You missed the best part - drunk Irish guy punches other drunk Irish guy *for refusing a drink*.

Okay, so it looks like they tried that and it didn't work.  I stand corrected.

I see the partnership with Barstool alienating a whole bunch of people who were unlikely to ever become NASCAR fans, and attracting a bunch of younger dudebros who are likely to age into exactly the same kind of people that are the majority of their current audience.  This doesn’t strike me as anything like the way…

I mean, this whole partnership sounds *very* on-brand for NASCAR to me. Barstool is popular with the younger versions of the kinds of white, male, straight, right-aligned fans that NASCAR currently has - this helps them bridge that age gap.

Also why the good ones were originally intended to be served cold rather than hot - any flavor profile is a lot likelier to hold up ~30 degrees colder than 100+ degrees colder.

It feels like BK’s quality control has gone to hell in the past decade or so.

If it’s 45 meals to break even on the lifetime pass, that means 9 meals to break even on the 2-month pass. So you’ll lose money unless you eat at Olive Garden once a week during that stretch.  I’m not too good for Olive Garden, but I don’t know if I want to commit to going there that regularly.

No, you’ve got it wrong.  It’s ending capitalism that’s going to make us all live in harmony, and be immortal.

Assuming we put the permanent site in Athens for historical reasons (plus, it’s not like Greece is a major international player), I don’t see how that is worse than the current status quo. Are people elsewhere going to stop caring if there’s not an opportunity to have their own Sochi or Rio?

If future Olympics are hosted by the likes of Turkmenistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, those games will make Sochi and Rio look flawless an smooth.  I don’t know how many 1st world athletes will be interested in attending games if their health is in danger the whole time.

In answer to your other question - yes, he’s just delaying the inevitable. I don’t know how much longer he’ll be playing anyway, but there’s no version of his preferred helmet that will be NFL legal in 2021.

I always love people trying to stand up for the Browns:

I think I came to that conclusion after Fight Club; the Durden role needed a character actor with ridiculously good looks.  

Bingo. If any Dr. Who fan tried to say the 2005 episodes aren’t a “reboot” because they’re in the same continuity, they’d be laughed out of the room.

Chemically, sure, but is it metabolized any differently?

Look, Deadspin has put themselves in a situation where they’ve decided the Hand of God goal is the finest moment in association football history, and you’re not going to dissuade them with things like logic and reason.

Ok, correct me if I’m wrong - isn’t every calorie we consume always either fat, protein, or carb? And if so, what is alcohol if not a carb?

The “joke Whoopi was playing on Ted” theory seems pretty viable to me.  Though I don’t think Whoopi realized *just* how poorly it would be received.

You mean we can solve the complicated story problem by making the story more complicated? Personally, I vote the old lady simply *not* swallow the fly.

Because cultural impact and box office are far from perfectly correlated.  I mean, think of how little Avatar persisted in pop culture...