It also determines, indirectly, how puffy Arsene Wenger’s coat will have to be next year.

Not largely meaningless.

“You know how much it costs us because we financially support Israel?”

Your tax dollars that go to Israel are promptly spent by the Israeli government on ... American arms. It amounts to a $3 billion annual subsidy to the U.S. defense industry.

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If the guy can’t control his temper or subdue a drunk woman without smashing her face in he has no business in that job.

My 16-year-old sister looks a little bit older so she occasionally gets hit on by boys in their early 20s. At one point, this one sorry fellow tried to convince her that “age is just a number,” to which she quickly retorted, “a prison cell is just a room.”

Waiting at the airport for a flight. There’s a line of about 10 people at the counter that were delayed from an earlier flight. Some dude pushes past the line and screams at the desk agent that, “(He) has to be on this flight! And it has to be first class!” Agent tells him that she can help him but he need to wait in…

Gonna play the other side on this one.

You can't argue with people like that. They think they're all hardass super-spies who are going to be able to pull out their guns and take someone out before their hapless attacker has time to react. It's like, ok Jason Bourne, calm your dad-jeans. There's no way they're going to end up dead because the person with…

They used to be part of the Asian Football Confederation, but in 1974 after the rest of the Arab world refused to play them, they were voted out. Because antisemitism.

Spectatorbase, playerbase, whatever. I don't personally believe many people will be bothered with this idea, period.

There is no place in the article that explains how they would enforce this.

Obviously (though it's clear I should use the word 'obviously' very carefully) I don't think the playerbase will stick around to watch people play a game that you can only play once, and if you do get in and play, after you die, that's it, you're back to just watching. I don't think that'll stick for long.

Yeah, but the idea of being unable to play again is ludicrous. Unless your account is deleted after a death and you're given the option of creating a new one, the game's player base will plummet within hours. It makes no sense for a system like this to exist in any videogame of any sort, from both a business and an…

Sounds dumb. I can get nearly the same experience by just not even playing it once.

"Yeah, I think the fact that when he found out they didn't just call it quits and they found a way to make it work for both of them was particularly beautiful."

Yeah, I was completely with her up to the point where we found out she insists on her partners being like her, with no caveat about the other spouses knowing. And yes, I know, she made those spouses no promises but I would hope she would pause a bit knowing she's helping a man hurt his wife. And I know, those wives…

I am 100% all for consenting adults figuring out whatever sexual dynamics work for them in their individual relationships. As long as everyone knows what's going on and everyone's emotional needs are being taken care of, why should anyone else care? And you know, life is long and relationships are hard work - how can…