[Fields will] be the starting QB on an NFL roster at the start of next season. Book It!

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

When you're right, you're right.

I'm close to the center on most issues.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

It's happened again by PM since I posted this.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

I see your true "colors" shining through!

It doesn't surprise me that you think of my color first and foremost, either. You are also a coward.

I'm close to the center on most issues.

I had nothing to say about the canonization

of Saint Reader in a few distinct threads, but once it makes its way out into more common areas of the board, I don't think anyone, myself included, should be deterred from correcting it.

I'm close to the center on most issues.

I had nothing to say about the canonization of Saint Reader in a few distinct threads, but once it makes its way out into more common areas of the board, I don't think anyone, myself included, should be deterred from correcting it.

It seems kinda harsh to throw in disparaging facts about the guy's football career when reporting his untimely demise. It's in the same ballpark as the July's of the world that wanted Kobe's rape allegations included in tweets reporting about his death while he and his daughter were still burning in a hillside: Yeah, it's factually accurate, but does that really need to be said when breaking the news that the guy was killed suddenly? Hell, even the Kobe rape allegations were a huge story at the time that almost derailed and tarnished his career and reputation, Schefter's slight was a curiously specific dig about the quality of Haskins's professional career, so it'd be more like reporting Kobe's death as "Kobe Bryant, who transformed into a chucker later in his career to achieve personal milestones at the expense of overall team success, is dead in a helicopter crash". It just doesn't seem like there was any necessary contextualizing being done by including the nod to his career struggles, unless Schefter is so connected that he was being told it looked like suicide. Which is unlikely, I would think, because nowhere else does he hint at it.

I always wondered if he was murdering random travelers in the airport before returning home on his flights.

So basically, it's different because you waited a few weeks?

I had to look, but how long ago was mid-June, Rick? Do you really think it's honest to label that "a few weeks"?

I should have said 3.5 months.

I think you knew it was 3.5 months or thereabouts, but made the active, dishonest, decision to label my actions as happening within "a few weeks" of someone's demise because you (1) feel that there is some vague cut-off point past which it is no longer verboten to speak ill of the dead, even in truth, and (2) felt that I might be in that window, but couldn't let it go because I'm me and you're a troll.

So now you can kindly fuck off on this topic you dishonest prick.

You can believe me or not but a few weeks ago is when I was asked to pin the Regular Reader Celebration thread. It didn't feel like 3.5 months already and you also claimed you had to look it up. I was wrong about the timing.

The major point still remains. What is the point of you being some arbiter of truth about Regular Reader after his death among people who liked and cared for him and were in some cases real life friends as compared to someone pointing out a few celebrities had negative things associated with them. You then went as far as to act like it was somehow important for you to correct the record on who Regular Reader really was as it had made it's way into the more common areas of the board.

Ultimately, that is why I posted your other quote without saying anything. If you think those are completely unrelated and not comparable at all then I guess we can just move on. Personally, I find it strange to get upset that Adam Schefter pointed out a football player who died sucked at football but feel it is your duty to make sure the board knows the negative things you feel about a board member who died recently.

I imagine Reader wouldn't have been bothered by the honest vitriol from people he was never friendly with. There's probably at least one person he used to be really friendly with that he would have hoped would set aside their "disagreements." We all have to live with the thoughts we put out, though.

Well I don't think he and I were ever friendly, but at one point I sensed there was a begrudging respect, at least on an intellectual level. In fact at one point I think we had reached détente. Then something changed, and I honestly don't recall being the impetus. Then it was just hatred.

I imagine Reader wouldn't have been bothered by the honest vitriol from people he was never friendly with. There's probably at least one person he used to be really friendly with that he would have hoped would set aside their "disagreements." We all have to live with the thoughts we put out, though.

I don't believe you, because later on in this post you proceed to strip my qualifications about the indecencies of Schefter's editorializing about someone's football career in immediate proximity to reporting their death, but still try to make it out like I logged in as soon as I heard about the passing to point out his shortcomings by labeling his death as "recent".

You sure you dont want to offended on his behalf ??

No, I'll pass. I'll reserve that energy for other things. Like strongly disliking the mayor.

The Reader of the last 5 or so years was edgier than the Reader before then. I would intentionally poke younger Reader and he never responded in kind. He would occasionally remind me of that. It's unlikely I would have gotten away with it his last 5 or so years of posting.

I'm close to the center on most issues.

The menstrual cycle changes among Hassidic Jewish women was something as well.

Makes enough sense. He's alive.

[Fields will] be the starting QB on an NFL roster at the start of next season. Book It!

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Has to be HY right?

but somehow it is fine to correct actual friends of the deceased about the real Reader.