I learned via Jeopardy the other day that a federal decree dropped the h from the official spelling of the city from 1891 to 1911. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Pittsburgh
yeah and Ohio didn't become a state officially until 1953 at the federal level. Sorry, I get touchy when someone insults the Rust Belt. It's the geographical symbol of globalization's negative externalities being applied judiciously within our own society. Not unlike the chip all our players carry in Europe. Switching it back to Gio: Gotta hand it to the kid. He's taking advantage of the opportunities in front of him and Favre is giving him a nice long leash.
While I like to "pragmatically" discount short-term performance (and the season so far is that), the context of Brandt (a full-fledged German international!) consistently and unquestionably being behind Gio makes it hard not to get super excited.
Detroit is awesome too IMO. I usually spend at least a weekend out of my year there attending Movement or MoPop. Both cities are seeing culinary revivals. If you want to insult a city in the Rust Belt stick to Cleveland.
Learned another new thing today. Thanks for that. No need to apologize, I get you. My hometown's population has been cut in half in the last 60 years, and what was once a manufacturing and transportation hub now has 2 prisons as its largest employers.
With automation in most areas and remote-learning becoming a thing, jails will likely become the major employers around the world by the middle of the century. No one is going to want to automate the handling of human prisoners. BvB fans love affair with Dahoud is surprising. He's a limited guy, but seems to try his best. Maybe that's why.
The most valuable baseball card of all time is the T206 Honus Wagner, made from 1909 to 1911. Thus, Honus's shirt says Pittsburg, not Pittsburgh, which causes those who don't know better to think that the cards are fake. Honus didn't want his cards distributed since baseball cards back then were packaged with tabacco products, which is why so few were produced. One of the cards was sold for $3.25m a few weeks ago.
I swear all this proves is that the idiots at the baseball card company didn't know how to spell Pittsburgh in the 1910s. The Pirates didn't even have the city's name on the uniform until 1948. The city and state retained the spelling of Pittsburgh throughout that entire period of the 1910s. It was undoubatedly an attempt in the Daniel Webster vien of matching the spelling of American words with American pronunciations. If you really want to be a stickler it's spelled Pittsburgh but pronounced PITS-ber-a, given it was named by a Scot (think Edinburgh).
anyone from pittsburgh knows that it was a federal initiative to drop the h and the city had to get it back.
Interesting... there is a city in Indiana called Pittsboro. I never really though about the connecting to the Scottish pronunciation of Pittsburgh. wow, the things you learn in Gio's thread. [insert obligatory 'on topic' comment here] Hope Gio plays well this weekend.
Maybe, but also maybe the robot dog manufacturers just need to fit them with teeth and a biting algorithm, then have them controlled by this guy. Works for me.
People were saying this was a bad game from him? Seems like even during a bad game he makes things happen. Was about a foot off of a goal and two assists. Almost had another raking across the grain daisy cutter cross as well (at about 1:55). That might be something of a trademark of his. How many guys on the wing see that pass through multiple defenders and teammates and have the ability to hit it on the ground as opposed to in the air? Not many. Keep going, young man!
Yeah... they don't have Haaland today... so Gio is likely the 1st off the bench. Hoping Arminia plays them tough in the 1st half so that Gio is brought on early.
The more I watch the Bundesliga, the more I understand how Bayern can win it year after year after half-assing half the season or longer, and with a GD around +70. The bottom half, nay, the teams past the top seven, are quite terrible. This Arminia lacked any shape in retreat, and the way they take set pieces... geez. This is virtually another Ligue 1.