jimimou wrote:

Cosmic wrote:Greek's a good guy. But like any other Greek I've ever met their passion seems to get the best of them. He gets way too nasty for no good reason. It happens. I have no hard feelings towards the guy. Didn't like how he replied to me time and again all the same but that was just him. I was close to using Bip's awesome ignore feature on him though. But I don't like to do that. What are you going to do. We think these places are public places but they're only open to those who will abide by the owner's rules. When things go too far it's just time for a timeout. Be it temporary or permanent. Not my place to say. This is a very lenient and fair place though. Far better than other places I have posted and been pushed out because my posting didn't meet the criteria of those who ran the place.

in greek and find that offensive. end of story.

an unwise statement for certain

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coolbeans wrote:

martin wrote:

coolbeans wrote:

martin wrote:

oohah wrote:

martin wrote:

oohah wrote:Martin, just a quick question, I want to understand your position: Are you of the belief that the college basketball system is good and fair to the players the way it is because the players are drawing value from a "free education"?

And that players should be required to go to college in order to pursue a pro basketball whether they want to, or have the academic skills to attend college or not?

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If you do believe that, does your belief extend to Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Hockey, etc.?

oohah

oohah, i didn't answer your question with my previous post.

Let me start with a question: On average, how many hours a week does a student athlete on a DIV I basketball team practice?

To my knowledge anywhere from 10 - 20 hours per week, but I could be wrong.

To my understanding, the average Euro-kid professional practices much more than the average NCAA kid.

oohah

great. What's the average pay for baseball minor league, hockey minor league, euro teen contract? ball park guess. be a tad generous.

is oohah your google assistant? seriously its rude to keep telling someone to go fish. oohah has a valid point. you are just reinforcing it by your avoidance.

coolbeans, I'll post this once for you. oohah and I are having a discussion, and it does take some back and forth, and I'll get to my point very soon.

You are adding nothing to the discussion and are otherwise pretty annoying. Stop interjecting and move on.

i will post this once for you, ban my account if you feel frosty about it, its your board.

SupremeCommander wrote:

jimimou wrote:

Cosmic wrote:Greek's a good guy. But like any other Greek I've ever met their passion seems to get the best of them. He gets way too nasty for no good reason. It happens. I have no hard feelings towards the guy. Didn't like how he replied to me time and again all the same but that was just him. I was close to using Bip's awesome ignore feature on him though. But I don't like to do that. What are you going to do. We think these places are public places but they're only open to those who will abide by the owner's rules. When things go too far it's just time for a timeout. Be it temporary or permanent. Not my place to say. This is a very lenient and fair place though. Far better than other places I have posted and been pushed out because my posting didn't meet the criteria of those who ran the place.

in greek and find that offensive. end of story.

an unwise statement for certain

Oh please. It's not meant to offend it's simply the truth I have found. People of Greek heritage are passionate people and it leads to heated confrontations as a result. They're simply intense people with enormous pride but it can lead to heated debates that turn for the worse at times. It's no big deal to me but that is a truth. I happen to be Italian and I find the same thing occurs with Italians in terms of intense personalities butting heads.

It is what it is. If you're offended I'm sorry but I can't see how that's an offensive statement.

Greek is a very intense person and it leads to arguments. It's pretty simple stuff.

Cosmic wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

jimimou wrote:

Cosmic wrote:Greek's a good guy. But like any other Greek I've ever met their passion seems to get the best of them. He gets way too nasty for no good reason. It happens. I have no hard feelings towards the guy. Didn't like how he replied to me time and again all the same but that was just him. I was close to using Bip's awesome ignore feature on him though. But I don't like to do that. What are you going to do. We think these places are public places but they're only open to those who will abide by the owner's rules. When things go too far it's just time for a timeout. Be it temporary or permanent. Not my place to say. This is a very lenient and fair place though. Far better than other places I have posted and been pushed out because my posting didn't meet the criteria of those who ran the place.

in greek and find that offensive. end of story.

an unwise statement for certain

Oh please. It's not meant to offend it's simply the truth I have found. People of Greek heritage are passionate people and it leads to heated confrontations as a result. They're simply intense people with enormous pride but it can lead to heated debates that turn for the worse at times. It's no big deal to me but that is a truth. I happen to be Italian and I find the same thing occurs with Italians in terms of intense personalities butting heads.

It is what it is. If you're offended I'm sorry but I can't see how that's an offensive statement.

Greek is a very intense person and it leads to arguments. It's pretty simple stuff.

not gonna debate this with you - you are wrong. you wanna talk about person being heated, fine, you wanna talk about person letting their passion get the best of them, fine. but not whole race of people. i believe that is the definition of stereotype cosmic and you just showed it to be true.

a simple, my bad would have sufficed, rather you go down the defensive route. and, you begin with oh please, like its your opinion that is right here? come across like a mature adult, not some defensive child. if you knew greek people at all, and not some subset that you may call friends, you would know that statement to not be true. learn about the people before you go spouting dumb statemets cosmic.

GKF had some displaced anger. Hope he works it out

Panos wrote:

fishmike wrote:are greek guys fast? Is it me or do I have 4 days left to prepare for a footrace with Panos?

GKF had some displaced anger. Hope he works it out

Name the time and place, fishy. After 4 years, maybe this thing can finally be settled

i smell pulled hamstrings. i hope we got some emt's in our crew.

Panos wrote:

fishmike wrote:are greek guys fast? Is it me or do I have 4 days left to prepare for a footrace with Panos?

GKF had some displaced anger. Hope he works it out

Name the time and place, fishy. After 4 years, maybe this thing can finally be settled

Are you making it to the pub this Friday night? I propose a 50 yard dash right outside the bar. Loser buys a pint and a basket of wings. Maybe the bonus round is you have to arm wrestle me (left handed )

jimimou wrote:

not gonna debate this with you - you are wrong. you wanna talk about person being heated, fine, you wanna talk about person letting their passion get the best of them, fine. but not whole race of people. i believe that is the definition of stereotype cosmic and you just showed it to be true.

a simple, my bad would have sufficed, rather you go down the defensive route. and, you begin with oh please, like its your opinion that is right here? come across like a mature adult, not some defensive child. if you knew greek people at all, and not some subset that you may call friends, you would know that statement to not be true. learn about the people before you go spouting dumb statemets cosmic.

Eh, I'm not looking for a debate, argument, or fight. It's an observation I made and I will stick to it. I think this world has gotten so PC it's pathetic. Each race has it's good and bad people but each race also has definitive traits. That is just how it is just as cats and dogs have their traits. To suggest all men are equal, the same, etc - to me is just PC bullcrap.

If we're so equal let us just chuck out all our heritages, prides, etc, and photoshop every photo we own GREY.

Well, that's not reality and that is not nature.

By nature certain races have certain traits. It is JUST HOW IT IS.

To dismiss this is to dismiss yourself and your roots.

There is nothing racial/racist/derogatory inferred here. Those who think that is what I am doing are super sensitive and caught up in PC garbage.

If anything, if anyone reading this is objective, they would see that despite being unhappy with GKF I am actually defending him in some capacity.

But, I guess, I'll let the close minded "every one is equal and to say otherwise is racist and ill advised cause you'll hurt people's feelings!" crow have their way and I will bow out of this.

Not a great way to live anyone's life though...this PC garbage that is. We're all very different but those with common heritages do display like traits. Again, to ignore this, is to ignore one's self.

I refuse to live like that and I don't care who gets offended by such because to me there is nothing to be offended by.