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My wife works as in admin in academia and she says that U of M will pay less then a lot of colleges and will say unironically that the prestige of working at the college makes up for lack in pay in interviews and such. Ann Arbor as a city is fine. It has some nice kinda tucked away places and I think the area itself is pretty but it went from smug hippy to smug bro quickly.
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MourningView posted:I can't actually find what the tweet was but the Busch Light Sign Guy got milkshake duck'd by the Des Moines Register and had to issue an apology for some lovely racist tweets he made when he was 16, and now Anheuser Busch is cutting ties with him. They're still gonna make the donation to the hospital (total is over a million now) but I assume the special beer can and stuff are done now. as someone who is perfectly happy to jump on racists and get them fired, this is real real dumb and i can't decide if the DMR is dumber for actually digging in and finding these tweets, or if Busch is dumber for preemptively dumping him before the public had any chance to react. There's a world of difference between, for example, a stand-up comedian who can't stop using slurs whenever they're on a podcast and a dude who posted a dumb Tosh.0 joke when they were 16. on the somewhat bright side, he is apparently going to still be at the game on Saturday and this may spur on a whole new wave of spite-donations to the hospital.
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Sep 25, 2019 03:58
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I'm still waiting for more details on these Ann Arbor Sandwiches
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DC Murderverse posted:as someone who is perfectly happy to jump on racists and get them fired, this is real real dumb and i can't decide if the DMR is dumber for actually digging in and finding these tweets, or if Busch is dumber for preemptively dumping him before the public had any chance to react. There's a world of difference between, for example, a stand-up comedian who can't stop using slurs whenever they're on a podcast and a dude who posted a dumb Tosh.0 joke when they were 16. if this is the thing that finally prompts people in this state to stop pretending that drinking one of the ten most popular beers in the country is an interesting personality quirk it would be a noble sacrifice MourningView fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sep 25, 2019 04:15
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Seaniqua posted:I'm still waiting for more details on these Ann Arbor Sandwiches https://www.zingermansdeli.com/menus/ They look good, but expensive.
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Sep 25, 2019 04:34
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update: I found the racismquote:A routine background check of King's social media revealed two racist jokes, one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another making light of black people killed in the holocaust. The joke tweets date back to 2012, when King was a 16-year-old high school student. This was dropped into a larger article about him and his job and the whole donation thing, but man it's really dumb. He fully admits that his sense of humor was bad and sickening and apologizes, it's about as thorough an apology as you could want for "was dumb at 16".
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Sep 25, 2019 04:44
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What does the phrase "milkshake duck'd" mean?
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Sab0921 posted:What does the phrase "milkshake duck'd" mean? 1. internet falls in love with endearing person and/or concept 2. person and/or concept is revealed to be somehow horrible Edit: I just wish someone had a link to the original tweet!  Seaniqua fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sep 25, 2019 04:56
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 ^^^Sab0921 posted:What does the phrase "milkshake duck'd" mean? https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/741904787361300481
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So has any other school in recent years done what Holgerson is doing right now and redshirted multiple seniors just to take a mulligan on the year?
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Zerilan posted:So has any other school in recent years done what Holgerson is doing right now and redshirted multiple seniors just to take a mulligan on the year? Blazing new trails I think. I'd love to see him explain it to a recruit
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Zerilan posted:So has any other school in recent years done what Holgerson is doing right now and redshirted multiple seniors just to take a mulligan on the year? i can't imagine that many schools having seniors that haven't taken redshirt years to begin with, this is probably a unique situation that Dana is taking advantage of to ease the pressure on him a bit.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Bryce Thompson domestic assault charges were dismissed, which isn't all that surprising. I'm guessing he'll need to take some anger management classes but from a team standpoint he was effectively suspended for three games but traveled with the team this past week and played sparingly (and not well). Probably the best thing for him to be around teammates vs. being left alone to figure poo poo out alone. I mean, you're downplaying him yelling that he was going to shoot up a school to a really weird degree.... That's not something that normal people yell just because they're angry and it doesn't deserve an "oh boys will be boys, lol" dismissive response. That's a really serious threat that I wouldn't be surprised if it would cause a normal student to get expelled from school for making... Just because he can play football gud doesn't mean he should face no punishment for it (also he probably can't play football gud if he plays for Tennessee imo). Also don't even try to pretend you want him to stay on the team "for his own good". You aren't a Cornhusker fan, don't act like them. Unless you are a Cornhusker fan, in which case..... still don't act like them DrunkPanda fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sep 25, 2019 05:58
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wa27 posted:Still thinking about how Nebraska almost lost this... To be fair, your team and state sucks and should lose every game regardless of any circumstances
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PostNouveau posted:I don't think there's a good way to stop this without risking safety. To be fair, more teams should do what I do when I play video game football and have a defensive lineman line up next to the quarterback, and immediately blast him when the ball is snapped, to force a clock stoppage when they want a rest.... Or if that's too blatant to be allowed, just line up correctly and shove the offensive lineman over before the snap, costs you 5 yards but works like a timeout
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Sep 25, 2019 06:08
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DrunkPanda posted:To be fair, your team and state sucks and should lose every game regardless of any circumstances Namaste
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Sep 25, 2019 06:13
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Seaniqua posted:I'm still waiting for more details on these Ann Arbor Sandwiches I was shocked at the price too as a grad student but then we got a Zingerman's gift card from a professor and uh... they are really really good. As staff I could afford to go and some meetings would order for us so i've had a lot of different ones. Yes it is expensive but i have not had a more delicious reuben or pastrami anywhere else. Is it worth it? No its a god drat sandwich but it is loving good. Its also expensive because the entire team of workers get way more benefits and wages than your average restaurant, and zingermans sources expensive ingredients all the way down to the flour they use. This concludes my post about the sandwich I hope you enjoyed it and stick around for my other posts about gringo culture.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I don't even know why I care so much, but the whole thing has turned into a he said/she said thing for both university admins. For whatever it's worth, someone did manage to find security video of the Iowa band, but it's pretty much impossible to tell if anything happened. If it helps you with context, they were supposed to go out on the east side of the Jacobson building (visible to the band's immediate right), which importantly doesn't have a stream of fans exiting into it. I'm just marveling at whatever idiot thought it was a good idea to march that band into the crowd playing the fight song after a 1 point win in a state rivalry game that ran six hours later than planned due to storms those fans all sat through in an open stadium. Starting poo poo with the band is inexcusable, but have a care for the situations you put your students in too. MourningView posted:I can't actually find what the tweet was but the Busch Light Sign Guy got milkshake duck'd by the Des Moines Register and had to issue an apology for some lovely racist tweets he made when he was 16, and now Anheuser Busch is cutting ties with him. They're still gonna make the donation to the hospital (total is over a million now) but I assume the special beer can and stuff are done now. This is expanding, the Register employee who went after him with 8 year old Tosh.0 quotes from his twitter turns out to have been a huge racist on twitter as well... 2 minutes after the editorial staff went to bat for their guy. https://twitter.com/DMRegister/status/1176705031468457985 https://twitter.com/DMRegister/status/1176723106171432960 https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1176708360877563905 Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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DrunkPanda posted:I mean, you're downplaying him yelling that he was going to shoot up a school to a really weird degree.... That's not something that normal people yell just because they're angry and it doesn't deserve an "oh boys will be boys, lol" dismissive response. That's a really serious threat that I wouldn't be surprised if it would cause a normal student to get expelled from school for making... Just because he can play football gud doesn't mean he should face no punishment for it (also he probably can't play football gud if he plays for Tennessee imo). Not downplaying it at all. Go check my post history, when the news came out I said it was awful and he should be punished. I’m reconciling the fact that he’s still on the team and them having a plan in place for him (they haven’t released details and i wouldn’t expect them to) with that being better than him going to jail. I’ve said several times the kid needs help and if “help” is that the school is going to keep an eye on him, whatever that means, then fine. Him being kicked off the team/school isn’t going to help him. If they were releasing him (or whatever it’s called in college) so he could transfer somewhere else, then I’d be fine with that too. I’m just not a big fan of “lost causes” and maybe that stems from some personal life stuff, but there it is. I can still be objective about issues stemming within my fandoms. I’ve made it incredibly clear I don’t like having “bad guys” on my team - again see my myriad of posts about how much I hate Jameis Winston. It’s just football, as much as I piss and moan about how poo poo we (pick one of my teams as to who I’m referring to lol) are, at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. Bryce isn’t a game changer, this isn’t some 5* best player in the team that I’m secretly mustache twirling trying to trick you guys into agreeing with me that he should be on the team. You can think that he should be kicked off the team and out of school, and that’s fine, but I don’t. At least not completely. But I also don’t know what an appropriate alternative is. Ideally I would think that keeping him in school, working with him on anger management and keeping him on the team in some sort of GA role would be best but I don’t think he can be a GA, idk the rules on that. The girl that was involved testified that he never said that he was going to shoot up the school and the third party that said they thought he said that when they called in never came forward or testified and the charges were dismissed. He broke a gate, didn’t assault anyone, supposedly said whats already been mentioned. Had he beat this girl up I’d absolutely have a different tone. I want to believe, however naive it is, that if the school or the police (more so the school) legitimately believed there was any danger of him shooting up the school they would have done something more. I’m aware I’ll probably get poo poo on for that. I’ve known kids like Bryce, so maybe I’m internally making this more personal than I should, and if he does something that proves me wrong I’ll feel even that much more like poo poo about it, but I don’t think he should be given up on, which is how I would see him being kicked out of school and/or thrown in jail. e: gently caress that was longer than I thought it’d be Joey Freshwater fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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from the UT athletics site posted:CAREER HONORS If he wasn't any good he likely still wouldn't be on the team. I take your point that keeping him on the team and in school may be better for him long-term to get his life under control, but I doubt that's why it happened. The ship is sinking so quickly in Knoxville that Pruitt needs all the help he can get.
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God forbid I ever run for office and some journalist digs up my SAS shitposts from 2005 or that Lynndie England story.
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Ace Jameson posted:If he wasn't any good he likely still wouldn't be on the team. I take your point that keeping him on the team and in school may be better for him long-term to get his life under control, but I doubt that's why it happened. The ship is sinking so quickly in Knoxville that Pruitt needs all the help he can get. AJ Johnson was the best player on the team and probably going to be a 1st round pick when he was accused of raping a girl in 2014 and he never played for Tennessee again. He was eventually acquitted and walked on to the Broncos I think. Different situations and obviously Pruitt wasn’t there then but there’s precedent that UT will boot a kid regardless of how good he is. e: not arguing that him being decent didn't play a factor, but I also don't believe that if he was buried on the depth chart it would have been much different. Joey Freshwater fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Ohio State are 18 point favorites over Nebraska, but I feel it could easily turn into something like 48-14. Still, I am really interested in the game as a test of where these programs really stand.
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I think Baylor/ISU started as +3 for ISU and has moved to -3 for ISU, which just seems like a huge shift. I feel pretty good about the game, but it's hard to tell how good Baylor is, they've played all bad teams.
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LLCoolJD posted:Ohio State are 18 point favorites over Nebraska, but I feel it could easily turn into something like 48-14. Still, I am really interested in the game as a test of where these programs really stand. Not to be the "my team sucks" guy but Nebraska doesn't have all the pieces yet and I still think it's at least a couple years away. Nebraska really struggles to hold on to the ball. They've lost nine fumbles this year which puts them smack dab at 130th in the nation. That's last place. I will say that the defense has been a pleasant surprise and there are a handful of legitimate offensive weapons but there's not much depth and it can get pretty predictable if they are forced into passing situations. If Nebraska can cover that spread I'll be pretty pleased, depending on how it looks.
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LLCoolJD posted:Ohio State are 18 point favorites over Nebraska, but I feel it could easily turn into something like 48-14. Still, I am really interested in the game as a test of where these programs really stand. Last 3 years went like so: OSU 36-31 OSU 56-14 OSU 62-3 Part of that was Riley's inability to score points, but Frost hasn't fixed that defense, and this is looking like it may be the most complete offense OSU's had since the natty which is a lot harder to stop than just Haskins doing it by himself last year. My gut says it's going to be around 42-28 at the moment--I didn't like how some of the option defense played against Miami or Indiana because a team with better athletes will break some of those for scores.
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Mummy Xzibit posted:I too would like to know more about the sandwiches.
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Komet posted:God forbid I ever run for office and some journalist digs up my SAS shitposts from 2005 or that Lynndie England story. Yeah if I got rich the first thing I’d do is put a hit out on the SA servers. Lowtax could milkshake duck a pretty substantial corner of the internet if he ever hired a sysadmin
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I'm just glad my teenager years were not documented in digital eternity. I'm also deeply troubled by the general concept that if you said or did something before the age of 24 or so, that's apparently who you are forever and there's no such thing as personal growth.
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Sash! posted:I'm just glad my teenager years were not documented in digital eternity. I had frosted tips, both ears pierced, used an unreasonable amount of hair gel and wore JNCOs so hell, same.
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What was the DMR guy's plan anyway? If you go after someone for something they said you would think they would check their own twitter first.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I think Baylor/ISU started as +3 for ISU and has moved to -3 for ISU, which just seems like a huge shift. I feel pretty good about the game, but it's hard to tell how good Baylor is, they've played all bad teams. Yeah, I think it's a bit weird and they seem close enough that I'm surprised Baylor doesn't get a little benefit of the doubt at home.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:What was the DMR guy's plan anyway? If you go after someone for something they said you would think they would check their own twitter first. furthermore, what the gently caress was ever the point? stupid from the start
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mactheknife posted:furthermore, what the gently caress was ever the point? stupid from the start Because he gets to be the one who reported the scandal. Like literally every person experiencing their 15 minutes of fame is getting their internet history scrubbed by someone just so they can get taken down.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Because he gets to be the one who reported the scandal. Like literally every person experiencing their 15 minutes of fame is getting their internet history scrubbed by someone just so they can get taken down. [cracks knuckles] time to gently caress up this kid making a huge charity donation. this is what i got into this business to do.
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If you wanted to be generous I guess you could say they wanted to make sure there wasn't anything lovely about the guy they were about to write a big glowing profile about? But even then it'd be pretty easy to just give him a chance to delete it, I don't think anyone would have had any idea given how long ago it was. It suspect it was mostly what Bird said though. King has handled it super well. A lot of the worst people on the internet are currently trying to turn him into an icon for PC Police Run Amok or the dangers of cancel culture or whatever, but he owned it, acknowledged that the tweets were lovely and made an actual apology (as opposed to the standard "sorry if you were offended" non-apology) and talked about how much he's learned and grown since then.
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General Dog posted:Yeah, I think it's a bit weird and they seem close enough that I'm surprised Baylor doesn't get a little benefit of the doubt at home. Baylor played Rice really close - This year's Rice team may be the worst D-1 football team I have ever seen.
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Sab0921 posted:Baylor played Rice really close - This year's Rice team may be the worst D-1 football team I have ever seen. That game was never really in doubt, and Rice also held Army to 14-7. Rice would probably be a TD favorite over UTEP, UTSA, or New Mexico State.
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Sab0921 posted:Baylor played Rice really close - This year's Rice team may be the worst D-1 football team I have ever seen. You didn’t watch Memphis/South Alabama. South moves into their new stadium next year and their new coach has essentially undone all of Joey Jones’ work.
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