OK, this sucks.

C_wire · Post by **C_wire** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:40 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... 0319224632

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:55 pm

ugh.. christ STOP TRYING TO LEGISLATE MORALITY!

TMR · Post by **TMR** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:56 pm

More proof that the Rev. Ivan Stang is the only redeeming thing about Texas.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:58 pm

and he moved away

TMR · Post by **TMR** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:01 pm

Really? I should keep up more with the Church.

Texas. Give the entire state to the Indians. I don't really care which ones, either.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:24 pm

I do, I live here.

And its not really Texas thats the problem, its the dumb fucks that buy the elections around here that are the problem.

Kingofthemorlocks · Post by **Kingofthemorlocks** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:07 pm

I think the funniest thing in the world would be for Dubya to be diagnosed with something, and being told that if he'd funded stem-cell research they'd probably be able to cure him, but now he's going to die because he set research back so far.

EDIT: 444th post...I'm 2/3rds of the beast.

Kite-san · Post by **Kite-san** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:14 pm

wait.. i thought the entire purpose of cheerleaders was to be sex objects, more a function of inspiring the players to do better through the fervent suggestion of victory sex than anything related to the audience....

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:06 pm

squidflakes wrote:ugh.. christ STOP TRYING TO LEGISLATE MORALITY!

Especially when you're interfering with my appreciation of the American Short-Faced Blonde dry humping a pom pom

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:08 pm

TMR wrote:More proof that the Rev. Ivan Stang is the only redeeming thing about Texas.

There's still Kinky Friedman and His Texas Jewboys

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:24 pm

hehe, I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "Vote Kinky Freedman for Governor. Why the hell not?"

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:31 pm

From Othello:

"I tell you, sir, your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs"

Nyu~ · Post by **Nyu~** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:07 pm

"The legislation said we don't want to see that anymore or we might cut your funding later."

Cheerleading is a huge industry involving millions of American students at the primary, high school and college level. There are competitions for children as young as four and Texas is home to some of the most feverish participants.

Honestly, I'm more disturbed by the suggestion that the government is giving away tax dollars to cheerleaders performing in games that are making money for stadium owners and the like. Shouldn't the people profiting from the cheerleading performances be the ones required to pay the cheerleaders, regardless of how sexual their acts are?

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:13 am

I don't think you understand how big school sports are in Texas. High schools have huge, fully-lit football arenas. Which is why Dumb Dubya's "No Child Left Behind" policy is around. All the money was going into sports and none into actually teaching them to do useful things like, I dunno, READ. And all the sports programs are funded, unlike the music and art programs (though marching bands are usually funded because that's competition).

Gah. There's a reason my last visit back there was 15 years ago. As much as California's schools suck, I'm still glad I went to middle school and high school out here instead. And when offered the "chance" to go to college back "home" in Texas, I found it convenient to say, "Hey, I got accepted to the UC system! I don't have to pay out-of-state tuition!" And face it, given the choice, wouldn't you rather go to UC Santa Cruz than UT or Baylor? Especially if the choice was living with your frothing fundie relatives who didn't even drink alcohol? (the horror, the horror)

I think my father was secretly pleased I was smart enough to stay here in California...

I'm waiting for them to create a TEXAS tag for Fark. Jeb's already got one for Florida...

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:17 am

The highschools here are quite the joke. For some reason the football programs are the pinnicle of achievement. You get more recognition for being a shitty footballer than for doing anything else. To the tune of, the highschool I went to for half a year had a several hundred million dollar stadium and sports training complex. Whirlpool tubs, two swimming pools, one only for therepudic use only, a full time staff of two doctors, three nurses, and a radiologist who had his own x-ray machine. I'm not shitting here, nothing like getting hurt and getting rushed to the sports complex for x-rays before anyone even thinks of calling an ambulance.

The colleges on the other hand are pretty good. The state schools take the football pretty seriously, but there aren't many schools that compare to UT Medical Branch when it comes to medical training. Plus Rice and A&M both have SERIOULSY good math and engineering programs.

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:34 am

Hrmph. Compared to figure skaters and gymnasts football players are wimps.

The women I've trained who did gymnastics and skating had unbelievable pain tolerance. No matter what, they'd keep going (and smiling) even when they should have stopped. If a football player, for instance, had his patella travel over to the side of his leg they'd stop play, cover him with ice, shoot him full of morphine, hold a prayer meeting and pack him off the field on the little ambulance forklift. A skater would (did actually) just grit her teeth and pop it back into place.

But then again, football players are "heroes". The other sort are just women or wussy men in minor sports.

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:55 pm

A skater would (did actually) just grit her teeth and pop it back into place.

Dancers do that too (been there, done that). We eventually learn, but not usually until after we've done a horrifying amount of damage. I've also seen dancers go out and perform with broken toes or foot bones. >shudder<

RantinAn · Post by **RantinAn** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:42 pm

Yah... i came up with a theory: Dancers are machoists, choriographers sadists.

Legmuscle · Post by **Legmuscle** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:56 pm

First a partial ban on splaying in figure skating and now this. The world's going to hell in a handbasket I tells ya.

And for the record from what I've heard dancers and figure skaters are tough. You'd have to be to be able to get up from being dropped on your face on, for example, ICE, and be able to hop back up, do the rest of your program, and look happy while the Turkish judge gives you an 8 for artistic interpretation.

C_wire · Post by **C_wire** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:19 pm

I once saw a dance show that involved the female dancers carying around the male dancers.