Wales Bans Kids From Getting Nipple Rings, the Economy Adds 200k Jobs, and the NFL Loses Its Core Audience: P.M. Links
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The Welsh National Assembly bans kids getting nipple rings.
- The economy adds 200,000 jobs in January.
- Arizona State Rep. Don Shooter did a literal mic drop after being expelled from the state legislature over sexual misconduct allegations.
- The father of one of Larry Nassar's victims tried to attack the disgraced doctor in court today.
- NFL is reportedly losing its core audience.
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NFL is reportedly losing its core audience.
GO UNEXPECTED METEOR!
Hello.
“The economy adds 200,000 jobs in January.”
All with the KKK and Hitler Youth.
watching the refs smile as JAX got screwed in the championship game is exactly like the Obama DOJ/FBI rigging it against Trump.
The fix is in, so why watch?
The commercials, which have been declining in quality for years?
The father of one of Larry Nassar’s victims tried to attack the disgraced doctor in court today.
Everyone wants to one-up Judge Rosemary.
Just wait till Judge Rosemary has her baby.
Wait, it was Judge Rosemarie. She was Judge, Judy and Executioner.
The economy adds 200,000 jobs in January.
Well, the Nunes memo is going to undo all that.
I hope those jobs were all in national security to make up for the effects of the Nunes memo.
Arizona State Rep. Don Shooter did a literal mic drop after being expelled from the state legislature over sexual misconduct allegations.
That’s… not what a mic drop is for, dude.
Or isn’t it?
[narrows gaze]
Were his targets of his misconduct hot?
How else are you supposed to react to a unanimous agreement with the legislature that you fucked.
The Welsh National Assembly bans kids getting nipple rings.
Looks like they wanted to…
[dons sunglasses]
…nip it in the bud.
I am glad you took my advice to heart and are now doing this correctly.
Nope. They’re all different. It’s a case by case.
MeThinks that ANYONE under the age of 379 should be prohibit-tit-tit-tit-tit-tit-ited from getting a fickin’ nipple ring!!!
It OFFENDS MEEEE!!!!
(Need The Royal WEEEE say more?)
Holy shit. I’ve never seen an aneurysm live-blogged before.
BEST F*T EVAH!
Hail to the King baby!
I foresee a bunch of kids welshing on that ban.
“NFL is reportedly losing its core audience.”
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of BLM activists and intersectional feminists to pick up the slack.
It’s not about political activism. NASCAR ratings are down just as much:
More than a kneeling: Nascar’s TV ratings decline is as worrying as the NFL’s. Why?
It’s more a generational shift. A growing part of the audience would rather watch eSports.
“More than a kneeling” – good one!
We see our audience tuning away…
This thread has so many sensible chuckles.
I will admit I’ve spent more time watching AGDQ and its VODs this year then traditional sports.
reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/ 7oljmp/agdq_vod_thread_2018/
The NFL doesn’t know what touchdown is and ever other play is a flag. That is why I stopped watching religiously.
Baloney. NBA TV ratings are up.
NFL is just kinda boring and slow. Plus the Dolphins habitually suck so I do not care about any of the teams.
True, unfortunately the NFL really missed an opportunity to appeal to more diverse markets by not giving Michael Sam a permanent starting job.
Also, my friend who majored in women’s studies said women might like pro sports better if the cheerleaders had a greater variety of body types, rather than conforming to the patriarchal “young and thin = attractive” concept.
Trent Lott used to be a cheerleader, so why not?
They’ve ruined the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, late night television, most comedian’s carreer’s and just about anything that involves the “writer’s union.” Why not move on to professional sports?
The Welsh National Assembly bans kids getting nipple rings.
It’s so cute when imaginary countries decide to act like dictatorships.
Arizona State Rep. Don Shooter did a literal mic drop after being expelled from the state legislature over sexual misconduct allegations.
Any club that would in the first place have him for a member…
If the NFL’s “core audience” consists of privileged white cis-males who don’t like it when POC speak truth to power about police violence against black and brown bodies, then I say good riddance. They can quit watching the NFL and move on to Vince McMahon’s XFL, until it inevitably folds again.
PS: Everybody should root against the Patriots in the Super Bowl, because some Patriots are reportedly Drumpf supporters.
‘I had a really rough go of it’: Female golfer Paige Spiranac reveals she received DEATH THREATS over her tight, cleavage-bearing outfits during the Dubai Masters
Obama and the lamestream media covered up this abuse for years, and now since Trump is in power the truth has finally come out.
Yous ’bout to get fucked up, Dubai.
She found the hazard of playing in Muslim countries.
Fore shame.
Realt duffed that pun
Can I join the club? Sounds like a ball.
That’s a joke about circumcision, right?
She has 1.2million followers on Instagram but is not ranked by the LPGA
…
I don’t conform to what golf is supposed to be.
The Colin Kaepernick of ladies golf? The female Adam Sandler of Golf?
More like the Matt Barkley.
What an incredible Cinderella story!
I’d threaten her with D.
Woodie.
“NFL is reportedly losing its core audience.”
And replacing it with a core millennial SJW audience, right?
Kaepernick is a genius!
Will Reason pay for me to subscribed to WSJ links?
Conservative pundit Tomi Lahren apologizes for publicly branding Democratic Rep Joe Kennedy III a ‘little limp d**k’ and a ‘nasty little ginger’ after his SOTU response
They’d make a cute couple.
After the GOP loses the moral war about transgenders and immigrants, all that will be left to attack will be gingers. And, finally, they will stumble upon the path to growing the party.
I refuse to vote for any candidate that speaks ill of Karen Gillan.
“Decision could spell deportation for these 250,000 Salvadoran immigrants.”
The economy adds 200,000 jobs in January.
Holy crap they were taking our jobz.
We Want to Hear From You
TreasonNN is next.
people who traffic in snark and ad hominem attacks
lol, of course the fags over at Atlantic can’t handle the heat.
That and the when some posters post accurate statements that bash their lefty agendas.
The editors of the Atlantic can go and ____ __________ ____ _ _____ _____.
fuck a duck
Finally, a chance to grow our number and restore this comment section to its pre-Glibxodus glory! Why, who knows, the next SugarFree might be hiding among the dispossessed Atlantic commenters.
Reason already got the Volokh commenters, and Volokh himself – no need to get greedy!
I think they mostly keep to their shining city on the hill. They’re fucking weird over there. I see them having back and forth discussions without slurs, sometimes. Gives me the heeby-jeebies.
Do you really want hundreds more Tonies coming here?
Silly Rhywun. We all know there can only be one Tony.
What about red Tony?
That’s just future Tony anyway, so the rule holds.
We can only hope. This comments section is a net negative to the cause of promoting libertarianism.
Yo momma is a net negative…ha ha I mean, Reason is always perfectly civil in the comments section.
I’m helping!
Why do you think a Cato poll (done by a top pollster) that 90%!!! of those question refuse to use the LIBERTARIAN label?
Agree.
I vote libertarian and like some of the ideas. But sharing a label with y’all? Yeah, never gonna register L or claim the name for myself.
“smart and critical readers”
Nobody qualifies.
The Atlantic criticizing its commenters for ad hominem attacks? Pot, kettle.
NFL is reportedly losing its core audience.
Yeah, “losing” them in the way the Menendez brothers lost their parents.
There does seem to be a taking for granted. I do not think plauing games that count outsude the country or having three teams in the process of moving out of cities they spent decades in and had good fan bases there has helped much.
Can a $1.2 Billion Casino Lure Asian Tourists to the Catskills?
My guess: no.
The best way to lure Asian tourists is to change the name to Cat Skills.
From what I’ve seen Asians love that stuff. But you’re probably right.
“The Catskills have been going down since air service to Florida.”
Yeah, why travel to a scenic, uncrowded foresty area when you can jet down to a steamy hellhole overcrowded with hordes of your neighbors.
Not with restricted immigration policy by Trump.
BOOM!
On the once yearly (on average) trip I make to a casino I do notice a disproportionate number of asian people there. I do believe they tend to love gambling.
I think it’s illegal in mainland China, so maybe it’s just getting it out of their system on vacation.
Has Wales banned sheep fucking yet?
Heavens, NOOOO!!! They do NOT want to offend Islamofascists!!!!
So, finally a “country” that even Canadians despise?
Or can bully!
That’s pretty baaaaaaaaaad.
/slap!
Get the flock outta here.
Sorry Rufus. I didn’t mean to ram some jokes down your throat.
You really got his goat.
ENOUGH with the….
Seth Meyers level joking around here.
Don’t say things you can’t take back.
Ewe!
For all the “DERP.NFL,SJW,DERP” wads who can’t do anything but parrot whatever Hannity told them to say today, political activism is not causing the NFL ratings drop. NASCAR ratings are down just as much:
More than a kneeling: Nascar’s TV ratings decline is as worrying as the NFL’s. Why?
They’re not down because you’re boycotting the NFL, they’re down because you’re being replaced by a younger generation that doesn’t give a shit about your loser old people hobbies.
Plus, football sucks ass.
Thought of the Day: If you’re on the internet, and someone says “Bite me asshole”, it is important to find out if they’re mad at you or just a kinky pirate.
Yeah, Reason just had a whole article about how fragmented the TV audience is – and I still “watch” as much TV football as I ever did but now it’s on in the background as I browse the internet and if/when anything interesting happens I just hit rewind and watch the interesting bit and go back to ignoring the endless reviews of every goddamn play sandwiched in between the 4,000 commercials. The product is getting pretty damn boring.
I still find college football really exciting. Less so for the NFL.
I wonder if it’s also just more options available, leading to people better optimizing the things they enjoy.
Like, maybe in the old days you had 10% of the population who were true football diehards, and 90% who liked it somewhat, but mostly didn’t have many other good options. Now that those options are available they go do that instead.
I certainly know I use most of my freetime doing unusually specific video game tasks.
It’s amusing that the only people who ever mention Hannity or watch him around here are leftists, and yet they never seem to see that as evidence that they overestimate his relevance in non-lefty circles.
Iran arrests 29 women as headscarf protests intensify
TreasonNN won’t report on this story because it makes their savior Buttcrack HUSSEIN Obummer look bad.
Don’t out DD, DD. It’s all he has.
The 33 most over-the-top Anthony Scaramucci quotes to Vanity Fair
Anthony Scaramucci as director of Episode IX.
God no, I don’t need MORE of this feminist bullshit coming from the ultra feminist soy boy himself. Anthony Scaramucci.
OT:
The release of “the memo” and the response by our so called representatives in DC should showcase in your mind just how awful all those people are. Never vote for anyone to return to office.
Tales of – sigh – TDS:
My parents are now to the point of blaming the destruction of the Republican party on W Bush, especially for his wasteful spending on a useless war.
I vividly remember, back in 2004, seeing displayed in our house a glossy card with GW and Laura Bush on it, thanking my parents for their support.
How is that TDS?
Trump is the result of the GOP imploding thanks to W. Bush being so shitty. Some people feel that thee GOP would have been great if Booosh was more of a fighter.
Hence the TDS.
W. Bush was bad and Obama worse, but people not wanting presidents that are tools like Booosh has been coming for some time. Trump is far exceeding my expectations.
Anyone who contributes to politicians kinda gets what they deserve. Its one thing to contribute time for a political cause another to give those crooks money.
Wouldn’t thinking Bush caused the GOP to implode be BDS?
Well, some older Republicans have a tough time saying that Booosh was bad per se. They just say his mistake was war. They “forget” about all the other bad stuff he did.
Just like you might squeeze some lefties to admit that Obama’s only mistake was thinking ObamaCare would work. They “forget” about all the other bad stuff he did.
Libertarians get to bash and praise (R) and (D) based on their performance because we normally would not have a tie to that Team.
TDS implies complete blame for everything, without good reason.
Booosh was a pretty shitty president. Not as bad as Obama but Boosh should be in near the bottom of good-worse rankings.
Part of a larger story, really. They were pretty normal, coastal Republicans until about March 2016. Since then, it’s been a strange campaign of revising their tastes and notions of common sense.
The amount of MSNBC that is watched is frightening. Though I should blame social media and the garbage that is the Internet as much as Trump’s personality. It’s having as much of a weird effect on the oldies as the youngies in the world.
Yes, I have noticed several friends, who were before happily apolitical, suddenly become very interested in politics because of their hate of Trump.
I have several friends who voted for Trump who now wish they hadn’t but no one I know who voted for Hillary feels they should have voted for Trump. Anecdotal, sure, but I don’t wonder that the Dems will pick up lots of House seats when the former Trumpers stay home and the rabid Hillary and Berniebots get out their base.
Yes, the entire band, except for you, is somehow out of step.
Indeed. Commenting here is proof of how normal I am.
Well, I feel vindicated now!
No one in NYC could be wrong.
Who dat? Geaux Saints! (next year)
What is the NFL’s core audience? Retarded pugilistic man-children? Out of shape dadbods living vicariously through Tom Brady? People who have brain damage from playing padded helmet ball? Canadians?