OT Either stop locking threads or close the OT forum down

in my view if someone is offended by insults period...the person using offensive language should take a hint....what rarely gets used is the PM mode...maybe if folks private msg someone they offend, it'll stay out of the Hatfield and McCoy battlefield .....Sly is good about using the pm function to deal with things...personally, I'd like to have the skill barfo has at dealing with arguments...he's really got it down...Denny and I argue all the time and we trade insults but I can't ignore him so it's a guilty pleasure....and I really like Denny's take on basketball....if the builder of a forum insults members....members will follow suit...I also understand fully that Denny is in the last stages of madcow....empathy...as to those who make it personal....I don't need that around my life....

 

That dude has tossed around some pretty bad stuff man, and thats coming from me! Him and dviss have gone back and forth and that kid has no filter and losses his mind on here every day. He knew exactly what he was saying. You’re smarter than that bro.

 

Dude this is Portland. The worst neighborhood in Portland couldn’t touch some of the ghettos on the east coast. I have never felt unsafe in Portland. You guys act like you have some kind of street knowledge because you went to grant. I went to grant for summer school. I had friends who grew up a few blocks from Grant. That is not some kind of hard neighborhood.

 

We're not all in Portland

 

I'm not saying that Dviss was wrong to be offended. It's not about specifically what he said.

Dviss is saying that the term is just racist in general, as in nobody should be saying it. I want to know if that's widely considered true.

 

if it offends dviss.....that's enough truth to accept it...move on

 

If you're passively accepting racism (you go as far as to look up shit to justify it) then YES, you're part of the problem.

 

Settle down. I didn’t grow up next to Grant I grew up off of 23rd and NE Prescott. Thats a whole other world bro. Especially in the mid to late 80s. I can send you links of what it was like back then and how many friends I lost during that 10 year span including our friend who was murdered next to the gym my sophomore year DURING school hours. Check your history before you post about where I grew up. And I’m very serious.. Of course we aren’t Oakland or Detroit, but learn your history before you judge. Check that school boundary maps my friend. You saying that because Grant is surrounded by a very affluent neighborhood so the school is safe is very naive.

 

I never once said that. MFs around here don't read...

 

My cousin was shot and killed INSIDE of Grant HS.

Over a leather beanie.

Ever have a shooting at your school?

 

Ladies, ladies....

Glad to see such a bitch sesh going on. Man-oh-man. Thanks for the reminder of why I don't come around much anymore. JFC.

I pretty much only pop in to check on a few of y'all (@Chris Craig, @theprunetang, @dviss1, @riverman, @SlyPokerDog, @EL PRESIDENTE, @PtldPlatypus, and the few others of you I've otherwise met in person that are genuinely good people). @JFizzleRaider has been chased off.

A few of you are babies. A few more of y'all are bitches. A few of you have something seriously wrong mentally, or are oddly attracted to making folks think you are. But damn.... it's a message board. Can we all not get along?

Personally.... as much as I dislike the moderation, I'm all for Sly cleaning up some shit around here and banning a few of you fools, and I was one of the few that was completely against banning years ago and begged and pleaded for Sly to bring back PapaG.

 

Just quoting to reiterate. I don't think it's all about lack of reading, though that's a big part of it. I think we're dealing with some MF's with some lower IQ's, too.

 

Okay, so if it's a matter of just blindly accepting your word that something is considered racist, I'm going to tell you that being called "white people" is offensive and racist. Please stop using that term. You're no longer allowed to say "white people" or you're part of the problem. We prefer European American. I'm tired of "white people" being used as a pejorative, so please do not use that term anymore.

 

And as far as having “street knowledge” you’re damn right I do. I wish you could have seen what I’ve seen back then. No exaggeration. If you think I’m joking, Google the following..... Mujib Dudley Murder....along with his little brother Solomon.......Google James Demry Murder......... Google David Kalamafoni Murder........

This happened 10 feet from us man!



Each one of the stories involve true friends of mine I lost on these “Safe” streets of Portland. Just because it wasn’t around you, doesn’t mean that shit ain’t happening.

Not trying to come at you, but you need to open your eyes to whats going on out there. Or HAS gone on out there. You don’t know what dviss or I or whoever has seen or experienced and thats something I need to remind myself sometimes.

But one thing I can tell you, I saw more “action” growing up on our “streets” of NE Portland, than I did in the god damn Army.

 

I predict this thread will top the Melo to Portland with extra fiber thread!

 

I mean..... what?

So you're saying that if I told a white person that they need an edumacation, that would be okay and you wouldn't have a problem with it?

 

I’m the one who said edumacate.

 

posts like this are a prime example of how to bait an argument.....dviss was pretty clear about what he has a problem with....it seems you are having a problem with dviss to me...let it go maybe? for the record I don't think you'd use that word when addressing anyone...my advice for dviss would be put the assholes on ignore

 

See, this is why I live in the 'burbs!