So Messi is supposed to be exquisitely aware of the entirely opaque aversion to shoes in their culture (which he is not a part of), but they aren’t expected to understand that he is unfamiliar with that quirk of their culture and refrain from losing their collective shit? Who gives a fuck if someone was offended over…

I tore the labrum in my throwing shoulder a few years ago and have put off getting it fixed (even though it’s much less invasive than a rotator cuff, less rehab, too). The doctor told me no overhand throwing but I’ve played baseball, softball, thrown a football with the neighborhood kids, etc. Doesn’t hurt too bad at…

So the corniest pussy in the world, who has no discernible athletic ability himself, is shit-talking a guy who makes lots of money playing basketball professionally. Makes sense.

“Crush” is pretty hard to define but I encounter 2-3 women a day that, were I single, I would most likely think about hitting on. I was single till I was 39 so that mindset is hard to turn off. There are a couple places I go to for lunch for no other reason than there are women I have a crushes who work there. Some of…

This Anker has been really solid for us:

This Anker has been really solid for us:

Fucking BYU has been doing this kind of shady shit for decades. Several years ago their receivers got caught on microphone calling Wyoming’s DBs niggers. If you grew up in a Mormon community it’s no surprise whatsoever. I went to high school with dozens of these macho shitheads. They casually drop every racial slur…

Nailed it.

Holy shit do I agree with the multiple text for a simple thing. My goddamn phone beeps five times in succession (which constitutes blowing my phone up) and I assume that there are planes flying into buildings.

I like boxing as much as anyone and I really have no interest in this rematch. The original fight was boring garbage. Neither actually deserved to win and Fury is an insufferable clown.

Well, the issue here might be that I have to buy from state run liquor stores, which probably bumps up the price by 30%, which puts it into that tier that seems too expensive to buy very often. A screaming deal at Costco on booze (1.75 L of BT for $30?!) isn’t a thing where I live because the liquors stores sell…

Wow, it’s interesting to hear what qualifies as “moderately-priced” to different people. I love Makers and Buffalo Trace but given the quantity of whiskey I drink, the bank would own my house if I bought them on a regular basis. Plus, Benchmark and Evan Williams will do the trick on a day to day basis.

Really, for my money, any kind of rye will do but Bulleit Rye is especially good. Wild Turkey Rye is at about the same price point (at least in my locale) and it is by far my favorite whiskey. Too expensive to drink every day, but a nice once-a-month treat. The Jim Beam Rye isn’t too shabby either and pretty…

There were a few investors who saw it coming and shorted the shit out of the market and made billions. But you really think the average investor had reasonable access to the shady fucking shit going on at investment banks? If you really place the blame for the subprime mortgage prices on the investing public and think…

Not really. Insider trading as a concept refers to publicly traded markets and the people licensed to trade in them (and their clients, friends and family). Daily fantasy operates (for now) outside that realm. The clamor is that they are a lot like a public market, where insider information can reward those in the…

Nothing even approaching sufficient information was available to investors in the subprime market. That’s just horseshit. The banks actively hid the risk and manipulated the credit rating in order to mask the toxic assets from investors. The people at the top of the banks oftentimes didn’t even know what their traders…

What is this barn door you speak of? As far as I can tell basically nothing has changed on Wall Street. Jamie Dimon gave the federal government $12B to make it all go away and Chase is still making money hand over fist. They might actually be able to do something about daily fantasy because daily fantasy has nothing…

It’s sad but true. At least the respective governments are getting on their horses now and looking to do something about it. And the sites themselves are making it easy for politicians by having stupid-ass “rules” like this in place.

Jackson is the epitome of boring, vanilla, industry-driven “country” music. It’s sad that most people view his crappy music (as well as all the other hat acts of the era) as country music when there are so many talented people making great music in that genre that aren’t involved in the Nashville schmaltz factory.…

The design philosophy at Porsche is “would a lame middle-age white guy think it’s cool?” If so, do it. Leather A/C vents fit right in that category. It’s the type of thing that Lame, Middle-Age White Guy wouldn’t even wait for you to notice, he’d point it out to you.

I appreciate the long reply and, honestly, I’m in no position to respond point by point regarding the MMA stuff because I don’t watch it and have almost no interest in it. I have a profound bias towards boxing because my dad is a boxer and boxing coach and my brothers and I all grew up in Gold Gloves, etc. While I…