No Right Answer: Best "Playa" Ever

[Firefilm]

Best "Playa" Ever

St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, pretty much a holiday built around eating boiled meat and getting so drunk that Irish little people handing out gold from rainbows sounds plausible. And with ladies everywhere being buzzed, the playas come out to play. But who is the biggest playa of all time? At least let us all agree to not hate the playa ... hate the game.


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[The_root_of_all_evil]

St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, pretty much a holiday built around eating boiled meat and getting so drunk that Irish little people handing out gold from rainbows sounds plausible.

Wow. Just wow...

Could you be more offensive? I appreciate that maybe a joke, but if I described 4th July in a similar way, wouldn't I be outright banned?

Seriously guys, so not cool.

St. Patrick's Day is a celebration of the 4 Saints that brought Christianity to Europe and then to the Americas. The very least you could do is not use it as a joke explaining which white guy is acting like a black pimp.

St. Patrick was best known though, for driving the snakes out of Ireland. From what I've seen here, I know where they went.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Oh dear God...I have not laughed so hard in my LIFE! This was an awesome episode!

Although...in all fairness, with Mario going between Peach and Pauline, having a brief stint with Daisy, and getting smooches from damn near every female protagonist in TTYD, he could be a contender with Kirk.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

CHILLAX ROOT DAMN!

No.

I'd hate to see your reaction to Lucky Charms Cereal.

I'd hate to see what would happen if you called the New York Police Force a bunch of drunkards.

And why would we Americans care about you making a joke about July the 4th? Rupert Murdoch doesn't own the escapist (not yet anyway). Besides I'm pretty Kyle is descended from Irish stock.

1) It's trolling.
2) It's religion and politics.
3) It's a throw-away line to introduce something irrelevant.

I'd report it normally and I'm reporting it now.

 

[Dastardly]

Wow. Just wow...

Could you be more offensive? I appreciate that maybe a joke, but if I described 4th July in a similar way, wouldn't I be outright banned?

Seriously guys, so not cool.

St. Patrick's Day is a celebration of the 4 Saints that brought Christianity to Europe and then to the Americas. The very least you could do is not use it as a joke explaining which white guy is acting like a black pimp.

Ow, I just got a cramp in my irony.

But seriously, St. Patrick's Day isn't really as cut-and-dry as all of that. To some, it's a "celebration" of Catholicism being shoehorned into other cultures, so not much to celebrate. Aside from that the commercialized "St. Patty's Day" is almost a separate entity from the traditional St. Patrick's Day -- kind of like how "Christmas" (Jesus Christmas) and "X-Mas" (Santa Christmas) divide up in much of America.

On the 4th of July thing, there's a 0% chance you'd be banned for saying it's, for instance, a day to get drunk and blow things up. Now, if you said, "That's a stupid holiday for dumb Americans to celebrate dumb stupid American things," that'd be different -- the problem isn't if someone "insults" a day. It's about insulting a culture (or other group of people).

This? Perhaps an overly-casual treatment of the holiday's source material, but really just a harmless jab at the usual activities surrounding the holiday. Hardly what one might deem "offensive."

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Ow, I just got a cramp in my irony.

Read it back. Then decide.

Then ask yourself what you'd feel like if I started making 9/11 jokes.

I'm exceedingly angry at certain contributors using their taglines for posts that wouldn't be accepted as normal posts - and I'm making a point here. If you want to condemn others cultures, I believe that falls under "Don't be a jerk".

I'm certain there'll be more people rushing in to tell me I'm being one; I just want to see this recent development of "fair game for shock headlines" to stop.

 

[JimbobDa3rd]

snoop? cause even including fiction I think we all can agree snoop is the biggest "playa" (edit:I relation to the "biggest playa" question, not the argument of how offensive or not the text blob is) (edit 2: forgot black dynamite, he is slightly more "playa" then snoop)

 

[krellen]

Kyle fought a noble battle, but I knew he was doomed from a second Dan said "James T. Kirk".

Sidenote: Spock was a sex symbol in his day. Isaac Asimov was somewhat disturbed by his daughter's crush on Spcok.

 

[Magnalian]

Ow, I just got a cramp in my irony.

I'm certain there'll be more people rushing in to tell me I'm being [a jerk]; I just want to see this recent development of "fair game for shock headlines" to stop.

I don't think you're a jerk, but you do seem very easily offended.

Then ask yourself what you'd feel like if I started making 9/11 jokes.

How is 9/11 anything like St. Patrick's Day?!

 

[vxicepickxv]

Well, okay, aside from the train wreck this thread started with look at it this way.

1.James Bond is a position to go with the 007 code name, not the actual name of the character.
2. James T. Kirk is now even more of a playa than he was before.

 

[blackrave]

Sorry, but I must go with Tucker from Red vs. Blue
He is so good that alien DID HIM

 

[orangecharger]

I am not sure, but if I search my feelings (like Luke Skywalker) the 2nd post is more offensive to me and my Irish heritage than the original post. The first one is a joke... a ha ha... a funny if you will. The second one appears to be an outright attempt to troll and contains a racially insensitive comment as well. My irony alarm seems to be going off.

Anyways to the part that matters... excellent show boys. I lol'd a bunch. "He's doing some sentient cloud of energy" all time classic line.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Both guys are reasonable choices, but i feel if you took away Kirk's whole space option and kept him on earth (still doing a mission similar to what hes doing in space), there would be less of an argument for him. Plus Bonds only got sexier (why yes im comfortable enough as a guy with my sexuality to say that) while Kirk we... the new kirk is alright looking but hes that bland alright looking like megan fox is, and shatner is just being more and more of a train wreck as he grows older.

Now you cantsay you wouldnt want to go with Sean Connery even now if given the chance (i mean come on, the guys been knighted). And really the worst looking bonds was probably David Niven (and he was in a spoof so i wouldnt really call him an actual bond).

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

If you actually made a joke about it, it could be funny.

And if they did, it would have been.

You seem to be missing out on what the problem is, so I'll underline it.

With St. Patrick's Day coming up, the "No Right Answer" team decided to celebrate it by getting drunk and eating meat before asking "Who is the Real Playa?"

Not Offensive

As St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, he might have thought to himself "Begorrah, who moight have done this if I hadn't have been around?"

Not Offensive

St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, pretty much a holiday built around eating boiled meat and getting so drunk that Irish little people handing out gold from rainbows sounds plausible.

Offensive - Because it insults real people beliefs, and is ridiculously inaccurate even for a non-believer.

Not hating the playa - just the game.

 

[orangecharger]

St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, pretty much a holiday built around eating boiled meat and getting so drunk that Irish little people handing out gold from rainbows sounds plausible.

Offensive - Because it insults real people beliefs.

Not hating the playa - just the game.

Is this a belief you hold, or are you insulted on someone's behalf? As St. Patrick's Day is celebrated now particularly in the US are they that far off? They are talking about the holiday "built" around the Saint and their triumphs. The holiday that has been built into what it is today. They are not saying the original St. Patrick's Day was a celebration of eating boiled meat and getting drunk. That is what it has devolved/been built into.

So does Christmas offend you when there are people that think Santa and gifts first and Jesus and Sacrifice second? Christmas has been built into a celebration of consumerism in the North America. It starts the moment the Hallowe'en crap gets moved off the shelves November 1st.

I can't help but think from your profile and your sheer number of posts you troll. So congrats on helping the guys you called snakes (surely they wouldn't be offended by that would they?) get additional page views.

 

[Firefilm]

St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, pretty much a holiday built around eating boiled meat and getting so drunk that Irish little people handing out gold from rainbows sounds plausible.

Wow. Just wow...

Could you be more offensive? I appreciate that maybe a joke, but if I described 4th July in a similar way, wouldn't I be outright banned?

Seriously guys, so not cool.

St. Patrick's Day is a celebration of the 4 Saints that brought Christianity to Europe and then to the Americas. The very least you could do is not use it as a joke explaining which white guy is acting like a black pimp.

St. Patrick was best known though, for driving the snakes out of Ireland. From what I've seen here, I know where they went.

Root, I honestly can't tell if you ate legitimately angered by the post, but let me set the record straight. we were not referring to Irish people as drunks, we were talking about how many people celebrate the holiday. Go into any store this week and you will see green beer on sale. If you find offense in what we posted, then you must also find offense in 90 percent of ads for the holiday, showing leprechauns dancing under displays of guinness. Plus, the Irish little people is a reference to leprechauns, so calm down.

We didn't mean to offend you, but the post had as much to do with st pattys day as buying tons of toys has to do with Christmas.

 

[Aureliano]

I hate to bring up internet nerdzardry, but if you want to get the lo-down on how many places Kirk boldly went where no man had gone before, I recommend reading: http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/kirkgirls.htm

In short? 2. Kirk had sex with 2 ladies over the course of the show.

Bond banged dozens of ladies, sometimes more than one at a time. So if you want to go by the numbers, Bond wins by at least an order of magnitude. And don't get me started on Casino Royale (the good one from the '60s, not the one with the new gay bond who doesn't have sex with ladies anymore). Everybody in bed with everybody in that awesome one. Plus, Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond!

That being said, Dan still won the argument with honorable mention to Kyle's fist of fury. Fantastic. Definitely as classic as the amazing racism episode of Drinking Games.