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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shame Yourself
« on: April 15, 2024, 03:30:59 PM »
Since the JoCo library eliminated late fines I just return my books whenever I want.
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It’s pretty wild how much of our society sits around planning for that stuff. I have an aunt and uncle who do. They have an entire basement filled with jarred preserved chickens and weird preserved food.You are going to love my newest FARM update I got from my dad....
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What usually happens in situations where a team leaves a city? What percent of fans say "eff this, I'm a Cardinals fan now" vs. what percent say "I can't turn off my Royals fandom"? And what if they change their names, does that change the percentages? Also, it's rough ridin' baseball, so how many fans just stop following the sport all together? It's pretty tough to be invested in baseball if you're not watching a team regularly.I haven't watched a royals game on TV in a couple of years (besides randomly being at a bar/restaurant where it's on TV) due to the whole Bally's fiasco and have definitely lost interest in the sport.
Here’s the thing, these people have a lot of the most valuable resource on the planet, time. It’s not an industrial efficiency issue. They work 24/7/365. And the irl last thing they want is someone taking something from that.So they are bored and would rather drive out to a pasture to check on the cows than fly over them with a drone?
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https://twitter.com/RobSomerville1/status/1771681513165205509I believe I asked earlier about the feasibility of using drones to check on cattle and some peeps responded that you must be in visible contact with the drone to operate legally....
I will be letting my son play tackle starting in the fall...and he will be in 4th grade. Wife and I were on the fence on this for quite some time for the obvious reasons.
Ultimately, we made our decision to let him play tackle due to the fact we are convinced he will get hurt playing flag. He has played flag for KCFC for 4 years now. Last year we played in the top division, and it was super competitive. There were multiple moments I thought we were going to see a mid-air head bang as the kids were going after a pass.
My son also plays RB...and he is very athletic at this point in his life. There were times kids would attempt to tackle and would get more aggressive than they should because of the level of difficulty he presented when going after his flag. Many of the injuries he sustained playing flag were due to collisions happening trying to bring him down. He would get a knee to the hip or thigh for example.
We are moving to tackle in hopes that the pads protect him a bit more. At this age they at least don't hit each other hard.
That being said, I don't think every kid is ready. My son is big-boned. Some of his friends are super tiny and I would not be comfortable letting them play tackle if they were my kids.
Also - KCFC has weight limits on ball carriers. That also gives me comfort that these kids aren't trying to tackle a kid who hit a growth spurt at an early age. If they are too heavy, they are required to be on the line.
Thanks. Its one of those things where starting them early and teaching the fundamentals is good, but also opens them up to more head shots at an early age so I see both sides. I LOL at the weight limit thing. When I was a kid they had those too and it was very obvious that A)it was a self reported thing and B)if they did weigh the kids, one or two teams in my pee wee league starved the kids over the summer so they could hit weight at the beginning of the year. Every year it was terrifying playing them. This dude was a monster RB and just smoked us all.
KCFC is pretty strict on weight limits. Anthony Sherman took his kid's team to tackle starting last year, and decided not to do the KCFC league because of the weight limit. I think they play on the Missouri side somewhere. I've also heard he is running the Oklahoma drill with these kids....which is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion. That is Sherman in a nutshell and his group of kids go all out for bball and baseball. They are peaking early and will get burned out before high school.
Our coaching staff is going to be extremely anal about fundamentals. You would think every team would think this way...but I honestly have no idea and I don't trust most people who are so adamant about tackle at this age.
We play through MYFL in Nebraska and it is very strict on weight as well. Definitely not self reported. We have a designated weigh in day and have to have the whole team show up and get in line for weight. Then "stripers" are assigned to kids over the weight and they can only play on the line of scrimmage and can't carry the ball. Called striper because there is a stripe around their helmet. Our team didn't have a single striper last year. Most teams had a handful. Gave us fits on the interior line but ultimately we kicked most of their asses anyway. I think striper weight in 5th grade was 130 lbs+.
Dakoda is in forever in spell check hellYeah i think that won the prize for me. Dakoda.
Any time I think of the name "Dakota" (or Dakoda, as it were), I think of this post Daris made 14 years ago:townie #7- hey emily how are you?
townie #11- not great. jimmy deployed in november and the boys are really rebelling without him to put them in line.
townie #7- oh. that sucks. i remember what it was like when dakota deployed. it was tough.
townie #9- you know what cheer the boys up?
townie #11- no. what april?
townie #9- tickets to da cats. fear the beard.
townie #11 great idea. i'll go get one of those new holiday paks right before i head into work.
townie #7- i didn't know you had a job.
townie #11- oh hell yeah. once jimmy deployed i had to get out of the house every once in a while. just started out at bobby t's on monday. i'm loving it. i'm still engorged from the latest pregnancy and it really is showing in the tips i'm collecting.
townie #7- that's great em. go cats
townie #11- fear the beard.
townie #9- yeah. fear the beard and eff obama and the terrorists.
townies #11 and #7- eff yeah. cheers to that.
townie #9- can i bum a smoke from someone?
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