Though picking which team wins by creative rules interpretations is not unheard of with FIFA.

You forgot the second part.

It’s really incredible to see on the same play how wildly disparately the rules were applied on the same play with the same access to VAR. I get that she broke the rules, but so did half of the French team and only she was punished.

I just double checked, and it’s not all A-team, but it’s not all B-team either. More than half were normal starters, and they subbed in starters for a couple of the B-teamers. Today they went a little more traditional and started stronger and subbed in less experienced players.

Like I said, it’s an overcorrection. That’s because the average person also says “Me and my family went to the store,” but have been corrected to “My family and I,” and incorrectly generalized it beyond the subject case to the general. Yes, it’s wrong, but it’s a very simple, common mistake, it’s grounded in training…

Descriptivists never under any circumstances say that language doesn’t have any rules, it just doesn’t have the random grab bag of made-up rules that prescriptivists harp on. Descriptivists dedicate their lives to learning the real rules of language, as opposed to prescriptivists who cite some from rich old dead white…

Perfectionism only counts for your own work. When it comes to judging other people, it doesn’t count. Linguistic variation is arbitrary and value-neutral, but tied to identity, so when you make value judgments on it, you’re making value judgments on that person’s identity, not on the linguistic content of what they’re…

I didn’t say they didn’t understand the point, but dismissed it. There’s a big difference. I have a lot of “things” that annoy me, but I don’t go out in public and say that people don’t deserve admiration or respect or weren’t educated or shouldn’t be listened to because they do things that annoy me.

Also, most cities have board game bars popping up where you can try out games while drinking and eating. Definitely my favorite trend of the last decade.

It’s a sign of a tiny, petty mind that you care more about a tiny irrelevant grammatical overcorrection than real situations in real life. Take it from a linguist, everyone knows that your holding onto meaningless pedantry reflects only on your own egotism (at best) and reflects nothing on her or her school. To quote…

I made sure my 4-year-old is only driving with analog speedometer and tach. When he’s 8 and can buy his own car, he can change it up if he wants.

Yep, I missed that one. I’m an idiot.

I saw that, but I totally misinterpreted it because I’m dumb.

Shick was hired by Grand Canyon University

I get the goal differential point, and I didn’t say it was wrong, just worthy of criticism. Putting in less experienced forwards would have probably still gotten them a couple more goals, and could have actually had a better psychological effect on the team by getting more players involved in the victory. It’s pretty…

I think a more legitimate criticism is that they were up 7-0 and then subbed in two of the best and most decorated forwards in the world. Most teams in any sport, after racking up an insurmountable lead, would sub in some younger, less experienced players to get some low pressure reps and time on the big stage.…

Don’t forget noise cancelling headphones so that they can’t discuss anything related to the game. I’m completely on board.

Wow, now you’re going into a real conspiracy theory mode. It was sad enough to see you pick apart every word of every post and imagine that, if you could only find something that you superficially perceived as inconsistent or untrue, then you could comfortably dismiss the whole thing with insults and ego-soothing…

This is a masterclass in self-delusion. To summarize: You make a sweeping claim about discourse on the internet, and your iron-clad evidence is:

Dodge dodge dodge. If you had an ounce of brains or shame you wouldn’t pretend like this article is about mayo, but here you are. You made a sweeping claim about the worst discourse and backed it up with examples from the mildest meekest parts of the internet you could find because you were afraid to think or work hard…