And they’re off! To a slow start. The World Snail Racing Championships has returned after a three-year break due to Covid.
This year’s prize, a lettuce filled silver cup, was taken home by Evie, whose trainer, 4-year-old Lettie Spragg, is the youngest trainer in the sport’s history. Congratulations to them both. I hope your Monday isn’t dragging, Deadsplinters.
Monday isn’t dragging, but Tuesday through Thursday will be fucking interminable. I’ll be in the office those days, spending all my energy pretending to be a real, live boy, and not a rabid wolverine.
Bring a paperback and take regular bathroom breaks for reading.
and a small bone to gnaw on instead of a coworker.
They aren’t transitioning you back to full time office hours are they? I hope not.
Well…not yet. But, they are definitely sending signals that they plan to push us in that direction. The problem is that people are already jumping ship with how poorly managed this whole project has been–and how “leadership’s” approach to everything is The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves.” It’s all typical Ivory Tower bullshit, and it’s not going to work out the way they think it will.
Nobody wants to go back to the office. Why can’t they just let workers be happy?
Because that’s communism. Besides, they need all of us back in the office to justify their stupid decision to continue hanging onto tens of thousands of square footage all throughout the pandemic, when they should have dropped most of their leases. THAT is what it’s really about, but they refuse to own up to it. Instead, they talk in circles using all manner of business school jargony bullshit until we just get tired of hearing it.
Sorry for the dad joke in the excerpt. I couldn’t help myself. 😂
There once was a race car designer. He named all of his models in alphabetical order, so the first one was the Adam, for the A Car, the second one was Bolt, for B Car, and so on.
The problem is they were all failures, slow as can be. The Model E (Energy), the Model H (Happy), the Model O (Ocelot), all of them just chugged along.
But finally the 19th model was a success. It drove like lightning and cornered like a bighorn bounding down a mountain trail.
So the race car designer had a big press conference, where he unveiled his masterwork, and proudly called it the Snail.
The reporters were puzzled, and wondered why he called such a fast car a Snail.
“Because” answered “you should see that S Car go!”
😂
ha!
you know nissan actually made an s-cargo?
its a pile of junk that drinks almost as much oil as fuel…but theres no denying it catches the eye and makes for a great marketing vehicle
i had to drive it around delivering tires and sarcasm once upon a time
….mine was yellow
That does kind of look like a snail. I wonder if the oil and transmission fluid leaked and it left a slimy trail behind as it went.
tbh….i never figured out where the oil went…….it didnt leave puddles when parked….just drank the stuff
tires and sarcasm
you know….i should have known this was an english thing before watching the video
we will race,chase and bet on anything….even cheese
There are worse cultural traits to have. I’m American, we will shoot anything, even children. 😬
i mean…..
touché
I’d rather bet on the cheese, ngl!🥴
it usually wins…..surprisingly speedy fuckers cheeses
wily too…never take me up on an uphill race
i fancy my chances in one of those
I haven’t had coffee in three days. I will endeavor to rectify that in the next hour.
I’d hate going that long without out it but I imagine it’s going to taste so good!
im trying to imagine waking up without coffee….and not seeing it
nope….unpossible
ive gone 3 days without coffee before….i just didnt sleep the whole time
and may have been on quite a lot of speed
totes off topic
but i stumbled across a fun thing
ha! nice!…..im a little scared to google snail trail now tho….the term is unfamiliar to me…..but the warning bells are ringing
Love this and it’s another one from you I’ve never heard of.
Something pretty cool finally opened up, close to where I grew up in the middle of MN, on the site of the old state Girls’ Reform School grounds…
The Eagle’s Healing Nest was already operating a Mental Health site for Veterans (both Men and Women), and now there’s an additional resource over there, that has a LOT of former Pro Hockey involvement;
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/former-1980-olympic-miracle-stars-dream-becomes-reality-thanks-to-teammates/
https://theranchteammatesforlife.org/about-us/
It came about, after the suicide of Mark Pavelich–one of *many* Minnesotans who played in the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” when a bunch of US college kids beat the Soviet Ice Hockey team, at the Winter Olympics.
Pavelich had the assist, for the game winning goal.
He played for the Stars, and many of the other guys on the Miracle team *also* went on to Pro careers… but they played *before* the era of mandatory helmets… and Pavelich–like Boogie, had a lot of head trauma over the years, which eventually led to him losing his life.
Mental Health support is in low availability up there, so bringing in a facility like this is AWESOME, and it’s going to do a LOT of good💖
I love hearing good news.