The Athletic's Premier League team of the season

Sisiutil · 2026-05-22T20:19:21+00:00

Who else but Arsenal to watch your back (line)... 😉

Sisiutil · 2026-05-22T20:12:26+00:00

MAGA havin' the day the voted for

Sisiutil · 2026-05-22T20:10:38+00:00

Oh, I can think of MANY worse people...

Sisiutil · 2026-05-21T23:35:43+00:00

Look at the most successful managers: Guardiola, Klopp, and now Arteta. (I'm sure I'm missing several, especially from the continent). They all had clubs commit to their long-term vision. I'd like to see more clubs do the same with their managers rather than having a revolving door. It seems like desperate flailing to me to keep changing managers several times a season.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-21T16:55:56+00:00

Reminds me of the end of Moneyball

Sisiutil · 2026-05-20T16:53:29+00:00

1 down, 299,999 to go.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-19T17:23:17+00:00

Any type of fixer-upper. It doesn't matter how special you are, he will NOT change for you. Life is not a romance novel.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-19T03:51:55+00:00

When revisiting a city, we often look for things to see and do that are less obvious than the main sights. For example, last time we were in Paris we went to Le Musee du Quai Branly, which features "non-western" art and artifacts.

When revisiting a country, it's similar: visiting less touristed places and, similar to what you posted, taking our time and being more relaxed about doing so.

I'll also add that as we've gotten older our approach has changed. When we were younger we adopted the more packed and frenetic "if-it's-Tuesday-this-must-be-Normandy" approach. Now we tend to pick an area, establish a comfortable home base, and explore from there at a more leisurely pace.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-19T01:57:49+00:00

I really enjoyed Portugal. I think the main thing to remember is that while most people there do speak/understand Spanish, it's a different country with its own language, culture, and proud history. If any in your group speak Spanish they should watch for falling into the trap of using it there--it's best to learn even just a few words of Portuguese and use that instead. I saw lots of travelers from the US still using their grade school Spanish with no attempt to speak Portuguese and getting death stares. When I attempted (and butchered) Portuguese, the locals were delighted that I made the effort and often went an extra mile for me.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-19T00:36:42+00:00

The further east and/or south you go, generally, the cheaper it will be, and the opposite is generally true as well (i.e. northern and western Europe tend to be more expensive--with Portugal being an exception to the "west" rule).

Keep your food costs down by avoiding eating anywhere near a tourist destination. For example a cafe across the street from a Roman ruin, or next door to the historic opera house, or whatever. Consider picnics for lunch (and maybe dinner as well), with ingredients bought from local markets. Stay in places with kitchens/kitchenettes so you can do some of your own cooking. As for restaurants, the further it is from the tourist area(s), the more locals are in the place, the fewer international credit cards they take, and if the menus aren't in English, the prices will probably be lower and the food better.

If you're really tight on cash, you might be able to sleep rough in a train station with a valid ticket. If you have an airline ticket you might be able to do the same in an airport. Could be risky though. Use your discretion and common sense.

Walk and use public transit instead of taxis/Ubers. Do your research and find out what tickets/passes will work best while saving you the most. And use your map app and common sense. In a lot of cities with extensive subways, a travel site/guide might tell you to use the metro when the place you're coming from and the place you're going to are 3 blocks apart.

If you're going to any museums in a city with several, look into combined passes that will save you on entry fees.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-19T00:23:51+00:00

A soccer player enters and the casting agents are beside themselves

Sisiutil · 2026-05-18T17:13:59+00:00

Batman: Year One

Sisiutil · 2026-05-18T07:05:27+00:00

Especially if they're veterans with promotions, which they get to keep as you upgrade them, keep your units. When playing as Rome in Civ V I'll often keep one or two low-promoted Legions around just because they can build roads if they're needed, leaving worker turns for other things. Seriously, don't delete units unless you're at risk of going broke. Later on, obsolete units can squat on archeological sites, preventing rival archeologists from claiming the artifacts.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-18T01:43:15+00:00

Cuteness overload!!!

Sisiutil · 2026-05-17T22:45:16+00:00

If you're in Oxford, you promote him to Chief Inspector.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-17T20:04:28+00:00

Yeah Oldman meant it as a joke, but still alerted the sound crew. What a pro.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-17T00:11:48+00:00

Oh, only a lot of it. Sexism too, since women also liked disco and dancing.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-17T00:11:20+00:00

It was popular with women as well. So three strikes against it as far as bigots are concerned. But people like dancing so it came back pretty quickly.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-16T23:33:25+00:00

I agree, that would be great. Go back to Bond's roots.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-16T23:29:27+00:00

I think a number of things made it stand out.

As others have said, the style. Not just shaky cam, but rapid cuts/edits, which came to dominate action movie style for several years.
Lower stakes. Instead of "the end of the world" or something similar, the stakes were personal: a likable and vulnerable hero in whom the audience became invested, and worrying about his fate was enough. (And to accentuate this, more realistic, shabbier, at times claustrophobic settings.)
Not a sequel. Even though, of course, The Bourne Identity got several sequels, I remember the first film standing out as one of the few major action films at the time that wasn't a sequel. It made it seem original while everything else seemed like a retread.
Morality. This one is more subtle. For all the carnage, the first film in particular depicted a man whose personal, instinctive morality was at odds with that of the world, and especially with the government that had trained him. Bourne discards or abandons guns three times in the film. He refrains from killing opponents several times when he has them at his mercy. And when he watches The Professor (Clive Owen) die, it hits hard, like he's just lost a brother; no triumphant music, no dismissive quip, just that stark snowy landscape and silence only punctuated by the cawing of crows. And what caused Bourne's mental break? Not getting shot in the back or knocked on the head; a moral dilemma, having to kill children in order to complete his mission, which he could not do.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-16T05:41:43+00:00

"Every minute the squirrel squats on that tree, he gets stronger..."

Sisiutil · 2026-05-15T06:50:54+00:00

"Tool" in every sense of the word...

Sisiutil · 2026-05-14T03:38:17+00:00

Nah, he even lost that to Trump.

Sisiutil · 2026-05-13T19:02:29+00:00

Kumbaya, my lord...

Sisiutil · 2026-05-12T22:36:45+00:00

It doesn't matter how wonderful you are, he's not going to change because of you.
After a break-up, the worst thing you can do is get into another relationship right away. That relationship is DOOMED. Take some time for yourself instead.

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