PC Board OT thread

[E-Balla]

Bill Cosby has been exposed as using Quaaludes to rape women. Yeesh. Think they pull the Cosby show again?

I'll quote this with a tweet I found

"@richiebranson: The world will have to accept the fact that @BillCosby and Dr. Huxtable are not the same person."

Personally I agree but they pulled it already and they pulled the Dukes of Hazzard. Also where did someone get Quaaludes in 2005? Did he save some from the 80s?

[ceiling raiser]

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Does Crash have anything left? If so, he could be another very nice addition to GSW's already terrific depth.

[PaulieWal]

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Does Crash have anything left? If so, he could be another very nice addition to GSW's already terrific depth.

I don't think he has anything left and even if he did, I don't see how he gets on the floor as a guy who can't shoot at all.

[MisterHibachi]

The Warriors are gonna waive him, no?

[penbeast0]

Bill Cosby has been exposed as using Quaaludes to rape women. Yeesh. Think they pull the Cosby show again?

I'll quote this with a tweet I found

"@richiebranson: The world will have to accept the fact that @BillCosby and Dr. Huxtable are not the same person."

Personally I agree but they pulled it already and they pulled the Dukes of Hazzard. Also where did someone get Quaaludes in 2005? Did he save some from the 80s?

80s? 70s even . . . maybe 60s, was too young then.

[bondom34]

The Warriors are gonna waive him, no?

They can stretch him, but his cap hit carries over then. There's discussion on the trade board if anyone is interested....just sayin.

And nope, Crash is pretty much entirely dead weight, this is just to save money.

[Witzig-Okashi]

Bill Cosby has been exposed as using Quaaludes to rape women. Yeesh. Think they pull the Cosby show again?

I'll quote this with a tweet I found

"@richiebranson: The world will have to accept the fact that @BillCosby and Dr. Huxtable are not the same person."

Personally I agree but they pulled it already and they pulled the Dukes of Hazzard.

It's an interesting dilemma. I still watch A Different World with the same amount of interest as I did before, but it is hard looking at the Cosby Show not thinking about Cosby's past. But Cliff wasn't only the person on that show, so I agree with your sentiments as well...

[Clyde Frazier]

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Does Crash have anything left? If so, he could be another very nice addition to GSW's already terrific depth.

Warriors would've saved more $ next year and gotten a better player if they traded lee for calderon straight up.

[Doctor MJ]

Bill Cosby has been exposed as using Quaaludes to rape women. Yeesh. Think they pull the Cosby show again?

I'll quote this with a tweet I found

"@richiebranson: The world will have to accept the fact that @BillCosby and Dr. Huxtable are not the same person."

I don't know. I think now we know why he wanted to go to med school.

[E-Balla]

I'll quote this with a tweet I found

"@richiebranson: The world will have to accept the fact that @BillCosby and Dr. Huxtable are not the same person."

Personally I agree but they pulled it already and they pulled the Dukes of Hazzard. Also where did someone get Quaaludes in 2005? Did he save some from the 80s?

80s? 70s even . . . maybe 60s, was too young then.

I always thought quaaludes got big in the late 70s. I wouldn't know my parents weren't even old enough to know where babies came from through most of the decade.

[Doctor MJ]

Stop with the "I get that you don't like this guy". To the extent i don't like him now, it's because of recent behavior, not the other way around.

I'm going to just try to get things as simple as I can here. My (2) option was "Aldridge doesn't say those words, but he says very positive things.", my (1) option was "Aldridge unofficially says he's coming."

Can we at least agree that if he said (1), it says negative things about his integrity?

If not, I think you're crazy.

If so, so then for you the key thing is that the guy has to literally say the words, even though they don't legally mean anything, and if he uses anything less literal, no matter how flirtatious, it's not an integrity issue.

My issue then is that I think in practice that's not how conversation works. We don't force people to say just the right words before we commit to going forward with them precisely because we know that the right words are still nothing more than wind if it isn't in writing, and hence the very nature of the discussion is based on the integrity of the two sides not misleading the other.

Put it this way: If you know a girl who has a tendency to get guys to break up with their girlfriends for her, and then says she just wants to be friends, there's a problem with this girl. Fine to say there were problems with the guys too, but there's some kind of a problem with the girl, and whether or not it's a pre-meditated thing, it is an integrity issue. The words and tone coming out of her mouth do not communicate her intentions, and appear to communicate very different intentions.

If to you that's not an integrity thing, that's fine, but it's a problem nonetheless.

I can get behind the sentiment of this. However, I don't think it's so much that Aldridge was leading other teams on (intentionally or not), I think that it may have more to do with the fact that he's not the easiest guy to read. I could definitely see Aldridge hearing a pitch from, say, the Suns, and responding with something like, "Yeah, that sounds really good. I could see this situation working for me", but because of his mannerisms, it might come off to one person like a lukewarm reaction and another like great interest. I suppose you'd like to think he'd be self-aware enough to know how that he could come across that way and be careful of not just how he chooses his words, but how he says them, but a guy that was listening to lots of pitches from different teams (and possibly flying around a bit to hear them - not sure on where these meetings were all held), may not be at his best in reading the mood of the room, either.

Well here's what i'll say: If we think of a hypothetical example of an autistic person, do I really want to say an autistic person lacks integrity because of issues like this? No.

But it's not like you have to be good at reading a room here because you can say whatever you want. You can error on the side of making things crystal clear. And if you need a minute to step out and talk to your agent, you can do that too. So to me, if you're at all a typical person who cares about not giving the wrong impression, it's really clear what you need to do.

Again I'll acknowledge that the team in question deserves blame. I'll be the first to say that the Suns' management has seemed incompetent for a very long time, and they should be criticized here if they really made moves they wouldn't have otherwise made. But it should bother Aldridge that this happened.

[Texas Chuck]

Doc,

Are Tim Duncan and Lebron bad guys because many many teams cleared cap space just to have a remote shot at them in free agency when they hit it in their absolute prime?

Is Chris Bosh a bad guy because Houston dumped Asik and Lin and then he spurned them at the last minute after giving them much more favorable feedback than LMA just gave Phoenix?

What about Deron and the Mavs? btw thank goodness we dodged that one, but we wasted a whole year of the end of Dirk's prime hoping to sign him to a max deal.

This is why I thought this was some personal ax to grind. Because this situation isn't remotely unique to LMA and Phoenix already wanted to separate the Morris brothers so that deal likely happens anyway.

This is 100% on the teams when they make moves like this and again in the Suns case I don't think that deal had much of anything to do with LMA. And he shouldn't feel bad at all.

[ThaRegul8r]

Bill Cosby has been exposed as using Quaaludes to rape women. Yeesh. Think they pull the Cosby show again?

I'll quote this with a tweet I found

"@richiebranson: The world will have to accept the fact that @BillCosby and Dr. Huxtable are not the same person."

Personally I agree but they pulled it already and they pulled the Dukes of Hazzard. Also where did someone get Quaaludes in 2005? Did he save some from the 80s?

70s.

2005 is when he admitted to it, not when he got it.

[RSCD3_]

I'll quote this with a tweet I found

"@richiebranson: The world will have to accept the fact that @BillCosby and Dr. Huxtable are not the same person."

Personally I agree but they pulled it already and they pulled the Dukes of Hazzard. Also where did someone get Quaaludes in 2005? Did he save some from the 80s?

70s.

2005 is when he admitted to it, not when he got it.

Actually he admitted to it very recently, he only admitted to the 2005 Accusation. Although I doubt that was the only case.

[Clyde Frazier]

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[ThaRegul8r]

Personally I agree but they pulled it already and they pulled the Dukes of Hazzard. Also where did someone get Quaaludes in 2005? Did he save some from the 80s?

70s.

2005 is when he admitted to it, not when he got it.

Actually he admitted to it very recently, he only admitted to the 2005 Accusation. Although I doubt that was the only case.

He confessed in 2005. That information was only recently released publicly, which is why everyone knows about it now. Once the cat's out of the bag, you can't very well deny something you're on record as admitting to.

[E-Balla]

70s.

2005 is when he admitted to it, not when he got it.

Actually he admitted to it very recently, he only admitted to the 2005 Accusation. Although I doubt that was the only case.

He confessed in 2005. That information was only recently released publicly, which is why everyone knows about it now. Once the cat's out of the bag, you can't very well deny something you're on record as admitting to.

He probably will just try to ignore it. He's at the point where he really doesn't have to care.

[penbeast0]

Drugs.com says:

History of Quaaludes

Quaaludes were first synthesized in India in 1950's. It was introduced into America in the 1960's and by the late 1960's it became a popular recreational drug. The abuse potential of Quaaludes soon became apparent and in 1973 methaqualone was placed in Schedule II, making it difficult to prescribe and illegal to possess without a prescription. In 1984 it was moved to Federal Schedule I, so Quaaludes are no longer legally available in the United States.

[Doctor MJ]

Doc,

Are Tim Duncan and Lebron bad guys because many many teams cleared cap space just to have a remote shot at them in free agency when they hit it in their absolute prime?

Is Chris Bosh a bad guy because Houston dumped Asik and Lin and then he spurned them at the last minute after giving them much more favorable feedback than LMA just gave Phoenix?

What about Deron and the Mavs? btw thank goodness we dodged that one, but we wasted a whole year of the end of Dirk's prime hoping to sign him to a max deal.

This is why I thought this was some personal ax to grind. Because this situation isn't remotely unique to LMA and Phoenix already wanted to separate the Morris brothers so that deal likely happens anyway.

This is 100% on the teams when they make moves like this and again in the Suns case I don't think that deal had much of anything to do with LMA. And he shouldn't feel bad at all.

There's a major difference between teams making moves before you're even allowed to talk to them and teams making moves immediately after they officially talk to you and ask you to sign a deal. C'mon now.

[Doctor MJ]

70s.

2005 is when he admitted to it, not when he got it.

Actually he admitted to it very recently, he only admitted to the 2005 Accusation. Although I doubt that was the only case.

He confessed in 2005. That information was only recently released publicly, which is why everyone knows about it now. Once the cat's out of the bag, you can't very well deny something you're on record as admitting to.

Yup, and this is absolutely the death knell for him.

What I don't understand though is why you'd admit you were going to give a drug people took for their own enjoyment to a specific group of other people. I mean how would they know you were lying, and what's the worst that could happen admitting to recreational drug use? I feel like that must have been an echo of Cosby's BS sanctimony where he wouldn't be caught dead taking drugs, and in this case rather indirectly acknowledge to being a serial rapist than being a drugee.