Am I reading this right?!?

[glazeduck]

http://www.hornets247.com/blog/2010...n=Feed:+hornets247-blog+(Hornets247.com+Blog)

The nightmares of an abused child cannot compare to the awfulness that is Julian Wright vs. Manu Ginobili. One guy is a savvy veteran, and the other is something else entirely. I'll die happy if I never see that matchup again.

I sincerely hope that I'm missing this writer's point, because, as I'm reading it, it sounds like he's saying that the nightmares that he'll have of Manu abusing Julian Wright will be far worse than the nightmares that abused children have.

I'm willing to give him enough benefit of the doubt to ask for more eyes on this article, but either I'm SERIOUSLY misreading this passage, or this guy needs to be fired. To suggest that dreaming about one man playing a game better than a man the dreamer favors can even possibly be worse than the nightmares of abused children is...disgusting? Outrageous? I can't even think of the right word it's so distasteful.

Did he not want to throw families of murder or rape victims, Michael Vick's dogs, and post-war trauma survivors under this overstated bus as well? He didn't want to knock on battered women or the severely depressed while he was at it?

Normally I'm not too offended over obviously sarcastic comments like this, but abused children, to me, kinda seems like a group of individuals that should be left alone...

 

[hasoos]

Well Sarcasm isn't for everybody I guess.

 

[THE HCP]

????????????

 

[DaRizzle]

so I take it youre not a fan of dead baby jokes?

.....giving you a hard time...yeah that quote could have tried to be funny, in funnier ways no less, than an abused child reference

 

[LameR]

Yeah, that kind of analogy doesn't really need to be written.

 

[Blazed Mania 52]

so I take it youre not a fan of dead baby jokes?

.....giving you a hard time...yeah that quote could have tried to be funny, in funnier ways no less, than an abused child reference

I understand the author of this thread.

But come on it doesn't get better then dead baby jokes.

Whats the difference between a Mercedes and a pile of dead babies?

I don't own a car.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I guess it's a poor choice of words, but ... I dunno, I suppose it takes a lot to offend me.

 

[Minstrel]

Fans look for edgier and edgier ways to describe athletic failures. Rape and abuse are already common terms in fan discussion of sports, and I guess this guy decided to push "abuse" into "child abuse."

I'd rather such terms were not used to describe sports, but the general idea has definitely been around a long time.

 

[jlprk]

The word "abuse" is vastly overused. It started by changing the 1960s term "drug use" into the 1970s "drug abuse" as a synonym for all drug use. I wish "abuse" would just disappear.

This generation has been turned into a bunch of sissies. My father hit me. My male friends were all the same. That's how boys were raised, and I assume that outside the US, that's how it remains. Once my best friend's father spanked the daughter in front of me. At church, pamphlets used to describe how to punish your kids. In the late 1960s, conservatives criticized permissiveness toward children as having caused hippies. Now the prevailing ideology has swung to the opposite, so as not to create rebels. Every year the government steals tens of thousands of children from their parents over this issue. Just let people live. Live and let live. I probably had some bad dreams as a kid, so what.

As the 1980s expression says--BFD.

 

[BIG Q]

Why does the quip "Lightin' up Francis" come to mind?

 

[Natebishop3]

Why does the quip "Lightin' up Francis" come to mind?

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[barfo]

My father hit me. My male friends were all the same.

Man, you got hit a lot. Got to wonder if it was the culture or just the way you were dressed.

What about your female friends? Did they beat you? Off-hand, I'd guess so.

barfo

 

[jlprk]

You know the Colonel? The one who was in charge of base training for the new recruits? The one who took no shit and who knew all the psychological comeback quips to the wiseguys?

They only had to put up with him during work hours. I did for the other 16 hours a day.

It's okay. It made me mentally tough. Putting everyone in jail if they have a family fight turns us into a police state.

 

[Eastoff]

I understand the author of this thread.

But come on it doesn't get better then dead baby jokes.

Whats the difference between a Mercedes and a pile of dead babies?

I don't own a car.

you can't OWN a pile of dead babies man, they're for all the world to share.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

What about your female friends? Did they beat you? Off-hand, I'd guess so.

Better to have a female beat you with her off-hand than not to beat you at all.