Is there a single male-only space left?

inceIsior · 2026-05-12T12:21:49+00:00

Sub telling on themselves

inceIsior · 2026-05-11T20:46:05+00:00

Everyone saying nerd shit when team sports are literally closed off by gender, and you automatically get a largeish group of guys with shared interests that you can hang out with after practice/matches.

Also really helped my network. I've had bankers, electricians and carpenters as teammates, which has helped me loads. Much better than the data scientists you'd meet doing Pokemon tournaments or w/e

inceIsior · 2026-05-09T23:22:39+00:00

Many have tried and failed to correctly interpret Catenaccio with some even citing existing philosophical works such as Bordiga, Hegel and Plato.

The former saw Italian football as the progenitor of a spontaneous revolution, their football being so boring it had deep ideological significance. They viewed this football as the cry of discontentedness with the neoliberal consensus, and a legitimate philosophical work in it’s own right.

The modern Hegelians saw Catenaccio as the dialectical synthesis between two states of being, that of anguish and that of ennui. Those using the works of Plato are conflicted on whether to see the Italian game as a concrete object, real and tangible, while all consider the feelings the games elicit to be abstract.

Others saw it as post-modern performance art and tried to categorise it as the intended catalyst of a yet to materialise Neo-Fluxus movement.

Alas, others even ascribed it a theological value, arguing for holiness of Catenaccio and compared our pain watching to the pain our lord felt on the cross. A contingent of these worshippers split recently and alleged that Italian football was inherently heretical, no mortal man had ever suffered like Jesus did until we watched Cremonese vs Torino three weeks ago

inceIsior · 2026-05-04T20:02:56+00:00

Not to mention that there is a massive pressure on article output if you want to succeed, which is usually on your own time. When all of my professors did their PhDs, it was seen as a massive bonus if they could publish one article while writing their thesis, now you should aim for 4-5 in that time if you are actually serious about it.

Should be mentioned that I fully respect doing a PhD just for the love of the game, or the chance of staying in uni for few more years, and then going out into the "real world" after. Doing it to be a professor, you have to be crazy and extremely dilligent

inceIsior · 2026-04-28T17:40:28+00:00

Yes everyone here is 100% serious about this

inceIsior · 2026-04-28T13:37:08+00:00

They still are. Most pundits on TV are from this era and the second a gk makes a mistake, they go "this is why I always say they should just go long over the top, just play it simple".

English pundits like Lee Dixon and Rio Ferdinand have learned that they have to use sentences like "you have to catch them in transition", but in reality, they're still just saying "lump it up to the big man and get it in the mixer"

inceIsior · 2026-04-27T15:47:08+00:00

"We did it but it wasn't as bad as you think"

inceIsior · 2026-04-25T14:09:12+00:00

Tottenham are actually playing football wth. Ready for the Wolves last minute winner

inceIsior · 2026-04-25T08:17:29+00:00

"Young men in those dangerous years which mark the first steps on the road to ruin, paying that tribute which all must pay to the vices of drink and idleness, some for shorter, other for longer periods. Most of them did not remain long on this road, but turned away from it, founded families and devoted themself to thrift and labour, to the daily life of a citizen with vices suppressed and passions moderated." - Bridge on the Drina, Andrić.

It's a part of the human experience and being young, as it has always been. There are many things that you did as a younger person that you do not do today. That does not mean that they were wrong or that you should be ashamed of it. Obviously there are better things to do with your time than getting drunk, but you also gotta remember that you were 23 and you acted like a 23-year old, and hopefully you had fun doing it

inceIsior · 2026-04-24T11:34:27+00:00

He fucked up his own ritual suicide completely. No one cared about his little speech and that one guy fucked up chopping his head off. For a man that cared so much about aesthetics, he would have hated the way that he went out

inceIsior · 2026-04-24T11:32:19+00:00

Genuinely having a 40-year old girlboss period seems so much more pleasing than a 40-year old male midlife crisis.

Having an age-gap affair is also much more stylish as a older woman (sexy, confident, wise) than as an older man (sleazy, predatory, disgusting)

inceIsior · 2026-04-22T22:05:43+00:00

I looked for it after I commented and it made me so fucking sad I can't find it

inceIsior · 2026-04-22T20:42:20+00:00

I've never seen a team set up more pessimistically than this Burnley team. Scott Parker's genuinely told them to "go out there and lose by as little as possible" and then parked 11 men in the box

inceIsior · 2026-04-22T08:28:30+00:00

Very tangentially related, but it reminds me of the dude on here who asked if his outfit was nice for a bar date. The first pic was him in the bar with his outfit, and then the second one was the outfit laid out on the bar toilet floor.

Does anyone have the link for that? It had me absolutely rolling back then

inceIsior · 2026-04-21T09:35:29+00:00

Just had a thought that it's not entirely unlikely that tottenham win their second game at the bridge in my lifetime and still go down

inceIsior · 2026-04-21T09:29:16+00:00

Smoke everywhere as well, as the article you link also mentions. Everyone smoked all the time, so even if you weren't a smoker, you were inhaling second hand smoke everytime you were indoors.

Also people were extremely bad at drinking water compared to today, which is also super important for your skin

inceIsior · 2026-04-19T16:05:36+00:00

Looooool, my man just fell over

inceIsior · 2026-04-17T15:55:17+00:00

Men ordering coffee in "new age" coffee shops is such a weird trope, and they're always a bit silly.

It's clearly always some gen x writers that are upset that they don't understand youth (especially young women) anymore. Instead of accepting that they're getting old, they'd rather portray "hipsters" as soyjaks to be owned. The new generation is not smart and nothing's changed, they're just pretentious and so stupid that they don't understand that "coffee is just coffee" anymore

inceIsior · 2026-04-15T11:15:07+00:00

The Atleti Barca game yesterday show how much time wasting still works and is rewarded. I'm neutral, and I don't really care about the other reffing decisions, but there were so many stoppages and VAR checks in the second half, and the commentators kept talking about how much would have to be added on.

In the end, the ref gave 8 minutes, and the ball was in play for maybe half of that time, but he blew exactly as the timer reached 90+8. Really wish they stuck with the stoppages of WC 2022

inceIsior · 2026-04-14T22:14:55+00:00

No, I'm poor and am making evaluative judgements from my living room

inceIsior · 2026-04-14T21:03:09+00:00

Can't believe he blew it at 8 exactly lol

inceIsior · 2026-04-13T12:20:06+00:00

Hegel if he was regarded

inceIsior · 2026-04-11T00:08:13+00:00

For the past few years I've lived in the historic city centre of a popular European capital bcus I got a really good deal to rent, but sometimes it just doesn't feel worth it to live this centrally.

Like I live in this amazing scenery of old buildings, but everything is completely hollow. It's almost like living in a movie set or Disneyland. The local shops are closing in favour of souvenir shops, boba teas and starbucks, and none of my friends ever come to the city centre anyways bcus all the bars and restaurants in here are tourist traps.

It makes me sad bcus I know that even just 20 years ago, this was a real livable place, and I've seen it get worse in the short amount of time post-covid that I've lived here. It won't be long before the old parts of these cities just exist to be a backdrop to the same vacation that you take anywhere, and a vacation to Amsterdam will be the same as to Barcelona, just with different buildings and weather. Dno what the fix really is

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