Eske Esquire wrote:
I like how nobody is even considering the possibility that Te'o's girlfriend is Canadian
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LockeColeMA wrote:
Eske Esquire wrote:
I like how nobody is even considering the possibility that Te'o's girlfriend is Canadian
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Oh, the video? I have videos collapsed and never click 'em. History has shown that no good comes from clicking videos on MMORPG off-topic forums. Especially NSFW ones.
...they're usually full of ponies.
Eske Esquire wrote:
LockeColeMA wrote:
Eske Esquire wrote:
I like how nobody is even considering the possibility that Te'o's girlfriend is Canadian
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...they're usually full of ponies.
Nah, in this case it's full of singing muppets. Totally manly and awesome.
Jophiel wrote:
"Why should I care?" is kind of a dumb question. No one is asking anyone to rise up and change the world over this. It's a human interest story made larger by the role of the media, sports culture and the fact that millions were a part of it in some way versus some dink at home ************ to Lonelygirl15 videos. Even if you want to say you don't care about the story, the way the media treated the story is interesting in of itself.
Yeah, not really. I didn't care about this guy or his story before, and I don't care about it now. Media mishandling of "news" has never been solely worthy of my attention before, nor will it be in this case. This whole thing reminds me of the typical glue eater in kindergarten and the "too cool" kid who always finds it necessary to make a big deal out of it. I don't care if your little boy eats glue, licks windows, or whatever, and I don't need someone else's little boy making it a point to tell me about it.
Brownduck wrote:
This whole thing reminds me of the typical glue eater in kindergarten and the "too cool" kid who always finds it necessary to make a big deal out of it. I don't care if your little boy eats glue, licks windows, or whatever, and I don't need someone else's little boy making it a point to tell me about it.
That is an oddly specific, and totally esoteric reference.
BrownDuck wrote:
Yeah, not really.
Eh, okay. So then don't read it. Or start a fan club for people too cool to care
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
I like how any mention of "sports" on this forum sends people into Vietnam flashbacks of their nerdy past.
"Charlie is everywhere!
...He's gonna give me a swirly!"
"Charlie is everywhere!
...He's gonna give me a swirly!"
I don't care about this so hard that I'm going to write a post detailing just how much I totally don't care about it.
I don't care so much that now I'm starting to care!
BrownDuck wrote:
I don't care if your little boy eats glue, licks windows, or whatever, and I don't need someone else's little boy making it a point to tell me about it.
What if the glue was poisonous?
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Elinda wrote:
BrownDuck wrote:
I don't care if your little boy eats glue, licks windows, or whatever, and I don't need someone else's little boy making it a point to tell me about it.
What if the glue was poisonous?
Lrn2Elmers?
I ate a lot of glue as a child.
Iron Chef Olorinus wrote:
I ate a lot of glue as a child.
Your creepy Uncle only told you it was glue...
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
I didn't have a creepy uncle. Unless his name was Elmer and he had a lot of time to fill a lot of bottles.
TirithRR wrote:
Iron Chef Olorinus wrote:
I ate a lot of glue as a child.
It was really rubber cement!
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Jophiel wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Iron Chef Olorinus wrote:
I ate a lot of glue as a child.
It was really rubber cement!
There's a joke in there somewhere...
I think this is a case of media butthurt. It's only a story because the media repeated the whole "my girlfriend had leukemia and died" bit over and over, and now they find out it's false, instead of going "Golly, maybe we should have fact checked that a bit?", it's "OMG! What a travesty that this guy lied about this!!!!". Guy making up an imaginary girlfriend he met on the internet is a total non-story. Sports writers falling for it and then realizing how stupid they were I guess *is* a story.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
I think it was SI who initially broke the story. I'm probably wrong, but too lazy to factcheck. Anyway, if it was SI, and they wrote the initial story about her, I can kind of see why no other journalist checked the background stuff. You'd think a reputable (at least in name) sports journalism company like Sports Illustrated would have checked up on their own story, so subsequent stories would take their initial work for granted.
What I like about the story is that it gives me new reason to hate Notre Dame all over again. Especially with the way the school and athletic director are defending Te'o as being duped without really investigating...they are going to look stupid once everybody realizes how involved in the hoax Te'o was. I almost felt kinda bad for some of my Notre Dame friends after they got blown out in the championship game, but now all that schadenfreude is back.
Spoonless wrote:
I think it was SI who initially broke the story. I'm probably wrong, but too lazy to factcheck. Anyway, if it was SI, and they wrote the initial story about her, I can kind of see why no other journalist checked the background stuff. You'd think a reputable (at least in name) sports journalism company like Sports Illustrated would have checked up on their own story, so subsequent stories would take their initial work for granted.
I dug through my past issues and found it. October 1, 2012.
Has it already been stated that this was a cover-up for him being gay? I don't feel like reading the thread again.
Nadenu wrote:
Has it already been stated that this was a cover-up for him being gay? I don't feel like reading the thread again.
In the second reply.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
Iron Chef Olorinus wrote:
I didn't have a creepy uncle. Unless his name was Elmer and he had a lot of time to fill a lot of bottles.
...ew. Now *that's* creepy.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
My first thought was maybe he's had too many concussions and he IS that stupid.
Looks like we've made it to the "Yes I lied, but I'm really really telling the whole truth now" phase of the story. Should have hired Lance Armstrong as a consultant. That guy's a much better liar. 
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