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I'm struggling to reconcile "expensive but worth every cent" with "The entire time from shortly before first sight of land smelt of penguin poo."

When Will Thomas competed in men's swimming, he was the #462 ranked swimmer. Now that Lia Thomas is competing in women's swimming, she is #1 and breaking records left, right, and center. Did she start training with Michael Phelps? Did she revamp her technique? What caused her to leap from #462 to #1? One look at Lia Thomas makes it obvious. She is much taller than the women she competes against. Her armspan is incredibly long compared to her competitors. And while perhaps less muscled than she was pre-hormone therapy, she still has a musculature far greater than her competitors. Note that only MTF trans women are winning competitions and breaking records. You will never see a FTM trans man ranked #1 in men's swimming. I fully support trans women's right to live as women, absolutely. But ignoring their physical advantages and allowing them to compete in women's sports is an injustice to cis women athletes.

Dinuguan, from Wiki: a Filipino savory stew usually of pork offal (typically lungs, kidneys, intestines, ears, heart and snout) and/or meat simmered in a rich, spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili (most often siling haba), and vinegar. You're a lot braver than I am. My parents love the stuff, but I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. Not because of the pig blood (I love morcilla, a Spanish blood sausage) but because of the offal. Most people make it with tripe, the sight of which makes me gag, forget the smell. Growing up, dinuguan was a real delicacy because animal blood (you can use cow blood, never heard of goat, but I guess that'd work too) was very hard to find. Now you can buy it in any Filipino supermarket. LOL, I'm pretty sure Filipino puto has no connection to the Spanish word.

To think, the developer initially hoped to sell it for $500 million, dropped the price to $295 million, and it sells at auction for less than half that. The buyer got a deal but a money pit at the same time. I wonder what the total final cost will be.

From Twitter: gas is so expensive now that it's cheaper to buy cocaine and just run everywhere

I talked to someone recently who had just seen "Casablanca" & didn't understand why it's a classic. I told him that I couldn't explain it to him; he'd have to figure it out for himself. I didn't get it either the first 2 times I saw it. The third time I bawled like a baby, and every time since.

Medvedev's knocking Novak out of the top spot was just a matter of time because Novak could not play enough tournaments to maintain the #1 ranking. Losing all 2000 points from the AO was a blow that was almost impossible to recover from. Now I have to wonder if Rafa, not Novak, is Medvedev's biggest threat for the #1 ranking. Rafa has had a blazing start to 2022, beating Daniil twice, and so easily in Acapulco. After Roland Garros, Meddy needs a substantial cushion of points because Rafa is defending only 45 points from mid-June to the ATP Final.

It sounds like del Potro's financial situation is pretty bad. If his $6K in prize money was garnished, does that mean the guy is broke or even in debt?? Crapfest, as if the poor guy didn't already have his share of sh*tty luck with injuries.

A helluva ride by the Big 4 ... never have 4 players oligopolized (is that a word?) the #1 ranking for so long. I doubt it will ever happen again.

Hard to believe Andy Roddick has been retired for almost a decade.

Most 18yo guys are scrawny because they haven't had time to fill out. Most pro tennis players of any age are scrawny because the sport doesn't require brute strength but rather speed. So imagine my surprise when I saw this photo of 18yo Carlos Alcaraz. The guy is definitely not scrawny.

The Gladys Kravitz in me wants to know how many $500+/hr guys are actually getting that rate and how often. I would think very few, but perhaps I'm a bit out of touch.

No, I'm not talking about skimpy little running shorts. I meant gay short films. "Zombie Kiss" came out a few years ago, but the English subtitles became available just recently. Go into Settings -> Captions -> English to activate subtitles.

He's aged well. He looks as handsome as ever. I have to wonder how many of his parishioners entertain impure thoughts about him during his sermons.

I knew I should have waited to hear it from Novak himself. No, Novak does not plan on getting vaccinated, even if that means missing out on playing the Slams. He will almost certainly be locked out of the 3 remaining in 2022 and the AO next year. Who knows if vaccination requirements will change after that.

Such a high end guy should know the difference between "discrete" and "discreet."

What type are you?

How sad, Saget died because he hit his head, thought nothing of it, just went to sleep, but ended up dying of head trauma. It reminds me of Natasha Richardson.

He did it! Nathan Chen wins the gold!! He landed an eensy bit wonky on a quad salchow and he singled the triple flip in his jump series -- two minor blemishes on a brilliant free skate. Kagiyama took silver and Uno bronze. Had Hanyu landed his quad axel, I think he would have edged out Uno for bronze. I've only watched Nathan's free skate so far; I'll watch the other guys later. Phew, what a relief! So happy for Nathan!

Nathan set a world record for highest score in a short program, 113.97! 18yo Kagiyama also had a perfect skate, 108.12. I'm super-impressed with Kagiyama's speed on the ice (don't underestimate how much speed matters to the judges) and flawless air positions. His father, also a figure skater, taught his son well. Uno had just a small error, a slight hand down on his combo for 105.90. The sad news was Hanyu hit a divot on his quad salchow, causing him to pop a single instead and putting him out of medal contention at 95.15. With nothing to lose, I wonder if Hanyu will try the quad axel in his free skate, a jump never completed in competition. I'm sorry for Hanyu, but he can console himself with his two gold medals. If he pulls off the quad axel, it will be a Midori Ito-esque moment of redemption. I'm crossing my fingers for Nathan so hard I hear bones cracking.

If you don't find farting funny, skip this one. But if you do, open this Twitter thread & brace yourself ...

Is that CD or US$? $6.15CD is $4.85US, which is more expensive than most gas south of the border but not that much. But if the $6.15 is US$, yikes, that's a lot.

Eduardo Velasco, 53yo, an actor on a Spanish soap opera. Damn, looks awfully good for 53.