13 hours ago, wholesale_Melvin said:

that's gayer than 9 guys blowing 10 guys. 

were you sick that day?

4 minutes ago, greend said:

were you sick that day?

dude i was dope. it was wikity wikity wikity wak. 

On 7/8/2020 at 4:24 PM, mr_hunt said:

i found my kid's reddit account today......but kind of wish i hadn't.  

now he's sheet posting about being in training for the olympics.   jeezus!     

19 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

now he's sheet posting about being in training for the olympics.   jeezus!     

the oldest twin decided one day a couple years ago, to become what they call now an 'influencer' (?) on youtube and began making motivational videos....from his bedroom...of our house....at the age of 22. 

 

 

Dropped $749 at Costco today.  So I guess you can say my pandemic shopping is getting pretty serious

 

That was after $123.50 in instant savings

That's a lot of paper towels and toilet paper.

6 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

That's a lot of paper towels and toilet paper.

Clearly you are a Costco n00b.  They havent had paper towels in a month.

3 hours ago, paco said:

Dropped $749 at Costco today.  So I guess you can say my pandemic shopping is getting pretty serious

So you bought a PS5?

7 minutes ago, BFit said:

So you bought a PS5?

2 comforters, a christmas wreath, 2 pairs of sweatpants and a s*** ton of food

1 hour ago, paco said:

2 comforters, a christmas wreath, 2 pairs of sweatpants and a s*** ton of food

I got work to approve the $30/day per diem during my 60 day temp housing, so just got to get through this week and next on my own dime and then I’ll be pocketing close to $2k/mo if I factor how much my mortgage, utilities/etc. plus what I typically spend on food/dining out. 

16 minutes ago, Agent23 said:

I got work to approve the $30/day per diem during my 60 day temp housing, so just got to get through this week and next on my own dime and then I’ll be pocketing close to $2k/mo if I factor how much my mortgage, utilities/etc. plus what I typically spend on food/dining out. 

Not being on the road is lost income for me because of per diem.  I was getting $52 a day in Denver.  I would try to stay at the Grand Hyatt which offered a full breakfast and full dinner in their lounge.  And if i could pull together a bagel, some meats and cheeses at breakfast I would use that for a sammich for lunch.  

 

If i could pull that off, that was $208 each week, tax free.

I'm hopefully leaving at the end of the month to backfill for a coworker in Abu Dhabi who is taking vacation until next February. Per diem there is now $168/day for meals. That's down from $198/day a year and a half ago when I went over there. 

So here's a scenario for parents with kids in sports:

My daughter's soccer team (club soccer) had their last game yesterday.  Granted, it was against the worst team in the division - they should be playing down at least one division, maybe two.  It was 8-0 at half time, and about halfway through the second period, after our girls had just gone up 11-0, the coach from the other team yelled across the field and asked our coach if he could try something different, seeing as it was 11-0 and it was just girls playing a game.  Made the comment "I'm 25 years old, it's pretty sad that I have to be the only adult here".  Our coach had already moved our best scorers to defense, swapped goalies, etc.  Short of telling 11-12 year old girls to stop trying, what else should he do?  To me, pulling girls off the field, telling them to not try as hard, etc, is more insulting.  Also - this is club soccer that people pay a lot of money to have their kids play in - this isn't local town ball.  I chalk it up to this coach is a typical millenial - think everyone should get a trophy and not have their feelings hurt.  

What are everyone else's thoughts?  Should our coach have tried to do more to stop us from scoring so much?  Or is the other coach just a whiny bish? 

I would've pulled the girls off the field and told them to "sweep the leg".

1 hour ago, mikemack8 said:

So here's a scenario for parents with kids in sports:

My daughter's soccer team (club soccer) had their last game yesterday.  Granted, it was against the worst team in the division - they should be playing down at least one division, maybe two.  It was 8-0 at half time, and about halfway through the second period, after our girls had just gone up 11-0, the coach from the other team yelled across the field and asked our coach if he could try something different, seeing as it was 11-0 and it was just girls playing a game.  Made the comment "I'm 25 years old, it's pretty sad that I have to be the only adult here".  Our coach had already moved our best scorers to defense, swapped goalies, etc.  Short of telling 11-12 year old girls to stop trying, what else should he do?  To me, pulling girls off the field, telling them to not try as hard, etc, is more insulting.  Also - this is club soccer that people pay a lot of money to have their kids play in - this isn't local town ball.  I chalk it up to this coach is a typical millenial - think everyone should get a trophy and not have their feelings hurt.  

What are everyone else's thoughts?  Should our coach have tried to do more to stop us from scoring so much?  Or is the other coach just a whiny bish? 

This country has become more and more like what you are describing. In some ways, this is a good thing (i.e. respecting others and their differences.) But in many ways this new softer mentality is really a disservice to the young people who often subscribe to and teach it. One of the biggest problems that bothers me personally and affects my work, is (the largely) millennial entitlement and aversion to failure. Experiencing and learning from failure is an essential human right associated with dignity, resiliency, and freedom of choice. When we shield or prevent individuals from experiencing failure, we are depriving them of the human experience and stunting their potential for growth. After all, I learn a hell of a lot more from my failures than my successes. 

Furthermore, with sports (as in life) it is essential that you experience the spectrum of emotions associated with the up and down narrative of a game or season. That's one of the things that is so great about youth sports, it prepares you for adult life in so many different ways. The depths of joy, relief, etc. found in success can never fully be experienced in the absence of failure. It is failure that provides prospective and determines value for success. I am not far removed from the "millennials", but I remember being raised a completely different way. I really am worried what this country will look like if we keep encouraging fragility, undermining the freedom to take chances, and coddling/teaching entitlement to our kids. 

Also, I would say that your coach did everything he could to help the other team out. There is a difference between running up the score and the other team just sucking. 

If it's a club team, the other coach is likely getting paid, and realizes that too many results like that will result in him likely getting fired.  Him acting like an ass is an attempt to deflect from his inability to coach his girls up to the level of their competition.  Other people suck.  Enjoy watching your daughter, and try to ignore the politics.

3 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

So here's a scenario for parents with kids in sports:

My daughter's soccer team (club soccer) had their last game yesterday.  Granted, it was against the worst team in the division - they should be playing down at least one division, maybe two.  It was 8-0 at half time, and about halfway through the second period, after our girls had just gone up 11-0, the coach from the other team yelled across the field and asked our coach if he could try something different, seeing as it was 11-0 and it was just girls playing a game.  Made the comment "I'm 25 years old, it's pretty sad that I have to be the only adult here".  Our coach had already moved our best scorers to defense, swapped goalies, etc.  Short of telling 11-12 year old girls to stop trying, what else should he do?  To me, pulling girls off the field, telling them to not try as hard, etc, is more insulting.  Also - this is club soccer that people pay a lot of money to have their kids play in - this isn't local town ball.  I chalk it up to this coach is a typical millenial - think everyone should get a trophy and not have their feelings hurt.  

What are everyone else's thoughts?  Should our coach have tried to do more to stop us from scoring so much?  Or is the other coach just a whiny bish? 

i always used these types of games as practice for any of my teams, boys or girls. i’ve called timeouts when i needed to address something with a backup point guard or qb during "real game” circumstances. great opportunity for them to learn. sometimes the other coach would cop a tude and say something but they were just sore losers imo. sounds like you did the right thing by calling off the dogs with your starters plus you gave the other girls some quality playing time. not your fault if they stink. 

1 hour ago, QBhunter58 said:

This country has become more and more like what you are describing. In some ways, this is a good thing (i.e. respecting others and their differences.) But in many ways this new softer mentality is really a disservice to the young people who often subscribe to and teach it. One of the biggest problems that bothers me personally and affects my work, is (the largely) millennial entitlement and aversion to failure. Experiencing and learning from failure is an essential human right associated with dignity, resiliency, and freedom of choice. When we shield or prevent individuals from experiencing failure, we are depriving them of the human experience and stunting their potential for growth. After all, I learn a hell of a lot more from my failures than my successes. 

Furthermore, with sports (as in life) it is essential that you experience the spectrum of emotions associated with the up and down narrative of a game or season. That's one of the things that is so great about youth sports, it prepares you for adult life in so many different ways. The depths of joy, relief, etc. found in success can never fully be experienced in the absence of failure. It is failure that provides prospective and determines value for success. I am not far removed from the "millennials", but I remember being raised a completely different way. I really am worried what this country will look like if we keep encouraging fragility, undermining the freedom to take chances, and coddling/teaching entitlement to our kids. 

Also, I would say that your coach did everything he could to help the other team out. There is a difference between running up the score and the other team just sucking. 

I did feel for their girls - it wasn't that they were AWFUL, they were just playing in the wrong division.  Their coach, on the other hand, yeah he's an ass.  

I know when I was younger, I was on the wrong side of plenty of blowouts like that in a variety of sports.  I know for a fact none of my coaches yelled at the other coach like that.

On 11/13/2020 at 9:01 PM, paco said:

Not being on the road is lost income for me because of per diem.  I was getting $52 a day in Denver.  I would try to stay at the Grand Hyatt which offered a full breakfast and full dinner in their lounge.  And if i could pull together a bagel, some meats and cheeses at breakfast I would use that for a sammich for lunch.  

 

If i could pull that off, that was $208 each week, tax free.

I think the hotel has "breakfast” but not sure if it’s active during covid. In either case I do have a regular size fridge from what I can tell in room photos, so I could have cereal, fruit, granola bars, etc if need be. As well as keep stuff to make sandwiches/etc if I want, plus plenty of microwaveable meals and I own an still-unboxed toaster oven I could bring with me if I really wanted to go survivalist and bank the money. I’ll probably be a reasonable middle ground 

On 11/14/2020 at 7:05 AM, mr_irie1 said:

I'm hopefully leaving at the end of the month to backfill for a coworker in Abu Dhabi who is taking vacation until next February. Per diem there is now $168/day for meals. That's down from $198/day a year and a half ago when I went over there. 

Is this American dollars or fake Arab dollars? 

I would have pulled my girls, put the eagles starting secondary & linebackers in and when the score got to 11-77 in favor of Herb the Hipster's girls, put my girls back in and run the score up to 95-77 in the final f****ING 8 minutes and then tell him if he wanted a real challenge, find me a craft beer that tastes like a beer should.

Like hard work rewarded.

No offense but the only thing worse than that chaki wearing POS whining about his lack of talent is you asking our opinion. Just tell the story next time and we'll all agree with you. Maybe wait until you're done your period at least.

Edit: look that other coach is who he is. He accepted the coaching gig because he thought it would make him a winner instead of making his team winners, f him. Do you feel better now? 

WTF. Just delete your account already.

Look Mike ( I had to scroll up to see who the OP was) I'll cool off but you can't bring up the poossification of America by contributing to it.

I respect you for coaching the team. Who gives two shots If I agree with you about that asshat on the other side of the field.

Tequila, Mod 12?

Add on: Mike, what you could have done is let the game play out. Pound that coach's gamebook into the ground and at the end of the game, look him in the eyes, shake his hand and offer to buy all the girls ice cream and him a beer. A real beer. One that doesn't have I, P, or any A in it.

That's how it should be. You challenge us and we're not going to take it easy, we're not going to lighten up, that foot is through you and all the way to the floor. BUT we'll pick you up afterwards because it's only pride. 

Poossification got us the current Eagles when we just need 51 more Mailatas. 

Lemme buy you a beer, Mike.

hold my beer beeches

3 hours ago, wholesale_Melvin said:

I would have pulled my girls, put the eagles starting secondary & linebackers in and when the score got to 11-77 in favor of Herb the Hipster's girls, put my girls back in and run the score up to 95-77 in the final f****ING 8 minutes and then tell him if he wanted a real challenge, find me a craft beer that tastes like a beer should.

Like hard work rewarded.

No offense but the only thing worse than that chaki wearing POS whining about his lack of talent is you asking our opinion. Just tell the story next time and we'll all agree with you. Maybe wait until you're done your period at least.

Edit: look that other coach is who he is. He accepted the coaching gig because he thought it would make him a winner instead of making his team winners, f him. Do you feel better now? 

WTF. Just delete your account already.

Look Mike ( I had to scroll up to see who the OP was) I'll cool off but you can't bring up the poossification of America by contributing to it.

I respect you for coaching the team. Who gives two shots If I agree with you about that asshat on the other side of the field.

Tequila, Mod 12?

Add on: Mike, what you could have done is let the game play out. Pound that coach's gamebook into the ground and at the end of the game, look him in the eyes, shake his hand and offer to buy all the girls ice cream and him a beer. A real beer. One that doesn't have I, P, or any A in it.

That's how it should be. You challenge us and we're not going to take it easy, we're not going to lighten up, that foot is through you and all the way to the floor. BUT we'll pick you up afterwards because it's only pride. 

Poossification got us the current Eagles when we just need 51 more Mailatas. 

Lemme buy you a beer, Mike.

Meth, not even once. 

Sorry will pass on the meth as well!

22 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

So here's a scenario for parents with kids in sports:

My daughter's soccer team (club soccer) had their last game yesterday.  Granted, it was against the worst team in the division - they should be playing down at least one division, maybe two.  It was 8-0 at half time, and about halfway through the second period, after our girls had just gone up 11-0, the coach from the other team yelled across the field and asked our coach if he could try something different, seeing as it was 11-0 and it was just girls playing a game.  Made the comment "I'm 25 years old, it's pretty sad that I have to be the only adult here".  Our coach had already moved our best scorers to defense, swapped goalies, etc.  Short of telling 11-12 year old girls to stop trying, what else should he do?  To me, pulling girls off the field, telling them to not try as hard, etc, is more insulting.  Also - this is club soccer that people pay a lot of money to have their kids play in - this isn't local town ball.  I chalk it up to this coach is a typical millenial - think everyone should get a trophy and not have their feelings hurt.  

What are everyone else's thoughts?  Should our coach have tried to do more to stop us from scoring so much?  Or is the other coach just a whiny bish? 

Your coach should have charged across the field and beat the ish out of the 25 y.o. bish.