After reading what was just posted by Johnathan Martin's lawyer...just...wow. I feel bad for the guy that his TEAMMATES treated him like this. It's one thing for your opponent on the field to talk shit to you, but for people who are on your team, it's just disgraceful that you'd have to deal with that on a constant basis. * Another text from a teammate. "We are going to run train on your sister. . . . She loves me. I am going to [expletive] her without a condom and [expletive] in her [expletive]."
But... It's football. These guys are paid millions of dollars to give each other brain damage in front of us for our entertainment. Junior hockey teams up here used to jerk off on to a loaf of bread and order the rookies to eat it. Hazing is fucked up but it's meant to harden each other up for animalistic shit like playing full-contact with human beings the size of refrigerators. They said some really offside things. From what I hear, so do drill instructors.
In my experience, 99.9% of people who bitch about hazing are usually the ones who would have been weeded out of the group regardless of hazing. It's an excuse to justify their failure to thrive. The stuff he accused his teammates of is incredibly tame compared to the shit I had to put up with as a rookie in the firehouse. And the stuff I put up with is kiddie shit compared to the stories I've heard from coworkers who worked in "cool guy units" within the military.
No, but I did find a 6'6" naked, oiled up, black guy in my bunk who greeted me with "every had sex with a man? No? It isn't so bad." I was 18. it was terrifying.
First of all, no they don't, and secondly, comparing athletes hazing each other to trained professionals turning young men from schoolboys into warriors is kind of like comparing BDSM play to being arrested by the police. One is for shits and giggles, the other actually has a purpose.
From this article: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/nfl-player-reportedly-leaves-team-over-constant-bu/nbd99/ This is the part that got to me: Assuming that is not a misunderstanding, that is both high school bullshit and incredibly hurtful. Someone could call me names and stick me with outrageous bills all they want, but to actually shun me would have me crying like a bitch. That's not something you can play off as hazing.
I don't understand hazing as a concept that brings people together. Let's come up with ridiculous shitty things to do to people we hardly know and in turn, they will thank us for making them better people. I also really don't understand people who tell their hazing stories as if they are a badge of honor. "Some guys made me run naked through a grocery store and then I had to eat a dogshit sandwich. It really made me feel like I was a member of the group after that." Can someone explain how hazing has any sort of positive outcome that can't be reached through a hundred different other team building exercises?
So if the guys in the firehouse called you a nigger and told you they were going to cum in your sister's ass, you'd have no issue with it? That's tame to you?
Hazing happens because thats what you get when you get a bunch of teenagers and running the show. A lot of it is inherited, but mostly its dumb shit that the older guys think is funny, so the make the rookies do it. Hazing brings those being hazed together because when you go through bad things as a group, bonds tend to form to cope with it.
This is the third or fourth time I've read one of your posts and thought, "He must be a miserable horror of a person in real life."
We're here worrying about hazing. At least we don't have to worry about getting eaten at the watering hole.
I need some advice from you crazy ass people. If something at my job is concerning me due to a potential threat to mine and my partner's safety in the field (a rule that my boss has implemented that she will not change), should I stay quiet and don't rock the boat or go above her head with my concerns? I'm being very vague, I know. It's something she is aware of and won't change her rule. Shut up or go up?
Is it a real threat to your safety or a "well, if these sixteen improbable events happen in sequence then I might break a toe" threat to safety? If it's the former, office politics will seem pretty irrelevant when you or your partner are bleeding out in some shitty neighborhood at 3am.
So I was browsing netflix last night and came across a show called extreme cheapskates. I thought it would be entertaining and possibly helpful in showing how to save money. It turns out that these people are nothing but Class A douchebags. As I watched it, I found myself muttering "fucking asshole" and "Jesus, what fucking asshole" the entire time. One guy was so cheap that he wouldn't even give his wife a 25 year anniversary gift. He just made her a present from trash. At the movies, which was pulling teeth to get him to do, he went through the trash and found old drinks and popcorn bags and went up to the counter for the free refills. He's basically a thief. I was getting legitimately angry at these people. Another guy insisted on sharing a meal on a first date to a BBQ restaurant.