Very proud of our Coach, Players and University.

[BisonBacker]

We have to wait for the bye week for a game but in the meantime here's a little something from our Coach and Players. Football is great and all but life has so many more challenges for some folks it puts into perspective all our banter and bickering during the season or year round that there are really more important battles going on each and every day. Ryan Smith's smile says it all.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPf2eCJqiw&list=UUo9BmRwSGifLu8jCbOgOK1w

[Grizzlies82]

I'm glad to see the day didn't go by without another North Dakota State thread here at "Any Given Bison". xsmhx

[BisonBacker]

I'm glad to see the day didn't go by without another North Dakota State thread here at "Any Given Bison". xsmhx

This is something to be proud of. Football players doing something right. Maybe the griz should try it and you could post something like it. In the meantime it's to bad you can't see the good in this rather than just bitch about something.

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I'm glad to see the day didn't go by without another North Dakota State thread here at "Any Given Bison". xsmhx

As far as the "Any Given Bison" comment here's the current AGS thread page. Doesn't look to me like it's flooded with Bison threads. You better get something else to bitch about this one doesn't have legs.

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[Green1]

I'm glad to see the day didn't go by without another North Dakota State thread here at "Any Given Bison". xsmhx

Instead of this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You could have replied with an example of the charitable work your University performs that you are proud of and deserves recognition for. xsmhx

[Darlinikki150]

I think its nice, and actually they do it every year. The players and coaches are very involved in the community, as I have posted in the past. Whether it be a high school event or the children's hospital. It is indeed a proud feeling...

[centennial]

I'm glad to see the day didn't go by without another North Dakota State thread here at "Any Given Bison". xsmhx
Strong butthurt on this one. You are free not to click on the link instead of the diatribe that you posted.

[BisonBohl]

Really awesome stuff!

I can see how this thread would come off as hey look at me or us, fact is a lot of universities and teams do charitable work and they should. I personally love seeing and reading about this kind of stuff so I don't mind it but I can see how it would annoy some.

[Texas]

Strong butthurt on this one. You are free not to click on the link instead of the diatribe that you posted.
Honestly only people that care are other Bison fans. Funny you call him butt hurt, only bison fans are up in arms about his comment.


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[mmiller_34]

Honestly only people that care are other Bison fans. Funny you call him butt hurt, only bison fans are up in arms about his comment.


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I thought it was pretty classless. I always like seeing teams reaching out to their community like this.

[Texas]

I thought it was pretty classless. I always like seeing teams reaching out to their community like this.

Classless on Internet forums is gold.
Face it all this and the other posts were to start more bison CJs.


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[mmiller_34]

Classless on Internet forums is gold.
Face it all this and the other posts were to start more bison CJs.


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Okay.

[BisonBacker]

Classless on Internet forums is gold.
Face it all this and the other posts were to start more bison CJs.


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What a cynical attitude. The whole purpose of this was to give credit where credit is due. 99% of the time when players/teams make the news for anything off the field it seems like it's for negative news. So when good things happen to people who are in a less fortunate position and facing much more serious problems than what we face daily I think it deserves some recognition. Besides the CJ's you refer to or the original negative comment by the griz fan in here are the only thing negative about this entire thread. Are you happy now? You and the griz fan posting negative comments in this thread are the only one's making an issue of this and being jerks about it. Congrats.

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

Good post BB!!

[Texas]

What a cynical attitude. The whole purpose of this was to give credit where credit is due. 99% of the time when players/teams make the news for anything off the field it seems like it's for negative news. So when good things happen to people who are in a less fortunate position and facing much more serious problems than what we face daily I think it deserves some recognition. Besides the CJ's you refer to or the original negative comment by the griz fan in here are the only thing negative about this entire thread. Are you happy now? You and the griz fan posting negative comments in this thread are the only one's making an issue of this and being jerks about it. Congrats.

My bad I thought this was AGS not bisonville.


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[mmiller_34]

My bad I thought this was AGS not bisonville.


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Still missing the point.

[Darlinikki150]

[QUOTE=Texas;2060909]My bad I thought this was AGS not bisonville.

http://www.gobearkats.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1276042

Yo Texas! You're team does really nice things too. Why not post it on thread instead of being an ass about it. Its nice to see athletes active in the community, and maybe more attention should be spent on this side of athletics and not so much on winning.

Carry on...

[mmiller_34]

[QUOTE=Texas;2060909]My bad I thought this was AGS not bisonville.

http://www.gobearkats.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1276042

Yo Texas! You're team does really nice things too. Why not post it on thread instead of being an ass about it. Its nice to see athletes active in the community, and maybe more attention should be spent on this side of athletics and not so much on winning.

Carry on...

This is the point.

[Texas]

[QUOTE=Darlinikki150;2060915]

Thats the point.

The point is that bison fans only post here to continue the cj they already have. Someone doing something good just gives them another reason to keep posting crap about NDSU that no one cares about.


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[IBleedYellow]

The fact you guys can't complete a quote bracket. xlolx

[Texas]

Blame tapatalk


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[Bison Fan in NW MN]

[QUOTE=mmiller_34;2060916]

The point is that bison fans only post here to continue the cj they already have. Someone doing something good just gives them another reason to keep posting crap about NDSU that no one cares about.


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Hey Texas,

You don't like it then don't frickin post in the thread. Not too hard to figure out....xthumbsdownx

[mmiller_34]

The fact you guys can't complete a quote bracket. xlolx

:)

[Bison56]

Texas is obviously desperate for attenion.

[dewey]

Like others gave said it would be nice to see what MT, EWU, SHSU or other schools do in the community so we can be proud of all of the FCS schools. No where in this thread did it say that it was limited to the NDSU team.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Dewey

[HannahO]

Just about every team and their players does this sort of thing quietly throughout the year. Most don't bring along their publicist and make it a ESPN My Wish spot and say look at me. Call me a cynic but I agree that while a nice story for your own board, it seems like puffery to put it here.

[maine612]

Maine Black Bears giving back to our veterans earlier in the season.

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/15/sports/returning-soldiers-maine-football-players-bond-during-practice-session/

[mmiller_34]

Maine Black Bears giving back to our veterans earlier in the season.

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/15/sports/returning-soldiers-maine-football-players-bond-during-practice-session/

Love that!

[Darlinikki150]

Maine Black Bears giving back to our veterans earlier in the season.

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/15/sports/returning-soldiers-maine-football-players-bond-during-practice-session/

Very cool, sounds like a great group of men playing for Maine.

[Sader87]

Just about every team and their players does this sort of thing quietly throughout the year. Most don't bring along their publicist and make it a ESPN My Wish spot and say look at me. Call me a cynic but I agree that while a nice story for your own board, it seems like puffery to put it here.

Exactly.....the Holy Cross team (and many others in the FCS) could put stuff like this up on a daily or weekly basis.


It's very laudable what NDSU has done here but it does smack of "piling on" i.e. "Look at us, not only are we great on the field, we're great off it as well."

[Bison56]

Exactly.....the Holy Cross team (and many others in the FCS) could put stuff like this up on a daily or weekly basis.


It's very laudable what NDSU has done here but it does smack of "piling on" i.e. "Look at us, not only are we great on the field, we're great off it as well."If thats what people think when they see that I feel sorry for them.

[maine612]

Exactly.....the Holy Cross team (and many others in the FCS) could put stuff like this up on a daily or weekly basis.


It's very laudable what NDSU has done here but it does smack of "piling on" i.e. "Look at us, not only are we great on the field, we're great off it as well."

I like seeing the good stuff off the field too. This is a cool video. Got to agree the Bison video staff has their stuff together.

[Texas]

If thats what people think when they see that I feel sorry for them.

I feel sorry for you if you really think what he says isn't true. This stupid NDSU is the greatest at everything threads are getting boring, if I cared I'd goto bisonville.
Most people here on this stance probably agree with me, unless you are a Bison groupie of course.


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[BisonBacker]

I feel sorry for you if you really think what he says isn't true. This stupid NDSU is the greatest at everything threads are getting boring, if I cared I'd goto bisonville.
Most people here on this stance probably agree with me, unless you are a Bison groupie of course.


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So you don't like that a thread exists about anything Bison related so to make your point you continually post and extend said thread? Hey more power to you. Some serious logic flaws there but you keep feeling special there little buddy.

[Tubakat2014]

I feel sorry for you if you really think what he says isn't true. This stupid NDSU is the greatest at everything threads are getting boring, if I cared I'd goto bisonville.
Most people here on this stance probably agree with me, unless you are a Bison groupie of course.


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With all due respect... what do you plan on accomplishing with your posts in this thread?

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am eternally thankful that NDSU fans are not as bad as LakesBison. Because really, Texas, it could be a whole lot worse.

[Southern Bison]

I think in the spirit of Thanksgiving, someone should use their BanHammer (or Ax, preferably) for Texas acting like such a ****head and take him out just below the beak.

When I first saw the OP, I was hoping to see more stories from FCS teams giving back to their community. Thanks to Maine612 for adding to this great topic.

[Green1]

With all due respect... what do you plan on accomplishing with your posts in this thread?

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am eternally thankful that NDSU fans are not as bad as LakesBison. Because really, Texas, it could be a whole lot worse.


I find it amazing that it took an NDSU fan to post an article about the good work the SHSU football team is doing for others. Sad...

Maybe instead of focusing on the "colors" of the players performing the good deeds, you should focus on the goodness being done. This doesn't seem to be as hard as some of you want to make it.

[Tubakat2014]

I find it amazing that it took an NDSU fan to post an article about the good work the SHSU football team is doing for others. Sad...

Maybe instead of focusing on the "colors" of the players performing the good deeds, you should focus on the goodness being done. This doesn't seem to be as hard as some of you want to make it.

The intent of my post was to point out how frivolous it was to rag on NDSU fans for this thread. I completely agree with you.

I wish people could temporarily put aside their team loyalty in threads like this. Once the cleats are hung up and football is nothing but a distant memory, the character of these men is what will carry them throughout the rest of their lives, no matter what colors they wore in college.

I suppose that stance is unpopular with some people around here, but I'll gladly take the heat for that.

[Texas]

The intent of my post was to point out how frivolous it was to rag on NDSU fans for this thread. I completely agree with you.

I wish people could temporarily put aside their team loyalty in threads like this. Once the cleats are hung up and football is nothing but a distant memory, the character of these men is what will carry them throughout the rest of their lives, no matter what colors they wore in college.

I suppose that stance is unpopular with some people around here, but I'll gladly take the heat for that.

Please don't make me link all the bison cj posts.
This one is in disguise, much like you are Bison fan.


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[Tubakat2014]

Please don't make me link all the bison cj posts.
This one is in disguise, much like you are Bison fan.


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I am well aware of how NDSU is the subject of at least twice as many threads as any other team. It's called a cycle. Right now, NDSU is at the top of the FCS. Their fans are proud, there are more of them, and thus there are more threads, and more discussion about NDSU. But it can't last forever- no team is ever on top of the world forever. One day, NDSU will lose the championship game, lose in the first round, or heck- even miss the playoffs. Some other team will experience a wave of success and their fans will "take over" the board as the NDSU discussion begins to slowly taper off. And then we're back to square one, but with another team's fans seemingly doing nothing but talking about their own team, flooding AGS with threads about how great they are and how amazing their team is.

There's nothing you can do about it except ignore the threads you don't want to read and start threads about things you want to talk about.

And if you really want to call me a Bison fan, fine. I don't feel the need to prove to you my loyalty to the Bearkats. I don't think it's a sin to participate in discussions about other teams. One day, I hope SHSU can win two or more straight championships. If that day comes, how are the fans of other teams on AGS going to treat us? We reap what we sow, and what we're sowing right now are a lot of rotten seeds. You might tell me you don't care, and I respect that. But there's a reason why I act the way I do, and it's not because I have wavering feelings about who I support. I take great pride in telling people I go to SHSU, and that's why I respect the pride that other people have in their own schools.

Cheers, and Happy Thanksgiving!

[DJKyR0]

Hey Texas, let me know which runner-up trophy the Bison circle jerk can ejaculate into. Maybe if your team didn't keep handing us titles we wouldn't have the opportunity post so many threads. Smacking now just sounds like sour grapes.

Happy ****ing Thanksgiving.

[IBleedYellow]

Pull my ban hammer on Texas.

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[Texas]

Pull my ban hammer on Texas.

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Bison get so hurt when you call them on their crap.



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[swaghook]

Pull my ban hammer on Texas.

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He ain't worth it.

[Bisonoline]

Bison get so hurt when you call them on their crap.



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Nobody is hurt. Just tired of sore loser trolls like yourself who add nothing to the discussion. All you do is bitch, piss and moan and try to tear down a loyal fan base.

I suggest you remove the perpetual tampon and learn to play well with others.

[Green26]

Nobody is hurt. Just tired of sore loser trolls like yourself who add nothing to the discussion. All you do is bitch, piss and moan and try to tear down a loyal fan base.

I suggest you remove the perpetual tampon and learn to play well with others.

Don't know about you, but way too many Bison posters on the internet are arrogant, obnoxious and unknowledgeable, and sometimes just plain trolls. The team gets plenty of respect, but would get even more, if these posters, and some of fan base, didn't come across as jerks. While many posts are much worse then yours, your post is also in this category.

[Bisonator]

I don't know why it's so hard for people to just not open the thread if you don't like it. Plenty of threads on here I don't like so I just don't open them. I'm not gonna open them and **** all over them just to be a dick! Get over it and move on........or be a dick, whatever flips your skirt.

Now I wouldn't post threads like this on AGS but it doesn't really bother me either to see some of the good press once in awhile.

[Bisonoline]

Don't know about you, but way too many Bison posters on the internet are arrogant, obnoxious and unknowledgeable, and sometimes just plain trolls. The team gets plenty of respect, but would get even more, if these posters, and some of fan base, didn't come across as jerks. While many posts are much worse then yours, your post is also in this category.

For people that are asshats like TX I will respond in kind.
When some one brings forth a well thought out post as yours I will respond in the same vein. Yes there are asshats in every fan base. But one must remember that for the most part fans posting on a message board dont represent the fan base as a whole and are a very very small percentage of a fan base. With that thought in mind ask yourself how many Bison fans post on this venue? How many Bison fans attend a home football game? So we have what maybe 10-15 Bison fans posting here and we have 19,000 in the stadium not to mention 7,000 that were turned away for season tickets and thousands of fans all over the USA. The asshats are a miniscule in that regard. If you judge a whole fan base because of a fans posting and cant separate your feelings for their team because of a a few asshats then I would say you take this way too seriously. But thank you for your thoughts on this matter.

[Darlinikki150]

Its unfortunate this topic has tread into fans bitching, while it started out as a nice post about the players and the impact they can have in the community. m a bison fan and never go to bison ville, not do I go to any other team board, ie egrizz. I get my info mostly from AGS and whatever sport websites I can find that cover FCS. Its too bad we as fans can't see past silly rivalries to just enjoy some very nice deeds done.

[Vitojr130]

My bad I thought this was AGS not bisonville.


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It is AGS, you are very correct. Without content like this, a message board about FCS football would be pretty drab, if not dead. It's refreshing to see people doing nice things in the world. I'm not sure how they do it down in Texas, but I sure as ***** don't see stuff like this coming from your team. No, really, I don't see anything like this about SHSU coming out because people like yourself do not post it.

So, instead of complaining, add to it.

[Texas]

More bison running to defense, it's ok to admit to attention whoring. I like how other AGS posters agree with me.


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[Green26]

For people that are asshats like TX I will respond in kind.
When some one brings forth a well thought out post as yours I will respond in the same vein. Yes there are asshats in every fan base. But one must remember that for the most part fans posting on a message board dont represent the fan base as a whole and are a very very small percentage of a fan base. With that thought in mind ask yourself how many Bison fans post on this venue? How many Bison fans attend a home football game? So we have what maybe 10-15 Bison fans posting here and we have 19,000 in the stadium not to mention 7,000 that were turned away for season tickets and thousands of fans all over the USA. The asshats are a miniscule in that regard. If you judge a whole fan base because of a fans posting and cant separate your feelings for their team because of a a few asshats then I would say you take this way too seriously. But thank you for your thoughts on this matter.

Can you not read? The comment was directed at this: "way too many Bison posters on the internet are arrogant, obnoxious and unknowledgeable, and sometimes just plain trolls. The team gets plenty of respect, but would get even more, if these posters, and some of fan base, didn't come across as jerks."

What do you disagree with? Be specific.

[frozennorth]

This thread was pure attention whoring, and doesn't belong in this section imo.

[Fordham]

I am well aware of how NDSU is the subject of at least twice as many threads as any other team. It's called a cycle. Right now, NDSU is at the top of the FCS. Their fans are proud, there are more of them, and thus there are more threads, and more discussion about NDSU. But it can't last forever- no team is ever on top of the world forever. One day, NDSU will lose the championship game, lose in the first round, or heck- even miss the playoffs. Some other team will experience a wave of success and their fans will "take over" the board as the NDSU discussion begins to slowly taper off. And then we're back to square one, but with another team's fans seemingly doing nothing but talking about their own team, flooding AGS with threads about how great they are and how amazing their team is.

There's nothing you can do about it except ignore the threads you don't want to read and start threads about things you want to talk about.

And if you really want to call me a Bison fan, fine. I don't feel the need to prove to you my loyalty to the Bearkats. I don't think it's a sin to participate in discussions about other teams. One day, I hope SHSU can win two or more straight championships. If that day comes, how are the fans of other teams on AGS going to treat us? We reap what we sow, and what we're sowing right now are a lot of rotten seeds. You might tell me you don't care, and I respect that. But there's a reason why I act the way I do, and it's not because I have wavering feelings about who I support. I take great pride in telling people I go to SHSU, and that's why I respect the pride that other people have in their own schools.

Cheers, and Happy Thanksgiving!
+1

I can understand some Bison fatigue from posters but this just seems such an odd thread to finally take a stand about it.

All good stuff. Nice work imo, Bison.

[Bisonoline]

Can you not read? The comment was directed at this: "way too many Bison posters on the internet are arrogant, obnoxious and unknowledgeable, and sometimes just plain trolls. The team gets plenty of respect, but would get even more, if these posters, and some of fan base, didn't come across as jerks."

What do you disagree with? Be specific.

Obviously your reading comprehension is very lacking as almost my entire response was in fact directed at the ass hats that you described.

[Green26]

Obviously your reading comprehension is very lacking as almost my entire response was in fact directed at the ass hats that you described.

I guess you still don't get it. The number/percentage of obnoxious Bison fans on the internet is higher than other fans bases/internet posters, in my view. The universe is internet posters. The universe being discussed by me is not fans in the stadium or the state. Internet comments influence both the fan base, as well as the views of other fan bases of the obnoxious posting fans.

[Wallace]

Bison fans have EVERY reason to be proud of ANYTHING to do with their football team... but NO reason to be obnoxious.

[Bisonoline]

I guess you still don't get it. The number/percentage of obnoxious Bison fans on the internet is higher than other fans bases/internet posters, in my view. The universe is internet posters. The universe being discussed by me is not fans in the stadium or the state. Internet comments influence both the fan base, as well as the views of other fan bases of the obnoxious posting fans.

If thats how you want to view a fan base based on a narrow sampling then that is your prerogative . I hope you do realize that most Bison fan dont care for the obnoxious fans as well. Good day to you.

[maine612]

This thread has gotten out of control. Good deeds by Bison are cool to see. Fargo is a cool town, NDSU folks are very hospitable, and they have built a program most of us would like to have. If any of our schools were as dominant, there would be attention grabbers as well. Good on ya Bison.

[Go...gate]

We have to wait for the bye week for a game but in the meantime here's a little something from our Coach and Players. Football is great and all but life has so many more challenges for some folks it puts into perspective all our banter and bickering during the season or year round that there are really more important battles going on each and every day. Ryan Smith's smile says it all.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPf2eCJqiw&list=UUo9BmRwSGifLu8jCbOgOK1w

Well done!

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This thread has gotten out of control. Good deeds by Bison are cool to see. Fargo is a cool town, NDSU folks are very hospitable, and they have built a program most of us would like to have. If any of our schools were as dominant, there would be attention grabbers as well. Good on ya Bison.

Exactly.

[BisonFan02]

Wow people. I guess count me in as confused when people complain about content being provided to a message board....kinda wish more fans from other fan bases would do the same, so I could get more background into each program. With this time of year, stories like these are great to see and are much more upbeat than some alternatives out there.

[Texas]

Notice this isn't a top thread at Bisonville. Does it even have it's own thread there to discuss it?


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[No_Skill]

Notice this isn't a top thread at Bisonville. Does it even have it's own thread there to discuss it?


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I think it was already posted and fell to the next few pages...unlike this one for some reason.

[Grizzlies82]

I'm glad to see the day didn't go by without another North Dakota State thread here at "Any Given Bison". xsmhx

Wow! Had no idea my comment would cause such a stir. First of all, I apologize to anyone who thought I was objecting to, or belittling, the content of BisonBacker's clip.
It is always cool when athletes give to their communities and good causes. Again, the content was not the object of my mocking comment, it was its inclusion here on AGS.

As to the observation that "You don't have to click on it if you don't want to". That is reasonable. If the Thread were titled "Very proud of our NDSU..." I probably wouldn't have clicked on it. Yet the title as it is piqued my curiosity and I clicked on it. Bison fans should be proud of their team and their school. You certainly can be proud of their good deeds. I was simply commenting on the fact most of us don't really care to see yet another generic love song thread dedicated to the Bison. That is as opposed to football related material about your team's play or games. eGriz has an entire thread featuring this sort of thing which various Grizzlies participated in. The NDSU fans should have the same, and this would be most appropriate when posted there. Stay proud but keep in mind we are not all here chomping at the bit for every morsel of Fargo news. So once again, sorry to those I offended with the original post, or those I am offending with this response. Good luck to the Bison.

[Thundar]

Notice this isn't a top thread at Bisonville. Does it even have it's own thread there to discuss it?


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my god are you a whiner....