Sharlo

Damn, baw. Sorry to hear it. Take care & hope you heal up soon.

Cry, Timmy.

You sick POS.


I will never understand how someone who is a parent would enable a circumstance where there's even a remote possibility that a SO like this guy can harm another child, at least in this country.

These people have among the highest rates of recidivism of all criminals.

On a better note, Rubio continues to make a helluva case for 2028.

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Landry (the state) having to make the state trooper precinct permanent because of NOLA’s incompetence is kind of the point.

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Exactly. Decades of evidence that the city and its residents are incapable of self-governance.

Within city limits, the tourist and convention areas around the quarter are really all that's important from an economic perspective. Maybe the state could make those areas some kind of special district subject to state-controlled governance and law enforcement.

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Allowing an indictment of the AG actively antagonizes the state officials at a time when N.O. is in desperate straits. Moreno cancels the bond hearing because after the indictment, nobody is going to give N.O.money. That's actively sabotaging your own best interests.

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I think there's about a 75% chance you're right. Still a 25% chance she's so dumb that she never connected the dots to understand the potential fallout from the indictment.

Deere has done an amazing job of killing its brand in the last 15 or so years. They had the most loyal customer base I've ever seen locked down for generations -- people with money and ongoing need -- and they have driven so many away.

While all tractors have gone backwards in terms of durability and performance since our retarded govt enforced the 2014 EPA emissions standards, Deere leaned into greed and crapping on its customers.

While the larger farmers I know still use JD because they're so invested in the platform, many of the smaller farms around me have ditched them for Kubota, LS, and others. I'm still running a 50-year old Massey that just won't die. When it does, I will not buy a JD made after 2010 or so (when most of the computer crap and emissions nonsense started to intrude).

To me this issue hinges on JD's changing their policies after customers had invested millions in their equipment. It would be one thing to slowly phase in what they did, but it was basically an all-or-nothing offer to farmers who had very little time to adapt.

I don't know if that's illegal, but it's a shitty way to treat your customers.

Also, JD has been aggressive in going after farmers who've tried to hack their way around JD's computer lockouts.

So screw JD. I'd love for them to be displaced by competitors.

CHUNE!

His name is CHUNE.

Good stuff here. Baw with the shades had the slowest choke hold take down of all time. Probably easing himself down for a softer landing. :lol:

ETA: I counted 2 pairs of jorts and 1 skort in that video. Florida AF. :rotflmao:

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This tournament was a chance to bring millions of new fans to the sport in this country. Win or lose, in the end people can accept getting beat. What they can’t accept is watching a team that doesn’t look like it’s giving everything it has

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Exactly. For casual viewers like me, the optics of last night were particularly awful. Those guys just looked out classed, both both athletically and mentally. There was no sense of urgency and people in key positions seem to have no idea about what they were doing.

Nobody wants to see their country represented that way.

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Ask Italy if they would rather do what we did or be at home.

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Ok, but Italy has won several WCs. We never get over the hump.

Unrelated question, if you will be so kind as to indulge me: how did we make it all the way to the round of 16 with this goalie?

On that play that will go down in infamy, he looked just totally lost. Is that not strange to see at this level?

Was this guy a backup standing in for the starter?

Like many baws, I played football and baseball and had no interest in soccer. Still don’t, really.

But every four years or so, I get sucked into this World Cup nonsense because it falls in the absolute doldrum of sports that matter in the US.

So tonight I sat down and watched USA soccer get bitch-slapped by a wimpy little country that is slightly smaller than Maryland.

Here’s what I saw:

When they finally had the nation’s attention, USA soccer absolutely caved. Belgium looked better at every position.

They executed coherent offensive and defensive schemes, and at no point did their goalie seem to be high.

All night team USA played soft and tentative. They looked lost and overwhelmed by the moment.

Hopefully, this was enough of an embarrassing arse-kicking that the vast majority of Americans will forget about this silly game played by dramatic little men who shave their legs.

In this country, all of our best athletes will continue to play football, basketball, and baseball because that’s where all the cultural capital and, of course, the money is.

I think there was an opportunity tonight to maybe challenge that some, had this team showed up with a little bit of heart, a little bit of grit, and a little bit of balls.

That did not happen.

Sorry, soccer bros. I guess you’ll have to keep wearing jerseys from professional teams in other countries.