That's No Moon

Totally disagree. Psycho dog across the street isn't mistreated. Still a psycho dog.

So we agree. A pit bull's job is to murder other things, like a collie's job is to herd. They were bred to be aggressive and to kill other things. Things like other large dogs and people. When you take away its job, it becomes problematic. It still has blood lust and a screw loose. It's still a physical specimen of an animal that is fully capable of killing a person. Unlike a Jack Russell Terrier who was also bred to kill things. Most humans can punt a Jack Russell about 40 yards. Pits aren't the only dogs with this issue, but they are the most popular, the most poorly bred, and the least removed from their violence. I wouldn't want a 15th century Mastiff hanging around either, but they've had a good period of time where they haven't been specifically bred to hellspawn so it's less of an issue. Pits are still in that breeding for violence phase and it leaks out into the general population of pits and put mixes. I don't really care what the breed used to be. That's what it is now.

Neighbor two doors down has one. It jumped through a screen, out a second story window, to murder a smaller dog that was being walked past the house on the public sidewalk. Totally normal behavior. Owner is a nice guy. Captain of the local fire department. Dog is psychotic. Picture that for a moment, you're walking your totally normal dog on a totally normal day and suddenly a huge crazed dog comes flying out a second story window and murders your dog right in front of you. In my state the dog gets to live if it does that. The owner has to register it as a dangerous animal, pay a $500 annual fee, and not let it outside without a leash and muzzle. Keep in mind, this thing YEETED itself out a window already, but inside is good enough. Walkies outside are still ok so long as it's muzzled, which the owner doesn't do. No signage warning the general public about the dog either. Sidewalk in front and a public trail in the back. In short, lots of people, dogs, and kids can and do walk past the house. Zero warning that a 100 pound death machine lives there. Seems totally ok.

If Sirianni needs his emotional support meathead with him to control himself maybe we've discovered the problem.

Fun fact, Swingline didn't make a red stapler until after that movie came out. I also have a red stapler which my students are not allowed to use. I don't like talking about my flair.

Not only will he not be a Bill in 2024, I will go so far as to say he will never be a Bill

Closer, except, you know, not. This is place I will realistically go two, maybe three times in my life by the time it's built. The longer this process goes I realize the less I care.

They were hoping they'd win a Super Bowl before then so they could justify making the fee higher.

Thank you to this thread for presenting a microcosm of our society and demonstrating why nothing will ever be done about any of the problems that have been brought up. Have a good night everyone.

One of the suspects was stopped by two random people today. Chased him down, tackled him, and held him until the cops got there.

Yeah, nobody ever killed anyone over that.

Nah, that requires responsibility which is something we are great at passing off. And this is why I rarely go to large public gatherings. Security is for show and really can't stop any of this. At least they caught the people this time. Didn't prevent it from happening though.

You probably have to speak to the Almighty to deliver that one. People don't walk into ecmc on a Tuesday and say "Ive got one kidney too many, let's fix that."

I won $100 in my squares this year. Had 0-0. Could have won two more.

How many times does he need to take a successful running team with a lead then stop running the ball while blowing that lead?

It depends where you live. Lacrosse is toxic where I live. There are too many parents who DO know the game or played the game here and they run things. It's a shame, my kid played lacrosse for a couple years and he was good at it. He played until he aged out of the youth program we moved him to (in the town next door because the local team was toxic and allowed hazing of 9 year olds) and when he got to the point where he had to play for school, and with the toxic people we left, he stopped playing rather than deal with them and their parents. Hockey is bad also and while an average joe can't go start a team a non average Joe can buy a rink and that rarely goes well and sometimes a local rink decides kick clubs out of rinks, create their own teams, and then jack up prices. The local leagues and associations throw a fit and threaten x,y, and z and then let it go because at the end of the day, the owner of the big rink (or rinks) has more money and power. Team Philadelphia out of Ice Line in West Chester, PA is a perfect example of this. Owned by the rink, kicked out a club that had been there for decades. Local league tried to sanction them, they played an independent schedule for a year then the league let them in. The club eventually left that league for a new league that was formed by the owner of multiple rinks called Black Bear. The Black Bear rinks basically flipped off USA Hockey and the sanctioning bodies and dared them to exclude them from Nationals,etc. and that didn't happen. They were the 800 pound gorilla because they owned something like 14 rinks (now 37) AND the clubs that ALL of those dues paying members played at. My kid just finished with hockey, he loves to play but he's done with the off-ice BS with coaches after 9 years and more games than I care to admit. He's also a thrower for track and he's pursuing that in college next year. He enjoys it, is decent at it, and there aren't the politics involved. You can either throw far or you can't. It's pretty objective. My other kid was a district and state level swimmer for our local YMCA until this year. Coach has a kid on the team who can do no wrong which is always frustrating. Bigger issue is my kid is a big boy, he's not fat but he's just big and he's strong as hell and he basically got fat-shamed out of swimming by the coach. God bless my kid he stepped up at age 13 just after he had a season where he qualified for the state meet and said "I'm done". He wanted to play football and if you ask him why it's because he gets praised for being big in football and he always got crap for it at swim. He played for his 8th grade team only, and not for the local youth level team. I cautioned my wife about that and told her there is going to be a family out there that hates your kid because he's going to take their kid's spot at some point. Some kid who has been playing Pop Warner forever and whose parents see that future spot on the Varsity team as their kid's isn't going to be pleased when our kid, who never played football before, but who is twice the other kid's size shows up and makes that kid switch positions or sit on the bench. Sure enough, he started the season as a backup and running special teams. By the end of the year he played basically the whole game going both ways on the line. I know who he supplanted and they were not happy and the backbiting and politicking in the stands has already begun. Now it's off-season lifting for next year's HS teams and he's already gotten the attention of the varsity coach because he's always at the sessions and he's an ox. The other kid isn't. That kid isn't getting his spot back and it's just going to get worse from that family and potentially the rest of the Pop Warner clique that we aren't part of. I don't know ANYBODY at football because I spent the last 9 years at hockey rinks, lacrosse fields and swimming pools. From my perspective, it's nice. I can just go to the games and watch my kid for a change. The boosters had a meeting recently and my wife asked if I wanted to go and I told her absolutely not. I don't want to meet the other parents. Not at all. At some point it will be inevitable, but that day can wait as long as possible. I'm an AD for the school I work at (not the school my kids attend) and I can tell you so many stories about parent and player misconduct you'd never want to have your kids do anything. I've got a story from 2 days ago and another two from January and another from December. Just basketball. Middle school basketball, and most of it is employees (not mine), not even the kids or their parents. Though they have their share also. I had to kick 4 people out of a track meet recently. Let that sink in. Youth sports is not a great place to be and I feel like it's getting worse over time. There is a reckoning coming as referees retire and are not replaced by younger kids. My oldest is 17, he has 9 years of playing experience and would be the perfect sort of candidate to become a ref now that he's not playing anymore. Zero interest and I don't blame him. I am qualified to officiate a couple sports myself. Zero chance of that happening. When my boys are both out of the house I MIGHT go back to coaching baseball because I enjoy that, but I stopped doing that a couple years ago when I became AD. Coaching for the school was OK. I got to pick my team and keep the parents at arms length mostly. When I coached Little League it was horrible and that's sad because what I really WANT to do is get involved with the local Little League to coach the coaches of the youngest players and help them be better and to teach the players better. That's the way I think I can be the most useful, by making the whole program better. But I know if I do that a good percentage of the new dads coming in aren't going to listen to what I say because they all know better and every parent whose kid doesn't immediately become Shohei Ohtani will be angry with me and then I have to decide if that aggravation is worth my time.

Need to throw an NSFW on that link. If you scroll down there's quite a lot of....artwork.

So they've lost at home 2 years in a row, but the focus is getting home field advantage. Got it.

If you feel like you learn what's really going on in the world from there I wish you luck. That might have been possible when the blue checkmarks meant something, but now that they don't it's impossible to source anything properly. It can be anyone (or a bot) posting anything.

I'll say this. I deleted all things Facebook and Twitter 5 or 6 years ago now and not only do I not miss it I think my life is better. The Missus needs to have it for work, but she just took it all off her personal devices as well. For every decent thing on there there are 100 pieces of toxic garbage and if you look at toxic garbage enough, whether you agree with the garbage or disagree with the garbage it messes with your mental health. I don't need to hear what every idiot with opposable thumbs thinks abut every topic. I don't need to know the stupid crap my own family is getting into. I don't need to see the carefully curated set of images people put out there to look better than you. I don't need to see the ridiculous, clearly attention seeking, posts that people put out there waiting for a response. It's all crap and it's all crafted to keep you engaged with it longer and longer and longer consuming more and more of the garbage, giving your brain these little dopamine hits every time. Try completely turning them off for a week. Just a week. You'll thank me.

I went to the last one with my family. It was a fun car ride down and a long quiet car ride home.