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    Originally posted by hobbes View Post
    Ha! That was Alan Sugar's 'treat' for the 'winners' in last week's I'm a Fucking Lousy Business Person Get Me Out of Here or whatever it's called. I was just flipping through the channels, honest.

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      I hope treibeis doesn't look at this thread. And adult ball pool with cocktails would probably be the thing that sends him over the edge.

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        Originally posted by hobbes View Post
        It does, and I've been there (on a work team night out). It's exactly as depressing as you might expect - the "highlight" was a colleague losing his fitness tracker watch and the attendant (who was there ostensibly to ensure the safety of adults in a two-foot deep ball pit) shrugging his shoulders and saying "happens a lot, that".

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          Who else went straight to the 'Ball Cleaning' tab?

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            Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
            Sports punditry is a real gateway drug to political conservatism. Think of all the terrible ideas that are part of football discourse. Whether its victim blaming those on the receiving end of illegitimate violence, the open questioning of the characters of young black men to a disproportionate degree, based on their appearance and body language

            The nostalgia fuelled rejection of change, the replacement of consistent rules for all to follow, with arbitrary judgement based on the common sense of the 'majority'. To the elevation of magical thinking, magical individuals, the belief that deep rooted structural problems can be addressed by just getting the right angry leader in to lay down the law,

            and then of course there's the relentless sportswashing of mass murdering regimes of fundamentalist extremists, the veneration of Russian oligarchs, the glorification of billionaires.......

            christ only knows what the American lads are going to get up to.
            IIRC, the flow was usually in the other direction. Remember when ESPN had Rush Limbaugh back before he went full racist. And then he said something racist about Dante Culpepper and they fired him. We also had Dennis Miller on MNF, although he wasn't full right-wing then.

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              Donovan McNabb (though he probably also said something racist about Dante Culpepper, given who he was).

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                Originally posted by hobbes View Post
                I hope treibeis doesn't look at this thread. And adult ball pool with cocktails would probably be the thing that sends him over the edge.
                No fear of that, I should think.

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                  Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                  Donovan McNabb (though he probably also said something racist about Dante Culpepper, given who he was).
                  You're correct.
                  I always got those two guys mixed up ever since they were in the same draft.

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                    https://twitter.com/BrynHGriffiths/status/1618204792408649729?t=PnmYnY8dcxpkztKrGcutDA&s=19

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                      Nothing says winter like a...

                      Like a what? The suspense is killing me.

                      Nothing says winter like an inappropriate Nazi fetish? Nothing says winter like a war fantasist? Nothing says winter like a pair of fascist socks? What could possibly make sense at the end of that sentence?

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                        Genuine ad apparently. All in the best possible taste

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                          (For the benefit of our international audience, that's a picture of Dr Harold Shipman, the serial killer)

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                            Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post

                            Nothing says winter like a...

                            Like a what? The suspense is killing me.

                            Nothing says winter like an inappropriate Nazi fetish? Nothing says winter like a war fantasist? Nothing says winter like a pair of fascist socks? What could possibly make sense at the end of that sentence?
                            ah balders Wehraboos need Toasty tootsies too.

                            I don't know if I would have lead with Guernica tbh. They were used in that attack, but they were a very small part of it. It was the german equivalent of the spitfire, so I would have gone with the battle of britain, or the invasion of Russia.

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                              Company name pronounced Heil Tread?

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                                Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
                                This whole sports commentators moving into right wing political commentary grift seems wild to me. I guess gammony older men are the dominant consumer demographic for both.
                                Last night I watched a short YouTube video about pool from a channel I hadn't come across before. It was about the sport's exciting growth and what might lie ahead for it in 2023. It was mostly fine (albeit not saying anything I've not said in my pool threads down in Sport), but ended with an impassioned five-minute plea to Josh Rogan to please, pretty pretty please start promoting pool and maybe start commentating on the Mosconi Cup (the guy making the video seemed to assume Matchroom would just let him do so). I don't think I've ever gone from 'might look at what else this channel has to offer when this video ends' to 'never watching anything by this guy again' more quickly.

                                Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post

                                Nothing says winter like a...

                                Like a what? The suspense is killing me.

                                Nothing says winter like an inappropriate Nazi fetish? Nothing says winter like a war fantasist? Nothing says winter like a pair of fascist socks? What could possibly make sense at the end of that sentence?
                                For some reason that tweet appears to have disappeared from the sock company's own timeline. They've got some that appear to be promoting a car-themed line of socks that read 'nothing says winter like a drawer full of your favourite petrolhead socks', though, so my money's on your third suggestion.

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                                  https://twitter.com/ryanmarino/status/1619743590607122432?s=61&t=-BwaUzJ2t97To9ZB02WlRg

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                                    Oh wow, The first one is very famous, but the rest of those are just worrying.

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                                      I could swear we've done that one already.

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                                        Is that a parody or has she completely gone round the bend?

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                                          what the fuck indeed

                                          https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1619786795943710721?s=20&t=-7EzMnEB9IZ0rgbsO9vCmA

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                                            https://twitter.com/RBrockPhysics/status/1620101380609544193?t=gMJJfVf7zzFXXOrdy4AO3A&s=19

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                                              https://twitter.com/i/status/1619788831993266176

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                                                I hope that bridge it one way. I'd hate to have to reverse on it.

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                                                  That is so cool! Had to track it down, turns out it's Shiziguan Floating Bridge, which features in various YouTube videos (though, oddly, doesn't seem to have a page of its own on Wikipedia yet).

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                                                    Found
                                                    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-...into/101917828

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