StrangeSox

His portrayal of poor rural African Americans in Louisiana as happy-go-lucky people without a care in the world until that damned welfare came along is...problematic at best. It's basically Uncle Remus. Saying that they weren't singing the blues is just straight-up dumb because Louisiana blues music really started developing in the post-war period.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 01:32 PM) I allowed my son to play football but said no to him going to an overnight skateboard open house with mostly kids he didn't know. Now there's a dangerous hobby.

I thought that's what the research out of Boston University has found?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 01:27 PM) The key to this study is still linking concussions to degenerative brain symptoms later in life. I don't think most people would argue that multiple concussions would do this even though the link is still very thin based on all of the research. where the true discussion lies in that idea that cumulative head trauma without concussion symptoms causes CTE or degenerative problems later in life. Yeah, there seems to be a very strong correlation with sub-concussive brain trauma and CTE, but it's not 100% well-understood at this point.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sp...oncussion-risk/ eta: Eric Pelly died after receiving a concussion playing rugby, but he also played football.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 01:04 PM) He also hates being called dumb, which this article specifically states. Im sure he will talk about it today They were talking about it already in the crosstalk section! He denied calling Derrick a villain but maintains that he's a detriment to the team right now. edit: Rose doesn't want to go through rebuilding and lose the team they currently have assembled, but last year his camp was saying that they need to get Derrick some support.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 11:37 AM) He listed various sins, also including adultery, alcoholism, etc. But still, his point was the exact same - I don't get it. I don't agree with it. I think it's a sin. But treat people with kindness and love and don't judge them. Let God deal with it. As a pseudo Christian, that's been my belief for a long time. Look at what Robertson actually said. His comments and his tone were not remotely like the Pope's. Honestly, just pretty much standard retrograde homophobia there. I think this is really what got him in trouble:

there was the usual silly linkage to bestiality in there, I don't think Pope Francis did that.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 11:01 AM) If you think that football is as dangerous as playing with bleach and knives that is your choice. I dont. I find football to be closer to getting in car. http://www.besthealthdegrees.com/health-risks/ Getting in a car is a pretty necessary part of daily life for most people, but playing football isn't. There's quite a bit of excluded middle between "football may be too dangerous for children to play" and "no child should ever do anything with any risk ever"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 10:08 AM) Last I saw, the group hired to investigate brains of ex-football players said 18 of 19 autopsies brains had CTE. Do you as a professional have access to other studies that aren't as compelling for CTE? I'd be curious to hear if there is another side to this. It was something like 45 of 46 in that Frontline episode. I believe it was the group based out of Boston University.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 10:15 AM) Whats the point of reality tv if the people cant be real? Suspending someone for this is stupid. Calling this "reality tv" is a bit of a stretch. Everything I've read is that it's heavily scripted. edit: google for some pics of them before the show started. Clean-cut guys in white linen suddenly become backwoods hicks with huge beards. Just selling an image like Larry the Cable Guy. Nothing wrong with that, and apparently a lot of people are entertained.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 09:10 AM) They're probably in the "no such thing as bad publicity" area. A "suspension" might well just make viewers more focused/interested since it's the evil media unfairly coming down on him for his deeply held beliefs. That's true. Some of the stuff he said about race is more ridiculous than his pretty boilerplate conservative christian "homosexuality is a sin, also gross" comment.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 09:10 AM) Kinda funny the level of outrage GLADD and other groups are having over this, when they give their pal Baldwin a complete pass for worse. I guess since he donates money he gets a few 'get out of gay-outrage free' cards each year. I've seen Baldwin get trashed pretty heavily on liberal blogs over the past month or so, and deservedly so.

he was suspended from the show: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/18/showbiz/duck...sty-suspension/ I guess it's A&E's brand image to manage, but I dunno about kicking him off of the air over this. Supposedly he sort of hates doing the show and wanted out anyway, so maybe it's ultimately what he wanted.

oh hey they're a bunch of homophobes, absolutely shocking

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 02:21 PM) Anything I can do on facebook I can do with other tools that do not require my life to become a circus freak show. but nothing about facebook requires your life to become a circus freakshow. You don't need to post a single thing if you don't want to.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 12:07 PM) I dont have a facebook account. I get why a young High School me may have wanted one, when my ego/persona was driven by adulation. But at some point I decided that I didnt give a f*** about what other people thought. The people that were just illusory friends from High School because of cliques and other bulls***, I could care less. I can still be useful for organizing parties/events, talking with a group of people (groups), etc.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 11:46 AM) I also hate "look I'm traveling for work, and I had a BEER in the airport" I've traveled extensively for work for 7-8 years, there is nothing great about it at all. Yeah, I've got one friend who posts multiple times a day, and it's always either checking in at some random hotel or airport or some political macro reposting.

I knocked myself out cold three times!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 10:59 AM) The kid is a five year old boy. He has a ton of energy and he needs some work on dealing with other kids. I thought a team sport would be good for him. He has always been way bigger than other kids his age (hell he weighs more than my 8 year old girl) and he has had some aggression issues. It seemed like a perfect fit. Now, no way. He can do something else... baseball, basketball, soccer, whatever. MMA!

I've heard insurance companies can be pretty s***ty in that regard.

I thought most youth soccer leagues did away with heading

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 10:50 AM) Some people are dumb enough to make their posts "public" even then, they'd need to get your address, assume nobody else lives there or is house sitting, etc. I dunno, seems like a pretty big stretch.

who's seeing your fb feed that would be breaking into your house but wouldn't know you were out of town or your typical work hours?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 10:32 AM) Did they do it with a clever picture of them and a bun in the oven, or perhaps a dog with a tshirt that says future big brother? Because I throw up on those. jesus that is just awful also I cringe whenever someone tries to refer to a dog's owners as their mom or dad eta: I will admit to posting vacation pictures, but I usually just upload a bunch into an album at once