My son was a dishwasher. Luckily not him, but a coworker got very badly sliced when someone wasn’t paying attention and put the knives into the tub point up instead of down. Dirty, soapy water, reach in fast because you’re under time pressure, presto, instant red water.

I think the sports guy on the videos says (but it’s cut off between 1 and 2) is that the ref had them do this, which is wrong. The ref can’t tell a player or a team to do this. He can suggest it, of course, but they don’t have to follow through. I recall a few years ago one player on a team refusing to go along with…

Glad to see my fellow Canadians are equally in the dark. But I’m worried we’re falling behind the US in the Vegetable Metaphor Arms Race. However, “hid the fiddlehead” seems inappropriate right now.

I view it as progress that the only thing I’m unsure of here is what the hell “peeped the lettuce” means.

I’ve said this elsewhere, but doesn’t Gawker Media have a style guide you can refer to, something that tells you “lead” isn’t pronounced like the metal. It’s pronounced to rhyme with “bleed.” What you’re thinking of, when a manager leads his club but in the past tense, is “led.” Please stop making my teeth hurt.

Grierson & Leitch is not the name of my next rock band.

Page 37 of the FIFA Rules of the Game: “An indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a goalkeeper, inside his own penalty area, commits any of the following four offences:” and one of the fouls listed is “touches the ball with his hands after it has been deliberately kicked to him by a team-mate.” So no,…

I’ve not been an anime fan (although I am a huge Ghibli fan), so I haven’t seen this, but will have to watch it. I’m reminded though of taking a coach to Narita in 1980 so we could fly back home and - we were told this was SOP then; I have no idea if things are the same these days - we had to stop so two Japanese…

I don’t see what the fuss is. Like the vast majority of American books (shows, movies, articles, mindsets) this is about America. I mean, it pays lip service to the “Earth” and mentions “African ancestors,” but really, it’s just US-centric. And that’s cool: he’s American, he’s writing primarily for a US audience (or…

In the meantime, Altidore’s game with TFC is on in the 2nd half. Who will tell him Simon Phoenix scored the second goal?

Maggie Thatcher (with a black eye) is in profile on my bathroom floor tiles. Sometimes, though, she morphs into a bear.

You missed “Why is the fridge door handle/light switch/door knob sticky?” Also, even though my boys are 19 and 16, many of these still stand. So consider that a warning.

I can’t find it online, but watching the highlights this morning, one of Evans’ teammates came up to him while he was sitting on the bench after making the play and rubbed his tummy. Deadspin reader?

My wife was talking to me when this happened. My yelling and swearing at Larin put a stop to that (momentarily) and freaked out the dog. And then I ranted, stomping around the room, cursing the soccer gods and Larin’s suddenly-defective right foot and even more suddenly-defective brain. And then I yelled about how one…

I was at the opening match in Edmonton and loved the energy, the crowd, how many Chinese fans were there, and the decent mixture (from what I could hear from snippets of conversations) of knowledge, love, and interest about the game. Then I went to the bronze medal game, and saw decent-sized groups of Germans and…

Canadian Kara Lang from the kickoff in the 2nd half against Mexico, I believe. I’m old and my memory is a sad husk, but I think the Mexican keeper somehow managed to get back in time to tip it over the bar. This was a light touch to the side for her to boot, so almost a dead ball, right on the line, and she was still…

The defender was not going to get there first, and she initiated the foul to keep the German (jeez, I’m watching the Japanese/English game and had to pause to remember which game we’re talking about) player from getting past her. In the end, though, the referee is deemed correct and is allowed leeway in her…

It’s funny because the same joke could be made with the dollar.

The 2nd defender not being in line between the goal and the ball negates that, unfortunately, and, in this case, the ref isn’t supposed to decide whether or not the player is going to secure control, just that she has the opportunity to do so. These are not decisions the ref is supposed to make.