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peaygolf said:
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It can't be Tennessee. Our football team was a punchline from basically 2008-2020 with a couple of brief blips and still the fans were like
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There is one internet trend that disturbs me deeply and it's honestly been around forever. It's recording your encounter with a crazy person, them inevitably doing crazy things because they're obviously mentally ill, and then you getting sympathy over the encounter. I don't understand how so many people both IRL and online can't distinguish between obvious bad behavior and obvious mental illness. Twitter is full of these types of vids. I mean can people really not see the difference? To me, so many of these vids are obvious that I have a tough time with the notion that everyday people can't see what I see and think most of it is just bad public behavior rather than someone who is obviously having a mental health crisis and at minimum needs to be left alone.

(Yeah, I encountered one of those checking twitter for any Vol scoops.)
 
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Vol423 said:
Everybody has a right to say whatever they want. I choose to say that anyone thinking a true freshman running back is going to supplant two third year SEC running backs that are both coming off strong second years in the program are delusional. BTW, they're not even referring to Sampson either. They're saying that true freshman Cameron Seldon will supplant one of them.
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So, you don't think Jamal Lewis could supplant them?
 
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peaygolf said:
I post some of his stuff only because it goes from “really good,” to “absolute trash.”

It’s funny. I know exactly what he’s doing.

I ain’t stoopid ;)
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Oh, I meant on Twitter. Nothing at all wrong with pointing out stupid stuff in this little corner of the internet.
 
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SugarCC said:
Not you, you...pg. The 'you' in general. The royal 'you', the editorial.
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BGB is actually pretty smart. He posts just enough good to get ya kinda drawn in, and then posts something so off the wall …..

Just like he did today with the best RB duos and then having Vanderbilt as the best athletics program in TN.

It’s a shtick. I know what it is…It works I guess on some.
 
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UTProf said:
There is one internet trend that disturbs me deeply and it's honestly been around forever. It's recording your encounter with a crazy person, them inevitably doing crazy things because they're obviously mentally ill, and then you getting sympathy over the encounter. I don't understand how so many people both IRL and online can't distinguish between obvious bad behavior and obvious mental illness. Twitter is full of these types of vids. I mean can people really not see the difference? To me, so many of these vids are obvious that I have a tough time with the notion that everyday people can't see what I see and think most of it is just bad public behavior rather than someone who is obviously having a mental health crisis and at minimum needs to be left alone.

(Yeah, I encountered one of those checking twitter for any Vol scoops.)
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I think it's slowly seeping into the public's conscience.

I know if I saw a video 10 years ago of a "crazy person" I probably would have shrugged it off as a "nutbag" and maybe chuckled

I do feel like now I'm more of aware of, "oh this person may very likely be suffering from a mental disorder" and feel some sympathy or concern.

Internet videos, en masse, are still fairly new...10-15 years as being a huge thing. So many of us are having to reconfigure things... based on viewing things we never thought twice about before. Growing up in the 90s, a crazy man on the corner in downtown Knoxville...was just a "crazy guy". Always was and always will be. I guess we know better now to some degree. But it took time too.

The best thing that helps me online are folks posting sympathetic reminders...increasing awareness for all. This is the exception in a realm often full of disgusting comments...even when the person posting does not know the individual whatsoever. Anonymity brings out the worse in people oftentimes.
 
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