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Message 1890341 - Posted: 17 Sep 2017, 5:34:21 UTC

A project scientist of some note must be happy today. 3 and 0 and first in the BoneG* west. Now can Cal hang on and make his other team 3 and 0 too!

*Yes I know, but it is the conference logo. My new eyes are going to read it as written.
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Message 1890710 - Posted: 19 Sep 2017, 3:23:26 UTC
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We were actually in Provo Utah for the Badgers game. One of my relatives is doing a medical residency in Salt Lake City, so we used the game as an excuse to visit her (... or we used a visit to my relative as an excuse to travel to an away game...)

Anyway, I have to report that BYU fans are the nicest people ever!!! As a visiting fan in other areas of the country, I've been subject to some very impolite gestures and even more impolite words from fans of the home team. In Utah however, smiling BYU fans came up to our little group of Badger fans and said things like, "Welcome to Provo. Can I help you find your seats?" or "Tell your boys to go easy on us today!" or my personal favorite greeting from a BYU fan - "I love cheese curds!!!".

The BYU band graciously played "On Wisconsin", since the Wisconsin band didn't travel to this game.

In the third quarter, BYU staff members passed out free ice cream to all the visitors in Badgers shirts.

It was a guest fan experience unlike any other I've ever had. It made me want to move to Utah!

The Badgers game was not too exciting, but the Cal game was amazing!
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Message 1890713 - Posted: 19 Sep 2017, 3:40:24 UTC

Well, my alma mater, U of L, crashed and burned against Clemson on Saturday, but ESPN's College Game Day showcased my University, and that was good.
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Message 1890818 - Posted: 20 Sep 2017, 0:34:11 UTC - in response to Message 1890710.  

It was a guest fan experience unlike any other I've ever had. It made me want to move to Utah!
It was supposed to make you want to convert.
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Message 1891014 - Posted: 20 Sep 2017, 20:24:44 UTC - in response to Message 1890818.  

It was a guest fan experience unlike any other I've ever had. It made me want to move to Utah!
It was supposed to make you want to convert.

Well it nearly worked! I really love ice cream, but I like nice people even more.
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Message 1891563 - Posted: 23 Sep 2017, 19:48:43 UTC
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Undefeated Cal is taking on the #5 spoiled children. Should be an interesting game.
<ed>Cal has drawn first blood!
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Message 1891608 - Posted: 24 Sep 2017, 3:48:22 UTC - in response to Message 1891563.  
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Undefeated Cal is taking on the #5 spoiled children. Should be an interesting game.
<ed>Cal has drawn first blood!

Cal is now 3-1.
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Message 1891609 - Posted: 24 Sep 2017, 4:15:17 UTC

U of L paid Kent State 1 million dollars so they would have a virtually guaranteed win on their schedule.
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Message 1891667 - Posted: 24 Sep 2017, 18:26:59 UTC

No. 7 Washington overcomes slow start to beat Colorado 37-10
The No. 7 Washington Huskies warmed up in the cold rain without their shirts , then went out and undressed the Colorado Buffaloes in a 37-10 rout Saturday night in a rematch of last year's Pac-12 title game.
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Message 1894207 - Posted: 9 Oct 2017, 1:25:20 UTC

Eric was a happy badger, but a most unhappy bear this weekend.

(If I had been playing closer attention, I would have started trash-talking a week ago, just to try and draw Scarecrow out of the cornfield.)
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Message 1894209 - Posted: 9 Oct 2017, 1:33:00 UTC - in response to Message 1894207.  

Eric was a happy badger, but a most unhappy bear this weekend.

(If I had been playing closer attention, I would have started trash-talking a week ago, just to try and draw Scarecrow out of the cornfield.)

'Twould be nice to have the ol' Scarecrow stop by once in a while.
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Message 1904340 - Posted: 2 Dec 2017, 8:00:00 UTC - in response to Message 1894207.  

Eric was a happy badger, but a most unhappy bear this weekend.

(If I had been playing closer attention, I would have started trash-talking a week ago, just to try and draw Scarecrow out of the cornfield.)

I bet Eric is a very happy badger now with the number 3 ranking.

So any trash talk on who is going to be #1 at the end?
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Message 1904364 - Posted: 2 Dec 2017, 10:30:15 UTC

In Italian calcio stadiums visiting fans are confined to an area, usually in one of the two curves, to separate them from the local fans, often organized in clubs. Compare this to the cyclists fans, who applaud all riders of every team and nationality, often escorting the riders while they pedal on a steep climb with the danger of making them fall notwithstanding the Police motorcycles trying to open a path in the crowd.
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Message 1904431 - Posted: 2 Dec 2017, 16:42:11 UTC - in response to Message 1904355.  
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As a visiting fan in other areas of the country, I've been subject to some very impolite gestures and even more impolite words from fans of the home team.

Then I hope you gave as good as you got and reported the team to the police, the local papers, and the league for intimidation. That sort of behaviour is un-sportsmanlike and against women, totally reprehensible.

We Know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism_in_the_United_Kingdom
And Chris, we don't censor impolite words or gestures here. We aren't a police state.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

As to your belief that women should be treated differently than men, you share that belief with Harvey Weinstein, Roy Moore and long list of others. We prefer, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." But in the mean time, this has to do.
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Message 1904450 - Posted: 2 Dec 2017, 18:08:03 UTC - in response to Message 1904372.  

Sports of all kinds seem to attract the obsessives and the extremists in society. But men kicking a football about seems to attract the worst types.


Well, my family full of "worst types" will be over for dinner tonight and avidly watching the Badgers game with Eric after dinner this evening. A finer group of "worst types" I cannot imagine - an astrophysicist, two speech pathologists, a middle school teacher, a business executive and three adorable children (future Badgers or Bears we hope!!!) ages 7, 5 and almost 2.

Yep. Definitely the "worst types".



Go Badgers!!!
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Message 1904685 - Posted: 3 Dec 2017, 23:43:27 UTC
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I would suggest to you that is 100% hyperbole.

My point was that broad, sweeping statements such as: "But men kicking a football about seems to attract the worst types." are inaccurate and offensive.

With this statement, for example: "I was brought up to treat women as equals, not as a chattel like the Victorians did, or India still does. " you have managed to offend an entire subcontinent of people - population roughly 1,300,000,000.

And with this statement: "Of course gentlemanly behaviour and simple good manners is something you and your ilk wouldn't have the first idea about. But that is typical America.", you have managed to insult roughly another 300,000,000.



Yes I was happier in the last couple of decades of the 20C and I wish I was back there now. Good breeding, manners, common courtesy, respect for women, gentlemanly behaviour, was all taken for granted.

Exactly what part of insulting approximately one fifth of the world's population in the course of typing two public posts constitutes "good breeding, common courtesy, respect for women and gentlemanly behavior"?



And yet is was all so different even just 5 or 6 years ago.
(Channeling my inner Barbara Steisand here: [best shower voice engaged]Can it be that it was all so simple then, or has time re-written every line...)[/best shower voice disengaged])

Has the entire world really changed so dramatically over the last 5 to 6 years, or is it more likely that 1 person has changed quite dramatically over the last 5 to 6 years?

Hmmmmm..... from purely a probability standpoint, which scenario is more likely?
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Message 1904687 - Posted: 4 Dec 2017, 0:05:07 UTC - in response to Message 1904685.  

Why Angela, your final point seems like the most logical conclusion.

I'm sad the Buckeyes defeated the Badgers.
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Message 1904694 - Posted: 4 Dec 2017, 1:00:09 UTC - in response to Message 1904687.  

Why Angela, your final point seems like the most logical conclusion.

I'm sad the Buckeyes defeated the Badgers.

Yes. Eric was a sad little Badger after that game.

Congratulations to all the loyal Buckeyes out there in seti-land.
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Message 1904705 - Posted: 4 Dec 2017, 1:26:45 UTC - in response to Message 1904687.  

Why Angela, your final point seems like the most logical conclusion.


I'm glad that's it's just not me and my wild imagination then, others have noticed it too.

Cheers.
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Message 1904761 - Posted: 4 Dec 2017, 11:07:30 UTC - in response to Message 1904743.  

I am not going to be drawn into a public argument with you no matter how hard you try. I would be quite happy to argue with you privately but you have me filtered so I cannot.
As a dyed in the wool Nationalist, you bring it all on yourself. That is confirmed when your own "beloved" country is slurred & you scream so loud that E.T is probably thinking of returning to see what all the commotion is.

Maybe a more "gentlemanly" approach rather than an antagonistic one would see those filters removed.
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