I’m waiting for someone to explain why the water goes up and down at the beach. It’s slow so I don’t think people notice. But sometimes my stuff gets wet and I’m confused. How do I stop the ocean from sneaking up on me?

Thank you. They’re completely different techniques with completely different equipment.

Oddly enough, the triple crown and pipe itself have outlasted 3 attempts at a professional surfing tour governing body - maybe more. I like the WSL quite a bit, but the North Shore will still be the place where the best of the best prove themselves, regardless of sanction and sponsorship.

Yep, the championship tour culminating with the Pipe Masters has been a cornerstone of the sport. I don’t know the logistical issues but it seems self-defeating to mess with the one contest that random, landlocked Americans might actually recognize. Wondering how this impacts the triple crown?

Agreed. Misogyny is still found all through popular culture, practically unchecked. Not sure why certain categories get such a free pass on the words they use and the ideas they perpetuate.

That’s an interesting comparison. Similar ego-driven attitudes where it’s all about their agenda.

Genuinely curious. What’s your plan for people that aren’t black or white in this theoretical war?

‘Increasingly poor decisions’ pretty much covers it.

Very nice! I’d prefer Ramones Trump over Jazzy Trump. It may not be any better but it would be over quicker.

Well said. I think our language seems inadequate for what was visited upon us.

Very appropriate that Maya Rudolf would presage a milestone moment in our descent into Idiocracy.

Very nice. Credit where credit’s due: Lochte did set an Olympic record time for the 5000 kilometer bail-on-your-bros steeplechase. (demonstration event)

Between the top skiers she beat in this Olympics and the top snowboarders she’s regularly beat... that’s a tremendous amount of A-list ass kicking.

He looks just like my uncle (mostly filipino guy, hard to say exactly). Not saying Mike’s related, but it’s a solid fall-back if the Italian thing doesn’t play out.

Yep. Trump and his corrupt cronies seem to bring ruin to most of the people with whom they interact. I would imagine that these secondary scandals with tertiary scape goats will continue to be a matter of course.

Tear down the whole US olympic structure and start again. This is way worse than blood doping or whatever fuckery the Russians were up to that got them banned.

Yes, and curling is straight-up socialist.

Their first album is amazing.

Erroneous, I’m sorry to say. But lets be bipartisan accross-the-isle web pals.

Ok, I got the part where you mentioned that horrible instrument that sounds like a sustained fart and spews disease on everyone in the vicinity... But what’s a vuvuzela?