This was taken from my stream on December 14th, 2022! Catch me live Monday to Friday here: / northernlion When I don't know what to play, I play Sporcle. It's perfect!
Technically Canada doesnt share a land border with France, but we do share a land border with Denmark via Greenland thanks to Hans Island which lies between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. The island was officially split between Canada and Greenland on 14 June 2022
Whether or not Canada is wrong, Portugal should definitely be right. Unless... the question was from before they ceded Macau in 99, and having that territory meant they weren't a "western" country somehow? Judges?
@@jimmyredd It seems that some definitions of "western hemisphere" only include everything west of the Atlantic i.e the Americas. So if the game uses that definition, then Portugal wouldn't fit. Also, if Portugal is correct, then the Gambia should also be correct
@@colehanna4040 I agree that Gambia should fit, but that definition of the western hemisphere is nonsense. The Prime Meridian is clearly defined. Jeopardy is an American game, and America certainly recognizes GMT and sets their clocks by it, so that doesn't really make sense. Honestly it's just a bad question that they didn't fact check.
Feels like when NL was talking about the hitting streak his intuition about math failed him. If even the best hitters only average .350 even with 4+ AB's a game the chances of large streaks starts to get vanishingly small fairly quickly. Even if someone batted .500 consistently, over 4 AB's that's "only" a 93% chance to get a hit. Once you stretch that 93% over multiple games that 7% whiff chance grows by a lot. The chance of getting to a 106 game streak as a .500 hitter is 0.04%, and no one is a .500 hitter. If you're an exceptional player and bat .350 consistently that chance nose dives to 0.00000009%. With only 2,430 MLB games played each year it's essentially impossible to ever have happen, because those chances are 9 in 100 million. Dimaggio hit .408 during his streak, which is nuts for a 56 game span and also much harder to accomplish against today's pitchers. The best batting average for 2022 was .326 by Jeff McNeil.
Also the spitball is banned because slicking the pitcher's hand is the exact opposite of what you want. They need as much control as possible to avoid a 90mph ball flying at people's heads.
I know it's probably just a bit, but honestly the average person *is* kind of baldist. The amount of times I see people use balding as an insult, classical depictions of that shitty reddit guy stereotype are always balding. It's really disheartening if I'm being honest. I didn't choose to lose my hair. It was the only feature I had that I particularly liked about myself. I wish people would just be a little more cognizant of the people around them.
I agree. I think it’s becoming less stigmatized over time but people still use it as an insult regularly when it’s literally something people have no (or at least little) control over.
Meg Whitman is apparently the US ambassador to Kenya. You might have been thinking of Gina Rhinehart, the Australian mining magnate (I'm from here and I forgot her name too)
In Australia, we had a professional cricketer die from a cricket ball to the neck in 2014. I'm no sports guy, but I think they're pretty similar to a baseball in size and weight. Not sure about delivery speed, but they're no joke
tbh sometimes I wish I was naturally bald. My hair sucks, constantly oily and itchy despite washing it every morning. Switching to buzzcuts was one of the best QoL decisions I ever made.
Studies have found that people who have experienced long term loneliness are far more likely to interpret the neutral expressions and speech of others as conveying negative emotion or disapproval causing them to feel even more isolated. Pray for the guy who made the second quiz.
Baldphobia is so real and alive, I'm sorry you face so much discrimination and hatred for the way you were born NL. I believe we're defined by the content of our character and not the quantity of our hair ✊️
lol DiMaggio's 57 game streak is not the most unbeatable record in baseball. Neither of Cy Young's win or loss records will ever again even be approached. The game has changed too much. Now obviously, that same change (more frequently rotating pitchers) also effects hitters, but not to the same degree. Especially in this increasingly liveball era. I believe Joe's record will be beaten in my lifetime.
