ThePoo

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anyone have any insight on what I’m missing?

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post season success in the last 20 years

Hope that helps

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Do you agree with Kirby Smart’s claim that Nick Saban’s Alabama teams from the 2010s would beat the “dog” out of today’s SEC teams?

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Hard to argue against it

The starting talent on the best teams are as good as they ever were, but Saban's teams at Alabama would grind you into dust with wave after wave of 4 and 5 star linemen

The talent in the conference and overall in cfb is still very much there as much as it ever was, it is however, more spread out now

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Would have stayed at Tulane had Tulane not allowed him to coach in the playoffs.

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Man if only Tulane had known that

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I'm not projecting anything; I have a feeling that your glee in launching into a sarcastic ad hominem

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I was just being a sarcastic a-hole

You suggesting I take "glee" in ad hominem attacks is closer to being an ad hominem attack

You suggesting I am not a rational reader is much closer to an ad hominem attack

Narrowing what I have said to simply "Hur dur" is much closer to an ad hominem attack


Also I did not say you believe all governments or take every institutions word for it, i ASKED if you do, mostly knowing you do not., which iimplies discernment and that there is a reason for this instance outside of Occam's Razor that may have been more pertinent

I saw "taking their word for it" as a set up for the person you were speaking to, implying that not taking their word for it would be wholey without merit or precedent, that suggesting otherwise would be preposterous, which i disagree with. Perhaps I misinterpreted your tone, and instead of responding more constructively, I replied in an admittedly sarcastic antagonistic manner. Now I have been trying since that post to be a bit more polite in tone but that does not seem to be helping with the condescension in your tone

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a silly distraction at best

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welcome to internet message boards :cheers:

relax my man

Sounds like you are projecting someone else's arguments to go after me

I neither stated what they said was factual in whole nor in part, I did not state that their reason was or was not propoganda. The only thing I take issue with is "take their word for it"

so I ask, do you always take these institution's word for it. My argument is simply should not go with something because they said so.

I have a feeling that your argument for your belief goes deeper than that, but you narrowed your side of the argument downt to "because they said so"

I probably should not have made my point the saracstic and condescending way I did, as I knew it would not be productive. I was just being antagonistic


And for the record, I do believe slavery and the circumstances surounding it financially, were very much a primary issue for southern states and secession

Before you start offering any of thses guys, make sure you have the appropriate and overly cautious amount of money set aside for pitchers

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You can't name the series "The REAL History"

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you confused the word can't with shouldn't

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if you aren't gonna tell the whole story.

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I have got a little news to break to you about literally the entire life span of written "history"

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Anyway, we are now in the realm of conjecture. As I said, I prefer to take the southern states at their very clearly stated word instead of assuming they were engaged in some form of propaganda based subterfuge

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I too prefer to take government and bureaucratic institutions at their word as these are not the types that would ever feed us propaganda. In fact I dare say that these institutions speak for and represent full heartedly all of their constituents. Great point

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the problem with the current american social economny is that everything remotely enjoyable needs to have a high barrier of entry to avoid trashy people

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Meh, maybe a little, but some of the things that use to bring us the most carefree joy was just hanging out with people you love, doesn't really matter where, doesn't really matter what you were doing. Just talking, laughing your asses off, telling friend stories, and simply forgetting about everything for a while

But now we are always carrying something with us into those moments, probably silently, and you can never really enjoy them as fully as you once did and if we do, it is much more fleeting

Always being connected to the world has essentially reprogrammed us to be worried about something at all times

It is not that people do not have time to have fun and enjoy themselves, it is that they simply cannot

Most people really arent capable of living fully in a moment of time anymore, they carry stresses from elsewhere whether in their mind, in their inbox, on their phone

This is something a lot of us were able to do as children but lose the ability to do as adults. It is somewhat of a natural tendency as we get older with more responsibility and more concerns, but I think this has been greatly exacerbated and accelerated by cell phones essentially becoming another body part for us