Latest update of PFT's "Police Blotter" ..see how our noble athletes are doing.

[stuckincincy]

PFT, keeping track of NFL player misdeeds...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/police-blotter/

[OpIv37]

Well, we had to go back to July 2011 to get a Bill on the list, and it was no-name WR Paul Hubbard.

Before that, it was McIntyre, which shouldn't even be on the list as it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity and the guy did nothing wrong.

Before that, it was stupid Donte Whitner.

[OpIv37]

Oh, and PFT must have borrowed Doc Brown's Delorian:

7/14/2013: Broncos DE Elvis Dumervil is arrested for aggravated assault.

[stuckincincy]

Oh, and PFT must have borrowed Doc Brown's Delorian:

Typos happen...kinda like typing Delorian instead of the correct spelling - DeLorean?

[OpIv37]

Well DeLorean isn't in SpellChecker- and while I do strive for accuracy, my message board posts don't have professional proofreaders like a website owned by NBC.

[stuckincincy]

Well DeLorean isn't in SpellChecker- and while I do strive for accuracy, my message board posts don't have professional proofreaders like a website owned by NBC.

Correct spelling is something one learns in schools...well, that used to be the case. Automatic spelling checkers are a refuge of the lazy. It's no wonder that colleges are appalled at the the lack of basic abilities of their incoming (cash crop) freshmen, and that employers are just as appalled at the graduates the colleges churn out.

[OpIv37]

Correct spelling is something one learns in schools...well, that used to be the case. Automatic spelling checkers are a refuge of the lazy. It's no wonder that colleges are appalled at the the lack of basic abilities of their incoming (cash crop) freshmen, and that employers are just as appalled at the graduates the colleges churn out.

well, you can use that ridiculous argument against just about any form of technology. Computers have spell checkers that are more efficient and accurate than any human could ever dream of being, and there is no reason not to use them.

[stuckincincy]

False. And, no need to resort to belittlement. You were wrong - don't blame others, don't dissemble; simply admit it. No problem there..for we all make errors. That's not hard to do, unless you are a narcissist.

[OpIv37]

False. And, no need to resort to belittlement. You were wrong; simply admit it. That's not hard to do, unless you are a narcissist.

Yes, I mispelled the name of a company that went out of business nearly 20 years ago in a message board post.

That's not the same as a professional publication putting the wrong year in a list of events ordered chronologically.

And I didn't say anything false. There is absolutely nothing lazy about using modern technology, especially in cases like spell checking where the technology is so much more capable than an individual person.

[stuckincincy]

Yes, I mispelled the name of a company that went out of business nearly 20 years ago in a message board post.

That's not the same as a professional publication putting the wrong year in a list of events ordered chronologically.

And I didn't say anything false. There is absolutely nothing lazy about using modern technology, especially in cases like spell checking where the technology is so much more capable than an individual person.

You have reached rock bottom, but continue to dig.

[OpIv37]

You have reached rock bottom, but continue to dig.

you accuse me of reaching rock bottom in a post that has absolutely zero substance to it. You'll have to do better than that.

[stuckincincy]

you accuse me of reaching rock bottom in a post that has absolutely zero substance to it. You'll have to do better than that.

Nice dodge. You proceeded to blame spell checkers for not doing your own due diligence, then blamed a company of committing the same error as you. Scroll back. There is nothing wrong with an honest man admitting an error, but for reasons unknown, you cannot.

Note that my spelling is correct - without blaming a crutch if I perchance made an error. We are different people.

[OpIv37]

Nice dodge. You proceeded to blame spell checkers for not doing your own due diligence, then blamed a company of committing the same error as you. Scroll back. There is nothing wrong with an honest man admitting an error, but for reasons unknown, you cannot.

Note that my spelling is correct - without blaming a crutch if I perchance made an error. We are different people.

I did admit my error.

I simply pointed out that it was not the same error that NBC made, and even if it is, as a professional company, they should be held to a higher standard than message board post.

And due diligence? Seriously? DeLorean went out of business when I was 3 years old. I've seen 2 in my entire life and wasn't close enough to see the sticker on the back. Do you really Google the names of companies that went out of business 20 years ago to make sure you spell their names correctly in a friggin message board post?

[stuckincincy]

I did admit my error.

I simply pointed out that it was not the same error that NBC made, and even if it is, as a professional company, they should be held to a higher standard than message board post.

And due diligence? Seriously? DeLorean went out of business when I was 3 years old. I've seen 2 in my entire life and wasn't close enough to see the sticker on the back. Do you really Google the names of companies that went out of business 20 years ago to make sure you spell their names correctly in a friggin message board post?

Of course I do, if I'm unsure of a spelling. I didn't have to do that with DeLorean - former Pontiac Division head, putative force behind the GTO, his cocaine dealings and so on. I'm one of the Ancients. We try to keep the past flames alive. Our eyes are closing and we are becoming dust. One of our tools is rhetoric, to pique thought.

The torch of civility is going to fall into your hands. Do it justice - it's been pretty shaky for several years.

[OpIv37]

Every generation claims that the next generation is less civil than theirs.

[stuckincincy]

Every generation claims that the next generation is less civil than theirs.

And they are right, if one reads history.

You must see that a tipping point is neigh. Things happening today were largely unknown in general society when I was a lad. Here's a short list:


cameras everywhere
school shootings
gambling casinos
ubiquitous anti-theft packaging
armed police escorting sports coaches
road rage
workplace shootings
drug violence ripping cities asunder
drug use by kids
children committing suicide
explicit sex on cable tv
robbers shooting victims over 5 bucks
kids with who knows how many "parents" due to divorce rates
grandparents all over the nation raising kids
the decline in vocabulary
honor roll status by quota
states running numbers rackets
remedial courses needed for incoming college freshmen
rampant classroom cheating
doping of kids with ritalin and the like
beatings of school teachers
political exploitation of young people
a billion dollar industry in home security systems and dead bolts
huge appetite for foreign goods - then casting blame for job loss
crude language at every turn
huge credit card debt

people buying houses with nothing down – banks forced to lend despite poor credit rating
the decline of the newspapers
chubby youngsters with heart disease and diabetes
people complaining about privacy while happily posting on YouTube, Facebook, etc

RIFD devices implanted in packaging
Data mining
Telemarketing
Ads everywhere
Parents getting their kids fingerprinted
ID theft
Overpasses requiring curved fencing
Painted grafitti everywhere
People rioting after a sports team victory
Burglaries while people are at funerals
Folks needing shredders
Police officers patrolling grade and high schools
Beatings on school buses
Identity theft.

Funny - when I was a kid, we all carried jack knives but we didn't stab each other. My lunch rooms were dripping with peanut butter sandwiches, yet nobody was croaking over allergic reactions. I recall one classmate - Paul - who had asthma. 12 years of public school... Our teachers were free to give us moral compass, we sang patriotic and religious songs, and nobody was thought to be damaged.

Then moral relativism, progressiveness hit. Violence hit the classrooms. Teachers who attempted to show children how to deport themselves in a civilized society were silenced. A society morphed from "We" and "Ours", to "I" and "Mine".

I don't know your age, but it seems you don't know how things once were. Sad.

Oh - don't raise the plight of the Negro - I'll give you a load about of how the Dem party engineered racial subjugation for the last couple of centuries. For a starter, investigate the Hayes -Tilden deadlock, the end of Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow laws. For a start.



Our Nation's moral underpinnings were tossed into the ditch. And see where we are now.

[OpIv37]

How many of those things didn't happen, and how many of those things happened, but you weren't aware of them because no one had cell phone cameras or Internet access to share them with the entire world within seconds?

Yeah, 30 years ago there was no identity theft. But 100 years ago, there were no car accidents or drunk drivers because there were no cars. You can't hold back technology and progress simply because some people misuse it.

I was listening to Opie and Anthony this morning and they were talking about the Boy Scouts thing. A ton of people called in with crazy stories about being abused by pedophile scoutmasters 20 or 30 years ago in ways that would never happen today because people are more aware. Hell, it was only 30 or 40 years ago that people would stay in horrible relationships because they didn't want the social stigma of divorce, and systemic, state-sponsored racism was socially acceptable as recently as 50 years ago (and I'm not going to ignore a significant area of social progress just because of the mistakes of Democrats- this isn't a partisan issue).

Don't get me wrong- some of those things you mention are legitimate problems and the younger generations are far from perfect. But there have been a lot of improvements in society along with the problems. It's not this degeneration into an abyss of chaos that you are making it out to be.

[stuckincincy]

How many of those things didn't happen, and how many of those things happened, but you weren't aware of them because no one had cell phone cameras or Internet access to share them with the entire world within seconds?

Yeah, 30 years ago there was no identity theft. But 100 years ago, there were no car accidents or drunk drivers because there were no cars. You can't hold back technology and progress simply because some people misuse it.

I was listening to Opie and Anthony this morning and they were talking about the Boy Scouts thing. A ton of people called in with crazy stories about being abused by pedophile scoutmasters 20 or 30 years ago in ways that would never happen today because people are more aware. Hell, it was only 30 or 40 years ago that people would stay in horrible relationships because they didn't want the social stigma of divorce, and systemic, state-sponsored racism was socially acceptable as recently as 50 years ago (and I'm not going to ignore a significant area of social progress just because of the mistakes of Democrats- this isn't a partisan issue).

Don't get me wrong- some of those things you mention are legitimate problems and the younger generations are far from perfect. But there have been a lot of improvements in society along with the problems. It's not this degeneration into an abyss of chaos that you are making it out to be.

Investigate the waning days of the Weimer Republic. Stock up your larder.

[Philagape]

You must see that a tipping point is neigh.

Nigh.

[ParanoidAndroid]

Wow. This is how WWIII starts: with a spelling error.