I’m an old man, having been born in the early 70’s. My friends and I grew up going to the video arcades to play until we all started getting Atari 2600s. Those were not great, but we all had fun playing a variety of games— Pitfall, Frogger, Haunted House, Missile Command, and so on.

Making a comment about the most obvious part of the story seems fairly uninteresting. Indeed, I think most people reading this got past the “woman arranges to have her husband and other woman with whom there was some unusual relationship killed” part pretty quickly. Commenting with “wow she’s a bad person” or “this is…

Let me see if I understand you correctly. You’re saying that in internet commentary on a story, the first comment— and presumably a certain number of subsequent ones— must discuss the main element of said story. It is then and only then that people may move on to discuss secondary or tertiary elements. Is this…

It would be a shame if someone dumped a few dozen gallons of diesel fuel on that guy’s yard. And by “dumped” I mean “applied through a pump sprayer to maximize the square footage.” But yeah, it would be a shame.

I freely admit that even as an adult, I don’t quite understand the complexities of bankruptcy and reorganization and so on. Thus, I don’t quite understand what the Dance Moms woman was trying to do. From the article, it said that she had liabilities of ca. $350k, but assets of ca. $325k. Then, she was secretly hiding…

I think that your numbers (“200 million”) and the assessment of their armaments (“to the teeth”) are a bit off. Also, it’s a bit disingenuous to compare the events of the late 1700’s to the present day. The “trained” British didn’t have access to weapons that were all that different from what the rebels had. In the…

“ As it stands now, football is a shitty sport to watch in person BECAUSE of its popularity on TV”

“I had one guy get a boner while I waxed him, but he apologized profusely and tried to make it go away.”

Interesting. But how about comparing NFL players and crime rates to people who make $300,000 or more a year? I would wager that the stats change quite a bit.

Oklahoma guy here. I always get the COOP F5 when I can, but I’m sad that it came in so low on the list. Oklahoma, thanks to its ridiculous Puritanical attitude, is behind the curve on craft beers, but I really like the F5.

Think about it. If you have a hundred thousand people entering a game where you’re only picking 5-6 players, there is a great chance that a LOT of people are going to pick the same team. When it’s time to pay out, all of these people are going to have to split their winnings with the thousands that have all picked the…

I love the concept of a squirting succubus. But yeah, you can NEVER go to the family vacation to the beach or pool with the girlfriend’s parents with that tat.

This sounds horribly painful. Also, I always understood that because of sweat glands and whatnot on palms and soles that most tattoo artists don’t put art there...

This is almost like that lame and embarrassing Thayer Evans hit job on Oklahoma State in SI, except the accusations in this case actually seem to have merit.

Holy crap. I know. I’m in my early 40’s and sort of thought I was slightly up on things. (Even if I don’t tweet and have no idea what “reddit” or “periscope” or whatever is.) But things like “4Chan” and /b/ or whatever are even stranger to me.

I have no dog in this fight, and perhaps the F-22 program was unfairly treated and should have been continued, but given how many times the military— and defense contractors— have begged to waste billion after billion on un-needed programs, perhaps this was a case of the Boy Who Cried Wolf?

I don’t know who did the art here, but the person should get credit. It’s quite good.

That’s not how it works.

But that just isn’t the case. Note that Ahmed never called it a bomb. He was clear that it was a clock. And while someone may have, for a minute, imagined that it was a bomb, it is clear that very early on it was not thought of as a threat— hence, no evacuation, no bomb squad, etc.

Did he dip his hear in yellow highlighter fluid before having that picture taken?