OT Got hassled for using the word Sportsmanship

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  1. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Look, if we all just chop our penises off, this won't be a problem anymore. Let's not make a big issue out of something that has such a simple solution.

    barfo
     
  2. Propagandist

    Propagandist Well-Known Member

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    As someone who has had his penis chopped off, I'm offended by this.
     
  3. Hoopguru

    Hoopguru Well-Known Member

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    Believe me I wanted to say more but it was after the game and my 8th grade grandson was on his way over to thank me for coming.
     
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    andalusian Season - Restarted

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    So, he is a fiscally conservative Scottish GI Joe.
     
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  5. Hoopguru

    Hoopguru Well-Known Member

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    He could b,e but honestly I don't care what he is as long as they are civil and don't get in my face about sportsmanship not an acceptable word anymore.
     
  6. Hoopguru

    Hoopguru Well-Known Member

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    Go a head I still like use mine! don't use it lose it...
     
  7. Strenuus

    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    lmao. I didn't even know what she was mad at anyway.. I just now got it.

    Look, I'm all for human rights for all (and no one will ever talk me out of it, so don't even try). But when it comes to words, there are some words I will not tolerate ever (A couple are subjective, but most of them are objective), but when it comes to words that have a gender built into the word... unless it's blatantly sexist, then it's just a word. Pronouns and such are a person's right, because it's their choice (Another thing you wont talk me out of)... but when english words that have been around for centuries like sportsmanship... come on, man. lol.
     
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  8. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    I'm irritated by sportsmanship and the like. I refuse to call a single person they.

    Absolutely will not ever do it.

    I told my good friend who is part of the LBQT community to tell people to come up with other words that fit.

    I also told all of my nieces when I saw them this weekend to tell kids that gauge earrings are stupid. Hope they do.

    My 12 year old niece says a kid in her class has them already.
     
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  9. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Neo means new. I couldn't classify her as some kind of new Liberal.
    Nothing wrong with women's lib which just means equal rights for women. But this woman was clearly unhinged whatever her politics were.
    Personally, I don't care if they wear a bra or not just so long as they don't flaunt their boobs in front of me unless they're outstanding, of course. Heck, I don't even care if they want to use the men's room at the same time as me, again unless they're extraordinarily slovenly.
    I was once getting out of the shower in the men's locker room at my gym when a woman in high heels walked in. She took one look at me in my birthday suit and skedaddled out of there. Still brings a smile, 20 years later, to my face.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I've never liked earrings in a man but I'm slowly getting used to it.
    I use to work with the nicest old boy from Alabama in the whole world. He adopted his wife's son. The kid liked to wear an earring in his ear. One day the kid came home wearing the earring and this nice fella told the kid to take it off and if he ever wore it again he'd take it off for the kid even if it meant taking a chunk of ear with the earring as he tore it off.
     
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    I'm going to respectfully disagree that you should have anyone telling anyone they are stupid, just because of an opinion.
     
  12. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    I'm talking about the hula hoop ones white kids wear. Cultural appropriation it is.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Talking about gauge earrings being stupid. Not the word they. I just won't say it so it would be better if they came up with something else. They being the group, not a specific person.

    I'm gonna go with gauge earrings being cultural appropriation and white kids need to stop doing it.
     
  14. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I'm just waiting for someone to figure out the gauge belly-button ring. Won't that be awesome when people are walking around with holes that let you see right through their abdomens...? :smiley-puke:
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Isn’t it amazing how such deep thoughts pop into our heads during the morning shower.........?? Prolly how our civilization became more “advanced”............
     
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    She's white and had no problem with racism in America and Viet Nam.

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