Oh I wasn't alleging plagiarism, just giving credit where credit is due, and dropping a mention of a pretty good comic book.

The pun is actually Allan Heinberg's.

1) A few too many drinks, leftover pasta, and binge-watching TV shows alone on my futon sounds like a great evening, not sure why that's something to be worried about

So this probably isn't a popular take on this, but I really don't think they were body shaming. It more so seemed to be a clumsy way of saying hey, these pants were made for exercise, not day-to-day things like running errands, and they will hold up better if you use them primarily for this purpose. Secondly, I've…

I wonder if there's a way to test the relative importance of those two factors (training strategy and running strategy) without actually making people run a race without watches and such.

I'm with you on this to an extent, but it raises the question that if on race day you took away everyone's watch and GPS, took down the clocks at the mile markers, and didn't have any pace bunnies, how much closer to normal would the curve look. Because while some of the spikyness in the graph is coming from training…

In all honesty, I don't think this is remotely comparable to the "selfies at serious places" thing. Public monuments (such as to 9/11 or the holocaust) are places of group mourning and remembrance, they belong to everyone and thus visitors should show respect to both those being honoured as well as the living…

None of these beat Chalupa Batman

I think the point is actually somewhere in between your two positions. There's nothing wrong per se with "jock culture". Yes, at times it can amplify unhealthy social tendencies, but the same can be said for any group environment. I think the bigger problem is the social system in which it is embedded, that is…

He has to try for home before he can be awarded the base on obstruction.

I know music is an opinion thing and all, but honestly I think if you made lists of top 100 songs and top 100 albums of this century Kanye would have at least one entry in each list, so I'd say that yeah he has made a few contributions to society.

Honestly though, they were mandatory at my high school and I learned nothing. I mean, I understand the rationale, but in the format they are delivered (or at least were delivered, and it really wasn't thaaaat long ago), you don't learn much that is all that useful. In sewing class we learned to make an apron from a…

That's kind of the point. Sure, it tells you if a team (or QB) is doing well, but there's no value to it at all in a statistical sense. How stupid would it sound if a coach claimed that the most important stat to evaluate his players, prepare for upcoming opponents, etc was the team's win-loss record.

I just don't get it. I mean, 2/3 of men would be pissed if their wife wouldn't take their name? Seriously? Is my man-brain not thinking straight, because I just can't fathom why its that important to them. If you love someone enough to marry them, you should damn well respect them enough to be supportive of their…

As was stated elsewhere in this thread, only the audience knows how poor some of Andrea's choices were. They honestly aren't as bad from her first-person perspective. I really don't think she's any less of awel-drawn character than Rick, who is supposedly the hero.

I've defended Andrea before in these arguments, and I think most people really were fans of Carol's character arc over the last season and a half, but I have no problems with the majority of the vitriol leveled at Lori's character (well not rapey fantasies, that's beyond fucked up, but I too actively wanted her killed…

I think Kenan is hilarious, but they should keep him far far away from impressions. His comedic timing is brilliant, at his delivery is awesome, but all of his impressions come off sounding the exact same.

The idea that domestic violence increases on Super Bowl Sunday (or on days in general when a home football team loses) is a myth. That's not to take away from your point about social power structures enabling abuse and discrimination, but to somehow single out "football" or "sports" for it is wrong.

If it wasn't football it would be hockey, or basketball, or lacrosse, or jai alai. The problem isn't in sports, its in the social structures we build around them (the veneration of of high school football stars, the money that's involved even at the high school level) and that exist regardless of them (rape culture,…

Indeed. The main reason that Dads hasn't been cancelled yet isn't nepotism or Neilsen ratings or the "power of the white male", it's just inertia. It takes time for the networks to make the decision to pull the plug on a heavily marketed show that is doing poorly (although not absolutely disastrously) in the ratings.