"It was just about the classiest, most sportsmanslike display imaginable. What a moment to illustrate just how much greater these human beings are than any American conservative loser who can’t be normal and be happy for them."
Conservatism is antithetical to sportsmanship. If they can't lie, cheat, and steal, they start crying.
Fuck JD Vance. Telling someone you need help is one of the bravest things a person can do. It's not just that person helping themselves, it helps the people who care about them, an inspires others who need help. He can go on bottling up whatever's wrong with him and implode one day, but the rest of us will live our best lives.
First, I love Chiles' gymnastics. That means I've seen her do many floor routines. This was nowhere near her best, and the central issue was the 1.5 split leap which she was originally and CORRECTLY uncredited for. That's what the appeal was about.
Not 'getting leaps around' or all the way around to completion is a huge Thing on beam and floor; Biles and Andrade both struggle with this and both had uncredited leaps on floor in this Olympic final. Judges have become far more anal on this subject in recent years; whether this is good or not is an entire other vehement argument in gymnastics.
Chiles is capable of an Olympic-medal worthy floor routine, but it didn't happen on this occasion. The judges' erroneous reversal means that Ana Barbosu, who excelled herself, was denied a rightful place on the podium and--far worse--originally placed on said podium. Not good.
Edited to add: Cecile Landi, Biles' and Chiles' coach (with spouse Laurent Landi), almost removed the split leap 1.5 from Chiles' routine and replaced it with something more likely to earn credit.
'petty AF?' One of your rare huge mistakes, Evan. It's the FIG and its fatassed power-mad clowns, the IOC and its stinking corrupt grifters, and of course MAGAturds everywhere who are petty. Giving all of these assholes a dose of their own medicine is perfection, not pettiness!
Wow, that's very dismissive. Now I simply have to respond, I'm petty like that. I don't actually have much to say because nothing you said even vaguely resembled an argument. Fighting a battle of wits against the unarmed feels icky. Oh wait, I'll just google a definition for you so you're just as armed with knowledge as I am, that makes it fair and petty at the same time, just like the subject we're discussing here.
petty (ˈpɛtɪ)
adj, -tier or -tiest
1. trivial; trifling; inessential: petty details.
2. of a narrow-minded, mean, or small-natured disposition or character: petty spite.
3. minor or subordinate in rank: petty officialdom.
4. (Law) law of lesser importance
We're obviously using the second definition here. Mocking petty attackers is small-natured, a bigger person can let it slide off their back without being affected.
Honey, nothing you said WARRANTED any argument. I trashed you because you are clueless, ignorant, and pretentious beyond belief, and I don't need to waste my superior intellect schooling you further.
No kidding. The difference for Jordan Chiles was .1 higher difficulty, right? Can you imagine going from fifth to third with just .1 higher score? Dang.
I’m back from vacation so I had to cook today. This time over the past week I was putting my makeup on then going to dinner. I made spaghetti and meatballs and a salad. I am very happy that I took today off so I can just get stuff done and back to work tomorrow.
My mom can’t eat tomato sauce but I made her a sauce from roasted red peppers and she loves it. If you mom can eat red peppers try a roasted red pepper sauce instead.
I pity the mouse that enters that house (my kids’ house). Three resident cats, and a steady parade of fosters (currently five fosters, all orange and white).
i'm on for the week of 8/26. last time, i wasted an entire week as the prosecutor didn't want an attorney on his jury (stupid choice on his part), so i played a lot of cribbage with the other jurors-in-waiting
We spent two days going through jury selection, and the two defense attorneys were just so bad. So very bad. Absolute zero charisma as human beings, hesitant, neither able to keep names or stories to f the jurors straight, sounded like neither of them had a clue as to why they were there. I kept wanting to ask them if they needed me to find an adult to help them. The prosecutor was a tiny Hispanic woman with a shaved head an 6-8” black stilettos who was all business and exuded confidence. The heels probably brought her up to 5’2”. Her personality and professionalism added an extra foot or three on top of that.
“Your honor, the defense would like to enter the following quote into the record, ask that this case be thrown out, and for us to be awarded All of His Money for wasted time and brain cells: Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise. — Elon Musk”
“Motion accepted. Elmo, empty your bank accounts and fuck off on out of my courtroom!”
"It was just about the classiest, most sportsmanslike display imaginable. What a moment to illustrate just how much greater these human beings are than any American conservative loser who can’t be normal and be happy for them."
Conservatism is antithetical to sportsmanship. If they can't lie, cheat, and steal, they start crying.
Fuck JD Vance. Telling someone you need help is one of the bravest things a person can do. It's not just that person helping themselves, it helps the people who care about them, an inspires others who need help. He can go on bottling up whatever's wrong with him and implode one day, but the rest of us will live our best lives.
Ex-gymnast here.
First, I love Chiles' gymnastics. That means I've seen her do many floor routines. This was nowhere near her best, and the central issue was the 1.5 split leap which she was originally and CORRECTLY uncredited for. That's what the appeal was about.
Not 'getting leaps around' or all the way around to completion is a huge Thing on beam and floor; Biles and Andrade both struggle with this and both had uncredited leaps on floor in this Olympic final. Judges have become far more anal on this subject in recent years; whether this is good or not is an entire other vehement argument in gymnastics.
Chiles is capable of an Olympic-medal worthy floor routine, but it didn't happen on this occasion. The judges' erroneous reversal means that Ana Barbosu, who excelled herself, was denied a rightful place on the podium and--far worse--originally placed on said podium. Not good.
Edited to add: Cecile Landi, Biles' and Chiles' coach (with spouse Laurent Landi), almost removed the split leap 1.5 from Chiles' routine and replaced it with something more likely to earn credit.
'petty AF?' One of your rare huge mistakes, Evan. It's the FIG and its fatassed power-mad clowns, the IOC and its stinking corrupt grifters, and of course MAGAturds everywhere who are petty. Giving all of these assholes a dose of their own medicine is perfection, not pettiness!
By lowering herself to use their words she was petty. Nothing wrong with being petty to mock people who deserve mockery, but it is definitely petty.
No. Dealing with others on their own debased terms is not 'petty' in any sense.
Don't bother answering further. I'm not interested in what you have to say.
Wow, that's very dismissive. Now I simply have to respond, I'm petty like that. I don't actually have much to say because nothing you said even vaguely resembled an argument. Fighting a battle of wits against the unarmed feels icky. Oh wait, I'll just google a definition for you so you're just as armed with knowledge as I am, that makes it fair and petty at the same time, just like the subject we're discussing here.
petty (ˈpɛtɪ)
adj, -tier or -tiest
1. trivial; trifling; inessential: petty details.
2. of a narrow-minded, mean, or small-natured disposition or character: petty spite.
3. minor or subordinate in rank: petty officialdom.
4. (Law) law of lesser importance
We're obviously using the second definition here. Mocking petty attackers is small-natured, a bigger person can let it slide off their back without being affected.
Honey, nothing you said WARRANTED any argument. I trashed you because you are clueless, ignorant, and pretentious beyond belief, and I don't need to waste my superior intellect schooling you further.
FOAD, toad. Blocked.
Your mom's blocked.
Dear MAGA,
Being called a "pigfuck" doesn't make you a victim. It makes the pig who got fucked the victim.
Ta, Evan. Good night, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. Please stay safe,
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CTYymbbEL4
The Blue Danube Waltz
You can tell them apart by Biles' chiseled grin and Chiles' grizzled chin.
I really felt bad for the Romanian gymnast, even if the outcome was fair.
No kidding. The difference for Jordan Chiles was .1 higher difficulty, right? Can you imagine going from fifth to third with just .1 higher score? Dang.
I’m back from vacation so I had to cook today. This time over the past week I was putting my makeup on then going to dinner. I made spaghetti and meatballs and a salad. I am very happy that I took today off so I can just get stuff done and back to work tomorrow.
Yum
It was an easy, quick meal and we didn’t have that when we were away.
I never get this because my mom won't eat red sauce
My mom can’t eat tomato sauce but I made her a sauce from roasted red peppers and she loves it. If you mom can eat red peppers try a roasted red pepper sauce instead.
Here I sit eating red sauce my wonderful husband made a couple of days ago asking myself how your mom could possibly refuse to eat something so yummy.
Diverticulitis....bad tummy.
My condolences to both of you.
An interesting article on why theres so much A.I generated crap on facebook. https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
Because Zuckerborg is an AI?
There's a lotta slop showing up on you tube recently.
Is this or the live stream thread Open Thread?
Yes.
Why not both?
Had a visit from IT staff today. https://substack.com/@satanic/note/c-64622012
Iz warm
Awww did you get help for your mouse?
I pity the mouse that enters that house (my kids’ house). Three resident cats, and a steady parade of fosters (currently five fosters, all orange and white).
I read "fosters" as lobsters and had no notes..
So long as they're parading into my pot, I'm good.
It was fun hosting lobsters, until that one fateful morning when I lost a toe.
"Chase it into the corner with the nutcracker..."
Had a nice little thunderstorm that knocked the power out for about half an hour.
I had to reset 7 (seven!) clocks and I'm probably still missing a couple.
I hate it when I have to reboot the condo after a monsoon.
I failed jury duty. And here I was hoping to wear my ACAB t-shirt tomorrow morning.
i'm on for the week of 8/26. last time, i wasted an entire week as the prosecutor didn't want an attorney on his jury (stupid choice on his part), so i played a lot of cribbage with the other jurors-in-waiting
The last time I failed it turned out that I was the alternate. So I sat through the fucking trail for nothing.
Just received a summons today for the 20th. I'm hoping for your luck.
We spent two days going through jury selection, and the two defense attorneys were just so bad. So very bad. Absolute zero charisma as human beings, hesitant, neither able to keep names or stories to f the jurors straight, sounded like neither of them had a clue as to why they were there. I kept wanting to ask them if they needed me to find an adult to help them. The prosecutor was a tiny Hispanic woman with a shaved head an 6-8” black stilettos who was all business and exuded confidence. The heels probably brought her up to 5’2”. Her personality and professionalism added an extra foot or three on top of that.
Ever hear of an "illegal boycott"? Yeah, me neither.
Looks like space Karen is suing advertisers for a RICO boycott on the Nazi dead bird.
Sorry Elon, Assholes aren't a protected class.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/elon-musk-declares-it-is-war-on-ad-industry-as-x-sues-over-illegal-boycott/
How DARE these people put their own financial interests ahead of Elno's! Who the fuck do they think they are? Peasants!
“Your honor, the defense would like to enter the following quote into the record, ask that this case be thrown out, and for us to be awarded All of His Money for wasted time and brain cells: Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise. — Elon Musk”
“Motion accepted. Elmo, empty your bank accounts and fuck off on out of my courtroom!”
That's the fucking asshole I loathed in school. His attitude was all "No rules apply for me and fuck the rest of you."
Some 35 years later, that (shockingly) hasn't changed.
It's a kabuki theater lawsuit. Circuses without bread. Pure horseshit. It'll get thrown out.
Punitive sanctions seem to be reasonable to me.
North Texas, idk, let's hope for the best.
Anywhere else attorneys would be getting sanctions for this bullshit.