Fucked up. It boggles the mind how dumb people can be.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/02/justice/florida-famu-charges/?hpt=ju_c1
Quote(CNN) -- Criminal charges are expected to be filed Wednesday in Orlando in the suspected hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion.
"We're announcing that charges will be filed against several people involved in the death," a law enforcement source close to the investigation said.
State Attorney Lawson Lamar of Orange and Osceola counties will hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon, his office said.
A spokeswoman for the university declined to comment on the news conference because the school did not have any details about it.
Some university band members have said Champion died after taking part in an annual rite of passage called "Crossing Bus C."
The ritual is an initiation process in which pledges attempt to run down the center aisle from the front door of the bus to the back while being punched, kicked and assaulted by senior members, according to band members.
Champion collapsed in Orlando on the bus, which was carrying members of FAMU's Marching 100 after a November football game that included a halftime performance by the group.
The medical examiner's office ruled his death a homicide and said he "collapsed and died within an hour of a hazing incident during which he suffered multiple blunt trauma blows to his body."
An autopsy found "extensive contusions of his chest, arms, shoulder and back," as well as "evidence of crushing of areas of subcutaneous fat," which is the fatty tissue directly under the skin.
The death prompted the university board of trustees to approve an anti-hazing plan that includes an independent panel of experts to investigate.
I thought this was going to be about how you got laid at juche training or something.
I wonder how many Languishites were in band in high school or middle school.
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I never was in high/middle school, but I was in Air Force basic training...and only because someone thought I'd be big enough to carry the base drum. :P
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 02, 2012, 01:58:50 AM
I never was in high/middle school, but I was in Air Force basic training...and only because someone thought I'd be big enough to carry the base drum. :P
:lol: "YOU! CARRY THIS DRUM" doesn't count
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on May 02, 2012, 01:59:30 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 02, 2012, 01:58:50 AM
I never was in high/middle school, but I was in Air Force basic training...and only because someone thought I'd be big enough to carry the base drum. :P
:lol: "YOU! CARRY THIS DRUM" doesn't count
I played it too... :(
But us base drummers only had to learn cadence. :P
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 02, 2012, 02:00:51 AM
I played it too... :(
But us base drummers only had to learn cadence. :P
How'd that work anyway? Did every <boot camp unit size: division/battalion/company whatever they called them there> have a dude banging away on a drum, or what?
Not enough talk about flutes in pussies in this thread.
Basically, at the time there were 5-6 training squadrons, divided up into flights. All the flights in my squadron were "Band" flights. Instead of doing drill/marching practice, we did band practice. And when time game to graduate, our squadron's flight would be the Band flight for all the squadron flights graduating that week.
We only had a couple base drummers playing only cadence, and there were a bunch of guys with the smaller drums, and some brass instruments.
The big deal for band flights was the chance to go play in local, small Texas towns and enjoy some frills that other trainees were denied.
I was in the band. I used to bang the 1st chair clarinetist with her panties in her mouth while her parents watched The PTL Club upstairs.
But that's how we sax players roll, daddyo.
Me do school activities? Pfft. They stole 6 hours of my day already, they weren't getting more.
Trumpet. Last chair.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 08:01:16 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 07:54:07 AM
Trumpet. Last chair.
= no pussy.
True. But all our clarinet girls were ugly. Also the Saxophone players started out as clarinets.
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 08:33:30 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 08:01:16 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 07:54:07 AM
Trumpet. Last chair.
= no pussy.
True. But all our clarinet girls were ugly. Also the Saxophone players started out as clarinets.
I guess that was just how it was at your school, Gay Ass McFaggot HS.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 02, 2012, 02:07:11 AM
Not enough talk about flutes in pussies in this thread.
In order to get to that point, you have to sit through countless stories like how this one time, they all lost their music and they were supposed to play this song, but they didn't know it, so they just made it up and they kept playing and playing and the conductor didn't know what we were doing and it was so funny.
Not worth it.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 11:06:05 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 08:33:30 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 08:01:16 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 07:54:07 AM
Trumpet. Last chair.
= no pussy.
True. But all our clarinet girls were ugly. Also the Saxophone players started out as clarinets.
I guess that was just how it was at your school, Gay Ass McFaggot HS.
A saxophone is just a shiny clarinet.
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 11:11:56 AM
Not worth it.
For a horny minx that looks like Alyson Hannigan? I think I could put up with some boring stories. Though she'd have to put up with some unstifled yawns.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 02, 2012, 05:44:43 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 11:11:56 AM
Not worth it.
For a horny minx that looks like Alyson Hannigan? I think I could put up with some boring stories. Though she'd have to put up with some unstifled yawns.
No, for real band girls.
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 06:25:36 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 02, 2012, 05:44:43 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 11:11:56 AM
Not worth it.
For a horny minx that looks like Alyson Hannigan? I think I could put up with some boring stories. Though she'd have to put up with some unstifled yawns.
No, for real band girls.
Sorta mixed bag.
It may just be a regional/cultural thing, but there were tons of hotties in my HS band, and band camp was indeed a meat market. The band had more than 300 members, not including the color guard. There were more members of the marching band every year than there were graduating seniors in the whole district. Granted, they were one of the biggest in OMEA, but there were plenty others who were comparable.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 06:31:39 PM
It may just be a regional/cultural thing, but there were tons of hotties in my HS band, and band camp was indeed a meat market. The band had more than 300 members, not including the color guard. There were more members of the marching band every year than there were graduating seniors in the whole district. Granted, they were one of the biggest in OMEA, but there were plenty others who were comparable.
There were some hotties in the band (and it was a large band), but bandcamp was hell. We marching in the hot Missouri sun for hour and hours. Ugh. I could have date this one chick who wasn't bad looking but I didn't it, cause like usual I was stupid.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 06:31:39 PM
It may just be a regional/cultural thing, but there were tons of hotties in my HS band, and band camp was indeed a meat market. The band had more than 300 members, not including the color guard. There were more members of the marching band every year than there were graduating seniors in the whole district. Granted, they were one of the biggest in OMEA, but there were plenty others who were comparable.
You was in the Best Damn Band in the Land, right? So how was the tail for that?
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 07:09:55 PM
You was in the Best Damn Band in the Land, right? So how was the tail for that?
Awesome if you're gay. :P
There aren't many girls in there. Excluding woodwinds has that effect.
Do band members get to boink the chicks in spandex who dance around, or are they reserved for football players?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:27:45 PM
Do band members get to boink the chicks in spandex who dance around, or are they reserved for football players?
Every girl in spandex when I was there was ugly. I mean really ugly. Like indistinguishable from the genus
sus ugly. If someone was boinking them I didn't want to know about it. They were distinct from the Cheerleaders and were drawn from the band member crowd.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:27:45 PM
Do band members get to boink the chicks in spandex who dance around, or are they reserved for football players?
Usually that's the dance troupe affiliated with the cheerleading squads, so no.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 07:26:17 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 07:09:55 PM
You was in the Best Damn Band in the Land, right? So how was the tail for that?
Awesome if you're gay. :P
There aren't many girls in there. Excluding woodwinds has that effect.
Well, that put new meaning on dotting the 'i'.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 07:32:43 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:27:45 PM
Do band members get to boink the chicks in spandex who dance around, or are they reserved for football players?
Usually that's the dance troupe affiliated with the cheerleading squads, so no.
I wish ours was. But sadly, it wasn't.
The band at my high school was full of ugly chicks. The more "attractive" of them became majorettes, and the most attractive majorette was average. As for the flag corps, let's not even go there. AFAIK, all the school bands in my area were the same.
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 08:04:32 PM
The band at my high school was full of ugly chicks.
+1
*cringes* Our high school's "color guard" had no girls under 200 pounds when I was in high school. I wish that was an exaggeration.
I wasn't *in* the marching band, but due to the girlfriend being in it, I hung around them all the time. There were exactly two bangable girls, one of which was my girlfriend.
Quote from: DontSayBanana on May 02, 2012, 08:12:45 PM
*cringes* Our high school's "color guard" had no girls under 200 pounds when I was in high school. I wish that was an exaggeration.
I wasn't *in* the marching band, but due to the girlfriend being in it, I hung around them all the time. There were exactly two bangable girls, one of which was my girlfriend.
Same here, though not everywhere. When we went to competition there were other color guard chicks were hot. As one of the band parents pointed out, "If gross total weight was one of the scoring characteristics the band would place higher.
The director for the color guard was also extremely stupid. When on of the judges at a competition thought they needed more "color", up front the director responded by moving a black chick to the for front.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:27:45 PM
Do band members get to boink the chicks in spandex who dance around, or are they reserved for football players?
The color guard, yes. (A lot of these are regional or depend on the size of the school for the Euros.)
Ours had like fifty of them, and many were bangable dancer-girls. Some were fatties. Most of the cheerleaders were also in the color guard at my school. In small schools where it's not cool to be in the band because the band sucks and only performs at football games, it's usually more like fifteen and all ugly. The nice thing about it is they travel with the band everywhere so long bus rides, overnight stays, etc. We'd play two NFL games a year (Buffalo and Cincy) and travel all around the midwest to tournaments, plus one big trip each winter, usually to a bowl game or national marching band gathering. (Still talking HS here, not college.) Lots of chances to fool around.
When did you graduate MiM?
Just curious. I was 2000. Our color guard were all uglos, but we weren't a small school. Biggest school in the state at the time. Place was badly overcrowded. There was 700 odd people in my graduating class.
I was in a band in high school, just not the school band.
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 09:24:20 PM
Just curious. I was 2000. Our color guard were all uglos, but we weren't a small school. Biggest school in the state at the time. Place was badly overcrowded. There was 700 odd people in my graduating class.
Yeah this kind of thing is very regional in popularity I think. Indiana, Ohio, etc. Parts of Texas and Cali. A couple places in Canada. I think it's got a lot to do with drum and bugle corps organizations and places where DCI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_Corps_International) has members. My high school stadium was an annual venue for DCI events, and twice they held the US Open championship there while I was in HS. I worked concessions and stuff for it and was a runner for the judges.
Last year, they held that same tournament in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indy, so that shows how much they've grown.
Edit: I take it back. They were held there every year while I was there, but I only worked there twice. It seems my high school hosted the championship every year from 1968 until 1999. Huh.
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 09:25:29 PM
I was in a band in high school, just not the school band.
Getting stoned on the couch while playing "Don't Fear The Reaper" with your stoner buddies isn't really a band.
They played his sister's quinceanera.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 10:20:29 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 09:25:29 PM
I was in a band in high school, just not the school band.
Getting stoned on the couch while playing "Don't Fear The Reaper" with your stoner buddies isn't really a band.
Seedy I never tried pot till i was 23 :P
and no we didn't Teach.
I never tried to pot till I was... Well, never.
There were some hot Asian chicks in band at my school.
'Course this was in Toronto, and nobody gave a shit about sports - hell, the football team at our school of 2000 kids disbanded due to lack of interest. :lol:
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 09:25:29 PM
I was in a band in high school, just not the school band.
The troublesome Taco's or The Burrito Bullies?
:P
American highschools have bands? Really? :huh:
Quote from: Martim Silva on May 04, 2012, 01:39:27 PM
American highschools have bands? Really? :huh:
Yeah, pretty much all of them have marching bands. It's a tradition. Now they vary pretty widely in terms of participation, quality, etc. The band at my high school was pretty terrible, but I think there are some that are better than a lot of college marching bands.
What kind of school-related activities do Yuro kids have?
I mean, besides rioting and burning cars.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 01:46:40 PM
What kind of school-related activities do Yuro kids have?
School-related activities? :huh:
There are some cafterias, and some places where kids can draw and do some kinds of manual things if they have no classes at the moment. There are also internal libraries that make kids read books.
Teachers sometimes take kids to field trips. No more than 50 quilometers away from school.
That count?
There wasn't much during my time (except school theater - I played one of the tailors in Emperor's New Clothes), but I checked up on my old school and they offer all kinds of stuff now - self defense, cooking, music, community projects etc.
It's much more common to have you kid join a (non-school) sports club or some such.
Huh.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 01:46:40 PM
What kind of school-related activities do Yuro kids have?
Local sports competitions for kids below puberty were common when I was that age. I competed ion both karate and soccer as a kid. From American TV/movies I get the impression things are much more serious there, though. They only people that attend games here are the families of those playing.
Those that are any good will play for a dedicated sports club with pro trainers and such, not at the school team. For example Iniesta played for the Liga club of his hometown before being "hired" by Barcelona as a 10 year old.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 01:46:40 PM
What kind of school-related activities do Yuro kids have?
I mean, besides rioting and burning cars.
Smoking.
Quote from: derspiess on May 04, 2012, 02:58:28 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 01:46:40 PM
What kind of school-related activities do Yuro kids have?
I mean, besides rioting and burning cars.
Smoking.
Going to political camps to get laid and learn about socialism. :P
A major difference between NA and Europe is that a lot of what is done in schools in NA (like sports) are done in clubs in Europe. I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Really? :huh: At least at the high school level, that is not really happening here.
AAU is getting pretty big.
Quote from: derspiess on May 04, 2012, 03:37:47 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Really? :huh: At least at the high school level, that is not really happening here.
You probably wouldnt even notice it unless you are an athlete or know an athlete. Take basketball for example. High school basketball certainly still gets all the prestige but a lot of those kids got as good as they are by playing club basketball outside of school.
There are a number of club systems here now and a lot of them play against clubs in the US.
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
A major difference between NA and Europe is that a lot of what is done in schools in NA (like sports) are done in clubs in Europe. I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Far as I know, it's always been that way for hockey.
Quote from: Malthus on May 04, 2012, 03:57:58 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
A major difference between NA and Europe is that a lot of what is done in schools in NA (like sports) are done in clubs in Europe. I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Far as I know, it's always been that way for hockey.
Hockey was in the past a hold out because it was too expensive for schools to pay for.
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:47:26 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 04, 2012, 03:37:47 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Really? :huh: At least at the high school level, that is not really happening here.
You probably wouldnt even notice it unless you are an athlete or know an athlete. Take basketball for example. High school basketball certainly still gets all the prestige but a lot of those kids got as good as they are by playing club basketball outside of school.
There are a number of club systems here now and a lot of them play against clubs in the US.
But that is happening in conjunction with high school basketball (during the off-season), not in place of it. Kind of like how you have baseball & football (and basketball) camps & seminars during the off-season to maintain or strengthen skills.
Quote from: Syt on May 04, 2012, 01:55:23 PM
There wasn't much during my time (except school theater - I played one of the tailors in Emperor's New Clothes), but I checked up on my old school and they offer all kinds of stuff now - self defense, cooking, music, community projects etc.
It's much more common to have you kid join a (non-school) sports club or some such.
There hasnt been any school theatre at my school but I always dreamed of being in one. :(
Quote from: Malthus on May 04, 2012, 03:57:58 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
A major difference between NA and Europe is that a lot of what is done in schools in NA (like sports) are done in clubs in Europe. I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Far as I know, it's always been that way for hockey.
Yeah, but I was thinking about real sports.
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 04:46:21 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 04, 2012, 03:57:58 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
A major difference between NA and Europe is that a lot of what is done in schools in NA (like sports) are done in clubs in Europe. I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Far as I know, it's always been that way for hockey.
Yeah, but I was thinking about real sports.
you'd have more bite to your rmeark if you weren't championing basketball. Baseball is more of a real sport.
OK, that was a low blow, sorry. Nothing is below baseball in the true sport totem pole.
Quote from: derspiess on May 04, 2012, 04:20:16 PM
But that is happening in conjunction with high school basketball (during the off-season), not in place of it. Kind of like how you have baseball & football (and basketball) camps & seminars during the off-season to maintain or strengthen skills.
Yeah if that's what he's talking about, that stuff has been going on for a while in lots of sports. I swam for one of the city clubs both before and during high school as well as the high school team once I, you know, got to high school. Water polo was high school only though. I don't think they had any club teams for that back then, although they do now. I probably would have dropped the club swimming in favor of that if I had had the option (or if it really was there, if I had known about it). Water polo was really fucking fun even though I wasn't as good at it relatively.
We do school stuff in school and other stuff elsewhere. We're crazy like that.
Quote from: derspiess on May 04, 2012, 04:20:16 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:47:26 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 04, 2012, 03:37:47 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 03:30:35 PM
I think the Euros have the better idea and a lot of NA kids are moving to sports clubs to do their sports. Although our clubs are nowhere near as well organized or funded.
Really? :huh: At least at the high school level, that is not really happening here.
You probably wouldnt even notice it unless you are an athlete or know an athlete. Take basketball for example. High school basketball certainly still gets all the prestige but a lot of those kids got as good as they are by playing club basketball outside of school.
There are a number of club systems here now and a lot of them play against clubs in the US.
But that is happening in conjunction with high school basketball (during the off-season), not in place of it. Kind of like how you have baseball & football (and basketball) camps & seminars during the off-season to maintain or strengthen skills.
I didnt say it was happening in place of it in NA. I was making the point that that IS the difference between NA and Europe. In Europe their club systems are much better developed and so sports DO generally occur at the club level rather than at schools.