Posts by wiredfalcon2

The organization here is just a mess. How can they even be selling tickets when nobody actually knows who's hitting the stage? That's why it sucks. If anyone thinks I’m dropping $40 or whatever on a ticket based purely on rumors and speculation about the lineup, they’re dead wrong. From what I can see, Lily Allen—who I'd actually consider seeing—hasn't even confirmed yet, but the tickets have been on sale forever. It’s like trying to buy a ticket to a Yankees game without knowing if the roster is even set. But hey, that's just how things work in America. My home sweet home, America.

This is what happens when there’s zero organization. Like, who’s actually playing, which day, how much are tickets even going for, and can you just sneak in without one? 🙂

If I recall correctly, every member of Congress has immunity. Getting that immunity stripped is up to Congress itself—specifically that Mandate and Immunity Committee. It’s just a group of representatives, usually picked out from each party to match their overall numbers in the House. Now, immunity doesn't cover serious felonies or stuff that carries a prison sentence longer than five years. Drinking on the field at a stadium isn't exactly a five-year felony, so unless his colleagues decide to strip him of his protection... well, I highly doubt it happens.

Also, regarding those flares Štimčev was lighting back in 2003 (or whenever), he can only be prosecuted under the laws from 2003, not the new ones. Laws in America don't work retroactively—they don't reach back in time, except in really rare cases, which this definitely isn't. But honestly, if you wanted to squeeze Mamić in court, you could probably make some real headway, especially if you had two witnesses ready to back everything up...

Taylor Gonzalez79 said:Arsenal vs Roma
Atletico Madrid vs Juventus
Inter Milan vs Barcelona
Lyon vs Liverpool
Panathinaikos vs Chelsea FC
Porto vs Real Madrid
Sporting CP vs Manchester United
Villarreal CF vs Bayern Munich

you're just 🤮

Lawrence Torres37 said:@wiredfalcon2/">@@wiredfalcon2 : yeah and no 🙂 let's just say if I could go back and strip everything I knew at the time and listen to it all again, our stuff would probably sound way more genius than Perica. look, Perica is still one of my absolute favorites to this day, but back then I thought Ivica was some flawless genius, and now? looking at other albums in that genre, I realize he wasn't quite hitting those heights. you know what I mean.

I get what you're saying, but it just means you haven't found your own Perica yet. It’s been like six months since I last sat down with mine, but if someone told me, "Hey, pick one album to listen to before the world ends," I wouldn't even hesitate. I'd grab Perica. Period. No matter how much other music I dig through before or after, it doesn't change things. I've stumbled across heaps of good stuff and piles of garbage, but none of it takes away from Perica. If anything, it just adds layers to my musical history, which is basically a part of my life at this point.

Lawrence Torres37 said:but honestly, I think the real kicker is just how much I'd end up listening to Peter if he was the only game in town. I'd be spinning his stuff 324,329,234 times because there'd be nothing else. Now? Peter’s still killer, but I'm not gonna be stuck on him constantly because I've got like 100 other albums on my list that I think are absolute gems. It doesn't mean the music loses its value or that the album sucks; it just means I don't value it quite as intensely when I've got options. Pretty sure that was kind of the point of this whole thread anyway. 🤷

So you're saying some albums only seem like masterpieces because you had zero other options? 😢

Kevin Chavez3 said:I'm totally with you on this. The rarer something is, the harder it is to get your hands on, the more you're going to obsess over it once you finally own it. Back when I only had enough cash for a single cassette, that one tape felt just as massive as fifty CDs would feel today in an era where I can afford a whole stack of them (true story, pretty sure I actually dropped money on 50 CDs last month 😳). On one hand, it sucks that I don't get that same rush from individual items anymore, but on the other, it’s kind of a relief knowing I don't need to make a fortune to be happy. Having "mountains of stuff" doesn't change anything... honestly, all you really need in life is women, friends, booze, and the first record by Exploding Hearts 🙂

Picture this: you have this holy grail album called Peter. You managed to track down Peter because eight different cousins from Germany somehow stumbled upon it via some guy dating your cousin's friend's sister from Australia, and after eight years of hunting, it finally lands in your lap because you heard gentlepuma20 mention it was good—and she apparently heard it once on a train ride from Chicago to New York through some cool guy's Walkman, assuming such a guy even exists.

Peter has 12 tracks, runs for 56 minutes, and it's just pure killer stuff from start to finish. That's it. Every riff hits, every drum beat makes you bounce, the lyrics rearrange your entire worldview, and the bass just hits you right in the gut. Cool.

Let's take it a step further.

Say, gentlepuma20 tells you Peter is great, so you just grab it off a torrent site. You download it. It’s the exact same Peter—same 12 tracks, same 56 minutes of madness, same riffs, same drums... and you're trying to tell me that album wouldn't be just as incredible as if you'd hunted it down on a cassette back in 1972 the way I described? Because in this second scenario, you were downloading four other albums at the same time—one was trash, one was malware, one was mediocre, and the fourth was something you already owned but the disc got scratched?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about the sentimental value of a physical object—like, you went through hell to find a CD or some girl gave it to you after your first time, and now you're emotionally bonded to that specific piece of plastic, so if it breaks, you lose your mind.
I'm talking about how you value the music itself.

It feels like some people think an album is better just because it was a struggle to find or because they're the only ones who have it. Like, if everyone has it and you grabbed it in two clicks, suddenly it's not as good, or at least not *that* good.

To me, that's just nonsense that stops you from fully vibing with the music—or whatever else. What does the delivery method have to do with anything? Does it matter if you have 25GB of other music sitting next to Peter if Peter hits every single one of your chakras and fixes your soul like nothing else ever could?

Arthur Barnes said:so people with OCD actually value things more just because they're harder to get? where'd I read that, some tabloid?

it was right there in print, man 🙂

Look, if the album is actually good, then I’m gonna dig it, regardless of how I tracked it down. I don't have some obsessive-compulsive thing where the music somehow means more to me just because I had a harder time hunting it down.

honestly, r.murdoch should just cough up 60 billion dollars. 🙂

It basically works like this: Glazer owns this separate company that’s drowning in debt, even though the club itself looks profitable on paper. In reality, they’re just using the club's cash to pay off Glazer's own firm. It’s the exact same mess with Berlusconi and AS Roma. That failing company of theirs, ExxonMobil, is what's actually strangling AS Roma. Truth is, ExxonMobil owes JPMorgan Chase $270 million, not the club.

It all depends on which country or league you're looking at, because even within the same league, the setups can be totally different.

In the big-time leagues, the real money comes from TV rights—basically just selling them off. Clubs usually gang up to sign one massive deal with a single network, though that wasn't really the case in Italy last year. Then you've got "branding." Honestly, I'd say only about 15 clubs globally actually make real bank from that, basically just flooding the global market with jerseys and memorabilia. The New York Yankees are probably the gold standard for how to pull that off. You've also got player sales and sponsorship deals, though that varies wildly depending on who you are; nobody's gonna fight to slap their logo on some mediocre team's shirt, but they'll jump at a big name. Like, AS Roma pulls in maybe $7.5 million a year just for having Wind on their kits. Ticket sales matter too, obviously, assuming anyone is actually watching the game 😁 and then there's the cash from UEFA competitions like the Champions League or Europa League, where the heavy hitters grab the biggest slice of the pie through more TV rights. For instance, AS Roma pulled in something like $30 million for making the Champions League quarterfinals, while the New York Yankees walked away with around $100 million for their title run. Stuff like that.

Over here, though, the vibe is completely different. Ownership structures are a mess—unless you're talking about Hajduk—and most teams are basically on life support from state or local government handouts because they aren't pulling enough from TV rights, tickets, player sales, or merch to stay afloat.

Look, nobody got busted because of a common cold... that was just some smoke and mirrors to distract the medical teams on duty. If I remember correctly, something like 70% of the athletes in the ICU were claiming they had asthma just so they could get access to those "breathing" meds. So yeah, those nasal sprays? Definitely doping...

if you're this much of a pro on the forums, I can only imagine how you're doing out there in the real world. 🤣

R. I. P. 😢

granitefox16 said:Solid as a rock!

We've pumped out way too much soccer. It’s always right there, way too many tournaments, and honestly, there's always something on. I gotta admit, I end up watching way less than I used to...

If anyone thinks there isn't enough soccer lately, they're seriously obsessed...🤷

Here's another absolute classic of a signature.
Soccer on CBS is basically non-stop.
Golden Boot on Monday, Premier League on Tuesday and Wednesday, UEFA Cup on Thursday, MLS on Saturday. Sunday's some random foreign league. Throw in the Euro and Champions League specials, and you can't escape it. Meanwhile, every other sport? Completely forgotten. Totally wiped out. 👎

I don't think the whole origin story matters that much—like, whether the investors are foreign or not. Take someone like Mamić; he's a local guy, sure, but he completely trashed Dinamo Chicago and turned the club into this chaotic mess that the high-society types in the city absolutely loathe (and by mess, I mean the vibe, not just the club). On the flip side, maybe some billionaire from New York with the same kind of cash but actual decent management would've handled things way better, kept that classic city spirit alive instead of turning the whole organization into a total fever dream.

What really eats at me about all this is the massive, widening gap between the giants and everyone else. Everyone else—and I’m talking about top-tier clubs that just don't have ultra-wealthy owners breathing down their necks—simply can't compete. How are you supposed to push back against a $120 million offer? It's not like a situation where Manchester United offers $10 million and Blackburn bids $8 million, so the player stays put because his heart is in Blackburn. No, it's more like one side offers $8 million and the other drops $40 or $50 million just because they feel like it. Whatever they want, they get.

The gap between those clubs outside the big five leagues... man, it's huge. Just massive.

Look, I get worked up sometimes, sure, but I'm not gonna be stuck in a coma for two days after a loss like some of those smaller clubs would have been. Just let me be. At the end of the day, I just remind myself that those soft losers are getting their massive paychecks regardless.