What have you done now, Joe Biden?

are you gonna charge $150 per round trip like NY/NJ?

The parking lots will be closed, and it’s impossible to walk there.
12 million bucks per pame to be extorted from the fans.

Sky-high ticket prices won’t be the only thing emptying the wallets of soccer fans attending World Cup games at some US venues this spring.

Fans trying to get to MetLife Stadium from NYC can expect to spend $150 for a round-trip train fare for each match, officials confirmed. https://cnn.it/4tjaTOX

Are there any financial instruments that allow one to short this World Cup?

1890’s.

Not even close to all of them

This is the high school in Tacoma where my neighborhood’s kids go. Built at the turn of the last century.

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I was recently on an international flight where we were in “group three”. Ten people were in group 1, then they called groups 2 and 3 at the same time.

There were no other groups.

Wait… forwards can do that????

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But even with all of this recent depth and an abundance of extremely useful role players, I’d love it if we had a few more players that we NEVER wanted to see come off the field, and who were durable enough to be ever-presents

It’s a huge part of rugby union strategy. Teams that have good depth in their forward packs will routinely swap players out 2/3 of the way through the game. Sometimes the whole front row at once.

Or receiving specific tactical instructions based on observing the opponent’s behavior….

Or when a sub comes on at forward and scores.
Whether starter or backup, that’s literally what he was put out there to do. It’s his primary job and if you didn’t expect him to score then you put on the wrong guy.

Plausible explanation, but I fell like if there was one culture that would both demand and be capable of assembling a perfectly symmetrical burger, it would be the Japanese.

“And yea, from that day forward the people of Amsterdam did calleth the tasty repast Royale with Cheese, for they did lacketh knowledge of the Imperial System of weights and measures”

St Vincent
Chapter 1, Verse 23

Why is it that a hot stuffy room keeps you awake when you’re trying to sleep and puts you to sleep when you’re trying to stay awake?

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"Thank you for raising me. I will always be grateful for that."

A big key for me is when the author has a screenwriting credit. I think it always allows them a refinement or a bit of a “do over”.

The Godfather falls into that category too.

The Commitments

Okay Alt Text says it’s either a shoe insole or a panty liner from the 1700’s…..

What is that thing at the center left of the tray that looks like a slug run over by a car?

Ye Olde Up-Back-Through
Very nice!

Which decisions are they complaining about?

The disallowed Ferran goal?

You laugh, but it’s the only year the USMNT has won a knockout game in the World Cup Finals

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Behold!
Trickle Down Economics working as intended

Not going to get into the weeds of the World Cup transportation row.
Will only say that fans who attend the World Cup are typically not the rich, let’s pay money for big events crowd familiar to Americans. They are ⚽️ fans who sometimes save up for years to be able to attend.