Glenn Beck: Conservatives Should Boycott Disney Because They’re Making a Film About Charles Darwin

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See, this is why America is a laughingstock to much of the world: the casual anti-science ignorance of right wing clowns like Glenn Beck.

In this clip from Right Wing Watch, Beck rants about Disney lighting up the Magic Castle at their theme park in rainbow colors, then suggests conservatives need to boycott Disney because they’re making a movie about (gasp!) Charles Darwin!

Notice, Beck doesn’t even have to explain why a film about Darwin is supposed to be a bad thing. It’s just assumed that his audience understands the theory of evolution is evil and Darwin is a villain, and therefore Disney must hate Christian families to even think about doing such an outrageous thing.

“Boycotts work and we have created a vacuum. We do nothing,” Beck said. “Let me give you this story, they’re doing a new movie, kind of an Indiana Jones swashbuckling spirit of a five year voyage in 1831 on ship H.M.S. Beagle to the coastline of South America to find and follow the man who made discoveries that made him one of the most influential figures in human history.”

“Wow, this sounds like a swashbuckling thriller that we are going to have to take our families to see,” Beck said sarcastically. “Doesn’t it sound great? It’s Charles Darwin. It’s the story of Charles Darwin and so we’re going to find out how exactly he came up with the idea, made the discoveries that brought him to the theory of evolution. Thank you, Disney! That’s fantastic.”

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426 comments
1 Kragar  Jun 30, 2015 2:28:53pm

Hasn’t Glenn been dragged off to a FEMA camp to meet his new gay spouse yet?

2 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:29:26pm

Okay get right on that Glenn. Really are you fucking with me? Boycotting a film over Darwin?

3 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 2:29:26pm

re: #1 Kragar

Hasn’t Glenn been dragged off to a FEMA camp to meet his new gay spouse yet?

Help! Help! I’m being repressed!

4 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 2:29:57pm

re: #2 HappyWarrior

Okay get right on that Glenn. Really are you fucking with me? Boycotting a film over Darwin?

These people are obsessed with enforcing the echo chamber. It’s the only way they can maintain their control.

5 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:30:04pm

re: #1 Kragar

Hasn’t Glenn been dragged off to a FEMA camp to meet his new gay spouse yet?

He should be forced to marry Alex Jones for this latest idiocy one./:

6 freetoken  Jun 30, 2015 2:30:08pm

Didn’t we go through this a couple of years ago?

First there was the boycotting of Disneyland because of teh ghey.

Then there was that animated movie about Darwin’s voyage which was retitled for American audiences to take out the clear reference to Darwin.

7 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:30:34pm

re: #4 thedopefishlives

These people are obsessed with enforcing the echo chamber. It’s the only way they can maintain their control.

I know but yikes. I mean damn.

8 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 2:30:37pm
Mister we could use a man like Billy Sherman again!


Relevant for Beck.

9 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:30:58pm

re: #6 freetoken

Didn’t we go through this a couple of years ago?

First there was the boycotting of Disneyland because of teh ghey.

Then there was that animated movie about Darwin’s voyage which was retitled for American audiences to take out the clear reference to Darwin.

We must boycott Disney again!

10 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:31:26pm

Who plays the fucking princess?

11 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 2:32:00pm

re: #7 HappyWarrior

I know but yikes. I mean damn.

I know, it’s ridiculous. It is literally insane how obsessed with “defeating the anti-Christian agenda” these people are. Maybe if they took their heads out of their asses and actually lived their fucking lives, the world would be a better place.

12 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:32:21pm

re: #10 Decatur Deb

Who plays the fucking princess?

Jennifer Lawrence, please

13 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:33:32pm

re: #12 HappyWarrior

Jennifer Lawrence, please

Should go with Sarah Silverman.

14 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:34:12pm

re: #13 Decatur Deb

Should go with Sarah Silverman.

Ha that works.

15 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 2:35:06pm

I’m going with Whoopi Goldberg.

16 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:35:26pm

re: #11 thedopefishlives

I know, it’s ridiculous. It is literally insane how obsessed with “defeating the anti-Christian agenda” these people are. Maybe if they took their heads out of their asses and actually lived their fucking lives, the world would be a better place.

It actually sounds like a very interesting story. Glenn probably is just bad that he’ll never get his conservative porno financed by Disney.

17 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 2:37:06pm

Future historians will name this the Golden Age of Assholes. Not since the Inquisition has it been possible to make such a handsome living by being an asshole. It is sad, though, that the present demand for assholes has caused quality control to go all to hell.

18 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 30, 2015 2:37:58pm

everything will be fine as long as darwin is shown to be punished for his crimes in the last reel

19 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:38:18pm

re: #17 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Future historians will name this the Golden Age of Assholes. Not since the Inquisition has it been possible to make such a handsome living by being an asshole. It is sad, though, that the present demand for assholes has caused quality control to go all to hell.

Gresham’s Law works for assholery, too.

20 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:38:28pm

re: #17 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Future historians will name this the Golden Age of Assholes. Not since the Inquisition has it been possible to make such a handsome living by being an asshole. It is sad, though, that the present demand for assholes has caused quality control to go all to hell.

It’s an unfortunate byproduct of the digital age. In the past, Glenn would just be the town drunk shouting this crazy stuff and most of us would ignore him but today craziness pays handsomely. Just can’t stop laughing about this. He wants to boycott Disney over a Charles Darwin bio-epic.

21 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:38:51pm

re: #18 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

everything will be fine as long as darwin is shown to be punished for his crimes in the last reel

Can’t handle another singing tortoise.

22 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:39:16pm

re: #18 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

everything will be fine as long as darwin is shown to be punished for his crimes in the last reel

Oh yes after the credits, Darwin is seen in hell being tortured by demons for the sin of evolution and Satan will warn Obama that he’s next.

23 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:41:13pm

Let’s think of other films that Glenn would boycott.

24 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 2:41:16pm

re: #21 Decatur Deb

Can’t handle another singing tortoise.

Anthropomorphism is bad enough when I talk to my dog. I refuse to see it in theaters.

25 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 2:41:42pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Let’s think of other films that Glenn would boycott.

Anything that isn’t The Passion of the Christ or made by Kirk Cameron.

26 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:42:57pm

re: #24 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Anthropomorphism is bad enough when I talk to my dog. I refuse to see it in theaters.

Especially tries to hard to be funny anthropomorphism. So Charlie better not get a sidekick called Gerry the Galapagos Turtle in this who is old and wise and tells him the ways of evolution.

27 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:43:08pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Let’s think of other films that Glenn would boycott.

Think he’d like anything with hedgehogs.

28 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 2:43:58pm

re: #27 Decatur Deb

Think he’d like anything with hedgehogs.

Or sheep.

29 Kragar  Jun 30, 2015 2:44:21pm
30 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:44:26pm

re: #25 thedopefishlives

Anything that isn’t The Passion of the Christ or made by Kirk Cameron.

I made that too easy didn’t I? But damn I just can’t get over this. I mean it’s one thing even that they don’t like Darwin’s theories but it is an interesting story and unlike the stuff in Glenn’s bible, it actually did happen.

31 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:44:44pm

re: #29 Kragar

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How very Christian of them. Assholes. Bet Fox wont’ have that on since it gets in the way of their Christians are being persecuted for opposing SSM bs construct.

32 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:44:46pm

re: #28 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Or sheep.

Beady little red-eyed sheep.

33 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 2:45:35pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Beady little red-eyed sheep.

Carly-fucking-Fiorina sheep!

34 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 2:46:00pm

re: #30 HappyWarrior

I made that too easy didn’t I? But damn I just can’t get over this. I mean it’s one thing even that they don’t like Darwin’s theories but it is an interesting story and unlike the stuff in Glenn’s bible, it actually did happen.

I don’t really know a whole lot about Darwin’s adventures, growing up inside the bubble as I did. But I can’t envision how it could not be interesting.

35 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:47:33pm

re: #34 thedopefishlives

I don’t really know a whole lot about Darwin’s adventures, growing up inside the bubble as I did. But I can’t envision how it could not be interesting.

I don’t really either actually but going from England to a place like the Galapagos is a fascinating story. I mean I may despise Columbus as a historical figure but that to me is an amazing story. Now on another tangent, I really would love a story about the Lewis-Clark expedition.

36 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 2:47:41pm

Woman gives birth, fights off bees, starts wildfire in Northern California

good grief…

37 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:48:38pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

Woman gives birth, fights off bees, starts wildfire in Northern California

good grief…

The stories that child will hear when he or she misbehaves or is that misBEEHIVES.

38 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:48:48pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

I don’t really either actually but going from England to a place like the Galapagos is a fascinating story. I mean I may despise Columbus as a historical figure but that to me is an amazing story. Now on another tangent, I really would love a story about the Lewis-Clark expedition.

With a singing animated Sacajawea princess?

39 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 2:49:17pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

Woman gives birth, fights off bees, starts wildfire in Northern California

good grief…

Fuck.

40 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 2:49:35pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

I don’t really either actually but going from England to a place like the Galapagos is a fascinating story. I mean I may despise Columbus as a historical figure but that to me is an amazing story. Now on another tangent, I really would love a story about the Lewis-Clark expedition.

Give credit to the English, they were fearless explorers. I’ve always been fascinated by the history of Arctic/Antarctic exploration, but there are so many other worthy stories out there to be told. Lewis and Clark would be amazing, I agree.

41 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:49:46pm

re: #38 Decatur Deb

With a singing animated Sacajawea princess?

and a wise cracking bear sure. Okay joking aside, a honest serious movie.

42 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 30, 2015 2:50:08pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

I don’t really either actually but going from England to a place like the Galapagos is a fascinating story. I mean I may despise Columbus as a historical figure but that to me is an amazing story. Now on another tangent, I really would love a story about the Lewis-Clark expedition.

lewis and clark is a fascinating story about what you’d expect on the outbound phase but then they ran out of tobacco and the return trip was a degrading clusterfuck as they all lost their tempers and yelled at each other because of tobacco withdrawal

43 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:51:21pm

re: #40 thedopefishlives

Give credit to the English, they were fearless explorers. I’ve always been fascinated by the history of Arctic/Antarctic exploration, but there are so many other worthy stories out there to be told. Lewis and Clark would be amazing, I agree.

When I was a kid, I had this book and man I really really wish I still had it but it was a book on the explorers. I think it started with Marco Polo or maybe even before but it ended with Jacques Cousteau and the people who started exploring the bottoms of the oceans in the 60’s. Human exploration is just a fascinating tale. As I said, I got at before, i think Columbus committed genocide but the age of Exploration that he jump started is just an amazing story.

44 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:51:43pm

re: #42 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

lewis and clark is a fascinating story about what you’d expect on the outbound phase but then they ran out of tobacco and the return trip was a degrading clusterfuck as they all lost their tempers and yelled at each other because of tobacco withdrawal

There, we have our conflict.

45 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:52:41pm

re: #42 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

lewis and clark is a fascinating story about what you’d expect on the outbound phase but then they ran out of tobacco and the return trip was a degrading clusterfuck as they all lost their tempers and yelled at each other because of tobacco withdrawal

What do you expect from a butterbar and an O3?

46 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 2:52:42pm

re: #38 Decatur Deb

With a singing animated Sacajawea princess?

And the sinister, black ship’s cat that takes advantage of our hero’s good-natured trust. The cat to have a heavy but unidentifiable foreign accent.

47 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:53:44pm

re: #46 Higgs Boson’s Mate

And the sinister, black ship’s cat that takes advantage of our hero’s good-natured trust. The cat to have a heavy but unidentifiable foreign accent.

Who voices the cat and our heroes?

48 Nyet  Jun 30, 2015 2:53:57pm

For people who love to rail against “political correctness”, wingnuts sure do love their own brand of it.

49 calochortus  Jun 30, 2015 2:54:12pm

re: #40 thedopefishlives

Give credit to the English, they were fearless explorers. I’ve always been fascinated by the history of Arctic/Antarctic exploration, but there are so many other worthy stories out there to be told. Lewis and Clark would be amazing, I agree.

If I recall correctly, Darwin was invited to go along to keep Captain FitzRoy company since the captain couldn’t socialize with anyone of lower rank. In other words, anyone else on the ship who was in the Navy. Hence the need for a civilian aboard.
Yay for strict social constraints. //

50 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:54:30pm

East Tennessee store puts up a No Gays allowed sign. Yeah anti-gay people are the heirs of MLK and Rosa Parks huh.

51 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 2:55:12pm
52 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:55:14pm

re: #48 Nyet

For people who love to rail against “political correctness”, wingnuts sure do love their own brand of it.

They always have. Just like their rages against the “Nanny State” they too are Nanny Staters.

53 Jay C  Jun 30, 2015 2:55:29pm

re: #29 Kragar

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So when will Fox air this, spinning this as “See, gay marriage leads to persecution of Christian ministers”??

54 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 2:55:35pm

LOL at Frontier Gibberish Twitter Lady

55 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:56:12pm

re: #53 Jay C

So when will Fox air this, spinning this as “See, gay marriage leads to persecution of Christian ministers”??

Knowing Fox, they’d liken this guy to Reverend Wright or the Pope (who has become as popular to the right as gay marriage is)

56 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 2:56:17pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Who voices the cat and our heroes?

Sascha-Cohen can handle the cat. Lewis Black for the bear.

57 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:56:37pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

LOL at Frontier Gibberish Twitter Lady

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58 CriticalDragon1177  Jun 30, 2015 2:56:54pm

Charles Johnson

And of course, Glenn Beck will tell you that he’s “pro science.” Oh man, he’s a clown!

59 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 2:57:34pm

re: #58 CriticalDragon1177

Charles Johnson

And of course, Glenn Beck will tell you that he’s “pro science.” Oh man, he’s a clown!

Well, duh, because REEL SCIENCE doesn’t rely on no fancy-pants theories. It’s based on FACTS that come from the BIBLE.

60 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:57:36pm

re: #56 Decatur Deb

Sascha-Cohen can handle the cat. Lewis Black for the bear.

Oooh so the bear’s got a bit of well justified anger in him but is a good dude at heart. I like Sasha for the cat. But as for our explorers, who plays them? You’re 2/2 so far.

61 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 2:57:41pm

Such Presidential. Very leadership.
President Trump will Sue All The Things!

62 Nyet  Jun 30, 2015 2:58:08pm

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

The Hispanic vote is his now!

63 calochortus  Jun 30, 2015 2:58:29pm

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

I think I see the problem there…

64 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 2:58:33pm

re: #59 thedopefishlives

Well, duh, because REEL SCIENCE doesn’t rely on no fancy-pants theories. It’s based on FACTS that come from the BIBLE.

Real science like the kind that even we can’t deny. I mean they have no legitimate arguments against Darwin’s theories so they resort to calling Darwin a racist, a eugenicist, etc.

65 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 2:59:14pm

This is so pathetic.
I had no idea one could file an initial lawsuit at the state Supreme Court level.

66 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 2:59:24pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

LOL at Frontier Gibberish Twitter Lady

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She must not have anything worth taking. Otherwise, someone would have had her in conservatorship long ago.

67 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 3:00:31pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is so pathetic.
I had no idea one could file an initial lawsuit at the state Supreme Court level.

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I’m not 100% certain you can. I suppose if there’s no clear jurisdiction for a district court, maybe?

68 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 3:00:51pm

re: #66 Higgs Boson’s Mate

She must not have anything worth taking. Otherwise, someone would have had her in conservatorship long ago.

It’s nice that they have wifi at The Home.

69 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 3:01:06pm

re: #60 HappyWarrior

Oooh so the bear’s got a bit of well justified anger in him but is a good dude at heart. I like Sasha for the cat. But as for our explorers, who plays them? You’re 2/2 so far.

Owen Wilson as Lewis
Chris Rock as Clark
Queen Latifah as Sacajawea

70 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:01:11pm

Fun fact, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day- February 12, 1809. Ice Cube was quoted after the births as “Today was a good day.”

71 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 3:01:45pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is so pathetic.
I had no idea one could file an initial lawsuit at the state Supreme Court level.

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“Yes, America, we’ll sue our way to greatness!”

72 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:02:04pm

re: #67 thedopefishlives

I’m not 100% certain you can. I suppose if there’s no clear jurisdiction for a district court, maybe?

That does sound right but it does surprise me a tort case like this appears tobe would be directly a state supreme court’s feet. I don’t know. I have no desire to read about Trump’s tantrum against Univision.

73 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 3:02:08pm
74 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:02:35pm

re: #69 The Vicious Babushka

Owen Wilson as Lewis
Chris Rock as Clark
Queen Latifah as Sacajawea

We begin production tomorrow.

75 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:03:04pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Crazy past week for beaches. We had a shark sighting when I was at the beach last week. First time I’ve ever seen one in the wild.

76 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 3:03:11pm
77 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 3:03:20pm

re: #69 The Vicious Babushka

Owen Wilson as Lewis
Chris Rock as Clark
Queen Latifah as Sacajawea

You guys are good.

78 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:04:30pm

I want John Goodman to have a role in this masterpiece too.

79 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 3:04:32pm

Another photo of Misty Copeland.
Wow.

80 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:04:53pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

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Good.

81 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:05:49pm

You know this stuff that Jindal and Abbott are pulling is exactly why some of us believe in a strong federal government.

82 Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2015 3:07:21pm

Disney should be afraid considering the effectiveness of the RWNJ boycott of Monday Night Football.

83 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 3:07:59pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

Jindal should be sued for impersonating a governor.

84 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:09:10pm

re: #83 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Jindal should be sued for impersonating a governor.

He’s just doing the most serious bit of role researching for the Blazing Saddles remake. He wants to play William J. Lepetomane. Now why Louisiana is still letting him play the governor after one day is beyond me.

85 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 3:09:28pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

I want John Goodman to have a role in this masterpiece too.

Voice-over for Mt Hood.

86 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:10:10pm

re: #85 Decatur Deb

Voice-over for Mt Hood.

Ooh we got talking mountains too.

87 gwangung  Jun 30, 2015 3:10:53pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another photo of Misty Copeland.
Wow.

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Um. Whoa.

88 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:10:56pm

Well looking at Jindal. The more grateful I am that Virginia voters did not elect Ken Cuccinneli a couple years ago. Lord knows I am no fan of Terry McAuliffe but at least Terry lives in the 21st or even 20th century.

89 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 3:11:02pm

re: #86 HappyWarrior

Ooh we got talking mountains too.

Singing mountains. It’s Disney.

90 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:11:32pm

re: #89 Decatur Deb

Singing mountains. It’s Disney.

Oops of course.

91 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 3:12:15pm

re: #90 HappyWarrior

Oops of course.

Archive this shit for the intellectual-property suit.

92 Kid A  Jun 30, 2015 3:15:23pm

I think it would be funny if there was a bottle of Jack and a mirror with lines of coke next to Beck’s bible in this clip.

93 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:17:23pm

It actually is seeing how people like Jindal, Roy Moore, and Greg Abbott are responding to this is pretty scary about the Republican view of law and public servants. I really did used to think the Christian Taliban thing was exaggerated a bit but these guys they test me.

94 Kragar  Jun 30, 2015 3:18:57pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

LOL at Frontier Gibberish Twitter Lady

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She blocked me when I suggested she try writing coherent sentences.

95 piratedan  Jun 30, 2015 3:19:05pm

re: #93 HappyWarrior

they’re positively frothy aren’t they?

96 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 3:21:04pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another photo of Misty Copeland.
Wow.

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Really good, but we need to see her move.

97 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:23:21pm

re: #95 piratedan

they’re positively frothy aren’t they?

It seems to me that they’re getting more and more deranged.

98 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 3:23:22pm

re: #96 Decatur Deb

Really good, but we need to see her move.

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99 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 3:25:27pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ohhh-kay.

100 Nyet  Jun 30, 2015 3:26:54pm

Just when you thought the Americans wingnuts were the worst.

Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Nissan Slomiansky says judicial restraint is key to court’s legitimacy, and that past rulings alienated large segments of the population • Israel’s constitution is the Bible, he notes.

israelhayom.com

101 EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2015 3:27:13pm

re: #93 HappyWarrior

It actually is seeing how people like Jindal, Roy Moore, and Greg Abbott are responding to this is pretty scary about the Republican view of law and public servants. I really did used to think the Christian Taliban thing was exaggerated a bit but these guys they test me.

American Taliban is a very accurate description of an important faction of the US Right. The only reason they aren’t out there preaching the desirability of stoning gay people and burning witches (i.e. women who have an abortion) at the stake is because those are losing political messages in contemporary US culture.

102 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:29:10pm

re: #101 EPR-radar

American Taliban is a very accurate description of an important faction of the US Right. The only reason they aren’t out there preaching the desirability of stoning gay people and burning witches (i.e. women who have an abortion) at the stake is because those are losing political messages in contemporary US culture.

That’s why it was in the past tense. I mean it’s not merely that they oppose SSM. It’s that they refuse to acknowledge LGBT citizens as human beings deserving any sort of rights under the law.

103 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 3:29:23pm

Greece is the new Detroit

104 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:29:45pm

re: #100 Nyet

Just when you thought the Americans wingnuts were the worst.

israelhayom.com

Well I know someone who’s got a CPAC invitation with their name on it. Sheesh.

105 Pawn of the Oppressor  Jun 30, 2015 3:30:57pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another photo of Misty Copeland.
Wow.

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sexy lady

106 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 3:31:16pm

What kind of insane fuckbag robs utility workers?

107 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 3:32:22pm

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

Greece is the new Detroit

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Fitch downgraded Greek debt from CCC (Junk) status to CC-. Whoa.

108 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 3:33:52pm
109 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 3:33:59pm

re: #106 The Vicious Babushka

What kind of insane fuckbag robs utility workers?

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dammit.
MrBWS is still there.

110 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:34:56pm

re: #108 #FergusonFireside

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I hope their lawyers destroy him.

111 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 3:35:58pm
112 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 3:37:32pm

re: #108 #FergusonFireside

I can’t fathom what Trump thinks he’s up to. In a lawsuit like this, discovery will destroy him.

113 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 30, 2015 3:48:56pm

re: #112 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I can’t fathom what Trump thinks he’s up to. In a lawsuit like this, discovery will destroy him.

that’s ok, he thinks discovery is a tee vee channel with ancient aliens and hitler’s mistresses

114 Lidane  Jun 30, 2015 3:53:50pm

I thought conservatives were already boycotting Disney because of Teh Ghey.

Wouldn’t boycotting them again be redundant?

115 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 3:56:36pm

re: #114 Lidane

I thought conservatives were already boycotting Disney because of Teh Ghey.

Wouldn’t boycotting them again be redundant?

They’re going to publicly burn all of their Disney VHS tapes to put some teeth into this one.

116 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 3:57:05pm

re: #115 Higgs Boson’s Mate

They’re going to publicly burn all of their Disney VHS tapes to put some teeth into this one.

Laser Disc too?

117 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 3:58:58pm

re: #116 HappyWarrior

Laser Disc too?

No sacrifice is too great for The First Church of the Presumptuous Assumption.

118 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 3:59:37pm

I just met the woman who gave me CPR when I was hit. She’s a grandmother! To me that makes it somewhat less surprising that she had the guts to step up and do what needed to be done. I told her she’s my hero and gave her two hugs. She brought me a bouquet. I told her she’s my new grandma.

119 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:02:47pm
120 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 4:03:52pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

dammit.
MrBWS is still there.

Stay safe.

121 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 4:04:26pm

re: #120 The Vicious Babushka

Stay safe.

He just called. They’ve been released and will head home in the morning.

122 b_sharp  Jun 30, 2015 4:06:32pm

re: #114 Lidane

I thought conservatives were already boycotting Disney because of Teh Ghey.

Wouldn’t boycotting them again be redundant?

The earlier one was a trial boycott. This will be the full release boycott.

123 ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2015 4:07:09pm

I still think Glenn Beck is all show. Read his background. It is all crazy. He really is a very base human.The guy is still just a shock jock that found out being a complete ass sells to the huge population of complete asses in this country.

Once he started to make money being a loon he decided to go full loon and it paid even more. There will be no stopping it until it doesn’t pay. That is not going to happen and so he will go through life being a well paid ass.

It is his right. What really disturbs me is that so many buy into the show. It is a true indicator of how crazy so many people really are and want to believe the worst in everything.

I still think there are times when all alone he reflects on how this has turned out and then says to himself…I can’t believe they buy it. He knows it is all BS. But he also knows he can’t let on or let up.

124 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 4:07:16pm

Much diversity. Very Latino outreach.

125 lawhawk  Jun 30, 2015 4:07:17pm

So, Trump is suing for $500 million. It’s huuuuuge!

Of course, he doesn’t actually have a leg to stand on, as he should know from operating his own reality show. The contracts always favor the network, and the network can cancel for any good reason - like having a morals clause where any bad acts by the ‘talent’ can result in being voted off the island.

126 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:07:48pm

re: #118 wrenchwench

I just met the woman who gave me CPR when I was hit. She’s a grandmother! To me that makes it somewhat less surprising that she had the guts to step up and do what needed to be done. I told her she’s my hero and gave her two hugs. She brought me a bouquet. I told her she’s my new grandma.

Give her a hug for all of us! :)

127 Skip Intro  Jun 30, 2015 4:08:55pm

re: #108 #FergusonFireside

Factually false and legally ridiculous is a pretty good description of Trump.

128 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:09:08pm

re: #126 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’m not lying when I say this made me more happy than anything else today.

129 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 4:10:40pm

Donald is #2 in the New Hampshire polls, right behind Jeb!

130 Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2015 4:11:31pm

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

Much diversity. Very Latino outreach.

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This is the thing that’s going to hurt the GOP in the long-run, it’s letting a nutter like Trump run wild without any sort of blowback from the party itself. No matter how “sensible” and “reasonable” the final GOP nominee may sound, he’s still going to have people asking how they can trust a party that took Trump as a serious candidate.

131 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:11:49pm

re: #125 lawhawk

So, Trump is suing for $500 million. It’s huuuuuge!

Of course, he doesn’t actually have a leg to stand on, as he should know from operating his own reality show. The contracts always favor the network, and the network can cancel for any good reason - like having a morals clause where any bad acts by the ‘talent’ can result in being voted off the island.

What about going straight for the State Supreme Court? Typical?

132 lawhawk  Jun 30, 2015 4:14:25pm

Gov. Christie has got to be wondering what the heck to do - on any other day, he’d be leading news, but now he’s got the Greek (de)fault; the Trump lawsuit shenanigans, and polling that shows Obamacare and gay marriage polling better than the GOP (combined).

Single digits.

133 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 30, 2015 4:14:48pm

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

Much diversity. Very Latino outreach.

trump has learned well gingrich’s lesson that in wingnut land, the biggest asshole wins

for the duration of the news cycle, anyway…

134 Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2015 4:15:15pm

re: #49 calochortus

If I recall correctly, Darwin was invited to go along to keep Captain FitzRoy company since the captain couldn’t socialize with anyone of lower rank. In other words, anyone else on the ship who was in the Navy. Hence the need for a civilian aboard.
Yay for strict social constraints. //

That’s what I gather.

BBC did an excellent series several decades ago about Darwin.

…

135 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 4:15:20pm

re: #131 #FergusonFireside

What about going straight for the State Supreme Court? Typical?

Maybe they’re the only ones with enough room for Trump’s ego.

136 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 4:16:31pm

re: #130 Targetpractice

This is the thing that’s going to hurt the GOP in the long-run, it’s letting a nutter like Trump run wild without any sort of blowback from the party itself. No matter how “sensible” and “reasonable” the final GOP nominee may sound, he’s still going to have people asking how they can trust a party that took Trump as a serious candidate.

Donald Trump is a buffoon but that doesn’t mean Cruz, Carson, Fiorina, Jindal &c aren’t scary as shit.

Cruz could actually win. And that should scare the living shit out of everyone.

137 lawhawk  Jun 30, 2015 4:18:07pm

re: #131 #FergusonFireside

If the suit was filed in NY, then the trial court is State Supreme Court (the lowest level court). The intermediate court is the Appellate Division, and the top court in NY is the Court of Appeals. Is that sufficiently confusing? :)

138 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 4:18:25pm

One of our co-workers left to work here.

He left us a shitpile of unsustainable code.

BTW this looks like a playground not a work environment.

139 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:19:58pm

re: #128 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’m not lying when I say this made me more happy than anything else today.

Me too.

She also told me she graduated from high school with the local orthopedic surgeon who was hit in May. She’ the fourth classmate of his I’ve met. (He’s in rehab in Colorado and will make a full recovery, just not in the 4 months his brother predicted.)

140 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 4:20:25pm

And now, hour moment of Zen:
Berlusconi bribery in ‘bunga bunga’ trial?

Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi could go back to court over the “bunga bunga” scandal. The 78-year old billionaire had paid some 10 million euros to silence witnesses during the trial, prosecutors have alleged.

141 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:20:58pm

re: #137 lawhawk

If the suit was filed in NY, then the trial court is State Supreme Court (the lowest level court). The intermediate court is the Appellate Division, and the top court in NY is the Court of Appeals. Is that sufficiently confusing? :)

blah blah blah Lawhawk said it, we’re good.

142 Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2015 4:22:01pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah. She’s got the moves.

143 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:23:02pm

re: #138 The Vicious Babushka

One of our co-workers left to work here.

He left us a shitpile of unsustainable code.

BTW this looks like a playground not a work environment.

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I did many flooring & furniture estimates for fancy offices including Hulu. They are playgrounds. Gaming booths with sofas, full on rec centers, TV rooms. Then piles and piles and piles of cubes.

144 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 4:25:23pm
145 nkdee  Jun 30, 2015 4:25:41pm

Hasn’t one RWNJ group or another been boycotting for YEARS? So why would Glen think that it work now? Because HE suggests it? What an ego maniac.

146 darthstar  Jun 30, 2015 4:26:25pm

Dusted off the old mountain bike today - haven’t ridden it in 8 or 10 years. Chain’s a bit rusty, but good. Disc brakes still work. Put the old trail tires on it (had road tires from when I used it to commute to work) and bought a new tube for the back tire - should have put a new tube up front. Got about four miles into my ride before the front went flat - fortunately I was doing a bit of a back and forth loop, so it was just a two mile walk home. Still, it was a lovely day for a ride and I forgot how good it feels to ride a bike on a trail…even one with a decent view like this.

147 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:27:29pm

re: #128 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’m not lying when I say this made me more happy than anything else today.

BTW, with a nic like Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing, it should come as no surprise that you like a post with some CPR in it.

148 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:28:41pm

re: #146 darthstar

Disc brakes still good after sitting 10 years? What brand are they?

149 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:29:05pm

re: #147 wrenchwench

BTW, with a nic like Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing, it should come as no surprise that you like a post with some CPR in it.

LOL! I actually changed it for Eric Garner. But I’m glad you’re alive. :)

150 Ace-o-aces  Jun 30, 2015 4:29:48pm

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

Greece is the new Detroit

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151 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:31:16pm

To all my Lizardem!
…

152 ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2015 4:31:36pm

re: #130 Targetpractice

This is the thing that’s going to hurt the GOP in the long-run, it’s letting a nutter like Trump run wild without any sort of blowback from the party itself. No matter how “sensible” and “reasonable” the final GOP nominee may sound, he’s still going to have people asking how they can trust a party that took Trump as a serious candidate.

The bumping of the two huge egos and confrontational personalities of Trump and Christie is going to be epic. Even with FOX cutting down to the top 10 polling candidates it isn’t going to give any room on stage with those two.

It should be billed as the “Shut Up Shoutdown.”

153 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:31:46pm

Terrible double head injury in the USA Germany Women’s World Cup semi final. Two players down. The German player is seriously bloody.

Fuck. Fantastic game up until that happened.

154 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 4:31:56pm

The Navy announced that it has selected more than three dozen female Enlisted sailors to qualify to serve aboard submarines. Four female CPOs and 34 other sailors made the cut. The Navy already allows female officers to serve aboard submarines with more than one-hundred female officers serving aboard subs.

155 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:32:01pm

re: #150 Ace-o-aces

This is DEFAULT!

156 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:32:54pm

re: #153 goddamnedfrank

Terrible double head injury in the USA Germany Women’s World Cup semi final. Two players down. The German player is seriously bloody.

Fuck. Fantastic game up until that happened.

Damn. Concussion drama. :/

157 darthstar  Jun 30, 2015 4:32:55pm

re: #148 wrenchwench

Disc brakes still good after sitting 10 years? What brand are they?

They still stopped me when they needed to. As I was riding along the coastal cliffs I tested them on the streets before going up the trail. Didn’t want to be on the front page for going over a 100 foot drop. :) Don’t know…came with the bike. It’s all Shimano or something like that.

158 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2015 4:33:57pm

I’ll be sure to see this movie 5 times ;)

159 darthstar  Jun 30, 2015 4:33:58pm

re: #157 darthstar

Yep. Shimano brakes.

160 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 30, 2015 4:33:59pm

re: #143 #FergusonFireside

Then piles and piles and piles of cubes.

i am a surrealist forced to work in a cubist universe

161 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:34:25pm

re: #157 darthstar

They still stopped me when they needed to. As I was riding along the coastal cliffs I tested them on the streets before going up the trail. Didn’t want to be on the front page for going over a 100 foot drop. :) Don’t know…came with the bike. It’s all Shimano or something like that.

Who said you’d make the front page? ;)

162 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:35:10pm

Holys shit. Both players back on the field now after being down for minutes and the obvious concussion risk. They were washing lots blood off the German players head. This is kind of crazy.

163 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:35:28pm

re: #151 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

To all my Lizardem!
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Video

I was so sad he lost the Oscar to Frozen. This is a one in a million song. Frozen? There’ll be another and another.

164 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:35:57pm

re: #157 darthstar

They still stopped me when they needed to. As I was riding along the coastal cliffs I tested them on the streets before going up the trail. Didn’t want to be on the front page for going over a 100 foot drop. :) Don’t know…came with the bike. It’s all Shimano or something like that.

I’m working on a bike with Shimano disc brakes. They felt good with the bike on the floor, but I pulled the pads and they’re all worn out. The test ride is a good test though.

165 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2015 4:36:21pm

re: #161 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Who said you’d make the front page? ;)

Yeah, bike accidents are old hat here.

166 Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2015 4:36:36pm

re: #150 Ace-o-aces

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It’s happened before.

167 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:37:59pm

re: #162 goddamnedfrank

Holys shit. Both players back on the field now after being down for minutes and the obvious concussion risk. They were washing lots blood off the German players head. This is kind of crazy.

That is totally crazy. They shouldn’t play again for weeks or months, due to Second Impact Syndrome.

168 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:38:03pm

Y’all are missing an amazing game here.

169 ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2015 4:38:04pm

re: #162 goddamnedfrank

Holys shit. Both players back on the field now after being down for minutes and the obvious concussion risk. They were washing lots blood off the German players head. This is kind of crazy.

What network is carrying the game?

170 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:38:28pm

re: #153 goddamnedfrank

Terrible double head injury in the USA Germany Women’s World Cup semi final. Two players down. The German player is seriously bloody.

Fuck. Fantastic game up until that happened.

171 teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2015 4:39:50pm

Sometimes Twitter eggs can tweet quality shit. Found this in the pretty hilarious #AskBobby.

172 ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2015 4:41:06pm

re: #169 ObserverArt

What network is carrying the game?

Found it. I would not have guessed Fox.

173 teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2015 4:41:29pm

Y’all know not to Google “Santorum” right? OK, good.

174 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:41:47pm

re: #167 wrenchwench

That is totally crazy. They shouldn’t play again for weeks or months, due to Second Impact Syndrome.

I asked my doctor how long that should be a consideration in my case. She said, ‘Considering the impact you had, forever.’ I am an ex-cyclist.

175 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:42:00pm

Does someone want to throw me a stream on that US/GER game?

176 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:42:54pm

Whoa, I missed this.

Must read

177 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2015 4:43:17pm

re: #174 wrenchwench

I asked my doctor how long that should be a consideration in my case. She said, ‘Considering the impact you had, forever.’ I am an ex-cyclist.

:-(

178 teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2015 4:43:22pm
179 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:43:48pm

re: #174 wrenchwench

Listen to your doctor. ;)

180 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 4:44:36pm

re: #168 goddamnedfrank

Y’all are missing an amazing game here.

You’re talking about soccer, right? There’s no such thing as an amazing soccer game.

181 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 4:44:46pm

LOL Photoshop this to put a Confederate battle flag at the top.

182 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2015 4:46:03pm

re: #167 wrenchwench

That is totally crazy. They shouldn’t play again for weeks or months, due to Second Impact Syndrome.

Huh. Hadn’t heard of this but it makes sense.

183 darthstar  Jun 30, 2015 4:47:29pm

re: #161 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Who said you’d make the front page? ;)

Home and Garden section?

184 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2015 4:47:42pm

re: #180 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You’re talking about soccer, right? There’s no such thing as an amazing soccer game.

I think for the fans, awesomeness is inversely proportional to score.

185 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:48:24pm

re: #183 darthstar

Home and Garden section?

haha, how are the planters?

Oh and the photos from the show? Did I miss the recap?

186 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2015 4:48:43pm

re: #183 darthstar

Home and Garden section?

Only if you end up on someone else’s patio.

187 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:48:54pm
Alexandra Popp after collision with Morgan Brian.
188 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:49:20pm

re: #182 Blind Frog Belly White

Huh. Hadn’t heard of this but it makes sense.

As much sense as can be made about the most complicated organ ever to evolve!

When I read this:

there is doubt about whether it is a valid diagnosis. However, the syndrome is recognized by physicians

I think, ‘It’s real, and it’s going to cost someone a lot of money.’ (Owners of sports teams.)

189 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:49:52pm

Remember the German dude last year who didn’t even remember he was in the Cup? Yeah. That guy.

190 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:50:14pm
191 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 4:50:19pm

re: #184 Blind Frog Belly White

I think for the fans, awesomeness is inversely proportional to score.

Also, to fans, something can be awesome that bores the average person.

Which isn’t really an invitation for the average person to shit all over the fact that someone else likes something, but hey, humans are humans.

192 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:50:49pm

re: #183 darthstar

Home and Garden section?

There’s an H&G section now?

193 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 4:52:02pm

re: #190 goddamnedfrank

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UGH

194 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:52:25pm
195 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 30, 2015 4:52:35pm

re: #188 wrenchwench

As much sense as can be made about the most complicated organ ever to evolve!

When I read this:

I think, ‘It’s real, and it’s going to cost someone a lot of money.’ (Owners of sports teams.)

After 33years in Life Sciences, my observation is that we are a colossal jury rig, perpetually on the edge of catastrophic failure.

196 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:52:46pm

I don’t agree with FIFA allowing them back in the game, but you gotta admire their grit. Tough as nails. Soccer fans who don’t watch the women’s game miss out on some of the best play there is.

197 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:53:23pm

re: #196 goddamnedfrank

I don’t agree with FIFA allowing them back in the game, but you gotta admire their grit. Tough as nails. Soccer fans who don’t watch the women’s game miss out on some of the best play there is.

FIFA can suck ass, as far as I’m concerned.

198 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:55:23pm

re: #197 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

FIFA can suck ass, as far as I’m concerned.

FIFA’s management sucks, but that shouldn’t detract from our appreciation of these amazing players.

199 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 4:56:49pm

re: #198 goddamnedfrank

FIFA’s management sucks, but that shouldn’t detract from our appreciation of these amazing players.

I should have clarified that. Not taking away from the players AT ALL, but FIFA, and esp. Sepp Blatter, are a bunch of scum-sucking grifters.

Is that clearer?

200 wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2015 4:57:33pm
201 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 4:57:49pm

I haven’t seen a single “dive” in this entire tournament, and the quality of play and skill on display is easily equal to anything the men’s game produces.

202 CuriousLurker  Jun 30, 2015 4:58:13pm

Uh-oh…

I can’t get that link to display an article, but you can check Google News for plenty of others: google.com

203 Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2015 4:59:01pm

re: #176 #FergusonFireside

Whoa, I missed this.

Must read

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Now that’s a very good man.

204 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 4:59:32pm
205 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:00:50pm

re: #184 Blind Frog Belly White

I think for the fans, awesomeness is inversely proportional to score.

I happen to love defense. You can keep your sluggers, I’ll watch a pitcher’s duel anytime. As far as I’m concerned defense wins championships, and I don’t care what the sport is. As a result of the way I see sports, I see soccer as a game of mistakes. It isn’t surprising to me that there is so little scoring in soccer. What surprises me is that there is ANY scoring in soccer. Whenever I see a goal scored, all I see are the defensive breakdowns that let the goal in. Granted, the scoring player may perform a remarkable athletic feat, but the fact is with all those defenders in the neighborhood there is now way that offensive player should put foot or skull on that ball with enough force to execute a good shot.
As I see it, the defense either breaks down (I think it’s 2/2 boredom) or just doesn’t know what they’re doing.

206 Romantic Heretic  Jun 30, 2015 5:00:57pm

re: #195 Blind Frog Belly White

After 33years in Life Sciences, my observation is that we are a colossal jury rig, perpetually on the edge of catastrophic failure.

Yeah. Mother Nature’s a tinkerer, not a designer.

207 unproven innocence  Jun 30, 2015 5:03:43pm

re: #49 calochortus

If I recall correctly, Darwin was invited to go along to keep Captain FitzRoy company since the captain couldn’t socialize with anyone of lower rank. In other words, anyone else on the ship who was in the Navy. Hence the need for a civilian aboard.
Yay for strict social constraints. //

Yes, Fitzroy was replacing a captain who had committed suicide.

re: #134 Romantic Heretic

That’s what I gather.

BBC did an excellent series several decades ago about Darwin.

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Agree. Recommended.

208 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:03:48pm

Listening to the arrogance of Christie: “I say what I mean and I mean what I say and that’s what America needs right now.” No, America needs an adult to keep things from getting FUBAR.

209 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:04:01pm

I swear to God I just saw Chris Elliot in a wig!

210 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:04:44pm

re: #208 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Listening to the arrogance of Christie: “I say what I mean and I mean what I say and that’s what America needs right now.” No, America needs an adult to keep things from getting FUBAR.

That sounds very Popeye to me.

211 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:05:48pm

Popp just came out for the second half and I swear to God her head is fucking WRAPPED IN GAUZE!

212 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 5:05:59pm

ICYMI

213 WhatEVs  Jun 30, 2015 5:06:22pm

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

Much diversity. Very Latino outreach.

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That was some serious pretzel logic. I’m not at all surprised the author of that drivel is a Fox guy.

214 bratwurst  Jun 30, 2015 5:06:52pm

re: #180 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You’re talking about soccer, right? There’s no such thing as an amazing soccer game.

Wow, you are here hating on soccer. Again.

Some people love spinach. I dislike it. Yet whenever I hear people discussing spinach, I don’t feel the need to express myself on the topic. Maybe you could try something like this?

215 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:08:04pm

re: #214 bratwurst

Wow, you are here hating on soccer. Again.

Some people love spinach. I dislike it. Yet whenever I hear people discussing spinach, I don’t feel the need to express myself on the topic. Maybe you could try something like this?

What, you can’t bust balls around here?

216 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:08:38pm

re: #215 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What, you can’t bust balls around here?

No, but when that’s all you do, don’t be surprised to be called a nutcracker.

217 ObserverArt  Jun 30, 2015 5:08:40pm

re: #214 bratwurst

Wow, you are here hating on soccer. Again.

Some people love spinach. I dislike it. Yet whenever I hear people discussing spinach, I don’t feel the need to express myself on the topic. Maybe you could try something like this?

Cooked spinach…not so good.

Fresh crispy spinach leaves in a salad…yum!

218 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:08:57pm

re: #214 bratwurst

Good thing you’re not a Cowboys fan.

219 LoonRadio  Jun 30, 2015 5:09:32pm

“Doesn’t it sound great? It’s Charles Darwin. It’s the story of Charles Darwin and so we’re going to find out how exactly he came up with the idea, made the discoveries that brought him to the theory of evolution. Thank you, Disney! That’s fantastic.”

I wish it wasn’t Disney, but that does indeed sound fantastic. The sequel could be about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

220 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 5:09:49pm

re: #214 bratwurst

Wow, you are here hating on soccer. Again.

Some people love spinach. I dislike it. Yet whenever I hear people discussing spinach, I don’t feel the need to express myself on the topic. Maybe you could try something like this?

Okay, I’ll try. Spinach is a vegetable, which is what those women will become if they don’t get some protection for their heads.

221 Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2015 5:09:50pm

Wow. Here’s an incredible deal I just picked up at Amazon to replace a failed 2TB external hard drive — Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0.

A FIVE TERABYTE drive with USB 3 case for only $129. Amazing price, 48% off. Couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I also got the 2-year data protection plan for $9.99 — if the drive goes bad they recover all the data and give it back to you on a new disk. If they can’t recover you get a full refund. Great deal.

I’m still in shock that a 5TB drive can be this cheap. Somebody pinch me.

222 EmmaAnne  Jun 30, 2015 5:10:11pm

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

Greece is the new Detroit

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Paul Krugman has a very different view than most I’ve been hearing.

Greece should vote “no,” and the Greek government should be ready, if necessary, to leave the euro.

To understand why I say this, you need to realize that most — not all, but most — of what you’ve heard about Greek profligacy and irresponsibility is false. Yes, the Greek government was spending beyond its means in the late 2000s. But since then it has repeatedly slashed spending and raised taxes. Government employment has fallen more than 25 percent, and pensions (which were indeed much too generous) have been cut sharply. If you add up all the austerity measures, they have been more than enough to eliminate the original deficit and turn it into a large surplus.

So why didn’t this happen? Because the Greek economy collapsed, largely as a result of those very austerity measures, dragging revenues down with it.

nytimes.com

223 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:10:20pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Wow. Here’s an incredible deal I just picked up at Amazon to replace a failed 2TB external hard drive — Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0.

A FIVE TERABYTE drive with USB 3 case for only $129. Amazing price, 48% off. Couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I also got the 2-year data protection plan for $9.99 — if the drive goes bad they recover all the data and give it back to you on a new disk. If they can’t recover you get a full refund. Great deal.

I’m still in shock that a 5TB drive can be this cheap. Somebody pinch me.

That’s ridiculous. It even has me thinking about picking one up, and I’m notoriously cheap.

224 bratwurst  Jun 30, 2015 5:10:51pm

re: #218 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Good thing you’re not a Cowboys fan.

Not even close. On that we will never have an issue.

It just feels like you have an app to alert you on the (rather rare) occasions the topic of soccer comes up here, so you can express your dislike. I am asking you nicely: let it go.

225 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:11:13pm

re: #216 klys (maker of Silmarils)

No, but when that’s all you do, don’t be surprised to be called a nutcracker.

I think the last time I wrote about soccer was probably a couple of years ago. Besides, I can talk civilly about soccer. I just did when I talked about defense. That was no caveman rant about defense.

226 jaunte  Jun 30, 2015 5:12:19pm

Who the hell talks about spinach!!!

227 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:12:49pm

Spinach and steak.

228 bratwurst  Jun 30, 2015 5:13:17pm

re: #225 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I think the last time I wrote about soccer was probably a couple of years ago. Besides, I can talk civilly about soccer. I just did when I talked about defense. That was no caveman rant about defense.

It was last year during the men’s World Cup. You stated that you hoped the US national team would lose so this fad popularity could end, or words to that effect. Wishing ill upon something that millions of people are enjoying is curmudgeonly at best.

229 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:13:50pm

Listen, if you don’t like watching hot tough talented ladies running a lot that’s fine. I don’t judge your life choices, maybe shut the fuck up about mine.

230 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 5:13:56pm

re: #203 Romantic Heretic

Now that’s a very good man.

We need more, but I admire him immensely.

The system is more than broken, it’s downright abusive.

231 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 5:14:36pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Wow. Here’s an incredible deal I just picked up at Amazon to replace a failed 2TB external hard drive — Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0.

A FIVE TERABYTE drive with USB 3 case for only $129. Amazing price, 48% off. Couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I also got the 2-year data protection plan for $9.99 — if the drive goes bad they recover all the data and give it back to you on a new disk. If they can’t recover you get a full refund. Great deal.

I’m still in shock that a 5TB drive can be this cheap. Somebody pinch me.

I don’t want to show this to Zedushka. He’s still beating himself up over a 40MB (yes that’s right 40MB) HD that he paid $500 for in 1991.

232 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:15:30pm

heh:

233 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 5:15:45pm

Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam

234 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 5:16:22pm

re: #220 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Okay, I’ll try. Spinach is a vegetable, which is what those women will become if they don’t get some protection for their heads.

Despite being a very physical game which often ends in injuries and even fatalities (I was at a national match in Israel where one of the players collapsed and died on the field to everyone’s horror), Soccer World Football is still leagues safer for players compared to US Football/Handegg/FullBodyTraumaBall with all the gear the players play in…

235 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:16:52pm

re: #225 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You do it about things other than soccer as well. I seem to recall any number of derogatory remarks this season about hockey, for example.

In general, when I don’t approve of something and it’s not on topic for the blog, I just keep my mouth shut about it. Clearly you differ. The end result is what you say shapes how people see you.

236 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 5:17:10pm

re: #217 ObserverArt

Cooked spinach…not so good.

Fresh crispy spinach leaves in a salad…yum!

I’m the exact opposite.

I lurve arugula though.

237 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:17:15pm

re: #234 Archangelus

Despite being a very physical game which often ends in injuries and even fatalities (I was at a national match in Israel where one of the players collapsed and died on the field to everyone’s horror), Soccer World Football is still leagues safer for players compared to US Football/Handegg/FullBodyTraumaBall with all the gear the players play in…

Part of that is probably related to the fact that, unlike American Footballers, soccer players aren’t trained from a young age to try to kill each other.

238 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:18:29pm

re: #235 klys (maker of Silmarils)

And before someone whines that I am being hypocritical, I have made the occasional joking remark about baseball in the past. Mea culpa, I don’t think it happened every discussion and I apologize for it. I will do my best to be better about keeping my mouth shut in the future.

(As long as the Yankees lose.)

(But that’s not an anti-baseball thing, that’s an I-grew-up-in-Jersey thing.)

239 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 5:18:55pm

re: #236 #FergusonFireside

I’m the exact opposite.

I lurve arugula though.

I like about one leaf of arugula in an entire salad. It’s more of a seasoning.

240 Single-handed sailor  Jun 30, 2015 5:19:03pm

We just hit 104.0 12% humidity. I’m not stepping outside.

241 Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2015 5:19:11pm
242 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:19:23pm

Okay, so I tweaked your noses about soccer and some of you overreacted. Probably some sort of inferiority complex involving the game you like. Whatever.
I see lots of soccer because some of the places I go have some sort of soccer channel on their tv (showing games from all over the world). I see the offense probe the defense all the time looking for an opportunity. Usually the defense easily turns to offense away. My point is that when a goal is scored, it’s because someone in the defense didn’t do her/his job. The only exceptions to that principle are corner kicks.

243 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:19:41pm

I’m still just kind of amazed here that Popp is playing her heart out while looking like she belongs in a goddamned hospital, and as I started typing this she just HEADED THE FUCKING BALL, winced, grabbed her bandaged head and played on.

244 jaunte  Jun 30, 2015 5:19:54pm

re: #240 Single-handed sailor

Houston is taking on more water.

245 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:20:12pm

re: #242 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

For the record, I dislike soccer, but I really dislike people being asses and then attributing it to other people’s “inferiority complexes.”

246 makeitstop  Jun 30, 2015 5:20:39pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Wow. Here’s an incredible deal I just picked up at Amazon to replace a failed 2TB external hard drive — Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0.

A FIVE TERABYTE drive with USB 3 case for only $129. Amazing price, 48% off. Couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I also got the 2-year data protection plan for $9.99 — if the drive goes bad they recover all the data and give it back to you on a new disk. If they can’t recover you get a full refund. Great deal.

I’m still in shock that a 5TB drive can be this cheap. Somebody pinch me.

Wow. Very tempting.

247 S'latch  Jun 30, 2015 5:21:03pm

I agree with Glenn Beck. Thank you, Disney! That’s fantastic.

248 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:21:04pm

re: #228 bratwurst

Oh yeah, I did, thanks for reminding me. It was pathetic listening to people who had no interest in the game suddenly become fans of a game they didn’t understand and would forget about anyway as soon as the team lost, so yeah, those bandwagon fans were really annoying.

249 Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2015 5:21:39pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Just lifting my head up from an all day Lightroom session. Nice results, let me say I take back most of the harsh things i said about it. The new dehaze filter slider is amazing. No reason to not shoot raw all the time anymore. And with a drive like you pointed out why the heck not? Examples of what Lightroom did for me in conditions far from ideal…

250 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:22:01pm
251 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:22:21pm

USA just got lucky as hell. One of our players committed stupid yellow card foul in the box and Germany got a penalty kick. They missed it by a foot. I was sure we’d just lost the game.

252 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 5:22:45pm

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t want to show this to Zedushka. He’s still beating himself up over a 40MB (yes that’s right 40MB) HD that he paid $500 for in 1991.

My family still loves reminding my dad (a mathematician and computer expert) about some of of his remarkable statements from when we bought our first PC - IBM’s XT model with a whopping 10 megabytes of hard drive space - back at an expo in 1989.
Young lad with big eyes that I was (and still am at heart) i tried convincing him to get the better model offered with bigger HD space… leading to his never-forgotten amused statement of “Hahaha, oh, my boy, what could we POSSIBLY need 40 megabytes for?!”

253 PhillyPretzel  Jun 30, 2015 5:23:10pm

Bad weather in Philly. weather.gov

254 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 5:23:16pm

Very uncomfortable at the racists on the #askbobby twitter. They really really suck.

255 Great White Snark  Jun 30, 2015 5:24:01pm

re: #252 Archangelus

My family still loves reminding my dad (a mathematician and computer expert) about some of of his remarkable statements from when we bought our first PC - IBM’s XT model with a whopping 10 megabytes of hard drive space - back at an expo in 1989.
Young lad with big eyes that I was (and still am at heart) i tried convincing him to get the better model offered with bigger HD space… leading to his never-forgotten amused statement of “Hahaha, oh, my boy, what could we POSSIBLY need 40 megabytes for?!”

Thats less than two images on my camera. Two measly images. Hah. Give us a few years and we will laugh at terabytes,

256 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 5:24:05pm

re: #252 Archangelus

My family still loves reminding my dad (a mathematician and computer expert) about some of of his remarkable statements from when we bought our first PC - IBM’s XT model with a whopping 10 megabytes of hard drive space - back at an expo in 1989.
Young lad with big eyes that I was (and still am at heart) i tried convincing him to get the better model offered with bigger HD space… leading to his never-forgotten amused statement of “Hahaha, oh, my boy, what could we POSSIBLY need 40 megabytes for?!”

LOL

257 S'latch  Jun 30, 2015 5:24:12pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Well, that looks great. I wonder if it is a good device though. I once bought a toshiba 1T and it crashed almost right out of the box. Since then, I have only ever used Western Digital and I think that brand is very reliable.

258 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 5:24:33pm

re: #237 thedopefishlives

Part of that is probably related to the fact that, unlike American Footballers, soccer players aren’t trained from a young age to try to kill each other.

Ha, good one! Goes to show what you know of the sport (and the fans and the players)… :)

259 Bubblehead II  Jun 30, 2015 5:25:12pm

RE #154

About fucking time. They should have allowed the rating to be first in my opinion.

260 makeitstop  Jun 30, 2015 5:25:27pm

re: #257 S’latch

Well, that looks great. I wonder if it is a good device though. I once bought a toshiba 1T and it crashed almost right out of the box. Since then, I have only ever used Western Digital and I think that brand is very reliable.

Seagate is usually pretty solid.

261 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:25:28pm

re: #258 Archangelus

Ha, good one! Goes to show what you know of the sport (and the fans and the players)… :)

Oh, I know all about the fans. The sport and the players, not so much.

262 darthstar  Jun 30, 2015 5:25:36pm

re: #190 goddamnedfrank

Girls hit harder than guys. Period.

263 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:26:42pm

re: #235 klys (maker of Silmarils)

You do it about things other than soccer as well. I seem to recall any number of derogatory remarks this season about hockey, for example.

In general, when I don’t approve of something and it’s not on topic for the blog, I just keep my mouth shut about it. Clearly you differ. The end result is what you say shapes how people see you.

You might have mistaken me for somebody else about hockey. Hockey is almost as great as baseball. Both can literally get into your blood. The only criticism I have about hockey is that it is over the long term been the worst officiated sport, but that’s a legacy of the league tolerating fighting. I may also have griped about the state of the art of goaltending, but I can’t see how that would be hating.
If this nursing thing doesn’t work out I’m going to establish a goalie school. Have of the curriculum will be about not getting beat to the short side, half of the curriculum will be about not dropping to your frickin knees, and the other half will be about reminding aspiring goalies that their primary job is to get hit with the stinking puck. (sigh)

264 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:26:49pm

Opened the back door to let the dogs go play in the rain.

Huge deer right next to the backyard fence.

Insanity commenced all around.

265 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:27:54pm

re: #262 darthstar

Girls hit harder than guys. Period.

266 S'latch  Jun 30, 2015 5:28:16pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Uh, oh! I’m reading all the negative reviews over there on this at Amazon. I am too scared to buy one now.

267 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:28:38pm

Now it’s our turn for a penalty kick.

268 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:29:48pm

GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!

269 b.d.  Jun 30, 2015 5:30:03pm

I hope the Darwin movie is an animated one with a bunch of cute evolving animals so we can indoctrinate an entire generation of kids.

*wrings hands*

270 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:30:09pm
271 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 5:30:17pm

re: #260 makeitstop

Seagate is usually pretty solid.

Seagate?

Sorry but literally every single device of theirs I ever had died on me 1000% well within the boundaries of the warranty - which always proved to be 2000% worthless…

272 Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2015 5:31:02pm

re: #266 S’latch

Uh, oh! I’m reading all the negative reviews over there on this at Amazon. I am too scared to buy one now.

But - it has four and a half stars with 349 reviews! The positive reviews vastly outweigh the negative.

273 S'latch  Jun 30, 2015 5:31:06pm

re: #271 Archangelus

See, this is what I was afraid of.

274 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:31:10pm

One other thought about hockey, and it isn’t meant to be an insult, is that the NHL is a poor steward of the game.

275 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:31:13pm

re: #263 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I had a reply, but it won’t add anything, so it is off to the great deletion.

Suffice it to say, no, I don’t have you mistaken with someone else and the end result of your “comments” is that I don’t talk about something I enjoy here because the end result was feeling like someone was shitting all over something I like. Maybe other Lizards appreciate that, I don’t know, but I don’t find your comments on sports to be helpful at all and have therefore taken mine elsewhere, even on the late night threads where little else is happening.

276 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:31:25pm

re: #270 goddamnedfrank

Keep calm and score a goal

277 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:31:46pm

re: #276 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Keep calm and score a goal

No, really, just goal.

278 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:32:15pm

FWIW I bought one Seagate drive and it worked flawlessly. A data point of one.

279 S'latch  Jun 30, 2015 5:32:24pm

re: #272 Charles Johnson

I got a lot of very cute cat gifs I can’t afford to lose. If I have to pay more, so be it.

280 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:32:53pm

I do need a backup drive. Hmmm

281 Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2015 5:33:19pm

re: #271 Archangelus

On the other hand, I have a Seagate drive installed in my Mac Pro desktop that’s been running flawlessly for more than 5 years now.

I’m really not worried. With the data protection plan there’s really no way to lose.

282 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:33:55pm

Dogs and deer was almost as insane as cats and bats.

283 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:33:56pm

re: #275 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’m curious what I could have said about hockey that would be offensive, because I do hold the game in high regard. Is there a way to scroll through my old comments?

284 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:34:03pm

I can give a shit less about soccer, but I love this stuff. I’m weird that way.

285 bratwurst  Jun 30, 2015 5:35:30pm

re: #284 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I can give a shit less about soccer, but I love this stuff. I’m weird that way.

Careful…you are in danger of being insulted as an annoying “bandwagon fan” by a real sports expert. /

286 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:35:47pm

I just enjoy being among the Lizardim. I don’t really care one way or the other about soccer. It’s a tolerance thing. I’m learning how to do it.

287 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:35:58pm

I really love this stuff:

288 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 5:36:02pm

re: #281 Charles Johnson

Oh i don’t doubt that, but having lost a grand total of roughly 580 gigabytes of data over a decade on their hardware that I had (of which only half was salvageable), I’m not a client they’ll ever get again…

289 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:36:31pm

re: #283 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Sure, it’s called the “recent comments” button on your profile.

As I recall, there was a nice spate at the end of January that pretty much marked the last time I talked about hockey extensively here, where you went off about fighting in the league and how shitty the state of goaltending was. Kind of like you just did here. It didn’t leave me with the impression that you liked hockey at all.

Strange how text communicates only what is actually typed.

290 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:36:40pm

Hey, the front page re-design made the user’s guide obsolete.

291 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:36:45pm

re: #284 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I can give a shit less about soccer, but I love this stuff. I’m weird that way.

I’m normally not a fan either but I enjoy watching World Cup. I had a blast going to a MLS game too- totally different experience than a baseball or basketball game which are probably my favorite to watch and play.

292 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:38:06pm

re: #289 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I remember, of course, because I was binge-watching games trying to deal with the fact that mr. klys was in a hospital in England and I was in CA and there was very little I could do about that.

293 FormerDirtDart  Jun 30, 2015 5:38:08pm

re: #202 CuriousLurker

And on cue, following the Oklahoma Supreme Courts 7-2 decision ordering the removal of the 10 Commandment Monument from the State Capitol a group of lawmakers called for the impeachment of seven justices who ruled for the plaintiff
kfor.com

294 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:39:07pm

re: #289 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Sure, it’s called the “recent comments” button on your profile.

As I recall, there was a nice spate at the end of January that pretty much marked the last time I talked about hockey extensively here, where you went off about fighting in the league and how shitty the state of goaltending was. Kind of like you just did here. It didn’t leave me with the impression that you liked hockey at all.

Strange how text communicates only what is actually typed.

Did it ever occur to you that I dislike fighting and the state of goaltending because I care about the game? Just because somebody disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re shitting on you.

295 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:39:09pm

re: #291 HappyWarrior

I’m normally not a fan either but I enjoy watching World Cup. I had a blast going to a MLS game too- totally different experience than a baseball or basketball game which are probably my favorite to watch and play.

I think this is really my stance. I won’t pay to see many games, but I will watch with friends. I have a friend and his daughters at the game today.

296 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:39:57pm

re: #292 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I remember, of course, because I was binge-watching games trying to deal with the fact that mr. klys was in a hospital in England and I was in CA and there was very little I could do about that.

Is it weird that I remember this episode?

297 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:40:55pm

re: #295 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I think this is really my stance. I won’t pay to see many games, but I will watch with friends. I have a friend and his daughters at the game today.

Yeah had a blast watching the final last summer with friends I made in Lisbon. I still can’t watch hockey though. Just not my cup of tea but if someone likes it, that’s cool.

298 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:41:09pm

re: #296 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Is it weird that I remember this episode?

Not to me, but there isn’t a lot that I’m allowed to forget, so.

299 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:41:31pm

re: #294 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Did it ever occur to you that I dislike fighting and the state of goaltending because I care about the game? Just because somebody disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re shitting on you.

I’m not sure the state of goaltending is that bad, fwiw, since they’ve been hamstrung by the smaller pads and behind-goal area (former goalie here).

300 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:41:41pm

This game is just ridiculously physical.

301 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 5:43:58pm

Dana has a rage that the guy she was harassing yesterday has blocked her.

302 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:44:02pm

re: #296 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Is it weird that I remember this episode?

I remember it. -_-

303 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:45:04pm
304 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:45:13pm

GOOOOAAAAALLLLLAAAAAZZZZZZOOOO!

305 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:45:51pm

re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dude. That would be the best camping trip EVER.

306 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:46:00pm

re: #302 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I remember it. -_-

Yes, but my name’s not Klys ;)

307 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:46:41pm

re: #306 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Yes, but my name’s not Klys ;)

I WOULD ARGUE IT WAS STILL FUCKING TRAUMATIC but again my name is klys so…

308 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 5:46:42pm

Second USA goal. Pretty much guaranteed that we’re going to the finals now.

309 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:46:49pm

re: #299 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Former goalie as well. I wrote above about the primary job of the goaltender is to get hit with the puck. The way I see it, when I’m king of the world, I’m fining any goalie who butterflies. Or maybe I’ll put fire ants in their pads so they get bitten whenever they do it. Or maybe a remote control zapper! Yeah, that’s the ticket, Or maybe tell a defenseman to box his ears…
Did I mention I hate butterflies?

310 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:47:51pm
311 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:48:06pm

re: #307 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I WOULD ARGUE IT WAS STILL FUCKING TRAUMATIC but again my name is klys so…

You know, I thought it was traumatic just from reading from afar. I’d have been really traumatized if my name was Klys. ;)

312 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:48:12pm

I think what sports you like depend on how you’re raised I guess. I don’t recall how I got into baseball but I played t-ball from the time I was six until I was in 8th grade and probably would have tried out for high school if I didn’t have a heart condition and could actually hit. Played some great basketball games on the playground in 5th and 6th grade and I’ve been assistant coach for my brother’s team the past three years. Watched a ton of boxing and football with my Grandpa so I like those too. No one I was close to was a big hockey or soccer fan so I never really became a fan of either. I did sort of do a hockey camp one winter but I do not like ice skating since it gives me terrible foot blisters.

313 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:49:53pm

re: #309 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Former goalie as well. I wrote above about the primary job of the goaltender is to get hit with the puck. The way I see it, when I’m king of the world, I’m fining any goalie who butterflies. Or maybe I’ll put fire ants in their pads so they get bitten whenever they do it. Or maybe a remote control zapper! Yeah, that’s the ticket, Or maybe tell a defenseman to box his ears…
Did I mention I hate butterflies?

Standup goalie. Interesting. They did fuck up the pads a few years back and tried to tie down the wanderers (like Belfour, Cujo, Roy, etc.) I think the leg pads were reduced from 12 to 11 inches.

314 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:50:05pm

re: #312 HappyWarrior

Growing up in the Basketball State (Indiana), basketball was what every kid was “expected” to play. Despite my well-above-average height, I was never all that good on the court. I also played T-ball when I was a kid. Being in the conservative bubble kind of insulated me from more “world-centric” games like soccer, and being in the northernmost reaches of the South meant that hockey was right out.

315 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:50:49pm

re: #312 HappyWarrior

I think what sports you like depend on how you’re raised I guess. I don’t recall how I got into baseball but I played t-ball from the time I was six until I was in 8th grade and probably would have tried out for high school if I didn’t have a heart condition and could actually hit. Played some great basketball games on the playground in 5th and 6th grade and I’ve been assistant coach for my brother’s team the past three years. Watched a ton of boxing and football with my Grandpa so I like those too. No one I was close to was a big hockey or soccer fan so I never really became a fan of either. I did sort of do a hockey camp one winter but I do not like ice skating since it gives me terrible foot blisters.

I grew up in Texas, and you’d have never pegged me as a hockey fan as a kid. lol.

316 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:51:01pm

re: #312 HappyWarrior

I follow football vaguely because of family obligations.

I am supposed to know something about college basketball because of in-laws.

Hockey is the sport I have gotten into on my own, thanks to going to games in person (the only way to do it) and at this point I’ve found an enthusiastic community elsewhere that is able to acknowledge places where the sport could be improved without coming across as hating it in its entirety. Most of LGF is probably pleased to be spared my hockey babbling, so it’s a good deal all around.

317 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:51:07pm

The thing about baseball and hockey is that they truly get into your blood. There is a smell about baseball gloves and hockey gear (which is probably pretty gross) that just gets into you and sucks you in for more and more.

318 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 5:51:47pm

re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Awesome.

319 aagcobb  Jun 30, 2015 5:51:47pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

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The ACLU suing Jindal made his day. It gives him desperately needed street cred with the knuckle dragging so-con voters in Iowa. That is going to be one mean dog fight. So-cons Huckabee, Santorum, Jindal and Cruz all have to win Iowa to maintain any kind of viable path to the nomination, and of course Walker badly needs to win there as well.

320 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:52:11pm

re: #314 thedopefishlives

Growing up in the Basketball State (Indiana), basketball was what every kid was “expected” to play. Despite my well-above-average height, I was never all that good on the court. I also played T-ball when I was a kid. Being in the conservative bubble kind of insulated me from more “world-centric” games like soccer, and being in the northernmost reaches of the South meant that hockey was right out.

I was actually pretty late to basketball. I only started playing in the fifth grade but I picked it up pretty well despite the fact I have a very unorthodox shot but it was and still is my dad’s favorite sport and as I said I had some really fun games on the playground. But yeah hockey wasn’t much here too. I knew some hockey players but it’s only really taken off here since the Caps drafted Ovechin though we had some diehards in the mid 90’s I remember going to school with.

321 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:52:27pm

re: #313 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

If it were up to me I would attach a cable to the crossbar and the other end to the goalie’s jock strap so he gets a wedgie if he goes too far, but that’s just the way I see it.

322 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:52:46pm

re: #316 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I follow football vaguely because of family obligations.

I am supposed to know something about college basketball because of in-laws.

Hockey is the sport I have gotten into on my own, thanks to going to games in person (the only way to do it) and at this point I’ve found an enthusiastic community elsewhere that is able to acknowledge places where the sport could be improved without coming across as hating it in its entirety. Most of LGF is probably pleased to be spared my hockey babbling, so it’s a good deal all around.

If this isn’t the truth. Hockey doesn’t do well if it’s not live.

323 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 5:52:57pm

Peace be with you, in the Land of LGF.

324 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:53:32pm

re: #322 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

If this isn’t the truth. Hockey doesn’t do well if it’s not live.

I’m waiting for the partial season packs to be announced, so I can figure out which one I’m getting this year.

Also the AHL team is moving home so I can go see the minors.

325 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:54:10pm

re: #317 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The thing about baseball and hockey is that they truly get into your blood. There is a smell about baseball gloves and hockey gear (which is probably pretty gross) that just gets into you and sucks you in for more and more.

I should also declare that I was a catcher. I guess I just love lots of gear and getting hit with objects :D

326 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:54:34pm

re: #316 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I follow football vaguely because of family obligations.

I am supposed to know something about college basketball because of in-laws.

Hockey is the sport I have gotten into on my own, thanks to going to games in person (the only way to do it) and at this point I’ve found an enthusiastic community elsewhere that is able to acknowledge places where the sport could be improved without coming across as hating it in its entirety. Most of LGF is probably pleased to be spared my hockey babbling, so it’s a good deal all around.

I think that’s what baseball is with me. Dad loves basketball. My mom’s dad loved football and boxing and I watched a ton of those with him when I was a kid. But baseball I think is something I really got into sort of on my own. I wish I could get into hockey but it’s just not my sport. Maybe I am prejudiced against winter sports lol, winter is my least favorite season.

327 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:55:22pm

re: #320 HappyWarrior

I was actually pretty late to basketball. I only started playing in the fifth grade but I picked it up pretty well despite the fact I have a very unorthodox shot but it was and still is my dad’s favorite sport and as I said I had some really fun games on the playground. But yeah hockey wasn’t much here too. I knew some hockey players but it’s only really taken off here since the Caps drafted Ovechin though we had some diehards in the mid 90’s I remember going to school with.

I grew up in the Chicagoland area, so most of my sports news was Bulls, Bears, and Sox. The Cubs were right out. The Colts didn’t become popular until after I left for college. I went to a couple of White Sox games, but I didn’t get big into baseball until I moved to the wild north country and spent a lot of time with Mrs. Fish’s family. Her mom is a die-hard baseball fanatic who converted me to the Twins.

328 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:55:22pm

re: #322 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

If this isn’t the truth. Hockey doesn’t do well if it’s not live.

That’s probably my problem. Every hockey fan tells me “Dude you gotta see it live to truly experience it” and I concede they are probably right but I’m in no huge rush to pay for a ticket.

329 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:55:50pm

heh:

330 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 5:56:01pm

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

I retweeted, but must comment how I love the Y’all means All logo.

331 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 5:56:02pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh:

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Damn kids, get off my lawn.

332 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:56:46pm

For a long time I was a total basketball geek, but once I couldn’t play anymore I really lost touch with the game. I also think that the fade of newspapers has some effect. I used to read the boxscores all the time for baseball and basketball, but now that I don’t see the paper anymore I’ve sort of lost track of these games.

333 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 5:58:14pm

Now the one “sport” I can never and it’s funny since I’ve had many friends that just love it is wrestling. I mean it it entertains you, I won’t knock you but I find it silly and I guess one could make the same arguments about some of the drama that goes on in other sports but it just has always seemed tacky to me. I felt that way at 10 and I feel the same at 27.

334 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 5:58:36pm

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Pro-wrestling is soap opera for men.

335 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:59:12pm

I first saw the Dallas Stars with a $10 seat against the wall at Reunion Arena. Everything’s been priced out of my league with the Blackhawks these days. I can only watch from afar. :/

336 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jun 30, 2015 5:59:13pm

re: #325 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I should also declare that I was a catcher. I guess I just love lots of gear and getting hit with objects :D

I tried to be a pitcher. About 20 pitches into my tryout, I realized that EVERYBODY had gathered around the cage and was holding a bat. I didn’t learn to pitch until I was much older. (It’s all in the legs). To this day I love to watch the pitching windup from the side, as opposed to the rear view you see all the time on tv.

337 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 30, 2015 5:59:31pm
338 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 5:59:38pm

re: #334 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Pro-wrestling is soap opera for men.

This is more accurate than anyone will admit. lol

339 EmmaAnne  Jun 30, 2015 5:59:39pm

re: #195 Blind Frog Belly White

After 33years in Life Sciences, my observation is that we are a colossal jury rig, perpetually on the edge of catastrophic failure.

And the older you get, the more the baling wire on one system starts interfering with the duct tape on another.

340 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 5:59:45pm

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Now the one “sport” I can never and it’s funny since I’ve had many friends that just love it is wrestling. I mean it it entertains you, I won’t knock you but I find it silly and I guess one could make the same arguments about some of the drama that goes on in other sports but it just has always seemed tacky to me. I felt that way at 10 and I feel the same at 27.

College wrestling is an actual sport but pro-wrestling is just entertainment.

341 prairiefire  Jun 30, 2015 6:00:09pm

re: #286 thedopefishlives

I find I need the”community” thing, irregardless of subject.

342 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jun 30, 2015 6:00:15pm

i can enjoy a baseball game and also boxing

the rest of it leaves me cold. im not really a sports fan, anyway…

i like baseball partly because i was drilled relentlessly in softball year after year all through my childhood. i was the quiet kid who didnt really care, but the magic of it got into me somehow. other games, not

i really understood my uncle when he told me he only watched college football - “professional football players, what’s the point? the college kids have pure talent and commitment, and nothing else… now, that’s exciting”

343 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:00:16pm

re: #327 thedopefishlives

I grew up in the Chicagoland area, so most of my sports news was Bulls, Bears, and Sox. The Cubs were right out. The Colts didn’t become popular until after I left for college. I went to a couple of White Sox games, but I didn’t get big into baseball until I moved to the wild north country and spent a lot of time with Mrs. Fish’s family. Her mom is a die-hard baseball fanatic who converted me to the Twins.

I’m a diehard Orioles fan. I get family that bust on me since I didn’t switch to the Nats when the Expos moved to DC but i stay with the teams I’ve grew up with or root for by school obligatoins which is how I manage to be a Orioles, Steelers, GMU, Wizards, fan.

344 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jun 30, 2015 6:00:29pm

re: #339 EmmaAnne

And the older you get, the more the baling wire on one system starts interfering with the duct tape on another.

I’d drink to that, but I had to stop drinking.

345 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:01:08pm

re: #334 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Pro-wrestling is soap opera for men.

Hahaha exactly. I mean I’ve tried watching it with friends and it just doesn’t entertain me. I really would much rather watch a boxing match. I think the latter. There is almost an art to it.

346 Bubblehead II  Jun 30, 2015 6:01:09pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Wow. Here’s an incredible deal I just picked up at Amazon to replace a failed 2TB external hard drive — Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0.

A FIVE TERABYTE drive with USB 3 case for only $129. Amazing price, 48% off. Couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I also got the 2-year data protection plan for $9.99 — if the drive goes bad they recover all the data and give it back to you on a new disk. If they can’t recover you get a full refund. Great deal.

I’m still in shock that a 5TB drive can be this cheap. Somebody pinch me.

Tempting, but I will pass. I have a 1TB drive, broken down into 4 250 GB partitions. So far they have served me well.

347 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 6:01:27pm

She was all like fuck it hose me off I’m good to go.

348 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:01:54pm

re: #325 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I should also declare that I was a catcher. I guess I just love lots of gear and getting hit with objects :D

I got stuck behind the plate in our mens’ softball league a couple of years ago because I was drastically out of shape and a poor glove. I got moved to 2B in the middle of the next year because of injuries and I did passably well there.

349 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2015 6:02:38pm

My sons, except for the one in Canada, are all hardcore Detroit Tigers baseball fans. I mean hardcore in that they will wear Tigers gear to a game at Yankee Stadium.

350 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:02:43pm

re: #345 HappyWarrior

Hahaha exactly. I mean I’ve tried watching it with friends and it just doesn’t entertain me. I really would much rather watch a boxing match. I think the latter. There is almost an art to it.

Deadspin has posted some stories from the people who write the scripts for WWE. Also, how many of those dudes have died in their 40s. It’s fucked up.

351 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:02:56pm

re: #342 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i can enjoy a baseball game and also boxing

the rest of it leaves me cold. im not really a sports fan, anyway…

i like baseball partly because i was drilled relentlessly in softball year after year all through my childhood. i was the quiet kid who didnt really care, but the magic of it got into me somehow. other games, not

i really understood my uncle when he told me he only watched college football - “professional football players, what’s the point? the college kids have pure talent and commitment, and nothing else… now, that’s exciting”

Now what made high school football and basketball fun for me as a kid was going to the games and seeing guys you knew excel. They weren’t gods. They were the guys you grew up with. I considered trying out freshman year but murmurs run in my family so I had to get that looked at and that’s how they found out about my heart condition. Probably for the best. Practice every day after school and having a learning disability and probably never smell the football field but I loved the idea of having a jersey with my name on it.

352 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 6:03:23pm

There is no soccer, there is no futbol. There is only calcio.

353 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 6:03:44pm

This was how they sent Popp out for the second half.

354 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:03:50pm

re: #350 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Deadspin has posted some stories from the people who write the scripts for WWE. Also, how many of those dudes have died in their 40s. It’s fucked up.

It really is. I mean other sports have the similiar problems with health issues. Mean Joe Greene is the only member of the Steel Curtain still with us.

355 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:03:54pm

re: #349 The Vicious Babushka

My sons, except for the one in Canada, are all hardcore Detroit Tigers baseball fans. I mean hardcore in that they will wear Tigers gear to a game at Yankee Stadium.

I hope you have insurance :D (I have a friend who’s a die-hard Yankee fan. He’s insufferable during baseball season).

356 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:04:10pm

re: #353 goddamnedfrank

This was how they sent Popp out for the second half.

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Don’t mess with her. She looks like a tough cookie.

357 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 6:05:20pm

re: #341 prairiefire

I find I need the”community” thing, irregardless of subject.

You were here during the dark scary days of the server implosion?

I remember not knowing wtf to do, where to go. I tried so many websites, but their comment sections were not…..this. Without LGF it was pretty damn weird.

That’s why I’m feeling the loss of JAH. When you get used to this community, you get used to it.

And I’ll caveat with I never missed that Mandy one single bit.

358 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:05:24pm

re: #354 HappyWarrior

It really is. I mean other sports have the similiar problems with health issues. Mean Joe Greene is the only member of the Steel Curtain still with us.

I think it’s the combination of brain trauma and steroids, but jeeezus fuck is there a lot of damage in that sport.

359 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:06:11pm

re: #357 #FergusonFireside

Wait, what did I miss?

360 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:06:23pm

re: #358 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I think it’s the combination of brain trauma and steroids, but jeeezus fuck is there a lot of damage in that sport.

I know. It’s fucked up. Combine that with drug abuse used to recover from the injuries and you got a lot of guys who sadly don’t touch 50. Now baseball players seem to live pretty healthy lives. My dad met Ted Williams when Ted was well into his 80’s.

361 Jenner7  Jun 30, 2015 6:06:42pm

USA just outplayed Germany. Good game. Go USA!

362 makeitstop  Jun 30, 2015 6:07:06pm

re: #271 Archangelus

Seagate?

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Sorry but literally every single device of theirs I ever had died on me 1000% well within the boundaries of the warranty - which always proved to be 2000% worthless…

I used them back when I was building my own machines, never had a problem. Then again, I haven’t built a machine in 10 years.

363 EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2015 6:07:29pm

Having always rightfully been picked dead last for any sports team ever, I naturally learned to despise them all, both as participant and spectator.

However, my views have moderated over time, and I can appreciate positive sports stories when they come by (e.g., the grit of Alexandra Popp).

364 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:07:45pm

re: #357 #FergusonFireside

You were here during the dark scary days of the server implosion?

I remember not knowing wtf to do, where to go. I tried so many websites, but their comment sections were not…..this. Without LGF it was pretty damn weird.

That’s why I’m feeling the loss of JAH. When you get used to this community, you get used to it.

And I’ll caveat with I never missed that Mandy one single bit.

I mentioned this two(?) threads ago. This community is very introspective and self-correcting. I always come back, even after I’ve been gone a few days, and I kinda know I’ll find good people.

You’re all good people.

365 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 6:08:05pm

re: #359 thedopefishlives

Wait, what did I miss?

She hasn’t been back since a discussion about trans-folk, culminating with her receiving multiple downdings for comparing parental support of children coming out as trans to child abuse and being called out for that view.

Some of the discussion leading up to it might have been heated but I don’t believe in sugar-coating what got the majority of the pushback either.

366 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:08:22pm

re: #357 #FergusonFireside

You were here during the dark scary days of the server implosion?

I remember not knowing wtf to do, where to go. I tried so many websites, but their comment sections were not…..this. Without LGF it was pretty damn weird.

That’s why I’m feeling the loss of JAH. When you get used to this community, you get used to it.

And I’ll caveat with I never missed that Mandy one single bit.

It does stink seeing familiar faces go. One of the first people I met here was SFZ and FBV. FBV was pretty conservative by the standards especially of where we are now but he was a nice guy to me. There are others whose departures I don’t really mourn though which is more personality related than ideological.

367 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:09:20pm

re: #364 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I mentioned this two(?) threads ago. This community is very introspective and self-correcting. I always come back, even after I’ve been gone a few days, and I kinda know I’ll find good people.

You’re all good people.

What I love about posting here is I always feel like I’m learning something new. Plus we get some great tunes here. Charles’ musical postings has played a big part in why I’ve been drawn to the folk scene.

368 goddamnedfrank  Jun 30, 2015 6:10:17pm

And then to add insult to injury, literally, Popp was the player that got dragged down in the penalty box, earning Germany the free kick that barely missed the outside goalpost. USA played better overall, but that was a crazy game.

369 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 6:10:29pm

re: #366 HappyWarrior

It does stink seeing familiar faces go. One of the first people I met here was SFZ and FBV. FBV was pretty conservative by the standards especially of where we are now but he was a nice guy to me. There are others whose departures I don’t really mourn though which is more personality related than ideological.

FBV and SFV aren’t really gone. They’re just a verrry long time between posts.

370 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:10:29pm

re: #365 klys (maker of Silmarils)

She hasn’t been back since a discussion about trans-folk, culminating with her receiving multiple downdings for comparing parental support of children coming out as trans to child abuse and being called out for that view.

Some of the discussion leading up to it might have been heated but I don’t believe in sugar-coating what got the majority of the pushback either.

Oy vey. One thing that is both good and bad about the Lizardim is how passionate we are and how much we actively engage each other. The downside is that being this involved in the community can lead to some seriously hurt feelings when a discussion turns the wrong way.

371 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:11:09pm

re: #369 Decatur Deb

FBV and SFV aren’t really gone. They’re just a verrry long time between posts.

That’s a good way of looking at it DD and you were one of the first people I remember when I was a noob too. I just miss familiar faces that leave.

372 Belafon  Jun 30, 2015 6:12:06pm

So women’s soccer is like US football: Offense wins games, defense wins championships. (Yes, I know there’s one more to go.)

373 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 6:12:47pm

re: #371 HappyWarrior

That’s a good way of looking at it DD and you were one of the first people I remember when I was a noob too. I just miss familiar faces that leave.

And that’s why I’ll never pile up on DF. He was notably decent when the place was like a biker bar.

374 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 6:13:23pm
I think what sports you like depend on how you’re raised I guess

Not sure it’s the only factor IMHO.
I grew up liking basketball and hockey, and loved baseball more than anything else back in California (Angels fan - and that’s ANAHEIM Angels, LA can kiss my O.C. butt). Always had a soft spot in my heart for World Football (will not call it soccer, sorry) because of my parents, both of whom have some South American heritage and some family in the southern continent, where the sport is revered. Also, one of my grandfathers coached a prominent youth team back in the day, so always knew how it was played and followed the World Cup even if no one else I knew outside of my family did.

After the move to the Middle East, the whole sports dynamic really ended up being reversed; While basketball is popular and the local teams, players and coaches are strong enough to make a name beyond the country’s borders, hockey and baseball were and are virtually nonexistent. In contrast, with regards to World Football - which is viewed by most of the whole country, men and women nearly alike, as all but given by God to Moses at Mount Sinai - I ended playing in high school at a competitive level and since then have consumed more matches (local and international) than i could count at this point. Don’t follow the local league as much as I used to (all the teams have deteriorated badly in recent years IMO), but sure do follow all the other ones.

At the end of the day, I’m still a fan of all of them, with football perhaps my favorite nowadays.

375 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:13:35pm

re: #370 thedopefishlives

Oy vey. One thing that is both good and bad about the Lizardim is how passionate we are and how much we actively engage each other. The downside is that being this involved in the community can lead to some seriously hurt feelings when a discussion turns the wrong way.

Yep. I can’t stand Dark_F’s politics, but I can engage him. I hope we respect each other, and, were we to meet on the street, we’d have a cup of coffee and laugh.

This is a strange thing for me to think about with a group of Internet commenters. LOL

376 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 6:13:50pm

re: #369 Decatur Deb

FBV and SFV aren’t really gone. They’re just a verrry long time between posts.

Ya, I always wonder who will show up out of the blue. You know you can email Charles for your new password, right?

I hope SFZ (not V) is a mother of 2 by now. But respect to those who are gone & all that.

Y’all are getting my life travels to the end I’m hoping.

377 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:14:46pm

re: #373 Decatur Deb

And that’s why I’ll never pile up on DF. He was amazingly decent when the place was like a biker bar.

True that.

378 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:14:52pm

re: #375 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’ve always said, if any of the lizardfolk happen to pass through the wild north country on their many travels, you are welcome to ping me for a meetup. I’ll even buy.

379 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2015 6:15:00pm

Selfie with the kids at the #Scitechleaders Congress. Did you know I took the first selfie in space?

380 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:15:13pm

re: #373 Decatur Deb

And that’s why I’ll never pile up on DF. He was amazingly decent when the place was like a biker bar.

I missed the biker bar days, I guess :D

381 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:16:46pm

re: #379 Shiplord Kirel

…

BOOM!

382 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 6:17:23pm

re: #375 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Yep. I can’t stand Dark_F’s politics, but I can engage him. I hope we respect each other, and, were we to meet on the street, we’d have a cup of coffee and laugh.

This is a strange thing for me to think about with a group of Internet commenters. LOL

I’m planning a cross country drive and I’m expecting y’all to meet me somewhere. 3 hour drives are nothing. Seriously. Deets in a month etc.

383 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:18:15pm

re: #382 #FergusonFireside

I’m planning a cross country drive and I’m expecting y’all to meet me somewhere. 3 hour drives are nothing. Seriously. Deets in a month etc.

If you go through Iowa, we’ll talk.

384 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:18:58pm

The thing about DF and I know I can come off hard on him is I think he’s fundamentally a good guy. I think he’s perhaps guilty of loyalty to a fault to his party but I don’t think he’s a nasty person and I have to say it does take courage to part on a blog where most people don’t share your world view and view your political party of choice as being a bag of dicks. He also is someone I can really see the decency in. There have been other conservatives I’ve known over the years who just have their political persona but with DF I can see someone who is very knowledgeable about history and another credit in his favor that I have to give him credit for is he is willing to learn. Maybe he’ll never be a Democrat but I think we have influenced his way of looking at issues and he probably has mine without me realizing it.

385 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 6:19:09pm

re: #383 thedopefishlives

If you go through Iowa, we’ll talk.

I’d say I was going through MN but that is in the portion of the trip that involves 12 hour driving days.

386 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:19:10pm

re: #382 #FergusonFireside

It’s a date! :D

387 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 30, 2015 6:19:20pm

re: #381 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I’ll try it again:

388 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 6:19:47pm

re: #381 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

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BOOM!

That’s deplorable, and now I have to buy yet another cabinet to file things to deplore.

389 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 6:19:56pm

re: #368 goddamnedfrank

And then to add insult to injury, literally, Popp was the player that got dragged down in the penalty box, earning Germany the free kick that barely missed the outside goalpost. USA played better overall, but that was a crazy game.

Agreed, ain’t seen a game that brutal in a while now…. though currently witnessing a different form of sports brutality right now (was watching that game while switching occasionally to the Argentina-Paraguay match taking place at the same time - Argentina is now leading 6-1 with a few minutes left, and wiping the floor with what little remains of the Paraguay team)..

390 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:20:08pm

re: #385 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’d say I was going through MN but that is in the portion of the trip that involves 12 hour driving days.

You should schedule your stop to be somewhere nearby. ;)

391 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 30, 2015 6:20:33pm

re: #384 HappyWarrior

The thing about DF and I know I can come off hard on him is I think he’s fundamentally a good guy. I think he’s perhaps guilty of loyalty to a fault to his party but I don’t think he’s a nasty person and I have to say it does take courage to part on a blog where most people don’t share your world view and view your political party of choice as being a bag of dicks. He also is someone I can really see the decency in. There have been other conservatives I’ve known over the years who just have their political persona but with DF I can see someone who is very knowledgeable about history and another credit in his favor that I have to give him credit for is he is willing to learn. Maybe he’ll never be a Democrat but I think we have influenced his way of looking at issues and he probably has mine without me realizing it.

Yep. All of that. He knows a lot. Just sometimes frustratingly wed to his “team” who happen to be a bunch of assholes.

392 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 6:21:01pm

re: #390 thedopefishlives

You should schedule your stop to be somewhere nearby. ;)

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393 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 6:21:16pm

re: #381 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

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Amazing.

394 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 6:22:01pm

re: #387 Shiplord Kirel</em

That went by in the Spy—only once here on the thread.

395 Archangelus  Jun 30, 2015 6:22:11pm

re: #381 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

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396 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:22:42pm

re: #391 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Yep. All of that. He knows a lot. Just sometimes frustratingly wed to his “team” who happen to be a bunch of assholes.

I’d love for him to be voting for Clinton next November. But as I said I’m glad that he sees through a lot of things that I assume that in the past would have been hard for him to do.

397 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:23:42pm

re: #392 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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398 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 6:25:19pm

re: #397 thedopefishlives

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399 prairiefire  Jun 30, 2015 6:26:40pm

re: #380 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I missed the biker bar days, I guess :D

Wow, they were pretty crazy. You could smell the sweat and booze coming through the computer screen.

400 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:28:17pm

re: #399 prairiefire

Wow, they were pretty crazy. You could smell the sweat and booze coming through the computer screen.

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401 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:28:49pm

re: #398 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Like I said, ‘sall good. I’ll just make you make a dedicated trip to the fishbowl later. :P

402 prairiefire  Jun 30, 2015 6:31:09pm

re: #400 HappyWarrior

Yep.

403 Decatur Deb  Jun 30, 2015 6:31:34pm

re: #400 HappyWarrior

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No, those guys were not at all viscious until they somehow backed themselves into a corner. There were certifiables back before the stalker sites bled them off.

404 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:32:36pm

re: #403 Decatur Deb

No, those guys were not at all viscious until they somehow backed themselves into a corner. There were certifiables back before the stalker sites bled them off.

Must have just missed them.

405 William Lewis  Jun 30, 2015 6:33:27pm

re: #373 Decatur Deb

And that’s why I’ll never pile up on DF. He was notably decent when the place was like a biker bar.

He’s a good man at his core. He just needs to learn that he’s a moderate trying to defend radicals… ;)

406 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:33:39pm

re: #402 prairiefire

Yep.

Still don’t know why anyone would post on a political blog while hating political discussion. I know he had a lot of pain problems so I wasn’t too hard on him and he could have some good talks about Keith Richards and the Stones but just one of those guys I never got.

407 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:34:46pm

re: #404 HappyWarrior

Must have just missed them.

Yeah, there were some real crazies back in those days. Mandy was only one out of a number of people whom we might properly say we are ashamed to count among our former numbers. I think a number of them revealed themselves and got banhammered while I was on a temporary hiatus, because when I came back, the tone of conversation was considerably different.

408 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:35:02pm

re: #405 William Lewis

He’s a good man at his core. He just needs to learn that he’s a moderate trying to defend radicals… ;)

Or that at his core he has more in common with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than McCain, Romney, and whoever the Clown 747 nominates for president. As you said though good dude just defending radicals.

409 prairiefire  Jun 30, 2015 6:35:19pm

re: #403 Decatur Deb

Not viscious, just rowdy as hell.

410 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:35:51pm

re: #407 thedopefishlives

Yeah, there were some real crazies back in those days. Mandy was only one out of a number of people whom we might properly say we are ashamed to count among our former numbers. I think a number of them revealed themselves and got banhammered while I was on a temporary hiatus, because when I came back, the tone of conversation was considerably different.

Oh I remember Mandy. Wasn’t here long when I first joined but I do remember her though not well.

411 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:37:31pm

re: #410 HappyWarrior

Oh I remember Mandy. Wasn’t here long when I first joined but I do remember her though not well.

I remember her quite well. I used to be friends with her, as much as one could be her friend. I wasn’t at all surprised when I came back and found her gone; her conflict with iceweasel was legendary, among other things. But there were others, both before her and after, that made certain times of the day very precarious to be present. One learned to keep one’s asbestos-scale suit close to hand.

412 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:38:34pm

re: #411 thedopefishlives

I remember her quite well. I used to be friends with her, as much as one could be her friend. I wasn’t at all surprised when I came back and found her gone; her conflict with iceweasel was legendary, among other things. But there were others, both before her and after, that made certain times of the day very precarious to be present. One learned to keep one’s asbestos-scale suit close to hand.

I think I remember an old timer saying she once had an avatar of Calvin pissing on the word Allah. Strikes me as stupid and immature.

413 thedopefishlives  Jun 30, 2015 6:39:37pm

re: #412 HappyWarrior

I think I remember an old timer saying she once had an avatar of Calvin pissing on the word Allah. Strikes me as stupid and immature.

Pretty much sums it up, actually. And yes, she actually did have that avatar for a long time.

414 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:40:25pm

re: #413 thedopefishlives

Pretty much sums it up, actually. And yes, she actually did have that avatar for a long time.

Always amused me the freak out over the word Allah since it’s just ya know another word for God.

415 #FergusonFireside  Jun 30, 2015 6:40:44pm

talked to my neighbor lost the thread I think.re: #412 HappyWarrior

I think I remember an old timer saying she once had an avatar of Calvin pissing on the word Allah. Strikes me as stupid and immature.

She totally did. She was a major islamophobe.

416 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:43:22pm

re: #415 #FergusonFireside

talked to my neighbor lost the thread I think.

She totally did. She was a major islamophobe.

Think you were the one I saw bring that up one night. In my experiences most Islamaphobes are people who have never met any Muslims and get most of their information from self-proclaimed Islam experts who like wise do not know many Muslims.

417 William Lewis  Jun 30, 2015 6:53:05pm

re: #412 HappyWarrior

I think I remember an old timer saying she once had an avatar of Calvin pissing on the word Allah. Strikes me as stupid and immature.

Mandy in a nutshell.

I do miss Cato though.

418 Bubblehead II  Jun 30, 2015 6:54:07pm

re: #412 HappyWarrior

I think I remember an old timer saying she once had an avatar of Calvin pissing on the word Allah. Strikes me as stupid and immature.

She did. If I remember correctly, she got the hammer after repeated warnings about making derogatory comments about Islam and someone trying to influence her son.

The one I really miss though is Rein.

419 HappyWarrior  Jun 30, 2015 6:54:21pm

re: #417 William Lewis

Mandy in a nutshell.

I do miss Cato though.

DIdn’t get to know him well to get a feel.

420 Bubblehead II  Jun 30, 2015 6:58:00pm

re: #419 HappyWarrior

DIdn’t get to know him well to get a feel.

Asshole. Make any comment disparaging Israeli policies towards (take your pick) and you were an automatic antisemite. Oh, and he hated trailer trash.

421 meteor  Jun 30, 2015 7:11:26pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s like this dream I had.

422 ipsos  Jun 30, 2015 8:00:13pm

re: #392 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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423 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jun 30, 2015 8:48:02pm

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424 Virginia Dreaming  Jun 30, 2015 9:24:19pm

re: #17 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Smelly cats, Oh smelly cats what kind of bullshit are they feeding you?

425 Virginia Dreaming  Jun 30, 2015 9:28:40pm

re: #416 HappyWarrior

I think you just described about 95% of all bigots, no matter what they are bigoted against. And very accurately I might add.

426 ipsos  Jun 30, 2015 10:01:57pm

re: #423 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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