Ok, his back foot was still partially behind it, which is enough since it requires the *whole* body to be past the line.

I was wondering that too, but apparently the rule is that you aren’t considered past the line until your whole body is beyond the line. Since most of his planted foot was still behind the line, it still counts.

This really fucking selfish and wrong with him. If more people did this, it would be the end of businesses as we know it.

What kind of industry allows talented young recruits to express their preference for a future place of employment and doesn’t collude to railroad them to their most dysfunctional operations?

.... I…

My sister lived there for a few years...

I still do not understand why.

I showed these images to my Dad, who has been an underwear salesperson and bra fitter for 20 years, his first reaction was “That thing is supposed to be a bra?” and finished a ranting e-mail with “I seriously doubt there were any women (or anybody who knows anything about women’s underwear needs) involved in making…

Exactly!

I get really fucking tired of people from the Southeast and mid-west playing cowboy or claiming to be “western”. “Western” in this case being a 19th century lifestyle that some people in the interior west cling on to but hasn’t been viable without government subsidy for at least three generations. At least…

Not really, I’m just incredibly neurotic and have too much time on my hands.

Thanks for the heads up on Twila Barnes, I will totally check that out. I know my Dad has a cousin who used to be involved in tribal government, but he never responded when my Dad asked what paperwork he was able to find.

And, to be clear, I 100% agree on Warren being full of crap and part of the reason I feel guilty…

*While my mom’s side of the family has its paperwork in order, the situation on my dad’s side gets a bit tricky. While the Cherokee do indeed keep great records, sometimes shit happens and people get lost.

Due to some combination of a fire and shitty record-keeping there is no record of my great-grandfather even…

Tourists like Warren who blithely treat their bullshit native ancestry as an avenue to play “minority” really, really piss me off.

I have 2 Cherokee* grandmothers, but I’m easily the most white-presenting member in my family. Despite having been a tribal citizen my whole life, I always felt like I didn’t “count”…

Your analogy includes two similar crimes rather than a disease and a crime.

Again, Pedophilia is a disease that, if left untreated, can lead to the criminal behavior of child molestation. However, the majority of people who commit child molestation do not have pedophilia and a significant subset of those who have…

I used to have a job where this distinction was sometimes vitally important. No, I don’t miss it.

That is indeed a really stupid pet peeve that is more pedantic than useful for anybody outside of certain areas of study.

4- The guy in the back of the photo of butt-lady who looks like my high school math/physics/theology teacher (I went to a weird high school).

Don’t sleep on Portland as a contender for that list, especially if you happen to not be white.

Good news: I recently figured out where in Ireland my father’s ancestors immigrated from (Cavan), so I have a natural team to root for if I ever manage find hurling on TV.

Bad news: From what I can tell, Cavan kinda sucks to the point that from 2011-2016, they were the only county to not have senior-level hurling team.…

And, yes, I know he means that he’s a cowboy or some other shit that people who are not from the west imagine things to be like, but fuck that. He’s cosplaying a cartoon version of the 19th century west like it is actually thing.

Fuck him, and fuck any of the people outhere who still want to play cowboy (looking at…

If you’re from Missouri, you are not “Western.” You have not been “Western” for 200 fucking years!

To be “western” you should, at minimum, live closer to the Pacific Ocean than to the Atlantic. This guys district is a whole state east of the geographic center of the U.S. and just barely west of the center of…

*Note: I am from Oregon and have never set foot in the state of Texas, nor do I have any family from the area. When I was 5, I decided Nolan Ryan was my favorite player and the Rangers my favorite team. That my father encouraged this (feeling somehow it would be better than his Cubs fandom) is a bone of contention.

I get that this is how Jays fans get to feel (rightly) superior, but as a Rangers fan*... I’d still go with “one strike away... twice” to give us our proper comeuppance.