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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"...apparently goon is a term of endearment in high school these days," he said.
"As far as, I mean as far as George being racist, I didn't take it as a racist term. I heard 'goon' and talking to my teenage daughter, apparently goon is a term of endearment in high school these days," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmermans-attorney-friend-speak-trayvon-martin-incident/story?id=15999256#.T2_estn2Nls
Really?
arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)that would be right up there! They sure think we are gullible
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)ad nauseum until they figure we have adopted that lie as the truth.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)We're not racist... you are all deaf!
rocktivity
(44,585 posts)rocktivity
NOW you tell me!
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)... is that also a term of endearment in high school these days?
What a freaking idiot.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)It's amazing what pals of the murderer will resort to.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)All you have to do is check out:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goon
1. Goon 91 up, 49 down
A ridiclulous irritating and mind numbingly annoying person, who embarks on acts of sheer stupidity
Dude stop being a goon
Duke: Im gona rob a bank with a banana
Carmen dradel: Stop bein such a frickin goon
Verb: to goon: Im gona goon that party, y'alls gona be gooning tonight?
noun: Thats pure goonage
3. Goon 954 up, 604 down
Cheap wine. Often comes in a 4 Litre Cask for around $10 Australian dollars.
'Magic Goon' is wine mixed with lemonade, OJ etc.
Most commonly said in Australia.
"What else can get you fucked for $2.50AUD?"
"That is sum nasty ass goon."
more at link.
No where is it a term of endearment. Fuckin' idiots.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)Confusious
(8,317 posts)According to most lawyers, the phrase "You're a m*th*rf*c*ng *ssh*ole and I hope you DIE!" is also a term of endearment.
(If you have a client and he pays)
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)There are NO positive or complimentary uses of the word "goon" when describing a person.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)Once the recording is enhanced, they need to get a lot of people who have never heard it and have not heard the various theories to listen and tell what they hear.
Once a possibility is suggested, it's hard to not 'hear' what has been suggested so they need untainted listeners.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)and stop the bs. This kid was bothering no one.
moriah
(8,311 posts)Your brain tries to figure out patterns, and it choose patterns you're familiar with. If you are told that you'll hear a certain phrase in a white noise tape, you will, most assuredly.
I still think as far as legalities are concerned, the four words that are the coffin nail for this man are "They always get away."
Bladian
(475 posts)Is there a G? I must've been hearing it wrong all along. Oh well.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)yet another inconvenient fact for their contrived alibi.
saras
(6,670 posts)Mariana
(14,863 posts)That was a quote. "Mr. Oliver is full of shit."
tulsakatz
(3,122 posts)...couldn't they have found a better friend? I mean this guy hasn't even seen Zimmerman since a week before the shooting!! Maybe they should have found a closer friend who has seen him since the incident & could verify his behavior since the shooting!!
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)...like Macaca?
tulsakatz
(3,122 posts)that term was so endearing, it ended a prominent republican's election!!
eShirl
(18,507 posts)"Fucking sweetie pie!"
"Fucking buddy!"
It doesn't work.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)as flipping someone the bird is actually wishing them good luck the Hawaiian way
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)Right wingnuts give the opposite meanings to things. (Goon being a term of endearment).
Right wingnuts also blame the victim. (Trayvon, the innocent victim that was hunted down and shot, being blamed as if he were a perp).
I'll just be these people are all right wingnuts. I'd put my money on it.
tulsakatz
(3,122 posts)...why would he have said f***ing goon? I mean, sweetheart is also a term of endearment but you usually don't hear someone say something like.....my f***ing sweetheart!!
hughee99
(16,113 posts)but I also haven't known it to be racist either.