The best response to bad opinions forced on you is “If I wanted your opinion, I’d kill myself, because your opinion is worth less even less than negative my life.”

The joke went so far over your head the Air Force had to escort it to international territory.

Because the cycling community has been carrying out an irrational, decades-long crusade against doping, not cheating, and cheating is practically the European transnational pasttime (see also: F-1, FIFA/IOC host campaigns, Airbus bid tendering, marriages) so they wouldn’t be able to draw a visceral reaction from…

The root of ‘appropriation’ is ‘proper’, as in ‘property.’ The idea that a culture or its expressions can be owned by any person or person or group is way more dangerous, and way more exploitative of minorities and disadvantaged groups, than white people singing in a musical style that originated among black people,…

You vastly overestimate the competence of the police chiefs in violent cities. After all, if they were doing their jobs, their cities wouldn’t be so violent, would they?

Man, I wish Borges was in charge of the NFL.

4,5,4

The IOC is bush-league by comparison. Sure, corruption still happens, but the people involved at least have the decency to keep it between individuals instead of laudering money being the organization’s entire raison d’etre.

Most Sublime Satire of Overseas Sports Journalism (Billy, obvs)

Best Bicycle Kick, all the nominees are not bicycle kicks. Or are kicks performed from a bicycle, or something.

At some point, we also have to admit that the content owners, who know Hollywood is going to do this and don’t care (else they’d have provisions in the license specifically for it), are equally at fault for their creations getting whitewashed.

WADA is terrible and if they all died in one giant bus accident, the world of sport would be better off.

Or you could just pet them.

So you think some of this is meant as an off-the-books gift to athletes? “Oh, Ludacris demanded all this stuff and didn’t use, too bad it will just have to get thrown out...”

Not okay Toulouse - stick with the Pre-Impressionists

I’m pretty sure this is also the reason the government farms so much work out to contractors, too. They fuck up and it’s just, “Well, what are you gonna do? Private sector, right guys?”

Well, yeah. When you have a fanbase of millions that love coming up with theories about what’s going to happen or be revealed next, a few are going to end up being right. Someone on Kotaku or io9 or Gawker has already written a comment accurately describing the conclusion of Arya’s character arc (it’s probably in the…

In particular, I hope the origin of the White Walkers isn’t done the same way in the books. “We created a weapon we lost control of!” is a ridiculously overplayed trope in fantasy and SF.

I’m sure they use third-party contractors for these things exactly so they can scapegoat them if necessary.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it fair use, but a recording of a game probably counts as a derived work and therefore has its own copyright protection.