What don't you understand and it bugs you?

[Amonkey]

How about the concept of the Black Hole?  Something that can take an entire galaxy and swallow it whole.  That is some crazy stuff.  What happens afterwards?

The biggest one because it's very fresh on my mind, what happens after one dies?

[Eja117]

Why PEDs are a big deal in baseball, a non-issue in football, and hardly discussed in nearly every other sport except maybe biking

[Casperian]

I don`t want to kill this thread, but there´s a simple solution for most of your problems...

http://forums.celticsblog.com/index.php?topic=25035.0

[fairweatherfan]

Why PEDs are a big deal in baseball, a non-issue in football, and hardly discussed in nearly every other sport except maybe biking

On a related note, why the NBA can't seem to shake the "thug" image in the public eye when NFL players over the last 10 years have committed more and more serious crimes than NBA players ever collectively did.  But NFL players are still lionized. 

Honestly, murder (Rae Carruth), drunk driving homicide (Leonard Little, Donte Stallworth), cocaine trafficking (Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry), organized dogfighting (Vick) - I don't know of one NBA player in modern history who's been convicted of any of these, except Qyntel Woods for a much smaller dogfighting offense.  Heck, Henry even broke Shawn Kemp's illegitimate children record.  Even at the NBA All-Star Game in Vegas, the only major incident involved Pac Man Jones, and the NBA still somehow came out of the weekend with a black eye, and the NFL's image is still Teflon.  What's the difference?

[Eja117]

Why PEDs are a big deal in baseball, a non-issue in football, and hardly discussed in nearly every other sport except maybe biking

On a related note, why the NBA can't seem to shake the "thug" image in the public eye when NFL players over the last 10 years have committed more and more serious crimes than NBA players ever collectively did.  But NFL players are still lionized. 

Honestly, murder (Rae Carruth), drunk driving homicide (Leonard Little, Donte Stallworth), cocaine trafficking (Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry), organized dogfighting (Vick) - I don't know of one NBA player in modern history who's been convicted of any of these, except Qyntel Woods for a much smaller dogfighting offense.  Heck, Henry even broke Shawn Kemp's illegitimate children record.  Even at the NBA All-Star Game in Vegas, the only major incident involved Pac Man Jones, and the NBA still somehow came out of the weekend with a black eye, and the NFL's image is still Teflon.  What's the difference?

This is just me, but I think maybe subconciously a totally white media (and mostly white audience) sees a totally black league with no pads and helmets to hide the cornrows and tatoos behind, and football has more players and it's more mixed. So when an NBA team has one bad apple it's one 15th of a team, but in football it's one 60th.
The NFL players almost all graduate from college where there is still a lot of innocent romantic "rah-rah go Notre Dame" stuff, whereas bball is seen as more inner city.

I don't think any of this is intentional. It's just what I think might be happening. You fear what you don't understand and maybe more people in society have had good associations with football and not so much in bball. 

I think it also contributes to the betrayed feeling of peds in baseball. It was all wonderful this, tradition that, field of dreams yadda yadda, and then they find out they were lied to whereas in football the emphasis is on power and nastiness, so using a powerful nasty ped is just more ok

[indeedproceed]

I think from a behavior standpoint, football is probably every bit as 'thuggish' as the NBA, probably more.

Imagine Mershawn Lynch as an NBA player? He'd be crucified.

[Eja117]

I think Vick was crucified more than the most crucified NBA player was, which I think was Sprewell. They both broke the law, but I don't think anyone prosecuted Spree, plus he immediately came out as contrite.

Vick dragged on, and no matter how you cut it obviously the dogs were totally innocent, whereas PJ Carlismo had some whispers about sort of having this coming

[star18]

(NOTE: traffic ****es me off all the time and I'm not trying to be **** here... I actually find his interesting)

So what do you suggest, that the north/south light be 20 times longer? Think about how long those people would have to wait to go east. The road would be undriveable, you'd be sitting at that intersection for 20 minutes if you were on the "minor" road. You can't just make traffic lights proportional to the number of cars. And without the minor roads working properly, how does anyone get to the major roads?

Traffic is a harder problem than you think when you're stuck at a light...

Traffic lights.   You will have a traffic light where 95% of the traffic is going north/south because it is a main road, and 5% of the traffic is going east/west, yet the green light will be on 60/40.   So at every red light 25 cars will pile up north/south waiting for the 1 or 2 cars going east/west.  Not only does it waste gas, it wastes time, which in turn wastes money.  Why they run traffic lights like that I have no idea.   It doesn't cut down on accidents it just wastes people's time.  

I don't know how many times I've been stuck at a red light with as many as 70 or 80 other drives, while one car comes in going east/west and breezes right through while 70 or 80 cars sit there waiting for the light to turn green.

Recently on a main road where I didn't make 1 turn, I got stuck at 8 consecutive red lights, that is ridiculous.   If you think about how many traffic lights there are in the country if they would make the red/green ratio be about the same as the amount of cars that pass each way, the amount of money this country could be saving has to be in the trillions, not the billions.  It is ridiculous.

This doesn't make any sense.  Who said you would wait 20 minutes to go east at a light?   If 20 cars go north/south, and 1 car goes east/west, the light shouldn't be 60/40, it should be 80/20 or 90/10.   For example north/south stays green for 1:00 to 1:30 and then the east/west light goes green for :15.  For people who are going east/west half of them can make a right on red and wouldn't even have to wait for the green.    This would help out the flow of traffic majorly. 

The way it is now is that the north/south light goes green for :30 and then goes red, while the east/west light goes green for :20 and then goes red.

There is no way that this is gas/time efficient.  I am in no position to do anything about it, but believe me it is not right and it wastes a huge amount of $$$.

Every :30 that north/south light is changing to red and 20 cars are stopping at the light while 1 or 2 cars breezes through onto the main road.   If the north/south light stayed green for 1:30, that is another 40 cars that do not have to stop and could make it through the light saving time & gas, meanwhile the other 3 to 5 cars going east/west during that 1:30 would just have to wait at the light for another 1 minute, not 20 minutes.  So would you rather 5 cars wait another minute which would be 5 total minutes, or 40 cars get stopped twice at 20 cars each time, which would take 20 seconds each, that is a total of 20x20x2=800 seconds which is another 13 minutes.   So every 1:30, 8 total minutes is wasted at every traffic light that does this.   Multiply that by who knows how many lights there are and the numbers pile up very quickly.   It is not time or gas efficient the way it is, no way.   

[fairweatherfan]

I think Vick was crucified more than the most crucified NBA player was, which I think was Sprewell. They both broke the law, but I don't think anyone prosecuted Spree, plus he immediately came out as contrite.

Vick dragged on, and no matter how you cut it obviously the dogs were totally innocent, whereas PJ Carlismo had some whispers about sort of having this coming

Oh yeah, the players get vilified (Stallworth is another example of this) but for whatever reason their actions have no bearing on the reputation of the league.  The NBA is still suffering from the stereotype of a "league of thugs" but for whatever reason the NFL seems to have no public image problems of this sort whatsoever, even though their bad apples seem to be more frequent and more extreme. 

I think ideally neither league should be measured by the behavior of its worst criminal players, but I don't get why this standard only applies to the NFL in reality.  I think the pads and helmets may play a big role, like you said - when you watch the NFL it's a bunch of relatively anonymous warriors in your preferred shade of laundry; with the NBA the players are much more clearly identifiable as individuals.

[Eja117]

I think Vick was crucified more than the most crucified NBA player was, which I think was Sprewell. They both broke the law, but I don't think anyone prosecuted Spree, plus he immediately came out as contrite.

Vick dragged on, and no matter how you cut it obviously the dogs were totally innocent, whereas PJ Carlismo had some whispers about sort of having this coming

Oh yeah, the players get vilified (Stallworth is another example of this) but for whatever reason their actions have no bearing on the reputation of the league.  The NBA is still suffering from the stereotype of a "league of thugs" but for whatever reason the NFL seems to have no public image problems of this sort whatsoever, even though their bad apples seem to be more frequent and more extreme. 

I think ideally neither league should be measured by the behavior of its worst criminal players, but I don't get why this standard only applies to the NFL in reality.  I think the pads and helmets may play a big role, like you said - when you watch the NFL it's a bunch of relatively anonymous warriors in your preferred shade of laundry; with the NBA the players are much more clearly identifiable as individuals.

One thing to note is that both Stern and Goodell seem pretty tough on suspensions and whatnot, but Stern seems like he is the law, while Goodell is the LAW

[celticmaestro]

Suicide. If one kills oneself then they are supposedly subjected to a life of hell, in hell. However, if our lives have life plans and are mapped out for us by God, surely he'd know one would take ones life and hell should no longer be a punishment.

[BrickJames]

Why everyone on the internet knows everything.

[Neurotic Guy]

Getting lunch today sparked this question in me.



Why put on plastic gloves to make sandwiches if you are going to use the same gloves to touch the register and customer's money, and not switch them when you make the next sandwich?


They are not worn to protect your hands. 

Such a pet peeve of mine.  Gloves are great but I have seen on many occsions the following:

1) Some food preparers (at the same restauraunt) wear gloves while other don't (apparently some folks are naturally germ-free)
2) Some folks choose to wear one glove only (the 'Michael Jackson only one of my hands contains germs' method)
3) I regularly see gloved food preparers pick up the phone, pull open the refrigerator/freezer doors, handle the trash cans, use the cash register, handle money and put food in their own mouths -- then proceed to prepare food for customers
4) Yesterday, I saw a gloved preparer pick food (or something) out of his teeth -- the gloves stayed on.

In addition to poor glove use protocols, the other "thing I don't understand and bugs me" at sub-shops is when my sandwich preparer talks while preparing my sandwich.  I am sure many of you don't mind this or never gave it any thought, but it drives me crazy (thus, the moniker 'Neurotic Guy').  People spray when they talk, which is fine -- but not in my sub please.

About a month ago I was getting a ham and cheese sub from my favorite place -- great subs, usually good use of gloves and hygenic practices.  The guy making my sub was new and was talking non-stop to his co-worker about basketball -- mostly about a pick-up game he is apparently involved in.  Well, the gentleman happened to also have a speech impediment in the form of a lisp that caused an inordinate amount of spittle to visibly protrude from his mouth especially when vocaliizing the 'S' sound.  Aided by gravity, much of this spittle had nowhere to land but upon my sandwich.  As he completed the rolling of my sandwich to place it in the to-go bag, he uttered these words  to his colleague(I kid you not): "I woke up this morning with a wicked bad sore throat".  Despite self-awareness of my idiosyncratic nonsense and my typical ability to get past things that bother me, I was unable to assure myself that I was over-reacting -- I could not eat this sub and I left hungry and without the sandwich.

[davemonsterband]

People who incessantly live vicariously through issues in the media. If you have time to discuss other people's issues (sports excluded) you're not important enough to have a valid opinion. Considering that's about 98% of the general population I'm often bothered. That's my self-professed megalomaniac statement of the day.

[Pillsbury]

I want to know why the $20 bill isn't a $25 or vice versa.  Every other denomination of American currency matches up per unit.  For example... The dollar bill and the penny are both worth one unit.  The nickel and the five dollar bill are both worth five units, etc.  So why the hell don't we either have $25 dollar bills or twenty cent coins?!  Pure craziness.... and don't say anything about the two dollar bill, that's just proof that they are smart enough to not have a two cent coin.

Officially, I say keep the twenty dollar bill and give me a coin I can call a fifth.