Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[OrangeBlood4life]

If each generation has to “be as tough” as the last we have failed as a species.

Yea, when these young guys that get hired at my job, have no idea what the claw part of the hammer even does. Don't get me started on how to even change a flat tire.

 

[VOLSONLY]

 

[delfonic]

Also, the self-sufficient tough guy doesn't really lend himself well to economies of scale. He first gets pressed to the fringes and then beyond the edge into nothingness. What replaces him is a creature that can survive in the prevailing system. For better or worse we are different animals living in a different world than our forebears.

My grandfather was a big, strong, hard-working man who couldn't read a lick. He broke his back laboring in a tobacco field so I wouldn't have to. I couldn't cut and spike tobacco to keep pace with him. He couldn't drive to downtown Nashville by himself even in the mid 1980s when that wasn't a big thing. Different animals, different world.

 

[delfonic]

Yea, when these young guys that get hired at my job, have no idea what the claw part of the hammer even does. Don't get me started on how to even change a flat tire.

Sounds like you've got a good opportunity to coach them up.

 

[OrangeBlood4life]

Also, the self-sufficient tough guy doesn't really lend himself well to economies of scale. He first gets pressed to the fringes and then beyond the edge into nothingness. What replaces him is a creature that can survive in the prevailing system. For better or worse we are different animals living in a different world than our forebears.

My grandfather was a big, strong, hard-working man who couldn't read a lick. He broke his back laboring in a tobacco field so I wouldn't have to. I couldn't cut and spike tobacco to keep pace with him. He couldn't drive to downtown Nashville by himself even in the mid 1980s when that wasn't a big thing. Different animals, different world.

And as soon as a hard time hits. The weak fold. The strong survive. Darwin

 

[Adam2014]

We had a good run, but looks like we are fizzling out/striking out with remaining recruits on the board... hopefully we can still get Ramil, and a few other solid pickups before the end of the cycle... looks like we are adding some studs, but surprised we haven't landed a top-tier WR or DL... plenty of EDGE but not really any true DT's... Hopefully the portal will be our friend again...

Anyone on the board still that I am missing? Another DT, WR, LB, and CB would hit the spot!

Nope, I do not think we are ever going to recruit anyone again.

 

[delfonic]

Nope, I do not think we are ever going to recruit anyone again.

If the past couple of decades are any indication, it is quite a bit of work for relatively little gain.

 

[delfonic]

And as soon as a hard time hits. The weak fold. The strong survive. Darwin

Pretty sure Darwin said "survival of the fittest" as opposed to strongest. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure he was using the evolutionary meaning of fitness as opposed to the cross-fit one.

 

[Orange_Crush]

Pretty sure Darwin said "survival of the fittest" as opposed to strongest. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure he was using the evolutionary meaning of fitness as opposed to the cross-fit one.

The Darwinian definition actually had to do with reproduction, so a decent understanding of gender probably played into it.

 

[TrippieRedd]

@TrippieRedd what do you think?
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that's pretty fire ngl

 

[Orange.]

One day closer to running through the T.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Side note, if anyone happens to know where this exact hat might be found, I would very much like to acquire it.

 

[Leeleesteeth]

I think that has more to do with cars being way more complicated these days

What does that have to do with drinking the battery contents?

 

[BarnesIsCaliparisDaddy]

Come on children you’re acting like children every generation thinks it’s the end of the world

 

[Orange_Crush]

Come on children you’re acting like children every generation thinks it’s the end of the world

Yep. I know puny, hapless folks and hardy, capable folks from any given generation. I know morans from any generation and very smart.

But all that aside, let's step aside and let the lulz roll.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Come on children you’re acting like children every generation thinks it’s the end of the world

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake…

 

[ACvol3]

What does that have to do with drinking the battery contents?

Yeah, I’m sure there weren’t any dumb warnings back in the 80s. I was talking about why they don’t go into how to tune the valves on modern cars

 

[SoilVol]

The Darwinian definition actually had to do with reproduction, so a decent understanding of gender probably played into it.

For example: it's not always the loudest and strongest frogs that mate. Genetically inferior and younger frogs often mate by being smart. They get close to a loud male, intercept females on their way, and pretend they're the big tough guy they came to see.

I forget the term for it, but it's a reference to how in the days of yore the court jesters often fathered many royal children because while all the royal men did macho things and got drunk and distracted at gatherings the jesters would swoon the women.

 

[SSVol]

Yeah, I’m sure there weren’t any dumb warnings back in the 80s. I was talking about why they don’t go into how to tune the valves on modern cars

Yeah. We know. That missed the entire point of the comparison.

 

[Orange Studs]

We had a good run, but looks like we are fizzling out/striking out with remaining recruits on the board... hopefully we can still get Ramil, and a few other solid pickups before the end of the cycle... looks like we are adding some studs, but surprised we haven't landed a top-tier WR or DL... plenty of EDGE but not really any true DT's... Hopefully the portal will be our friend again...

Anyone on the board still that I am missing? Another DT, WR, LB, and CB would hit the spot!

 

[Orange_Crush]

For example: it's not always the loudest and strongest frogs that mate. Genetically inferior and younger frogs often mate by being smart. They get close to a loud male, intercept females on their way, and pretend they're the big tough guy they came to see.

I forget the term for it, but it's a reference to how in the days of yore the court jesters often fathered many royal children because while all the royal men did macho things and got drunk and distracted at gatherings the jesters would swoon the women.

Yep. Darwinian "fittest" is just about leaving behind progeny. There are some existential philosophical dilemmas tied to that.

 

[VOLSONLY]

I came in from work this evening and picked some green beans, a few tomatoes and several pods of hot pepper. Got the wife to cook them and make a pan of cornbread, fried some chicken. There’s nothing better imo, all that hard work is paying off. Still waiting on the corn to come in.

 

[Orange_Crush]

For example: it's not always the loudest and strongest frogs that mate. Genetically inferior and younger frogs often mate by being smart. They get close to a loud male, intercept females on their way, and pretend they're the big tough guy they came to see.

I forget the term for it, but it's a reference to how in the days of yore the court jesters often fathered many royal children because while all the royal men did macho things and got drunk and distracted at gatherings the jesters would swoon the women.

And, I believe that's from the Jaskier branch of biology:

 

[delfonic]

Yep. Darwinian "fittest" is just about leaving behind progeny. There are some existential philosophical dilemmas tied to that.

 

[Jackcrevol]