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On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2014/8/27/6076813/quick-qusetion

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, hepatitis my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though. If you want to find me in a comment section, try Off Tackle Empire.
On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

“Quick Qusetion [sic]”

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, sildenafil my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”1.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

“Quick Qusetion [sic]”

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, here my kids, herpes and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though. If you want to find me in a comment section, try Off Tackle Empire.
On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

“Quick Qusetion [sic]”

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, ed my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”2.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
More specifically, global burden of disease how prevalent they are.

Some desperately want to believe that the so-called JoeBots are a small minority of fans (“the same hundred idiots”, etc). I think that’s naive.

If you divide Penn State’s fanbase into “highly engaged” versus “casual”, then discard the casual, then you’re left with the determination of “how many are JoeBots”.

I believe the PS4RS voting, and the internet, shows us that the proportion of JoeBots to sane Penn Staters among the “highly engaged” is at least 2-1 in favor of JoeBots (and that’s me being very conservative). Unfortunately, the older voting results (pre-Sandusky) don’t seem to show overall turnout, but the characterization by the media has been that turnout increased massively (the high point was north of 37,000 votes last year; presumably the pre-Sandusky turnout was at least under 20,000 or it could not have been labelled as a ‘surge’).

That means at least ten or twenty thousand new people voted in the trustee election post-Sandusky. And obviously the vast majority of them voted for PS4RS. This is not consistent with “the same hundred idiots” characterization some prefer.

Now compare to the number of highly engaged ‘sane’ Penn Staters. Take every screen name at BSD that’s ever posted, if you think those guys are sane (I don’t, but they’re perhaps saneR than PS4RS at least). Stack up against ten or twenty thousand new JoeBot voters and tell me which one is bigger.

This doesn’t mean “most Penn Staters are JoeBots”. There’s no way to tell that. What it does mean is that the people who think the JoeBots are a tiny fringe are likely not correct. There’s a shitload of people who don’t pay attention, likely dwarfing both groups, but “JoeBot” is almost surely a much larger group than “sane and engaged”.

Clear?

  1. except for a guy I know who only went to the thread after I pointed it out to him and had already written this post [↩]
  2. except for a guy I know who only went to the thread afte.

    Some other notes:

    It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
    On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

    “Quick Qusetion [sic]”

    People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, dosage my kids, patient and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

    I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

    The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

    The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

    Some other notes:

    It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
    On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

    “Quick Qusetion [sic]”

    People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, find my kids, medical and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

    I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

    The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

    The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

    Some other notes:

    It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS. Or just email me. It’s not that hard to find out the truth behind this nonsense, if you actually want to.
    On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

    “Quick Qusetion [sic]”

    People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, patient my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

    I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

    The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

    The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far” ((except for a guy I know who only went to the thread after I pointed it out to him and had already written this post [↩]

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Something from BSD that is the opposite of suck, try
from user “pentimental”:

fubsd

The Mona Lisa of O H I O

The Mona Lisa of O H I O


Something from BSD that is the opposite of suck, try
from user “pentimental”:

fubsd

The Mona Lisa of O H I O

The Mona Lisa of O H I O


Something from BSD that is the opposite of suck, anabolics
from user “pentimental”:

The Mona Lisa of O H I O

The Mona Lisa of O H I O


On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2014/8/27/6076813/quick-qusetion

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, hepatitis my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though. If you want to find me in a comment section, try Off Tackle Empire.
On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

“Quick Qusetion [sic]”

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, sildenafil my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”1.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

“Quick Qusetion [sic]”

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, here my kids, herpes and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though. If you want to find me in a comment section, try Off Tackle Empire.
On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

“Quick Qusetion [sic]”

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, ed my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”2.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
More specifically, global burden of disease how prevalent they are.

Some desperately want to believe that the so-called JoeBots are a small minority of fans (“the same hundred idiots”, etc). I think that’s naive.

If you divide Penn State’s fanbase into “highly engaged” versus “casual”, then discard the casual, then you’re left with the determination of “how many are JoeBots”.

I believe the PS4RS voting, and the internet, shows us that the proportion of JoeBots to sane Penn Staters among the “highly engaged” is at least 2-1 in favor of JoeBots (and that’s me being very conservative). Unfortunately, the older voting results (pre-Sandusky) don’t seem to show overall turnout, but the characterization by the media has been that turnout increased massively (the high point was north of 37,000 votes last year; presumably the pre-Sandusky turnout was at least under 20,000 or it could not have been labelled as a ‘surge’).

That means at least ten or twenty thousand new people voted in the trustee election post-Sandusky. And obviously the vast majority of them voted for PS4RS. This is not consistent with “the same hundred idiots” characterization some prefer.

Now compare to the number of highly engaged ‘sane’ Penn Staters. Take every screen name at BSD that’s ever posted, if you think those guys are sane (I don’t, but they’re perhaps saneR than PS4RS at least). Stack up against ten or twenty thousand new JoeBot voters and tell me which one is bigger.

This doesn’t mean “most Penn Staters are JoeBots”. There’s no way to tell that. What it does mean is that the people who think the JoeBots are a tiny fringe are likely not correct. There’s a shitload of people who don’t pay attention, likely dwarfing both groups, but “JoeBot” is almost surely a much larger group than “sane and engaged”.

Clear?

You have to use a hand truck because of all the gravitas.

You have to use a hand truck because of all the gravitas.

1. Every year, click the game is played between the two noble squads, more about in the most significant rivalry the Big Ten has ever seen.

2. At the conclusion of said contest, herpes the winner gets (is required) to weld or bolt an item of their choice to the trophy.

3. Following said welding/bolting activity, the loser of said game must take the trophy home and display it prominently until the following year’s contest.

THAT IS ALL.

  1. except for a guy I know who only went to the thread after I pointed it out to him and had already written this post [↩]
  2. except for a guy I know who only went to the thread afte.

    Some other notes:

    It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
    On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

    “Quick Qusetion [sic]”

    People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, dosage my kids, patient and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

    I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

    The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

    The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

    Some other notes:

    It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.
    On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

    “Quick Qusetion [sic]”

    People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, find my kids, medical and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

    I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

    The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

    The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

    Some other notes:

    It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS. Or just email me. It’s not that hard to find out the truth behind this nonsense, if you actually want to.
    On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

    “Quick Qusetion [sic]”

    People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, patient my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

    I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

    The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

    The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far” ((except for a guy I know who only went to the thread after I pointed it out to him and had already written this post [↩]

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Something from BSD that is the opposite of suck, try
from user “pentimental”:

fubsd

The Mona Lisa of O H I O

The Mona Lisa of O H I O


Something from BSD that is the opposite of suck, try
from user “pentimental”:

fubsd

The Mona Lisa of O H I O

The Mona Lisa of O H I O


Something from BSD that is the opposite of suck, anabolics
from user “pentimental”:

The Mona Lisa of O H I O

The Mona Lisa of O H I O


On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2014/8/27/6076813/quick-qusetion

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, hepatitis my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though. If you want to find me in a comment section, try Off Tackle Empire.
On my weekly-ish sojourn to BSD I see this thread:

“Quick Qusetion [sic]”

People trying to assert their superiority to yours truly in the same thread where they mention my wife, sildenafil my kids, and try to establish I must have been abused as a child.

I urge you to go back to this thread, which was the one in which I was banned, in which I simply but firmly asked the moderator why one of his pals was not being held to the same standard of behavior he insisted I do. No attacks on anybody’s family (I’ve never done that); or their spouse; or what have you.

The differences between me and the BSD community are that I show you the evidence to back up my claim, and it actually matches what I’m saying. Oh, and, once again, I don’t make things personal by, let’s say, stating people’s kids need to be on suicide watch.

The first link, people, and that “suicide watch” comment, is what BSD is. And they’re actually proud of it. Nobody ever makes them stop. None of their fellow community members ever say “hey, man, that’s too far”1.

Some other notes:

It was asserted in that execrable thread above that this is “my blog”. This is actually a side project designed to keep sports content out of my main flow; I don’t write much here because I lost the urge to talk about sports for the most part after seeing how much like every other fanbase ours was, and then the reception I got on BSD for being an adult and saying that our community, the one who claimed we were better than everybody for so long, needed to own this shit and not try to get out of it. I do a lot of writing on other topics, though, on twitter or less often (but much more often than here) on the main blog focusing on transportation and land use. If you want to find me in a sports comment section, try Off Tackle Empire or once in a long while on EDSBS.

  1. except for a guy I know who only went to the thread after I pointed it out to him and had already written this post [↩]

Black Shoe Diaries, in pictures, for now

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The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

Other than Michigan, illness the Stupid Midwesterners Division panned out within a reasonable range of how I thought it would. Minny seems like wrong but they really did suck this badly. Brady Hoke did a surprisingly good job. I worry he’s going to bring them back to Carr levels fairly quickly.

Now for the Slightly Less Stupid Eastern Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 Wisc 8-0
2 tOSU 4-4
3 tPSU 6-2
4 Zookers 5-3
5 Indy 1-7
6 Purdue 1-7

1A Wiscy 6-2
1B tPSU 6-2
3 Purdue 4-4
4 tOSU 3-5
5 Zookers 2-6
6 Indy 0-8

Not so good here. Note: Don’t say Penn State tied for first. Wisconsin beat us head-to-head. They are 1A, food we’re 1B. Purdue seemed like they sucked when I watched them but they somehow exceeded expectations by a lot, while Greater Evil got deservedly pantsed.
The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

Other than Michigan, healthful the Stupid Midwesterners Division panned out within a reasonable range of how I thought it would. Minny seems like wrong but they really did suck this badly. Brady Hoke did a surprisingly good job. I worry he’s going to bring them back to Carr levels fairly quickly.

Now for the Slightly Less Stupid Eastern Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 Wisc 8-0
2 tOSU 4-4
3 tPSU 6-2
4 Zookers 5-3
5 Indy 1-7
6 Purdue 1-7

1A Wiscy 6-2
1B tPSU 6-2
3 Purdue 4-4
4 tOSU 3-5
5 Zookers 2-6
6 Indy 0-8

Not so good here. Note: Don’t say Penn State tied for first. Wisconsin beat us head-to-head. They are 1A, viagra buy we’re 1B. Purdue seemed like they sucked when I watched them but they somehow exceeded expectations by a lot, while Greater Evil got deservedly pantsed.
The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

Other than Michigan, artificial the Stupid Midwesterners Division panned out within a reasonable range of how I thought it would. Minny seems like wrong but they really did suck this badly. Brady Hoke did a surprisingly good job. I worry he’s going to bring them back to Carr levels fairly quickly.

Now for the Slightly Less Stupid Eastern Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 Wisc 8-0
2 tPSU 6-2
3 Zookers 5-3
4 tOSU 4-4
5 Indy 1-7
6 Purdue 1-7

1A Wiscy 6-2
1B tPSU 6-2
3 Purdue 4-4
4 tOSU 3-5
5 Zookers 2-6
6 Indy 0-8

(Note that for some stupid reason I ordered by in-division record, cialis 40mg which was dumb and not correct; I have fixed it here).

Not so good here. Note: Don’t say Penn State tied for first. Wisconsin beat us head-to-head. They are 1A, we’re 1B. Purdue seemed like they sucked when I watched them but they somehow exceeded expectations by a lot, while Greater Evil got deservedly pantsed.
The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

Other than Michigan, gastritis the Stupid Midwesterners Division panned out within a reasonable range of how I thought it would. Minny seems like wrong but they really did suck this badly. Brady Hoke did a surprisingly good job. I worry he’s going to bring them back to Carr levels fairly quickly.

Now for the Slightly Less Stupid Eastern Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 Wisc 8-0
2 tPSU 6-2
3 Zookers 5-3
4 tOSU 4-4
5 Indy 1-7
6 Purdue 1-7

1A Wiscy 6-2
1B tPSU 6-2
3 Purdue 4-4
4 tOSU 3-5
5 Zookers 2-6
6 Indy 0-8

(Note that for some stupid reason I ordered by in-division record, which was dumb and not correct; I have fixed it here).

Not so good here. Note: Don’t say Penn State tied for first. Wisconsin beat us head-to-head. They are 1A, we’re 1B. Purdue seemed like they sucked when I watched them but they somehow exceeded expectations by a lot, while Greater Evil got deservedly pantsed.
The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

Other than Michigan, this the Stupid Midwesterners Division panned out within a reasonable range of how I thought it would. Minny seems like wrong but they really did suck this badly. Brady Hoke did a surprisingly good job. I worry he’s going to bring them back to Carr levels fairly quickly.

Now for the Slightly Less Stupid Eastern Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 Wisc 8-0
2 tPSU 6-2
3 Zookers 5-3
4 tOSU 4-4
5 Indy 1-7
6 Purdue 1-7

1A Wiscy 6-2
1B tPSU 6-2
3 Purdue 4-4
4 tOSU 3-5
5 Zookers 2-6
6 Indy 0-8

(Note that for some stupid reason I ordered by in-division record, anorexia which was dumb and not correct; I have fixed it here).

Not so good here. Note: Don’t say Penn State tied for first. Wisconsin beat us head-to-head. They are 1A, we’re 1B. Purdue seemed like they sucked when I watched them but they somehow exceeded expectations by a lot, while Greater Evil got deservedly pantsed. Also, Ron Zook? Why can’t I quit you?
Do I really have to tell you to click the images to embiggen them? I hope not.

This is how people thought BSD was a while back

This is how people thought BSD was a while back

When I and aurabass were both involved in the site – people assumed we were the opposite poles of the spectrum. This is sort of what that looked like.

But wait. What happens when you zoom out a bit?

Knowledgeable football fans

Knowledgeable football fans – people who read all or most of the Freeh report, breast for instance.

Once you zoom out, viagra you realize that there’s a whole universe of people who follow football very closely and are smart people who, cough really, would view M1EK as somewhat nicer to Paterno than the facts would warrant. Really nothing is added to the aurabass side of the picture here. In fact, there are a whole passel of Penn State fans who don’t post to BSD who are to the right of M1EK in this graph – hanging out in places like EDSBS.

Is this the end? Nope. Zoom out a little further:

General public

General public

This is how the general public views things now. Notice there’s really nobody in the general public to the other side of aurabass, but the supposedly equally radical M1EK now looks like what he really is – somebody who bled blue and white who was just disappointed as all fuck in both his old hero and his fellow alums.

So, did BSD really even things out by banning the two people in their ‘poles’ – even though M1EK was banned for just getting under the skin of a particular shitheel rather than actually violating any site rules?

Nope

Nope

Aurabass was banned and in his place a couple of dudes apparently from PS4RS have picked up his slack. Meanwhile, on the “reasonable Penn State fan” side, nobody is willing to step back into that cesspool after seeing how people are treated who dare defy the Paterno gospel.

More if I garner the energy. Don’t hold your breath.

How’d I do?

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The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

Other than Michigan, for sale condom the Stupid Midwesterners Division panned out within a reasonable range of how I thought it would. Minny seems like wrong but they really did suck this badly. Brady Hoke did a surprisingly good job. I worry he’s going to bring them back to Carr levels fairly quickly.

Now for the Slightly Less Stupid Eastern Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 Wisc 8-0
2 tPSU 6-2
3 Zookers 5-3
4 tOSU 4-4
5 Indy 1-7
6 Purdue 1-7

1A Wiscy 6-2
1B tPSU 6-2
3 Purdue 4-4
4 tOSU 3-5
5 Zookers 2-6
6 Indy 0-8

(Note that for some stupid reason I ordered by in-division record, anabolics which was dumb and not correct; I have fixed it here).

Not so good here. Note: Don’t say Penn State tied for first. Wisconsin beat us head-to-head. They are 1A, doctor we’re 1B. Purdue seemed like they sucked when I watched them but they somehow exceeded expectations by a lot, while Greater Evil got deservedly pantsed. Also, Ron Zook? Why can’t I quit you?

Also, as usual, I underestimate chaos and tend to assume good teams always beat bad teams. Note to self – throw in 50% more chaos next time.

On False Narratives (Regarding Bannings)

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Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, geriatrician this shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the police. They, seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz, as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 
Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, symptoms this shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the police. They, side effects seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, order have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz, as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 
Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, remedy this, apoplexy in addition to Item The FIrst, hospital shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the university police.

A fairly representative sample from NPR:

As the senior vice president for finance and business — which gives him oversight of university police — Schultz, 62, has been charged with covering up abuse allegations.

Note the word “oversight”. They do not say he is a cop. They know he is not a cop, as should you.

The national media, seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz (and Curley), as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

And again, note from Item The First that these are just the university police. Most folks in the national media would not consider them under the umbrella “the cops”, but even if they did, you lose on Schultz not being a university “cop”.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 
Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, see this shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the police. They, phlebologist seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz, as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 
Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, diagnosis this shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the police.

A fairly representative sample from NPR:

As the senior vice president for finance and business — which gives him oversight of university police — Schultz, 62, has been charged with covering up abuse allegations.

Note the word “oversight”. They do not say he is a cop. They know he is not a cop, as should you.

The national media, seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz, as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 
Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, rx this shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the police.

A fairly representative sample from NPR:

As the senior vice president for finance and business — which gives him oversight of university police — Schultz, plague 62, order has been charged with covering up abuse allegations.

Note the word “oversight”. They do not say he is a cop. They know he is not a cop, as should you.

The national media, seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz, as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 
Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, resuscitation this shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the police.

A fairly representative sample from NPR:

As the senior vice president for finance and business — which gives him oversight of university police — Schultz, 62, has been charged with covering up abuse allegations.

Note the word “oversight”. They do not say he is a cop. They know he is not a cop, as should you.

The national media, seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz (and Curley), as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 
This comment by user “OctaShields” resulted in a temporary ban that was protested vigorously for days by people who insisted that the old moderator would NEVER have banned somebody for directly attacking him:

NOTE “throbbing boner” and other such attacks.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST:

THIS comment was made from an unidentified induhdividual to that same old moderator referenced above (the one who would never ban anybody for attacking him or disagreeing with him) after a particularly distasteful personal attack was made (TO the commenter, psychiatrist not by him) a couple of comments upstream (follow the link above and use the scrollbar to see it):

NOTE: The “H” word is “homer”.

And THIS is what that commenter got immediately afterwards, orthopedist and for every visit since (years, now):

So, #teambanned, I can expect you to stop the false narrative that the old guy was a kindly overseer who didn’t care when people attacked him, right? Or that he had tolerance for dissenting points of view?


Note that over the couple of years following, several other posters were banned, and numerous others left of their own accord in response to a perception of groupthink and a general lack of support for dissent among the “community”. At the time this image above was first generated, the “community” was fairly new and it was fairly truthful for the old moderator to make the claim that he had only banned one other person; but by the time the site changed hands, that was no longer the case.

Penn State: Burn Everything Down: Item The Second

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The predictions were here.

 

Stupid Midwesterners Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 kNU 6-2
2 MSU 6-2
3 Iowa 5-3
4 jNW 3-5
5 UM 3-5
6 Minny 0-8

1 MSU 7-1
2 UM 6-2
3 kNU 5-3
4 Iowa 4-4
5 jNW 3-5
6 Minny 2-6

Other than Michigan, for sale condom the Stupid Midwesterners Division panned out within a reasonable range of how I thought it would. Minny seems like wrong but they really did suck this badly. Brady Hoke did a surprisingly good job. I worry he’s going to bring them back to Carr levels fairly quickly.

Now for the Slightly Less Stupid Eastern Division:

My predictions: Actual results:

1 Wisc 8-0
2 tPSU 6-2
3 Zookers 5-3
4 tOSU 4-4
5 Indy 1-7
6 Purdue 1-7

1A Wiscy 6-2
1B tPSU 6-2
3 Purdue 4-4
4 tOSU 3-5
5 Zookers 2-6
6 Indy 0-8

(Note that for some stupid reason I ordered by in-division record, anabolics which was dumb and not correct; I have fixed it here).

Not so good here. Note: Don’t say Penn State tied for first. Wisconsin beat us head-to-head. They are 1A, doctor we’re 1B. Purdue seemed like they sucked when I watched them but they somehow exceeded expectations by a lot, while Greater Evil got deservedly pantsed. Also, Ron Zook? Why can’t I quit you?

Also, as usual, I underestimate chaos and tend to assume good teams always beat bad teams. Note to self – throw in 50% more chaos next time.
Following up to Item The First

Since M1EK is still banned from Homer Central for being substantially less of a jerk to the previous moderator than #teambanned was to the current moderator, cystitis this, and in addition to Item The FIrst, website shall serve as my response to about eleventy-billion comments of the form:

“Paterno DID report it to the police! Gary Schultz! What else was he supposed to do? Go vigilante?”

Dear fools:

Gary Schultz had financial oversight of the campus police department. He was an executive in the organization that had every incentive to cover up the crime rather than investigate it. He is NOT A COP. He does NOT WEAR A BADGE.

The media that you keep attacking for “not knowing the facts” does in fact know the fact that Schultz had financial oversight of the university police.

A fairly representative sample from NPR:

As the senior vice president for finance and business — which gives him oversight of university police — Schultz, 62, has been charged with covering up abuse allegations.

Note the word “oversight”. They do not say he is a cop. They know he is not a cop, as should you.

The national media, seeing as how they have brains that aren’t clouded by blind loyalty, have concluded, as have many of those like me, that he DOES NOT COUNT AS “THE COPS” for the reason that he, again, does not wear a badge; does not work in law enforcement; and had natural incentives to cover up the crime rather than investigate it.

And Paterno knew that. So if he only went to Schultz (and Curley), as it appears he did (stay tuned for future post blasting a hole in the “bbbbut we don’t know what else he did!” claim), he did the bare minimum required by law, but he did NOT “go to the cops” in the way most people would understand it.

And again, note from Item The First that these are just the university police. Most folks in the national media would not consider them under the umbrella “the cops”, but even if they did, you lose on Schultz not being a university “cop”.

So, homers?

Shut up. Again, just shut up. You’re making it worse every time you open your mouths.

 

 

 

Penn State: Burn Everything Down: Item The First

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Dear sports “communities”: I really don’t have time for this. Really. But you’ve ground my gears so much I have to take three seconds away from curing cancer at my real jorb to do this for the sake of the entire internet.

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Trolling means something.

It does not mean “an argument I don’t like”. It does not mean “an argument I think it stupid”. It does not even mean “an argument that really makes me mad”.

It means “somebody is yanking your chain on purpose, and, and this is the most important part: usually doesn’t even believe what they are saying“. The easiest way to tell if it’s a troll is if they are saying something they know is not actually true. Not a matter of opinion; not “I disagree”; but counting two things and coming up with three. Or insisting that the moon landing happened in 1968. It has a long and storied history, originally on USENET, when we called it “fishing”. How do I know this? BECAUSE I DID IT A LOT, JACKWAGONS.

Here’s a really good example (found it in like 3 seconds). I had a Michigan fan going in circles calling me stupid for not being able to count, and mispelling the name of Albert Einstien, while everybody who knew what was going on was giggling behind their own computers in their mom’s basement. (No, YOUR mom’s basement!). In threads like these, I would say “anybody can fake a web page” when refuted with something they dragged up, make my own fake web page, post it in response, and then answer “it’s impossible to fake web pages” when they’d call foul, and they’d never realize they had a hook in their mouth. Or say I had 3 reasons they were wrong, post two (numbered 1 and 2, or even better, 1 and B), then when they called me stupid for not counting correctly, I’d insist I had no idea what they were talking about, and edit the quoted material accordingly. Then, when accused of changing the post, I’d tell them they were clearly idots – because you can’t change something that’s already been posted for these 3 reasons: 1, B. Lather, rinse, repeat, catch, release.

Another good example (difficult to find proto-thread in google groups given that searches prior to 2000 appear to be only intermittently working anymore) is when I made some Nebraska fans furious by insisting that they tied Kansas that one year (1994) when they actually lost to them. I also at a slightly later point had them convinced I was a Nebraska fan by the clever fiction of signing my posts “Husker M1EK” while changing absolutely nothing else.

So that’s fishing, or trolling as you n00bs like to call it now.

Again: things that are NOT trolling: “Somebody said something that I don’t like!”, or “Somebody keeps pissing me off”, or even “Somebody keeps pissing everyone off”. If they believe what they’re saying, it’s not trolling, not really.

Doo Doo De Doooo!


Dear sports “communities”: I really don’t have time for this. Really. But you’ve ground my gears so much I have to take three seconds away from curing cancer at my real jorb to do this for the sake of the entire internet.

I'm like a fatter, <a href=

prescription better looking, Peter Griffin.” width=”500″ height=”379″ />

Trolling means something.

It does not mean “an argument I don’t like”. It does not mean “an argument I think it stupid”. It does not even mean “an argument that really makes me mad”. Which is how some people are using it these days.

Pretty sure this is Reading Rambler

Charlie Sheen fits in at BSD

It means “somebody is yanking your chain on purpose, and, and this is the most important part: usually doesn’t even believe what they are saying“. The easiest way to tell if it’s a troll is if they are saying something they know is not actually true. Not a matter of opinion; not “I disagree”; but counting two things and coming up with three. Or insisting that the moon landing happened in 1968. It has a long and storied history, originally on USENET, when we called it “fishing”. How do I know this? BECAUSE I DID IT A LOT, JACKWAGONS.

Here’s a really good example (found it in like 3 seconds). I had a Michigan fan going in circles calling me stupid for not being able to count, and mispelling the name of Albert Einstien, while everybody who knew what was going on was giggling behind their own computers in their mom’s basement. (No, YOUR mom’s basement!). In threads like these, I would say “anybody can fake a web page” when refuted with something they dragged up, make my own fake web page, post it in response, and then answer “it’s impossible to fake web pages” when they’d call foul, and they’d never realize they had a hook in their mouth. Or say I had 3 reasons they were wrong, post two (numbered 1 and 2, or even better, 1 and B), then when they called me stupid for not counting correctly, I’d insist I had no idea what they were talking about, and edit the quoted material accordingly. Then, when accused of changing the post, I’d tell them they were clearly idots – because you can’t change something that’s already been posted for these 3 reasons: 1, B. Lather, rinse, repeat, catch, release.

Another good example (difficult to find proto-thread in google groups given that searches prior to 2000 appear to be only intermittently working anymore) is when I made some Nebraska fans furious by insisting that they tied Kansas that one year (1994) when they actually lost to them. I also at a slightly later point had them convinced I was a Nebraska fan by the clever fiction of signing my posts “Husker M1EK” while changing absolutely nothing else.

So that’s fishing, or trolling as you n00bs like to call it now.

Again: things that are NOT trolling: “Somebody said something that I don’t like!”, or “Somebody keeps pissing me off”, or even “Somebody keeps pissing everyone off”. If they believe what they’re saying, it’s not trolling, not really.

Doo Doo De Doooo!


Dear sports “communities”: I really don’t have time for this. Really. But you’ve ground my gears so much I have to take three seconds away from curing cancer at my real jorb to do this for the sake of the entire internet.

I'm like a fatter, better looking, Peter Griffin.

Trolling means something.

It does not mean “an argument I don’t like”. It does not mean “an argument I think it stupid”. It does not even mean “an argument that really makes me mad”. Which is how some people are using it these days.

Pretty sure this is Reading Rambler

Charlie Sheen fits in at BSD

It means “somebody is yanking your chain on purpose, and, and this is the most important part: usually doesn’t even believe what they are saying“. The easiest way to tell if it’s a troll is if they are saying something they know is not actually true. Not a matter of opinion; not “I disagree”; but counting two things and coming up with three. Or insisting that the moon landing happened in 1968. It has a long and storied history, originally on USENET, when we called it “fishing”. How do I know this? BECAUSE I DID IT A LOT, JACKWAGONS.

Here’s a really good example (found it in like 3 seconds). I had a Michigan fan going in circles calling me stupid for not being able to count, and mispelling the name of Albert Einstien, while everybody who knew what was going on was giggling behind their own computers in their mom’s basement. (No, YOUR mom’s basement!). In threads like these, I would say “anybody can fake a web page” when refuted with something they dragged up, make my own fake web page, post it in response, and then answer “it’s impossible to fake web pages” when they’d call foul, and they’d never realize they had a hook in their mouth. Or say I had 3 reasons they were wrong, post two (numbered 1 and 2, or even better, 1 and B), then when they called me stupid for not counting correctly, I’d insist I had no idea what they were talking about, and edit the quoted material accordingly. Then, when accused of changing the post, I’d tell them they were clearly idots – because you can’t change something that’s already been posted for these 3 reasons: 1, B. Lather, rinse, repeat, catch, release.

Another good example (difficult to find proto-thread in google groups given that searches prior to 2000 appear to be only intermittently working anymore) is when I made some Nebraska fans furious by insisting that they tied Kansas that one year (1994) when they actually lost to them. I also at a slightly later point had them convinced I was a Nebraska fan by the clever fiction of signing my posts “Husker M1EK” while changing absolutely nothing else.

So that’s fishing, or trolling as you n00bs like to call it now.

Again: things that are NOT trolling: “Somebody said something that I don’t like!”, or “Somebody keeps pissing me off”, or even “Somebody keeps pissing everyone off”. If they believe what they’re saying, it’s not trolling, not really.

Doo Doo De Doooo!


Dear sports “communities”: I really don’t have time for this. Really. But you’ve ground my gears so much I have to take three seconds away from curing cancer at my real jorb to do this for the sake of the entire internet.

I'm like a fatter, <a href=

oncology better looking, health Peter Griffin.” width=”500″ height=”379″ />

Trolling means something.

It does not mean “an argument I don’t like”. It does not mean “an argument I think it stupid”. It does not even mean “an argument that really makes me mad”. Which is how some people are using it these days.

Pretty sure this is Reading Rambler

Charlie Sheen fits in at BSD

It means “somebody is yanking your chain on purpose, and, and this is the most important part: usually doesn’t even believe what they are saying“. The easiest way to tell if it’s a troll is if they are saying something they know is not actually true. Not a matter of opinion; not “I disagree”; but counting two things and coming up with three. Or insisting that the moon landing happened in 1968. It has a long and storied history, originally on USENET, when we called it “fishing”. How do I know this? BECAUSE I DID IT A LOT, JACKWAGONS.

Here’s a really good example (found it in like 3 seconds). I had a Michigan fan going in circles calling me stupid for not being able to count, and mispelling the name of Albert Einstien, while everybody who knew what was going on was giggling behind their own computers in their mom’s basement. (No, YOUR mom’s basement!). In threads like these, I would say “anybody can fake a web page” when refuted with something they dragged up, make my own fake web page, post it in response, and then answer “it’s impossible to fake web pages” when they’d call foul, and they’d never realize they had a hook in their mouth. Or say I had 3 reasons they were wrong, post two (numbered 1 and 2, or even better, 1 and B), then when they called me stupid for not counting correctly, I’d insist I had no idea what they were talking about, and edit the quoted material accordingly. Then, when accused of changing the post, I’d tell them they were clearly idots – because you can’t change something that’s already been posted for these 3 reasons: 1, B. Lather, rinse, repeat, catch, release.

Another good example (difficult to find proto-thread in google groups given that searches prior to 2000 appear to be only intermittently working anymore) is when I made some Nebraska fans furious by insisting that they tied Kansas that one year (1994) when they actually lost to them. I also at a slightly later point had them convinced I was a Nebraska fan by the clever fiction of signing my posts “Husker M1EK” while changing absolutely nothing else.

So that’s fishing, or trolling as you n00bs like to call it now.

Again: things that are NOT trolling: “Somebody said something that I don’t like!”, or “Somebody keeps pissing me off”, or even “Somebody keeps pissing everyone off”. If they believe what they’re saying, it’s not trolling, not really.

Doo Doo De Doooo!


I don’t know how much stomach I’ll have to write on this, heart because Joe Paterno was pretty much my #1 hero growing up, ailment so I need to get this out quickly.

In regards to the legion of apologists for Paterno infesting Homer Central; I say this, anemia short and to the point:

STOP SAYING THAT PATERNO “DID GO TO THE COPS” BECAUSE HE REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO CURLEY AND SCHULTZ. YES, WE ARE AWARE SCHULTZ WAS IN CHARGE OF THE UNIVERSITY POLICE. NO, THAT IS NOT WHAT WE MEAN BY “THE COPS”. 

University Police are a small step up from mall cops. There are some real cops in downtown State College. THOSE ARE “THE COPS”.

Shut up, apologists. I command you to shut up.

Sincerely,

M1EK

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Well, abortion there’s some kind of exhibition game going on tomorrow against Indiana State, ed but we all know that can’t be a real game that counts, salve right? Because it wouldn’t be fair; wouldn’t be “success with honor” to beat up on a team from a conference whose stadiums average around 16,000 seats and from a league which offer substantially lower athletic scholarships than our league does…

Division I FCS schools are currently restricted to giving financial assistance amounting to 63 full scholarships. Unlike Bowl Subdivision schools, Championship Subdivision schools may divide their allotment into partial scholarships, but Championship Subdivision schools are limited to 85 players receiving any sort of athletic financial aid for football. Because of competitive forces, however, a substantial number of players in Championship Subdivision programs are on full scholarships.

According to the fine folks at BSD, there’s nothing wrong with doing the football equivalent of having the Texas Rangers not only play a game against the Round Rock Express but have it count in the standings for both teams. After all, both teams play the same game by the same rules, right? Balls and strikes and whatnot?

Huh. Doesn’t seem right to me. But I’m assured by the homers at BSD that it still doesn’t matter because everybody does. So I’m sure that if I look at the top-flight programs in the BCS conferences, I won’t find anybody who didn’t schedule a 1-AA team. Let’s start!

Team 1-AA games
Ohio State None
Michigan None
Nebraska Chatanooga
Florida State Charleston Southern
Miami Bethune-Cookman
Virginia Tech Appalachian State
Pitt Maine
Oklahoma None
Texas None
Texas A&M None
Noter Dame None
Oregon Missouri State
UCLA None
USC None
Alabama Georgia Southern
Auburn Samford
Florida Furman
Georgia Coastal Carolina
LSU Northwestern State

It goes on like that. Point is that the biggest SEC teams and ACC teams seem to schedule a 1-AA team every single season; and most top-flight programs from other conferences did not. (Of course they schedule one once in a while – Hi Michigan!; but not every single season like Penn State has done lately). An interesting aside: Most of the teams on that list with 9-game conference schedules actually didn’t schedule a 1-AA game.

So, homers, I breathlessly await your apology. Everybody doesn’t do it. And after that, I guess you need to decide who you want to be more like: Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, UCLA; or Florida, Georgia, Auburn, Alabama, Pitt? Just let me know, K?

Will the BSD commentariat get the point?


Dear sports “communities”: I really don’t have time for this. Really. But you’ve ground my gears so much I have to take three seconds away from curing cancer at my real jorb to do this for the sake of the entire internet.

I'm like a fatter, <a href=

site better looking, Peter Griffin.” width=”500″ height=”379″ />

Trolling means something.

It does not mean “an argument I don’t like”. It does not mean “an argument I think is stupid”. It does not even mean “an argument that really makes me mad because they keep making it at me”. Which is how some people are using it these days.

Pretty sure this is Reading Rambler

Charlie Sheen fits in at BSD

It means “somebody is yanking your chain on purpose, and, and this is the most important part: usually doesn’t even believe what they are saying“. The easiest way to tell if it’s a troll is if they are saying something they know is not actually true. Not a matter of opinion; not “I disagree”; but counting two things and coming up with three. Or insisting that the moon landing happened in 1968. It has a long and storied history, originally on USENET, when we called it “fishing”. How do I know this? BECAUSE I DID IT A LOT, JACKWAGONS.

Here’s a really good example (found it in like 3 seconds). I had a Michigan fan going in circles calling me stupid for not being able to count, and mispelling the name of Albert Einstien, while everybody who knew what was going on was giggling behind their own computers in their mom’s basement. (No, YOUR mom’s basement!). In threads like these, I would say “anybody can fake a web page” when refuted with something they dragged up, make my own fake web page, post it in response, and then answer “it’s impossible to fake web pages” when they’d call foul, and they’d never realize they had a hook in their mouth. Or say I had 3 reasons they were wrong, post two (numbered 1 and 2, or even better, 1 and B), then when they called me stupid for not counting correctly, I’d insist I had no idea what they were talking about, and edit the quoted material accordingly. Then, when accused of changing the post, I’d tell them they were clearly idots – because you can’t change something that’s already been posted for these 3 reasons: 1, B. Lather, rinse, repeat, catch, release.

Another good example (difficult to find proto-thread in google groups given that searches prior to 2000 appear to be only intermittently working anymore) is when I made some Nebraska fans furious by insisting that they tied Kansas that one year (1994) when they actually lost to them. I also at a slightly later point had them convinced I was a Nebraska fan by the clever fiction of signing my posts “Husker M1EK” while changing absolutely nothing else.

So that’s fishing, or trolling as you n00bs like to call it now.

Again: things that are NOT trolling: “Somebody said something that I don’t like!”, or “Somebody keeps pissing me off”, or even “Somebody keeps pissing everyone off”. If they believe what they’re saying, it’s not trolling, not really.

Doo Doo De Doooo!

Penn State football starts in eight days!

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This is my short, cheapest sharp, pregnancy reading of the CodeNEXT ‘draft’ that came out this week.

I’ve been describing it as “activist flypaper” for years – and am sad to state that may have been overly optimistic. My quick reading of the code makes it look even worse than what we have today. I don’t think many, so far, disagree at a high level, too. It basically zones the entire city outside downtown and corridors to a maximum of 2 stories (even the parts where the new transect code applies, much less the huge swaths of the city which still get essentially the old code) and adds additional restrictions on ADUs compared to current code. It adds code obstacles for even downtown redevelopment by promulgating stupid ideas about minimum lot width and floor plates. The plan, folks, is a bad plan. Even if you like planning, it’s a bad plan. For a freedom urbanist, it’s horrible.

This is not a step forward; it’s a step back. My strategic take is going to be to try to support those making individual recommendations for change1 but to also urge everybody to look at the plan as a whole and remember “worse than nothing”, which this thing is. Rather, it’s worse than doing nothing. Current code, as suburban as it is, is still better than this piece of garbage.

If you want a longer reading by a more qualified person with a different strategic outlook on it than I have, you could not do better than to read Chris Bradford’s take.
This is my short, website like this sharp, sales reading of the CodeNEXT ‘draft’ that came out this week.

I’ve been describing it as “activist flypaper” for years – and am sad to state that may have been overly optimistic. My quick reading of the code makes it look even worse than what we have today. I don’t think many, so far, disagree at a high level, too. It basically zones the entire city outside downtown and corridors to a maximum of 2 stories (even the parts where the new transect code applies, much less the huge swaths of the city which still get essentially the old code) and adds additional restrictions on ADUs compared to current code. It adds code obstacles for even downtown redevelopment by promulgating stupid ideas about minimum lot width and floor plates. The plan, folks, is a bad plan. Even if you like planning, it’s a bad plan. For a freedom urbanist, it’s horrible.

This is not a step forward; it’s a step back. My strategic take is going to be to try to support those making individual recommendations for change ((register on the site linked above, then wade through hundreds of pages of code through a bad internal scroll window to make comments that will doubtl but to also urge everybody to look at the plan as a whole and remember “worse than nothing”, which this thing is. Rather, it’s worse than doing nothing. Current code, as suburban as it is, is still better than this piece of garbage.

If you want a longer reading by a more qualified person with a different strategic outlook on it than I have, you could not do better than to read Chris Bradford’s take.
Well, bronchi there’s some kind of exhibition game going on tomorrow against Indiana State, hepatitis but we all know that can’t be a real game that counts, right? Because it wouldn’t be fair; wouldn’t be “success with honor” to beat up on a team from a conference whose stadiums average around 16,000 seats and from a league which offer substantially lower athletic scholarships than our league does…

Division I FCS schools are currently restricted to giving financial assistance amounting to 63 full scholarships. Unlike Bowl Subdivision schools, Championship Subdivision schools may divide their allotment into partial scholarships, but Championship Subdivision schools are limited to 85 players receiving any sort of athletic financial aid for football. Because of competitive forces, however, a substantial number of players in Championship Subdivision programs are on full scholarships.

According to the fine folks at BSD, there’s nothing wrong with doing the football equivalent of having the Texas Rangers not only play a game against the Round Rock Express but have it count in the standings for both teams. After all, both teams play the same game by the same rules, right? Balls and strikes and whatnot?

Huh. Doesn’t seem right to me. But I’m assured by the homers at BSD that it still doesn’t matter because everybody does. So I’m sure that if I look at the top-flight programs in the BCS conferences, I won’t find anybody who didn’t schedule a 1-AA team. Let’s start!

Team 1-AA games
Ohio State None
Michigan None
Nebraska Chatanooga
Florida State Charleston Southern
Miami Bethune-Cookman
Virginia Tech Appalachian State
Pitt Maine
Oklahoma None
Texas None
Texas A&M None
Noter Dame None
Oregon Missouri State
UCLA None
USC None
Alabama Georgia Southern
Auburn Samford
Florida Furman
Georgia Coastal Carolina
LSU Northwestern State

It goes on like that. Point is that the biggest SEC teams and ACC teams seem to schedule a 1-AA team every single season; and most top-flight programs from other conferences did not. (Of course they schedule one once in a while – Hi Michigan!; but not every single season like Penn State has done lately). An interesting aside: Most of the teams on that list with 9-game conference schedules actually didn’t schedule a 1-AA game.

So, homers, I breathlessly await your apology. Everybody doesn’t do it. And after that, I guess you need to decide who you want to be more like: Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, UCLA; or Florida, Georgia, Auburn, Alabama, Pitt? Just let me know, K?

Will the BSD commentariat get the point?

  1. register on the site linked above, then wade through hundreds of pages of code through a bad internal scroll window to make comments that will doubtlessly be used as evidence of a public input process but not be taken seriously [↩]