How is a Fiat a good bribe? Presumably it was one of the other brands they run, like a Ferrari.

I'm all for that.

It's a joke.

So your one anecdote about one kid whose parents have nice cars is evidence that it's happening at every major D1 baseball program? Yeah, ok.

And what, in the case of sexual assault, are those reasons?

Indeed. So when your doctor says you need a digital prostate exam, know that it's not a fancy kind of computer-aided imagery.

Thanks for making that connection. I didn't realize he was that guy.

I can see how accusations of bias come up, but it's better to have NHL refs than any others, however. They're just better at their jobs.

In this case, it didn't matter. The rule was black and white.

Besides. Fuck Russia. They cheated their way to so many medals over the years, I wouldn't be too upset if they got…

Yes, all of that is true., but there's too much turnover at my local branch to develop a good relationship with the sandwich artist.

Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean that quite literally. I meant that they want to minimize how much they have to toss. Over time over many Subways, minimizing the dead loss, so to speak, adds up to a lot of money.

Two days seems like a pretty long time, really, given that the place is set up to make it appear like it was just…

I suspect it has something to do with the fact that they want it to be "fresh," never run out, and yet never have to be thrown out. And be cheap and idiot-proof to make too, of course. That's hard to do in a way that's reproducible for all Subways everywhere. The nature of fast food, I guess.

But they're open late, so…

Water from a garden hose is great when you're really thirsty.

It's got nothing to do with "PC." Quite the opposite, really. If it were about that, all the games would be in Scandinavia or Canada because they have the least bad human rights records.

It's all about money and graft.

They could at least give you a plastic bag to wrap up the shit, like we do for dogs. But apparently not. That's really unhealthy. A pit toilet might be better.

I had no idea these shit buckets were so common in the rest of the world. I guess I'm never leaving the US again. Nothing against the rest of the world, but I'm…

Indeed, we (by which I mean the governments of the industrialized world) just said "Great, no more communism! Deregulate and privatize everything immediately and it will be fine." But it's not fine. A handful of people bought all of the country's resources for cheap. It's not even clear that it's really better than it…

Half the world shouldn't be hosting the Olympics. Much more than half, actually. Now that you mention it, the Olympics have become so big and the bidding process so ridiculous that nobody should be hosting them.

What should happen is the Olympics should be in the same place every time. Or maybe switch off between two…

It's a bit showtuney for my taste, but appropriate for the venue. It's the Super Bowl. Go big.
As somebody who goes to a lot of minor league games and has heard just about every conceivable version - good and very bad - of the anthem, it seems like the best versions are by military musicians. They keep it moving…

It's not even really England's. English is a glorious mutt of a language, mix of Germanic, French, Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, etc.

So you're proud to be a bigot. Thanks for clarifying.

It's a stupid rule. Players can kick the puck everywhere else, why not let them kick in goals? It wouldn't be bad for the game, which could use a few more goals, and would eliminate the delay of the replay reviews and prevent these kinds of controversies.