I usually tell my coworkers that I’m in the middle of training for an important race and it’s necessary that I go for a run and maybe even the gym at the end of the day. It’s become a very convenient excuse to get out of dinner and drinks during work trips. Sounds much better than “I’m tired of being around you and…

My girlfriend hasn’t driven in close to a decade (combination of things like city living, etc.) even though she has a license. She once told me she wish she knew how to drive stick. There’s no way in hell I’m teaching her how to drive stick in my car. Without a doubt, it will explode or something if she’s in the…

Asics makes some great shoes and you should be able to find something that would work for you. However, it’s really hard to tell someone what shoe is best for them without seeing them in person in order to analyze their gait.

Asics makes some great shoes and you should be able to find something that would work for you. However, it’s really…

Common sense is not as common as its name suggests

I’m gonna take a guess and say the explanation you’re looking for is that a significant share of the contestants on that show have not heard of a bell curve, let alone taken any sort of statistics course.

Does the free frogurt have toppings with potassium benzoate?

Needs to be included in the Milano rankings: a refrigerated or frozen Milano. I dunno what it is, but once a Milano drops below like 35ºF, my enjoyment increases tenfold.

If I’m throwing a hoagie, I’m throwing my Wawa hoagie. I’m not gonna throw something from Sarcone’s or Pastificio’s or [insert your neighborhood spot here] at him. He doesn’t deserve it! Actually, if I’m throwing anything at him, I’m throwing a meatball parm from Wawa at him. Those things are ridiculously messy and at…

But the war wasn’t (effectively) over until 1781 at the surrender of Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris wasn’t signed until 1983! We only ratified the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
/pedantry over

...but I do like that zinger

Sweet Jesus. That first touch by Panama’s defender (#23) was horrific. Pulisic may have had the highlight, but that pullback was definitely the lowlight.

I’m not gonna take the curvature of the Earth into account or air resistance cuz it makes the calculation a lot more complicated, but if we assume a flat surface and no air resistance, it’d go about 2700 miles if it’s launched at Mach 6 (6*343 m/s = 2058 m/s = 4604 mph) and at a 45º angle. Gonna go a lot less cuz of…

Space Shuttle doesn’t need to reach escape velocity to go into orbit. Escape velocity is the velocity that something needs to escape a gravitational well without any more forces acting on it. The Space Shuttle has rockets pushing it up all the way into space. Theoretically, something could go into orbit if it was…

More like 3 hours. Can’t miss those night games!

We had Peacemakers for awhile actually. Just instead of being people who go overseas to quell violence, they were ICBM’s capable of carrying a 3 megaton nuclear payload. Totally not a misleading name at all!

Thank you. How did he not realize that another one of the Big Three fast food spots serves onion rings? The guy is an expert on Cook Out and random spots like that, but doesn’t know about onion rings at BK? Geez.

Um, comparing Spicer to a golem is a little unfair. Golems actually do stuff to help and protect people and they usually can’t talk. That definitely does not describe unhelpful and overly-talkative Sean Spicer. Although it would be nice if we could get him to stop by just pulling a little magical piece of paper out of…

Winning GUTS! Yes! You’d have athletic cred no matter what for the rest of your life. “Yeah, I may be fat now, but I won GUTS! I have a piece of the Crag to prove it!”

Going along the theme of people cheering at the end of a movie are people who cheer when a plane lands. The pilots aren’t going to hear you cheer! I would understand if it’s a cheer of “yay! we lived!” after an intense flight, but it’s almost never that. If you wanna show a pilot appreciation, just thank them on your…

+1 net face

+1 free ticket to this weekend’s blitzball game