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Norm Charlatan

@normcharlatan.bsky.social

Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.

created May 12, 2023

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Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Hmm

2/9/2025, 4:00:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

This is why I do my banking on X. They treat me like a racist adult.

2/9/2025, 3:56:47 AM | 116 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

So do I, wow.

2/9/2025, 3:44:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 3:33:57 AM | 949 247 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Gotta get a jump, man.

2/9/2025, 3:23:10 AM | 41 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Do not recommend.

2/9/2025, 3:18:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

lol, I do not recommend getting shingles, it was on my inner thigh halfway past the knee

2/9/2025, 3:15:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Give that man the $10,000.

2/9/2025, 3:14:29 AM | 38 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Tomorrow’s announcement.

Barney at the end of his film
2/9/2025, 3:13:49 AM | 110 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyway, hopefully poison ivy isn’t like that.

2/9/2025, 3:12:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

I got valtrex (which is calculator) orally but then they made put some ointment on the sores since they were open and bleeding, which I assumed was an antibiotic.

2/9/2025, 3:12:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it just a standard ointment for the sores?

2/9/2025, 3:09:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe the same topical antibiotic you get to treat shingles?

2/9/2025, 3:04:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

And here I thought the most Poison Ivy-adjacent storyline would be about Bill and Jordon’s relationship.

2/9/2025, 3:03:05 AM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

It’s sad that when you age in America, you have to choose between having success in your dream job of coaching a college football team and true love.

2/9/2025, 2:56:14 AM | 76 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Therapist: What about Belichick losing big?

2/9/2025, 2:47:39 AM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Feel like the end of that game really ruined the vibes of the whole season.

2/9/2025, 2:32:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Mike Lombardi right now

Monorail guy leaving town with briefcases full of money
2/9/2025, 2:25:03 AM | 136 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Kind of a sloppy game.

2/9/2025, 2:21:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

He is resigning the presidency to become the next head football coach at the University of North Carolina.

2/9/2025, 2:19:14 AM | 323 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Can’t believe Bill did all this just to try and get Steve a head coaching job.

2/9/2025, 2:14:12 AM | 57 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Oliu (@brianoliu.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Me and @normcharlatan.bsky.social assessing the wishbone

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2/9/2025, 1:21:41 AM | 27 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe the real hospitals in winter were the hopes we lost along the way.

1/9/2025, 11:29:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

You could have become best friends.

1/9/2025, 11:23:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

My plan is to find a ranking that isn’t the one that whatever company that’s hosting the league uses so it’s moderately different.

1/9/2025, 9:48:50 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Fantasy football draft tonight. Haven’t done any preparation

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1/9/2025, 9:47:56 PM | 121 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Gotta get in before the price doubles.

1/9/2025, 9:46:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

🎶 Everything is gonna be all right, Rockabye 🎶

1/9/2025, 9:41:32 PM | 56 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

lol, found this similar thing when I looked up “clawfoot tub leg”

1/9/2025, 9:21:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

This means that they’ll be buried together.

1/9/2025, 8:52:50 PM | 97 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah that’s generally what you do on the couch.

1/9/2025, 8:42:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Shrink is leaving my insurance network, so, uh, time to find a new shrink, a thing that is notoriously easy and quick to do.

1/9/2025, 8:41:21 PM | 79 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

@itsthebrandi.bsky.social

1/9/2025, 8:08:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Everyone seems to be rooting for Osaka, but I am more of a Kantō guy. Sorry, but I just prefer Tokyo.

1/9/2025, 8:00:49 PM | 28 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

He should be made an earl.

1/9/2025, 7:55:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

There were some folks from the local Gilbert and Sullivan Society singing at the fair yesterday. I guess their big production is in November.

1/9/2025, 7:46:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

This might be the year I take it to the next level and get really into Gilbert and Sullivan.

1/9/2025, 7:40:35 PM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

お料理ナビ could fix me

1/9/2025, 7:17:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Yeah, they’re throwing the freakin’ rule of law out the window.

1/9/2025, 7:16:58 PM | 186 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Senator Josh Haole.

1/9/2025, 7:14:58 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

You can steal the ones with insufficient flavor.

1/9/2025, 7:13:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Not surprised that it might be wrong now that Bran has been omitted, that’s how things become irregular.

1/9/2025, 7:07:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reposted

Rudy Giuliani won’t see your mocking posts, but your friends whose dark hair dye is melting onto their face and whose personal and professional lives are a complete mess will.

31/8/2025, 11:14:01 PM | 529 67 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

[logging on to Bluesky]: More like Belabor Day, amirite?!

1/9/2025, 6:39:22 PM | 39 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

When are you coming back?

1/9/2025, 6:37:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

My youngest did this, she like took something and I couldn’t find it. After a day or two of looking, I asked her where it was, and she ran to some weird corner of the house and handed it to me. She must have been in a better mood.

1/9/2025, 6:36:01 PM | 40 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Yeah, of course they had to open the bars when the schools were closed, I gotta get out of the house away from my kids.

1/9/2025, 6:33:23 PM | 52 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you, that means a lot.

1/9/2025, 6:32:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Harry Chapin singing The Cat’s in the Cradle
1/9/2025, 6:31:13 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Todd Boehly getting MLS to reopen the transfer window.

1/9/2025, 6:17:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone’s so clever until you hit like two buttons.

Guy replying saying “Seattle doesn’t deserve a NBA team.”
1/9/2025, 6:09:09 PM | 67 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

What exactly is the physiognomy here? There are no craniometric measurements, no precision at all these days. Setting the science back with this AI-laden speculation.

1/9/2025, 6:00:13 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

[Blocking someone for a bad reply]: Next man up.

1/9/2025, 5:56:31 PM | 73 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Ham and cheese sandwich lunch.

Ham and cheese sandwich with lettuce and homegrown tomatoes
1/9/2025, 5:49:27 PM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Ego is good.

1/9/2025, 5:38:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Look at what other electric tools you might need before buying into a battery ecosystem. I have an old Greenworks 40v system that we inherited, it’s been going strong for awhile but when it dies, I want to get something with more power so I can also get an electric snowblower.

1/9/2025, 5:37:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

More of an Id guy.

1/9/2025, 5:35:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Is there a book one might read about this?

1/9/2025, 5:34:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

More seriously, broadcasting changes mean that it’s often easier for fans to watch the best players, like, than it is their local teams. Back in the day, you could only watch your local teams, but now I have to buy an expensive subscription for an RSN while LeBron and Steph are always national tv.

1/9/2025, 4:59:27 PM | 93 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

The other part of this is that it’s often easier for fans to watch out of market teams/players than their own local teams.

1/9/2025, 4:55:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Where my Lakers, Cowboys, Yankees, Duke basketball, Notre Dame football fans at this morning?

1/9/2025, 4:53:04 PM | 98 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Magnificent Skinbag (@magnificentskinbag.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

lies, bro: my bacon GROWS in the pan—my cuts are epic

1/9/2025, 1:48:53 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Does your employer not celebrate Labor Day?

1/9/2025, 4:21:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

I will vote for whichever nominee promises to do this to everyone in the current administration.

Phil Collins: Here tonight is the man who inspired my next song, “Fat Shithead Clogged My Toilet.” [spotlight tracks me as I head for Exit]
1/9/2025, 4:17:29 PM | 65 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Next Democratic nominee should be Phil Collins.

1/9/2025, 4:14:21 PM | 51 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

We should be taking about his brother, Merrick.

1/9/2025, 4:00:06 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

This is not the Uncrustable Burger’s fault.

1/9/2025, 3:25:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Also feel like a lot of bar owners were surprised when very few people wanted to go to their bars.

1/9/2025, 3:21:21 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Like man, don’t you have some other avenue to address your unhappiness?

1/9/2025, 3:18:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

I remember the guy was like, I’m gonna stay here all day and make your life miserable. Dude, no wonder your kid is just absolutely out of control on the field.

1/9/2025, 3:17:31 PM | 32 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Bro, I am 15, you don’t need to threaten me or my 12-year-old linesman with physical violence.

1/9/2025, 3:15:49 PM | 36 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

But I would have called the cops on some dipshit parent who was mad that his kid got a red card in a non-elite u12 game for free

1/9/2025, 3:14:21 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Youth soccer referee, like $15-$25 per game.

1/9/2025, 3:13:09 PM | 39 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t blame him.

1/9/2025, 3:10:24 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Uh, clawfoot tub-owning friends, what do when the legs give out of your tub while you’re showering? Anyone put new legs on one of these things? Or let me know if you have a clawfoot tub guy in the Twin Cities? I fucking hate this thing so much.

1/9/2025, 3:01:57 PM | 25 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

He has also gotten in trouble for spitting.

1/9/2025, 2:32:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

What da?!

1/9/2025, 2:28:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Bulgarians ruining my life.

1/9/2025, 2:19:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Blue Sky is not growing, I’d argue that between the summer wildfires in Canada and rising winter temps leading to gray days here in Minnesota, there is less blue sky than ever before.

1/9/2025, 2:18:01 PM | 177 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

At the fair yesterday, I noticed that there were a number of booths where there were two windows on each side, and one line was long and the other one wasn’t. Neither were particularly obscured nor secret, so I dunno. Faster for me, I guess.

1/9/2025, 2:07:35 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Bro, they’re saying your cuts of bacon shrink too small when you cook them.

1/9/2025, 1:47:46 PM | 40 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Oof, hope you can find some good pizza there.

1/9/2025, 11:55:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s even more complicated than that.

1/9/2025, 11:54:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

Monday morning, rise and grind.

1/9/2025, 11:53:14 AM | 36 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

It works on any Miami.

1/9/2025, 3:18:37 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social)

It’s week one for the quarterbacks.

1/9/2025, 3:12:37 AM | 28 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

Please don’t play, Dawn, I need this.

1/9/2025, 2:44:40 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 2:30:04 AM | 116 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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dawg, you lost by three goals, go to the airport

1/9/2025, 2:06:40 AM | 96 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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lmao, Inter Miami is embarrassing, tremendous losers

1/9/2025, 2:05:26 AM | 139 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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McBain screaming Rothrock!
1/9/2025, 2:02:31 AM | 38 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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McBain yelling Roldán!
1/9/2025, 1:57:57 AM | 55 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Taking out Minoungou in the box and giving up a PK was not very… (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) Bright.

1/9/2025, 1:56:24 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a @treblaw.bsky.social tweet

1/9/2025, 1:05:09 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not the first time Jesus has pinged one off the woodwork.

1/9/2025, 12:56:13 AM | 38 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s correct. We need this.

1/9/2025, 12:48:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine this guy was holding up an Orca necklace and saying “Sounders!”

7/8/2025, 5:03:01 AM | 71 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reply parent

This is probably informed by the origins of the John Birch Society.

1/9/2025, 12:39:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rooting against Miami tonight in both football and fútbol.

1/9/2025, 12:06:22 AM | 53 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guy rooting for Notre Dame because he loves The Town

Leprechaun tattoo in The Town
31/8/2025, 11:59:06 PM | 55 0 | View on Bluesky | view