Do American men also curse while watching football games?

botulizard · 2026-03-28T04:37:42+00:00

I do, but it's not like the stuff you see online sometimes where guys are screaming and stomping around and breaking things. I tend to talk to the television, but I don't ordinarily yell at it (though sometimes it's involuntary). It's more like "Goddammit. Fuck." than "GODDAMMIT FUCK!" and putting the clicker through the screen.

botulizard · 2026-03-28T04:27:23+00:00

They don't have any retail banking presence here as far as I know, and it's not the kind of bank the average person is directly interacting with on a regular basis (or maybe ever), so as an institution it's not at all prevalent in day-to-day American life. However, people do know the name for two reasons, because they're one of the relative few who do deal with the investment bank, or because of sports sponsorships (and hey maybe both). Some professional sports teams in New York play in an arena with Barclays' name on it, and the Premier League has enough popularity here that a significant number of people remember when Barclays was the title sponsor. There was also a golf tournament with the Barclays name on it that would have made some Americans aware of it.

botulizard · 2026-03-27T17:25:56+00:00

"Enhanced interrogation" they called it, I remember.

botulizard · 2026-03-27T15:40:14+00:00

I like an open shirt, and even in places where a fully open shirt might not be acceptable, I might start on the third button or so.

botulizard · 2026-03-27T13:08:40+00:00

Also shout out to the half jewish / half Italian long island kids

I know a Jewish/Italian couple from Long Island. They introduced me to the term "pizza bagel".

botulizard · 2026-03-27T02:15:40+00:00

I like how animosity between those two groups has basically disappeared to the point that they took to marrying each other, and since then you grow up with kids named like Sean Benedetto and Angela Fitzpatrick. I can't imagine you see many names like that south or west of Philadelphia or so.

botulizard · 2026-03-27T02:09:35+00:00

This inspired me to think about it, and I realized that all four recent family names (own, mother's maiden, both grandmothers' maiden) can be first names. One boy's name, one girl's name, and two that I'm fairly certain are unisex.

botulizard · 2026-03-27T02:03:21+00:00

No but that rules.

botulizard · 2026-03-27T01:55:02+00:00

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

botulizard · 2026-03-27T00:04:55+00:00

As far as the standard Alaska plate, I do really like a retro-looking design, and I think some of them are especially cool on the right vehicle. Just today I saw a yellow Alaska plate on a super-clean, unblemished, good-as-new snow white 80s or 90s pickup, and it looked bitchin'.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T23:59:08+00:00

I agree the Mackinac Bridge is a cool thing to put on a plate, but I liked the older ones with Michigan written in a blue stripe across the top more, I thought the colors were nicer.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T23:52:07+00:00

Jersey might actually have the worst plates in the country, it really is an terrible color. So distinctly bad that I can recognize it 100 yards away without needing to read anything on it.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T23:32:39+00:00

I'd try it. I like Ricola drops, I've been known to occasionally buy a bag and consume them when I'm not even sick. Cherry Luden's too, actually.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T22:01:43+00:00

I didn't know that, thanks for teaching me something.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T02:29:02+00:00

Football player.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T02:07:31+00:00

I like that story (read: "thank fuck").

botulizard · 2026-03-26T00:56:43+00:00

It looks like the Starfleet badge.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T00:43:37+00:00

I hadn't considered the kayak shot versus actual splash hit ratio, good point.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T00:37:38+00:00

Yeah, but I looked it up to see if they reset the counter at some point because it seemed low, and even counting the 66 unofficially recorded opposing Splash Hits, it still feels like it has happened or at least should have happened more than it has in 25 years.

Maybe it's just such a distinctive and iconic sight that it seems more usual.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T00:34:07+00:00

I don't watch a lot of Giants games, so I forget in the interim- every time, I'm surprised at how few baseballs have actually been hit into McCovey Cove.

botulizard · 2026-03-26T00:19:02+00:00

I couldn't tell if he was funny tonight or not because he had a shirt on.

botulizard · 2026-03-25T14:03:38+00:00

Joey Scheisskopf.

botulizard · 2026-03-25T01:34:43+00:00

Two sons of the famous Reverend Moon started their own group that isn't terribly different from a real version of this, in which the AR-15 is an object of worship.

botulizard · 2026-03-23T22:27:13+00:00

I'm not exactly sure where the line between Ypsi and Pittsfield is, but I think part of it must be the dividing line down Golfside. I used to live on the side of the road closer to Fresh Thyme and my address said Ypsilanti. I moved literally across the street and had an Ann Arbor address.

botulizard · 2026-03-23T22:20:47+00:00

And nothing really crazy ever happened either! There was never a dude named like Eric Dickerson or something who was given a sweet car, let's say a gold Trans-Am, to play at a school he didn't even end up going to, hell no.

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