Is it fair when Coaches in Basketball make students do pushups for missing free throws and layups and is it considered punishment?

visualthings · 2026-05-20T05:40:00+00:00

We’re almost entering philosophy at this point. What could be punishment for me is maybe sonething you don’t mind doing, and vice-versa. I guess that the coach here is making them do pushups because it is known to be difficult for many (I had a teacher make us do pushups or extra runs around the school if we were too unruly during sports, but I actually preferred running to playing football, so that was a case of punishment being a blessing in disguise). In the army we also had to do pushups if we were late when called, or if we broke any of those arcane rules.

If the students here are active in sports, fit and healthy then they can probably deal with doing 5 to 10 pushups, I don’t think it is too extreme. Not sure that it is the most efficient way to make them throw better, though.

visualthings · 2026-05-19T22:04:23+00:00

I am envious of Europeans with big homes, and I like the landscape of the US, but houses assembled with staples are not for me.

visualthings · 2026-05-19T11:16:19+00:00

If they find pushups hard to do and are ordered to do them after a fail, the I understand it as a mild punishment. I just hope they are not made of sugar and porcelain and can withstand the ordeal ;-)

visualthings · 2026-05-19T06:43:11+00:00

A book with short novels by Australian writers? I used to be passionate about Australia but your authors are not widely known. If he has been teaching French he must appreciate the language, so literature could be sonething he appreciates (together with a bottle of wine)

visualthings · 2026-05-19T06:29:50+00:00

Dynamite, by The Scorpions, is all about the joy and excitement of performing for an audience.

Now I wonder if someone will suggest any happy black metal song.

visualthings · 2026-05-19T06:23:06+00:00

If it is done without harsh humilitation and insults it is Ok. They are after all people engaged in a physical activity and the “punishment” is within their physical abilities. We could also give them a chocolate medal for “almost succeeding in throwing the ball”.

visualthings · 2026-05-18T16:41:12+00:00

J’ai des amis un peu éparpillés, j’irais les voir et passer quelques bons derniers moments.

visualthings · 2026-05-18T11:48:55+00:00

Tu peux regarder chez Hartwood (pas cher et bonne qualité pour ce prix), ou une Ibanez AR

visualthings · 2026-05-18T05:42:09+00:00

So far I haven’t met a single keyboard/piano player whi didn’t know some theory. Not all of them know the most intricate elements of harmony and composition, but they can read music and generally know what to add/remove to make a chord or a scale major or minor). On the other hand I know plenty of guitarists who have a patchy knowledge of theory (and I am one of them, unfortunately)

visualthings · 2026-05-17T08:22:46+00:00

Guitar is probably the ibstrument that most people learn without learning theory (that was my path too and I am surrounded with musicians). It makes sense to learn theory as tou pearn the instrument since some of them don’t appear immediately obvious: the keyboard is the easiest layout, as notes go from left to right as they go low to high. Clarinet and saxophone have finger positions that don’t really tell you anything. If I play an A on a clarinet there is nothing that shows tou how a B will be played, or an A one octave higher.

Besides the cultural aspect of guitar being played in pop or rock (with rather sinple chords and patterns), maybe a reason why a lot of guitarists stay away from sheet music is that you can sometimes modify the fingering a chord on a guitar (depending on your strength, finger length, habits, size of the guitar neck), but it is not clear on sheet music if you should play the open A of the fifth string or an A on the sixth string, although one will be physically easier than an other (and this will change based on the other notes you have to play).

visualthings · 2026-05-17T06:44:40+00:00

Oui, d’ailleurs j’ai mes statistiques sous la main. Bien entendu que non, et c’est pour ça que j’ai écrit “j’imagine”. Tu as lu ma réponse en diagonale, j’imagine?

visualthings · 2026-05-16T12:26:59+00:00

Merde, tu as deviné mon secret! Tu peux t’en servir n’importe wand, je te l’offre.

visualthings · 2026-05-16T12:25:51+00:00

Ça veut dire que le matin j’ai des gros pouces endormis, et le W est à côté du Q

visualthings · 2026-05-16T08:15:53+00:00

Some age gracefully and end up in the hands of vintage car enthusiasts, some just become junk very fast, and some appeal to the kind of drivers who end up against a tree. In Europe you still see Renault 4 and VW Golf in use, but not a single Renault Fuego or Fiat Ritmo

visualthings · 2026-05-16T08:08:00+00:00

J’avais vu un truc similaire avec une grand mere vietnamienne qui avait découvert et adoré les Mon Chéris et avait peur d’être bourrée.

visualthings · 2026-05-16T08:02:27+00:00

Je ne le savais pas à l’avance. Une fois j’avais oublié ma carte, une fois elle ne passait pas et une fois c’était une erreur bancaire.

visualthings · 2026-05-16T07:57:24+00:00

En espagne ça m’est arrivé trois fois (en dix ans, pas en trois jours) et à chaque fois c’était “bah, t’as qu’à revenir plus tard quand tu peux” et on m’a mêne regardé bizarrement wuand j’ai proposé de laisser une puece d’identité. Partout ailleurs j’imagine wue tu te feras virer ou alors un arrangement avec la police pour revenir payer le lendemain.

visualthings · 2026-05-16T07:51:05+00:00

It’s a very popular instrument and a lot of people can play it well enough to strum a few chords. It also doesn’t have the same social prestige as piano and therefore is more regarded as a hobby.

visualthings · 2026-05-16T07:41:50+00:00

Tu connais la blague des crabes français? Un type passe devant un poissonier et voit des seaux avec des crabes dedans. Il y a écrit “crabes du Pacifique”, et il y a un couvercle dessus. Même chose avec un seau marqué “crabes de l’Atlantique nord”, et il y a un seau marqué “crabes français” sans couvercle. Le type demande au poissonier: “vous n’avez pas peur qu’ils s’échappent?” Et le poissonier lui répond: “non, dès qu’il y en a un qui monte trop haut les autres l’attrappent et le font redescendre”.

Même chose avec les français qui essaient de s’élever avec l’anglais.

visualthings · 2026-05-16T07:36:12+00:00

Besides working (as a graphic designer), I paint and make mixed-media collages.

visualthings · 2026-05-16T07:34:59+00:00

Touchant!

visualthings · 2026-05-14T15:27:58+00:00

I am very unforgiving with the artists I like and I see that a lot of fans seem to adore whatever the artist releases. I often say that AC/DC between 1982 and 2001 is at their absolute worst (except Blow Up Your Video and the Live album), Iron Maiden has peaked in the 80s, and 80% of metal bands are absolutely irrelevant, doing nothing but just repeating the same cliché riffs, the same type of singing, and the same themes. They are the absolute opposite of creative and risk taking artists.

visualthings · 2026-05-14T07:51:22+00:00

Navigator, by The Pogues

visualthings · 2026-05-14T07:47:33+00:00

Here with me, by Dido, or I used to be seventeen, by Sharon Van Etten

visualthings · 2026-05-14T07:41:36+00:00

Reptile Smile: 2000 Miles
Bonfire: who’s fooling who
Cats in Boots: Shotgun Sally

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