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mister d wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:29 pm Iginla seemed like a pretty boring dude, no? Subban is ideal but its the NHL so its Patrick Kane or no one.
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It's a shame he's not a good player because Ryan Reaves' personality is pretty great.
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brian wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:36 pm It's a shame he's not a good player because Ryan Reaves' personality is pretty great.
Yeah, remember when Reaves wore a picture of the Michael Jackson album cover, with Phil Kessel's face photoshopped in? That was funny.

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mister d wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:29 pm Iginla seemed like a pretty boring dude, no? Subban is ideal but its the NHL so its Patrick Kane or no one.
He was a nice, classy guy for sure but I saw him in enough commercials here to see his personality.
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degenerasian wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 1:05 pm
mister d wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:29 pm Iginla seemed like a pretty boring dude, no? Subban is ideal but its the NHL so its Patrick Kane or no one.
He was a nice, classy guy for sure but I saw him in enough commercials here to see his personality.
And where was that again?
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Ummm... I Don't Know About This...

Hard to imagine Jews being kicked off a flight from Miami... for being Jews.
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so i posted about this guy who called ash the n word before. well tonight i saw him at a club and he punched me in the face in front of 150 people and 75 security cameras. im pressing charges
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Jesus, how long are his fucking arms?

All kidding aside I hope you get a nice settlement out of the douchenozzle.
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I’m more anti-lawsuit than not, but hell yeah.
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im more of the press charges for assault type. if snybody wants the video itss floating round snapchat
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and now people are calling me soft for not hitting him back and saying im a bitch for going to the cops because "you went up there and knew he wanted to hit you so you cant claim assault if you went voluntarily"....like either im insane or people are telling me its legal to hit me in the face because they think im a jerk. i dont get it
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Victim blaming is a national past time. It really fucking sucks you have to endure that. I'm sorry, man.
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Johnnie wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 7:28 pm Victim blaming is a national past time. It really fucking sucks you have to endure that. I'm sorry, man.
its all good. my hope is that he ends up regretting what he said but im less than optimistic about that outcome
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TT2.0 wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:45 pm and now people are calling me soft for not hitting him back and saying im a bitch for going to the cops because "you went up there and knew he wanted to hit you so you cant claim assault if you went voluntarily"....like either im insane or people are telling me its legal to hit me in the face because they think im a jerk. i dont get it
Texas is a weird place, but I doubt the criminal code allows for punching people if the victim knew they might get punched by being there. Then again, Florida's "Stand your ground" law exists, so I could be wrong.
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i spoke to a detective Monday and they have an incident report now. they said they will investigate my claims but it could take a couple weeks. in the meantime the Houston poker community is ripping me to shreds on Facebook calling me a pussy for A) not hitting him back and B) calling the cops.

the thing is, he pressed charges on a guy for a fight give years ago and i know he would have done it to me. seco nd I'm 135 pounds...bad as i wanted to hurt him i probably could not have. C) I have to work in this industry...even though he called the woman i love a n***** i would still be the poker dealer that punched a player. my career is over.

as to the whole "you baited him, you are a snitch" thing....okay I'm a snitch and a pussy and not a man but the woman i love forbid me from swinging first and i want him to pay for what he said so im.gonna press charges. honest opinions guys...is the way im handling this make me less of a man?
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It makes you an adult who was at work. Fuck him.


(And don't discount the voices being his friends trying to save his ass.)
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Won't you now be that guy who baited a player to punch him? I'm not saying I disagree with your steps at all, but a) continually baiting the player on social media and b) going to a poker room for a confrontation doesn't sound like someone who's worried about how their job would react.

I would probably do the same in your situation. I respect the restraint, even if it was partly in the name of self-preservation. I got pissed off for a buddy whose wife was yelled at by a coach during a soccer game and there were no slurs involved, so I can't imagine how I would react if it was my woman.
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I took it that it was not at the poker spot but rather in a nightclub.
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TT2.0 wrote: Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:46 pm i spoke to a detective Monday and they have an incident report now. they said they will investigate my claims but it could take a couple weeks. in the meantime the Houston poker community is ripping me to shreds on Facebook calling me a pussy for A) not hitting him back and B) calling the cops.

the thing is, he pressed charges on a guy for a fight give years ago and i know he would have done it to me. seco nd I'm 135 pounds...bad as i wanted to hurt him i probably could not have. C) I have to work in this industry...even though he called the woman i love a n***** i would still be the poker dealer that punched a player. my career is over.

as to the whole "you baited him, you are a snitch" thing....okay I'm a snitch and a pussy and not a man but the woman i love forbid me from swinging first and i want him to pay for what he said so im.gonna press charges. honest opinions guys...is the way im handling this make me less of a man?
I read a couple of the comments, and the guys calling you a snitch and a pussy don't seem like the kind of guys you want to take life advice from. Good chance you would have gotten arrested or he would have pressed charges. I'm not judging your handling of any of this, but I will say that by posting on FB the police officer's card, you were asking for those assholes to come down on you. Handle your shot however you feel, but no need to put it on blast on FB. I totally understand your anger and frustration that this guy is a customer at your workplace, but the constant FB rants are going to catch up with you and have negative consequences at some point, and harboring the anger is only hurting you. By all means, hate the guy, but no need to keep it front and center in your mind. You know he is an asshole, leave it at that.
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yeah i deleted it all. i was getting pissed off every other sentence
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A Confederate book was open to a racist passage in a GOP congressman’s office. He blamed his staff.

Well of course he did.

And while it may have been opened to a particularly racist passage, when a book entitled “Gen. Robert Edward Lee: Soldier, Citizen, and Christian Patriot” is displayed prominently in a glass case in the congressman's office, does it really matter which page is on display?
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So this story took a turn. I was barely following it, but it seemed really tragic. Now it's like... "Wait, WTF?"

Police sources: New evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated attack
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Johnnie wrote: Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:48 pm So this story took a turn. I was barely following it, but it seemed really tragic. Now it's like... "Wait, WTF?"

Police sources: New evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated attack
This story seemed a bit fishy from the start, but the Chicago police had better be sure that he was involved in the planning of this.

To point out the obvious - if this is true, than his name is going to become part of the lexicon for all sorts of bad reasons.
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A Reddit comment (and the couple comments after) nailed it:
This whole ordeal is like if a news story was a Stefon SNL skit.

“This controversy has everything: faked lynchings, crushed up Tylenol...the tv show Empire.”

"... black weightlifter midgets yelling 'MAGA!'"

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The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

This could be in the religion thread as well, but the intent of this snakehandling State Rep is all to clear.

GOP legislator prays to Jesus for forgiveness before state’s first Muslim woman swears in
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Pruitt wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:55 am The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

This could be in the religion thread as well, but the intent of this snakehandling State Rep is all to clear.

GOP legislator prays to Jesus for forgiveness before state’s first Muslim woman swears in
Imagine the FoxNews shows if a Muslim State Rep got up and invoked Muhammed and Allah 35 times in a two minute ramble. It must be hard for Christians living under such harsh oppression.
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The Sybian wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:51 am
Pruitt wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:55 am The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

This could be in the religion thread as well, but the intent of this snakehandling State Rep is all to clear.

GOP legislator prays to Jesus for forgiveness before state’s first Muslim woman swears in
Imagine the FoxNews shows if a Muslim State Rep got up and invoked Muhammed and Allah 35 times in a two minute ramble. It must be hard for Christians living under such harsh oppression.
Her "prayer" was nothing but a white protestant rallying cry. What does Abraham Lincoln have to do with asking the lord to protect the lawmakers? So deep in their own filthy trash cocoon that they don't see (or most likely don't care) that their words are offensive to everyone other than themselves.

From Penn Live:
“I thought she was right on,” said Diane Gramley of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania. “I applaud her for having the courage to ask forgiveness for the many missteps that this nation has taken. It was refreshing to hear a politician give such a heartfelt prayer. I don’t believe her intention was to demean or divide. It was a heartfelt prayer seeking God’s guidance and forgiveness.”

Michael Geer, president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, said the individuals offering the opening prayers “should be free to pray as their faith and conscience dictates.”

He said he would hope their words would not be censored.

“A Christian praying out loud to Jesus and speaking his name should not be a surprise to anyone, nor viewed as offensive,” Geer said. “From the days of William Penn and Benjamin Franklin, prayer is at the centerpiece of Pennsylvania’s founding and flourishing, and we must never abandon it.”
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Real question (not to go full Jerloma): Is this actually racist? Islam isn't a race. What the lady did is abhorrent, of course, but I'm not sure it's racist.


Not that there's a better thread, mind you, I just think this is a different class of hate. I'm probably overthinking it.
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A_B wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:40 am Real question (not to go full Jerloma): Is this actually racist? Islam isn't a race. What the lady did is abhorrent, of course, but I'm not sure it's racist.


Not that there's a better thread, mind you, I just think this is a different class of hate. I'm probably overthinking it.
a bit. Its not anti Islam, because that woman knows fuckall about the religion. Its a fear of the brown people that practice it, which is racism to me.
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A_B wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:40 am Real question (not to go full Jerloma): Is this actually racist? Islam isn't a race. What the lady did is abhorrent, of course, but I'm not sure it's racist.


Not that there's a better thread, mind you, I just think this is a different class of hate. I'm probably overthinking it.
Can we call it bigotry? It's certainly Islamophobic and anti-Muslim.
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The Sybian wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:33 pm
A_B wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:40 am Real question (not to go full Jerloma): Is this actually racist? Islam isn't a race. What the lady did is abhorrent, of course, but I'm not sure it's racist.


Not that there's a better thread, mind you, I just think this is a different class of hate. I'm probably overthinking it.
Can we call it bigotry? It's certainly Islamophobic and anti-Muslim.
That's a good word. Again, I was overthinking it.
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Someone needs to point out to these bigoted motherfuckers that throughout America’s history, American-born white Christian terrorists killed more Americans than Muslims.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 4:42 pm Someone needs to point out to these bigoted motherfuckers that throughout America’s history, American-born white Christian terrorists killed more Americans than Muslims.
Not a chance in hell that they would believe it.
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Sure they would, they just wouldn’t care. If a white supremacist killed one of their family member’s they’d blame the uber driver who dropped him off if he was Muslim.
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mister d wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:01 pm Sure they would, they just wouldn’t care. If a white supremacist killed one of their family member’s they’d blame the uber driver who dropped him off if he was Muslim.
Nah. That’s when mental illness comes into play.
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Pretty good tweet thread here about a story you might have missed -- Billboard re-classifying a black artist from the country charts after his song went to #1.

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Billy Ray Cyrus, huh?
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rass wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:55 am Billy Ray Cyrus, huh?
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