I thought it was hilarious but I wouldn't put it on a sign.

Poor taste.
Those trying to convince us it wasn't are trying to convince us of a new definition of class. Banter and good fun can be done with tact. If you don't wish to use it don't expect others to think it's ok.

Sid Farkas said:

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ScottishFire said:

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Outage can't be attributed to 'oversensitivity'. That joke was out of line, and frankly, it wasn't funny.

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I'll grant you the 'not funny' take...humor is a matter of opinion after all

But out of line? Take this the right way...but...grow a pair, or avert your tender little eyes

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I wish I had two testicles, so I could blatantly insult the way people are created.

I am 100% on board for mocking/insulting the actions and folly of people, but I'm never okay with ridiculing people on things outside of their control.

Panama Red said:

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Winner:


Johnny snorted Dobbs' Eyebrows

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Johnny has a disease!

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Talon2DSO said:

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If one of our players had a disease and our opponents made fun of it, we would go ape-**** about how classless they are.

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#TRUTH once media gets a hold of this, WATCHOUT. And I for one don't blame them...

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And there's the problem. Not only in this situation but in this victimhood mentality across the nation. You care what the media thinks and guide yourself by it. They are pushing an agenda and it's not in your best interest. Wake up.

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Don't make fun of genetics? Like being short, tall, skinny, heavy, ugly, big eared, red headed, pasty skinned, freckled, pear assed, big footed, neanderthal browed, big nosed, flat chested, donkey dicked, micro*****ed, pointy elbowed, knobby kneed, sausage fingered, curly haired, bald, crooked toothed, buck toothed, crooked toed, or fiveheaded?

These are all off limits now??


WTF! Grow a pair!

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Because ridiculing someone for an autoimmune disease is totally the same as making fun of Charlie Strong for being short.

ScottishFire said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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ScottishFire said:

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Outage can't be attributed to 'oversensitivity'. That joke was out of line, and frankly, it wasn't funny.

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I'll grant you the 'not funny' take...humor is a matter of opinion after all

But out of line? Take this the right way...but...grow a pair, or avert your tender little eyes

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I wish I had two testicles, so I could blatantly insult the way people are created.

I am 100% on board for mocking/insulting the actions and folly of people, but I'm never okay with ridiculing people on things outside of their control.

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So sorry my man-splaining wasn't preceded with a trigger warning allowing you opportunity to go to your designated safe space

You need this pic soooo bad little lady:

No, it's 7th grade name calling, not a Hillary conspiracy.

Sid Farkas said:

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ScottishFire said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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ScottishFire said:

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Outage can't be attributed to 'oversensitivity'. That joke was out of line, and frankly, it wasn't funny.

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I'll grant you the 'not funny' take...humor is a matter of opinion after all

But out of line? Take this the right way...but...grow a pair, or avert your tender little eyes

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I wish I had two testicles, so I could blatantly insult the way people are created.

I am 100% on board for mocking/insulting the actions and folly of people, but I'm never okay with ridiculing people on things outside of their control.

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So sorry my man-splaining wasn't preceded with a trigger warning allowing you opportunity to go to your designated safe space

You need this pic soooo bad little lady:

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Thanks for apologizing. You're forgiven.

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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

QUIT IT WITH THIS OVERSENSITIVE, CRAP! Some of y'all need to toughen up; seriously. You are a pansy pathetic joke to humanity and your pillow is probably soaking wet from your tears every night.

If this triggered any millennials (I'm a millennial too btw), let me know, so I can be sure to shed a tear into my pillow in your honor.

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I've gathered enough info to know you fit every negative stereotype associated with A&M. It's not about being sensitive. It's about having enough class and intelligence to not stoop to such lows to get your rocks off. You're a bad Aggie. Kindly refrain from posting or ever claiming association with this University.

I hope I haven't hurt your feelings.

titanmaster_race said:

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Ogre09 said:

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Don't make fun of genetics? Like being short, tall, skinny, heavy, ugly, big eared, red headed, pasty skinned, freckled, pear assed, big footed, neanderthal browed, big nosed, flat chested, donkey dicked, micro*****ed, pointy elbowed, knobby kneed, sausage fingered, curly haired, bald, crooked toothed, buck toothed, crooked toed, or fiveheaded?

These are all off limits now??


WTF! Grow a pair!

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Because ridiculing someone for an autoimmune disease is totally the same as making fun of Charlie Strong for being short.

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Glad we agree.

Sorry this is so long, but Let me tell ya a story Ags.

It started about twenty years ago. The summer between my sophomore and junior years of highschool. I woke up one morning and my hair started falling out in clumps. Literally. Handfuls coming out as I shampooed my hair. Imagine the horror of taking acne meds and rogaine in the mornings. In the span of two weeks I went from having hair like vinny barbarino to a comb over like Christian bale in American hustle. It was that bad. At 15. I was the QB of the football team, dated a cheerleader, and was what a lot of people would have called an All American kid. The first few weeks of my junior year were hell. Kids made fun of me, my teammates ribbed me. I lost most of my friends. My girlfriend dumped me. Teachers asked if I had a medical condition, but could not stick up for me in the halls or the locker room. It went on for the entire month.

Ya know what I decided to do? I steered into the skid. I shaved my head. I got started being called cue ball and mister clean. But I sacked up. I had gotten depressed and lost the team. Lost my job as the starting QB. So I started begging coach to run the scout team offense and defense. I started playing both ways. The ribbing coninued. I still got made fun of in school. I let the jokes feed my hunger. I hit the weight room hard And I translated that to rage on the football field. I became the starting OLB. The fifth game of the year we were down by 4, I came in on a field goal blocking unit, blocked the thing and our team returned it for the game winning touchdown. The seventh game of the year I hit the running back on the twenty, causing a fumble that set up a late game come back for the win.

And ya know what happened The chants of MR. Clean became a battle cry for our team when the defense was on the field. I found healthier friends who actually cared about me as a person and I refocused my life back on my grades and things that ACTUALLY mattered. Now twenty years later I thank god everyday for being bald and the hell I went through the fall of my junior year. And when I get the occasional bald joke tossed my way now and then nowadays I just smile back and tell them a better one. I showed my wife my old highschool photos when I had great hair and she swears up and down that it was my bald some that first attracted her to me and she wouldn't have said yes when I had asked her on our first date if I had hair.

All of you thinking that Dobbs cares about the jokes have no clue. He wouldn't be where he is if he let that kind of thing bring him down. He has used the jokes to make himself a stronger and better person. Is it nice? Is it bullying? Heck it sure ain't nice.

But Here's a tip for everyone whether you're young or old. Bullying happens. Period. You can't force everyone to be nice and it is impossible to walk on eggshells so as not to offend anyone. Getting offended. Having your feelings hurt is part of life. It happens intentionally and unintentionally. Sometimes to people who deserve it. Slot of times to people who don't. And while it is great to support people who are being bullied and Offer them friendship and stick up for them, what they DON'T need is to be coddled and treated with kid gloves and patronized. It's condescending. It reminds me of the conversation between Coach Boone and Coach Yoast in Remember the Titans. "The world don't give a damn about how sensitive these kids are, especially young black kids. You ain't doing these kids a favor by patronizing them. You're crippling them. Your crippling them for life." That is what our society is doing to a lot of the kids and groups nowadays and it needs to stop because it's going to cripple our society. The Dobbs joke at midnight yell didn't offend me and heck probably didn't offend Dobbs.

What I worry about is how Dobbs uses the jokes to fuel his desire to succeed. You certainly haven't hurt his feelings.

fighterbull said:

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The wussification of America continues. Hopefully, we will put on her big girl panties and recover from this horrible incident.

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What does this even mean? Is this the new calling card for those that have a broken brain-mouth filter?

Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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That's sage advice, but ignores the injustice. You've got to work on both fronts. You wouldn't send your son to school knowing he's going to get his as kicked or potentially shot every day. Still just toughen up?

Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

It would be completely different if Dobbs came out and joked about himself, opening the door to some good humor roasting. Until that time it is in better taste to refrain

If that's the best the yell leaders can come up with, they need to hire some writers.

Some really weak sauce

msc0108 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. You like everyone else miss the point completely. The point is that pitying people who are different or have a condition and PATRONIZING them is CONDESCENDING at best. At worst, pitying these people teaches them that they are different and weak. It tells them that they deserve "special" treatment for being different. It cripples them for life. Because in fact their condition does NOT entitle them to any such consideration. The world is not going to treat them with kid gloves and people with these conditions cannot control the behavior of the billions of people in the world and the millions of a-holes who will make their condition the punchline of a joke or make their condition a reason to look down on them or treat them differently. All these people CAN control their reaction to such behavior. And by telling these people that the world can control their sense of self worth and their ability to succeed sets them up for failure. These people need to be taught to persevere through adversity because guess what most people are confronted with adversity at some point, disadvantaged or people with special conditions more than others. And if they are not taught how to confront adversity they will fail time and time again the second something in life doesn't go their way in spite of how much they are coddled.

But the people who preservers through adversity succeed no matter what life throws their way.

msc0108 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. Being open and honest about yourself and having a sense of humor are vital to good personal development

My point is: the worst gift you can give someone is pity

Ags4DaWin said:

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Sorry this is so long, but Let me tell ya a story Ags.

It started about twenty years ago. The summer between my sophomore and junior years of highschool. I woke up one morning and my hair started falling out in clumps. Literally. Handfuls coming out as I shampooed my hair. Imagine the horror of taking acne meds and rogaine in the mornings. In the span of two weeks I went from having hair like vinny barbarino to a comb over like Christian bale in American hustle. It was that bad. At 15. I was the QB of the football team, dated a cheerleader, and was what a lot of people would have called an All American kid. The first few weeks of my junior year were hell. Kids made fun of me, my teammates ribbed me. I lost most of my friends. My girlfriend dumped me. Teachers asked if I had a medical condition, but could not stick up for me in the halls or the locker room. It went on for the entire month.

Ya know what I decided to do? I steered into the skid. I shaved my head. I got started being called cue ball and mister clean. But I sacked up. I had gotten depressed and lost the team. Lost my job as the starting QB. So I started begging coach to run the scout team offense and defense. I started playing both ways. The ribbing coninued. I still got made fun of in school. I let the jokes feed my hunger. I hit the weight room hard And I translated that to rage on the football field. I became the starting OLB. The fifth game of the year we were down by 4, I came in on a field goal blocking unit, blocked the thing and our team returned it for the game winning touchdown. The seventh game of the year I hit the running back on the twenty, causing a fumble that set up a late game come back for the win.

And ya know what happened The chants of MR. Clean became a battle cry for our team when the defense was on the field. I found healthier friends who actually cared about me as a person and I refocused my life back on my grades and things that ACTUALLY mattered. Now twenty years later I thank god everyday for being bald and the hell I went through the fall of my junior year. And when I get the occasional bald joke tossed my way now and then nowadays I just smile back and tell them a better one. I showed my wife my old highschool photos when I had great hair and she swears up and down that it was my bald some that first attracted her to me and she wouldn't have said yes when I had asked her on our first date if I had hair.

All of you thinking that Dobbs cares about the jokes have no clue. He wouldn't be where he is if he let that kind of thing bring him down. He has used the jokes to make himself a stronger and better person. Is it nice? Is it bullying? Heck it sure ain't nice.

But Here's a tip for everyone whether you're young or old. Bullying happens. Period. You can't force everyone to be nice and it is impossible to walk on eggshells so as not to offend anyone. Getting offended. Having your feelings hurt is part of life. It happens intentionally and unintentionally. Sometimes to people who deserve it. Slot of times to people who don't. And while it is great to support people who are being bullied and Offer them friendship and stick up for them, what they DON'T need is to be coddled and treated with kid gloves and patronized. It's condescending. It reminds me of the conversation between Coach Boone and Coach Yoast in Remember the Titans. "The world don't give a damn about how sensitive these kids are, especially young black kids. You ain't doing these kids a favor by patronizing them. You're crippling them. Your crippling them for life." That is what our society is doing to a lot of the kids and groups nowadays and it needs to stop because it's going to cripple our society. The Dobbs joke at midnight yell didn't offend me and heck probably didn't offend Dobbs.

What I worry about is how Dobbs uses the jokes to fuel his desire to succeed. You certainly haven't hurt his feelings.

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Sid Farkas said:

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msc0108 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. Being open and honest about yourself and having a sense of humor are vital to good personal development

My point is: the worst gift you can give someone is pity

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Agree. Talk to parents of special needs kids and read articles by experts in the field of educating special needs kids and you will find that this statement is very correct and there has been a huge push now within that community to reeducate the public on how to interact with people with special needs or special conditions without hurting them through as you call "pitying them"

I think y'all are forgetting something here:

WE ARE AGGIES! We believe in taking the high road and setting the bar for excellence.

Any compromise on that Gold Standard starts to demean who we are as a school and as a culture.

WE treat others better because it is who WE are as a school. We should demand no less than that of ourselves.

Ags4DaWin said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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msc0108 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. Being open and honest about yourself and having a sense of humor are vital to good personal development

My point is: the worst gift you can give someone is pity

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Agree. Talk to parents of special needs kids and read articles by experts in the field of educating special needs kids and you will find that this statement is very correct and there has been a huge push now within that community to reeducate the public on how to interact with people with special needs or special conditions without hurting them through as you call "pitying them"

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I missed the part where refraining from insult was the same as pity.
Does a disease have to be potentially terminal or fatal before we decide it's no longer "societally permissible" to insult?

Ags4DaWin said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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msc0108 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. Being open and honest about yourself and having a sense of humor are vital to good personal development

My point is: the worst gift you can give someone is pity

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Agree. Talk to parents of special needs kids and read articles by experts in the field of educating special needs kids and you will find that this statement is very correct and there has been a huge push now within that community to reeducate the public on how to interact with people with special needs or special conditions without hurting them through as you call "pitying them"

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There is a huge difference between not pitying and actively making fun of someone.

Frank Grimes said:

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Ags4DaWin said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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msc0108 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. Being open and honest about yourself and having a sense of humor are vital to good personal development

My point is: the worst gift you can give someone is pity

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Agree. Talk to parents of special needs kids and read articles by experts in the field of educating special needs kids and you will find that this statement is very correct and there has been a huge push now within that community to reeducate the public on how to interact with people with special needs or special conditions without hurting them through as you call "pitying them"

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There is a huge difference between not pitying and actively making fun of someone.

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90% of the game day signs are traditionally dedicated making fun of people. Amirite?

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Ags4DaWin said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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msc0108 said:

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. Being open and honest about yourself and having a sense of humor are vital to good personal development

My point is: the worst gift you can give someone is pity

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Agree. Talk to parents of special needs kids and read articles by experts in the field of educating special needs kids and you will find that this statement is very correct and there has been a huge push now within that community to reeducate the public on how to interact with people with special needs or special conditions without hurting them through as you call "pitying them"

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There is a huge difference between not pitying and actively making fun of someone.

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Frank for the win! Well said.

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Sid Farkas said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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Johnny Z said:

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If Dobbs was my son, I would be furious. It's not so much that it's mean, it's more that it's immature and classless to joke about conditions/physical attributes of other people.

I doubt any of you would be thrilled to have a joke cracked about your looks in front of 30K+ people.

I'm sorry, but this is how America works now and this is the kind of stuff the media loves to latch onto. It only helps perpetuate the ignorant, close-minded stereotype that non-Aggies love to tag us with. A student smart enough to attend A&M should know better.

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If Dobbs was my son, I would tell him that this is a good time to learn that the world is a tough place, time to toughen up.

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Agree. I used to buy steel through a wholesale rep who had alopecia...during the years I worked with him I recall one or two honest self-deprecating jokes from him re: his condition...

He was an eminently honest, reliable and self confident man. No doubt he endured unwanted attention during his life. I'm certain learning to deal with the social aspects of his condition made him the solid dude he had become.

You guys who are tweeked by the alopecia jokes are really the problem...you're the ones coddling a sense of inadequacy by assuming they need your pitying defense

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I hope this is satire. You've got to be kidding, right? Your view is that we have a moral responsibility to ridicule people to help them see their full potential?

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No. Being open and honest about yourself and having a sense of humor are vital to good personal development

My point is: the worst gift you can give someone is pity

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Agree. Talk to parents of special needs kids and read articles by experts in the field of educating special needs kids and you will find that this statement is very correct and there has been a huge push now within that community to reeducate the public on how to interact with people with special needs or special conditions without hurting them through as you call "pitying them"

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I missed the part where refraining from insult was the same as pity.
Does a disease have to be potentially terminal or fatal before we decide it's no longer "societally permissible" to insult?

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What I am saying is that the guy is bald. Big whoop. Have you ever made a bald joke? Have you ever made a blonde joke? have you ever made a tall guy joke? Or a fat guy joke? How about a woman joke or a joke about men?

Guess what. All of those are making fun of conditions that are GENETIC and in no way under the control of the people who have those conditions. Before making a bald joke directed at a bald guy do you stop to ask if he has a genetic condition that predisposes him to baldness, either alopecia or male pattern baldness?

I am saying if you stop being able to make humorous observations about people and their 'conditions' because they are genetic then eventually everything becomes off limits. And everyone gets to play the victim. So where does it stop?

Was it meant in good humor? At midnight yell we roast opposing schools and their coaches and in comedy and roasting a line gets toed. Go to any comedy club. Comedy is intended to push the limits its Part of the reason it's there. It starts conversations like these where we get to reevaluate our society where we are and where we want to be.

Nobody posting here is celebrating the joke. It wasn't funny or clever. It was crude and catered to the lowest common denominator. I, personally, wouldn't have said it.

That being said...if you were offended by it, don't laugh. Don't vote for that yell leader next year. But most importantly, don't go whining about it on a message board. About a million things happened yesterday more tragic than someone making fun of someone's bald spot. Focus on one of those things.

Well said.....your damn right on that!

Gig'em and BTHOtennessee!

Should have stayed at home in your "safe space". Bunch of panty waists these days.

The Debt said:

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It's hardly a disease, 1 in 5 Americans have it and most don't recognize it as such.

Poor kid has it on his face, boohoo.

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Alright, that's it! Where's Baily?!

(grabbing a bag of popcorn)

agdoc2001 said:

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Nobody posting here is celebrating the joke. It wasn't funny or clever. It was crude and catered to the lowest common denominator. I, personally, wouldn't have said it.

That being said...if you were offended by it, don't laugh. Don't vote for that yell leader next year. But most importantly, don't go whining about it on a message board. About a million things happened yesterday more tragic than someone making fun of someone's bald spot. Focus on one of those things.

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Way to make a stand there, I think. Let me get this right: "don't criticize or provide an opposing view unless there are tragic consequences involved." Passive resistance. If we ignore them, they'll go away. I'm sure that hasn't come back to bite someone in the butt.

Wussification is socialism, lowering standards, "equal opportunity", unaccountability, and everyone gets a trophy. It isn't making fun of others for what they can't control. A joke like that shows lack of maturity and respect.