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US men's soccer spoilers -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 12:13
Alex Cobb to Cleveland from Giants -- nm - eag Jul 30, 12:12
Olympics pic o the day (spoilery) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 12:05
lined up to I-75 for Kamala -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 12:01 3
- I just hope so much that the trump line is shorter. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 30, 12:03 2
  - He will count the protestors too -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 13:55
  - so many childless cat ladies . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 12:08
And speaking of rugby, I’d like to reiterate my suggestion that the NFL revamp extra points to be more similar to rugby conversions - znufrii Jul 30, 12:00
Favorite trade deadline target moving again Josh Bell to Dbacks from Marlins -- nm - eag Jul 30, 11:42
the end of the bronze medal women’s rugby match was bonkers! (spoils) -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 11:35 [youtube] 8
- I admit to being skeptical when rugby was added to the Games, but it is compelling and largely accessible to noobs. - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 12:14
- and an interesting historical parallel with 1924 Paris games -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 11:53
- Better quality video -- (link) - JD Jul 30, 11:49 [youtube] 4
  - Isn't that the same video? Literally, the same link to YouTube? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 11:53 3
    - Heh. It is now. Originally it was a video of somebody using a phone to record a TV -- nm - JD Jul 30, 11:55 2
      - Pixie shared a bootleg video?! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 13:32
      - When I rule the world, that will be a jailable offense. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 11:57
- Gotta feel bad for AUS #15 -- nm - JaxSean Jul 30, 11:49
Olympics women's gymnastics team spoilers not really spoilers - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 11:24 3
- Shocked -- nm - budice Jul 30, 12:04
- Spoils - Krusty Jul 30, 11:28
- I think (spoilers) - ty97 Jul 30, 11:26
here we fucking go y'all . . . Simone bout to hit the floor -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 11:20
So Simone's going to be the absolute last person to perform in the team comp, huh? -- nm - ty97 Jul 30, 11:17 2
- That's by design. High scoring team in the heats goes last on the floor, and the team usually anchors their best athlete. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 11:34
- I’m basically just watching it now to see her. -- nm - Loyola Jul 30, 11:18
Trump/Vance holding a rally in downtown Atlanta on Saturday, the same venue where Harris is tonight. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 11:14 2
- FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 11:28
- My crowd will be so much bigger. Yuge! The best crowd. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 30, 11:17
owwwww......quit it! -- nm - physics,getting slapped around by Olympic gymnasts Jul 30, 11:12
Titanium 50 > Calcium 48 -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 30, 11:10 4
- "Many of us remember a time when the periodic table appeared with some curious blank spots." Nope. - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 11:18
- "then cooked it into a beam of ions using a special oven" ELI5, how's that work? - JD Jul 30, 11:17 2
  - It's a really expensive Easy Bake oven. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 11:26
  - "cooking it into a beam of ions using a special oven" is the ELI5 version. - Roger More Jul 30, 11:25
Orioles get Trevor Rogers from Marlins -- nm - eag Jul 30, 11:10 1
- Marlins win that trade -- they get Norby and Stowers -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 30, 11:31
why do the women's floor routines have to be more artistic but the dudes just get to show up and say watch me flip? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 11:00 3
- Because the female body is a work of art and the male body is utilitarian. It's for getting around. It's like a jeep. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 11:29
- I dunno, why are men, women's gymnastics so vastly different skills. Traditional sexism? Frolic, frolic, sudden soldier 1000 yard death stare -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 11:13 1
  - Traditional sexism. - JD Jul 30, 11:25
My parents are moving in Sept to an indep living facility that allows for upgrades in care services as needed. Her biggest concern? - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 10:51 2
- Yeah, mom inherited a neighbor's favorite stray. The humane soc developed a policy to get them fixed and returned... - zeitgeist Jul 30, 11:22
- that is a big concern! -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 11:12
Philly: Sec Janet Yellen ⁩ correctly orders a “Wiz Wit” cheesesteak at Jim’s South Street Steaks -- (link) - budice Jul 30, 10:49 2
- And correctly avoiding Pat’s and Geno’s -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 10:51
- provolone, fool. now i gotta vote for Trump dammit -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:50
Cubs trade thier best relief pitcher Al Leiter Jr. to Yankees. -- (pic) - King Of Oklahoma Jul 30, 10:48 [Attachment] 3
- It's his nephew and he's like 33. His son is Jack Leiter and he's in AAA for the Rangers right now. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 10:56 2
  - LOL sorry! Mark Leiter Jr. - Last Of My Kind Jul 30, 11:56
  - This will be the third Leiter to pitch for the Yankees. We'll get Al's son eventually. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 11:01
Women's rugby: Bronze medal match just ended (AUS/USA). CAN/NZL now playing for Gold/Silver. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 10:42 9
- NZL should have gone into halftime with the tie. They're going to regret that. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 10:55
- why are they playing them all in one day?! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:44 7
  - It's Rugby 7s. If they only played one match, the thousands of people in the stands would be there for 20 minutes of content. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 10:53 5
    - does someone else need the stadium? play full matches you ding dongs -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:55 4
      - I think it's Loyola who pointed out that the Olympics are too short to play full rugby matches. You gotta play 7s. Full matches need a lot of recovery -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 11:29 1
        
        they got two whole damn weeks -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 11:41
      - There's a family reunion booked at 3. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 11:19
      - Those are full matches -- nm - JD Jul 30, 11:08
  - I didn't expect that either. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 10:45
Derrick Henry discovers Ilona Maher -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:39 1
- Jason Kelce is a fan as well -- (link) - Remlik Jul 30, 10:48
this seems nutso: nobody knows what actor played the actual Wizard of Oz in the 1939 movie -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:38 5
- Wiki says it was probably Frank Morgan, which is what I always assumed. But yeah, seems weird. -- nm - sycor Jul 30, 10:48 2
  - i think i figured it was him too. -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 10:51 1
    - Based on this image, the green head certainly has a very similar nose shape. I guess the other suspect is Henry Hull but the nose is all wrong. -- (link) - sycor Jul 30, 10:53 [Image]
- well, that's crazy. -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 10:44 1
  - right? -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 10:49
c'mon Suni . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:30 1
- hell yeah -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:33
This is a significant escalation no? 'Israel says it has struck Beirut as explosion rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanese capital' -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 10:29 7
- Israel's been bombing neighboring countries intermittently for a while. - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 10:31 2
  - and Hezbollah conducted a major attack over the weekend -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:46 1
    - That's what this is responding to. Killed 12 Israeli children. -- nm - pmb Jul 30, 10:48
- my answer: things I think are escalations, our government seems to shrug off. so...I don't know. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 10:31 3
  - I know. But one refrain I always hear is that Lebanon and Hezbollah is an *entirely* different animal than Hamas -- (edited) - Jovian Jul 30, 10:32 2
    - Hezbollah is Iran's proxy in a way that Hamas (afaik) is not really -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:51 1
      - Hamas is as well. -- nm - pmb Jul 30, 12:04
ST Poll — What’s the most obscure competitive sport you’ve watched in person? - znufrii Jul 30, 10:26 34
- SCA Rattan combat. - whisper Jul 30, 13:03
- Highland dancing and the Caber toss. Ohhh probably also Barrel Racing -- nm - Walt_Disney Jul 30, 11:45
- Broomball? -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 10:53
- Does jousting at the Ren Faire count? -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 30, 10:52 1
  - Yes indeed -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 11:27
- Probably equestrian stuff. -- nm - pmb Jul 30, 10:49
- Combatcon is lightsaber dueling and held annually in Las Vegas. I went to several. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 30, 10:39 1
  - Why wasn't any VegaSTravaganza timed to coincide with this??? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 11:36
- I went to a Scottish festival years ago and there was a thing where they tossed big logs. That was weird. -- nm - King Of Oklahoma Jul 30, 10:39 2
  - Sounds like caber toss. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 10:43 1
    - First, pick up this telephone pole, then run with it, finally flip it over.... yeah that should be an oly sport -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 13:58
- A good friend of mine's son participates in rubix cube competitions. They're intense. -- nm* - Strongbad Jul 30, 10:36 4
  - I've also personally played Whirlyball which is like basketball/jai alai in bumper cars. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 10:42 3
    - I've played that too. It's a blast. -- nm - pmb Jul 30, 10:53
    - That sounds really fun. -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 10:46 1
      - Here's an old article about it. I think it closed during covid. -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 30, 10:53
- lacrosse? rugby? nothing too nuts i don't think. Oh, i did see dog sledding in the Yukon. -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 10:36 2
  - Oh, i watched Goalball at the Para Pan-Am Games. that was cool. -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 10:39 1
    - Looks interesting. I hadn't heard of it before but just watched a video about it and it looks fun. -- (link) - Krusty Jul 30, 10:48 [youtube]
- I have a friend who is one of the top axe throwers in the country, but I never saw him compete in person. just online live. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jul 30, 10:36
- cup stacking? -- nm - rollo Jul 30, 10:34
- I've watched some competitive bocce ball. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 10:34 2
  - We have a bocce club at the end of our street, I’ve always meant to go check it out. -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 10:35 1
    - Cool. It would be a good way to meet some locals. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 10:37
- the XFL? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 30, 10:32 1
  - this for me also -- nm - oblique Jul 30, 10:39
- Probably Hurling in Galway, Ireland. (It's not obscure there, but here, yes.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 30, 10:31 1
  - Nice! -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 10:34
- pro golf i guess -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:31
- Wish I had something cool for this. But I got nada. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 10:30
- Cock Fights - Epiphany Jul 30, 10:30
- about 50 years ago I went with friends to the annual Lumberjack championship in Wisconsin. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 30, 10:29 2
  - I loved watching that when ESPN aired the competitions. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 10:36
  - Good answer! -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 10:33
Here is my 'every four years' reminder that balance beam stresses the crud out of me. -- nm - ty97 Jul 30, 10:24
No. - Spawn Jul 30, 10:16 1
- bad idea. - mud Jul 30, 11:08
Trump endorses Kamala -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:14
good one Marco. you ARE rubber and I am glue -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:13 2
- "Dibs on weirdest!" -- nm - RFKJR Jul 30, 10:26
- So Marco just admitted he was a bully or he was bullied in HS. - Jovian Jul 30, 10:25
“narrow 4 pt lead” sort of undersells the apparent shift from Biden’s numbers in PA in one week -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:04 4
- The thing that surprises me is how much her entering the race has killed Kennedy's numbers. In some polls he went from 8% to 4%. -- nm - Inigo Jul 30, 10:06 3
  - There was certainly a "I can't vote for either of them, I'll vote for Kennedy" contingent, that's now gone. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 10:09
  - kids are stupid. but I think all pollsters probably should readjust their samples if they were expecting a 2016/2020 under-35 turnout -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:08 1
    - also to the extent you (correctly) think JD Vance is toxic to suburban female voters, this is bad for JD Vance -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:20
You know how people put their pronouns in their signature? Would you say that "t/he/y" is in the right spirit or condescending? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 09:49 6
- Is this person trying to convey they use he/they? -- nm - rollo Jul 30, 10:23 1
  - It genuinely feels like mockery. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 11:15
- Semi-related: I turned on the pronouns feature in our Microsoft environment (visible in Teams) with zero announcement. I have it set on mine - oblique Jul 30, 10:00
- Clever, but confusing. - znufrii Jul 30, 09:54 2
  - I agree. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 10:04
  - I agree. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 09:55
Kamala and VP pick to be named later will reportedly hit the road next week in a battleground state tour -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 09:42 12
- Beshear has reportedly received additional security detail protection -- (link) - znufrii Jul 30, 09:50 11
  - I hope its not Beshear. He nets the campaign ZERO -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 09:55 10
    - I think he might be more valuable going after the Senate seat especially if McConnell doesn't run in 2026. -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 10:00
    - he’s been elected twice as a Dem governor in fucking Kentucky -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 09:57 8
      - and? - Jovian Jul 30, 10:00 7
        
        Joe Biden was from Delaware. which swing state(s) did he help Obama lock down in 2008? - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:05 6
        
        Joe balanced the ticket by being the whitest guy in DC -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 11:30
        
        Im not saying hes terrible. I believe Shapiro or Kelly are much better picks. - Jovian Jul 30, 10:07 4
        
        they’re all mostly blank slates to 95% of the median normie voter -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:10 1
        
        (until a week ago even I couldn’t have picked Tim Walz out of a lineup) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 10:27
        
        After hearing him speak on the call last night, I really like Tim Walz. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 30, 10:09 1
        
        He's great and appears to at least LOOK like a working man and speaks their language -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 10:21
Republican mayor of Mesa, AZ endorses Harris for President -- (link) - znufrii Jul 30, 09:36 2
- I like how he laid out the reasons in black and white. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 09:42 1
  - Yup. Hopefully it helps Harris in AZ. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 09:55
Mafic, thanks for the reply on B2. That was helpful. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 09:36
What a 5’4 basketball player vs. a 7’4 player looks like -- (pic) - Trending Jul 30, 09:25 [Attachment] 2
- Looks like a true belter -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 09:26 1
  - 🤣—Wemby’s legs are almost taller than the dude -- nm - Trending Jul 30, 09:28
Gymnastics: Women's Team Final on now. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 09:22
Word -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 30, 09:02

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