Not wearing shoes in nice weather is a longstanding cultural thing in Australia, especially on the coast or in rural areas. You can go grocery shopping without them. Its really not a big a deal. No one I know of has gotten sick from it, and most people are smart enough to know where it would actually be risky or…

exactly—the 33 “come from behind” victories is largely because the rotation has been somewhere between average and poor and usually cedes runs early in the contest. A lot of the Cubs’ comebacks have been of the “down 2-0 in the 3rd” variety, not the epic “turn the game around on a dime in the 9th” variety.

Ya, but the worst team in the NL has 42 wins. There are 4 teams in the AL with 42 wins or fewer. The NL isn't weak, it has more parity. 

true fact

If luck you mean best lineup in the NL, then yes you are right!

Aannoying fans? You're awful.

... some of their annoying fans—really don’t need the luck anymore.

Yeah but no one here watched it. That is on the rest of the country

+2 perfect strangers

Only like the 7th weirdest comment in this whole piece.

Cubs FANS are lucky. The Cubs are just really good.

Meryl has been in the hot Grecian sun for twenty years and this looks much older than she actually is.

Well, your dog dying is a legitimate cry for comfort from even the most far-flung friends. 

THIS.  My wife and I are nearly 7 months pregnant and, unless you’re family or close friends, you wouldn’t even know if we only still associate with you through social media.  

My dad was a fireman his entire career and died on the job. I would find this disrespectful if one of my siblings did this, but what other people do with their family mementos is their business.

Also damn like mind your own fucking business anyway

I went to Scotland for two weeks and came back with a slight brogue.

Chuffed!

That’s what I’m doing. Got the Trump demo Friday, the anti-Fascist counter demo Saturday where a bunch of wankers are trying to hijack the England success to spout about Tommy Robinson, the Far-Right fuckwit who was jailed for breaching his suspended sentence, and then Sunday I’ll hopefully be back in time to watch…

No you're not. She sounded perfectly normal. People are just grasping for reasons to shit on her.