u/TheFrebbin

With all due respect to Cade and ant man

…IMHO it’s Mookie Wilson’s dribbler down the first base line going between the legs of Bill Buckner, resulting in the Mets winning Game 6 on the spot before going on to win Game 7 and the 1986 World Series.

That one didn’t involve anything as athletically skilled as OG’s tip-in, but it had the same one-in-a-million “OH MY GOD” quality.

Edit: there are definitely some other great ones!

I’ve created a My Maps with places I want to visit on an upcoming trip.

In the iPhone Google Maps app, I select You > Maps > <name of map>, and the pins appear on my screen.

But when I click on a pin, it replaces the actual Google Maps listing in my view so I don’t have access to hours, reviews, pictures, etc.
“View Map Legend” just shows me an index of my own pins.

Am I somehow not using this right or is it really this awful and poorly designed?

Update: I discovered I can get the real listing back by searching for the name of the pin I’m looking at. Better, but still clumsy. Not to mention that I can’t do things I should obviously be able to do, like filter the pins by what’s open now.

This fall I’ll be in Antwerp and Ghent. Are there NA beers to look for there? I see some promising menu items at top breweries but I’d be interested to hear what anyone has actually tried.

(I haven’t had NA Chouffe, but I can get that in the US.)

That is, the remembered version completes a pattern initiated but left incomplete in the current real version.

The black stripe on Pikachu’s tail would match those on its ears.

“Berenstein Bears” would pick up on the high number of “e”s already in “Beren.”

Sinbad had an Arabian-fairytale name and dressed like a genie on multiple occasions. Casting him as a genie would be an obvious follow-up.

Mandela dying would extend the sad pattern of Black civil rights figures dying before their time.

“Chik-fil-a” and “Chic-fil-a” both do a better job of matching “fil-a”s stylized, compressed style than the clumsier “Chick-fil-a.”

Rich Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly is exactly the kind of character who would have a monocle.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall” both has a better rhythm than “Magic mirror on the wall,” and appeared in media other than the Disney movie (which I’d guess wanted to drive home that it’s a magic mirror.)

From what I understand of cognitive science, all memories are depictions and reconstructions—in effect, everything we recall has a little Mandela in it. The Mandela Effect happens to exactly those things and events that are most strongly set up to drift in a certain direction.

ADDED: while I believe this is a reason to doubt that reality actually changed, it’s possible to believe that reality did change in some or all cases, and also notice that there’s a pattern to what gets subjected to the Mandela Effect.

This isn’t Giannis criticism, it’s a measure of where we are.

I still remember learning KD and Kyrie weren’t coming to NY and we weren’t getting the #1 pick to draft Zion.

Life comes at you fast and that can be a good thing

I’ll start it off with the obvious pick: Dylan Harper

When she was a teenager in Miami, her dad told her that they had to try out this place that had just opened up near his place of work with amazing flame-broiled burgers. She had a burger, fries, and milkshake and remembers them all as being “out of this world.”

I checked the location and the date and this was the first ever Burger King franchise restaurant, in 1954. Not the first restaurant—it started as a small creator-owned chain in Jacksonville, FL—but the first one opened by a franchisee.

But that means logically that you eat what you are. 🪱

Passenger here. This one was pretty much harmless compared to some of the stuff I'm seeing here, but I had to laugh:

Called for an Uber to get me from the train station to home.

Halfway to me (a very short distance), the driver cancels. The system finds me a replacement driver.

While I wait for Driver #2, I see Driver #1 approach. I immediately worry that this is some app issue, where it canceled for me but not for them.

But no! The driver pulls up, picks up the woman standing next to me, and drives off. (Soon after, Driver #2 arrives.)

I suspect the woman's drive was worth more than mine. But still...