Haye fought puerile with puerile; calling Bellew "bellend" and branding him a "skinny fat constantly angry scumbag".
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These weird, pointless, funny, boring, intriguing, puerile pieces of content.
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The comedy is puerile at worst, tepid at its best.
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But he remains at once wickedly puerile and endlessly curious.
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But it's a slog even on its own crushingly puerile terms.
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His tone alternates between earnest and puerile, depending on the target.
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Some unhinged neo Nazis are using Swift's image in their puerile propaganda.
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But does their relationship mirror the increasingly puerile atmosphere between their clubs?
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The theatrics by Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching at times seemed puerile.
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He can be petulant, rude, puerile, spoilt, controlling, tyrannical, obsessive, unfeeling, even cruel.
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Ozick means is really a sub-literary world, the botchery and puerile uniformity
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" Mr. Ford, the conference resolved, was a publisher of "puerile and venomous drivel.
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One pundit hired by Bannon was Milo Yiannopoulos, who specialized in puerile insults.
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Bad news for puerile idiots or propagandizing fascists—great news for basically everyone else.
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But drawing a line from this to women's suitability for tech jobs is puerile.
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This country needs a president who doesn't pout or get lost in puerile protestations.
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The oligarchs can't have that, and so they attack him with puerile name-calling.
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"The Creator" is 22 minutes of puerile pleasure from the Dallas quasi-rapper 10k.
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Their scenes tend to devolve into puerile antics and basically just gum up the works.
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The search engine on the firm's website started offering customers puerile responses to their inquiries.
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For all their puerile humour, the Meow Wars engendered a manic creativity that was admirable.
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Assange has given us a few puerile jokes from establishment Democrats who preferred Clinton to Sanders.
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" Or even more puerile, in a reference to combating the Zika virus: "mosquitos don't respect walls.
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Yes, MMA and the UFC was the butt of puerile jokes in boxing at the time.
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Having the balloon fly in Turnberry would virtually guarantee that the President could view his puerile form.
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There are silly side plots and puerile dick jokes, and earnest speeches immediately undercut by snarky gags.
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And there's even less chance that it will approach the puerile bottom-feeding of the Republican contest.
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Clinton kept finding opportunities to make Mr. Trump seem smaller and smaller, or at least more puerile.
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With "Yankee Doodle," the Redcoats were delivering the most puerile, schoolyard insult in the schoolyard insult book.
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" Armstrong described the action in Venice as "a homecoming parade, or Halloween—a bunch of puerile theatre.
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He was undisciplined and puerile, whining about the moderators treating him unfairly, which is never a winning strategy.
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Others are more puerile, implying that Nunes wanted to commit sexual acts with Trump and other top Republicans.
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Yet I've never met a national politician so ill informed, so evasive, so bombastic and, frankly, so puerile.
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Her ancestry test followed his incessant mocking of her as "Pocahontas," a schoolyard gibe from a puerile mind.
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But no public figure would go further than that, given the genre's reputation for being puerile and pulpy.
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Yes, much of the laughs come from a puerile place, but there's some genuine heart amid the gags.
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The franchise has had great marketing in the past, carefully concealing the bloated melodrama, offensive caricatures, and puerile humor.
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It was the sort of puerile joke now associated with alt-right pranksters in America such as Milo Yiannopoulos.
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The inescapable mantra "This is everything!" may strike us as glib, puerile, an assault on our sanity and intelligence.
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In my journalistic career, I've never met a national candidate as ill informed, evasive or puerile as Donald Trump.
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A puerile prologue imagines prehistoric man and woman discovering the parts of their bodies that resemble spheres and hemispheres.
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" Tarkington even manages to slip his anti-modern-art crusade into his particularly puerile novel about Maine, " Mary's Neck .
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Thunberg has grown accustomed to dealing with puerile insults from world leaders like Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Instead of the expected puerile comedy, Lovesick tells a far sweeter and more generous story about friendships, love, and loss.
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Mr. Trump's schoolyard taunts can sound puerile ("We call him one-for-41," he quips of Mr. Kasich's losing record).
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He's been exploring his salacious side recently (see also: "XTCY") and the jubilance in this song verges on the puerile.
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On October 9th, Trump sent a remarkably puerile letter to the Turkish leader, warning him not to go too far.
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I encountered my own name on Knott's blog around 2006, after I'd published a rather puerile and dyspeptic omnibus review.
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Newell's response—even with its fairly puerile name-calling—seems written out of a desire to get eSports to grow up.
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Every move he made was puerile, a clownish collection of gestures that undermined both the plot and the series it served.
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I enjoy making puerile jokes, I enjoy getting so drunk I loudly sing "Dakota" by the Stereophonics on my way home.
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And they were really up for it, you can see how the conversation descends into quite puerile territory by the end.
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Is her point that straight white men are superficial creatures, bound by codes of behavior that make them stupid and puerile?
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America is in need of a leader, not a puerile, sophomoric sniveler who is too easily baited and grossly ill-behaved.
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On Twitter, I suggested that Trump was pugnacious, pugilistic, preening and puerile, and asked for other P words to describe him.
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It is not that what Prince does is too easy or puerile — though I suppose that could be said of them.
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Predictably, the cocky and puerile Kei gets booted from the club for some very crude interaction with one of the dancers.
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My motivational inner monologue became a deranged outer monologue, bellowing puerile mash-ups of 1980s commercial jingles at avalanche-inciting volume.
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Perhaps we'll even come to the same conclusion about the current season of the famously puerile show, that it's actually pretty good.
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Then there's the occasional puerile attempt like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which has little if anything to do with cooking.
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High jinks like this suggest the hauntingly puerile dimension of real spycraft, a tit-for-tat game played with nations and lives.
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"It's paranoid and puerile to treat one media organization as uniquely guilty of all that's wrong with society," The Weekly Standard wrote.
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They were puerile and profane and then somehow, by the '90s, serious musicians with something to say and startling innovations to contribute.
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" Raging then as we are raging now, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison responded, "Can anything be more puerile, absurd, illogical, impertinent, untimely?
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They're not puerile, at least not anymore, and—32 years after their debut record—there's hardly an ounce of fat on their set.
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Usually adept at navigating these debates and using his time to his advantage, tonight he looked petty, puerile and, well, like a jerk.
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I both hate and love the book, and in a puerile fashion drew up 'good' and 'bad' columns to keep track of my thoughts.
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Its mean teens are exceptionally so; every burn is so snappily delivered the show could almost promote itself as a parody about puerile bullying.
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The coverage generated a torrent of criticism on Twitter with members of the public branding it as "utterly puerile" and "sexist, derogatory trash journalism".
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Other questions I have: When is a genre-bending meta-novel no longer a clever postmodern conceit but merely a pretext for puerile shenanigans?
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But all in all, I've never met a national politician in the U.S. who is so ill informed, evasive, puerile and deceptive as Trump.
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And the same reason he focuses on ratings and crowd sizes and subscription numbers and all the other puerile citations of his ego arithmetic.
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What comes of a country being forced by its puerile "president" to retreat from its world leadership, set to a soundtrack of world mockery?
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Moretz's hackers posted the hashtag "#chucklingSquad" in one of the dozen or so tweets it sent from her account, along with other puerile nonsense.
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It's cheap and tacky—a bizarrely dated parody of Ritchie's Holmes (complete with a soundalike score) poisoned with rib-elbowing topical references and puerile gags.
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Their culture is a self-consciously puerile mishmash of memes, absurdism and irony, making it hard to know how seriously to take anything posted there.
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Today, America seems divided between those who engage with some version of the prosperity gospel and those who smugly dismiss it as fraudulent and puerile.
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To watch Nauman struggle through these new videos is to witness the introduction of an uncharacteristically sympathetic element into an overwhelmingly puerile body of work.
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Saul has a quarrel with the world and he isn't above using puerile humor, ghastly bad taste, or in-your-face grotesquerie to nettle it.
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" Variety dismissed the film, also released in 1963, as a "totally inept shocker" and "an insult even to the most puerile and salacious of audiences.
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Road to Respect (I hope) reflects only the shallowest, most immature, and puerile understanding of what I've been told is a drama of Biblical proportions.
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In an era that celebrates celebrity, vulgar loudmouths, puerile provocateurs, selfie-addicts, and excessive materialists, Merlin James prefers subtlety over din, less rather than more.
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His puerile revenge, he explained, was a direct result of coordinated harassment he received from the very same Trump subreddit he would later fail to ban.
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His usual persona is that of the frowning goofball, at once puerile and intense, and "Three Billboards" is the first film to explore that tricky compound.
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"The Neon Demon," a ridiculous and puerile movie from the Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, is set in the high-fashion modeling world of Los Angeles.
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"The government had invited this development through a craftily planned campaign of insinuations, baseless allegations and puerile attacks on a distinguished academic and economist," he said.
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As a technician, Eminem hasn't changed much over the years, but gone is his sense of whimsy, his puerile gift for social rebellion, his underdog thirst.
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Even his famous nicknames — "Crooked Hillary" Clinton, "Sleepy Joe" Biden, Stormy "Horseface" Daniels — while occasionally puerile and sometimes cruel, deftly capture something essential in their subjects.
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My choice is not rooted in selfishness as I once thought, nor a fear of losing my figure, or a puerile attachment to a contrarian view.
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The whole puerile process reminds me of the old Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoon, with Road Runner eluding the coyote at the end of each episode.
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Inviting outsiders to craft useful, entertaining, or even puerile extensions to the iPhone's capabilities transformed the device into the era-defining franchise that enabled Uber and Snapchat.
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There's not much new here, but he drags a bunch of friends (Kanye, Uzi, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, YG, a Migo or two) into his puerile world.
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While some of that content was craven nostalgia-bait (Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon") or puerile quasi-smut (Stripperella), a few diamonds were sprinkled into the rough.
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Rolling Stone at first called its 1977 debut album "absolutely puerile," but by 2012 had put it in a list of the 500 greatest albums ever made.
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" Video Aimée, however, was horrified at the suggestion, rejecting it outright — not for any reticence about a paid encounter, but because she considered Kennedy a "puerile warmonger.
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Reviewers treated it harshly, finding it puerile or vulgar or both, but its open bawdiness, though pretty tame by today's lights, made it notorious in its time.
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Or maybe it is, as it so often is with Trump, the most puerile answer: He is affronted by the suggestion that he won his election illegitimately.
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Instances of blatant narcissism, however, are at odds with what we expect of older adults, who have supposedly shed the petty, puerile vanities of the developing ego.
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As puerile as Trump's nasty comments have been, they were delivered in a style that resembled the shock jock banter found on some radio shows and podcasts.
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This renders Azerbaijan's use of Israeli-made artillery in its April attacks—and its public demand that Israel "comment" on the conflict—a puerile stunt threatening escalation.
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This clash between privilege and expectations, between the puerile and the dignified, between the polished and the rough, yields what ultimately amounts to grade-A overachievement porn.
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If his admittedly frank, and sometimes puerile, approach to talking about the nude body made them uncomfortable, the women had every right to set limits or walk away.
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Directed by John Rando, with a choice cast of singing shtick artists, "The New Yorkers" makes the most puerile silliness seem deeply sophisticated and high sophistication look sublimely silly.
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"No child is too puerile to be beneath its entertaining powers, and no man is too vigorous or in too high station to escape its fascination," the News-Democrat wrote.
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And then you also say that one of the reasons that people don't talk about social status here is they think it's sort of embarrassing or puerile or beneath them.
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The play on words (I love dogs, get it?) captures the director's compound of irony and earnestness, the way he takes puerile things seriously, in a mode of rigorous deadpan.
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In the taxonomy of travelers, the word "explorer" suggests a morally superior pioneer; "adventurer," by contrast, implies a self-indulgent adrenaline junkie who scares loved ones by courting puerile risk.
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At one point Macron, who has been criticized by opposition politicians for having a vertical, monarchical way of governing, was asked whether he didn't have a "puerile sense of omnipotence".
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Florian's repetition of the letters of "Beowulf" recalls the Old English epic poem's use of alliteration to generate its rhythmic pull, but it also becomes an insistent series of puerile sounds.
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The Washington Post has had several massive and important scoops this year on federal science funding, but like most science writers, I retain a love for the more puerile end of things.
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They are princes of puerile who have literally made millions singing about their dicks with a childish excitement that subverts the aggressive BOOBS LOL AMIRIGHT BOYS comedy that previously dominated pop culture.
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One comes away with an impression that Chomskyan syntacticians are a puerile bunch simply insisting that there is a literal, regional "language organ" in the brain despite having zero evidence for it.
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Mr. Brown sings the first half as Lil Dicky, puerile as they come, and Lil Dicky raps the second half as Mr. Brown, alluding to his criminal history and alleged gang ties.
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Although you may enjoy mocking a particularly puerile post or learn valuable lessons from how someone else handles their budget, you can't develop healthy financial habits of your own just by gawking.
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An ongoing theme in Paglen's more satirical work is the puerile machismo of military culture's symbology and nomenclature, ''the collective unconscious of this world of secrecy and violence,'' as he puts it.
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With our politicians unable to pass a budget to fund our government beyond the first week of February, this is the worse time for members to stomp off in a puerile fit.
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He wouldn't waste his time writing puerile tweets, insulting his critics, making baseless accusations, lying left and right, waging war against the "mainstream" news media and generally making a fool of himself.
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It's also anchored in a bevy of classic powerhouse performances, most notably Oscar winner McDormand as the grieving and perpetually pissed Mildred Hayes, and Sam Rockwell as the puerile, racist Officer Jason Dixon.
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The suspense established earlier gives way to the sort of puerile laughs you can literally only do when someone falls over or accidentally farts, and that's why this is a perfect tragicomedy. Bravo!
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" Raab was duly accused of "saber-rattling" and of making "puerile" comments by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell while Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called on the U.K to dial down the "nationalist rhetoric.
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There are medical conditions that could affect the smell, so it is important to distinguish between the smell of a healthy vagina, medical conditions and puerile or cruel comments about a healthy vagina.
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But for many watching, the standout moments came in the fiery, and occasionally puerile, exchanges between Mr. Cohen, President Donald J. Trump's longtime lawyer, and Republican committee members set on impugning his credibility.
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Netflix's villain shares many mannerisms with Barney Stinson, Mr Harris's breakout role in sitcom "How I Met Your Mother": his affected pronunciation, his repeated illogical statements and his puerile sense of humour, for example.
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The issue, however, is whether Trump's comments were an actual or even implied threat, or merely another in a long line of puerile comments that belie poor manners, but do not signal criminal intent.
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Blink replaced Raynor with Travis Barker in 1998, and the band went on to genuine superstardom, dropping some of their more puerile material as they grew up and started pushing at pop-punk's boundaries.
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There are a lot of toilets lying around the galleries that hark back to Marcel Duchamp's scandalous "Fountain" (1917), a repurposed urinal, but also proving that women can make puerile, potty-humored art, too.
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The dynamic in the capital grows ever more dangerous, as Donald Trump tells fables to justify the unjustifiable and his staff feeds him more fables in a futile attempt to manage his puerile moods.
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At the time the letters were written in the 1970s, Schulz was middle-aged, married and engaged in what reads as a rather puerile pursuit of a woman more than 20 years his junior.
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Imagine it: a workday without distraction, where the mere concept of rest was for the weak and puerile, and your mind was razor-sharp until you decided you were finished with it until the morning.
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Here we run up against the limits of Ms. Ngcobo's anti-totalizing stance: It simply asks too little of artists, and allows her to pass off the most puerile of projects as an act of resistance.
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It's hard to overemphasize the extent to which the puerile humor yields diminishing returns, as the filmmakers (Henson and writer Todd Berger) hammer away at dirty-puppet jokes to the point of wearing holes in them.
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His proficiency on the bass made him versatile enough to work with both Kendrick Lamar and Suicidal Tendencies, but left to his own devices, he transforms his instrument into a force for pure (and sometimes puerile) mischief.
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If Trump and Rubio continue their puerile trajectory, one of them will almost certainly give the other a wedgie, and the 2016 road to the White House will swerve yet again into uncharted and previously unimaginable terrain.
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In 1965, they played on the first album by the Fugs, whose leaders, the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, relished the anarchic and puerile side of rock but had only the most rudimentary skills playing instruments.
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Rather than providing a comic foil to Liekens's more grounded, practical advice, Jones's puerile jokes and pubescent discomfort with particular topics means the show often ends up mocking the very kind of sexual expression it's trying to encourage.
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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Since he started engraving his wedges with funny quotes from his favorite movies two years ago, Robert Streb has envisioned the moment in which his puerile sense of humor might actually help him on the course.
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DramaAlert's rise to fame—the channel has more than a million followers—hinges on Keemstar's willingness to address controversial, puerile, and occasionally sordid subject matter, along with his chronic name-dropping of public figures more famous than himself.
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"Joe Country", in which one of Lamb's underlings imagines a country led by Judd as "a mash-up of 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'It's a Knockout'" (a notoriously puerile British game-show), feels like the bleakest volume yet.
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When Marco Rubio, a rival for the Republican nomination, took a puerile potshot at the size of Mr Trump's hands—"you know what they say about a man with small hands"—Mr Trump breezily defended his genitals at the next debate.
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Meanwhile, out of puerile spite, Mr Trump launched an assault on his disapproving party leadership, by refusing to endorse Senator John McCain, his predecessor in 2008, and Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in their forthcoming primary fights.
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Sixteen months into Donald Trump's presidency, picking at his writing and speaking style feels old: Much ink, Google confirms, has already been spilled on the president's tone, which is more energetic and informal (critics might say more puerile) than previous presidents'.
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An hourlong exercise in puerile scatology, Seth Panitch's "Here I Sit, Broken Hearted … A Bathroom Odyssey," at the Samuel Beckett Theater, seemingly aspires to emulate, oh, perhaps, "The Book of Mormon" in its exaltation of the coarse and the crude.
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Democrats cannot effectively rail against Republicans for electing a puerile reality television star to the presidency in 2016 when the blue wave of 2018 resulted in the least politically experienced freshman class in the history of the House of Representatives.
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Such a resume is a testament both to their work ethic and to their puerile sense of humor, both of which resulted in this year's Crumbs, a collection of unraveled rock songs as upsetting and hilarious as their name is.
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We don't want a president who flips the ordinary equation, out of some puerile sense of grievance, to honor Russia and dishonor the F.B.I. We don't want a president who believes that vile behavior is justified by a Vesuvial stock market.
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We will soon have as commander in chief the most evasive, ignorant and puerile national politician I've ever met, and while there are many factors behind his election, I think we in the media contributed by skimping on due diligence.
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Senator Chuck Schumer recently denounced Trump's behavior on the world stage as "puerile" and accused Republicans who fail to speak out against him of "complicity in the degradation of the presidency," but most people see no need to specify such details.
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We won't have to hear about his puerile antics of buying up the web domains of journalists he despised, or harassing women for his own cheap kicks, or raising the cost of life-saving drugs to preposterous sums with no sense of remorse.
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We don't care about the women Trump has subjected to cruel, puerile verbal abuse; we don't care about the women he has allegedly groped, intimidated, and sexually humiliated; we don't care about the women he has sworn to strip of basic bodily autonomy.
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The film flaunts plenty of flatulence jokes and boner humor, but its becomes clear the puerile gags are actually a feint to lighten the movie's existential angst about death, the nature of existence, and the need to make a connection with another person.
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From tongue-in-cheek nods to Black Sabbath to the pulled-to-bits cover of "American Woman," these are tracks that switch in tempo from slow creeping terrors to wild sweat-inducing abandon, and nightmarish narratives woven with puerile and obtuse wordplay.
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To say that Wolfson's position is detached from the ecosystem of violence is an understatement; it evokes the puerile outbursts of gamergate trolls, removed from the conditions of the real world and paralyzing the viewer with a threat they're powerless to control.
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He is a recidivist for mind games — that puerile playground taunting that falls somewhere between boxers' trash talk and a movie trailer — and, when no particular foe presents themselves, he is more than capable of arguing with himself, his players, even his owner.
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He followed the roar of the crowd to dark, violent places, becoming ever more crazed and isolated and self-destructive, egged on by the egotist and erstwhile White House strategist Steve Bannon but really led by his own puerile and insatiable ego.
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There is, of course, something puerile about this—the creators of American Vandal, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, are essentially taking Christopher Guest's mockumentary format and tossing in dirty jokes—but inside its shiny wrapper of inanity, the first season revealed a deeper truth.
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" Such claims have been discredited by Middle East experts, among them Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, who said accusations that the White Helmets were linked to ISIS or Al Qaeda were "patently absurd" and "puerile.
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An email stating that another scholar "has gone and put his foot in his mouth again" was found to be "so mild and puerile that it might have been intended to embarrass," according to the court, but was unlikely to result in any reputational damage.
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Playful and puerile, the current show from the collective Gelatin, "New York Golem," at Greene Naftali, corresponds with the ethos of its earlier work as well as the long history of Austrian art provocateurs like Egon Schiele, the Vienna Actionists, Valie Export and Franz West.
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"The Lonely Island, who are best known for their puerile and vulgar comedy music, have turned a new leaf with The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience, embracing their inner artists and showing they have super smart brains behind their faces, eyes, and skulls," Netflix's press release reads.
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Musk argued in court filings this week that the term "pedo guy" was not meant as a pedophile in a literal sense, but rather as a puerile insult synonymous with "creepy old man" which he said was common when he was growing up in South Africa.
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Jean-Michel Leniaud, head of the science council at the National Heritage Institute, said the blaze was the result of carelessness and neglect that stemmed in part from what he called a puerile conflict between the state, which officially owns Notre-Dame and is avowedly secular, and the Church.
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At first glance, it may seem like a rather puerile use of the tech, but in fact, having driverless cars speed around a tortuous circuit is one of the best ways to figure out how to improve them, even for navigating the snoozy avenues of the average suburb.
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If journalism has been reinvented during the past two decades, it has, in the main, been reinvented not by reporters and editors but by tech companies, in a sequence of events that, in Abramson's harrowing telling, resemble a series of puerile stunts more than acts of public service.
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" In Megan Milks's review of Socialist Realism for Bookforum, she notes that a decade ago "many queers were enamored with the alluring radicality of queer negativity" — think Lee Edelman's 2004 polemic No Future, about the queer death drive — but "in the Trump era such grandiose nihilism seems puerile.
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Jim Shaw's puerile "The Old Masturbator and the Far Away Hills" (2019) shows Ronald Reagan, drawn as smoke wafting out of a country cabin in a landscape painting, while Vidya Gastaldon's near-abstractions and Enrico Baj's mash-ups of kitsch ladies and brutalist monsters serve as delectably hallucinogenic examples.
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For the most part, the people who have made and criticized films over the past two decades have shared little love for video games — which remains to be perceived, by skeptics, as a half-formed medium for puerile loners swilling Mountain Dew and struggling to bleach Cheetos stains from their sweatpants.
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This edition of Politics of Food explores one of the strangest fruits available in the world today; in Adam's search to solve this flavor mystery, which sheds light on the complex nature of our modern food system, we find out that this pomaceous treat represents much more than a puerile snack.
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Algren was taken sharply to task for writing a book that Alfred Kazin found saturated in "puerile sentimentality," Leslie Fiedler declared written by a museum piece, and Norman Podhoretz scorned for trying to tell its middle-class readers that bums and tramps had more humanity than the rest of us.
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Inevitably, the show also feels like a memorial to Fischli/Weiss, who made sublimely puerile sculptures and dioramas with luncheon meat, rubber and unfired clay, as well as the classic art film "The Way Things Go" (36003), in which a lineup of everyday objects collapsed, domino-style, in a combustible reaction.
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For the record, I've read the classic long-term TBRs — Proust (educational at the time; never got another serious crush on a gay guy), Melville (very great) and "Infinite Jest" (astonishingly puerile) — and see no reason to try "The Man Without Qualities" because I've never liked Musil all that much.
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At a time in our history when a puerile "political correctness" imposes hypocrisy on most writers dealing with sensitive topics, Darryl Pinckney has dared to treat his theme with excruciating honesty and the total freedom from restraint that Schiller said we find nowhere else but in authentic works of art.
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"If there is no community," then "there is nothing to challenge, nothing to fuel the dynamism" required for a golden age, and if there is nothing but transgression and dissent, there is nothing to give acts of transgression the "purpose, substance and meaning" that make them something more than just puerile self-indulgence.
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Willfully over-the-top of action—Epic's Gears of War pedigree shines through in its blockbuster set-pieces—and singularly puerile of phallic funnies, it could have been one of gaming's greatest tonal miscalculations if it wasn't for the fact that it positively sings when all of its ingredients are mixed together.
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But it has done more than that: it has proved a crucible for fake news — a phenomenon that some of us might argue actually started in sports — but also has fanned the flames of tribalism, turning most interactions between fans of opposing teams toxic, generating a fierce, fractious, puerile sort of rivalry.
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It's part of what makes the tagline "Man of Mystery" rather laughable: Myers and Powers don't leave much to figure out about anything in the movies—the jokes are played straight for their juvenile, puerile, and sometimes imbecile ways, constantly breaking any "adult" tension with an untimely, exaggerated bit of bodily joking.
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Many of the drawings in the book aren't so visually different from what you might find scribbled in the stall of a dive bar bathroom, but even the most rudimentary have a curiosity and intentionality to them that reveals the hand of the artist, rather than the puerile shock value of less purposeful hands.
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And I have to say, that Post-it made it impossible to have a totally serious or pompous conversation about applications; that Post-it hanging there on that door took us right out of the stressed-out third child with something to prove zone and into the puerile joke range, where it turned out that we all belonged.
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It may strike as a puerile pose—an especially laughable one, given the degree to which they defined what it meant to be popular in rock music in the early 2000s (nostalgically minded, significantly rich, modestly attractive, and blasé about all of it)—but its set them up in an interesting position as they approaches artistic middle age.
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After Stoudemire told Israeli media that he'd refuse to be in the same locker room as a gay teammate, Amaechi told TMZ Sports he's sick and tired of negative role models like A.S. "These are serious times and we need serious people to lead important conversations, not petulant man-children spouting puerile prejudice," Amaechi told us.
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After all, the belittling of John McCain's P.O.W. ordeal, the disparagement of the Khan family (whose son was killed in combat), the "heel spur" exemption from the draft and the puerile acceptance of a Purple Heart medal as a gift from a veteran: Were these not enough to rankle others like me who served in combat?
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Its failure was attributed to his loopy malfunction in the televised debate in New Hampshire; or to his delay in attacking Mr Trump, a reticence unwisely followed by a roll in the gutter with the front-runner, when, with his puerile gibes, Mr Rubio implicated himself in the one-off spectacle of a presidential candidate bragging, on air, about his penis.
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We may not be able to see the empty seats due to the cameras being off, but knowing that many of our country's leading journalists were taking a stand against the third-world tactics of an administration adrift would give the fourth estate a principled — and much-needed — win against an administration prone to puerile attempts at discrediting all disinterested parties.
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Somehow it's even wilder than that implies—mostly Dicky seems to have convinced extremely famous people to make puerile puns about animals ("I'm just a squirrel looking for my next nut, ew," goes Miguel's brief entry.) Just to get an idea of how far this goes, here are a couple of others: We've got Bieber talking about the size of his anus, Shawn Mendes as "horny" rhinos (haha, get it), Wiz Khalifa as a farting skunk, Lil Yachty as HPV, and Katy Perry as a pony.
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" The same article suggested that traditional valentines were for bumpkins and that city sophisticates had moved on: "Our country cousins, judged by St. Valentine's Day, still retain that primitive sentimentality which prompts this bashful mode of confessing even vaguely to the existence of the tender passion, while the more matter-of-fact denizen of the Metropolis either has more nerve to openly declare his or her love, or, with the spirit of cosmopolitanism, considers the time-honored custom of sending valentines as befitting only past and more puerile ages and peoples.
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