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That really sucks, but at least you tried. Hate that a miscommunication and the wrong equipment derailed your dreams. Gotta say you had a better chance in Nikes than Converse All Stars, though.

Reminds of of the time I tried out for middle school baseball wearing the baggy clothes that were the style at the time. My dad was aggravated that I showed up to a baseball tryout in a gym wearing Airwalks and baggy jeans.

I think they are related though. The university fosters an atmosphere in which victims feel unable to come forward or feel as though their complaints were not heard by throwing their support behind the accused athletes. Hiring top attorneys is just one visible example of this.

I have no problem with the accused athletes having representation. I have a problem with the university supporting the accused athletes having more support for the university than the victims.

I think I read somewhere that this National Duels system was intended to avoid rematches so we wouldn't be getting Penn St. anyway. Even if they weren't trying to avoid rematches, Okie Lite is still the top-ranked team outside of the B1G and would get the 'honor' of being thumped by PSU.

Why? Because you've built something big enough, with broad enough appeal, that you have a few posts here and there that don't measure up to the overall expectations of the community? I know you don't really mean you're embarrassed about what you've built, but it hasn't even been two hours, and both comments have been removed. I think the community is going to be OK.

That's a strong reach
The threat of a projectile driver is really tough to see.

Meanwhile the state is not required to put seat belts on school buses in order to save the State money.

If the lives of school children are not important or at risk, then the threat of projectile drivers is a non-starter.

1 pm update. Probably have close to 10 inches in Christiansburg. Great sledding conditions. Yet to see a Town plow. No ice yet.

So I'm not allowed to comment on a women's attractiveness as a non-sequitur? I can only say it with the caveat that she's well-qualified for her profession and her attractiveness is secondary to her qualifications?

I'm just messing around, I know what you're trying to say but I meant my original statement as a cursory comment, not a reflection of what's important.

I just want to reiterate that I'm entirely pro seat belt. Merely anti-coercion. Though in this case, I'll have to concede the argument to you guitarman. The privilege vs right point is basically the end of it. Well done.

I can only be charged if I'm alive. If I become a projectile, smash through someone else's windshield, I die and kill them or cause serious them bodily harm, what then? If I'm wearing a seat belt, the damage and injury is almost certainly mitigated.

Moreover, driving is a privilege, not a right. The state can do whatever it pleases to regulate an optional activity that I choose to engage in provided that it doesn't actually cross into some guarantee of my rights. There's no infringement on my rights or individual liberties in the case of seatbelt laws. So I really don't understand this "overreach" argument. There are rules for the road. Most of them fall under the same classifications re: tickets and fines. They serve the purpose to enforce behavior that is largely deemed to be otherwise potentially harmful to people or property, public or private. Do the penalties generate revenue for the state? Sure, but that doesn't make the laws themselves invalid or some sort of government overreach.

Reference my response to guitarman above. To further address points you bring up, I'd actually agree with your point on open container laws while driving (even if you were being facetious). I see that I'm in the distinct minority here, taking a very hard line on the rightness of certain government regulations. I'm entirely okay with this, and I gotta say, I really appreciate the discourse. I fucking love thekeyplay and all you guys for that very reason.

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