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When I was a child growing up in Russia, I trained to be a volleyball player 6 days per week year-round. Twice per day in the summer. Our coach, Alexander Sergeevich Shadinov, was a member of the USSR national team in the 80's. He is freaking awesome.
One of my friends, a few years younger than me, was always a tiny kid. I am average height, which is unacceptably short for a volleyball player. Alexey only ever reached to my shoulder height. He was always awesome skill-wise, if only a bit crazy in terms of character but always had lots of fun. I know that he came from a very poor family, but always had a great work ethic and never slacked. He was always the troublemaker, and often got flack for it from the coaches. Just a mischievous little kid full of energy.
Well, now he plays libero for Zenit Kazan which is one of the best volleyball clubs in the world. Being one of the best liberos in Russia, he made the London Olympics and just won the gold medal. It was priceless to watch the expression on the Brazilian coach's face after he got a dig kill deep in the fifth set.
Another one of the my former teammates was the setter for that Gold medal team. It's very improbable that two of the starting seven came out of the same small town of a hundred thousand in a country of over a hundred million. I guess that just speaks to how awesome our coach was.
How did it feel? Well, very happy for my friend. Ура, Лёха! I'm also very happy knowing that my former coach watched this match somewhere and saw his work pay off. But for myself, I felt a bit sad that I couldn't be there and to play at that level. Truth is, I was never as good as these two - even as a kid - and the gap is much wider now. There is a definite feeling of somber reflection. Success and skill are all relative, unless you are the best.
I was also snooping around last night to see the world record for squatting is in my weight category. It's over 800 lb, which is to say it's OVER 9000! I can do like half of that on a good day. Gunning for 500 lb.
One of my friends, a few years younger than me, was always a tiny kid. I am average height, which is unacceptably short for a volleyball player. Alexey only ever reached to my shoulder height. He was always awesome skill-wise, if only a bit crazy in terms of character but always had lots of fun. I know that he came from a very poor family, but always had a great work ethic and never slacked. He was always the troublemaker, and often got flack for it from the coaches. Just a mischievous little kid full of energy.
Well, now he plays libero for Zenit Kazan which is one of the best volleyball clubs in the world. Being one of the best liberos in Russia, he made the London Olympics and just won the gold medal. It was priceless to watch the expression on the Brazilian coach's face after he got a dig kill deep in the fifth set.
Another one of the my former teammates was the setter for that Gold medal team. It's very improbable that two of the starting seven came out of the same small town of a hundred thousand in a country of over a hundred million. I guess that just speaks to how awesome our coach was.
How did it feel? Well, very happy for my friend. Ура, Лёха! I'm also very happy knowing that my former coach watched this match somewhere and saw his work pay off. But for myself, I felt a bit sad that I couldn't be there and to play at that level. Truth is, I was never as good as these two - even as a kid - and the gap is much wider now. There is a definite feeling of somber reflection. Success and skill are all relative, unless you are the best.
I was also snooping around last night to see the world record for squatting is in my weight category. It's over 800 lb, which is to say it's OVER 9000! I can do like half of that on a good day. Gunning for 500 lb.
Thank you Gillette
So there I was, putting on my rape shoes, and practicing my sexual harassment pickup lines this morning. I just got done cyberbullying my coworkers. It was time to shave, I yelled at my wife to smile because I demand it, while pinching her butt right after she told me she didn't consent to it. Putting on the shaving cream and thinking about how I can get my son into a fight at the next BBQ, I replaced the worn Gillette brand Mach3 and began to chant "boys will be boys" as I started to shave. Then suddenly my daughter burst into the bathroom holding her phone. As I began to mansplain to her why she isn't smart enough to know my shaving time is
Haiti is a shithole country
OK so Trump called Haiti a shithole country, and apparently it made many people upset. The dictionary definition of shithole, Google says, is "an extremely dirty, shabby, or otherwise unpleasant place."
Anderson spends two minutes here saying how Haitians are tough people. Yes, that's true. Tough people live in shithole countries everywhere around the world. That's totally besides the point. A country is not a "collection of people rich and poor" blah blah. That's the Haitian people. The country is more (or in this case LESS lol) than its citizens. It's a nation with laws occupying a particular geographic location.
So what is this sleight of
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(When this began)
I had nothing to say
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(I was confused)
And I let it all out to find
That I’m not the only person with these things in mind
(Inside of me)
But all that they can see the words revealed
Is the only real thing that I’ve got left to feel
(Nothing to lose)
Just stuck, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own
Something in here's not right today.
Why am I so uptight today?
Paranoia's all I got left
I don't know what stressed me first
Or how the pressure was fed
But I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head
Meryl Streep is an ableist ...
Watch Streep’s speech first below. I’d like to make two broad points about what she said.
… who disrespects disabled people
Some brief background information first. Serge Kovaleski, whom Donald Trump mocked is a successful high profile journalist who won The Pulitzer Prize. That is to say, he is vastly more successful than 99.99% of people in the world, regardless of their health status. He’s probably a millionaire, and is definitely a member of the elite. I don’t doubt his success and his ability to get things done in life.
Did Trump mock Kovaleski? Yes. However, as per this video - https://youtu.be/5aYFC_7Z
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woow, that's so amazing ^^