OT: The Thread About NaDa Thing 198 The Summer Edition

[Emperoreddy]

lol now the fight's supposedly being delayed cause there are issues with the actual pay per view and the providers having technical problems showing it. Can't make this **** up.

And it's good to be Tom Brady...went to the Derby in the afternoon and made it to Vegas in time for the fight

Streams just started taking a heavy hit too. Lots and lots of traffic I imagine.

 

[Emperoreddy]

This is a Wrestlemania Face/Heel crowd.

 

[Xirik]

Can I get my last hour back from watching that? so boring. Only sport where running away from your opponent and only countering wins you a match.

I wish someone did this to mayweather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWaHqp-vWBo

 

[OmNomNom]

mayweather ran that much huh.. ugh he is such a terrible person

 

[Emperoreddy]

Ya that was really awful. $10 for Wrestlemania was money better spent and for more entertaining shows of guys beating the crap out of each other.

 

[Benedict Parisechuk]

Every single one of Mayweather's fights are like that. That's his strategy. Boring as hell but effective.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Can't see casual fans wanting to spend that kind of money on a fight ever again.

 

[OmNomNom]

so is it safe to say mayweather killed any chance of boxing hyping up again in our present time? this fight could've done good things for the sport, but it seems to me that it had the opposite effect

 

[Missionhockey]

Extremely disappointing. I wasn't expecting Gatti vs Ward but damn, Mayweather didn't come forward the entire fight except for once. I honestly thought he could get a stoppage after a few of the early rounds by how easily he landed his straight right hand. Manny also didn't come in with the right game plan at all. IMO, he should have positioned himself to Mayweather left after he corned him, that way he could have avoided the right. Instead he boxed in the middled of the ring most of the night where he had no chance.

BTW, if anyone wants to see boxing where both fighters let it all hang out, just look below.

 

[tr83]

The pictures of Mayweather's face after the fight looks like he just worked out at the gym really hard.

 

[DenisSamson3]

I watched mike Tyson on Youtube before the match to get me in the mood. This match was so different compared to those clips. Tyson could put on a show. Most of the those clips he won in the first two rounds though.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

My prediction was pretty close IMO.

 

[JK3]

Wow that fight sucked balls, no wonder it's pretty much irrelevant these days. I'd rather spent the money on Bonaduce vs. Williams than that dreck.

 

[BenedictGomez]

That fight was an exercise in media hype to "create an event" that doesnt exist. Fight of the century my azz.

 

[NJDevs26]

That fight was an exercise in media hype to "create an event" that doesnt exist. Fight of the century my azz.

Oh it was an event all right....just not an actual fight. Or rather it was as much of a fight as this:

 

[JimEIV]

Oh it was an event all right....just not an actual fight. Or rather it was as much of a fight as this:

I love Punch Out. I probably dropped a few hundred bucks into that game during the middle 80's. And Karate Champ too.

 

[JimEIV]

Maybe not Longfellow's most popular work as the midnight ride of Paul Revere is immersed in American history, but the Arrow and the Song is certainly my favorite..


The Arrow and the Song
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Edit: sorry I like to have a few drinks and read Archery literature.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Maybe not Longfellow's most popular work as the midnight ride of Paul Revere is immersed in American history, but the Arrow and the Song is certainly my favorite..

And fiction!

 

[JimEIV]

And fiction!

Next thing ya know you'll be telling me Jaws was fiction too.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I'm going to avoid Facebook today so I dont have to sift through the 378 May The Fourth Be With You posts.

That joke hasn't been killed, it's been waterboarded, starved, then drawn & quartered, then shot, then hung, stabbed, clubbed, poisoned, and thrown from a cliff.

 

[Missionhockey]

That fight was an exercise in media hype to "create an event" that doesnt exist. Fight of the century my azz.

It was only hyped up because boxing fans like myself waited so long for it. Unfortunately, Floyd waited until Pacquiao was no longer the dynamic, energetic, offensive dynamo that he once was. I strongly believe that the Pacquiao that fought Miguel Cotto in 2009 makes the fight competitive, even though I ultimately think he still loses.

 

[AfroThunder396]

I want to quit one of my jobs this week. Any advice?

 

[TheUnseenHand]

I want to quit one of my jobs this week. Any advice?

I am a firm believer in always being professional and courteous. Don't burn any bridges even if you know you will never be back there. Be respectful even if you think they weren't to you. Tell them the truth, put in your 2 weeks, and move forward. I'm assuming you will be fine without it.

 

[tr83]

I want to quit one of my jobs this week. Any advice?

One of...? Is it just a job or something that could be a stepping stone in your career?

 

[AfroThunder396]

One of...? Is it just a job or something that could be a stepping stone in your career?

They're both part time, the one I want to quit was supposed to lead to a full time job but they've been stringing me along for months. And I hate doing it. I hate the work, the schedule, the commute, all of it.

I feel bad because they're nice people and they don't know I dislike the job. But juggling these two jobs is torture. My other job wants to give me more responsibility so I'm planning on doing that full time and then going for my Masters.