As of yesterday I have power again, btw.This is a minor rant, since I don't have any property damage after the hurricane, but this is day 5 of not having electricity and it sucks
Cat did the world a favor.Knocked the pineapple right off it.
So far my experience has not been like this and I am even coaching little league. EXCEPT, 11s soccer team last year came in 4th of 4 in a competitive tournament...until a dad from either the first place or second place team (both from out of state) threatened to get his gun when arguing with another dad from the other team (second or first place team) and both teams were disqualified. Their boys did not win because the dads ruined it.I should have known when we had a nice, quiet, peaceful weekend, shit was going to blow up on Monday.
I won't bore you guys with the details because it involves kids sports, but OH MY GOD are sports dads the most petty drama queens. Thanks for ruining my week, and all our work for the last 2 years, assholes. And it doesn't help that I now have to deal with them daily because we have games every day this week through Sunday. I just.....arghjndnoxngldsgnkjdfgklnfd.
Once upon a time, October wasn't stressful.
Just as soon as he gets home from the state fair.Yes, yes, Sherriff, our star running back got a DUI and a MIP and a weapons charge and vehicular manslaughter and 2nd degree murder.... but can we get him out to play this weekend? It's the homecoming game!
#Texas
Sorry to hear that, man.Don’t worry everyone! It’s all better now. My just mom called to tell me that her latest scan shows that her cancer is beginning to spread again, and she needs to start an aggressive round of chemo. Fun times.
god damn Pat, I laughed so hard, I cried and coughed....“But, doctor…_I_ am Tress!”
—Patrick
They never knew a world where 9/11 hadn't happened yet. They were born into this shit, humor to me seems like a perfectly valid defense against it.Holy shit. Two kids at my school (I teach high school) dressed up as the Twin Towers, while a third student dressed as a plane and would run into them. They thought they were hi-larious. They got sent to the office shortly after. No idea what happened to them, but the fact that they did that at all makes me sad for humanity.
I suppose dressing as the Titanic and an iceberg would not be considered as tasteless. So there must be a time limit for such things. But perhaps it needs to be more than one or two generations to avoid offending the people that lived through the news of the tragedy.They never knew a world where 9/11 hadn't happened yet. They were born into this shit, humor to me seems like a perfectly valid defense against it.
Well, this happened this yearI suppose dressing as the Titanic and an iceberg would not be considered as tasteless. So there must be a time limit for such things. But perhaps it needs to be more than one or two generations to avoid offending the people that lived through the news of the tragedy.
Slight difference of scale and national impact there. But yeah, in the late 80s, the Challenger explosion jokes started coming almost immediately.Well, this happened this year
I agree with you here, but not so much because of how much time has passed as the fact that no person or group deliberately steered an iceberg into Titanic. There was no intent involved like there was with 9/11. You could dress up as the coronavirus (hundreds of thousands dead, still ongoing for some) and it would still be more tasteful than going as a mushroom cloud over Japan (about 200k, almost 100yrs old).I suppose dressing as the Titanic and an iceberg would not be considered as tasteless.
I remember that.Slight difference of scale and national impact there. But yeah, in the late 80s, the Challenger explosion jokes started coming almost immediately.
"Why didn't Christa McAuliffe take a shower before the Challenger launch? She figured she'd wash up on the beach!"
"What does NASA stand for? Needs Another Seven Astronauts!"
"What were the sharks eating after that morning? Launch meat!"
so if they are seniors, they were born in 2006, and wouldn't have strong memories of world events until the early 2010s, by my estimates, and add a year going down to 9th grade. is it tasteless, yeah, do they have any attachment to the event, no not really. its just history to them. Kids don't always see the context for why their actions are hurtful, and in their defense, it happened over 20 years ago. Despite the rising tide of being more thoughtful about our words and actions not everyone gets the same instruction from their parents and mentors about how actions can be hurtful. Hopefully this can be a moment they can learn from, and even if it cant, no one was actually harmed, and it was addressed by responsible parties, no need to crucify them any further. Ill take my downvotes, but that's just my personal opinion as someone who manages high school kids in his workplace.Holy shit. Two kids at my school (I teach high school) dressed up as the Twin Towers, while a third student dressed as a plane and would run into them. They thought they were hi-larious. They got sent to the office shortly after. No idea what happened to them, but the fact that they did that at all makes me sad for humanity.
I think the better example would be dressing like an SS officer/Hitler, which is more timeless and easily recognized, a mushroom cloud would have too much nuance.I agree with you here, but not so much because of how much time has passed as the fact that no person or group deliberately steered an iceberg into Titanic. There was no intent involved like there was with 9/11. You could dress up as the coronavirus (hundreds of thousands dead, still ongoing for some) and it would still be more tasteful than going as a mushroom cloud over Japan (about 200k, almost 100yrs old).
—Patrick
I'll downvote you for thinking we have downvotes here. We just point and mock, like civilized people.Ill take my downvotes,
I'll downvote you for thinking we have downvotes here. We just point and mock, like civilized people.
Here, take my updoot.I'll downvote you for thinking we have downvotes here. We just point and mock, like civilized people.