All Hail Taylor Swift, Person of the Year!

[Puppycow]

If the info is public and someone is a very rich and determined stalker how are they to be prevented from getting this info whether someone collates it on a website or not? If being stalked is the reason for wanting to shutdown this fella?

It is reportedly public info, but I briefly tried to see whether I could find the same info myself before concluding that it was more trouble than it was worth to me.

Clearly the fact that someone does it proves that it can be done, but it takes some time and effort.

 

[The Atheist]

But let's not judge someone before there's any evidence, yeah?

Nah.

The guy has a history of poor on-field behaviour: https://www.foxsports.com.au/nfl/nf...m/news-story/4e09fefe963f751a35ae7c45ff4b08fe

Leopards and spots.

 

[lionking]

Nah.

The guy has a history of poor on-field behaviour: https://www.foxsports.com.au/nfl/nf...m/news-story/4e09fefe963f751a35ae7c45ff4b08fe

Leopards and spots.

Throwing a towel eight years ago? Let’s get the lynch mob organised….

 

[lionking]

Anyway, the lady herself arrives in Melbourne in a day or two to play 7 concerts in Sydney and Melbourne and the whole nation has taken leave of its senses, in a very good way. I don’t think any visitor in the past 50 years at least has attracted such hysteria. Not the pope, not the queen, not the US President, no other celebrity and no sporting star.

I’m looking forward to it.

 

[Samson]

Not buying it. The soccer and rugby world cups and the Olympics provide equal or greater pressure and don't cause players to lose their cool. These guys are highly-paid professionals and any rugby player doing what Kelce did would be dumped.

I'm sure there was case of another high-profile sports star with a beautiful high-profile blonde girlfriend who, when he thought she was going to dump him, blew her brains out through the bathroom door.

People who can't keep their emotions in check usually struggle to keep their emotions in check.

I'm also not the only one thinking this way: https://www.news.com.au/sport/nfl/w...h/news-story/aaf7174c343ccf03a757a2ce00efb23f

https://evoke.ie/2024/02/12/entertainment/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-actions

She has to dump him now, she has intellect, he is concrete from the neck up.

 

[Ivor the Engineer]

He's so bad, but he does it so well.

 

[Spektator]

Taylor Swift was on camera for less than one minute of a 4,500 minute game, or .02%. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "Big whoop."

 

[Fast Eddie B]

He's so bad, but he does it so well.

He’s so bad, he probably thinks this thread is about him.

 

[Ivor the Engineer]

Did you know you can get a PhD in Taylor Swift?

From the moment she slipped the Fearless record into her CD player as a 14-year-old, Georgia Carroll has been fascinated by Taylor Swift.

A decade and a half on, she's now touted as the only person in the world with a PhD on the superstar.

Her assessment? "At the moment, it wouldn't be going too far to say [Swift] is one of the most powerful people in the world."

That's why Dr Carroll is among scores of experts who have descended on Melbourne this week for an international academic symposium attempting to explain just how Swift has become so influential.

The event - the first of its kind - is a curtain raiser to the Eras Tour in Australia, and has attracted more than 400 submissions from dozens of study disciplines and academic institutions around the world - sparking a flurry of excitement and global headlines.

Great to see academic standards are being maintained!

 

[TragicMonkey]

Taylor Swift was on camera for less than one minute of a 4,500 minute game, or .02%. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "Big whoop."

I guess that means Janet Jackson's nipple is a bigger star than Taylor Swift because it was only on camera for a second and it caused an even bigger fuss!

I wonder what the carbon footprint of Janet Jackson's nipple is? It travels almost everywhere she does.

 

[The Atheist]

Throwing a towel eight years ago? Let’s get the lynch mob organised….

At a referee.

If he was a rugby player he'd just about have served his ban by now.

 

[Mike!]

I guess that means Janet Jackson's nipple is a bigger star than Taylor Swift because it was only on camera for a second and it caused an even bigger fuss!

I wonder what the carbon footprint of Janet Jackson's nipple is? It travels almost everywhere she does.

I have it on the highest authority it never leaves her side.

 

[lobosrul5]

Taylor Swift was on camera for less than one minute of a 4,500 minute game, or .02%. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "Big whoop."

It was a long game... but I'm pretty sure it didn't last 4,500 minutes, which is 75 hours.

 

[zooterkin]

Did you know you can get a PhD in Taylor Swift?



Great to see academic standards are being maintained!

I take it you've read the doctoral thesis to be able to tell this? (I'm sure I don't need to point this out, but you can probably get a PhD in just about any subject; what matters is the actual work you do and how you present it, not the topic you've chosen to research.)

 

[Darat]

It was a long game... but I'm pretty sure it didn't last 4,500 minutes, which is 75 hours.

Subjective time - I could see it feeling like 75 hours if I was forced to watch such a "game". I know watching a football match over here used to feel like about 2 weeks.

 

[Ivor the Engineer]

I take it you've read the doctoral thesis to be able to tell this? (I'm sure I don't need to point this out, but you can probably get a PhD in just about any subject; what matters is the actual work you do and how you present it, not the topic you've chosen to research.)

Here's her webpage:

My research explored the commodification of fandom communities, exploring what motivates fans to spend money on their favourite celebrities. Combined with my experience as a talent-based publicist and community manager, I’m a leading fan engagement expert ready to help you and your organisation.

I will leave others to dig deeper to make their own judgements into the value of her research to the corpus of human knowledge.

 

[plague311]

I will leave others to dig deeper to make their own judgements into the value of her research to the corpus of human knowledge.

I don't think many people here have the same hate boner for Taylor that you do, so I wouldn't count on anyone but you giving a **** about what someone else does with their time.

I'm kind of shocked though. For the amount of time you've invested in sniffing Taylor's chem trails you could probably have a Bachelor's by now.

 

[Ivor the Engineer]

I don't think many people here have the same hate boner for Taylor that you do, so I wouldn't count on anyone but you giving a **** about what someone else does with their time.

I'm kind of shocked though. For the amount of time you've invested in sniffing Taylor's chem trails you could probably have a Bachelor's by now.

Not sure why you think I hate Taylor Swift. So long as I've put some information in your and others' heads that goes beyond what her PR machine wants you to know about her then I don't consider it a waste of my immense intellect and talent. You're welcome.

 

[plague311]

Not sure why you think I hate Taylor Swift. So long as I've put some information in your and others' heads that goes beyond what her PR machine wants you to know about her then I don't consider it a waste of my immense intellect and talent. You're welcome.

I have terrible, terrible news for you. Nothing on my end has changed. I knew relatively little about her when this all started, and this thread has shown me several of the other great things she does for the people that work for her, and the towns she visits. So while you may have temporarily put this information in, it's not going to last. I'll forget it by the time I light my first bowl tonight.

 

[angrysoba]

Nah.

The guy has a history of poor on-field behaviour: https://www.foxsports.com.au/nfl/nf...m/news-story/4e09fefe963f751a35ae7c45ff4b08fe

Leopards and spots.

Throwing a towel eight years ago? Let’s get the lynch mob organised….

Just between us, could these flare-ups have anything to do with roids? I don’t follow this sport at all so have no idea how much of a continuing problem steroids are, but my heuristic is that most sports have more steroid use than is usually acknowledged except for some sports where the authorities have been extremely proactive such as athletics or cycling. I mean, look at the size of some of those players. If they were American wrestlers or strongmen or powerlifters in untested comps no one would seriously doubt their use. In fact, I’m calling it now, they’re ALL on drugs!