# I must be the first one up MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 2, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407 "2015-11-02T11:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/101 "2015-11-05T02:54:47Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > A **Tugig** -style ass-kicking has just been served! > I make videos of the local HS XC team’s meets. Friday was the championship meet. Because some of the races have 1000± kids in them & I used a custom-made boom mount for the video camera to get overhead footage (Think of it as an upside-down “L” 8-9’ high) as it’s hard to [del]shoot[/del] (sadly, can’t use that word related to high schools anymore) capture video footage of the race as it’s hard to get the person that you want when they are running 10 (or more, at the beginning) abreast. > > During one of the races, one kid sees the camera, runs ‘horizontally’ across the course, jumps up & intentinally smacks the camera. This damaged my mount. I guess he forgot he was wearing a jersey with his school’s name on it. :smack: > > I contacted the school & sent them the video, they provided me with the parent’s contact info. Dad didn’t believe me until I sent him the video. I’m not sure exactly what’s going to happen to the kid, but I highly doubt it will ever happen again! > It’s one thing, as with **Tugig** ’s midshipman, to do something & get caught because of a camera you didn’t realize was there. It’s quite another to do something **to** the camera. :o :smack: So I’ve been working on editing down the raw video, when I see some kid, from the same school as the first one, notice the camera & again run ‘horizontally’ across the course to get under it, running into the path of & trampling some smaller kid upon doing such. As he gets in front of the camera, he raises his arms, one of which is clearly holding a cell phone in it. (Jewelry & electronics are forbidden in competition). I sent this one off to the AD as well, along with a note that maybe it’s time to sit down with the coach & the team & have a nice talk about respecting other people, & their property, & the rules. One would think that given this is a private _religious_ school these things would be taught already. :o ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/102 "2015-11-05T03:03:37Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > **Swampy** you got a hot tub? He won’t admit it, but he has a hot tub, a cement pond, and a vibrating recliner in the tee vee room. Commie Pinko Dope Smokin’ Bear!‘’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/103 "2015-11-05T04:18:20Z")
Worked, came home. Making stir fried chicken for dinner. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Too damned dark too damned early!!! :mad: Too dark and too cold. If it wasn’t for hockey, I’d say screw it, and move into **Butters** ’s garage. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Feel so low. > > I was refereeing the 3rd place game in the local soccer tournament, and was doing a great, I mean GREAT job. I was in good position all the time, the game was exciting, my assistant refs on the sidelines were in sync with me, the coaches were behaving… > > And with 2 minutes left I screwed up. > > It was 1-0 Green and the blue team was attacking trying to score the tying goal. There was a foul on the blue attacker just outside the penalty box which I clearly saw and I hit the whistle loudly…just in time to see the ball bounce to another blue player, who shot and scored. > > I didn’t want to, but I had blown the whistle before the goal, so I had to take it away. Game ended 1-0. Both teams had done enough to proceed to the Area tournament, and I had really done nothing wrong (my assistants agreed there was a foul), but I’ve been doing this long enough to know to wait a second or two down by the goal to see what happens. > > The coaches and parents didn’t say anything, but I knew I had blown it, and I’m still mentally kicking myself as I type this. > > If I hadn’t been having such a good game, or if that team had been knocked out because of my mental error, I’d probably feel even worse. As is, I’ll get over it in a year or two (which means tomorrow when I referee again). > > But still feel low. It’s OK, it happens. But if it would make you feel better, I can give you a good hockey style heckling. :D;)😛 **Flytrap** ,don’t forget about his smoker. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/104 "2015-11-05T04:37:58Z")
**MetalMouse** it happens. Don’t kick yourself too hard. Doing my nightly electric shock therapy :D. It’s a headband I wear fastened to electrodes. The shocks are supposed to help with the migraines. Good times. Tomorrow will be better. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/105 "2015-11-05T05:20:19Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > So I’ve been working on editing down the raw video, when I see some kid, from the same school as the first one, notice the camera & again run ‘horizontally’ across the course to get under it, running into the path of & trampling some smaller kid upon doing such. As he gets in front of the camera, he raises his arms, one of which is clearly holding a cell phone in it. (Jewelry & electronics are forbidden in competition). I sent this one off to the AD as well, along with a note that maybe it’s time to sit down with the coach & the team & have a nice talk about respecting other people, & their property, & the rules. One would think that given this is a private _religious_ school these things would be taught already. :o Sorry I just noticed these posts - been kinda out of it because my best friend got laid up with a triple bypass yesterday (thought fortunately no cardiac event prior to surgery). Today he sounds really good, but we’ve all been busy. That’s one of the biggest problems I have when I start looking at video as evidence: I find too much crap. And yes, teenagers are little shits. And the ‘nicer’ the school, the more the fuckers think they are entitled to being assholes. See “Midshipmen” as a case study. Good catch. I’m curious what Daddy will do. ---
**Author:** ![TheSpeculationElucidation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@TheSpeculationElucidation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSpeculationElucidation)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/106 "2015-11-05T09:44:58Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > If you are within 200 miles of Pittsburgh and need help destroying things, don’t be a stranger! Haha. Let’s add about 2,300 miles onto that. 😛 We surveyed the house today. Looks like we’ll be tearing down a few walls, moving some stuff around, getting rid of all the carpet - but MOSTLY it’ll just be cosmetic work. I’m glad we found somewhere that (so far) doesn’t need heavy maintenance! Other than that, I’ve just been working. The flu’s going around so they’ve needed me pretty much every day the past two weeks. Blurf! ps. Red, I make a mean omelet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/107 "2015-11-05T09:46:42Z")
**Giggity** , hope your friend recovers well! It is not a good health week in my irkplace, another person has called in sick today which means I’m the only student admin working…fortunately it’s reading week so most of the Very Special Snowflakes have gone home to spend the week with their families and probably not doing any reading at all. I hope the sickies are back by Monday though, I have had a tough enough time carrying the Year 2 post for the last five weeks, I don’t really have capacity for any more. Woe is me, and all that stuff. And blurf, just because I can. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/108 "2015-11-05T11:20:11Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ 'Tis 73 Amurrkin out and cloudy/foggy with a predicted high of 82 and cloudy for the day but no rain predicted. We shall see. This mornin’ I shall slack at da cave for a bit. OK, do some irk stuff, but not at the orifice. I have enrollments to do up in the north forty and 'tis easier to go from da cave as it’s closer. After that, I shall irk from da cave the rest of the day again just cause 'tis easier and makes more sense. Note to **flytrap** : This means I am on the job. Oh and btw, **butters** yes I do have a hot tub but don’t use it real ofter. Plus I really do have a cee-mint pond, a smoker, and a recliner that vibrates and has heat. **gigity** hope your friend gets better soonest. **MetalMouse** you made the correct call. I’m guessin’ everyone knows that so no flack. Don’t beat yourself up. OK, I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas and alack, irk purtification must commence. Happy Thursday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/109 "2015-11-05T11:48:10Z")
Happy Thorsday! I am up way too early, especially since i stayed up past 2am. The tireds will kick in later I’m sure. It’s a nice 57 degrees outside and supposed to get up to 74 today. Full agenda today, even without a nap. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/110 "2015-11-05T12:18:00Z")
Thanks all for the caring (but doggio, heckle me and You’re Outta Here!!!). Feel better after 7 hours of sleep. Probably didn’t help that this was after a full day of work. Still, it’s funny; I can remember lots of my bad calls, which are miniscule in number to my good ones (if they weren’t, I wouldn’t be a ref), but hardly ever remember my good ones. Guess the old line "you learn from your mistkes’ is truth after all. So tonight I’ll go out for the next game, clench my fists to focus, turn around with a smile and do a new game–and do it well. Thanks again, all, for caring (they like me! they really like me!!). giggio, best wishes for your friend. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/111 "2015-11-05T12:31:56Z")
tl;dr **BLURF** ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/112 "2015-11-05T13:38:08Z")
Dang morning people. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/113 "2015-11-05T14:03:45Z")
Up, caffeinated, closing again. Today is my Firday. **Metalmouse** , [Here ya go](http://gifrific.com/snoopy-yelling-in-penalty-box/)😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/114 "2015-11-05T14:06:30Z")
Such joy and happiness something is wrong with the furnace. The whole house shakes when it runs. At first I thought it was a truck outside, but no, it’s the furnace. From reading online I think it just needs good cleaning. At least it’s going to be warm for a while, I can turn the heat down so it doesn’t run as often. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/115 "2015-11-05T15:15:42Z")
Kid 1 is on the bus and off to school. Kid 2 will be gone in 15. Then to see what joy awaits me today: putting away laundry I think. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/116 "2015-11-05T16:06:02Z")
Howdy, At irk. Just got back from the Pubic store getting sandwich making supplies and chips for my lone clerk. Not much else happening here in paradise. **Dooogiiiiooooo** You don’t have to take the garage. We have a couch. ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/117 "2015-11-05T16:58:42Z")
So, our A/C stopped working on Monday, turned out to be a coolant leak. The maintenance guy decided that instead of trying to fix it, he’s just going to have replaced. Even better, the new unit is a 2.5 ton, the old one was 2 tons. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/118 "2015-11-05T16:59:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Da Bear is merciful. > Now, if he just \* went\* to work from 8:00 to 5:00 like the rest of us who earn a living… > > :dubious: \ Nope – don’t think I will. 😛 > [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > **Swampy** you got a hot tub? Any tub he gets in is pretty hot. 😉 But yes, he does have the other kind as well. > [@TheSpeculationElucidation](#): > > Haha. Let’s add about 2,300 miles onto that. 😛 I could still be talked into it but it would have to involve explosives. I would supply my own, of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/119 "2015-11-05T18:17:15Z")
**sunny** , do you sing _The Monster Mash_ when you hook up to your electrodes? 😃 **2gig** , hope your friend is feeling better soon. **metal mouse** , what drew you into the soccer ref business initially? Plugging away at irk stuff. Otherwise, it’s just another Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407/120 "2015-11-05T19:23:04Z")
Howdy Y’all! I’m at da cave after my foray into the north forty which included havin’ a nice N.O.L. with JDD’s sis since I was up her way. Now 'tis paperirk time. Rah. Dindin tonight shall be, spoilered for **flytrap** , special snowflake that he is, … fried chikin tenders, rice 'n gravy, green beans, squish, and rolls. OK, irk time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-the-first-one-up-mmp/736407.md?page=7)