Finally a chance to throw batteries at someone’s head out of joy instead of anger.

“But talk to a New England fan about these or any other points that reflect poorly on the team and you’re subjected to the worst kinds of denial, bargaining, and an obstinate refusal to deal with reality.”

Deflategate WAS massively overblown, but the part where most Pats fans go awry is that they literally can’t admit that Belichick and Brady don’t ever bend the rules to their breaking point*. I loved how suddenly every Southie with an 8th grade education was an expert on the Ideal Gas Law; or how in Spygate they…

I can’t believe you went into an article about how Pats fans are unbearable when challenged and proved it less than 20 minutes after the article came up

“Interested to see what DC’s move here is.”

I never said it was THE solution, it is part of the solution. It’s also protection, saying or reporting “I have reported this man to the police for rape” is not slanderous, and would be very difficult to make a case of, saying “this guy raped me” without that police report and without evidence does potentially become…

Yet it’s true, it’s a massive problem for police forces almost everywhere and in a lot of western countries they have even had media campaigns to try and increase reporting rates.

It’s not a lot. Saying it’s a lot is a total misrepresentation of the statistics. The vast majority of police officers will never commit a crime in their entire service.

Yes, you don’t report it for a guarantee, justice doesn’t work that way. But if you don’t report it you are part of the problem not part of the solution and you sacrifice legal protections.

What statistics, sure I believe them, also background checks specific to work in high risk groups in many countries highlight any reports made against you just not convictions.

Police have limited resources, processing bulk forensic evidence for the vague change it may match an existing record isn’t really a responsible use of resources, that’s more a political issue not a police one. They will always ask every detail, it’s important to the case. And context is important to the prosecution,…

You know who you can never be sued reporting a sexual crime to. THE POLICE! File a police report and let someone else report that, you can never be sued by another private individual for a police report and no journalist can be sued for reporting on a filed police report/investigation.

That’s fair. He just reminds me of a few people I’ve known who put on these “look at how wacky I am” acts.

I’m not opposed to someone having fun on the show. His idea of fun was something that I found annoying, though. I don’t have anything against the guy or anything. He was a good player who earned his wins and he seems like a decent guy. But that doesn’t mean I can’t find him annoying.

You take each and every story by anonymous internet commenters at face value? Ohkeee.

I might not be a reasonable attitude from YOUR point of view, but from MY point of view it’s an understandable one.

Good for you and I’m sure can vouch for any other woman as well. Oh, you can’t? Hm...

That’s what everyone said to the Duke Lacrosse team, or the UVA frat guys, or Conor Oberst or the Central Park Five, or.... When you’re innocent, nothing bad can happen to you. Right?

Nobody has broken into my home yet. Does that mean locking the door is just irrational fear of ‘hypothetical’ burglars? OK.

It takes one person and one false claim. That’s all.