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Can you blame him for wanting to get out of GT? I mean, when you have to interact with this guy regularly?
I'd want to get away as fast as possible too.
you know what? Here I am trying to lighten the damned mood and reverse the downward spiral that is this thread you just have to keep it going.
It was a great video, the guy obviously put a decent amount of time in it. With that said, I couldn't help wondering if UT played in any game other than the Northwestern one.
Ok, now THAT's funny.
But my favorite part of it is the Amanda Seyfried lookalike directly behind the guy holding the sign. Her line of sight should NEVER be blocked.
When you become a parent, you all of a sudden realize that you are responsible for protecting and training another human being with the end goal of his being a healthy, happy, functioning member of society. You start to look at things in a different light. You look back on things you experienced that you wish you didn't and you want to find some way to protect your kid from them. You look at lessons you learned later in life and you try to find ways to teach them earlier on to avoid some of the same missteps. You look at people you know who are crappy examples of humanity and stay awake at night wondering if they were a result of bad parenting and if you're doing the same things their parents did.
This is all going to manifest itself in different ways. All in all, I 'm actually encouraged by parents making an effort, even if it's misguided. I've seen a few examples of people who decided that being a parent was not going to change how they lived their lives. The resulting kids were sorely lacking in a lot of what makes a healthy adult. Of course, this is anecdotal, but I believe that everything else needs to take a back seat to parenting once you move into that phase. This is going to look different for each person (some kids will see going to a game as bonding, others will see it as being ignored while your dad can hang out with his friends, etc), but if you will demand that your life look the same before and after you have kids, you probably aren't ready to have kids.
You shouldn't be a drunk asshole at a football game or anywhere else, but the responsibility falls on the parents.
I agree that the parents of someone who feels the need to get so drunk that they become obnoxious should have taught them better. I'm glad to see you get it.
Paul Johnson might be safe for a couple of years unless the new AD is a huge money maker. Somehow CJP has a fully guaranteed contract, so every time he has a good year he extends it and keeps the payoff requirement sky high.
Yeah they should have them... For the parents irresponsible enough to bring a child with a developing brain to an event where the volume level can and will get loud enough to potentially damage it.
Now, if you're talking about a toddler or a 4year old or someone else, that's fine, if the child will remember it and have a great time, absolutely have at it. But understand the environment when you go and understand you are going to see drinking, you are going to see public intoxication, you are going to hear lots of profanity, and there's absolutely nothing you can do to shield your children from that. If you aren't comfortable with that environment for your children, you're better off watching from home. At a certain point, as a parent, you need to realize you can't control everyone and you need to take responsibility for your own actions and the environment where you bring your own children, and if the reality of where you're going isn't perfectly suitable to your own standards, you don't need to go there with your children.
Edit: I see someone has gone through and methodically downvoted every one of my posts in this thread... Classy
had to be shared from that article:
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. ... Sometimes I just, by God, get carried away with my own eloquence." (The Unknown Patton, by Charles M. Province, CMP Productions, 1998)
PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!
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9 years 11 months
# | Hokies Football 8/7/16 Snapchat Review: Young DBs Shine Me too. It's only a few videos but the kid hits hard.
"he'll have underhyped recruits with good discipline (and probably a few 3-4* guys)"
I agree that he will try to do this to replicate what he had at BYU. But I do not think that he will be as successful, since his under-hyped recruits will no longer have the advantage of being in their mid 20s when they actually hit the field. I am also curious if he will be able to carry-over his pipeline to Mormon Pacific Islanders that has netted him a lot of his better players.
Make no mistake, LOLUVa under Mendenhall may not be as good at football as his BYU teams, but they won't be the inept pansies that we are used to.
The concept of a safe space is for individuals who have "triggers." No one here is getting a triggered and will have a panic attack. They are talking about their personal experience being changed due to the fact that another group of individuals are enjoying a Hokie football game in a different manner than they are.
Maybe money, maybe pressure, maybe seeing writing on the wall, but seems like a HUGE step down.
I never want to have kids if it's gonna make me have a stick up my ass like some of the comments here... For the most part it's been fairly reasonable but some are so set on the whole "it's my kid and I'll raise them how I want" thing.
For the most part, nobody is saying don't bring your kids to the game. Just don't bring your kids to the game and then complain when people don't behave how you'd like them to. I think we're all in agreement that an obnoxious drunk is an obnoxious drunk, whether kids are around or not. You shouldn't be a drunk asshole at a football game or anywhere else, but the responsibility falls on the parents. It's your kid, so don't expose them to that situation if they can't handle it. If they're good kids from a good family, they won't want to repeat any of the vulgar stuff coming out of the drunk clown's mouth.
All my games were in middle upper East. Never saw an issue. Doing West this year since I'll never be able to afford it again.
You're correct in that the actual thread topic itself does not. The banter, however, is what's giving me the general vibe.
It really has nothing to do with safe spaces.
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9 years 11 months
# | Starting QB decision today? - Fuente, Motley, Evans to address media after practice Hey, that bag rag was one of the most interesting and lively posts in months. You sure can tell when we're ready for the season to start.
I have said it before, I'll say it again. UVA is like a barrel of apples. You can put all the shiny new however highly ranked apples you want into that barrel, but eventually most of them will rot. The barrel looks great from the outside, but is "contaminated" on the inside, with hubris, conceit, and perceived elitism. Yes, Bronco may be able to eventually clean up some of that rot, but you can't get it all, it is institutionalized at UVA, and as we all know, it only takes one bad apple...
I agree entirely. This year, I went to 2 games and sat in the West Stands for the first time ever. It was very different from being in the thick of the student sections. The North Endzone and East Stands can be downright dangerous (part of the fun of undergrad), but everyone around me in the West (literally everyone) was fun to be around with no problems whatsoever. The stadium is, of course, a loud environment, but there are many areas that should not be viewed as war zones that endanger children.
He sure got a low pressure job at Purdue.
Does anybody feel that the direction of this thread has gone the way of this?
Speaking as someone who as only been to 5 total games at Lane, 4 this past season, I've never seen a bunch of drunks, cursing like you imply. I'm also pretty sure there are entire areas of the stadium not surrounded by college aged kids doing these things. Jeep brings his kids and sits in the end zone club seats, they sell indoor club seats where I'm pretty sure this isn't an issue.
and on the flip side, you have to deal with everyone else having just re-signed him to the mother of all contracts.