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Spotted in yesterday's Instapundit: The Washington NFL team is finally going to retire their name.
It's an issue that comes up around here every few years out here, and it looks like it's really going to happen this time around. The local sports talk folks have generally been somewhere between supportive of and resigned to the idea.
The big question, of course, is what the new name's going to be. "Red Wolves" seems to have a lot of traction now, though I don't care for it. I rather prefer "Red Tails," which is a nod to the Tuskegee Airmen and the Air Force. As the linked article states, "Warriors," appealing as it may be, is right out. My position? Just don't make it stupid. I don't want my Burgundy and Gold to be saddled with a name better suited for a traveling youth soccer club.
Anyway, a major announcement is expected this morning, so we'll see.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail.com)
at July 13, 2020 5:25 AM
Anyway, a major announcement is expected this morning, so we'll see. ~ Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail.com) at July 13, 2020 5:25 AM
How about the Washington Snakes? It would better reflect the surfeit of slimy politicians in DC. As an added bonus, they could call the stadium, the Snake Pit.
How about Lizard People, as suggested by the Babylon Bee?
Conan the Grammarian
at July 13, 2020 7:21 AM
Red Pelts?
Erythematous Epidermi?
Mannie Zelkaus
at July 13, 2020 7:26 AM
How about the Washington Snakes? It would better reflect the surfeit of slimy politicians in DC. As an added bonus, they could call the stadium, the Snake Pit.
I could see that working. Further Instapudit rundown is here.
How about "Un-Indicted Co-Conspirators?"
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com)
at July 13, 2020 7:27 AM
> I don't want my Burgundy and Gold
> to be saddled with...
They'll probably take this opportunity to change to teal and mauve or something. Burnt Sienna & Mud Leather.
What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?
In my business: Television sucks. There are no exceptions, and you're going to die someday. There isn't single moment of your life in which, on your deathbed, you won't be glad you spent doing something else.
Crid
at July 13, 2020 7:27 AM
Can't remember who, but weeks ago a Twitterer had the best imaginable name, better even than the Lobbyists...
The Uighurs
Crid
at July 13, 2020 7:50 AM
Sometimes all it takes is one photograph to remind you of how Trump has crippled the United States.
Crid
at July 13, 2020 7:54 AM
Crid, about TV - I know you've said that before, especially regarding TV news.
But I thought I'd quote the late media critic Neil Postman anyway:
"Children who watch Sesame Street will like school if school is like Sesame Street...we would all be better off if TV got worse, not better."
(But not much better. Good or bad, the more addictive TV is, the less inclination people have to turn it off. Three's Company was quite popular, after all.)
Lenona
at July 13, 2020 8:07 AM
Here's an interesting op-ed on the development of democracy, human maturation, and why we shouldn't give up on democratic government just yet.
Developmental psychology tells us, for starters, that human maturation is itself developmental, that is, consisting of sequential stages of growth. These phases affect how we, as individuals, see and comprehend the world around us – our worldviews. "These stages are psychological and cultural levels of development," writes Carter Phipps. They are "levels of consciousness that individuals pass through in their personal evolution and that societies pass through in their cultural evolution."
The general worldview most of us share today is fundamentally modern and is not the worldview shared by most societies of the past. Psychiatrist, Dr. Clifford Anderson explains: "Placed in a historical perspective, this model suggests that before the twentieth century most adults in the general population remained psychologically arrested in childhood. Although they continued to grow physically, their thinking remained concrete or literal. The stages of life in which higher thought forms are constructed simply never occurred – an inference that partially explains the harsh, rigid world our ancestors constructed for themselves."
[...] Again, Clifford Anderson: “Over the past century, we have witnessed more collective movement along our maturational path than has been seen over the entire previous span of human history.” I repeat, “…over the entire previous span of human history.”
[...] For many Americans today, unfamiliar with our historical struggles, this has unfairly warped their perceptions of our history, making yesterday appear shameful simply because our past was less developed than our present. But as Emily Dickinson once wrote, "Today makes Yesterday mean."
Conan the Grammarian
at July 13, 2020 8:17 AM
"Can we talk about how catastrophic sending kids back to school in Fall is going to be and how it will probably push America's body count into the million range or over by Christmas?"
"Outside of that reddit thread and teacher-centric websites, I haven’t seen any discussions on the health and safety of teachers and other school staff. And the comments in that thread are correct, in most places teachers actually don’t have any power, teachers unions are bullshit or not existent, and teachers can lose everything if they try to fight. I know my union was a union in name only, the reality of it was that teachers had to bend over and take it on all but the least important of issues.
"It’s why I left, and it’s why others are leaving in droves. I predict that any teacher who can afford to leave will be gone by the time schools are forced open. There won’t be anybody left to teach these kids if all the teachers have quit or died."
Lenona
at July 13, 2020 8:21 AM
From the thread:
"Florida teacher here. The issue has a few sides to it. Teachers know it’s going to be a disaster. We know it’s a mistake. However, in most states teachers do not have the right to protest and if the union doesn’t do anything then it doesn’t matter...While teachers have been considered little more than care givers for years, this year is really bad. No one is even pretending they care about educations anymore, just free childcare. States have said that teachers will die and that’s just going to have to happen. And, if all that wasn’t bad enough, now we’re being forced to sign waivers that if we get sick or die we can’t sue the school district, if you don’t sign you lose your job."
Lenona
at July 13, 2020 8:31 AM
> Three's Company was quite popular
I've done several hundred scuba dives.
…And have never been on a boat ride to a dive site, whether on a beach skiff or a ten-day liveaboard, without someone singing the theme to Gilligan's Island.
"Florida teacher here. The issue has a few sides to it. Teachers know it’s going to be a disaster. We know it’s a mistake. However, in most states teachers do not have the right to protest and if the union doesn’t do anything then it doesn’t matter...While teachers have been considered little more than care givers for years, this year is really bad. No one is even pretending they care about educations anymore, just free childcare. States have said that teachers will die and that’s just going to have to happen. And, if all that wasn’t bad enough, now we’re being forced to sign waivers that if we get sick or die we can’t sue the school district, if you don’t sign you lose your job."
Lenona at July 13, 2020 8:31 AM
If you are that concerned, you should resign.
Happy to have them stay home, but if they aren’t working, then they shouldn’t get paid. (On line education is a joke unless it is being directly supervised by a parent behind the kid on the computer) and if that’s the case, we don’t need those union employees.
The science doesn’t back up the hysteria Lenona. Asymptomatic children even when testing positive are not transmitting this disease much at all.
Where was all this hysteria and concern in 2009?
I guess if Hillary were president there would have been no need for Darth Vader Cuomo to fill up the nursing homes with Covid positive patients to inflate the death rate,
Isab
at July 13, 2020 9:55 AM
What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?
Don't ever do sexting on a company phone/laptop, ever. Everyone in IT will see your pictures/naughty messages and laugh at them.
Six, it depends on the mask. Cloth and typical 'surgeons' masks (usually blue with lightweight synthetic filters), it won't be a problem.
Most everything designed for construction, painting and so forth is designed with the presumption that the wearer is going to be involved in some kind of exertion, such that the required 5% more effort for aspiration isn't noticeable.
If you put an N95 on gramps on the couch watching TV's Matlock, he'll pass out by about the third commercial break. (Or, he'll adjust it for flow to pass around the edges somehow, and resent you for the snug fit.) It sneaks up on you.
Then click the precise words "Show this thread" just underneath it. And then read as far down the stack as you can.
(Twitter has made the use of their service for communications as difficult as possible.)
An open mind can really, really help with this particular source of information. Really.
Crid
at July 13, 2020 12:40 PM
> Mike Rowe on respect.
I think the answer to his question is "television."
For two or three generations, people were watching commercial television for five or ten hours a day.
So they think everything is a pander. Advertisers, script writers, news people politicians, PR-minded companies, celebrities. All of them struggling throughout the viewer's conscious hours to promise that nothing is more important than his or her admiration.
The end result is the corrosion of rationality you see in voters of every stripe.
Crid
at July 13, 2020 12:47 PM
Uighurs and other unfortunates in China.
The CECC report and the accompanying legislation noted that Coca-Cola, Adidas, Calvin Klein, the Campbell Soup Company, Costco, Esprit, H&M, Tommy Hilfiger, Patagonia, and Nike were among those companies suspected of complicity in China's forced labor camps.
I've been using the typical surgeon's mask and even those are leaving me at the end of the day the the feeling of having powdered glass inside my lungs.
Sixclaws
at July 13, 2020 4:08 PM
Go with cloth: that's what the UCLA Blood & Platelets place gives away as gifts, cotton.
Crid
at July 13, 2020 4:47 PM
I tried cloth and the build quality was awful. I'll stick to the disposable ones for the time being.
Plus I have some KN95 in case I have to wear them for a long run.
The Navajo Nation has suggested the Redskins become the Code Talkers.
And the mascot will be a ... ? What? Native American?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at July 13, 2020 7:36 PM
Teachers and school staff need to slap their f-ucking masks on and get back to work like most of us have been doing all along. (I'd say no mask but that's a rational pipe dream). If they aren't essential, I want my property taxes back.
Momof4
at July 14, 2020 6:24 AM
We're nowhere NEAR ten percent of the retirement set, right?
Spotted in yesterday's Instapundit: The Washington NFL team is finally going to retire their name.
It's an issue that comes up around here every few years out here, and it looks like it's really going to happen this time around. The local sports talk folks have generally been somewhere between supportive of and resigned to the idea.
The big question, of course, is what the new name's going to be. "Red Wolves" seems to have a lot of traction now, though I don't care for it. I rather prefer "Red Tails," which is a nod to the Tuskegee Airmen and the Air Force. As the linked article states, "Warriors," appealing as it may be, is right out. My position? Just don't make it stupid. I don't want my Burgundy and Gold to be saddled with a name better suited for a traveling youth soccer club.
Anyway, a major announcement is expected this morning, so we'll see.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail.com) at July 13, 2020 5:25 AM
How about the Washington Snakes? It would better reflect the surfeit of slimy politicians in DC. As an added bonus, they could call the stadium, the Snake Pit.
How about Lizard People, as suggested by the Babylon Bee?
Conan the Grammarian at July 13, 2020 7:21 AM
Red Pelts?
Erythematous Epidermi?
Mannie Zelkaus at July 13, 2020 7:26 AM
How about the Washington Snakes? It would better reflect the surfeit of slimy politicians in DC. As an added bonus, they could call the stadium, the Snake Pit.
I could see that working. Further Instapudit rundown is here.
How about "Un-Indicted Co-Conspirators?"
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at July 13, 2020 7:27 AM
> I don't want my Burgundy and Gold
> to be saddled with...
They'll probably take this opportunity to change to teal and mauve or something. Burnt Sienna & Mud Leather.
• A good thread in Ask Reddit—
In my business: Television sucks. There are no exceptions, and you're going to die someday. There isn't single moment of your life in which, on your deathbed, you won't be glad you spent doing something else.
Crid at July 13, 2020 7:27 AM
Can't remember who, but weeks ago a Twitterer had the best imaginable name, better even than the Lobbyists...
Crid at July 13, 2020 7:50 AM
Sometimes all it takes is one photograph to remind you of how Trump has crippled the United States.
Crid at July 13, 2020 7:54 AM
Crid, about TV - I know you've said that before, especially regarding TV news.
But I thought I'd quote the late media critic Neil Postman anyway:
"Children who watch Sesame Street will like school if school is like Sesame Street...we would all be better off if TV got worse, not better."
(But not much better. Good or bad, the more addictive TV is, the less inclination people have to turn it off. Three's Company was quite popular, after all.)
Lenona at July 13, 2020 8:07 AM
Here's an interesting op-ed on the development of democracy, human maturation, and why we shouldn't give up on democratic government just yet.
Conan the Grammarian at July 13, 2020 8:17 AM
"Can we talk about how catastrophic sending kids back to school in Fall is going to be and how it will probably push America's body count into the million range or over by Christmas?"
https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/hpg7bz/can_we_talk_about_how_catastrophic_sending_kids/
319 comments.
From elsewhere:
"Outside of that reddit thread and teacher-centric websites, I haven’t seen any discussions on the health and safety of teachers and other school staff. And the comments in that thread are correct, in most places teachers actually don’t have any power, teachers unions are bullshit or not existent, and teachers can lose everything if they try to fight. I know my union was a union in name only, the reality of it was that teachers had to bend over and take it on all but the least important of issues.
"It’s why I left, and it’s why others are leaving in droves. I predict that any teacher who can afford to leave will be gone by the time schools are forced open. There won’t be anybody left to teach these kids if all the teachers have quit or died."
Lenona at July 13, 2020 8:21 AM
From the thread:
"Florida teacher here. The issue has a few sides to it. Teachers know it’s going to be a disaster. We know it’s a mistake. However, in most states teachers do not have the right to protest and if the union doesn’t do anything then it doesn’t matter...While teachers have been considered little more than care givers for years, this year is really bad. No one is even pretending they care about educations anymore, just free childcare. States have said that teachers will die and that’s just going to have to happen. And, if all that wasn’t bad enough, now we’re being forced to sign waivers that if we get sick or die we can’t sue the school district, if you don’t sign you lose your job."
Lenona at July 13, 2020 8:31 AM
> Three's Company was quite popular
I've done several hundred scuba dives.
…And have never been on a boat ride to a dive site, whether on a beach skiff or a ten-day liveaboard, without someone singing the theme to Gilligan's Island.
Crid at July 13, 2020 8:51 AM
Also from the thread.
So it's not just Florida teachers at risk.
https://www.wtxl.com/news/coronavirus/more-than-11-000-children-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-florida
Lenona at July 13, 2020 8:53 AM
Snakes aren't slimy, Conan. Don't insult snakes.
I R A Darth Aggie at July 13, 2020 9:29 AM
From the thread:
"Florida teacher here. The issue has a few sides to it. Teachers know it’s going to be a disaster. We know it’s a mistake. However, in most states teachers do not have the right to protest and if the union doesn’t do anything then it doesn’t matter...While teachers have been considered little more than care givers for years, this year is really bad. No one is even pretending they care about educations anymore, just free childcare. States have said that teachers will die and that’s just going to have to happen. And, if all that wasn’t bad enough, now we’re being forced to sign waivers that if we get sick or die we can’t sue the school district, if you don’t sign you lose your job."
Lenona at July 13, 2020 8:31 AM
If you are that concerned, you should resign.
Happy to have them stay home, but if they aren’t working, then they shouldn’t get paid. (On line education is a joke unless it is being directly supervised by a parent behind the kid on the computer) and if that’s the case, we don’t need those union employees.
The science doesn’t back up the hysteria Lenona. Asymptomatic children even when testing positive are not transmitting this disease much at all.
Where was all this hysteria and concern in 2009?
I guess if Hillary were president there would have been no need for Darth Vader Cuomo to fill up the nursing homes with Covid positive patients to inflate the death rate,
Isab at July 13, 2020 9:55 AM
Don't ever do sexting on a company phone/laptop, ever. Everyone in IT will see your pictures/naughty messages and laugh at them.
Sixclaws at July 13, 2020 10:31 AM
Something about caregivers:
https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1282483254357098496
Sixclaws at July 13, 2020 10:35 AM
Let's talk about the DC Uighur's offensive line.
They're really offensive.
Crid at July 13, 2020 11:43 AM
Six, it depends on the mask. Cloth and typical 'surgeons' masks (usually blue with lightweight synthetic filters), it won't be a problem.
Most everything designed for construction, painting and so forth is designed with the presumption that the wearer is going to be involved in some kind of exertion, such that the required 5% more effort for aspiration isn't noticeable.
If you put an N95 on gramps on the couch watching TV's Matlock, he'll pass out by about the third commercial break. (Or, he'll adjust it for flow to pass around the edges somehow, and resent you for the snug fit.) It sneaks up on you.
Crid at July 13, 2020 11:52 AM
Here's one JJ thread about them. See.
There was another one about the futility of 3D printing masks from Diy-ers. I'm trying to find it.
Crid at July 13, 2020 12:04 PM
Going through her old retweets, JJ has a lot of brilliant stuff. And funny stuff.
Crid at July 13, 2020 12:23 PM
Mike Rowe on respect.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/386748/
I R A Darth Aggie at July 13, 2020 12:31 PM
Okay, so start with this tweet
Then click the precise words "Show this thread" just underneath it. And then read as far down the stack as you can.
(Twitter has made the use of their service for communications as difficult as possible.)
An open mind can really, really help with this particular source of information. Really.
Crid at July 13, 2020 12:40 PM
> Mike Rowe on respect.
I think the answer to his question is "television."
For two or three generations, people were watching commercial television for five or ten hours a day.
So they think everything is a pander. Advertisers, script writers, news people politicians, PR-minded companies, celebrities. All of them struggling throughout the viewer's conscious hours to promise that nothing is more important than his or her admiration.
The end result is the corrosion of rationality you see in voters of every stripe.
Crid at July 13, 2020 12:47 PM
Uighurs and other unfortunates in China.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/coke-nike-and-pro-black-lives-matter-corps-are-daniel-greenfield/#.XwszRyjJ4AM.twitter
I R A Darth Aggie at July 13, 2020 12:54 PM
Buffalo will object but I'll suggest the 'Unmarked Bills', because when it comes to D.C., that's how you get 'er done.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 13, 2020 1:30 PM
So the memes about Wil Smith being cheated on are starting to surface:
https://twitter.com/AdamPadilla/status/1282039741173637120
Sixclaws at July 13, 2020 3:58 PM
Are these cakes a welcome gift or an insult?
https://twitter.com/fooduz/status/1281934235570405380
Sixclaws at July 13, 2020 3:59 PM
@Crid,
I've been using the typical surgeon's mask and even those are leaving me at the end of the day the the feeling of having powdered glass inside my lungs.
Sixclaws at July 13, 2020 4:08 PM
Go with cloth: that's what the UCLA Blood & Platelets place gives away as gifts, cotton.
Crid at July 13, 2020 4:47 PM
I tried cloth and the build quality was awful. I'll stick to the disposable ones for the time being.
Plus I have some KN95 in case I have to wear them for a long run.
Sixclaws at July 13, 2020 5:16 PM
Hello Nurse gives a Homer Jay Simpson vibe:
https://twitter.com/tomruegger/status/1282209112650969093
Sixclaws at July 13, 2020 5:17 PM
The Navajo Nation has suggested the Redskins become the Code Talkers.
And the mascot will be a ... ? What? Native American?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 13, 2020 7:36 PM
Teachers and school staff need to slap their f-ucking masks on and get back to work like most of us have been doing all along. (I'd say no mask but that's a rational pipe dream). If they aren't essential, I want my property taxes back.
Momof4 at July 14, 2020 6:24 AM
We're nowhere NEAR ten percent of the retirement set, right?
Crid at July 14, 2020 6:45 PM
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