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Weekend observations from a regular guy in Ohio who needs to get something off his chest
I need to start this morning with a confession. I hate to get all serious on a Monday morning, but I need to be upfront with you guys and just say it: I wore pants yesterday for a golf outing at a 1-star golf course.
You're damn right I'm not proud of myself, but it happened and now I have to deal with the fallout from such behavior. Why was I wearing pants? Because the Sunday morning temp was 56 at 6:30 and the weather people had been rambling on about how the humidity would be gone and it would be a raw Sunday morning. Low humidity. Low temps. Wind in the face on the golf course. I went with pants and it was a terrible decision that has me reevaluating a few things and declaring to do better.
Yes, it was a huge Respect Summer® miss and it was a lesson.
No more pants until September 23.
Was it a little chilly Saturday night while at a Patio Party watching the USC game? Yes, but I stood my ground and wore shorts and it was fine. Sunday, I slipped. It won't happen again.
• John from SD writes:
Jim Nance had to be waiting all weekend for this one: “He’s the season-long Viktor”! $18 million to the winner, caddy has to be ecstatic with his 10%. That final group was on fire, what a way to end the golf season.
Little League World Series: good for the SoCal kids; local sportscasters couldn’t pronounce Curaçao (it’s a soft second c, not a hard c). Is it the U.S. local teams vs. the other countries all all-star teams (meaning not a local foreign team from a specific city like the U.S. teams)? Cuba coach defected, who would have guessed!
F1: great strategic race with the rain. Amazing drivers. Nice track with banked turns. Mercedes and Ferrari complaining about the Red Bull dominance, very weak.
Keep up the great work and have a great week!
What's something you used to enjoy?
• Chad B. R. writes:
I hope you are doing well. I was just curious as to what was something that you used to really enjoy, but now look back on it and say "What was I thinking?" For example, mine would be listening to Howard Stern's radio show religiously.
Kinsey:
Betting on sports.
Those shots of dopamine were incredible, but the other end of the dopamine rush just got to be too much and the best thing I did was give it up. Now there's much less stress and I can sit around enjoying myself rather than stressing over every play.
Personally, betting on games just to have action is when it was time to reevaluate the situation. I might take part in a text group bet a few times a year, but I don't have a sports betting app on my phone. That's how done I am with that world.
That doesn't mean I don't want to hear about about your triumphs. By all means, tell me how you're tearing up the books. Show me your longshot wins. It's still fun to hear about the industry.
Question for the Screencaps community
• Franco writes:
Does anyone else think Justified: City Primeval kind of stinks? I missed episode 1 but have seen all of six after, and Raylan Givens has done almost nothing in this series.
He goes from place to place talking to people doing boring stuff. In the old Justified he was always killing bad guys and getting into fights, and the show had a lot of humorous scenes. It had a lot of addictive flavor. It was a MUST SEE show..
This season he hasn't killed one person, and he's only been in one fight in episode 2 or 3. It also has a lot of subtle woke stuff in it too. It's not bad, but it's not even close to great like the old show.
What do other people think?
Texas High School football Week 1
• Mike N. saw this display of patriotism:
Natural Born Beauties
• Herb Z. writes:
As the guy who asked the “where have the natural beauties gone” question, you have had one featured recently- Stacy Kiebler. There are no duck lips, no hour-long butt exercises, and no inch-long eyelashes. Just….her. And she looks damm good.
Car wash
• Travers H. writes:
Joe, in the land of Do Hard Things …. How about teaching your kids to wash a car by hand? Doesn’t seem popular with kids today ….they're too busy being lazy and spending 20 bucks at the car wash?
How many of our guys still was a car by hand at least twice a month?
Kinsey:
Is car washing as important as knowing how to detail a car?
I feel like the latter is a bigger skill to have. That's why Screencaps Jr. got a big lesson in that department a month ago when we went to town on Mrs. Screencaps' grocery-getter van that needed serious attention.
Now he knows how to get dog hair out of upholstery with a brush and vacuum. He's officially employable.
I'd say less than 1% of Screencaps readers hand-wash their cars twice a month.
Do you know any loud laborers?
This is why you don't hear me complaining about getting up on a Saturday morning after crushing Kirkland margaritas. Life could be much harder for me. That fact isn't lost on my hollow brain.
I just have to laugh at how coordinated this all is...the NY Times eliminated its COVID death and destruction tracker from its website the last 4-5 months...now look at today's front page
After scrolling down the Times homepage, I found out that the COVID data tracker is still gone, but that hasn't stopped the editorial team from pushing this storyline. Good try, losers.
And that's it, we're good and fired up for the last week of August 2023. It's also a holiday vacation week for many of you. Go hard for four days and then enjoy that one final summer holiday where you Respect Summer and all that it has given you this year.
As for the Floridians in the path of that tropical storm or hurricane, stay safe this week. Let's all get to the weekend and enjoy those massive college football games.
Take care.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com