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[EastCoastStag]

Or it could be that there is a reason the person is a reporter at a local paper... not good with facts, not good with writing... never going to make it to even a mid-market paper.




I should start my own website:

number of uncalled holding penalties: too many to count
number of special teams cheap shots: too many to count
number of horrible things screamed out when it was dead quiet while a girl was shooting freethrows at a CMS basketball game: too many to count
number of times I did the above and a parent was disgusted to the point of moving to the other side of the arena: 1
number of times I went to volleyball games just for the shorts: everytime
GPA: high enough to get a 6 figure job after undergrad
estimated hours of sleep in the last 3 days because of work: 9
average length of workday: 14-16 hours
number of times I made a website dedicated to my HS football achievements: 0
but, just to be a good sport, number of special teams tackles senior year of HS: ~40 (8 games), to finish top 5 on the team in tackles, despite not being a defensive starter
amount of time daydreaming each day about OB and Snoopy having a UFC style cage match: at least 15 minutes
amount of time I just wasted: 5 minutes

[DutchFan2004]

Or it could be that there is a reason the person is a reporter at a local paper... not good with facts, not good with writing... never going to make it to even a mid-market paper.




I should start my own website:

number of uncalled holding penalties: too many to count
number of special teams cheap shots: too many to count
number of horrible things screamed out when it was dead quiet while a girl was shooting freethrows at a CMS basketball game: too many to count
number of times I did the above and a parent was disgusted to the point of moving to the other side of the arena: 1
number of times I went to volleyball games just for the shorts: everytime
GPA: high enough to get a 6 figure job after undergrad
estimated hours of sleep in the last 3 days because of work: 9
average length of workday: 14-16 hours
number of times I made a website dedicated to my HS football achievements: 0
but, just to be a good sport, number of special teams tackles senior year of HS: ~40 (8 games), to finish top 5 on the team in tackles, despite not being a defensive starter
amount of time daydreaming each day about OB and Snoopy having a UFC style cage match: at least 15 minutes
amount of time I just wasted: 5 minutes

That last line was pretty hard on yourself wasn't it?  I enjoyed the humor so maybe it really wasn't a total waste of time. 

[stealth]

Racist in what way ? 

Ebonics alive and well 

Do you have any sense at all as to how racist that comment is within the context of your response?

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Racist in what way ? 

Ebonics alive and well 

Do you have any sense at all as to how racist that comment is within the context of your response?

"Ebonics" is a conjoined phrase based on "ebony" and "phonics"  It is also referred to as "Black English" or "Black English Vernacular" according to Merriam-Webster on line.

You posted "Ebonics is alive and well" in response to this post by Oxy Oswald:

"The thng abut reding post wit tyops in them is it cn be very peinful.  So thnks to yu SpellchkBob."

I'm a middle aged white man who thinks your post was racist and offensive.  If it reflects your true thinking, it is particularly revealing.  If not, perhaps you just didn't think about it in context.  Any person of color reading it would, in my view and experience, see it as racist and perceive this as a unwelcoming community.  Indeed, if I thought that most of the folks here, the NWC and other boards that I frequent found your post funny, I'd rethink my engagement with the lot.

Did you really even have to ask?  Are you really incapable of seeing how your post merely continues an ignorant and hateful stereotype, a paradigm of racist humor that was common in the 60's, but reveals within it an underlying hate and bigotry?

[D O.C.]

Thin ice here but I always get muddled by the terminology racist and/culturist, i.e., bigotry.

Isn't one sort of defined by the old British Royal Academy of Science in the Imperialist Empire days and one is a learned behavior?

And speaking of football....I understand NCAA Division III will make no changes in the shape of the ball this year.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Thin ice here but I always get muddled by the terminology racist and/culturist, i.e., bigotry.

Isn't one sort of defined by the old British Royal Academy of Science in the Imperialist Empire days and one is a learned behavior?

And speaking of football....I understand NCAA Division III will make no changes in the shape of the ball this year.

"Racism" - "the assumption that the characteristics and abilities of an individual are determined by race and that one race is biologically superior to another"  [The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language 1988 at page 823]

"Bigotry" - "the mental attitude and behavior of a bigot, obstinate narrow mindedness."  [The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language 1988 at page 96]

Thus, I think that racists are all bigots, not not all bigots are necessarily racists.

So, for example, it is an obstinate narrow mindedness that keeps the NCAA from changing the shape of a football to that of, say, a rugby ball.

But it is not racism to cling to the same shape.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

I remember.

[D O.C.]

But do you old coots recall my favorite Oakland news clip "outrage ensued, and Mills College has been mocked ever since" when someone had the temerity to suggest a coed education be instituted at Mills, thereby embracing Title IX in education.

[Gray Fox]

But do you old coots recall my favorite Oakland news clip "outrage ensued, and Mills College has been mocked ever since" when someone had the temerity to suggest a coed education be instituted at Mills, thereby embracing Title IX in education.

That would have given Menlo a local rivalry game.

[d-train]

Hey, what ad are you guys seeing at the top of the page? Is it just rotating through a Google list or something? I've seen GayAsianSingles.com the last few times I've clicked into this SCIAC board. I strongly prefer the current ad for HotHuskers.com, though I'm not sure that either is all that appropriate.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

A singles ad is a singles ad is a singles ad . . .

I'm looking for the "Wet Wildcats" ad. 

"Pouty Pirates"

"Butch Bulldogs"

"Trans Tigers"

"Sensual Sagehens"

"Perv Poets"

"Lascivious Loggers"

"Studly Stags"

[D O.C.]

That would have given Menlo a local rivalry game.

Good one!

Notice d-train hasn't explained what happens when you click on the ad...yet.

[wildcat11]

Hey, what ad are you guys seeing at the top of the page? Is it just rotating through a Google list or something? I've seen GayAsianSingles.com the last few times I've clicked into this SCIAC board. I strongly prefer the current ad for HotHuskers.com, though I'm not sure that either is all that appropriate.

****Not going to touch this one with a 10 foot poll***

[d-train]

****Not going to touch this one with a 10 foot Pole***

And I won't be touching you with my 5 foot Asian 'friend' either.

[stealth]

Dear Professor Mind Reader,
Yawwwwwwwwwwn. We've all heard this before. BTW my multi-racial nieces think your a "douche bag". I won't put a sarcastic smiley face thing after this as before because you might miss it.   

Racist in what way ? 

Ebonics alive and well

Do you have any sense at all as to how racist that comment is within the context of your response?

"Ebonics" is a conjoined phrase based on "ebony" and "phonics"  It is also referred to as "Black English" or "Black English Vernacular" according to Merriam-Webster on line.

You posted "Ebonics is alive and well" in response to this post by Oxy Oswald:

"The thng abut reding post wit tyops in them is it cn be very peinful.  So thnks to yu SpellchkBob."

I'm a middle aged white man who thinks your post was racist and offensive.  If it reflects your true thinking, it is particularly revealing.  If not, perhaps you just didn't think about it in context.  Any person of color reading it would, in my view and experience, see it as racist and perceive this as a unwelcoming community.  Indeed, if I thought that most of the folks here, the NWC and other boards that I frequent found your post funny, I'd rethink my engagement with the lot.

Did you really even have to ask?  Are you really incapable of seeing how your post merely continues an ignorant and hateful stereotype, a paradigm of racist humor that was common in the 60's, but reveals within it an underlying hate and bigotry?