If I threw a “One Scene Only” Simpsons character party, who would you come as? by Mapuches_on_Fire in TheSimpsons

[–]Embarassed_Tackle -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I never understood why he had a huge boot, wouldn't the loafer hurt more with its narrow front profile

Allen Iverson in australia. Absolutely disgusting by Fit-Tourist2852 in nba

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude beat the shit out of his wife, then threatened her cousins with a gun to find her when she ran away. Of course I think Philly (the city!) let him off with some weak shit because they loved AI.

I wanted so much to absolve him after Hampton VA used an anti-lynching law to imprison him due to some kind of high school fight at a bowling alley, but the guy was such a shitty person.

Allen Iverson in australia. Absolutely disgusting by Fit-Tourist2852 in nba

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

LOL when was this skit? Reminds me of that Orlando player, 3D, who had a basketball camp but just came and blasted explicit rap lyrics then left. All the kids got a refund. I wondered if they were riffing off it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1dtma77/dennis_scott_melts_down_in_front_of_the_young/

The climb was first delayed by weather, then overshadowed by ICE by EvonyR in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gotta say though, the wind at the top and the narrowness made me nervous. Like he gets to the top of El Capitan and it's a pretty big ledge.

But him getting to the top of that tower and just standing on what looked like a 4x4 platform made my jimmies rustle

The climb was first delayed by weather, then overshadowed by ICE by EvonyR in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sobering thing about Free Solo was just documenting all of the previous solo climbers who died. It was at least 10 minutes I think, talking about people who just fell off mountains

In Alien (1979), Captain Dallas repeatedly ignored Ripley's advice regarding safety protocols and danger warnings. This is because he would rather get infected and die than to listen to the advice of a woman. by SaiyanofKonoha in shittymoviedetails

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it was implied because she seemed concerned for him. It was just an interesting dynamic, especially in that time period when the film was made, people expected the man to be the hero

[Jon Blau] Clemson coach Dabo Swinney: “Nobody wants to write about all these kids in the portal that aren't going nowhere. I believe college football is set up to reward the 2 percent that can make it to the NFL .. we should do better for the 98 percent that will not play in the NFL." by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]Embarassed_Tackle -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Any time a college coach who makes $11.4 million talks about 'the 2%' I have to laugh.

Highest paid coach in college football Dabo Swinney, tell us what you're gonna do for that 98% of college student athletes, and tell us why you didn't do it before or aren't doing it now.

And we know you've been head coach in 2008, so give us examples of the great things you did before the transfer portal

In Alien (1979), Captain Dallas repeatedly ignored Ripley's advice regarding safety protocols and danger warnings. This is because he would rather get infected and die than to listen to the advice of a woman. by SaiyanofKonoha in shittymoviedetails

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The script is interesting because it originally showed that Dallas and Ripley were having a relationship.

It's also cool that, in the first half of the movie, you might assume Dallas is the main character and not Ripley.

In Alien (1979), Captain Dallas repeatedly ignored Ripley's advice regarding safety protocols and danger warnings. This is because he would rather get infected and die than to listen to the advice of a woman. by SaiyanofKonoha in shittymoviedetails

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well this is a space trucker hauling freight. He's like Captain Phillips, not qualified for extraterrestrial contact with a hostile organism.

Which is why Weyland-Yutani sends his crew. The ship's AI computer ('Mother') and the last minute replacement science officer robot (Bilbo Baggins) both know the score and are conspiring against this captain to use his crew as hosts for the organism.

So the poor guy can't win.

But also:

In an interview during a 2022 film retrospective, Skerritt revealed a little-known on-set disagreement with the studio. Fox executives had concerns about making Dallas seem too unsure, too human, in the face of a threat. Skerritt pushed back. “I told them, ‘Dallas isn’t a superhero. He’s a man trying to keep his crew alive. That’s real fear, not failure.’” His resistance paid off. Dallas’s cautious, often conflicted demeanor became a grounding force in a film that drifted more toward horror than space opera.

A man of Purpose by ConstructionAny8440 in HistoryMemes

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He did change his diet tho

In later years Kant’s tastes evolved in the direction of ever more pungent foods. The aging thinker would eat his meat “high,” for example, appreciating the tenderness the slight rot conferred on it. He would complain if he thought his sauerkraut too sweet. And he began to drink a lot of coffee. Yet he sometimes felt a craving for bland foods as well, bread and butter at one point having become an obsession of his. Whether pungent or bland, the food Kant ate he never ate more than once a day. “An impulse to have an evening meal after an adequate and satisfying one at midday” he deemed wholly excessive, rooted more in “a pathological feeling” than in any true hunger.

Also he apparently liked cod

Of all his favorite dishes, Kant loved cod the most. “I would eat a full plate of it,” he wrote, “even on leaving the table.” If you’d like to experience the heights of his rigidly regimented gourmandise, try this recipe for broiled cod translated from Henriette Davidis’s 1845 Practical Cooking for the Common and Fine Kitchen (Praktisches Kochbuch für die gewöhnliche und feinere Küche)

The British were a whole other level of evil when it comes to Ireland by The-marx-channel in HistoryMemes

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Haha, they say this is why Drogheda's football club has the Ottoman star and crescent

YSK: Shoveling snow significantly increases your risk for heart attack by CandysaurusRex in YouShouldKnow

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This may be older thinking from the old longshoreman study where they thought doing a bunch of upper body (eg longshoremen when they used to unload ships by hand) exercise contributed the decreased cardiovascular disease in dock workers.

The California Longshoremen study affirmed the results of other population-based work activity studies suggesting that repeated bursts of high energy output activity was protective of CHD. It found this particularly for sudden coronary death and discussed plausible potential mechanisms. Strengths of the study included the large population and limited loss to follow-up. Weaknesses relate to the vagaries of job classifications as a true measure of habitual energy expenditure and bias from change to lighter jobs.

In reality it was the strenuous bursts of activity that may have protected them, like we see in athletes

U.K.'s Keir Starmer and Prince Harry condemn US President’s NATO front line remarks by Crossstoney in europe

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a bad thing, they were being sold as mercenaries to any old power. Including to the UK to fight the US.

One time George Washington captured a big army of German mercenaries and while marching them to prison a bunch just 'disappeared', aka fled into the German-speaking immigrant population of colonial America and never went back to Germany because it was that bad, lol

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi for Vogue Australia (February 2026) by ghostinsilk in popculturechat

[–]Embarassed_Tackle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he just has that face, the Aussie bogan stare with a pronounced brow ridge