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Why rush to get their careers started at the highest level when these guys could alternatively stay in school a couple more years and live the college lifestyle while they still can?
For example, I think Drake Maye had another year or two of eligibility left. I think this is even more common in basketball too.
I would rather be the star of the school team instead of on the bench surrounded by guys 10-20 years older than me.
Being a college football star just seems like a rather incredible experience, I don’t know why these young men are so eager to get to the big leagues.
also I’m a woman whose never played football a day in her life please keep this in mind in your responses
I (18M) recently left my religion that i was born into . It is a form of the Seventh Day Adventist type of church , and one of the requirements was a diet similar to Kosher. I was wondering if switching to a normal diet would have any negative side effects?
Used as a cry to go full throttle, similar to "balls to the wall", the aviation based idiom.
Am I the only one
I suppose this could be personal preference but I’m curious
How long are they gonna say this in every article? I can't work out why.
Wouldn't the easier workaround be to say that anything written or said on X was Tweeted?
Aka "blah blah tweeted on X" rather than "blah blah said on X (formerly twitter)"
I've never used it so wondered why
Despite all being all popular types of cuisine, In my experience I met some people that said: "yeah I don't like Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, French etc.. " but I think I never met a single person in my life who told me "I don't like Italian". Why? What's the secret?
If, for some reason, it starts raining in the deserts and the climate is no longer extremely hot, will the desert start to bloom and will it be suitable for farming?
If i had a successful surgery to transplant someone else’s balls onto my body and then had kids, would the kids have the genes of the donor or the genes of me?
And what about if someone had a successful uterus and ovary transplant?
I was reading the book 'Crazy Rich Asians,' which the movie is based on, and in that book the mother didn't like her son's girlfriend because she was from America and not from a wealthy family. She wanted her son to marry an Asian woman born in Asia, coming from a very wealthy Asian family. I was thinking to myself that this seems a tad bit unrealistic.
Not only do you want your son to marry into another wealthy family, but only an Asian wealthy family? Doesn’t this limit his dating pool? How accurate is this? Do wealthy Indian families only want their kids to marry into other wealthy Indian families? What if they didn't marry into an Indian or Asian wealthy family, but into a Black or White wealthy family? Would they be upset?
This is based on my own experience. I use the treadmill to power walk. I am at an incline of 15, speed 7, and doing it for 30 minutes. I can easily power walk with these settings. But when I try to run/jog with these exact same settings, my legs feel weaker and breathing seems to be a bit harder. Is there a reason why power walk is “easier” than running/jogging?
I'm basically scared to go to clubs because I feel like I won't fit in and I will be judged. I think I won't be able to find a group or a person to talk to and I'll just stand there awkwardly and never go again.
I'm from the UK so if you are as well you can probably give a more accurate answer
Help!! For the last two weeks give or take a day, I have had the most obnoxious to the point of gagging and dry heaving, sensation that I have discovered is refered to as an "olfactory hallucination". Out of nowhere I become overwhelmed with the scent of vinegar actually inside my nose and I can also taste it in my throat. It feels like a vinegar soaked pillowcase is put over my whole head! I'm a mind over matter kind of girl. It's worked well for me until this. Blowing, nasal spray, steam, water drops, vapor rub, patchouli oil........... Nothing has worked and it's getting worse! I admit I did a short search but there really wasn't much for remedies that I could find. I did read that this has become more common among people that have had COVID-19, which I have not. I have intense PTSD so I'm trying to avoid a Dr. visit if possible. All thoughts, ideas or remedies are appreciated. Thanks in advance!
In the title sequence / opening sequence of Showtime's "A Gentleman in Moscow", what is the style of the artwork that is depicted? The geometric shapes, the deeply saturated colors; at one point as the floor is animated the artist renders tessellations, but I was hoping someone could point me to the name of the overall artistic style.
I assume these protests have been ongoing since the conflict began, so why the crackdown now and what laws are being broken?
Sometimes it looks like they have a super swayed back but i cant tell if they are just pushing their butts out for a picture.
There was this case in which a 35 year old male who was highly educated committed a cold blooded murder of his wife infront of their 6 year old child. The person after committing this heinous crime called the cops himself and was arrested. The testimony of the child in the court along with other evidence made sure that he was convicted for life. What do you guys think would be the effect of this on the little boy who not only lost his mother because of the monster but later in his life when he understands things, he gets to know that he was the reason which made sure that his father was put behind bars?
For a long time I have seen people on the internet saying, that SAHM/SAHW are the traditional way. The man is the breadwinner and the woman stays at home. It might be because of the algorithm, but it seems to me, that the redpillers and tradwives has increased this idea, and it seems more or less accepted as a fact.
I am a historian and even though I do not have much knowledge in history of the genders I do know, that the idea that women did not work is a glorified myth. The ideal was for a long time that the women should be at home, but that was an ideal. For the vast majority of history both men and women worked. Most families throughout history struggled economically and therefore could not afford keeping the woman at home. I agree that for the aristocracy and the rich the women did not need to work, but it was never the norm.
On farms women would help out with the practical work that need to be done. In continental Europe we have examples of women running their own businesses, in Germany you even have sources mentioning kaufffrauen (female merchants). In Denmark the first woman to finish the education in medicine was in 1885, and in 1889 she started her own medical practice and worked as a general practitioner.
My question is why do people perpetuate both the myth that tradwives are traditional and that women historically did not work?
Especially asking to people who are happily married. Can you really love your partner if you feel attracted to other people and occasionally fantasize about having sex with other people?
I'm a 20 year old male (single), and I very often fantasize about sleeping with pretty women. These thoughts come up pretty easily and I feel like a creep for having them, especially because I'm supposed to not sleep with girls until I found "the one". It does not help that I'm getting more and more opportunities.
Those thoughts never stopped when I was in relationships and I can not imagine those thoughts easily going away if I would get into a new one, unless I find my "perfect" person but then again I don't know what kind of person that would be. I really want to settle down and have kids one day too. Right now I'm just resisting my urges until those thoughts ever go away.
Do those thoughts go away when you are truly in love?
Do you just look straight ahead? That’s what I do.
Or are you meant to look the person in the eye. I thought it’s rude or weird to do that, and it can make the person especially if they’re a woman uncomfortable.
Or do you look at the ground? That’s what I see lots of people do, usually women, when they walk past me.