All of society's downfalls can be blamed on one thing. Adjustable basketball goals. So pleas don't allow you kids to have adjustable basketball goals.

If you don't understand this concept let me know and I can explain.

I must admit. I am a victim of adjustable basketball hoops.

I'm six-foot-one and a half, you see. I'm the tallest person in my family, and even among my close personal friends. But I'm white. Which means I can't jump very high. At all.

When I play basketball, I cannot dunk a basketball in a ten-foot hoop. I can merely grasp the rim with my fingers.

You cannot imagine the pain it causes, being forced to merely perform finger rolls, day in and day out.

I was eating less. I couldn't sleep at night. My grades were failing. I was practicing plyometrics all day, dreaming of the day when I would finally be able to dunk.

Finally, I let the fierce desire get the better of me. I lowered the hoop, to nine and a half feet.

I dunked, but it was difficult. I was so.happy, I decided to commit the unspeakable: I lowered it.again, to nine.

I know what you're thinking: "How could a young man fall that far, all over finger rolls?" You don't know the agony I went through. To finally dunk,.with ease, was pure bliss.

Unfortunately, my grades never improved. My family spurned me when they learned what I have done. And now, I have no family. No home. I'm out on the street, playing in public parks. And none of the parks have anything but 10 foot hoops. And I still can't dunk on them.

God bless.

Dangit! Thats where I went wrong with my kids......
I thought I was the cool dad lowering it to 6 feet! Aaaaarrrrgggg!

Interesting analogy. Makes perfect sense. Maybe not all of society's downfalls, but certainly a vast majority can be explained reasonably with your comment.

Mind if I steal this concept for future debates?

Viper10{WP} wrote: Interesting analogy. Makes perfect sense. Maybe not all of society's downfalls, but certainly a vast majority can be explained reasonably with your comment.

Mind if I steal this concept for future debates?

Please feel free

Good, thanks. I didn't want to infringe on any copyright protection....

Does the same principle apply for oversized hockey nets in the driveway? My kids never played basketball...just hockey and baseball...lol

They turned out ok I guess...nobody's in jail...yet

I always thought it was gutter guards, you know, in bowling alleys. When I was growing up, I never even knew what was under those metal aisle caps. Nowadays, every kiddie party uses them. We're just breeding future young adults with false self esteem.

AHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH (deep breath in) AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Love it.

Back when I was a junior and senior in high school I could slam one at regulation (Im 1" shorter than you Mac it can be done). Since then Ive put on a few extra pounds and got out of playing. Once my son was old enough I bought an adjustable one for the house. Never once until now did I see the error of my ways. I quickly found that 10' was higher than it used to be. So I adjusted for it.

Now I can see where that one single thing has opened up the flood gates for the many other things.

I found that when buying things that money didnt seem to go as far either. So I adjusted for it and kept the money in my pocket and walked out the store with the item. At work time has seemed to change too. It seems like the breaks werent as long as they used to be so I adjusted for them and took longer breaks. 55 mph seemed slower than it used to be. So I adjusted and ran 60.

It all makes since now...

At home I wasent getting as lucky as I used to. So I adjusted for it.......

I'm 5-7 a freshman and can touch the nets on regulation courts .......but that's all u will get from me lol and I'm also a white kid so I cannot jump as well but I can dribble and shoot okay I guess

And here I always thought the worlds problems were contingent on Chaos Theory and it's changes on the deterministic nonlinear system of this universe.

Pretty sure that's what Jason meant

Fantastic analogy!

After a bit of an intro, (basketball isn't so big over here) it works getting the arguement agross.

Ever considered holding a seminar on TED?

Thanks man.

Ed

Rudolf Rednose wrote: Fantastic analogy!

After a bit of an intro, (basketball isn't so big over here) it works getting the arguement agross.

Ever considered holding a seminar on TED?

Thanks man.

Ed

Um not sure what TED is so no. Also I have some social anxiety so NO. Lol