Rob's House

I'd love nothing more than for the Bills to walk into NE and kick the **** out of a healthy Pats team. At the same time, I'd rather beat the Pats w/o Brady and make the playoffs than lose to the Pats w/ Brandy and miss the playoffs.

Another group that gets under my skin, and we've got plenty of them here, are the guys that really get there righteous indignation on anytime anyone has the audacity to express any level of happiness over a rival's injury. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a dick move to cheer to the guy's face, especially when he's your guy; and I'm not talking about catastrophic injuries like the one Jabari Greer just suffered, but if you get your back up because someone's glad Brady sprained his ankle the week before playing Buffalo, you're probably a big !@#$ing pu$$y.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many people are benefitting on account of getting new or discounted coverage? I'm just curious how that compares to the 18 million getting !@#$ed. And no, I'm not Sue and I'm not going to do my own homework

Anyone else wonder why we make these guys go straight from a humiliating and frustrating loss to a press conference where we thirst to see them squirm and tell the world that they !@#$ed up and it's all their fault their team lost?

Two girls at the same time.

I wouldn't fault you for not knowing how to build a deck ... unless of course you were bragging about being to pampered & prissy to get your hands dirty.

Interesting that you would automatically take a defensive stance here. It reminds me of a time I wrote an article for my college paper about dangers to women on campus. Included in my article were anecdotes of multiple unnamed women who told me they had been roofed at an unnamed frat house. Wouldn't you know, the one & only frat who spoke up & threatened legal action was the same one the girls accused. Must have hit little Lybobbie a little too close to home. Also, my concern has little to do with behavior of individual men, but rather a disturbing trend in the culture. But it seems Lybobbie anxiously awaits an emasculated culture where he fits in. I rarely change my own oil either. That's not the point. I derive a certain level of satisfaction knowing that I can change my own spark plugs & brake pads. I get satisfaction out of building a deck or installing a ceiling fan. If I'm ever in a bind where I don't have the luxury of hired help (like getting a flat tire in the mountains) I have at least some level of self sufficiency. On a more primal level I just have a hard time respecting a man who takes pride in being helpless.

Adam carolla talks about something similar that I've started to notice. Used to be, men would at least attempt to have some minimal level of proficiency at manly things like mechanics & carpentry. Now a lot of guys actually brag about not being able to change their oil & being too pu$$y to get their hands dirty. I don't see this behavior as often b/c I live in the south, but we have enough carpet baggers and west coast transplants for me to recognize what he's talking about.

http://m.nbc12.com/#!/newsDetail/24028797 Grown men are beside themselves with outrage over this. They're having a f'n investigation over this.

You mad, bro?

Don't conflate the issues. I've not commented on that particular behavior. I simply pointed out that I think it's beyond absurd to pretend an NFL locker room is no different from a BoA office.

It seems the new masculine ideal is for men to be a bunch of soft, sensitive, emotional pu$$ies. I see it everywhere. And before some pu$$y jumps in here with a strawman (i.e. The only alternative to being an emasculated pissant is to be a super dominant male monkey mother!@#$er) let me explain what I mean. In my mind, masculinity is having the strength and courage to set emotion aside to think and act rationally and appropriately, from a reasonabe perspective, even in the face of fear or other conflicting emotions. It has little to do with willingness to resort to violence or unwillingness to show compassion. It seems anytime anyone does anything that offends our sense of justice there's a huge overreaction, the story gets overblown, people get nauseatingly sanctimonious, and any measure of perspective goes out the window. What really bothers me is the extent to which the reaction of grown men so often resembles what you might expect from a 13 year old girl.

Yeah. The real conspiracy is among all the old white men in power working together behind the scenes to systematically keep the brother man down. That's the real conspiracy.

How erudite of you.

Because there's no distinction between an NFL locker room and a hyper PC corporate office.

Wild story. Creigh Deeds, a VA state Senator who was the Dem candidate for Governor in 2009, was stabbed today by his son, who was found dead inside the family's home. Apparently the son had been dealing with mental illness. http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-state-sen-creigh-deeds-stabbed-son-shot-190314064.html

Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, Trayvon Martin was talking **** that night? Maybe she was talking **** too.

The homeless are not a worthy adversary.

Any updates on this?

Some guy got killed this way at a Braves game a few years back.

I'll continue to support this crusade.

If I had to guess I'd say that's probably a fairly accurate summary based on everything that's come out. The word is just a sequence of sounds and is itself inherently neutral. What makes it offensive is the meaning behind it, which is often contextual. For that reason alone there are instances where to say something that is inoffensive privately may be offensive publicly because the public doesn't know the context.

How's that working out?

In fairness, while EJ's stats were padded by a 40 yd TD on that botched pass to Graham, he also made a very impressive deep pass to Goodwin earlier in the game that bounced off his hands. Stats are often deceptive, but I'd say EJ's stat line today if a fair representation of his performance. Good, not great, and if you can get that game out of him every week you'll go to the playoffs every year.

Something else that somewhat mitigates EJ's awful performance last week: Going in Pittsburgh had played terrible football, but it's looking like that was a good football team after all. They've won 4 of their last 6 and they just beat a very solid Det team by double digits.