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  1. 3 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

    College football needs a hard reset. Let the NFL and the semi-pros develop their NFL China, while the student athletes play college ball. That applies to the coaches too. Way too much money tied up in 'amateur' sports.

    I'm starting to get to this point. NFL should have a farm system for 18-21+ year olds. Pay them whatever the market bears. College sports, assuming they continue to exist, should be low dollar endeavors. As a huge college sports fan, that's tough to say. But the college athletics system has become bloated, bureaucratic and really strange.

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  2. Genuine question. Why do you think "Wall Street" doesn't understand that investments today may pay dividends later? Do the analysts and portfolio managers at investment banks not understand that? Do the algorithms used by high-frequency traders and quants not account for long-term strategy?

  3. On 5/4/2020 at 10:54 PM, CDAK said:

    That's me.  I wash face, hands, scalp, armpits, crotch, and ass.  I feel like everything else just needs rinsed.  I don't actively wash arms, torso, back, legs, feet, etc.

     

    On 5/5/2020 at 6:10 AM, Jkwellborn said:


    You’re a dirty bastard. Soap and water is cheap.

     

    On 5/5/2020 at 11:26 AM, Grade of D as in David said:

    Are you a French whore?

     

    On 5/10/2020 at 9:17 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Stank ass mofo.

    Hey assholes, you're unsurprisingly wrong.

    The men are itchy. Skotnicki studied microbiology before becoming an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Toronto. She has been practicing for 23 years, always with an eye to how the environment—including the microbial one on our skin—affects health. “I say to them, ‘How do you shower?’ ” she told me. “They take the squeegee thing and wash their whole body with some sort of men’s body wash. They’re showering twice a day because they’re working out. As soon as I get them to stop doing that and just wash their bits, they’re totally fine.”

    “Bits would be underarms, groin, feet,” she said. “So when you’re in the shower or the bath, do you need to wash here?” She pointed to her forearm. “No.” Even water alone, especially hot water, slowly strips away the oils in the outer layers of skin that help preserve moisture—and the drier and more porous someone’s skin, the more susceptible it is to irritants and allergens.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/hygiene-is-overrated/612235/

  4. 12 minutes ago, CDAK said:

    I thought a minstrel was just a wandering musician, and didn't understand the issue or headline.  Didn't realize there was a related but distinct definition about white people in blackface.  [Insert more you know rainbow]

     

    1 minute ago, mdmost said:

    We aren't living in the middle ages anymore, friend. 

    The definition I knew is the most common definition, friend.

    minstrel

    [ min-struh l ]SHOW IPA

    noun

    1. a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
    2. a musician, singer, or poet.
    3. one of a troupe of comedians, usually white men in blackface, presenting songs, jokes, etc., and portraying negative racial stereotypes.
     

    Definition of minstrel

     

    1: one of a class of medieval musical entertainers especially : a singer of verses to the accompaniment of a harp wandering minstrels
    2a: MUSICIAN
    b: POET
    3a: a member of a type of performance troupe caricaturing black performers that originated in the U.S. in the early 19th century

    NOTE: The acts of minstrels, who typically performed in blackface, featured exaggerated and inaccurate representations of black people in songs, dances, and comic dialogue. The popularity of minstrel shows in their heyday played a significant role in promoting negative racial stereotypes. Professional minstrel shows had fallen out of favor and effectively disappeared by the mid-20th century.

    b: a performance by a troupe of minstrels : a minstrel show
     
  5. I think yall are misinterpreting the actions of the second Buffalo cop; the cop who prevented the first cop from bending down over the old guy on the ground.  The second cop did not think he was stopping the first one from rendering aid.  The second cop was doing a good deed.  He was stopping the first cop from bending down to continue to beat the old guy.

     

    [Slight sarcasm but who knows, maybe?]

  6. On 5/29/2020 at 3:21 PM, Llewelyn Moss said:

    Taking a shot in the dark here as your post is over a year old. 
     

    What did you do to train? I’m considering Rim to Rim like you (though N to S). I’ve got a 12 week plan but am a bit worried I’ll be miserable. I welcome your thoughts. 

    I was miserable for the last 2-3 hours.  It took about 24 hours before I could walk without a hiccup in my step after completion. I didn't do anywhere close to enough training.  What I'd do differently is simply hike more.  I did some longish weekend hikes.  But relied primarily on resistance leg workouts and cardio stuff, and I didn't do enough of that either.  I should have done more of both, but particularly the hiking aspect.  I think that's the only way to get your legs ready for the Rim to Rim experience.

  7. On 5/20/2020 at 6:27 PM, VABuckeye said:

    Crystal balls rolling in for J.T. Tuimoloau to Ohio State. 

    I’m a Texas fan and grad but I live in Seattle now. So I’ve adopted UW as my second squad and I’m really hoping UW is able to keep these 5 stars in state. Washington (the state) has three top 25 national recruits and it’s looking like UW may snare only one of them. It’s a rare year and opportunity for UW to have 3 five stars in its back yard. At least we’re keeping the five star QB but I don’t understand why Jimmy Lake, a defensive young new coach, can’t keep JT from the buckeyes. 

  8. Is there an article that explains the lawsuit angle?  I don't quite understand it.  Don't the plaintiffs' attorneys have to show that their clients got it from X league/company by a preponderance of the evidence?  Then, don't they have to show damages?  If someone dies, damages seem straightforward but if someone gets flu-like symptoms for a week or two, what are the damages?

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  9. 1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:

    Your analogy is flawed because we’re talking about an infectious disease that is impacting our entire civilization. We’re not talking about eating cheeseburgers and the link to heart disease.
     

    His analogy was speed limits.  It wasn't diet and heart disease.  The speed of one driver on the road impacts the safety of other drivers and people on the road.  Vehicular speed is not a communicable illness but each driver's speed affects other people's safety - people on the road riding the bus, crossing the street, driving their car, etc.  

  10. 4 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:

    I guess you never played in an empty lot as a kid? 

    I can't remember doing that.  But I certainly have different expectations for adults and children with respect to most minor offenses, like trespassing.

    4 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    You might feel that way, but that is not what the law says. And the law gives property owners who feel that way a method of notifying the public that they are not allowed to enter.

     

    1 hour ago, HRSchenker said:

    You might be right but it's not a crime. I've lived in suburban and rural America for most of my life and walking around residential construction sites is extremely common. I would say the mentality that you should stay out of these sites if you don't own it is probably held by a small minority of people, at least in my area. Everything we've seen in the video doesn't suggest a criminal trespass.

    I'm certainly no trespass lawyer.  But I find it hard to believe that is the law.  I own plot of land X with a house on it in suburban America.  I tear down the house because I want to build a new house.  The law allows people to wander around my plot of land X from the moment I tear it down until the new house is complete?  When does the law quit allowing people to wander around on my property?  

    42 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

    A hellscape. Multiple people on multiple pages of this thread have admitted to checking out a construction site before, but now not only is it unfathomable, but it speaks to rural america being a *hellscape* because people wander into construction sites to check out the progress and see what's going on. 

    Let me add myself to the list, I walked across the street into one of the gentrification special homes here in East Austin a couple years ago with a neighbor. Walked around the home, walked upstairs, noted how the 3-floor plan looked and admired the outdoor deck at the main bedroom, came down and went back home. Sorry for contributing to making East Austin a hellscape. The rhetoric will continue to ramp up from "hey who cares people do it all the time" to "hey maybe it's not cool to do that" to "your neighborhood sounds like a hellscape if people have the audacity to walk onto property that's not theirs" to "black man need shotgun in his face for trespassing on property that's not mine nor the killer's". Just keep going, you're almost there!

    Hellscape was hyperbole - that's fair.  I don't think it's a hellscape. I think all of you wandering around residential construction sites are nosy neighbors similar to the people on Nextdoor.  Your last couple of sentences are stupid and not worth responding to. 

  11. 6 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    This is the truth. I find the responses about "GETTING IN OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS" humorous. It's an empty lot with a concrete slab and some framing on it. It's owned by the developer, it's not fenced, there is no signage on it telling you to stay out. And that's getting in someone's business? Ha.

    Yes, that is getting in someone's business and trespassing.  It's property not owned by you and not a park, store, or other location open to the public.  I've never lived in suburban America but it sounds like a hellscape if people assume they're permitted on residential construction sites unless there is a sign telling them to stay out or a fence preventing them from entering.  You know you don't own the lot.  You know it's not open to the public.  Stay the hell out.  There are a million places open to you.

    (Again, I feel like the need to state that I'm in no way condoning the murder by the vigilantes.  I assume trespassing is punishable by a small fine.  It shouldn't open you up to being killed by racist assholes.)

  12. I can’t believe how many of y’all go snooping in residential construction sites. It’s the kind of shit I’d expect from busy bodies on next door. People just can’t help themselves from sticking their nose in other people’s’ business.
     

    (I feel like I have to add that I’m not defending these vigilantes. If someone is trespassing, call the cops, tell the owner, or just mind your business. The vigilantes should be prosecuted.)

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  13. 9 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    yea, I think that's more of a dude thing. Mrs Rojo has a separate soap for every body part, plus shaving cream, moisturizer, hydrating scrub, etc, etc.   

    That's me.  I wash face, hands, scalp, armpits, crotch, and ass.  I feel like everything else just needs rinsed.  I don't actively wash arms, torso, back, legs, feet, etc.

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