War Room Lounge V31: The Genius of the Crowd

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Gotta disagree there. Sure, him avoiding the place for the duration out of shame probably wasn't anticipated, but dude had no obligation to post unless it was stated in the bet.

Curious though, if you change your sig it doesn't update your past posts, like if you changed your AV?
Changing the sig in past posts I am not sure.

As to not posting... he may not have an obligation to post but talk about being bitchmade after losing.

It's like losing a money bet of $100 and paying it back over 100 months in $1 increments.
 
Regular on Fox and head of the ACU. I'd say that he is. What are his views on climate change and the impact of regressive tax cuts?

Let me note here, in case it's not clear, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple of legit examples (though I don't know that Schlapp is one--interested in seeing your response to my request for a description of his views). But I think it's generally true. Just like there are probably some NBA players under six feet tall. For that matter, of course there are some right-wing academics. It's just that my explanation for why there aren't a lot (contrary to Inga and Anung's theory of a conspiracy against them) is that features of the movement (specifically hostility to free inquiry and the demand of acceptance of objective falsehoods) tend to repel academics. I asked Inga twice (and she twice refused to answer) if she thinks that biology departments should make an effort to hire creationists.
Just a simple request to tighten up your language. I hold you to a higher standard than the bots around here.
 
Changing the sig in past posts I am not sure.

As to not posting... he may not have an obligation to post but talk about being bitchmade after losing.

It's like losing a money bet of $100 and paying it back over 100 months in $1 increments.

Sure, it's bitchmade.

If I were the one who won the bet I'd actually prefer witnessing his shame over seeing whatever I put in his sig pop up. :D
 
No, it wouldn't, because only bet thread wagers go into the record.
"The record"...except that there is no reason we can't keep track of bets outside the thread.

The bet in question here was outside the official rankings, but no less a wager in any sense of the word.
Wrong. The way things work around here is we spar in the general threads, attempt to hammer out the terms of a bet, and then we confirm in the bet thread. Only exception is account bets, since @Lead can't recognize them. You know this, but your bias is clouding your thinking.

And other people welching on bets would not be an excuse for you to do the same thing.
The point is that they weren't "welching" on me. They agreed to bet and then changed their minds before confirmation. That's happened to me at least 5 times. I'm sure you were incensed when it happened to me. I jabbed them for it but that's just to get them to confirm. They owe me nothing.
 
Man, I can't imagine how BJ feels inside: he was one of if not the most talented fighter in the world and he kind of took it for granted. Now he's over the hill and losing fights left and right and clearly has more passion and desire than in years past, but he's just not good anymore.

The loss to Rory should have been it.

I'd actually put it a bit earlier, at the Diaz fight. Diaz was good at that point, but he wasn't that good. An all-time great and fight "prodigy," as Penn supposedly was, should have been able to outsmart a predictable fighter like Diaz, or at least make each round competitive. But it's the way Penn lost—wilting early on, and struggling to survive later—that should have sealed his decision to retire. BJ's physical abilities were clearly in permanent decline due to age, and to a lesser extent genetics. We saw a similar issue in Penn's performance against Fitch (that draw was a gift IMO), and we can't chalk it all up to Fitch's size. Of course Fitch was a good opponent, but Penn had the skills and a pretty good game plan; he simply wasn't capable of executing it for 3 rounds. When you add his performances up, from Frankie 1 through Diaz, retirement was clearly in order after the Diaz loss (to be fair, Penn did initially "retire" after that fight).

Now, from a legacy standpoint, he should have stopped after Hughes III, but I guess that would be expecting too much humility from a guy who only lost the title 7 months prior.
 
"The record"...except that there is no reason we can't keep track of bets outside the thread.


Wrong. The way things work around here is we spar in the general threads, attempt to hammer out the terms of a bet, and then we confirm in the bet thread. Only exception is account bets, since @Lead can't recognize them. You know this, but your bias is clouding your thinking.


The point is that they weren't "welching" on me. They agreed to bet and then changed their minds before confirmation. That's happened to me at least 5 times. I'm sure you were incensed when it happened to me. I jabbed them for it but that's just to get them to confirm. They owe me nothing.
Again, the bet thread exists for ranking and accountability, in addition to sidestepping these kind of welch squabbles. It specifically contains the official record. It doesn't magically absolve people of wagers made outside it. Whether or not someone chooses to hold people accountable is their own call. You very clearly made a bet, and doing so outside the bet thread doesn't make it any more real. It just means it's between you two and that nobody is going to enforce it. There is no "exception" for account bets. Practically speaking, they are as enforceable as any bet that happens outside the bet thread. But they are also not enforceable inside the bet thread, either. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
 
Penn was looking fine against Hall. Was winning the fight. Granted, Hall is overrated.

Penn can still win some fights with the right matchups. Give him Maynard or Sanchez rematch.
Yeah but he sucker punched a guy out here at Kauhale's Bar, followed with a knee to the head, and couldn’t put him away. You might remember he was arrested out here. Just saying, he’s fallen pretty far.

Edit: damn that was 2015, feels like yesterday.
 
BJ c. 2009 is the best p4p fighter I've ever seen (including GSP, who is at least one weight class bigger than BJ, probably 2). I specifically recall the Sherk, GSP I, and Sanchez fights as fights where I almost never saw any of BJ's strikes land because they were so subtle and quick. You'd just see the other guys randomly get rocked and bloodied.
I was cageside at the Sanchez fight drunk out of my mind. I kept screaming, "Left hook, liver kick!!!" at Diego for basically the entire fight. I'm surprised no one tried to strangle me.
 
OK, what the fuck, Millennials? I just caught about 10 minutes of this show called "Ridiculousness", another mindless Youtube clip show. Never mind that it's just plain brainless, its young host (who is male, white, and dressed head to toe in DC gear, for those who care), finds way way too many excuses to use the word bitch, especially when the subject of the video is female. To top it off, the first segment of the next show that came on while I was typing this was people deliberately causing accidents on the road, with everyone laughing along. Examples included SUV's driving cars off the road and trucks with stuff hanging off the back of them knocking people on bicycles to the ground.

What the fuck, Millennials? Is there anyone out there who can explain to me how this is on TV when supposedly only 2 people on Twitter need to complain to constitute leftist outrage?
 
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