Not without a fight.

Well, yes and no. Some of these figures amount to 10 to 20% of the annual salary for a Congressman. The handout is more than the average American makes in a year, in many cases, and it’s only influential because the people receiving the money have so much unwarranted power over policy.

Stoppage time is not overtime.

The fuck would I be doing in New Jersey?

Is Sadaharu Oh the home run king? Is Josh Gibson?

the other guy w/ the leg kick

“I knew that.”

Maybe Donald Trump isn’t Pittsburgh’s favorite right wing troll.

Ad was a hoax by a satirical website.

I never realized spades is a black people game ever. I’m white as can be and my whole family (parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, you name it) all love to play. I’ve heard it said that if your daddy is a non-black spades player, he either picked it up in rehab, prison, or the army.

So in other words, it’s a white-people difference. Because linking back to the wikipedia entry to defend something is about the whitest thing you can do.

This is the first I’ve heard of Spades not also being a white people game. I learned it shortly after I learned Hearts, both from a crazy-ass Irish aunt of a friend. She was not above taking money from 7-year olds.

I’m white as fuck and went to a white as fuck highschool 10 years ago where the student body played all sorts of card games, spades among them. This article is about 25 years behind the times.

Pinochle? Get off the internet Grandpa.

Euchre is Speed Spades. I am white and from the south so I learned Spades as a youngen. Didn’t learn Euchre until I was in my 30s and went on a family vacation with the in laws.

I’ve only ever heard them called books. Tricks is hearts.

What I remember most about the summer I spent staying with a friend’s family in an upper middle class Houston burb was everybody always drunk on Crown Royal and how pet wolves were all the rage. Just...you know, a buncha transplanted New Yorkers and Massholes and Jersey dudes staggering around in cowboy boots they…

Iceland is ~330,000 people.

Icelander here!