The kid is sick, I get it. The news coverage has gotten way out of proportion.
He's not a 20 year war hero,
He didn't pass history changing legislation.
He didn't land a plane in a river.
These news stations are the laziest ass hats on the planet.
News worthy? Yes, for two days not six
300 others had heart episodes on the same day.
Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency.
Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first
January 05, 2023, 10:57 AM
OttoSig
quote:
Originally posted by bendable: The kid is sick, I get it. The news coverage has gotten way out of proportion.
He's not a 20 year war hero,
He didn't pass history changing legislation.
He didn't land a plane in a river.
These news stations are the laziest ass hats on the planet.
News worthy? Yes, for two days not six
300 others had heart episodes on the same day.
This is the place I am at with it, had a few folks at work talk about it and I'm done with it.
Unfortunate and I'm not being insensitive, but the 24 hour coverage?
A wealthy, healthy man suffered a freak injury while playing a game.
Give the 24 hour coverage to the kids down at Walter Reed fighting cancer.
And nobody cries in the moment like that, adrenaline gets going, you're likely not getting emotional until after everything transpires and things start to sink in. I'm calling bullshit.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting!
January 05, 2023, 11:24 AM
Slippery Pete
The Euro soccer players were dropping like flies, but them crying is just par for the course.
A wealthy, healthy man suffered a freak injury while playing a game.
If that's all it was... they will get back to 'normal' this weekend playing the game.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
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January 05, 2023, 11:48 AM
smschulz
Just heard on ESPN a commentator saying "the players should decide on whether to play the game" . Bless their little hearts.
January 05, 2023, 12:14 PM
parabellum
Yes, that would be the National Workers Party Fooball League for Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness.
"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
January 05, 2023, 12:14 PM
2000Z-71
So a field full of athletes making millions see CPR being performed and cannot carry on afterwards. But yet the medics making $20/hour performing CPR probably had to go out on another call within minutes after leaving the hospital.
My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball.
January 05, 2023, 12:29 PM
bettysnephew
Health care, EMT's, Police and Firemen deal with this stuff on a regular basis. They gut up and go on to the next emergency. They might break down and deal with the aftermath of feelings later but they get on with the job at hand. These big, strong, tough athletes cannot even deal with this from 20 yards away! Wussies! I can't imagine what they would do if confronted with a really gruesome scene. Those Gatorade buckets would be full of puke for sure and they would need months if not years of therapy.
The “POLICE" Their job Is To Save Your Ass, Not Kiss It
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January 05, 2023, 12:52 PM
erj_pilot
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Originally posted by bettysnephew: These big, strong, tough athletes cannot even deal with this from 20 yards away! Wussies!
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
January 05, 2023, 01:11 PM
ensigmatic
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Originally posted by Slippery Pete: The Euro soccer players were dropping like flies, but them crying is just par for the course.
Perhaps, but, with this, throwing-egg-ball fans can no longer claim that game is any more "manly" than actual, you know, football
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
January 05, 2023, 01:28 PM
oddball
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Originally posted by bettysnephew: Health care, EMT's, Police and Firemen deal with this stuff on a regular basis. They gut up and go on to the next emergency. They might break down and deal with the aftermath of feelings later but they get on with the job at hand. These big, strong, tough athletes cannot even deal with this from 20 yards away! Wussies! I can't imagine what they would do if confronted with a really gruesome scene. Those Gatorade buckets would be full of puke for sure and they would need months if not years of therapy.
I watched this particular race on TV in 1973. Swede Savage. He would later die in the hospital weeks later, but in the clip, another man, a pit crew member, was run over by a truck, killing him.
After an hour or so, the race resumed, eventually officially ending 2/3 through because of rain. Contrary to common perception, crashes like this were not that common in the Indy 500, most races actually go through with just minor incidences. This was the deadliest Indy 500; in the previous week during practice, Art Pollard also died in a crash.
But the race was run, damn the torpedoes.
Today's media, society are very different, more fragile, just flat out woke. Virtue signaling is almost an invisible act, people just do it so often, day after day, it becomes a trait of a certain segment of society. Disgusting, if you ask me.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
January 05, 2023, 04:28 PM
Gustofer
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Originally posted by 2000Z-71: But yet the medics making $20/hour performing CPR probably had to go out on another call within minutes after leaving the hospital.
Hell, I used to do it for $25/call. No calls no money. I'd have been in seventh heaven with $20/hr.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
January 05, 2023, 04:37 PM
Stlhead
I am on a low carb diet so the popcorn emoji is not appropriate. I sure hope there is a cogent argument forthcoming, and not just petty bomb lobbing.
January 05, 2023, 04:59 PM
braillediver
Was there any outpouring of emotion when these guys got caught beating their wives and girlfriends?
The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart.
January 05, 2023, 05:15 PM
oddball
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Originally posted by tatortodd: More likely many of them don't know at least one of their parents let alone grandparents, probably saw their first murder before age 10, probably saw their first OD before age 10, etc.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
January 05, 2023, 05:22 PM
radioman
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Originally posted by braillediver: Was there any outpouring of emotion when these guys got caught beating their wives and girlfriends?
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January 05, 2023, 05:37 PM
DonDraper
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Originally posted by stkfox: They’re crying because their employers mandated the jab and they know damn well that they could be next.
In this week alone: Uche Nwaneri Jags lineman 38, ABC exec Dax Tejera, 37, Mike Leach couple weeks ago 61, BOB Marley’s grandson, Jo Mersa 31.
Get a freakin’ clue guys!
You're not very smart if you are blaming the covid shots for this. Dumb. Really dumb. Beyond ignorant. Stop embarrassing yourself. Funniest part of this story so far is the kid waking up and immediately asking if they won the game...
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January 05, 2023, 06:51 PM
stoic-one
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Originally posted by DonDraper: Funniest part of this story so far is the kid waking up and immediately asking if they won the game...
Which I find revealing. Even the guy everyone was (supposedly) shedding tears for, believed the game would have been finished after his injury.
So Hamlin woke up in the hospital and wanted to know who won the game. Apparently it was important to him!
I have a few SIGs.
January 05, 2023, 08:31 PM
Pale Horse
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Originally posted by braillediver: Was there any outpouring of emotion when these guys got caught beating their wives and girlfriends?
As I mentioned before, there isn’t even this much emotion when one of these guys loses a member of their family. It seems like at least once a year a player loses a close family member and plays the next game, sometimes even the same day. Hell a few years ago a guy on the 49rs lost his son the morning of a game and still played.
I’ll guarantee most of the players wanted to finish the game, they just don’t want to be attacked and labeled heartless so they’ve kept their mouth shut.
This guy waking up and asking who won is great. If I were him I’d probably die of embarrassment after finding out how everyone has been reacting.
“Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014
