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how to get your most judgmental sportsball friend mildly interested in the NFL (opens the original)
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The NFL positioned itself as the most ripe topic of discussion in the past 3 years due to: a greater marketing investment from the NFL, the entrance of Taylor Swift as our nation’s foremost WAG, and lax legislation around sports gambling. So basically, NFL has returned some semblance of monoculture back to the water cooler. Obviously, my familiarity with the franchise comes from the WAG angle. Chloe Kim, the girlfriend of Myles Garrett, the guy who proved his worth by not being Deshaun Watson. (
stop hitting on girls at the sanatorium!! (opens the original)
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Something impressive about Tolstoy is that as a middle aged man in the 19th century, he understood and sympathized with a plight that has plagued women since the beginning of time: sometimes, a woman is just being polite and interacting with a man but the man thinks that actually he has a shot at getting with her and gets all--she’s so in love with me, bro. I’m so in.Many men have a blind spot to this experience, but not Tolstoy. Maybe it’s because he’s a girl dad, but he’s quite sensitive to th
Stop telling me that fruit is nature’s candy (opens the original)
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Telling someone “fruit is nature’s candy” is a hateful act of violence. It’s a weapon deployed when you want to make someone feel bad for eating candy, or it’s a failed rhetorical tool of a parent who wants to leverage “we have food at home” logic. It’s almond mom culture. It’s passing out raisins for Halloween culture. It’s not ethical, and it’s not professional.“Fruit is nature’s candy” is often said in a “oh, you hate waffles?” kind of context. Someone might say “I really enjoy watermelon fla
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