Remember Merlefest? We have two more upcoming bluegrass festivals, and they both suck. Merlefest used to be like a big-ass Phish tailgate, but now everything is “family-friendly!” bullshit.

Hershey’s?

My local NPR does that, but we still get the phone drives because I live in Applachia, where everybody who listens to the radio doesn’t listen to NPR because “they don’t play no cuuun-try muusic!,” even though they play mostly country and bluegrass.

Plus, I don’t think they have spawhts.

Welcome to America, kids; a land where if you are talented and willing to work hard, you can have your salary slotted by restrictive rules that enrich a cabal of wealthy businessmen and utility tycoons who view any revenues gained from exploiting your athletic talents as walking around money.

My mom doesn’t even let her sister in the kitchen. They still fight over who failed to put the pot underneath when one of them went to strain the gravy in the 1980's.

I smile a little every time I see the vanity card at the end of a Good Place episode:

Anyone who supports Pete Rose and also invokes the character clause is kindly invited to fuck right off. I have no dog in this fight, but I super-despise this kind of intellectual disconnect.

Roger Goodell has just suspended Willie Mays for 6 games, and Willie Mays Hays 4 games, just in case.

Jesus, the only institution that takes both its role as an arbiter of morality more seriously and applies it more inconsistently is the US Senate.

Joe Morgan is probably patient zero for exactly when young people (now old-ish) stopped caring about MLB.

Yeah, if Goodell sticks out another term as commish he’s then going to run for Senate, and he’ll be worse than awful. If Jerry sabotages him now, Goodell will be a failure for life and we’ll be spared his shitty politics.

Also, at least in the dark ages nearly 25 years go when I sold them, magazines were a great fundraiser. Most households subscribed to at least one or two magazines, so you were really just asking them to route their money through you instead of sending it straight to the magazine company when it was time to renew.

Our PTA had a “no fuss fundraiser,” and it was great. “Just write us a check. The goal is $10K, which we could hit if every family gave $25. If we make that, no other fundraisers all year.” And it worked. HELL YES.

I’m confused as hell after reading the deodorant one. Did someone mix up parallel and perpendicular? Do I not understand human anatomy?

this is a very good take [no, seriously, great point]

No way...worst school fundraisers are any type of gala/auction where it’s “recommended” you attend. Guilted into spending tons of money while having to hang out with all the asshole parents of the asshole kids, and then pretending that you like the teachers and faculty. Ugh....

Intentional strikeout question. What about this scenario? Your team is comfortably ahead, it starts to rain hard and it’s only going to get worse. You want to get to an official complete game before the game is cancelled for weather.

And everyone is talking about BUT ALSO not talking about it.

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