OT: Cavaliers fire Mike Brown as coach

[KeepOnRollin]

Why the heck did they give him a 5 year deal from the beginning? Stotts didn't get close to that.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on...-mike-brown-as-coach-hire-david-griffin-as-gm

 

[Natebishop3]

Horrible organization, from top to bottom.

 

[BBert]

Mike Brown got fired as a coach?

Gee, that never happens.

Why'd they hire him in the first place?

 

[illmatic99]

Why does this dude keep getting hired?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Organization is so stupid.

That being said, I have said for as long as I can remember that Mike Brown is a terrible coach.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Didn't like the hiring from the start (not that I was alone) BUT if you are going to hire someone that looks mediocre you certainly don't give him a long ass contract. The organization is showing they are a train-wreck just throwing away money like that.

 

[Natebishop3]

You have to be some special kind of retarded to hire and fire the same guy twice in the span of.... what..... five years?

 

[Mediocre Man]

You have to be some special kind of retarded to hire and fire the same guy twice in the span of.... what..... five years?

FYI, retarded is the N word to families with special needs children

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I would feel bad for him if one year of his contract wasn't so much money, because he didn't deserve any of it. A 5th grade girls YMCA coach would be as good.

 

[Natebishop3]

FYI, retarded is the N word to families with special needs children

retarded - characterized by a slowness or limitation in intellectual understanding and awareness, emotional development, academic progress, etc.

It's a word in the dictionary, and actually had a meaning before the PC police got ahold of it. It's no different than calling someone stupid or dumb. I don't care if someone is offended by it.

 

[Eastoff]

You have to be some special kind of retarded to hire and fire the same guy twice in the span of.... what..... five years?

FYI, retarded is the N word to families with special needs children

retarded - characterized by a slowness or limitation in intellectual understanding and awareness, emotional development, academic progress, etc.

It's a word in the dictionary, and actually had a meaning before the PC police got ahold of it. It's no different than calling someone stupid or dumb. I don't care if someone is offended by it.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

You have to be some special kind of retarded to hire and fire the same guy twice in the span of.... what..... five years?

Admitting your mistake twice.

Some where in Mercer Island Washington there is a billionaire sayin' 'not me'.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I'm not even sure how to parse someone calling MM too PC.

 

[Natebishop3]

I'm not even sure how to parse someone calling MM too PC.

Not saying MM, just that I think freaking out about that word is a little ridiculous. It's not at all like the "N" word because we still use "retard" in other facets of English. There is no other use for the "N" word, other than maybe *****rdly, which has nothing to do with black people.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Not saying MM, just that I think freaking out about that word is a little ridiculous. It's not at all like the "N" word because we still use "retard" in other facets of English. There is no other use for the "N" word, other than maybe *****rdly, which has nothing to do with black people.

Bullshit.

Even if what you say is true (I won't deny it), you used it specifically in the context that definitely means "special needs n**ger." I'm guilty as anyone of using the term, because I was born in the 70's and it was used all the time. But that's no excuse.

Have some self-awareness and clean your mouth a bit.

 

[Natebishop3]

Bullshit.

Even if what you say is true (I won't deny it), you used it specifically in the context that definitely means "special needs n**ger." I'm guilty as anyone of using the term, because I was born in the 70's and it was used all the time. But that's no excuse.

Have some self-awareness and clean your mouth a bit.

People say "slow," "stupid," or "dumb" all the time, but nobody says anything then, why?

Saying someone was mentally retarded was not meant to be a slap in the face, but was an actual term because it meant that they had developed slower than everyone else. Retard means to slow. You can use the word "retard" without having anything to do mental intelligence, but someone will take offense to it. The ONLY reason why people get butthurt is because we are so PC now that it has become an insult.

Does anyone get pissed when we use the term "fire retardant?"

 

[jlprk]

You have to be some special kind of retarded to hire and fire the same guy twice in the span of.... what..... five years?

FYI, retarded is the N word to families with special needs children

Critics of the word "retard" never offer a suitable replacement. We have to guess how to please you. Is this what you propose?

"You have to be some special kind of Special Needs idiot to hire and fire the same guy twice in the span of.... what..... five years?"

 

[jlprk]

Seriously, which replacement word packs some punch when you want to call someone an idiot, moron, etc. You won't like any replacement.

 

[Natebishop3]

Critics of the word "retard" never offer a suitable replacement. We have to guess how to please you. Is this what you propose?

"You have to be some special kind of Special Needs idiot to hire and fire the same guy twice in the span of.... what..... five years?"

Special needs directly implicates a certain demographic, whereas retarded means slow. It doesn't have to mean someone that has special needs, but the PC police made it so. So if "special needs" became an insult in common usage, what would they change it to? Just start calling everyone unique snowflakes and leave it at that.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Seriously, which replacement word packs some punch when you want to call someone an idiot, moron, etc. You won't like any replacement.

Why on earth should the onus be on the offended to propose who the offensive deal with themselves?

Use stupid. Use slow. Use moronic. Use idiotic. Use dim.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Special needs directly implicates a certain demographic, whereas retarded means slow. It doesn't have to mean someone that has special needs, but the PC police made it so. So if "special needs" became an insult in common usage, what would they change it to? Just start calling everyone unique snowflakes and leave it at that.

Don't blame your mythical PC police. Doctors called special needs kids retarded; children took it and twisted it, made it a pejorative. Now, some folks just want a little less disrespect. Quit acting like a toddler.

 

[Natebishop3]

Why on earth should the onus be on the offended to propose who the offensive deal with themselves?

Use stupid. Use slow. Use moronic. Use idiotic. Use dim.

But retard literally means slow.... like.... I seriously don't understand why people are so easily offended that a word that doesn't necessarily apply to people with disabilities must be stricken from the English language.

Honest question BC, if you heard someone say that they had to retard the engine, would you bristle at the use of the term?

 

[Natebishop3]

Don't blame your mythical PC police. Doctors called special needs kids retarded; children took it and twisted it, made it a pejorative. Now, some folks just want a little less disrespect. Quit acting like a toddler.

Yes, they called them mentally retarded, not as an insult but because the word "retarded" was the correct word in the English language to describe what was going on in their brain. So because some people use it as an insult, that word must go away completely?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Maybe it should only be ok if other special needs children say it like rappers and the word ******?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Yes, they called them mentally retarded, not as an insult but because the word "retarded" was the correct word in the English language to describe what was going on in their brain. So because some people use it as an insult, that word must go away completely?

You are 100% right, by the way

Back in the 70's dr's used to call kids mentally retarded, just as my friends and I used to go ****** knocking on doors in our neighborhood.

 

[Rz4k]

Surprised they even brought Mr. Potato Head back in the first place tbh...

 

[Natebishop3]

Maybe it should only be ok if other special needs children say it like rappers and the word ******?

You know what doesn't make sense to me? Replacing a word with something that means the exact same thing.

We're not mentally retarded or handicapped, we're special needs or disabled.

We're not midgets or dwarfs, we're little people.

It's like that word is in use for so long that it inevitably becomes some form of insult and nobody wants to be associated with it, so they change it to something else. That word will inevitably become linked to an insult, and the process will repeat itself. I imagine it will move on from "special needs" to something else in my lifetime.

 

[Rz4k]

Special needs directly implicates a certain demographic, whereas retarded means slow. It doesn't have to mean someone that has special needs, but the PC police made it so. So if "special needs" became an insult in common usage, what would they change it to? Just start calling everyone unique snowflakes and leave it at that.

Woah, I take serious offense to that unique snowflakes comment. Pls don't use it ever again !

 

[Natebishop3]

Woah, I take serious offense to that unique snowflakes comment. Pls don't use it ever again !

Are you white? If so, I apologize for making fun of your race.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Honest question BC, if you heard someone say that they had to retard the engine, would you bristle at the use of the term?

As someone with a BA in English, if I heard someone say that I'd punch them for using retard when slow would work fine. Slow the engine is shorter, better, and easier to understand. Just like "slows growth" is as easy to understand as "retards growth" and "stingy" is as easy to understand as "*****rdly".

People who like to use retard as a synonym for stupid lost a word. Big fucking deal. Go cry in your tiny dictionaries.