"How is this different"????????? Ummmmm......
The Kentucky Derby is in early May.
The NFL season is between September and February.
Other than those small details, yeah, this is exactly the same thing.
Did you read the post I was quoting? You missed the point about as hard as it can be missed, because he wasn't objecting to the timing of it at all. That wasn't what was being discussed. His claim was that wherever you see a group of professional athletes and there are drugs present, there's probably guns and associated criminal behavior alongside them because they must be thugs. Basically, he was working backward to try to justify his claim that the Giants' receivers aren't just doing a pretty poor job of preparing for this weekend's games, but furthermore that they must be a bunch of thugs. The timing of it was never mentioned as part of this conclusion that he reached. So I pointed out that by the very same criteria that he
claimed he was using, Brady and Welker must be thugs as well. Either that or there was some additional criteria that he was using that he hadn't mentioned up to that point.
Seriously, it's a real issue with this forum. The number of people who completely the ignore the context of a post, to the point of deliberately misreading it, and then go and grandstand with a reply that emphatically states some self-evident point that nobody ever argued against in the first place, is just ridiculous. And I'm not claiming innocence, I know I've done it before, and didn't even realize I was doing it until I went back later and reread the posts that led up to the post I was quoting. I dunno if it's a product of reading comprehension, impatience, or just some lame desire to virtue signal, or what, but it doesn't really accomplish anything. Either take 30 seconds to read the post someone's replying to and understand the actual comparison they're making, or just don't comment if you aren't willing to invest those 30 seconds . Either option is fine.
Not specifically directed at you, but I think you're the fourth person to reply with this exact same argument, making it clear that you didn't read any of the quoted posts in that exchange. And once you spot it happening and look out for it, it becomes clear that this happens in just about every thread. And everyone gets super indignant when it's done to them, then a few hours later you'll see them doing the same exact thing to someone else. ****, I'm sure I've done it.
In short: if a few hours from now you make some post observing that Malcolm Mitchell's hands are at least as good as Edelman's and maybe better, and someone replies "lol idiot you seriously think Mitchel >> Edelman?? Dumb!" I'm betting you'll facepalm just as hard as I am right now.
