In basketball an "energy player" is typically a guy who comes off the bench and is not as skilled or as innately talented as the star players but has a real zeal for the game and I'm kind of like that but without the energy.
I'm sure everything being completely fucked by shitty people is just a phase and that outlawing rational people being pissed about it in public will fix a lot of it.
@GrimmReality The "Fatigable" was a suburb of Paris where lots of people used to gather to party all day and night - they seemed incapable of tiring of their partying.
So, if a French person was tireless in something they did, English people would would ask them: "Are you in the Fatigable?"... which morphed into: "Are you in de Fatigable?". Which led to the current word we use.
NO ONE SAYS "IN ORDER TO REMEMBER SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO FORGET SOMETHING ELSE." YOUR PREMISE IS FARCHOKTE RUBBISH AND I REJECT EVERYTHING THAT COMES AFTER IT.
As I've mentioned before, one of the absolute failures of contemporary journalism is "civil" framing, and if you want an example, no one in the shitload of "respectable" journalists tasked with followup stories asked anyone involved "Why did you think it would be good to have a neo-Nazi give a commencement address?"
I have watched a fucking TON of basketball in my career as a person-who-watches-a-TON-of-basketball and I have seen a lot of really good teams but I'm not sure I've seen a pretty stellar team that comes out in the second half of back-to-back games and just COMMITS to sucking with quite the dedication as the #Twolves have given it in these first two games of the WCFinals.
I put a reply on the fb post that said "Preemptively, don't be obtuse about this. You know exactly what I'm talking about," but an older guy replied to that and said basically "No, what are you talking about, I am old, are you OK BOOMERing me?" and I feel I may have stumble-posted a Rorschach test to determine some graded scale of self-awareness.
@miffyhelen I assume that's the rough cultural delineation but it's a kind of dice-roll as to which ones made it into American English and, also, I think, WHEN they did.
I got the bulk of my education in US in the 1970s and '80s but I learned "dreamt" (at least initially, I think?) as the past-tense, along with "leapt" and "slept" (the latter obv still standard), whereas learnt, spelt, spoilt and such were Old World-archaic.
@GrimmReality This is what I felt like at work with white people, nothing has changed. I know I'm not a black person during civil rights but damn, you could fool me some days with how virulently racist white people have become. They are still rabid.
I def want to see Furiosa but I am also weirdly emotionally conflicted about seeing Furiosa because how do you, as George Miller, presume to do a prequel to hands-down the greatest film ever made that you, George Miller, also made, and if it is even possible to top Fury Road and you manage to do that, am I going to die in my theater seat because you have done some kind of transcendent thing that bends space/time?
I was looking for the first review of Fury Road I saw after seeing Fury Road, but I don't remember who it was and can't find it anymore, but I remember it resonating with me because at one point the reviewer said something like "Fuck every other moviemaker alive for not making this movie and every other movie for not being this movie" and gave it 100 stars out of 5. And I thought that was fair.
See, I think Fury Road changed that whole paradigm, like basically Fury Road rendered Citizen Kane "the Fury Road of moody pioneering roman a clef-ish biopics of loveless tyrannical media moguls." https://mas.to/@MisterNobody/112487955708398679
"Oh no, I do not have ESPN, guess I have no choice but to go to the bar to watch the NBA game whilst drinking pints of beer," I mumble to myself, very sad and dejected over being forced to resort to this course of action.
By the way, maybe a super-cool time to go to a bar is during a big storm because, in here right now, it's like this weird smattering of regulars and people who just kind of traipsed in here because they were walking home and THIS place was open, so there's definitely a vibe of what if a neighborhood bar was also where a shipwreck happened, and - AND - there's a miniature collie in one of the booths.
When I sit Athena and Khan, I often see the nice young couple nextdoor and always hear their dogs when I take Athena and Khan out and have occasionally seen one or two of their dogs but the other night I went outside and they'd just gotten back from work and were letting their dogs out to pee and there were FIVE dogs and it was late-ish so I shouldn't have been shouting from yard to yard but I yelled "HOLY SHIT you have FIVE DOGS."
I'm sure this was valuable information because they probably didn't know.
Looking forward to #TeamTrump bringing up a last surprise witness tomorrow who's just some Proud Boy goon specifically there to tell Judge Merchan "It'd be a shame if something happened to your daughter."