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Curt Schilling is awesome

CantStandYa said:
I follow beat writers for sports teams, a few bloggers, and comedians. Oh and bands/musicians for tour announcements. Don't think I've ever actually tweeted though.
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This is how a normal person uses twitter.
 
I can teach you guys about Twitter. Let's say you create a computer game that's so shitty that it almost crashes Rhode Island's economy. You really ruffled a lot of feathers. What the fuck do you do next? Well, one thing you can do is hop on Twitter and tell Charles Darwin that he's a fucking assclown and that his goddamn theories are worth less than a pile of dogshit.

Might that ruffle a few more feathers? Sure. BUT that's where we get to the beauty of Twitter: There are always even worse people out there, worse people than you, worse people than me, there's even worse people than Curt Schilling. And those people can pop out at a moment's notice to tweet at a stranger about banging his teenage daughter. Then that guy can respond, say pretty much anything, and come out smelling like a rose. And just like that, voila, he has message boards threads about how awesome he is. It's like I've always said: The easiest way to look good is to surround yourself with horrible, horrible people, the scum of the earth if at all possible. And Twitter not only makes it possible, it makes it as easy as typing 3 sentences about your high school daughter. Simple as that, yesterday's ignoramus is today's hero. And that's what makes Twitter beautiful. Amen.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
This is how a normal person uses twitter.
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This normal person just hangs out here and waits for you all to post the stuff you get from Twitter.
 
CDeacMan said:
Probably starting to become pretty #OWG, but I don't have any problems with this. If people had their personal information next to everything they posted on the Internet it would be a much better place. And yes I do realize the irony going on here so thanks in advance to whoever was going to point it out.
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When did bobknightfan steal your login? ;)
 
WakeandBake said:
What would be the purpose of posting that about your daughter for the entire internet to see? I'm not following. Its just like a "look at me" thing?
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Congrats. You now understand twitter.
 
I mean, that's all of social media. Why do people post anything on facebook?
 
ChrisPaul3 said:
I can teach you guys about Twitter. Let's say you create a computer game that's so shitty that it almost crashes Rhode Island's economy. You really ruffled a lot of feathers. What the fuck do you do next? Well, one thing you can do is hop on Twitter and tell Charles Darwin that he's a fucking assclown and that his goddamn theories are worth less than a pile of dogshit.

Might that ruffle a few more feathers? Sure. BUT that's where we get to the beauty of Twitter: There are always even worse people out there, worse people than you, worse people than me, there's even worse people than Curt Schilling. And those people can pop out at a moment's notice to tweet at a stranger about banging his teenage daughter. Then that guy can respond, say pretty much anything, and come out smelling like a rose. And just like that, voila, he has message boards threads about how awesome he is. It's like I've always said: The easiest way to look good is to surround yourself with horrible, horrible people, the scum of the earth if at all possible. And Twitter not only makes it possible, it makes it as easy as typing 3 sentences about your high school daughter. Simple as that, yesterday's ignoramus is today's hero. And that's what makes Twitter beautiful. Amen.
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Bravo! That's a quality post. I would have titled this thread "Schilling finds a few schmucks that, incredibly enough, are even more awful than he is" (which may be more characters than is allowed).

There is no athlete I'm more ambivalent about than Schilling. On the one hand, he was truly a great pitcher and played a critical role in breaking "the curse". On the other hand... all that stuff quoted above, except add the hypocrisy of claiming to be an Objectivitist that just wants gubmint to get the hell out of his way, except "Oops, my game is indeed shitty and I'm a terrible manager so RI, on top of the tax breaks you gave me, (which governments should do for a real life John Galt like me) I need some bailout money. Thanks guys!"
 
PhDeac said:
ITT a guy who posts about his newborn baby at least 5 times a day looks down on another dad posting about his kid on the internet.
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this board is anonymous and limited in audience. and hey I haven't posted about him in forever :cool:
 
leftcoastdeac said:
Meh; I think he's a sys admin or development manager - his job knowledge isn't impacted by his lack of knowledge of twitter. It's not like he's a marketing or social media director.
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Thank you leftcoastdeac. Infrastructure Manager. I work for a living you twitter softies
 
DeacHead said:
Bravo! That's a quality post. I would have titled this thread "Schilling finds a few schmucks that, incredibly enough, are even more awful than he is" (which may be more characters than is allowed).

There is no athlete I'm more ambivalent about than Schilling. On the one hand, he was truly a great pitcher and played a critical role in breaking "the curse". On the other hand... all that stuff quoted above, except add the hypocrisy of claiming to be an Objectivitist that just wants gubmint to get the hell out of his way, except "Oops, my game is indeed shitty and I'm a terrible manager so RI, on top of the tax breaks you gave me, (which governments should do for a real life John Galt like me) I need some bailout money. Thanks guys!"
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Anyone wanna guess as to what any of this means?
 
TownieDeac said:
some people use it that way, especially YOUTHS

but it's a great news medium or way to put all your news sources together and read headlines all at once (like an RSS feed) and choose what to read from there

there are also lots of clever people on it

i don't really follow celebs, athletes, ppl who just want to post about what they had for breakfast, etc.
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But Embiid doe.

Schilling is awesome at drawing on socks with red markers.
 
It's funny as shit. Those asshats got what they deserved. If more people thought there were real world consequences to the ridiculous shit they say, maybe they wouldn't say them. It's not like they were just talking shit about his daughter. They were talking shit to him about his daughter. They're lucky he isn't true Philly or else they would've woken up at the bottom of a river somewhere with some concrete boots.
 
Schilling is the fucking worst, independent of this story. Fuck that guy.
 
Ralph Medlin said:
It's Twitter, what does he expect?


How about congratulating your daughter at a gathering of family and friends...
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ImTheCaptain said:
"oh it's the internet, that's just the way it is"

i don't get that mindset
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TownieDeac said:
go look at the first ten replies to any post of any celebrity on twitter
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Coach O said:
Welcome to the story. This happens ALL the time, and in the Schilling story, two people were actually held accountable for their comments and suffered actual consequences.
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So, this kind of stuff gets posted on the twitter of say 5 star football recruits who accept scholarships to major FB schools? Perhaps, to add to the celebrity, they happen to be children of (retired) NFL stars? and that happens all the time?

These guys were just cyberbullying a young woman and got called out on it. Too many people hide behind anonymity on the interwebs and social media and post garbage.
 
Surprising amount of victim blaming here.
"Why was he posting about his daughter - it's look at me stuff" sounds kinda like the "what was she doing wearing that?" in the social media world.
 
yes, except that schilling is lady gaga in this analogy.
 
VaDeac said:
Surprising amount of victim blaming here.
"Why was he posting about his daughter - it's look at me stuff" sounds kinda like the "what was she doing wearing that?" in the social media world.
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fair enough. But being a polarizing celebrity and posting something to the entire world (not a tiny anonymous members-only message board ph) and then getting butthurt that a bunch of dorks who spend their entire day jerking off to fisting porn and flaming random people on the internet were vile and disgusting seems pretty fucking stupid to me.

Just tell your friends and family that she got the scholarship and enjoy it as a family. Now it has been sullied for no quantifiable gain. What did he expect to gain from posting such a thing to the world?
 
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