"Happy Endings" controversy

[martinb]

Bowling started to hit the skids shortly after Fred Flintstone picked up the game. Jeez, real bowlers don't walk on their toes! Talk about your misrepresentations. Aaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh. Come to think of it, Don Drysdale was washed up not too long after visiting Greg Brady. Coincidence? I don't think so. Sit-coms have some powerful cultural mojo, it seems.

oh, this is so true!!!! hollywood is out to get us, its not just disc golf but theyve been slandering all kinds of sports throughout the years....
remember jimmy demaret? 3 time masters golf champion, who was on the i love lucy show... thats right youve never heard of him because he NEVER WON ANOTHER MAJOR GOLF TOURNAMENT AFTER THAT!! and golf has never been the same since.....harlem globetrotters cartoon 1970-1973, the demise of the ABA, remember those mulitcolored basketballs? thats right.... and now they are coming after disc golf, for shame i say, for shame....

[jsun3thousand]

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Tru dat. Those same publicity people are spooked (or maybe they just have a burr in their heads) about the dark picture of the game that has been portrayed by the sitcom. I suppose they'll just have to niggardly accept the fact that ABC reneged on its "assurance" not to mockingly ape the game, though.

Am I missing some kind of stupid inside joke or is completely ok to fill a post full of racial slurs? And then hilight them in brown? Whether or not you're trying to prove a point is irrelevant. Keep the racist bullshit to yourself.

settle down, donnie. vegan ray is a lot of horrible things but a racist isn't one of them.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc ... nding.html

http://whyy.org/blogs/itsourcity/2009/0 ... relations/

[sunspot]

What do you mean "them" people?

[juju]

What do you mean "them" people?

I think he meant vegans...god help them.

[himynameismatt]

Regardless of VR's "reputation" this a disc golf message board. I still fail to see why his post and the language used in it were necessary at all. Someone please feel free to enlighten me I guess I just don't get it.

[mobster]

Regardless of VR's "reputation" this a disc golf message board. I still fail to see why his post and the language used in it were necessary at all. Someone please feel free to enlighten me I guess I just don't get it.

Every family has that drunk uncle who shows up to family things and ruins it...

[Triflusal]

Regardless of VR's "reputation" this a disc golf message board. I still fail to see why his post and the language used in it were necessary at all. Someone please feel free to enlighten me I guess I just don't get it.

did you read those links?

also, each of those words are real words and he used all of them properly

[7ontheline]

Regardless of VR's "reputation" this a disc golf message board. I still fail to see why his post and the language used in it were necessary at all. Someone please feel free to enlighten me I guess I just don't get it.

did you read those links?

If it hadn't been for VR's blatant, in your face, racially charged words then I wouldn't have cared enough to read everyone's take on that particular comment and come to my own conclusion of what happened. So in a twisted way, VR... wait he's twisted so he's on his own.

I will say that words DO hurt.

[MIdiscgolfer]

Regardless of VR's "reputation" this a disc golf message board. I still fail to see why his post and the language used in it were necessary at all. Someone please feel free to enlighten me I guess I just don't get it.

did you read those links?

If it hadn't been for VR's blatant, in your face, racially charged words then I wouldn't have cared enough to read everyone's take on that particular comment and come to my own conclusion of what happened. So in a twisted way, VR... wait he's twisted so he's on his own.

I will say that words DO hurt.

I don't think you understand the meaning of the word niggardly. I sounds a lot like a racial slur but it has absolutely no connection whatsoever.
The most commonly speculated origin is Scandanavian nig/Old Norse hnoggr, meaning miserly.

nig·gard·ly
   [nig-erd-lee] Show IPA

adjective
1.
reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.

2.
meanly or ungenerously small or scanty: a niggardly tip to a waiter.

adverb
3.
in the manner of a niggard.

[Triflusal]

i do many things in the manner of a niggard

[jenb]

that was so stupid! lol!

[7ontheline]

I think "niggardly" served VR's intended purpose due to my misinterpertation.

Thanks for the vocabulary lesson but the damage had already been done. Afterall, that is the point of this ignorant thread.

[veganray]

Man, there are some dumb motherfuckers in this world.

[biscgolf]

true that.

[TOURNEYPLAYER]

Man, there are some dumb motherfuckers in this forum.

there you go.