Things That Stick In Your Craw

Thanks MNNavy. I was able to also figure that way out before getting a chance to respond on this forum. I fail to understand why tapping on the 'tickets' icon doesn't work now.

I completely forgot about this until something reminded me. Why in the actual fuck does the MSHSL use video replay during the state semi-final and final football games but not during ANY OTHER PLAYOFF GAME???!!!!!

It happened twice during the Mankato West game on Saturday night. Both were double checking turnovers, which one was a TD. It was annoying but also why is it necessary? Referees have to make decisions all season long without the aid of video replay. Why during the last three games at US Bank? To me it just makes the refs a little lazy and not have to pay that close of attention to goal line calls or first down calls. Such BS

g-manpuck wrote:

I completely forgot about this until something reminded me. Why in the actual f*** does the MSHSL use video replay during the state semi-final and final football games but not during ANY OTHER PLAYOFF GAME???!!!!!

Probably due to a lack of equipment and staffing at all the playoff sites.

It's that time of year when people post their Spotify Wrapped list and I am still over here...what is the big deal with Spotify. I don't like the interface to be able to listen to the artists or even genre I want to listen to. Neither Pandora or Spotify will mix up songs or again I don't understand the interface to get random songs in that genre or artist instead of the same 10 damn songs when I click whatever the hell I need to get music going.

I have tried in recent years to understand how to really use Spotify but I have never got the hang of it.

I like Pandora. I have used it for years for free, dealt with the commercials, but while I drive 25,000 miles a year for work, I have customized my playlists with the thumbs up button. People comment all the time how good my stations are. Finally bit the bullet this summer on the premium and it got rid of the commercials which was good. My kids like Spotify. I guess I haven't ever tried it, nor care to.

I guess it depends upon what you're looking to do but there is an endless array of playlists you can tap into. The best way to get started is to like artists and songs. From that Spotify has algorithms to suggest other artists and songs to you daily and weekly. For instance I have liked 2 suggested playlists - Discover Weekly and Release Radar. The former suggests deeper cuts of artists I've liked + similar, Release Radar is new releases from the same.

If you like Led Zeppelin you can go to their page, follow them, see their albums including live, EPs, sometimes rare releases, see playlists that include Zeppelin and then similar artists, they will suggest the most popular artists that fans of Led Zeppelin also like, offer artist playlists, you can play "Led Zeppelin radio" which mixes in their songs with others, if the band is on tour it will show when and where, etc.

Spotify has a huge list of podcasts including GPL, JRE, Your Mom's House, 2 Bears 1 Cave and hundreds of others.

Spotify suggests 6 different daily mixes for me based upon genres.

I have created a playlist of full albums that has 7,949 songs on it which I often just play at random from my laptop, my phone, or I bluetooth the phone with my car radio. I've created playlists for my wife. We have a family account for all 4 of us and my sons and I send suggestions to each other back and forth all the time. My eldest likes a lot of what I like plus his own, my youngest is more into hip hop but also likes some of what I like, and they both introduce me to stuff I haven't heard before.

I must have 50+ playlists and/or radio stations saved and liked.

My liked songs list is now over 3,000 and I can play that on mix.

Or if you want a specific genre there hundreds of them. Rock this, rock that, country this, country that. '

It does take a bit of time investment to get there but once you do it's worth it, and then it just builds and builds the more you listen and like.

The only time I use Spotify is when I'm doing outdoor work like cutting the grass, trimming, blowing snow, etc. I have it paired with my Bose noise-cancelling headphones which works great. Can barely hear the power equipment motors while the music comes through clear as a bell and as loud as you want.

The out of control egos and lack of respect for their opponents have me really questioning the Brands brothers of Iowa as leaders of the Iowa Hawkeye wrestling team. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that Iowa beat Iowa State last night in Ames. But the pure lack of respect, especially shown by assistant head coach Terry Brands, is just damn embarrassing. He almost instigated a fight between the two teams at the conclusion of the meet. Several Iowa wrestlers projected their coaches attitude during their matches, which weren't dominating by any stretch of the imagination. I wish Terry could learn from his son Nelson, who won a very close match, who at the end of his match didn't over celebrate and calmly shook the hand of his opponent to show his respect for him.

I have no love for Austin DeSanto and his antics and I am now getting fed up with Terry Brands as well. Give me a team full of Alex Marinelli's who works his ass off and always shows respect for his opponent at the end of the match. The thing is that I see this over the top behavior even at the high school level. Coaches and officials let so much crap slide. I would ding a team a point every time that I would see it happen. It is just B.S.

Seen YouTube clips of DeSanto wrestling and interviews. Complete db… Hopefully someone can knock him off his perch. It would be great to see him knocked off in the first round at Nationals and watch him and the Brands brothers cry.

It’s the professional wrestling “show” filtered down to college and HS sports. The puffed up chest, smack talking, clenched fist/open mouth scream that is everywhere. I hate it. It’s not just wresting, other sports are just as bad.

Sports, and school board meetings.

Not just school board. Any local civic organization but especially govt.

Then if the is a FB web site for: "Whats happening in Podunkville" it is just a rolling chit show.

Logging into a remote lab system and finding that it has 13 failed disk drives... (out of 252).

It's not much of a surprise, the system is closing in on being 8 years old, but still... The good news is that despite four failed drives in one array my data is still accessible!

A nearby freaking rooster has been going off for the past 30 minutes despite the fact it's not even 3 a.m.

LOL. When I was a teenager I stayed at my aunt/uncle's farm and they had a rooster that would only do half of the call. ER-er-ER-er...... He wouldn't finish with "errrrrRRRRR"

It drove me insane. I had thoughts of taking it out.

Not sure where to post this so I will throw it here. We need an only in the Dakota's thread. This promotion at a game last weekend's Stampede game has caused an uproar to some around Whioux Falls and now it is getting national attention. They had 10 teachers grabbing the $5000 in cash they made available on a rug at center ice.

[media] https://twitter.com/dakotanews_now/status/1470526068771770369 [/media]

I would do this for any worthy charity and not for one second think it was beneath me. It's OK to have fun while grabbing money for charities or schools.

I am intentionally avoiding the politics of the school funding. I ask everyone else to do the same.

Imagine if they had police or the military doing that instead lol.

This was not a well thought out promotion but the "outrage" is a bit much. It would have been way better PR to present each teacher with a check for $500 for classroom supplies.

I wouldn't expect the teachers to feel it was beneath them, and interviews with them don't show that any of them did. The optics were bad. The outrage comes from the political arena on the subject so I'll refrain from going into any of it as well.

When I was in HS we had teachers/coaches do dunk-tanks and things like that with the money going to the school, or a specific group within the school. So things like that definitely happen, and most signed up voluntarily. If the teachers signed up voluntarily and knew in advance, I see zero issue with it. If it was presented differently or they were volunteered by the school, and then this happened... I can see how someone would take issue with it.

Even a competition, where first place gets the most and last place still gets some, is a better "donation" than having people crawl around on their hands and knees grabbing as many dollar bills as they can. Like you said, the optics are just not real great. Like [mention]trixR4kids[/mention] 's point. They would never have a police or fire department donation that looks like that. Because it is somewhat humiliating.

They ended up giving them just that. The 21 or so teachers that entered the contest, and those 10 that participated, now got a minimum of $500 after the "outrage". It started out as a typical Facebook/social media outrage and then the local media picked it up followed by some national coverage. I just shake my head sometimes.

I think this is a fair summary. In retrospect the event doesn't have the greatest optics but beyond that people settle down.

Hearing that someone you knew from your past, passed away. It's been a gut punch since hearing the news last night.

Sorry to hear that gator.

He was one of the best pure shooter basketball player I ever played with. Along with being one of the most talented piano players I've seen and heard.

Since all youth hockey players have to pay $50 every year to support Hockey USA and it's development teams, we are on a mailing list for USA hockey. It's usually not a problem. But lately they have been sending out near daily emails trying to sell USA vs Canada women's team tickets at the X.

Based on the volume of advertising I am guessing they have approximately 17,250 seats left to sell.

They need to stop the goddamn emails for this game. I am WELL aware of it by now.

My parents, both in their 80s, found out yesterday that they had been exposed to COVID on Friday. The were tested yesterday and are waiting for results. (Exposure was Friday, they learned of it on Tuesday -edited for clarity)

They're both vaccinated and boosted. And the chances are very good that they've been exposed to COVID before now considering they live in an area with relatively low vaccine rates, but still the suspense sucks.

Best of luck, JC, hoping the best for both of them.

So i've posted before that I collect antique Christmas ornaments and belong to an international collectors group. Today the hot topic on our FB page is the news story on the Grandma in England who was just awarded the Guiness World Record for most Christmas ornaments....1760. We are all flummoxed and laughing as I could name a dozen friends with more ornaments then that. I HAVE MORE ORNAMENTS THEN THAT! I currently have close to 2000 on a 9 ft tree and that's about 2/3 of my collection. Guiness certainly did not do any sort of due diligence on this one. Sounds like a sweet old lady said OOOOOH I have lots of ornaments and they just said OK.

A very petty gripe, very Grinchy. We're all laughing and plotting on bombarding Guiness with photos of all our collections. :biggrin2: That old lady's going down.

Never underestimate the power & anger of Christmas ornament collectors! NEVER!!

WE SHALL OVERCOME! :gripe: :drinkingbuddy: :club:

This has the group more riled up then the argument over eggnog vs mulled wine!

That got downright ugly lol

I'd have to check, but I'd bet my mother has a collection bigger than 1760

I'll count how many I take off this years tree.

Photo please. I'd like to see a tree with that many ornaments. It has to be dense.

We're all exposed to it frequently. Its just a matter of duration of exposure and the level of exposure. Sharing a glass? Or standing on opposite sides of the room?

I can’t figure out how to post a photo on this site. I’m using my iPhone. Directions?

Call Guinness and they’ll come and investigate. (People in your group can line up and each month a person with more than the previous person can call them. You can all claim to have held the record at some time.)

Now that’s just evil!

https://twitter.com/mjmckean/status/1372229782193139714?s=21

Twice a week they eat lunch at the senior center. The person with the positive test was one of the people dishing up food in the cafeteria-style line. This person also then wandered around while people ate and bussed tables. The confirmed COVID person was masked most/all of the time, but my parents were eating and therefore not masked all the time.

They probably weren't in very close proximity for very long, but they were in the same room for around 45 minutes.

Like you say, I'm sure they've been exposed before and just not known it.

We are all exposed to this level of COVID every time we go out. I have been fairly conservative with COVID and I would not consider this risky. If they're boosted, they would hopefully have minimal risk.

When my 10 year old had COVID, I sat with him at a table twice for an hour each to help him with school and I didn't get infected. This was Nov 2020, before vaccines were available and we were not wearing masks. This was before Delta and Omicron so things have changed, but the time of exposure doesn't sound prolonged.

I approve of this plan. Each person gets their certificate, and the next one in line calls up Guinness...

[mention]Kelly Red[/mention] Eggnog >>>>>>> Mulled Wine

Guinness is good for you! :beerchug:

We’ll, if Guinness doesn’t help them, they certainly could try Guinness!

You didn’t have symptoms, or you tested to know you truly weren’t infected?!

I was exposed several weeks ago. Even shared a taster of beer with the person who subsequently tested positive (we were all fully vaxxed and asymptomatic at the time but it was two days after we were together their symptoms began). I never developed symptoms or tested positive.

I developed cold symptoms on vacation last weekend and feared the worst. But two negative rapid tests and a negative PCR later it’s truly just a cold.

Anyone ever done those home test kits? It’s amazing how long 15 seconds takes when you’re rolling a swab around up your nose (and you have to do this both sides!), it’s a great way to induce repetitive sneezing too!

I waited the recommended 3 weeks and went to the Dr for an antibody test and they all came back negative.

And yes, we did the at home COVID test before thanksgiving this year so we wouldn’t infect older family members. I also had a version of a home test after crossing the border to Canada

I just had Covid last week and both my wife and son have tested negative multiple times. My symptoms started with sinus congestion that I treated that way and I got better for a couple days and then I got hit with body aches for a couple days. I did the spit test when my body aches started. My wife brought home a handful of rapid tests from her work for her and my son. Now my son has developed cold symptoms this week and has tested negative twice with rapid tests and I took him in for a spit test which was negative so he luckily just has a bad cold. Which he gets a bad cold every winter about this time.

My son isn't a fan of the rapid test with the swab up the nose. He can't do it himself so I did the pleasure and I have to watch out for him swinging if I go to long. He would agree that 15 seconds takes a long time. Now when I took him in for his spit test we were both amazed by this little blonde girl that came in after us. She had her test done and out of there in half the time it took my son...we both laughed about that.

Pro tip- save up spit while you’re standing in line. I got in and one spit and I was done. ? An old guy at the table next to me was complaining to his wife “I don’t know how I’m going to make this much spit!” I’ve found yawning helps too.