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oh shoot I just realized the guy rolling the perfect anti-spare is wearing street shoes on the lanes WTF?! edit: haha poo poo snype 
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Apr 12, 2021 21:28
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Always surprised to see a Marching Morons ref rather than Idiocracy. I read that story when I was like 6 or 7, and it wasn't until much later that I realized, maybe a story in which an elite intelligentsia use a real estate salesman to figure out a way to genocide 99% of the global population wasn't necessarily appropriate reading material after all but I do still think about it every time I hear about cars that pipe in engine noise through the stereo speakers
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Apr 12, 2021 21:34
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https://twitter.com/cheembeam/status/1381669042772193283
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Apr 12, 2021 21:50
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Scratch Monkey posted:
Would you believe he did something similarly boneheaded but less acrobatic in the NFL three years later? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXagffhiyTI
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Apr 12, 2021 21:59
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This is amazing. Really wish people would stop spoiling the joke before it happens.
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Apr 12, 2021 22:04
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Right in the flap jacks.
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Apr 12, 2021 22:14
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Vakal posted:Right in the flap jacks. Square in the Lincoln Log.
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Apr 12, 2021 22:16
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Vakal posted:Right in the flap jacks. Treebeard's Revenge
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Apr 12, 2021 22:27
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Bobby Digital posted:Would you believe he did something similarly boneheaded but less acrobatic in the NFL three years later? What a loving bonehead
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Apr 12, 2021 23:00
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Right into my veins
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Apr 13, 2021 00:26
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https://i.imgur.com/tv3LNlg.mp4
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Apr 13, 2021 00:43
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Solice Kirsk posted:This is amazing. Really wish people would stop spoiling the joke before it happens. You won't believe how this woman spoiled the joke!
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Apr 13, 2021 00:48
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 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qrgq8pAyty1vy4sqt.mp4
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Apr 13, 2021 01:48
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Cross posting from the gif thread:Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/KDUKVdE.mp4
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Apr 13, 2021 01:54
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Thwomp posted:Cross posting from the gif thread:
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Apr 13, 2021 01:57
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Thwomp posted:Cross posting from the gif thread: same energy
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Apr 13, 2021 02:00
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mind the walrus posted:Ok honest US guy asking a question here-- what the hell is the deal with flopping in this game? Like do they train on it, or it just happens based on cultural osmosis? It can sometimes lead to a free kick or a penalty if the referee didn't see what really happened, and those can completely change a game, so people sometimes think it's worth trying something scummy
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Apr 13, 2021 02:01
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I watched a game of soccer once and as far as I could tell the objective is to cheat as much as possible without being caught.
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Apr 13, 2021 02:04
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mind the walrus posted:Ok honest US guy asking a question here-- what the hell is the deal with flopping in this game? Like do they train on it, or it just happens based on cultural osmosis? This hidden camera footage may shock you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ukFUEI5qz8
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Apr 13, 2021 02:05
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Flopping is almost as bad in the NBA. Thing about soccer is they could end it tomorrow (or cut it by 90%) with retroactive penalties for diving caught on video replay, but last I checked they refuse to do that for reasons. The official objection used to be that it would interrupt the flow of the game for the officials to review the tape during the game, but I don't understand why they can't do it after the game and then apply yellow/red cards to the next match. They do it for other things. That would at least cut down on the silliest flops, the ones where literally millions of people around the world saw it in ultra-hd slow-mo but the player gets away with it because none of the handful of refs on the field were looking their way at that exact instant. Imagined fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Apr 13, 2021 02:06
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ekuNNN posted:It can sometimes lead to a free kick or a penalty if the referee didn't see what really happened, and those can completely change a game, so people sometimes think it's worth trying something scummy Or getting someone thrown off (for people that don't know the rules, if you get ejected in soccer your team is permanently down one player so you play the rest of the match 10 v 11)
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Apr 13, 2021 02:06
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Apr 13, 2021 02:44
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There's a spot in Maine near Acadia National Park called Thunder Hole. It's kind of like this, but enormous... and it kills people. It's a scenic spot and it seems like some bride or groom on honeymoon die there about every other year.
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Apr 13, 2021 02:57
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Eighteen-year-old me at the 24-hour Mobil at 5:05AM after pulling graveyard and the assistant manager of the station arrives. Bastard swore he'd catch me asleep at the counter one morning. Never did, but drat it was a close-run thing a few times. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Apr 13, 2021 03:20
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I don't speak Spanish but I know exactly what that rooster is getting told.
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Apr 13, 2021 03:26
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Byzantine posted:I watched a game of soccer once and as far as I could tell the objective is to cheat as much as possible without being caught. True of most sports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5KYwxvqjs
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Apr 13, 2021 03:34
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BlackIronHeart posted:I don't speak Spanish but I know exactly what that rooster is getting told. The Hispanic guys at my old job used to call me cabron all the time. I assume it means "cool and smart person".
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Apr 13, 2021 03:35
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Thomamelas posted:True of most sports: yeah, that level of cheating happens in pretty much every sport but it seems to be more publicly discussed in soccer for one reason or another i think some of it is just the overall slower pace of the game makes it way easier for the fans / announcers to catch it as it happens unlike, let's say basketball, which features a similar level of flop but is fast enough that a lot of it goes unnoticed / unmentioned because of the flow of the game doesn't stop if a foul isn't called it also seems to me that some segment of soccer fans are, for one reason or another, just more accepting of it as part of the game. whether that's the fans being more honest about something that's actually happening in pretty much every sport or whether it's being more tolerant than they should of unsportsmanlike conduct, i'll leave that without comment
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Apr 13, 2021 04:19
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Bacon Taco posted:For some inexplicable reason he never explained, my father absolutely loathed Mr. Rogers and didn't like us kids watching it. The funny thing is my dad is a nice guy, not violent or angry or abusive, and not that much different in temperment than Mr. Rogers.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:34
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Azathoth posted:yeah, that level of cheating happens in pretty much every sport but it seems to be more publicly discussed in soccer for one reason or another In pretty much every sport? I'm hard-pressed to think of an example of this from say football or baseball. Is it rife in cricket? I bet it's rife in cricket.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:37
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Yep. You can scratch up one side of the ball to get it to swing differently in the air, making it harder for the batsman to hit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Australian_ball-tampering_scandal Also cricketers keep getting banned for life for taking money from bookmakers to fix matches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cricketers_banned_for_corruption Also the original cricket example was "well we know we can't beat them fairly, why don't we just try to injure them all instead?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline
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Apr 13, 2021 04:47
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Yeah just this week there's a big story about a pitcher potentially cheating https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/04/09/trevor-bauer-several-suspicious-baseballs-sent-to-mlb-for-inspection quote:
There's basically zero ways for a ball to be marked up if it's not the pitcher or catcher doing it. Every ball that's hit or touches the ground is removed from play.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:51
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CaptainSarcastic posted:In pretty much every sport? Deflategate and various other Patriots stuff for football, and the Astros sign-stealing stuff in baseball come to mind immediately. Cricket seems like it'd be tough at higher levels of play with the video review system, but I seem to recall there being outrage when some team took advantage of a loophole to just lazily roll the ball on the ground instead of hurling it during a major game. edit: got that one, but missed what seems to be more of a famous cheating incident rather than taking advantage of rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_bowling_incident_of_1981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Australian_ball-tampering_scandal Double edit: beaten on the ball-tampering, but that's been a thing in baseball (along with corked bats) for forever.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:52
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm hard-pressed to think of an example of this from say football or baseball. Is it rife in cricket? I bet it's rife in cricket. wasn't there a whole thing about a deflated american football from some annoying chud american footballer?
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Apr 13, 2021 04:52
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I really meant the whole flopping thing - I am aware of stuff like deflategate in football and sign-stealing in baseball. But the absurd faking injuries like a toddler seems to be more soccer-specific.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:53
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Memento posted:Also the original cricket example was "well we know we can't beat them fairly, why don't we just try to injure them all instead?" Hugo Weaving starred in a miniseries about this where he played The Motherfucker Whipping Cricket Balls Into Don Bradman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfoj4j-gKsQ
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Apr 13, 2021 04:53
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I really meant the whole flopping thing - I am aware of stuff like deflategate in football and sign-stealing in baseball. But the absurd faking injuries like a toddler seems to be more soccer-specific. have you never watched The Mighty Ducks ffs?!
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Apr 13, 2021 04:53
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I really meant the whole flopping thing - I am aware of stuff like deflategate in football and sign-stealing in baseball. But the absurd faking injuries like a toddler seems to be more soccer-specific. Maybe because of stoppage time it is extra advantageous to take your time rolling on the floor so everyone can get a breather? (also potentially taking the momentum out of an attack by the other team) Because the time gets added at the end of the match anyway. I don't know how they deal with that in other sports.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:55
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Also, thanks for the replies about cricket, because now I know that the Laws of Cricket exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Cricket
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CaptainSarcastic posted:In pretty much every sport? in baseball isn't flopping but uh ... illicit doctoring of the baseball by pitchers and catchers has been an artform for over a century now and there was just a massive scandal over sign stealing that led to serious discussion about vacating the world series winner, to say nothing about the fact that there's a whole section of baseball history literally called "the steroid era" as for football, i'll just gesture in the general direction of everything that the new england patriots have done during the belichick era (because gently caress the patriots) but will specifically call out their undercover video taping of opposing teams practice and their stealing of playsheets from opposing teams, something which the NFL actually helped cover up. and yeah, i know that every team does poo poo like that, i just hate the patriots most of all. on an individual level, wide receivers are notorious for using all manner of illicit substances to get a little extra grip on the ball, and what happens at the bottom of a loose ball pile is unsportsmanlike to put it mildly. and that's in a game where at any moment, any player could grab any other player and literally twist their head around backwards by grabbing the handy grill attached just outside their face and get at most a penalty. poo poo, when i was in high school at my podunk little school, the offensive line would all put a black line across the tape on their knuckles, ostensibly as a solidarity thing (they had a big made up story about it and everything if anyone asked) but it was really so when they were getting back after a pileup they would know if they could stomp on another players hand without accidentally catching a teammate. though most of the cheating there is just really prosaic performance enhancing drugs since i'm not sure there's a sport where they're a bigger advantage than football.
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