I work in an office full of women. And the only thing women like to do more than start new diets, is fucking talk about them. And then abandon them within the week because they saw something better on Dr. Oz.
According to my facebook newsfeed, Dr. Oz has the next big way to kill all fat of any kind. I really think this one will work. How about now? Will you smile now?
A relative of mine is a divorced 50+ year old guy with an exceptionally sedentary lifestyle. He has health issues related to his eating habits, which are as follows - he does not cook. Anything. EVERY meal is bought out at a restaurant or takeout place, including breakfast. They know him by his first name at most restaurants in town, and most of them are shitty chain places where the appetizers alone are 5000 calories. But he has only diet soda in his fridge. Gotta cut back somewhere, right?
Of the 15 people I told today that I was leaving, 1 cried, 3 hugged me and 9 wished me well. Of the two remaining, one (my boss) took advantage of the day to go buy a mattress and go home at 11am "to beat the rush hour traffic", and the other woman just looked straight at me and said "well, if you need any help in your new job, don't bother calling us". To that lady, I say:
I just read that Marvel is killing Wolverine in September. I was a MESS when DC killed Superman - reading the storyline leading up to his death and then the funeral. The other superman characters afterward were dumb and I didn't like them but death of Superman was tragic for me. I love Wolvie more than I love Superman. I don't know what to do with myself.
I used to be an avid comic book collector. This is a great example of why I gave it up. Fucking ludicrous.
Let me yell this to anyone: THEY NEVER DIE. Nobody dies in a comic, they find a way back. I collected them. I have an issue of X-Men where Mr. Sinister is killed by Cyclops. He fucking atomizes him into nothing. Sure enough, good as new a few years later. Marvel Comics is not going to get rid of their current biggest meal ticket (along side Deadpool) there is no way. People who get all wuvy-duvy over this are the reason I stopped. I think I was 14 and felt I was simply too old for it anymore. It will be a fond childhood time capsule for me, not an avid hobby while I'm 36. That's when it stars getting weird.
Because comic book characters always stay dead. Always. Fucking please. The only one who's stayed dead is Uncle Ben.
My favorite storyline was the Inferno storyline. Hands down. After that, I stopped reading Marvel and pretty much stopped reading altogether when Superman died. And was revived. I did read the death of Captain America. But Superman really got to me.
I hate the death story lines because they are SO unnecessary. I'd rather see them create a storyline where the character simply walks away from it all than a death so the character can come back in a couple of episodes.
Spidey was the worst for that. I think the fucking Lizard was killed a dozen times, Kraven blew his brains out, literally landed in his casket and crawled out of his grave.
This donald sterling stuff is getting interesting. Doc Rivers said that's definitely him on the tape (as if there was any doubt), Magic Johnson is putting together a proposal to purchase the team, and all his past racist remarks (and lawsuits) are coming back up to the surface. This isn't a racial "issue" here -- I think we all agree the dude is the worst kind of asshole ever. Rather, it's an issue of whether he should even be allowed to own an NBA franchise anymore.
I'm in the midst of playing Lego Marvel Superheroes and they die all the time and regenerate in just a few seconds. It's pretty sweet.
From a practical stand point, I can see why alienating your entire workforce is a bad idea, but to officially mandate assholes can't own things is absurd. Through all this nonsense I'm imagining Cartman trying to figure out how to legally own athletes as slaves like university teams. This is exactly how I imagine Sterling thinks and speaks.
Realistically, they can't make him sell the team. The only way they could do that is if he were behind on his payments (paychecks, stadium leases etc.) and he's not. The one realistic thing they could do (other than fine him, which is nothing to a billionaire) is suspend him from all basketball activities (similar to what MLB did to Margie Schott back in the day). Commissioner Silver is making an announcement tomorrow concerning this, so we'll see what happens.