if it helps i’ve been to the garden and they’re fucking awful
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oh wow, i have to go to the Garden in order to have opinions on the Celtics and their fans? my bad. in a related story: i hope you’ve never had strong opinions about a movie unless you’ve made one for a big studio.
no hate. they’re an objectively unlikable franchise.
How old were these dudes? I’m guessing in their mid-30s, at the oldest. A couple million dollars in term life insurance for fit guys in their 30s is maybe $50 a month, add a “doing stupid shit” rider and it’s at most $75.
In short, no, and they’re (usually) not. Only a very few get sponsorship/book deals - everyone else scrimps and saves to pursue a passion.
There is very little money in the sport. Most of them live like bums, working seasonal jobs and taking trips whenever they can. I don’t think LeClerc even owned a car. He once wrote about how his ‘room’ in a shared apartment was something like the stairwell and entrance hallway.
Similarly, my dad told me, “You’re a constant reminder of why going bareback with a prostitute is a really bad idea.”
Yeah, I’ll admit that I don’t really know what the precise risks are. All I know is that very, very few people engage in this level extreme climbing, and yet I hear about deaths in the sport ALL THE TIME.
Not sure if you’re a parent or not, but for me, the calculation changes when you have kids. There may be some things I’d be willing to risk my life for. There are very, very, very few things I’d risk letting my children grow up fatherless for.
Exactly. How does one not bring an emergency beacon if you have young children at home?
“a devoted father”
I’m getting reminded of that line from Family Guy of Peter Griffin cave diving and yelling: “I told no one what I was doing today.”
We get it, you’re brave and nobody can match the size of your balls.
But why the unnecessary danger of not having any emergency equipment? Nobody cares if you don’t carry it, and it’s…
Related note, I am incredibly jaded about the “every-time-a-person-dies-doing-something-risky-a-GoFundMe-gets-set-up-for-family” deal. These guys spent thousands of dollars climbing all over the world, and I’m sad they passed unexpectedly, but there is no fucking way I am donating money to get their kid through…
I’m a very un-generous person, but my first thought in these instances is how selfish it is to take these sorts of risks when you have young kids. That two-year-old will never know his/her father, because the father thought it was really important to climb up an ice cliff.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: John Landis was a poor choice to direct Miracle of the Hudson II.
1. Lotta crowd noise sweetening in that clip
Yes, courtesy says stop play for an obviously injured player.
I can appreciate a journalist who’s dedicated to their beat, but the election has been pretty thoroughly covered.