Airing of Grievences Thread

[Jon]

Any y'all inta da Groove Tube, hey?

Kentucky Fried Movie?

[Jon]

Humor is highly subjective.  One either gets it or they don't.   Your opinion is really only relevant to yourself, so spare us your "expertise."

Some guys wear a Brietling while others wear a Timex. To each their own.

What time is it?

[Pakuni]

Some guys wear a Brietling while others wear a Timex. To each their own.

What time is it?

Some guys pick their nose in public so that everyone sees their class ring.

[Jon]

Some guys pick their nose in public so that everyone sees their class ring.

"A Notre Dame grad will pick his nose so you notice his class ring..."

Alfred McGuire

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Some guys wear a Brietling while others wear a Timex. To each their own.

What time is it?

Fair enough.

[Cheeks]

This explains it all right here..

I watch others, too.  Need to understand all points of view.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Aggie

I never said that the actions of slave auctioneers in any time or place was or is morally acceptable. Ethics or morality is never relative.

I am against the whitewashing of history. Do we scrub Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, et al from the story of the United States? They were slave owners, among about a dozen US Presidents, hundreds of senators, and countless others who contributed to the building of what is the world's greatest society.

Pulling down statues and erasing names from the national narrative is intellectual cowardice. Celebrate the good but acknowledge the moral incorrectness of slavery. Learn from the sins of the past. Without the names listed above there is no American story.

Appreciate the response Crash. I think we are closer together on the topic than I remembered. I also abhor whitewashing history. I was lucky enough to have teachers in high school and professors in college who insisted that we learned history and literature not through the eyes of the victors/oppressors but through the eyes of the conquered and oppressed.

I agree that trying to erase history is cowardice. I also think that hiding history is cowardice. I'm fine keeping the statues up and names on the wall.....as long as there is an actual acknowledgement of the sins of the past included.

[Mutaman]

Appreciate the response Crash. I think we are closer together on the topic than I remembered. I also abhor whitewashing history. I was lucky enough to have teachers in high school and professors in college who insisted that we learned history and literature not through the eyes of the victors/oppressors but through the eyes of the conquered and oppressed.

I agree that trying to erase history is cowardice. I also think that hiding history is cowardice. I'm fine keeping the statues up and names on the wall.....as long as there is an actual acknowledgement of the sins of the past included.

Straight out of the Mike Pence playbook.

"What we have to walk away from is the desire to erase parts of our history just in the name of some contemporary political cause."
Mike Pence

“Some contemporary political cause”? You mean, not celebrating the people who waged war on the United States of America in order to maintain slavery?"
Paul Waldman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/22/the-lie-of-maintaining-confederate-monuments-in-the-name-of-history/

[mu_hilltopper]

[Galway Eagle]

Straight out of the Mike Pence playbook.

"What we have to walk away from is the desire to erase parts of our history just in the name of some contemporary political cause."
Mike Pence

“Some contemporary political cause”? You mean, not celebrating the people who waged war on the United States of America in order to maintain slavery?"
Paul Waldman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/22/the-lie-of-maintaining-confederate-monuments-in-the-name-of-history/

Don't think he was referring to confederate stuff. Guessing it's more about the founding fathers who were slave owners.

[Mutaman]

Don't think he was referring to confederate stuff. Guessing it's more about the founding fathers who were slave owners.

No. This is all about "the confederate stuff" . Making this about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson was just a really bad analogy that Keefe made that he pulled out of National Review.   Washington and Jefferson did not fight in a war against the United States.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

No. This is all about "the confederate stuff" . Making this about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson was just a really bad analogy that Keefe made that he pulled out of National Review.   Washington and Jefferson did not fight in a war against the United States.

I'm referring to a thread that happened awhile ago about Georgetown considering renaming academic buildings because the namesake had organized a slave auction to support the university.

[Mutaman]

Was he bringing those pizzas to a meeting of the meat eaters?

[Cheeks]

Don't think he was referring to confederate stuff. Guessing it's more about the founding fathers who were slave owners.

Hmm...politics....not you, but the one on ignore.

[StillAWarrior]

Hmm...politics....not you, but the one on ignore.

Cheeks, the point of the ignore button is to ignore the person.  Sniping at them when someone else happens to quote them kind of defeats the purpose.  For the love of all that is good, ignore the people you should be ignoring on here.  You know who they are.  And, thankfully, some of them know who you are and are ignoring you.  It'll do you good.  It'll do all of us good.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

And instead of bi*tching about their posts, report them to the moderators. 

[StillAWarrior]

And instead of bi*tching about their posts, report them to the moderators.

To what end?  In my personal opinion, it's not up to the moderators to address it.  But that's me.  I think sometimes, learning that the rest of the scoop community is sick and tired of their crap -- not just the people they're constantly fighting with -- can have an effect.  It recently has worked with some on this board.  I'm hoping that maybe it can work in this case.

But, if you're into reporting stuff to the moderators, you probably should have just reported my post...instead of bi*tching about it.

[mu_hilltopper]

Let's get back to non-Scoop grievances.

Last night, I was bitten by 3 mosquitoes and one bee, and that really pisses me off.

[Its DJOver]

I've never heard of someone getting bitten by a bee before, how does that work?

[StillAWarrior]

Let's get back to non-Scoop grievances.

Last night, I was bitten by 3 mosquitoes and one bee, and that really pisses me off.

My grievance:  when "the man" tells me what I can grieve and what I cannot grieve.   

[4everwarriors]

Let's get back to non-Scoop grievances.

Last night, I was bitten by 3 mosquitoes and one bee, and that really pisses me off.

Sure dat wuzant wonna dem adolescent dreams, hey?

[mu_hilltopper]

I've never heard of someone getting bitten by a bee before, how does that work?

My grievance:  when "the man" tells me what I can grieve and what I cannot grieve.   

These guys are on the list.

[jesmu84]

Let's get back to non-Scoop grievances.

Last night, I was bitten by 3 mosquitoes and one bee, and that really pisses me off.

You were bitten by a bee?

Pretty incredible

[muguru]

Why are so many women these days "tatted" up, and why do so few wear make up anymore unless it's a "special" occasion of some sort??

[Galway Eagle]

Why are so many women these days "tatted" up, and why do so few wear make up anymore unless it's a "special" occasion of some sort??

Why're you grieving about this rather than just thinking they aren't your demographic of paramour