Twitter and Athletes
Be careful what you say, it brings people like this out of the woodwork. What a great message for a high-school student. Of course, he might be an expert on internet tough guys?
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:48 AM ^
Only in Ohio....or EL....or a bears fan
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:56 AM ^
Oh dear....too much irony....cant....stop.....laughing....
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:58 AM ^
I find it interesting that they are calling us out for being classless and our recruits are running their mouths when you get drenched in beer if you try to go to the UM-Ohio football game in Columbus.
December 23rd, 2011 at 6:30 AM ^
*sigh* What a waste of beer. smh
December 23rd, 2011 at 7:49 AM ^
This. You can tell a lot about his man by the way he treats his beer. Using it to pour on people is not only wasteful but it makes me question your priorities in life....What, pray tell, is more important than beer?
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:05 AM ^
by the slightest amount... scotch
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:19 AM ^
Do you actually know Catalan, or only relevant Barça-type vocab/songs/chants?
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:20 AM ^
I started to learn it because my fiance and I were going to go to Barcelona for our honeymoon... but then we discovered that going to Hawaii is like half as expensive so I stopped. Now I only know the songs/chants.
December 25th, 2011 at 8:35 AM ^
Ah gotcha. Well Catalunya is worth it to me. I've been trying to teach myself throughout college but I keep fading in and out. I really want to motivate myself. I used parla.cat, by the way, a free site endorsed by some governmental org that wants to support the language and whatnot
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:59 AM ^
I like that he ended his opener with a question mark. It's as if he's not sure that's what he heard.
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:03 AM ^
He's calling a recruit a douchebag via Twitter. Sounds like a douchebag to me.
And our school is pathetic? lolz...
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:10 AM ^
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:14 AM ^
Yikes.. I appreciate the sentiment but that's not gonna go over well in Ann Arbor.
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:31 AM ^
We all said stupid stuff when we were young. Let's not take this too far. He'll learn soon enough why not to use that word, I'm sure. Just chalk it up to misguided youthful exuberance and move on.
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:48 AM ^
That is exactly what everyone said when they were 18. If you think otherwise you have just forgotten....
December 23rd, 2011 at 6:36 AM ^
ok the Mags reply wasn't ideal, we get that. He is still in high school and everyone says hurtful/offensive things (kills people, steals, murders etc. etc.). It was his natural instinct to fire back at someone as a high schooler who is bashing him for choosing a school. If you guys don't want him coming to Michigan because of a Twitter response, shame on you.
Not necessarily replying to Bb011, just saying.
This is the THIRD time people have posted about this Mags Twitter post, enough is enough. Let's get over it and move on, the kid will learn.
December 23rd, 2011 at 3:17 AM ^
Everyone needs to go watch the south park episode with the bikers and that word. Has a different meaning to most in the 15-25 age bracket
December 23rd, 2011 at 5:54 AM ^
"So, what do you call someone that might want to get a motorcycle, but they aren't sure?"
"Bike-curious!"
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:09 AM ^
sorry man. I saw the episode, I like to think I have a good sense of humor and don't take much too seriously.
But the word "faggot" is one of 2 words that should not ever be said in a derogatory manner.
The origins of the word (faggot means kindling, homosexuals used to be thrown into the kindling of bonfires simply for being gay... hence the term flaming faggot) display how horrendous humans can be when fueled by ignorance and intolerance.
I think you can all guess the other word that should not ever be said in a derogatory manner.
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:39 AM ^
Please cite actual incidents of homosexuals "being used as kindling for bonfires".
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<br>And please use an academic source.
December 23rd, 2011 at 9:50 AM ^
ok i looked it up, looks like it was a common practice in the middle ages. Among all the other stuff that was strange during that era. Learn something new everyday.
I have had someone gay try to tell me, how being called gay was worse than what blacks went through with slavery.. which i disagree with that comparison.
Sure both have been through a lot, but comparing it to years of slavery come on
December 25th, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
December 23rd, 2011 at 11:38 AM ^
It's Hoke!
December 23rd, 2011 at 6:04 PM ^
It should only be used in a positive, uplifting manner.
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:05 PM ^
Louis CK's thoughts on the word in Chewed Up. Pretty funny. Also, in my mind, he disarms the word by laughing at it.
December 23rd, 2011 at 6:38 AM ^
He is in high school, so fuck the politically correct grey hairs.
December 23rd, 2011 at 6:38 AM ^
He is in high school, so fuck the politically correct grey hairs.
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:44 AM ^
This is just pathetic. While I cannot defend Erik's use of that word. who the fuck are these adults who are getting into a twitter war with a high school senior. It's just fucking pathetic. Does it make them feel big to get a rise out of a kid. Not a surprise though, just more proof that Ohio fans have no class. Get a fucking life. Sorry for the language, but this really pisses me off.
December 23rd, 2011 at 9:10 AM ^
This should be a warning to all of us to leave these kids the fuck alone
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:51 AM ^
Ah, Ohio... they don't call it the armpit of America for nothin'.
December 23rd, 2011 at 3:03 AM ^
I always thought of Ohio as the asshole of America.
December 23rd, 2011 at 3:29 AM ^
If God gave the US an enema he'd stick it in Ohio.
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:18 PM ^
I always thought of Ohio as The Official Jerry Springer Training School
December 23rd, 2011 at 9:52 AM ^
That would be Gary, Indiana or also known as the asshole of america
December 23rd, 2011 at 3:41 AM ^
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:29 PM ^
This is an example of Twitter sucking, but it's cool in a lot of other ways.
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:06 AM ^
I was born and raised in Ohio. Look at my MGoUsername. It's not a coincidence that Ohio isn't mentioned.
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:17 AM ^
I was born in Ohio, but I was smart enough to get out by the time I was one.
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:40 AM ^
I was born in Michigan but have lived in Ohio the past 22 years. Unfortunately this job thingie I got myself messed up with has an attendence policy they simply will not bend on.......
What's great is that all four of my kids are huge Michigan fans and have never lived there or gone to school there. They were all born and raised right here in lovel Ohio BUT dad made sure they went to lots of games...got plenty of Michigan gear and somehow they've become surrogate fans here in the belly of the beast.
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:23 PM ^
December 23rd, 2011 at 7:10 AM ^
Mags isn't very PC, I like him already. Nobody says faggot anymore, that is sooo 2000 and late. Meanwhile the fact that you guys post all of their tweets here makes me guilty by association. Also Derek McQuaid is a DB(dirt ball) whose biggest achievement at this point in his life is having more teeth than his paw did at his age. Enjoy the Holiday edition of Auto Trader Derek.
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:28 AM ^
Mags (is that his nickname?) will learn. It is better to just be PC and be quiet, keeping your thoughts to yourself and letting your actions speak on the field.
I do find it amusing to see this discussion on an Internet Board, with a bunch of Internet tough guys hiding behind the anonymity of their user names. If you can't or won't stand behind something publicly, why say it at all? Well, that's the nature of this beast, I guess.
December 23rd, 2011 at 9:09 AM ^
Pretty funny calling him an internet tough guy is actually pretty funny considering he's 6'5 and almost 300 lbs.
December 23rd, 2011 at 9:16 AM ^
He will be groomed to be better with media soon enough. What you are all reading into too much into is the knee jerk reaction of a 17 year old getting called out on twitter. I could see Magnuson eventually being a good interview,as Molk, given his out spoken nature.
December 23rd, 2011 at 11:10 AM ^
same thing that happened with terry richardson a few days ago. its just immature kids that will learn to better control themselves with time. at least i'd like to hope so.
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:02 PM ^
I can't be too mad, Derek looks like he's not playing with a full deck. Judging by the looks of him, I'm surprised he knows how to work the interwebs and managed to mash out a semi coherent sentence.
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:53 PM ^
dude cuts his own hair.
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:32 PM ^
I think its more immature that adults go on the internet and analyze kids' tweets than it is for kids to say 'faggot' or whatever in the hell else they want to say....
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:51 PM ^
On the eve of the game, I led an MGoTwitter assault on a user @myk4ya. The thread was taken down the next day, but there were at least 50+ of us who had this dude rattled on twitter. It was a great night for MGOUSERS. Maybe this needs to happen to this dbag?