Perhaps my most controversial and hated opinion is that the glowing puck in hockey was good actually.
22.02.2026 15:21
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Perhaps my most controversial and hated opinion is that the glowing puck in hockey was good actually.
Well. At least we’re doing heart hands the good and correct way again.
TL;DR: Ilia Malinin will never win Olympic gold with that Beijing-sized chip on his shoulder. Let it go, man. #IliaMalinin #Olympics #figureskating #MilanCortina
My husband is very patient and kind, in addition to being competent.
Olympic pressure is real. Ice is slippery. And the Quad God is mortal. #Olympics #IliaMalinin #figureskating #MilanCortina #QuadGod
But Olympic gold is about more than adoration, accolades and achievements. Mental preparation is just as important as physical conditioning. You need both to win.
In four years, Malinin revolutionized his sport and achieved the unthinkable. Commentators swooned, judges piled on the points and fans rained plush dragons onto the ice.
But the pressure that defeated him at worlds in 2022 waited for him on the ice in Milan Cortina. He never made peace with it. He wasn’t prepared for it.
Malinin’s exclusion from the Olympic team upset him. It drove him. It consumed him. He spent the next Olympic cycle shattering records and expectations. He won a lot and by a lot. His Olympic spot for Milan Cortina was a forgone conclusion. It was his time. How could he fail?
Then Malinin finished ninth at worlds. Facing pressure on the world stage, he tumbled down the leaderboard after mistakes in his free skate. He wasn’t ready yet. Olympic pressure would have crushed him.
A few weeks after Nathan Chen’s career-defining gold medal win in Beijing, Malinin earned his technical minimums and a gold medal of his own at the International Challenge Cup.
Malinin made his senior international debut in the run up to the Olympics. Even as he vied for an Olympic berth, he lacked the technical minimum scores to compete at the 2022 World Championships.
An untested Ilia Malinin was left off the U.S. Olympic team four years ago. Malinin won silver at the U.S. Championships, a feat some observers felt entitled him to a trip to Beijing over Jason Brown, a more experienced but less technically proficient competitor, who finished fourth at nationals.
CONFIRMED: Tar-RAH and Johnny were fooling absolutely no one in the castle. #traitors #taraandjohnny
I seem to be getting the most use out of this term I’ve coined while playing Mario Kart World.
(Blue shell hits me)
“I’ve been funched!”
In honor of Ron Funches’ unjust exit from “The Traitors,” I will now refer to anyone who has been wronged as having been “funched.”
The rate at which people on “The Traitors” use the wrong word or use words wrong is staggering to me.
Our town canceled recycling collection for the week due to weather (totally get it, respect borough workers, etc.). But …
It was paper and cardboard week. And they won’t pick up paper and cardboard again until the second week of February. And guys, we have so much cardboard.
What a weird week today was.
A Verizon Agent’s message from a live chat session.
Out of context, this message from my Verizon Agent is strangely poignant.
My cats are valiantly trying to eat these homemade treats we bought for them at a holiday market and I love them for that but they clearly do not like them.
Geebs
Gee-bee
Gee-bee-bean
Riggy
Riggers
Riggs
Riggy-B
Riggy The B (with fanfare)
The Bean
Smol Bean
Baby Girl
The Hunter
Rigby, a gray tabby cat, with the most adorable look of surprise on her perfect little face.
An exhausting but not exhaustive list of nicknames for my cat Rigby:
Peels
Peely
Pee-lee-lee
Petey
Pete
An exhausting but not exhaustive list of my cat Ripley’s nicknames:
Rippy
Rippy-lee
(Miss) Rips
Ripple
Fudge Ripple
Fudge
Rippleton
Rippleton-lee
Rippletoni
Rippletoni-lee-lee (sung to the tune of Happy Birthday)
The Warrior
The Pea
(My) Lee-lee
Ripp-ae-tone
Rippers
Queen Darkscorn
I’ve been watching football since I was a kid and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an onside kick work out in favor of the kicking team.
was disappointing! “The Conjuring Last Rites” purports to be about the Smurl haunting in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, but is barely so. The movie was instead slavishly self-serving to its rosy portrayal of the Warren family down to a laughable torch-passing scene involving a set of keys.
