Mayweather on 105.1 trying to read

[$tate of Mind]

Good lord, this thread is going on 700 replies

[Ragnar Lothbrok]

They give you a 'drop' sheet to read from while you are there. Never beforehand unless you cannot make it, and they'd like for you to record and send it yourself. Drops usually are asked for either before an interview, or after. Usually afterwards.

And keep in mind, this was not a live reading. This was a recorded reading, where you can **** up as many times as you like, til you get it right. Just like a music vocal recording session. You'd maybe have one person there recording it. The station had the entire recording and Charlamagne aired part of it.

I think Charlamagne will be in some trouble with his bosses over airing it because there are LOTS of celebrities that walk through there and record drops. And many of them don't speak drops well. Can you imagine what Beyonce's stuff sounds like? What about Jay-Z? And countless other celebs. So other celebs will freak out.

You do have a valid point. But Floyd really, really, really butchered it. Most would butcher a PSA or whatever too, but just not as bad as that.

Back in school, I HATED when teachers asked students to read aloud. My mind would blank out and wouldn't follow. It was really annoying to hear. But if they were speaking naturally, my mind had no issues with it.

Reading aloud just sounds very unnatural to me. And it's because it is unnatural! Haha. It also annoys me when I see speakers or anyone lecturing by reading off a sheet of paper they wrote. I hear the same unnaturalness in their speech.

Now it all makes sense why you are such an ardent defender of floyd especially regarding this topic, you're just like him lmfaaoooo. beyonce and jay z looooooooooool

[radioraheem]

Now it all makes sense why you are such an ardent defender of floyd especially regarding this topic, you're just like him lmfaaoooo. beyonce and jay z looooooooooool

So you are laughing because I don't like to hear people read aloud? Because it usually doesn't sound good? Because it sounds unnatural?

[I Love Jesus!]

Floyd Mayweather: Float like a butterfly, can't spell bee




How ironic is it that larry x spends all that time tweeting Floyd and he can't even read the tweets? Floyd gets a text message then calls the person up to ask what it said.

[BodiesInFlight]

I don't think reading is dull I read all the time I grew up reading Stephan King not Harry Potter though. I took my education seriously all the way through college so please don't talk to me like I don't value reading.

I don't value reading out loud, there is a difference. I could attempt to read out loud and if I had a kid I probably would be very good at reading out loud. I am super out of practice though, so I wouldn't even dream of trying to read out loud in a public setting

You're right, my mistake.

You value education yet don't think learning to read aloud is necessary?
Most successful jobs will require you to speak in public or in front of a large group. If you're a businessman in front of your peers and have to provide a speech, how would you cope? Oh but it's a pointless dull skill so ***it.

I can't see how you could take your education seriously with an outlook like that.

[billeau2]

Seriously, I can't imagine not being able to read. I love reading so much, and it was never something forced upon me. Being able to read opens up so much of the world that you'd be ignorant of otherwise. Can you imagine the things the leeches around Floyd responsible for his finances get away with if he can't read and understand what he's signing?

I'd think someone who makes the money Mayweather does and loves to brag about his business acumen so often would have used that money to train himself to a more literate level.

If he were to make a video of himself reading at a perfectly normal level to show 50 Cent up, that would make me very happy. Reading is such an important element of society's evolution and the acquisition of knowledge. No amount of money matters so much as knowledge.

Its also part of our natural brain development. In a sense if a person is not cued at the right age, when the chemicals in the brain start to build the pathways through hormones and nerve cell growth they are mentally ******ed. I don't mean that in any derogatory way but it is literally true. Floyd sounds to be functionally illiterate. This means that everything from reasoning to processing is off. Floyd is therefore wholly dependent on people who are probably fair weather friends at best.

His best shot is if his kids can help him if there is anything left of him by the time Ellerby and company get through with his assets.

[billeau2]

Really? It's the responsibility of "society" to make sure a 37 year old American who makes 40 million dollars in a few hours and has the rest of the year off learns how to read?

hahahahahahahhahhaahahahaha

I didn't feel sorry for the jocks in the back of the class in high school who talked over the teacher's voice then didn't make the pro league and work at McDonalds. Why am I supposed to feel sorry for one who color coordinates his bugatti to his fur coat?

No, it's his problem. No wonder your life panned out the way it did, you subscribe to that "everything I do is society's fault" political marketing BS.

Ahh I see your one of those losers going through who are mad now that the other losers gained a leg up...get over it and you might make it out of mom's basement yet!


How I panned out? You know nothing about my situation i.e. how my life panned out, you also make assumptions about my beliefs. since you asked: I noticed that when the US of A had a great public education system, we also had a strong middle class, prosperity, intellectual and technological achievement, etc. I have witnessed the new attitude and how it is responsible for passing kids like Floyd through the system and now we have a lot of functinally illiterates individuals around.

Its not all about you and mom son.....better realize.

[radioraheem]

You're right, my mistake.

You value education yet don't think learning to read aloud is necessary?
Most successful jobs will require you to speak in public or in front of a large group. If you're a businessman in front of your peers and have to provide a speech, how would you cope? Oh but it's a pointless dull skill so ***it.

I can't see how you could take your education seriously with an outlook like that.

Most successful jobs? That's not true. Most successful jobs don't require public speaking to a large group. Anyways...

Knowing how to read aloud is a relevant skill. But having solid writing skills is far more important. For typical office jobs, it's possible for people to get away with having shaky reading aloud skills. But they usually cannot get away with having poor writing skills. Other than talking to people directly, the way you will be communicating will always be through writing. What are we doing now? Reading aloud or writing?

With public speaking, the best speakers rarely read aloud. They just have a few notes or a short outline of what they want to talk about, and just speak naturally. Those who are bad at public speaking, generally will take the easy way out and just read aloud. And the result will usually be very boring or just awful.

Anyways, reading aloud has it's relevance. But writing well -- that right there is much more critical.

[billeau2]

It's just a reflection of a society based on getting money. Money is above everything. You shouldn't be surprised that people would exchange education for riches. Education is based on economics itself, and then acquiring education is done mostly for future monetary gain. Rather than for the sake of learning itself. Anyone saying they'd trade their schooling for riches is just being logical. Sadly, it's a more logical statement than saying otherwise.

Money is a permanent problem for people unless you have lots of it. Whereas education, that's a fixable problem. I don't agree that after a certain age people can't decode things anymore. That they're incapable of full understanding. The mind is a complex thing, and some learn very different than others. Einstein couldn't hack it in the school system, but he was later known to be a genius. (This last sentence has nothing to do with Floyd, I know how some people on the forum are, )

Its a physiological fact that people at a certain point lose language learning abilities. It was proved by Noam Chomsky before he became an activist. Yes money is a problem. But going through life totally ignorant is a predicament that grows.....It is reflected in people's decisions to incontinantly breed with no concern for the children, in people's treatment of each other and in how much we can make progress as a species.

You cannot use money to make class or education. Jack London was one of the most brilliant writers and commentators who ever lived (in addition to being a bit of a rascist haha) and he committed suicide because despite his intelligence and celebrity status in Oakland, he could never be accepted as an intellectual aristocrat. Education and breeding triumph money in the end.

[radioraheem]

Its a physiological fact that people at a certain point lose language learning abilities. It was proved by Noam Chomsky before he became an activist. Yes money is a problem. But going through life totally ignorant is a predicament that grows.....It is reflected in people's decisions to incontinantly breed with no concern for the children, in people's treatment of each other and in how much we can make progress as a species.

You cannot use money to make class or education. Jack London was one of the most brilliant writers and commentators who ever lived (in addition to being a bit of a rascist haha) and he committed suicide because despite his intelligence and celebrity status in Oakland, he could never be accepted as an intellectual aristocrat. Education and breeding triumph money in the end.

I've read one of Noam Chomsky's books, called Profit Over People. It wasn't a bad read. Other than that, I'm not too familiar with his body of work. I disagree that after a certain age people lose language learning abilities. If anything, it may just not be as easy as it would have been in childhood. I don't even believe it's something that can be proven. You can't sample a select number of people and then make that conclusion. That's just how I feel.

Second, money has already created class and education. I know personally that there is a huge difference between the education received by those in the inner-city and those in the suburbs. The only thing that can triumph money right now is mother nature. And I believe it is only mother nature that can and will naturally destroy the destructive concept of money.