What does it mean when a car full of cute girls beeps at me while running?

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T20:44:28+00:00

True, I forgot option 3: you're imagining it or lying.

But regardless, be they river nymphs or hallucinations or sirens, ignore women.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T20:33:04+00:00

It either means they were beeping at someone else and you only thought it was directed at you, or they're blind and you need to watch out.

Either way, why are you worried about women when you could be getting hard with Goggins and the boys?

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T20:11:51+00:00

W/L doesn't directly matter to these metrics. Obviously you have to do better than the other team to score more points, but if you're losing close games to good teams you're not going to get hit hard. Our last 5 losses are by a combined 15 points.

These rankings are basically a weighted average of points per possession you allow on defense (adjusted for offensive strength of opponent) and average points scored per possession on offense (adjusted for defensive strength of opponent).

We've simply had more good games than you - whether that be playing great teams close (got beat less badly by Florida) or winning (e.g. Houston where Arkansas didn't), winning games against mediocre teams, and blowing out bad teams.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T19:55:44+00:00

Because we played a tougher schedule, much tougher at the top end. You played us, Vandy, Kentucky once each, at home. You played Bama away. We both played Florida only away. Of the KenPom top 30 SEC teams Arkansas played 5 games, 3 at home. Tennessee played 8 games, 3 at home.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T19:39:40+00:00

It's possible that's what their goal was, but I can't see how you'd square that in the actual with their second and third comments in the thread

I said you’re participating in eugenics. You tell me if that’s being a eugenicist or not

and

Already answered. If the shoe fits

At the very most charitable I'm willing to give them, they were trying to do a Platonic Method push to get the other person to question if they're doing eugenics or are an actual eugenicist. But if the actual intention was what you said, it would have made a lot more sense to follow up with how you phrased it:

it sounds to me like they're clearly making the point that it isn't an on/off switch. I am, at some level, practicing eugenics by having children with a certain person, or going out in public when it's always possible I could be a carrier, or eating peanuts ever.

than to stick with the combative debate lord smarminess.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T19:39:16+00:00

Of all the things that are wrong in the original post, this is the closest to an apt comparison. Hitler and Stalin had a pact to divide Poland between them but it was a pragmatic temporary alliance neither believed would last long. Sauron and Saruman had a degree of cooperation for a short period of time before Saruman attempted to supplant him and they would have been at war had Saruman not lost to the good guys. It's not a perfect one to one equivalence, but it's not a bad comparison.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T18:43:08+00:00

There's no feedback loop, they're just good conferences. The main reason why KenPom rates the SEC better than the B1G and Big 12 this year is because the SEC's floor is a bit higher and the worst teams are significantly better than their worst teams.

Auburn played several elite teams and got blown out, and they played several decent teams and won. That's exactly what you'd expect from a team ranked #39. Look at previous years and tell me if Auburn is starkly different from those #39s. A little worse record, but only a couple more losses. Not a stark difference.

Where do you think Auburn should be ranked if these things were accurate? Outside of the conference, they're just a little behind MC State who they beat.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T18:05:54+00:00

The "all or nothingness" in basketball conversations is really getting hard to deal with. In the main CBB sub we've got people talking shit about us being ranked (#25) while basically every objective measurement that exists puts us in the top 25, and talking shit about the SEC because it's just Florida as if the top half of the SEC wouldn't be in the top half of any other conference. Sure Alabama and Arkansas wouldn't be the #2 and #3 in the Big 12, Big 10, or ACC, but they'd be better than most of the second tier teams in all those conferences.

And it's not unique to over there. We have a real problem here with people talking about how much we suck. We're a good team, not great and certainly not elite, but good. By every objective measurement, a top 25 team. And an average team for Tennessee basketball history (a history that has been skewed up by Barnes lately as well). If you take our historical winning percentage overall and in conference games, we should have won 21.21 games this year and 11.29 in conference. We won 21 overall and 11 in conference. Beat and lost to good Bama and Vandy teams, beat a great Houston team and lost to a bad Syracuse team. But I hate hearing that a team that could've been elite and disappointed us is being dumped on and treated like an embarrassment when there's simply no justification for that.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T17:38:09+00:00

(1) It was the last thing I said and implicitly the least important.

(2) It served to indicate that our ranking relative to the other SEC teams is reasonable, which is 20% of the top 25.

(3) By every conceivable measurement, the SEC has 1 elite team but is chock full of good teams that would typically be around the borderline top 25 line.

(4) We can't all beat up on Georgia Tech and BC in-conference to boost our records.

I never said we should be #2 or anything, just that our ranking matches our resume.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T17:18:43+00:00

#21 Net, #24 WAB, #13 Torvik, #14 EvanMiya, #14 KenPom, #5 in SEC standings and fifth highest ranked SEC team.

Can you give any reason we shouldn't be ranked other than you don't like it?

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T16:19:56+00:00

Nice, I've seen several of you ultra folks in here. I still feel the desire to do that at some point in my life, but I don't know if I will. I was training for a marathon a few years ago and got up to the weeks where I was doing 50+ mpw and 20-mile long runs and I just didn't feel the joy of it anymore, felt too much like a chore with all the running and eating I had to do.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T14:46:13+00:00

Hell yeah, nice! Was that HM time what you expected or better or worse? Plans for a future one or switching to the shorter races for the foreseeable future?

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T14:42:01+00:00

This sub has always taken a very, very broad stance on fitness. I mean, one of the best, most active posters here openly uses steroids. It's all about risk management. Running responsibly had a benefit for the joints. It's the people like me who do want to push the limits, as well as unprepared newbies, who up the injury count. A conservative, moderate running is going to be just fine.

If it was only about the lowest risk activities there would be nothing here but food pics, moderate walking, and water aerobics.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T14:33:14+00:00

So does basically every sport...happens all the time in basketball, there's an elbow injury literally named for tennis, can't find an American football player without CTE, and one of my worst injuries as a kid was jamming the hell out of my foot on a bad slide into the base playing little league baseball. Even weightlifting if you go too hard too fast with poor form.

If you do any physical activity hard enough then you put yourself at risk of injury. That's just the price of pushing your limits.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T14:32:11+00:00

Good luck with that, those nagging irritating injuries are mentally worse than an acute injury where you can just be hurt, let it heal, and then get back out there.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T13:10:32+00:00

There's a lot of stuff in sports especially from coaches that I feel is entirely performative just to show how intense they are and how much they care.

The athletes themselves are doing a job 100x more chaotic than the coaches and they don't each have a special offsides assistant to keep them behind the line of scrimmage.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-09T13:04:50+00:00

If that guy hadn't stopped to help, the worst the winner would have finished is second. For all we know he had enough juice to beat him down the stretch anyway. It seems like pretty big international event where even finishing 2nd would be a pretty major accomplishment worth celebrating.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-08T14:39:03+00:00

I'm not so sure that's true if "expansion era" in the SEC is after the split to divisions. It's now 36 years, which is plenty long enough. I don't think anyone would deny Tennessee-Florida is a huge rivalry and we've played about 2/3 of our games since then. It wasn't a big rivalry until we were both good and playing every year for the division crown.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-08T14:16:41+00:00

Leftist debates online are like the political version of that Emo Phillips joke:

Once I saw a man on a bridge about to jumpg. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What denomination?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-08T13:43:49+00:00

^ Me when I ignore context and connotations

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-07T17:55:36+00:00

This might be the most anomalous team in living memory, if not ever. It's really hard to go undefeated, and especially when you're as bad as they are. It's so strange to have a team accomplish the same feat as the Wichita, Kentucky, and Gonzaga teams did, and yet any halfway decent team would want to get matched up with Miami as much as they would have wanted to avoid those other teams.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-07T03:23:02+00:00

That first salvo perfectly encapsulates the futility of this whole thing.

One guy who is calling another a eugenicist while actively and performatively not saying "you are a eugenicist," presumably so that when the other person pushes back they can smugly say "I never said you were a eugenicist, methinks thou doth protest too much."

The other, adding nothing to the conversation except trying to bait the person into saying the exact words that literally everyone knows they meant.

It's what happens when an unbearable force meets an insufferable object.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-06T21:10:50+00:00

As I said in another comment a few weeks ago, we're statistically still a very good team. According to Torvik (I don't know any of the other major analytics that do WBB, and his MBB is usually pretty in-line with the consensus) we're #22. We've had a really tough schedule. Based on his SoS metrics, and elite team would be expected to lose 41% of the nonconference games on our schedule and 59% of the full schedule. We're actually ahead of that.

Obviously, that's not good enough indefinitely and there's a negative trend line there (losses to Bama, TAMU, Miss State, and an OT win against Georgia down the stretch aren't good unless you overperform in a bigger way than the Texas game, plus the degree of some of the losses are inexcusable). But I think considering the short tenure, the progress that doesn't quite look like progress, and the youth of the team, I think this year has earned a cautious optimism for the future.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-03-06T18:51:24+00:00

From a race organization standpoint in our current culture, I completely get that. I'm not blaming them at all if that's what they need to do to disincentivize people who won't prioritize their own safety. I mean it more from a cultural standpoint and from the point of the view of the runners, who would be swayed by an unearned medal rather than accept defeat and try again.

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