FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
The joke implicitly undermines the idea that women's sports is equal to men's sports - and they're instead a kind of annoying dysfunctional burden parasiting on the men's team's success ("sorry Timmy, but you have to bring your little brother along!")
Yeah, I heard it and kind of groaned. Did we really need to do that when we could have been bragging about beating Canada twice?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
I'm not sure what the difference you're trying to draw is. Pundits talk to fans. Liberal pundits exist to appeal to liberal fans.
But I guess the equivalent would be the kind of conservative cultural critic who tries to salvage something usable out of movies, music, and literature created by their enemies. Whether it is by claiming that Taylor Swift is secretly a conservative icon, or by creating godawful Christian rock music to half-ass mimc their enemies, or by constantly whining that they wish a conservative would write a decent novel.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
You can't participate in literarature or music culture as a conservative without holding your nose at the politics of people involved. You can ghettoize yourself into country music and a circle of conservative authors, but you can't even read the important authors of fity or seventy-five years ago without dealing in a great many socialists and libtards. Yes, you can read the dimes square guys and listen to Morgan Wallen, but you can't read the authors and musicians whose style they're riffing on and influenced by without dealing with artists with politics you'd find disgusting.
Similarly, a liberal can ghettoize themselves into certain niche sports or women's sports and be assured that they would find the athletes to be Good People, but they can't just watch a normal big-5 team without knowing there are a lot of Jesus freaks (or worse as the case may be) on the team.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5hr ago
I have to say, Hostage Tape is the one thing I have ever seen an ad for and thought "that's in poor taste, what with the Gaza thing and whatnot..."
So congrats to Hostage Tape on making me wokescold.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5hr ago
Liberal sports fans :: Conservative music, lit, and film fans
Both need to ignore the politics of the people they are fans of, or pretend that their politics are secretly better, if they want to be fans.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12hr ago
Do women ask it of men?
Most don't, but some do. Being women they tend to ask in a more passive "wouldn't it be sexy if..." or "gee, it'd feel better down here if..." way rather than a "YOU DISGUSTING PIG MAN SHAVE IT OFF" way. Manscaped sponsors half the podcasts I listen to lately, they're selling to somebody. Sex and the City and Larry the Cable guy had comedy bits about this twenty years ago.
Personally, I trim my pubic hair periodically, mostly because I grow little other visible body hair, and I just think it looks vaguely ridiculous to have smooth skin and then a four inch bush. I do it for me <3
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
but focusing at the ball is very amateur level of watching soccer, too.
The original question here was not "how does a true genius-level connoisseur watch sports" but "why isn't Hockey more popular?" The answer: because you can't see the puck. Saying "Well if you really knew hockey you'd know that watching the puck is for fools and amateurs..." doesn't really help when the audience we're discussing, the casual fans that make the NFL and NBA bigger than the NHL, are by definition fools and amateurs. All else being equal a sport that takes dedication to understand how to watch on TV is going to be less popular than a sport like basketball, which takes about five minutes to explain to an immigrant.
Like yeah, serious NFL fans know the right tackle is more important than the running back, but the NFL wouldn't be more popular if it was just a camera focused on Penei Sewell.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Cunnilingus is not the point of having pubic hair. I'm not objecting to grooming, I'm objecting to "this is one more chipping away at the natural appearance of women for an artificial beauty standard that does not apply to men".
I don't think pubic hair removal is that odd for men. Most women, if they chose to tell their male partners to remove their pubic hair, their male partners would do so. Especially if it is offered as a condition for more or better sex. It seems odd to penalize men morally for asking for something and getting it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
How could you believe in the bible and not take that seriously?
It's pretty straightforward in the NT that the meaning of Israel is superseded by the Church.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
I mean, don't forget one of our greatest living directors.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Huh. I guess I know a lot more blended families than average or something. Just on my block growing up I can think of three or four stepmoms of friends of mine. Stepmom is a very salient fact from the perspective of the stepchild or their peers.
But once it's the porn genre it's a very salient fact about the person. If I clicked on "hot stepmom porn" I know a lot of facts about that woman.
My point is more that I'm not sure that the differential between PornLesbian and RealLesbian is any bigger than PornStepmom and RealStepmom, or PornTeacher and RealTeacher. There's a few hot ones that form the basis of our fantasies.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
I was rabidly against even two or three year age gaps in a relationship...between the ages of 13 and 17, when I felt like every girl I tried to date had an older boyfriend, or had previously had an older boyfriend who took her virginity and then broke her heart and now she wasn't interested in dating/sex anymore.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
but how many stepmoms can you name off the top of your head?
...I feel like I can name five or six that I know closely pretty easily? I'm not even sure how to process this question. Do you not know divorced people?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
I've never heard it that way, but I'm sure the prots have different versions of everything. The way I've generally heard it is that they're all going down except for the 144,000 who are saved.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Why is single motherhood bad for democracy?
I also think you need to look to your bubble if you don't see anti-single motherhood content out there. I still know a few guys with the traditional truck sticker on the topic.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
The strawman drawn here is actually kind. The Strawman of a Christian Zionist is something like:
The Jews must regain control of Israel as a prerequisite of the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. We wish well to Israel as a nation for this reason, but this will ultimately not go well for the Jews in Israel: 144,000 will convert to Christianity last minute beating the buzzer, the rest will be damned to eternal hellfire.
I do agree that all positions of biblical Christian zionism are bad, ignorant, and evil.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
It's that any time there's a large age difference there's a presumption that the guy is in it for the sex and the woman is in it for the money.
This is a big part of it. Consider also that an older, wealthy man is typically going to have existing children/heirs who are expecting his resources and attention, which is now being taken by a young floozy.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Glad you got there first.
Bill is both probably the greatest football coach of all time, and the co-leader and spirit animal of a Patriots organization that was ontologically evil during the dynasty years. He got caught cheating twice, and there's no doubt in anyone's mind that there were other creative strategies that were never (publicly) found.
No one cares that he (was) banging a influencer, it was mostly just hilarious to see them together.
Can you typically tell whether an MLB pitch is a ball or a strike without seeing a replay/specialized camera view?
Yes, absolutely, and the dispute about this is making me realize this is largely a difference in perception at the level of baseline skill, I played baseball but never competitive hockey. I can tell balls from strikes to a reasonable certainty when watching on TV, though I'm very vulnerable to catcher framing. Live is a little tougher depending on angle of the seats.
I guess I don't understand the complaint -- typically it seems like people are saying that they can't see the puck at all -- but you are saying more like "90mph slapshots are hard to track"?
It's not a complaint in the sense of "this should be different;" it's a fact about the sport that makes it more difficult to enjoy on TV compared to football or basketball.
That is true, but I'm not sure it's that big of a problem -- for another example, does it bother you when they bring out the chains to see whether a football team has made first down?
Chains are normally for close plays, where it was difficult to see to begin with. But yes, it would bother me if the TV broadcast was regularly showing an obvious first down, and then the refs informed me that it wasn't, or vice versa. At some point that would really take away from the aesthetic enjoyment of the game, if I just never knew what was going on until someone told me.
I think it's bad when instant replay is necessary to determine, for example, what is a catch and what isn't, or when the TV angle seems to show an obvious first down and after review they determine something utterly opposite to what it looked like happened based on some obscure rule about forward progress. I hate seeing a play that looks like an amazing touchdown, and then it gets called back on instant replay because a toe was a centimeter over the line, so small that that it was impossible
I imagine most TV producers would agree that their goal is to present the game to the viewer in such a way that the viewer comprehends the action intuitively without needing to be told what was happening. Most innovations in sportscasting have been about aiming for that goal of making the game intuitive: the yellow first down line, the digital strike zone on broadcast, highlighting players or zones of the field.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
I'm watching it right now -- yes I know what happens, I'm watching it anyways!
Cheers, I got up at 5 to get through my morning chores, mass, and get a little toasted for the final. Fantastic game. Absolutely heartbreaking olympics for Canadian hockey.
it's a hard shot that bounces out -- this is hard to be sure about sometimes even for the refs and players! That's why there's a goal judge sitting behind the net. In this case it looks like it might have bounced off some of the crap they've got stationed inside the net; in the past you'd mostly see the impact on the netting, but there's still the rear bars -- normally there's a noise though.
Ok, I think we're on the same page here, you agree that there are some plays that are basically impossible to perceive directly for a casual audience. I think there are more plays in hockey where I have a distinct lag in perceiving what is happening than there are in other major team sports, and that this holds it back in ease of spectator interest compared to the other major team sports.
I like hockey well enough, but I think tv content and youth costs are the biggest things hurting hockey's mainstream popularity.
If you think hockey is bad you should try watching lacrosse -- crowd injuries used to be a major problem there for people who didn't follow the action. Now I think there is dumb netting all over the place so people can safely focus on their beer.
I wonder if professional lacrosse ever makes it big, if I'm capable of forming team loyalties anymore.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
Watching that goal, I see him shoot it, I track it briefly in flight, I don't really see it going in just bouncing out after. Absent the commentary and player reactions, they could just keep playing and I'd assume it didn't go in. In baseball I can easily track flyballs, so a lot of it is probably that baseline skill/experience issue. But that does serve to make the game less accessible, for the vast majority of people who aren't already hockey fans or former players.
Sick final though. Trading two teeth for the gold medal in OT is legendary.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
One of the most common memes among men online is that women have it insanely easy. One can easily see the trap that a confused man could fall into.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
but just because you can look masculine doesn’t mean you can act masculine. Even if you convincingly manage to imitate masculinity, it’s still just a façade.
Who manages to act masculine in a fallen world where the Secretary of War has a makeup studio in the pentagon, the president loves broadway musicals, and the Bears QB paints his nails?
I'd throw in an extra controversy: the United States government paying for Kash Patel to do a whole lot of things that seem to have nothing to do with his job. The trip to Italy probably cost about $75k, this on top of the security detail for his girlfriend.
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