The Swamp

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Having once legitimately failed to make Kraft Dinner correctly, I am no one to talk. However, my wife absolutely swears by this copper cookware we've got. Ruffoni, I believe is the brand name. It does look genuinely cool, and as a thermofluids sort of person, I can appreciate the logic of using a ma...

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I suppose there is some sort of case to be made for allowing civilian gun ownership, though I have no interest in making it. But the lack of regulation in the US, and the (seemingly) prevailing attitude toward guns, is sheer madness. It's not prevailing. We've covered this ad nauseum and I'm too bu...

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bapo! wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:36 am Sorry, Vice Sports and Deadspin. You can keep posting articles about eSports, but I'm not going to read them.

Cheers. Up here, we've got competitions, broadcast on national sports networks, of video game hockey. As if actual hockey were not boring enough...

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I suppose there is some sort of case to be made for allowing civilian gun ownership, though I have no interest in making it. But the lack of regulation in the US, and the (seemingly) prevailing attitude toward guns, is sheer madness.

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It's like that stuff in the Mavericks office where the guy didn't get fired until he like jerked off on one of his coworkers. I mean people get offended by anything these days and then it's fired time! Come now. This was fairly clearly a matter of an off-color comment. That is a bloody world apart ...

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It's like that stuff in the Mavericks office where the guy didn't get fired until he like jerked off on one of his coworkers. I mean people get offended by anything these days and then it's fired time! Come now. This was fairly clearly a matter of an off-color comment. That is a bloody world apart ...

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brian wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:32 pm Called an African-American clubhouse attendant a "monkey".

Still want to defend this as political correctness gone amuck?

No. I do not. I am a dummy. :)

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No way Lebron goes to Boston. They have an established coach and an established GM and it's difficult to see them letting Lebron bully them into either a style of play or contracts for people he wants to play with. While I agree he’s not going there (the opt-out means it’s Cavs, Lakers or Sixers), ...

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Day after Celtics trade Leonard, sometime in 2021: “The day after the Celtics were eliminated I ran into Kawhi in a bathroom at Logan after he’d taken a huge shit and he was smiling a lot and he walked out without washing his hands and my 5 year old grandson softly asked ‘why didn’t my hero wash hi...

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Also, for the current generation of basketball players, I doubt the Celtics have any real mystique. I’m a few months older than LeBron and the Celtics were pretty much a non-entity when I grew up watching the sport. The run they had from 2008-2012 was solid, but only resulted in the one title. Comp...

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I doubt there's a single pro athlete who plays in Boston who would agree that Boston is a "world-class sports media market" . Unless if by world-class you mean the best at criticizing every single minuscule flaw and blowing that up to be the biggest story in the world. True, and I certain...

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And it's all kinda muted because of how the NBA salary cap works. I always thought that was a bit silly, how it's set up. Perfect competitive balance is NOT good for fan interest in a league, generally. I know that's not what the NBA has now; far from it. But the purpose of the restrictions on capp...

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LeBron isn’t going to Boston. No chance, even before he became a FA, and I think becoming a FA now makes that officially impossible. The whole reason Kyrie forced that trade is that he didn’t want to be the #2 star on his team anymore. The Celtics could top any other teams offer for Kawhi but I don...

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LeBron officially opting out of the next year of his contract. Doesn’t really effect the Cavs or Lakers but makes it almost impossible for the Rockets to get him as they’d probably have needed to do a sign-and-trade. Unless the Lakers can pull off the LBJ/PG/Kawhi trifecta this offseason, the Warri...

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Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 8:29 am Not ready for pro athletes that could have been named after a Lauryn Hill song.

Maybe it was a Bob Marley song. Or the city of Jerusalem. :)

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It's like that stuff in the Mavericks office where the guy didn't get fired until he like jerked off on one of his coworkers. I mean people get offended by anything these days and then it's fired time! Come now. This was fairly clearly a matter of an off-color comment. That is a bloody world apart ...

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It's like that stuff in the Mavericks office where the guy didn't get fired until he like jerked off on one of his coworkers. I mean people get offended by anything these days and then it's fired time! Come now. This was fairly clearly a matter of an off-color comment. That is a bloody world apart ...

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However. I am absolutely convinced that the biggest problem with society today is the drastic, drastic overuse of the phrase "I am offended." If someone is your direct superior, and makes an off-color remark intended to be derogatory to you, then of course that can't be allowed to stand. ...

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And to sancarlos' point -- of course, I would always try my best to avoid offending anyone I have discourse with, because I am (I hope) not a horse's ass. I am just bemoaning the fact that being a horse's ass seems to be a fireable offense nowadays.

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Yeah, I should have explained that better. Didn't mean to sound like an insensitive ass, though I might have done. :) As a disclaimer: I, of course, know nothing beyond the minimal information that's been reported. Also, I have never worked as an everyday employee in an organization of, well...any k...

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Tigers fired Chris Bosio as their pitching coach after he directed "insensitive comments" at a team employee. Only question is if it was gay stuff or something like an n-bomb. Or none of the above? My guess: something entirely benign that no rational person would take offense to, which wa...

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Unsurprisingly, Jon Stewart fucking gets it. “Please understand that a lot of what the right does, and it’s maybe their greatest genius, is they’ve created a code of conduct that they police, that they themselves don’t have to, in any way, abide,” Stewart said. “Don’t get caught in a trap of thinki...

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The greatest theme song that ever there was, from the only MMA promotion worth its salt (I consider DREAM and RIZIN to be more or less a direct continuation). I could literally listen to this on a continuous loop:

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sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:00 pm Whiskey in the Jar is a great song. But you meant to put it in the old music thread.

And Brian, my opinion is that all of ZZ Top’s best songs are on Tres Hombres or Fandango.

Ah, I see that thread now. Thanks.

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A true classic, and one of my favorite of all time:

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Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:30 pm I mean, fuck those people, we can't be friends. But I can see it.

Awww...

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Either way, the Yanks are projected at about a 70% chance to the win the division. Which makes me happy, because the Sox are one of the only two teams in sports I truly hate.

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Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:58 pm Road games remaining:

BOS-39
NYY-49

On the other hand, Boston's remaining schedule is against teams with a significantly better winning percentage than the Yanks'. A coarse evaluation, admittedly; I didn't check their average Pyth...

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Yeah, this is still upsetting me. If you like bread and claim bagels can't be great, you've just only had shitty bagels. Yeah, I was wondering, unless they are stale or something, how bad can a "bad bagel" be? At worst, it's round bread. It's not quite your standard bread, though, is it? ...

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mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:10 pm Yeah, this is still upsetting me. If you like bread and claim bagels can't be great, you've just only had shitty bagels.

In my defense, on the rare occasions I've been coaxed into trying a bagel, I've been assured they were "the best in town." Maybe I just need to move... ;-)

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Gonna be 44 here today. Celsius? But of course. Been a relatively calm summer until this week, but the next few days are gonna be hot. Since when do you speak metric? As anyone who has done an engineering degree can tell you, SI >>> BG. Especially when cranking through hand calculations. :)

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I can't fucking take much more of this. Mid April, other than one anomaly in February, haven't had a day warmer than the low 40s. Today is 38 degrees and drizzling. I loved this spring in southwestern Ontario, honestly. Put me down for 10C and overcast, all day every day... :) Morissey weather? Oh,...

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mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:50 am Felt good about that one.

I bow to you sir. You've found my weakness. Well, one of many. ;-)

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Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:48 am I can't fucking take much more of this. Mid April, other than one anomaly in February, haven't had a day warmer than the low 40s. Today is 38 degrees and drizzling.

I loved this spring in southwestern Ontario, honestly. Put me down for 10C and overcast, all day every day... :)

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mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:42 am
ImaginaryMan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:40 am I had a bagel once, in 2001. That was quite sufficient...
That's totally something Morrissey would say.

Ouch mate. Honestly. That is below the belt on a Golota-esque level.

I'm genuinely rethinking my position...

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I had a bagel once, in 2001. That was quite sufficient...

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Rex wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:27 am Unpopular food opinion: while bad bagels most definitely exist, "good bagels" do not.

Bang on!

Sadly, I must admit that there is always a healthy supply of bagels at my house, but only because my eldest daughter would otherwise skip breakfast...

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To each his own, but it must be said: bagels are unconditionally horrid.

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One of my favorites: The KGB, the GIGN, and the CIA are all trying to prove they are the best at catching criminals. The Secretary General of the UN decides to set them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest, and each of them has to catch it. The CIA people go in first. They place animal informa...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:01 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:57 pmAlso his week in Florida none of the handles had the little thing to catch and pump automAtically.
That's called a "gas cap".

My newest car doesn't have a gas cap...the intake is capped off by an assembly on the door.

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