yhwx

Those are World Cup threads, not soccer threads.

And what is your ruling on if it should be created?

I propose a soccer thread.

Consider this proposition.

TV’s Frink said:

I’m betting you could have found a soccer thread for that.

I googled it. There is no such thread.

America’s 2017 bad streak continues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/sports/soccer/usmnt-world-cup.html

COUVA, Trinidad and Tobago — Just win the game. Win the game against Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, the United States national team knew, and nothing else would matter.

But the Americans didn’t win. Over 90 excruciating minutes, and then a half-dozen more in extra time, it all went very, very wrong. Even a tie would have been enough for the Americans. Even with a loss, they still might have been all right, depending on other results. But those went wrong, too.

And so the United States is not going to the World Cup in Russia next summer, but Panama is, and Honduras might. “It was a perfect storm kind of a night, where everything that could have possibly went wrong did, in this stadium and two others,” Michael Bradley, the American captain, said.

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

I do not understand.

The new *sigh*.

Whatever you say.

I got a TLJ spoiler.

Warbler said:

I do not understand.

The new *sigh*.

I like it because the movies are good. I wouldn’t have liked it if they weren’t good.

Diff’rent Strokes for Diff’rent Folks, I guess.

It’s not that it would have been hard to find an example of disagreement, it’s just that was the first example that came to mind.

It’s Literal Day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/10/trump-proposes-iq-tests-face-off-with-tillerson-after-secretary-of-state-calls-him-a-moron/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_pp-trump-iq-8am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

President Trump proposed an “IQ tests” faceoff with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after the nation’s top diplomat reportedly called the president a “moron” and disparaged his grasp on foreign policy.

In an interview with Forbes magazine published Tuesday, Trump fired a shot at Tillerson over the “moron” revelation, first reported by NBC News and confirmed by several other news organizations, including The Washington Post.

“I think it’s fake news,” Trump said, “but if he did that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”

Possessed said:

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

I seem to remember a while back I said that trailers should be considered spoilers and everyone yelled at me and said I was stupid so

Hey, I agreed with you.

Well yeah but that’s kind of a given.

Not really.

TV’s Frink said:

I seem to remember a while back I said that trailers should be considered spoilers and everyone yelled at me and said I was stupid so

Hey, I agreed with you.

Warbler said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

If we removed our national anthem, would this become our new one?

Sorry, but I don’t think so.

Literal Day.

They’re invisible fucks. People tend to have more of those.

Contractually obligated quarterly bump.

Update, Monday, October 9, 2017 at 9:30 P.M. EDT:

The following threads have been incorporated into the Index:

• The Stoned Thread,
• Last Movie Not Seen,
• Last Movie You Can’t Unsee,
• What do you look like?,
• The X-Files,
• Now with 100% more Inception spoilers (was: xhonzi’s Guide to Not Being Ignored by xhonzi (or to get your groove back)),
• The prediction thread,
• The Sober Thread,
• Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett R.I.P. 25/ 06/ 2009,
• Linda Hamilton Returns To Terminator - New Film A Direct Sequel To Judgement Day,
• Should TV’s Frink resume working on his resume?,
• Posters,
• The Completely Unreasonable Thread. Fink-isms and maximum pontification are welcomed and encouraged.,
• What’s So Bad About California?,
• Discussion Thread for The Invisible Thread,
• What are you secretly afraid of?,
• Halloween avatars,
• Are we wasting our lives?,
• The Message … What, if anything, did you take away from it?,
• Did I dream at all?,
• Did I dream it all?,
• Did I Dream Of Electric Sheep?,
• Maxi-wings for that time of the month.,
• Dentist Horror Stories,
• EVERYTHING HARRY POTTER,
• Petition to TV’s Frink’s boss, requesting that he (Frink) be fired,
• Stream of Consciousness, and
• TV Series You Didn’t Like But Kept Watching.

Plus:

• A broken link was fixed, and
• The number of threads in the Off Topic section was updated in the introductory text

Some stats:

The last time I did this analysis, the Index only had 12,835 characters.

Just by eyeballing it, I can see that the “Forum Goofiness / Humor” is the largest section of the Index. Perhaps this says something about the Off Topic section of OT.com.

There are links to 264 threads in the index. These links comprise 65% of the Markdown source of the Index. The opening text, by contrast, only comprises 1% of the Markdown source.

Some big stuff going on in the invisible thread. Big stuff going on. Big. Stuff.

TV’s Frink said:

There is, and I generally agree. But at some point the evidence is overwhelming.

The problem is, everybody’s definition of the point is different. We’re also all dummies on the Internet with no substantial training in these fields. I don’t make assumptions about your mental health because it would be inappropriate to do so. Neither would I make assumptions about other aspects of your health. Even if I were trained in the psychology profession, I still would not be able to make judgements based on posts on an Internet forum.

Health is serious business. Let’s leave it those who are serious practitioners of that business.

DuracellEnergizer said:

yhwx said:

There has to be a reason that psychology associations warn against their members discussing the mental health of public figures.

“They’re pansies. All of them.”

Ok.

There has to be a reason that psychology associations warn against their members discussing the mental health of public figures.

The only thing that will push me on to it is a statement from a certified psychiatrist who has personally seen Trump confirming so.

I wouldn’t like to hastily jump on the “Trump is mentally ill!” train, but I did find this article interesting.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/

Research has shown that changes in speaking style can result from cognitive decline. STAT therefore asked experts in neurolinguistics and cognitive assessment, as well as psychologists and psychiatrists, to compare Trump’s speech from decades ago to that in 2017; they all agreed there had been a deterioration, and some said it could reflect changes in the health of Trump’s brain.

In interviews Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s (with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, and others), he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which — and this is no mean feat — would have scanned just fine in print. This was so even when reporters asked tough questions about, for instance, his divorce, his brush with bankruptcy, and why he doesn’t build housing for working-class Americans.

Trump fluently peppered his answers with words and phrases such as “subsided,” “inclination,” “discredited,” “sparring session,” and “a certain innate intelligence.” He tossed off well-turned sentences such as, “It could have been a contentious route,” and, “These are the only casinos in the United States that are so rated.” He even offered thoughtful, articulate aphorisms: “If you get into what’s missing, you don’t appreciate what you have,” and, “Adversity is a very funny thing.”