Post Race!

[dday9]

He's the child molester from Penn State

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah.

@Niya, you can probably look him up, but he was an assistant coach at Penn State, a major university in the US, and is now serving a very long sentence for sexually molesting boys. It was quite an infamous case a few years back. So, anybody who uses that name is not using it by accident. They are either supporters of the person (there are a few who believe he was innocent despite numerous accusations and observed actions), or they agree with his actions, or they don't. In the latter case, the name is not one that they would be using if they had any intention of sticking around for any length of time, as it is clearly an albatross about the neck.

[dday9]

(there are a few who believe he was innocent despite numerous accusations and observed actions)

The evidence was pretty clearly against him, I can't see why anyone would think otherwise.

Now I really don't think the actions against Joe Paterno were acceptable. He did report Sandusky to his supervisor, but he didn't report Sandusky to the police. Even Paterno has regrets for not going to the police...

[Niya]

Yeah.

@Niya, you can probably look him up, but he was an assistant coach at Penn State, a major university in the US, and is now serving a very long sentence for sexually molesting boys. It was quite an infamous case a few years back. So, anybody who uses that name is not using it by accident. They are either supporters of the person (there are a few who believe he was innocent despite numerous accusations and observed actions), or they agree with his actions, or they don't. In the latter case, the name is not one that they would be using if they had any intention of sticking around for any length of time, as it is clearly an albatross about the neck.

I see. In any case, I think its a bit overkill to ban someone for using such a handle. How many people would actually know who that is ? I didn't.

[dday9]

I didn't ban him for that reason.

[Shaggy Hiker]

People are weird. I heard that Timothy McVeigh received several marriage proposals while he was on death row. If that is true, then there really isn't much that can be said about the human race other than: The diversity is amazing. After all, just where could such a relationship lead?

As for Joe Paterno, I was surprised at how thoroughly he was dethroned over the whole incident. I've always figured that there must be more to it than what bits I heard out in Idaho. I realize that Penn State is a world unto itself like few universities in the country. Emotions run pretty high over that place and its football. I assume that had I been there, immersed in all the news that must have been coming out in print, rumor mill, blogosphere, and every other possible way real or imagined, that there must have been some kind of concensus that his failing was worse than what I heard. It may not even have been fair, but there must have been a total, public, firestorm around him. It may have been driven by rumor and falsehoods, but the result is pretty clear: Deserved or not, he lost the faith of his followers like few others in recent memory. Heck, they took down his statue.

[dday9]

I can't really go over the reasoning's for a moderator/admin banning somebody, but take it at my word that it was done justly.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, sharpen your finger, I think he's back.

I realize he wasn't banned because of his name. My point was that anybody who is using that name didn't choose it at random, nor is it likely to be their nickname (better not be), or some pet name. In short, I think it would be an example of a disposable name from a person who didn't expect to linger.

Then I noticed that he signed up last December and managed not to get banned until yesterday. Still, you have a new report, and will get to decide again.

[FunkyDexter]

I have a feeling that he'll probably create a new username to get around the ban.

I don't suppose you know what next weeks lottery numbers are do you?

I suspect the choice of name was just sick childish humour more than anything else. Given the sorts of questions he was asking I think he was probably just the sort who thought it was funny.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The Post Race has fallen several slots down, so I had to add something while waiting for Jerry Sandusky to return from pergatory.

[Gruff]

Not following. What do you mean by "fallen several slots down"?

[dday9]

It's fallen from being the first thread in the Chit-Chat.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I don't see any point in being precise in my terminology in this thread. After all, if I did see a point in anything in this thread, then perhaps I had found the needle in this haystack.

[dday9]

The post race is the point of life I thought.

[Shaggy Hiker]

A blunt point, at best.

[dday9]

[dday9]

I can't do 15k of

[dday9]

I suppose I'm ing it up

[Shaggy Hiker]

15k of spam would be awful. Heck, just doing 144 would be gross enough.

[Gruff]

And here I thought Post Race was just an area for blithering nimrods to blather.

I said to myself. "Hey I'm nimrod and blatantly full of blithe blather and bluster."

[dday9]

Hey I'm nimrod and blatantly full of blithe blather and bluster

Try saying that with Novocain in your gums. That'll sound funny!

[Gruff]

"Heyuh m a nembmod n bmabantee fum of bmith bmathah n bmustah."

[Shaggy Hiker]

It'll look kind of funny, too.

[Gruff]

Are 'gummy' bears in the food pyramid for those who've had their teeth removed?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I thought those were just elderly bears.

[homer13j]

Are 'gummy' bears in the food pyramid for those who've had their teeth removed?

I believe that's the first time I've ever encountered the words "gummy bears" and "food" in the same sentence.

[Gruff]

Bright colored artificially flavored gelatin. Mmmmm yum..

[Gruff]

Went to the Gobel warming party in Gobel Oregon.
Worked up a sweat.

[Gruff]

Took a trip to Gladstone Oregon.
Found a few rocks that pleased me.

[Gruff]

Visited Boring Oregon.
(Need I say more?)

[Shaggy Hiker]

I may have been to boring OR, but I slept through it.

What rocks pleased you? Are you a rock-hound?

[Gruff]

I was a rock collector (and fossil a hound) in my youth.
Gave it up when my closet weighed more than my car.

In any case I move too much these days to be carting around that kind of stuff.

[homer13j]

I may have been to boring OR, but I slept through it.

I recently visited the town of Milford, but I didn't see a single MILF.

[Gruff]

Used to live East of West Linn Oregon, but we didn't call it East Linn.

[Gruff]

Went to Bend Oregon to straighten some things out.

[Gruff]

Dammed up for some time in Beaverton Oregon.

[Gruff]

Believe it or not there are no falls in Klamath Falls Oregon.

[Gruff]

Wasn't a bit merry in Sherwood Oregon.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Did you have Sherry in Merwood?

[dday9]

"It's pronounced Cherie!"