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@mike_petriello This is why sport is beautiful. It lives in the moment. They may get thrashed in the next game but in that moment, they were equal to the best, they were living the dream. It's beautiful because it's fleeting, the moment, el momento, the brief parenthetical eclipse of time.

I love soccer because you can score zero goals and have it be the best day in the history of your nation

@spacedglam I often feel this about films. People may think it's good to know a lot but it's actually quite an empty experience since it's an everyday subject that, perversely, since you know too much, you have almost nothing to add that will find any foothold in reality.

No it’s awful

@AriWasserman The only way to win is to score and an opposition can make it their mission not to score themselves, necessarily, but to prevent you from scoring. And if you're well organised, tenacious, and lucky, you might draw, or possibly even snatch victory. Peace to the Cape Verdeans.

I don't know anything about soccer, so forgive me for my ignorance, but how is it humanly possible for Cape Verde to assemble a team that can prevent Spain from scoring a goal?

@baldween_n @dialecticalsaba His first two were great, his next few were good, the rest careen between unwatchable hogwash and entertaining hogwash.

@dialecticalsaba Being completely sincere, as someone who's only seen unbreakable, which of his movies are actually good

This is completely true, not sure why people think this is a bad take

@AmusedToDeath1 I think the opposite is true, qualitatively. Curb at its best was better but Seinfeld never dropped off as much. The first 4 seasons of Curb in particular are masterful, every episode is like a magic trick.

Curb is amazing ofc, but the peak of Seinfeld is superior. Curb was never peak enough to alter culture like Seinfeld did, or even It's Always Sunny. You understand the implication? Because it's the implication that matters

@LilUziVartan @AmusedToDeath1 Every episode of Curb has very intricately designed plots and subplots. Structurally it's identical to Seinfeld; the only difference is the dialogue is ad-libbed as opposed to written.

@AmusedToDeath1 Problem is Curb is just Larry doing stand up, and he is in fact incredibly annoying. Seinfeld had characters and plots

@BarcaWorldwide He sounds like Reynolds Woodcock.

🚨🗣 Lionel Messi on being 'weird' and 'strange': ▪️“I know I’m a bit weirder than most people in some things... I like being alone a lot.” ▪️“Sometimes the chaos at home with the three kids running all over the place ends up saturating me, and I need my moments of loneliness.” ▪️“In those moments when I’m alone I can be just lying down watching TV or a match. Nothing special, just being quiet.” ▪️“It depends on my mood, but very small things, tiny details, can really affect me... If someone moves something from where I left it or changes what I had planned for the day, it can already put me in a bad mood.” ▪️“I’m very structured. If I have my day organized in a certain way and something happens in the middle that isn’t planned, I’m already annoyed.” ▪️“When I’m like that, I shut down. I don’t communicate it, I process it inside.”

@Nomads4Pritzker He's not supposed to be some great actor. He's merely playing "the host" to the brilliant ensemble around him. And his amateurish acting is actually hilarious because he's essentially one of us, barely keeping it professional.

I’ve been watching old episodes of Seinfeld. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander deliver masterclass comedic performances episode after episode, while, in counterpoint, Seinfeld and the guy who plays Kramer give (respectively) some of the most wooden and histrionic reads ever conceived.

@RockyGoodGirl @urlofcork @jk_rowling No

@never_cursed_88 @urlofcork @jk_rowling Are Scots from very remote regions not allowed to travel?

Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts" "They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling

@urlofcork @jk_rowling Possibly true, if they doing a kind of pantomime, as you say

@never_cursed_88 @jk_rowling Read the time line , most Scots seemed to think its fine. Being Irish we have a common Celtic link and I know what I heard. Now the lads might have been hamming it up a sort of Scots version of Stage Irish but defo legit

@urlofcork @jk_rowling Perhaps something happened but a Scot would probably say they ur'nae as opposed to they're nae, and again, Lassie, doesn't fit the profile of the people you're describing. The quotes seem too stereotypical to be real.

@never_cursed_88 @jk_rowling I should know for I was there...

@BBW_BFF Someone said the other day they didn't understand why people liked horror movies. And I said a similar thing. I don't even know if I believe it, but it sounded vaguely logical. I think my own receptivity is more aesthetic, based on the way the genre creates physical sensations.

kinda think horror movies serve the same emotional function for humanity as the Greek tragedy once did: catharsis. same goes for film noir. you get to feel some bad feelings for a couple hours, and then you exorcise them.

@flapdoodle91296 @Miss_AshG MJ took the opposite tack for rationalisation: it was all innocence and purity, and if anyone suggested otherwise it was their own corruption and degenerancy, not his. Simple and perhaps unconvincing but potent giving the image of himself he propogated.

Kudos to 60 Minutes Australia for having the guts to give a voice to Michael Jackson’a victims while the rest of the world is worshipping a pedophile

@ChloeNumberIII It's like some choirboy desperately trying to be like PTA

The most embarrassed I've been for an actor in a theater was watching this scene. She hasn't given a good (lead) performance since 2019

@river_dusty Maybe this is a shrewd tactic from MJ. Happily admit to the sleepovers and act like the world is crazy and degenerate for even having the thought of something beyond that, and basically avoiding the ritualised denial process with the media.

This is after serious allegations that threatened his career. He continues to be open about sleeping in a bed with young boys. Flagrantly. The only obvious explanation for this is pedophilia.

“Michael was being falsely accused” Because he was a GROWN MAN choosing to sleep in a bed with YOUNG boys! Why didn’t he stop after the 1993 allegations? Surely people on his team told him how bad of a look it was! Only a compulsive paraphilia explains this behavior

@kirawontmiss Kanye?

there’s only one person and we all know who it is

@1dayattatime1 @husseymfhussey @wil_da_beast630 The elite *might* have been better but the depth inarguably wasn't.

@husseymfhussey @wil_da_beast630 10 of the twenty on the list is from Jack’s era.

Flip the top two. The Tiger never caught The Bear.

@Shadowplayer93 @PittsburghPrice @nolantenct Closer to a holiday destination than a word tbh

@PittsburghPrice @nolantenct "meritious" isn't even a word

GEORGE CLOONEY HAS TWO OSCARS?

@Tomolivia24 Cameo is his career-best performance lol

PTA: Tom Cruise did this movie for no money. TC: I wanna help younger filmmakers. #Magnolia