BernieParent
In misery of redwings of suckage for a long time
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Gudas' nickname could be The Denominator.
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As a former bike tech, this is extra disturbing lolHere is your reward.
I just don't get how the **** that happens
I'll resubmit my request for reading/book suggestions. Anyone reading anything interesting?
I'm irrationally mad at Don Garber and the MLS for bringing back all the US "stars" after the 2014 world cup for marketing purposes and then getting rid of Klinsmann for his anti-MLS stance whilst bringing in that dinosaur Arena. The MLS has only really helped all the other CONCACAF nations and clearly hurt us in a big way...
Klinsmann had his faults and one could easily argue that he deserved to be fired [he was at the helm for a lot of this horrid qualifying run] but I don't think it can be argued that he was wrong in saying that our top players should not be playing in the MLS, etc. The stance that US Soccer must be inextricably linked with the MLS is faulty and profit driven, and it's led directly to this disaster...I didn't pay any attention to Klinsmann as the US coach, but the knock on him has always been that he benefited from Low's tactics while the latter was his assistant with the German team. That stint with Germany pretty much made his reputation as a coach. I have no idea if he would be better than Arena, but I would guess you're right about that. At least he brings a broader perspective on the game.
-Fate must be calling me. I've had a dozen people tell me to read Vonnegut in the last month or so. I have a stolen copy of Slaughterhouse 5 in my house for the last year and half and havent gotten around to it yet.Rather than try and guess what you have and haven't read, I am just going to start typing all of them that I can think of that I can recommend unreservedly and I'll just include obvious ones.
MUST READ NO MATTER WHAT
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
Hi Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - Tad Williams (3 books)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
OTHERS
Carl Hiaasen - everything
Elmore Leonard - everything
James Ellroy - start with the LA Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz) and continue to American Tabloid, which is amazeballs
Raymond Chandler - everything
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Wartime - Paul Fussell (Non-fiction)
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
deadkidsongs - Toby Litt
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
I'll add more to this post as I think of them - those are just off the top of my head.
On PC, yes. On mobile, no.Has anyone else found the site to be ridiculously slow since the switch to this new host?
Apparently it was a unanimous vote by the board.Lmao. People are dumb as ****.