Dan

the point was that you can dilute a word enough that it can become bland.

one describes the group of people (along with Stalin Russian) that killed millions of people, and tried to take over the world. The other is a racist comment about someone.

While neither is a good word to throw around willy nilly (which was my point) what the nazi's did is far worse than calling someone the "n" word.

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mediocre man

Actually Nazi is the epitomy of racial term. As in they tried to kill an entire race. You have a lot of growing up to do. I feel bad for you, your children and anyone who has the misfortune to be influenced by your hateful words.

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Dan

thanks, again, for proving my point.

so now if you give someone enough rope, they'll call you a closet homo, a bush lover who's a drama queen loving nazi who needs to grow up and is a fatty.

way to go!

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sa1177

A drama queen is someone who pisses and moans because their silly post about a actresses physical atributes is deleted. And keeps whining and crying, whining and crying.

Here is a tip: Get off the reefer and grow up and enter the real world.

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blue32

sigh....okay, okay. I understand what you're trying to say, I feel the same way all along. However, my point is, he was using an analogy for the situation in regards to the "control" aspect.....bah nevermind....

It's_GO_Time

I get your point. Media uses the word all the time to suggest control, but how can you argue with posters that want to make using the word sound like you support the the elimination of a race. Not a battle you can win . . . in fact I think I'll go take a shower now for even making a Seinfeld reference to the word.

chevelle

Damn, you need to grow up dude.

In your thread asking why your original thread was closed down, I was trying to back you up a little but you are really immature. Just because you don't get your way, do you always start throwing out insults like a 6 year old?

I don't think that there are cliques around this forum but there are people who have known each other for quite some time now from past message boards. Naturally, they are more friendly to each other because of that. That is not necessarily a clique, though.

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Dan

no harm, no foul. you do understand tho, why someone who studied history a lot might get offended (and insulted by the lack of knowledge) when they're called a "nazi", right?

or how by comparison, it's a bit of a stretch to compare someone enforcing the rules of the site to a nazi (or even if you sugar coast it and say facist). There are rules that you're supposed to abide by, which despite what some of you think about it..there are actual rules you have to follow. While sometimes it looks like we don't get every single violation, we try our best. You guys do realize that there are a LOT of posts on this board, and that even WITH 4-5 mods/cm's for the board, things get over looked, right?

Even if it looks like we're playing favortism, we don't. Most of the time I doubt any of us notice who's name it is who we're editting. Just those who get editted more are probably the ones who do things that have to be editted more, and want to complain about it.

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Backboard Cam

The clique is mainly Hap Shilly & Howie (recent clue: one of Hap's questions for the Brian Wheeler interview asked if those three could be invited to a Blazers practice). These guys have apparently known each other for a while, and for some strange reason they have similar typos a lot.

I'm not saying that to attack any of those three, and like I mentioned before I don't think a clique is a bad thing. That sort of thing just happens. If this forum was a restaurant or bar, after a while some people that are there a lot will start always sitting at the same table.

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tlong

So I guess Seinfeld was ignorant for naming one of the shows "The Soup Nazi"? Yeah right.

sa1177

Isn't Seinfeld Jewish? If he is doesn't that make it somewhat acceptable for him to use the term in a joking manner?

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sa1177

Agreed those guys are obviously friends but I certainly don't feel their friendships have created any type of "clique" atmosphere from which the rest of us are excluded. I have seen many a post where Schilly disagrees with Hap or Howie disagrees with Schilly or Hap disagrees with Howie etc. It's not like it's some uniform group trying to take over the board.

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Utherhimo

seinfeld was one of the worst shows ever created

there is some called rules that every user agreed to when we signed up to post on the board and we have to follow them or this board will turn in garbage like the olive board.

its that easy.

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