The problem with The Ringer happened in it’s inception. When Simmons, Fennessy, Ryan, and Litman sat down to conceive the site, I feel like they fundamentally misread the marketplace. The idea that people want shorter, lighter, more disposable content to read on their phones might be true across the internet, but it’s…

It’s not run of the mill metal scavenge - metal from that era has special purposes in a few fields. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

How do we know it wasn’t consensual?

I wrote about this in the previous post and I’ll repeat it here: the soundtrack of the original Superman film is not just the best superhero soundtrack, it might be one of the best movie soundtracks ever.

The righteous, reflexive indignation aimed at anything Bill Simmons utters or (infrequently) writes these days makes me laugh. I’m old enough to remember when Bill Simmons was nearly universally hailed by those who mattered as the best, most innovative voice for the times as the interwebs came of age. His brand of…

That Penguin box set is a thing of beauty.

Knowing the Patriots (and the Browns), Collins is probably riddled with tapeworms, cocaine, or a combination thereof.

I want to tell her to calm down but then I think about the seething existential rage I experience at people that walk three wide in hallways and amble, or left lane hogs, or people that take too long to use the sugar/cream station at Starbucks, or people that forgot the form at the Post Office, or try and get on the…

Well, sure, but that’s both unsurprising and not really the issue at hand, right? I mean, if I film a dog shitting for two hours and then create an extended cut that provides 30 minutes of backstory about why the dog is shitting in this particular place and maybe even give it a conclusion where the dog finishes his…

Snitches get stitches in the stands then I guess? I’d have thought someone would have sat on the guy. I mean, they know you can’t do that, right?

I HATE having to buy a new vacuum every year or two!

Yeah, but those ladies still pay the uterus tax, which means their athleticism is simply not the best. No offense and I totally support ladies’ sports, but it’s not competitive with guys.

Evidence & eye witnesses are too numerous & detailed to be dismissed.

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At least he went out doing what matters, playing in a pre-season game.

Hey, the English have been punching the Irish for hundreds of years, and suddenly now it’s not okay.

Reminds me of a quote from some article on internet fight videos that I read many moons ago. Something like, “When your opponent puts his chin low, his hands high, and takes an athletic stance, you may have answered the question of the day wrong."

Adulation, maybe, but if you think anything she does is for cash at this point... You don’t realize how rich Harry Potter has made her.

GARBAGE CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He’s a midget and doesn’t look like Harrison Ford.

Meanwhile we have this awesome guy, but you know-Agents with agendas and angles and all striking deals.

It’s fairly easy (granted I’m an engineer) to calculate the calories and residual sugars in a beer from the original gravity and final gravity (as well as the ABV - ~90% of the calories are in the form of alcohol). The other required fields can probably be filled with typical values proportional to the original…