We live in a stupid world. I say this because if we didn’t, people wouldn’t waste their time hating on Dwayne Wade just because he paints his toenails. This breaking news was revealed after the Miami Heat point guard posted some pictures of his recent weight loss with his beautifully painted toes on a scale. Apparently many of his 4.3 million Instagram followers judged him for it, but that’s not stopping Wade:
Back in 2011, Wade opened up to GQ about painting his toenails and talked about the first time he showed his colorful toes to LeBron James. “I was on vacation in the Bahamas with LeBron and when he saw my toes he was like, ‘Something is seriously wrong with you.’ But eventually Bron was like, ‘You know what? You’re crazy, but that’s just you.’ When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don’t care.”
Get a hobby, people.
Team Blackness also discussed the abolishment of the death penalty in Nebraska, why Chuck Johnson is a dick, and how Iyanla is going to “fix” Baltimore.
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Shakezula
I’d extend the get a life comment to The Grio. “Anonymous asshats being anonymous asshats” isn’t a story.
RobertB
Dwyane Wade.
Germy Shoemangler
Ariana Miyamoto.
I hope she wins the whole thing.
Amir Khalid
A slight correction: it’s abolition, not abolishment.
Shrug. They’re his toenails. If he likes them painted, that’s his business. Although perhaps he should be trying to get his shoe sponsor to make him open-toed basketball shoes.
SFAW
I don’t have a problem with him painting his nails, but if you’re going to pronounce it “Dwayne,” then spell it that way. Or are all the sportscasters I hear pronouncing it rong?
And, no, I don’t care that it’s also his father’s name.
And, no, I don’t REALLY give two shits about anything he does, one way or the other. Unless he somehow hits a touchdown out of the park to help the Knicks win the Stanley Cup.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
It’s stuff like this that make me glad you’re a commenter here.
PurpleGirl
Don’t know who Dwayne Wade is; sort of don’t care but that doesn’t mean I’d want to hate on him for anything. He likes to paint his toe nails… great, have fun, use crazy colors, pattern them, whatever. Life’s too short for us to worry about such personal things.
Gin & Tonic
@SFAW: As a long (long!)-suffering Knicks fan, I unfortunately think they are more likely to win a Stanley Cup than an NBA championship in my remaining lifetime.
PurpleGirl
@SFAW: Seconded, ’cause that’s a great idea and comment.
scav
@Germy Shoemangler: She’s gorgeous from what I saw — and it’s highly amusing watching some freak out about toes. Masculinity is just soooo fragile, tightly confined and limiting in their world.
srv
How do people expend so much energy on sports teams. What are they compensating for?
In other news, Esquire peeps are outraged that even Shepard Fairey is outraged at Obama.
Amir Khalid
@srv:
I remember how Obama never recovered from Matt Damon’s disappointment with him.
Scott S.
@srv: Republican troll says what?
shawn
I honestly more annoyed that people call LeBron James “Bron.” I could care less about painted nails.
in other news, you cant comment about people commenting about something silly and then say “get a hobby.” As i comment about people commenting about people commenting… I am like the pot on a three way call with the kettle and something else African American
jl
@Amir Khalid: I remember that, one of Obama’s first critical tests, IIRC.
The Dangerman
In a culture where people cover themselves with ink (personal tattoo count = 0 and damned well going to stay that way), any level of concern about someone painting their toenails is absurd.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
You know, you might be right, unfortunately.
Maybe adding Stephon Marbury to the roster will do the trick. Of course, Dolan will probably think he’s signing Steph Curry – all those blah people with their un-Murican names! – and overrule any objections Phil Jackson might have.
Bill
Off topic: Various sources are reporting Hastert’s payments were to a victim of sexual abuse during his time as a teacher and coach.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the…..ed_in.html
raven
@Bill: No, you are kidding. What the fuck else would it be?
Mike J
@Bill:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-hastert-misconduct-20150529-story.html
geg6
This is nothing. The freakout over basketball stars bringing their adorable children to post-game interviews has been fucking hilarious. There is no media avail that imparts less information than a post-game interview, regardless of the sport. But the sports media and the male fans, who apparently have the least self-awareness and native intelligence of anyone or anything on the planet, are just outraged at the idea that the sacred space of the post-game interview has been sullied by toddlers.
Bill
@raven: It could have been any number of things. Last night I read speculation that it could have been conduct while in office, or related to some shady land deals.
Shakezula
@raven: We’re talking about a Republican politician and one who went to the mat for Mark Foley. The correct question is what couldn’t it be? [shudder]
Germy Shoemangler
@geg6: I have met a few sportswriters, and they take themselves very seriously. I saw the one on tv complaining about the post-game toddler: “We have deadlines!”
Hunter Thompson:
srv
Maybe this is why Obama still hasn’t pardoned Edwin Edwards.
MomSense
@geg6:
I loved that little girl. I could watch her all day–and I loved the way Dad just rolled with it no matter what she said or did.
KG
@geg6: I’m a guy and a sports fan, and I typically hate the post game pressers. Every once in a while there will be something interesting, which they can show later on sportscenter… but usually they’re up there spewing platitudes they’ve been practicing since the first time they saw Bull Durham during their summer vacation after fifth grade.
ET
Who f**k cares? Honestly, the picayune things people whinge about always depresses me.
geg6
@KG:
I’m a sports fan, too (but not a male). And I’ve watched a lot of post-game pressers, too. Biggest waste of time ever. The idea that anyone takes them seriously is such a joke. Which, it seems to me, is the exact point the athletes are making and that is what has these assholes so pissed off.
MomSense
Elon is losing it between promo cat and Robin laughing. Too funny.
raven
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/7/71/646669/source-ex-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-allegedly-paid-hide-sexual-misconduct
this ain’t rocket science boys and girls
John Revolta
Jeez, I hate those post-game interviews too. I just sit there in agony, wishing there was some way to make them stop. Often I want to scream, “Untie me, you fiends!! Take these lid-locks off my eyes and make it stop!!”
But on and on it goes. Oy.
butler
This is a story? Shaq painted his toenails for his entire career.
raven
@butler: Now if Shaq painted D’Wades. . . . !
JCJ
@geg6:
Riley Curry is completely adorable. Even my daughter who doesn’t particularly like small children is smitten with her. I hope she gets her own endorsement deal.
Germy Shoemangler
Listening to “You Couldn’t Be Cuter”
You couldn’t be cuter
Plus that
You couldn’t be smarter
Plus that
Intelligent face
You have a disgraceful charm for me
You couldn’t be keener
You look so fresh from the cleaner
You are the little grand slam
I’ll take to my family
My ma will show you an album of me that’ll bore you to tears
And you’ll attract all the relatives we have dodged for years and years
And what will they tell me?
Exactly, what will they tell me
They’ll say you couldn’t be nicer
Couldn’t be sweeter
Couldn’t be better
Couldn’t be smoother
Couldn’t be cuter, baby, than you are
– Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields
(dedicated to D. Hastert)
Steeplejack
@shawn:
LOL.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@geg6:
This right here. I remember them being all pissy about Richard Sherman and whatshisname’s skit about endorsements, too. The players are tired of pretending that the post game pressers are life and death, and I can’t blame them.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
OT: Chrome with AdblockPlus does not seem to like this post at all (hangs without completing). It seems to be something to do with the audio player. I added “stitcher.com” to ABP’s blacklist and the page works fine again (without the audio player).
Is it just me?
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Dlew
@SFAW: Hey, look out, I think some kids are on your lawn.
Gin & Tonic
@John Revolta: Your TV doesn’t have an “off” button?
Germy Shoemangler
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: No, it’s not just you. I’ve gotten error messages about stitcher as well.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Does your snarkmeter have an “on” button? You might want to check it.
shawn
@John Revolta: I’ll sell you way to make them stop for the tidy sum of….. ONE MILLION DOLLARS
Origuy
A commenter on Deadspin said that in those post-game pressers the reporters are just looking for some quotes to fill in the blanks in the stories they’ve already written. They don’t want real news; that would force them to rewrite their copy.
SFAW
@Dlew:
What?!?!?!?! Where? (Sound of footsteps running to window.)
“Hey you little bastards! Get offa John McCain’s lawn!!!1!!2!”
OK, I’m back. Thanks for the tip.
SFAW
@Origuy:
Kinda like a paying version of Mad Libs. (Although, with the New World Order, Libs aren’t allowed to get mad, because reasons and freedumb.)
RaflW
I used to paint my toenails on summer vacation. I can remember stopping into our local upscale grocery after, wearing sandals, and you’d be amazed how many women would complement me on my electric blue, or vibrant orange, or whatever color toes. If I were straight, I’d do it for the possible MILF pickups.
It’s a pain in the @ss to keep ’em looking good, so it was always a once-a-year thing, and eventually even that was more than I could bother. But fun while it lasted.