Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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It's probably just by instinct. Sometimes, people do things a certain way without realizing why, or even thinking about it.
Like when you're in a car and you're backing up, you put your arm around the seat next to you. Nobody knows WHY they do this, it's automatic.
Like when you're in a car and you're backing up, you put your arm around the seat next to you. Nobody knows WHY they do this, it's automatic.
Or maybe her name really is Prudence. But really, @Avro Arrow , go get a Beatles album and start listening. NOW. 
Since you refused to obey the mod's comment to PM warning multiple times, and have been continually and pointlessly antagonistic in this discussion and others, you get a two-point warning. COMMENTS TO PM.
I don’t like football,..
but I don’t mind that other people are obsessed with football,..
Are they really playing football during the pandemic??? I just don’t know and if they are? How is that justified? (Yeah that’s how much I don’t watch football). Something about a super bowl was not filtered out and reached my newsfeed,.. I tried to ignore this but I began thinking about all that contact going on... (I guess they are playing,.. omg... no)
but I don’t mind that other people are obsessed with football,..
Are they really playing football during the pandemic??? I just don’t know and if they are? How is that justified? (Yeah that’s how much I don’t watch football). Something about a super bowl was not filtered out and reached my newsfeed,.. I tried to ignore this but I began thinking about all that contact going on... (I guess they are playing,.. omg... no)
just saying
Given that 'soccer' originated in the 19th century as English schoolboy slang for the form of football played under the Football Association rules (rugby was known as 'rugger'), perhaps people should instead be asking why Brits don't call it that still.
try a bargain: when you start calling yours handegg they probably will
soccer comes from asocciated football which simply means playing football after the rulebook of the british football association. it is university slang. since nobody any longer plays football to made up rules the associated part was dropped. nobody in the rest of the world used it anyway. the only reason the yanks use it that they wanted to call their handegg football (for some reason or another)
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Nah, the name like the game was a British import; they invented the term so they should own it. As for American football, that was us putting our spin on rugby football. After a while (and some rule changes) the rugby part was dropped.
so why not call it american rugby
... and btw, the british fa does no longer set the rules for football - fifa does (guess what the 2nd f stands for)
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I dunno, I wasn't there in the 1800s when they started calling it just football. Oh, and FWIW, the handegg was also a British invention in that rugby football was using a oval ball by the middle of the 19th century and American football, being derived mostly from rugby football, carried that shape forward as well.
The whole idea of "Comments to PM" is one of the worst double-speak nonsense I have ever heard. It's constantly reiterated by moderators everywhere on this site as if it is the buckstop to end all conversations, instead of (rightfully) allowing the conversations to end more naturally or die off via ignoring. I never see it on any other site or forum I have visited, at least not to the extent here on TrekBBS where it seems almost a requirement to end every infraction post, like some sort of silly signature. One other forum I visit has a dedicated public thread to discuss public infractions, yet here, everything has to be relegated to "PM" even for those of us who are against using the PM system.
On a public message board, comments should remain public. By refusing to allow any comment whatsoever that might be critical of the moderation team to be put out in the open, the team is needlessly antagonizing other posters and causing intense discord to escalate and only end with the banning or kicking of a poster, any poster, who dares disagree with the "Comments to PM" declaration.
A common retort to this I have received in the past is the old "You don't know everything" routine. That's true. I don't know everything. I don't know anything. That's the point. When half of the supposed discussion is away from public view, the entire community is left ignorant as to the full reasons why one of their own was crossed off the rolls.
The point of stifling the discussion, as I'm sure I will be told, is to keep all the posts on-topic or, in this case perhaps, drama-free. Moderators should chip in, of course, as they are just other posters first and foremost, but more to remind people of the topic and guide it back that way, or to ease tensions, not heighten them and insist on removing them from the forum entirely. Emergencies happen, of course, and private messaging is there for a reason (as well as private forums, no doubt), but not every day, every post, every single time someone gets an infraction.
It would probably be better for the community as a whole, in my uninformed opinion, to reserve "Comments to PM" to only the most egregious cases, and really, that should be reserved to be used in PMs (ha!), and not publicly declared from on high in BOLD LETTERS.
That's just a random thought I had, that doesn't really fit anywhere else.
PS: BTW, this has nothing to do with anything on this page in general, other than reminding me (unfortunately) that "Comments to PM" is still a thing, apparently, that in and of itself is now a kickable offence.
Sure it does... feedback and comments on the operations and policies of the board is literally one of the things QSF is for.
If you'd like, I can try and move it there for you. If you are actually looking for dialogue with staff about this, you are more likely to get it there. Let me know.
It helps me look back out the rear windshield. If both of my arms were forward, on the steering wheel, then I wouldn't be able to turn my head that far.
Kor
I've noticed that i also apply some light counter-pressure on the back of the seat with that arm, I guess to help stabilize the look back.
we were trained to do that in driving school - if you don't do it in the exam you simply fail
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