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bargarean

reblog my post boy

unyieldingsilence

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shaunofthedead-deactivated20231

this insane graphic on the back of a saw dvd

quasi-normalcy

Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.

There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.

quasi-normalcy

Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:

No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.

My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.

quasi-normalcy

#i firmly believe that the reason why concussions and brain damage in general#are not taken nearly as seriously as they should be#is because of football#if we take concussions and brain trauma seriously then we have to acknowledge the risks that children are undertaking at even#high school level football#but we can't do that#because the kids need to play football in high school so they can play football in college so they can join the NFL#This time I'm really gonna queue it.

vaspider

Not a single one of my wife's fingers is completely straight. If you look at them closely -- which I have, many times, over the past 22 years -- you can see where they were broken, over and over, taped in place, and where she just kept fucking playing.

When I first met her, she used to joke about how her coach said, "I could get more than that out of a pig if I kicked it hard enough," and that was the nicest fucking thing he said. Two decades later, she's like, "Yeah, that man verbally and physically abused all of us for years."

There is at least one football game she played in high school that she simply doesn't remember, because she was a linebacker. She got a concussion. She got up and kept playing... or so she's told. She doesn't remember, because she had a fucking concussion and they let her keep playing.

I hate football so much. It ruined her back, her knees, fucked up her hands... everyone was so obsessed with how tall she was, how broad-shouldered. No one ever pushed her to transition, but I fucking wish someone had at least suggested it. That would have hurt her so much less than FUCKING FOOTBALL. Like, it would have been actually beneficial to her.

mchug

I heard that one of the actual reasons that organizations like the NFL have tried so hard to downplay CTE and other injuries like it is because they’re terrified that moms will refuse to let their children play football anymore and that entire massive industry will come collapsing down because of it.

vaspider

That fucking scans.

#it’s also a small percentage that will make the NFL collapse #something like ‘if just 10% of mom’s stop their kids from ever playing’#the whole sport will collapse in like 5 years #that was in a PBS doc I think #ironically: soccer is the most popular youth sport (by attendance)#not sure when that flip happened #but who knows maybe we’re in the 5 years #btw you can also get CTE very easily #so much so that symptoms can show up in college or high school #there was a kid who killed himself (high school senior) with a note that they need to study his brain #he had CTE and had only been playing for a few years #I think something like 80-90% of those who have played football have some level of CTE even if it’s a short time #anyway last pod had a great series on Aaron Hernandez and there was so much research on CTE #folks should definitely look up more info #I know there’s a will smith movie but even that doesn’t show how wide spread it is #it just feels rare until you know that majority of brains donated show CTE (again: 80-90%)#so you just know all these dudes are living with a deadly illness that 80-90% of them have guaranteed

anyataylorjoys

INDEPENDENCE DAY 1996 | dir. Roland Emmerich

#DUMB AS ROCKS AND YET. the most complete fucking film #they simply do not make films like this anymore #independence day 1996

zingmin

milk5-deactivated20260704

brainstreams

hobbular

Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

We’re trying to decide which of these is a better option:

or

nowlander

ryan-sometimes

Tumblr I need everyone to log in rn because the most important, quotable, instantly iconic celebrity post of the century just dropped

ryan-sometimes

A ship — a magnificent ship — full of gay men. And me.

I am furious, but I am sailing.

azzandra

Booktok controversy that's broken containment: a writer told one of her friends the concept for a book, and he took that concept and AI-generated a book based on it and then gifted to her like 'there you go, sweetie, you're welcome ;)'

BRO WHAT.

azzandra

OMG, I'm watching a video about this, and it's even weirder. That wasn't even a friend, it was a rando who saw her tiktok talking about the concept and randomly emails her this AI-generated book. That's even weirder.

cat-she

And then when she says she doesn't like it, and several NYT BESTSELLING AUTHORS who all happen to be women all explain to him why he's in the wrong, he talks down to them and doubles and triples and quadruples down. But then the moment the woman's husband gets involved, he immediately apologizes to "him and his wife." Just breathtaking levels of misogyny.

azzandra

He wanted credit SO HARD for doing basically NOTHING. Worse than nothing! He wanted headpats so hard that when she ignored his email he hounded her to respond publicly.

He's like a microcosm of everything that's wrong with people who use AI to generate stories.

cat-she

He was talking about releasing the shit he generated with the idea he STOLE FROM HER for free if she continued not responding to him, and then acted like she was being insane when she clarified that she didn't respond on purpose 😭😭😭 What goes through these people's heads!!!!!!!!!

azzandra

Something profoundly wrong with this dude and yet he's incapable of noticing.

peachfromcmbyn

I don't get why people outside of the US think that Yankee is some sort of devastating insult. You sound like Robert E Lee.

sexygaywizard

FUCK AMERICA HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY CEASAR SALAD 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❗❗❗

kaban-bang

loveridden1999

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

featuringmarkhoppus

sailatina3

Orgasm denial. Orgasm anger. Orgasm bargaining. Orgasm depression. Orgasm acceptance.

imathers

waddei

a lot of people seem incapable of giving their favorite characters or OCS opinions that they themselves disagree with and that's very very boring on my opinion

waddei

" X character would hate ai art" "x character would vote for (politician you like)" like idk I think making every character a perfect woke internet leftists is boring as fuck. You have to accept that some of your faves would be "apolitical" centrists that don't vote

cruzfucker

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