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“‘Hi, Coach Reid? Yeah. Great to hear from you. Yeah, very excited. Hey do you mind if I put you on speaker? Got all this placenta on my hands.’” — SETH ROSENTHAL AT SBNATION.COM/LOOKIT imagines
what could’ve been the phone call between Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid and McGill University defensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. If Reid had drafted Duvernay-Tardif, above, a medical student, Friday night, he would’ve caught the lineman while he was assisting in the delivery of twins via an emergency C-section. Duvernay-Tardif was eventually selected during the sixth round of the draft Saturday.
“I’d love to do it, but the other people will get pretty bored with ‘Pretending to Work, but Browsing the Net’ as 80% of my notifications.” — COMMENTER GREGORIAN AT THEVERGE.COM
thinks he’d bore anyone with whom he was paired via 20 Day Stranger — a new smartphone app in beta testing at MIT that allows two anonymous users to receive details automatically generated by their mobile devices, such as location and travel, about their counterpart’s life. Users only get to send one message to each other at the end of the 20 days.
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“I think these men might just be a little mad that she has a better beard than most of them.” — COMMENTER ANTHONY ASHCRAFT AT BUZZFEED.COM tries to make sense of
Russian men shaving en masse and posting about it on social media to protest Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst’s Eurovision win Saturday. Meanwhile, “Rise Like a Phoenix,” the song Wurst, above, swept the annual music competition with, rose to the top of Russian music charts after her win.
“While it’s obviously reckless for them to blow through an intersection when they don’t have the right of way, research and common sense say that slowly rolling through a stop sign on a bike shouldn’t be illegal in the first place.” — JOSEPH STROMBERG AT VOX.COM makes the
case that cyclists should be able to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs, citing Idaho and 19 other states that have some form of laws that understand there are many intersections that don’t require cyclists to come to a complete stop.
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