tifosi77 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:01 am
Nerve pain is new one for me, but I know from inconvenient sneezing. A few times a month I get seemingly unprovoked sneeze fits. Out of nowhere I'll have like 8-10+ full-body sneezes in perhaps a 25-second span. Been that way for as long as I can remember.
I have this weird condition where I feel a sudden onslaught of nausea and then sneeze 10-30 seconds later and the nausea stops. Something to do with the vagus nerve:
The vagus nerve is responsible for the regulation of internal organ functions, such as digestion, heart rate, and respiratory rate, as well as vasomotor activity, and certain reflex actions, such as coughing, sneezing, swallowing, and vomiting.
Huh. Don't have anything like that. I think the closest weird thing I do is that every once in a while when I yawn, I get a sharp pain in my ear. Like the inside of my ear canal actually hurts.
tifosi77 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:01 am
Nerve pain is new one for me, but I know from inconvenient sneezing. A few times a month I get seemingly unprovoked sneeze fits. Out of nowhere I'll have like 8-10+ full-body sneezes in perhaps a 25-second span. Been that way for as long as I can remember.
I have a friend that gets this... any clue what is the cause?
Damnit, YouTube, I watched ONE a capella video last week and I didn't even finish it. Please stop recommending a capella videos to me. I'm begging you.
MR25 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:24 pm
I just open those one-off videos in Incognito mode. You get to check it out but don't have to deal with the suggestion bombardments.
This is what I do when I don't want suggestion videos, too.
nocera wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:03 pm
Damnit, YouTube, I watched ONE a capella video last week and I didn't even finish it. Please stop recommending a capella videos to me. I'm begging you.
Honestly, I can't make heads or tails out of the stupid algorithm. The annoying one for me is 'legacy reccommendations'. When we bought our current house, I spent a few months in quasi-prepper mode researching earthquake kits and the like. I haven't watched one of those videos since. To this day, coming up on five years later, I still get regular reccs for those channels.
Sports parents continue to be awful. Thirty minutes after we lost a very close game to a conference rival (a team that hasn't lost in conference in two years, and we haven't beat them in six) I get two texts from parents. One saying we need to he'd like to talk "one last time" and the other saying her daughter basically wasn't meant to be on the bench, ignoring the fact that she actually played more this game, and when she went in she did the opposite of what I told her to do. Some parents seem to think that coaches don't try to win, but instead try to screw kids over.
What level is this? Most teams I've coached above like, age 7 (which that young we were required by the league to get everyone about 50% play time anyway) I've always said any concerns around playing time will be brought to me by the player and we will go over what needs to happen for playing time to increase.
In school sports here, parents actually have to sign a document stating that they will not talk to the coach about pretty much anything. All strategy, playing time, etc questions are to be raised by the player.
But yeah, having spent the past 10 years as a coach, club president, and now an administrator in the referee community, some sports parents are the freaking worst.
My favorites were the ones who came to me with coaching concerns around groups where we had say, 4 teams, 50 players, and only 2 parents stepped up to coach. So I practically had to bribe two more parents to coach and people who didn't step up gonna complain Sally ain't getting PT in a U10 rec league or coach couldn't design an effective defensive strategy if her life depended on it? You freaking serious?
My dad 'head' coached for my little league team from 6yrs old to 12. He had a few bad interactions with parents throughout the years, but year 12 saw one physical altercation with a dad in the parking lot after a game and a dad show up at our house to discuss why his son wasn't pitching. One game had a mom yell at him that the only reason I was starting at shortstop was because I was his son. Narrator: It wasn't. They asked him to coach the all star team, and after asking me if it was okay, politely declined...which really sucked.
I simply cannot imagine what it's like now with cell phones and social media. The fact that you're basically always reachable has to be insane.
I was actually thinking about my daughter's soccer team this morning. The organization has been putting our coach in a bad spot by moving my daughter's team up a level (they shouldn't have been, especially not based on spring soccer). Most of the time she has been on the team, she has either been playing in a division one year older, or in a division higher than they should be. The kids seem fine with it, but you can see some frustration set in at times.
She's playing winter soccer right now, and even though it's not truly 'organized', her team was placed into a league with kids well above their skill level. They lost the first game 10-1. I don't want this stuff to get my daughter so down that she just doesn't want to play anymore, a risk I feel is very real.
RonnieFranchise wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:09 am
What level is this? Most teams I've coached above like, age 7 (which that young we were required by the league to get everyone about 50% play time anyway) I've always said any concerns around playing time will be brought to me by the player and we will go over what needs to happen for playing time to increase.
In school sports here, parents actually have to sign a document stating that they will not talk to the coach about pretty much anything. All strategy, playing time, etc questions are to be raised by the player.
But yeah, having spent the past 10 years as a coach, club president, and now an administrator in the referee community, some sports parents are the freaking worst.
My favorites were the ones who came to me with coaching concerns around groups where we had say, 4 teams, 50 players, and only 2 parents stepped up to coach. So I practically had to bribe two more parents to coach and people who didn't step up gonna complain Sally ain't getting PT in a U10 rec league or coach couldn't design an effective defensive strategy if her life depended on it? You freaking serious?
This is high school varsity. At our parent meeting to start the year it was stressed that kids should be doing the communicating, not parents. One of these parents, at the start of the year, was mad because practice went 15 minutes late and I should communicate that with her because he daughter isn’t good at relaying information. Sorry, that’s a you problem, not a me problem.
I've cataloged my long list of grievances with youth sports in the Parental thread, but this discussion here reminded me of one of the last years both of my boys played little league baseball at the same time. My older son was playing the last year of coach pitch and I remember parents from the other team getting into it with a high school senior who was umpiring the game. Complaining about balls and strikes and a couple of close out calls on the bases. I felt horrible for the kid and embarrassed for the parents. At that level, they have one umpire - and he was behind the plate. Hard to make those base calls from there, but the kids are 5-6 years old, so who cares?
A big part of the problem is the travel league stuff. You have kids who make a travel team, and parents who pay for their kids to play on those teams. Those coaches (not all, but some) are then telling the kids and the parents that they are at a certain level and can have a certain role. And maybe on that team, they do. But also, they want the kid to keep playing and the parents to keep paying for them to play there. High school is different. Different team, different players, different roles. And yes, I want your kid to keep playing for me, but I'm not taking your money and feeding your bs about what your kids potential is. I want what is best for the team first, and a close second what is best for the individual player.
DigitalGypsy66 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:27 am
I've cataloged my long list of grievances with youth sports in the Parental thread, but this discussion here reminded me of one of the last years both of my boys played little league baseball at the same time. My older son was playing the last year of coach pitch and I remember parents from the other team getting into it with a high school senior who was umpiring the game. Complaining about balls and strikes and a couple of close out calls on the bases. I felt horrible for the kid and embarrassed for the parents. At that level, they have one umpire - and he was behind the plate. Hard to make those base calls from there, but the kids are 5-6 years old, so who cares?
Exactly, first off the ump is probably inexperienced and give him a break but second, your kid's 5 and this game will mean nothing to him once he gets his orange slices after the game so STFU.
Exactly. And it was in a small town, where everyone knows everyone. I heard after the game the umps' dad got into with the parents. All of it was a mess.
MWB wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:39 am
A big part of the problem is the travel league stuff. You have kids who make a travel team, and parents who pay for their kids to play on those teams. Those coaches (not all, but some) are then telling the kids and the parents that they are at a certain level and can have a certain role. And maybe on that team, they do. But also, they want the kid to keep playing and the parents to keep paying for them to play there. High school is different. Different team, different players, different roles. And yes, I want your kid to keep playing for me, but I'm not taking your money and feeding your bs about what your kids potential is. I want what is best for the team first, and a close second what is best for the individual player.
This was my #1 takeaway from running a community club. Travel/cup sports want your money. Yeah they have tryouts but if they have a spot they will take your moolah and fill it. Some of the kids I coached whose parents told me oh Stacy is going to go play cup soccer…. Oh really? Huh. Well, good luck.
I can see it if a kid has scholarship potential but in general…. Nah. Play Sunday travel within an hour of home for $100 a session and enjoy life.
We knew our kids didn’t have scholarship potential. They played JV and spent time on things that were more in their wheelhouse academically. I also knew I wasn’t going to spend that $ to see them sit on the bench in freaking Syracuse, NY or Lexington, KY or wherever travel took us on a given weekend.
nocera wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:03 pm
Damnit, YouTube, I watched ONE a capella video last week and I didn't even finish it. Please stop recommending a capella videos to me. I'm begging you.
Honestly, I can't make heads or tails out of the stupid algorithm. The annoying one for me is 'legacy reccommendations'. When we bought our current house, I spent a few months in quasi-prepper mode researching earthquake kits and the like. I haven't watched one of those videos since. To this day, coming up on five years later, I still get regular reccs for those channels.
@nocera, oh I thought of another one. Don't know how this one escaped mention earlier. Several years ago I was at an event in Seattle, and one of the people there was a 'world champion' coffee barista called James Hoffman. He was manning a drinks station at the thing, and he made a craft cocktail for me and we chatted for a bit. Now, I myself have absolutely no interest in coffee, or coffee 'culture', or learning about beans, or any of it. Not one iota. So I have never watched a coffee-related video on YouTube. I drink iced coffee maybe once every six months, that's it. Turns out, Mr Hoffman has a YouTube channel that is, unsurprisingly, all about coffee. And every single week since he and I stood three feet apart for ten minutes, YouTube has recommended his newest video to me. I've never once clicked-through one of those recommendations, but without fail his latest upload is always served up to me as something I might like. All because our phones were a yard apart six years ago.
I’ve coached my kids deck hockey and basketball teams. Helped with soccer too. I have never had or seen a negative altercation with parents ( knocks on wood). Maybe it’s the age groups? Haven’t coached anybody older than 4th grade.
A classmate's dad got kicked out of intramural basketball games maybe 5 or 6 times for arguing with refs. Happened at least once a year. I'm shocked the district didn't ban him from games.
Outside of work at Penn State, I only coached one season of hockey. The parents of 'my' kids were pretty chill, but all of other coaches in the league had issues. So much so that despite not having any problems myself I didn't come back for a second year.
