normcorerockwell.bsky.social
You might know me from:
old Deadspin comments | Defector comments | pre-crash BigSoccer
Interests:
not getting hit by cars | rock climbing/bouldering | soccer/Liverpool F.C. | bad music | MoCo/DMV | cheap Japanese food | copywriting
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I was told there were 99 problems and these bitches weren’t one
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It would not surprise me one bit to learn that Mel Kiper, Jr’s father’s name isn’t Mel and the “Jr” is there for no reason.
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My daughter’s attending UMD in the fall so we went on a campus tour. The tracks running through campus look ready to go, but alas, the trains won’t start running until the spring of her junior year.
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The true measure of a man is the distance between the ground and his leather-lined heated driver’s seat
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No one gives a shit about the general election
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I remember the good old days when every corporate social media avi turn rainbow in June and in exchange, line go up and 401(k) go brrrrrr
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To Trader Joe’s credit (or detriment, based on your perspective), they haven’t raised prices on eggs. They’ve kept the prices low and limited to two dozens per customer. This was the first time I’ve seen the section completely replaced.
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Oh snap (literally)
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Dude either thinking about the sound of one hand clapping or trying to remember the name of that one actress who was in an early 00s Sandler film
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Also, I realize in arguing with a screenshotted moron but good luck assembling a game console without using any imported components.
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If they made Switch 2 in the US, $450 would be the cost of a single Joycon. No, not the whole thing, just the part that slides out.
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Seems like they have a similar issue with punters but they got around it by importing Aussie rules guys
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To piggyback on the earlier Justin Tucker question: are NFL placekickers a scarcer commodity than starting NFL QBs?
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But where will they find attorneys to represent them
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Imagine crying to the media because Tampon Tim hurt your feels
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The last segment with @langealexandra.bsky.social about adaptive reuse hit close to home, literally. This is what White Flint Mall in suburban DC, just around the corner from my house, looks like now, almost 10 years after it was torn down
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So you too have multiple jars of apple butter sitting unopened in your pantry because a realtor dropped them off a couple of Decembers ago?
Fellow Montgomery County resident here.
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I have a high school senior and experienced the admissions office marketing firsthand. For a few months, they were sending something every 2-3 weeks, and they weren’t just postcards - we’re talking trifolds, fully bound booklets, heavy paper stock etc.
All in an effort to goose the app numbers.
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*just checked and NYU’s acceptance rate is 12.6%. Maybe give a little more aid so you’re not so expensive? Also get your shit together, USC
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I mean, as an Ivy in New York City, they don’t even have to try to get their applicants/rejections numbers up. They can simply exist as a big city school that people have heard of and maintain a sub-10% acceptance rate (see also: NYU, UCLA)
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Oh, and Matt Turner hasn’t been a starting club goalie since 2022, except for that half season at Forest and it shows. But he’s cashing that Premier League paycheck so he’s not moving.
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They can stay in Europe and do that too! Like, go to a midlevel German or French club and run the engine room or lead the line. But they’d have to take a pay cut, so
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Losing to Panama and Canada feels pretty poetic too. At this point, USMNT would probably lose to Greenland too.
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The more I think about it the weirder it is that we take it for granted that every grocery store carries an abundance of bird fetus at low prices and the availability of cheap bird fetus as consumer goods is almost essential to our way of life.
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Those Fox News personalities are getting car service rides from Long Island or Connecticut every morning right? They’re probably experiencing the benefits of congestion pricing firsthand.
And with an unchecked Trump admin, the dog is very much capable of catching up to the car.
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This is probably the best description of downtown/Georgetown/Adams Morgan I’ve seen
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Pretty sure Japan has zero locomotive-pulled passenger trains (other than tourist trains)
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They’re all extra dumb though.
Policing didn’t reduce crime. Economic recovery did (see: mid-90s, post-COVID shutdowns).
There’s no evidence that DEI didn’t “work” (by what metric?). It just made bad people feel sad because they weren’t the main characters.
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At least we can still keep equit- oh hang on, there’s a call on line 2
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Okay, yes, to be a normal human in the world, empathy is kind of a non-negotiable.
But we’re talking about housing as a solution for the unhoused. You can be the most cynical, heartless person in the world and hate everyone, this still makes sense.
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Fellas, is it gay to win wars?
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You don’t need empathy though. If you don’t like homeless or wasteful spending, this is the obvious way to go!
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He probably starts, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was on minutes restriction or started on the bench.
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One complicating factor: he's fasting for Ramadan right now, and the Southampton match is a 3 pm kickoff, so the entire match is played before sundown.
FWIW, he wasn't in the squad for either FA Cup match, CL league phase closer vs Lille and EFL Cup QF vs Southampton, has started every PL match.
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Most people who voted for Reagan are dead now, right?
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I get the Mail and Mirror confused, I think
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I think the message is “Everyone needs to come back to the office, which is now located in a mid-sized Red State city with no international airport or good public schools.”
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I mean, Tebowmania, as if NFL players weren’t, for decades, evoking god in post-game interviews or joining together in on-field prayer circles or doing Christian-themed TD celebrations or forming bible study groups.
They treated Tebow as more of a barrier breaker than Michael Sam.
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*First Christian character without a physical disability or finger gloves
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I buy the argument that Ebnezer Scrooge is, uh, not Christian because (uncomfortable mumbling, flop sweat), but the final scene is literally Tiny Tim saying, “God bless us, every one!”
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And the majority of the funds went to American manufacturers!
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OTOH, one of the most uncomfortable moments in my life was visiting Temple Square in SLC and for the lack of a better word, the staff there was a bit *too* welcoming.
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I think for most people, the practice of religion is less about the religion itself but the traditions and the community. I totally get it.
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B+ mayor, C- human being
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I am starting to wonder if DEI was actually the glue holding our air transportation infrastructure together
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A fictional 9 year old figured out America a long time ago
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They test crashes on dummies instead on real people because the government doesn’t want us to know how safe it is to smack your head on the steering wheel or for a child to go flying through the windshield
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“Click it or ticket” is just a big fat subsidy program for Big Seatbelt if you really think about it. And it saves insurance companies from having to pay for replacement windshields.