Sam gave away 20% of the value in his guess the change game and I’ll do the same. His change guessing game received 23 answers. My guess is I’ll get less. Make your guesses of how much change is in the pictures below in the comment section or on Facebook. Payment will be made through Venmo.
Every single person on Earth has to deal with eliminating waste which gives the process mass appeal. I’ve compiled my favorite fart or poop scenes from movies and will share them with you today. Did I miss any?
Blazing Saddles – “Beans, Beans, They’re Good For Your Heart
Step Brothers – “I thought it was going to be silent”
Rain Man – “I Don’t Mind It”
Hollywood Knights – “Volare”
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery – Who Does #2 Work For
Along Came Polly – The Shart
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle – Battle Shits
BenchWarmers – Beef Stew
Dumb and Dumber – Toilet Scene
American Pie – Finch Has Diarrhea
Click – David Hasselhoff Gets It
Jurassic Park – Toilet Death
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]’ve heard this discussion come up a few times, what is harder, rolling a perfect game in bowling or getting a hole in one? Both sides can be taken without either person being wrong which is generally how blog posts get created. As a person who devotes too much time to both activities, I have an opinion.
My favorite Hole in One to give an idea of what it takes:
For a 300.
Bad Bowlers Don’t Roll 12 Strikes in a Row – Our alley gives away a shot of old crow if you get a turkey, 3 strikes in a row. For a league bowler, it’s conceivable to roll a turkey every game. For your average bowler, getting a strike is hard enough. You don’t give away free anything unless it’s perceived as moderately challenging.
Discussing which is harder.
I have one hole in one in my career and exactly 0 300 games. Even though I couldn’t see my hole in one go in, it was on a good line and I envision it rolled in the cup without any funny business. I have 2 friends who’ve gotten hole in ones and one bounced off a rock and the other was from 100 yards (I’m not belittling the hole in one but the closer, the easier). I’ve had 2 shots this year which were within 6 inches of getting a hole in one. Hole in one’s happen although not very often. If I play 50 rounds of golf this year, and there are on average 4 par 3’s a course, it means I should get a hole in one every 6 years. Considering I’ve been golfing for 15+ years of my life, you’d think I’d have more by the odds. Now consider I’m a 15-20 handicap, anyone who is higher will have WAY more than 12,500-1 odds.
My career high in bowling is 266. I’ve even bowled 14 strikes in a row but this was combining 2 games. It is inevitable I bowl a 300 as long as I keep bowling. I’m friends with 0 people who’ve rolled a 300. Random people don’t bowl 300’s. The odds of an adult male, 150 avg, bowling a 300 aren’t 11,500-1, they are a million to 1. A 200 avg bowler will do better than 11,500 to 1. A 250 avg bowler will bowl more 300’s than any human being can make hole in one’s in a lifetime. It’s a tremendous feat to roll a 300 but once you get to that level of bowling, you can continue to get 300’s at a pace unlike golf.
So if I were to enter this discussion of which is harder, the shittiest answer ever is, it depends. If you are really good at either game, it’s harder to get a hole in one. If you are really bad at the games, you won’t roll a 300, but you have a chance at a hole in one on any given swing.
Wish my youngest brother a Happy Birthday if you haven’t already. He’s developed into quality human being who I’m proud to say is my brother. Absent minded at times, solid bowling partner, fastest beer miler this side of the Mississippi, Guitar Hero, and always apt to send an email blast to the wrong list. 25 is a good age. This post is for you.
Watching Your Facebook Wall Light Up
How Important a 25th Birthday Is
How You Should Feel Today
When Super Smash Brothers is Being Played at a Party
To Any Bad Presents You Get
An SJW is a social justice warrior.
A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation. A social justice warrior, or SJW, does not necessarily strongly believe all that they say, or even care about the groups they are fighting on behalf of. They typically repeat points from whoever is the most popular blogger or commenter of the moment, hoping that they will “get SJ points” and become popular in return. They are very sure to adopt stances that are “correct” in their social circle.
The SJW’s favorite activity of all is to dogpile. Their favorite websites to frequent are Livejournal and Tumblr. They do not have relevant favorite real-world places, because SJWs are primarily civil rights activists only online.
Annliese Neilson doesn’t deserve to live in the United States. Here’s an idea, mind your own business. The video below shows her abusing a Lyft driver (who goes into a Lyft ride ready to record unless they want trouble). So some Lyft driver wants to have a Hawaiian bobble head in his car. Good for him. I don’t care if he has the grim reaper. People like Annliese are out to make trouble with their SJW agenda. If Donald Trump started a “deport SJW’s”, I’d vote for him.
You’re getting beat out of the job by BLAINE GABBERT! Enough said. People like this should keep their mouth shut because you are only bringing negative attention to the situation. It is attention, I’ll give that but it’s not the right kind of attention. You aren’t helping the matter than you are protesting (Black Lives Matter) by bringing all the attention to yourself with a bull headed move like not standing for the National Anthem. You’ve made millions of dollars in this country. If you don’t like it, move to Guam where it’s probably a hell of a lot worse.
Streaming is the new way to listen to music. What is the point of having physical objects whether it be CD’s or pieces of vinyl? Whereas in the 90’s you’d buy a $16 dollar CD from the Wall or Sam Goody and then get the right to listen to 10-16 tracks by 1 artist. Millions upon millions of CD’s were sold. This worked well in the time period but today New Music Friday on Spotify is the way to get heard.
If you don’t have a paid subscription to Spotify, I’d imagine you are not listening to music on a daily basis. With a $15 a month you have access to an unlimited amount of songs (minus Taylor Swift because she must a be greedy bitch ((or more likely she is just managed by intelligent people who are building an empire) that can be played ANYWHERE. Today I’m going golfing and bringing along my portable speaker and then streaming music through Spotify. Yes it uses data. My plan currently has 4gb of data because I used to only have 2 and was going over. The last 2 months I’ve used 5.1 which caused a $30 dollar overage charge. I even called up and tried to negotiate down and the woman was being a stubborn SOB. I wasn’t going to start screaming because it really all depends on who you get that day and how good of a mood they are in. Anyway, I started rambling a bit and got off-topic.
The point I had used to originate this post was that musicians are releasing their music one song at a time every Friday. It’s genius. You hear a song released by a certain group and it gets played by The Spectrum or AltNation on Sirius which gives you insight into which groups are worth listening to. Then if you like the song, you anxiously await hearing the next released song. I’ll give an example, Young the Giant started with Amerika which was a great song. They followed up with Something to Believe In, then Titus was Born, and then Repeat. A month later they released the album “Home of the Strange” and I listened to the entire album because I liked the prior songs.
So I ask the question, Young the Giant is not making as much money doing this as they would have if people bought their CD? However, I actually enjoy the music of Young the Giant and would be more apt to give them money at a concert or through merchandise. It’s a different form of commerce and I like the other Alt artists who are using this method such as GroupLove, St Hotel, and Modest Mouse (the part in Lives (Your Life) at 1:24 comes out of nowhere). High and Low just released by Emipres of the Sun is a jam worth hearing.
I’m finished with this post. I started at 11 am and it’s not 11:18. That was pretty much 18 minutes of a stream of thought that I went with one way or another. I’m leaving here in 25 minutes and am posting this no matter what.
I’m love/hate on Taylor Swift but these are definitely some love pictures. I do notice she seems to be acting like she’s the hottest bitch and can’t nobody fuck with her. I suppose she’s right.
You guessed it, Woody Harrelson.
What is somewhat amusing about Woody being my favorite actor is that he hasn’t exactly been in a ton of great movies. Sure, Kingpin is an absolute gem as we make sure we don’t get Munsoned out in the middle of nowhere. White Man Can’t Jump as the clueless, gambling man Billy Ho is as solid of a movie as you get. True Detective could be considered one of the top 10 series of all time and Woody got ridden by Alexandria Daddario is a strong showing. Plus, who can forget Carson Wells as the cocky bounty hunter in No Country For Old Men?
These movies are all classics and his part is always played to perfection. Now if you start going down his filmography, I’ll be perfectly honest, I’ve hardly seen many of the movies. The joke in Kingpin with the reference to Indecent Proposal involving him flew right over my head. I thought the People vs Larry Flynt was decent but I have no reason to ever watch it again. Natural Born Killers is on my list of movies to watch to better define my Woody filmography. That sounded bad.
I haven’t seen any of the Hunger Games movies. Never seen Now You Know Me and Zombieland and I can’t remember his character in Seven Pounds. There are also about 50 movies he has made appearances in that I haven’t heard of. I’m well aware that this isn’t a strong backing for how he could be my favorite actor when there are guys like Robert DeNiro (#45), Tom Hanks(#1), and Jack Nicholson (#26) out there. They must have left Woody off…
The reason I like him is because he seems like a fun guy to be around. He isn’t going Heath Ledger and killing himself for a role (Joker) or Christian Bale and starving himself (the Mechanic). He seems to me like he shows up for work, nails his part, goes home and smokes a doob, and then does it again the next day. I bet he has stories for days. Perhaps I’m partial because KingPin has become one of my favorite movies but maybe I’ll create a part 2 after watching a few more of his roles. I also think he’s a pick that most people wouldn’t select which is another reason I like him more.
A further addition to this post is his Reddit AMA which has become an instant classic when he left after 15 questions when this story popped up:
I swear this is (allegedly) a true story. I went to a high school in LA and you (allegedly) crashed our prom after party (Universal Hilton). You (allegedly) ended up taking the virginity of a girl named Roseanne. You (allegedly) didn’t call her afterwards. She (allegedly) cried a lot. Do you remember any of this and can confirm or have you (allegedly) been so knee deep in hollywood pooty for so long that this qualifies as a mere blip?
/I’m (allegedly) not kidding.
The older brother will always find a detail to annoy them.
"You're killin' me with that crunchin'!"
Peyton can't stand how Eli eats chips. ???? #TheTimeline (via @NFLFilms) https://t.co/KYu23F6XfN
— NFL (@NFL) August 24, 2016
Bowling is easy. It requires what all other activities do when you are trying to improve and that’s doing it often. I’ve participated in many different sports over my life and they are based off of how skilled I am, at whatever age I am.
From elementary school through middle school, I enjoyed basketball. I went to all the camps and was a pretty damn good little kid (proof here). Then I got cut from the 7th grade basketball team because I hadn’t hit puberty yet and that was the end of my career.
Once you get past high school you do whatever the hell you want. I’ve been golfing since the age of 12 and at various points of my life I’ve tried to develop my skills. I’ve had a few seasons where I’ve been mid 80’s consistently but have never broke through. Now I’ve pretty much reasoned that as long as I have a job, I won’t have enough time to practice golf to be a scratch golfer. Which brings me to bowling.
The “sport” that allows you to drink beer and compete. The sport that has no variation aside from the amount of oil on the lane. The sport that once you’ve done it enough, it becomes more of a mind game than a game of physicality. A sport that is easy to get better at with practice.
This is a screenshot of our team in our league (we are Snakes Strike Back):
I started competitive bowling in Jan of ’16 averaging 165-170 pins through my first 5 weeks. I’ve risen my average by 20+ pins after 8 months of bowling “seriously”. This past week I rolled the highest series of my life, 861, which is a 225+ average. I got lucky multiple times and wouldn’t expect consistent performance like this but it shows that I’ve struck a pretty high ceiling. Our team stats below:
From Gutter to Glory
I’d estimate that I’ve bowled at least once a week for the past 30 weeks. Now raising an average from 190 to 220 may take another year, who knows. Adjusting in bowling, and not just adjusting but knowing when and how to do it quickly, is a major skill. Throwing the ball down the lane only requires muscle memory. There is some luck involved in hitting the pins but less can go wrong when compared to other games. Watching your ball, where it strikes, and then doing it better is all you need. Once you play for 8 months straight, you start getting better at it.
Would I be making this post if I didn’t just roll a 681 series? No. Obviously you can’t claim to be good at a certain game by doing well for 1 week. However, I’ve talked with people who are good bowlers and they claim that breaking through in bowling is mainly about believing that you can break through.
So this year’s game is bowling and I’ve been enjoying it. Socializing with other bowlers, although not the most athletic or motivated crew, is fun for all. The pressure in the last frames is also a feeling you don’t get from other sports. For my early 30’s, I found a “sport” I like. It’s an old man sport.
No real point to this post other than I’ll hopefully post again when I hit a 700 series which I’m hoping won’t be a year from now.