Okay, so as a teenager I was a super nerd and got into swords. I took olympic style fencing lessons first, then got into the ren faire and also did some stage combat. Sadly, I have health problems and I couldn’t keep my knees in place, and had to quit. The difference between those is probably the same difference between WWE style wrestling, and BJJ. One is done with choreography, one is a competition.

They’re both sports. I don’t understand why people think the choreography somehow means it doesn’t have skills or rules? It was the same skillset, different rules. Stage combat was unpadded and used heavier weapons that left more bruises when we fucked up the choreography. They’re different, sure, but the amount of overlap is underappreciated.

Because they need to sell papers?

It was just the “goal” aesthetic I was trying to meet as a young woman. So many of my classmates developed an eating disorder or just started using drugs because the “strung out supermodel” look was what everybody wanted.

Its just a precursor carrying the same message kids are gettimg today. That you’re worthless if you don’t look the right way, and you should hurt yourself to look the right way.

It’s from a federal law passed under the Bush administration, tying funding to standardized testing scores.

But it was bipartisan, so you’re not wrong.

It’s honestly wild to me that people in my age bracket can grow up with heroin chic, and think it somehow just vanished into the ether. I don’t know why it’s so hard for them to understand that kids are just getting hit with an evolved form of the same bullshit message that you’re worthless if you don’t fit a specific aesthetic.

Gotta love how many self-identified leftists we have that are actually confused authoritarians.

Yeah, mania can present as rage.

Oh, it’s not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.

No, he just doesn’t carrot all.

Oh heavens, it’s been much more than a quarter decade. Why else was Obama’s campaign so effective? It was pitched as if our protests had actually worked and somebody up top was finally listening.

They’ve turned Hanlon’s Razor into a sword. Weaponized incompetence to maximize plausible deniability.

If you think nobody complained about the Patriot Act, you weren’t paying attention.

But this is the digital age, so it’s clearly e-migrating.

We had a sock basket when I was a kid!

Yeah, I think he’s dead too.

Somehow Walmart is leading innovation, launching a butthole logo in '07. Truly ahead of their time.

Teddy sniffing glue, he was twelve years old, fell from the roof on East 2-9, Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug, twenty six reds and a bottle of wine.

But people don’t like that song, so you’re right about not wanting to talk about it.

If you can be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal, I can call you Betty; and Betty, when you call me, You can call me Al

You jest, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

You can’t just say you made a youtube rant about it without posting a link.