The Sissifying of America Continues
Posted by Pecuniology 4 years, 5 months ago to Culture
"According to Nassau[ County, New York]'s 'Section 8 Lopsided Score Committee', you can win – but not by more than 42 points."
Howard Roarke nods wistfully.
Howard Roarke nods wistfully.
Kids who lack skills do not need to learn that they are adequate or even in an acceptable range. Learning anything is difficult and improving something is often times even harder and worth the effort. This translates to whether you are sweeping a floor and trying to find ways to do your job better or building or engineering. Exploring is difficult, improving is harder. The reward for human striving is worth the effort, otherwise we would all be walking to where we want to go because it is good enough!
Children appreciate being coached. Everyone hates being pandered.
This reminds me of the early days of my career. [I had to bing the DuckDuckGo for Staunton. I'm guessing that it is in the People's Commonwealth of Virginia.]
In my case, I was in Miami, waiting tables in a restaurant with a beautiful view that was popular among tourists. Our signature dish was Lobster Imperial, a baked Florida Lobster with the body cavity stuffed with crab meat and topped with Sauce Hollandaise. Basically, it was a Heart Attack To Go.
I sold those things to tourists in English, German, and Spanish—because I am from Miami, and I can do that—so much that the chef held lobsters aside for me, just for fun and to see if I could sell them all.
Inevitably, I moved on to graduate school, and left the restaurant floor. A few years later, I was visiting my brother, and we went to my old employer for lunch. I saw my old boss at the bar and introduced myself. He drawled at me in his Southern German accent, "I remember you. You were a real prima donna." The funniest bit is that my German more closely approximates standard German than his Kauderwelsch dialect does.
"And the horse you rode in on..." I did not actually say, but showed in my eyes.
( Of course, I personally would never serve lobster, but that's irrelevant to this issue)
Of course, Staunton is in Virginia; I consider it the greatest city on earth, because that is where the job was that I was so happy on for a time.
https://youtu.be/2zfqw8nhUwA
When I was a Marine recruit being trained at Parris Island, we would jog in formation and the drill instructor would chant,
"PT! Good for you! PT! Good for me.!" Other stuff like "Um good!" was included.
PT referred to physical training. We all know what PC means.
"PC! Bad for you! PC! Bad for me!
Um bad! Really sad! Um bad! Really bad!
I don't know but I've been told!
PC's worse than having a bad cold!
A bad cold will go away!
PC slaves every word you say
Sound off!
PC bad!!
Sound off!
PC sad!"
Me dino warned you this would be silly.
I don't think it should be a formal rule,though.
"Math is racist", "students should be graded on effort not results", "excelling in a subject is racist because it discriminates against the dumb", the list continues.
Same for my airline pilot.
And the people who design and build any structure where I spend any time, the people at the various pharmaceutical companies who put together the drugs I need, etc.
Whatever leftists touch, it is the alleged beneficiaries of their activism who bear the greatest cost.
If maff is racis', then so be it. So is basketball.
Roll with it.
That is very perceptive, and perfectly said. Out of the mouths of babes...
Granted, when there's such a rule in place, it usually mandates that the game be stopped when the disparity in score reaches a certain level. That's what should have happened here, instead of punishing the winning coach.
If one opponent fell behind by some arbitrary difference in scores, the game was called.
If you are getting skunked, then you are out of your league.