Your comment was cynical, but I can understand why. I was thinking about the alligator situation when I was reading this thread, before you brought it up. This young guy’s death is incredibly sad. It’s also incredibly sad how quick people are to attribute blame to the “stupidity” of the people involved rather than the…

Yes. My point was that there are plenty of articles about non-famous people suffering similar fates, and we laugh, make clever comments. My point was this is a death that hurts because we ‘knew’ the guy, and knew he was not normally a moron worthy of Isadora Duncan jokes. I was feeling remorse for what I, myself, had…

If you believe that, then go back and read the comments about Heath Ledger’s death. Hell, read the recent comments about the poor parents who lost their kid to an alligator.

I’m not a troll. I just have a good memory. I’m not saying he should’ve been smarter—accidents happen and it’s awful. I’m saying there have been many posts across Gawker Media over the years dismissing such things as funny. I have a memory—I don’t actually need to go looking for those posts. I was commenting on some…

You must be kidding. There are plenty of ‘wow, can you believe how this idiot died’ posts on all of GM sites. K thanks.

I wouldn’t say that. ‘Of note’ isn’t much different, and my point stands: we do tend to ridicule people on here for being lesser than famous people when it comes to injury and mortality. True, words matter. But to dismiss a point because of a poor word choice is unfortunate.

There are plenty of stories to come. Keep hitting delete.

That’s not my point, she insinuated that there was no one else stepping up to do it so if she had ideas or thoughts about who else would be good for the roll why not speak up instead of pretending like she was doing everyone a service by “making it happen”

the Braves are moving out of Atlanta to the suburbs because people were complaining about too many black people at the baseball games and not enough white people. The stadium is fine, nothing to do with the Olympics.

I attended an SBC back in the 60s and 70s. Back then, they considered abortion and birth control to be private matters between husbands, wives, and doctors. They also did not have issues with women working outside the home. Spanking was accepted, but considered a last resort.

She can apparently play an Asian dude, though.

Fuck hulk hogan. He’s a racist piece of shit and decided to go after others to make up for the small dick he has from using steroids. I use to like Peter theil but he’s a pussy for funding other people’s wars. Freedom of speech bitches.

Maybe, but that only came out once he was out of the league, and he was never charged for it. He just kind of faded away. I don’t think it’s apples to apples comparison.

I really think we’re talking apples and oranges here.

Jamarcus Russell was also the #1 overall pick and had significantly more tools associated with good NFL QBs than Manziel does. The more talent one has, the longer they tend to last. And Russell’s habits were definitely not as known by the media. He wasn’t showing up on social media at parties every other night. If he…

The Raiders once sent JaMarcus home with a practise DVD, asked him how it was/what he thought about it, and he responded by talking about how great it was - even though they’d given him a totally blank DVD.

I’m talking about the draft. Manziel’s behavior has gone on too long to be ignored. Leading up to the draft there was certain criticism but it was heavily tempered as a maturity issue, or just what normal college guys did.

As dumb as Manziel? Manziel is an alcoholic fuckup (with pending DV charges) who drank his way out of the league. Jamarcus was just a shitty QB who was lucky enough to be drafted by Zombie Al Davis, who thought having a “big arm” was more valuable than actual QB skills. I don’t see how the two are really comparable.

Louis I’m glad you’re willing to come out and say that black athletes are treated differently. And a Manziel-like black QB would have been lambasted long before Manziel actually was. That said, Winston is a rapist. Fuck him

Because there were no stringed instruments indigenous to Africa?!?!