My father waited the phone company out, at one point. About 10 years ago, the carriers were making some long announced switch, analogue to digital maybe? By that point nearly everyone in the enitre country had purchased a phone that worked with the new protocol, but not my father. The company sent him letter after…

It absolutely is. I called them water spiders (and we hunted crayfish and found potato bugs under logs). What I can’t remember is what I called what Wikipedia says is a “water boatman.” Youtube says “backswimmer,” but I don’t remember that. Paddle bug, maybe?

Maybe, but why does it have to be? Why do soccer fans act like being a soccer fan is some magical end goal, that everything us plebs do is inevitably leading up to the moment where we realize we actually like soccer?

Sounds like “Great Man” nonsense to me.

Have it primarily set in Madripoor, maybe just after WWII. Tamp down Logan’s healing factor so it’s not a complete suspension of disbelief breaker, and have important parts of the plot revolve around his internal conflict with his animal nature.

It is a legitimate stance to believe that substances which change how your body functions, apart from nutrition, are immoral.

A part of our heritage.

Most Americans and Canadians don’t seem to recognize that we wouldn’t have come out of WWI and II looking so good without the buffer provided by the Pacific and Atlantic.

For every person in the Maquis, there were two or more dedicated Vichy collaberators.

I guess. It’s become one of those things that’s so ingrained in a lot of people’s understanding of history that they never stop to think about how obviously at odds with reality it is. France did not establish the second largest colonial empire in the world by being a pushover.

There’s a certain point at which ignorant historical jokes stop being funny and start being just ignorant. Jokes about France losing wars have long since passed that point.

Yeah, this has been my argument up until today. Not sure I care to sustain it now that the CEO of the site has effectively recognized and endorsed hate groups.

The wouldn’t pull this with any other movement- you chose the wrong name.

There’s a reason the word is what it is, in it’s true definition.

Yeah, the flopping debate has always been tinged with a sort of macho posturing, particularly in the US and Canada. “Look at those effeminate Europeans/South Americans. Our sports aren’t like that.” Never mind that there’s plenty of diving and other attempted hoodwinking of refs in every major sport. Or that the “play…

But they had plenty of articles about women’s soccer in general. If the argument being made is that women should be paid more because there’s the potential for them to generate significant revenue, then focusing on one game out of an entire tournament is a mistake. The ratings for the smaller matches would be…

Basing your argument on the numbers generated by a tournament game in which the US was in the final is probably not the soundest of plans.

This is some terrible reasoning.

Who should pay them accordingly? Are your referring to the salaries they make on their professional teams? The prize money from FIFA?

I believe that all children have unique learning styles (some are visual learners, others are manual learners, etc.)