume) is doing an environmental survey.  Not sure if this entails identifying various owls flying the mail overhead and requiring warning lights so they don't collide with his roof or if it's more mundane, perhaps an endangered ant pile resides in a parking lot crack.  I'll relay you'd like his reckoning on a matter of upmost importance.

Did 5 bore holes and a test pit (couldn't drill one location). Nobody did a survey on the site before and I don't want to risk having to clean up a mess later. Looks good but still need to wait for lab results. Hope to be in the new 'lair' in about 3 weeks.

alaskanassasin

Man that sucks @Eoin

Eoin

alaskanassasin said:

Man that sucks @Eoin

Should be OK, I'm checking this before I buy!

nolaegghead

Usually you can predict what you'll find based on the history of the land.

CPFC1905

Eoin said:

alaskanassasin said:

Man that sucks @Eoin

Should be OK, I'm checking this before I buy!

It’s Lincolnshire - there will be a Viking ship buried there, guaranteed. 

Eoin

Previously a factory there. Animal feed. But some tanks on site and an oil well 150 m away. It puts up a red flag on the environmental survey, so although I was satisfied it would be OK, I have to sell it some time, and the red flag for possible contamination will only go away with a survey. Just protecting the investment really (£400k).

Eoin

CPFC1905 said:

Eoin said:

alaskanassasin said:

Man that sucks @Eoin

Should be OK, I'm checking this before I buy!

It’s Lincolnshire - there will be a Viking ship buried there, guaranteed. 

You up early for the test?

Sea2Ski

alaskanassasin said:

Sea2Ski said:

alaskanassasin said:

shtgunal3 said:

@alaskanassasin Nubian?

Good Eye sir!

Congratulations @alaskanassasin

Thanks guys. back in late August I distinctly remember asking swmbo, gee honey do you want me to pen up that buck so we don't have effing baby goats on the coldest day of the year?  "Ohh no I am not too worried about it."

 She is right now sitting in her car on a zoom meeting with a freezing baby goat and a bottle.

 Luckily the other two nannys seem to be farther out by a week or so, hopefully they can hold off at least through this weekend cold snap.

 

We had 4 nanny’s and 2 wethers. The neighbor down the street asked us to board his buck he rented out for breeding for one night. Just one night. We had him in a neighboring pen to the nannys.
 

The next morning he was in with the girls. How? Found out that one of my friends kids (child) thought the buck got separated from the others so he put them together 

4 months later the count of goats went up by 7. 

That buck had one hell of a good night. He knocked up all 4 females. 

CPFC1905

Eoin said:

CPFC1905 said:

Eoin said:

alaskanassasin said:

Man that sucks @Eoin

Should be OK, I'm checking this before I buy!

It’s Lincolnshire - there will be a Viking ship buried there, guaranteed. 

You up early for the test?

SWMBO birthday tomorrow otherwise I would be coinciding a long breakfast with the session after tea. 

Ozzie_Isaac

CPFC1905 said:

Foghorn said:

JethroVA said:

Yep, for me to get interested in futbol, either the field needs to be much smaller or the goals need to be much bigger.  Too much jogging up and down the field without much going on.  

Yeah, @JethroVA, I've always maintained that for most Americans to get into the sport, the goals would need to be about 50% bigger - so that the number of goals in a futbol game would start to approximate the number of scores in a US football game. 

This made me think and then do some Goooooglin'.

First of all I compared our football with your spaceman whispering secrets to each other version. Yes, more touchdowns occur in spandex - teams averaging around 2.5 per game each while the noble art of football attracts 2.8 goals per game (Premier League, only)

But on the other hand your lads manage about 11 minutes, of 60, bumping in to one another compared to 55, of 90, in the gentleman's pursuit.  And I am lead to believe you have to be there for more then 3 hours for that 2 boiled eggs worth of fun.  

Soccer was never as a spectator sport and only in recent times, since the 90's, has it become big business.  The rules have never been amended for the benefit of the observer.  Why else is 90 minutes done and dusted inside 100, with no entertainment before, halfway or at the end?  

It goes like this for the fervent minority who attend,  
go to pub at mid-day & swallow 8 pints,
get in the cold decrepit ground (not stadium) just after kick off,  
leave to go to the bar before half time,
visit the 'facilities' to get very wet feet and possibly a trouser leg too,
spend £10 on a small beer and a tepid pie of indistinct content,
get back to your seat after kick-off,
abuse fans who leave early for being 'not real fans' without irony,
go back to pub then eat a curry and stumble home,
repeat every other Saturday, for a couple of years,
then carry on but paying child support and seeing your kids on the other Saturdays.

Naturally that's not all fans of the beautiful game.  Some never procreate.

So if it's fun you want, can I introduce you to test match cricket?  India v England starts tomorrow - scheduled for five days per match, 6 hours per day. Could end in a draw although unlikely.  What do you reckon @Eoin ?

If you just said each goal was worth like 497 pts, then Americans would love it.  Don't need to change anything else, except the whole sissy yellow/red card thing.