2026 Off-season notes

[COB]

18 hours ago, TJJackson said:

How many orders of potato cakes?

There actually were potatoes in the hash I ordered (brunch menu).  

[HoosierCat]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…so bored (kicks back of seat several times, whines at Army, “Are we there yet? Is this stupid off-season over yet?”). C’mon Bengals, step it up! No one has punched a woman or gotten a DUI or bitched about their contract in FOREVER. So…freakin…borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred.

[COB]

This off season truly is dull.  

 

 I went to visit my mother at her assisted-living facility yesterday. 

 

When I was leaving the same old guy, who is always there, was sitting at the nurses station. 

 

And as always, he mean, mugged me like he’s a menace to society or something.  Dude’s probably in his 90s. 

He’s done it to me pretty much every time I’ve walked through there. He probably has dementia.  He has sort of that vacant look and he never ever speaks to anyone. I’m 99% sure he has dementia. 

 

Nonetheless, I mean, don’t fuck with me.  So when I was leaving, I just blatantly locked eyes with him.  I walked the 7 or 8 steps right towards him and he finally averted his gaze when I was just a few feet away. 

 

 Make of that what you will. I don’t know what it says about me, but yes, I backed down a 95-year-old dementia patient in my mother’s assisted living facility. 

 

 I will answer the obvious question before anyone even asks it. No, he was not in a wheelchair. He does use a walker though.

[ArmyBengal]

COB I can totally relate.

My divorced mother and father in law are in the same nursing facility.
It's hilarious watching these two go back and forth with each other when they are around each other.

That being said, some of the old ladies in that joint are next level with how they approach men.
Just when I thought it was only a "Dirty Old Man" thing that happened, you hear these raunchy old women that say and do the same thing if not worse.  Even offering candy and handmade items in exchange for favors.

It's a shame I don't like Three Musketeers and scarfs or I might break some hips in that joint.

[HoosierCat]

Let the record show that this thread has now reached the “nursing home nookie” level. Looking down, I believe the next stop is Avernus (the first layer of the nine hells). Prepare to abandon all hope…

[HoosierCat]

Is our Bengals learning…?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7387460/2026/06/24/bengals-offense-under-center-joe-burrow/ 

I mean, we’ve only been yelling about this for like 3-4 years.