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Although we lose some pepe red card equity in our game

germany running up the score and lolpepe out for the US game is probably the best half imaginable from the US perspective

Côte d'Ivoire such an elite team to root for. They finally bring in DROGBA and he almost immediately draws a foul+yc and his team nets two goals. Don't tell me he wouldn't be the greatest of all time RAPM guy if this were the nba.

colombia is going to absolutely wreck this group

imo the croatian player deliberately touched the ball through the defense to the attacker running on the back side rather than trying to shoot towards goal. he looks to see that the ball did in fact split the defenders i'm not sure where you see him looking left

And we're off http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4606671/croatiagoal.gif

my previous post should say "engerland" 5) number of stadiums collapsing over 1.5

Here are my LOCK predictions for the world cup: 1) england will choke and underachieve 2) lolmexico 3) http://i.imgur.com/6xVqKuz.jpg 4) usa will win

i've probably posted this before but

what's he got that i don't have, huh?

aaron rodgers is a bum

JOZY will probably be competing with Dempsey for the golden boot given today's performance against nigeria. I predict they'll bury about 7 goals against germany alone between the two of them. meanwhile our defense is just embarrassing. I AM SO EXCITED. LETS GOOOOOOOOO

mike, when you're this wrong about a topic, it's time to consider not posting.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Ben

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/08/Gary-Coleman-wtf.gif

good thing yedlin will be on the team. we didnt want LANDON anyway

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No one should ever be embarrassed for their genuine effort to contribute to the community, but some people pretty obviously need to be pulled aside and told they're doing more harm than good. It's out of line for some of them to volunteer in the first place. (I have no one specific example in mind because, as Adam said, it's easy to ignore them. I'm just saying that simply ignoring the problem only makes it worse even if it doesn't really affect anyone in a significant way.)

I think the only useful lesson here is that upgrading a balanced hand with no fit by THREE points is insane. I would call this a "good 10" even though it has a lot of queens and jacks.

This guy makes some pretty great videos. This one has some hilarious lines http://youtu.be/dP3Qp10PQhs

http://i.imgur.com/UeAfjqh.png this problem is amazing after Rh1 it's white to move.

Should be a great scene, indeed. I assume everyone knows this but Gregor has been recast again this season, played by the world's third strongest man, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson http://25.media.tumblr.com/52252d8ccbfa614b294a349037a2f9e0/tumblr_muffdxeoXF1qis07wo1_500.jpg Regarding new characters, I can't be the only one who thinks the guy they cast for Daario is terrible for the role. Just awful and I have no idea what they were thinking.

I admit I don't find either matter particularly pressing. If it were up to me, I think it's silly that we can't trust the mods to merge duplicate posts/threads without public scrutiny, but I suspect it requires so little effort that it's not a big deal either way. I do feel strongly, though, that if the content of a post is edited for whatever reason, the mods should keep a record of the change for us to see. I assume legally BBO owns whatever content gets posted to this forum, but regardless they owe everyone an explanation if the message is changed to something that the poster didn't say. My impression is that they do a good job of this, and that's not the issue here, right? As far as threads getting locked, I trust their judgment. "Popular-ish" is sort of irrelevant as far as that goes. We're a small enough family that we all generally know one another's position on a given topic, and nothing anyone has ever said has changed anyone's mind on any particular issue. Can you give us a reason why the thread in question needs to be unlocked other than policy or principle?

I don't see any problem at all with a mod locking a thread about politics or religion without a written explanation. In fact I'd be in favor of moving those sorts of threads into a separate subforum entirely in an effort to prevent them from spreading their AIDS to the rest of the forum. In a similar vein, can mods be more heavy-handed on posts that simply link to an external page without any accompanying content? I know there's some good poetry that gets linked once in a while, but more often than not the post just ends up fodder for the perpetuation of flaming.

johnu, fyi you keep responding to trolls. your posts are very reasonable, but you shouldn't expect reasonable responses. perhaps you're already aware, but with 300 posts in 5 and a half years maybe you aren't.