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Title: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 13, 2013, 07:38:55 PM
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Thank you
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: dark_lord on April 13, 2013, 07:47:37 PM
beat the cHeat :D
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: dinome18 on April 13, 2013, 07:50:23 PM
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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! how about the cheaters! ;D
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 13, 2013, 07:56:34 PM
I also don't like it, but i think in general most of those nicknames are dumb.

Not because I don't like jokes that make fun of basketball players...I just think its a bad joke.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Roy H. on April 13, 2013, 08:08:09 PM
I also don't like it, but i think in general most of those nicknames are dumb.

Not because I don't like jokes that make fun of basketball players...I just think its a bad joke.

Yeah.  I think it's fine to heap scorn on Miami and LA; I just think that "Cheat" and "Fakers" are juvenile nicknames.  Folks can be more creative than that.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: syfy9 on April 13, 2013, 08:15:37 PM
Miami...wHeat!!!  :D
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ImShakHeIsShaq on April 13, 2013, 08:20:48 PM
Well, I use cHeat and Fakers all the time and many more nicknames. Whether you guys think that makes me juvenile or w/e it doesn't make a difference. I'll be serious when it actually matters. To each their own.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 13, 2013, 08:39:19 PM
Miami cHeat
Miami cHeat
Miami cHeat
Miami cHeat
Miami cHeat
Miami cHeat
Miami cHeat
Miami cHeat


I'm juvenile.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: sed522002 on April 13, 2013, 08:43:18 PM
I've heard way worse nicknames for the Celtics...Who really cares? It's just stupid nicknames for teams you root against.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Nerf DPOY on April 13, 2013, 08:46:59 PM
Yeah I liken it to bringing up "SpyGate" when attempting to discredit anything the Pats ever accomplished.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: edwardjkasche on April 13, 2013, 09:11:42 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 13, 2013, 09:18:14 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: The Rondo Show on April 13, 2013, 09:27:27 PM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

LOL

Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

It offends you?
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: bopna on April 13, 2013, 09:28:02 PM
 :-[   so what if it aint cool. Those cHeaters  will never gain any respect for me.. I despise  them with a passion. 
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 13, 2013, 09:30:01 PM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

LOL

Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

It offends you?

deeply and personally
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 13, 2013, 09:33:53 PM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

LOL

Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

It offends you?

deeply and personally

Did you get cheated on by lebron?
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: csfansince60s on April 13, 2013, 09:36:05 PM
as well as red and black jerseys at the Gah-den. Gimme a break.

9/10ths of my post didn't post.....weird
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: sed522002 on April 13, 2013, 09:37:13 PM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

LOL

Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

It offends you?

deeply and personally

You can't be serious
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Boston Garden Leprechaun on April 13, 2013, 09:39:49 PM
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Thank you

(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/TIGERRADIATION/fakersgif.gif) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/TIGERRADIATION/media/fakersgif.gif.html)

Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: The Rondo Show on April 13, 2013, 09:41:38 PM
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Thank you

(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/TIGERRADIATION/fakersgif.gif) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/TIGERRADIATION/media/fakersgif.gif.html)

That image is hilarious
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: SparzWizard on April 13, 2013, 09:43:47 PM
Man I can build up a whole bunch of negative nicknames for many teams in the NBA.

Most notably the Heat and Lakers!  ::)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Boston Garden Leprechaun on April 13, 2013, 09:49:13 PM
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Thank you

(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/TIGERRADIATION/fakersgif.gif) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/TIGERRADIATION/media/fakersgif.gif.html)

That image is hilarious

 ;D
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 13, 2013, 09:50:32 PM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

LOL

Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

It offends you?

deeply and personally

(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e192/sitimoako/28598726_zps4acabe66.jpg) (http://s39.photobucket.com/user/sitimoako/media/28598726_zps4acabe66.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Bahku on April 13, 2013, 09:56:21 PM
I really don't get this one ... most who use it do it in fun, and tongue-in-cheek. This is truly much ado about nothing, IMO ... I personally try to be immature at least once-a-day. As Fred Flintstone would say, (to Wilma), "Loosen up the bone a bit!" ;)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: lightspeed5 on April 13, 2013, 10:06:28 PM
I live in miami and I EXCLUSIVELY call them the Cheat when speaking to these bandwagon fans. No heat fan can name more than 1 player on the bucks. Most couldnt name 1.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: csfansince60s on April 13, 2013, 10:12:07 PM
Judas Shuttlesworth
Benedict Allen
LeBroid James
Queen James (LeQueen)
cHeat
Fakers

I use all regularly and will continue to use these names as they are clever because they bring in some element of truth/opinion to people/teams who are our enemies.

The primal, tribal, "us against them" element of sports that is so compelling and seductive, engenders this disrespect and amplifies the negative actions of our competition from often what may be slightly dishonorable to onerous and contemptible.
 
Calling our enemy mean names isn't cool....BooHoo!! ::)
 
Pretty soon these PC police will make us have a quota of purple and gold and red and black jerseys in the Gah-den.

Silly.

(this was the post that didn't post earlier.)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 13, 2013, 10:16:15 PM
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Thank you

I feel bad that people still use the term "cHeat" in a thread which you specifically made to speak out against it. I guess I'll apologize for that, since I know how it feels when other people completely ignore you  ::)

But most of us Celtics fans strongly dislike the Heat (for rather obvious reasons) and it's only the letter "c"... I feel bad that it may get on your nerves, but unfortunately some things you can't change. Sorry.

I'll try to limit my own use of "cHeat" though.  8)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: GreenFaith1819 on April 13, 2013, 10:21:12 PM
Judas Shuttlesworth
Benedict Allen
LeBroid James
Queen James (LeQueen)
cHeat
Fakers

I use all regularly and will continue to use these names as they are clever because they bring in some element of truth/opinion to people/teams who are our enemies.

The primal, tribal, "us against them" element of sports that is so compelling and seductive, engenders this disrespect and amplifies the negative actions of our competition from often what may be slightly dishonorable to onerous and contemptible.
 
Calling our enemy mean names isn't cool....BooHoo!! ::)
 
Pretty soon these PC police will make us have a quota of purple and gold and red and black jerseys in the Gah-den.

Silly.

(this was the post that didn't post earlier.)

You left out Dwyane "Kung-Fu Fighting" Wade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kasTHolwOwI

Out of respect to OP I'll make sure I limit cHeat use.

I think Celtics Fans HAVE to have an edge, though...I'm sure MIA fans call BOS a LOT worse.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 13, 2013, 10:30:56 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpGKC62qvs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM7sIEZTFYk

add this to the list.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: SparzWizard on April 13, 2013, 10:35:27 PM
Judas Shuttlesworth
Benedict Allen
LeBroid James
Queen James (LeQueen)
cHeat
Fakers

I use all regularly and will continue to use these names as they are clever because they bring in some element of truth/opinion to people/teams who are our enemies.

The primal, tribal, "us against them" element of sports that is so compelling and seductive, engenders this disrespect and amplifies the negative actions of our competition from often what may be slightly dishonorable to onerous and contemptible.
 
Calling our enemy mean names isn't cool....BooHoo!! ::)
 
Pretty soon these PC police will make us have a quota of purple and gold and red and black jerseys in the Gah-den.

Silly.

(this was the post that didn't post earlier.)

Nick names for individual players that I hate...

Queen James, LeBtch James, LeBroid James, LeBrick James
Judas, Gay Allen, Traitor
Dwyane Fade, Dwyane Lame...
Kobrick, KoMe, Kobtch, Ballhog
Pau Gasoft, Pau Gaysol
Derek Btcher
Marshmelo

I need to think more... ;D
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: SHAQATTACK on April 13, 2013, 10:39:01 PM
Making fun the HEAT is an art , and a fun pastime. 


I'm sure the Heat players love the attention.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: nickagneta on April 13, 2013, 10:41:26 PM
It sure beats the other numerous profane names I usually call them.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: wahz on April 13, 2013, 10:51:51 PM
I think the best nickname for the team from Miami is "The Miami Sucks."

"I root for The Sucks"

"I am a big Sucks fan." Lebron is a "Suck."

I don't see what is juvenile about that. At all.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: gpap on April 13, 2013, 10:54:56 PM
Freedom of speech!

Beat the cHeat!! (even though they're probably going to win again this year, with a little "help" from David Stern, like last year.)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 13, 2013, 10:57:06 PM
Freedom of speech!

Beat the cHeat!! (even though they're probably going to win again this year, with a little "help" from David Stern, like last year.)

This forum has rules (http://forums.celticsblog.com/index.php?topic=10.0) that we, as users, must all abide by. Gotta have order. A forum without rules is no fun for anyone!
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: celticsleyte on April 13, 2013, 11:19:54 PM
Lebron is the one who should be deeply hurt and offended best player in the league and making less than max salary.  I do not like Pat Riley and his serious ability to BS.  Let's not get into the Ray Allen situation.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: edwardjkasche on April 14, 2013, 12:12:07 AM
This must be some sort of joke by someone who is very, very bored today.

I cannot fathom someone being offended by the terms cHeat or Fakers.  I cannot even fathom fans of the Heat or Lakers being offended by those terms.

Heck, Celtics fans on this site have worse comments about Doc, Bass, and Terry on a nightly basis.

And, please, let's have the Blog Police back off on the rhetoric of rules.  Neither term is derogatory or offensive.  Both terms can be defended with video and written evidence.  No one has attacked or ridiculed the writer of this post.  No one has said anything derogatory or offensive.  If everyone was forced to cater to every single person's sensitivities, then there wouldn't even be a blog.  The line has been drawn on this site many times.  This discussion is clearly on the safe side.

And, I'd still like the writer to spend more than one sentence explaining why either of those terms is offensive, or why he (or she) considers them not cool.

The terms don't look dumb.  They're actually quite fresh and clever.  I especially like the little "c" before Heat.  They're also descriptive of the teams in question.

Please, sir (or madam), explain yourself.

Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: nickagneta on April 14, 2013, 12:24:31 AM
This must be some sort of joke by someone who is very, very bored today.

I cannot fathom someone being offended by the terms cHeat or Fakers.  I cannot even fathom fans of the Heat or Lakers being offended by those terms.

Heck, Celtics fans on this site have worse comments about Doc, Bass, and Terry on a nightly basis.

And, please, let's have the Blog Police back off on the rhetoric of rules.  Neither term is derogatory or offensive.  Both terms can be defended with video and written evidence.  No one has attacked or ridiculed the writer of this post.  No one has said anything derogatory or offensive.  If everyone was forced to cater to every single person's sensitivities, then there wouldn't even be a blog.  The line has been drawn on this site many times.  This discussion is clearly on the safe side.

And, I'd still like the writer to spend more than one sentence explaining why either of those terms is offensive, or why he (or she) considers them not cool.

The terms don't look dumb.  They're actually quite fresh and clever.  I especially like the little "c" before Heat.  They're also descriptive of the teams in question.

Please, sir (or madam), explain yourself.
Maybe he's a Heat fan?!?!  :)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: fairweatherfan on April 14, 2013, 12:30:59 AM
It's fine if people want to use those kinds of nicknames for teams or players, but they've always seemed a bit childish in an uncreative way to me.  Kinda reminds me of the sort of person who likes to constantly ask their coworkers if they're working hard or hardly working, and it makes it hard for me to take the opinions linked to them seriously. 

But there's nothing wrong with it - if people want to do it, more power to them.  It's not half as obnoxious as when people do it in politics, anyway. 
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 14, 2013, 12:36:59 AM
Quote
And, please, let's have the Blog Police back off on the rhetoric of rules.  Neither term is derogatory or offensive.  Both terms can be defended with video and written evidence.  No one has attacked or ridiculed the writer of this post.  No one has said anything derogatory or offensive.  If everyone was forced to cater to every single person's sensitivities, then there wouldn't even be a blog.  The line has been drawn on this site many times.  This discussion is clearly on the safe side.

Whoa whoa whoa mister grandstand. Speaking as one of those 'blog police' (we prefer the term 'dignified unpaid and under appreciated hall monitors', but whatever), the only two comments from actual mods have been 'I don't like it, because it isn't clever or funny'.

You guys can use whatever cheesy mildly derogatory nicknames you want, as long as they aren't profane, or a veiled sexual innuendo, and don't violate any other site rules.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: guava_wrench on April 14, 2013, 12:55:41 AM
I also don't like it, but i think in general most of those nicknames are dumb.

Not because I don't like jokes that make fun of basketball players...I just think its a bad joke.

Yeah.  I think it's fine to heap scorn on Miami and LA; I just think that "Cheat" and "Fakers" are juvenile nicknames.  Folks can be more creative than that.
Agreed.

It is juvenile because it is name-calling.

Next, someone will argue that Pierce is better than Lebron because Lebron is a doodie-head.

Could it be that for certain people, when a team like the Heat is better than the team they root for, they have nothing left to but call names?
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: nickagneta on April 14, 2013, 12:59:13 AM
Name calling, though juvenile, does help promote the creation of rivalries which happens to be a very healthy thing in the world of sports. And let's face it, isn't it the juvenile kid in all of us that is making us love watching grown men play a children's game?
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ScottHow on April 14, 2013, 12:59:56 AM
It sure beats the other numerous profane names I usually call them.

lol I was thinking the same thing tp
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 14, 2013, 02:10:25 AM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

LOL

Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

It offends you?

deeply and personally

Did you get cheated on by lebron?

yes

EDIT: For clarification, to clear my context - I wasn't staying it wasn't cool, as in it shouldn't be done.

I meant that it doesn't make you cool by doing it

Discuss
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 14, 2013, 02:16:53 AM
It begs the question: What exactly is it that a man can say that makes him 'cool' on an Internet forum dedicated to the Boston Celtics? I'm not asking for me, just for a friend of course.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: OsirusCeltics on April 14, 2013, 02:41:19 AM
Names that I hate for certain players

Gasol -- Llama
Lebron -- Curious George
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 14, 2013, 02:51:35 AM
It begs the question: What exactly is it that a man can say that makes him 'cool' on an Internet forum dedicated to the Boston Celtics? I'm not asking for me, just for a friend of course.

Whatever I decide, in my own threads, of course
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: crimson_stallion on April 14, 2013, 03:34:07 AM
Refer to title

Thank you

I actually agree.  Much as I don't like the Heat, the nickname is pretty childish and actually not very offensive at all.

I strongly believe that Miami get a lot of special treatment from officials, from the league and from other players (everyone wants to sign for them at Vet Min) but that's something to blame the league for, not them.

I see Miami the same way the Lakers saw Boston back in the heyday - hate them, despite them, be disgusted by them...but still respect them.  After all they have won a lot of games, and they don't win themselves.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: xmuscularghandix on April 14, 2013, 04:30:02 AM
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Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 14, 2013, 04:37:24 AM
It begs the question: What exactly is it that a man can say that makes him 'cool' on an Internet forum dedicated to the Boston Celtics? I'm not asking for me, just for a friend of course.

Whatever I decide, in my own threads, of course

It's a public forum even if you start your own threads.

You can't force people to stop using a word. Whether it makes them "cool" or "uncool" in your eyes is irrelevant.

At the end of the day, its not a derogatory/racist/offensive word.

It's just word play.

I'll call them the Miami cHeat whenever I feel like it.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: chambers on April 14, 2013, 04:53:53 AM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

I get the premise of your post, but it doesn't make sense to say you think playing dirty is a form of cheating and then be a Celtics fan. We are a particularly rough, dirty team. If you really feel this way you must think that Kevin Garnett is a cheater?

I personally like the nickname Fakers because it's a great play on words. The Cheat is a little more childish and infers that the refs help them win (which I don't believe they do at all- they have the best player in the world and two other top 25 players in the world on their team).

Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ACF on April 14, 2013, 05:04:11 AM
Note to Yang:
Don't tell them about your weakness, they'll just use it against you ;D

I like the term "Miami Hype". Because, you know, they're always being hyped. They're the champs but they're always being hyped up. I mean, when you log on to ESPN they have a ****' "Heat Index"! So, Hype is good enough for me. Go Celts.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: j804 on April 14, 2013, 05:26:27 AM
Note to Yang:
Don't tell them about your weakness, they'll just use it against you ;D

I like the term "Miami Hype". Because, you know, they're always being hyped. They're the champs but they're always being hyped up. I mean, when you log on to ESPN they have a ****' "Heat Index"! So, Hype is good enough for me. Go Celts.
I like that one, folks are right cHeat just sounds childish really doesn't even make sense either
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: connor on April 14, 2013, 06:04:35 AM
I don't care if people want to call them the cHeat, personally I think its stupid and not all that clever, but people have the right to do as they please. Its not hurting anyone or especially derogatory.

One thing I will say is that when I see it in posts it does make me take a little less stock in what that person has to say, similar to really poor grammar or intentional spelling mistakes. I just don't care for it. But to each their own.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Celtics4ever on April 14, 2013, 06:39:32 AM
When Stern has the refs call the game the same for them as everyone else it would stop.  To me their last title will always be tainted ( our series was unfairly reffed and the finals)  that being said even I concede that LeBron is the best player on the planet right now.  But the star calls he gets is ridiculous, NEWSFLASH - He does not need them anymore.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: RockinRyA on April 14, 2013, 07:37:55 AM
I could care less whether its cool for you or not. I'm gonna say what I want to say anyway (as long as its within rules of course)

Besides, I also don't think that saying something isn't cool, isn't cool either. You cool with that?
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: nickagneta on April 14, 2013, 11:34:54 AM
I could care less whether its cool for you or not. I'm gonna say what I want to say anyway (as long as its within rules of course)

Besides, I also don't think that saying something isn't cool, isn't cool either. You cool with that?
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww....

The old 'triple "cool", double negative "cool"' response!!

Well played sir!!! TP.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: edwardjkasche on April 14, 2013, 11:57:33 AM
Is anyone on this site offended by the nickname "A-Roid.?"

Discuss amongst yourselves.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Redz on April 14, 2013, 12:43:33 PM
It's pretty much a schoolyardish level put down.  The equivalent of the Fakers or dare I say THE SMELLTICS (them' s fightin' words).   
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 14, 2013, 12:47:59 PM
It's pretty much a schoolyardish level put down.  The equivalent of the Fakers or dare I say THE SMELLTICS (them' s fightin' words).

LOL! I've heard worse from my friends that hate the Celtics.

Smelltics is pretty funny though
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticG1 on April 14, 2013, 01:19:26 PM
Better than Celtics with a d at the end.

I honestly could care less about who has nicknames for any team.

I actually find the Celtics one kind of funny.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Kane3387 on April 14, 2013, 01:52:15 PM
The c stands for collusion.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Finkelskyhook on April 14, 2013, 01:55:16 PM
Reality is they're not doing the cheating...The NBA is.

They're virtually unwatchable.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 14, 2013, 02:20:47 PM
It begs the question: What exactly is it that a man can say that makes him 'cool' on an Internet forum dedicated to the Boston Celtics? I'm not asking for me, just for a friend of course.

Whatever I decide, in my own threads, of course

It's a public forum even if you start your own threads.

You can't force people to stop using a word. Whether it makes them "cool" or "uncool" in your eyes is irrelevant.

At the end of the day, its not a derogatory/racist/offensive word.

It's just word play.

I'll call them the Miami cHeat whenever I feel like it.

Never once told anyone to stop. Just expressing my disdain for it. This is a public forum, as you say. I am entitled to my opinions. and I am VERY opinionated  8)

Assumptions getting tossed around left and right here...
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: slamtheking on April 14, 2013, 02:25:18 PM
I don't have a problem with cHeat because I think it fits.  I've used the term several times myself.

I think Stern should have done something about the blatant collusion between Bron, Bosh and Wade to create a 'superteam'.  If an owner tried tampering with a player on another team to get them to join his team, there'd be major repercussions.  Same should have happened to those 3.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Finkelskyhook on April 14, 2013, 02:46:58 PM
I don't have a problem with cHeat because I think it fits.  I've used the term several times myself.

I think Stern should have done something about the blatant collusion between Bron, Bosh and Wade to create a 'superteam'.  If an owner tried tampering with a player on another team to get them to join his team, there'd be major repercussions.  Same should have happened to those 3.

If he did so...Why wouldn't he have done something about this year's lakers or the Garnett/Allen acquisitions?

Never know how that stuff is going to work out.

That's not the problem anyway...It's the overt biased officiating.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: fairweatherfan on April 14, 2013, 02:51:16 PM
I don't have a problem with cHeat because I think it fits.  I've used the term several times myself.

I think Stern should have done something about the blatant collusion between Bron, Bosh and Wade to create a 'superteam'.  If an owner tried tampering with a player on another team to get them to join his team, there'd be major repercussions.  Same should have happened to those 3.

If he did so...Why wouldn't he have done something about this year's lakers or the Garnett/Allen acquisitions?

Never know how that stuff is going to work out.

That's not the problem anyway...It's the overt biased officiating.

Because those were all trades instead of free agent signings?  It's a lot tougher for players to collude to get traded to the same team than to sign with the same team.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ImShakHeIsShaq on April 14, 2013, 02:53:21 PM
I sure wish Kevin Garnett and many other players would stop being childish/juvenile, Internet Police don't like it!
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 14, 2013, 02:59:16 PM
You can't stop a player from taking less money  ::)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 14, 2013, 03:01:52 PM
I sure wish Kevin Garnett and many other players would stop being childish/juvenile, Internet Police don't like it!

Come on...Kevin Garnett is a bully, and a cheap-shot artist. But he's our bully and our cheap-shot artist. Across the interwebs you can see hyper-emotional fanboys freaking out about his antics on a game-by-game basis.

EDIT: On re-reading your comment maybe I misunderstood it. Are you saying that in-game trash talking should serve as a template for how we speak on the message boards? Because if so, Kevin Garnett is banned for language, Kobe is banned for homophobic slurs, Lance Stephenson is banned for trolling, and somehow Ron Artest is only getting a 4 day suspension. Yeah, maybe we should've banned him after the brawl, but now we've enabled a pattern and its kind of our fault we let his behavior get to this point, and honestly, this place just wouldn't be the same without him.

*Mod humor*
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 14, 2013, 03:18:36 PM
Lance Stephenson is banned for trolling

lol
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ImShakHeIsShaq on April 14, 2013, 03:33:19 PM
I sure wish Kevin Garnett and many other players would stop being childish/juvenile, Internet Police don't like it!

Come on...Kevin Garnett is a bully, and a cheap-shot artist. But he's our bully and our cheap-shot artist. Across the interwebs you can see hyper-emotional fanboys freaking out about his antics on a game-by-game basis.

EDIT: On re-reading your comment maybe I misunderstood it. Are you saying that in-game trash talking should serve as a template for how we speak on the message boards? Because if so, Kevin Garnett is banned for language, Kobe is banned for homophobic slurs, Lance Stephenson is banned for trolling, and somehow Ron Artest is only getting a 4 day suspension. Yeah, maybe we should've banned him after the brawl, but now we've enabled a pattern and its kind of our fault we let his behavior get to this point, and honestly, this place just wouldn't be the same without him.

*Mod humor*

Name calling may be childish and juvenile but it's a part of sports and everyone does it!  This is a message board, why care about name calling when it's not offensive or against any of the rules. I'm not trying to be cool, I say the same stuff when I'm alone watching the game and much worse. Saying people are being juvenile and childish is classy, I guess...
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 14, 2013, 03:51:11 PM
I sure wish Kevin Garnett and many other players would stop being childish/juvenile, Internet Police don't like it!

Come on...Kevin Garnett is a bully, and a cheap-shot artist. But he's our bully and our cheap-shot artist. Across the interwebs you can see hyper-emotional fanboys freaking out about his antics on a game-by-game basis.

EDIT: On re-reading your comment maybe I misunderstood it. Are you saying that in-game trash talking should serve as a template for how we speak on the message boards? Because if so, Kevin Garnett is banned for language, Kobe is banned for homophobic slurs, Lance Stephenson is banned for trolling, and somehow Ron Artest is only getting a 4 day suspension. Yeah, maybe we should've banned him after the brawl, but now we've enabled a pattern and its kind of our fault we let his behavior get to this point, and honestly, this place just wouldn't be the same without him.

*Mod humor*

Name calling may be childish and juvenile but it's a part of sports and everyone does it!  This is a message board, why care about name calling when it's not offensive or against any of the rules. I'm not trying to be cool, I say the same stuff when I'm alone watching the game and much worse. Saying people are being juvenile and childish is classy, I guess...

Well, there are a couple of things I disagree with in your argument there, but to a larger point, I don't care if you call them the cHeat, I don't care if everyone calls them the cHeat, I don't care if you/everyone calls them the Fakers, or him LeBroid, or whatever. This goes for all nicknames that don't violate site rules.

To the disagreements, does Kevin Garnett really call the Heat the 'cHeat'? I really doubt that, in part because again, its not really a good joke, but in a larger part, because its not a scourging blast of profanity and eternal spite and venom meant to permanently scar their soul and in-bed self doubt and insecurity. Kevin Garnett is a trash talking professional, you'd think he'd hold himself to some pretty strict quality control there. I envision cue cards and a team of writers. It would also explain what Dave Chappelle has been doing for the last few years.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 14, 2013, 03:53:29 PM
Name calling may be childish and juvenile but it's a part of sports and everyone does it!  This is a message board, why care about name calling when it's not offensive or against any of the rules. I'm not trying to be cool, I say the same stuff when I'm alone watching the game and much worse. Saying people are being juvenile and childish is classy, I guess...

Quote from: CelticsBlog Forum Posting Rules
  • There is no need for name-calling or harassment of any poster. This includes behavior in all areas of Celticsblog, including forum posts, blog comments and personal messages. While we encourage lively debate there is no reason for anyone to disrespect a fellow poster's ideas.
  • Do not label fellow posters in a way that is likely to provoke a negative response.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ImShakHeIsShaq on April 14, 2013, 04:01:30 PM
I sure wish Kevin Garnett and many other players would stop being childish/juvenile, Internet Police don't like it!

Come on...Kevin Garnett is a bully, and a cheap-shot artist. But he's our bully and our cheap-shot artist. Across the interwebs you can see hyper-emotional fanboys freaking out about his antics on a game-by-game basis.

EDIT: On re-reading your comment maybe I misunderstood it. Are you saying that in-game trash talking should serve as a template for how we speak on the message boards? Because if so, Kevin Garnett is banned for language, Kobe is banned for homophobic slurs, Lance Stephenson is banned for trolling, and somehow Ron Artest is only getting a 4 day suspension. Yeah, maybe we should've banned him after the brawl, but now we've enabled a pattern and its kind of our fault we let his behavior get to this point, and honestly, this place just wouldn't be the same without him.

*Mod humor*

Name calling may be childish and juvenile but it's a part of sports and everyone does it!  This is a message board, why care about name calling when it's not offensive or against any of the rules. I'm not trying to be cool, I say the same stuff when I'm alone watching the game and much worse. Saying people are being juvenile and childish is classy, I guess...

Well, there are a couple of things I disagree with in your argument there, but to a larger point, I don't care if you call them the cHeat, I don't care if everyone calls them the cHeat, I don't care if you/everyone calls them the Fakers, or him LeBroid, or whatever. This goes for all nicknames that don't violate site rules.

To the disagreements, does Kevin Garnett really call the Heat the 'cHeat'? I really doubt that, in part because again, its not really a good joke, but in a larger part, because its not a scourging blast of profanity and eternal spite and venom meant to permanently scar their soul and in-bed self doubt and insecurity. Kevin Garnett is a trash talking professional, you'd think he'd hold himself to some pretty strict quality control there. I envision cue cards and a team of writers. It would also explain what Dave Chappelle has been doing for the last few years.


Let's get real here, I NEVER said KG calls them the cHeat, I'm talking about name calling in general, it doesn't matter if it's profanity laden or not. My comment was not only to you but the whole idea of this thread. Next time I want to know if something is a good joke or not I'll be sure to ask you. Like I said in my first post, to each their own.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ronaldo943 on April 14, 2013, 04:03:27 PM
Name calling may be childish and juvenile but it's a part of sports and everyone does it!  This is a message board, why care about name calling when it's not offensive or against any of the rules. I'm not trying to be cool, I say the same stuff when I'm alone watching the game and much worse. Saying people are being juvenile and childish is classy, I guess...

Quote from: CelticsBlog Forum Posting Rules
  • There is no need for name-calling or harassment of any poster. This includes behavior in all areas of Celticsblog, including forum posts, blog comments and personal messages. While we encourage lively debate there is no reason for anyone to disrespect a fellow poster's ideas.
  • Do not label fellow posters in a way that is likely to provoke a negative response.

I think he meant as in namecalling a team not a person on the blog, i may be wrong though
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 14, 2013, 04:06:26 PM
Name calling may be childish and juvenile but it's a part of sports and everyone does it!  This is a message board, why care about name calling when it's not offensive or against any of the rules. I'm not trying to be cool, I say the same stuff when I'm alone watching the game and much worse. Saying people are being juvenile and childish is classy, I guess...

Quote from: CelticsBlog Forum Posting Rules
  • There is no need for name-calling or harassment of any poster. This includes behavior in all areas of Celticsblog, including forum posts, blog comments and personal messages. While we encourage lively debate there is no reason for anyone to disrespect a fellow poster's ideas.
  • Do not label fellow posters in a way that is likely to provoke a negative response.

I think he meant as in namecalling a team not a person on the blog, i may be wrong though

My bad... again  :-[ :-X
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: TheTruthFot18 on April 14, 2013, 04:22:29 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

Then go enjoy yourself on the Heat or Lakers blog. Unless that was a joke  ::)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Celtics4ever on April 14, 2013, 04:47:24 PM
CHeat! CHeat! CHeat!

Want to do something about being offended, I 'll be your Huckleberry....
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: TheTruthFot18 on April 14, 2013, 05:02:42 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

(http://www.knowhr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/just-because-youre-offended.png)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Billz401 on April 14, 2013, 05:23:42 PM
Is this seriously a thread right now... Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics, on a CELTICS BLOG. the nerve of some people...
I swear no matter what any1 does, even as minute as this, there will always be someone to complain.. And for those who think its "juvenile" or "immature" you sound like some stuck up old snobs.. "Merrr, your vocabulary and demeanor are absolutely elementary at best. Please wait while i slurp my chai tea and scroll through your juvenile remarks."
Its honestly ridiculous that this is a thread right now.. Like some old ladies on here finding anything to nag about.. You dont like people making fun of the cHeat, i suggest u stay away from every sports blog besides miami's
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Roy H. on April 14, 2013, 05:31:25 PM
Is this seriously a thread right now... Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics, on a CELTICS BLOG. the nerve of some people...

I swear no matter what any1 does, even as minute as this, there will always be someone to complain.. And for those who think its "juvenile" or "immature" you sound like some stuck up old snobs.. "Merrr, your vocabulary and demeanor are absolutely elementary at best. Please wait while i slurp my chai tea and scroll through your juvenile remarks."
Its honestly ridiculous that this is a thread right now.. Like some old ladies on here finding anything to nag about.. You dont like people making fun of the cHeat, i suggest u stay away from every sports blog besides miami's

Yeah, I stand by "juvenile".  People can call the Heat whatever (non-rule-breaking) nickname they want, and I think almost everyone has agreed with that point.  However, I just have a hard time believing that anybody with more than a third-grade education can find monikers like "Fakers" and "cHeat" to be funny.  Celtics fans can come up with better.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Billz401 on April 14, 2013, 05:34:32 PM
Is this seriously a thread right now... Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics, on a CELTICS BLOG. the nerve of some people...

I swear no matter what any1 does, even as minute as this, there will always be someone to complain.. And for those who think its "juvenile" or "immature" you sound like some stuck up old snobs.. "Merrr, your vocabulary and demeanor are absolutely elementary at best. Please wait while i slurp my chai tea and scroll through your juvenile remarks."
Its honestly ridiculous that this is a thread right now.. Like some old ladies on here finding anything to nag about.. You dont like people making fun of the cHeat, i suggest u stay away from every sports blog besides miami's

Yeah, I stand by "juvenile".  People can call the Heat whatever (non-rule-breaking) nickname they want, and I think almost everyone has agreed with that point.  However, I just have a hard time believing that anybody with more than a third-grade education can find monikers like "Fakers" and "cHeat" to be funny.  Celtics fans can come up with better.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 14, 2013, 05:39:37 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

(http://www.knowhr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/just-because-youre-offended.png)

TP! Gervais is the man
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Billz401 on April 14, 2013, 05:46:55 PM
Is this seriously a thread right now... Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics, on a CELTICS BLOG. the nerve of some people...

I swear no matter what any1 does, even as minute as this, there will always be someone to complain.. And for those who think its "juvenile" or "immature" you sound like some stuck up old snobs.. "Merrr, your vocabulary and demeanor are absolutely elementary at best. Please wait while i slurp my chai tea and scroll through your juvenile remarks."
Its honestly ridiculous that this is a thread right now.. Like some old ladies on here finding anything to nag about.. You dont like people making fun of the cHeat, i suggest u stay away from every sports blog besides miami's

Yeah, I stand by "juvenile".  People can call the Heat whatever (non-rule-breaking) nickname they want, and I think almost everyone has agreed with that point.  However, I just have a hard time believing that anybody with more than a third-grade education can find monikers like "Fakers" and "cHeat" to be funny.  Celtics fans can come up with better.

But still have yet to explain how those nicknames do not work.. Ive seen quite a few great explanations as to why cHeat or Fakers are great nicknames but no argument for the other side. Merely saying that a word to describe a rival team is "juvenile" is such a cop-out.. Where are the facts/details to explain your reasoning? And when or where did someone use "cHeat" or "Fakers" to try and be funny? Were they doing stand up comedy and it wasnt going too swell and they pulled out the ole "so how about those Miami cHeat"? Im just wondering here. Im trying to gather all information before i come to an ironclad conclusion
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Roy H. on April 14, 2013, 05:52:52 PM
Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics,

And when or where did someone use "cHeat" or "Fakers" to try and be funny? Were they doing stand up comedy and it wasnt going too swell and they pulled out the ole "so how about those Miami cHeat"? Im just wondering here. Im trying to gather all information before i come to an ironclad conclusion

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Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Donoghus on April 14, 2013, 05:57:40 PM
All that stuff is lame (same with the LA v Minn title thing) but to each their own I guess.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: manl_lui on April 14, 2013, 06:00:07 PM
Referring to Lakers as "Fakers" isn't cool
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 14, 2013, 06:01:36 PM
Why do we all have to be "cool"?  ::) I'm content with the way I am already.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 14, 2013, 06:07:37 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

Then go enjoy yourself on the Heat or Lakers blog. Unless that was a joke  ::)

 ::)

Referring to Lakers as "Fakers" isn't cool

this

Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics,

And when or where did someone use "cHeat" or "Fakers" to try and be funny? Were they doing stand up comedy and it wasnt going too swell and they pulled out the ole "so how about those Miami cHeat"? Im just wondering here. Im trying to gather all information before i come to an ironclad conclusion

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Not really sure why I vehemently disagree with you so often Roy. Your tolerance for idiocy is extremely low and that I can relate with
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Billz401 on April 14, 2013, 06:16:01 PM
Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics,

And when or where did someone use "cHeat" or "Fakers" to try and be funny? Were they doing stand up comedy and it wasnt going too swell and they pulled out the ole "so how about those Miami cHeat"? Im just wondering here. Im trying to gather all information before i come to an ironclad conclusion

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More of tongue in cheek to me but still i dont see people thinking to themselves " boy you know what will really be funny. If i used cHeat to describe miami thatll get the readers cracking up." Its more of a okay i could just say Heat or i could describe the team with the biggest floppers and dirty players as the cHeat.
I mean while we are at it what about those juvenile chants those celtics fans use. "Lakers suck" what kind of elementary garbage is this. Better off with "lakers are undesirable and the epitome of BAD" or instead of miami cHeat what if we used " the Miami uncontrollable force with no regard for human life"
Obviously im being facetious here but honestly to me i look at someone who says using cHeat to describe miami is juvenile and "not cool" and i shake my head like "oh boy another one of THOSE guys" and while someone who uses cHeat or fakers i could care less.. Just another way to describe our rivals and add some flavor to their post instead of the old generic Miami Heat
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Billz401 on April 14, 2013, 06:35:48 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

Then go enjoy yourself on the Heat or Lakers blog. Unless that was a joke  ::)

 ::)

Referring to Lakers as "Fakers" isn't cool

this

Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics,

And when or where did someone use "cHeat" or "Fakers" to try and be funny? Were they doing stand up comedy and it wasnt going too swell and they pulled out the ole "so how about those Miami cHeat"? Im just wondering here. Im trying to gather all information before i come to an ironclad conclusion

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Not really sure why I vehemently disagree with you so often Roy. Your tolerance for idiocy is extremely low and that I can relate with
So by referring to someone or something with a nickname is now "idiocy" or the fact that im actually debating an argument is "idiocy"? Im confused... Because to me someone who just says one thing and no matter what their views are right and your views are wrong is the epitome of "idiocy". You've literally said nothing but the same lines over and over and over again... "Using cHeat is juvenile and not cool"  the thing with nicknames is it has to be simple enough for everyone to understand whilst also being witty. Which is why fakers or cHeat works so well. Its simple and easy to say or chant and also pretty witty if you know your basketball. So im just assuming you either dont get the nicknames or just dont know basketball enough to get it
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: RockinRyA on April 14, 2013, 06:45:24 PM
It's pretty much a schoolyardish level put down.  The equivalent of the Fakers or dare I say THE SMELLTICS (them' s fightin' words).

LOL! I've heard worse from my friends that hate the Celtics.

Smelltics is pretty funny though

my two laker fan colleagues call the celtics the "Shelltics". I asked them why and they said they are a shell of themselves. >.< p---ed me off
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Billz401 on April 14, 2013, 06:53:34 PM
It's pretty much a schoolyardish level put down.  The equivalent of the Fakers or dare I say THE SMELLTICS (them' s fightin' words).

LOL! I've heard worse from my friends that hate the Celtics.

Smelltics is pretty funny though

my two laker fan colleagues call the celtics the "Shelltics". I asked them why and they said they are a shell of themselves. >.< p---ed me off

Lol thats actually a good one. Now that kobe's done lakers fans cant really say anything now
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ImShakHeIsShaq on April 14, 2013, 07:08:25 PM
It's pretty much a schoolyardish level put down.  The equivalent of the Fakers or dare I say THE SMELLTICS (them' s fightin' words).

LOL! I've heard worse from my friends that hate the Celtics.

Smelltics is pretty funny though

my two laker fan colleagues call the celtics the "Shelltics". I asked them why and they said they are a shell of themselves. >.< p---ed me off

I'm offended, that's not funny. I'm about to make a thread.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Eja117 on April 14, 2013, 07:35:58 PM
Is this seriously a thread right now... Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics, on a CELTICS BLOG. the nerve of some people...

I swear no matter what any1 does, even as minute as this, there will always be someone to complain.. And for those who think its "juvenile" or "immature" you sound like some stuck up old snobs.. "Merrr, your vocabulary and demeanor are absolutely elementary at best. Please wait while i slurp my chai tea and scroll through your juvenile remarks."
Its honestly ridiculous that this is a thread right now.. Like some old ladies on here finding anything to nag about.. You dont like people making fun of the cHeat, i suggest u stay away from every sports blog besides miami's

Yeah, I stand by "juvenile".  People can call the Heat whatever (non-rule-breaking) nickname they want, and I think almost everyone has agreed with that point.  However, I just have a hard time believing that anybody with more than a third-grade education can find monikers like "Fakers" and "cHeat" to be funny.  Celtics fans can come up with better.
Do you have any suggestions? I may have missed them. I'm open to anything
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: FLCeltsFan on April 14, 2013, 08:29:15 PM
Is this seriously a thread right now... Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics, on a CELTICS BLOG. the nerve of some people...
I swear no matter what any1 does, even as minute as this, there will always be someone to complain.. And for those who think its "juvenile" or "immature" you sound like some stuck up old snobs.. "Merrr, your vocabulary and demeanor are absolutely elementary at best. Please wait while i slurp my chai tea and scroll through your juvenile remarks."
Its honestly ridiculous that this is a thread right now.. Like some old ladies on here finding anything to nag about.. You dont like people making fun of the cHeat, i suggest u stay away from every sports blog besides miami's

Hey!  Watch what you say about us old ladies  ROFL  :D  (I confess I call them cHeat and Fakers)  It mostly has to do with the fact that if they aren't winning, the refs step in and make sure they do.  Did you watch that GSW/LAL game where the Lakers shot 50 free throws to 16 for the Warriors? And how can a player like LeBron, who barrels into the lane with his shoulder down like a linebacker at least 2 or 3 times a game go for a week or two without getting even ONE foul? The nicknames are more out of frustration than anything. 

But then again, at my age, after over 40 years of being a Celtics fan I have earned the right to call our biggest rivals names if I want to. 
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 14, 2013, 08:31:55 PM
Besides being potentially juvenile, I'd love to hear a reasonable argument about why referring to the Heat as cHeat or Lakers as Fakers isn't "cool."

Are we hurting the organizations' feelings?  How about the players' or the fans' feelings?

In my opinion, Wade is one of the dirtiest players in NBA history (lest we forget Rondo's elbow or the Collison shove), and I consider being dirty a form of cheating, and he and LeBron are two of the biggest floppers in the NBA, and I consider flopping a form of cheating.  So, the name cHeat accurately refers to them, in my opinion.

And, for the Lakers... come on.  Is there anything genuine about Los Angeles or the Lakers' Hollywood fan base?  Nothing could be more fake, not even Jack Nicholson's peraly dentures.  Fake defines Los Angeles.  So, the name Fakers is apt.

You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.

Because it isn't clever, looks pretty dumb, and offends me

Then go enjoy yourself on the Heat or Lakers blog. Unless that was a joke  ::)

 ::)

Referring to Lakers as "Fakers" isn't cool

this

Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics,

And when or where did someone use "cHeat" or "Fakers" to try and be funny? Were they doing stand up comedy and it wasnt going too swell and they pulled out the ole "so how about those Miami cHeat"? Im just wondering here. Im trying to gather all information before i come to an ironclad conclusion

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Not really sure why I vehemently disagree with you so often Roy. Your tolerance for idiocy is extremely low and that I can relate with
So by referring to someone or something with a nickname is now "idiocy" or the fact that im actually debating an argument is "idiocy"? Im confused... Because to me someone who just says one thing and no matter what their views are right and your views are wrong is the epitome of "idiocy". You've literally said nothing but the same lines over and over and over again... "Using cHeat is juvenile and not cool"  the thing with nicknames is it has to be simple enough for everyone to understand whilst also being witty. Which is why fakers or cHeat works so well. Its simple and easy to say or chant and also pretty witty if you know your basketball. So im just assuming you either dont get the nicknames or just dont know basketball enough to get it

I was speaking very generally. That wasn't about you or any other specific user. I am well acquainted with the rules now (finally)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: slamtheking on April 14, 2013, 08:33:54 PM
I don't have a problem with cHeat because I think it fits.  I've used the term several times myself.

I think Stern should have done something about the blatant collusion between Bron, Bosh and Wade to create a 'superteam'.  If an owner tried tampering with a player on another team to get them to join his team, there'd be major repercussions.  Same should have happened to those 3.

If he did so...Why wouldn't he have done something about this year's lakers or the Garnett/Allen acquisitions?

Never know how that stuff is going to work out.

That's not the problem anyway...It's the overt biased officiating.

Because those were all trades instead of free agent signings?  It's a lot tougher for players to collude to get traded to the same team than to sign with the same team.
which is my point.

trades aren't nearly the same as players agreeing to sign with the same team as FA's.   Miami's situation reeks of collusion and thus I think cHeat is fair and just moniker for that team.

Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Billz401 on April 14, 2013, 09:02:56 PM
Is this seriously a thread right now... Oh myyy god theyre using funny nicknames for rival teams of the celtics, on a CELTICS BLOG. the nerve of some people...
I swear no matter what any1 does, even as minute as this, there will always be someone to complain.. And for those who think its "juvenile" or "immature" you sound like some stuck up old snobs.. "Merrr, your vocabulary and demeanor are absolutely elementary at best. Please wait while i slurp my chai tea and scroll through your juvenile remarks."
Its honestly ridiculous that this is a thread right now.. Like some old ladies on here finding anything to nag about.. You dont like people making fun of the cHeat, i suggest u stay away from every sports blog besides miami's

Hey!  Watch what you say about us old ladies  ROFL  :D  (I confess I call them cHeat and Fakers)  It mostly has to do with the fact that if they aren't winning, the refs step in and make sure they do.  Did you watch that GSW/LAL game where the Lakers shot 50 free throws to 16 for the Warriors? And how can a player like LeBron, who barrels into the lane with his shoulder down like a linebacker at least 2 or 3 times a game go for a week or two without getting even ONE foul? The nicknames are more out of frustration than anything. 

But then again, at my age, after over 40 years of being a Celtics fan I have earned the right to call our biggest rivals names if I want to.


LOL my fault FL i completely forgot that you roam these forums. Love reading your game threads! But i couldnt agree with you more. I just didnt expect this type of post on a BOSTON sports blog lol
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: guava_wrench on April 14, 2013, 09:53:10 PM
The main reason why I lose a lot of respect for someone who uses Miami cHeat -- they are sore losers. But if that is the coping mechanism that some need, so be it. Some people also like to pretend that their opponents are evil. Whatever.

I don't think that this is something to make a big deal out of. I just shake my head when people feel the need to do that and address the content of their post instead of focusing on not clever rhymes.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticsFan9 on April 14, 2013, 10:05:09 PM
Forget cHeat, whenever I hear the word "Heat" I cringe.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: NocturnalRebel on April 15, 2013, 01:02:26 AM
Not sure if this an ESPN employee trolling, a heat fan, or somebody actually being serious. Is this really a thread or am I on CelticsBlog bizarro? I get that this site gives us a platform to express opinions and stuff but this could have been tweeted instead.

But to tha topic. Celtics fans hate Miami and if they want to call them tha "cHeat" then so be it. Where's tha thread at on what tha Heat fans call tha Celtics? But if that isn't cool then what about when Skip Bayless refers to LeBron as tha "Frozen One" or "LeBrick"? Or how about when Shaq calls Javal McGee "Tragic Bronson"? What are we saying when members here are using "LeBroid", "LeBum", "SheWade", and "Christine Bosh"? I really don't get tha big deal. It's just meaningless nicknames. Fans will be fans and this is one of those things that are beyond our control.


Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Bahku on April 15, 2013, 02:11:18 AM
Why do we all have to be "cool"?  ::) I'm content with the way I am already.
TP, C2.

This is the best reply I've seen in a long time, and pretty much describes the absurdity of this discussion, IMO.

I mean, do people who object to this go around all day trying to be "cool"? If so, I think they're a bit self-induldged, and more than a bit superficial.

I've been here a long time, and there have been times when everyone I recognize by avatar or screen name has used what I might consider "juvenile" or mildly offensive epithets or phrases.

So what?!? Honestly, I'm less bothered by a juvenile nickname than I am by the word "sucks", and I've used both.

I'd also rather see an immature appellaton than I would say someone being purposely condescending, sarcastic, hateful, judgmental, or implying omniscience ... and it happens all the time.

So what?!? As long as it's within the rules of the site then it's that person's perogative, whether I like it or not, no matter what I feel about it.

Calling Miami the "cheat" is a fairly harmless, (though admittedly not the "classiest"), way for a Celtic fan to express to others that they hate the team.

Wow ... horrible, just horrible, and so immature! Come on.

Do people actually not know whether or not someone is mature or sophisticated or educated or eloquent if they use an immature nickname once-in-a-while?

So you take a person down a notch in your assessment of them if they call Miami the "Cheat"? They must be uneducated, or infantile, or crass, or immature, right?

Really, if people judge one another by the use of a careless juvenile phrase every-so-often, or an immature nickname used to describe a team they hate, or faux cursing, or whether or not they're "cool", then we're all in trouble.

Man, I hope I never get to the point where I start assessing people or the things they say as somehow beneath me, just because their little anti-opponent monikers aren't up to the sophisticated level that I would consider "cool".

Frankly, (if I chose to look at things that way all the time), it wouldn't take me long to find something I don't care for, (or find immature), in the phrasing or words of anyone, (here or elsewhere), but thankfully I do my best to not judge their character or "coolness" by their casual phrases d'animosité.

If that were the case, there wouldn't be a "cool" person on this blog ... or alive, for that matter.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: timobusa on April 15, 2013, 03:15:37 AM
Why do we all have to be "cool"?  ::) I'm content with the way I am already.
TP, C2.

This is the best reply I've seen in a long time, and pretty much describes the absurdity of this discussion, IMO.

I mean, do people who object to this go around all day trying to be "cool"? If so, I think they're a bit self-induldged, and more than a bit superficial.

I've been here a long time, and there have been times when everyone I recognize by avatar or screen name has used what I might consider "juvenile" or mildly offensive epithets or phrases.

So what?!? Honestly, I'm less bothered by a juvenile nickname than I am by the word "sucks", and I've used both.

I'd also rather see an immature appellaton than I would say someone being purposely condescending, sarcastic, hateful, judgmental, or implying omniscience ... and it happens all the time.

So what?!? As long as it's within the rules of the site then it's that person's perogative, whether I like it or not, no matter what I feel about it.

Calling Miami the "cheat" is a fairly harmless, (though admittedly not the "classiest"), way for a Celtic fan to express to others that they hate the team.

Wow ... horrible, just horrible, and so immature! Come on.

Do people actually not know whether or not someone is mature or sophisticated or educated or eloquent if they use an immature nickname once-in-a-while?

So you take a person down a notch in your assessment of them if they call Miami the "Cheat"? They must be uneducated, or infantile, or crass, or immature, right?

Really, if people judge one another by the use of a careless juvenile phrase every-so-often, or an immature nickname used to describe a team they hate, or faux cursing, or whether or not they're "cool", then we're all in trouble.

Man, I hope I never get to the point where I start assessing people or the things they say as somehow beneath me, just because their little anti-opponent monikers aren't up to the sophisticated level that I would consider "cool".

Frankly, (if I chose to look at things that way all the time), it wouldn't take me long to find something I don't care for, (or find immature), in the phrasing or words of anyone, (here or elsewhere), but thankfully I do my best to not judge their character or "coolness" by their casual phrases d'animosité.

If that were the case, there wouldn't be a "cool" person on this blog ... or alive, for that matter.

Everything you said > This whole thread.

> = greater than

TP!
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: LakersForDays on April 15, 2013, 05:14:05 AM
Why do we all have to be "cool"?  ::) I'm content with the way I am already.
TP, C2.

This is the best reply I've seen in a long time, and pretty much describes the absurdity of this discussion, IMO.

I mean, do people who object to this go around all day trying to be "cool"? If so, I think they're a bit self-induldged, and more than a bit superficial.

I've been here a long time, and there have been times when everyone I recognize by avatar or screen name has used what I might consider "juvenile" or mildly offensive epithets or phrases.

So what?!? Honestly, I'm less bothered by a juvenile nickname than I am by the word "sucks", and I've used both.

I'd also rather see an immature appellaton than I would say someone being purposely condescending, sarcastic, hateful, judgmental, or implying omniscience ... and it happens all the time.

So what?!? As long as it's within the rules of the site then it's that person's perogative, whether I like it or not, no matter what I feel about it.

Calling Miami the "cheat" is a fairly harmless, (though admittedly not the "classiest"), way for a Celtic fan to express to others that they hate the team.

Wow ... horrible, just horrible, and so immature! Come on.

Do people actually not know whether or not someone is mature or sophisticated or educated or eloquent if they use an immature nickname once-in-a-while?

So you take a person down a notch in your assessment of them if they call Miami the "Cheat"? They must be uneducated, or infantile, or crass, or immature, right?

Really, if people judge one another by the use of a careless juvenile phrase every-so-often, or an immature nickname used to describe a team they hate, or faux cursing, or whether or not they're "cool", then we're all in trouble.

Man, I hope I never get to the point where I start assessing people or the things they say as somehow beneath me, just because their little anti-opponent monikers aren't up to the sophisticated level that I would consider "cool".

Frankly, (if I chose to look at things that way all the time), it wouldn't take me long to find something I don't care for, (or find immature), in the phrasing or words of anyone, (here or elsewhere), but thankfully I do my best to not judge their character or "coolness" by their casual phrases d'animosité.

If that were the case, there wouldn't be a "cool" person on this blog ... or alive, for that matter.

Wow, this is an amazing post with great insight. Kudos Bahku.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Celtics4ever on April 15, 2013, 07:26:47 AM
People have different perceptions of cool.  Cool is like beauty in the eye of the beholder.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: aporel#18 on April 15, 2013, 08:18:42 AM
FL, C2 and Bakhu more than earned TPs for expressing it better than I could do, even if I tried to write a fanpost about this subject.

Fakers may not be a cool nickname, but claiming for Minny Lakers titles while not recognizing Mikan, Mikkelsen et al isn't cool either.  And when Kobe gets the Bill Russell Trophy when it really was Joey Crawford and Pau Gasol who deserved it, you can't find a better nickname for those clowns. Of course, there are great Laker fans and I'll never call them Fakers, but that organization is a joke.

cHeat is a lame nickname, so what? I'll call them cHeat not one time, not two... well you get it. I prefer the Three Stooges, Miami Hype and even cHeatles. As to individual players, I like LeTravel, Karate Hamster, D-Whistle. I don't feel good calling Ray Judas, but I don't mind if anyone does it, out of frustration.

As a Celtic fan, I'm as biased as you can find, wearing green googles and drinking green kool aid. You'll notice that when things go bad, and refs kill us  ;), but you'll never see me showboating and trolling other teams boards when we beat them. This is a Boston Celtics Blog, after all, and we can enjoy being fans. Relax.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: dark_lord on April 15, 2013, 08:19:28 AM
this thread has 8 pages?!?!  smh
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: D.o.s. on April 15, 2013, 08:23:47 AM
D-Whistle.
I haven't seen that before--absolutely incorporating it. TP.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Roy H. on April 15, 2013, 08:59:10 AM
...

I'd also rather see an immature appellaton than I would say someone being purposely condescending, sarcastic, hateful, judgmental, or implying omniscience ... and it happens all the time.

So what?!? As long as it's within the rules of the site then it's that person's perogative, whether I like it or not, no matter what I feel about it.

Calling Miami the "cheat" is a fairly harmless, (though admittedly not the "classiest"), way for a Celtic fan to express to others that they hate the team.

Wow ... horrible, just horrible, and so immature! Come on. ...

Isn't this response purposefully condescending, sarcastic, and judgmental? ;)

EDIT:  And, lest that response is too flip, allow me to clarify through another question.  Doesn't most of your argument boil down to "you shouldn't say something that offends me, or judge me because I say something"?  At the same time, aren't you judging the original poster, and telling him not to be offended?

It's all silly.  As someone else said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  If somebody finds another person's comments to be not cool, offensive, immature, or juvenile, isn't that their right?  Especially when they're not telling somebody else what to do?
 
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Redz on April 15, 2013, 08:59:25 AM
I'm 44 and I really enjoy potty humor.  Farts make me laugh.  Sue me.


Wait, this is the humor confessional thread isn't it?
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Moranis on April 15, 2013, 09:16:48 AM
I think it is a silly nickname because the Heat quite simply didn't cheat.  In fact on some level they should be commended for getting their 3 star players to all take less money for the good of the team, something most star players just won't do during their hey day (think KG and Kobe with their cap crippling contracts).

And I find it incredibly silly to talk about dirty players on other teams when we all praise KG and he is consistently among, if not, the dirtiest player(s) in the league. Perkins and Sheed also were in that category when they were Celtics.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Lightskinsmurf on April 15, 2013, 09:22:18 AM
I'm 44 and I really enjoy potty humor.  Farts make me laugh.  Sue me.


Wait, this is the humor confessional thread isn't it?

It is now.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 16, 2013, 10:12:08 PM
Why do we all have to be "cool"?  ::) I'm content with the way I am already.
TP, C2.

This is the best reply I've seen in a long time, and pretty much describes the absurdity of this discussion, IMO.

I mean, do people who object to this go around all day trying to be "cool"? If so, I think they're a bit self-induldged, and more than a bit superficial.

I've been here a long time, and there have been times when everyone I recognize by avatar or screen name has used what I might consider "juvenile" or mildly offensive epithets or phrases.

So what?!? Honestly, I'm less bothered by a juvenile nickname than I am by the word "sucks", and I've used both.

I'd also rather see an immature appellaton than I would say someone being purposely condescending, sarcastic, hateful, judgmental, or implying omniscience ... and it happens all the time.

So what?!? As long as it's within the rules of the site then it's that person's perogative, whether I like it or not, no matter what I feel about it.

Calling Miami the "cheat" is a fairly harmless, (though admittedly not the "classiest"), way for a Celtic fan to express to others that they hate the team.

Wow ... horrible, just horrible, and so immature! Come on.

Do people actually not know whether or not someone is mature or sophisticated or educated or eloquent if they use an immature nickname once-in-a-while?

So you take a person down a notch in your assessment of them if they call Miami the "Cheat"? They must be uneducated, or infantile, or crass, or immature, right?

Really, if people judge one another by the use of a careless juvenile phrase every-so-often, or an immature nickname used to describe a team they hate, or faux cursing, or whether or not they're "cool", then we're all in trouble.

Man, I hope I never get to the point where I start assessing people or the things they say as somehow beneath me, just because their little anti-opponent monikers aren't up to the sophisticated level that I would consider "cool".

Frankly, (if I chose to look at things that way all the time), it wouldn't take me long to find something I don't care for, (or find immature), in the phrasing or words of anyone, (here or elsewhere), but thankfully I do my best to not judge their character or "coolness" by their casual phrases d'animosité.

If that were the case, there wouldn't be a "cool" person on this blog ... or alive, for that matter.

My thread could have been easily avoided by those who feel otherwise. Yet we near 9 pages...
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 16, 2013, 10:16:19 PM
My thread could have been easily avoided by those who feel otherwise. Yet we near 9 pages...

You weren't obligated to make this thread, and other people aren't obligated to listen to your opinions. People can post what they want on CBF.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 16, 2013, 10:54:59 PM
My thread could have been easily avoided by those who feel otherwise. Yet we near 9 pages...

You weren't obligated to make this thread, and other people aren't obligated to listen to your opinions. People can post what they want on CBF.

That is both true, and irrelevant. Like when people play '7 degrees of Kevin Bacon'.

Edit: also, my above statement is both true and irrelevant. Someone talk about other nicknames before we get stuck in a loop!
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 16, 2013, 11:16:44 PM
My thread could have been easily avoided by those who feel otherwise. Yet we near 9 pages...

You weren't obligated to make this thread, and other people aren't obligated to listen to your opinions. People can post what they want on CBF.

That is both true, and irrelevant. Like when people play '7 degrees of Kevin Bacon'.

Edit: also, my above statement is both true and irrelevant. Someone talk about other nicknames before we get stuck in a loop!

IP called my ever-so-elegantly worded statement irrelevant :'(

I think I will go into the corner now and cry for this (<- also both true and irrelevant)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: KGs Knee on April 16, 2013, 11:21:36 PM
I prefer to refer to Miami and their Evil-Trinity as Delonte's step-son, D*Bag, and Rupaul.  I have given them the team nickname of Miami Cornholes.  Pat Riley is cornholio, Spoelstra is the Fonz.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 16, 2013, 11:36:48 PM
I prefer to refer to Miami and their Evil-Trinity as Delonte's step-son, D*Bag, and Rupaul.  I have given them the team nickname of Miami Cornholes.  Pat Riley is cornholio, Spoelstra is the Fonz.

Aside from 'Delonte's Step-Son', I think those are all juvenile and hilarious.

It can be both, guys!
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: indeedproceed on April 16, 2013, 11:40:42 PM
My thread could have been easily avoided by those who feel otherwise. Yet we near 9 pages...

You weren't obligated to make this thread, and other people aren't obligated to listen to your opinions. People can post what they want on CBF.

That is both true, and irrelevant. Like when people play '7 degrees of Kevin Bacon'.

Edit: also, my above statement is both true and irrelevant. Someone talk about other nicknames before we get stuck in a loop!

IP called my ever-so-elegantly worded statement irrelevant :'(

I think I will go into the corner now and cry for this (<- also both true and irrelevant)

Well, you don't get to 30,000 posts by being relevant.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: CelticConcourse on April 16, 2013, 11:46:50 PM
My thread could have been easily avoided by those who feel otherwise. Yet we near 9 pages...

You weren't obligated to make this thread, and other people aren't obligated to listen to your opinions. People can post what they want on CBF.

That is both true, and irrelevant. Like when people play '7 degrees of Kevin Bacon'.

Edit: also, my above statement is both true and irrelevant. Someone talk about other nicknames before we get stuck in a loop!

IP called my ever-so-elegantly worded statement irrelevant :'(

I think I will go into the corner now and cry for this (<- also both true and irrelevant)

Well, you don't get to 30,000 posts by being relevant.

Only three more years and I'll probably be there LOL speaking of which, you post a lot!

But back on topic, LeBron probably does cheat with drugs >:)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: ItStaysYang on April 17, 2013, 08:19:51 PM
My thread could have been easily avoided by those who feel otherwise. Yet we near 9 pages...

You weren't obligated to make this thread, and other people aren't obligated to listen to your opinions. People can post what they want on CBF.

Was just going to say this was irrelevant when I noticed someone already did. Oh well, twice can't hurt
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Chelm on April 18, 2013, 01:16:24 PM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.
You haven't been to L.A., have you...

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7CuE3X40vdo/TzwozSdAvTI/AAAAAAAAEzQ/NBbt9DM87Ks/s1600/IMG_2737.jpg)

(http://takesunset.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/silverlake_showing_silvertop1998-david_kalwitz.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Echo_Park_Lake.jpg)
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: Moranis on April 18, 2013, 02:01:52 PM
You know what isn't cool, calling a Los Angeles basketball team the Lakers.  There hasn't been a lake in the Los Angeles area since the Paleozoic area.  When they left Minneapolis for LA they should have changed their name to the Glitz or the Glamor or the Showtime.
You haven't been to L.A., have you...

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7CuE3X40vdo/TzwozSdAvTI/AAAAAAAAEzQ/NBbt9DM87Ks/s1600/IMG_2737.jpg)

(http://takesunset.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/silverlake_showing_silvertop1998-david_kalwitz.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Echo_Park_Lake.jpg)
those look like ponds to me.  Of course living in Ohio I know what actual lakes look like.
Title: Re: Referring to Miami as the "cHeat" isn't cool
Post by: nickagneta on April 18, 2013, 02:20:02 PM
Lake Winnipesaukee looks at lot like a pond depending on where on the lake you are.