Your RBR Word of the Day: tergiversation
by Todd on Jun 9, 2009 8:00 AM CDT
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tergiversation \tuhr-jiv-uhr-SAY-shuhn\, noun:
1. The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous.
2. The act of abandoning a party or cause.
Though it's highly unlikely anything particularly sinister is inherent in Alabama's tergiversation, the fact that large portions of Alabama's response to the NCAA's notice of allegations have been redacted due to privacy issues is still ripe "ZOMG cheetie bammers is getin sankshuned!!11" fodder for the more conspiracy minded members of rival fanbases.
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Those tin-foil hat wearing m-fers are never satisfied!
HL Mencken has said, “Love [is merely] a state of perceptual anesthesia”, so I’ll just go on to say these a-holes gotta learn the art of masturbation and learn to love themselves a bit more. Find some spankwire dot com and go blind, for cryin-out-loud! Get out from gettin up our asses, already! (it FERPA goll dang it!)
Sankshuns are a coming, no need to premature ejaculate just yet!
(btw: tergiversation is a badass word, WORD! so good as a matter of fact- i don’t think it’s in my “word edit” just yet. everytime i write it, it comes back underlined- like it’s a misspelling or whatnot. you are the KING! Todd. The King!)
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Jun 9, 2009 8:16 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Ha!
Bix, at first I misread your quote as “btw: tigerversation is a badass word…” as in the asinine conversations Barners have when whining about Bama.
"The Saban method isn’t for everyone."
-CJackson
by Bubba Chang on Jun 9, 2009 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Naw Bubba Cha. . .
. . .I’m a knucklehead for words, linguistics, and languages. Todd has thoroughly “f-ed” up my head with a few words that I had never heard of nor had any idea about prior to his awesome posting of it. (if you were around back in the day when my screen-name was tapout. . .then you’ll remember the word “ken”. that shit fucked me up for a month! seriously. it was a madcap twister for my noggin)
This tergiversation word had great potential, but alas- it was only a word that previously knew of one of the two meanings which he had posted from above. Still, it’s a badass word nonetheless. As in, cool; bitchen’; and all-around capital!
And in this regard, I don’t think Debra Lane (asst. VP of U of ‘Bama relations) is tergiverserating, as much as she is protecting the students rights to privacy in this matter. There’s the whole FSU and NCAA brouhaha right now surrounding the secure postings of the NCAA’s findings regarding FSU’s penalties/sanctions and appeals to the NCAA’s findings. And as much as I can understand the FSU side of it all, I don’t understand why the media and their fans won’t just wait until FSU responds to what the NCAA has determined based on the FSU appeal. That way, as FSU goes down the list- point for point with the NCAA, everyone can see what the hell’s going on and where the legal footing for FSU stands. (everything sent out of FSU is a matter of public record). All they have to do is wait for ten days or whatever.
Same here. If ’Bama goes on to the appeal process, whatever they send back to the NCAA can/will be a matter of public record, minus the names of the students and whatever ’Bama can legally withold from public record as it applies to privacy issues and rights.
People just have to keep their shirts on. I trust that the administration of U of Alabama are in the right, and that the NCAA will strive to continue to protect the rights of the student/athletes involved as well.
The NCAA is a cartel, this is true. And they have a long way to go about changing the public’s perception that it is an impotent, but all-mighty entity in the business of generating scads of revenue and profits for it’s own best interest. . . .but in this day and age (with the advent of Al Gore’s creation of teh inturnetz and all- the macro-public has a strong hand through: access of info, mobility of it’s user-base, and discretionary compulsions to right whatever they see wrong and can very well make that powerful entity (NCAA and Miles Brand) bend to their will.
But that’s just the foggy haze of Bix’s ken. I can be totally wrong in this regard.
Anyhoot, I need a lunch-hour brewski. And cheap. My wallet’s got a whole in it and it ain’t as thick as it was before last weekend. How you doin’?
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Jun 9, 2009 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I remember Tapout...
…and actually do have vague memories of your “ken” meltdown. So “Tapout,” Bruce Lee avatar…are you involved in the martial arts at all?
"The Saban method isn’t for everyone."
-CJackson
by Bubba Chang on Jun 10, 2009 7:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
A little bit. . . .
. . . .only making it to the mat twice a week though. I gotta cut down spliffs er, I mean cigarettes. I just took ’em up. As a kid I boxed a little here and there, and experimented a bit with taekwondo, kenpo kah-rah-tay, and stopped at Instructor Level 7 in Jeet Kun Do. . . . .and then I got way into the Machado system of jiu-jitsu. Been there and stuck around it the longest. Got my black belt last Fall.
I try to keep up, but . . . .what can I say? Lately, I’ve been lagging. Just hardly make it out to Hermosa Beach where my academy is. (it’s only 12 miles south from where I live, but in LA, it takes 45 minutes. i usually end up surfing and getting into trouble with the fellas down there. my girl hates it when I crash on someone’s couch ‘cause I get pretty toasted and bent. THEY’RE BRAZILIANS! they like to have a really, really, really good time. all the time) I used to compete quite regularly, but because I spend no more than 10 hours on the mat a week- I’m liable to get blasted one of these days so. . .I stopped doing that. I’m a weekend-warrior these days. It takes a huge commitment, and I guess what I’m saying is- I’m kinda burnt out on it all.
And you?
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Jun 10, 2009 1:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow...
…so you know Kah-rah-tay AND Kah-ray-zee! Sounds like you tried several different styles until finding the right one for you. I’m not as familiar with the ranking levels in Jeet Kun Do—how long did you study? Regardless, Instructor level in that art is impressive. One of my good friends, Bryan Smith, taught for many years but is now also in Machado jiu-jitsu. He got his purple a year or two ago and has mad grappling skills, so if you have your black I’m staying the hell away from YOU on the matt!
As for me, I was lucky enough to find my “home” in the martial arts with my first try, then I tried out several before realizing it was the one for me. I started in 1996 in Tuscaloosa, then moved to Taiwan for 6 years where I got to see a lot of cool things, but none spoke to me as deeply as my original art, Shen Lung Kung Fu.
I can certainly understand how difficult it is to find time to train. As much experience as you have, have you considered opening your own kwoon?
"The Saban method isn’t for everyone."
-CJackson
by Bubba Chang on Jun 11, 2009 7:53 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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