http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...ml?id=13886970

CBer getting wood over warmup dunks.

Dunking has always been near the bottom of my list of factors that make me excited about how good a player is. But I am hopeful Hartsock can contribute for us next year.

This is the most ridiculous garbage I have ever seen on CB.

What a joke.

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...ml?id=13888089

The bad thing about CB is that it makes me hate BYU.

But that may be true for any message board and any college.

To be fair, I did like and do like BYU much better when I'm at least 1000 miles away from BYU.

The little creepy root beer sipping ding-dong mullahs piss me off.

What morons.

This is probably a Ute fan.

No identification whatsoever.

http://www.gofundme.com/pzwznk

Wow. I don't know if the post itself or the number of thumbs up and praise it gets is creepier.

Good call. It does seem to look a lot like a uteish troll and scam.

What makes me most sad is when people miss or lose the beauty of the restored gospel of Christ because they can't stomach the cultural crap that so many wrap around it and think is the gospel. Just one example: Mitt Romney failing to win the presidency is a sign of being in the last days and shows how the power of Satan is running rampant in the world. FWIW, I think these ridiculous ideas seem to gain traction more with naive female members who don't leave the house much and don't have much experience associating with anyone who isn't from their exact cultural and religious background. I don't have a facebook account, but my wife does and sometimes shows me some of the ridiculous CRAP that gets posted by members of our ward. Every time it makes me feel like selling my house and moving back to a part of DFW that is less yuppy and affluent and where the ward looks more like Texas and less like the most stuck up neigborhoods of Utah. But that's hard to do. Moving is a pain and we like our neighborhood in general.

And IMO, at least where I live it's not really the men. Maybe they're just as ridiculous but don't post, but I think isolating ourselves within our bubble tends to foster it more. Maybe men who live within a large LDS community are more like that, but I think people who actually go out to work and associate with people from many different religious and cultural backgrounds tend to develop a little more charity and tolerance for different people and ideas. I also don't notice it much from those who didn't grow up in the bubble or with the women in the ward who have jobs.

I don't know what Mormon women think because I do not associate with them.

I don't work with them in callings for the most part, I don't socialize with them. I have almost zero one-on-one communication with them.

Esp. Mormon women my age or younger.

When I attend Sunday School it's usually the older women that talk the most. But about things that generally don't help me understanding much about them personally.

Men and women are separate in the church.

back to cougarboard. So a story like this one linked below comes out. How does cougarboard typically respond (meaning the majority of posts about it will say)?

Some variation of...it didn't really happen, we don't have all the facts, the media is mostly making it up, etc.,

Or

It's an unfortunate isolated incident but....[direct conversation to another negative thing black people/poor people/democrats/obama is responsible for]

Or

What else?

FWIW, my brother's in-laws are from the St. Louis area and he's spent a good amount of time there. His opinion is that racially it's about the worst place he's ever been to, including the south. He says it's been pretty commonplace there over the years that when a few black families happen to move into a formerly mostly white suburb that the white families will start moving out as quickly as possible. In just a few years you end up with a mostly white community becoming mostly black. That's what happened in Ferguson.

So what will happen with this moron who randomly attacked a former St. Louis Cardinals player just because he's black? We'll see.


http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...210248297.html