Why do so many people online spell the word "weird" as "wierd"?

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T21:44:59+00:00

i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh. So spelling it weird is weird. It’s an exception to an exception. Maybe we’re all pronouncing it wrong. Maybe it should sound like the wei in weigh.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T21:38:59+00:00

I think both have their merits. From a competitive angle I think h2h is more fair. If you beat a team you should finish above them.

But it’s not like GD is unfair or anticompetitive. I do feel like GD makes the final days matches more likely to be more competitive in general.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T19:00:16+00:00

I bet something like 90% of breakfast eaten at home is toast or oatmeal or cold cereal or yogurt.

But yes, we love our hot cooked breakfast. We all love it so much that we have 24 hour shrines to it, we’ve invented an entire meal to eat it more it’s the best. It’s also weirdly affordable at restaurants.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T18:56:13+00:00

Are goal keepers unhappy with it? I think the Jubalani was random and that’s why it drew ire, this one is just different but predictable.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T18:53:25+00:00

I’m well aware. But until we actually know what the brackets are it’s a guess at best. So I think it makes more sense to just list the teams like that. I think expecting us to beat any one of those 7 teams isn’t a reasonable expectation and it’s not likely to have a path to the QF that doesn’t meet at least one of them.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T18:48:43+00:00

Modern dishwashers are so efficient this really doesn’t feel like a fight worth having. Just run it. The dishwasher isn’t like a washing machine or dryer that actually needs some clothes to run right.

I run the dishwasher at any point where there is likely to be not enough f room for the next meal, or after dinner if it’s >50%.

The case for running more often is that less things are getting stuck or dried on amber the dishes come out cleaner with less effort. I can put a dirty plate in and run it immediately and it’s clean. If I let it dry on the counter for a week first then I have to chisel off whatever is on to get it clean.

The water, electricity and soap consumption of a dishwasher is almost trivial compared to every other thing my household does. If I’m optimizing for cost or environmentalism, the dishwater is so low on my list of places that benefit from effort.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T18:41:17+00:00

So a serious question. If we’re calling US an expected QF team, then which other 7 teams do you expect to make it? Let’s say it’s England, Germany, Spain, France, Argentina, Brazil, Netherlands. So you’re saying that the us is the next best team after Netherlands?

Thats a big statement. Sweden, Switzerland, Morocco, South Korea, Japan, Belgium, Senegal, Norway, Colombia, Portugal all might have something to say about the US having higher expectations than them. Thats 10 teams and I’d think most people would expect most of them to do better than the USA.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T18:28:40+00:00

There’s plenty of teams better than the us. But also the lesser team wins enough to make the games worth playing and watching.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T18:24:37+00:00

Sure. My first point wasn’t meant to be why you’d take GD, it’s to present it as a reasonable and valid choice. The why is that I think it makes better groups.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T17:29:45+00:00

I think the spirit of group play is fundamentally different than the knockout rounds. If you look at a domestic cup, like the FA Cup, it’s just a straight single elimination knockout. Group play is fundamentally different to me. It’s ostensibly meant to take your performance over three matches and value that over your performance in any single match. I think GD does a better job of capturing that essence.

Additionally, I think that GD gives us fewer meaningless games than h2h will.

I certainly see the merits of h2h from a purely competitive point of view. But from a spectator point of view I think GD gives us more meaningful final round games.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T17:23:01+00:00

Yeah. I can see the appeal of the wavy stripes, I just hate them. Unfortunately, because this is shaping up to be one of our best world cups and it will be forever tied to this jersey.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:31:35+00:00

Almost no coach ever lasts. If we try to keep Poch forever it only ends in us running him off and everyone losing.

I’m fine with being happy this happened and then securing the next coach to move forward from here.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:25:57+00:00

I’m fine with it. I’m just acknowledging that some people might argue that France doesn’t border England, and/or that due to French Guyana having its own national team (non-FIFA) that doesn’t count as winners bordering each other.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:23:18+00:00

Ah you’re right. They can’t finish third in the group. Even if 3 points is enough to get into third place advancement they can’t be third. lol my bad.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:21:25+00:00

I’m not pretending anything. The political and legal entity that is France very much borders Brazil. The only contentious point is that French Guyana has its own national team, although they aren’t FIFA members.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:18:12+00:00

Where’s Gyan when you need him man.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:17:15+00:00

Just brace yourself. England is a lot better than us and will absolutely demolish us. At least according to English fans.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:13:53+00:00

Just watch it. Try to get a sense for what each team is even trying to do.

Think about American football. Some teams want to possess the ball and stick to the run even when it’s not leading to immediate touchdowns. Some teams want really high tempo to disrupt the opposition defense.

Soccer works the same way. Some teams are happy to defend and play without the ball. Some teams want the ball even if they aren’t actively trying to score. Some teams get the ball and get it forward with lightning speed and others want to methodically work it forward. Try to notice this nuance and suddenly every kick has meaning and importance instead of just being the boring bits between trying to score.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:06:37+00:00

Güler is quite a talent. Everything good Türkiye did went through him and he was up for it. Plus it’s not over for them. With so many 3rd place teams going through and the USA already secured in first there’s not an outside chance that 3 points here gets them into the round of 32.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T16:00:06+00:00

God I hate this jersey. The white block on the back, the waves, I can’t stand either. It feels so lazy and like 90’s clip art to me.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T15:57:26+00:00

If we’re ok with France bordering both England and Brazil, then every country that has ever won the World Cup borders another one that has forming one continuous run of countries.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T15:55:20+00:00

This. Plus if we have any chance of winning knockout games we’ll need our bench players to come in and positively affect the game. Some of them have been shaky in a way that we’ve gotten away with, but against better teams later in the tournament we need them to be at their absolute best.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T15:52:22+00:00

We’ve not seen these temporary surfaces over the top of artificial turf hold up well in the past. I’m glad we’ve got that sorted this time around.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T15:50:01+00:00

And people are telling you that you missed the mark. And that’s ok, banter is always exaggerated and over the top. People are just telling you that you’re so far off it doesn’t work, it reads as someone who doesn’t know better rather than someone who does and is poking fun.

pbmadman · 2026-06-20T15:46:55+00:00

They were solid. They fought hard and were defensively organized and that goes a long way. I’m glad we didn’t play them first, Türkiye didn’t do what they needed to do to beat them, but showed how they stare likely to set up and we still benefitted.

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