OT: 66th Obsequious Banter Thread: Get your kicks in thread 66

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Let's do it. 6 golfers, top 4 in the money from your list of 6 count.

Pick any golfers you want, no tier.

Send me picks and I'll put them in a spreadsheet

@Captain Dave Poulin

I saw this after I posted that one above lol

BUT let's set up a draft for after this, before the next major, so we can have exclusive rights to our picks for the next three majors.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I will take:

Rory McIlroy
Jordan Spieth
Ricky Fowler
Kevin Kisner
Matt Kuchar
Xander Schauffele

 

[Chinatown88]

@Chinatown88 @Captain Dave Poulin @Hollywood Couturier @Young Sandwich @flyersphan20

Let's do it. Post your picks here or send them to me

@Pavel Buchnevich @Dr John Carlson @Soliloquy of a Dogge you guys want in?

Since this is a one off for The Masters.

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Bubba Watson
Tony Finau
Jason Day
Bryson DeChambeau

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Since this is a one off for The Masters.

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Bubba Watson
Tony Finau
Jason Day
Bryson DeChambeau

I'm in.

Rory
Rahm
Fowler
Dechambeau
DJ
Kim

 

[DancingPanther]

What goes on in this thread? Is this where I should hang out in the off-season? Besides the Tainter thread of course

 

[Amorgus]

I'm now having flashbacks to the PGA Tour game on the Genesis we used to play. We'd all race to be Fuzzy Zoeller because he had a funny name.

 

[Ruck Over]

What goes on in this thread? Is this where I should hang out in the off-season? Besides the Tainter thread of course

Whatever captures the imagination. Topics usually change within two pages or so. Seldom is something so universally captivating to become dominant outside of a circle-jerk (edit: haha, censor) call & response of a few individuals. Pop culture, movies, often get a lot of traction for a bit.

 

[DancingPanther]

Whatever captures the imagination. Topics usually change within two pages or so. Seldom is something so universally captivating to become dominant outside of a circle-jerk (edit: haha, censor) call & response of a few individuals. Pop culture, movies, often get a lot of traction for a bit.

I'm in. Where do I sign up

 

[Cody Webster]

I'm now having flashbacks to the PGA Tour game on the Genesis we used to play. We'd all race to be Fuzzy Zoeller because he had a funny name.

Goat game

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

What goes on in this thread? Is this where I should hang out in the off-season? Besides the Tainter thread of course

Literally everything, even stuff that belongs somewhere else, and especially stuff that doesn't belong anywhere, including here.

 

[Cody Webster]

Alright, I got 4 entries so far

I'm gonna go with:
Rory
Tiger
Koepka
DJ
Sergio
Rose

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I'm in. Where do I sign up

You don't sign up - you just pinch it off and drop it in here.

 

[Magua]

What goes on in this thread? Is this where I should hang out in the off-season? Besides the Tainter thread of course

I'm going to start a Coffin™ thread. But I'm going to start it in the KHL forum.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I'm going to start a Coffin™ thread. But I'm going to start it in the KHL forum.

@DancingPanther this reminds me, before you can post in here you have to go back to the old place and close and lock the gates. I have a feeling we have gotten all the good ones from there and there is only horror left, and we hardly need more of that.

 

[Magua]

@DancingPanther this reminds me, before you can post in here you have to go back to the old place and close and lock the gates. I have a feeling we have gotten all the good ones from there and there is only horror left, and we hardly need more of that.

For my buzzers:

 

[Ruck Over]

@DancingPanther like this

So today, at work, beginning at 9:45 am EST, a group text chain began sharing this image -

To which, another participant exclaimed with joy he was just about to share this article-
Black Hole Image Revealed for First Time Ever

Eye of Sauron was mentioned, a gif of Spinal Tap was shared (a blacker black), I called folks nerds, then we jumped to GoT and a picture of Cersi on the throne crowned looks awfully similar to Lieutenant Yar after she joins the Romulans. A buddy forgot he was married for 8 going on 9 years, instead of 7, and someone got called adventerous for making a Brienne of Tarth/Tormund joke and it alluded to the amazon sex position. A buddy's wife was not impressed, and someone disparaged Magic: the Gathering.

While talking with a supervisor, I kept looking at my phone to keep up, because I was sitting behind her, and she was busy looking at her computer screen.

And in continuation of avoidance, I'm sharing this story instead of... doing something else.

Go!


But about the black hole, it's awesome. All those sci-fi pictures give an expectation of the grand. But the simplicity here, I dig it. An actual black hole, with a visible event-horizon. Makes me think of the movie Event Horizon, and of the show, The Expanse. Einstein didn't want to be right about black holes, but here one is. It's so far away, but if I were one of the crazy rich eccentric billionaires, I'd point a rocket at it with some satellite on it tomorrow. So many more questions, that can conceivably be answered now, instead of just theorized. And now that we found one (well, photographed one, others have been found common place like), there's only room to find (photograph) more.

 

[DancingPanther]

I'm going to start a Coffin™ thread. But I'm going to start it in the KHL forum.

Pls tag me

 

[Amorgus]

@DancingPanther like this

So today, at work, beginning at 9:45 am EST, a group text chain began sharing this image -

To which, another participant exclaimed with joy he was just about to share this article-
Black Hole Image Revealed for First Time Ever

Eye of Sauron was mentioned, a gif of Spinal Tap was shared (a blacker black), I called folks nerds, then we jumped to GoT and a picture of Cersi on the throne crowned looks awfully similar to Lieutenant Yar after she joins the Romulans. A buddy forgot he was married for 8 going on 9 years, instead of 7, and someone got called adventerous for making a Brienne of Tarth/Tormund joke and it alluded to the amazon sex position. A buddy's wife was not impressed, and someone disparaged Magic: the Gathering.

While talking with a supervisor, I kept looking at my phone to keep up, because I was sitting behind her, and she was busy looking at her computer screen.

And in continuation of avoidance, I'm sharing this story instead of... doing something else.

Go!


But about the black hole, it's awesome. All those sci-fi pictures give an expectation of the grand. But the simplicity here, I dig it. An actual black hole, with a visible event-horizon. Makes me think of the movie Event Horizon, and of the show, The Expanse. Einstein didn't want to be right about black holes, but here one is. It's so far away, but if I were one of the crazy rich eccentric billionaires, I'd point a rocket at it with some satellite on it tomorrow. So many more questions, that can conceivably be answered now, instead of just theorized. And now that we found one (well, photographed one, others have been found common place like), there's only room to find (photograph) more.

I hope this is the first pic of the inside.

 

[Lord Defect]

I’m in on the golf thing. I’ll take Gilmore.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Interstellar is supposed to feature an incredibly realistic simulation of a black hole as it would appear if you were in decent visual range. They went all out designing the thing and I seem to recall that the people involved actually published their work in a physics journal.

It was spiced up for the screen, i think this is the more raw simulation:

The side rotating towards you is the brighter side and the side rotating away appears less bright. I don't know, Doppler effect with light, or something. The movie version has universal brightness. Though i guess there is a level of brightness where it would all look the same to us.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Interstellar is supposed to feature an incredibly realistic simulation of a black hole as it would appear if you were in decent visual range. They went all out designing the thing and I seem to recall that the people involved actually published their work in a physics journal.

It was spiced up for the screen, i think this is the more raw simulation:

The side rotating towards you is the brighter side and the side rotating away appears less bright. I don't know, Doppler effect with light, or something. The movie version has universal brightness. Though i guess there is a level of brightness where it would all look the same to us.

Thanks for giving me a concussion, I appreciate it.

 

[DancingPanther]

@DancingPanther like this

So today, at work, beginning at 9:45 am EST, a group text chain began sharing this image -

To which, another participant exclaimed with joy he was just about to share this article-
Black Hole Image Revealed for First Time Ever

Eye of Sauron was mentioned, a gif of Spinal Tap was shared (a blacker black), I called folks nerds, then we jumped to GoT and a picture of Cersi on the throne crowned looks awfully similar to Lieutenant Yar after she joins the Romulans. A buddy forgot he was married for 8 going on 9 years, instead of 7, and someone got called adventerous for making a Brienne of Tarth/Tormund joke and it alluded to the amazon sex position. A buddy's wife was not impressed, and someone disparaged Magic: the Gathering.

While talking with a supervisor, I kept looking at my phone to keep up, because I was sitting behind her, and she was busy looking at her computer screen.

And in continuation of avoidance, I'm sharing this story instead of... doing something else.

Go!


But about the black hole, it's awesome. All those sci-fi pictures give an expectation of the grand. But the simplicity here, I dig it. An actual black hole, with a visible event-horizon. Makes me think of the movie Event Horizon, and of the show, The Expanse. Einstein didn't want to be right about black holes, but here one is. It's so far away, but if I were one of the crazy rich eccentric billionaires, I'd point a rocket at it with some satellite on it tomorrow. So many more questions, that can conceivably be answered now, instead of just theorized. And now that we found one (well, photographed one, others have been found common place like), there's only room to find (photograph) more.

You're missing the wide capture though. It's sick

 

[Ruck Over]

You're missing the wide capture though. It's sick

YOU"RE DOING IT! CONGRATS!!!1111111111111

 

[DancingPanther]

@DancingPanther this reminds me, before you can post in here you have to go back to the old place and close and lock the gates. I have a feeling we have gotten all the good ones from there and there is only horror left, and we hardly need more of that.

Many have come after me, maybe they were the ones that didn't shut the door on their way out.

 

[Cody Webster]

Today is the day!