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You may as well be arguing that I change the name of my beloved Buffalo Bills for the sake of some cash and making the liberal media happy with me. For shame, man! Keepthefaith has made his positions very clear on the matter. Tradition means nothing. Fanhood means nothing. I can't help but wonder if these positions extend to his favorite team as well.

I was hoping for Washington Wetbacks and Columbus Christ Killers myself. Where do we sign up? Those are awesome names. This entire point is invalid since the only values that Natives had after the 1600's were firewater and smallpox. As I have already pointed out, Natives are not the primary hell-raisers with regard to the name change. Setting aside the obvious point that Native Americans probably deserve to be reminded of their losses, keepthefaith would apparently have the only NFL team that honors a once proud and populous people entirely abandon their homage in favor of something more "politically correct." Should the Minnesota Vikings also change their name, having a sub-.500 record since 2000, since they somehow no longer represent Scandinavians well? Preposterous. Couple of points here. First, the idea of changing the name of the franchise (and moving them!) in order to preserve the heritage of the franchise sounds really great. Ask any SuperSonics fan. Second, while an influx of revenue is virtually guaranteed with a name change, the bottom line isn't the only thing that Dan Snyder is concerned about. My opponent forgets one key fact: Dan Snyder has been a passionate Redskins fan his whole life. The man bleeds burgundy and gold like any of us Bills fans bleed red and blue, and no amount of money will ever change that. I will largely ignore the irony in the fact that someone who goes by "keepthefaith" has no idea what the origin of the name "Levi" is. I think it's pretty clear that there are several reasons to not change the name. And it appears that the only legitimate reason to change it is to get more money. The allure of such monetary gain quickly disappears for a man who, already being a billionaire, is attached and committed to his team and its timeless name and mascot through almost half a century of being a fan. Don't change the name, Dan. You'll regret it forever if you do.

I have prepared several points to open. 1. Anyone who is arguing that the name should be changed is just a hand-wringing pansy. Most of the people who say the name should be changed aren't even Natives. They're either libs (see: hand-wringing pansy) or people who say that they're 1/16 Cherokee (we all know what that means). 2. I've never seen anybody prove that a significant portion of the Native population finds the name offensive (one study found that a whopping 90% of Natives don't find it offensive). And even if they did, who cares? 3. The term "redskin" isn't even a racial slur. They don't even look red. I'm pretty sure it refers to their war paint (probably their enemies' blood smeared on their faces) and how they are fierce warriors. Really, it's a compliment. 4. The name is backed by 80 years of fan tradition. Imagine if 10% of the guys named William in the US decided that the Buffalo "Bills" name is offensive and a stupid campaign started to change the name of our beloved team. We'd be outraged and would find the notion preposterous. While I don't have a lot of sympathy for Redskins fans on principle, we can at least empathize with them on this point. 5. The Redskins are a privately owned team. Dan Snyder can call them whatever the hell he wants. They still make tons of money. 6. I need a point that the hand-wringing pansies can appreciate, so here it is: this "campaign" and the media coverage it gets only serves as a distraction from real issues that Native Americans face, such as tribal disenrollment.

I'll argue that they should not change their name. If keepthefaith is part featherhead this should be interesting.

Yep. Best-case scenario: they're annoying. Worst-case scenario: they're extremely dangerous.

Should be interesting to see a lot of the guys here argue the opposite of what they believe.

The best part? This guy has thrown parties for these very same kids several times before. And these morons go and trash the house.

"Overly skinny?" You must be joking. The store sells pants up to size 14, which I think is on the lower end of "plus size." Unless she has no self-awareness whatsoever, I severely doubt that she felt no shame walking into a store that had no articles of clothing that fit her (I'm not counting accessories/jewelry/perfume/flip-flops). If I was fat to the point where some stores were not options as far as clothing because all the articles of clothing in them were too small, I'd be ashamed. And I'm a grown-ass man. I'd find what little self-respect I had left and use it to get myself on a weight loss plan immediately. But hey, maybe you and I are different. This idea that being fat in and of itself isn't or shouldn't be shameful is a poisonous line of thinking.

Is missing the point an occupation for you or more of a hobby?

BMI is only useful for a very small subset of the population. The young, the old, and the athletic are huge swaths of the population that can't rely on BMI to figure out their healthy weight. This girl is fat. And she has no business being fat. But she's what, 14? Don't treat a 14 year old girl like **** because of her size. Wait until she's 18. At 14, the fact that the store has no clothes that will fit her is more than enough to shame her for her size.

Man, !@#$ your thread tags.

Saw Styx a couple of years ago when they were touring with Boston. Put on a great show, though I think there are fewer original members of Boston than Styx around at this point (RIP Brad Delp). "Kilroy Was Here" was an awful album and deserves ridicule, but nothing Styx ever did comes close to "We Built This City" as far as pure suckitude goes.

Hey, as long as it works.

Just hit your damn kid. It's really not that hard.

Because they're dicks. I'm sure you already arrived at that conclusion, but just didn't want to say it. They have nothing to gain by it except blowing up their own egos by thinking, "hey, if that God does exist (which he totally doesn't), IN HIS FACE!" In the Christian worldview, they have been deceived to the point where they feel the need to blaspheme a God they don't even believe is there in order to attempt to deceive others. They are wolves who don't even bother to get dressed in the sheep's clothing in the morning. And I've never seen these videos. What exactly do they say? I find it hard to believe that an atheist can honestly commit blasphemy of the Holy Spirit which, if I understand it correctly, refers to attributing the miraculous works of Christ (or the Holy Spirit) to the demonic.

That is Not Funny. And yes, Not Funny is a proper noun.

It took me a solid 75 minutes to really start liking that movie.

This paragraph is pure gold. Summertime...and the livin's easy.

The only one you've ever used before is #Not my fault. That was almost a year ago. Your obvious jealousy at my ability to rock a scarf sustains me. Yeah, so do I.

What people normally don't realize (which makes them under-appreciate the sequels) is that Agent Smith is actually the protagonist of the series, whereas Neo and Co. are the collective antagonist.

Not long, since Nazi memorabilia is banned across most of Europe (just another way that they're better than us, eh?). Golden Dawn flags, on the other hand...

birdog, legitimate neo-fascist political parties across Europe are on the phone. They told me to get them in touch with the legitimate neo-fascist political party of the United States, but the line was dead. I figured you could tell them about how racist America really is though, so I'm passing them on.

"What if OCinBuffalo still hasn't figured out thread tags?"

There may be something to this. Tom doesn't have any children.

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