Sporting Events FAQ, Liveblog, and BANGERS
02-04-2012
, 04:43 PM
02-04-2012
, 05:14 PM
02-04-2012
, 05:20 PM
02-04-2012
, 05:41 PM
02-04-2012
, 06:14 PM
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I'm pretty relaxed, bro, just making an observation. If I took my life very seriously I would do something with it instead of commenting about trolls on the internet.
I'm not really talking about co-ed beer-league softball, really. Certainly has nothing to do with being manly. If you want to take a walk then I think it's lame and borderline angleshooting, but whatever. The thing that struck me was how proud of yourself you were, and clearly still are based on the way you told the story. Congrats, you knew the basic rules of the game and nitted your way to victory! Again, I'm not criticizing because it's unmanly or non-alpha-male but the extent to which you are patting yourself on the back.
Then there's the troll's freeroll. You took the game seriously enough to draw a walk without swinging the bat in co-ed beer-league softball yet your enjoyment was in mocking people who took the game too seriously. I'm fine with trolling, and certainly talking **** in something like intramural softball, but taking the who-so-serious line when you clearly care just as much, if not more, is just stupid and annoying. Why do you think epi was so unpopular?
Interesting that you lead with a bragging tone and then when you got called out you switched to this.
I'm not really talking about co-ed beer-league softball, really. Certainly has nothing to do with being manly. If you want to take a walk then I think it's lame and borderline angleshooting, but whatever. The thing that struck me was how proud of yourself you were, and clearly still are based on the way you told the story. Congrats, you knew the basic rules of the game and nitted your way to victory! Again, I'm not criticizing because it's unmanly or non-alpha-male but the extent to which you are patting yourself on the back.
Then there's the troll's freeroll. You took the game seriously enough to draw a walk without swinging the bat in co-ed beer-league softball yet your enjoyment was in mocking people who took the game too seriously. I'm fine with trolling, and certainly talking **** in something like intramural softball, but taking the who-so-serious line when you clearly care just as much, if not more, is just stupid and annoying. Why do you think epi was so unpopular?
Interesting that you lead with a bragging tone and then when you got called out you switched to this.
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Re: the PM. While I was being sincere, that was a bit of a social experiment I was trying that week with a few posters. I was wondering if there was perhaps a better way to deal with trolling and/or posters who seem to routinely hate, so I tried the PM "timeout let's talk about it" route. I had a lot of free time that week, and was curious if I could apply the same thing to dealing with moderation, rather than using the infraction/callout method, as well as dealing with personal trolling or whatever.
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i mean honestly dude, lol @ the people reacting that way to a story from a beer league softball game from 5 years ago when everyone was drunk. have you ever acted like a tool drunk? have you ever told the story later to amuse people? did they all psychoanalyze you too?! you guys are either insane or bored. im both, personally.
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i mean bro. i was a drunk 21yo fat kid on a softball team that had lost every game. i wasnt exactly out there trying to be mr. stud athlete and thinking in a rational state of mind.
the reason i tell the story is because people laugh at it. the reason it's funny is because what i did is stupid. like... isnt telling stories of stupid crap people will laugh at you did in college but wouldnt do now sort of standard? LDO. i didnt realize it was such serious bizzz.
the reason i tell the story is because people laugh at it. the reason it's funny is because what i did is stupid. like... isnt telling stories of stupid crap people will laugh at you did in college but wouldnt do now sort of standard? LDO. i didnt realize it was such serious bizzz.
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i get that pretty well. that's why it's funny. i understand you guys probably never did anything dumb in college, but im not so concerned about my manhood that i worry about relaying the time i took a walk in a softball game.
thankfully i dont find my self worth in the actions i took 5 years ago when playing co-ed drunk rec softball.
it was supposed to be for your entertainment. yes i realize i looked really dumb doing it, but i have enough self-confidence that my ego can handle a little self-deprecating humor! if you cant laugh at yourself, you cant enjoy life. it doesnt make me a pathetic person
. Other things might, but certainly not this!
if i posted that i did coke off a hooker's ass while hitting a home run, would that be better!
thankfully i dont find my self worth in the actions i took 5 years ago when playing co-ed drunk rec softball.
it was supposed to be for your entertainment. yes i realize i looked really dumb doing it, but i have enough self-confidence that my ego can handle a little self-deprecating humor! if you cant laugh at yourself, you cant enjoy life. it doesnt make me a pathetic person
. Other things might, but certainly not this!if i posted that i did coke off a hooker's ass while hitting a home run, would that be better!
02-04-2012
, 06:56 PM
02-04-2012
, 07:53 PM
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Jumping up and down to first yelling "We win! We win! We win!" isn't taking it seriously? It's like you wanted everyone to know how smart you were by knowing some obscure co-ed softball rule that is in no way obscure by shouting out "we win!" before anyone else realized. How awesome and smart and competetive of you!
Well he told the story with an air of pride, which makes him a douche. Since it was a lame story and it basically just made him look bad. Now he's telling the haterz they are too serious. lol ok.
Being drunk and fat doesn't excuse anything. Do you think bystanders were like "Oh look at the douche, he thinks it's the world series." "No - it's OK, he's drunk and really fat!" "Oh, yeah, you're right nevermind. He's not an obnoxious douche. If he lost 80 pounds and got sober I bet there's no way he'd act the same!" "Exactly, see, you get it." And people aren't laughing at the story they are cringing for you on the inside so as not to hurt your fat feelings. And probably really glad they weren't present at the time.
This. lol Karak as usual.
Also, I want to add I do not have a problem with you taking a walk. Especially if you aren't very good and you don't expect the girl behind you to knock in the winning run but the part that I think makes you a douche is jumping up and down shouting "We win!" I mean that's straight up assburger behavior right there.
Well he told the story with an air of pride, which makes him a douche. Since it was a lame story and it basically just made him look bad. Now he's telling the haterz they are too serious. lol ok.
Being drunk and fat doesn't excuse anything. Do you think bystanders were like "Oh look at the douche, he thinks it's the world series." "No - it's OK, he's drunk and really fat!" "Oh, yeah, you're right nevermind. He's not an obnoxious douche. If he lost 80 pounds and got sober I bet there's no way he'd act the same!" "Exactly, see, you get it." And people aren't laughing at the story they are cringing for you on the inside so as not to hurt your fat feelings. And probably really glad they weren't present at the time.
This. lol Karak as usual.
Also, I want to add I do not have a problem with you taking a walk. Especially if you aren't very good and you don't expect the girl behind you to knock in the winning run but the part that I think makes you a douche is jumping up and down shouting "We win!" I mean that's straight up assburger behavior right there.
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I'm not sure what's scary about it. I thought it was particularly illustrative story, started writing my post and a bad college essay spilled out. You might notice that many of my posts go on and on, I often have a bad writing style.
As evidence for my bad writing, I was trying to make it clear that the walkoff double was not the slightest bit offensive to me. It's mildly douchey and somewhat an angleshoot, but whatever.
As evidence for my bad writing, I was trying to make it clear that the walkoff double was not the slightest bit offensive to me. It's mildly douchey and somewhat an angleshoot, but whatever.
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Certainly can't deny that being an awful post. If only Sethy had made his "that guy" post before I wrote that monstrosity...
Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but neither of these describe me at all. But go ahead and keep on with the haters-gonna-hate stuff and ignore that they might have a reason to. I obviously chose one poster at random to hate on exclusively as part of a social experiment. Sucks that it happened to be you.
If you'd told the story in this way, it wouldn't have been a big deal but I'm sure it's on us haters that we read it as "here's this awesome and hilarious thing I did" when you meant it as "here's this dumb but funny thing I did".
Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but neither of these describe me at all. But go ahead and keep on with the haters-gonna-hate stuff and ignore that they might have a reason to. I obviously chose one poster at random to hate on exclusively as part of a social experiment. Sucks that it happened to be you.
If you'd told the story in this way, it wouldn't have been a big deal but I'm sure it's on us haters that we read it as "here's this awesome and hilarious thing I did" when you meant it as "here's this dumb but funny thing I did".
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This this this.
The actual act isn't any more of a bitch move than say, being a grown ass man and regularly drinking vodka cranberries. What is a bitch move, is that as soon as people criticized you, you got defensive and tried to re frame the story as "look at this stupid thing I did while drunk in college" when it's really "one time my cousin was going to beat me in monopoly so i cheated".
The actual act isn't any more of a bitch move than say, being a grown ass man and regularly drinking vodka cranberries. What is a bitch move, is that as soon as people criticized you, you got defensive and tried to re frame the story as "look at this stupid thing I did while drunk in college" when it's really "one time my cousin was going to beat me in monopoly so i cheated".
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