Comments | detonate_for_me: Ride, ride, ride, ride... Ride 'em, Cowboys, right down the field!

detonate_for_me

Ride, ride, ride, ride... Ride 'em, Cowboys, right down the field!

Sep 16, 2005 10:26

There's another home football game tomorrow night, yay!

gonadsandstrife thinks football is stupid ( Read more... )

dumbasses, football, osu

Comments 7

monsterofmud September 16 2005, 16:21:06 UTC

Maybe that line proves he is one (in the backwoods-sense, not in the university-affiliation sense)!

tj_o_pootertoot September 16 2005, 18:17:32 UTC

Ah, leave the guy alone. As 'the guy who wrote "it's" instead of "its" I have sympathy for the occassionally grammatically incorrect.

And, hey! What about all these rappers that can't spell? Snoop Doggy Dogg aka Snoop aka D "Double" G aka Snoop Dogg aka (I Don't know) Snoop Diggity D. And what about T Pac and Coolio...oh and don't forget about Dre (I had to put that in).

Are they also dumbasses? I'm not sure they know the correct usage of the English language...and more so, don't care.

detonate_for_me September 16 2005, 19:27:07 UTC

Are they also dumbasses?

Some of them. Not Snoop, though. Or Dre.

anonymous September 16 2005, 19:16:34 UTC

"of" is a more phonetically accurate orthographic realization of that word than the standardized English version "have" :-P

I have some degree of sympathy for advocates of such spelling reforms. Noah Webster would of as well. But then, I call it "standardized English", and I think it should be taught as a rhetorical tool and contextualized with an introduction to descriptive grammar and the class politics that surround dialect prejudice. So maybe I'm out in left field on this.

doh lo5an September 16 2005, 19:19:40 UTC

I just accidentally posted an anonymous comment.
Somehow, I lost my cookie :-)

Re: doh detonate_for_me September 16 2005, 19:26:14 UTC

I have some degree of sympathy as well, and usually I'm the one frowning at the grammar nazis. (The rant about "its" vs. "it's" in the preceding entry is only there because it's fun to pick on Dan.)

Linguistics r rad!!! If people understand what you're trying to say, you're communicating successfully.

Nonetheless, wearing that phrase on a t-shirt makes you look like an idiot.

gonadsandstrife September 16 2005, 23:22:43 UTC

I don't think football is dumb, I think the CULTURE OF FOOTBALL is dumb. The worshipping of it, the making an ass of oneself over it, the way it permeates & pervades everything.

I want to have a nice dinner. Sorry! Can't get out! Football traffic!
I want to watch Enterprise. Sorry! Preempted by football!
I want to have a nice quiet night at home. Sorry! Gotta chant "WE ARE!! PENN STATE!!" or "E-A-G-L-E-S!! EAGLES!!!"

I understand tribalism & "wanting to belong," understand it better than probably 90% of people. But it goes too far. It's too much. And it's too discriminatory.

I talk about war & battles & I'm looked upon like a freak. They discuss games & matchups & "fantasy teams" & the like & it's "all good fun." WHAT'S THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE?!? NONE, except that with war, there's no fucking excuses or veneers. So.