StumpTownStu

What do you mean by this?

The NBA might not be huge in Europe but it's sure as shit bigger over there than any international league is here. And we typically win the gold at the Olympics, while playing under FIBA rules. And frankly, if someone from the a former Yugoslavian wants to talk about Euro basketball, i'll bite, but not a Dane. Not that the Danes aren't fine people. You know I have no beef with Denmark, but let's be real.

Likewise, the NFL is world's more popular in Europe than Rugby is here. People love to talk about how tough rugby is because they don't wear pads. The truth is that American football is a lot more physical. More explosive. F=ma. Rugby has big, strong dudes. American football has big strong dudes who are incredibly fast launching themselves at each other. If Rugby was so impressive, more guys would be dominating the NFL and making millions. Instead, you have Jordan Mailata as a rare success story. Other than that, it's usually a rare fullback, or some random punter.

And we're gonna have to act like you didn't dare try to compare cricket to baseball. A sport often dominated by Indians, arguably the least athletic ethnic group on the entire planet. I'd love to watch Ricky Ponting get a hit off prime Verlander hitting 104 and putting it wherever he wants it.

None of those sports are better than their American counterparts. 

@Midnight1

 Getting worried, bro. Tap in.

Love that butt! In addition to sandwiches, i'll do tacos too, still topped with slaw.

Maybe he should just bump threads with emojis because that definitely "adds to the conversation."

@Calde13

 I am but you are.

She/he is but they are.

She/he is not (isn't).

You/they are not (aren't).

And that's actually pretty straight forward. We've got some down right weird things going on.

Most people aren't at fault. We've got some weird verb conjugations that don't make sense in the context of pretty much any other language, even other Germanic languages. American English really is it's own weird thing.

And you can't rhyme and grandstand, right?

So that we're clear, you're boxing him for rhyming and "grandstanding"? This is getting ridiculous. What did Slim do this time?

You should've eaten them. You know the AT is hogwash when you can host people. No hosting on the PCT. Just high altitude camping and supply drops/runs.

Why was this boxed after all this time?

Typical leftist hyperbole.

It wasn't for experimental purposes, primarily. They wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth. The experimentation, having human guinea pigs, was simply a convenient by-product. We did some pretty ill stuff in this country as well, even going back only 60 or 70 years, and less in some instances.

@Calde13

 A social experiment?

@Calde13

 You guys did experiments on Inuits!? What in the actual fuck!?

This whole 51st state is just plain stupid and I get tired of hearing it. Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories. Obviously they should become the 51st through 63rd states. We could make the provinces 51 through 60, and continue to denote the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut as territories, seeing as how they are far north, expansive, and essentially empty.

We haven't gone about it in the right way, and have alienated our northern neighbors, but there is nothing but good that could come from Canada joining the United States.

Fantastic! Doing my to limit my trips out of town. To California specifically.

Little peepee energy thread.

Alright, I just looked it up. They were named by a Finnish botanist after another Finnish botanist, his colleague, who specialized in plants from the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding region. I still say "Nordmann" sounds more like an anglicized Nordic name than an actual Nordic name but i'm no expert.