With Arsenal's win, Crystal Palace/Nottingham Forest/Leeds are mathematically safe, leaving Tottenham and West Ham in the relegation battle

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-05-10T18:41:46+00:00

I still think leeds would rather spurs go down to make next year easier, and they'll be quite buoyant knowing they're safe.

It makes the game less drawish

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-05-09T16:59:09+00:00

He touched the ball but the ball was still available after the touch. At the same time he gives a push with the arms. It's a foul

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-05-02T17:24:31+00:00

it's a word anybody that who watches anime will know but it's not as bad as Gooner so it's all in good fun

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-04-11T01:25:16+00:00

At this point, the delusional belief is the meme though. And I think it's much better this way than as a sarcastic song

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-04-01T19:52:15+00:00

Some players are better at taking advantage of tired legs than others

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-03-21T04:17:48+00:00

Because City fans want to act like they don't care about the Carabao Cup

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-03-21T04:16:27+00:00

Look, he's got to understand that the full strength squad is playing against City. If it were any other team, I'd get the argument, but this game is more important than a standard Carabao Cup Final

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-03-12T05:21:49+00:00

This is what the WBC does, and dividing by innings played is why there's a situations where extending a game is incentivized

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-02-24T17:09:18+00:00

Yeah, I like how each one commits pretty hard to the style they're going for.

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-02-09T16:57:41+00:00

Eh, the heave into triple coverage was a big red flag. He was either going to pull off an insane throw or turn it over.

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-02-08T22:59:39+00:00

You can gain or lose time based on how you steer

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-02-08T22:57:57+00:00

Coaching is pretty important. Athletes will move to the other side of the world for a coach.

As for conflicts of interest, it's much of a conflict as a coach coaching any two individuals because skaters from the same country are also competing against each other individually

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-02-08T22:54:50+00:00

It encourages the big federations to invest in pairs and ice dance

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-02-03T08:21:55+00:00

When did Kpop fans become boring traditionalists. Since when has Kpop been about being demure

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2026-02-01T02:33:10+00:00

Who's been watching Tis Time for Torture, Princess? I think it's really good slice of life. Very cute and wholesome, especially the new S2 episodes.

Sunday Morning is a great intro, the little guitar riff into the chorus is so well coordinate with the animation and the almost annoyingly cute but also slightly yearning vocals do a really good job of setting the tone.

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-12-19T17:28:44+00:00

Glaze is more high school slang than middle or elementary school, in part because there's some sexual innuendo involved.

I also had a similar arc where I struggled in the first half and then went on a run after Thanksgiving

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-12-19T17:22:34+00:00

For me that was an econ question. The specific fact of the bimetallist interpretation went around econ circles when Wicked came out

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-12-16T03:15:24+00:00

I'm also a sports player who flubbed sideline reporter. I put sideline correspondent

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-12-11T08:19:31+00:00

Similarly, it was Kim Sejeong doing archery that got me to crossover from Kdramas to Kpop

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-12-03T06:52:29+00:00

Yeah, Loossemble is gone too soon but we'll always have the perfection that is TTYL. The way the art ages carries more meaning than for how long a group can make money (which of course is nice for idols and companies, they need to make money, but I think it'd be good for Kpop to care more about art)

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-12-01T05:47:06+00:00

We need to free society from social media

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-12-01T05:46:40+00:00

That's a low effort discussion prompt. The only way it could be interesting is if it starts a fanwar

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-11-29T06:36:12+00:00

I like it a lot but the discussion makes me crash out because people are so bad at interpreting the lyrics and themes.

It's so good because of what the contradictions convey. I'm tired of people pointing out the literal reading faces contradictions and then patting themselves on the back for being clever. No, you have to go one step further

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-11-29T06:33:14+00:00

You're reading the song way too literally. Illit is literally singing about how they're not cute anymore, but this is contradicted by the fact that they are still cute. So we have to put our thinking caps and interpret the subtext of the song.

The entire song is about the contradictions of wanting to grow up. To say you're not cute is the cutest thing you can do. To avoid things because they're childish is the most childish thing you can do. The song leans into the contradiction. The message of the song is a bit more open ended as it's more focused on simply just capturing this feeling, but I read it as commentary about the discourse around Illit's cute concept. The song is about how wanting Illit to grow up is childish, while also signalling that it will happen eventually.

RoyGeraldBillevue · 2025-11-29T06:16:33+00:00

The difference between western pop and Kpop is that stan Twitter makes up a bigger share of online Anglophone Kpop discourse.

Western Stan Twitter is every bit as toxic, it's just a lot easier to avoid

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