A sad, constant bid for attention

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
It did not take even close to five minutes to read your post. Even adding the time I am wasting responding to it, you still owe me two or three minutes max. I tell you this because I am honest.

Btw, I meant to tell you. I abstained from doing any drugs (save an unavoidable slight contact high) at the a recent Flaming Lips performance. I think your call was the right one.

It was a pretty amazing show without the drugs.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
besides actually calling travelling and 3 seconds (rule enforcement) and the larger key what rules are you talking about? the larger key doesn't explain why we get burned at the 3 line. the larger key does negate much or our inside play, true, but it would seem like it should also open the key more for driving.

No it doesn't because they play such strong zones. I'm not sure about whether there are any rules against what kind of zones they're allowed to play, but they're definitely cutting down on driving by using a zone.

And the widening of the lane and the liberal calling of 3 seconds is HUGE. All of our post players are much bigger, stronger and more athletic and if you move them further from the basket and keep them out of the lane, what the fuck good are they? You need a big man who can play a zone and has great outside shooting skills to succeed. And guess what? That's not what any NBA team is built around. Tell me who would guard Shaq or even Brand if the lane was NBA regulation under FIBA rules.

And just think about how ingrained goal tending is in the NBA. If we could touch the ball once it hit the rim in the NBA and carried this new skill over to international play, it would vastly cut down scoring.

These are major differences. And it's basically a different, jump shooting, stationary-passing game.

TM

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I wouldn't go out of my way to go to any Starbucks because the coffee sucks.

Why don't more people realize this?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
A mixed bag... I have the most wonderfully twisted memories of that. And the most distrubingly twisted memories of that. All I can say is, don't do that with a chick who has inner demons or can't handle her drugs... The screaming and crying and seld analysis is the world's strongest Salt Peter. "Jesus, will you shut the fuck up? It's a fucking drug... walk it off. Nobody hates you... nobody's watching you..."

Just remember to stay away from the lexapro, zoloft and methadone.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Why don't more people realize this?

It's a hell of a lot better than what's in the office and it's close. No matter where I am, it's close.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
FIBA is the international standard-making body, of which the US is a participating member. The NBA chooses to have a different set of rules. What's confusing about that?

Who said it was confusing? They play by a different set of rules than the ones college or professional players play by in the country of the sport's origin. Although I said someone needs to explain to me why they have different rules, you don't really. It's to spread the popularity of basketball, internationally and to give countries who would have no chance of ever beating us that chance. And it is working, but don't act like these rules are somehow better or more fair or whatever because they were developed by an "international standard-making body, of which the US is a participating member."*

TM

*I had to put this in quotes because I don't want anyone to think I would say something so toolish.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Why don't more people realize this?

I like their lattes better than the ones from Coffee Bean and better than the ones from the cafe downstairs. And more consistent.

ET make it explicitly about what I like.

[NotFromHere]

New look for Matthew. And I'm sorry, but if he didn't take his bike to the vet, then he should have taken the time to change first.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Btw, I meant to tell you. I abstained from doing any drugs (save an unavoidable slight contact high) at the a recent Flaming Lips performance. I think your call was the right one.

It was a pretty amazing show without the drugs.

Excellent. When they played the song Free Radicals, did they have that background video of the Japanese game show where young Japanese women would stick their heads up through holes on a platform and then they released a Kimodo dragon onto the platform to see who would be the last women to duck out of the way. Did you notice that the women has slabs of raw steak strapped to their foreheads? I thought that last part was a nice touch. Unfortunately, I did not follow my own advice, so take my comments for whatever diminished worth they have.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
New look for Matthew. And I'm sorry, but if he didn't take his bike to the vet, then he should have taken the time to change first.

He looks like the rollerskating homeless guy who is in my neighborhood sometimes.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
New look for Matthew. And I'm sorry, but if he didn't take his bike to the vet, then he should have taken the time to change first.

Whoa, that dude is hung like a croissant!

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Why don't more people realize this?

Some of us just realize sbux coffee is a caffeine delivery device.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
If you go into an uncrowded bar and buy one bottle of beer, and it is the only beer you intend to drink, do you tip the bartender?

Bartenders' wages are based on the expectation that they will be tipped. This is not true of other counter service jobs. Do you tip every person you come in contact with who sells you anything?

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Who said it was confusing? They play by a different set of rules than the ones college or professional players play by in the country of the sport's origin. Although I said someone needs to explain to me why they have different rules, you don't really. It's to spread the popularity of basketball, internationally and to give countries who would have no chance of ever beating us that chance. And it is working, but don't act like these rules are somehow better or more fair or whatever because they were developed by an "international standard-making body, of which the US is a participating member."*

TM

*I had to put this in quotes because I don't want anyone to think I would say something so toolish.

That had the desired effect. I could almost see your derision dripping from the quoted words. In fact, I recoiled in disgust at the thought of someone saying those words non-ironically.

[spookyfish]

I'm liking this.