Well, I was just going by what it says in the article itself:

That guy shouldn’t have brought 14 boxes of porn into his parents’ house after they explicitly said “No porn,” shouldn’t have lied about it, and shouldn’t have expected the parents to deliver said porn to him.

Yep. When I had my MRI, I was stuffed into that tube like a sausage, with both my arms wedged against the sides. And I am claustrophobic, so it was easily the worst medical experience of my life.

I have a FB Friend from Indonesia, and in the course of one of our Messenger chats, I made a passing reference to the United States’ genocide of Native Americans. She had no idea that there were indigenous people in North America before settlers came from Europe, and also no idea that white people had slaughtered them…

I’m sure Kerri has some justifiably bitter feelings about what coaches put her through over the course of her career. But after reading her 1997 book, I was left with the sense that her experience at the Atlanta Olympics was one of the highlights of her life, pain and all. It brought her worldwide attention/acclaim…

Even the coaches didn’t know the exact math, because their closest competitor (Russia) had not finished their final rotation yet. When Kerri was up on vault, Roza Galieva had not yet performed her floor routine, so they didn’t know what the Russian’s final team total would be.

It’s because different teams compete on the 4 different apparatuses simultaneously. In this case, the Russians were over on floor exercise while the Americans were on vault, and Kerri’s vaults took place before the final Russian competitor (Roza Galieva) finished out the Russian rotation on floor. So the US team…

We appear to be squabbling about semantics, since you keep repeating what I’ve already said (I mentioned that she had won a team medal in a previous Olympics) as evidence that I’m somehow in error.

Yes, as I just said, the vault injury kept her from competing in the all-around and the event finals at that Olympic Games. (Which I was really sad about, such a shame.) If she had wanted to continue competing as an elite gymnast after those Olympics, the vault injury would not have prevented that.

Yep, director/co-writer Tom McCarthy said he was inspired by the Knox case. (Although he had no intention of re-telling that precise story.)

Simone herself said her decision to stay in gymnastics for these Olympics was motivated in part by her desire to make sure the Nassar scandal wasn’t quickly forgotten. But I agree with you that he isn’t relevant to the German team uniforms.

The second vault didn’t “end her career.” The injury unfortunately kept her out of the all-around competition and event finals at that Olympics, but her decision to retire soon thereafter was not based on physical inability. Strug had already won team medals in two Olympic Games, she was starting college, and felt it…

True, but Kerri didn’t actually know that at the time.

From what I’ve read, it was in fact inspired by the Knox case.

Not enough of them. Sorry, did I say that out loud?

Nope. It’s already happening:

That’s because they think it’s about writing checks and having large bank balances.

I laughed out loud at your comment. :)

I adore Lin-Manuel, but he already has the Emmy portion of his EGOT (he won one for a song he wrote for the Tony Awards). It’s just the O he’s waiting on.

You might relate to this meme (god knows I do!):