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'Saturdays Are For The Boys' Rant and Harvard Lacrosse Origins
from Francis Ellis · #144
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4 minTim rants about the Barstool slogan and the losers who live with their moms using it as a personality, then pivots into Francis's background: Harvard lacrosse recruit from Maine, parents from Amherst and Princeton, and a bizarre story about his mother being a mermaid performer in Florida.
- 7:55Tim sees people posting "Saturdays are for the boys" while living with their mother on Long Island, and he gets angry because every day should be about getting a job and moving out.
- 8:26The slogan becomes people's entire personality, like they're just repeating a Nike ad instead of developing their own identity.
- 9:33In this day and age, it's important not to forget the importance of straight white males.
- 9:47Tim clarifies he got into Harvard as a true blue-collar lacrosse player, not like the horrible parents who game the system.
- 10:20His father managed a color tile store, so the jump from Amherst to Harvard isn't exactly a dynasty.
- 10:35His mother was in the first class of women at Princeton, but Tim's real story: she was a mermaid in a tank in Florida where men would jerk off in the parking lot before the strip club opened.
- 11:00The mermaid thing gets worse—she wasn't even holding her breath on scuba gear, she was actually holding her breath, which "really undoes the whole mermaid."
- 11:14If society divides up air soon and Jeff Bezos gets to decide, the mermaids in South Florida shouldn't get a huge portion of it.
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