I made the brilliant decision to take a trip to the grocery at about six pm this evening, and it was fabulous. There was NO ONE there except me and the clerks. I strolled leisurely through the aisles, sometimes even walking against the grain of the new arrows on the floor telling you which direction to go. I took my time in the produce section. I read labels. I didn’t have to wait for anyone standing in the middle of the aisle obliviously talking on the cell phone. There was no one walking around without a mask on invading my space. It was fucking beautiful.
It felt like being in a beach town right at the end of the season when no one else is there but everything is still open.
Amazing. Also got some magnifcent papayas.
Freemark
I’m actually working in a retail store right now and it’s great. I’m taking leave at the end of this week because of maskholes and COVID spread.
divF
I do that every year. In California it is more convenient because I can go around 4 PM.
Martin
I really thought this would be a FG deciding game. I’m shocked it’s been this much of a rout*.
* Brady came back from worse in the SB, and Mahomes is no slouch, so I’m not counting this one out. (Oh, that INT doesn’t help)
Seanly
Ugh, it’s a terrible Superbowl. Brady & Bucs are playing well, KC defense not doing themselves any favors, KC offense not playing well, AND the refs are obviously calling the plays in the Bucs favor (some of the holds & PIs were valid). Just bleeeh. Tired of Brady, Brady, Brady, Gronk, Gronk, Gronk media fawning BS.
Baud
Game’s over anyway. Enjoy your papaya.
steve g
When you say “new arrows on the floor” do you mean “new last year” or “new this week” new? Because I’ve been seeing arrows on the floor of stores for quite a while now. At the food store I know which aisles I can safely walk down against the arrow, and after getting what I am after, whether to turn around and go back the right way or just keep on going the wrong way.
Brachiator
I probably should have gone grocery shopping. But I got super lazy today. Really enjoyed not doing much of anything.
The Chiefs are also not doing much of anything. Too bad.
Omnes Omnibus
There are quite a few people like you who are going to have real problems adjusting to a post-pandemic world.
Brachiator
@Seanly:
They are playing a good game. And I am not a big fan. But you have to acknowledge.
Mary G
Gvg
30 years ago I delivered pizza’s for a living. Since then I make sure I have supplies and hole up at home well before any drinking holiday begins, such as Super Bowl Sunday night. So I just watched die hard and now I am spending time with the feral cats I am taming. The two ringleaders have learned to demand treats, but the three shy ones still hide. Cat treats are more attractive than canned food, who knew? Also they like cliche cat toys like little balls with bells and strings, not other things. This surprises me because they grew up outside under buildings. It took us awhile to catch them. They also like modern YouTube cat Tv of birds and mice and such.
JanieM
My sister works at Disney World and therefore I’ve been there more times than I ever would have bothered with otherwise. Once, when my kids were kids, we went on Super Bowl Sunday. No lines!!
Benw
The year we lived in Chicago and the Bears were in the Super Bowl, I ordered takeout at halftime and drove up into the loop to pick it up. It was deserted, like a post-apocalyptic movie; I’m not sure there was another car on the road!
Keith P.
@Brachiator: This is the year where I realized what I hated was New England. I’m surprising myself by how much I’ve been pulling for Brady this season.
Mary G
Jack cleaning house. First Gateway Pundit and now:
West of the Rockies
Our charcuterie board for game time was good, but some genius decided to include some miserable little frozen pigs in a blanket.*
Tasted like chihuahua dicks on a saltine.
*Okay, they looked good in the store. Now I know. And, no, I have never tasted chihuahua dicks on a saltine or otherwise.
patrick II
Part football, part covid roulette, k.c. entered the game with both starting tackles out with covid. Mahomes hasn’t had time to throw.
Martin
@Keith P.: He’s not bad for a 6th round draft pick.
BruceFromOhio
We haven’t stepped outside the house since Friday afternoon.
Was hoping Chiefs would put up a better defense.
Kent
This game brings me back to the mid 1980s when there was a whole long stretch of crapticular Super Bowls, at least half of them involving John Elway and the Broncos.
different-church-lady
@Mary G: “I’ll do anything for money, but I won’t do insurrection.”
Benw
Come on, Chiefs, get a couple of stops, score um 3 touchdowns and you’re right back in this thing
oldster
“sometimes even walking against the grain of the new arrows on the floor telling you which direction to go”
Go on with your bad self! What won’t you do next!
Yeah, it’s too bad about Brady probably winning another Sb, but it gives me an opportunity to say, for the forty zillionth time,
“but my god, it would be so much worse if The Russian Asset had won! And here is just one more thing that is better — much, much better — because Biden won!”
And then I think about every dollar of my kids’ inheritance that I spent on political campaigns this year, and how it was the best investment I could have possibly made for their future happiness.
HumboldtBlue
Two atrocious pass interference calls on the Chiefs sure helped the Bucs in the first half.
I have it on mute, I’m cooking beans and hocks.
Can’t watch BBC Match of the Day because Liverpool shat the bed once again in a dreadful loss to Man City.
Martin
I’ll add this, 3 weeks is not really enough time to fully recover from a concussion. That last 10% takes a while.
Alison Rose
I didn’t give a crap who won, which makes the experience honestly better. When your team is in it, it’s too damn stressful. It’s like with PK shootouts in soccer–they’re the best thing to watch when you don’t care who wins, and the worst when you do.
Pretty neat to see the first woman officiating a Super Bowl game, though. Although, the fact that it’s the Year of our Lord 2021 and we’re still getting “first woman to do X” is annoying.
different-church-lady
Silver lining here would be if Godell has to hand yet another MVP trophy to the guy he suspended.
Suzanne
The game is boring anyway.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
Is that like good luck with your asparagus?
MomSense
@BruceFromOhio:
Mahomes’ offensive line is not protecting him at all.
Martin
@Kent: Come on, VI was one of the greatest games ever.
WaterGirl
@Martin: Yes it does. And who is playing with a concussion?
NotMax
Is that thing on again today? They try pilot after pilot and it never gets picked up for a series.
L85NJGT
The blind Brady hate takes agency from the rest of the team. That Bucs defensive front seven are putting a beating on the Chiefs.
different-church-lady
@L85NJGT: That was extremely true of “deflate-gate” too.
Amir Khalid
Phrasing!
Martin
@WaterGirl: Mahomes. KC QB. That last bit throws off your reflexes a bit, your response times, etc.
Benw
Man I love me some Bruce, but uuuuuuuuugh
Geoduck
@steve g: I was gonna say the same, “new”? Is West Virginia just now getting around to those? My WA state store put them in a year ago. Not that many people pay attention to them, which is one reason I try to visit the place between midnight and 5:00 AM.
Keith P.
Being from Houston, I’m thinking “8 minutes left, down by 22….Mahomes is sitting pretty right now!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Benw: that was… unexpected. For many reasons.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
What did you guys think of:
L85NJGT
@patrick II:
The Bucs got both starting safeties back.
Amir Khalid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Springsteen did a commercial?
MomSense
Driving home in a snowstorm today I saw a red jeep flipped over on its roof – all four wheels in the air. It was on a front lawn, really close to a house.
Elizabelle
@Benw: “Jeep. We’re not wild about the idea we sell vehicles to insurrectionists.”
Yes, people need to come in from the “far right.” Acting like there’s a mirror image on the left? Just NO, Bruce.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Amir Khalid:
He sure did!
It’s called “The Middle”
It’s very corporate milquetoast to me, which isn’t surprising. And like @Elizabelle: said above, it is very, “the Right AND the Left are too extreme!”
Suzanne
@Benw: Bruce has apparently had more plastic surgery this year than The Weeknd.
NotMax
@MomSense
Awaiting a belly rub. Or an import from Australia.
;)
L85NJGT
@Suzanne:
But not as much as Mike Myers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
a commercial-cum-sermon, for Jeep, Jesus and David Broder
MomSense
@NotMax:
?
Suzanne
@L85NJGT: I interpreted Mike Myers as heavy, heavy prosthetic makeup. You might be right.
Martin
You be you, Florida.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
fan on field!
Where’s Ditka when you need him? (Probably half way through a fifth of gin and texting with the My Pillow guy)
Soprano2
I’ve watched the Chiefs play several games this season. The team I’m seeing today isn’t playing the way they usually do. They’re making stupid mistakes, and not protecting Mahomes like they usually do. They’re just being outplayed, period.
kindness
The game is dull. I thought it’d be closer.
Captain C
Brady’s combined point differential in 9 previous Super Bowls was +14, with no game more than 10 points and only one over 8 (ie. one score). As of now, he’s up 22 today.
citizen dave
@MomSense: Did it have the classic (would be right side up now) bumper sticker “If you can read this please flip me over”?
Re: Bruce. I read about that one on my phone. Does sound very milquetoast. Maybe next year it’ll be a bunch of Dylan/Neil Young songs since they’ve both recently sold all/some of their publishing rights.
I’m no longer watching the SB–listening to, as my wife watches the YouTube “Day in the Life” movie or whatever it’s called. Sounds pretty good–you tube watched a bunch of submissions and slapped them all together.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Suzanne:
Ah man, leave the Weeknd alone. He’s one of the few artists that was able to bring synthwave into the mainstream. Also, it’s just prosthetics:
Raven
@Soprano2: both tackles are out
Amir Khalid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I wouldn’t call that a commercial. Bruce isn’t talking up Jeep or any of its models. It’s more like a PSA about national unity, made with Jeep’s participation. I am relieved that he hasn’t broken with his lifelong practice of never doing commercials.
joel hanes
Back when I could do downhill skiing (sorta), superbowl Sunday was always the best skiing day of the year. In North Tahoe, there’s good snow mid-Feb, and there’d be
no. lift. lines. at. all.
Ski right into the lift chair.
We’d get in so many runs that we’d be completely worn out by 3:00 PM, too tired to properly control the skis in washboard or ruts — and go in to see what was happening in the superbowl world.
I miss that.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Amir Khalid:
I didn’t know he had some principal about not doing commercials. Anyway, yeah, it definitely is more of a PSA than an actual commercial
Soprano2
@Raven: That explains a lot, it’s not the same team.
Suzanne
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I’m not snarking on The Weeknd at all. Just noting that there was much supposition that he had a lot of plastic surgery this year, but then we saw him, and he obviously hadn’t. But then we saw Bruce and he has obviously been “tuned up” and it looks weird.
Raven
Jim, Foolish Literalist
ouch
p.a.
I realized a few years ago Brady & Belichick deserved each other.
Raven
@Soprano2: Exactly, Tampa’s D line is a strength and that’s a bad combo for KC.
Poe Larity
IDK the problem, Jeeps are always in the middle of the road. It’s the Subarus you have to watch for – you could be in the middle of a field and get run over.
joel hanes
Some script (I think) is interfering with my ability to enter comments; I’m having to refresh the page after first displaying comments, or the comment composition box will not accept the mouseclick and display the text insertion cursor; typing at it does nothing.
Firefox 85.0.1 on Mac OSX Catalina 10.15.7
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Suzanne:
Ohhhh… Sorry ^^;
WaterGirl
@joel hanes: With the new Firefox, visual mode does not work properly.
MomSense
@citizen dave:
It was classic Maine – bunch of pick up trucks lined the road and an ambulance with its lights on but the EMTs and all the volunteer firefighters were all just standing around talking. They were probably teasing the poor masshole who drove too fast downhill only to discover the road has a sharp curve halfway down the hill.
HumboldtBlue
Humans being bros.
Benw
The Michael B Jordan ad was funny, for whatever it was!
Starboard Tack
@MomSense:
4WD Hubris
HumboldtBlue
@joel hanes:
I’m pretty sure it’s a Firefox issues, those who use it have reported the issue over the past week or so.
Mike in NC
About 15 or so years ago when we lived in Falls Church, VA my wife wanted cigarettes and sent me to the nearest 7-11 on SuperBowl Sunday. The only car I passed on the road was a taxi driven by a guy wearing a turban.
CatFacts
@WaterGirl: It’s not a consistent Firefox bug, though. I’m on the same Firefox and Mac versions as Joel and can comment.
I usually run an adblocker, so maybe it’s blocking the problem script?
Alison Rose
So how many COVID cases are gonna arise from this in the next couple weeks? Seeing a whole lot of unmasked people getting up close and personal. Oy.
PsiFighter37
Fuck Tom Brady, forever and always.
catclub
Those were installed in april/may and gone by june, here
catclub
@Mike in NC:
…of course, he was going 95, but I passed him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@PsiFighter37: yeah, but…. Bob Kraft is spitting nails right now, and he’s trumpier than Brady ever was.
Wag
@PsiFighter37: This.
The Moar You Know
I don’t remember how but I ended up in the ER one super bowl in the early 2000s. It was amazing. I was the only patient in there from start to finish, in a major city ER, and the problem is that once you get a taste of that kind of treatment you just want it over and over again.
An empty supermarket these days is a godsend. John will be ruined for life.
Lapassionara
@PsiFighter37: Ditto. Also, did anyone else see the most recent Marsh family YouTube! Totally fixed where we are, I think. Sorry to be old and unable to link, but it is very good.
J R in WV
We don’t receive the local CBS station over the air. Without a cable subscription, I can’t view the game on line… what’s with that? If I had cable, would I want to watch the game online? no, I would not.
Anyway, I would just be pissed off watching The Bucs being walked along by the refs. Brady sucks so hard, we all know he voted for Trump both times.
Next year the KC Chiefs will floor the Bucs, just wait and see!
joel hanes
@CatFacts:
I run both ublock origin and noscript; I assume a script is being blocked.
I’ll try disabling them and see if it goes away.
joel hanes
@WaterGirl:
ah, thanks, I see — and switching to text mode fixes it.
I’m good.
You guys are amazing.
Geoduck
@The Moar You Know: As I said earlier in the thread, if you want an empty supermarket and can schedule it, go very early in the morning or very late at night. I now only go during the day when I have to hit the pharmacy.
NotMax
@J R in WV
I hear tell there’s this funky thing called radio.
;)
HumboldtBlue
@Lapassionara:
This one?
Lapassionara
@HumboldtBlue: Yes. Thank you.
CaseyL
Just got home from watching the game next door. I feel so bad for KC, and have to say their defense in the first half put them in a hole they were never able to get out of. Not just the number of penalties, but penalties that nullified vital plays. Ugh.
I didn’t know Mahomes was playing with a concussion. I know he was playing with a bum toe; he was actually limping around by the 3rd quarter.
Just bad luck all round.
My favorite ad…. had to be the Michael Jordan one. But a close runner-up is the ad that featured Four Seasons Landscape Service… “& Press Venue,” though it took three viewings to figure out what company the ad was for, and what the company does.
cmorenc
@West of the Rockies:
But were they like salted chihuahua dicks?
different-church-lady
Just realized: this is the second Brady Super Bowl in a row where the opposition didn’t get a touchdown.
Ivan X
@Suzanne: It’s one of the perils of HD (and now Ultra HD/4K) televisions. Hides nothing.
frosty
@JanieM: We used to go to the Aquarium in Baltimore on SB Sunday. Just us and foreigners.
I watched it today. Ugh.
NotMax
Continue to fail to comprehend how it can be super without the Yankees participating.
(ducks behind sturdy piece of furniture)
:)
HumboldtBlue
@Lapassionara:
May I add I have always loved your nym, always gives me a sense of music/opera/theater and lends a smidgen of class to this outhouse of guttersnipes.
Doc Sardonic
@NotMax: Fuck the Yankees
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
you mean mike curtis (video)
HumboldtBlue
@Doc Sardonic:
Fuck the Yankees.
The Thin Black Duke
Thank God Trump doesn’t have a Twitter account anymore.
jl
So, I was out taking my exercise earlier today and wondered where everyone was. Football, huh?
Tom Brady, sports history’s goatiest GOAT had a good day, from what I hear.
Benw
@NotMax: why are the ducks behind the furniture? Is TaMara there?
Alison Rose
@HumboldtBlue: On behalf of my dearly departed Mets-fan grandpa, fuck the Yankees.
Benw
@The Thin Black Duke: word.
Starboard Tack
@HumboldtBlue:
Fuck the Yankees. Grew up near Cleveland in the 50’s & 60’s. Loved what happened to them in the 70’s.
HumboldtBlue
@Alison Rose: @Starboard Tack:
On behalf of decent men and women everywhere and as a reminder to my NY cousins, fuck the Yankees.
jl
Why is everyone saying ‘fuck the Yankees’? I thought Brady’s team won, whatever that is.
Edit: Buccaneers
Edit2: but if the pandemic brought us the year that the Yankees managed to lose the Superbowl, then it did bring some very tiny sliver of good into the world.
brendancalling
this is the first year in a long time I skipped watching the Super Bowl. I haven’t watched football all year. I honestly don’t get the point during a pandemic.
Also too, they sure got help to keep playing. Woulda been nice if musicians and theater performers and dancers and artists got a fucking penny. Maybe we should give ourselves concussions.
Ken
@The Thin Black Duke: Was that prompted by anything in particular, or just a prayer of thanksgiving suitable for any time?
West Texan 70
Magnificent Papayas was the name of my punk band in the 80’s …
Starboard Tack
@brendancalling:
Kinda feel concussed already.
HumboldtBlue
@jl:
Why do we need a reason to say “fuck the Yankees”?
It just is.
Like punching a Nazi saying “fuck the Yankees” is always the right thing to do no matter where and when.
Paul M Gottlieb
@Seanly: Senior citizen bumbles and stumbles to a 7th Super Bowl win. I’m sick of it too. Why doesn’t Brady know enough to hand it up, since he’s obviously over the hill
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@brendancalling: I’m wondering how many will be able to pick up where they left off. As you know, Nashville is a pretty stressful place to be right now.
TomatoQueen
New Haven girl says Fuck the Yankees twice. Fuck the Yankees.
jl
@HumboldtBlue: Sort of like laughing at Mike Pence?
Some news blurb service is constantly bothering me with alerts that Mike Pence is starting a podcast aimed at young people.
I guess that means 50 year olds, or what?
HumboldtBlue
@jl:
The mother fucker.
Steeplejack
** DVR Alert **
TCM is running Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire (1987) at 2:45 a.m. EST. Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk. An angel falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist and chooses to become mortal so that he can experience human life.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@jl: Speaking of someone popular with the youts – if these two weren’t in office they would be perfect for a Broadway revival of “The Sunshine Boys” (photo) They so clearly enjoy each other.
Starboard Tack
@Steeplejack:
Thanks.
RandomMonster
jl
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Those two are no Mike Pence.
They are the cool great uncles who road the rods, and saw and did shit when there was wild shit to see and do. The youths go wild over those two old coots.
Starboard Tack
@RandomMonster:
What kind of chiles did you use?
Richard
@NotMax: yes, not again this superbowl thing. We are supposed to watch the ads. It is bullshit, and the only good thing is they show themselves.
Richard
@jl: ha. I don’t know many young people. Mike Pence is not one of them.
Richard
@jl: ha. I don’t know many young people. Mike Pence is not one of them.
@HumboldtBlue:
@cmorenc: stop it. My neighbor is still suffering. She can’t believe that her president is no longer in control. She got fired from her job and now we have to feed her. It is a pain in the ass. Nobody will give her a job because nutjob. She told me that times are hard.
I told her that when times get hard, i go fishing for cigarette butts in an ashtray.
JaySinWA
Once again this year I managed to miss the Superb Owl sighting. Did anybody spot it?
Amir Khalid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): You probably won’t see this reply, but Bruce has always refused to do commercial endorsements. In the eighties, a car company offered him millions for the use of Born In The USA in its advertising; he replied, “No thanks, mister.” He doesn’t even have a signature guitar deal with Fender, even though a Springsteen Telecaster would sell like crazy.
Richard
@Omnes Omnibus: yes, we will have trouble doing that. We didn’t like you very much before. Now that we see what people are like in these days, we will have a lot of trouble.
ColoradoGuy
Walking the little dog right around sunset, I was amazed how quiet everything was. No airplanes buzzing overhead, no sound of traffic, no bicyclists whizzing around on their mountain bikes, just silence. No people, just me and the dog.
Then I remembered, oh yeah, there’s some game on TV that everyone is supposed to watch. Having grown up in Japan and Hong Kong, I never learned anything about American football, so the game makes zero sense to me. Then again, even though I went to a British school in Hong Kong, I never made any sense out of cricket, either.
Amir Khalid
Three gig bags arrived from the online market today. I now have six gig bags. But only five guitars, after my plan to buy that 335-type was foiled by the manufacturer running out of stock. Goodness gracious, whatever shall I do?
prostratedragon
@Amir Khalid: Think of the extra bag as a synthetic guitar future?
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Gvg: I have very good luck displaying good intentions to shy cats by feeding them baby food (Gerber’s 2nd level – chicken or beef – basically meat puree). Everyone loves it. You can offer it on a spoon or on a fingertip. If they aren’t interested to begin with, rub some on their mouth so they have to lick it off and get a taste.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Hipster laundry bag?
:)
RandomMonster
@Starboard Tack: Poblanos are the best IMO.
Gvg
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): I can try it, but right now 3 of them just hide when I am in the room.
Geo Wilcox
I didn’t watch the game but my husband did. His only comment was now he saw NO women in the half time show. He LOVED last year’s show, being sort of in love with Jennifer Lopez (can’t say as I blame him one tiny bit, she’s gorgeous and super talented) so he certainly noticed the lack of women.
He was not impressed by the performer, said he could barely understand the words to the songs as it was so over produced.
citizen dave
@Geo Wilcox: There were a few comments last night in the thread before. I’m with your husband on the singer, but a few jackals say they like his music/songs, and the sound was bad on the Super Bowl.
One thing we can say for sure is that for now, The Weeknd is over. I can’t stop myself. I think it’s one of the worst ever chosen names. So many “Who’s on First” variations, though, so maybe it’s growing on me.
“I know it’s the Weekend! But who’s the halftime performer!”