In an effort to broaden our scope a little bit, we’re looking for folks to do some writing for The Cincinnati Man. As topics go, we’re pretty wide open, but if you’d like to deem things manly, write about cars, participate in a weekly roundtable discussion, write about beer from time to time, we’d love to talk to you.
If you think you’ve got what it takes to bring more manliness than Cincinnati is prepared to handle, get in touch with us. You can email me directly or Twat us here or here.
Posted: September 15th, 2009 | Author: maoglone | Filed under: General | Tags: admin, Help! | No Comments »
In an effort to do, well, I’m not sure what he’s trying to do here, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland proposed that the state raise the age for using slot machines at race tracks to 21 from 18. The news story states that Ohio would join a few other states in “allowing 18-year-olds to gamble,” despite the fact that 18-year-olds can bet on horses and play the lottery.
Well, playing the lottery isn’t gambling, necessarily (I suppose it is, technically, but it’s in reality a donation, pretty much), but betting on horses is.
The standard question that this raises is, of course, what’s the age of adulthood? The law clearly says 18. Well, most of the time. Unless you’re trying to get a beer. Or rent a car. Or, apparently, gamble. Maybe–depending upon the kind of gambling, I guess.
Why, if we’re going to set an age for various shit, isn’t the age the same across the board? A little consistency here, in my opinion, would go a long way. It doesn’t seem acceptable to me to have more than one age to simply be able to do things–especially in a country where being able to do things is so damned important.
All this isn’t to say that 18 is the end all, be all line of “adulthood,” so to speak. 18-year- old kids, by and large, are retards, but we can’t go and raise the voting age to 35, can we? Bunches of dudes who are way smarter than me set the age at 18, so let’s be a little more consistent and bring it all down to 18. Seriously. All of it.
Yes, I understand that an 18-year-old kid shitrocked on a pint of Hot Damn isn’t what this city needs, but we both know that that kid’s gonna drink it anyway after he manages to get some drifter to go in and buy him the bottle of pure dogshit (link maybe NSFW). So, which would you rather have? A kid legally firing off superhuman liquor pukes into his parents’ toilet or this guy buying booze for scores of “children?”
In the end, it seems more prudent to me to allow 18-year-olds to gamble. I get that it sounds silly, but hear me out. The story says, “Opponents of the plan say teenagers don’t generally have the money to gamble and might have a harder time walking away from the machines than older players.” What better age to learn the fucking lesson that your money is yours, and it’s pretty much stupid to dump it into a machine that’s going to keep it? Granted, we’ll get some kids who go overboard, but there are plenty of 40-year-olds who overdo it too, right?
In all seriousness, the argument that the kids generally don’t have the money and “might have a harder time walking away” is complete bullshit. If they don’t have the money, then they won’t have to walk away. Durrr.
Besides, do people really play slots in the kinds of numbers that the state predicts? If anyone has those numbers, I’d be really interested to see them.
If you got to choose an arbitrary age of adulthood, what would it be?
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Posted: September 15th, 2009 | Author: maoglone | Filed under: News | Tags: 18 or 21?, Age, Casino | 1 Comment »
We’re finally getting on the stick here and are going to hold a “Biggest Asshole in Cincinnati” tournament. There will be a field of 64 that you vote on and choose who’s fucking things up, ruining the city, or is just a general asshole so big that they deserve the dubious title of Biggest Asshole.
In order to do this, we need your nominations. So, who in Cincinnati (and the surrounding area) is asshole enough to wear the crown?
Here’s how to play: drop a comment below or send us an email with the name of your nomination(s) and the reason they’re the Biggest Asshole in Cincinnati. Writing a novel about it isn’t necessary; a quick capsule review of why the guy (or gal) is the biggest a-hole is enough. We’d prefer them to be living, but that’s not absolutely necessary. The deadline for nominations is September 27, unless the field of 64 fills up before then. Once the field’s full, we’ll make the matchups and start the game, which you’ll all be voting on.
Nothing like an asshole-off. Go!
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Posted: September 14th, 2009 | Author: maoglone | Filed under: Tournaments | Tags: Biggest Asshole in Cincinnati, The Biggest Asshole in All the Land | 10 Comments »
Every week, The Cincinnati Man puts everything that was awesome on the Internet the week before in one place for you. You know, so you don’t have to bother surfing the web all weekend, as if you don’t already waste like 70 percent of the time you have at work doing that. Jerk.
Posted: September 12th, 2009 | Author: maoglone | Filed under: Saturday Dump Festival | Tags: The Least Uninteresting Things on the Internet This Week | No Comments »
