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Wall Street guys win Powerball lottery

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by MisterCreosote, Nov 29, 2011.

  1. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    And let's not forget how the government looks the other way on coffee.
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Coffee is a fucking miracle drug.

    Ban coffee and productivity would plummet.

    Ban cigarettes, and maybe all those idiots standing outside smoking would get some work done instead of constantly taking smoke breaks.

    I hate working with smokers. Every time it slows down a little, they're rushing out for a smoke.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I don't understand why I have been effectively banned from participating in this conversation.

    I never personally attack anybody.

    I never ascribe motives to anybody.

    I argue strenuously for my side of the argument, on its merits.

    And I get the slap on the wrist? Why?
     
  4. Or a taking a coffee break.
     
  5. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    OK, I'm sort of going over the top here obviously. Trying to have a little fun.

    Some truth to it also.

    You get a cup of joe from the break room, sit back down at your desk, and get your work done. and, it will pick you up.

    No need to hang around the coffee machine cabitzing.

    To smoke a cigarette, you have to leave the building.
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I honestly cannot figure out how the American workday would occur without coffee.

    Is it taxed heavily? Don't even know.
     
  7. At my office guys stand around the pot drinking coffee, shooting the shit.
    I'm not a coffee drinker. Love Iced Tea tough.

    We have two employees who go on a coffee run every afternoon.
    We used to have smoke breakers, but oddly we have no smokers anymore.
     
  8. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Obvious solutions: lift the bans on Dick Whitman and on smoking in the office.
     
  9. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    This is participation.
     
  10. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Yeah, are you saying the responses to your posts have the effect of a ban and a slap on the wrist? If so, the marketplace of ideas might be an arena you want to avoid.
     
  11. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Or did a moderator ban you?
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    My point is that their response - "Go fuck yourself" - goes to a different argument. And that argument is whether a ban on lottery tickets to save the poor and uneducated from themselves would be too paternal. That's a valid argument. But their opinion has no bearing on whether I'm right about lotteries disproportionately affecting the poor. They do. That's a fact. And that someone would pop me in the nose or whatever for saying it to them doesn't diminish its status as a fact.

    It's just not a good argument. It's like if someone said, "I don't think Brian Urlacher is a Hall of Famer." And someone responded, "Well, Brian Urlacher would kick your ass if you said that to his face."

    I mean, who cares?
     
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