The longest thread ever

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Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil

https://www.redmolotov.com/the-pedants-revolt-tshirt

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Oh wow. I would get this for my wife.

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Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil

https://www.redmolotov.com/the-pedants-revolt-tshirt

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I need that.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/6523827...idarity-screen

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Originally Posted by budwom

https://www.etsy.com/listing/6523827...idarity-screen

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Hilarious, but I would never wear that.

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Originally Posted by budwom

https://www.etsy.com/listing/6523827...idarity-screen

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I was expecting "I'm with Stupid"

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Originally Posted by budwom

https://www.etsy.com/listing/6523827...idarity-screen

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Hahaha!

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Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil

https://www.redmolotov.com/the-pedants-revolt-tshirt

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Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15

Oh wow. I would get this for my wife.

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Originally Posted by aimo

I need that.

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I just ordered some greeting cards!

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Originally Posted by budwom

https://www.etsy.com/listing/6523827...idarity-screen

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I really like its name! “Angry Uterus Feminist Solidarity” shirt.

If you aren't watching the Tour de France this year, I feel for you.

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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil

1. Whoa. You must really hate puns.

2. I don’t like the idea of “humans shouldn’t exist, therefore nothing on earth can have existed”.

3. I don’t like the idea of removing our perspective on our suffering and assuming we all agree suffering has no value. If you believe we have become more egalitarian with net less suffering over time, which I do, then much suffering has come at the overcoming, one of our most amazing abilities.

4. On the cosmic balance sheet, puns are a positive. I think you might disagree with me in that point but I’ll just leaf it at that as I don’t have the stamen(a) for existential discussions that I once did.

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1. It's not that I hate them, but my brain doesn't really work that way so I can't really add to the discussion when the thread starts a pun chain.

2. Agreed. I have said I would not push the button.

3. One of my arguments has been that although to us someone else's life looks like it's too full of pain and suffering to be on the positive side of human existence, the people living those lives might disagree.

4. Puns < pizza < chocolate < a perfect cashmere/silk/wool blend yarn. Although there are times when chocolate wins that battle, but one the whole a really good chocolate comes along more often than a perfect cashmere/silk/wool blend yarn, and is usually cheaper. Eating a piece of perfect chocolate while knitting with a perfect cashmere/silk/wool blend yarn might be the ultimate in human experience although YMMV.

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Originally Posted by Bostondevil

I feel for you.

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https://youtu.be/YW0sxgYAmLM

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Originally Posted by Bostondevil

If you aren't watching the Tour de France this year, I feel for you.

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This right here...

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Originally Posted by Duke79UNLV77

I sure hope they and Sepp are clean!

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Originally Posted by YmoBeThere

This right here...

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How do y’all get into watching hours of cycling? I just can’t do it. I can’t watch golf. I can’t watch baseball. Just can’t get myself to sit there for those sports.

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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil

How do y’all get into watching hours of cycling? I just can’t do it. I can’t watch golf. I can’t watch baseball. Just can’t get myself to sit there for those sports.

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Wine. Good wine. And kicking around on an iPad.

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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap

Wine. Good wine. And kicking around on an iPad.

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Appreciate the real talk.

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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil

How do y’all get into watching hours of cycling? I just can’t do it. I can’t watch golf. I can’t watch baseball. Just can’t get myself to sit there for those sports.

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I don't just sit there. I fold laundry, I knit, if I have to send emails - I'll have my laptop there with me. When they go to the race analysis stuff with the little animated bike riders, I'll go do other chores around the house. You don't have to be glued to the tv to keep up with the race everyday. I know when the really important stuff is going on.

I don't know how anybody can still watch the NFL knowing that they are all getting brain damage. I find watching it makes me a little bit sick to my stomach. This past season I decided to sit down and watch a few minutes with my husband - the very next play was the one where Damar Hamlin went down, I kid you not. The 30 seconds of NFL that I watched in 2022 was Damar Hamlin collapsing on the field. I am out. Also - no professional football players are "clean". Lots of players that make it to the pros start juicing as early as high school. The NFL testing policy is a joke. As I heard someone say once - the whole league lets you exceed the speed limit- you just can't do 90. I do wonder if steroid use makes CTE worse. I would love to see a study done on the CTE steroid combo - compare football to other contact sports.

To answer your question as to how I can watch cycling - the Tour de France is my summer mini-series. The personalities, the mind games, the races within races - it's a story that takes 3 weeks to unfold ending with a race around Paris - what's not to love? Plus, the risk of these athletes ending their careers with brain damage is much, much lower.

I used to watch golf some and baseball more and football - I've mostly given up on all of them. I'll still watch some baseball. No football. The sports where I don't do other things while I watch are hockey and basketball - although I will watch those while running on a treadmill.

I'll watch the rowing events at the Olympics too. The most boring Olympic sport* to watch live? Surfing. I also change the channel when they start showing the endless hours of beach volleyball. Archery is more fun to watch when there is a split screen with one camera close up on the target. I like watching heats for the swimming and track events. Badminton is under-rated because Americans aren't good at it. I will admit that fencing moves too fast for me to really follow it.

* I have never watched an Olympic sailing event, on tv or anywhere else.

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Originally Posted by Bostondevil

I don't just sit there. I fold laundry, I knit, if I have to send emails - I'll have my laptop there with me. When they go to the race analysis stuff with the little animated bike riders, I'll go do other chores around the house. You don't have to be glued to the tv to keep up with the race everyday. I know when the really important stuff is going on.

I don't know how anybody can still watch the NFL knowing that they are all getting brain damage. I find watching it makes me a little bit sick to my stomach. This past season I decided to sit down and watch a few minutes with my husband - the very next play was the one where Damar Hamlin went down, I kid you not. The 30 seconds of NFL that I watched in 2022 was Damar Hamlin collapsing on the field. I am out. Also - no professional football players are "clean". Lots of players that make it to the pros start juicing as early as high school. The NFL testing policy is a joke. As I heard someone say once - the whole league lets you exceed the speed limit- you just can't do 90. I do wonder if steroid use makes CTE worse. I would love to see a study done on the CTE steroid combo - compare football to other contact sports.

To answer your question as to how I can watch cycling - the Tour de France is my summer mini-series. The personalities, the mind games, the races within races - it's a story that takes 3 weeks to unfold ending with a race around Paris - what's not to love? Plus, the risk of these athletes ending their careers with brain damage is much, much lower.

I used to watch golf some and baseball more and football - I've mostly given up on all of them. I'll still watch some baseball. No football. The sports where I don't do other things while I watch are hockey and basketball - although I will watch those while running on a treadmill.

I'll watch the rowing events at the Olympics too. The most boring Olympic sport* to watch live? Surfing. I also change the channel when they start showing the endless hours of beach volleyball. Archery is more fun to watch when there is a split screen with one camera close up on the target. I like watching heats for the swimming and track events. Badminton is under-rated because Americans aren't good at it. I will admit that fencing moves too fast for me to really follow it.

* I have never watched an Olympic sailing event, on tv or anywhere else.

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And the landscapes are stunning. Same with the Giro.

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Originally Posted by Bostondevil

I don't just sit there. I fold laundry, I knit, if I have to send emails - I'll have my laptop there with me. When they go to the race analysis stuff with the little animated bike riders, I'll go do other chores around the house. You don't have to be glued to the tv to keep up with the race everyday. I know when the really important stuff is going on.

I don't know how anybody can still watch the NFL knowing that they are all getting brain damage. I find watching it makes me a little bit sick to my stomach. This past season I decided to sit down and watch a few minutes with my husband - the very next play was the one where Damar Hamlin went down, I kid you not. The 30 seconds of NFL that I watched in 2022 was Damar Hamlin collapsing on the field. I am out. Also - no professional football players are "clean". Lots of players that make it to the pros start juicing as early as high school. The NFL testing policy is a joke. As I heard someone say once - the whole league lets you exceed the speed limit- you just can't do 90. I do wonder if steroid use makes CTE worse. I would love to see a study done on the CTE steroid combo - compare football to other contact sports.

To answer your question as to how I can watch cycling - the Tour de France is my summer mini-series. The personalities, the mind games, the races within races - it's a story that takes 3 weeks to unfold ending with a race around Paris - what's not to love? Plus, the risk of these athletes ending their careers with brain damage is much, much lower.

I used to watch golf some and baseball more and football - I've mostly given up on all of them. I'll still watch some baseball. No football. The sports where I don't do other things while I watch are hockey and basketball - although I will watch those while running on a treadmill.

I'll watch the rowing events at the Olympics too. The most boring Olympic sport* to watch live? Surfing. I also change the channel when they start showing the endless hours of beach volleyball. Archery is more fun to watch when there is a split screen with one camera close up on the target. I like watching heats for the swimming and track events. Badminton is under-rated because Americans aren't good at it. I will admit that fencing moves too fast for me to really follow it.

* I have never watched an Olympic sailing event, on tv or anywhere else.

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The steroids in professional / entertainment sports don’t bother me…at all, really. The brain injuries, primarily the league’s cover up, do. I’m willing to give the sport a chance to “do better” on that front because it’s not going away. I didn’t enjoy ☺️ laying football when I was young but it was so ingrained in Texas life as to be nearly unavoidable.

Yeah, I don’t enjoy playing golf and aside from the occasional miracle shot, find it boring as all get out. I appreciate the skill, endurance, fortitude etc in all these endeavors but I guess I’m wired to need action. I also need the personal story / connection to care. It’s one of the reasons the 1 and done era has eroded my interest in Duke basketball. Barely get to know these guys. I used to follow entire careers of guys we got to know at Duke over 3 or 4 years but now I can barely keep up with the churn.

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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap

And kicking around on an iPad.

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This. I'm definitely addicted to the tablet.

Happy National Hot Dog Day to those who partake.