Before you sit down with your wings and beer…

BlaiseP in reply to Nob Akimoto says:

I sympathise with your request. I’ve had some issues with silence on some of my own posts. I’ve concluded everyone does read what’s written here. I know I do.

But as Burt observes: what valid response can possibly be made to this continuing tragedy?

Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through.
What’s to become of our world, who knows what to do?
Driven to tears

Rest easy, Nob. Your work is taken seriously around here. Some things, some issues, just defy any meaningful response. Lots of people here love football. We see the injury cart come out onto the field. We watch these kids — kids! — young men in their prime, hauled off the field and into the locker room and lots of them don’t come back out onto the field, ever. Doesn’t stop us from watching it, though.

Housman:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.Report