The Frankish Reich

What fun is there in blaming that?

No doubt. I can't post my self-hating anti-Buffalo rant because I'm sure I'd get banned.

As long as you don't invoke the name of The Beautiful South we'll be ok.

I thought the reference to my English ex-wife was enough of a tell that this is tongue in cheek ...

I'm just gonna say that some of this is proving my point - our British posters here seem to get sarcasm. (Or maybe it's satire. I always mix those up) Our Yankee posters, not so much 😀 I swear it all flowed out of me like Niagara as soon as I learned that they actually do roll out an inferior fake turf surface for non-soccer events ....

Ok, ok, I’ll admit it. I actually love your country. I just gotta blame something/someone for what happened today …

I spent a little time in France a long time ago. You know what their term is for bucked teeth? Les dents Anglais. English Teeth.

This has nothing to do with the Bills losing, and even less to do with the fact that my ex-wife is English. I swear. These are objective facts. 1. They are stupidly proud of their Greenwich Mean Time that wreaks havoc with travelers and American football teams. This made sense in 1880 when London was the figurative Center of the World. It is not 1880. Now YOU adapt. Go to Eastern Standard Time already. 2. They are stupidly proud of their Foreign Oligarch and Hedge Fund Manager League erroneously know as the English Premier League, so much so that they protect their precious English turf grass by making other events play on a substandard carpet that wouldn't be out of place in the indoor portion of a Walmart Garden Center. 3. They have a really nice launching spot for seeing the "the Continent" (they still talk of "going to Europe" as if they are a Caribbean island) but saw fit to ruin that by Brexiting and making all of that really inconvenient. 4. They are stupidly proud of their music scene, which no one cares about other than English people living abroad (which they do in millions, creating little Englands in every spot where the sun shines more than 60 days a year), and they continue to worship horrible acts like Cliff Richard and Oasis and the Kaiser Chiefs and all kinds of peculiarly English crap. They are also stupidly proud of their "English sense of humo(u)r" by which they mean "I will insult you in the most obvious manner possible whenever you say something remotely earnest so that all may bow to my rapier sharp wit." 5. The more recent arrivals in London and a few other cities will feed you well with tasty, complexly spiced dishes. But 90% of the territory will ooh and aah over heavy, greasy, tasteless dishes (so awful that even they have invented a word - "stodgy" - to describe their own cuisine) that you are expected to compliment your in-laws about as if they've just fed you a 4 star Michelin tasting menu. And heaven forbid you encounter these people around Christmas, where you will watch them howl with laughter at things like a Christmas Pantomime, a kind of childish joke play that appears to consist of putting the least feminine man possible in a dress, making a high pitched voice drowned out by howls of laughter. Oh, and then you can all gather round to watch the Queen's King's Christmas address, the same King who, in perhaps the least arousing sexting scandal ever, expressed his desire to be his horse-faced mistress's tampon. Really. Goodbye, old England. I hope Bills Nation never visits you again.

True. EPL requires real grass, but they won't let secondary events like concerts and NFL games ruin it. So they roll out an artificial turf field in Tottenham.

Not very.

Britain sucks. Get over your effin Greenwich Mean Time like the Greenwich Observatory is the Center of the World. Yeah, it's 1870. Be normal and go to like Eastern Time or at least Central. Don't wheel out the crappy turf for second class events like American football. And stop being so proud of your crappy music and ugly ass King.

Trevor Lawrence > Josh Allen? (duck and cover)

Can't blame Dorsey. Beautifully designed, just bad execution .

me

Problem is the 9:30 a.m. biological clock start. The time change would be largely negated with a late London kickoff.

Players who looked fired up for this game: Epenesa Players who didn't: everyone else

I think we need a QB with a bigger arm

we have 28 rushing yards

Not like the Jags are sharp as a tack either. Just a crappy Thursday Night Football style game. The results will be determined by a bad bounce/luck, etc.

I'm bored.

Bill Maher is 100% correct here. It was maybe only 10 years ago (15?) when I first heard someone use the term "my truth." As in, "my truth is that ... ." I didn't even know what to make of it then. I've since come to realize that people are saying that it may not be objectively true, but I feel that it is true, and that that's what matters. No, it isn't. Your feelings do matter, but feelings are not equal to objective truth.

The question was this: Make America Great Again like the way it was in [blank] year. So the suggestion was: how about 1960? So the truth is: yeah, how about official segregation, black kids can't go to the University of Mississippi or Alabama, black people are precluded from having their votes counted, etc., etc. And the Cold War was at its peak, soon to be followed by the US and USSR coming to the brink of a nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba. Oh, and life expectancy for men in 1960? 66.6 years. So maybe 1960 isn't the best example? Maybe there's a better year? Maybe not. I get it. People see today's problems and are nostalgic for a bygone era. I would love to see a world again in which the term "school shooting" didn't exist. But nostalgia is no substitute for hard-eyed realism. We have problems, and the solution to those problems exists in looking forward, not backward to some legendary age when all was right with America.

Trump is usually careful to stay just this side of the racist line, but now he's eagerly crossing it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/politics/trump-immigration-rhetoric.html Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. This is indefensible. The white, northern European blood of our country? It's that great replacement theory. Disgusting.

Didn't you say you're black? I'm not gonna presume to speak for your experiences, but while 1960 may have had stronger family structures, it also had official segregation (really American apartheid) in a huge swath of the country, and lots of other things that don't exactly look like they were "great" in retrospect. That's what happens with nostalgia. When you really examine what life was like, must people have no interest in going back to some bygone age.

I'm not there for the game 😭 but there's some really good airfares for early next year, so we are hoping to take a quick trip. I will definitely check this out (hadn't heard of it before) ... thanks for the tip!