Posts by urbanhawk17

brightpilot6 said:Anything would be an improvement over that tedious Space Odyssey,

but that’s why Interstellar wins out. 🙏

Haven't seen this one yet.

Though maybe The Martian 🙏🙏

If this turns out to be true, and they actually hold that press conference tomorrow like they say, then the mortality rate in Canada would be somewhere around 0.1 to 0.2%. I guess.

Branko, is this 🙏
's wife?

It's game over, Bill.

says shadowmarlin22, now his barber is probably going to have to grab size 🤣

Honestly, I think Nick Anderson’s biggest choke happened during those 1995 NBA Finals.

Jesse Sullivan5 said:So, does that mean he jumped far enough? 🤷

For another spot, I guess.

Jessica Gonzalez said:I remember being at the Olympic venue in Lake Placid when one of the most heartbreaking moments in modern sports history went down—that legendary collapse by Masahiko Harada during the team ski jumping event back in '94. The Japanese squad was basically the absolute dream team of that era, featuring legends like Okabe, Harada, Kasai, and Nishikata. They had dominated every single round and held a massive lead heading into the final jump. Harada only needed to hit about 90 meters to lock in the gold for his country, especially since his first jump was sitting around 119 meters. Instead, he barely managed 73... I honestly felt a tear in my eye standing there near the landing zone while some younger American athletes were training nearby. Most of my coworkers who were there didn't have any clue about the heavy history that had unfolded on that hill. Honestly, compared to what Harada went through, even a massive upset like Brazil's loss in the '50 World Cup feels small; that choke was truly cosmic.

Luckily, things turned around in '98 when the Dream Team finally secured that gold, along with a win from Funaki in the individual event. They just missed out on a perfect hat-trick of gold medals by a single point.

He jumped 97 meters, not 73.

I suppose I agree, it was one of the greatest tragedies in sports.

🤣🤣

Jessica Gonzalez said:It probably surfaced even earlier, too. I guess I read some accounts online—though you have to take the internet with a grain of salt—suggesting people in places like Colorado or Utah might have noticed unusual pneumonia cases late last year, but maybe they didn't want to make a big deal out of it during peak ski season. Either way, I suppose official dates for when a virus first hits a country can often be pushed back by several weeks.

And then there's this guy who supposedly hasn't traveled at all and had zero chance of catching it, claiming his only contact was his wife who works at a local grocery store.

So, I guess we could go back even further.

🤣

I don't know, ski jumping just doesn't hit the same anymore. I can't quite put my finger on why. I still have memories of watching guys like Janne Ahonen, but I honestly can't name any of the current jumpers.

I used to be glued to the screen during the Four Hills Tournament, but these days, I find myself switching over to 🤷

Maybe I'm just getting old, or maybe there’s just too much junk on TV. I guess it's hard to tell.

The coronavirus actually showed up in the States as early as December 27th.

http://hr.n1info.com/Svijet/a506089/...g-otkrica.html

Jessica Gonzalez said:Yeah, that's true. I suppose the difference between a billiards table and a snooker table is kind of like the difference between playing soccer on a small field versus a full-sized pitch. I don't think I'm exaggerating too much there.

I'm a pro on both fields, I guess. ☕

Amanda Evans2 said:Adolf is absolutely revolting, honestly...

Bill Burr actually nailed this description perfectly.

I mean, just imagine being so evil that your name basically vanishes from the lexicon because nobody wants to name their kid Adolf.

🙏

Bill, it's game over. People aren't blind!

Also, I find it hard to believe that nobody has brought up Frank yet.

Nice job, guys. I might actually shed a tear.

My Pick would be, as Ken says, Ace with a dual-wield 🤣

Even though Cyrus the Great is in the mix, I'd probably lean elsewhere. Still, the Mexican has the edge.

Paul Sanders5 said:He basically swept through all of Europe. Even when other countries teamed up, they had the advantage in almost everything, but it didn't save them. Plus, look at how he reorganized the state—he started with France and then that whole system just spilled over into everywhere else.

Ace was obsessed with conquering stuff. He had these massive plans for restructuring the government—kind of hazy and vague if you ask me—but he wasn't even that worried about the details. His main headspace was just conquering the known world. If he’d actually made the call, he probably would've made it all the way to China. Maybe we wouldn't be dealing with all this chaos today.

The pandemic really got to him.

https://www.facebook.com/djilasdraga...9903681613528/

I guess Milovan Djilas has finally lost his mind.