  Jerrytimes Member Username: Jerrytimes Post Number: 79 Registered: 04-2007 |
You are kidding me??? Devin's only telling to truth. Some people are way to oversensitive. | ||
Scooter2k7 Member Username: Scooter2k7 Post Number: 23 Registered: 10-2007 |
Say something interesting than maybe I will read it. However I did you read your Jap Crap loving post. So does that count? | ||
Dustin89 Member Username: Dustin89 Post Number: 154 Registered: 07-2006 |
What a bunch of prudes! I'm sure that none of that ten year old's friends would ever say anything more offensive than that. Yeah, crime is a problem in America. So it's definitely not appropriate to ever make any vanilla sarcastic remarks about anything remotely related to crime in a major American city where crime may or may not occur on a fairly regular basis. Excuse me, I have to go crawl back under my rock and pull my ski mask back over my head to prevent any complex thoughts from entering. | ||
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision Post Number: 454 Registered: 11-2003 |
Having worked with him awhile back, I would think the last thing he would want to do is offend people, especially people about Detroit, as I remember him being pro-Detroit. He's a quality guy and I am sure it was innocent. | ||
Mcwalbucksnfitch Member Username: Mcwalbucksnfitch Post Number: 71 Registered: 10-2006 |
Seriously people... | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1704 Registered: 03-2006 |
complainin' folk are the worst kind of foo-lk | ||
Buyamerican Member Username: Buyamerican Post Number: 217 Registered: 02-2007 |
Now I understand why the U.S. is in the shape it's in. | ||
Mcp001 Member Username: Mcp001 Post Number: 3083 Registered: 11-2003 |
What a wimp! I was at the parade yesterday, and I didn't need a ski mask. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 814 Registered: 09-2007 |
"Now I understand why the U.S. is in the shape it's in." Conservatives can be so shallow of their own craziness. | ||
Arab_guyumich Member Username: Arab_guyumich Post Number: 10 Registered: 11-2007 |
If only we could return to a simpler, more innocent time, when men like Bill Bonds ruled the local airwaves... | ||
Buyamerican Member Username: Buyamerican Post Number: 218 Registered: 02-2007 |
You people just don't get it do you. For a Detroit news anchor to host a parade being broadcast from the City of Detroit, to many other major cities in the U.S.; a City that was just given the "most dangerous City to live in" distinction, and jokingly (or whatever) state that he could use the ski cap to "knock off a 7-11" is wrong. It gives the impression that robberies and murder have become such a common occurrence in Detroit that people have become blase about crime. It leaves those people who do not live in the City of Detroit the impression that NO ONE CARES, even public figures. The majority of you posting here don't even feel ashamed for your City. You have become toughened to crime and choose to bury your heads in the sand, your indignation shows that. Administration officials, Kwame, Bates, Allen, have all done the City of Detroit wrong and I haven't heard a whimper from residents, only suburbanites. My only complaint here is that Devin should be held to a higher standard because of his position in the media. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 815 Registered: 09-2007 |
Bill bonds made wise-crakc jokes every chance he got about the problems in Detroit. Most people didn't get all uptight about it though because they were more liberal in his day. | ||
Fnnm400 Member Username: Fnnm400 Post Number: 9 Registered: 04-2007 |
People are being way to sensative about nothing. I'm sure that it really meant nothing.. Devin really cares about the city and does a great job as an anchor. | ||
Wazootyman Member Username: Wazootyman Post Number: 285 Registered: 02-2006 |
Pennington: "These are the Hartz Mountains of Asia. A terrain so rugged, so treacherous, no country will claim it." Asquith: "Worse then Detroit?" Pennington: "I'm afraid so." | ||
Arab_guyumich Member Username: Arab_guyumich Post Number: 11 Registered: 11-2007 |
Buyamerican, you're clearly intent on feigning outrage here, so there's no sense in trying to level with you about the absurdity of your post. However, I would like to direct you to this map of 7-11 locations for the city of Detroit, which might help ease some of your concerns: http://tinyurl.com/36lpjr | ||
Club_boss Member Username: Club_boss Post Number: 196 Registered: 12-2006 |
Arab_guyumich, where in the Middle East are you from? I'm Lebanese | ||
Arab_guyumich Member Username: Arab_guyumich Post Number: 12 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hey Club_boss, I'm Lebanese too. | ||
Vas Member Username: Vas Post Number: 859 Registered: 01-2004 |
You people need to relax. This hardly in the range of a very controversial thing to say. Its was a stupid joke and thats it. It doesn't need a call to the station it doesn't need a thread on Detroityes | ||
Mcp001 Member Username: Mcp001 Post Number: 3086 Registered: 11-2003 |
Oh no, I get it. There were kids on Woodward reaching for beads, books and candy who were wearing less outside clothing that he had on. TV personalities are soft and Devin is still a wimp! | ||
Mdoyle Member Username: Mdoyle Post Number: 251 Registered: 10-2006 |
Scooter2k7, well thats completely appropriate and not in the least offensive. Really what the hell? The racist and hate mongering words you've so kindly chosen to use in a thread that is exactly about the insensitivity and or over sensitivity of the public are clearly far more inflammatory than those of Devin Scillion. Not to mention you've added exactly zero to this discussion other than your buy American hoopla. (Message edited by mdoyle on November 23, 2007) | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 3008 Registered: 11-2003 |
This is very silly and why do you think all the 7-11's in the City closed?? If it was a profitable business they would still be there. | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 90 Registered: 02-2007 |
They closed because they were being robbed blind(did the robbers wear ski masks I don't know)LOL. My girlfriend and I thought it was kind of funny. Devin is a cool dude. | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 96 Registered: 08-2007 |
detroit is detroit, cold and bad. didn,t hear what devin said , don,t care. i buy american, live in greater detroit. this is a rough town, i too get tired of detroit bashing, but it goes with the city. | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 618 Registered: 12-2003 |
you buy american yet look at your clothes, computer, cell phone, toothbrush, digital camera, wallet, printer, dvd player, television, furniture (better not be IKEA), towels, dishes...etc I'd say that over HALF are foreign made. Get over it. This isn't the 1920's and we aren't a nation of WASP's anymore.  | ||
Buyamerican Member Username: Buyamerican Post Number: 220 Registered: 02-2007 |
You are absolutely right, but when I can, I will purchase whatever is made in the good old U.S.A. where the profits STAY in the U.S. and help U.S. residents like yourself and all the other pro foreign posters on this forum. Someone has to remember which side your bread is buttered on. I am actually getting nauseated thinking about how you people are selling our country out!••• WHAT YOU DRIVE, DRIVES AMERICA! OUT OF A JOB YET...KEEP BUYING FOREIGN! | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 6525 Registered: 11-2004 |
Buyamerican- before you can point the blame at these so called pro-foreigners, part of the blame falls on ourselves for not being competitive. We've had our noses bloodied and yet we do nothing to fight back? Is it our arrogance or laziness in the marketplace? To me, it's not so clearly defined as Us versus Them. Part of the blame falls squarely on the American shoulders as well. | ||
Buyamerican Member Username: Buyamerican Post Number: 221 Registered: 02-2007 |
This is totally getting off the purpose of this thread but I'll say one thing. Americans have always had the right to purchase American cars. They CHOSE to purchase foreign because of their perceived notion that foreign is better. I don't know the exact figure, but American car makers build probably 300 or so models each year...yet there are those of you out there who still have tunnel vision and won't even consider an American brand that suits your needs....give me a break! WHAT YOU DRIVE, DRIVES AMERICA! OUT OF A JOB YET...KEEP BUYING FOREIGN! | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 828 Registered: 09-2007 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =A8SuCBHqXtQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =BWCPAXgrm2U&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =3WBtyG2OJvw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =GeMhxvYq1Ww&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =2XkgOdb8tdA&feature=related Buyamerican, tell people like this to get off their lazy behinds, get an education and do their jobs correctly with pride. MAybe then I'll be more optimistic in buying American. That's why nothig is made in America, because we don't know half of anything about the world outside of our simple minds. (Message edited by DetroitRise on November 24, 2007) | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 619 Registered: 12-2003 |
out of a job yet....GO TO SCHOOL!•••• The reason that manufacturing jobs go overseas is because we damn Americans are so smart that we have figured out that it makes NO SENSE to pay someone over TWENTY dollars and hour to push buttons. Over the years we have developed these things like business schools that have cultivated leaders, who having the same capitalistic ideals as yourself (BuyAmerican) realize that they can become more profitable by paying someone less than they do here. To curtail trade and commerce to simply suit the needs of your philistine cohorts would be to retard the whole process that created this country. What is happening in American today is an evolutionary process where we are focusing on what we do best to achieve our MR = MC. For those of you who don't know what that means it is Marginal Revenue EQUALS Marginal Cost. When you maximize your return on investment you are at your optimum level of profitability. If you were to increase your marginal cost without increasing your marginal revenue then you would be losing profitability. BY paying manufacturing employees more than can be paid overseas your are theoretically losing money in comparison to your competition. If you cannot find a job in manufacturing then maybe you need to go back to school and get a new trade or skill. To quote Del the Funky Homosapian, "If you ain't got a skill or trade then shut the hell up!" OUT OF A JOB YET...GO TO SCHOOL!••• Sorry buddy, but if you don't like this remember you do live in America....where everyone reserves the right to "their hard earned money"  | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 6530 Registered: 11-2004 |
When America puts its brain power to use (ahhh... that education coming to the forefront again! What a concept!) and wants to be a leader once more in being inventive, THAT'S when the American consumer will flock to buying American again. So Buyamerican's short sighted vision for buying US products now might work in the mean time, it does NOTHING to stem the losses that we're getting hit with now. Buyamerican- why can't you understand that this is now a global economy? We've been knocked off of our economic high horse, we're too lazy to want it back and all you can do is curse others for wanting to spend in a free market society? Build it and they will come. |
