Why do we all have to be "cool"? I'm content with the way I am already.
TP, C2.
This is the best reply I've seen in a long time, and pretty much describes the absurdity of this discussion, IMO.
I mean, do people who object to this go around all day trying to be "cool"? If so, I think they're a bit self-induldged, and more than a bit superficial.
I've been here a long time, and there have been times when
everyone I recognize by avatar or screen name has used what I might consider "juvenile" or mildly offensive epithets or phrases.
So what?!? Honestly, I'm less bothered by a juvenile nickname than I am by the word "sucks", and I've used both.
I'd also rather see an immature appellaton than I would say someone being purposely condescending, sarcastic, hateful, judgmental, or implying omniscience ... and it happens
all the time.
So what?!? As long as it's within the rules of the site then it's that person's perogative, whether I like it or not, no matter
what I feel about it.
Calling Miami the "cheat" is a fairly harmless, (though admittedly not the "classiest"), way for a Celtic fan to express to others that they hate the team.
Wow ... horrible, just horrible, and so
immature! Come
on.Do people actually not know whether or not someone is mature or sophisticated or educated or eloquent if they use an immature nickname once-in-a-while?
So you take a person down a notch in your assessment of them if they call Miami the "Cheat"? They
must be uneducated, or infantile, or crass, or immature, right?
Really, if people judge one another by the use of a careless juvenile phrase every-so-often, or an immature nickname used to describe a team they hate, or faux cursing, or whether or not they're "cool", then we're
all in trouble.
Man, I hope I
never get to the point where I start assessing people or the things they say as somehow beneath me, just because their little anti-opponent monikers aren't up to the sophisticated level that I would consider "cool".
Frankly, (if I chose to look at things that way all the time), it wouldn't take me long to find something I don't care for, (or find immature), in the phrasing or words of
anyone, (here
or elsewhere), but thankfully I do my best to not judge their character or "coolness" by their casual
phrases d'animosité.
If that were the case, there wouldn't be a "cool" person on this blog ... or
alive, for that matter.