Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-13-14

[ScrubMD]

So this is still happening.

 

As a communications major and a Home Appliance Team Lead at Sears, I refuse to let this thread die.

[Guest]

So this is still happening.

 

As a communications major and a Home Appliance Team Lead at Sears, I refuse to let this thread die.

Is it true that the best refrigerators are Korean these days?

[ScrubMD]

So this is still happening.

 

As a communications major and a Home Appliance Team Lead at Sears, I refuse to let this thread die.

Is it true that the best refrigerators are Korean these days?

 

USA all the way baby.

[Sammy Sofa]

well stealing doesn't result in tragedy. now you're just being silly.

 

Murder is equal opportunity. Rape skews reeeeeeeeeallllllllllly far one way in terms of who is doing it and who it happens to.

 

People being more sensitive to the flippant and casual use of the word just reflects the growing and welcome recognition of the inequality that a lot of people are realizing. It's pretty cool.

[snoodmonger]

I chastised the poster dextermorgan for similar use of the word rape once, and he got very angry with me. However, I wasn't the editor of a poetry journal at the time, so he may have just been dissatisfied with my credentials.

[Guest]

well stealing doesn't result in tragedy. now you're just being silly.

 

Murder is equal opportunity. Rape skews reeeeeeeeeallllllllllly far one way in terms of who is doing it and who it happens to.

 

People being more sensitive to the flippant and casual use of the word just reflects the growing and welcome recognition of the inequality that a lot of people are realizing. It's pretty cool.

btw - murder skews far to one side on both -er and -ee sides.

[Guest]

I chastised the poster dextermorgan for similar use of the word rape once, and he got very angry with me. However, I wasn't the editor of a poetry journal at the time, so he may have just been dissatisfied with my credentials.

 

ha, i almost posted about that in this thread. for some reason, it wasn't until my late 20's when i realized the awfulness in stuff like that. i remember i thought you were being really pretentious, but now it definitely makes me cringe... and that was only a few years ago. i don't really know what changed, but i definitely feel the shock of seeing that kind of language now. it's embarrassing to look back on things like that and wonder how i didn't feel the way i do now.

[imb]

Nsbb changing lives.

[Guest]

Nsbb changing lives.

My mission is finally fulfilled.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

I chastised the poster dextermorgan for similar use of the word rape once, and he got very angry with me. However, I wasn't the editor of a poetry journal at the time, so he may have just been dissatisfied with my credentials.

 

ha, i almost posted about that in this thread. for some reason, it wasn't until my late 20's when i realized the awfulness in stuff like that. i remember i thought you were being really pretentious, but now it definitely makes me cringe... and that was only a few years ago. i don't really know what changed, but i definitely feel the shock of seeing that kind of language now. it's embarrassing to look back on things like that and wonder how i didn't feel the way i do now.

http://i.imgur.com/HAg6X8V.gif

[imb]

Just a decade ago we casually referenced violent killing of innocents on a tshirt. How times have changed.

 

http://www.zazzle.com/nsbb_murderers_throw_2004_shirt-235382828368064009

[ScrubMD]

$25.95 for a t-shirt?! We all know what weis21 would compare that to.

[Guest]

Just a decade ago we casually referenced violent killing of innocents on a tshirt. How times have changed.

 

http://www.zazzle.com/nsbb_murderers_throw_2004_shirt-235382828368064009

:(

[snoodmonger]

I chastised the poster dextermorgan for similar use of the word rape once, and he got very angry with me. However, I wasn't the editor of a poetry journal at the time, so he may have just been dissatisfied with my credentials.

 

ha, i almost posted about that in this thread. for some reason, it wasn't until my late 20's when i realized the awfulness in stuff like that. i remember i thought you were being really pretentious, but now it definitely makes me cringe... and that was only a few years ago. i don't really know what changed, but i definitely feel the shock of seeing that kind of language now. it's embarrassing to look back on things like that and wonder how i didn't feel the way i do now.

http://i.imgur.com/HAg6X8V.gif

 

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/06/18/leo-gifs/gatsby.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

[weis21]

$25.95 for a t-shirt?! We all know what weis21 would compare that to.

Nice one. ZING

[ScrubMD]

$25.95 for a t-shirt?! We all know what weis21 would compare that to.

Nice one. ZING

 

http://likegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wink-gif-42.gif

[weis21]

I give up. I said it was wrong. It was an egregious error. My intent was not cruel, but it was foolish and wrong and I have admitted this several times.

 

I was drinking. Have any of you ever fucked up and said something stupid when you had been drinking? Is it an excuse? [expletive] no. But then again I've owned up to it from the beginning. I've said it's not a word I use in that light in my everyday vocabulary. That's the truth.

 

I don't know why I typed it but I did. I won't hide behind a typo excuse because that is lame and weak. And I can't prove it to myself or anyone else for that matter. I enjoy this board and respect everyone's views. I never meant to be disrespectful. I don't know what else I can do. I don't know what else to say. It was wrong. Can we please [expletive] move on.

[snoodmonger]

I give up. I said it was wrong. It was an egregious error. My intent was not cruel, but it was foolish and wrong and I have admitted this several times.

 

I was drinking. Have any of you ever [expletive] up and said something stupid when you had been drinking? Is it an excuse? [expletive] no. But then again I've owned up to it from the beginning. I've said it's not a word I use in that light in my everyday vocabulary. That's the truth.

 

I don't know why I typed it but I did. I won't hide behind a typo excuse because that is lame and weak. And I can't prove it to myself or anyone else for that matter. I enjoy this board and respect everyone's views. I never meant to be disrespectful. I don't know what else I can do. I don't know what else to say. It was wrong. Can we please [expletive] move on.

 

I don't think anyone is still holding it against you. People are just goofing around in the abstract now.

[weis21]

Maybe so. I guess sometimes it's hard to tell.

 

I honestly meant nothing by it and don't say cruel things to anyone, ever, really. I can be argumentative, but I'm not cruel and I'm always willing to admit when I'm wrong. I was wrong. Completely wrong.

 

I understand how it's offensive. And stupid.

[Gmoney08]

Just a decade ago we casually referenced violent killing of innocents on a tshirt. How times have changed.

 

http://www.zazzle.com/nsbb_murderers_throw_2004_shirt-235382828368064009

 

 

There was a lot of innocent arms murdered by Dusty on that tshirt?

[seanimal]

I chastised the poster dextermorgan for similar use of the word rape once, and he got very angry with me. However, I wasn't the editor of a poetry journal at the time, so he may have just been dissatisfied with my credentials.

 

i can only infer from this that you are now a well-accomplished editor of poetry journals

[seanimal]

Maybe so. I guess sometimes it's hard to tell.

 

I honestly meant nothing by it and don't say cruel things to anyone, ever, really. I can be argumentative, but I'm not cruel and I'm always willing to admit when I'm wrong. I was wrong. Completely wrong.

 

I understand how it's offensive. And stupid.

 

SOMEONE ACCEPT THIS MAN'S APOLOGY FFS

[Guest]

i completely agree and kind of feel like a piece of [expletive] for reading that conversation and hating it but not saying anything. the main thing, though, is that you're completely right and we can do a better job of getting rid of this stuff.

That was my reaction too. =/

[Sammy Sofa]

I give up. I said it was wrong. It was an egregious error. My intent was not cruel, but it was foolish and wrong and I have admitted this several times.

 

I was drinking. Have any of you ever [expletive] up and said something stupid when you had been drinking? Is it an excuse? [expletive] no. But then again I've owned up to it from the beginning. I've said it's not a word I use in that light in my everyday vocabulary. That's the truth.

 

I don't know why I typed it but I did. I won't hide behind a typo excuse because that is lame and weak. And I can't prove it to myself or anyone else for that matter. I enjoy this board and respect everyone's views. I never meant to be disrespectful. I don't know what else I can do. I don't know what else to say. It was wrong. Can we please [expletive] move on.

 

I'm not lecturing you, man; it was a good thing you saw what had happened and talked about who messed up it was. Thanks for the apology. I'm just replying to people like David and now Tim, who always seem to pop up wherever these types of discussions merge and try to explain it away or shrug it off. imb nailed it when he talked about how he was kind of taken aback by seeing someone use "rape" like that and how it made him feel, and I think that pretty much sums up how a lot of how things have shifted in the better in that regard.

[Guest]

I give up. I said it was wrong. It was an egregious error. My intent was not cruel, but it was foolish and wrong and I have admitted this several times.

 

I was drinking. Have any of you ever [expletive] up and said something stupid when you had been drinking? Is it an excuse? [expletive] no. But then again I've owned up to it from the beginning. I've said it's not a word I use in that light in my everyday vocabulary. That's the truth.

 

I don't know why I typed it but I did. I won't hide behind a typo excuse because that is lame and weak. And I can't prove it to myself or anyone else for that matter. I enjoy this board and respect everyone's views. I never meant to be disrespectful. I don't know what else I can do. I don't know what else to say. It was wrong. Can we please [expletive] move on.

 

I'm not lecturing you, man; it was a good thing you saw what had happened and talked about who messed up it was. Thanks for the apology. I'm just replying to people like David and now Tim, who always seem to pop up wherever these types of discussions merge and try to explain it away or shrug it off. imb nailed it when he talked about how he was kind of taken aback by seeing someone use "rape" like that and how it made him feel, and I think that pretty much sums up how a lot of how things have shifted in the better in that regard.

 

I wasn't aware I had such a reputation.

 

I completely understand what you're saying but I seriously don't see how the in-congruence between the two examples is such that one is clearly bad and the other is acceptable.