Tag: Internet Reaction

The Internet is roasting Skip Bayless for his bonkers microwave placement

Yep, we’re losing it over Skip Bayless’ microwave placement. What a way to close the decade.

Forgive the Mad Libs headline, but let’s get into it.

Skip Bayless is a Cowboys fan, and he’s been happy to talk about that ad infinitum for the last decade. The man has hours to fill on television, and the Cowboys let him fill those hours, and some people out there apparently like to listen to him do that.

One recurring bit he’s had over the past year is to throw Ezekiel Elliott’s jersey in the trash can, then fish it back out when the Cowboys play well. It’s a bit. Elliott’s mom has gotten upset about it in the past, which I’d argue is pretty silly, as Bayless is an actor playing a role.

Anyway, Bayless did it again this week after this latest embarrassing Cowboys loss. I’m not here to talk about that. I’m here to talk about Bayless’ microwave, which appears to be below hip level, and directly above his trash can.

This is an insane place to put a microwave. I’m flabbergasted. Even if the trash was put there for the sake of the bit, I cannot understand how it would be comfortable or convenient to have your microwave below hip level. (Also, he’s done this before, and the trash was in front of the microwave before, so this might just be how his kitchen is set up.)

With no counter underneath it either, any food that may spill when you’re taking food out of the microwave is just going to go right on the floor.

Perhaps this is a power statement, basically saying: We’re so rich we never have to re-heat leftovers, and thus can put our microwave in an absolutely bonkers place, because we’ll never use it.

But at that point, just get avant-garde with it. Put it on the ceiling.

Or maybe, and this is horrifying to think about, maybe Skip just eats all his meals directly out of the microwave, hunched over the trash can until he’s done and can just drop the remains. I’m not ruling this out.

I am not the only person to have noticed this.

It’s not just a tame way to close out the decade, it’s a beautiful way.

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Rejoice in all these hilarious reviews bashing the movie, ‘Cats’

Multiple people used the me-ouch pun. MULTIPLE PEOPLE.

The movie Cats is coming out this weekend. Starting with the first glimpse of the trailer, which showed bizarre, nightmarish people-cats played by celebrities, prancing and singing around, it became clear that this movie was going to be something. 

Good? Bad? Who knew? But good lord it was going to be something. 

The reviews are in now, and yes, this movie SURE IS SOMETHING. It’s also apparently terrible, but in the best kind of way that has reviewers not even bother to hem and haw like they usually do, instead just rejoicing in how terrible this ridiculous movie is.

Look at these fantastic reviews of this terrible movie! Complete with cat puns!

“Oh God, my eyes,” wrote Ty Burr in the Boston Globe.

“This part-people, part-pussycat, faux-feline Hollywood hairball is a me-ouch,” wrote Neil Pond in Parade. ME-OUCH! HE SAID ME-OUCH.

“Woof,” said Adam Graham in Detroit News, in a story that also had the Me-Ouch pun!!

“Even after 110 tumbling, tail-swishing, deeply psychedelic minutes, it’s hard to know if you ever really knew anything – except that C is for Cats, C is for Crazy, and C is probably the grade this cinematic lunacy deserves,” Leah Greenblatt wrote in EW.

We also had Cat-astrophe puns, which, yes please. Look at this one!

Or this!

Anyway, I can’t wait to see Cats. Everyone go see Cats. Then we can write funny things all together.

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USC’s recruiting class is a disaster, and the college football world is losing it

USC currently has a worse recruiting class than Bowling Green, Troy, and UL Lafayette. Fans are stunned.

USC has perennially been a college football powerhouse, and one of the big reasons for that is its location. It can recruit from Southern California, and Southern California? It’s got a lot of really good high school football players! Like, so many good high school football players!

USC is a Power 5 school with a rich tradition, great infrastructure, a great location, and everything else a school could possibly want when it comes to recruiting.

Which makes it all the more stunning that, as of 11:30 ET on Early Signing Day, USC has the 76th best recruiting class in the country, per 24/7 Sports. They needed to land three-star DT Tuli Tuipulotu to move up to 76th, too — before that, they were slotted in at the 85th spot … just below Georgia State.

To put it bluntly, USC is a mess. The school didn’t end up firing head coach Clay Helton this offseason, but there were rumors throughout the year that they were going to. With an unsettled AD — the school brought in outsider Mike Bohn this year — it’s unsurprising that many recruits were scared off by a team that seems so in flux. Why commit to a team where you’re pretty sure the coach won’t be there in a year?

Anyway, it’s a mess, and CFB fans and writers enjoyed it.

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NBA fans roast the Knicks after team fires David Fizdale

The 4-18 Knicks are a complete disaster.

The David Fizdale era is over in New York, as the Knicks fired the head coach following a disastrous 4-18 start to the season. Fizdale was in his second season in New York, and led the team to a 17-65 record last season, the worst in the league.

The move was reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on the day after the coach blasted his team’s “sickening” effort in a blowout loss to the Nuggets at Madison Square Garden. Fizdale was always likely to take the fall for the Knicks, but as our own Charles Curtis argued in November, he isn’t to blame for the organization’s failure to lure a major star in free agency, and their subsequent roster moves, which left Fizdale with a terribly constructed roster.

NBA Twitter went off on the Knicks on Friday.

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Unai Emery got sacked and Arsenal fans couldn’t be happier

Some Arsenal fans were reflective, but most were delighted by the sacking of Unai Emery.

It’s over. Arsenal’s long, global nightmare is over.

Unai Emery was dismissed as head coach of the London club on Friday, following an embarrassing 2-1 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League this week.

Club legend Freddie Ljungberg, who had been serving as an assistant coach with the team, will step into an interim role while they search for a new head coach.

Emery has overseen kind of a bizarre tenure with the club, with some good results, a lot of bad results, and some weird, weird player management along the way. (The whole Granit Xhaka-as-captain thing will probably have a book written about it one day.)

Emery never seemed to get his footing, and after a run of poor results, it apparently became clear to club owner Stan Kroenke (he of the Rams), that the situation was untenable.

That’s all well and good. What was really great was seeing how Arsenal fans reacted to the sacking. Gaze upon their joy!

 

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