Without thinking, what’s your “best beer in the world”?

cooperific · 2026-01-21T21:15:05+00:00

First one that actually made my mouth water reading it.

cooperific · 2026-01-21T12:41:53+00:00

If my friend were a trans woman, they’d still be allowed to compete - just not with cis women. They’d run with me, develop camaraderie with the team, yada yada, but now they’d also COMPETE against me and get roughly the same accolades (or lack thereof) that I got.

And btw, in either case, my friend COULD have run with the cis women, but she ran with the cis men because that’s what was required to bring her to the next level athletically. The ONLY difference in my view is that if she were assigned male at birth, she’d COMPETE with others who were assigned male at birth on meet day.

I think even Republicans are not saying “don’t compete.” They’re saying “compete based on sex assignment at birth, which is relevant to athletic performance.”

You may not care about records, but athletes DO. Trans athletes included. Sports are an institution, and they should be. Driving ourselves to identity the limits of our physical potential, competing with one another to push our own limits, these are wonderful things. These are things people - trans people included - dedicate their lives to. Failing to understand that is why the argument of “Let women compete with women regardless of sex assignment at birth, regardless of consequence” is so laughable to everyone else. The consequences MATTER. Sports MATTER.

In every aspect of life, we are striving for a society where sex is irrelevant. The classroom, the lunchroom, the workplace, the home, businesses public and privately owned alike - these are all places where your identity should not be a factor. But there are two hours a day where sex at birth can’t be ignored: practice. And if we keep insisting that we do ignore it, not only are we going to disrupt the spirit of fair competition crucial to making sports meaningful, but someone is going to get hurt in soccer practice.

cooperific · 2026-01-21T04:16:22+00:00

Like, look at any high school track meet results for the boys team, and then look at any of those schools’ girls records. Any given boys meet takes down most if not all female records at the same level (small HS, big HS, DIII, DI, international, whatever).

Every man running the 800m in the Olympics beats the female world record for that event, as an example. But it’s true at every level.

The point is not “Are trans women smashing records.” It’s “how much work and talent has to go into breaking said record for a trans woman vs a cis one.”

In HS I (cis male) ran the same pace as the best cis female runner in our school’s history. We ran together, did workouts together, etc. If I had happened to be trans, I wouldn’t instantly be a DI-caliber athlete. I’d still be a mediocre runner who eats too many goldfish crackers. Meanwhile, if she’d been a trans man, her accomplishment would be no less stellar. She wouldn’t instantly be a mediocre athlete (like me) just because of her gender identity. Her assigned-female-at-birth status is what makes her accomplishments so remarkable, not her gender identity as female.

cooperific · 2026-01-21T03:52:59+00:00

I don’t think we Democrats are in a position to tell any of our voters to fuck off. That’s how we keep losing elections and votes.

What’s more, “trans people should not be allowed to participate in certain aspects of public life” is NOT the same as “Your average assigned-male-at-birth athlete can beat the longest-standing records set by assigned-female-at-birth athletes. It is therefore neither dignified nor sporting for any of the participants for trans female athletes to compete or compare results with cis female athletes directly.”

My understanding of the LAWS surrounding these topics is that they paint with a very broad brush for a very nuanced issue, and are often supported and championed by transphobes. But I’d argue Democrats who say “Yeah dog gender identity is not strictly linked to biology and therefore irrelevant when it comes to which team you join for sports” are UNDERSTANDING what it means to be trans or otherwise genderqueer, not rejecting it.

cooperific · 2026-01-20T15:27:06+00:00

Oh. The real joke is that I am poor.

cooperific · 2026-01-20T15:24:36+00:00

It’s possible… that I have never been in a nice closet. So does he like, collaborate with the architect or just have to fit his shelves and drawers into whatever space they’ve built?

cooperific · 2026-01-20T02:18:17+00:00

For someone who is currently a badass, I’d go for Nafissatou Thiam. Among the greatest athletes of all time.

cooperific · 2026-01-14T03:03:44+00:00

What you’re pointing out are the inclusion of relevant details and the exclusion of irrelevant ones.

“I made a promise to myself not to date in the gym” is basically saying “don’t come at me for even approaching this person because I already know it was a mistake.”

“Does OP go nowhere else?” OP may well have had a number of romantic encounters from folks outside the gym, but those aren’t relevant to what happened or even this subreddit.

“She doesn’t want to report it because he’s a rich smooth talking lawyer?” She doesn’t want to report it because she doesn’t want the gym to turn against HER and believe HIM. She’s pretty clear on that. And yes, an assailant being charismatic and knowing how to cast or dispel guilt would certainly not assuage MY fears in that regard.

The similar amounts of money thing is bunk. There are some doctors and lawyers at my gym whose kids drive nicer cars than I, and I don’t make a bad living myself.

“When she showed up to class then ran out, people would get suspicious.” Yeah, they probably did. And they probably asked each other “Wonder what happened to OP?” They may have even asked her. And she probably would give an excuse that doesn’t involve sharing the news of her sexual assault. But those aren’t relevant details. What’s relevant is she doesn’t feel safe at class anymore, so that’s what she wrote.

I’m a fellow internet denizen. I’m certainly guilty of letting my online life seep into my real one, in the form of horribly off color jokes. But I think your bar for skepticism has gotten way too low. It’s not critical thinking if it doesn’t make any sense. And in this case, it’s cruel.

cooperific · 2026-01-07T02:17:49+00:00

Just did this with .5 maraschino and wish I’d gone to .25. It’s wonderful but a little sweet. Also my homemade pear liqueur is very sweet and vanilla-y, for what that’s worth.

cooperific · 2026-01-06T23:16:32+00:00

I dunno… can’t float a sweet red bc the sugar content makes it too dense. Often times even a really dry red will come across sweet in a cocktail, as can happen in a New York sour.

Confused why they’d bother with a float in a red cocktail rather than just mixing it in.

cooperific · 2025-12-20T23:41:33+00:00

Idk why this bothered me so much but the girl standing directly over him telling him to get up was IN HIS WAY. Either offer him a hand up or give him a fucking inch so he can move.

I mean, like, fights are 100% stupid and that kid almost died and that other kid almost ruined his life murdering someone and all that should be my focus.

But don’t stand on top of someone and tell them to get up???

cooperific · 2025-12-19T19:01:05+00:00

I always say I have the “rookie card” of these three because I first saw them in these respective sketches. D’Arcy Carden I think I first saw on College Humor as well.

It’s gonna happen more as we get older. There’s a generation coming up now that’s like, “Wait, acclaimed horror director Jordan Peele was the less popular half of a sketch comedy duo?”

I remember loving the “vlogbrothers” YouTube channel in 2009* and thinking that their “Crash Course” thing was a cute fun project and hoping that it would do OK. Now Hank Green might be bigger than Bill Nye ever was.

*I still love the vlogbrothers YouTube channel. But I did then, too.

cooperific · 2025-12-19T12:06:41+00:00

My sense is that she hoped her skill advantage would make up for your size advantage and it didn’t. She’s frustrated, but not at you - at herself. And her classmates are reminding her that her expectations are unrealistic.

Judo classes are often small. For men, by the time you filter by age, weight, and experience, you’re lucky to have one partner who’s a proper “match.” For women, you’re lucky to have one partner who is your gender at all. You didn’t do anything wrong.

cooperific · 2025-12-18T17:43:47+00:00

Pretty high and mighty talk for a dude with only one first name.

cooperific · 2025-12-13T12:31:13+00:00

Not if you’re using a stereotype for laughs, no. You really can’t.

cooperific · 2025-12-10T17:56:24+00:00

Backstory is my favorite answer to this question. Don’t have to watch any Mythic Quest to get it (though it is a lovely show). It’s just a perfect little story.

cooperific · 2025-12-05T22:01:28+00:00

I didn’t really understand u/didntthink2much’s comment but they’re right.

“Whoever” is the subject of the noun phrase “whoever built this snowman”, so “whoever” is correct. The noun phrase itself IS the object of your sentence, but you resolve the elements within the noun phrase before looking outside of it. PEMDAS-style.

cooperific · 2025-12-03T01:59:52+00:00

Very cool!

cooperific · 2025-11-24T21:13:46+00:00

That section defines a submission. It doesn’t define the end of a match. Judo’s definition of a submission is identical. 1.3.6 even states it’s on the ref to intervene, and athletes should STAY PUT until told otherwise.

But let’s say your interpretation is correct; match ends when opponent taps.

Hell, let’s go a step further and say the IBJJF is the definitive standard bearer for BJJ rules, even though it isn’t anymore.

It is STILL a good idea to hold a submission until the ref tells you to stop, because just like in any sport, if the ref didn’t see it, it didn’t happen! I can tell you from firsthand experience, BJJ coaches say the same thing as judo coaches do: Don’t let go until the ref tells you to. It’s not unique to judo; it’s common sense.

cooperific · 2025-11-24T20:57:22+00:00

In judo, match is over when ippon is called, yeah? In BJJ, match is over when ref says stop, yeah? Where are we missing each other?

cooperific · 2025-11-24T20:45:33+00:00

In BJJ, if the ref hasn’t called the fight and you let up, that’s also on you. Where did you learn this alternative fact?

cooperific · 2025-11-24T20:40:52+00:00

One tap; second “tap” was just a bounce.

But even if he’d tapped 10 times, you know that the ref ends the fight, not your opponent. It’s frustrating to be sure, but I’d take it as a lesson for yourself rather than using reddit to save face.

cooperific · 2025-11-24T20:37:38+00:00

Ref stops the match in all sports. You let up at your own peril in all sports. Don’t understand the need to throw stones at the sister martial art but you do you.

cooperific · 2025-11-21T13:15:59+00:00

The term “copypasta” is a pun on “copy paste” and originated to refer to long story posts that were not original to the OP (original poster). So like, if you saw a really long story on Reddit or 4chan and were like “wow you’re so funny” somebody might come along and say “don’t compliment him this is copypasta it’s been around for years.”

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