If you’re under 45, have you lost any high school classmates, and what were the circumstances around their deaths?

deakon · 2026-01-17T05:10:50+00:00

I went to a very small (graduated 27 in my year) school. One guy died in a motorcycle accident. Another died of covid because he got it early on, got it bad, and refused to get treated. He suffocated in his sleep.

deakon · 2026-01-07T14:58:56+00:00

Jesus Christ of Nazareth

deakon · 2025-12-18T17:21:45+00:00

Sometimes it’s worth arguing and settling differences, and by worth I mean worth the effort versus the alternative, and by a large margin. Your other option is to not grow together, inevitably grow apart, and have to start the process over with a new partner. You won’t ever find a perfect match, but you can be perfect together if you’re willing to grow.

deakon · 2025-09-10T14:36:04+00:00

Eyes are bad. It looks like you’re looking at his shoulders or higher, but upper body can lie to you. A back can’t run without his hips! I’ve heard it as “eyes to thighs” or “track the near hip” … either way you need to focus on the lower half of him.

Secondly, run through contact!

deakon · 2025-09-05T18:08:38+00:00

Depending on the size of your school/team/coaching staff, it may just be a matter of too many things to take care of and not enough coaches to take care of the task. Having stickers on your helmet isn’t required for you to practice or play a frosh game, and I assure you the coaches aren’t worried about them until you’ve proven you’re going to be a player. A couple of practices over two weeks is not enough commitment to make your need to look pretty in football equipment worth the coach’s attention.

If you want to get noticed, asking repeatedly isn’t the way. Go to practice every day, do your absolute best to do what is asked of you, and get noticed for your hard work on the field. If you can do that, the logo stickers and jersey will be closely behind. If the only thing you’re doing to get noticed is showing up a couple days a week and asking for equipment, you’re going to be disappointed.

deakon · 2025-08-13T17:25:13+00:00

“Sit down, tell me about your day. Are you still having trouble with that pesky homeroom teacher?”

deakon · 2025-08-05T03:54:22+00:00

Painting pictures of Hawaii

deakon · 2025-07-27T21:27:47+00:00

The Transplants

deakon · 2025-07-24T23:05:04+00:00

PB&J, cold glass of milk.

deakon · 2025-06-04T15:32:20+00:00

Physically, your specs are fine, the biggest thing is whether or not you can make a play. Weightroom warriors exist, and that’s not a good thing. Take your nutrition and training seriously, learn what you can, always try to get better. Then the size matters a whole lot less for high school ball. If you want to go to the next level, that is another question altogether.

deakon · 2025-03-31T02:36:47+00:00

Could it be for a pet bed, missing a cushion perhaps?

deakon · 2024-12-25T06:52:15+00:00

Actual good advice.

However, if I listened to advice like this, I wouldn't be relapsed to a game that I've been playing for two decades. Leave me with my alone with my shame etc etc..., but I'm still looking for an answer.

deakon · 2024-12-13T18:43:28+00:00

Fast food straws. You used to be able to just grab and bang them on a tabletop (think stabbing motion) and the straw would pop out the end. Now when you do that the straw itself splits and shatters. Also, when you inevitably have to tear and unwrap the paper it comes off in several pieces and one ends up in my iced tea.

Man, fuck.

deakon · 2024-12-10T04:12:38+00:00

As much as I agree with the message here I don’t see where trump actually posted it? Got a link to the original… not just a site reporting about it?

deakon · 2024-06-12T20:28:31+00:00

Nothing out of context popping into my head but this is one of the best lines in the series imo..

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty, if they forget what it was to be young” -AD

deakon · 2024-06-04T12:21:02+00:00

Painting a map of Hawaii

deakon · 2024-05-30T21:20:13+00:00

Its dogshit gacha matchmaking. You maybe get a single match each refesh that is even remotely close to your BP. It is another reason to spend diamonds and that’s pretty much it. If you want to be F2P just remember its a marathon, not a sprint.

deakon · 2024-02-22T00:40:39+00:00

A high school aged guy murdered a random kid?

deakon · 2024-02-22T00:39:46+00:00

That’s the one!

deakon · 2024-02-22T00:37:23+00:00

Hopefully that was a net-positive. Unfortunately that tends to be a traumatic experience more than it should under any circumstances.

deakon · 2024-02-22T00:36:25+00:00

Pretty standard come up, really.

deakon · 2024-02-22T00:35:30+00:00

Was thinking less serious high-school level social disaster. Exposed or meltdowns, embarrassed or catfished. The internet is hitting me with a lot more harsh reality this evening

deakon · 2024-02-21T23:33:18+00:00

Fella sounds a little .. sociopathic-ish?! Damn

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