My brother, being a highly precocious 6 y/o at the time (I was 11) asked my dad to rent this movie a couple years after it came out and my dad being your average 80’s dad raised on John Wayne movies totally approved because it was about a robot cop laying down law and order. My dad, brother and I are all watching it…

FWIW, you really shouldn’t jump into parenthood until you’re settled enough financially to deal with the cost of parenting in today’s age of overprotective helicopter parents. If you don’t get the right baby stuff, don’t get all the developmental junk that will make your kid ready to go to college by age 6, then you…

Real football fans should thank the USWNT for giving us me some damn good football over the past three weeks. Otherwise, I’d have to content myself with EPL replays and golf, and god I hate watching golf.

You can’t accurately gauge the overall popularity of soccer in the US based on the fairweather crowds that show up to watch a finals. These are social gatherings more than they are a gathering of committed soccer fans. As a soccer fan, I’m happy to see crowds like this, but a majority of the people in these videos…

Best comment of the thread right here. Gut punch loss is very English. Getting this close to being the final, men's team could only dream of it.

There is a standard in the EPL, it’s that if Sir Alex’s Man U were down or needed the 3 points, the ref gave him as much time as Man U needed to score. Otherwise, it's pretty much arbitrary and capricious.

On some deeper level, this is probably why England have been slow to embrace the women’s team. They know where it will all end up and they’d rather be spared the horror of watching their girls go through this spectacle every 4 years just like the men have for decades. Alongside the men's team, that means you get…

That’s become a running theme in dissenting opinions lately, regardless of who writes them. Accuse the majority of overreach for doing something exactly the same as what the dissenting justice supported in any number of other cases where they were in the majority. I’d say that makes all SCOTUS opinions legislation by…

Love that a fierce debate over Ray Hudson is the dominant comment thread here. And agreed, Ray Hudson is the single reason I stopped watching La Liga games on Goal TV and now why I tend to avoid BeIN matches or watch them on mute when he’s involved. Back in 2004, when I first started watching soccer matches on TV (and…

Bragg was my first active duty post, spent 4 years there. I’m not a Kool-Aid drinker so I can objectively say that this jump remains controversial amongst the paratroopers of the wider airborne community. Many old paratroopers I know and respect from “The Division” who saw tons of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan will…

We also named all of the big bases in the South after Confederate generals who lost battles in spectacular fashion during the Civil War.

I found myself agreeing with this article in most of its substantive points, but I also think, as you note, that it’s style and approach is entirely counterproductive to what Ms. Miller claims she is trying to do, which is share and increase the enjoyment one can have from drinking wine by learning a bit more about…

The English dubbing is, as to be expected, thoroughly terrible. I saw this and Woo's other HK action classics in the mid-90s on VHS, probably pirated or copied from Chinese tapes thanks to a HS buddy who was Taiwanese. There was something just perfectly harmonious about watching likely-pirated and degraded VHS tapes…

Never forget.

That's the real fucked thing here. "Back in the day," the studios had their stable of actors, mostly white, with a few POC for specific roles ("the help," "Yellow Peril" character) in support. Any story about a none-white person featured as the lead will be played by an actor/actress (white) who can carry the film. So…

Also, this shows just how badly Brazil were outclassed by the Germans in 2014, getting annihilated at home, under a system that REALLY rigs (literally) the game for home teams. Brazil's team were under a lot of pressure to win, so it's not like the team was in any way complacent, although perhaps the fans took for…

The 2002 WC remains probably the worst example of my 15 years watching soccer of how corruption is so deeply rooted in the game which at its worst, turns matches into theater like pro wrestling. And I was passionately rooting for South Korea the whole way. But I will readily admit now, as I suspected then, that a team…

Any who has ever been overseas and needed anything from the government other than an indifferent shrug knows how rampant and institutionalized corruption is across the world. Any official who is NOT thoroughly and mundanely corrupt is the outlier in most places aside from a few countries, and even within those…

It's the Rachel McAdams of Japan.

The females on FOX are far more manly than any of the guys. This clip shows us that in sad detail. Elizabeth chooses not to humiliate herself, like a boss. Megyn Kelly asks those tough questions nobody else will. FOX might be the most female-empowered network on TV. [VOMIT]