While I wouldn’t be particularly opposed to the second half, there’s no reason that the car should suffer. It’s an item with interesting historical value and in the right hands could be part of an educational display. Just because the Nazis were truly evil doesn’t mean every product from them should be destroyed,…

I think JJ is a dbag, and I don’t defend Nazi shit in any way.

Maybe put it on display. I get want to discard the pieces of the past, especially that time, but we shouldn’t forget.

Nazi associations aside, “Strength Through Joy Car” is probably the most awesome name ever applied to any car ever. I don’t think George Orwell himself could have done better.

Instead of ignoring/blocking these calls, I answer and put them on hold. Their job is to make as many calls as possible to find their target, the time they’re wasting is time they can be looking for other targets. This has reduced the number of telemarketers significantly.

This is my basic policy. Even if the area code is from my state, if it’s not in my phone, I ignore and look it up. Just good policy in the modern world.

That’s what voicemail is for. If it’s not important enough to leave a message, it wasn’t important enough for me to answer in the first place.

If you get an odd and/or unknown call or VM, I suggest looking it up at (or adding to) 800notes.com . It’s a solid place where users post their experience with certain numbers (and occasionally scammers themselves try to divert attention away). There are other sites out there that do this, but this one has been…

Heck, even IF I’m expecting a call I won’t answer unless caller ID recognizes them. I imagine this wouldn’t quite work if it’s a phone used for business though...

If it’s important, they’ll leave a voice mail.

Going to continue my rule of just not answering phone calls if I’m not expecting them.

As a former gymnast, I was never molested by a coach, but could very easily see it happening in that emvironment.

While it definitely happens across sport, especially kids tracked to reach elite levels, I think certain sports have an easier time hiding these assholes than others. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to have contact with a gymnast in ways that don’t exist in something like basketball. It then becomes a short…

My immediate thought upon reading this was “holy shit, she’s talking about [creepy coach]! We must have trained at the same gym, what are the chances?”

US swimming has had these issues too. You’re likely to have this in any of these organizations, where there is a boatload of one on one time with vulnerable kids who have “something to lose” by being a lone reporter.

As a parent, I have been present for meetings with my child and speech therapists, psychologists, and Drs. I watched my daughters when they went to ice-skating, gymnastics, swimming, whatever classes. When I was a Brownie leader, there was a 2 leader minimum, a required adult-to-child ratio, and mandatory criminal…

Like you, the only people I know who competed in national-level gymnastics (one step below elite) have nothing but horror stories to tell about the kind of coaching they received and the amount of shady characters the sport attracts.

Wrestling. Like the amateur, Olympic-style stuff. Very popular youth sport in mid-America.

There are plenty of horror stories about female tennis players being abused mentally and sexually. Off the top of my head Mary Pierce, Jelena Dokic, Mirjana Lucic, Patty Schnyder were high profile pros with stories of abuse, and many others that were not as high profile

My gymnastics coach from the age of 10 until about 13 or so was a creeper who was sleeping with at least two of the older girls on our team (but older is misleading, they were both 15 or 16). He was later arrested for trying to solicit sex from an underage girl and as far as I know is now in jail. I hated him because…