A portent for the Mets new season: Mets Player Who Doesn't Wear A Cup Gets Hit In The Groin By 94 MPH Fastball.
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Mar 12, 2013 10:08:07 am PDT #14527 of 30001
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Connie Neil - Mar 12, 2013 10:13:04 am PDT #14528 of 30001
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Mets Player Who Doesn't Wear A Cup Gets Hit In The Groin By 94 MPH Fastball.
Yeah, you think you're too good for it . . . One day the King thought he didn't need to put in his cup just for fighter practice, then went up against Hubby, who's left-handed, and the King was out of practice against lefties, and he ended up curled like cooking bacon on the floor. The Queen was not pleased with him.
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2013 10:47:03 am PDT #14529 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"!!!! Why do you keep kicking me in the groin?"
"Because we're fighting."
"But do you have to keep doing that?"
"As long as the target is open, yes."
"But it's not fair!"
I appealed to an outside authority (non-whiner with testicles) and his reply to my sparring partner was "You should have put on a cup before you walked in the door." "I am wearing a cup!" "Then stop complaining about being kicked in the nuts and learn to stop getting nailed."
le nubian - Mar 12, 2013 10:50:54 am PDT #14530 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, on twitter, someone I follow retweeted some of his followers' comments about how "the earth isn't moving" and that anyone who believes the earth moves is getting lied to.
!!!
Are these people (and it was way more than one) in the same category of people who don't believe we landed on the moon?
Jessica - Mar 12, 2013 10:55:14 am PDT #14531 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
LeN, was it this Youtube video? [link]
Tom Scola - Mar 12, 2013 10:58:33 am PDT #14532 of 30001
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"the earth isn't moving" and that anyone who believes the earth moves is getting lied to.
That’s absolutely true, except when I get in a car, then the whole Earth moves, while me and the car stand still.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2013 11:01:23 am PDT #14533 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If you calculate your speed by measuring the speed of light in different directions, you'll see you're always standing still. Of course, that's ignoring all that stuff that lying liar Einstein came up with.
Amy - Mar 12, 2013 11:05:36 am PDT #14534 of 30001
Because books.
Are these people (and it was way more than one) in the same category of people who don't believe we landed on the moon?
I think it's less that people are crazier and more that people aren't as cowed by authority anymore. It's not the dark ages, where you believed what the church told you, etc.
So ... it's that crazy people are freer to speak up.
le nubian - Mar 12, 2013 11:19:19 am PDT #14535 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica,
I have never SEEN that before. OMG. No, it was something else they were discussing, independent of that.
Amy, what gets me is that at some point, we have to believe things we do not directly experience or see. I believe there is a continent of Africa even though I have never been there. I believe there is oxygen, and Mars.
erikaj - Mar 12, 2013 11:24:23 am PDT #14536 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I think all those people should be locked in a room with Sheldon Cooper for a week.