That’s what I find fucking funny - like her hair was the reason I never knew Shaun White had a fucking band.

You’re so right - this is totally an issue that involves varying context.

I live in a heavily immigrant city and am an immigrant myself - I ask people where they are from all the time. I’d never ask why someone came here...seems redundant if they came here for opportunity, and prying if they had to flee war or something.

I don’t understand how you and the other guy can’t see the direct relevance.

Thanks for more context. This is why I read the comments section. I read the Guardian article first and then saw this story on Splinter - both times I was hoping for more depth to the story. You provided it.

Which is why I had hoped EA would bring back Fight Night - that game was great and calling out for more innovation regarding controls around the footwork, that for me were easier to solve than the grapple game in MMA. I understand EA want to capture the market for MMA fans as they are growing faster, but as someone…

Yawn. 1%er problems.

Agreed. At first I didn’t want to watch any of the videos, as I get a horrible cringe from situations like this. But once I did decide to watch, and saw their frankness and bravery (full well knowing millions of people around the world would be watching them relive graphic details of abuse), I felt a civic duty to…

Messi and Rinaldo routinely shit on teams in the CL where they come across the best of the more competitive leagues, so no, I don’t think their Ballon D’or awards are just because they dominate smaller Spanish teams. By the way, “smaller Spanish teams” have done pretty well in the Europa League in recent years, so…

Agreed. I hate the argument that “others survived, other’s rose above the shit, and so should you”. I fucking hate it and it’s applied to so many scenarios, and it absolves the shit system and the shit people that perpetuate the shit system, and it victim blames the people who want and need to be regocnised for their…

Thanks for making me google “Jewish Ghetto Police” and learn something new today. 

Yup, there has been a LOT of wishful thinking for a long time now...people living in denial about how fucked up their country is.

1) I agree with you that it’s better to call Miller a White Supremacist and not a Nazi - least of all to prevent the conversations that need to be had being derailed by technicalities, but also because the technical distinctions are important.

I’m no muso, but I own a shitty guitar and like to learn basic chords and entertain myself. Even I can see the repetitive pleasing patterns in a wide range of simple music - no one disputes certain songs sound the same, but I agree with you - certain patterns are obvious and repetetive, and some even innate. I know I…

Yup, I’m with you on this. The “calendar year” stat is utterly meaningless.

Yup, when pros are sponsored to sell products to the public - and they accept the fact and use their image as currency, they are role models whether they like it or not. They are marketed at youths and the wider public as aspirational figureheads....

Ha, I’m just appreciative you looked past how many typos were in my last post. See you around.

Yes, I do get why the public show of forgiveness in the context of police brutality and murder makes you uncomfortable. It’s a small show of decency and compassion on the side of the victims - alwasy has to be the victims to just deal with it - against the weight of the hugely unjust and inhuman system that is propped…

Cheers for the reply. I would love to get into the semantics of your love analogy -just out of the love for debate- but it’s a tangent that I don’t have the time for.

Many people believe actual forgiveness involves the person you’re forgiving. Also your analogy about loving someone but not saying it is weird to me. That’s bordering on dysfunctional IMO. I’m struggling to come up with a scenario where you wouldn’t either tell the person you loved them, or fell out of love because…