Selfish and incompetent?

Seriously. Death, divorce, why I have to work, why they have to go to school, why we have no money...these are things that have difficult conversations. “Because they love each other” is a relatively easy answer to give kids.

I admire the underdog spirit, but there are a lot of us former players who haven’t let it go who’d be willing to fly to the pacific in a heartbeat. I have my FIFA papers ready to sign...

Agreed. I fecking hate onions. They are evil.

It’s a quarter inch of meat. Getting it too close to the lamp would cook it through. So...idiots all around, I guess.

I plan to bitch on the internet.

True, but the issue is entering the pipeline costs and it’s the travel team and sports camp kids that get scouted to move into the higher levels.

This makes sense, especially as the (maddening) initial function of these two players appeared to be “serve it toward Abby.”

The lack of attention to this did bug me, but I think the media didn’t want to bite the hand that was feeding them a feel good story about American minorities succeeding. In a post on another thread about something related recently (verifiable references, I know) someone brought up the cost of travel team soccer and…

True and somewhat sad. I’ve heard Rapinoe and Ashlyn Harris mention poorer backgrounds, and Solo’s family is in the news enough, but then you read about Morgan’s gold plated life and Wambach’s family island and...I lose a lot of connection to a team and a sport I love.

True, but it’s not like they can write about the men’s success or wins, so they need something. If our servicemen didn’t keep knocking up German women, USMNT would be a couple of Mexican kids who couldn’t make the Mexican team.

Agree on this. I was hugely upset that our WC was going to be spent trying to feed the ball to Abby’s forehead and not using the (not so young) other forwards. That missed shot really gave room for Ellis to try to transition the team. Or for Wambach to sit herself, if you’re the sort that believes she’s really in…

I laughed. I mean, I’m in WNY. She’s pretty much been canonized here, other than the local bishop spends all his time (self-)hating the gays. But she was gawdawful. When she was in position it was luck and when she was out of position she limply trailed the play.

My favorite restaurant always puts A-1 out with the steak. I’m convinced it’s a trap.

Belatedly entering the fray—I get your original point and this one and pretty much agree.

I do like to cut it into chunks and fry it with some garlic and mushrooms. But that’s all the addition I ever do.

Just think of all the great lessons LittleOrganicUnicornMeat is learning through your efforts. You’re a hero.

I’m pretty much with you on 2, even though well done is an abomination, but I also don’t eat at fancy places where the chef is an artist of the taste buds or a master of plating like da Vinci.

I wish your grandmother would visit my inlaws. They salt everything as soon as it hits the table. They’ve done it so long they now salt the salt because they have no ability to taste normal amounts of seasoning. I’d go on, but Old People Eating was last week.

I think this question gets at the meat (if I wasn’t in the greys, I’d expect to be demoted) of the matter. Every time we have this conversation here, it seems Eater A is thinking about a prime porterhouse at Cirque du Jerk and Eater B is thinking about the petite sirloin at Ruby’s. I think that well done is never a…