"I've got the kavorka Jerry, the lure of the animal. I'm dangerous."
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Danger_Ten retweeted
“Welcome to the 2030 Fortnite OG Liberty Biberty College Football Playoffs brought to you by Polymarket.”
“Our new 76-team format is kicking off with a great matchup between 7-5 Army vs 8-4 North Texas!”
“Pat McAfee and Jason Kelce have been shirtless all day 😆!”
*Someone pour me up a double shot of whiskey*
“Our Flock Camera Banana Ball halftime performance will be none other than Shaboozey with a special guest… The Imagine Dragons!!!”
#Expandto100 #DannyKanellSupremacy
#CollegeFootbAllTeamsMakeIt
Danger_Ten retweeted
America lost one in six of its neighborhood bars in a single decade, and the killer was real estate math.
A bar like this can pour $3 beers because the building was paid off decades ago. The owner often lives upstairs. No rent, no investors, no debt service on a Pabst sign that's been hanging there for 40 years.
The moment that building sells, the math dies with it. A new operator inherits a market-rate lease, which forces $9 drinks, which forces a renovation to justify $9 drinks, which produces another exposed-brick cocktail bar where the dive used to be.
The Midwest kept its dive bars because of how they got built in the first place. Before Prohibition, Milwaukee's breweries put up corner taverns themselves. Pabst and Schlitz wanted guaranteed outlets for their beer, so they built bars directly into residential blocks. That's why these places sit on quiet snowy corners between houses instead of on commercial strips where rent explodes.
Chicago had around 3,300 tavern licenses in 1990. It's down to about 1,200. At the worst of the decline, America was losing six neighborhood bars a day.
And every single closure is permanent. You can't build a dive bar. You can only inherit one.
Danger_Ten retweeted
Hunter S. Thompson wrote this column for ESPN one week after 9/11...
“We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for ‘a very long time.’
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history — which is no doubt true — but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what’s coming now. The party’s over, folks.”
#archaeohistories
Danger_Ten retweeted
Keagan Bwalya is a 39-year-old taxi driver who lives in some of the poorest sections of Zambia. He started playing golf just 8 years ago.
His made cut on the Sunshine Tour, the clubs he did it with, and his story, are right out of a hollywood script.
mondayq.com/story/an-improba…
Danger_Ten retweeted
At least we learned that a lot of people hate journalism and sports media has been so poisoned that people don’t even understand what journalism is anymore. Because they were really mad at a journalist for looking into the shady dealings of a billionaire.
Danger_Ten retweeted
“I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.”
— Norm Macdonald
Danger_Ten retweeted
One of the most illuminating parts of this, I thought, was Djokovic’s honesty about the frustrations of aging:
Novak Djokovic lost in a match without too much flavor at Wimbledon on Friday, but his press conference--both in English and in Serbian--got fairly spicy.
Read it all--the Serbian-to-English translation included--at Bounces:
benrothenberg.com/p/novak-dj…
Danger_Ten retweeted
After the Japan–Netherlands match,
I picked up litter with Jameis Winston who kindly held the bag open. I later found out he was an NFL star😳
Maybe, along with the litter, I picked up a miracle💫
Let’s pick up miracles together and make every World Cup stadium shine🙌🌍🏟️
Danger_Ten retweeted
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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