they did have a really old and shitty Michael Jordan for a while

Deriding somebody’s for being arrogant by writing a post linking to another one of your very own posts (from one minute earlier!) might be one of the more ironic things I’ve seen in a while.

It’s a relatively painless and unfrightening way to die. When you die by normal asphyxiation, what prompts the feelings of pain and terror is not the absence of oxygen, but rather the presence of carbon dioxide. When you take a good deep whiff of nitrogen (or any other inert gas) you pass out within a minute, without…

In 2010, he signed to 6 years/$123.7M. At the time, there had only been one 6 year contract with more money on it. Some guy named Tim Duncan had a 7 year deal worth less money. From 2004 (when he became a regular starter) to 2010, his numbers were:

are there not high fences on the sides of overpasses around you? Seattle is fuckin metal, huh...

I don’t mean this as a knock on Serena at all, but: Federer would smash Serena. She’s about as skilled as a tennis player can be, but so is Roger. The difference in size, speed, and strength between her and Fed would be insurmountable.

I agree with RBIs being the plural. Without it, one my favorite baseball slogans (“ribbies is ribbies”; said whenever a player drives in a run in a manner other than a normal base hit) makes no sense.

I once saw a group of like 8 good ol’ boys with banjos, guitars, and one mandolin have an honest-to-goodness bluegrass jam in a waffle house...Weirdest shit ever. Waitress acted like it happened every week.

He’s been shooting the ball 14 times a game for 16 years. It’s no surprise that he’s put up a lot of points...but that’s about all he does. I think he was actually incredibly overrated in his prime. I watched him shoot the Hawks out of sooo many games. He is not a hall of famer for me by any stretch.

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but that is specifically what I don’t get! Each of these guys has been the best basketball player they’ve known for their entire life. They’ve played in countless big games with hundreds or thousands of fans watching, from high school & AAU on up. They are completely used to having all eyes on them. The free throw has…

so what is it that Jose Calderon, Calvin Murphy, and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf have that these guys don’t?

No, no, no. It’s spelled “Injun”.

I think the prevailing view of Americans toward convicts and prisons is appalling. Folks seem to hold the view that if you are convicted of one single crime, your every last shred of humanity should be forfeit. I really cannot understand the compulsion to treat petty criminals like wild animals. How can people have so…

...this comment is actually kind of heartbreaking

fucking joke’s on him, then! I get a wicked-ass 20 days a year and I use every one of them, thank you very much.

But you don’t play the game broadcast across the whole city where everybody can see it. Nobody’s saying you shouldn’t listen to/look at/test out/etc your music/photo/program/etc before it’s released...Just that once it’s released, you look like a jackass if you do so

well if you’re gonna do this, you should drive legally while you do so. That way, you don’t get pulled over and look like a total dumbass.

eh you’re still a wanker

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