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It's been my experience that it's the youth leagues/orgs that have different crowds and not the sport regarding team sports. I've seen the range of apathy to hypercompetitiveness across youth baseball, football, basketball depending on the league/org. Individual sports tend to be really good about development but lean towards hypercompetitiveness.

@Pimphand Hiding in his closet covered in a mylar blanket right now.

This is standard behavior. Watch The Bad News Bears movie and the shitty adult behavior we see today was present in that movie nearly 50 years ago.

To me, it looks like someone was trying to illegally cross the border.

I had lunch at Gennaro's Trattoria in Canyon Lake. If you happen to be in the area and are in the mood for Italian you should give it a try. The lobster ravioli was good. I enjoyed everything that I tried, caprese salad, bruschetta, and lamb meatballs.

Oh yeah, I think Weber covered this in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Wait, no it wasn't in that work. Tocqueville probably observed this and addressed it in Democracy in America. Oh, that's not right either. This must have come from a 1980s movie.

I suspect it's probably a combination of their belief in "End Times" and the persecution they experienced. It wasn't until I started reading Zane Grey novels that I got an appreciation for the persecution that the LDS experienced. In Riders of the Purple Sage the LDS were portrayed as over the top villains. I was mid-way through Purple Sage when I did some reading on anti-Mormonism. I had no idea how much of an outcast LDS people were back in the day.

Every prepper I've ever known refers back to the LDS prepper guides. It makes you wonder what the hell the Mormons are up to.

Eh, promogeniture was mostly rejected in the United States. Granted, this is specific to the first born male inheriting property but the idea of generational wealth being passed down was more of a British concept than an American one. Americans were trying to break from the feudal practices of Europe that lead to aristocratics or oligarchs. The concept is very American.

It's an interesting concept. Thomas Jefferson floated the idea as a means for leveling the field to allow for the emergence of a natural aristocracy. It's probably the best way to allow for a meritocracy where the truly talented would thrive rather than those born on third base.

This was my claim to fame lol. I was offered for baseball by the likes of Tarleton State, Dallas Baptist University, and Abilene Christian. Dallas Baptist and Tarleton came with a little bit of money. Dallas Baptist was actually pretty generous but it was Dallas Baptist. It was basically a Baptist church with a baseball and soccer team. No thank you.

To be fair, regarding ROTC, there isn't a need to physically prepare for it if you are coming from a high school athletic background. Compared to varsity sports, it's a cake walk. The real challenge is academic, mental and time management. Loading up on courses in the Fall/Spring because Summers are going to be dedicated to military training which doesn't leave a lot of room for Summer school. Which means you will be taking 5 courses a semester, plus military science, leadership labs and morning PT. Time management is the biggest challenge, the physical stuff is an after thought. A typical day would be physical training at 6 AM, classes in the morning/noon, lab work in the afternoon (land nav training or some shit) which leaves your evenings for studying. Sitting down and studying calculus II followed by some exciting reading about Spanish exploration in the Americas after a long ass day while you are being tempted to go party with friends or Netflix and chill with a girl is hard.

Well, she was really forward and looked fantastic in a bikini. I didn't really have any criteria other than that as a teenager.

I was dating a girl the summer after high school that went to UNC. I visited her in the Fall for a 3 day weekend and Greeley was a big disappointment. The UNC nightlife was very lame too. Up until that point all of my trips to Colorado were ski resorts so my expectations were pretty high and Greeley did not deliver.

Maybe you are just cynical. I was brought up with a Wesleyan background and I while I don't think Briskets family's faith is Wesleyan I believe it pushes a social gospel. If you come from a religious background like this being taught to be "class conscious", particularly if you are well-to-do is pretty standard.

This was my first thought when watching that TED Talk. Galloway begins with the question "do you love your children?" After making the point that of course the audience loves their children he immediately transitions to the war on youth and starts discussing problems that primarily impact children of the middle and lower class. The disconnect is that his audience is likely made up of the upper and upper-middle class who don’t give a fuck about other people's children, especially the children of the lower classes. Everyone is going to take care of their own and let the others be fodder as long as their own children thrive.

Evangelicals are idiots in every way possible.

I saw something like this play out right in front of me at the border crossing coming back from Matamoros during spring break. The BP were rougher on the drunk spring breaker than the guy in the video. But it did cause all the drunk spring breakers to shape up.

This looks like a cut scene from a Will Ferrell movie.

Why does this place attract so many insane people?

Fortunately this isn't the case, well the aggy thing isn't.