My point is, everyone seems to assume that he, by virtue of winning a race and/or stepping onto a podium, has given his permission to be shown sexual attention. Maybe he's married. Maybe he's uncomfortable. He certainly looks ambivalent in the picture, standing stiffly at attention. Yet, those same people assume…

Oh, yeah? Well, you're about 1/10,000th as smart as you think you are. So, there; you can't argue with that kind of math.

The irony of you, a vulgarian, ad hominem attacker, suggesting I grow up is palpable.

How is it "clear" she has his permission?

I, too, am mortified by the unwanted sexual contact displayed in the photo. Just look at that, poor, scantily clad person receiving evidently undesired sexual contact. After all, just because it is someone's job to be on the podium after a race, wearing tight clothing, does not mean that one wants to be treated like…

The 2nd generation Monster is hackable and can be wound with the crown, both features the original Monster does not have. Mine gains 5.5 seconds per day.

Fill the room with beach balls. The displacement is B.

Concur. It's as if the people here cannot fathom (or, more likely, admit) that an armed potential victim could ever defend herself with a gun, or that having the legal potential to own and carry one might be, in itself, a deterrent. In the cases where a gun isn't helpful for whatever reason (no time to deploy,…

You forgot the hardest one of all...

Sooo, it's an inertial nav system, continuously updated by GPS? Welcome to 1997.

During a day, good weather flight like this, there is almost no radio chatter. The jet will not talk to the boat, and the boat will not talk to the jet unless something is wrong. The jets will also try not to talk to each other, instead relying on pre-briefed agreements as to what to do throughout the flight. We…

It's likely his call sign. Call signs are never cool like in the movies; they are usually some description of something dumb you've done, or a derivative of one of your real names, or maybe even just something stupid. Some from my old squadrons: NAMBLA (looked young), Flounder (chubby face), Flash (slow-talking…

Dingbat, huh? Last time I checked, fighter pilots were a couple of rungs below astronauts. What is it you do for a living?

What if I find @Umbrellahead, and her child-like "logic" adorable, like a little, baby lamb? Squee!

This. Just because you are offended does not mean anything you say necessarily has any validity. Offence, alone, is purely unsupported opinion.

Squee! It's so cute to imply you're a big soccer fan and admire that photo of all that athletic soccer action, but that men looking at women in swimsuits is objectification. Squee! Your point is not both hypocritical and contradictory, because you say that objectification for "hundreds of years" is wrong, but…

By the way, I'm from Texas, and you can take your smug, biased reporting and shove it. Just how, exactly, is the suppression of legal commerce of legal and popular goods (name some other items Americans own 320,000,000 of) and services a good decision? And, who made you the final arbiter of good decisions?

Your daughter would only have a problem getting her can kicked by an Olympian if she had a lifetime of being conditioned to the premise that winning equals worthiness. If you have taught her that losing equals being a loser, she will, no doubt be very upset when she loses, much as you obviously are.

If the FAA didn't come up with some new safety rules periodically, people might begin to wonder just what they do to justify their budget, and we can't have that.

It's not about singular/plural. "Was" is correct, however, for reasons described by Correcting Corrections, below.