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A man that murdered nearly forty teenaged boys in Chicago during the 70s. The infamous clown killer.

I literally cannot stop thinking about the fact I know a guy that had John Wayne Gacy handcuffed! He let him go! That must've ate him up inside for a longtime. It was early in Gacy's murder spree, over twenty murders could've been prevented. It makes me sick thinking about it.

It's Barcelona, not some two-bit team. I wasn't surprised at all.

My wife told me that her former boss (and close family friend to our brother-in-law) was attacked by John Wayne Gacy as a teenager. Apparently he was hiring teenaged boys to work for his construction company. One day he attacked him but he managed to beat up Gacy and escape. He even had to testify on his trials. What the fucking fuck? From wikipedia Much of the labor workforce of PDM Contractors consisted of high school students and young men. One of these youths was a 15-year-old named Anthony Antonucci, whom Gacy had hired in May 1975. In July 1975, Gacy arrived at the youth's home while the youth was alone, having injured his foot at work the day prior. Gacy plied the youth with alcohol, wrestled him to the floor and cuffed Antonucci's hands behind his back.[110] The cuff upon Antonucci's right wrist was loose: Antonucci freed his arm from the handcuff after Gacy left the room. When Gacy returned, Antonucci—a member of his high school wrestling team—pounced upon him. The youth wrestled Gacy to the floor, obtained possession of the handcuff key and cuffed Gacy's hands behind his back. Gacy screamed threats, then calmed down and promised to leave if Antonucci removed the handcuffs. The youth agreed and Gacy left the house.[110] Antonucci later recalled that Gacy had told him as he lay on the floor: "Not only are you the only one who got out of the cuffs; you got them on me."

My great-great uncle died in a dogfight during WW2. I don't know where he was stationed. On the other side of my family my great-great uncle is a legitimate war hero of the pacific. Escaped and rescued dozens of soldiers in Japanese POW camps. A book was even published on the old bastard.

Works for a company that develops the hardware and software for slot machines. She IS the QA department, both the manager and the only employee.

Not that one, the other one on Scenic. Closer to the Shoppes at Web Ginn.

No, it's on Scenic.

I work at fucking Starbucks so I have no real complaints. The wifey on the other hand could fill this entire forum till the servers exploded with nonsense from her occupation. Fuck me, imagine having the most casual, friendliest and efficient workplaces in the world only to have it do an 180' and become a literal joke of bureaucracy and level after level of management.

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People still watch this sport?

Zlatan and Jose are two peas in a pod. That definitely helps out.

Post the nastiest, grittiest shit in your library. FLEX YOUR MUSCLES

Happy Blue needs to step up his WUM game now that we have a new site.

You cannot deny my body.

I want to go to Italy.

You gotta appreciate that the Blackhawks were dead in the water a decade ago. Nobody liked the team or the owner. Tickets were expensive, popular members of the organisation were fired, games weren't allowed on TV, the team was the worst in the league, etc. They managed to turn it around into a team that is involved in the community is universally loved on and off the ice.

No I have not. But I'll look into it and I'll brighten your day by showing you how deeply involved into the community my hockey team is. The Hawks are constantly having programs with local charities that include Native Americans, reading programs for the illiterate, hockey programs for primary school kids, homelessness, low-income student scholarships, and so much more. The players are always seen at charity events and fundraisers as well.

What is that je ne sais quois? Something cultural? Something to identify with being from a certain background or location? That isn't unique to football and the alienation from grassroots isn't unique to football as well. It's been a long time since West Ham players were local steel-workers; does the club still represent the local industry and culture? No I don't think any club does (outside a few exceptions, but they aren't the rule), but the fans do. All that matters is how the fans feel; if the fans feel like Arsenal represents an idea, an abstract of concept of what it means to be an Arsenal supporter then I suppose it still exists in it's purity. American sports fans still feel that way as well, particularly for the older teams, the Cubs represent the north of Chicago, the middle-class and the more WASP neighbourhoods. Their cross-town rivals are the working-class, the poorer people and African-Americans. Their is a reason why New York and LA are viscous rivals, because they represent to polarising cultures from the two biggest cities in America on opposite coasts. There are reasons to why Chicago and Detroit are rivals, the economic rivalries of Lake Michigan and Lake Eerie, etc.

Murdoch is Australian.

Clubs and players aren't comparable, mate! We are talking about winning on a club level is different to a player! You cannot bring George Best into a discussion about Arsenal and American sports. Nobody remembers the team that came third in America but they do remember the award winning goal-tender on the worst team in the league. Every team in America has at least something to brag about on a player perspective (because that is parity of NA). Cubs fans will always remember Ernie Banks and Sammy Sosa but they don't hum on the fact their team lost for 108 straight years, they don't brag about coming fourth. They appreciate their players but on the whole scale of the club, it's only winning that is important (competing is the first to that). More teams win in America because of the parity so it's a true rarity that legendary player goes without winning too much. Alex Oveckin is probably the second or third best forward in hockey today and people celebrate him for it, but they don't brag about how their team constantly underachieves.

Trying to become American sports franchises in what way? The only defining characteristic of American sports is winning. Winning is everything, all that matters is reaching the brass ring. It is the very nature of any sports team to win and that nature is curbed at Arsenal and in Europe in general. Merely qualifying is a seen as a victory in Europe, not so in North-America. European football is the furthest thing from American franchises, they are nothing like that and I'd say sports in America is more pure than in Europe. Nobody remembers who got to the quarter finals on the World Series but every single Arsenal fan will tell you about their constant top four qualification.

A club that doesn't want to win will never win. Why take a larger gamble on a trophy when qualifying guarantees the same return? Why spend more to win, when the club can coast along the same lines? Arsenal isn't a club, European football is dead and greed isn't filthy. There is more desire, heart and soul in North-American franchises than all of European football.

There are more issues than just Champions League football. Arsenal get embarrassed on a consistent basis in the league and Arsenal will never have the mental fortitude to defeat Bayern Munich if they get smacked 3-1 by Liverpool and 2-1 by Watford. A teams that barely qualifies yearly for Champions League, a team that always gets knocked out at the Round of 16 has no rights thinking about how to defeat Real Madrid and Barcelona. Focus on domestic issues before Europe. Walk before running.

Yeah, DID play those teams but at this rate that won't be happening next season.