...because all available fighter craft have been surprisingly destroyed/disabled by the enemy due to an unexpected capability or tactic of theirs.

F-18 will absolutely decimate an F-14

Here are all the screw-ups in this “New Better Top Gun” review.

Holy shit what a mawkish jingoistic slick crapfest that movie appears to be based on that trailer, with the music and the lighting and the brooding and the glorification of the military and its death machines, and where can I buy tickets?

That’s obviously a typo by Lauren.  Mr. Panarin must have said “not even in the Top 100", surely.

Counterpoint, and I’m going to go an extreme here, but bear with me: On 9/11 2001, did the networks ‘stick to sports’? Obviously not, there was a catastrophic and grave national/World crisis that made sports irrelevant, for weeks it seemed like.

Beetlejuice!

This is Your Finest Work/song.

I come here every s’ingle day to read s’arca’stic replie’s to bad take’s, s’o thank’s for your s’ervice.

Would one fix to that whole rotten mess be, if they carry on with the student-athlete hypocrisy, that the players can transfer at will, with no waiting period, if they meet a certain academic benchmark, say being on track to graduate, at a C- level maybe? And then turn that into a double-edged sword and say to the…

The only correct way to finish that vignette would have been:

What’s worse is that there’s probably a perfectly lovely girl he knows who’d put up with his shit and love him, except he thinks he can do better.

Toughen up, kid. There will always be someone bigger, stronger, better, more connected, more handsome with a better car and shoes who the chicks dig more than you and your weak-ass game.

Late 90s, maybe the redneck in the pickup truck who slowed down alongside to chirp me still pined for the uranium mine that was the main employer in town and provided well-paying jobs for residents instead of the nascent tourist trade that brought meager coffee shop dollars from bikers/campers/hikers.  Understandable…

Thanks for taking the requisite time to reply.  I’m coming to you for any U.S. culture questions I have in the future.

I tried to google it, but ‘hat wings’?  What, indeed, are those?

Well, man, you triggered this.

Will nothing deterge you from posting puerile puns?