Dare we...

[Northern Star]

...have a politics thread?

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

I'm pretty sure the mods are allergic to politics.

[User Name]

For the love of God, no.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Lol posters here aren't even mature enough to not take shots at each other. Please don't bring politics around, ever.

[VA Sox Fan]

It would end up with locked threads and banned posters. That's appropriate for another forum. Not this one. Good idea/try though.

 

Plus there is SO MUCH baseball to talk about now and the season is almost over. Time f***ing flies for me these days. Just glad to have baseball for another month or so.

 

NFL starts soon.....uggghhhhhhh......

[Northern Star]

It would end up with locked threads and banned posters. That's appropriate for another forum. Not this one. Good idea/try though.

 

Plus there is SO MUCH baseball to talk about now and the season is almost over. Time f***ing flies for me these days. Just glad to have baseball for another month or so.

 

NFL starts soon.....uggghhhhhhh......

 

What you basically mean is YOU would get banned. LOL

[Emmz]

Just make one and find out. I can already tell you, someone's going to criticize Obama, and several members will lose their s*** over it.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Yeah, no. Go ahead and search for the user "NateGrey" and see why.

[a700hitter]

Just make one and find out. I can already tell you, someone's going to criticize Obama, and several members will lose their s*** over it.

There's no sport in arguing over a lame duck.

[VA Sox Fan]

What you basically mean is YOU would get banned. LOL

 

Not at all. I've never been banned.

[mvp 78]

If you're really itching to talk about non-baseball related stuff like politics and religion, just sign up for an account on reddit.

 

How horrible would a "Reagan was the most overrated president ever" post be? People get all pissy just discussing music around here.

 

Though a "Teddy Roosevelt: most bad ass politician ever" post would be the best.

[Bellhorn04]

Also check out the Boston Globe politics forum. If you want some wild and woolly action, that's the place. It's the Combat Zone of online forums.

[Youk Of The Nation]

If you're really itching to talk about non-baseball related stuff like politics and religion, just sign up for an account on reddit.

 

How horrible would a "Reagan was the most overrated president ever" post be? People get all pissy just discussing music around here.

 

Though a "Teddy Roosevelt: most bad ass politician ever" post would be the best.

 

I don't think anyone could disagree with that, and even if they did, their choice would be Andrew Jackson, and the discussion would still be enjoyable.

[User Name]

I don't think anyone could disagree with that, and even if they did, their choice would be Andrew Jackson, and the discussion would still be enjoyable.

 

It probably wouldn't be, because the Roosevelt fanboys would probably get all butthurt at the mere idea that someone could be as bad-ass as Teddy. For further illustration about how such a discussion would go, refer to the comments section of any Roosevelt-related article at cracked.com. The troll-fu is strong with most of those posters.

[Emmz]

Andrew Jackson was just a cold hard motherf***er. Teddy Roosevelt was a bad ass dude.

[Youk Of The Nation]

It probably wouldn't be, because the Roosevelt fanboys would probably get all butthurt at the mere idea that someone could be as bad-ass as Teddy. For further illustration about how such a discussion would go, refer to the comments section of any Roosevelt-related article at cracked.com. The troll-fu is strong with most of those posters.

 

I never read the comments sections on any website, including Cracked, anymore. They're awful.

[User Name]

I never read the comments sections on any website, including Cracked, anymore. They're awful.

 

You can find some gems in there though. But in general, yes, comment sections are awful. Especially youtube. f*** youtube.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Youtube is almost unreadable. I don't mean unreadable as in disagreeable, I mean unreadable as in approaching a level of illiteracy on par with a drunken three-year old. I once tried to read the comments section under a couple videos of the moon landings, and holy s***.

[User Name]

And it's painful in other languages too.

 

You know why? Because f*** spelling and grammar, that's why.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Well other languages suck. English is the best. If it was good enough for Jesus and George Washington, then by God it's good enough for all of you brown people.

[User Name]

English kinda sucks. And Jesus didn't talk, he just multiplied bread and turned water into wine.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Yahoo comments are the absolute worst of them all.

[VA Sox Fan]

Well other languages suck. English is the best. If it was good enough for Jesus and George Washington, then by God it's good enough for all of you brown people.

 

I don't think Jesus spoke English. Of course he understood it because, after all, he was Jesus.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I don't think Jesus spoke English. Of course he understood it because, after all, he was Jesus.

 

Yeah, I don't actually believe that. Language is wonderful. All of them, even Lojban and Esperanto and Klingon.

[Northern Star]

Did someone mention moon landings?

 

I admire his restraint

[Northern Star]

I don't think Jesus spoke English. Of course he understood it because, after all, he was Jesus.

 

Of course he did. He was a true (white) American, just like us.

[Youk Of The Nation]

That is the second-coolest thing that Buzz Aldrin ever did. I've seen that video a thousand times and it never fails to make me smile. He had some pop for an old guy, too. The only thing that would have been better is if Collins showed up to curb-stomp him and then Armstrong f***ed his girlfriend.

[Northern Star]

That is the second-coolest thing that Buzz Aldrin ever did. I've seen that video a thousand times and it never fails to make me smile. He had some pop for an old guy, too. The only thing that would have been better is if Collins showed up to curb-stomp him and then Armstrong f***ed his girlfriend.

 

I refuse to watch it any more, because as soon as the f*** starts speaking, my hand forms a fist and starts itching to punch something.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I refuse to watch it any more, because as soon as the f*** starts speaking, my hand forms a fist and starts itching to punch something.

 

It's tough for me, too. Not only the disrespect for Aldrin, and by extension Armstrong and Collins, not just the disrespect of choosing to air your lunatic conspiracy interview in that particular forum (an ambush outside of a hotel), but the disrespect for science. For the incredible accomplishments in engineering and physics and so many other branches of science that contributed to the single greatest achievement in human history. There are hundreds of thousands of physicists, mathematicians, engineers, biologists, chemists, astrophysicists, geologists, botanists, hell, even psychologists and sociologists, working every day to, literally, help us understand the universe. There is absolutely no greater calling in the world. And then morons like this come in and just f***ing suck all of the wonderment out of it for you by taking your thoughts away from it and turning them to "man, I wonder how many hours it would take in a centrifuge to kill this guy".

[Northern Star]

and turning them to "man, I wonder how many hours it would take in a centrifuge to kill this guy".