And their recent bent toward "flashy" content. Fluff, salacious crap, total unreadable nonsense.

But when a sportscaster spends an inordinate amount of time screaming about how much Indiana sucks just because reasons, it's HI-LARIOUS?

As employees walked into work, the reporter asked if they knew why they weren't getting paid. For a few 38 staffers, this was news. They weren't getting paid? Really? Was this some sort of mistake? A clerical error? The end of the world? What the hell was going on?

The numbers tell them they're in the right. Go read Fifty Shades of Grey, go read a lot of the reader reviews of it, check out all the women who are falling all over themselves to see it done in film, and see why they think this type of very dubious dubcon sells.

This wasn't just "some dude." He was a community manager— someone whose entire job it is to be the online face of the company. If you are your company's online face and you decide to wade into controversial topics with your own opinion, you are knowingly walking on hot coals and hoping not to get burned. If you…

The guy was the owner, so he didn't have to worry about that. If this were an elaborate prank that took all day to pull off, then I could see your point. But it took less time than most people take for a smoke break, so who cares? It's not like they're playing hockey on top of the convenience store building.

"Kiss the rings"? What are you, a fucking mafia don? I love when people say this like they personally had something to do with winning a championship.

LOLOLOL YOU MEAN PEOPLE CARE ABOUT LANDLOCKED STATES? Hyurrrr. Guys, it's so funny to mock people who live in the middle of the country because... wait, no, there's actually no legitimate reason to think it's funny.

The low-number lotteries have been going on for quite some time. Is it really easier to assume that the laws were changed than to assume this is one of the established, documented three-digit plates issued as part of the state lottery? I'm not sure how that makes me an idiot. I am, however, sure that this…

The state of Massachusetts does not allow you to request plates in this format. Custom plates CANNOT FIT THIS FORMAT. If you try to ask for a plate in this format on their website, it TELLS YOU NO.

Except, if you read the entire article, your contention IS nonsense, because no one "got away" with anything. This is a randomly generated low-number plate drawn by lottery. This is the crap I have a problem with— people making some random car owner into a rape-loving villain without any kind of research,…

Is there any room for middle ground? I don't particularly care to be "one of the boys," but I think it's wrong to look for a "bad guy" in the license plate situation, particularly once more information came to light— information that could have been easily sussed out before commenters called the car owner a creep,…

"Not exactly sure what else R8P could stand for" is what gave me the feeling, from the article, like folks thought this was intentional, along with "a personalized vanity plate," indicating someone had chosen to do this. The pieces the author found about vanity plates came later. It may have been me reading between…

My frustration is that this isn't posed— by the original poster or by this article— as "I can't believe no one saw this and drummed it out of circulation before the plate was imprinted" or "I hope to God this isn't intentional," it's being treated as a totally intentional affront, and one that the state is…

I didn't change what I said in the post. My post has been the same since I put it up.

Yeah, but the second part of what I said, particularly "actual, validated, confirmable" would seem to indicate that I don't think this actually says rape. I'm not dismissing it because a license plate is unimportant, I'm dismissing it because it's highly unlikely that's what it is, and spending time on "highly…

The only way this license plate is definitely a symptom of a bigger problem is that the reaction of some folks to it demonstrates that, in our world as it is today, it's not unbelievable that someone would try to convey "rape" via license plate.

True. I can't tell if it's shopped or not, as I'm on a crappy monitor— if it is, then the original poster needs to be slapped, since she's also tweeted it to MassDOT, local newscasters, and a host of other folks she thinks she can drum up.

Or, inconceivably, "he" could be a "she" and it could mean something else entirely, since R-ate-P makes no freaking sense.

"But, I don't see any way this plate could possibly mean anything else... Which is both sad, and disgusting."