Off-topic posts formerly found in recruiting profiles

[Irishize]

Gotta be careful when describing statistics as facts! Setting aside difficult to deduce assumptions and sampling errors, they also have to be used narrowly.

Does 72% of AA kids being born out-of-wedlock = 72% of AA football recruits "having no dad or father figure in their life"?

Possibly, but I guarantee you others will argue that you can't conflate the two anymore... new forms of family arrangements and so forth.

That's fine. Heres what's not debatable (regardless of stats, facts, sampling errors, bias, guilt & splitting of hairs): the fatherless rate in America for all races is far too high. Why is it disproportionately higher for black folks?

 

[Irishnuke]

That's fine. Heres what's not debatable (regardless of stats, facts, sampling errors, bias, guilt & splitting of hairs): the fatherless rate in America for all races is far too high. Why is it disproportionately higher for black folks?

Not the thread for this discussion.

 

[IrishLax]

As much as I'd love to watch this train run completely off the tracks, we don't do this in recruit threads. Offending parties have been warned.

 

[greyhammer90]

But 2019 is looking like the Sears Christmas Catalog when I was a kid. Give me a marker and let me start circling guys.

You had an interesting childhood.

 

[Domina Nostra]

You had an interesting childhood.

What, did you fly to FAO Schwartz in Manhattan or something?

 

[greyhammer90]

What, did you fly to FAO Schwartz in Manhattan or something?

Give me a marker and let me start circling guys.

.

 

[zelezo vlk]

You had an interesting childhood.

You didn't pine for washing machines, waffle irons, and Kraftsman tools as a child?

 

[BobbyMac]

You had an interesting childhood.

You didn't get a Sears, JC Penney or Montgomery Wards Winter catalog and a marker to circle toys you like so your P's could tell Santa what to get you?

Either your parents hated you or you are under 35.

 

[greyhammer90]

Guys it was a joke about NDCrusader looking at men in a catalog as a child. My obscene talents are wasted on this board.

 

[Domina Nostra]

Guys it was a joke about NDCrusader looking at men in a catalog as a child. My obscene talents are wasted on this board.

I see. Had you made a reference to the section with the giant "mom" bras, I think I would have gotten it.

 

[BeauBenken]

Guys it was a joke about NDCrusader looking at men in a catalog as a child. My obscene talents are wasted on this board.

I got it. He forgot his comma before guys. Fellas there's a difference between helping your uncle, jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

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[zelezo vlk]

Either your parents hated you or you are under 35.

I mean, y'all are all old AF. I didn't grow up with no Sears catalogs.

 

[BobbyMac]

I mean, y'all are all old AF. I didn't grow up with no Sears catalogs.

Bet you went through a lot of monitors circling toys on Walmart.com.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Bet you went through a lot of monitors circling toys on Walmart.com.

Can confirm. I received lots of participation ribbons and 0 punishment at all for circling on the monitors.

 

[Domina Nostra]

I got it. He forgot his comma before guys. Fellas there's a difference between helping your uncle, jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

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Haha! I see it now.

I mean, y'all are all old AF. I didn't grow up with no Sears catalogs.

Bet you went through a lot of monitors circling toys on Walmart.com.

LOL!

 

[woolybug25]

I mean, y'all are all old AF. I didn't grow up with no Sears catalogs.

I'm 35 and I remember the Sears catalog as a kid.

I especially remember that there was a swimsuit and women's undergarments section.

 

[dublinirish]

Mom bra's hahaha

 

[zelezo vlk]

I'm 35 and I remember the Sears catalog as a kid.

I especially remember that there was a swimsuit and women's undergarments section.

 

[OCIrish]

I'm 35 and I remember the Sears catalog as a kid.

I especially remember that there was a swimsuit and women's undergarments section.

Did you also remember trying to get the pages unstuck??

 

[IrishLion]

I think my grandma still gets a Sears catalog lol.

I would spend hours looking at the 15 pages of transformers, Power Rangers, and Lego toys whenever I was over there when I was younger.

I would just check my stash of stolen Victoria's Secret catalogs when I wanted to look at girls.

 

[Irish#1]

My obscene talents are wasted on this board.

I got it. He forgot his comma before guys.

So much for obscene talent.

 

[BGIF]

I got it. He forgot his comma before guys. Fellas there's a difference between helping your uncle, jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

If one properly capitalizes both Uncle and Jack, the need for the comma becomes moot.

One of my nieces, an English teacher, once posted Beau's example on Facebook. I replied as above and signed it, your Uncle Jack. She didn't post of Facebook again for a couple of weeks.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

I'm 35 and I remember the Sears catalog as a kid.



I especially remember that there was a swimsuit and women's undergarments section.

Kids nowadays will never know the struggle. Sears catalogs, "swuigglevision" on the cable box (where it was all wavy but every once in awhile you could see a boob), and pretty much anything else you could get.

 

[greyhammer90]

So much for obscene talent.

I honestly don't understand Beau's comment. There's no missing comma in my post and there wasn't one in NDCrusaders from what I can tell. It's more an issue of phrasing than grammar mishap.

Unless he's talking about the comma before my use of the word "Guys" in the post he quotes? But even then that's not a mistake that causes any sort of misunderstanding from my reading.

 

[woolybug25]

Kids nowadays will never know the struggle. Sears catalogs, "swuigglevision" on the cable box (where it was all wavy but every once in awhile you could see a boob), and pretty much anything else you could get.

This explains the superior work ethic of our generation.

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

Athens still pissed at Rome I see.

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I can't rep you but Tool is the greatest band. ever. Schism is pretty good although not in my top 20.

 

[Irish#1]

Athens still pissed at Rome I see.

POY worthy

 

[zelezo vlk]

Athens still pissed at Rome I see.

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Constantinople!

 

[Irish2155]

I can't rep you but Tool is the greatest band. ever. Schism is pretty good although not in my top 20.

HIGHLY AGREE!! If there was one band I wish to see live - it's Tool. Stinkfist and Sober were my walk up songs at home games back in the day.

 

[Andy in Sactown]

HIGHLY AGREE!! If there was one band I wish to see live - it's Tool. Stinkfist and Sober were my walk up songs at home games back in the day.

Seen them 5 times now and even the infamous "threw a water bottle and hit Maynard in the head" Sacramento show was amaze-balls. Only show that I've seen that was better was Nine Inch Nails.. and A Perfect Circle opened that show.