Yes, MtnDevil and I watched the game together.
I worry that based on the outcome, we may be forced to watch together from now on.
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People on here use words like "brotherhood", "defense", "backdoor cuts". MtnDevil and I use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending conference opponents. You use them as a punch line.
i have neither the time nor the inclination to explain horn sets to a group of posters who rise and sleep under the blanket of the very motion set that MtnDevil and I provide and then questions the manner in which we provide it.
Strawberry PopTarts!
Sundance is running a Gilligan's Island marathon this weekend for those of you with questions.
Baking wings. Hot, dirty little wings.
slow roasting ribs, very very very slow.
I feel like that "Can Ryan Young dunk" thread is targeted.
You can’t grease a pole enough for a drink Philly sports fan.
Air conditioners going now, heaters by 6 AM.
I worked hard for that Chiefs victory!
Who turned off the heat?
Read a tweet today this group will appreciate:
Can we just stop screwing around and frost the whole pop tart? We have the technology.
Pop Tarts are good as door stops. Not much else I can think of.
shots fired.
Wilson woke up this morning and chose violence.
Didn't want to take another thread further down a bizarre tangent so I am saying it here:
1. Totally with you, Aimo, regarding coed and not giving a rat's heinie!
2. I find mispronouncing someone's name way more offensive than another poster did. But also agree that if the owner of the name doesn't care then let it go but say it right yourself.
3. I always said it didn't bother me if someone misspelled my name since it isn't unusual to have it misspelled. I did discover that it is only true with my last name. Someone was consistently spelling my first name wrong and it annoyed the heck out of me. I didn't call her on it - just kept spelling it correctly in any correspondence with her.
I thought “unclench” was a micro-aggression against the incontinent tbh.
But I only got involved in that whole thing because I thought the shade thrown at the poster using the term “co-ed” was unnecessarily disrespectful. Which makes the whole subsequent discussion of “disrespecting” language even more ironic for me.
But I like all the posters involved, and I respect that they have different views. I am glad to see that you and Aimo agree with me, and that I am not being a total cretin.
Half-cretin is my goal.
Caught up on the other thread. It took a turn when that person said they have no intention of using the preferred vernacular. It was absolutely not a big deal until that person made it a big deal. My 21 year old daughter would think: "Ok boomer" if she heard coed used. Wouldn't say anything and would forget about it. But that micro-aggression loses the qualifier "micro" when you can't just say that you didn't know and stop using it. His response was the most mwg statement ever. But it's why they are mwgs.
Okay, this mid Gen X'er is happy to br over here on the OT board.
Are Gen Xers the ones who don't do anything but complain a lot, or am I confusing them with another Gen?
Did he? Or did he go with the "I'm sorry you got your little feelings hurt" apology? I'm not a female but I am mediocre. I don't get to decide what is and isn't offensive. It never would have occurred to me that that word was offensive. What annoys me is someone just as mediocre as I am doubling down on something that other people might find offensive. If you want to make the point that we find too many things offensive. That's absolutely fine. People get to feel how they want to. People get to say what they want to. People get to find offense or not. I have a deep vein of don't care about this stuff honestly. But it's so easy to take responsibility and that dude didn't. That annoyed me.
I mean, I wasn't meaning to call out the term "coed" in any way, but more to have a discussion about if claiming ignorance gets someone off the hook for using an offensive term.
Sure, as a kid maybe you use words that you don't understand and that's how you learn. I don't think that most adults in most situations can say "well, I didn't know people got offended by THAT word" and skate.
Additionally, I've always held that I don't get to determine what other people should or should not be offended by. Let folks decide for themselves and tell us, we can all try to act respectfully. It literally doesn't cost anyone anything.
I look at it like when you meet someone and they say "hey, I'm Richard but call me Rick." Okay. Cool. I'm not going to spend my time and energy trying to convince you to go by Richard, I'll just do my best to call you Rick.
I didn't mean it to transform into a discussion of sensitivity and snowflakes and PCism, but here we are.
Signing Day tomorrow.
Pitchers and Catchers start reporting February 13.
I’m betting the groundhog does not see his shadow. Bring on spring.
What's funny is it so easy to lie in that situation. You can pretend that you care or you can even just shut up about it. It's defending it that annoys the piss out of me. I literally don't care if he feels bad or not. I don't care who finds it offensive or not. None of that matters in this scenario. It was purely his response that annoyed me. I've misgendered people, I have used the incorrect nomenclature about different races and ethnic groups. I've done all of those things. I try to be better than that but I sure as hell don't double down on it. That I don't do.
Yeah, that's fair. I gave his response the charitable reading, but he didn't have a good track record, and I can certainly agree that he may not have meant it quite as charitably as all that. It is certainly not the way I would have written a post if I had intended to be conciliatory. Some people definitely have trouble admitting fault, even when it involves zero personal cost.
I did double-down at least once on the boards, and rather recently. I used the term "local yokels" to refer to the people attending a game during the Christmas break, when my post made it clear that my daughter would be there. I got swooped for using the term "yokel". Sorry, but I'm not going to apologize for using pretty much any term in self-reference or in reference to my family. If you think I intended to disparage or insult my own daughter, then clearly that is a "you" problem.
But I got let off the hook because the mods didn't like the diversion in a pre-game thread and removed the entire exchange. I'm good with that option, too.
I think there is general agreement politically amongst most of the posters here.
I don’t think there is agreement on the virtues of political correctness, or at least it’s contours.
I suggest we move on, but IANAM and if y’all want to keep discussing it just PM me when it’s safe to come back to this thread.
Thanks.
I'm done with it, FWIW. I think it is an interesting subject, in general, and I like to hear the opinions of others on the on the subject. I genuinely like to hear from people I disagree with. It's the only way I can make substantive changes to the way I think.
But I certainly don't want to discuss it if it makes anyone uncomfortable, and I've said my piece, so now I'm happy to hold my peace.
Ah, the start of that two-month period of the year when that anti-logical side of me swells with the idea that this is the year the Rockies are going to put it together and mix it up with the big boys, despite having half the payroll of the blue blood teams. Spring, and all that.
Sorry I hijacked the thread. And not just saying that. I actually mean it.
I was at lunch last week with 6 work colleagues including my boss's boss and others at different levels (attorneys, paralegals, admins). Among the people at the table was a member of the same team I'm on (I'm an attorney and she's a paralegal). She is black, I am white, and I've worked with her for many years. She used to report to me before some reorganizing years ago.
I was telling a story of someone I used to know when I was a kid. He was an older black man and the chef at a restaurant where I worked. He was fascinating and used to tell great stories. Anyway, I was talking about him in the context of cooking and being a chef I used to know and I made the comment that he used to tell stories about Satchel Paige from the Negro Baseball League. I felt the table get very quiet. Did I do/say something wrong? I mean, the Negro League was a factual thing, it's a fact that Satchel Paige played in it, and I thought it was fun and interesting that my chef friend spoke about him.
Am I not supposed to use the word Negro, especially with a black woman present? Am I not supposed to mention the Negro League at all? I sensed that people felt uncomfortable although I didn't sense it from the black woman at the table, the one person I would be concerned about making uncomfortable. Or is it just that in today's society we're so programmed to avoid certain words the mere mention of one makes it uncomfortable for white people?
Yoooooo…..this thread been busy.
No. No. No. I was ACTUALLY offensive in basketball. I got a police escort out of a state playoff game as a 15 year old because I taunted the home crowd. They sliced our bus tires. We were stuck at their place until 1 am and had a 2 hour drive home. The part that still makes me happy is that they had all off season to think about it. We had another game 2 days later.
I'm leaving my current hairtician, Tracie, for my new hairtician, Tracey. One block away.
Tracie thought she had an agreement to buy the very small salon from the ancient owner (my previous hairtician of 20 years) but it fell through with great rancor, so she is going to relocate ten miles away which is about nine miles more than I'm willing to follow her, so on to Tracy next time, had a wee visit with her today. I expect no more Tracie sightings.
If you are ever in Kansas City, I highly recommend a visit to http://nlbm.com. It is definitely worth your time.
Basketball double header for me tonight.
Tracie is dead. Long live Tracey!
Cool. I have always wanted to go there. Isn't there also some sort of College Basketball museum in Kansas City? What is that like?
Edit: I just checked Tripadvisor and the "College Basketball Experience" seems to get mixed reviews. I also learned that the National WWI museum and American Jazz Museum are also in KC. Hmm, it almost seems like it would be worth a trip just to visit these four museums.
My wife and I are currently planning a vacation for late spring. I wonder how the following conversation would go, "Instead of going to Bermuda this year, why don't we go to Kansas City!"
I go away for one week, ONE WEEK, to watch figure skating and all heck breaks loose around here. ;)
I met Kristi Yamaguchi and the Shibitanis (Maia and Alex, brother/sister ice dancing team - 2018 Olympic bronze medalists). Buying the extra ticket to the Hall of Fame reception was worth it. I could have met Brian Boitano too but I got into a really fun conversation with Massimo Scali about choreography instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki290XIW-e0 He's an American citizen now, living in the Bay Area. He choreographs competitive skating programs and ice shows among other things.
In "Binge Watching TV Shows with Hot Guys" news, I just discovered the 2014-2016 BBC version of The Musketeers, no 3. Fun show, hot guys, but they do not take their shirts off anywhere near often enough. Luke Pasqualino has absolutely mastered the acting technique of "the look". Watch one episode and you'll know what I mean.
“I hope it’s an open carry state, ‘cause Clem’s got his guns out.”
Armed and fabulous.
Listening to John Denver and grading history projects.
Freezing rain here. My smaller trees are leafless right now and likely will do fine, but my bigger live oaks are straining under the weight.
Should I call out BS?
Ha, seventh and eighth grade kids, amazing. Yeah, we have more than our share of idiots...I used to live one town over from where this took place, used to work in the other town involved...one of the redneckier zones of Vermont I would say.
In that same area many years ago I went to watch a pal of mine coach his Little League all stars in a game. A large (6-3, 225) drunken spectator (Little League, mind you) heckled the similarly sized ump, who came over between innings, and next thing you know punches were flying and there was a LOT of blood (noses, facial cuts). I'll never forget the look of bewilderment on the kids' faces...sheesh. Little League.
Freezing in Chicago, but the hotel lobby bar (at a pretty swanky place in Grant Park) has Boulevard Tank 7 Saison. Maybe my favorite beer (out of KC...thanks DinK!). That is a W.
Much consternation in Commodore land after last night's 57 point loss.
Ugh. Sick.
Strange twist of fate means I'm alone in the office today.
1400 mile drive begins tomorrow morning. Reese's mini cups on board, chocolate milk, tuna sandwiches, wife, dog.
Whoa! That's a hike. Where are you headed, and how many days will you take to cover the distance? Fellow road trip warrior wondering about your practices.
For me, the menu would be Cherry Coke Zero, PB&J sandwiches, and goldfish. Haribo or Albanese gummy bears if I've been really good.
Heading to Florida, first driving escapade from VT to there in 40 years or so. As such, we're taking three days: day one to Delaware, day two to Lumberton NC, day three to New Smyrna Beach, Fl.
Plan is for roughly 8-9 hours per day, get to destination before dark, find food and beer.
The days are gone when I once drove from far northern VT to Carrboro NC in 13 hours and never once got out of the car...my bladder has aged since then...thank you NJ people for pumping my gas, something I'm apt to see happen tomorrow.
My preferred road trip fare is usually ginger ale, maybe Boylan's Creme Soda as a treat, pimento cheese sammiches, cut up veggies, and some good chips. Usually homemade cookies of some sort for sweets.
I like these Marathon drives and my standard fare is a tall dark roast coffee with light cream and two stevia in the morning. My snacks are pork rinds and either pistachios or cashews with diet root beer or water to drink. I drove 14 hours 2 weeks ago today. I have to stop to pee and get gas but otherwise no stops.
My forever road trip treat is a Dairy Queen Oreo blizzard!
Road trip snacks for me: Fig Newtons and goldfish crackers, drinks vary. If I'm going to Vermont, I stop at the Hi Way Diner in Hooksett, New Hampshire and get the small disk shaped slightly chewy candies. Colors (in order of taste preference): orange, red, yellow, purple, green.
The only time I eat Fig Newtons is when I'm on a road trip.
Not sure why, but I only eat Bugles and Combos when I'm on a trip. Meaning, that's the only time I eat those items, not that I exclusively eat Bugles and Combos.
Freakin' Phil.
Bugles and root beer (A&W zero sugar these days) have been my road trip snacks since college. Between Phoenix and San Diego I’ll also make a stop for a “world famous” date shake in, you guessed it, Dateland.
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My traveling menu: cheese crackers, bacon jerky or slim jims, pork rinds, and Little Debbie peanut butter cream pies. Never can quite understand why I end up with tummy troubles.
Definitely not on the list: pop tarts, sushi, crunchy peanut butter*.
* Sorry, OPK!
These glands are swollen.
Talenti Mediterranean Mint is the best! I am embarrassed how many Talenti "food storage containers" I have amassed.
Chinese spy balloon had been directly overhead for 30 minutes. It keeps going back and forth. And now it looks like it’s been shot down.
We were outside. Had the telescope already out for the green comet. About ten minutes after the balloon passed over the house one boom and then a second boom. Looks like they were just waiting for it to clear the water. Two fighter jets had been circling it for an hour. I’m pretty sure the balloon survived. It looked like it was picking up steam. The equipment package definitely did not make it.
“Really don't mind if you sit this one out
My words but a whisper your deafness a shout
I may make you feel but I can't make you think
Your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink
So you ride yourselves over the fields and
You make all your animal deals and
Your wise men don't know how it feels
To be thick as a brick”
— Gerald "Little Milton" Bostock (put to music by Jethro Tull)