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Sometime Life is Just Plain Weird

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You can't make up this kind of stuff.Sad that this kid messed up his life
in a major way.Sounds like he had it pretty good before that.
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QB's must be tough!
 
Now, you've done it. I'll have to go look and see if I can find thr feet headline from the Lawton Constitution a few years ago.
 
You have to wonder what goes through some young folks minds. I knew a guy I grew up with who could have been a pro golfer and maybe made lots of money and fame. Yet got involved in college with a car thief ring that ended with him having charges up through murder so been in jail now for 49 years. Didn't make it even 6 months out of high school.
 
mikephillips said:
You have to wonder what goes through some young folks minds.
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Nothing. The answer is nothing at all.

Seriously Mrs JP who has done much brain research reading for her work notes repeatedly that the pre-frontal cortex (decision making/ emotional regulation/ impulse control) doesn't fully develop until about age 25-27 in young men.
 
JPSmit said:
Nothing. The answer is nothing at all.

pre-frontal cortex (decision making/ emotional regulation/ impulse control) doesn't fully develop until about age 25-27 in young men.
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That sounds about right.
I only just started thinking about others in my mid 20s.
Still working on it at 78.
 
JPSmit said:
Nothing. The answer is nothing at all.

Seriously Mrs JP who has done much brain research reading for her work notes repeatedly that the pre-frontal cortex (decision making/ emotional regulation/ impulse control) doesn't fully develop until about age 25-27 in young men.
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That's why insurance premiums go down after you turn 25.
 
Something I've learned over the last fifty years of teaching ... there are so many young people, especially young men, who have absolutely no one in their lives to act as a positive role model. And over the last ten years or so, online "influencers" and "manosphere pushers" pull people away from traditional community based activities, and into lives centered on dominating others, and on"Me more cowboy than you". Emphasis on "me me me", having fun, proving they're all beautiful and above average - but mostly proving that only to each other, online.

 
And that probably contributes to the fact that young folks, men in particular, are the ones racking up debt from gambling, each hoping for that big score that casinos promise is so easy to hit. They don't have those role models, they don't have peers they're close to due to the pandemic and the overuse of the net for affirmation and now AI "friends" to tell them how wonderful they are. When I grew up I wasn't popular and had to learn how to make friends, how to deal with the rest of the world and such. Plus had good role models in my father and most fathers of those around me teaching me how to deal with the world.
 
With legalized gambling here there are several casinos within a say hour circle, they advertise on tv all the time. And legalized sports gambling we have means tons of phone apps and various companies pushing them on tv telling us how much fun prop betting is to do with your friends or if sitting home. Why all you have to do is roll over in bed or relax in your chair, grab the phone and hit bet. But be quick before the action you're watching is done or you'll lose $1000s....
 
Mike - that is so true.

Why don't we start a new thread, on how the good parts of our history and morals are being overwhelmed and erased, replaced by tough guy actions and "bread and circuses".

Bread and circuses - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

TM
 
NutmegCT said:
Why don't we start a new thread, on how the good parts of our history and morals are being overwhelmed and erased, replaced by tough guy actions and "bread and circuses".

TM
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Assuming you are being ironic - otherwise I suspect literally the second post would violate Basil's forum guidelines. :rolleyes2:
 
mikephillips said:
With legalized gambling here there are several casinos within a say hour circle, they advertise on tv all the time. And legalized sports gambling we have means tons of phone apps and various companies pushing them on tv telling us how much fun prop betting is to do with your friends or if sitting home. Why all you have to do is roll over in bed or relax in your chair, grab the phone and hit bet. But be quick before the action you're watching is done or you'll lose $1000s....
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It is genuinely astonishing. They aren't interested in casinos or lotteries but sports gambling.... my goodness.

My nephew is 22 and it is astonishing how many of his friends are going through hundreds if not thousands a week on betting and online poker. (he isn't)

My Sister is CEO of GREO (the gambling research exhange of Ontario) which works to "reduce harm related to gambling, gaming, technology use, and substance use."

As an aside when they hired her they asked her to do a review of research - she did it on gambling addiction in people with Parkinson's. Apparently (some?) Parkinson's drugs cause addictive behaviour - with average gambling losses amounting to $125,000.00. Who knew?

Oh and Doug re: everybody wins. I read once that the house pays out 96 cents for every dollar spent. And then it pays out 92 cents for every 96 cents spent. And then.... yeah the house always wins.

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very very sad, especially how the gambling apps are proliferating on the phones, making it so easy to toss the money around 24/7.

very very sad.
 
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