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Those look so much better in digital form than they do in real life. That's awful.

I often wonder, if a purple elephant with big eagle wings and an eight-foot-long giraffe neck flew up to me... well, 8 feet behind me, and asked me if I wanted to go out for a drink, what would I do? It's exactly the same thing.

We see the answers, but what was the question? If it's what I think it is, then the answer would be "Multiple times a day" or "Multiple times an hour."

Suburbs can technically exist within city limits, even though in the states we don't often think that way. Just because some neighborhood is part of LA, if it's mostly residential and not too "urban" (here's where a gray area exists), then it's a suburb. In other countries I've been, I've heard people refer to suburbs as any residential neighborhood that's not near one of the CBDs. So like in Singapore, someone I met was like "yeah I need to leave early, I live out in the suburbs", but her "suburb" was a neighborhood of nothing but 30+story high rises with ground floor retail. I get that USA isn't Singapore, but that's more common than our definition. I know here, some people will look at you funny if you say you live in the city but you're in somewhere like Manayunk, which while in the city limits, and arguably urban, isn't the core of the city. Ironically, that's the case despite the fact that Phila's city/county really doesn't sprawl that much at all (except in the trashy northeast.)

That's difficult for many of us on the east coast to grasp. From me in South Philadelphia, 100 miles puts me precisely at the Empire State Building... which is certainly not in the same metro.

I think it's more natural to become more precise in your name than more vague. Florida to Miami Marlins took me no time to adjust to, while Phoenix to Arizona Cardinals still seems weird to me. The Angels have gone all directions with this. Small (LA) to medium (CA) to small (Anaheim) back to medium (LA). For whatever reason, LAA (or LAA of A) has taken me far longer to get used to than Anaheim from California did.

Whuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?

Sure, then we should have the Orchard Park Bills too.

It’s absurd to think the Angles would leave, considering that it’s been proven that teams can make tons of money in the LA region even being second or third fiddle and not trying, as long as they have a nice lease somewhere (see - Clippers). Unless the owner had a personal reason to move the team, it’s difficult to envision him making more elsewhere, especially Vegas.

We could turn the US into Macau - an entire country(ish place) of casinos.

Safari

Do you use mobile? Are you in phone?

I was going to post last night that the problem had all but gone away, but today has been worse than ever. Almost every click has generated an ad that blocks button clicks. One literally came up right right before I could hit “submit reply” on this very post and I had to wait a while for it to render and then X out of it.

IIRC from When I was younger, the Division Playoff Championship was sorta treated as a separate thing from the regulr season divisional championship. If that is right, then I guess having banners for each is OK. I don’t recall there being any such distinction for conference championship - only the Campbell/Wales trophy winner.

Completely disagree. A divisional-championship is still a championship, and while I understand that it's not the overall league championship, it's still an accomplishment. At the end of the day, the banners aren't for the players or teams, they're for the fans. Gives them an event to attend when they're raised, gives them something to look at and take pictures of, give us fodder for this thread, and is less boring than nothing.

Caps banner looks great. They integrated the word mark into the cup really well.

So now there are actually COMPETING bottom ads - one eventually gives you a little x on the right, the other on the left. They “stack” while forming, then eventually (once the border ad goes away) take their place at the bottom. The thjng is, while they’re stacked (the shaded area in my screen shot) you’re locked - you cannot click on anything without waiting for all the ads to form and take their places, then x them out, which is hard without actually clicking on them. Only then can I click anything. Im open to the idea that maybe it’s something on my iPhone, except that it’s ONLY this site, and restarting hasn’t changed anything, which is 99.9% all you have to do when an iPhone develops weird behavior like this.

I think we all know the mods jobs, but they’re our only liaison hence the comments here. Nobody expects you or Ice Cap to implement some new system, and especially not that non-pee-flap-using weirdo Infrared. As as for the bolder, not sure that’s the case unless there’s long term contracts. I have no idea how any of this works, except that I’m sure it’s more complicated than I or anyone here thinks. I think an occasional “hey, chatted with CC and it’s still being worked on” or “chatted with CC and f u” are fair.

It’s not nearly that simple. There’s certainly a lot of analysis And math involved in determine the fee and any potential plans, then the technical factors involved with implementing them. You say $20, and while that might work, it also might not even be close to equaling the lost revenue, considering only a very small percentage will likely pay it. Of course, if there were also the free plan, that could actually work to the relatively small number that will pay could actually benefit the site, provided the absurd ads don’t drive the free people away. Just saying, it’s not reasonable to expect to hear “ok, just pay $X and the ads will go away” any time soon, unless it’s been in the works already for a while.

I don’t expect there to be any type of immediate solution (and possibly none at all) but can we just get an acknolodement that the posts have been received?

I’d say maybe my iPhone is infected but some of the things happen on my desktop, iPad, and laptop too, so despite wanting to support the site I had to switch on ad-block.

Just have a membership fee. Give leople like 20 free posts just so they know what they’re getting, then charge an annual fee. Anything to get rid of this nonsense. Just while typing this, a Honda Insight car raced across my screen, a nut border formed, and I had to wait for a Planet Fitness ad at the bottom to go away because I can’t submit a post while there’s an ad there. I am willing to pay in order to enjoy the site again.

The black line must have been some accidental iPhone finger slip effect. Didn’t appear on the actual ad.

What the effing eff??