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Wow....look at these sky is falling posts.

Snyder really did a number on this fanbase......

1 hour ago, Jumbo said:

I've spent many years around Seattle and the puget sound region. The rain is real but still greatly exaggerated. It's a beautiful and fantastic city and great area. Home to many major corporations. Great parks for many miles around. Great arts and music scene. Great sports scene. It's a continuously prosperous and diverse state.

 

The whole of western Washington and northwest part of Oregon are fantastic places for scenery, great towns, fantastic coastline and all the outdoors activities you could ask for. The rain is a thing, but not anything close to a deal breaker for any reasonable human. The Summers are not two months long.

 

Also, there has been plenty of stupid in this thread of more types in the last 24 hours than in quite awhile. How about getting a grip? 

 

 

Agreed.

I spent a few weeks there in late '82.   It was a fun town and the surroundings are beautiful.  They had some great skiing within driving distance too.

Fun Fact:  I watched the Seahawks beat the Broncos at the Kingdome.   Our future coach, Jim Zorn, was the Seahawks QB at the time and a lot of fans were pissed because they wanted to tank that game for next years pick.  I also remember them doing the wave, (I think it may have originated there), and getting a ration of **** because I was decked out in Skins gear  and too young to realize that wearing your teams jerseys when they're not playing is a douche move..

1 hour ago, BatteredFanSyndrome said:

I must admit, this is a new low for this fanbase.  Perhaps it’s still just the lingering effects of being abused for so long.

 

But it’s laughable to watch some of you guys jump off a cliff, because you think that you know better than the guys doing the interviewing.  Guys who have literally been part of so much success, not just some regular dudes.

 

And I say this as a guy who is disappointed with how this has all shaken out.

This is ES and jumping off a cliff what is we do....

3 hours ago, Bang said:

Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix. I think it was @Destino that recommended it a whil bck.
very cool. Typical story, but very well done.  Art is fantastic.

 

~Bang

Agreed.

The animation is fantastic. 

9 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

 

Said no one ever

 

Anyway, I've never not known a time it made more sense to eat before you go some place like a game or even a movie with respect to making sure you ain't hungry and can avoid getting gagged and broken to deal with it then and there.

 

I budget for the doubleshots at FedEx, Nationals Park, Cap One, knowing it's the cost of the bottle because it's too hard to sneak one in these days.

 

It's cheaper to eat outside and get robbed walking back then get anything close to a full meal inside the stadium or arena now in DC. 

You've been to our tailgates and I hope that we see you a few more.

By the time you get inside you should be stuffed and as buzzed as you want to be 😉

1 hour ago, Simmsy said:

I'm not eating at the games, thats just stupid and I don't drink anymore, so no need to pre game. I would legit bring my THC pen, bring a THC tincture in a plastic flask like someone else said, and get blitzed out of my mind for free.

 

It reminds me of when people were "afraid" or felt bad about sneaking snacks into the movie theater because you were taking money from the theater. That popcorn costs three cents to make and they're charging you $8 for a large (this was 25 years ago, God only knows what it is now). They're taking your money, don't feel bad about these crooks.

We're pretty much stuffed and buzzed after the tailgate.  The only thing I buy is a bottle of water and it costs ~ $2.50 because of the season ticket holder discount. 

On 1/21/2024 at 10:58 AM, kingdaddy said:

That was awesome but wasn't nearly as dramatic as Riggo's SB run. 4th and 1 in a tight game and he makes a house call. 

I really loved watching ST play, he would've been a hall of famer. 

Good pull.

Amen!

It's a damn shame that Snyder ruined everything. 

We just "discovered"  Fargo and we're about halfway thru the 3rd season.    Very, very entertaining.

4 hours ago, PokerPacker said:

Nice cereal you got there.

Thanks!

How 'bout this one?

10 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

Goodnight Dry January. 
 

 

You have some catching up to do....😉

1 hour ago, The Evil Genius said:

For me, the bottom line is that I'd be very surprised if anyone banned from ES didn't deserve it.

 

Can you say the same about other boards? 

 

I didn't deserve it when Art banned me for bad-mouthing Snyder😅  

11 hours ago, tshile said:

I decided to scroll back through the thread now that I’m back at my hotel room, before I go to sleep and wake up to crush another day of setting up a brand new office. I’m getting too old for this ****. 
 

the BGO/ES thing is frustrating to me because I’m one of the few/only who spent a significant time on ES, left to go spend significant time on BGO, and came back to ES. I went to BGO because the mods here pissed me off, and I came back because I was banned from BGO (I’m not gonna say I didn’t deserve it but I’m still a bit bitter how that all went down, but no reason to air that here.)

 

The two communities are extreme opposites in their makeup. BGO was a small, tight nit community and when I was there ES was in it’s later years of being a crazy place full of tons of active posters. I recall enjoying BGO immediately because you could follow topics and build relationships because it was a small community. At that time you could post on a thread in the stadium here early morning at work, come back to check on things after lunch and there’s 50+ posts and it was hard to keep up and care. When I wound up back here the community quickly shrank. On that note with new ownership and potentially a new direction away from perpetual suck and mismanagement, this place may blow up again and (for someone like me) become hard to enjoy again. We’ll see - that would be good for the team. 
 

but back to your post. BGO was made up of people who were looking for a place different than ES. I’d confidently bet that 99.9% of posters there, came from ES. So I think it’s fair to say that by being there (and to be fair, any of the other Redskins’s boards over the years that tried to be different than here) you had a problem with here. So the idea they would be critical of the board or the mods seems pretty obvious and expected. I read through the linked thread - not sure I see anything uncivil there, seems like an exaggeration…

 

but there’s absolutely good people there. People that are fun to talk to, smart people that bring something to the table every time you engage with them. I can’t speak for the stadium anymore but if you took the core tailgate posters we interact with, made a community with them and stripped out the drive by posters, you’d have BGO…

 

even though I think both communities have different goals, by virtue of being team forums they will be competitive with each other; by extension, being different means each side will not like what the other side is offering as they like what their side offers. 
 

as far as people criticizing jumbo - he signed up for that, and he is/was one of the more active mods. And I think he can handle it. You cannot be a mod of this community, invite political discussions, and not wind up with some people having negative opinions on how you run things.

 

for me. Politics is so depressing anymore I can’t do it. I haven’t paid attention to the news since well before Christmas. And by extension I can’t bring myself to discuss it here anymore. It’s to the point where I can predict exactly which posters will say exactly what at any given time. And for whatever reason I’ve decided I can’t handle how depressing it is anymore. I’ve reach a state with politics like I did with the team that caused me to abandon the stadium years ago. So while I’ve been coming here to see what’s going on - I don’t spend much time cause it’s the same and I don’t have anything to say because it’s the same. I am trying in the stadium but there’s just a ton of inane arguing about things that I’m not sure matter, by people I’m not sure have any real insight and appear to just have time to waste. 
 

anyways. I spent significant time at BGO. I was banned from there. I disagree with how that played out. Yet I’m still here to tell you they’re good people and it’s a good community. Whatever that’s worth. 
 

and now I’ve done that thing where I write way more than anyone wants to read. Sorry. 

I'm a member of both boards and I like 'em both...

3 hours ago, PeterMP said:

 

So I guess we can disagree with what is civil/respectful.  Saying the environment here is nasty and talking about people being a legend in their own mind aren't things I generally consider to be showing respect.  That isn't to indicate that Jumbo can't take it.  There's a difference between saying those things and saying things like, "I didn't enjoy the environment there."  "I think the mods were to strict in enforcing the rules."  But I'd say the tone of some people in that thread isn't what I'd consider respectful.

 

I was here before they split and interacted with many of them, and people like Burgold that posted here for a long time after BGO was created post there.  Through the years many people that have been banned here have end up there.  Many of them I don't really have any issue with and don't doubt they are good people.  But even good people sometimes can act in a manner that isn't respectful.  

 

I think for everybody that post here for very long the interest in this board wanes and ebbs and flows.  You can only have the same conversations with the same people so many times.  I think that's normal.  And I think the current political situation makes things worse.  People have become more narrowed in terms of the opinions they express.  And I certainly understand being depressed by the current political situation.  I'm voting Democrat, but I certainly feel like I've been left without a political party and representation that is very representative, and I don't see that changing any time soon.  And that's depressing.

Jumbo can take it.

At least that's what I heard.....😉

1 hour ago, Jumbo said:

Despite my initial post, my tribal drive compels me to join.

 

Definitely "woke", regardless of political or cultural or ethnic identity or motive

 

"confabulate" in any context

 

"generational" which in stadium threads has come to run an ambiguous range from pretty good to truly awesome

 

JIzz, jism, ballsack, babe, jocksniffer, rack, boobs, and others of similar nature, which every time I see or hear them reminds me of how quick and easy it is for many supposedly adult males to transform into adolescent morons for a moment 👹 (prove me wrong😁)

 

 

Someone opened a huge can of worms 🤣

On 1/18/2024 at 9:34 PM, PokerPacker said:

Oshie completes the hat-trick on the empty net.

Mrs. Skinsfan & I went to the game and it was the first time that either of us have seen a hat-trick in person. 

3 hours ago, BatteredFanSyndrome said:

That $33 double is among the wildest I’ve seen.  

I'm a bourbon & scotch geek, so I always look at the price of whiskey and ****tails when we go out.   I rarely order whiskey, or whiskey drinks,  because I know how much the bottles cost and there's a good chance that I have whatever is on their menus at home and I'm not dropping $15.00 + for any of it.  I do, however, order beer, because I rarely drink it and may order a couple over the course of a meal.   That, and I'm a very cheap ****.

Anyway...point is....that I know whiskey prices and the ask for this is highway robbery.  I took the pic and  said to my wife, "$17.00 for a measured shot...are you ****ting me!??"     The bartenders nearby overheard me and they both started to laugh.  One said "You got that right and I don't blame you!!" 

I didn't see too many people walking around with ****tails, but ****-tons of beer was being purchased, and consumed.   The lines were long in all of the food concessions too.    

13 minutes ago, Howie411 said:

As a Season Ticket Holder for the Caps, Commanders and the DC Defenders, food prices suck at all 3 venues. (Fedex Field, Audi Field and CO Arena).     I've noticed Ted has gotten a lot greedier though with prices at the CO Arena.  Though before we lost the Washington Valor (Arena Football Team) they had really decent prices for food at those games.  Could even get a kids meal for $6.

Amen!!!    They even has a donut company stand selling $6.99.

To put some of those prices in perspective, for the cost of "double" premium ****tail, you can buy a bottle of WT101, a six-pack of beer and a bag of chips.....

25 minutes ago, dunfer said:

6 dollar bottle of water, is same as atlanta.

 

4 beers and 2 hamburgers cost the same as your 120 tickets, so 240.... theyre just driving folks to watch on tv

Except for water, we don't buy food or alcohol at sporting events.

I piss away enough money on football games 😂

20 minutes ago, dunfer said:

dang, thats even crazier. guess the logic is theyll be so drunk(to save on alcohol) when they come in, they wont be able to understand anything but "im hungry"...then theyll probably buy a couple beers too for 30 bucks. 

How much are the tickets now? what does it actually cost to take your family to a game?

We're empty-nesters 🤘🤘🤘

$120.00 for the pair in the 2nd row of the uppers.

$19.60 for 2 round trips on the Metro.

$5.99 for a bottle of water.

Seeing Oshie score a hat-trick? 

Priceless! 

Not really,  but it was cool.

We only attend 1-2 games a year.

35 minutes ago, dunfer said:

are all nfl stadiums like this? its been a bit since ive been to Fedex. if so i can think of one way to boost attendance.

Uhhh....this is a hockey game.....

Next time anyone ****es about the price of concession at the stadium.

It ain't just us😉

Here's a little perspective. This is at a Capital One Arena.

9 minutes ago, TradeTheBeal! said:

 

 

Beautiful!    The only thing missing is Stewart and the rest of the Skids*

IYKYK....

1 hour and 20 minutes?   Ouch!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/winter-weather-presenting-ev-owners-frustrating-challenges

3 hours ago, China said:

Spatch****ed a chicken and I made a Peri-Peri marinade that's it sitting in overnight for tomorrow.

 

That's the only way I'll grill, or roast, a whole chicken.   It's so much faster....

Edit: it's not the only way...sometimes I'll spin 'em😁

Measles exposure at Dulles & Reagan airports....

https://www.foxnews.com/health/health-officials-warn-possible-measles-exposure-dulles-ronald-reagan-airports

55 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

The problem mostly seems to be a matter of infrastructure and not having enough charging stations, and people not being properly prepared.

 

Any electric car isn't as efficient in the cold so if you charge on a regular schedule you're going to run it very far down in the cold.  That would be common for all cars.  For Tesla here, part of the issue appears people's dependence on not a home super charging.

 

The super chargers need time/energy to accept the charge in the cold.  So if you run the car pretty far down without giving the car time/energy to prepare and it is cold, you're in trouble.  You can tell the car on the way to the charging station that you are going to use the super charge, and it will prepare.  It appears a lot of people didn't do that.  Got to the charging station, then told the car to prepare, which takes time/slows down the charge in cold, created a backup, and that left other people stuck in line without much charge and in some cases their batteries die.

 

So more super charging stations and people preparing more a head of time solves the problem.  Another option would be to have in door heated charging stations.

 

Tesla's are very popular in Norway (top selling car).

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-extends-lead-norway-evs-take-record-82-market-share-2024-01-02/

 

That isn't happening because Tesla's have an inherent design flaw that prevents them from working in the cold.

Makes sense, however, Norway is a little larger than New Mexico, so the infrastructure thing probably isn't as problematic there.