I watched Japan win last night. Iâm going to have to read more about this. âFrom The Bronx to Ukraineâ? When/how did that happen? I remember the Bronx part.
Movie âWild Styleâ apparently explains some of it.
I slept way late so missed the previous rounds, but I am looking forward to the âB-Boysâ final round at 2pm 
What an absolute treat to watch the Breaking finale. The athleticism, the joy, the talent. The sportsmanship in particular, which I thought was lacking a bit in the B girls competition.
Good for you. I donât want anyone imputing something they decide I am guilty of to my four kids. Recall the DC mayoral aide who got fired for racism for complaining that the budget was niggardly? The folks who were exercised about it paraded around his house and his kidsâ school
Thatâs a curious case to bring up for a discussion of social media given that I assume youâre talking about the David Howard affair in DC. And that happened in 1999. It wasnât to do with social media on any part and also, he wasnât fired. He resigned and that resignation was accepted. And then he was offered another job in the city (administration).
A lot of the online mobilisation around then was more about the alt-globalisation movements.
Femke! Also, the US womenâs 4x400 team.
Thanks; so given it was 25 years ago, I am either conflating multiple situations together, or was just plain wrong on my recall altogether.
Thanks for the name, by the way. What Iâm reading says after he resigned, the Mayor got in hot water for accepting his resignation; one of those âdanged if you do or donâtâ situations for the mayor. It seems a fair number of media outlets cast the resignation in terms of âforced to resignâ.
Was I the only one who felt sort of sorry for the other teams in the 4x400? Silver and bronze werenât even in the picture by the third leg.
And while speaking of US womenâs track . . . Am I the only one with a massive inferiority complex when faced with Gabby Thomas? Fast? Yep. Intelligent? Double yep. Well-spoken? Of course. Beautiful? No doubt. I wonât be jealous because she has no doubt worked very hard for her achievements . . . but damn 
Maaaan, the next Arizonan that tries to BS me with that line. Grrr
I get it. But it depends on what bothers a person more, as between heat and humidity. Iâm much more sensitive to high humidity and will break a sweat working my way down to the shoreline to fish in 60°F weather if itâs over about 75% humidity. But 106°F/22% in Scottsdale (peeked at current conditions) doesnât bother me quite as much.
Menâs Olympic gold medal basketball; 10 minutes to play. I need a TO, watching Shetland.
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Well, now Iâm three strikes and out. It wasnât news reporting on the event as it happened, it was news commentary about the event after the fact.
I do. And I also remember that he seemed like the kind of guy who would use the (antiquated, disused) term just so he could be all smug when people got upset about it.
That word use is a DELIBERATE choice, and claiming you had no idea it would possibly be misconstrued is proof of either staggering ignorance or disingenuousness.
Watching the Olympics . Prepping for pizza Saturday . My favorite day !!
Just heard it wonât be in the next Summer Olympics.
Am I the only one who was happy to hear this? Of course, I didnât even realize breaking was still a thingâI always think 80s/90s fad.
It seemed very weird to me that it was considered a sport. So no, Iâm fine with it being dropped.
Yeah, âhappyâ is probably too strong . . . just not sad/sorry.
I havenât watched and donât really care at all, but Iâm kinda dismayed that people are so peeved that Breakdancing was a sport.
I mean, isnât Ice Dancing a sport? What about Horse Dancing- err, sorryâŚ. Dressage. No one gets all huffy about THAT. I remember Ski Ballet as an event from way back when.
Itâs possible - I donât know anything about his background other than whatâs been reported. But even if he was that kind of a jerk, he seemed to have a fair bit of local support, with black leaders and LGBT leaders (as described in the LATimes below) coming out on his side and criticizing the mayor for being too hasty in accepting the resignation.
I also donât have a good recollection on what polite society generally thought of the word in the 1990s. But curiosity got the better of me, and since I was already at the LAT, I did a quick wordsearch and found they published the word in its typical sense (and not quoting anyone else) as of 1999 and later very few times - in 1999 (the year the Howard episode happened), 2001, 2004, and as late as in 2009.
So, it does seem like itâs had pretty sparse usage from 1999 and forward at the LATimes. But it also apparently had not been flagged as against the their style guide (or those instances mentioned above just slipped through a crack). In 2001 the NYTimes described the word as being ânow used less frequentlyâ due to the potential for misunderstanding.
OTOH, a few months before the Howard incident, the Dallas Morning News did make it a taboo word because their restaurant critic had criticized a restaurant by saying they had a âniggardly hand with seasoningâ. After a âfoofarahâ (DMN wording) ensued, they ran an apologetic clarification, and the senior editor said sheâd taken the decision to ban the word. Except 2 cases (2010, 2015) when they were republishing OpEd columns by Leonard Pitts. Pitts being black and not a person anyone would ever accuse of not having an excellent command of the English language, plus (probably) a very strong desire not to mess with someone elseâs work, this makes sense.
