loool at this take on the Australian constitutional crisis. Kerr - and other Governors-General - are the Queen’s representatives in name only. He wasn’t doing her bidding, or anything, he was exercising his powers in the way he thought best. If he was elected to the same role, with no mention of the monarchy, he’d…

Whenever y’all embed videos from MLB.com or MiLB.com, I find myself unable to...I don’t know what you call it...I can’t find the tracking bar (?) where you can click on the part of the video you want, skim through it, etc. Man I feel dumb trying to explain that.

In honour of the late Richie Benaud:

They’re calling it an ACL sprain (rather than a tear). Doesn’t require surgery. Still an ACL, so you don’t want to fuck with it, but there’s a good chance the only consequence is some forced rest over the offseason.

Yeah, that one doesn’t fit. I don’t think it’s stretching the term thin, it’s just a different meaning to the unqualified ‘nerd’. It’s the difference between a doctor and a doctor of musicology. They are of course related terms, but one isn’t just a specific type of the other.

“Baseball is unique among other sports in that it takes place outdoors, but isn’t played through downpours like football and soccer usually are.”

My favourite thing about this story is that it came the day this guy got this question into a Simmons mailbag:

Pretty sure she also wasn’t ‘purusing’ him.

Right, I’m not saying those teams are awful or anything, just that they don’t make me look at Super Rugby (I have to keep correcting myself - it’s still the Super 12 to me) and go ‘oh, yeah, the EC is probably better’. I saw part of the Northampton / Clermont quarterfinal, and Northampton were starting the lesser two…

Yeah, maybe, I don’t really know for sure - hard to compare without them playing each other. At the top end they’re definitely pretty impressive, but so are an in-form Crusaders or the current Hurricanes, etc. Further down, I think I’d take most Super Rugby teams over the lower tier EC teams - Wasps or Glasgow or…

FYI, Super Rugby isn’t just a New Zealand competition - it’s five teams each from NZ, Australia, and South Africa, with one team from each of Argentina and Japan starting next year. It’s the highest level of non-international rugby in the world, and higher than most international rugby.

This is a million times less shit than whatever the fuck they were going for when they changed ESPNFC, which is maybe the worst web design I've ever seen.

FYI, there've been a few similar I-hate-being-famous things on reddit before:

I'm confused, is breaking kayfabe supposed to be the part that's him making a fool of himself? From the video it just comes across like he doesn't care (or sort of likes) that it's a faux pas - is not fully buying in to wrestling foolish?

Do you mean water skis, or is there some Simmons/surfing/shark thing I don't know about?

Duplo isn't a knock-off, it's Lego's pre-school line.

There was a piece on face-reading (although not this company) in the New Yorker in January:

The last time John Campbell was the story, and not just reporting on it, was when he was labelled a 'sanctimonious little creep' by the then-Prime Minister (and now head of the UNDP) after a contentious interview. I've never really felt strongly about him either way, but it is nice that there's a good story to one day…

Ugh.

I like My Favourite Game. That song has sent me into some pretty good youtube spirals in recent years.