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the first thing i thought was "hey those aren't baby rugs" but now that i know he's asian i guess i'm the one that was being racist.

disclaimer: all of my asian friends in high school insisted that "oriental" was a description of rugs, and therefore inappropriate as a description of humans. 

http://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/livewire/archived/oriental_rugs_or_people/

It's U-O-E-N-O, and "UOENO it" sounds like "you don't even know it". I think that's all. (Edit: I had no idea why the guy brought it up until I watched the Countess vine again...)

There are varying accounts of exactly what happened; Harris claimed it was a mutual decision, and MSU sources are indicating they dropped him like... well, like a Michigan State wide receiver would drop something.

If not, maybe you should pay for an appraisal or two to see what it's actually worth instead of trusting your realtor (and then fire him/her if the appraisals are consistently off).

Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of firing realtors.

So the 0 doesn't mean anything?

wut?

Adding this to Franklin's public 'Nicky Satan' slip, SEC coaches must casually refer to Saban as the devil amongst themselves with some regularity. I like it.

So all of you think violating the state's monopoly on taxing stupidity through lotteries is wrong? Bizarre.

so neither of you knows what an illegal numbers ring is either, eh?

if i thought TP were remotely as self-aware about why he was taking the money as webber seems to have been, i'd be much more impressed by him.

Accepting money from a guy running an illegal numbers ring is only wrong if you know that's what he's doing (and if it's actually wrong to run an illegal numbers ring, but since I don't know what that is, I can't really say). Did Webber know where the guy was getting the money? I assume you'd disavow the suggestion that you don't believe in freedom of association if I made it an issue.

Perjuring yourself in federal court might only be wrong if you're committing perjury to avoid punishment for something that's actually immoral. What was he committing perjury to avoid punishment for? If he was committing perjury to help Martin avoid punishment, then again it would depend on what an illegal numbers ring is. But if he was committing perjury to avoid punishment for getting compensated for his work, then it doesn't seem obviously wrong to me.

But I'm probably making a mistake trying to continue a conversation with somebody who thinks that whether or not the NCAA is exploitative is debatable.

your summary sounds so much less boring than what i feel like i slept through...

"Teams have the most deviation from their season average in week one (11.9 points) but the low point has a deviation within 1 point (11.0) that occurs during week one."

the low point of what? and i just have no idea what "that occurs during week one" is modifying. it's been a lot of years since waltzing through stat 350.

east and west. only took 4 hours.

I thought that allegation had no place here, but now that I've read about the DUI and the argument, I think it's relevant information. Here's a link:

http://www.annarbor.com/news/emu-president-susan-martin-on-argument-invo...

I guarantee you LEO and GEO would strike immediately.

You're both acting like jerks, and eamus could stand to work on his reading comprehension. But (s)he probably wouldn't be in such a lather if Ghost weren't so committed to acting like a snotty, entitled brat every time this topic comes up. Maybe you should think about why so many alums think the criticisms are warranted, Ghost, instead of spending so much time whining about their being unfair.

I helped coach a high school baseball team last year (because I am a responsible adult who was available; not because I know anything about baseball) and one team was kicking our ass so handily that they started a bunt drill. It took us quite a while to get an out, and it was plenty embarrassing, but I was actually glad they did it. It slowed the bleeding and forced our players to listen to us in order to figure out the adjustments on the fly.

By whom? It's gotta be Stu.

There was a brunch of some sort with boosters that ended at 1:30, so I assume he's just running a little late from that.

It's possible that what they're offering you is a rare path to upward mobility given whatever your background is. But if you can currently pay your bills, it would probably behoove you to stay on course to finish school. Everybody with experience here is telling you how much time it takes, so you shouldn't underestimate how difficult it would be to actually finish your degree online while spending the time required to succeed with the job.

But I like what actually happened a lot better

Why don't you just call them and ask?

I guess it's possible you were saying something even worse, given your other comments above. But your second question here makes little sense. I was indeed being sarcastic, but had I been projecting my sarcasm on to you, I'd have thought you were mocking the poster before you. But obviously I didn't think that. So no?

my bad

Life was better back when accusations of rape were minimized and/or ignored. Great system. Hooray rape. Keeps men happy, keeps women from gettin' yappy.

That was your point, right?

There's no way the President hadn't seen the video earlier. Just days ago he was declining comment and referring press inquiries to the AD, which you don't do unless you've got an organized plan. The President realized he'd lose his job if he didn't change the story, so that's what he did.

This bullshit about not firing Pernetti for cause is a big red flag. He absolutely had cause to fire him, and he's put Rutgers on the hook for Pernetti's buy out by publicly stating that the firing is not for cause. Any situation not involving a backroom deal would either be silent on the issue or note that Pernetti's being fired for cause, and it'd be Pernetti's problem to pursue compensation through the courts. The only reason not to go that route is that the President is covering his own ass.

Forgot he redshirted. So he'll stay 5. Now you heard that here first, too. Source: JMFR.

That one was on TBS. Maybe CBS doesn't have the rights? (NB: I had to look that up, and I don't know what channels the other games were on--I don't pay for TV and watched it all on the internet.)

It's amazing how completely people misunderstand what a university education is supposed to be about. I wish we could get out of the credentialing business and back to teaching people who actually want an education.

First, I should have said position coach. I think Mattison is worth that. But no position coach is, especially not at a position where the head coach and defensive coordinator also focus. All you would-be professors of economics can look at the market and get back to me about the market value of a third defensive line coach.

Second, I'm not a professor, or I'd be making 2-8 times what I currently make. But as far as professors go, it is nearly 5 times what some professors in my department make.

Third, my classes this term generate about 6 times my salary in revenue to the University. Anybody wanna claim that Montgomery personally adds nearly $2m in value?

I'm pleased to see some posters above evidencing some perspective, but I have nothing else to say that isn't overtly political. The AD payscale will come crashing back to Earth when O'Bannon wins anyway.

rather avoid withey

might wanna wait till tomorrow afternoon to mock them based on that list...

It reminded me that we were wearing goofy shorts. I'd watched the entire game so far without having thought about it once. So I guess they aren't that bad.

After you get on the VPN, you need to restart your browser to get iptv.umnet.umich.edu to load. If that doesn't work, restart your computer and get on the VPN before opening the browser.

I thought you were a moron before you outed yourself as a racist or picked this stupid fight with Magnus or confused "our" with "are" above. (Speaking of which, is "you disagree with my politics" a typo for "you abhor my racism"? Just checking.) It crystallized somewhere around the time you decided to take great offense on your wife's behalf because I joked (unfunnily, but not very offensively so far as I can tell) that prominent lawyering gigs were not, strictly speaking, proof of intelligence. Your inability to differentiate my comment from something like "your wife is stupid lol"--which, to be clear, I didn't say and don't think--was enough to convince me. But I only promised 4 reasons above, not a complete history.

Well, you see, they'd be very significant events.

...what, that's not how it works?

What courses? I bet our intro psych courses are closer to Harvard's than our intro calc courses are to CalTech's or MIT's.

Don't mind this, mods. There's probably somebody being cheeky to Magnus in another thread whose points you should take instead of dealing with this.

Harris came over to listen to what Beilein was saying to players leading up to free throws at least twice. I wonder if that was a reaction to our doing it, or if Izzo's a hypocrite in addition to being a grumpy troll.

on some of the video monitor animations. Maybe we should get stupid shit like this worked out internally before we release instructions to the media.

You think NFL teams should be allowed to ask more questions, but that wage slaves should have fewer rights than pro athletes. What exactly do you think hiring managers at retail stores should be allowed to ask?!

I don't see why the NCAA should waive anything here. He's not a "kid" like the coach keeps calling him, and it doesn't sound like a year at St. John's will be pivotal for his chances of playing professional basketball after college. It seems to me like the story should not be about an NCAA rule stopping a kid from playing a game he loves, but about St. John's trying to get an unnecessary waiver so their program can benefit from getting a year out of an adult athlete.

This is an interesting discussion, but man, you guys are brutal.

As far as I'm concerned, the blog is Brian, so diluting content by Brian with content by others will always be a losing proposition. I think most of the reason that Seth is getting crap is that his style is very different than Brian's, whereas Heiko doesn't freelance much beyond straight reporting and Ace's style is close enough to the Blogfather's that I sometimes can't tell who wrote something without checking the byline. (Is that just Ace's style, or is Ace intentionally aping Brian's style? I used to think the latter, but now I can't tell.)

He claimed to be an alien. Just thought you should know.

riposte?

Just think how many bloody white suits people can put on this thing. They're just begging to get trolled. People in Baltimore should make sure to have their cameras out whenever they're passing by.

How long do you think it will take until they have to put a cage around it like poor old Braveheart? http://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/freedom-statue-in-cage/

I kept telling the midwife she was going to have to delay the labor whenever Michigan fell behind, but she didn't seem to recognize how much wisdom I was displaying.

I just yelled "Brian" at him until he turned around, and then demanded that he confirm for the person sitting directly behind him that he was famous on the internet, because she didn't believe me. I don't think he liked it.

the other guy called my cell from outside the hospital just as i was about to send you my cell #. sorry.

it's probably not envy that makes people find you obnoxious.

Let me guess: if you have a Michigan degree, you got it outside LS&A. Am I right?

Here's why I think that: Fox is not doing what academics have been doing for years. Nobody with any serious exposure to academia and as much as a passing acquaintance with Fox could possibly think that. There is no moral equivalence between Fox and academia. There is no moral or intellectual equivalence between MSNBC and academia. Cable networks are all absolutely full of horseshit, with getting at the truth very far down their agenda. Academia has some fucked up priorities, but getting at the truth is high on the list. Fox and MSNBC are to academia as ESPN is to the Mathlete.

but my father, who is probably the same person as you despite sitting in section 2, also enjoys that quote

you're an asshole

I'm pretty sure it's illegal for a company not to pay you if they are profiting off of, rather than providing educational experiences for, their interns. See, e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?pagewanted=all

That people deserve to get a cut when others are making money off their labor is a principle enshrined in the law.

click "nice rundown" in the OP

Troll the World!

So he's Braylon Edwards minus the senior year. Got it.

That tweet went up before the game right? Kid's a prick, who I'm pretty sure faked everything. See the video I posted below.

They're both idiots, and Hazard is now being investigated by the South Wales Police, but people are overboard here. The kid isn't 4 years old, and he was deliberately holding up the game. 

The main reason Hazard's in the wrong, IME, is that the kid, while cheating, is presumably just carrying out orders. There should be an effective mechanism in place to punish the home team for this (with sanctions, say, up to and including a penalty kick), but you can't go around kicking cheaters just because there isn't one.

I think a short ban would be ok--it would send a message to the player--but any longer bans should come with new rules to punish home teams with ball boys pulling this crap, or it'll just get worse.

I also think that McGary's block numbers will suffer as he gets the fouls under control. Beilein sometimes tells the young bigs to keep two hands straight up to avoid fouls after somebody gets a foul called for only having one hand up or for swatting, whereas more than one of McGary's recent blocks have come from swatting at the ball.

for some reason hockey tickets are hard to come by for less than $20 a seat.

The NYTimes just ran an article about how good it was for OWN.

No unqualified claim about all men follows from my claim about likely biases among groups of men who congregate online to talk about violent sports that feature female cheerleaders. (I mean, I will give you that I think that all men are such that if groups of them congregate online to talk about violent sports that feature female cheerleaders, they are likely to find themselves in a relatively sexist setting.)

I do think all people who would have made that comment earnestly in response to what I said are bad reasoners. But having that thought doesn't require implicit bias against men so much as explicit bias against people who display this kind of evidence of poor reasoning skills.

Edit: oops, what I meant was I'm so sorry for suggesting any MGoPosters could be do anything remotely sexist. I was way off base. For example, no woman has ever been objectified here in any way. Here is a (NSFW) link to some .gif's of Kate Upton to make amends. Also just for you: \s

sexism (and homophobia and heteronormativity in general) is pretty rampant around here. calling it out will virtually always get you downvoted. dwelling on it more so.

but what were you expecting? this is a website largely populated by men, most of whom are here to discuss a sport played almost exclusively by men with somewhat scantily clad women decorating the sidelines.

the only sad part is that none of the biased people think they're being biased. implicit bias FTW!

I'm not sure that this kind of anecdotal evidence of the underdeveloped risk assessment skills of 16 year olds supports the position you think it supports

before or after the tourney? based on the numbers now, it seems like duke might have to lose a game in which plumlee plays poorly before michigan loses in order for trey to move into first. also, any idea if being a senior helps plumlee (for having paid his dues) or hurts him (for not being good enough to have jumped early)?

Lots of Michigan students likely have no business near a majority of college campuses without some unusual feature they happen to have (in some cases, for example, the hiring of ACT tutors by their families). Student-athletes, like student violinists and National AP Scholars, managed to hone a skill the university community values through dedication and perseverance. The only academic question is whether they have the ability to learn the requisite amount of material to complete a degree, which the admissions procedure is supposed to ensure, pace your preference for accountant types.

Is there a way to watch the full game online? I didn't get to watch the game yesterday, and missed the first half of this replay. 

i just came back to this thread again, and wondered as it loaded whether anybody would've responded with "freepy" yet. i can dig it.

the freep is creepy

It's been almost 10 years since Sears sponsored the Directors' Cup. Also, Sears sucks.

USC didn't have Michigan-caliber academics until very recently, and I just forgot Texas, but ok.

Without arguing about rank among that bunch, Michigan is (say) top 4 in great academics + winning tradition. If you're from the Midwest and value those things, your options are Notre Dame and Michigan. If you aren't Catholic and value those things, you've got USC, Texas, and Michigan. If you prefer public schools and value those things, you've got Texas and Michigan.

It's really bizarre to me that the helmets could be what actually matters to people.

Can you name even three schools that have traditionally had great academics and lots of wins, which are still winning today? I doubt it.

If this were the thought process that causes people to value the helmets, the obsession with this stuff would be a lot worse than I thought.

But pressure is inversely correlated with urethral diameter, which is itself directly correlated with penis size, which is, after all, what a pissing contest is ultimately about.

You win, but the internet is no place for social competence, dammit!

The point was that marijuana is widely used.

So I think they should throw him off the team to enforce their rules, but I don't understand the view that he must be stupid because of this. He's a college student committed to his own freedom, come what may. That's not exactly rare.

Marijuana (used by less than 25% of the population)

iPhones (ditto)

Makeup (used by less than half of the world's women and some men)

Oral contraceptives (used by less than half of the world's women)

Dermatologists (no way these are used by more than 25% of the population)

nytimes.com (ditto)

"Less than 25% of the population" is the dumbest metric for "widely used" I've ever heard of.

He has thought about it. People whine no matter what he does. The data are right there. Construct a different ranking if you don't like his. If it's better, people will upvote it.

Dude likes attention. It's been very obvious from his Twitter account for a long time. I mean, I don't have a Twitter account or visit Twitter more than once a month, and I know about his dramatic turns trying to rile up fan bases. But when I've said stuff along the lines of what EZMIKEP said here, everybody downvotes it. Maybe now that he's eliminated Michigan people around here will be willing to consider that this kid might just be a diva.

but all you did was name names with no details. Presumably you heard more than the names, but even if you didn't, you should say that, instead of acting like you have info but only want to tell the internet some of it.

Edit: How is this trolling? The guy still hasn't said anything about how he "knew" before any official statements. Having been associated with the university in several ways over the years, I'm pretty sure students don't just magically know what's happening unless somebody with an actual connection to the team tells them. He just repeated a rumor that could have easily been wrong. Sometimes The_Knowledge is right, too.

but i also noticed his crazy play. his kickoff coverage only occasionally resulted in a tackle, but a lot of the time he would just demolish whoever tried to block him. there were a few games this year where other teams' players got penalties, or should have gotten penalties, for retaliating on subsequent kickoffs after getting owned by him. once, the other team got a penalty because he responded to an attempted double team by destroying the first blocker and tackling the second in a way that made it look like he was the victim. i thought the guy had leapt on hawthorne with some sort of flying scissors kick, but after i watched the replay, it was pretty obvious hawthorne had just attacked the dude.

Wanna substantiate that?

not up to snuff. you disappoint me, knowledge.

Huh. I'd never heard that term before, so I just assumed it was similar to "butthurt". My apologies.

Maybe worth noting: if you Google "ankle bent", this thread is the first hit, and the only thing on Google's first page of results that can have the meaning you suggest.

You sorts can be very useful in classes where there is not a set amount of material to cover. If we are just supposed to be figuring out how to find our way through the literature in some area, it's great, and a lot less work, to have a student who will reliably ask reasonable questions that generate productive exchanges.

But just FYI your wife poops, too. Probably on like a daily basis. Sorry to ruin the mystique.

If you ignore the times that Trey and Spike have been in together, and the times that Jordan and Mitch have been in together, you might be right, yes. But no.

All you had to do was answer the questions and point out that I'm the one using uppity, played out French terms while calling you pompous and you were home free, man.

Can't help those who won't help themselves, can you, old boy?

Maybe this is just Section 1's coming out party, where he reveals himself to be an insecure look-at-me poster who's going to refer to himself in the 3rd person until somebody bothers to guess that he's the one who hosted whatever Golf Channel schlub we're supposed to be impressed by.

What the fuck are you talking about?

I suppose I'll change it eventually, though.

lame.

The OSU connection is just that sometimes a truck arrives with more frozen patties for the Spartans to flip.

But I think this didn't need to be a new thread. It might be better if you recast it as a Sunday afternoon discussion thread and just throw in your thoughts incidentally.

Try reading it again.

You are such a good troll.

just commenting so this is saved for posterity. enjoy your ban.