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Who's more foolish the fool or the fool that follows ?  

40Deuce 46M
4633 posts
4/1/2019 5:57 pm

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4/3/2019 5:08 pm

Who's more foolish the fool or the fool that follows ?

I can't remember the last time someone played an April Fool's joke on me . It may never have happened . I mean there was the time Matt Madison hit me in the stomach with a 2 by 4 but that's less of a "prank" and more of an "assault with a deadly weapon" . People did think it was funny .

But today I came home to this -



It's pretty fantastic .

I figured if I start working now I should be finished with the world's largest Santa suit in time for Christmas so I can put him out again .

A lot of people believe that April Fool's Day originated from Christians making fun of a pagan new year celebration but that's an old wives tale/urban legend - the calendar we use now didn't even exist then .

Some smart people think that it really comes from the "Nun's Priest's Tale" in which a vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox on Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two - which people thought mean April 1st . This is also incorrect .

April Fool's day has it's origin in pre-Colombian America . A fellow by the name of Howah was nailing a married lady called Iguin (as the tale goes she had a lazy eye but a killer<b> rack </font></b>and a tight caboose) when her husband Chiricahua walked into the hogan . He was quite upset by the side of another man giving it to his lady so Chiricahua took up his club to dash out the brains of Howah but Howah said "I'm just kidding !" which brought everything to a halt . No one had ever tried that before .

Well , I mean Aymer de Valence did try it on Robert de Clifford before the battle of Bannockburn when Robert walked in on him railing Maud de Clare but we all know how THAT turned out .

Chiricahua eventually agreed that this was a pretty good prank and soon everyone was getting in on the action - hilarious joke sex was happening all over the place . Eventually the people who didn't have spouses felt left out and they started doing tricks other than marital infidelity . As time went by and marital infidelity became normalized it lost its cache as an April Fool's tradition .

There's a legal battle going on in some states now about if it's legal for your employee to require you to sign as part of your employment contract an agreement that if you want to sue them for whatever instead you go to arbitration in a state that will favor them .

Most states seem to be leaning towards saying this is fine .

I have mixed feelings about this . On the one hand if you don't want your company to assfuck you in arbitration should it become necessary you don't have to work there .

Buuuuuuut , that's not really how it works - all companies will do it and they have the luxury of being united in their quest for money whereas we , the workers , have no power because we'll sell each other out in a split second if it means more for us - there is no big picture from the employee side . So as much as I hate it I suppose the government should protect us .

They won't of course , but they probably should .

I stopped watching Last Week Tonight because it went from a show I thought was funny and good to a endless Trump complain jerkoff fest but I heard they had an episode about the WWE last night so I watched it .

It was pretty good but I'm not really going to talk about that . They showed an actuarial graph of how wrestlers die like fruit-flies compared to the norm but what startled me is that they showed NFL players who were below the norm .

With all this talk of CTE and injuries and whatnot NFL players have a longer lifespan than us normal slobs ? I would not have guessed that . I suppose it makes sense , even with all the wear and tear on their bodies they were professional athletes right so they must have pretty good physical gifts or genetics or whatever you want to call it .

And as many of them go to hell after they retire probably the majority of them stay in pretty good shape compared to the average - if you spent 30 years working out all the time and learning about nutrition and exercise you can probably take that down a few notches and still be more healthy than most people .

That was an interesting surprise . I wonder how that line looks for various kinds of athletes . Any actuaries out there ? Give me your trade secrets .

The only thing I know from my work is that most millionaire athletes have shitty credit and often don't know how money works .


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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
4/1/2019 5:58 pm

I've mostly given this up but people NEED to see this one

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superbjversion2 68F  
24388 posts
4/1/2019 7:23 pm

For some reason, I can picture 4 neighborhood boys peeing on your Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and yelling, "Cross the streams!"

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation bangs on the door forever!


40Deuce replies on 4/3/2019 5:09 pm:
You never cross the streams

smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
4/2/2019 11:40 am

Agreed, that's interesting about the football players. By that token, you would think that pro athletes in sports where you're not being constantly tackled and given brain injuries would have an even more excellent life span. I want to see the stats on cross country skiers, triathletes, tennis players etc.

And yes, it seems pretty typical that the only thing pro athletes can think of to do after retiring is own a bar/restaurant, and it rarely goes well.

Alan Page being the exception. Yay Alan Page!


40Deuce replies on 4/3/2019 5:09 pm:
Agreed , I'd love to see a breakdown of athlete life expectancy by sport

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