Definitions by Solid Mantis
Drawing board
Sometimes you fight until the end and you lose. It's not an indicator that you need to go and change something, or fix something, and anybody that tells you that it is every time something goes wrong is full of shit. Sometimes things go wrong if you're human and not perfect. It's going to happen even if you have a dream team that wants to win every game. If you've been doing a good job, why you want to change even if someone else tells you that you need to?
Listening too closely to a guy that says a team needs to go back to the drawing boards or change something every time a team doesn't win is a goid way to guarantee that you will fuck up. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is resist a change when it seems like the obvious thing you should do, and it's also the thing that will get you through to the end. Change only gets you a revolving door, and a revolving door doesn't strengthen anybody, it weakens everybody.
Drawing board by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021
Knees
Street fighter Alpha Dalton von Staffenburg- I was there when the ticking time bomb went off, I saw the blast, I saw his knees get smashed, I saw him drop like a stone. Paulie Mussolini is dead.
Paulie Mussolini- Other than a few scrapes, bruises, and marks, I am unhurt, I was never in danger. I will not give up my happy Jew hunting.
Paulie Mussolini- Other than a few scrapes, bruises, and marks, I am unhurt, I was never in danger. I will not give up my happy Jew hunting.
Knees by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021
Rose colored glasses
If you always have on rose colored glasses, the other person isn't going to know what you really think about something, because it always sounds positive, and nobody always has positive thoughts in their head.
Rose colored glasses by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021
Excess
Another kind of excess is if any female a guy could imagine was his girl/wife and that was okay with everybody, she never already had a husband, never would rather be alone than around some ugly creep with a fucked up face, being human like anybody else. That would be a lot like everywhere and everyone being the state of Utah mixed with Las Vegas and Disney World, a neon sewer 24/7, that's the kind of world it would be. Fortunately for everybody else, not everywhere and everyone is the same, and not everywhere and everyone should be the same. Not every town needs a casino or a fantasy and built there. Not every person, place, or idea should be the same.
Excess by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021
Human weakness
What kind of world would it be if it was okay with everybody for a guy to walk up to a female and punch her in the face, without restraint, thought, or remorse, no matter what she did to him? People should absolutely be allowed to do anything they want to, but without consequences, without limits to behavior, without any checks or balances, without cops, without jails, without laws, human weakness would prevail. Human weakness can also prevail with excessive laws and limitations and excessive policing. Anything done to excess keeps things out of balance.
It's not doing anything they want to that a lot people don't like or agree with, it's facing the consequences of every action that they tend to be wary of, and with a lot of people, knowing they can go to jail over something they wanted to do, but did not get away with keeps them from doing it. Human weakness would plaque everything if there was only limitless actions, but not limitless consequences that went with it.
Human weakness by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021
Cam Newton
He won't be forgotten even if he disappeared, but he went with the prettiest team of the 2000s over the Cardiac Cats. That was fucked up.
Cam Newton by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021
Cam Newton
Cam Newton was the most successful Panthers quarterback so far by one season in terms of trips to the playoffs, and in terms of having the best record, and a few other mindless statistics for the people that actually have a desire to measure somebody, but in reality he wasn't the only quarterback to ever be successful in Carolina. Some people remember a guy named Jake Delhomme who wasn't bad at what he did. Statistics don't really make one guy better than the other, people loved them both for a while, then they disappeared, and that's how it goes. Most people don't put a lot of importance on statistics or measures, any more than they do status. The shoes of Cam Newton will be the hardest to fill of the Panthers recent quarterbacks, that is certain.
Cam Newton was an excellent quarterback while in Carolina, and not everybody would make a successful quarterback. You can do things other people can't, and they can do things you can't, that is reality. Nobody has to turn into or emulate Cam Newton to do well as a quarterback, that is the point. Cam Newton is Cam Newton, Jake Delhomme was/is Jake Delhomme, and the next guy is the next guy, that's it.
Cam Newton by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021