Your problem is not technology. The problem is YOU. You lack the will to change...You treat this planet as you treat each other. - Klaatu
What are you talking about? There is no such thing as the "Mafia"......it doesn't exist. Just a bunch of lies told to defame honest hardworking Italians like myself. - TomO
I will do you, let's see, goofy, wacky, and to the left side of the bell curve. -Ktoyou
I'm white. I'm not black. I can't convert to being black. It doesn't matter how much I want to become black. I could listen to rap and date fat white women all day; for all that, I'll still remain white.- Traditio
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You , too, can have an exciting and glamorous engineering career like me!
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March 29th, 2012, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by MaryContrary
Clue: Local school level (as opposed to pro sports level) incidents like this rarely make news beyond the local level.
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Okay, yeah, it's because of the Trayvon/Zimmerman thing.
I wonder if the girl that was attacked is a "white-Hispanic"?
Your problem is not technology. The problem is YOU. You lack the will to change...You treat this planet as you treat each other. - Klaatu
What are you talking about? There is no such thing as the "Mafia"......it doesn't exist. Just a bunch of lies told to defame honest hardworking Italians like myself. - TomO
I will do you, let's see, goofy, wacky, and to the left side of the bell curve. -Ktoyou
I'm white. I'm not black. I can't convert to being black. It doesn't matter how much I want to become black. I could listen to rap and date fat white women all day; for all that, I'll still remain white.- Traditio
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
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March 30th, 2012, 09:03 AM
My son was involved in game where our goalkeeper made an astonishingly good save, after which the kid who kicked what he hoped would be the tying goal jumped on him and began beating him.
Which led to a general scuffle that left the referee trying frantically to keep track of who was thumping whom.
My son suffered a broken hand, among other things.
The other team was suspended for the season, as was our goalkeeper, who punched out the kid who attacked him.
No one was arrested. But we got out of there pretty fast; it was their home field, and the crowd was beginning to get hostile.
The kids see this happening on TV sports, and think it's expected of them.
Is assault not assault when people are paying to watch? No wonder the kids get confused. We applaud violent aggression on the field of 'play' and outlaw it everywhere else. We applaud it in professional sports and decry it when our kids are doing it ... but not really. We really want our kids to be tough and aggressive but just not the bullies or instigators. No wonder the kids are confused, we seem to be pretty confused as adults.
I'm usually a pretty mild mannered guy, but a couple of times after a particularly hard and intentional foul, emotions got the better of me. Fortunately, it ended with some pushing and shouting. In hindsight, those were stupid moves, which could have gotten me seriously hurt over nothing.
We see it happen in pro-sports all the time.
But that is different than rabidly punching someone who is laying on the ground and not fighting back.
"What if the Hokie Pokie is really what it's all about?"
- TomO
-Ktoyou
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