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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 1h

Whoa. I was never a fan of KISS but dang. Ace Frehley. Oh man. I saw he collapsed. But I did not see this one coming. RIP.

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 4h

I can’t believe that I just learned Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway Airports use goats, donkeys and llamas to mow their lawns. That is pretty radical.

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 6h

There is this other sport called Horse Wrestling and it is exactly what it sounds like. It’s wrestling, but you are on a horse. Wtf?

Who comes up with this??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er_Enis...

Er Enish - Wikipedia

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 6h

There is this sport called buzkashi around Mongolia and Afghanistan that I cannot believe is real. The premise of the sport is to ride a horse and pick up a headless goat carcass and throw it into a giant tub. Pure insanity. How is this real??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzkash...

Buzkashi - Wikipedia

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 6h

I always thought polo was sort of the funniest sport because at some point, someone was like, “okay we are gonna play field hockey”
Okay, I’m on board
“But here’s the thing, we are going to be riding horses the entire time”
Okay, now you’ve lost me. What??

It makes no sense at all lol

dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 7h

There is this musical theory called Inversion, where you basically play a song in reverse.
A famous example of this is the guitar line from Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” is actually Beethoven’s 5th Symphony played in reverse.
Kinda nuts

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 8h

Wait so are they giants or aren’t they? I guess they might be…

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 20h

I read this article about Michael Barrett who was the Chicago Cubs catcher in the early 2000’s, and he mentioned how during July and August, each game (pay attention, *each game*) he would lose 20 pounds

That is madness. Just obscene

Because you just pour sweat

But I get that

dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 20h

My knees were just blown out after every game. I had these ice bags I would duct tape around them after each game. That sucked. But you gotta do what you gotta do

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 20h

Baseball catcher was probably the most intense sport I have ever played. ppl don’t realize, you call the entire game. You call every pitch. You have to shift the defense. & you are squatting the entire time. & you have to keep an eye on the baserunners. & on top of all of that, you have to hit

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 1d

Dude I want to make an album comprised of exclusively the free music that companies use while you are waiting for a representative on a call. It’s all just awful and I think it would be hilarious

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 1d

It must be pretty annoying and confusing to have an Alexa in your house if your name is Alexa

dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 1d

The best battles ever fought are the ones that never occurred

So I always found comedy as a means to break up tension. Because it’s hard to fight when you are laughing your ass. And it has worked for me literally every single time

Sun Tzu was not fucking around. That guy knew what was up.

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 1d

I’m actually a pretty serious person normally. But I read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War very early, when I was a kid. And it’s not a hugely comprehensive book. It’s like 60 pages

But he had this one passage that always stuck with me, (I’m paraphrasing):

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so insane how in the early 2000’s Detroit was a huge Mecca of music. Just out of nowhere. Eminem, White Stripes and for what it’s worth, Kid Rock and the Insane Clown Posse. Just nuts how Detroit just pumped out huge acts. How did that happen??

dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 2d

“If I die before I wake, I hope the lord doesn’t hesitate”

- D’Angelo (RIP)

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dugglebutt @dugglebutt.bsky.social · 2d

Man that news sucks about D’Angelo. Voodoo was an absolute monster record. I know he hadn’t really been around for the past several years but I didn’t know he was battling cancer. Apparently it was very sudden. I hope he didn’t suffer. RIP brother.

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