You know what, maybe Denard Robinson wasn't wasted when he drove into a body of water to take a nap like I had assumed prior. I'm starting to think that he was just really exhausted behind the wheel, because - as far as potentially fatal car accidents go - that was basically a lullaby. Hell, I almost fell asleep watching this clip! Never has anyone - intoxicated or sober - so nonchalantly rolled through a red light at a relatively major intersection, across 5 lanes of oncoming traffic, over a curb, and into a pond in more unassuming fashion. Almost requires you to remind yourself that this situation was a couple of proactive policemen away from taking the life of an NFL athlete and his flavor of the week. Honestly, if you ignore all the traffic signs and rules of the road then they kind of looked like they knew what the were doing the whole damn time. Obviously they didn't because they needed to get woken up about a dozen times over by responding officers, but I can't blame for hitting the snooze button on life because that whole scenario seemed rather relaxing. Especially for a couple of drunks that were clearly granted a second lease on life by some pretty forgiving (or negligent, depending how you look at it) cops. P.S. Without question the best part of this video is the person sitting at the light across from them so completely dumbfounded by what they are watching in real time that they didn't even think about hitting the gas after it turned green. Really need to hear their side of the story for me to truly get closure.
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Metro- A paramedic has been struck off after sending 324 ‘filthy’ text messages to a vulnerable patient. Carl Gardiner, who worked for City Health Care Partnership (CHCP), asked the woman in one text message: ‘Are you up for it then?’ He also hugged her during an unauthorised visit to her home after she fell on March 5. An investigation was then launched by the Health and Care Professions Council (CHCP). It ruled Gardiner’s sexually-motivated behaviour was so serious, it was invoking an order of last resort to strike him off after he lost his job when the allegations were made. The panel stated: ‘He took advantage of his status to interact with and hug Patient A, a vulnerable service user. There was a power imbalance.’ His mobile phone logs provided ‘incontrovertible evidence’ of the 324 texts and checks showed he had disabled a facility synchronising his phone with a work computer system. He met Patient A, who had a life-changing medical condition and said she was an alcoholic and had stress-related fits, in February last year after attending her home on a call. Life changing medical condition my ass. To the paramedic that didn't even think it was mildly inappropriate to send THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR texts to a patient it might as well have been a mating call. After all, what is a vulnerable woman in need of more than a man that's willing to take advantage of her insecurities? Is it immoral? Sure. Shameless? Undoubtedly. That said, I better not see any women that have a problem with double standards crying about this predator electronically stalking his prey. Not when a good "fixer upper" is like the White Whale amongst aging, single females. There simply nothing that women enjoy more than molding a susceptible Average Joe into their Prince Charming. I don't see how that's any different than Dr. Love having an eye for an alcoholic that's liable to have a panic attack at any given moment. If anything she should be happy that there's a guy doing his damnedest to pursue her despite a hospitalizing amount of flaws. Probably shouldn't be looking a gift horse in his perv smile when the only other fish in her sea is the bar back that scoops her off the floor at last call. Is this paramedic looking for love in all the wrong places, or does love work in mysterious ways? Got to consider that one a toss up. Maybe he's seen too many rom-coms, or maybe - just maybe - this recently unemployed, perseverant, potentially dangerous exhausting texter just found his stumbling drunk Cinderella to have and to hold, in sickness and sobriety, until death do them part. Might not be the cutest of meets, but it'll probably sound a little bit better after a few drinks.
Hey now! Look at Roger Goodell and the boys stepping up in a timely manner and deciding to get to the bottom of head injuries in the National Football League. Nothing speaks to the severity of concussions quite like agreeing on a severance package with the laughably unqualified doctor that you knowingly paid an extensive amount of money for well over a decade to cover up the true dangers of them. Honestly, what more can you ask of the guy that makes 40 million dollars overseeing a league that has prematurely taken the lives and/or mental stability of so many of it's participants? I think it might finally be time to get off Roger's back. If you exclude the use of forthrightness, full disclosure, and the absence of actual precautions then he's basically doing everything he can to promote player safety. Before you go criticizing how long it took him to make a fairly obvious change in personnel why don't you consider how much more work he just created for himself by doing so. You know how long it's going to take to select a competent physician that's willing to keep their mouth shut about the long term, cumulative effects of repetitive violent collisions on the brain? It's going to be next to impossible to find someone that actually knows what they are talking about in regards to CTE AND will withhold that knowledge from the general public upon request from their employer. The NFL had the perfect situation with Dr. Elliot Pellman. They had a Chief Medical Officer that was literally too uninformed to understand that he should have felt morally compromised, and they gave it all away just so that they could make it sound like they even remotely cared about the health of their athletes. It's surely nothing more than a PR stunt, but it's a pretty selfless one if you ask me.
Gee, it's a real shame that Ryan Callahan got hurt. Don't know how Team USA is going to survive the absence of a player that had all of 10 goals last year. I suppose adding the third highest goal scorer amongst American born players could help ease the loss of a guy that quickly became an afterthought on his own team, but I have my doubts. I guess Kyle Palmieri - the key acquisition who helped transform the Devils from a comically bad team to one that was in competition for a playoff spot throughout the majority of last year - could be considered a formidable asset. If the chips fall just right then maybe his shot - which somehow made one of the lowest scoring teams in NHL history one of the most efficient teams on the powerplay - could help his country in international play. Still, I am a little hesitant to get my hopes up with how flawless the powers that be have been at picking rosters for Team USA. Hopefully the addition of someone that provides offense and actually has a scoring touch doesn't throw off the all important chemistry that was on display last Winter Olympics. Wouldn't want to mess with the composition of a locker room that followed up an inevitable loss to Canada with an demoralizing performance in the Bronze Medal game. Seriously though, I am happy for Kyle Palmieri. This news might be coming an insulting number of months too late, but it's still well deserved. The United States ices a better hockey team with Palms in the lineup instead of Callahan, even if they were too damn stubborn to realize that originally. If He's Telling The Truth About This Prank Then Brett Favre Might Be The Worst Teammate Ever7/20/2016 YardBarker- Favre, in case you haven’t heard, is a well-documented prankster who often terrorized the Packers’ locker room with practical jokes and gags. And if you don’t believe us, the 46-year-old ex-quarterback recently provided evidence by regaling reporters with one of his cruelest pranks.
“When it got extremely cold and guys had to park outside in the outside parking lot … we would go unlock their cars because it was gated,” Favre said in a conference call Tuesday, via ESPN.com. “We’d go out and get into someone’s car and we would move it to the far end of the parking lot and leave it running with the air conditioning on. “So when we got out, we would take like a cup of water and we’d throw it on the door and it couldn’t open. When they finally were able to get in, it would be — as you could imagine it’s 30 degrees, 0 degrees, whatever outside — it was even cooler inside. That was a cruel prank, though, in Green Bay.” I gotta tell ya, I'm pretty stunned. Sure, Brett Favre being a dickhead that took inter-team shenanigans just a little too far was rather predictable, but the fact that Geno Smith was the first starting quarterback to get his jaw broken by a teammate undoubtedly wasn't. Not if this story is true anyway. Never mind repeatedly being blown off by someone that owes me money, I would be much more inclined to knock out the leader of my locker room if he locked me out of my running, freezing car in the middle of a Wisconsin winter. I am going to go out on a limb and say that Brett wasn't there to see these pranks through to fruition, because if he was that consecutive games streak would have came to an end long before he finally hung up the cleats. Hell, even if he did stay to see the results of his handiwork he's still an entitled asshole. Pretty easy to pull a fast one on somebody when you know that they are the only person that will get in trouble if they retaliate. Brett Favre was like the little brother that kept poking and prodding the older brother knowing he could just cry to mom if he laid a hand on him. That's the only explanation as to why no one put him on the IR after he moved their car and forced them to deal with that feeling of getting into a vehicle that has the same shitty climate conditions as the weather outside. I am liable to commit vehicular homicide when my AC takes too long to get cool during the dog days of summer so this practical joke is as impractical as it gets, and a non-violent reaction is undoubtedly an under reaction. Hope every person that ever had to trudge through snow just to break into their own car found his current address so they could Wrangle his neck in retirement. LBS- In a piece he wrote for The Players Tribune this week, Yao gave a glimpse into how he adjusted to life in a new country at age 22. One of the first things he had to adapt to was people calling him “Yao.”
“For example, everyone called me ‘Yao’ — they thought it was my first name,” he wrote. “In China, our surnames come first and our given names last. To my Chinese friends, I was Ming. Now I was just Yao. Once everyone started saying it that way, I never corrected them. I was too shy.” Yao also wrote a lot about his relationship with former Rockets guard Steve Francis, who took the 7-foot-6 center under his wing almost immediately. “In the Chinese tradition, when you meet someone for the first time you stay back a little bit,” Yao wrote. “You say hello, shake hands, but it is very formal. Over time, like a pot of water that slowly heats up, you get to know someone and get more comfortable. Steve wasn’t that way. Steve was boiling water right away. On the court or off the court, Steve was 200 degrees all the time. I instantly liked him.” Whew, dodged that potentially prejudice bullet. Good thing Yao Ming came into the league as a wide eyed (< there's a joke there) introvert that didn't want to stir the point with his foreign customs and traditions or semi-marginialistic promotions would have been a foregone conclusion. Obviously 'Yao' isn't the most Americanized name in the world, but can you imagine the amount of nauseatingly stereotypical 'Ming' references we would have had to deal with if that's what one of the most physically imposing presences in the NBA wanted to go by? There probably would have been a 'Ming Dynasty' banner hanging out front of the Houston Toyota Center. The urge to include a gong in their marketing campaign probably would have been too much to suppress. I can think of three separate Chinese food restaurants that have 'Ming' in their name so I find it hard to believe that the Rockets wouldn't have ventured down a exploitive path in having one of Yao's countrymen bring his "Garden" to the second level food court. Did you see what happened with 'Linsanity'? We just can't help ourselves when obvious racially charged puns are sitting right under our nose. It's a good thing 'Yao' stuck because 'Ming' would have become the new 'Chang' or 'Chung' if it didn't, and insulting all of Asia would have all but certainly slowed the NBA's international growth. P.S. What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall during the first Steve Francis/Yao Ming heart-to-heart... YardBarker- The Rockets, under new head coach Mike D’Antoni, did their best to sign Al Horford and Kent Bazemore when the free-agent market opened, but failed. They did, however, land Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon.
When they first hosted Gordon for a visit, in an attempt to get him to sign with the team, general manager Daryl Morey brought in Harden to explain what the veteran’s role with the Rockets could look like. During that pitch, Harden likened himself to former NBA great Steve Nash, who flourished in D’Antoni’s system in Phoenix roughly a decade ago (per Calvin Watkins of ESPN.com). “I got a little bit of Nash in me,” Harden said. “He had his own pace to the game; that’s what I took out of that. You could never speed him up, you could never make him do anything he didn’t want to do, that’s what separated him from any other point guard at the time, which led to two MVPs.” Say what you want about James Harden and his completely non-sensical comparison of himself to Steve Nash, but don't say he doesn't understand his flaws. Other than a lack of existence on the defensive end of the floor, I can't think of one thing that those two players have in common. That's why it's the perfect way for James Harden to represent himself while trying to lure in talent. The idea of padding your resume and spinning your negatives into positives is one that is as old as the 9-5 itself, but what many people overlook is the fact that companies do just as much fluffing of their own dick as the candidates lining up to stroke it. If organizations gave accurate portrayals of what it's like to work for them then people wouldn't be stretching the truth in hopes of being given the opportunity to do so. Is James Harden the leader that Steve Nash was? Shit no! He was basically the lit fuse that forced his entire locker room to implode. Is he the type of floor general that makes everyone around him better? Safe to say his teammates - that were forced to stage an intervention just to get him to start passing the ball - would probably tell you "no". That said, they both "do whatever they want" on the floor. So what that one of them only wanted to what was right and the other one has made a habit out of doing wrong by his team. That distinction isn't necessary. It's no different than telling an interviewer that you're "too loyal". He doesn't have to know that all that really means is that you're incredibly dependent on the paycheck you're trying to receive. If we are discussing the free agency period then the only thing the truth sets you free from is on-court obligations during May and June. Did you guys see how the Rockets season played out? Why would he start telling potential co-workers the truth when anyone that's contractually committed to Houston can't handle the truth?
My biggest gripe with Dana White's endorsement of Donald Trump? The fact that he didn't preface it by warning the viewing public to grab a towel before we ended up with egg on every one of our faces. Seriously, all the people that openly disparaged Donald Trump because they like their Presidential candidates to be schooled in politics are looking pretty stupid right about now. All those that frivolously proclaimed that "anyone" could do a better job in office than the fear mongering bigot that panders to the uneducated? They simply didn't understand the qualities necessary to fill the position. I wasn't aware of this before but it turns out all you have to do is be a mildly supportive friend to be a good fit for the Oval Office. After all, if that weren't the case then Dana White surely would have went a different direction with this speech. On the surface Donald Trump's resume might not read like it belongs to someone capable of leading the free world, but that's only because the intangibles possessed by a good friend usually get tacked on at the end as filler. The idea that he "shows up" might not seem like much, but it's a far more commendable characteristic than it reads on paper. Those of us who are no longer in college realize that the list of people you can count on to give you a call and wish you well grows smaller by the day. So no, not just anyone could do a better job than Donald Trump, because not just anyone will congratulate a friend when they achieve a personal accomplishment, and really - that's all it takes to lead this country. Clean up, Aisle Clinton... You Should Definitely Watch This Unwatchable Drunk Chick Blabber Into A Megaphone Outside The RNC7/19/2016 Hey you! Yeah you, in the American flag bandana! Don't do that. Don't you patronize this piss drunk broad with the disingenuous "wrap it up" clap. Not because she doesn't need to have that megaphone taken from her in the WORST way possible, but because you are the one who enabled this entire situation by letting her have it in the first place. If your goal was to stop this girl from embarrassing herself than you're about 2 and a half minutes late so why don't we let her decide when she's finished rambling about nothing on her own accord. If there was going to be a time to intervene it was when she was proclaiming the shame she feels for having an abortion and you missed that cue so now you have to wait until she's done solving the world's problems and publicly declaring her major that I am fairly certain doesn't even exist. I know you weren't the one that poured the liquor down her throat, but you definitely got her drunk on power by putting a voice enhancer in her hand. Might as well have signed her up for karaoke and then immediately bought her 5 more shots of 'Fireball'. There's no difference between this and placing her atop the bar to dance when you know she's wearing a skirt and no underwear. Sometimes you just have to sternly tell inebriated females "no" or you risk being the primary facilitator of their humiliation. Nothing more humiliating than this verbal car accident that I just couldn't bring myself to turn a deaf a ear to. At least when she wakes up hungover and gets sent this video she'll have someone other than herself and the alcohol to blame, because Uncle Sam's meathead nephew has to know better than giving the stuttering girl that's waving her lit cigarette around like she's hailing a 2AM taxi a louder voice.
Yup, still got it! Hey, I would love for the guy to contribute to the top 6 and provide a little depth on the right side, but as long as he keeps firing off jokes at the expense of himself then he'll always be one of this fan's favorites. He may very well end up with more opportune one liners posted on social media than games played or goals scored, but all those things are exponentially more beneficial to the Devils than an extra 3rd round pick would have been this year. Keep laughing at your misfortune Beau. It well serve you well amongst the people in stands when they are patiently waiting for you to come back from a hang nail that inevitably costs you a quarter of the season. There's surely room for another young, promising scorer in the lineup, but with Adam Larsson gone there's also room for an awkwardly hilarious personality in the locker room too. Give us 6 of one and a half dozen of the other and we'll call it a successful acquisition.
Metro- A disgusting clip shows the moment a ‘sick and twisted’ man bites down on the head of his pet cat, which later died.
The footage, which some viewers could find upsetting, was secretly filmed by Craig Mills’ former partner David Walker in the home they shared in Fife, Scotland. Mills, who also smacks the animal several times in the harrowing clip before shouting ‘who are you hissing at?’, has admitted abusing and killing two-year-old Pippa. The 22-year-old also threw Pippa against a wall before she died of the injuries sustained in the home. David, 29, is living in fear of his life after locals who believed he was in on the abuse wrote ‘cat killer’ on the windows of his former home in Lochgelly, Fife. He has released the footage in a desperate bid to prove he had nothing to do with the abuse. I don't exactly think you have to be a feline enthusiast to consider the person featured in this video beating, biting, and throwing a now deceased cat across the room to be a complete lunatic. He's obviously got enough screws loose to put together the most intricate of IKEA furniture. There's no argument that he belongs in a padded cell that's completely void of any possible way to communicate with the outside world, yet somehow, someway that leaves him as only the second most concerning person in this clip. That's right, I said it. In terms of questionable behavior the cat killer that just tried to "Ozzie Osbourne" a domesticated animal only gets the silver medal. How is that possible, you ask? Well, how about we consider the fact that someone seven years his senior voluntarily agreed to SHARE A LIVING SPACE with him. I wouldn't even consider moving in with my brother - that I get along great with - because the 6 year difference is far too much of a lifestyle hurdle, but this 29 year old willingly shacked up with a 22 year old that tortures house cats as a hobby? You know what they say, the devil you know is better than the person that deems it a good idea to move in with that devil despite a fuck ton of glaring warning signs. I feel like I am watching a murder mystery and while everyone is focusing on the same obvious suspect that all the evidence points to I am screaming "THE ROOMMATE! WHAT ABOUT THE ROOMMATE?!?" at the television. The near 30 year old that signed the lease with someone he could easily be an Uncle too, but can't stop from viciously committing pet homicide? That's who I want investigated, because you need a whole hell of a lot of skeletons in your closet to decide the guy that looks like every school shooter in history would make a suitable housemate. Director Joseph Kahn Stuck Up For Taylor Swift By Comparing Her To...Nicole Brown Simpson?7/19/2016 You know, I bet if Nicole Brown Simpson wasn't rotting in the ground after being carved to death by someone that's not even a member of the Kardashian family, she would probably agree with this sentiment. Really though, what's the difference between defending the person responsible for the atrociously gruesome murder of a young, blonde woman and exposing someone - who happens to have the same skin tone and hair color - for playing the victim and lying to the general public? Pretty much one and the same as far as I am concerned. I mean, if we can't hold Kim Kardashian - who was an unknown 14 year old at the time - responsible for O.J. Simpson walking free after murdering his wife in cold blood then who can we hold responsible?! If we can't compare her decision to defend her husband's honor to her morally compromised late father's decision to defend the case of his homicidal friend then I'm pretty much at a loss for accurate analogies. I know Taylor Swift is still alive and very much the guilty party here, but - assuming this isn't all just a huge publicity stunt (Spoiler Alert: It is) - I have to imagine that she's feeling just as much emotional distress as the deceased felt physical pain. Those completely deserved criticisms cut deep like a knife and even though not nearly as much 'Bad Blood' has been spilt, Taylor Swift's potentially hurt feelings are surely as irreparable as Nicole Brown Simpson's countless open stab wounds. YardBarker- Durant spoke with reporters after a Team USA workout on Monday, and he spent some time describing the hours and days following his decision to leave OKC. At first, K.D. went to great lengths to avoid the negativity.
“I didn’t leave my bed, because I was like, ‘Man, if I walk outside somebody might just try to hit me with their car or say anything negative to me,’” he said, per Sam Amick of USA TODAY Sports. “I just stayed in. I was trying to process it all. I wanted to be around family, and positive support. It felt different. “I mean I’ve been somewhere for so long and then to make a change like that (which) nobody knew was coming, that nobody didn’t think I would do, of course I didn’t know how it would be received afterwards. But at some point, I just said, ‘Look man, life goes on. Life moves on, and I can’t hide forever,’ so I just had to face it.” Durant, who played a lot of XBox during those 48 hours, said he was actually relieved when he finally decided to face the music, as he expected more backlash. While he doesn’t get hung up on criticism from someone like Charles Barkley, he said he felt sorry for Thunder fans. “I understand where they’re coming from. It hurt me,” he said. “I was hurt for a few days because I know that I hurt so many people in Oklahoma City by changing teams.” SOFT. Soft, soft, soft. People obliterated Stephen A. Smith for saying Kevin Durant was "weak" for choosing the Warriors as if it weren't already something we should have known. Did he not whine about the "super critical" media of Oklahoma City enough for people to realize he has thin skin? How many times did you have to watch him defer to Russell Westbrook when the game was on the line to understand that he's not the most alpha of male? Kevin Durant is an uber talented player, but he's kinda soft. That doesn't mean he's not one of the most dynamic players to ever play in the NBA. It doesn't mean he's not capable of winning a championship. It just means he's got more in common with two-ply toilet paper than a vast majority of basketball analysts are willing to admit. The fucking guy wrote "have fun" and "smile" on his shoes during the Western Conference Finals, and I'm just supposed to pretend that he's got the cutthroat mentality that helped so many players before him achieve greatness? That's not to say that Kevin Durant NEEDS to be a merciless, bloodthirsty competitor the way in which Kobe Bryant was to be successful. It is to say that the fact that he's not probably played a small part in his decision to go to Golden State. I didn't just criticize Kevin Durant for going to the Warriors because it turned what little parity the NBA has left into a parody of itself. I did so because leaving his current team for the team that beat them in heartbreaking fashion fit the narrative of his career. You know what else fits that narrative? Hiding under his pillow for 2 days after making the single biggest choice he's ever made. Being so afraid of scrutiny that he wouldn't leave his bedroom. Acting as if his childhood dog just died instead of facing the music when he was the one that hit 'Play'. He knows as well as anybody that's not what we meant when we said "you made your bed, now sleep in it", so - much like a lot of other things he's done in his career - Kevin Durant's hibernation period was a sign of softness.
It's not exactly news that Nike is the biggest, most notorious brand of shoe - basketball or otherwise - in all the land. That's why I won't be the one to question their marketing techniques. Do I think it was necessary to cover up Harrison Barnes' and Kyle Lowry's three striped shoes (whose brand won't be named here in case Nike wants to do some unexpected advertising)? No, not particularly. Do I think that they stand to boost any sales by hiding Klay Thompson and - more importantly - his glorified 'Payless' kicks in the back row? Unquestionably not. That's not the point though. The point is that I can respect any non-criminal action as long as the person doing it puts time, effort, and dedication towards it. Simply put, there is nothing that Nike executives value more than their pettiness towards their competitors. They'll stop at nothing to pretend that rival companies don't even exist. That's a commitment to triviality that I can't help but appreciate. Antas what? Adida-who? Under Armour? Hmm, never heard of 'em. You want to make something that seems relatively silly appear commendable? Turn it into a tradition. That's what Nike has done by making sure they - and they alone - are associated with USA basketball, and it's turned a relatively needless act of small-mindedness into something to look forward to...
Kevin Durant Still Rocking An Oklahoma City Thunder Lanyard Seems Like A Pretty Oblivious Move7/19/2016 Live look at the Oklahoma City Thunder fans... Let's ignore the fact that Kevin Durant is a grown ass man carrying around a team lanyard like a high school/college student that is afraid he's going to lose his keys at every turn unless he feels an unnecessary long strap hanging out of his pocket. The bigger story is obviously that he's ripping a citywide bandaid off and inadvertently dumping salt in the wound he created by doing so. As much as his decision calls for him to be treated as such, he very clearly doesn't have the personality of a villain so I don't think this was intentional by any means. However, that doesn't make it any less inexcusable. Come on Kev! Haven't you ever been a part of a rough breakup? Don't you understand that a person whose heart you broke is going to look for every single reason to hold on to hope? That they are going to look far too much into little things that you would never even think about? I know it's just a keychain that you've probably had for the last 7-8 years, but to a person that can't get over your departure it's a keychain that represents that you still care. Walking around with a Oklahoma City lanyard is the equivalent of posing for Instagram photos wearing the shirt that your grieving ex-girlfriend bought you. It's bound to lead to a conversation that you don't want to have. It might not be a late night, drunken "I kinda miss you" text, but to them it might as well be. The current state of Thunder fans makes menopausal women look mentally stable. They just lost a top 3 player in the NBA who many assumed wasn't leaving, and people are treating it like it's a foregone conclusion that the other superstar they hold so dearly is no more than a season away from following suit. The last thing they need is a ride on an emotional roller coaster simply because your negligence in failing to visit the Warriors team store has them thinking you're still feeling sentimental. I, for one, am stunned. I would have thought leaving 8 years between largely identical speeches would have been enough time for everyone to forget the contents of the first one. If only the damn internet would stop making highly public speeches made on widely disseminated platforms so readily accessible to people with long term memories then Melania Trump's stolen thoughts would have seemed original and genuine. Seriously though, are we really going to criticize the world's most famous mail order bride for plagiarizing? There was only so much empty political rhetoric at her disposal. It's like when a teacher assigns the same research paper every single year. At some point those assignments are going to start to sound repetitive. After all, how many possible ways can you rephrase the same Wikipedia entry? So a couple of Melania Trump's lines were "borrowed" word-for-word from the woman she hopes to replace, big deal. It's not like she's a free thinking person that wrote them herself. Talk to her speech writers who have clearly given up on making her husband's campaign seem even remotely legitimate. Honestly? I don't even blame them. You know how many votes Donald Trump lost last night when people realized that this monologue was "highly quoted"? ZERO. Why take the time and effort to create an entirely new message when copying the old one isn't going to be of detriment to your cause? Trump supporters don't care that his wife sounded like a programmed fem-bot. The irony that she is the immigrant wife of the person that wants to kick immigrants out of the country is lost on them. The idea that she needed to take thoughts from the woman that they -mostly blindly - hate couldn't be less noteworthy to them. Everyone knows that the 2016 Presidential election has nothing to do with what the candidates say, but how loud they say it. That's why it would been silly for Melania Trump and her English teachers to work on their authenticity when they are part of an initiative that is based on nothing but volume and shock value. Gotta give it to her. Nothing more shocking than repeating blatant excerpts of the same speech, at the same event, given by a different person no more than 8 years prior and expecting people not to notice. Well, if that doesn't make you smile as a Devils fan in the middle of July then I don't know what will. Obviously a breakaway move that completely embarrassed the goaltender 2-3 times over was nothing more than a meaningless goal in an even more meaningless shootout, but it's pretty indicative of the direction the franchise is heading in. As a 6th round pick in the 2014 draft - who I completely forgot existed - it's pretty likely that this Vine will be the most important thing that J.D. Dudek ever contributes to the team that drafted him. However, the fact that the New Jersey Devils now host a developmental camp that has more than two or three intriguing prospects capable of jaw dropping, highlight reel displays of creativity is a welcomed boost in pace. Let's be honest, up until recently the organizational cupboard was pretty bare of players with a high level of skill. How quickly things change, because the narrative that the Devils prospect pool was only puddle deep is now one of the past. J.D. Dudek probably won't be the manifestation of that franchise-wide refocus at the next level but it's higher ranked players built from his mold that absolutely could be. If some of the reports surfacing after this past week are accurate then it's very possible that time is coming sooner rather than later. P.S. Good to see a couple of the most promising draft picks wasted no time in getting acquainted/publicly busting each other's balls on social media...
I Don't Know If The NFL Tried To Halt Production Of 'Ballers', But I Really Wish They Would Have7/18/2016
PFT- On Friday, Mark Wahlberg told ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike that Commissioner Roger Goodell, along with “various owners,” directly tried to put the kibosh on the show.
“You can’t do this,” Goodell told Wahlberg, according to Wahlberg, who claims that he persuaded the league that the show was a “good thing” because “hopefully you get the word out there with the crazy stuff and the financial side of it, we’ll hopefully get these guys to realize they’ve got to be more careful with what they do with their money.” Although a league source with knowledge of the situation told PFT under a guarantee of anonymity that Goodell made no such call, the league office officially declined comment. This isn't a post to condemn the NFL for potentially trying to pull the plug on 'Ballers'. In fact, it's quite the opposite. This is a post to condemn the NFL for not doing more to pull the plug on 'Ballers'. I am not choosing sides in a "he said, he said" between Roger Goodell and Mark Wahlberg. I don't know what level of communication they had about a show that glorifies the less-than-desirable and insanely stereotypical aspects of professional football, but I know it wasn't enough. Of all the unnecessary shit that Roger Goodell has done to make the league less fun the HBO series that laughably fails to fulfill it's promise in portraying it's athletes is the one thing he decided to be lenient with? The fact that he has sentenced me to spending a half hour every Sunday night watching some poorly written show that I hate solely because I am the embodiment of the demographic it was created to satisfy actually makes me despise him more. I thought the most important responsibility he had as commissioner was to protect the shield, yet he's letting the brand get besmirched by a direct association with a sitcom so predictably unbelievable that it makes his frivolous suspension decisions look well thought out? Fucking Goodell had the unique opportunity to be a buzzkill (his favorite hobby) while simultaneously shutting down production of a program that has somehow become a complete parody of what it set out to be in the first place and he let it slip from his fingers? I will never forgive him because his negligence will be on my mind every time I pick up the remote and think about channel surfing mid-episode only to begrudgingly put it back down and continue hate watching a series that can't possibly feature enough tits and ass to make me forget that it's terrible television. Forget BountyGate. This may be recency bias, but being coerced into watching that weekly abortion feels like the most detrimental punishment Roger Goodell has ever - either directly or indirectly - bestowed upon me. Hey Commish, this skin deep disaster makes 'Entourage' look like a multi-layered biopic aimed at providing it's viewers perspective so....
Metro- Isaac Moore, 27, went out to celebrate getting a new job and woke up with a firefighter next to him.He was found on top of the Grand Arcade in Cambridge on Satruday after having somehow climbed the curved glass roof.
A court heard today that he’d drunk six pints before scaling the building. He first denied the offence but when police asked if he had caused a public nuisance he said: ‘Yeah, I was found on the roof so I suppose I did.’ He told police he thought it was an overreaction when he was arrested. His solicitor said: ‘He is very embarrassed and ashamed of his behaviour and in no way does he seek to diminish or minimize the impact of his actions on the public and the emergency services. ‘He had gone out on Saturday to celebrate a new job, clearly he drank too much and has no recollection how he ended up on that roof.’ I am a lot of things, but I like to believe a hypocrite isn't one of them. That's why I can't, in good conscience, criticize a man for getting too drunk and waking up in a precarious situation. After all, I did go to college and trying to maneuver out awkward circumstances you created for yourself through binge drinking is like 57% of what you learn while you're there. So no, I won't scrutinize him for somehow crawling atop a building and falling asleep on a convex rooftop because he's really more deserving of a round of applause for doing it hammered without falling to his death. That, however, doesn't mean I won't chastise him for the events that led to him doing so. I am not trying to sound like a hard ass here, but six pints? The only thing standing between this guy casually celebrating a career advancement and waking up in the most "what the fuck happened last night?" way of all time is 6 pints?!? That's simply unacceptable. You can't live in a place that commonly refers to glasses of beer as 'pints' and become FUBAR-ed by a little more than a handful of them. I'm all for slamming far more brews than necessary and making incredibly poor decisions as a result, but six is just not a high enough number to justify a more dangerous version of a 'Doug' dilemma. I wouldn't know this guy if he was sitting next to me at the bar, but I feel pretty comfortable saying he's an insufferable lush and that's probably why whoever he was celebrating with left him at his own accord once he became "fall asleep on a glass ceiling" shitfaced. There's just no personal accomplishment big enough for his friends to accept responsibility for the well being of drunk Isaac, because drunk Isaac has been prematurely ending nights with his bullshit tolerance since the first time he needed to be carried back to his dorm during college. We all have that friend, and we all just hope he survives because the frustration associated with making sure he survives isn't worth blowing our buzz. Love This Young Pirates Fan Experiencing The Entire Range Of Emotions Over The Course Of 18 Innings7/18/2016
What's that thing that parents do to put their kids to sleep? Put a dab of whiskey under their tongue? Well, someone should have found the nearest bottle of Jack Daniel's about 9 innings ago because this kid is going to have a baseball induced heart attack by 4th grade at this rate. Don't get me wrong, I love his enthusiasm throughout every one of the extra innings and he's clearly a quick study because he already understands that being a sports fan is basically the equivalent of being nothing more than a bipolar ball of nerves. I just don't want him wasting that (what seems like endless) energy getting emotional about a day game in mid-July. The Pirates aren't too too far out of the playoff hunt, and if they somehow sneak their way into the one game wildcard this kid may be on the precipice of full blown mental breakdown before the first pitch. If I have learned anything it's that you can't fully invest your mood mid-season if you have hopes for a long playoff run. If this little guy is this schizophrenic for every one of 162 games he'll be balding by the time they actually matter. I wish that type of prolonged stress on no one, and especially not someone that can't legally drowned it in overpriced domestic beer. At least this story had a happy ending, but his parents might want to take the magnetic schedule that he lives by off the fridge if they want him to get through high school without developing heart palpitations...
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