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I don't follow this. Why are we seeing so many football players attending this stuff?

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This is the “look at me, I have a platform, building my brand, follow me @, me me me” generation.

How little impulse control does one have to have to start throwing hands in a place full of cops? Like, negative?

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Sudden loss of his 13 year old child. Hence feeling like nothing can possibly convey how sorry I am for his loss.

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Yeah I can’t imagine the grief of having to bury a child.

I vote food and bring it by if you can.

You’re right, it’s impossible to convey how sorry you are so just sit in it with them if they allow you to.

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the dumb OT response of “we are full”.

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I agree with your post overall but why is this dumb?

For some places, what makes them nice is that they’re not a destination for a lot of people.

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my wife is one of those "everyone should go to college if they qualify" types.

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I really do believe that this comes from a good place (and she’s far from alone). But from what I’m seeing (secondhand from my wife)…the way this plays out for a lot of families is an apathetic and unprepared kid being pushed along by a dogmatic parent (or parents) who “gets them to qualified” by doing application’s and letters for them and pressuring teachers and staff to pave the way. Parents have gone from “expecting kids to earn A’s” to “expecting K-12 to give them A’s so they can get into college”.

I don’t have any insights into what these kids end up doing once they get to college…maybe the lightbulb comes on at some point, but I’m sure a lot of them end up with lots of debt and nothing (or very little) to show for it.

We’ve taken your approach. If our kids want to go to college, they’re doing the work. We’ll help and guide and provide financial support but this is their mission, not ours.

We’re 1 for 2 with our adult kids. I’m projecting 2 for 4 once the little are grown. :lol:

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Seems to work for me, maybe try this. Or go back to your source which I’m sure will say the same.

I’m sure AI has a little to do with it, but we shouldn’t ignore the fact that there are a ton of people going to college nowadays who really shouldn’t be.

In 2000, 25% of adults had a college degree. We’re now closing in on 40%. Degrees mean less and cost multiples more.

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If I can't shower before work I feel gross and sticky all day. Even if I showered in the evening before bed.

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Try changing your sheets more often.

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How do they justify 20-50% price differences? Any horror stories or testimonials? They all seem to do the same thing and I can’t imagine a 1 year old having significant delta in experience.

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Please, please, please tell me that you’re not planning to pitch this to your wife.

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This can't be overstated.

Even as far back as 2008, I got hired on a new project, with a dozen other people, and during the orientation the lady is going around the circle having people talk about where they are from. Everyone was from somewhere else. When she got to me, I said "I'm from here". She said, but where are you from originally?. "Here.". But where were you born? "On Peachtree street at Piedmont hospital in 1978". For whatever reason the room bursted out in laughter, but it was the disbelief that someone could be working in Atlanta and also originally be from Atlanta or the immediate surrounding area.

As I worked there for years, in the whole office building (4 stories in Brookhaven), I only ever met two other people that were natives. Everyone else was from somewhere else. Not necessarily Yankees, but lots of people from the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama.

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This is exactly what it’s like, and I’m guilty as charged. I’m like, “oh you mean, like here here??” :lol:

Somehow in our brains, it’s like Sherman burned it down and it didn’t come back again until the 96 Olympics. :lol: