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Nathan:
I'm a groomsman in 3 weddings this 12 months. I think like I've found the elements I should write the top of the line man speech for 1 of them, but am dreading these fucking wedding birthday party intros. I looked for 3.5 seconds and became overwhelmed via cringey video clips and cringey suggestions. I hate dancing and compelled choreography. I suppose it may help to return into each and every of them with a plan.
Don't trouble. firstly, if the bride and groom have a Chris Brown dance hobbies in intellect for all of you, you must obey the edict. that you may't just ignore them and begin vogue-ing as an alternative because you feel that's a better conception. The bride will stab you with a cake knife.
If there's no set entrance events (and also you superior hope there isn't), then i might simply do the common, awkward half-strut, half-boogie that is the go-to entrance flow of each groomsman who already has three cocktails in him. That's the circulation that says, "Oh yeah… let's ROCK this reception." You personal that damn ballroom, amigo. It lets americans comprehend you're being festive, without being annoyingly conspicuous. Your most effective plan is to drink and have a good time.
remember: it's a wedding, so no person is paying much consideration to you anyway. They're all searching at the bridesmaids to consider the clothes and speculate which bridesmaids will hook up with which groomsman. (SPOILER: not you.) provided that you blend into the surroundings, no person will give a shit. all and sundry's watching for the bride and groom to come back busting into the room anyway, Kool assist Man-trend. THERE they're! OH MY GOD IT'S THAT COUPLE I examine ON THE INVITATION! SHE'S MISSUS FLORKHUT NOW!
almost always for weddings, and lifestyles in regularly occurring, you should under no circumstances be afraid to seem to be fucking dull. There's so a great deal stuff that guys deliberately skip out on just as a result of they don't want to seem to be dumb: dancing, singing, giving a speech, etc. that you can spend all your lifestyles standing on the aspect of the dance floor with your hands crossed, and then die having performed nothing. It's price the risk of ridicule to get out there and make an ass of yourself. now not a complete ass, mind you. You don't ought to do a helicopter spin on the floor or the rest. just accept that you simply're not always gonna appear to be James Bond constantly (take it from me). lots of the time, you'll appear endearing for making the hassle. And if some dickhead actively decides to shun you for getting into a wedding the "incorrect" manner, neatly then THEY'RE the asshole, now not you.*
by the way, I think it's unfair that the wedding bandleader receives to introduce the wedding birthday celebration. That's a cool job that's usurped by a total stranger who inevitably appears like a strip club DJ. Let the choicest man do this shit. When else in existence will you get to be like Ray Clay and be a formal hype man? "And at groom, 234 kilos… from NORTH Caro-LI-na!... Mick Fartwell!" That's a fun job.
(*every now and then it is fun to be the man who isn't in the marriage ceremony birthday party and casually strolls into the reception with a drink your hand. i like to fake each person subtly observed me stroll in, even though they didn't. who's that clean, charming fellow who walked into the room so discreetly? I wager he's very stylish.)
Tristan:
What do you feel is the premier strategy to cook dinner eggs?
Sunny facet up. The handiest cause I opt for sunny facet up eggs to scrambled eggs is as a result of for those who scramble eggs, they magically reduce in measurement by using 60%. For true, two scrambled eggs makes, like, six bites. It's infuriating. I should start scrambling ostrich eggs.
What i like is 2 or three sunny side up eggs that bleed yolk in every single place my goddamn toast. Then I lick the plate like a pig. in case you like eggs sunny facet up however fear they'll come out undercooked, with a glop of egg snot sitting across the yolk, I obtained a LIFEHACK for you. simply crack your eggs within the skillet after which, if the skillet has no lid, lay a sheet of tin foil over the top. That cooks the true of the egg while the backside fries up first-class and crisp. PRESTO. you are the egg man. you are the walrus.
Anyway, we're all gonna get right into a fight now about eggs, however right here is my personal rating for their training:
1. Sunny facet up
2. Scrambled
3. Poached (so lengthy because it's with the entire Eggs Benedict accoutrements)
four. Over handy
5. gentle boiled
6. Omelet
7. difficult boiled
8. Coddled? (I've not ever had a coddled egg but they seem k)
9. Baked/quiche
10. Over difficult
I got omelets additional down on this checklist than you likely do, because every sane person likes a fine omelet. I'm simply saying that simple scrambled eggs are usually softer and fluffier than the eggs in an omelet. Nothing beats ruining an omelet after which crying out, "IT'S A SCRAMBLE." You just by accident improved the omelet. fairly the serendipitous flip of movements.
Kevin:
in case you have a book on mortgage from a chum is it ok to examine it while taking a shit? What about if it's a library ebook?
That's excellent. It's a "don't ask, don't inform" type of aspect. besides, it's now not like every time you go to take shit, you decide upon the turd up on your hand and go wiping the partitions with it. it is feasible to carry a booklet into a toilet and be sanitary about it. You sit down down, you study, you poop, then you definately vicinity the booklet down on a sill whilst you finish up and then wash your fingers. There you go.
If there's a stack of magazines subsequent to a bathroom, I don't sit there freaking out about fecal be counted gluing the pages collectively. I opt for one up and get correct into Jennifer Aniston's quest to undergo infants.
Fred:
If the difficult Knocks crew secretly captured photos of a protection legitimately planning an off-box assassination of a good star like Tom Brady that changed into at last a hit, do you think they'd burn the footage, provide it Roger Goodell so he could do some hammering, or hype the hell out of the season with it?
Oh, they'd air the photos. Given what Goodell simply pointed out about Laremy Tunsil getting hacked in real time on draft night, he's not above the use of a macabre spectacle for the sake of entertaining the hundreds. (The sport of soccer itself qualifies here as smartly.) So, here's what I suppose Goodell would do.
1. trap the tape.
2. give the tape to the FBI and suspend the players and coaches (Gregg Williams) concerned automatically, then subject terse however vague commentary condemning them. THE NFL doesn't CONDONE some thing it is THAT just came about.
3. Watch the gamers get arrested and the costs leaked to a horrified public.
four. Leak to Schefter that the league office DOES have the tape and may air it at a time when it's legally applicable.
5. Air that shit all over the complicated Knocks finale, like that Robert Durst reveal did.
6. send a personalised letter to the entire conspirators, telling them they have disgraced the safeguard.
7. Let Schefter marvel at the press coverage. "NFL remains king, folks!"
eight. Wells document III/.
I assure you that if there's a way to take advantage of ugliness whereas concurrently distancing yourself from it, Roger Goodell will locate it. He's mastered the system.
Gabe:
The other week my lady friend and that i have been gazing The Wizard of ouncesand we bought bored and started having sex. Which movie in heritage do you consider has had probably the most individuals have sex during? I think ozis up there, simply because it's so ancient, however my number one bet is Grease.
smartly I commend you for being in a position to hold an erection with the wicked Witch cackling in the historical past, as a result of she scares me to demise and i would have to abandon the coitus to head hide under a blanket.
Anyway, my guess would be any movie that's extremely prevalent on DVD without being a temper-killer. Take it from somebody who misplaced out on a hookup because the movie in query became dead Man strolling (OOOOOOOPS), lighter fare tends to spur extra hanky-panky. That skill shit like Anchorman, Austin Powers, The quickly & The livid, relatively lady, etc. those are videos that you placed on because you've considered them a zillion times and you already understand that you aren't going to monitor the whole aspect. that you would be able to sit down there for twenty minutes, pretending to supply a shit, after which make your flow. you probably have a date over to Netflix and sit back, in no way watch anything new. Ever. You don't wanna be blindsided by way of a surprise domestic dog-killing sequence. And don't placed on critical erotica like unfaithful or whatever. That's way too transparent.
by the way, my wager is that the #1 sex movie is dirty Dancing. It turned into hugely customary, attractive-yet-chaste, and that i'm bound any variety of guys within the 80s and 90s would toss it in the VCR as a tradeoff deal. "sure, we are able to watch dirty Dancing. but then there's intercourse, correct? Shake on it."
Steve:
imagine that an average man gets the capability to foul off every single pitch thrown his manner (in all fairness, he has to be able to in reality attain it and every little thing). In every other way, this is a common oaf. He would play the container, run the bases, etc. in addition to you and me. What variety of contract would he get within the MLB?
So, wait, would every at-bat outcomes in a walk? He simply fouls off first rate pitches unless gets 4 balls? smartly then you definately're speaking about an invaluable commodity. I'd pay $30 million for a guy who reached base on each at-bat. That's the best baseball participant.
Of path, he'd simplest last within the majors for four weeks before lovers decided, en masse, to stab him to dying. were you aware how disturbing it is to watch some dickhead foul off a dozen straight pitches? I'd kill him myself. Rob Manfred would have him buried in concrete after seeing the ratings sheet for a 5-hour Tigers online game.
Albert:
how many consecutive winless seasons would it take for the big apple Yankees to fold up shop? I imagine the salary circulate would dry up relatively completely after a few seasons of 0-162 novelty. certainly they couldn't keep on always. I'd say 15.
No means. That may be the most compelling dumpster fireplace in up to date heritage. do you know how an awful lot I'd pay to go see the Yankees lose their 1,390th straight online game? at least twelve bucks. I'd buy my Stubhub ticket, get loaded, waltz into the stadium throughout the sixth inning, and then chuckle my ass off. it will be essentially the most excellent thing in activities history.
A storied franchise like the Yankees is so deeply entrenched in its native land so you might certainly not kill it. provided that ny city exists, the Yankees will exist. agree with the Redskins, who had been warm puke for over two decades beneath Dan Snyder—a person who has finished well-nigh every little thing to alienate lovers and sabotage the team's success—and nonetheless individuals turn out in droves. once you put down roots in a city and win a number of titles, the city is yours. you are given an endless volume of room to fuck up after that, no remember how plenty fans may also whinge. The Skins went 9-7 a 12 months in the past and that was sufficient to make town obsessed in every single place again. That's how easy it's to maintain the rip-off going.
one of the vital beauties of owning a professional activities team is that you're always gifted with the skills of an unclear future. enthusiasts will prove for a team that sucks as a result of there's always a chance that the crew will no longer suck, and fanatics wanna be there when it happens, if best to brag about their loyalty. so you can string individuals along invariably and ever as long as the future remains unknowable. And it all the time will. big CRYSTAL BALL will never get its act together.
HALFTIME!
Sean:
When do seconds turn into leftovers? I say when the meals is transitioned to the fridge (or sealed up if the fridge isn't integral), however my pal says you should wait a full day. If I had pizza for lunch however fridged it, I had cold leftover pizza for dinner, right?
you did. once the meals is refrigerated or moved from its normal serving dish to a storage container, it's leftovers. Your probability to proceed the meal is over, above all if the entire plates have been cleared from the table and you gotta get an entire new plate and fork and seat for this circular of eating. once you pop the Tupperware lid, you have began a brand new meal, or hour of darkness snack, or manic ingesting binge. It doesn't matter if it's an hour later or 24 hours later. NEW MEAL.
here's why cookouts are brilliant, because you flip the grill on at midday or something, and keep pumping out burgers and chook and canine for eight continuous hours, and it's ALL one meal. It transcends the boundaries of mere lunch and dinner and snacking to develop into a daylong orgy of gluttony, with seconds fitting thirds, and thirds become fourth-and-a-halfs, and fifths becoming firsts since it's been five hours on account that you began consuming bratwurst. i'm in desire of all open spreads.
incidentally, I even have been common to sabotage the subsequent night's meal via digging into the leftovers smartly earlier than I'm alleged to. Let's say we make ten items of chicken one evening and devour five of them. That leaves 5 extra for the next evening. IN idea. truly, i will be able to go scrounging throughout the fridge the next morning, discover the booty, and break the next nighttime's dinner plans. and that i realize it after I'm doing it, too. The disgrace is so thick you could dress a salad with it. and then i'd eat that salad a ways too quickly.
Lawrence:
My spouse and i are living in New Zealand (i'm at the start from Kentucky and he or she is initially from Australia). here during this a part of the country we're pretty tons inundated with seals and penguins to the factor of boredom. whereas most individuals would freak once they noticed a penguin, we form of yawn and flow alongside. It obtained me thinking, what animal often is the most excessive to get used to? We had a friend who lived in Zimbabwe and referred to giraffes have been demanding. Or in Sri Lanka, elephants grasp up traffic and people simply settle for it like a site visitors easy.
What about grizzly bears? There's only 1 dude who received used to dwelling with grizzly bears, and he didn't fare so neatly. i might expect that dwelling in shut proximity to any man-ingesting predator—sharks, lions, polar bears, and many others.—makes it challenging for you to ever let your shield down. The noted Tiger Tops inn in Nepal facets lodges that are built on stilts, as a result of tigers roam the nation-state and may wreck into your room at night and consume if you're sleeping at floor level. This… unnerves me. I don't know if I may ever get used to drowsing beneath a streak* of hungry-ass tigers expecting me to slide on a banana peel and fall off the balcony. No thanks.
Then once again, you get used to anything if you're round it lengthy sufficient—battle, guns, falling bombs, etc. You simply pretend every little thing is best except a fucking bear eats your pal Bob sooner or later, after which you deal with Bob's dying via going lower back to pretending it won't happen to you. Like, if aliens invaded, after which ten years handed, we'd doubtless all simply roll our eyes once we're speakme to each different about the dull Quargluxxians. So I bet you could construct your dream apartment in the center of Shark Island and be trained to deal with it.
(*a different name for a bunch of tigers is "ambush," which actually says all of it. don't fuck with tigers.)
Sam:
What in case you may bank runs for future use in the season? Say the Twins beat the White Sox 10 to 1. The Twins can take eight of those runs and apply them to a future video game, so the rating adjustments to 2-1 in prefer of the Twins in that game. but now if the Twins lose to the Sox tomorrow or some other time in the season, they could add runs they've in their "bank" to the last rating. Do you believe we'd see a lot more blowouts for the sake of banking aspects?
certain, however the greater entertaining element that would ensue is that, if this became a rule, your received-loss list would almost always carefully correlate to your run or factor differential. through now, we all be aware of that factor differential is a more correct indicator of a team's exceptional than their received-loss listing. You can be a ten-6 NFL team, however every person knows you're a fucking fraud if you're factor differential is within the crimson. So if I'm running up the rating on a bunch of teams and i can bank those points, i will be able to reverse an in any other case close and fluky loss to a couple dipshit group afterward, accordingly boosting my record.
incidentally, I don't choose this. it could essentially smash the existence of upsets in sports and piss everyone off in the process. activities are improved with unfair consequences, specifically when it's some asshole group just like the Patriots losing a fluke game to some unworthy opponent. That's the whole cause I watch.
also, mixture scoring sucks balls. It's ordinary follow in soccer. but right here, in the united states, i like my video games to be singular. Free-standing. I are looking to enjoy the contest on its own terms. I don't wanna watch a football video game the place a crew has to win with the aid of at the least 21 in order to "win" some grander prize. That's horseshit. Soccer needs combination scoring as a result of teams don't rating ample. I SAY WE DOUBLE THE internet dimension. boom. You're welcome, world.
Brandon:
You're given the probability so that your infants will in no way be fussy about meals again (i.e. that you can feed them blackberry chili to your coronary heart's content material). All you need to do is disgracefully relinquish and disavow your victory on Chopped (for example: you'd say you coerced the panel to permit you to win, otherwise you can've poisoned them). Do you do it?
FUCK NO. You'll need to threaten their lives earlier than I falsely confess to bribing Chris Santos. That title is MINE. I received it fair and rectangular, god dammit. I'll give you my arm earlier than I assist you to take it from me.
Johnny:
Is it incorrect for me to illegally flow sports games from domestic? I don't have cable and i don't wish to purchase any sports programs. generally I consider like with the entire blackout guidelines and other rubbish, I'm validated in now not paying.
As a accountable grownup, I'm imagined to tell you that it is stealing, and that make sure you believe dangerous and all that. however fuck all that. I doubt you're dropping an awful lot sleep over circumventing Comcast and/or Mayweather Promotions to observe some activities without charge.
The precise purpose to avoid pirating sports is far more practical and egocentric, and that's because pirate feeds suck. They're uneven and the decision is usually awful, and God handiest knows what type of hideous malware is forcibly coming into your gadget because you decided to watch the NFL by means of a Hungarian feed. this is why iTunes and Spotify became profitable corporations: since it's more desirable to pay a bit bit for whatever thing and have peace of intellect about fine and safety, than to pay nothing and be in constant danger of computing device herpes. Cable and pay-per-view sports are nonetheless expensive, but I'd rather pony up or go watch that shit at a bar than risk having someone bust into my checking account and drink my milkshake.
Will:
only once I wish to see an inbounding player heave the ball into the dick of a defender over-aggressively guarding the inbound pass. I don't suggest a vulnerable little chest pass, I mean attain approach back with one hand such as you're going to gun it to the other baseline, but on the closing 2nd drop your trajectory 45 levels so that you simply wreck the dude's nads.
This has came about! no longer within the dick, however simply closing year a excessive school ladies teach got in deep shit after he became accused of having a player intentionally launch an inbounds circulate at an opponent's face. that you may watch the vid right here. The woman bought her nostril damaged. it'll not shock you to be trained that the instruct become forced to take a go away of absence shortly thereafter.
Frankly, I'm shocked this form of thing doesn't occur extra regularly. were you aware how worrying it's to have some pesky, wannabe gymnasium rat for your face if you happen to're attempting to get the ball inbounds? The little fucker. a quick move to the dick may teach him some damn manners! Like, when Dion Waiters just straight-up pushed Manu Ginobili out of how closing week, and didn't even get called for it? I totally sympathized. Nothing worse than when some asshole pretends he's Rudy and definitely tries to safeguard you. not cool, man. stop being so damn tenacious and let me move the ball.
Reid:
Do guys nevertheless wear toupees? I consider at this element guys either cut all of it off, maintain it short, or have a manner finished to are trying to convey it back. Is there a secret society of toupee wearing historical guys still roaming round?
have you met Stan Kroenke? Toupees are still going potent, amigo. You can also not notice them as lots as you probably did in years past on account of new traits in hair transplantation, weaves, and so forth. however they're nonetheless obtainable. study Sheldon Adelson, man. analyze this fucking wig. the man has a billion greenbacks and might't even get appropriate micro-plugs. Given improvements in up to date toupee design AND the fact that Nineteen Eighties sitcoms greatly accelerated dangerous hairpiece awareness among the many inhabitants at gigantic, you'd suppose this man could do more suitable. but that you would be able to nevertheless find quite a lot of toupee holdouts in case you look hard adequate, notably among politicians and basketball coaches.
Sam:
What occurs if the Cubs turn into a comparatively sizzling team and win three pennants over the next 5 years? The Cubs' complete id is that drought. They're cute, quixotic triers. winning three championships in quick succession would damage their loser-cred. How would that group and fan base manage the change?
They'd be exceptional. There's no longer a fan in the world that would willingly forgo a title just to sustain a pity streak. The most effective purpose Cubs fanatics play it up is as a result of that's the hand they've been dealt, so you can also as well milk it in the event you've bought no titles to fall returned on. but once you get a title, all that shit falls away. Or i'd assume so. I'm a Vikings fan, so I wouldn't understand. safeguard ME FROM THIS pain.
e-mail of the week!
Andy:
When i was in faculty, we used to put on small concert events subsidized through the faculty and bought one in every of our favorite funk/jazz trios to play 12 months. The keyboard participant, name him M, a musical genius and legend in these circles, regarded a little squeamish as quickly as he arrived. We were informed by the different band participants that he had the shits actual bad and we might must extend the demonstrate. the group was getting restless and we knew we had to do whatever to circulate the time.
bound satisfactory, one among my pals, the goofiest and most awkward guy i know, informed us he had been engaged on a standup comedy movements. He goes out and bombs as difficult as feasible. The whole audience is booing lustily after about 60 seconds. That booing must have made it to the dressing room because it lights a fireplace under M. He gets himself collectively in a hurry and rushes out to stage.
The show turned into exquisite and the gang went domestic chuffed. The band pretty tons went straight from the stage to their cars and we load them out as quickly as possible. Later, as we're cleaning up the dressing room, we scent it. Then we see it. underclothes fully covered with shit hanging on the lid of the waste bin. They certainly not came returned to play once more.
trying to rack my brain thinking of a famous jazz/funk trio keyboardist.
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