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Today, we’re talking Trump rumors, movie props, backpacks, and more. Your letters: Paul: How long are we supposed to pretend this Mayweather/Mc. Gregor shitshow isn’t going to be 1.
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Is our best hope that halfway through Floyd pulls a Thunderlips because he was unable to read the script? Oh, it’s completely rigged. The allure of that fight is in HOW it will be rigged. Everyone has already seen those videos of Mc. Gregor giving loves taps to a heavy bag.
To me, it’s clear he’s faking it. He’s either trying to hide the fact that he can box (unlikely), or he’s trying to get you to BELIEVE he’s boxing even worse than he already does (much more likely) and tricking you into believing he’s faking THAT and that he can actually box. I know that’s extremely convoluted, but this is an exhibition that only benefits from swathed in multiple, Inception- style layers of kayfabe. I wish I could tell you that I won’t watch.
Thanks for this one.lovely! It’s like an instant motivation tool for everyone who’s lazy like me. Now i’m gonna do my courseworks.I’m still in highschool. Aaron W.: So I’ve been struggling with this question a lot: Is it ok to ? On the con side, they are aunt and nephew, which is gross.
No one wants to hand money to either of these shitbags, and no one wants to encourage an already- corrupt sport to burn whatever scraps are left of its integrity just to bring in a few extra eyeballs. But I’m TOTALLY gonna watch.
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- Also, Kaepernick’s situation is unique because he’s clearly not the player he once was (although I still think he’d make a quality backup, and any Twitter egg.
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I’m a complete sucker. As much as I bitch about this match being rigged and overhyped, there is still a tiny fraction of my brain that’s like, “But what if some crazy shit happens?” That’s all a fight promoter needs. All a fight promoter needs is the mere specter of Mc. Gregor abandoning his contract and kicking Floyd in the head, or Mayweather knocking Paddy O’Lucky out in half a second, to pull me in and hate myself for it.
Everyone loathes overhyped shit but the harsh truth is that hype works. It’s inescapable. It makes the disposable essential. It makes everything feel bigger than it is, and it makes you feel bigger for being part of it. It’s a flurry of sociological jabs that strike directly at the involuntary reflexes of your mind, even as you claim to be immune to it. I’m exactly the kind of mark who’s like “This fight is gonna suck,” and then watch it anyway, and then be like, “Hey, that fight sucked!”Hype gives you permission to participate in something while pretending you’re not OF it. It also benefits from the fact that the future, however predictable, is still unknowable.
It’s insidious, and that’s why a transparently phony clown show like Mc. Gregor/Mayweather can still rake in zillions of dollars. They don’t give a shit if you think it’s rigged. In fact, it’s better if you do, because that makes it feel a whole lot more dramatic than if it were just another boring Floyd Mayweather boxing clinic. Scott: Michael Bennett and Marshawn Lynch are now sitting for the National Anthem.
I am sure more will follow. Can the NFL possibly blackball them all? What caliber of player needs to sit for it to no longer guarantee a blackball? As we’ve said here before, Colin Kaepernick wasn’t deliberately “blackballed” from the sport.
Like, there wasn’t a secret meeting of all 3. Kap forever. This was a much more organic kind of mass cowardice. Every day that Kap goes unsigned makes his absence that much more conspicuous. No one wants to be the guy that signs him after all that conjecture. Also, Kaepernick’s situation is unique because he’s clearly not the player he once was (although I still think he’d make a quality backup, and any Twitter egg arguing otherwise is full of shit), and—more important—he was first.
This may not be technically true (Marshawn claims he’s been sitting for the anthem for years), but he is seen as the trailblazer for sitting during the anthem. So when another player follows suit and takes a knee during the anthem, they’re seen as following in his footsteps. I’m not saying this is true.
I’m saying that your average mouthbreather is like “Michael Bennett wouldn’t be sitting if it weren’t for that meddling Kaepernick!” So no, you won’t see Lynch or Bennett blackballed for protesting the anthem. They’re better players than Kaepernick and they’re less “controversial” than the guy who’s considered the chief troublemaker.
You already know that owners and GMs only take a moral stand on players they know they can live without. Well, fans are the same way. Fans can talk a big game about canceling their tickets if a team signs Kaepernick, but they ain’t puffing their chests if a vital player like Lynch does likewise. We all have our double standards. By the way, after what happened in Charlottesville, I don’t wanna hear anyone fucking complain about when an athlete protests the anthem.
It’s the surest sign that you’re a lazy blob. I hope Beast Mode trucks you if you complain about him. Cory: Does Trump use brand new bed sheets every day? What a fucking asshole.
ACTUALLY. Now that’s a completely uncorroborated story, but I’m gonna choose to believe every word of it. If Trump believes all his own lies, I’m entitled to believe anything I please about him. I think that’s more than fair. You know what? Fuck it, I got another rumor: Trump spent a whole meeting with a diplomat calling the Mars candy company “beautiful” and stuffing his jacket with free boxes of M& M that were on the table. Then he walked to another meeting and his pockets jangled like he had fucking baby rattles in them. So there you go: the president is a greasy- fingered, M& M- swiping tub of goo.
Zach: So I’m sitting at the airport bar drinking at 1. I look over and there are two women in their mid 2.
There are just some places you don’t work out, right? Yeah, don’t work out in airport terminals. I know it seems like an efficient use of time (I myself always get to the airport too early and end up milling around for an hour or more), and I know that you can usually find a gate area that’s relatively empty because it has no immediate flights going out of it. But doing a full workout in a terminal filled with screaming babies and stressed- out businessmen is too much. Everyone’s gonna stare at you and think you’re a weirdo. And who the hell wants to sit for hours next to someone who just conducted a sweaty workout?
I am legally allowed to throw you from the plane if you do that to me. Ryan: If you could own one movie prop (the actual version used in the filming of the movie), what would you go with? And we’re not talking cars or houses used in movies, these are props that otherwise would have little to no value (think Luke’s light saber or Indy’s bullwhip). Any weapon from the Lord of the Rings movies. I just showed my oldest kid those movies for the first time and the reason they’re great is that Peter Jackson innately understood that medieval armor and weapons are all cool as shit, and that the way you stage a battle sequence is by hauling out an even bigger, scarier weapon than the weapon that just came before it. Well OH SHIT BABY, here’s a cave troll carrying a crossbow that shoots live elephants.” I’ll take the Witch King’s helmet and sword, and use both of them to scare the dog.
Second place would be the nuclear bomb from Dr. Strangelove. I’d ride it every day. Third place is Wilson. I’d put Wilson right on the kitchen counter and talk to it like it’s an Amazon Echo. Wilson, play me some showtunes.” By the way, never trust anyone who has too many film or TV props in their home. Like okay, maybe you splurged on a replica lightsaber for your rec room.
That’s all well and good. But if your house is FESTOONED with Pixar dolls and Star Trek paraphernalia, I reserve the right to assume you diddle kids. GROW UP, says the man who owns a Minnesota Vikings- themed Mr. Potato Head. Brian: My wife and I are currently going back and forth about screen time for our just- over- one- year- old, especially during football season. I normally, without blinking an eye, watch 2. Thursday- > Monday.
Apparently that much TV is . How did you deal with this with your kids?
But if you don’t have that kind of room or—even worse—your children INSIST on breaching your quiet space because they like “spending time with you,” you’re probably gonna have to make the same compromise that I did. Namely, I just exempted sports from all screen time limits. Sports don’t count. The kids can watch sports until their eyes explode. My reasoning is that watching sports is good for you. It teaches children about hard work, and being a good teammate, and that Coors Light is the official beer of the NFL. Those are all invaluable life lessons.
It’s like bonus school, really. My problem now is that two of my kids don’t actually like to watch sports, and so the lone sports fan child gets extra TV while the other two don’t.
And when they point out this inconsistency (every five minutes), I tell them they wouldn’t have this problem if they simply bent to my will and enjoyed watching sports. Pretty strong dad work, in my opinion. I’m sure this will never end up coming back to haunt me.
Mike: Is the front of the backpack the part that faces forward when it’s on your back (i. I say the front of the backpack is the part that touches your back when you’re wearing it because it’s the closest to the “front” of you, but I have run into a disagreement with a coworker about this. I’m with your co- worker. The front of the backpack is the one with all the little pockets and zippers, which means that the backpack faces backward when you’re wearing it.
When you wear one, you have two fronts. You are Janus, God of Duality. We actually got our youngest kid a new backpack because school starts up again in a few weeks (please God hurry), and he was so excited for that backpack. It was like we’d given him a car. I wish I could be as excited about anything as he was about that Spiderman backpack. I forgot how awesome new school supplies feel when you get them. Like, when you get a new backpack and try it on and you’re like, “I look AMAZING.
This backpack is gonna make a GOD.” Then, within two weeks, it’s got 5. Benjamin: If you brought every human on earth to a Major League ballpark and pitched them batting practice balls, and also set up a 1.