9-0 10-0 now. I love Germany’s first game in a World Cup, because they love to start out this way and just crush it.

Canada was pretty sloppy today. It seemed like they were relying a bit too much on Sinclair, and just couldn’t make it work - the only real chance they had was the penalty. But then again, aside from Sinclair, Canada just doesn’t have the kind of force a Germany or U.S. team has.

Well that’s an amazing surprise.

Agreed, except for the bit about being more willing to unpack a poem. Poetry is scary, and most people won’t even bother to think about it in the abstract, let alone try to understand any of it.

I’ve never seen it. Just didn’t look like my kind of thing.

I’m not overly familiar with French usage, but it sounds like it’s probably derivative of the way Latinate languages make use of adjectives as nouns. English tends to noun its adjectives if doing so. In English, we’d say someone’s a bad guy or a baddie. In Spanish you would just say un mal. I’d go on, but I’m about to…

Racists, the most persecuted race of all.

It all depends on your take on collective nouns - and here Ecuador is acting as a collective noun. Some people (and Standard American English) take the view that a collective noun is a bunch of things acting as a singular unit, and therefore must conjugate verbs as a singular noun. Other peple (and Standard British…

Damn, them some expensive weddings.

Wow, I’ve never seen so many stars on a single comment.

Considering this is a superintendent and a high school graduation, I think saying the college wants them arrested is a bit off the mark.

I think my happiest result would be a U.S./Germany final. I’m happy with either team winning, really.

He would.

That was kind of our strategy. “Okay, all the stuff needs to happen quick so we can eat.”

My mother can’t make up her mind about which of us she thinks makes all the decisions. Because to her someone has to be supreme overlord. There can be no compromise.

When I got married, the wedding itself wasn’t terribly huge in my mind. It’s a party. I’d have gone to the courthouse if my wife would have let me. She wanted a wedding, though, so I figured “I care about the four Cs: cake, cost, ceremony, and (the one that doesn’t start with c) making it look like something I’d want…

Cheap wine sucks, expensie wine is for suckers.

You are my everything.

There you go. Like that.

The transcript’s a pretty important piece of paper. The diploma, eh.