@EchoesofWarYT Fifa soccer fans have no idea about American fans...
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OldTabbyBoy
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On June 4, 1974, the Cleveland Indians had one of the worst ideas in sports history: 10 cent beer night.
A cup of Stroh's went from 65 cents down to a dime. Limit of six per trip to the counter, but you could go back as many times as you wanted. So basically unlimited beer.
It gets better. A week earlier these same two teams had brawled in Texas, so Cleveland fans showed up already wanting blood. About 25,000 packed the stadium, way more than expected.
By the middle innings it was total chaos. Fans were setting off firecrackers, throwing hot dogs and rocks, and running onto the field. A woman flashed the crowd. A father and son ran out and mooned the outfield. Streakers everywhere. Rangers manager Billy Martin just stood in the dugout blowing kisses at the drunks screaming at him.
Then the Indians tied it 5-5 in the bottom of the 9th. That's when it fully broke.
A kid ran out and grabbed Rangers outfielder Jeff Burroughs' cap. Burroughs stumbled, and Billy Martin thought his player was getting jumped. So he grabbed a bat and led the entire Rangers team charging onto the field to fight the crowd. Then the Indians came out with bats too, to protect the Rangers from thousands of drunk fans.
A reliever got hit in the head with a steel folding chair. The umpire, Nestor Chylak, got cut by a thrown rock and a piece of a stadium seat, and needed stitches.
He forfeited the game to Texas on the spot and called the fans "uncontrollable beasts," saying he'd never seen anything like it "except in a zoo."
The best part? Cleveland had four more beer nights already scheduled that season.
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@tkohl If you don't get back on that drum kit, I'm gonna stick ya...
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@tkohl The Pontiac 400 V8 was still powering this beast...best you could get in 1979
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@tkohl Hardly recognized her without her spacesuit and purple wig...
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@WallStreetApes This is human behavior and has existed since taxes started in ancient times...
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Black business owner openly says he makes over $200,000 per year, but in 2025 he only had $25,000 on paper
He says he has a tow truck company but the majority of his trucks are “off the books”
Since the income is “off the books” he saves on taxes with the IRS
This is textbook federal tax evasion and fraud. Meanwhile everyone else who is working class in America has to pay astronomical taxes….
This is actually a felony punishable by
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@WallStreetApes Yes, but the winner is the one who shows up and reproduces the next generation...blacks are outbreeding everyone
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Black Woman says White People have no talent, no culture, they’ve done nothing in the world but steal from Black People
“What is white people's talent? — Like, if you take away money and the cultures that they've stolen from, like, what are they good at?”
In this video are countless examples of the contributions of White People to the world, but here’s 10 more inventions:
- Automobile
- Airplane: Wright brothers’ powered flight in 1903, enabling global aviation
- Refrigeration which revolutionizing food preservation and safety
- Polio vaccine: Jonas Salk’s development, nearly eradicating the disease
- Scientific method which is the foundation of modern empirical science
- Magna Carta: 1215 English charter limiting royal power, basis for constitutional governance
- Radio: Wireless transmission, foundational to broadcasting
- Computer
- Electricity generation and distribution
- Antibiotics like penicillin and beyond penicillin: Alexander Fleming’s work extended, plus discoveries like streptomycin for tuberculosis
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Something interesting caught my attention today.
$SPX spent roughly:
• 48 days accepting 6000.
• 50 days accepting 6900.
• It is currently accepting 7500.
If this rhythm continues, it would reach roughly 49–50 days around August 11.
Give or take a day here and there, the timing has been remarkably consistent.
Markets don't only correct through price.
They also correct through time.
Before every major move, the market first has to accept a new value area.
I'm not predicting what happens next.
I'm measuring the process.
Time is just as important as price.
$SPY $QQQ @Optuma
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There was a time when buying a cigarette wasn't as simple as walking into a store. In the most glamorous hotels, smoky jazz clubs, glittering theaters, and elegant restaurants, the cigarettes came to you—carried by impeccably dressed young women balancing ornate trays suspended from silk ribbons around their necks.
They were known simply as cigarette girls, and for decades they became one of the most recognizable faces of nightlife across Europe and the United States.
To many customers, they looked like part of the entertainment. Their uniforms were carefully designed to be eye-catching, their smiles were expected to be effortless, and their trays gleamed with colorful packs of Lucky Strikes, Camels, Chesterfields, cigars, matches, and candy. Hollywood helped turn them into glamorous symbols of a sophisticated night out.
But the glamour often concealed a far more complicated reality.
Most cigarette girls worked long evenings weaving through crowded rooms, relying heavily on tips to survive. They had to remember regular customers, dodge unwanted advances, and keep selling with perfect composure no matter how exhausting the shift became. Rumors swirled that some were quietly expected to flirt with wealthy patrons to increase sales, though experiences varied widely depending on the venue.
The job attracted actresses, dancers, and young women hoping for something bigger. For a lucky few, it became a stepping stone into show business. For most, it was simply hard work wrapped in satin and sequins.
Then everything began to change.
As smoking restrictions spread, vending machines became common, and attitudes toward tobacco shifted dramatically after the mid-20th century, the once-familiar cigarette girl slowly disappeared from everyday life. An occupation that had seemed inseparable from nightlife faded into history almost without anyone noticing.
Today, only a handful remain, mostly in a few casinos and nightclubs along the Las Vegas Strip, serving more as living nostalgia than necessity.
#archaeohistories
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