OT: For those inclined to call lacrosse "faggotty-ass"

[Terry in Crapchester]

I know this was Truman's description of the sport a few years ago. I wonder if he'll change his mind after seeing this:



And I realize not everyone in here is a lacrosse fan. I get that, I really do. But it's one thing to say that one doesn't like lacrosse. That's strictly a subjective response based on a number of factors, none of them inherently right or wrong. It's quite another to describe lacrosse as "faggotty-ass," though. No matter your feelings about lacrosse, though, there's no denying that you have to be a tough guy to play it.

For those who wonder what happened afterward, the shot Ryan Foley took was so hard that he apparently didn't know where he was or what had just happened immediately afterward. He was taken off the field on a stretcher, but was able to give the crowd the "thumbs up" sign twice, and later it was reported that he was able to move his arms and legs, but he was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

[BSmack]

Need to keep the black guys out.



This leaping over the damn goal and scoring from behind is gettin' outta hand.

Gary Gait was a white guy. And he invented that shit.

[BSmack]

SU Lacrosse, giving CNY yet another reason to hate Duke.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Need to keep the black guys out.



This leaping over the damn goal and scoring from behind is gettin' outta hand.

Gary Gait was a white guy. And he invented that shit.

Yep. And fwiw, that move has been outlawed in college lacrosse, although based on Sam's pic, it's apparently still legal at the professional level.

As for black guys playing lacrosse, the really, really oldtimers (as in Wolfman/Goober/Charger Mike/Mikey/Mace/Sudden Sam old) tell me that Jim Brown actually was a better lacrosse player than he was a football player.

Footnote on Sam's pic: the goalie in the pic plays for the Rochester Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse. Since m2oodles inspired a thread about our high schools awhile back, perhaps the most significant claim to fame of my high school is the fact that it is one of the few high schools in the U.S. ever to play home to a professional sports team at the highest level of play in that sport. The Rattlers were that team (what, you were expecting the NFL?) and they played at my high school for one or two seasons between being unceremoniously evicted from Frontier Field (primarily a baseball stadium) and prior to the construction of PaeTec Park, now called Sahlen's Stadium (primarily used for soccer, but also home to the Rattlers and used for a number of high school sports playoffs).

[Goober McTuber]

Greatest lacrosse player ever.

[King Crimson]

Bunk used to scare those prep league kids.

[Truman]

I know this was Truman's description of the sport a few years ago. I wonder if he'll change his mind after seeing this...

Of ALL the acerbic takes I've posted over the years, this is the one that is still lodged in your dome?





...And no, I'm not biting on that brain-dead, revisionist assertion you ignorantly posted over in the other thread. Missouri never left the Union? Whatever, Loser. I buried mvscal in no less than two threads on the topic, and you ain't no mvscal. That's like the XII refusing to acknowledge Mizzou's move to the SEC. Just kill yourself.

[BSmack]

Missouri never left the Union?

One would have thought that you would be happy to know that your ancestors were not traitors.

[Truman]

One would have thought that you would have a better grasp of history before posting such an ill-informed take.

[BSmack]

If you took up arms against the United States, are a traitor. What about that don't you understand?

[Truman]

Besides the way your post was written? I never took up arms against the United States. But I'll assume your take was directed to me anyway...

You mean after the Fed violated its own Constitution? Guess the IInd and Xth Amendments escaped you. You read like Midget Sale, B.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Ok, Truman, tell me exactly where Missouri formally seceded from the Union. Any time now.

And secession is treason, period. Nothing in the Constitution gives States the power to secede. Not now, and not at any time in the past.

And btw . . .

Of ALL the acerbic takes I've posted over the years, this is the one that is still lodged in your dome?

It's "in my dome" only to the extent that it merits a spot on the short list of the dumbest things ever posted on these boards. And that says a lot.

And you're right about one thing: I ain't no mvscal. I'm far more of a gentleman than he is. In fact, here I even gave you an opportunity to come correct, say, "You were right, I was wrong," and move on. Together with irrefutable proof of same, I might add. And you couldn't even do that.

Wow, just wow.

I know it's de rigeur around these parts for iodots to entrench themselves even farther into iodotic positions once called out on same, but I thought you were smarter than that.

[Truman]

Ok, Truman, tell me exactly where Missouri formally seceded from the Union. Any time now.

No. Last I checked, the search function on T1B works just fine, and even if it didn’t, I’m pretty sure your Interweb comes equipped with a Google. So you’re welcome to look it up for yourself at your leisure.

And secession is treason, period. Nothing in the Constitution gives States the power to secede. Not now, and not at any time in the past.

Nothing in the Constitution gives a rogue general the authority to attack a peaceful, sovereign state either. So the governor and General Assembly were supposed to sit idly by while Nathaniel Lyon sacked and burned their capital?

As for treason... So ALL those Southern patriots that swore an oath to protect the Confederacy and took up arms against the Fed were convicted of treason and faced a firing squad or a hangman’s noose at the cessation of hostilities, correct? Funny, that little nugget seems to have slipped past the history books. Or perhaps they were assimilated back into the fabric of this nation and took up the task of helping to rebuild her...

BTW... It's "in my dome" only to the extent that it merits a spot on the short list of the dumbest things ever posted on these boards. And that says a lot.

And you're right about one thing: I ain't no mvscal. I'm far more of a gentleman than he is. In fact, here I even gave you an opportunity to come correct, say, "You were right, I was wrong," and move on. Together with irrefutable proof of same, I might add. And you couldn't even do that.

Wrong about what? The War? Your limited knowledge of American history and lack of writing skills as compared to mvscal’s, who happens to excel at both? The fact that a throw-away line posted in a smack forum over two years ago is still pinballing about the cavern your pea-sized brain calls home?

Wow, just wow, indeed.

I know it's de rigeur around these parts for iodots to entrench themselves even farther into iodotic positions once called out on same, but I thought you were smarter than that.

It is also de rigueur to be smart enough to know that when one decides to call out a fellow poster by name on a smack board, one might also expect just a bit of push-back. as well. Or so I’ve heard. :wink:

[MuchoBulls]

Love lacrosse. It was one of the best sports we had at my high school.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Ok, Truman, tell me exactly where Missouri formally seceded from the Union. Any time now.

No. Last I checked, the search function on T1B works just fine, and even if it didn’t, I’m pretty sure your Interweb comes equipped with a Google. So you’re welcome to look it up for yourself at your leisure.

I'm not looking for your opinion, dumbass. I already know what that is, and I already know it's wrong. In any event, your surrender flag is duly noted.

But since we're on the subject, here's an image that pops up on the first google hit for Confederate States of America:



Seems that Missouri is included in the area of

States and territories claimed by CSA without formal secession and/or control.

Check and mate. I know you're a Confederate sympathizer, and you want your state to have been on the Confederate side formally. But the mere fact that you want that doesn't mean that's what happened.

As for treason... So ALL those Southern patriots that swore an oath to protect the Confederacy and took up arms against the Fed were convicted of treason and faced a firing squad or a hangman’s noose at the cessation of hostilities, correct? Funny, that little nugget seems to have slipped past the history books. Or perhaps they were assimilated back into the fabric of this nation and took up the task of helping to rebuild her...

You don't really want to go there, now do you?

Last I checked, Orenthal James Simpson has never been convicted of murder. Yet that little fact doesn't stop any number of people from referring to him as a murderer, now does it? It's the same thing here.

And you did know that Jefferson Davis was indicted (although never tried, let alone convicted) for treason, and spent a number of years in prison as a result, didn't you? And that Robert E. Lee lost his right to vote after the war? Small potatoes compared to what could've happened, granted, but it's not entirely accurate to say that neither went completely unpunished, now is it? For that matter, Andrew Johnson's pardons may have had just a little to do with the fact that no Confederate leaders were ever convicted of treason. Call it a hunch. And of course, Presidential pardons inherently imply either guilt or a pretty strong likelihood thereof. The President doesn't go around doling out pardons to people who are completely innocent of any offense.

BTW... It's "in my dome" only to the extent that it merits a spot on the short list of the dumbest things ever posted on these boards. And that says a lot.

And you're right about one thing: I ain't no mvscal. I'm far more of a gentleman than he is. In fact, here I even gave you an opportunity to come correct, say, "You were right, I was wrong," and move on. Together with irrefutable proof of same, I might add. And you couldn't even do that.

Wrong about what? The War?[/quote]

Well, yeah, although that wasn't the topic of this thread.

Your limited knowledge of American history and lack of writing skills as compared to mvscal’s, who happens to excel at both?

If you think Missouri formally seceded, then it's inherently obvious that I've forgotten more American history than you've ever learned.

As for mvscal's writing skills, I suppose that if fifth-grade level insults are your thing, they don't come any better than mvscal. Personally, I prefer to operate on a higher intellectual plane than that.

The fact that a throw-away line posted in a smack forum over two years ago is still pinballing about the cavern your pea-sized brain calls home?

Translation: "I was just trolling." Anytime a poster goes to this card, it's a sure sign that he's lost.

I know it's de rigeur around these parts for iodots to entrench themselves even farther into iodotic positions once called out on same, but I thought you were smarter than that.

It is also de rigueur to be smart enough to know that when one decides to call out a fellow poster by name on a smack board, one might also expect just a bit of push-back. as well. Or so I’ve heard. :wink:

You picked this up, yet didn't manage to pick up that I was calling you out on a comment that was quite clearly alluded to in the title of this thread?

Here, let me dumb it down for you.

If you had said something like, "Lacrosse? Sorry, not a fan," then there's nothing to call you out on. It's a subjective reaction, different from mine, but neither is inherently right or wrong. When you throw in a comment that implies that lacrosse players aren't exactly tough, it adds an element of objectivity to the discussion, and in your case, the objective comment is just plain wrong. That's the reason for that.

Still confused? I'll dumb it down for you even further with a comparison.

Even though I live in what could be considered a golf hotbed, I'm not a fan of golf, and I've said so on several occasions. That, again, is a subjective reaction, not inherently right or wrong. In response, some golf fans have made the comment that it takes skill to play golf at the level of the PGA tour players. That comment, of course, adds an element of objectivity to the discussion. If I were to refute that fact, then I would be wrong. What I have done instead is to counter with the argument that it also takes skill to play chess at the level that Garry Kasparov plays chess, but that doesn't mean that I'm about to sit down and watch one of his chess matches from start to finish.

Of course, all analogies are weak, and this is no exception. It would be pretty stupid to state or imply that it doesn't take skill to play golf at the level of someone on the PGA tour. It is exponentially more stupid, though, to state or imply that you don't have to be tough to play lacrosse. :wink:

[R-Jack]

Golfers are faggotty-ass.

[Dinsdale]

So, see if I read this correctly...

Somebody posted this:

Translation: "I was just trolling." Anytime a poster goes to this card, it's a sure sign that he's lost.

After they posted this?

In any event, your surrender flag is duly noted.

As if this episode needed a cherry on top, he then went with:

Personally, I prefer to operate on a higher intellectual plane than that.

It really overshadows the fact said poster also decided to post a very elaborate :facepalm: in the process.


Yet another violation of the "brain, THEN keyboard" rule.

[Dinsdale]

Golfers are faggotty-ass.

Hey there, buddy -- I'm a golfer, and I'll beat your ass silly with either a frilly purse or a lacrosse stick, since those items are interchangeable and wielded by the same "type" of person.

[Van]

Dins, you may want to reread Terry's post. You seem to be attributing his "trolling" comment to himself when in fact he's attributing it to Truman. In accusing Truman of trying to hide behind a thinly disguised claim of trolling, he's saying Truman offered up a white flag.

And the only time I ever hurt my knee in any damn sport was as a result of a fucked up attempt at a golf swing. So, while I don't know whether golfers are "faggotty-ass," apparently my knee is.

[Dinsdale]

Dins, you may want to reread Terry's post. You seem to be attributing his "trolling" comment to himself when in fact he's attributing it to Truman. In accusing Truman of trying to hide behind a thinly disguised claim of trolling, he's saying Truman offered up a white flag.

My point was merely that King Humorless touched on a goodly chunks of all the old overplayed, tired-ass, done-to-death canned lines here, while admonishing others for doing the same... s'all.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Golfers are faggotty-ass.

This.

[Van]

Jesus, that was so uncalled for!

[R-Jack]

Golfers are faggotty-ass.

Hey there, buddy -- I'm a golfer, and I'll beat your ass silly with either a frilly purse or a lacrosse stick, since those items are interchangeable and wielded by the same "type" of person.

Why would you do that? You can't stand having your 3 wood out of your colon long enough to use it as a wepon?

We can compromise. You can be an allright dude six days out of the week, but on your golf days you become a fucking faggot. Works for me.

[Goober McTuber]

As for mvscal's writing skills, I suppose that if fifth-grade level insults are your thing, they don't come any better than mvscal. Personally, I prefer to operate on a higher intellectual plane than that.

Fifth-grade level insults? When it comes to hurling insults, mvscal teaches an honors course in grad school. You may not like his style, but he runs circles around you in terms of readability and content. Sorry you had to find out this way.

[Terry in Crapchester]

As for mvscal's writing skills, I suppose that if fifth-grade level insults are your thing, they don't come any better than mvscal. Personally, I prefer to operate on a higher intellectual plane than that.

Fifth-grade level insults?

Don't know about you, but that's about when I outgrew my obsession with calling people "faggot," "douche," "shithead," etc., etc.

If that's still cutting edge to you, well, to each his own, I guess.

[Terry in Crapchester]

And the only time I ever hurt my knee in any damn sport was as a result of a fucked up attempt at a golf swing.

You ever wrestled? I fucked up my knee pretty badly in high school wrestling. Thirty years later, it's still not quite the same.

[Goober McTuber]

As for mvscal's writing skills, I suppose that if fifth-grade level insults are your thing, they don't come any better than mvscal. Personally, I prefer to operate on a higher intellectual plane than that.

Fifth-grade level insults?

Don't know about you, but that's about when I outgrew my obsession with calling people "faggot," "douche," "shithead," etc., etc.

If that's still cutting edge to you, well, to each his own, I guess.

Oh, please. Most people here throw out a “faggot", "douche" or "shithead" from time to time. Mvscal seldom throws out a single derogatory term; it generally has some embellishment. For example, “pathetic fuckbag”, “brainless, worthless cumstain”, “kiddy diddling fucktard”, ”clueless, uninformed dumbfuck”, “dick snorkling tool bag”, and one of his better recent efforts, “A middle aged, dick inhaling renfaire carny with sad delusions of high school grandeur and a dream of one day publishing a glossy, coffee table photo book entitled, Rest Stop Glory Holes of the American West”.

You can only dream about being so entertaining.

[Truman]

I'm not looking for your opinion, dumbass. I already know what that is, and I already know it's wrong. In any event, your surrender flag is duly noted.

Good, because I’m not offering one to you, shit-fer-brains.

Quick question, Ter: Why-in-the-hell would I ever offer up a flag of surrender when I so easily chalked the end zones of that empty domed stadium you call a brainpan?

But since we're on the subject, here's an image that pops up on the first google hit for Confederate States of America:




Seems that Missouri is included in the area of
States and territories claimed by CSA without formal secession and/or control.

A red x. Nice.

Funny, here’s the first Google image that pops up on mine:

Check and mate. I know you're a Confederate sympathizer, and you want your state to have been on the Confederate side formally. But the mere fact that you want that doesn't mean that's what happened.

Checkmate, eh? Interesting claim seeing as “king me” appears to be the limit of your mental capabilities.

Oh, and from your own Web link:

During the Civil War, the states of Missouri and Kentucky had competing confederate and unionist governments claiming authority over their states. Missouri's ordinance was approved by a legislative session called by Claiborne Fox Jackson, the pro-confederate governor (see Missouri secession). Kentucky's was approved by a convention of 200 people representing 65 counties of the state, but without support from the unionist state government. The Confederacy officially seated both of these states in 1862, though they were contested throughout the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_of_Secession

As for treason... So ALL those Southern patriots that swore an oath to protect the Confederacy and took up arms against the Fed were convicted of treason and faced a firing squad or a hangman’s noose at the cessation of hostilities, correct? Funny, that little nugget seems to have slipped past the history books. Or perhaps they were assimilated back into the fabric of this nation and took up the task of helping to rebuild her...

You don't really want to go there, now do you?

Last I checked, Orenthal James Simpson has never been convicted of murder. Yet that little fact doesn't stop any number of people from referring to him as a murderer, now does it? It's the same thing here.

Last I checked, Orenthal James Simpson was held liable by a civil court for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman to the tune of $46.1 M.

On February 6, 1997, a jury unanimously found there was a preponderance of evidence to hold Simpson liable for damages in the wrongful death of Goldman and battery of Brown.[12] On February 21, 2008, a Los Angeles court upheld a renewal of the civil judgment against him

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

“Innocent” people don’t have punitive monetary judgements levelled against them.

And you did know that Jefferson Davis was indicted (although never tried, let alone convicted) for treason, and spent a number of years in prison as a result, didn't you? And that Robert E. Lee lost his right to vote after the war? Small potatoes compared to what could've happened, granted, but it's not entirely accurate to say that neither went completely unpunished, now is it? For that matter, Andrew Johnson's pardons may have had just a little to do with the fact that no Confederate leaders were ever convicted of treason. Call it a hunch. And of course, Presidential pardons inherently imply either guilt or a pretty strong likelihood thereof. The President doesn't go around doling out pardons to people who are completely innocent of any offense.

Yeah, that whole Rule of Law and innocent until proven guilty premise is sure a mess. Unless you’re a death penalty litigator, I would think you’d be pleased how lightly the Rebs got over on the Man.

If you think Missouri formally seceded, then it's inherently obvious that I've forgotten more American history than you've ever learned.

Oh, I KNOW Missouri seceded:

Missouri Ordinance of Secession

Whereas the Government of the United States, in the possession and under the control of a sectional party, has wantonly violated the compact originally made between said Government and the State of Missouri, by invading with hostile armies the soil of the State, attacking and making prisoners the militia while legally assembled under the State laws, forcibly occupying the State capitol, and attempting through the instrumentality of domestic traitors to usurp the State government, seizing and destroying private property, and murdering with fiendish malignity peaceable citizens, men, women, and children, together with other acts of atrocity, indicating a deep-settled hostility toward the people of Missouri and their institutions; and

Whereas the present Administration of the Government of the United States has utterly ignored the Constitution, subverted the Government as constructed and intended by its makers, and established a despotic and arbitrary power instead thereof: Now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Missouri, That all political ties of every character new existing between the Government of the United States of America and the people and government of the State of Missouri are hereby dissolved, and the State of Missouri, resuming the sovereignty granted by compact to the said United States upon admission of said State into the Federal Union, does again take its place as a free and independent republic amongst the nations of the earth.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, October 31, 1861.

What’s “inherently obvious” is that you have to actually learn American history before you can forget it, Ter.

As for mvscal's writing skills, I suppose that if fifth-grade level insults are your thing, they don't come any better than mvscal. Personally, I prefer to operate on a higher intellectual plane than that.

mvscal flies a veritable intellectual space shuttle compared to your Kitty-Hawk intellectual plane, Ter. Then again, I can understand your bitterness after witnessing the Chuck Norris-like roundhouse kicks he regularly lands on you and most-everything you post...

The fact that a throw-away line posted in a smack forum over two years ago is still pinballing about the cavern your pea-sized brain calls home?

Translation: "I was just trolling." Anytime a poster goes to this card, it's a sure sign that he's lost.

No, I’m pretty sure that if I had known that comment would still have you in full melt after all this time, I might’ve been inclined to run with it, just to see if you’d eject like your pal Killian.

It is also de rigueur to be smart enough to know that when one decides to call out a fellow poster by name on a smack board, one might also expect just a bit of push-back as well. Or so I’ve heard.

You picked this up, yet didn't manage to pick up that I was calling you out on a comment that was quite clearly alluded to in the title of this thread?

Here, let me dumb it down for you.

I would prefer that you “smart it up” for me.

You mean this thread isn’t a pile-on of a Canadian hockey coach? And how could I have missed that whole ”I know this was Truman's description of the sport a few years ago,” you so cleverly penned in your first sentence?

It’s the reason why you’re getting your junky ass dragged up-and-down your own thread, asshat.

It is exponentially more stupid, though, to state or imply that you don't have to be tough to play lacrosse.

Even more exponentially stupid is bringing it up as a topic of discussion a whole two years after the fact and kicking your own ass in the process.

[Goober McTuber]

by invading with hostile armies the soil of the State, attacking and making prisoners the militia while legally assembled under the State laws, forcibly occupying the State capitol, and attempting through the instrumentality of domestic traitors to usurp the State government, seizing and destroying private property, and murdering with fiendish malignity peaceable citizens, men, women, and children, together with other acts of atrocity, indicating a deep-settled hostility toward the people of Missouri and their institutions

Good times, good times.

[Van]

And the only time I ever hurt my knee in any damn sport was as a result of a fucked up attempt at a golf swing.

You ever wrestled? I fucked up my knee pretty badly in high school wrestling. Thirty years later, it's still not quite the same.

Nope, never wrestled, but then wrestling is a sport where I would expect to risk a knee injury.

Golf? Who screws up their knee with a single golf swing? I did, but nothing that lasted. I just made sure never to do that type of swing again.

[Goober McTuber]

And the only time I ever hurt my knee in any damn sport was as a result of a fucked up attempt at a golf swing.

You ever wrestled? I fucked up my knee pretty badly in high school wrestling. Thirty years later, it's still not quite the same.

Wrestling has got to be the epitome of a "faggotty-ass" sport.

[Dinsdale]

Who screws up their knee with a single golf swing?

Uhhh, first swing on Sunday (?) of the 2008 US Open ring any bells?

You can see that fucker snap on the slo-mo replay.