I think we’re in agreement here. Most people aren’t basing these distinctions on anything other than prior association of the animal with food, which is kind of a shame.

Some fish can also survive out of water. Mudskippers can go a couple days. Essentially, gills just have an efficiency drop as they dry; if you can keep them wet enough, you can function for some time. Maybe not very well, the same way we can survive at high altitude for only so long, but it’s not instant suffocation.

You read my mind. Immediately thought of Pris.

Same here. People would be horrified by eating cats, but octopodes and squid have the same sort of predatory intelligence.

Yeah I felt a little bad for the few kids at the show I was at, because everyone was 20s and up young adults aside from about five preteens and their confused parents.

I’m pretty sure that’s intentional on her part. There’s something very self aware about her act.

As an NWSL fan...I kinda like the idea of Heath, Kling and Horan playing for us (Portland Thorns) all summer instead of going to Brazil. Anybody else planning to catch the opener against Orlando this weekend?

Because she’s the best keeper the women’s game has ever known? I’d take Solo over Angerer or Kaihori in their respective primes, and that says a lot.

She seems fucking down, a lot. I wonder sometimes how much her substance abuse issues are really self medication.

Why are we so insistent on false modesty here? She knows she’s attractive. This doesn’t sound like bragging to me. I could totally see where the flipside of being expected to be gorgeous for so many of the roles out there for women in Hollywood is that you get pigeonholed into those roles. Yeah, she was in Monster and…

That’s sweet of you; I don’t mean to make my situation sound worse than it is. Once I got on the Prozac things got much, much better, and to an extent it’s self inflicted anyways; I’m the one who bid for a night shift. If it’s losing my mind or dealing with the daytime supervisor, I mean, pick your poison, you know?

Does that usage derive from the genital meaning or the cat meaning, though? I’m not actually convinced it’s the former.

I disagree. As someone who’s dealt with depression, it’s very, very easy for it to be this thing that you talk around rather than about. There’s power in being able to give it a name, and that fact is worth reinforcing.

TBH I thought maybe that was a British thing I didn’t understand.

This. Up until the invention of Prozac everyone in my family was an alcoholic, and I didn’t quite get why until the depression curse caught up with me. Sometimes any kind of altered mental state looks better than the one you’ve got.

>I’d copy/paste it here but he blocked me for telling him to eat my farts.

A true fan here

Word. 3 of them just had their house burn down on top of that. Like, life is hard at the bottom NWSL rungs.

The women’s team is significantly whiter than the men’s. Mostly you’ve got Crystal Dunn (black), Leroux (half black, half Canadian) and Christen Press (half black but virtually no one knows that, she doesn’t look it). Maybe Pugh, I don’t know what her deal is since she’s so new but she’s kind of dark. No Latinas with…

She got traded to Orlando for a boatload of stuff this year. Portland made out like bandits. We’ve got Horan now, we’ve got Brynjarsdottir, we’ve got Nadim. I know we typically underperform with big stars (Portland’s unfortunately kind of got a Liverpool thing going on) but this year bodes well.

A very very good idea. I’m a huge Portland Thorns fan. Like, I’m flying out to the season opener against Orlando. This NWSL thing, it’s young, but it’s fantastic. And I’m a dude, for what it’s worth. Like, this isn’t totally a solidarity thing for me, it’s also hella enjoyable to watch. It’s not moneyball, the players…