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| Go Green Death! So What If You're Under 8? | |
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| QuirtEvans | Apr 7 2009, 03:38 PM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/michael_bamberger/04/06/youthsoccer.coach/index.html |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 7 2009, 03:45 PM Post #2 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Hrmmm... Mixed feelings. Personally, I philosophically support kids being tougher, more active, and more competitive. Fine. I'd say that the beginnings of this competitive spirit should probably happen gradually around the ages of ten or eleven, when the kids are mature enough to actually feel like they have a personal stake in whatever game they are playing, and that the rudiments of good sportsmanship should also be emphasized. The coach, for his part, could have called the team, "The Green Machine," and it would have been just as aggressive, just as tuff-sounding, and wouldn't have outraged anyone. Something tells me that he probably has no business working with children, though. At all. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 7 2009, 03:56 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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You can't fix stupid. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Red Rice | Apr 7 2009, 05:47 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Wanna-be high school football coach. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Horace | Apr 7 2009, 06:45 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I don't know if it would be possible to pack more pathetic into six short words. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Phlebas | Apr 7 2009, 06:55 PM Post #6 |
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Bull-Carp
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"Ok girls. The Green Death is playing the Crimson Autopsies next weekend." Seriously, if the coach had a sense of humor, he could have named them the "Black Death." |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 8 2009, 03:57 AM Post #7 |
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Green Death just sounds like the Exorcist, or something...
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 8 2009, 05:01 AM Post #8 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yeap. We're talking about girls under 8 years old. I'm sorry but they're just plain not going to inspire much fear into the hearts of others, no matter what tactics and crazy schemes the coach makes up. |
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| Frank_W | Apr 8 2009, 05:05 AM Post #9 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Let 'em get about 8 years older and throw some PMS and some Teen Hormone Kung-Fu into the mix... Then they'll be downright TERRIFYING!!!
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 8 2009, 05:07 AM Post #10 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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SOOTH.
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Red Rice | Apr 8 2009, 05:49 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I would pay good money to see that. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 8 2009, 06:03 AM Post #12 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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If you don't mind looking creepy, you wouldn't have to. High school games are usually free. FWIW I like woman's soccer in the U.S. more than men's. I just wish I followed it more. |
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