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O sure, a PET owner telling a CHILD owner how to control their little demon-spawn! How LIEberal!

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In sports, it usually involves something homophobic. That's why they're so careful to weed out the actual homosexuals -- wouldn't want to be accused of bigotry!

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Limericks COUNT, dammit!

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They think it built character when their dads did it; maybe consider that it would be doing them some good?

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Yes, let's just hope they're caught dead <i>somewhere.</i>

VOTES INCLUDED

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Use steel wool to scrub the image out of my brain? No thanks, I plan to erase it using a strong solvent containing a large fraction of ethyl alcohol. I anticipate that several applications will be required to complete the job.

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The reason it appears that they are obliged to take a position opposite to whatever common sense dictates to a normal human being?

That is because you are a normal human being.

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I always fall for those underdog movies, where the one sportsball team gets really far behind and everything looks lost, they're all down and dejected, but then the coach gives them an uplifting rage-out beating in the locker room and they win the big game.

IF YOU WATCH ONE MOVIE THIS SUMMER, ITS THE FEEL GOOD BEATING OF THE CENTURY

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"Maybe we need a little more discipline in society and maybe we <b>don’t have to be a bunch of wimps for the rest of our lives.”</b>

Looks like Sean's dad still has some work left to do.

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B. F. Skinner figured this out decades ago

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just not ping pong balls...

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What bothers me more is that all of the players who have spoken up say they see absolutely nothing wrong with this guy's coaching style. They've described him as "intense", as "tough", as "hard". But almost to a man they've said he didn't step out of line, and don't understand why he got canned. If anything negative has been said about him from that side of the street, it's been that the method wasn't working because the team continued to stink (three straight losing seasons).

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I don't know how much this has sunk in with the general public, but that coach? Who was hitting his students and calling them every vile homophobic slur he could think of? Yeah, that coach was at Rutgers, where straight students recently spied on a gay student, humiliated him, and drove him to suicide. The school was vaguely chagrined.

Dear Rutgers: which aspect of the concept "homophobia" <i>do</i> you grasp?

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Maximum learning isn't from random reinforcement, but from reinforcement MOST of the time. Never reward em and they lose interest, reward them every time and they lose interest as soon as you stop, but if you reward them say 75% of the time they'll keep performing because they're never sure exactly when that reward is coming...

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His dick, I'm guessing.

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And the better players are (1) on scholarship and (2) may think they have a shot at a couple years in the NBA; and think the prudent course for their future marketability is to emphasize that they rank team success higher than personal inconvenience. And, if so, they're probably right.

The kids further down the bench may be maintaining in order to support their more talented mates. Team identification is a powerful thing.

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