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  3. Posted

    Ah, fuck. Really thought she was a banker to make 2020. If I thought she had even a 20% chance of dying this year (especially so early!) I would have picked her in the DDP.

    This, plus Michael "I think he may have already died off the radar'' Murphy's death yesterday, and McGahan earlier in the month... really shaping up to be a shitty year for me in the DDP. But there's 10 months left so we'll see.

     

    And of course, on a personal note - sad story. No age at all.

    Weird seeing somebody who's pretty much my age becoming a DDP hit. Now I know how youze oldies feels.
    RIP Jordan Dawes

  6. Posted

    What a shame.

    Dingell's frequent tweets (although presumably written by his staff) were very clever and I'll miss seeing them on my feed.

     

    Honored him with a spot on the US politics theme team last year, and this year I have him on my Z-Team. Despite his numerous health scares and bouncing back from them, this looks like the real deal.

  10. Posted

    Welp, I excluded McGahan on the basis that he wouldn't obit. This was my major 'make or break'  punt for 2019.

    Now that he did obit, I don't think I have a shot in hell of winning this year (not that I expected to).

     

    Congrats to those who did pick him! Which is - err, all of youze. :D

     

    I now fall to =16th place, tied with Dead Cow and Sir Creep. Both of those teams will make big improvements compared to last year, imho.

    Creep, I think, will have his best year yet, even better than 2016.

  11. Posted

    School was cancelled yesterday and today.

     

    Wind chills yesterday morning made it near -55°F (-48°C). This morning had slightly less torturous wind chills, but the actual temperature reached its lowest value in years: -24°F (-31°C).

     

    My sister stepped outside to do the ''throw boiling water and it automatically turns into snow'' thing. It worked quite well.

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  12. Posted

    Alright, so, I've decided I want to change my username back to the original RadGuy.

     

    It's been 1 and 1/2 years since I changed it to Phantom of the Midway, but people still call me Rad.

    Also, I'm occasionally confused with the OG @Phantom

    So fuck it, we're going back to RadGuy.

     

    Apologies to pool runners in advance for needing to edit my name in their masterlists/scoreboards...

     

    (Also, as this might help with confused folks, could my tagline be changed to: "AKA Phantom of the Midway")

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  13. Posted

    We been dealing with the same shit, other Phantom. High-five for Midwest struggles!

     

    We got a measly 6 inches from this storm, but of course my shitty town didn't clear the roads, so school was cancelled today.

    There's probably well over a foot on the ground now, thanks to the previous snowstorms, so it definitely looks like a winter wonderland out there.

     

    And Wednesday... aye, school will definitely be cancelled. They're now showing a wind chill of almost -60°F at 8:00AM Wednesday morning. NEGATIVE FUCKIN' SIXTY.

    Thursday will be a nice, mild, balmy -30°F wind chill. So school may not be cancelled on that day. Would be nice if it is, tho, cause then we'd have a 5-day weekend (Friday is off anyway for teacher conferences).

     

    And ya know what's funny?

    By Saturday and Sunday, high temperatures will be around 45°F. Almost spring-like.
    The weatherman on TV last night said ''Saturday will feel over 100 degrees warmer than Wednesday''.  wut.gif wut.gif wut.gif   Holy shit that's crazy. Well, that's Chicago weather for you....

     

    Anyway, off to shoveling I go...

  14. Posted

    On 17/01/2019 at 17:43, Phantom of the Midway said:

    The weather in Chicago you ask?

     

    After that late November snowstorm, December was quite warm without any snow (two instances of flurries in the week after Christmas, but that doesn't really count).

     

    January also started off feeling like spring, but winter has returned with a vengeance...

     

    Last weekend we had about 2 inches fall on Saturday.

    Over the past week a couple flurries... and now it's getting rough.

    A major winter storm is passing across the country and could dump up to 8 inches of snow upon us tomorrow night into Saturday morning. Sunday will feature lingering lake-effect snow showers.

    Next week, some more snow showers with freezing rain are possible on Tuesday and Wednesday...

     

    Cautiously optimistic that if all that starts piling up, especially with the ice mixed in, we might get another school cancellation sometime next week. But it's doubtful, those shits don't come easy! Especially since we already had one this school year. They can only do so many and might want to save it in case there's a worse blizzard coming up later in the season. This ain't Atlanta where a single snowflake causes the whole city to panic.

    So about a week later, an update.

     

    Friday night into Saturday, we did end up with a ton of snow. Around 6 inches fell, possibly more but I'm not sure (well I wasn't gonna fuckin' go out with a ruler, was I?)

     

    Tuesday we had an ice storm. I was leaving school for lunch and had to take several minutes to scrape the ice off my car. On the plus side, it didn't ice afterwards, so I quickly left before the traffic at the end of the day, while most other folk were stuck scraping. B)

     

    Wednesday a bit more snow fell. And Thursday. And today. Fuck sake!

     

    Today was also frigid as hell, with wind chills around -20°F (-29°C) in the morning.

     

    No school cancellations throughout all of this, but I'm not surprised. By Chicago standards, it wasn't that bad.

     

    What's ahead?

     

    A snowstorm coming Monday morning. Funny thing is - one model shows 3 inches falling here, another model shows 13 inches. If it's the latter - definitely no school. Roads will be fucked. And also if it's that much, the snow on the ground - of which there already is a fuck-ton - will probably be 2 and a half fucking feet!

     

    Wednesday morning and Thursday morning wind chills could go as low as -50°F (-46°C)! Definite school cancellations.

     

    I'll be enjoying next week in the warmth of my house, it seems. :angely:

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  15. Posted

    With Fatima Ali's death, I am at 4 hits.

    That's the first time I've gotten 4 hits in a month, and I was hoping that would happen, since I've already gotten 3 in a month several times. Wonder if I can make it 5? :scratchhead: Okay, okay, I won't get greedy. :D

     

    Up to 7th place now.

    Slowly making a climb, but it's very early days so doesn't mean much. I am feeling a bit more optimistic about my performance, though.

  16. Posted

    3 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

     

    Is Elizabeth Warren Bernie Lite?

    Well, she's definitely further left than most Democrats. She has a record of being tough on Wall Street.

     

    However, she's voted for increasing the military budget a few times lately (as have many other Democrats, unfortunately). So that was quite disappointing of her.

    In some ways she also comes off as a bit opportunist. She chose not to endorse Bernie in 2016, likely because she didn't want to get on the bad side of the Hillary-wing of the party. She's a bit of a calculating politician - and she used to be much more honest, aggressive and opinionated. So it appears that being in Congress for a few years has changed her, and not in a good way.

     

    Overall, I guess you could say she's somewhat Bernie-lite. But Bernie is certainly to the left of her. Personally, I would easily vote for Bernie (or even Ojeda or Tulsi Gabbard) over Liz Warren in the Democratic primaries. However, I would have no problem casting my vote for Warren in the general election. If the nominee is somebody like Joe Biden, I would just vote third party probably. But yeah - Warren meets the ''progressive enough'' threshold where I would vote for her in the general election.

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  17. Posted

    I like Ojeda a lot. He's moderate on some policies, but in general is a left-populist.

     

    He can connect with leftie Bernie-bros like me, as well as with very conservative old-school Southern Democrats, and plenty of independents!

     

    Problem is - he's being ignored by the media. He has no chance of winning the primary. 

     

    The big dogs are Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Beto O'Rourke, and Bernie Sanders - assuming they all decide to run, which is quite likely. 

     

    For now I'm with Bernie.

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  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, charon said:

    Hmmmm been to Elk Grove recently SC? Pushing over snow houses?

     

     

    https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190121/two-little-girls-having-fun-in-the-snow-turns-to-tragedy-outside-arlington-heights-church

     

    Oy charon I'm disappointed in ya. If you did a bit of research you would've realized this happened in a town right outside Chicago, and could've used it as a dig at me, not the Creep.

     

    In fact, it happened about 15 minutes away from my house. Tragic story. 

     

    (For the record/legal reasons, I had nothing to do with it. There's no way in hell you would ever see me anywhere near a church!)

  19. Posted

    Nobody's immortal. One day Valerie Harper, Brackers, and Dilip Kumar will die too...

     

    RIP to Sri Sri. Sad he had to live such a miserable existence for the final years of his life.

    I doubt he actually wanted to keep on living, in fact, he was probably severely demented and couldn't make his own medical choices. It was his crazy followers who kept him suffering because he was a ''walking god''.

  20. Posted

    Well, today was Conference Championship Sunday.

     

    In the NFC, the New Orleans Saints started off hot 13-0 against the Los Angeles Rams, but the fast Rams offense stepped up their game and managed to tie it at 23-23 by the end of the 4th quarter. The game went into overtime, where the Rams won it 26-23. They are headed to the Super Bowl.

    Personally, this was pretty sad as I believe Drew Brees deserved another Super Bowl ring. But at least he already has one, so it's not that big of a deal. Hopefully he won't retire yet. The Rams, on the other hand, are a great, young team who might end up dominating the league for years to come.

     

    In the AFC, the New England Patriots had a 14-0 lead at halftime, shutting out their hosts, the Kansas City Chiefs - arguably the NFL's best offense. Great defensive effort by the Pats. But the Chiefs upped their game, and the score ended up tied at 31-31 by the end of the 4th quarter, and this game went into overtime too! That's actually a first for Championship Sunday iirc.

    The Patriots won it 37-31 though, and this just confirms that God hates America. :rant: Goddammit my head hurts just thinking about another Pats Super Bowl appearance!

     

    So, in two weeks, the Super Bowl will be between the Patriots and the Rams.

    I think the Patriots will win tbh, they're more experienced and less prone to error. And that's what matters in big games, usually.

    On the plus side, if they do win, Tom Brady will possibly retire, ending the reign of terror dynasty the Pats have established over the past two decades.

  21. Posted

    Extremely petty of me to bring this up, but it's been bugging my OCD-riddled ass for a while. My team is listed as having a best placing of ''13th (2018)'', but 'twas actually "=11th (2017)''. 

     

    Anyway, this had me thinking that maybe a section called "Last year's score'' could be added to team's descriptions as well. I would be willing to collect that information and send it to you, if that's realistic.

    But I dunno, I guess it's a bad idea cause you'd still have to enter all that info manually, and it would probably just make the team descriptions look cluttered if an extra section is added. :scratchhead:

  22. Posted

    The weather in Chicago you ask?

     

    After that late November snowstorm, December was quite warm without any snow (two instances of flurries in the week after Christmas, but that doesn't really count).

     

    January also started off feeling like spring, but winter has returned with a vengeance...

     

    Last weekend we had about 2 inches fall on Saturday.

    Over the past week a couple flurries... and now it's getting rough.

    A major winter storm is passing across the country and could dump up to 8 inches of snow upon us tomorrow night into Saturday morning. Sunday will feature lingering lake-effect snow showers.

    Next week, some more snow showers with freezing rain are possible on Tuesday and Wednesday...

     

    Cautiously optimistic that if all that starts piling up, especially with the ice mixed in, we might get another school cancellation sometime next week. But it's doubtful, those shits don't come easy! Especially since we already had one this school year. They can only do so many and might want to save it in case there's a worse blizzard coming up later in the season. This ain't Atlanta where a single snowflake causes the whole city to panic.

  23. Posted

    25 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

    It is big news— that Christmas finally showed up in Poland.

    Ha, well, leave it to me to take a joke too seriously, but if you actually want to know:

     

    It's basically a month-long fundraiser during the holiday season (in fact, the name of it in Polish uses the word for ''holiday'', not Christmas - I blame the English translation on the War-on-Christmas types getting rowdy) intended to raise money for the underfunded and mismanaged healthcare system in Poland.

    It usually ends on a Sunday in mid-January (today is the day) with a telethon and concerts. So mayor Adamowicz was stabbed while on stage with - I believe - some performers and Jerzy Owsiak, the celebrity who runs the whole thing.

     

    Why was he stabbed? Overall, tensions in the country have been very high since the 2015 election and the government has been accused of taking authoritarian measures, for example trying to stack the judiciary with more of their own judges. A lot of liberal Poles have been protesting and forming organizations, and the right-wingers are quite scared and have been riling up their base (reminds you of someone orange by any chance?)

    Even the charity event has become politicized as Owsiak, the organizer, is a liberal journo and critic of the government. So some fervent government supporters have boycotted the event. Mayor Adamowicz is also quite progressive, and that seems to be why he was stabbed. According to reports, the man who stabbed him was a disgruntled bank robber who claims he was wrongfully imprisoned and blamed it on the former liberal Civic Platform government (Adamowicz's political party).

     

    Hope you found this not completely a fuckin waste of a read interesting.

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  24. Posted

    17 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said:

    Paweł Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdańsk, was stabbed on stage at The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity event and was taken to hospital in critical condition

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/gdansk-mayor-stabbed-on-stage-during-charity-event-in-poland

    Chrissake, that's big news. The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity is probably the biggest event of the year in Poland.

    Political violence is extremely rare in modern day Poland. This is quite shocking.

  25. Posted

    Oh, for fuck sake, let me try again

     

    10 minutes ago, drol said:

    Shivayogigalu Shatayushi Dr. Sri Sri Sri Shivakumara Swamigalu sweepstakes:

     

    Clorox Bleachman: 18 December 2016

    Sir Creep: 12 January 2018 

    CoffinLodger: 12 January 2018

    gcreptile: 13 January 2018

    ThereWillBeDeaths7: 15 January 2018

    Prophet: 16 January 2018

    FixedBusiness: 18 January 2018

    drol: 30 January 2018

     

    I can confirm you're all wrong.

     

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