03-06-2023, 10:58 PM
(02-15-2023, 12:31 PM)Nately120 Wrote: You get this same argument any time you say something negative about the Steelers or Tom Brady. Oh you miserable Bengals fan seething over all their Super bowls living rent free in your head 24-7.
Politics and team sports continue to fuse.
I know I told this story before, but when I was 12 or so one of my classmates said Brett Favre was drafted by the Packers and I said he was drafted by the Falcons. This kid insisted he was right and I was frustrated. I went through the trouble of actually finding the info to support my case in the pre-internet age and he just said "Look how upset you are, I'm totally calm" and he just sort of walked away.
I sort of envy that he was able to be so wrong and then just say "Well, you're upset so I won" and that seems like the bottom of the barrel, 12 year old boy argument I'm hearing here. He was wrong, but he changed the parameters of the argument to not be about who was right about Brett Favre's draft team, but to be about who was calm. Oh, Trump and DeSantis piss you off? Well then your life must suck. Checkmate. That's not evening bringing up that Trump and DeSantis themselves represent the party of getting all bent out of shape over everything.
Ah well, so be it. I'm mellow now. Guess I win. George Soros, bitches.
I met a girl at a party once. She bartended at a place I frequented and she was kind of cute. At some point, we were sitting together and conversing. I'd always noticed that she had a tattoo of one of Ralph Steadman's Hunter S Thomspon drawings on her arm. I was pretty sure I was going to hit this one out of the park. I asked her if she'd read any of his work, and she said no, but she liked the movies. The look on my face was probably strike one here. Strike two was when I said that it was wild that he was actually from Kentucky. She got very pissy and told me that he definitely was from Colorado, not Kentucky. Like she was pissed-off mad and kind of hostile at this point. I let it go.
To this very day, it annoys the shit out of me. I guarantee that whatever she's doing now, she probably still believes she was right.
