Yerko
14 years ago
*I think this was a wise choice for Barnett. Seriously, twitter is fine for someone to do (though I think it is stupid). Barnett took it too far in his last couple of "tweets" when he talked about the rotation he is in. That is talking about what the organization is doing.

That should be an insta-fine.
UserPostedImage
Stevetarded
14 years ago

After seing this thread I am interested in actually following the players
tweets. Does anyone have the definitive list of verified Packers twitter pages?

Thanks
DJ

"twebdonny" wrote:



I believe it's just Grant, Finley, and Barnett (suppsoedly retired from twitter now)
blank
The_Green_Ninja
14 years ago
Barnett is staying off of twitter till next off-season. Boo 😞
UserPostedImage
djcubez
14 years ago

Touche. My concern is that the the Information Age was touted for years as a grand opportunity for human enlightenment, but it seems the exact opposite is happening. We have more avenues of communication available to use than ever before, but we seem to do less and less substantive communication. As internet-speak regresses toward the lowest common denominator, it seems to me that the 'net exists not as a bastion of resistance to illiteracy, but as a facilitator of functional illiteracy. I'm hoping I'm just an overly paranoid fuddy-duddy, but considering the fact I'm not starting to see punctuation, grammar, and spelling errors in newspapers, magazines, books, and even reference works, I don't believe so. How long will it be before the average person truly has no ability to discern a well-written sentence from, well, pure drivel?

/thread hijack

"The_Green_Ninja" wrote:



You must understand, though, most of this internet speak is

A. Invented by teenagers who haven't had a full education in the English language yet.

B. Used more often when using a smaller keyboard (A Phone, touchpad, ect...).

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:


Not to mention that you're only commenting on the portion of the internet you're exposing yourself too. There are plenty of awesome resources that function in the mannerisms you speak of.
Mckennj3
14 years ago
I think the majority of us are interested in the topic at hand, but hate to have to continuously skip over these monsterous debate posts that are totally off topic. Just start a new "illiterate millionaires?" thread.
We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.
zombieslayer
14 years ago


I will say this: There are some people on this very forum who should probably feel at least a little humbled that a guy like Rockmolder, after a little more than a year, knows more about football and writes better English than they do after an entire lifetime. I know I often feel stupid next to him, anyway, and I'm not a (very) dumb guy.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:



I've worked in global software corporations for 10 years now and can make a lot of stereotypes about different nations.

To maintain political correctness, I'll only keep it to positive ones. Straight up, the smartest nationals I've come across have been the Dutch, which by some strange coincidence are also among the nicest. It's not only that they're smart as a group, they're really, really smart.

I don't know if it's their drinking water, their education system, their national character, or their genetics, the Dutch are smart people.

Now Americans on the other hand (this is where some people will get upset), we as a nation cannot spell, cannot speak our own language fluently, and still think we're God's favorite nation. Go figure.

I see that you strive for excellence in everything you do, from your writing to running. That's commendable. You're also humble when you need to be. Those attitudes are more Dutch than American.

Sorry folks. I love this country and would gladly live here rather than there (too crowded there), but our people as a whole need to crack open a fucking book every once in awhile, and no, not the sports page, not a magazine, but a book. A fucking book.
My man Donald Driver
UserPostedImage
(thanks to Pack93z for the pic)
2010 will be seen as the beginning of the new Packers dynasty. 🇹🇹 🇲🇲 🇦🇷
Tezzy
14 years ago
No need to apologize zombie. Your experiences are your reality, and thus the basis of your views. I graciously disagree with your generalization. First of all, how much media and entertainment from the Netherlands are we exposed to? None, so how are we to compare. In my won expereinces in the research fields and industry work around the globe, I have found just as many idiots from other countries. I can't judge how well they use their language because I don't know it or am trying to, so how can I judge them on that either? And with those generalities aside, there are more bright people in the US then the entire population of the Netherlands. Are they any smarter, no, but there are so many more. Which on the flipside means more idiots, and we glorify that in tv and all outlets of media.
Not judging you at all, because I respect all opinions, just offering mine from my side of the mirror. Luckily I don't work in the media industries and actually get to work side by side intellectuals that do care about all those things you described.

Besides, if the Netherlands got uppity we'd just hit one of your dams with a hammer and flood the whole country, which are some of the most underrated scientific achievements. 🙂
On top of every beard grows a man.
"The Bears are shell-shocked... and it's breaking my heart."
zombieslayer
14 years ago
Tezzy - Smartest people in the world are Americans. We win pretty much every Nobel Prize, every year.

We also lead the world in inventions. Every single year. Japan is #2. NOBODY else is close.

But our masses need work.

I'm not saying I'm perfect by any means or I'm any better. I'm just noting what I see.

EDIT: OK, screw political correctness. I'll give a negative example - the English. Now, there are many decent English folk out there, but while we're generalizing, they're by far the easiest people out there to offend. They get butt hurt by just about everything. Plus, they're exceedingly arrogant and passive aggressive, which are two traits that drive me nuts.
My man Donald Driver
UserPostedImage
(thanks to Pack93z for the pic)
2010 will be seen as the beginning of the new Packers dynasty. 🇹🇹 🇲🇲 🇦🇷
Tezzy
14 years ago
And how about them Hooligans? lol.
I hear ya Zombie, it's all very good stuff. I think the Americans and Japanese are primed to always get more of those rewards just because of the sheer amount of publishing and corporate sponsorship that they have access to, and not to mention gov't sponsorship for research as well. I enjoy your perspective becauae it forces me to look and reevaluate all the time. I wish i could have lived in Europe for more than 2 years just for the experience of it all.
On top of every beard grows a man.
"The Bears are shell-shocked... and it's breaking my heart."
Wade
  • Wade
  • Veteran Member
14 years ago
Three and a half random thoughts:

1. zombieslayer may have inadvertently hit on the way to get Americans to read more books. Make it a sexual thing (i.e. a "fucking book") :)
2. The English are big time readers of books (compared to Americans). Oh, they have their ignorant twits/nobs/hooligan types. But compared to us, they're major league readers of books. One of the cool things is that you can find used bookstores just about anywhere, not just in college towns or big cities. And they don't just sell used Harlequins and Beeline Classics either.
3. While I'm a book person, and while I would rather people read far more books than they did, I think it's inaccurate to say that Americans, especially young Americans don't read. All that time they spend on the Internet isn't just viewing porn and playing World of Warcraft. They're reading all the time. And often, at least if it goes to their passion, they're often reading at a quite sophisticated level.
3.5 I think the reason we are collectively convinced that people don't read as much is that there are real sampling issues that arise when information about the masses is really cheap: it's easy to see lots of yobs who watch vacuous reality TV (and nothing else), or even more yobs who watch the nearly as vacuous TV news of CNN/Fox, and conclude that we've gone to hell in a handbasket. It's easy to see millions of ignoramuses in today's world, in a way it wasn't easy to see them in detail 50 or 150 years ago. But if you look deeper, you can discover a nearly as big an increase in thoughtful and literate.

To be sure, literacy in this country has declined (as it has, in fact,done steadily ever since we systematically made education compulsory). All isn't rosy, not by a long shot. But look closer at the way Gen Y (and their imitators among Gen X and a few Boomers) processes information, and you find big grounds for optimism, too.

I mean, focusing just on a single data point, do you realize how hard it would have been to find someone as thoughtful as Nonstopdrivel in the places where sports fans used to congregate when I was growing up? (i.e. 60s and 70s)?

I get frustrated with the "literacy" problem every time I look at a stack of papers to be graded. But that notwithstanding, I think there's much reason to be optimistic.

Frankly, I think we'd be better off disenfranchising everyone over 40 in this country. That's where most of the true problem children really are.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
Fan Shout
dfosterf (12h) : Maybe
Mucky Tundra (12h) : Yes
Zero2Cool (13h) : No.
Mucky Tundra (15h) : End of a Degu-era
dhazer (16h) : Steelers sign Patterson because of new kickoff rule interesting
Zero2Cool (19h) : Former #Packers TE Josiah Deguara is signing a 1-year deal with the Jaguars, per source.
Zero2Cool (20h) : They do not do it for "content sake".
dfosterf (28-Mar) : For the record, I enjoy Beast and Mucky drafts
Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : Haha
Mucky Tundra (27-Mar) : No time for talking! Back to work beast!
beast (27-Mar) : You saw only 4,201 of my mocks? 🥺 I think that means you missed more than half of them 😢
dfosterf (27-Mar) : Does anyone know what Lambeau field improvements got put on hold? My guess would be for the 2025 draft
Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : It's like listen, you made 4,201 mocks, no shit.
Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : Cuz during the draft "I had them mocked there!" as if it's amazing.
Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : They're fun to do once in awhile. It's people who think they are "content" that annoy me.
dfosterf (27-Mar) : Against tbd
dfosterf (27-Mar) : Answer to your question is yes, it's a Thursday, will be the Chiefs aga
dfosterf (27-Mar) : Luckily for all concerned, I don't post them. I did one, but that was like 25 mocks ago
Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : NFL 2024 gonna start Sept 5th isn't it???
Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : Ugh... kids these days!
dfosterf (27-Mar) : I'm gonna go do some more mock draft hell instead 🤪
Zero2Cool (27-Mar) : Did we do one of those prediction threads yet for 2024 season?
dfosterf (27-Mar) : In my city, they are playing the nimby game, in order to keep some railroad tracks vs. 2 professional sports teams and a concert venue.
dfosterf (27-Mar) : And/Or a city council, of which I haven't seen a good one in a very long time
dfosterf (27-Mar) : That sounds like a Mayor, not a city.
buckeyepackfan (26-Mar) : Packers halt scheduled 80mil upgrade of stadium until lease agreement talks are restarted
Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : City of Green Bay puts Packers' Lambeau Field lease talks on hold
buckeyepackfan (26-Mar) : Packers 1 of 3 teams to vote no on new kickoff rule.
Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : Packers sign another Kicker
dfosterf (26-Mar) : Lengthy explanation at PFF if you click the link
dfosterf (26-Mar) : Kickoff rules officially changed.ngthy explan
Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : lol
Cheesey (26-Mar) : 2009? No thanks! One open heart surgery is enough!
dfosterf (26-Mar) : Good for you!
Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : Yes. That's the one.
dfosterf (26-Mar) : Is that "Lady Dugan" per chance?
dfosterf (26-Mar) : Crystal?
dfosterf (26-Mar) : Please refresh my memory
Zero2Cool (26-Mar) : Alan posts. Crystal back in my life. It's 2009 all over again! Lol
Mucky Tundra (26-Mar) : BAH GAWD! THAT'S CHEESEYS MUSIC!
Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Gutekunst said early stages of Jordan Love contract being discussed.
Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Shouldn't be penalized cuz official screwed up
Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Yeah, challenge until you are incorrect twice.
Zero2Cool (25-Mar) : Fining them is the goal, per the people who made the rule anyway.
dfosterf (25-Mar) : Still waiting on the kickoff rule changes. Did hear yesterday that the touchback proposal will now be the 30 yard line, not the 35
dfosterf (25-Mar) : Probably speed of game issues with your proposal
dfosterf (25-Mar) : Hopefully the refs don't get in the habit of throwing flags on this
beast (25-Mar) : I think when it comes to Challenges should get two strikes, so unlimited challenges as long as they keep winning them, but 2 wrong then done
dfosterf (25-Mar) : Still subject to the fines etc
dfosterf (25-Mar) : Yes, I should have been more specific. Also, they are now saying it would be a 15 yard penalty. That makes more sense .
Please sign in to use Fan Shout
2023 Packers Schedule
Sunday, Sep 10 @ 3:25 PM
Bears
Sunday, Sep 17 @ 12:00 PM
Falcons
Sunday, Sep 24 @ 12:00 PM
SAINTS
Thursday, Sep 28 @ 7:15 PM
LIONS
Monday, Oct 9 @ 7:15 PM
Raiders
Sunday, Oct 22 @ 3:25 PM
Broncos
Sunday, Oct 29 @ 12:00 PM
VIKINGS
Sunday, Nov 5 @ 12:00 PM
RAMS
Sunday, Nov 12 @ 12:00 PM
Steelers
Sunday, Nov 19 @ 12:00 PM
CHARGERS
Thursday, Nov 23 @ 11:30 AM
Lions
Sunday, Dec 3 @ 7:20 PM
CHIEFS
Monday, Dec 11 @ 7:15 PM
Giants
Sunday, Dec 17 @ 12:00 PM
BUCCANEERS
Sunday, Dec 24 @ 12:00 PM
Panthers
Sunday, Dec 31 @ 7:20 PM
Vikings
Sunday, Jan 7 @ 3:25 PM
BEARS
Sunday, Jan 14 @ 3:30 PM
Cowboys
Saturday, Jan 20 @ 7:15 PM
49ers
Recent Topics
7h / Around The NFL / beast

12h / Green Bay Packers Talk / buckeyepackfan

28-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / dfosterf

28-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / bboystyle

27-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / Mucky Tundra

27-Mar / Random Babble / Zero2Cool

27-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / beast

26-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / beast

26-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / beast

26-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / bboystyle

25-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / Zero2Cool

25-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / Zero2Cool

24-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / beast

24-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / beast

22-Mar / Green Bay Packers Talk / beast

Headlines
Copyright © 2006 - 2024 PackersHome.com™. All Rights Reserved.