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crack mayor posted:Bret, Unbroken About the time he finished the first marathon it got so fuckin dust in here Jesus Christ
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crack mayor posted:Bret, Unbroken My god. His mother wasn't a rock, that woman was a mountain. quote:...she grabbed a marker at home and she scrawled this onto your school bag: “Failure is not falling down. Failure is not getting back up.” She wrote the same thing on the refrigerator.
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Jul 10, 2017 01:15
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quote:There were the pills and the one-handed music lessons and everything else, but your mother had refused to sue the man who had hit you. He hadn’t been drinking. It was an accident. He had kids, too. That’s the way she saw it. She had fired her lawyer because he had decided to research the assets of that man. She had yelled at that lawyer, too. How dare he?! And she had yelled at the judge, the judge who told her to sit down and shut up, and who told her lawyer she should sue or be reprimanded for being financially irresponsible. “That man didn’t get up that morning and decide, ‘I’m going to wipe out a 6-year-old!’” she yelled at the judge. I think this part encapsulates Bret's mother perfectly. For her, what happened, happened. Life will present you with many obstacles; this was just the one that was given to her family. It's hard to think about what I would do if something like this happened to my kid. If something does, I hope I, and he, handles it even half as well as they do. Related to the above quote, a guy subbed for the teacher in a class I took some years ago. One of his stories was how he had to have back surgery, and the surgeon botched it. The surgeon was older, and ended up retiring a year or two later. But he and his wife decided not to sue, using the same reasoning as Bret's mother. While I almost admire this mindset, I'm bewildered by it at the same time. If I had to be honest with myself, I'm pretty sure I couldn't do the same.
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Jul 10, 2017 12:35
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crack mayor posted:Bret, Unbroken That was a great read, thanks for sharing!
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Jul 10, 2017 20:42
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http://www.thebourbonsoakedmom.com/?p=618 This is an article about where I grew up. It's pretty good and I hope it's long enough to count as a longform article.
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Jul 11, 2017 07:22
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crack mayor posted:Bret, Unbroken Christ, I wish that I had a tenth of the willpower Bret and his mother have. But like Bret's friend said, if he can do what he's done then I don't have an excuse to not keep going on.
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Jul 12, 2017 22:02
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crack mayor posted:I think this part encapsulates Bret's mother perfectly. For her, what happened, happened. Life will present you with many obstacles; this was just the one that was given to her family. It's hard to think about what I would do if something like this happened to my kid. If something does, I hope I, and he, handles it even half as well as they do. Jesus. She's a Vonnegut character.
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Jul 13, 2017 03:51
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From a heartwarming sports article to one that won't surprise most of the jaded readers around here. I got this from either the OSHA thread or the Schad thread and it's all about boxing being stupid and fixed. UFC's probably similar but I'll keep watching it when there's something interesting on network TV. https://deadspin.com/why-i-fixed-fights-1535114232
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Jul 17, 2017 04:05
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...paign=editorial An excerpt from the autobiography of a Sydney underworld boss about the shooting of his younger brother.
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Jul 23, 2017 17:15
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Surprisingly fascinating piece in the Boston Globe on how the skyrocketing price of baby eels after Japan's 2011 tsunami affected Maine's eel fishers: https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazin...HkfM/story.html
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Jul 28, 2017 18:55
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:From a heartwarming sports article to one that won't surprise most of the jaded readers around here. I got this from either the OSHA thread or the Schad thread and it's all about boxing being stupid and fixed. UFC's probably similar but I'll keep watching it when there's something interesting on network TV. http://deadspin.com/floyd-mayweather-vs-conor-mcgregor-is-the-second-bigge-1797272009 From the same writer, this one begins as a thinkpiece on the Mayweather/McGregor fight but quickly delves in to the how's and why's of expensive, gimmick boxing matches.
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Jul 28, 2017 23:44
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Automatic Retard posted:http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...paign=editorial That was pretty impossible to follow.
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Jul 29, 2017 15:24
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It's more medium-length but I liked this article by Jon Ronson about bespoke porn: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/may/01/scanner-ebook-arms-anus-optical-character-recognition
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a little bit of Monica posted:That was pretty impossible to follow. I didn't think so but strine is my native language.
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Automatic Retard posted:I didn't think so but strine is my native language. I don't know what strine is, but if it involves continual time skips and narcissistic tone shifts, then you've got a leg up.
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Jul 30, 2017 01:55
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Lately I've read some good ones about boats and other ocean-y things. A boat got hijacked. Or did it??? The Highjacking of a $100 Million Supertanker: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-hijacking-of-brillante-virtuoso/ This one is depressing. I grew up in Alaska and the cultural clashes in native villages are already loving depressing without adding the internet. The teenage whaler's tale: http://www.hcn.org/issues/49.12/tribes-a-teenage-whaler-pride-of-his-alaska-village-is-haunted-by-trolls
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Jul 30, 2017 02:09
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HopperUK posted:It's more medium-length but I liked this article by Jon Ronson about bespoke porn: This had me laughing loudly at 3 a.m. and I'm certain my neighbors believe me to either be possessed or some kind of utter loon (and they may be correct on that latter count). Absolute pro-click and yeah, I do brlieve I'm like 13 or something.
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HopperUK posted:It's more medium-length but I liked this article by Jon Ronson about bespoke porn: That's funny but the wrong link: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/29/jon-ronson-bespoke-porn-nothing-is-too-weird-all-requests 8 Ball has a new favorite as of 14:10 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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8 Ball posted:That's funny but the wrong link: Goddammit no one skip this article I am dying over here: "Next they show me a video commissioned by Towels Man. Two women wrapped in towels are talking. There are towels on their heads, too. That’s the important part. Because, after a while, the towels fall from their heads. “It was very important that the towels fall in a certain way,” Dan says. “They couldn’t push them off. Total turn-off! They had to accidentally fall off. It was very difficult to make it happen.” “He described it as ‘disturbing the towels,’” Rhiannon says. On the video, one woman says: “Oh, my towel’s falling down.” The other woman replies: “Just let it slip and fall down your back like a beautiful, dark waterfall.” I stop the interview for a quick toilet break, but something happens in the bathroom. The lock gets stuck. I am locked in the bathroom. It lasts only a few moments, but I can’t help thinking that, had that happened to me when I was eight, 40 years later I might be commissioning Dan and Rhiannon to make a video about it. When I return, Rhiannon says: “We must show you Stamps Man.” Her look is clear: Stamps Man is their most unexpected commission ever."
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Jul 30, 2017 15:01
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crack mayor posted:Bret, Unbroken A little late to the party, but thanks for this, it's incredibly good.
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I am going to start catching up on the thread and read all the articles posted so far! Not in the OP though because that's just unfair.
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:Goddammit no one skip this article I am dying over here: Ron Jonson goes into more detail on this in an episode of This American Life(Episode 620;"To Be Real"). It's pretty funny and lighthearted until one guy pays a pornstar to film a personalized " please don't kill yourself" message.
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Aug 2, 2017 00:48
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Toronto Blue Jays fan tries to come to grips with a drunken mistake he made at a post-season game. http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/ken-pagan-beer-toss-toronto-blue-jays/
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The behind the scenes story of Heavy Metal Parking Lot a 16 minute veritae documentary which serves as a first hand source of burnout teenager metal fans waiting to get into a Judas Priest concert in 1986quote:Heavy metal rules! All that punk poo poo sucks! It doesn’t belong in this world, it belongs on fuckin’ Mars man! What the hell is punk poo poo? And Madonna can go to hell as far as I’m concerned! She’s a dick! Seriously! [Hits self in mouth with microphone] Ow! Heavy metal definitely rules! Twisted Sister, Judas Priest, Dokken, Ozzy, Scorpions. They all rule! [Takes break from rant to acknowledge nearby stoner girl] Yeah, she’s tripping Jack Daniel’s. [Resumes rant] It all rules! All that poo poo rules! This punk poo poo, circle poo poo and the dicks and all, that can all go to hell! I don’t care, you know? I don’t really give a poo poo about that kind of punk gently caress!
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Yankees Suck! The twisted, true story of the drug-addled, beer-guzzling hardcore punks who made the most popular T-shirts in Boston history  quote:At first they were frantically stuffing hundred-dollar bills into priority USPS boxes and sending them to their guy in Sayreville. But they couldn’t get shirts back fast enough. So they struck out on their own. They bought a printing press and rented a warehouse in Chelsea, just outside Boston. There was always something odd going down: pit bull puppies roaming around, guys getting unlicensed tattoos, amateur gardeners attempting to grow psilocybin mushrooms. They named it the Weird House, their production home. A great read* and i barely give two shits about baseball. *there's also a really good podcast from ESPN)too, but this isn't the podcast thread
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Goddammit I was just about to say that the new 30 for 30 podcast series had an episode on these guys
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Aug 6, 2017 20:32
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Here's a fresh one. Small town in Texas goes full libertarian with extremely predictable consequences.
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http://deadspin.com/the-fallout-from-sportswritings-filthiest-gently caress-up-1797691830 Small-town newspaper publishes something in the middle of a sports article that they really really really weren't supposed to publish, hilarity and lawsuits ensue.
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/my-dentists-murder-trial A dentist impersonates an unrelated woman, then his own mother, and THEN pays someone else to impersonate a CIA agent, all to convince the husband of his lover to get a divorce. Later, the husband turns up dead, poisoned by a medical sedative. The rest of the story is a great deal more complicated than just that.
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https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist An investigative piece on the life and background of the mass murderer, disturbing but worth the read.
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Mister Olympus posted:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/my-dentists-murder-trial Don't date: engineers, doctors, dentists
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Pick posted:Don't date: engineers, doctors, dentists 
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Machado de Assis posted:https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist Was just coming to post this.
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Mister Olympus posted:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/my-dentists-murder-trial Huh, this is an odd one. I sort of think the guy wasn't guilty either, but then they make the right point: then what the gently caress happened??
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The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan's tsunami I read this last night and the final 2 lines really got to me.
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8 Ball posted:That's funny but the wrong link: Thanks for this guys, funny and interesting piece. I was really glad that the one woman was able to find peace through the making of the article, too.  E: started talking about something I thought was related but I was just misremembering lol A Spider Covets has a new favorite as of 05:31 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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Aug 25, 2017 05:27
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Helith posted:The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan's tsunami The author has written some books as well. I'd recommend People Who Eat Darkness and In The Time of Madness. Edit. Apparently he also has a book coming out about the tsunami called Ghosts of the Tsunami. Pingiivi has a new favorite as of 07:37 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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The Story of the Ducktales Theme Music The Norwegian version of the Ducktales theme is unexpectedly  quote:Roughly translated, the opening lines of the Norwegian version are “Come along … meet an acquaintance. Scrooge, Donald, people and animals offer you excitement. Here, almost everything happens. Here, almost everybody lives.”
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Ready! Set! Blow! posted:The Story of the Ducktales Theme Music Instantly earwormed. Those Polish kids playing it on the guitar, amazing.  Also how is 'd-d-d-danger lurks behind you' not everyone's favourite bit?
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HopperUK posted:Instantly earwormed. Those Polish kids playing it on the guitar, amazing. Woo hoo
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