5 minutes ago, Redux said:

 

Who TF hurt you?

2 hours ago, Frostberg said:

 

+1

This is the perfect analogy.

Not quite. 

Uncle Barry will also pace back and forth between you and your plate of food as he tells his colonoscopy story.

You are only able to take bites when he moves far enough to the side, and sometimes he walks very slowly, and your food is cold by the time you are able to take another bite.

And every once in a while, Uncle Barry will stop dead in his tracks and prevent you from eating any more as he goes off on some tangent about how you are the 1000th person to hear his story that day, and he wants to give an Amazon/Walmart/etc. gift certificate and he refuses to move out of the way until you do. But the catch is you must give Uncle Barry your personal info before you can claim it.

So your only option is to kill Uncle Barry and reset the day (like in the movie 'Edge of Tomorrow'), and hope that when you start the day over, Uncle Barry won't go off on a tangent again.

7 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Wow.  Talk about taking bits and pieces of a quote way out of context to try to make a point.

 

Meanwhile, a full quote from the Republican President in full context:

 

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1172853679642333185

 

Like I mentioned in another thread, I wish the GOP would treat me like I was smarter.  Policies aside, the Democratic reps to tend to seem smarter when they speak and what they speak about.  It's like Ben Sasse and other GOP reps relegating the Green New Deal to "cow farts".  I'm tired of my representatives treating me like I'm a middle schooler.  Grow up!

 

You're making a comparison to show that Trump says dumb things?

That's a pretty low bar to step over. Don't hurt yourself.

8 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

OK...I'm asking this honestly because I don't understand.  I don't understand how dressing up as a black person years ago ruins a career of someone today.  Pictures of him have come out dressed up as a black person.  Nothing is said as to how he acted or what he did while dressed up as a black person.  Just....that he was dressed up like a black person with black makeup on his face and hands.  

 

Now, in a non-argumentative way, could someone please tell me why this should ruin his career now or why it "reeks of privilege"?

 

 

Thanks in advance.

A rise in victimhood culture leads to a rise in revenge culture.

Sen. Hirono: Democrats Have a Hard Time "Connecting" With People Because Of "How Smart We Are"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/06/sen_hirono_democrats_have_a_hard_time_connecting_with_people_because_of_how_smart_we_are.html?fbclid=IwAR0st_YqGpGLXSUlpH3hR_lf9pwPPYAIPePQM6CW5cV4cD7TPDcxhVWPI50

"We have a really hard time doing that," Hirono lamented, "and one of the reasons it was told to me at one of our retreats was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain."

39 minutes ago, funhusker said:

 

Ha! I never read that thread. Sorry.

Great minds think alike...and so do we...

2 hours ago, NUance said:

 

On a tangentially related bit of trivia, does anyone remember a football player getting in a fight with a UNL dental student?  It was a long time ago, maybe ten or fifteen years.  

He was an anti-dentite?

1 hour ago, JJ Husker said:

I see you found your way in here too 

1 hour ago, JJ Husker said:

Well now I feel stupid. Just noticed this is the "idiot edition"....and I clicked on it.

Worked as expected, then 

6 minutes ago, Ulty said:

 

This has been an awesome and inspiring story over the past couple of weeks, and I even think the shirt looks pretty cool. But now I'm starting to have questions...

 

So, the kids gets bullied for his homemade shirt. Teachers notice, UT becomes aware, and they send him a bunch of cool swag. That right there is awesome. A great gesture and a good outcome for the kid. 

 

Then they take his design and make a real shirt for sale, with proceeds going to anti-bullying efforts. That is remarkable; above and beyond. Fantastic job by UT. That would have been a great end to the story.

 

But now he gets a scholarship offer...what? I hope this doesn't make me sound like a dick, but they've already done the right thing, a great thing even, but does this seem to anyone else like piling on? A disproportionate response at this point? What's next, he gets to coach the team?

I hear ya.

One starts to question, is UT doing for themselves as much as they are the boy? Pat themselves on the back? Virtue signalling?

I dunno. Maybe the family's socioeconomic status justifies the extra help.

Or maybe they are deliberately going over the top to put an exclamation point on how bad it is to bully.

I dunno.

I'm not going to think about that for a while.

I'm just going to enjoy the feel-good parts of the story for the time being.

On 8/31/2019 at 6:40 PM, vpshelton said:

I have always admired the Huskers and what the program stands for in all aspects; I'm too old to watch the crap in Knoxville. Can I come aboard and follow the Huskers? Please?

Be proud of being a Vols fan.

This story made me cry.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/09/09/fourth-grader-was-teased-his-homemade-university-tennessee-logo-then-ut-made-his-drawing-into-real-shirt/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-tennessee-offers-admission-year-scholarship-young-vol/story?id=65561186

Tito's

8 hours ago, Nebfanatic said:

He recieved a team penalty of a half game suspension with further punishment pending on the results of the court case. Whether you like it or not that is the situation.

49 minutes ago, CapoValley said:

Outside of currently replying to a one on a message board, no I’ve never done anything with a child. 

 

 

If you replied to that post, that is evidence that you looked at a picture of a nekkid child.

Pervert!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/05/03/the-childrens-portraits-innocence-or-pornography/34fa3716-3c0d-4a83-9c23-cc16291274d3/

Capo, HuskerPowerVA,

Have any of your friends ever shown you candid family photos such as their toddler in the bathtub?

If so, then you are guilty of viewing "child pornography" and Jesse Helms instructs you to turn yourselves in to the nearest precinct so that you can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It's that black and white, folks. Context and circumstances don't matter.

Are you looking at this picture below? An underaged, naked child?

You are technically viewing "child pornography".

TURN YOURSELF IN NOW!!!!!!

16 minutes ago, Redux said:

 

Oh lord, I'm glad I had to use disposables. The freaks that developed those pics, they are the real child pornographers.

From 'Hope Floats', where Birdie starts working at the One Hour Photo and is given a briefing:

"Occasionally, we get pictures of a somewhat questionable nature."

"Naked pictures?"

"Oh, we never comment on them. We just hand them over as if we hadn't seen a thing."

"I understand, Mr. Davis."

"But first, we make a copy. 
And we put them in the second drawer under the counter. 
And you can have a look any time you want.
Just don't take any of them home with you."

1 minute ago, CapoValley said:

Your surrender is duly noted, and your apology is accepted.

6 minutes ago, CapoValley said:

You asked a question about case that couldn’t be further away from what the Maurice Washington case is about. 

Now you are just making excuses.

In the MW case, you implied its black and white -- clearly child pornography, mitigating circumstances don't matter

The case I asked you about should be just as black and white. The dude admitted to stealing a truck. Is that not a felony? 

6 minutes ago, CapoValley said:

Now you’re making crude jokes about me and my family. Because you want Nebraska to have a good running back. 

Now you are lying. I didn't say anything about your family. It was a hypothetical/fictional account using the "royal you". If it make you feel better, perhaps I should have phrased it as "as if one saw their cousin at a family reunion they recently had sex with."

Oh, and your last sentence is a lie as well.

I clearly stated earlier in this thread that I don't care if MW is a football player for ANY team or not, or just some random kid.

While what MW did was morally wrong, the "child porn" charge is unjust.

8 minutes ago, HuskerPowerVA said:

Its called the judicial process.  It was a felony.  So now do I have to explain the investigatory process: probable cause, what a preliminary hearing does,  and the arriagnment?   It should have been filed.  If a deal is made or a trail finds the facts call for lesser punishment or none at all is when that discretion is made.  

For someone who previously implied a single piece of evidence clearly indicates circumstances are quite black and white, you now seem to be injecting a lot of gray...

28 minutes ago, CapoValley said:

Some great discourse here 

I know, right?
I asked you a simple yes/no question, and you avoided it as if one saw their cousin at a family reunion they recently had sex with.

10 minutes ago, HuskerPowerVA said:

You are a sad little man who would never act tough away from a keyboard.  If you are too lazy to go back and read, thats your issue.  

Ad hominem attack FTW!!!!!111oneoneoneone

Just now, CapoValley said:

 

I think you have who’s in denial in this conversation backwards

?lained ni s'ohw --> you

2 minutes ago, CapoValley said:

I don’t even know where to begin. 

I mean, he stole a truck, which is typically a felony. Are you in denial of that?

4 hours ago, HuskerPowerVA said:

Number four - Yes, it was something he sent, he sent child pornography.  Maybe you don't know that a 15 year old qualifies.  He is either stupid or didn't care.

Maybe you don't know this, but just because an event can "technically" can be defined as something prohibited by law, simply because certain boxes can be checked off, doesn't mandate that a specific charge needs to be filed.

Circumstances and context are also taken into consideration.

6 minutes ago, HuskerPowerVA said:

Thanks for providing a comparison that proves that you have zero grasp of anything written here. 

Are you suggesting there might be mitigating circumstances?

He broke the law. He stole a truck. It's black and white, isn't it?

Should he be charged with a felony?

Feel free to seek assistance from a resident 7th grader if you need help with answering a simple yes or no question