Yes. The TEAM made the agreement about the additional use of the field. The PLAYERS are the ones complaining (and perhaps rightly so). The players had no say in whatever agreement their club came to about other games being played there, and by speaking up, yes, they are directing ire at their own club/business offices.

Jesus. Nothing about that seems humanly possible. Thanks for sharing!

Yep. Bite the tongue and work all the harder for those groups that have gotten fucked over.

Ah, I see. Appreciate the response. I think the big thing to be careful of (which I think you’ve seen from those chiming in) is that it’s hard - maybe close to impossible - to voice what you’re trying to voice WITHOUT sounding like you’re pulling the “Not ALL...” card, which is always always always the wrong choice.

No. You don’t get a “shout out” or “deserve credit” for being a decent person. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad you stood up for the right things forcefully growing up and it’s great you were willing to face the shit raining down and didn’t compromise your beliefs. But the whole thing, the whole problem, with the…

Manta ray petting pool?! Aren’t those like 20 feet across full grown? I’ve seen petting pools with all sorts of other kinds of rays, but not mantas! (Though I’d love to...)

NPR has a good update with far more details (such as that the shark wasn’t just wrapped in a blanket and tossed in a stroller as first reported, but was put in a bucket which was stored in the stroller). The shark, named Miss Helen, was stolen to bring back to the ringleader’s home saltwater aquarium setup, as he had…

The former student saying that quote is Anne Kursinski... she’s a five-time Olympian and still one of the leading riders in her particular discipline today, so a bit of a genius herself! I grew up riding and had a poster of Anne on my wall. Sickening to hear these stories now.

I worked for an NFL team for a number of years. You’d always cross your fingers that Britt would not be the reporter sent to cover you for whatever story. She was difficult to work with, unpleasant and generally disliked by everyone in the building.

I use both. “Ah well” is more of a shrug response... like, “Well, what can you do?” kind of thing. “Oh well” would be more for expressing disappointment. It’s more downtrodden than “Ah well.” (Wow, I’m a loser).

Do you realize the point you just made with your last sentence? That “as a black kid” he should “know better”? You’re admitting in saying that that black people are treated differently by police and should therefore conduct themselves differently. I don’t know if you’re okay living in a country like that, but I am not.

Good to know women can be as big pieces of shit as men. Equality!

YES. This person, my god. A couple others on their lift jump off but that one just hangs on to tough it out without knowing the wreckage of lift chairs around the corner. Yikes.

As a friend, I hope you’re doing more than just telling her to take Plan B. Start working toward advising her to move on from her husband. She and her children deserve more. What you’re describing is not a partner.

Was about to say the same. The hair, if nothing else, is a dead giveaway for evangelical Christian...

It just continually shocks me. She, again, is a better person than I am, and genuinely understands MOST of it to come from a good but clueless spot - people looking for a way to compliment her beautiful kids (who are, though, yes, I’m biased, totally fucking gorgeous) and they just don’t understand how to do so…

My sister gets a lot of “What is their father?” and “What are they?” in reference to her kids (she’s very pale and blonde and is married to a dark-skinned Nicaraguan) when she’s out alone with them. She’s much kinder than I am and tries to take people at their best intentions, but has occasionally answered “Human” to…

He tweeted about it in a way that inferred - well, basically outright said - that he had seen it. Lying? Maybe. But even so...

It is very, very sad. Especially because I see the fight my family member puts up - and has every single day for the three decades they’ve been in law enforcement - to truly actually protect and serve ALL people. I hate that they get grouped in with the hate toward LEO, but I understand it (and they do, too). The…

Part of the problem - and there are a LOT of problems - is that oftentimes even a chief of police can’t up and fire a bad officer. The Washington Post did a great deep dive into that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/police-fired-rehired/?utm_term=.99b5dc14d8ef