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Mark Winegardner on the Alabama teabagger and LSU victim in ESPN the Mag

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Double Down, Nov 15, 2012.

  1. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Wow. You really got your boots into that kick. Feel better now?
     
  2. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    I don't know what foolishness you are posting but the bottom line is I don't feel any sympathy for him.
     
  3. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    The writer should have explored the possibility if Downing being bisexual.
     
  4. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    How many times has a woman been told she was asking for it because she was drunk? Many. Many. Times. Nice try, but hardly a valid defense.
     
  5. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Perhaps the prisoners should stop raping each other. Voila! No jokes.
     
  6. vivbernstein

    vivbernstein Member

    Three different guys went to pull down their zippers and display themselves next to the drunk guy that night (two were stopped from doing it). Is that an Alabama thing? A drunk guy thing? WTF?
     
  7. I dunno know, but the aftermath is apparently worth a story.
     
  8. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Alabama has a high percentage of closet homosexuals.
     
  9. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    It's a stupid thing.
     
  10. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Every waking act by Alabama fans involve some stupid thing.
     
  11. It's a sophomoric thing.

    I guarantee you if you had searched "College Humor" or some other similar site for "teabagging" you would have gotten hundreds and hundreds and videos. Hell, you probably still can. None of those people are being sent to prison, as far as I know, although they probably didn't commit their crimes in the moral bastion of Bourbon Street.

    It is a form of shame and ridicule for someone who is passed out, similar to writing things on their face, etc.

    I certainly don't condone it, but "teabagging" wasn't invented by this guy.
     
  12. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Troy King counts as a high percentage?

    Actually you would be amazed how many people are out of the closet and good with it, even in the tee-tiny towns. Like most of flyover country, it has been a drastic (though far from completed) shift within the past five years.
     
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