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@jon-nyc said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:
That’s true enough but it seems to me they do it hoping to draw a foul not to rest.
Let me add the caveat that I’m only a soccer fan for a few weeks every four years.
Soccer is never going to really catch on here as even with the flapping around over imaginary assaults there's no real way to go to commercials every three minutes to pay for the TV coverage and allow the viewing public time to fill up their bowl of high-calory snacks.
@jon-nyc said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:
Perhaps, but I’m heterosexual.
Just don't make eye-contact....
Mrs. Phibes talked me out of posting photos of my colonoscopy on TNCR as a joke.
If I ever have major surgery, you guys are in for a treat.
It's better to give than to receive. I've got photos of that, too, if you're interested.
@jon-nyc said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:
I guess hockey and basketball are the only two major sports that have a reasonable action density score. (A metric I just invented)
1-day cricket has tons of action, and is the second most popular global sport according to some AI twat.
@LuFins-Dad said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:
We had our company Christmas party at Gillette Stadium last night, and I got to watch some of a high school football game from a corporate box. Sadly Foxborough HS got beaten.
My God, it's a slow game.
Yeah, much more exciting to watch guys lightly jog down the field, then back, then back again while people just kick the ball back and forth. And if you’re lucky, there is 1 scoring play. 1. For the entire time. Wow. That’s exciting.
I'm with you, I can't stand proper football either.
We had our company Christmas party at Gillette Stadium last night, and I got to watch some of a high school football game from a corporate box. Sadly Foxborough HS got beaten.
My God, it's a slow game.
Everybody else calls it American Football. I don't see the problem.
@mark said in Good news for Mark and me:
This is the turntable I have. AMG Giro. Made in Germany. Spinning one the albums I bought last week. It sounds amazing.
Bloody hell, Mark - Spyro Gyra's a name I haven't heard in decades. Long ago I had a 10" single of Morning Dance, at least I think it was.
Smoooooooth.
I'd vote for Halle Berry.
What was the question again? I Googled photos of her and kind of lost myself for a moment.
@xenon said in When you’ve lost NewsMax:
I thought we already tried the war on drugs.
We did. The drugs won.
@LuFins-Dad said in Somalis in Minnesota ...:
And while a lot of these far right groups can be bigoted and irrationally xenophobic, their point about there being some cultures that can’t truly be folded into our American tapestry is not without some merit.
There's nobody that hates intolerant people more than other intolerant people.
Well, at least the people committing war crimes aren't men dressed in women's clothes.
Because that would be disgusting.
I threw out all my LP's when we moved. I kind of regret it, but I hadn't played them in nearly 30 years. I still have the CD's.
@Mik said in Funny Pics:
The cow teaches us that there's more to sexual attractiveness than merely having enormous breasts. It also helps if they have a woolly coat.
It's funny, when I hear 'pie', I think of steak and kidney, or beef. When I was a kid, my mum would make apple crumble, which is similar to apple crisp, as a dessert, but we'd call it a pudding rather than a pie.
@Axtremus said in I liked this quote:
Ask the question the other way: can you think of marriages where the couples are "happy" and yet not viewed as "good" by third parties?
The royals, the gays, the interracial, the interfaith, the old+rich marrying the young+beautiful, etc.
If I wanted to play word games I'd be logged into Squaredle
@Axtremus said in I liked this quote:
Notice the subtle shift from "good" to "happy."
Easier to achieve consensus for "happy" than it is for "good."
Can you think of any examples of bad marriages that are happy, or good marriages that are not?
@89th said in 14 months' work at the gym and the dinner table:
@Doctor-Phibes said in 14 months' work at the gym and the dinner table:
This thread inspired me to switch over to a low-carb diet.
I lost 9 pounds in 4 weeks - only another 14 to go.
And then it will be Christmas.....
Nice job!
It was actually somewhat easier than I expected. The hardest part was avoiding the typical late afternoon feeding frenzy I engage in when I get home from work, and instead slowly eat a fish-and-vegetable dinner.
