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Poll: Majority of 18-24 Year Olds Believe Every Kid Should Get a Trophy
breitbart.com ^ | 8/24/2014 | Tony Lee

Posted on 08/24/2014 9:14:44 AM PDT by rktman

A new national poll has found that a majority (51%) of Americans aged 18-24 feel that everyone who participates in a sport should get a trophy.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: idiots; psychology
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To: Fightin Whitey
I'm going to be nice to you today and assume that you're rich! ;^)

Bookmark this post. It will never happen again. lol

41 posted on 08/24/2014 11:14:18 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: newfreep

And you, you're a great FReeper! ;^)

42 posted on 08/24/2014 11:18:44 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Spok

Just as communism deadens individualism and entrepreneurship, the everyone gets a trophy deadens the natural MALE spirit of competition. Girls take turns being leader, boys earn being the leader.

Social psychology at its worst.


43 posted on 08/24/2014 11:19:26 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: rktman
"You must always push the limits, because if you never fail, you will never succeed."

"It is far better to have played and lost, than not to have played at all."

"There is only one thing worse than losing, and that's quitting."

"The only place champion comes before pain is in the dictionary."

"A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't."

"There is no second place, either you win or you lose."

-No Fear

44 posted on 08/24/2014 11:25:17 AM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: rktman
a majority (51%) of Americans aged 18-24 feel that everyone who participates in a sport should get a trophy

These are the same kids now working (at least those fortunate to find a job in the Obama economy) that want a participation paycheck. You'll know who they are because they are the ones posting on social media how much they hate their job and complaining that they haven't been promoted or gotten a raise WHILE AT WORK!

45 posted on 08/24/2014 11:31:34 AM PDT by Armando Guerra
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To: rktman

What a sad bunch of cupcakes ...


46 posted on 08/24/2014 11:31:58 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: rktman

I’ve thrown away every award I have ever won. They seemed silly to me even as a teen. I never had use for them.

I gave all my diplomas (grammar school, high school, college, and law school) to my mother. She’s more proud of them than I am.


47 posted on 08/24/2014 11:34:38 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Nip
The two years I played Little League Baseball I too got a trophy every year - my team jersey.

It set me apart from other kids who didn’t play.

How unfair to the kids who didn't play!

48 posted on 08/24/2014 11:37:49 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: rktman

If you cant win why try.. if there is nothing to gain why try.. the lefts dream of velvet futility .. to cripple and control man


49 posted on 08/24/2014 11:44:33 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: TigersEye

Hey now...easy there bub!


50 posted on 08/24/2014 11:48:56 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: rktman

And every NFL team should get Superbowl rings at the end of the season (except of course any team with a name deemed too offensive to be published in a Washington Post editorial).


51 posted on 08/24/2014 11:57:38 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: newfreep

Sorry, I didn't mean anything by that.

52 posted on 08/24/2014 12:00:21 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: rktman

Without reading the post, I am guessing that these young people want everyone to feel good for participating. And that makes sense. The klutzy kid who never missed a practice and was proud to have been on that team just to say “I did two years of x sport” should have a little emblem of his time spent.

Why not a team plaque with the photo of the whole team on it for EVERYONE? That solves that problem.

But the trophies should be meaningful and should go to the kid who won, or however it goes. First Place, Second Place, etc.


53 posted on 08/24/2014 12:06:39 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: spodefly
If they ban cupcakes they can always opt for the Mammo-Grahams
54 posted on 08/24/2014 12:14:56 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: rktman
the winner gets a trophy, the losers get a bag of dog crap!
55 posted on 08/24/2014 12:23:02 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: TigersEye
You are worthy of my forgiveness...

I still get a chuckle everytime I see that commercial.

56 posted on 08/24/2014 12:24:22 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: rktman

This is predictable.

Parents who abandoned their kids to day care and the schools get kids who believe what day care and the schools believe.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.


57 posted on 08/24/2014 12:31:32 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Let’s cut out the accolade “trophies” in the federal government for starters.

“All children learn by example. . .the problem is they often can’t discriminate between a good example and a bad example” Can’t remember the exact quote or who said it.


58 posted on 08/24/2014 12:43:17 PM PDT by Maudeen ("End Times Warrior - Sinner Saved by Grace")
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To: newfreep
LOL

I'm afraid we're locked in an ever-spiraling polar vortex of phony compliments and apologies now. If we survive this we should get trophies!

59 posted on 08/24/2014 12:43:31 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: TigersEye

“A new national poll has found that a majority (51%) of Americans aged 18-24 feel that everyone who participates in a sport should get a trophy.”

Good poll.(sarc) Poll the kids who were the first recipients of “Nice try” trophies. Everytime they gave one to my son, he figured out new and clever ways to destroy them.

The best was filling one of the trophies up with firecracker gun powder, using candles to create a cover, cut a hole in that and used some of the firecracker fuses to construct a bigger fuse.

I should of been upset with him, but curiosity got the better of me. What a beautiful explosion. I thought it would fizzle with a poof of smoke.


60 posted on 08/24/2014 1:08:57 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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