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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Soap doesn't actually work on your armpits

How come when you use soap, soap doesn't work on your armpits? Isn't that an interesting question? Take soap out of the equation. You're thinking about the soap. Take the soap out of the equation.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Uncrustables are the perfect meal

It's really the perfect meal, an Uncrustables.

Purely subjective food opinion.
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Big CatBig Cat

Sitting in all-inclusive seats at a baseball game is not a flex because it just turns you into a "toxic wasteland" of gas

If you go to all-inclusive for the baseball game, it's fart city. That's all you're gonna do for the rest of the day. You just eat so many things... By the third inning I'm a toxic wasteland. It rules though.

Personal anecdotal claim about digestive health.
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Josh AllenJosh Allen

I guarantee a five-yard completion to the left side in the preseason opener

Are you going to throw a touchdown for Brendan tonight? Yeah. Well, you know what it sounds like, Josh? Since they play a lot of soft zone, you can guarantee a five-yard completion tonight. ... Left side, five or more yard completion for Brendan. That is a Josh Allen guarantee.

In the 2019 preseason opener against the Colts (August 8, 2019), Josh Allen went 6-for-11 for 66 yards. He had several completions over 5 yards, including a 14-yarder to Cole Beasley on the left side in the first quarter.
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BrendanBrendan

The Buffalo Bills will win the AFC East and finish 11-5 in 2019

Prediction on the Bills season? Easily 11-5. Oh, he's going to win the AFC East this year? We'll be right there.

The 2019 Bills finished 10-6 and secured a Wild Card spot, but the Patriots won the AFC East at 12-4.
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Big CatBig Cat

House train a dog by feeding it roast beef while it pees

Get like roast beef or some kind of really good meat from the deli and just give your dog a little piece every time they go to the bathroom outside while they're going to the bathroom. That's how I got [Stella] house trained. She would literally be peeing, eating roast beef out of my hand.

Positive reinforcement with high-value treats is a standard and effective dog training technique.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Deion Sanders only considers players great if they call him for advice

If you're a young player in the league and you call him for advice once a week, then you're a good player. If he mentors you, then you're one of the best players in the league. ... If you play in a boring place like Tennessee, then he just doesn't know who you are.

Subjective critique of a media personality.
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Lane JohnsonLane Johnson

I would rather win one Super Bowl and have fun than win five in a fear-based organization

I think a lot of guys just want to be happy playing football... It's like the Patriots, obviously, they won five Super Bowls. Is that necessarily guideline minds to win the Super Bowl?... I don't want to be serious. I want to be a not serious individual and get the job done.

This is a subjective preference about team culture and career fulfillment.
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Lane JohnsonLane Johnson

Ex-Patriot players won't speak the truth about how much they hated playing for Belichick

What do you think they're going to say? I can hate it there. No, I won Super Bowls. We had a great time. They're not going to badmouth their coach. They're not going to say what they really want to say. Do you think that's going to happen? Hell no.

While some players (like Cassius Marsh) later echoed this sentiment, it remains a subjective interpretation of other players' feelings.
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Big CatBig Cat

Never slide in beer league softball unless it's the playoffs

Here's a hard and fast rule I had with softball... You never, ever slide if it's not the playoffs. Ever. Regular season does not matter. Just do not slide. If you get caught and you get tagged out, that's fine. It's better than sliding.

This is a subjective rule for longevity in adult recreation.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

American office life is just a competition to see who can sit at their desk for the longest

Basically, office life in America is just people competing to see who can just sit at their desk for the longest.

This is a subjective critique of modern workplace culture.
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Liam (Bubba)Liam (Bubba)

Being young is a performance-enhancing drug for partying

Being younger is like a PED for partying. If you meet someone who's under 25 years old, cross the street. Yes, go far away.

Biological factors generally support the idea that younger individuals recover faster and have more stamina for social activities involving alcohol.
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Big CatBig Cat

You should always start college with an easy major like communications and only add hard majors if you find it too easy

Start at the bullshit major and if you end up being like, oh, I'm actually smarter than I thought, then you can add on. Start with the communications. Start with the history or the political side. Then if you find out that it's too easy, then you can add to engineering.

This is a matter of personal educational strategy and opinion.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Young adults should be assholes and selfish until they turn 25

I don't trust people who know exactly what they want to do in life when they're 18 and 19 years old because we're all shitheads before we're 25. Until you turn 25, you should be an asshole. You should be selfish. You should not care about anybody else. You should just want to have a good time all the time.

Personal philosophy on life stages cannot be objectively proven correct or incorrect.
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Big CatBig Cat

I would rather die than have my fiancée save my life with the Heimlich maneuver

I'd rather die. I'd rather die. You can't have someone just walking around being like, I saved your life.

OpinionLifeHotSubjectiveSarcastic
This is a hyperbolic subjective preference.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Buying a trampoline for your kids is like buying a gun range for your family

Buying a trampoline for your kids is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea. I can't stress... it's like buying a dizzy bat race slash gun range for your family. That's how bad it's going to be. Everyone's going to get hurt.

Trampolines are a leading cause of childhood injury, though the gun range comparison is obviously for comedic effect.
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Big CatBig Cat

The ultimate parenting life hack is buying a trampoline for your neighbor's kids

Here's really what the life hack is right here. Buy your neighbor a trampoline for his kids... He can fucking assemble it. He can hurt his grass. And now your kid is not around anymore. Just tramp cuck him.

This is a social engineering strategy that works in theory but depends on having a neighbor willing to accept and assemble a massive trampoline.
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Big CatBig Cat

I have a twin who is an jacked Instagram model, and my life is a failure by comparison

Ken Jack, who helps out with this show, revealed my twin who is incredibly jacked and a muscle freak and an Instagram model. So Jimbo to me for spending the last five years getting increasingly fatter and making it super depressing when I see this guy who is awesome looking... owned my life.

The existence of the 'Buffcat' lookalike is a fact, and Big Cat's self-deprecation is a recurring theme of the era.
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Big CatBig Cat

Being a Resident Assistant in college is a terrible job

Don't be an RA. Don't fucking do it. Listen, if you need the free housing... Go work the streets, but don't be an RA. An RA is worse than a mall cop.

This is a subjective lifestyle/social opinion.
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Big CatBig Cat

I do not like Skyline Chili

I do not like Skyline. Thankfully, we staved off PFT... so if you can just find me crackers and hold everything else that Skyline offers, I'd be a big Skyline fan.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Skyline Chili's cheese is actually good

I'll say this about Skyline Chili... I like the cheese. The cheese is good.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The best strategy for a college group project is to skip the meetings and volunteer to be the presenter.

This is why if you're ever in a group situation in college, just stop going to class. Then volunteer to be the presenter. Like, 'I'm really good in front of people, I'll do the heavy lifting and get in front of the class.' That's the most nerve-wracking part. Just get sporadic emails thrown into there so people know you're still working on the project, even if you have absolutely no value.

This is a cynical piece of life advice rather than a verifiable claim.
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Big CatBig Cat

The 'Suck My Dick' catchphrase was a mistake and is officially retired from the show.

We're done with the suck my dick. We've decided that it was a really bad choice on our part. This is what's been happening recently is award-winning listeners have been coming up to me and be like, 'I want to say it, but I can't.' So just do that. Just go up to people and be like, 'I want to say it, but I can't.'

The show successfully retired the catchphrase from its merch and regular segments following this episode.
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Pat McAfeePat McAfee

Indianapolis is the true 'Barstool America' because it's stereotypical heartland

We Oxford Dictionary-ed what America is. Stereotypically American was the answer, and I said, well, I think that's more like everything I do in my life... I'm all about the heartland here. And even New York City, boy, has grown on me... but when I got here, I really thought I was in foreign land.

McAfee spent years building the 'Heartland' brand in Indy before going independent and eventually to ESPN.
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Pat McAfeePat McAfee

Buffalo Wild Wings is making a comeback with larger wings

Their wings got bad there for a little while. They're coming back, though. The wings are good. They got bigger wings.

BWW went through various quality control initiatives after being acquired by Inspire Brands in 2018.
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Big CatBig Cat

Having 15 bridesmaids in a wedding is ridiculous and impossible

I think anytime you reach double digits, it's like, holy shit, what's going on here? ... Nobody has that many friends. If you have 12 people in your wedding, that means that either you're just trying way too hard to please people or it just means that you're rich and all your friends are using you for your money.

The logistics and social dynamics of 15 bridesmaids are widely considered excessive by most wedding standards.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Swallowing dip spit is significantly worse than drinking pee

I would... I would beer bong three solid urination trips over taking one sip of dip, spit, and swallowing.

This is a subjective preference, albeit a disgusting one.
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Big CatBig Cat

You can never be friends with your bookie

[Big Cat: Can you be friends with your bookie?] No. That's the age-old question, and the answer is no.

This is a matter of personal/social philosophy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Men and women can't be friends unless they are having sex

Can guys and girls be friends? No. Unless they're fucking. Then they're really good friends.

This is a subjective social opinion.
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Big CatBig Cat

The phrases 'you can be anything' and 'there are no stupid questions' are complete bullshit.

Two of the dumbest things that were said to every kid. You can be anything when you grow up. That's just bullshit. And two, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Also bullshit. There's a ton of stupid questions.

These are philosophical disagreements with common idioms.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Dating a woman who owns a cat by herself is a major red flag

Your first mistake was dating a girl that owns a cat by herself. That's a red flag right there.

This is a subjective opinion on relationship red flags.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Green Bay Packers are idiots for charging their shareholders for new certificate artwork every year

The team I bought [a shareholder certificate] from, they keep producing new artwork every year and charging me more money every single year even though my shares don't actually mean anything. It's actually the Packers. Packers are doing that to their shareholders. They're fucking stupid idiots.

This is a subjective opinion regarding the value and ethics of a team's business practices.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It is better for your date to get injured on a ski trip than for her to be better at skiing than you

He takes her on a ski trip... She starts skiing, and she does backflips going down. And he [Donald Trump] thought that he was going to take this girl out and teach her how to ski. She was better than him. He immediately picked his skis up and walked inside for the rest of the weekend. He's like, this sucks. I can't deal with that. So I would rather that your date gets devastatingly injured than for her to be better.

This is an absurd subjective opinion about ego in dating.
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Big CatBig Cat

LeBron James has an irrational fear of walking into new rooms

Do you know LeBron doesn't like to walk into new rooms? That's a fear of his, walking into rooms that he's never been in before... LeBron has an irrational fear of new rooms.

Big Cat admits he made this up on the spot as a joke.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Cats are soul-stealing witches that shouldn't be allowed around babies

This furthers my theory that cats are witches... it is true that cats, when you sneeze, they steal your soul... and they steal baby's breath, too, if you leave a cat in a room with a kid.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically and scientifically, cats do not steal souls or 'baby's breath'.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Every child born in 2016 is inherently evil

Since 2016 sucks, the futures market for kids is way down right now, because every kid born this year is evil. That's how horoscopes work, by the way.

Inherently subjective and satirical claim about astrological morality.
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Big CatBig Cat

Girls actually like guys who fart and burp in their face

Girls actually like a guy that farts. A lot. And burps in her face. That shows a certain level of masculinity.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The vast majority of women would find this behavior repulsive, making the literal claim incorrect.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A visible semen stain on your pants is proof that you are in your sexual prime

It means, it's a confirmation that you're sexually, that you're in your sexual prime... Girls, they're biologically tuned to seek out guys that look fertile. What better proof is there than just having your boys dripping out of your fly?

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Socially and biologically, this is not an attractive trait for human mating, making the literal claim incorrect.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You don't actually have to pay campus parking tickets if you don't plan on graduating from that college

I know one thing about colleges and tickets on cars... You don't have to pay those tickets. It doesn't matter. If you don't plan on graduating from that college, you don't have to pay.

While schools primarily use transcripts as leverage, unpaid tickets can often be sent to collections or prevent future enrollment/services.
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Big CatBig Cat

Work parties suck and nothing good can come from them

Work parties fucking suck. Can I just say that? Work parties suck. There's nothing good that can come from a work party. Everyone's like, oh, yeah, holiday party. Someone's going to get drunk. Someone's going to puke. Someone's going to be embarrassed. Someone might lose their job.

Subjective opinion on workplace culture.
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Big CatBig Cat

Nothing good ever happens on the cloud, so you should stay off of it.

Stay off the cloud, kids. Nothing good can happen on the cloud. The cloud is not your friend.

This is a subjective warning about digital privacy.
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Big CatBig Cat

I am officially joining the #NeverBears movement and will never bet on the Bears again.

I went back to the well and I bet on the Bears again. Never again. ... Never bears. Start it now. Hashtag it. Never bears.

Big Cat notoriously continued to bet on the Bears for years after this statement.
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HankHank

Jim Abbott didn't hide his nub, so you should use yours as a flip cup backboard

Jim Abbott wasn't out there hiding his nub behind his back. He was out there, he was loud, he was proud. So I think the girl just needs to embrace it a little bit. Use the nub as a backboard in flip cup.

Subjective life/drinking game advice.
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Big CatBig Cat

Avocados are overrated; guacamole is great but solo avocados are trash

I just want to take this moment to say avocados are overrated as fuck... Guacamole, great. Avocados on their own, trash.

Subjective food opinion.
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Big CatBig Cat

The cloud can do nothing but bad things for you; it is your enemy

Just stay away from the cloud. The cloud can do nothing but bad things for you, okay? The cloud is not your friend. The cloud is your enemy. Repeat that over and over, and you should be okay in your life.

Subjective life advice, though many would agree with the privacy concerns.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tim Tebow has been on a fatal dose of Adderall for the last 10 years

I think Tim Tebow has just been on almost a fatal dose of Adderall for the last 10 years. He is so obsessed with these really strange goals that he has and keeps changing jobs and doing weird stuff. This is the action of a man that is just tweaking out of his mind nonstop. 'You know what? I'm going to be a baseball player.'

This is a satirical character assassination bit, not a literal medical claim.
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Big CatBig Cat

Houseboats are the safest long-term investment due to rising sea levels

Polar ice caps. The whole world's going to be the ocean eventually. I'd say houseboats actually are probably the safest investment out there. ... I'm talking like three, 400 years here. You might want to be the guy with the houseboat.

This is a satirical 400-year real estate prediction based on climate apocalypse.
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Big CatBig Cat

Robert Griffin III getting his new girlfriend's name tattooed on his arm is a massive mistake

Robert started dating Greta and immediately got her name tattooed on his arm for the whole world to see. This is one of those Jimbo's that Robert doesn't even know... Bobby doesn't even know that he's Jimbo'd yet, but he's Jimbo'd.

RGIII and Grete Sadeiko stayed together, eventually married, and have children, suggesting the tattoo was not the disaster Big Cat predicted, though the act of getting it so early is still viewed as a risk.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You should give homeless people gift cards instead of cash or food

Here's what you do next time. Get them a gift card. Problem solved... $5 gift card.

Opinion on personal charitable practices.
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You should never bring up anything you thought was funny online while on a date

As a general rule of thumb, you don't ever want to bring up anything that you thought was funny online on a date.

Subjective dating strategy.

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