You mean you're not sure? ------------------ There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
HeyP, I hate to beat a dead horse, but you need to practice what you preach. The key word "LISTEN" that you mentioned is exactly what you need to do. You have to LISTEN before you can learn. If you don't plan on pulling your words then please don't crazy on folks in this forum when they don't hold theirs. Thats being Heypocritical. Driver8 and I both expressed our opinions on how we took the context of your initial thread and you blatently decided to disreguard our opinions. Thats Ok, because now I know how you are and can react accordingly. I know now that Compromise and Understanding is not in your vocabulary, so be it. ------------------ Rockets Season Ticket Holder [This message has been edited by cato13 (edited February 06, 2001).]
hehehehe Race and basketball sounds like a movie. ANYWHO . . .WONDERFUL WIN DEFENSE IN THE SECOND HALF WAS INCREDIBLE!! Rocket River ------------------
I blatanly decided to use poetic license to contiue a day long play on the word "ass". I blatantly wanted to paint a picture of Barkley and decided to ignore political correctness when writing something that I considered fully and completely expressed myself. I blatantly decided to continue expressing myself after your comments. I blatantly decided to request the same from you to LISTEN to your expression, rather than your PC complaint. I learned something about you. I feel good about what I learned, and I have no regrets for my blantant use of words, because I don't think I would have had the chance to LISTEN to you express yourself without being blatant. Words are expression. It hurts me to read you say that I'm "uncompromising", when we have clearly started a serious conversation that is important to both of us. We are not in a BBS game anymore here. There is a difference. How do I lack Compromise and Understaning in this topic? Or are you trying to knock me down to make a point?
Hey partner: Bring more ass posts, its great! Change is good. Love is good. I want more raw emotion, I want a post titled: "Blah, blah, blah" and to have a serious discussion on the content. I want the big round mound of dukey to come out of the sky and sing the national anthem with his big sunshine ass for the world to see! I want the energy. I want your support on eating squirrels. I want everything inside of you to come out like a popped helium balloon! But most of all want the some kinda pyshcodelic freak out posts that you are bringing with pure 100 % grade triple A ..Passion. As a fat ass would say at a decent buffet: I want moreeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! ------------------ Sometimes you gotta do the next best thing!
You just watched Denis Leary's act didn't you. ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams fan club. Web site coming soon atheistalliance.org
Heyp, Do you even remember the topic? Where you lack understanding and compromise is how your non-chalant reply to my request of you not being so descriptive as "Big black ass" and how it affects some people. You have already admitted that you don't regret what you have said and that is fine. But if you have learned from your experience then you might acknowledge that you would be a little "sensitive" to others feelings. And as far as trying to knock you down, thats not my style. I'll let you do that to yourself. If you have read any of my posts I never try to bring someone down just to get my point across, thats not my character. There is nothing wrong with expressing yourself and you can do it just as effective with words that arent as offensive and still get the full effect of what you are trying to express. Hell I know this world aint perfect and everyone is not going to get along. But when I know what I am working with then I can adjust. P.S. Words can hurt. ------------------ Rockets Season Ticket Holder
My favorite part: So, heyp is sitting at my laptop, composing this thread opener, he has to go for a pee or something, so I read his post before he posts it. I say "you gotta take out that 'big-ass black guys' part. you can't say that." He left it in (obviously). So, heypartner, I just want to say, I told you so. That said, I really enjoyed those Knick fans about which heyp was talking. First time I've really heard opposing fans talking **** in the Summit. Definitely made the game a lot more fun for me. WHAT A GAME! BEST GAME ALL YEAR!
Jamcracker, Was is the guys sitting around 231 or 232? I saw this guy with a jean jacket and jean pants on with a white hat talking so much sh**. I really wanted to go over there and have some fun with him, but the lower prom seats called my name. ------------------ Rockets Season Ticket Holder
I was in the upper prom, half-way up, facing the benches, just opposite the Knick bench. There were 2 Knick fans in jerseys (maybe just Knick t-shirts) two rows up and a section over from us. The Knick fans got a few more fans in our section to MAKE SOME NOISE!
looked like a lot of the lower prom seats got squatted early last night. We usually move down at half-time, and all our usual lower-prom seats were full. So we just stayed up in our seats and had our fun with the Knick fans.
Hey before this goes further, I wrote "Big ass black man" Not big black ass sheesh ...and don't pull it out of its expressive sentence. Use the whole sentence when preaching PC. bottomline is: you don't think I have a right to use race in a descriptive expression. That is what is wrong with race relations. We don't even talk about it. We only talk around it! Lend me some freaking poetic license on a day that I used the word "ass" like 25 times, at least. And I used in the thread Title. If you take offense to that, don't read any poetry my friend! And don't listen to Charles Barkley speak! This quote is preachy, and shows little interest in understanding of expression. You don't have a compromise bone in your body, because you have effectively laid out in that quote your claim to what is right and wrong in expressive speech! So, why don't you just give us your entire PC list of "words that aren't as offense". You know, what is really telling about this exchange is that your whole argument is one big preach with no passion behind it at all. You think you have some right to address me emotionless in some kind of preaching prose. Learn to express your feelings, only then can you know passion and compassion. damn! race relations has no chance without heartfelt expression being tolerated! Enough, someone shoot me...
hey rockets03 was the last game you booed at, the seattle game, the one the rockets lost 133-80? I was at that game. Talk about hideous. ------------------
I know, I know jamcracker...you tried to warn me to not use that phrase, you PC freak you. You see, I feel like I'd be lying to myself to not use race in describing any experience. I've tried, and decided I'm lying to myself and am better understand by including race in expression...not clothes or hats, or class-bearing metaphors of equal distaste. I think too many people are vociferally frigid when expressing their experience with other races or classes...too afraid to be called a bigot. They stand frozen outside ecphonesis. But I do know one thing...for every Cato13 out there with passionless PC preaching, there those who want the freedom to speek in a world where negative connotations are not the default! Where are they here. Speak up! I want at least one lurker to register and speak! Take either side; I don't care. I just want to listen! But bring a story, at least... sheesh...what do I have to do around here to hear a story!
www.drseuss.com ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams fan club. Web site coming soon atheistalliance.org [This message has been edited by DEANBCURTIS (edited February 06, 2001).]
Look, anytime you want to talk race relations, lets go out and play a game of bskball in my old neighborhood and lets see how much of your poetic expression is taken. I dont think it would last 5 seconds. Cmon now, you sound like an intelligent person for the most part, so why would I need to give you a PC list of words that arent as offensive. Now that was funny. I also believe that I have been trying to express myself for the last 2 days but someone just doesnt plain LISTEN. What do you think I have been doing, talking out the side of my neck? Do you know what compassion is? See Webster's dictionary: : sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it This is synonymous with Compromise. I guess you also dont want to take me up on my offer of talking b-ball at a Rockets game in the future since you havent responded to couple of my requests to do so either. I guess it is much too confortable to sit behind your screen and keyboard "to talk smack". I would enjoy sitting at a game talking b-ball and exchanging ideas on this game with the roundball. ------------------ Rockets Season Ticket Holder
partner, The point is, you'd have been able to communicate more effectively with cato13 if you'd omitted that "big ass black guys" bit. The spirit of your post was lost in a sea of race-relation bickering. Sure, you ought to be able to say things like that, but you can't, if you want to communicate effectively with everyone. Look at all the breath you've wasted bickering about race relations. Look how diluted your thread has become. You have the right to free speech, but you have to know when to suppress it for the purpse of effective communication. BTW, wtf is "ecphonesis"?!? That is NOT a word. I can't, for the life of me, figure out what you meant. Websters suggests the following alternatives: occupancies ecofeminism Okefenokee occupancy usefulness ecofeminist usefulnesses asafoetidas esophagus accoutering
Sure it would. The words are fun. The eyes are what cause the problems. What do you think this world is? Ruled by negative connotations. That is not my experience. Expressive exchanges with any race, anywhere in the US, can be made everyday. Now if I can just get my body back in shape for it to last 5 seconds. Do they play spades on the side-lines? That I can still play with the best of them. oops....is "spades" on your list of objectionable words. I didn't mean it. That's the card game I played non-stop in the Army with the wisest two men I've ever met in my life. Notice I didn't say black men. You'll never know what race they were, because it shouldn't matter, right?! not until you give me a story! There are already too many people ahead of you on my list. besides, that's not the right forum for exchanging ideas; this is. The game is for yelling the uncomprehensible! I'd much rather go to the parks to watch you play basketball if you want to talk. Although, I've never done that with another person, only by myself. And you have to get off this challenge schtick, because I'm not wasting a Saturday with someone who seems to be daring me to relive my past to prove to them my youthful pasttime that I miss. Like me telling Jeff to show his mettle and lets go play an open mic in a smokey bar...cough cough. [This message has been edited by heypartner (edited February 06, 2001).]
