I don’t care how many people Hate it. Except for the guy who was proven to be a Pedo later, I actually like watching ‘Love Actually’ once a holiday season. OK, you can hate me now.
Still, it beats the Hell out of The Hallmark Channel’s offerings:
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“It’s a Pregnant Cat that Needs a Man Christmas!”
“My Clock is Ticking Fa-La-La… La-La… La-La-La-La”
“I’m a Princess! Gimmee Mah Prince!”
“Where’s My Serviceman? I Can’t Swim Out to Troop Ships in Pumps”
“Where’s My Farmer? I Wanna Pony…!”
“Hidey-Ho, Cowboy! There’s Poutine In Mah Boot!”
“If I Have Smokey Eye, Where’s Mah Fireman…?”
“Desperate D-Band Diva Seeks Ken Doll”
“I’m Moving Back to my Hometown. Who Can I Bang?”
“I’m a Baker and Chocolatier, But I Only Like Thin Guys”
“I Married All The Leading Men; Time To Do Commercials Yet?”
“I Have So Much Christmas Spirit Ima Openin’ a Winery”
“I Have So Much Christmas Spirit that If Y’all Light A Match, This Whole Town Will Go Up Like a Cogeneration Plant!”
“If I Blink 50 Times A Minute, Will You Marry Me?”
"It’s a < Insert Rich City Name > Christmas ( notice that they never say Detroit )
Sign stealing is a rule in college football as opposed to the NFL because college doesn’t allow for any kind of electronic communication. (Not yet at least.) So in an NFL game, you can talk over a headset and cover your mouth, and people have no idea what you’re telling the QB. It’s a secret unless you were to tap into the signal somehow or have someone close enough to hear the coach on the sideline.
In college, you have no way to do that, so you have to give visual signs to the other person. And yeah, everyone can see it. So it’s not really a secret as to what you’re doing; there is no way for a sideline coach to flash a sign that only the QB can see, for example.
And you can steal signs during a game you’re playing in, that’s not a problem. The problem is when you go in-person to another team’s game in advance of playing them, watch and somehow keep track of what sign relates to what play, and therefore be able to read in real time what the coaches are telling the players during the game you’re in because you’ve learned it ahead of time. That is what happened with Michigan; one of their personnel members traveled to other teams’ games ahead of time to learn this stuff so they’d know it by the time they played against those teams.
Since such a thing gives a team a competitive advantage, they disallow it and call it cheating. If and when college finally adopts electronic communications, this will no longer make a difference and would likely be removed from the rules.
That’s an easy one. It’s no different than having someone stand behind someone in a game of Poker to see what cards are in their hand and tell another person in the game. It’s almost literally the same thing. The catcher and pitcher need to be on the same page as to what kind of pitch is being thrown, so that the catcher knows where to put their glove and make the catch (assuming the pitcher has enough control to put the ball where they intend to, that is). So the catcher signals to the pitcher using their fingers, who then subtly acknowledges it (slight head shake or nod). The batter can’t see the signs because the batter is facing toward the pitcher, away from the catcher, and has to decipher what kind of pitch it is and how/when to swing based on the pitcher’s movements and the very brief moment the ball is in the air. If the batter knew what sign was being sent to the pitcher, and could decode it, it would basically give away everything and make hitting so much easier.
So, what happens is that someone who can see the catcher and see the signals, and has learned the signals, they see it and somehow signal to the batter what’s coming. Infamously, the Astros would do it by banging on trash cans.
Many catchers will even put colorful nail polish on the fingernails of their throwing hand so that the pitcher can see the signals better. That’s how essential this is.
C’mon, you don’t have to play coy with us. It’s obvious you’re the Vice President in charge of programming for the Hallmark Channel and you’re going to just change the order you air those storylines in.
Of course, if you want something new, you could throw in a story about how this job burns you out and only the down-home values and lovin’ of a good person of whatever-gender-is-your-preference whichever-gender-is-the-opposite-of-your-assigned-gender-at-birth can show you the true meaning of Christmas.
Me too!! Just so you know you’re not alone…I felt like the only one the last time I flew, but didn’t regret it at all when some lady four rows back started hacking up a lung. I stayed nice and healthy…then, a month later, managed to contract whatever crud has been making its way around the office.
That’s a pretty lame gender-burn. So what brought you to write such a 4th grade insult?
Do you write Hallmark’s horrible plots? (The ones that keep using the same tired Soap Opera lines over and over in every movie?)
Do you sell Wardrobe their faux-trendy outfits? Does your construction company build their cheap sets? Do you canvas The Old Actors Home for talent to play grandma and grandpa?
( “Hey…! Who wants to make a quick 20 bucks?” )
Do you run a Hallmark card shop?
Or did you just run out of ‘Mom’ jokes…?
SEPTA (the local transit authority) has redesigned it’s awful site to be even worse. I cannot tell if the bus I want to take stops running at 9 pm or not. I’m reasonably sure that my new neighborhood is not safe to take 20 minute walk to the shoprite in- at least not after dark.
I hate Septa. I hate this neighborhood. I hate my life.
New property management company took over this month. They only accept electronic payments and have no way to accept checks because “the account is out of state”. My lease specifically says the landlord accepts checks or money orders. I mailed them a check today.
My last apartment did that. They also charged you a $2.95 ‘convenience fee’ for paying online. Your other option was to jump through hoops and get a payment card which could only be used at certain locations. If you used a card, you got a $2.95 ‘convenience fee’. For a year or so, the electronic payment option included a space for an optional comment. My comments included
“In defiance of physics, your convenience fee both sucks and blows!”
and “The Lord looked upon your convenience fee and found it not very convenient.”
If sports officialdom is all that concerned about “sign stealing” (which is pretty obviously going to happen, after all), perhaps they need to get their act together and ban signs. The coach can use the time the players are in the dugouts or on the benches to communicate with them.
Thank you asshole big bank, for “improving” your web site such that it no longer works. I can see all the tabs, but clicking on “accounts”, as I have done for lo these many years, now produces a blank page. Interestingly, this is the case on my newest device running updated software, while the site is still fully functional only on my old, old laptop. Rest assured however, the promotional pop-ups and such still work everywhere.
And thanks also for the auto-generated email response to my complaint that made no real attempt to even acknowledge the issues I brought up. I guess moving my money somewhere else is the only thing you might understand. Hello, credit union!
That’s like saying that if the NFL is so worried about holding calls that they need to get their act together and tie every player’s hands behind their backs.
Though to be fair, it really would be “foot”ball at that point.
Ok, this isn’t really a mini rant. I missed the recent anonymous confession thread, but there’s really no reason to be anonymous for this. It’s just a bit embarrassing.
I have a Trump mattress. I bought it about 10 or 11 years ago. We walked in to a Serta store and they also had Trump mattresses, which were made by Serta. So it’s a higher quality Serta, but it also has the Trump name all over it. In gold colored thread, naturally.
On principle, I really should drag this to the yard and set it on fire. But I am not going to do that. It’s a pillow top, and quite frankly really fucking comfortable, probably the most comfortable mattress I have ever owned. I kills me knowing that the SOB made a few dollars from me, but even so, I sleep like a baby.
The way I heard it, the character played by Bill Nighy was supposed to be loosely based on Jimmy Savile? While it was hushed up while he was alive, it appears that Jimmy Savile was a serial molester and pedophile… which ruins one of the hooks of the movie.
Bill Nighy was/is completely above reproach and was just playing a fictional stylized character but many people saw through it as a nod to Jimmy Savile. It’s the same way with Hugh Grant’s character being a cotton-candy fictional version of Tony Blair and Billy Bob Thornton playing a fictionalized thuggish version of George W Bush.
We had a My Pillow pillow up until a couple of months ago. I got rid of mine ages ago, but my husband still had his. Recently he’s having neck issues and decided he didn’t want it anymore. Hallelujah! I should have burned it, but I just put it in the dumpster.
If you like your mattress, keep it. Use the Sharpie idea, though.
Oh, if you want a fun drinking game, try A Christmas Prince and take a drink every time a Hallmark trope happens. It is astonishing the sheer audacity of those writers. My husband and I had a blast watching that.
I love romance, but not the Hallmark kind, usually the kind where the leads are yelling at each other, and, ideally, things explode.
I’m tired of everything I need to log into being secure. Click on these five links and check your text messages for this important reminder from your optometrist. Don’t remember the address of that apartment you had in college? Too bad.
There are a whole lot of potholes on the paved road leading to my house (also on the gravel road, but that’s on my husband to fix). I call the Public Works department when things get too dire, and they usually come out to repair them within a week. However, I’ve called several times lately and get nothing but a machine. I’ve left messages but get no reply. Does the Public Works department all go on vacation during the month of December?
I have pillows from that my pillow guy before he went off the deep end. I intend to replace them this year. But they are comfy. If he could just stfu and stick to pillows all would be good.
