The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    unlike in Pittsburgh, where random passers-by tell you the whole history of the Steelers, season by season.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    steeler



    nation
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    unlike in Pittsburgh, where random passers-by tell you the whole history of the Steelers, season by season.

    what was the mood like after they lost the 2011 Super Bowl
  • weeping openly into a gyro

    steelers....nation....
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    15% of Steeler Nation committed sepukku 
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Jane said:

    weeping openly into a gyro


    steelers....nation....
    don't you mean a Primanti Bros. sandwich
    Odradek said:

    15% of Steeler Nation committed sepukku 

    I feel weird for openly wanting them to have lost because I hated the narrative that winning would have made Big Ben's rapeyness go away
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    deep depression, existential despair, animal being eaten, etc.
  • Tamlin said:

    I have been informed by a random passerby that the Vikings lost in overtime

    I was informed by random passerby the nigh the Cubs won
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Anonus said:

    Jane said:

    weeping openly into a gyro


    steelers....nation....
    don't you mean a Primanti Bros. sandwich
    Gyro. Always gyro.

    I mean, I guess you'd expect that more of an Iggles fan, but Greek street food is a Pennsylvania tradition.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    That is why me and Sredni can pronounce it correctly

    Well actually I can pronounce it correctly because it came up in an episode of Hercules the animated series but you know
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    Tamlin said:

    I have been informed by a random passerby that the Vikings lost in overtime

    I was informed by random passerby the nigh the Cubs won
    I watched them win

    Sometimes I feel guilty about having that interest, tbh >_>
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh no, Anonus likes baseball. How awful and wrong.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Pennsylvania has weirdly high populations of Greeks and Armenians and such. I know that a lot of them settled here after the Three Pashas began their genocide campaign, but why here, I am not precisely sure.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Baseball? More like... debasedball.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    Oh no, Anonus likes baseball. How awful and wrong.

    It's unbecoming for nerds I fear

    Also it means I'm an Oreo doesn't it
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    if you are an Oreo, I am gonna dunk you in milk and eat you

    now for vore jokes
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Anonus said:

    Oh no, Anonus likes baseball. How awful and wrong.

    It's unbecoming for nerds I fear

    Also it means I'm an Oreo doesn't it
    Now you're just being stupid.

    Setting aside the fact that a lot of people of colour like and play sports, the Negro Leagues were one of the first really visible non-white sports organisations in the US. Like, what are you even talking about?

    Also, you're mixed-race. I think that disqualifies you from that insult in the first place.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Like, you're doing the paranoid obsessive thing in a way that makes minimal sense again and you need to stop.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Marxist-Leninist-Simpsonskidist
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    (Baseball is one of the most stereotypically nerdy sports in existence, too. There's a reason why they call weird esoteric sniping "inside baseball.")
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Odradek said:

    Marxist-Leninist-Simpsonskidist

    Stop. Now. Don't even start.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I was just saying a funny word my brain spontaneously generated
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Broom Broom
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    My dad used to like baseball, and he was a tremendous nerd. Its nerdiness was the appeal for him, he considered it a game of numbers.
  • edited 2016-11-06 23:54:52
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Odradek said:

    Marxist-Leninist-Simpsonskidist

    I snerked hard. Think it's the kidist that does it.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Fair enough...?

    All told, it's not an inaccurate description of Tumblr/Twitter Marxist reasoning.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    My dad used to like baseball, and he was a tremendous nerd. Its nerdiness was the appeal for him, he considered it a game of numbers.

    I freely admit that I can't wrap my head around most of the stats and stuff.

    Though I know they are useful, I feel that the emphasis on them a lot of discussion has undercuts the human element that I appreciate.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    That said, baseball seems to attract a smarter crowd and a higher level of discourse than football and, to an extent, basketball do.
  • don't tell me you've never heard of noted socialist writer Vyacheslav Simpsomkid
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Which is funny, because football is even more involved from a strategic viewpoint, particularly on the player level. A football player needs to be fast and built, but he also needs to be able to keep all sorts of complicated manoeuvres and positions straight in his head while dealing with all this chaos on the field.
  • Anonus, sports are literally the blackest thing. It doesn't stop being black until you get into esoteric European sports or winter sports
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Shinpusonsukiddô.

    The ancient Japanese art of meming hard or hardly meming.
  • whyyyyy does Windows Defender keep hanging when I try to update it
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    You know, according to the actual 1988 Jamaican bobsledding team, the East-German team was very nice and friendly and sent them a gift basket when they arrived.
  • edited 2016-11-07 00:11:01
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    What Vash is referencing always bothered me, since like all of the discussions I've seen, when it wasn't idolizing them as higher beings or some other weird idolatry, pret-ty much ignored the strategic element entirely in lieu of just talking about personal bests and seemingly not really... analyzing the game? It's sort of like the comics meta-narratives (which I am only using as an example and would not like to see lead to a nastier conversational thread), but with sports teams, and that always really rubbed me the wrong way. About equally to the seeming ignore of potentially debilitating injuries.

    I mean I've gotten my strats fix from being into tennis but it still bothered me growing up. Don't want to give off the wrong impression by my positive comment being so much shorter than the complaining part, just what I would like to see is not my experience and finding what I'd like requires building back that initial investment and then doing some more searching. Egh.

    Shinpusonsukiddô.

    The ancient Japanese art of meming hard or hardly meming.

    Nice.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Personal loyalty to sports teams has always been weird to me, because they're all composed of mercenaries who generally aren't from the city they're representing.
  • Odradek said:

    Personal loyalty to sports teams has always been weird to me, because they're all composed of mercenaries who generally aren't from the city they're representing.

    ive said this before but it would all be much more interesting to me if people rooted for teams based on which ones they thought were the most interesting from a strategic standpoint as opposed to which ones are from their state

    as is it seems... nonsensical?
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    My dad is more a fan of particular players and coaches who demonstrate really exceptional skills or strategic insight, and there are plenty of people on sports radio who think similarly, but part of their enthusiasm is the desire for someone like that to play for their city, or to just put on a good show. There was one running back from years ago who Dad showed me and Mom a bunch of videos of—Barry Sanders, it was—who was just entrancing. This guy danced around men twice his size, got them to spin around three times, flew out of pileups of six, eight, ten men. That's amazing.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Barry Sanders seems to explain why so many people are Lions fans

    Also, I find it more rewarding to like a sport better than any one team

    Both of this year's World Series entrants had their own appeal (the racist logo of the American League champs aside)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Also it's fun to watch minutia like how two of the members (the Cubs' Javier Baez and the Indians' Francisco Lindor) of the opposing teams were clearly bros
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    I've noticed that not all of the sports radio folks are actually so bad as the worst stereotype, though I still find myself not caring for them anyway. The fervor saps me while reading text does the opposite (save for tennis or swimming), which contributed to my getting only so much understanding from other commentators, something I didn't notice until much later when my interests had already drifted and fixated differently.
    Anonus said:

    Also, I find it more rewarding to like a sport better than any one team
    I relate to this too.
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    I feel a little slow for only just now realizing how much male fanservice is in MSG IBO, even though, duh, been watching it weekly.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    What is MSG IBO?

    Also, another admission: chronic traumatic encephalopathy cuts into whatever appeal football would have to me, despite it not having much even before I found out about it
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, the newest in a very long line of giant robot shows that are only kind of about giant robots but mostly about war and emotions.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    would I enjoy Gundam?
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Beyond generalizations (the likes of which Vash brought up), I can only speak for MSG IBO, though... probably not that one specifically, at least? There's a lot of death (as expected from being about war), war never stops being a central focus, and while the suffering isn't needlessly grim or tasteless to me, it also strikes me as something that would make you very uncomfortable. But I could be wrong. The entire first season is free to watch on Crunchyroll, so I suggest checking out the first three episodes for a good snapshot of what it's like.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Anonus said:

    would I enjoy Gundam?

    I value personal experience over other peoples' opinions, so my recommendations is to watch it yourself. Try one episode.
  • kill living beings
    there's also a sort of gundam spectum of darkness. IBO is, as far as i understand, pretty much the darkest gundam so far. most of them are varying levels of dark so sometimes people are like yeah i like gundam a but not gundam b, that's too edgy.
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