I was doing it for rhetorical purposes. I'd've thought that was obvious.

I edited it three minutes after I posted it. You replied 18 hours later.

This isn't about All Fictional Writing, it's about the stuff people pay lots of money to go on courses to learn how to write, which gets reviewed in the New York Times, and which wins all the 'big' prizes (i.e. the ones they write about in newspapers).

Someone did a survey a couple years back and found, IIRC, that if you ask 10 random people *in a music store* who Nirvana are (never mind Pavement!), seven of them shrug.

As my comment *explicitly says at the bottom*, I was responding to the 'chat show' mention, and SNL is different.

Eh, he's a comic actor, not a comedian. I find it curious when people expect comic actors to be able to improvise funniness. That's not really what they do. Some of them can, some of them can't. I kinda sympathize with them going on chat shows. No-one's expecting Leonardo DiCaprio to break out the killer comebacks,…

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That's interesting, I hadn't come across that background claim before. I'm not going to claim mine's definitely correct, or anything.

"but thats what the title is saying."

"Do you think that maybe it's possible that some court cases have a bias
against specific men that want custody, despite the fact that statistics
say that this isn't the most likely case?"

Anyone who bakes is familiar with that sense of the word 'prove', even if they haven't thought about it - you "prove" yeast, in that sense, when baking bread (and bread-like products!)

Eh, if you lived in Canada you'd have seen a heartwarming segment about the third Canadian pair's home rink three times tonight already. Jingo is as jingo does.

Out of that list, yeah - and 1. would probably be the second biggest, out of that list.

CBC put Patrick Chan on live TV and had him commentate on his free skate. And people say Canadians are nice.

Those would be the Top 10 Sports Upsets Most Of The World Neither Cares About Nor Has Heard Of.

Let's see a video of your highly masculine free program. We'll give marks.

this rang bells with me, and now I remember why:

It *is* pretty dangerous if you don't make the landing area, though. I was watching the second run of the women's ski slopestyle through my fingers, that was really way too damn sketchy, and pretty much yelling at Yuki Tsubota to bail out of the last jump. That was ugly.

Chan's won, what, three world championships now, so that's a hell of a lot of experienced judges overrating him. ;)

You don't need to be aerodynamic, it's not a speed sport. Especially the men naturally gain more speed than they need, if you watch carefully / know what's going on, you see both boarders and skiers scrubbing speed slightly throughout their runs. The fact that the women skiers had so much trouble making the third jump…