Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Hillbilly are to rednecks as champagne is to sparkling wine. The difference is the region where it’s grown.

Hillbillies overwhelmingly are perceived as from Appalachia. They are poor mountaineers barely kept their families fed. Only those with great luck at missed small game shots can escape it.



Or if you’re old as ******** like me, another analogy is Jane Curtin as Pat Nixon explaining the difference between chinks and gooks. A chink is always a gook, but a gook isn’t necessarily a chink.

If that clip is on the internet anywhere I couldn’t find it in two minutes. Sorry.

 

I’m reminded of an old P&CE inside joke…pervasive Appalachian influence. Something like that. Might have been @Kazuma . Anyway, someone here was talking about being questioned by cops after witnessing something. The poster came up with a couple of descriptions that prompted the officers to reply that they couldn’t write that in a report. So on the third try our poster used the phrase pervasive Appalachian influence.

 

Orville can really fly!

Orville Rogers is 100 years old. He set a new age record by running the men's 60M in 19.13 seconds. pic.twitter.com/Olvj2YklsC

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) April 21, 2024

 

Yup....lived in town like yours for 45 yrs. Population 1300+/- in 50 sq miles with no traffic lights, small Gen Store 5 miles away and no gas station...gas15 mi away in next town. Wify loved driving our 70's 3/4 ton Crew Cab 25 miles over the mtn. to the "big" city" for groceries. "The Best Years Of Our Lives!"

 

Lake Wobegon?

 

I'm not sure that's the left, as a group. People from San Fran don't talk like a Soprano while cracking jokes about southern accents or cuisine. Nor do the ones from Los Angeles or NY. It's basically New Jersey and the uncultured parts of Boston. That whole Bosstones thing, deliver me. They all need to quit frontin', go back to their Harvard or Amherst dorms and STFU.

I thought I'd gone low enough by saying "under 20K" that nobody here would have been on the list, so to speak.

I do read some of the self-important posts on this page and some of the derogatory ones as well, and from what I can read about the rest of their lives, they weren't the sort of people I'd want to sit in a classroom with anyway.

...and do what with the information, Batman? Force socialized medicine, sex education, DEI curricula, over the counter weed, clean air and water legislation, and safe, legal abortions on the trembling helpless people of Gotham? It's such a horrible fate I could hardly bring myself to type those words...

This is part of why your posts outside the Twitter thread are seen more as comedy than a cry for help (it's close)

 

I remember that, too. I don’t think it was Kazuma. I think it was somebody, not me, who had lived in Chicago and was helping police officers in the Uptown neighborhood figure out an apt way to describe suspects on the paperwork they would have to fill out that night, since they weren’t allowed, obviously, to write “hillbillies” on the report.

 

Club teams have (and have the right) to reserve municipal pitches just like school teams do. If the club team has reserved the pitch, it doesn't make any difference what color they were.

The other thing here is, you may as well get used to debating nonstories, 'cause they're not going away. The country you thought you lived in never existed. Kick your shoes off. It's time to invent some shit about them.

 

Greg Harris pitched for the Red Sox in the late 80s and he could pitch with both arms. He never actually did it in a game, but he'd throw lefty in the bullpen and by all accounts, he had decent stuff. He also had one of those reversible gloves.

 

I believe Pat Venditte is the only MLB pitcher who pitched with both hands so far. In a minor league game, before he made it to the majors he went up against a switch hitter where the two went back and forth on which arm/side of the plate they would face each other. That event resulted in the Pat Venditte rule where the pitcher had to declare which arm they would throw with and not change based on which side the batter was hitting from.

 

Because this particular story tracks with his prejudices. (If this is a sincere question, that’s the answer.)

 

It doesn't matter what race the people involved are, on either side. Recent immigrants need to not do this shit.

 

Especially since on the next page there is an article containing a detailed, evidence-based analysis showing that, on average, an immigrant is less likely to commit crimes than the average American.

I kid, of course.

 

Dude surfed a wave over 90’ high

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/spor...ord-breaking-wave-surfing-spt-intl/index.html

 

Inter clinch their 20th scudetto while playing AC Milan as the "away team". Scuffle just broke out 3 minutes before the final whistle that led to 2 red cards (one per team). A third red was shown a couple minutes later after an elbow from an AC Milan player.

A nightmare scenario for AC.

 

Way to go, Juice

How OJ Simpson became the star witness in a pivotal 1970 trial over helmet safety – and set back CTE research for decades

In March 1970, OJ Simpson served as a witness in a landmark court case brought by the family of a paralyzed football player against a major helmet maker. His adroit performance on the stand, experts say, helped the NFL shrug off the dangers of CTE for decades.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/busin...layer-we-would-have-won-if-o-j-didnt-testify/

 

ButT TheYy DiDnT FeElZz SaAaFe! bRoWn PeOpLe!!!!!

 

Thanks for this info. My ADHD had me stop reading after a couple of sentences and skimming from them on.

 

Y'all read the article?

There's no need to read it at all, unless you think the event did not take place.

 

Weekend at VARnyes

Fremragende weekend for VAR iøvrigt 👏 pic.twitter.com/bWtTBEaPLA

— NEERGAARD 🇩🇰 (@Neergaard_) April 22, 2024

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 VAR cup drama!

VAR hasn’t only taken centre stage in the Premier League this weekend but in the FA Cup as well after numerous decisions in this weekends semi finals causing questions.

What do you think though did they get it right at Stockley Park? pic.twitter.com/b7OSFUOPjG

— GreatSportsResults (@greatsresults) April 21, 2024

VAR not just causing controversy in England at the weekend.

This goal was disallowed by VAR in the Superclásico between Boca Juniors and River Plate having initially been given as a goal to River. pic.twitter.com/4EBbGkuLtk

— Jamie Ralph (@ModernLepra) April 22, 2024