Ha sorry—tried to make it a joke rather than being an ass, then saw I was the tenth to say something about it.

These fucking millennial me-first athletes trying to make money for their children and spouses.

It seriously sounds like a weak-ass excuse he came up with after the fact.

I’m going to go ahead and somewhat rebut this.

We are allowed to believe that many things are bad (or good) at once. The IOC is terrible, and so is this woman (and for that matter, so are the other rich people who do even worse things that you allude to in your comment). This isn’t a zero-sum game. My point was this woman’s behavior is incredibly entitled and it…

Just because other rich assholes have been exploiting a flawed system doesn’t justify her behavior. As to why this blew up now, it’s because she’s an anachronism, someone who believes there’s merit to simply being an “Olympian” in 2018. This type of stunt may have worked back in the 30s (or even 80s), but now with…

Her only real “skill” seems to be identifying and taking advantage of loopholes that shouldn’t exist to begin with. When confronted with this fact, she (or her supporters) can say “well, everyone does it” or “if the IOC would tighten up their system I wouldn’t take advantage of it”

I used an underfunded, undercoached Tibetan who still gamely represented his country at the Olympics as an example in an earlier thread. What Ms. Swaney is doing isn’t entirely harmless, because she may very well, with her crass showing at the Games, cause the federations to greatly tighten up qualification rules, and…

Sadly, I bet someone gives her a job after they see this on her resume thinking it speaks to her grit or some such bs.

“That with enough private lessons and lawyers to research IOC loopholes and navigate the legal conundrums of gaining citizenship in multiple countries, you too can earn the right to look like a jackass on a world stage and then call yourself an Olympian for the rest of your life.”

“I want all the boys and girls out there to know, if you have rich parents, you too can do whatever you want.”

It’s not about respecting the sanctity of the Olympics or the IOC, but it’s certainly rude to your fellow competitors. The idea that you can spend a lot of time with the other athletes (either on the mountain or during your downtime in the isolated ski resorts where competitions take place) and then go out and…

Maaaaaan. How does this shit get out of the grays? It’s not even gimme humor. Anything to stir the shit, dooshnozzle here is only partly to blame. I give all involved the dirty finger for lazy insensitivity. You can’t even be a bigot correctly. Bring it or don’t.

Brietbart is that way

I see the building of a building. It’s bobcats moving dirt and cranes raising concrete and installing letters for the finished exterior. I’m not about to start looking for metaphors in every commercial. I’m don’t have that kind of time or energy. Maybe that does make me naive (I personally doubt it) but having read…

I’m feeling less forgiving towards Kinja than I have in awhile after a comment that received 40+ stars over at Deadspin disappeared into thin air 15 minutes after I made it earlier this morning. But that’s petty bullshit; the Dodge ad—and MLK’s estate approving it—was way worse.

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl because I really don’t care about football. But I do like Major League Baseball, Apple Pie, and Betty Grable (my spellcheck wants to change this to Betty Grab Me).

I didn’t notice it either, someone pointed it out on Reddit, the colors of half the players changed to yellow, indicating the”absorbtion”of the other station, which doesn’t make sense since the other station crashed into the Earth

That fucking Dodge Ram/MLK Jr ad made me never want to buy another Chrysler product again. Well, it was that and the fact they make hopelessly shitty automobiles.

None of these are the true winner of the best Super Bowl commercial, which goes to the Toledo area Kroger that has smoked sausage for $2/lb.