Riven

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[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Yep I've said it plenty. There's no undecideds, just conservatives, centrists and wilfully ignorant people too afraid to publicly admit they're Republicans.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 11 months ago

Admitting you're wrong is also pretty manly. Good shit brother.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Lul that dude is telling on himself for his level of hygiene. As someone with a foreskin I keep mine extremely clean, if I'm at home I even rinse and dry after peeing. Also, some girls are Into foreskin.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Sorry to break it to you but it factually IS about originality. That's one of the categories the judges for this sport specifically rate on according to the olympics, or should at least, it's obvious they didn't in this instance.

Here's some sites that specify originality is one of their 5 scoring categories.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And your comment is why I lost respect for those judges who probably agree with you.

You're letting her previous performances color your opinion of what should be a fair and unbiased judging of this one performance and this one category in a vacuum. It's originality, she was more original in her performance than a lot of other breakers, regardless of her skill (which is a separate category they rate on). I would have hoped she would have scored at least a couple of points there and just 0s on all the other categories.

I agree with your BM comment though.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't the big wig appointed by Trump?

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I agree that notoriety shouldn't necessarily be considered the same as accomplishment but here we are lul. I'm willing to bet she's inadvertently pushed breakdancing people to greater hights inspite of/to spite her lul. Yea Phil is great.

Reminds me of poreotix in ABDC. Except they were good lul.

What's your take on the judges not awarding points for originality? I'm not saying her moves were good but they were definitely original. Some of her moves nobody else did at the Olympics at all. I would have guessed she should at least get a couple of points for that, it honestly made me lose respect for those judges. What's the point of having categories you score on if you're gonna let other categories influence the score you give on certain ones.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Might depend on the area but neither I nor any other Hispanic or Latino I know see cholo as a racial insult or slur (granted I'm a tiny sample size). It's more of a descriptor than anything in my experience.

Source: am Mexican with native ancestry.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

You're not kidding wtf. Also, that dude is just putting more damage than the tow fee would have been on that car.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I had a whole argument with a bud about her PhD in breakdancing.

My take was that she pushed breakdancing into the human consciousness significantly more than anyone in history ever has so she deserves that PhD, very few people know the name of the person who won the gold but a ton more remember raygun or at the very least 'that breakdancing lady'. Regardless of how skillfull she actually is. Also, iirc she was actually a classical dance teacher at that school and this was just in response to the Olympics adding breakdancing, I watched an interview where she said something along the lines of 'I didn't even care for breakdancing'.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

It's not that they have forgotten. It's that they are privileged enough to not need to be aware of it or feel the dark effects as they creep in. Even non rich people can be privileged to a certain degree.

I have a bud who is basically a neet because of health conditions and he's like that, 'both sides are the sameish'. His family isn't rich but his mom has a decent middle class work from home job and they moved to a cheap AF state so they do alright. He's basically shielded from anything that could happen since he's a white, straight, male with health insurance through his mom.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just call with a bomb threat, they take that shit seriously and it would have emptied planes and buildings. Call the PD and threaten both towers, the pentagon, and the airport.

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