The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

Did some googling cause insomnia sucks.

Only two of Germany's Bundesländer (federal states) have Catholic absolute majorities: Bavaria in the southeast (51.2%) and Saarland in the west (59.8%). Besides these states, Catholicism is also the largest religious group in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg.

Omitting poor Saarland the other three are Germany's top states by GDP ( with Rhineland in 6th). Go catholics!

The highest GDP/capita is in the protestant states of Hamburg, Bremen and Hesse though.

And people laughed at the Protestant Work Ethic.

For good reason, since it is associated with calvinism, almost nonexistent in Germany nowadays. 
You find more Calvinists in France than Germany actually. 

Amazing that a religion founded by a French speaker would be more popular in France.

[grumbler]

That is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard. Is Tom Jackson still doing the NFL or will he make people think of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson.

Wow!  That is really the most bizarre thing you've ever heard? 

[Valmy]

Yeah I never heard of PCness applying to somebody's name.

[Eddie Teach]

You never heard of Adolph Hitler Smith because he was blackballed due to his name. Best sports broadcaster ever.

[derspiess]

Yeah I never heard of PCness applying to somebody's name.

Not even horses are safe now.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-usc-traveler-20170818-story.html

[grumbler]

Yeah I never heard of PCness applying to somebody's name.

It isn't PCness at all.  The guy just got promoted to the NCAA Div 1 booth, and the network didn't want all the stories about TV coverage to be asinine snickering about how a Robert Lee is covering the Virginia game.  He's still covering a game, just not the Virginia one.

And I  am shocked that someone of your age has never heard something more bizarre that this.  Where have you been living?  Let me tell you something even more bizarre:  woman voted for a presidential candidate who boasted that he was so famous that he could grab women "by the pussy" and they'd not complain.  There.  Now the Lee story isn't the most bizarre thing you've ever heard.

[Syt]

You never heard of Adolph Hitler Smith because he was blackballed due to his name. Best sports broadcaster ever.

Well, a Brazilian district had a police chief called Hitler Mussolini ...

[Duque de Bragança]

Amazing that a religion founded by a French speaker would be more popular in France.

Nul n'est prophète en son pays. 

Actually, Calvin is kind of a national shame around here, with many people thinking he is Swiss, though French-speaking.

[Valmy]

Yeah I never heard of PCness applying to somebody's name.

It isn't PCness at all.  The guy just got promoted to the NCAA Div 1 booth, and the network didn't want all the stories about TV coverage to be asinine snickering about how a Robert Lee is covering the Virginia game.  He's still covering a game, just not the Virginia one.

So they decided to do something far worse that would create far more asinine snickering? Because this is on full blast all through social media. They took something that may have had a few snickers (but I doubt it) and made it a shitshow.

And I  am shocked that someone of your age has never heard something more bizarre that this.  Where have you been living?  Let me tell you something even more bizarre:  woman voted for a presidential candidate who boasted that he was so famous that he could grab women "by the pussy" and they'd not complain.  There.  Now the Lee story isn't the most bizarre thing you've ever heard.

No women vote for ferociously anti-woman candidates all the time. Heck a woman almost single-handedly destroyed the equal rights amendment. I mean that's totally normal. Robert Lee being considered a controversial name and so needs to be moved someplace else is mindbogglingly idiotic. I mean you might as well write the right wing's propaganda for them.

[Valmy]

You never heard of Adolph Hitler Smith because he was blackballed due to his name. Best sports broadcaster ever.

They could have just called him Addie Smith

[Valmy]

Amazing that a religion founded by a French speaker would be more popular in France.

Nul n'est prophète en son pays. 

Actually, Calvin is kind of a national shame around here, with many people thinking he is Swiss, though French-speaking.

But but the noble persecuted French protestants!!!11

[grumbler]

So they decided to do something far worse that would create far more asinine snickering? Because this is on full blast all through social media. They took something that may have had a few snickers (but I doubt it) and made it a shitshow.

Yeah.  Every time TV networks change an announcer assignment, it is doing something far worse than Hitler.  Agree they underestimated the ability of people to get their panties in a twist over the assignment of a third-string play-by-play announcer.

But if they hadn't changed the assignment, the shitstorm would have been even more damaging, so they bit the bullet.  Tomorrow, this will be a non-story.

[derspiess]

Amazing that a religion founded by a French speaker would be more popular in France.

Nul n'est prophète en son pays. 

Actually, Calvin is kind of a national shame around here, with many people thinking he is Swiss, though French-speaking.

But but the noble persecuted French protestants!!!11

Choose your words carefully.

[Jacob]

Robert Lee being considered a controversial name and so needs to be moved someplace else is mindbogglingly idiotic. I mean you might as well write the right wing's propaganda for them.

From what I've read it wasn't "this is too controversial, we better not do it" but rather "oh man, people may ridicule you and make a bunch of dumb ass memes - do you want out?"

[CountDeMoney]

Choose your words carefully.

lol, Huguenauts in Space