Dola:

I'm not responsible for the glaring grammatical and spelling errors in the above picture caption.

You posted it. You're responsible for it.

:+1:

+2

Not to mention that this is at least 10 years old.

I can vouch for New York and Massachusetts apparently following through on their desires. I can't go to a Rays game against those two teams without half the stands filled with Yankees or Bo Sox fans.

And what the hell is so great about Montana? Guess I should have asked this guy:

I guess President Bartlett was right.

Kindof like most of the Midwest, in my mind: good people, awful weather

SI

Also, TR, thanks for the image dump. Where is #4?

SI

Amen. It's allergy season in southern Indiana. You can see the pollen float through the air. Of course this happens during one of the most pleasant months weather wise. Once the pollen settles down, the high humidity and temperatures will settle in.

Turquoise Ice, Northern Lake Baikal, Russia.

#8 is in Switzerland, I assume? These pics just make me want to travel.

And here I thought Maryland was a liberal paradise...

Hallstatt, Austria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt

I've been to Hallstatt. Just a fantastic trip. If you take the train (and you should - it's beautiful) the train station is on the other side of the lake, so you take a boat over (I think the reason for this is that the mountains are so steep you can have the road on one side of the valley and the train on the other side, but not both).

If you like to hike, it's heaven. I stayed 3 days, and did a different 8 hour hike each day.

Not sure this belongs in here, but The Atlantic is doing a "World War I in Pictures" series to commemorate the 100 year anniversary, a new set of photographs every Monday. Today is part II.

World War I in Photos - The Atlantic

I'm missing the "cool" part of that video

I'm trying to figure out who got a copy of a video from my last family reunion.

definitely not cool at all unless I'm missing some hidden joke

Yeah... I don't really find "fighting" or seeing people inflict harm on other people as "cool"...

Especially one blatantly staged like that.

I guess some thinks it's cool to inflict violence upon another, esp. on women, whether staged or not.

fwiw, shovel chickfight is apparently blowing up Twitter today (currently #Shovel is #7 in the US). The Vine is part of a much longer video on YouTube, about 8 minutes worth.

Girl Fight Vine Of Girl Getting Hit In Head By Shovel Hilarious! Watch Full Length World Star Style YouTube Video Here - International Digital Times

Cool in that it's an open-and-shut ADW charge for the state?

Might have been nice if they put the damn phone down and stopped the psycho chick.

I don't much think pictures of mountains are cool...to each his own.

Comments on twitter for the shovel thing are unreal. How is assault funny?

I'm sure she'll claim to be ADD, bi-polar, or that her mommy didn't hug her enough as a child and get acquitted.

I think the starting point is probably the throwing of the shovel. I mean, as effective use of a weapon goes, that's high quality stupidity right there.

And, based on several articles I read when trying to figure out the source of the Vine, there was discussion of ground rules prior to the fight. It's not like one of them Pearl Harbored the other or something.

It's kind of the white girl version of the Sharkeisha video, except with less sneak attack.

Perhaps it's because this could have easily happened right around here.

FWIW, I don't think it's possible to have a better breakdown of a shovel fight than that. :D

Assault with a Digging Weapon?

Here is shovel girl's twitter background

Her parents must be so proud.

Maybe she'll get hit with a shovel a few more times and the herd will be properly thinned.

White Trash Shovel Fighting has been around since the turn of last century. About time it started getting a boost from social media.

You know you've made it when you're the topic of a death hoax

Viral Today: Vine Girl Hit with Shovel, Fake Story Reports Death | wafflesatnoon.com

A map with the "most desirable" colleges by State. "Most Desirable" was determined by number of applications submitted to a school.

Eat that, Notre Dame!

Look at that big ol' Tigerhawk in the middle. That warms my heart.

Northwestern over UIUC? Duke over UNC? Washington U in Missouri? UCF over... anything else in Florida?

SI

Well they go by number of applications.

A quick check finds that UCF had around 32k, Florida had 27k, and FSU had 29k

Damn straight

Wash U? WTF?

Interesting map, although it's going to be heavily weighted in favor of schools with larger undergraduate enrollments.

For the most part, but I was pretty surprised to see more applications to Marquette when it has about a quarter of the enrollment that Madison does.

UCF has been the second largest campus by enrollment in the country for the last few years.

Go Dawgs!

not even a little surprised

Yeah, I'd imagine the more prestigious schools are also at a disadvantage because of the difficulty of getting in.

Yep. The map is interesting, though it seems like a very poor way to label which school is "Most Desirable."

Ummm, the map does say that it is based upon number of applicants.

Right, which is why larger undergraduate enrollments will have a built-in advantage. Larger enrollment = more spots = more people applying, particularly since Large Public U can often be a safety school for those with higher aspirations, or the name recognition of those schools makes it a more popular choice.

Marquette as the most applicants in Wisconsin shocks me. Washington University in Missouri is a little surprising as well, but I seem to vaguely recall that it has a pretty decent general national reputation with not as strict admissions standards as other elite schools... but I might also be thinking of the wrong Midwestern Washington University.

You are free to create your own map based on your own criteria ya know.

That looks smart! :lol:

If they're around. I'm going with deadbeat dad and methhead mom.

I see your tree climber. And raise you...

Seattle Mariners Class A affiliate finishes 16-run comeback - ESPN

This is how I feel like some of my FM14 games have been going lately.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I may have used a tractor bucket to boost the reach of my ladder at the winery. Though I can confirm that I've never put a second ladder to further boost that reach.

The redditor who posted that double ladder photo claimed it was his friend's 84-year-old grandfather up there.

What? I wasn't criticizing the map - only pointing out why some of the results may seem surprising at first, such as UCF in Florida, but taking the above factor into account makes the result perfectly logical. Granted, that's not an absolute rule - see Marquette beating out Madison in Wisconsin - but it does in general advantage the larger undergraduate enrollment schools.

Love how the "safety guy" at the bottom just bails. Not that he could've done anything, but made me chuckle. (He did keep that ladder straight though !!)


Yeah, I read that. Didn't put it in this picture because, the picture alone was crazy to me, and I wasn't sure if it was legit. (I know, I know .... :Gasp: false information on reddit ? Say it isn't so.)

That's what happens when you mess with an Ent.

The physics of that are both interesting, and something that you'd think guys who cut down trees would know is a thing.

It is hard to tell, but I do not see any kind of undercut on the branch. Which is 'limb cutting 101'.

I love the fella in the lower right, right at the very end with his hands on his head.

I must be dense, because I don't recognize the guy under Shakespeare.

I don't recognize him or the one under Clinton (make your own joke here)

SI

Pretty sure that's Bill Hader.

That's Bill!

Thats William

I know this is so Tuesday, but apparently Shovel Girl is actually from around here, the fight occurred in the northern Dayton suburb of Troy.

I'm so pleased.

thats not a raptor, but it is a monster!

Washington University surprised me because it is fairly prestigious. They have more than 70,000 applications. They have almost as many postgrads and as undergrads. Maybe it is a bit of a "safety school" for the Ivy League crowd. It also has a strong international student body, so I'm wondering how many of those applicants are international students just hoping for a slot.

But those number of applications are off the hook.

i wonder if he still has his leg..........

A friend of mine that works in admissions at a college in North Carolina checked out that map and confirmed that there are 10-15 that are incorrect.

New game. Guess the crime this person was arrested for:



The answer:

Are you counting post-grad applications in that? I ask because their own webpage lists "1,488 freshmen were selected from 28,823 applicants".

As Wiki notes, they are also the subject of criticism due to their intensive marketing campaign which is apparently intended to drive up applications in order to drive up their ranking in several of the various systems.

More than that - that's the town I grew up in and where the majority of my family still lives. I've often chastised for having moved away when I graduated college.

Yeah, I was definitely in the right ballpark on this one.

Ditto

I feel you should be celebrated.

I guessed shoplifting from a skateboard shop.

Probably faulty math on my part. I read they have a 17% acceptance rate and calculated the application number based on the entire student body, which is erroneous because it should only be based on freshmen and new grad students. 28,000 is still a pretty good number, and I'm sure would but them ahead of Missouri-Columbia.

The marketing campaign criticism wouldn't surprise me either. Good way to game the system to make you look like a more Elitist Richard. :)

Not surprised that Michigan's is Arabic.

But what is "Hmong" or "tagalog"?

Hmong American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hmong Americans are Americans of ethnic Hmong descent. Hmong Americans are one group of Asian Americans. Many Lao Hmong war refugees resettled in the U.S. following the communist takeover of Laos in 1975. Beginning in December of that year, the first Hmong refugees arrived in the U.S., mainly from refugee camps in Thailand; however, only 3,466 were granted asylum at this time under the Refugee Assistance Act of 1975.

There are fairly sizable Hmong and Somali refugee/immigrant populations the Twin Cities area.

Tagalog is the native language in the Philippines.

Edit: Well, I should say "one of" the native languages in the Philippines.

shocked french is big in MD... dont know any french speaker, know tons of koreans...

I was not at all surprised that Italian was #3 for New Jersey. There are a few Korean communities in New Jersey, but I was surprised to see two states with Korean as their third most spoken language.

And FWIW, Louisiana, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire had French as #2 ahead of Spanish, North Dakota's #2 is German, Hawaii's #2 is Tagalog and Alaska's #2 is Yupik. The rest of the states had Spanish as their #2 language.

I'm floored that German is so prevalent.