My dad, too, but my dad does it from a Barcalounger in the den. He shakes his fists at pictures of clouds on Fox News.

Who are we kidding? If this is an American college campus the only argument that inspires this much passion is over a parking space. They are totally beefing over which bus had position on the only open space within five miles of the stadium.

Well, this is a college game so I would expect they are arguing whether Faulkner was a proto-realist or a linguistic surrealist.

A couple of mini-hot takes:

He meant Benjamin Netanyahu. Few people realize how much most NFL players donate to various pro-Israel charities.

And he’s not really being a “grammar nazi” but more of a vocabulary or syntax nazi. Grammatically, the sentence is fine. Sid just objects to his word usage.

Wait until they add zombies, then you’ll REALLY get sick of it.

You’re old? I can remember having that same conversation regarding Battle for the Planet of the Apes.

But where would you put the Christmas Special?

A mysterious man in white from Toronto?

I used to have opinions on gun rights and regulation, but then someone gunned down a bunch of school children and the country shrugged its shoulders and did nothing. So I figure the battle was lost.

No and I never claimed any such thing. I can provide evidence that a large chunk of Americans are unaware that crime is falling like this from Gallup:

It’s also stunningly easy to get large chunks of America to agree with the notion that crime is way too high and getting worse, when if fact the crime rate has been falling precipitously for 20 years or more.

My local cable company recently got a new channel called Heroes and Icons, shortened to H&I. Nothing but classic manly man shows like Hunter, Renegade, Mannix, NYPD Blue, and the like. Today during football it’s Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne, The Wild Wild West (original show, thank the GSD), CImmaron Strip, Wagon…

Vandals? That looks more like the work of Philistines.

Oh the mammaries memories your post conjures up. I got beat up once as a little kid because an older kid found me finding his Hustler stash. (which looks nothing like a hustler ‘stache, though you can see lots of hustler ‘staches in someone’s Hustler stash.) Ironically, the only pictures I can recall at this late date…

Well, we will agree to disagree then. But I still don’t want to watch such nonsense. I’ll spend my time and money on activities I can muster some respect for and baseball is one “unwritten rule” from my total indifference.

I hear what you are saying and agree vis a viz throwing garbage onto the field. But I have to say that one of my fondest memories of going to a ball game was to see the Orioles play at Memorial Stadium back in the 70’s. They were losing so bad that the fans stated throwing paper airplanes onto the field in huge…

This! I am a hot and cold baseball fan. There is a lot I admire about the game and much that is just plain stupid. Had this important of a game actually been decided by a bloopy little piece-of-shit accident like this, I would have lost all respect for the game. Even if the umpires were 100% right, and from what I…

Or imagine Bautista running up to the mound after a home run and giving the pitcher a fanny pat and some condescending “better luck next time” line. You know, like Dyson did to Tulowitzki at the end of the 7th after Tulowitzki blooped out.