Involved vs. Committed - Are you the Chicken or the Pig?
I was in Vegas in early January and put $$$ on JJ or Blake winning the Heisman at +4000.
Now that's what I call getting paid!
On the other hand, 8:1 odds for Mich to win the CFB isn't nearly high enough. Must be a lot of Mich money keeping the price lower.
That’s what you call getting paid? I’ve got some work for you then.
Got mine!
MICHIGAN +1000 2024 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATIONAL CHAMPION 01/09/2024 07:10 Risk $100.00 Pot. winnings $1,000.00 Date: Feb 26, 2023 8:07 PM, Betslip ID:
If you bet it, than you're committed!
'than' us
😬
Only a Michigan blog has a user named some form of Hillbilly that is critiquing grammar. The Michigan difference.
Yet he made no use of punctuation. What is this world coming to? Or, perhaps, to what is this world coming?
OP must have meant "Who has it better? Then us?"
The rule concerning prepositions at the end of sentences doesn’t pertain to American English. It’s a snobby British thing.
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put."
-- G.B. Shaw
Only Michigan people defend dangling prepositions.
Can I come with? Only if you bring a pellow.
Where are you at? I'm around
Where are you from? That place where they have melk.
August 1st, 2023 at 11:48 AM ^
"Can I come with?" - that's Chicago English.
How does one place this bet?
seriously i have no idea where people do bets like this
Vegas, online. It's actually quite easy nowadays to lose your money on sports.
My Nephew whom I have converted to Michigan fandom was in Las Vegas for his 21st and placed the bet for me at the Planet Hollywood sports book. I will collect when I go back to Vegas myself for a conference in 2024.
The way the football team plays in post season games should give anyone pause. Needless to say it is not great, Bob.
I am a pig
Oink oink
I am the egg man.
I am the walrus.
Coo coo ca-choo!
committed I think means you bet something like 50% of your overall wealth, SO UP THE ANTE BRO
Speaking of committed...Akili Smith Jr just committed to Oregon.
Looking forward (after seeing the OP title) to a discussion on George Orwell's Animal Farm, or that maybe the thread was a farm discussion posted by XM, I clicked...
I reread Animal Farm this year. I forgot how good it is. Great for middle school through adulthood.
Unfortunately, I immediately recognized the parable of the pig and the chicken. You see, there was a pig and a chicken, and they wanted to start a restaurant. They were trying to figure out what their main dish should be. The chicken comes up with "Ham and Eggs." The pig demurs -- "Then you'd be involved, but I'd be committed."
I'm sure it predates this, but I first heard it nearly 20 years ago during training for the newfangled (at the time) Agile software development methodology. It was presented as a mechanism for figuring out who should be in what meetings (some meetings would have "pigs and chickens" and others would be "pigs only," essentially).
I found it extremely infantilizing. :) Actually, most of Agile is extremely patronizing. It basically boils down to "you stupid engineers don't know how to build software, but with just the right amount of Agile Magic™, you'll all be replaceable parts and your projects will run smoothly." And then, sotto voce, "Oh, and by the way, one of the core tenets is that you never plan specific deliverables more than one 'sprint' (project planning cycle, generally 2-4 weeks) in advance, because requirements change. So very few companies will actually implement this the way we recommend, meaning that when it doesn't work, we blame them for Not Being Agile Enough.™"
In case I haven't made my point yet, it was apparently invented by somebody who thinks the best way to run a marathon is as a series of sprints.
I'm with you: The whole involved chicken and committed pig thing is kinda stupid. To be committed, the pig has to die. Against its will. How is that a model for a good and creative employee? The chicken, on the other hand, pecks and forages and does other chicken things. And then it drops lots of tasty eggs. Chickens are model employees; pigs are dead.
I mean, bacon is delicious, but porky's employment track record is otherwise unimpressive.
All animals are beautiful when properly cooked.
People Eating Tasty Animals
I put mine in on 4/1 and took +1200!
I hope you win!
August 1st, 2023 at 12:18 AM ^
I am the walrus.
I am the fucking lizard king.
Shea Pattersons brother is the mineral king
A beast caged in the heart of a city...