There’s a similar thing in martial arts, called kogan katsu in Japanese, where you gently drop someone on their butt a few times to make them stop hurting sooner.

They bought Coutinho as a replacement for losing Neymar and needing another attacker to feed balls the Messi monster, but you’re right that Coutinho is too much like Messi for that to work. The question is, could they train to play with either Messi or Coutinho as the lead attacker? It might involve learning a…

More like a big -27.

It’s pretty narcissistic to suppose that, if you chat with someone for a while, get a face pic, and then are not interested, that it’s going to be some world-shattering even for the person you’re rejecting. Get over yourself and just do it.

Welcome to sports fandom!

This is a funny year. Liverpool is poised to win the premiership, FC Bayern looks almost vulnerable in Bundesliga, Ronaldo is out in the Champions League, and we might see two English teams in the semi-finals.

Except... that’s not really the case. US labor is not the biggest cost contributor to most of the things we spend money on anymore, except for things that require roughly the same amount of human work as they did before the industrial revolution: teaching, healthcare, some parts of finance... - and in most of those…

Actually, it’s also about as wide as puddle.

The first six were written roughly one per year, and it’s not clear whether Druon planned a seventh book from the start and didn’t get around to writing it, or released a six-book series and decided years later to revisit it.

It was, just like Burning Man was supposed to be for counterculture anarchists instead of SV royalty, but here we are. 

So who’s more ignorant? The person who puts on makeup to look darker, or the moron who calls Lithuania Russia?

“I would never do anything to disrespect this game... except for what I actually did do.”

I never liked golf but this is very far from being true. Yeah, you have the exclusive country club crowd, but these are people for whom golf is a pretext to make business deals or gossip about colleagues. The working class guys that go to the driving range after work and play on weekends at public courses outnumber…

Yes? The term grand prix predates F1 by over a century.

It’s standard practice with a lot of computer hardware. It’s cheaper for Intel to sell you a 3.6GHz i7 that’s limited by firmware to running at 3.2 GHz than it is to manufacture separate 3.2GHz chips, so they do that.

Gudalajara. Smaller, more intimate crowd, even if the undercard matches were probably somewhat lower quality. Headline match was easily the most spectacular I’ve ever seen, though. No play by play announcing, which is fine because it’s unnecessary and you wouldn’t hear them over all the chanting and shouting anyway.

It’s pretty much taken as gospel these days in psychology that, absent a lot of training and practice at reprogramming our brains, we almost literally turn into our parents when we’re stressed out, especially when dealing with our own children. Learning new strategies and techniques for these situations is the first…

His knee is fine. This is just to trick the Nets into thinking he might be out for the series, only to be surprised when he plays and goes on an absolute rampage. All part of The Process.

Last week I was in Mexico so of course I took in a Lucha Libre show instead of WM. Comparing everything I’ve heard to what I actually did get to experience, I’m confident I made the right decision... even if I did get called a puto more times than I can count.

Oh, please. The Kings at least play in the right state, not to mention the right city.