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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Jan 26, 2010, 12:29:41 AM
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I mean, boo. :look:
RACIST TECH:
<a href=">HP computers are racist[/url]
Racist Camera! No, I did not blink… I’m just Asian! (http://www.jozjozjoz.com/2009/05/13/racist-camera-no-i-did-not-blink-im-just-asian/)
Article discussing the above: Face-Detection Cameras: Users' Racism Charges Explained (http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100122/wl_time/08599195464300)
RACIST BOOKS:
Magic Under Glass: The White-Washing Of Young Adult Fiction Continues (http://jezebel.com/5451058/magic-under-glass-the-white+washing-of-young-adult-fiction-continues)
Dragons Can Be Whitewashed Too (http://peteredmundlucy7.blogspot.com/2010/01/dragons-can-be-whitewashed-too.html) Apparently, Chinese dragons do not sell as well as non-Chinese dragons. This is because we can better relate to non-Chinese dragons.*
RACIST MOVIES:
Extraordinary Measures? Yellowface? via Roger Ebert (http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/extraordinary-measures-yellowface-ebert-speaks/) HARRISON FORD IS FUCKING TAIWANESE?
JUST PLAIN CULTURAL IGNORANCE PPL ARE CALLING "RACISM":
Russian ice dance tribute to Aborigines offensive to Aborigines (http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Russian-ice-dance-tribute-to-Aborigines-offensiv?urn=oly,215206&cp=117)
AND SOMETHING EXTRA:
NOCs (Nerds of Color) (http://www.startribune.com/yourvoices/82188702.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUUUKcOy9cP3DieyckcUsI) Excerpt:
And you’d think that fellow nerds, regardless of race and gender, would understand given that our status as freaks and geeks and outcasts would give us some humility and common ground to stand on. Unfortunately, this is not often the case. Try bringing up issues of race, class, gender, and homophobia on a video game message board and see the vitriolic response you get, no matter how diplomatic you try to be. Bring up issues of representation and race to fans of Battlestar and Firefly and get told that you’re a killjoy or one of the “PC police” who doesn’t understand what their favorite show is trying to do. Bring up the relative absence of Asian men in American pop culture and people invariably bring up Bruce Lee – without acknowledging the fact that he was passed over for the television show he created, Kung Fu, for a white actor, and had to go to Hong Kong to find success. Point out that The Last Airbender has an almost all-white cast and people will say, since they’re animated and fictional, they’re not supposed to be Asian – while ignoring that, even when the characters are supposed to be Asian, Hollywood makes them white anyway (see the movie 21, based on a true story where almost all of the real life people involved were Asian Americans, or if you need to stay with nerd references, see Bulletproof Monk, where the Asian American character in the comic is replaced by a white guy).
*Yeah, I think it's just silly, too. However, the story is lent credence when you realize the book is not even about dragons at all. It's "the first anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories by ethnic Chinese outside China" (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/10/toc-the-dragon-and-the-stars-edited-by-eric-choi-and-derwin-mak/). The title and pictoral use of a dragon should've conveyed China. A dragon looking like Maleficent's bastard cousin doesn't cut it.
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Study shows racism acceptable in private, not public (http://media.www.tcudailyskiff.com/media/storage/paper792/news/2010/01/25/News/Study.Shows.Racism.Acceptable.In.Private.Not.Public-3857535.shtml) DUH! Damn, people wasted their time doing a study on this?
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I'm racist. So what? Anyone who says they aren't racist are being false to themselves.
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Some people have no business being true to themselves anyway.
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Indeed, because if they were the world would have many more homos, too.
I'm also sexist.
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I'm a Capricorn.
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HA! Figures.
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I'm a Cancer.
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Libra
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Hah y'all sissies. I'm Scorpio. Baddest motherfucker in the horoscope. Have you guys seen saint seiya? yeah. exactly.
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Anything will die if hit by metal scales. Especially if the weight is on there.
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Pisces. Not that that BS means anything.
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I'm a fucking Virgo in the 'authentic' one. So gay.
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Hah y'all sissies. I'm Scorpio. Baddest motherfucker in the horoscope. Have you guys seen saint seiya? yeah. exactly.
Beck's a Leo so I think she's got us all beat. I mean how the fuck are you suppose to compete with the King of the Jungle?
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How can a Lion beat scales? She can't. I'm metal and immortal. HA!
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Well I'm a goat that can eat cans...which are metal. So you can live the rest of you immortal life in my belly!
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Try it. Just try it. :tom:
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I'm a fucking crab! I'm in the ocean, lions don't swim and scales will rust. I only have to worry about some of the larger pisces, but they bitches anyway.
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They're non-corrosive titanium. HA!
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A whale will eat them.
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That'd be painful to pass.
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One of my classmates use to make baskets. They were not selling. A friend told her put a picture of a white woman on her business cards. She took the advice and her baskets started selling.
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Was the classmate black?
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That is fucking insane. Totally obscene.
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Was this white woman naked?
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Hah y'all sissies. I'm Scorpio. Baddest motherfucker in the horoscope. Have you guys seen saint seiya? yeah. exactly.
Beck's a Leo so I think she's got us all beat. I mean how the fuck are you suppose to compete with the King of the Jungle?
You do know that scorpios use venom to kill their preys right? And they are so small a lion wouldn't even notice them. Conniving little fuckers. Its like Leo is the king but Scorpio is the Prime Minister. We use the king as our puppet to get what we want. We rock.
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Was this white woman naked?
She better have been.
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How can a Lion beat scales? She can't. I'm metal and immortal. HA!
GO RYAN!
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That almost never happens.
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But it sometimes does.
Semi-OT: Yay, sexism! Or yay, sexism? "Worst Network Pilot Season For Women?" (http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/worst-network-pilot-season-for-women/) Note the article is barebones with no real numbers to back itself up. The more interesting reads are in the comments. Some of them are real doozies, "women aren't funny", "women can't write", blah blah yakkity-blah. Someone linked to this, which is a little more enlightening: http://womenandhollywood.com/2010/01/29/women-are-missing-as-tv-creators/
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Well, I think it's obvious that women make horrible TV shows.
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I can't tell if you're joking or not anymore.
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I think terrible TV is a equal opportunity thing. After all "Till Death" was created by a guy and I want to put a gun in my mouth after watching that. Then again "Accidentally on Purpose" was created by a woman and it has a similar effect.
But I mean I don't think it's like driving where you know it's a proven fact women suck at it.
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I can't tell if you're joking or not anymore.
Then the Empire has already won.
Women don't exclusively make horrid TV, I love the Sarah Silverman show. Humourless hacks make horrid TV, and get paid alot to churn out the same show.
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I've noticed most women are funny to other women moreso than they are to men. The reverse does not hold true.
My experience is not unique.
That is all.
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Was the classmate black?
Yes.
No, the white woman was not naked.
My classmate's friend (also black) runs a reselling shop. She got tired of people always trying to haggle with her so she hired a white woman to work the counter and the haggling virtually disappeared.
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It must be a Texas thing, I've never haggled based on race.
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I think terrible TV is a equal opportunity thing. After all "Till Death" was created by a guy and I want to put a gun in my mouth after watching that. Then again "Accidentally on Purpose" was created by a woman and it has a similar effect.
Terrible TV in itself IS equal opportunity. The chance to make TV at all, however, is not.
I've noticed most women are funny to other women moreso than they are to men. The reverse does not hold true.
My experience is not unique.
That is all.
In what context is this in? Do you mean women you've seen or talked to in person, women on tv, or both?
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It must be a Texas thing, I've never haggled based on race.
Unless it's a Jew. Then they expect it.
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Jews are a religion, not a race. They may say so, but there's divisions within that 'race' that I know of.
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Thank you for ruining my joke. I hope you are happy with yourself.
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Jews are a culture group, which includes their religion. Their closer to a race than a religion.
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Not really, I can become a Jew right now. I'm not going to, but I could.
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But the title "Jew" does not just describe the religious aspect.
It can be conclusive when you say "Jew" to mean that the person is of Jewish descent and practices the Jewish religion, or it could just be the heritage, or it could just be the religion. Its really not that simple.
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I think we are missing the much more important fact here. That fact that he buzz killed all over my joke!
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Oh well.
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Yeah, he tends to do that.
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Fucking Honkey.
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At least I'm not honkey fucking.
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You wouldn't be. Who would want to? Not me, that's for sure. I don't write fan fics about it or anything, nor do I commission images of us in...
;.;
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As a period between two semicolons?
Or is that a spider?
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Reject me. :tom:
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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You wouldn't be. Who would want to? Not me, that's for sure. I don't write fan fics about it or anything, nor do I commission images of us in...
;.;
Hot!
Listen I know a guy in the adult publishing. You should send him your stuff, might be able to make a deal.
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In what context is this in? Do you mean women you've seen or talked to in person, women on tv, or both?
Both. Seen and talked to/observed laughing at other women in person or on tv.
I don't see this as sexist it simply is what is it. So when someone says "women aren't funny" I'm inclined to agree...to a point.
I would say "most" women aren't funny.
There are of course exceptions. You for instance have made me laugh before. I can count on one hand the number of women that have said/written /done something that made me laugh in the past 5 years.
And it's not like "Oh I better not laugh if they do something funny! Gotta hold these chicks down!" Women's antics simply just aren't that funny to me and many other guys that I've spoken with.
Also, the exceptions are usually doing something blue.
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Women that make me laugh that I don't know: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman, Mindy Kaling, I'm sure there's more. The problem is not women who make TV, it's shifty people who make TV. If your sitcom needs a laugh track, then it's probably not that funny to begin with. The guy who created The Office, his name escapes me, he gets it.
I once watched a documentary on Monty Python coming to America, and one of the commentators said it quite well, I paraphrase, "In American comedy, we explain the joke, tell the joke, then explain why it's funny." Also, I don't give a shit about drama unless they're is a sci-fi element.
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Fuck Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman. The only two hilarious women imho are Joan Rivers and that dikey lady from 40 year old Virgin
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Joan Rivers? Please.
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Her early stuff was pretty funny. She isn't really that funny now, but it's not like she hoping the stand circuit anymore either.
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Considering she blocked comics from making fun of her daughter @ her roast, she continues to lose credibility.
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I sometimes tell people I'm part Jewish, since my sister-in-law is Jewish and so I guess is my niece. Then they tell me you can't be Jewish by association. =/
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I once watched a documentary on Monty Python coming to America, and one of the commentators said it quite well, I paraphrase, "In American comedy, we explain the joke, tell the joke, then explain why it's funny."
Ha, yeah, that.
Re: Woman and comedy. Considering there's so much unfunny stuff out there, I don't think it could hurt for women to be given a better shot at some of this shit. The fact is that they simply aren't. When I thought about funny men vs. funny women, no one makes me laugh that much more than the other. It's just that they're more men out there, period. I don't think women are given much of a chance of being funny either, not as writers or actresses. (Kinda like a Looney Tunes thing where no one wanted to drop an anvil on or blow up a girl.)
You for instance have made me laugh before.
If you knew me in person, I would be counted right along those unfunny chicks. I don't tend to crack jokes at school or work or with people I barely know. I'm kinda uptight at first, to the point where if I cuss or something, I tend to get this WTF stare like the notion was at first inconceivable.
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I sometimes tell people I'm part Jewish, since my sister-in-law is Jewish and so I guess is my niece. Then they tell me you can't be Jewish by association. =/
My Aunt and Cousin are Jewish.
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My ex was jewish. That makes me 1/4 jewish and able to make jokes about them. It's just by association.
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I learned how to make Latkes from my Aunt. So delicious.
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Jews are both a religious and ethnic group. You can practice Judaism and not be a cultural or ethnic Jew.
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He's jewish even though his mom was catholic. His dad "made him" jewish only so he could keep on with the family's business (jewelries) or some stupid shit like that. In other words so he could go and chill with other jews and be accepted. Totally stupid.
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OT - Racism in old cartoons makes me laugh. I don't even mean Looney Tunes or anything either. It's not like outright, but the undertones are obvious. I've been watching Ducktales and there was chanting dark Magic Negro natives, a pizza-flipping mama-mia Italian, and exploited druids. And Ninja Turtles was just... forget the abuse of Ninjitsu, no one cares anyway. The turtles pretending to be black as a gag? Ho ho. The worse are the dudes in Yoshi's dojo with the buck teeth! "You seh solly to oul honolable mastaa." ORLY? :lmao:
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The most racial holiday is coming up, Saint Patrick's Day. Quest love freaked out over NBC serving fried chicken, yet no one complains about corned beef and potatoes.
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You should totally complain!
....about just getting one day. That food's making me a-hungry again! CHOMP! What's the deal with green and the drunkeness again? How does any of it relate?
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Just racism. Best line from Blazing Saddles; "We'll take the Niggers and the Chinese, BUT NO IRISH!". That's why I'm convinced soon 'Hispanic' will vanish from the American census form and all will be assimilated into 'White' just to piss off the more visually recognizable minorities.
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Lots of Hispanics are already labled as white so it won't make that much of a difference, with "white" on our birth certificates or some shit like that. Italians are white now, it's close enough.
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Yup. It's hard to think of it, but French up here still hate Irish and Italians and consider them black or brown. There's still Italians that refuse to wear green on Saint Paddy's day, and in protest wear red for some Italian Saint who shares the day but no one cares about.
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St. It's-A Me, Mario.
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I would love some pasta and olives right now.
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I want spaghetti nao.
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Indeed, come on over and I'll make us some. Kary will wake up angry, until I serve her some too. Then we can make fun of Al Roker. HA!
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Yup. It's hard to think of it, but French up here still hate Irish and Italians and consider them black or brown. There's still Italians that refuse to wear green on Saint Paddy's day, and in protest wear red for some Italian Saint who shares the day but no one cares about.
Silly Tom, Italians are orange.
And yes I agree with Nuri, I've filled a lot of forms in these past 2 months and some of them now consider hispanic part of the caucasian category
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They are on the shore.
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Lots of Hispanics are already labled as white so it won't make that much of a difference, with "white" on our birth certificates or some shit like that. Italians are white now, it's close enough.
One of us! One of us! One of us!
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Indeed, come on over and I'll make us some. Kary will wake up angry, until I serve her some too. Then we can make fun of Al Roker. HA!
Ohhhh, but you're too far away! :(
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Yup. It's hard to think of it, but French up here still hate Irish and Italians and consider them black or brown. There's still Italians that refuse to wear green on Saint Paddy's day, and in protest wear red for some Italian Saint who shares the day but no one cares about.
Silly Tom, Italians are orange.
And yes I agree with Nuri, I've filled a lot of forms in these past 2 months and some of them now consider hispanic part of the caucasian category
I see it as always listing "Caucasian non-Hispanic," and "Caucasian."
I always like to mark the Caucasian or white chell box, as well as the "prefer not to answer" chell box, but the internet often won't let me do so. Stupid internet.
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No one believes I'm Puerto Rican. -_- To be fair though, living in Kentucky for a 1/4 of my life took the Spanish out of me and I'm pretty light skinned. The only one that figured it out was a Puerto Rican friend of mine.
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So you're Puerto Rican Puerto Rican or do you have a mixture of some kind?
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She's 100%. Her family doesn't think I know what they say when they say it. Except her Mom, her Mom figured out I can speak Spanish.
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How did it occur like that?
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Well my guess is that after being with someone for a long time and listening to her/him talking in another language,you start "assimilating" it, like without noticing it you start understanding stuff. Happened to me with this one and also with my best friend of years ago that was arab, at the end I could understand a lot of her conversations with her family.
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Or 7+ years of Spanish classes and living in Miami for 5 years helped.
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Nah, nah, I meant how did her mom come to find out but not anyone else?
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She actually pays attention to me. Her Dad still calls me 'Kary's friend'.
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Tee hee, Kary's special friend.
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John Mayer STFU and people of all walks of life, color, nationality, and both genders and the ones in between held hands and cheered.
"I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done," a teary Mayer told the audience at the Sommet Center. "I just want to play my guitar." (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/02/john-mayer-onstage-apology-twitter-silence-tila-tequila.html)
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This one's a Texas story:
Democratic candidate for governor Farouk Shami says white people not willing to work in factories (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/021210dnmetshami.1100b45ac.html). I like to say his name Shamu, like the dead whale.
Democratic candidate for governor Farouk Shami said Friday that white people are not willing to work in factories and as a result, Hispanic labor is essential to the Texas economy.
Shami, a Houston hair care magnate, made the statements during a taping of WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics, which airs at 9 a.m. Sunday on Channel 8.
“A majority of the people are going to be Hispanic and African-American,” he said. “You don’t find white people who are willing to work in factories. And our history proves lots of time when … the white people come to work in a factory they either want to be supervisors or they want to be paid more than the average person. And unfortunately they exit.”
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“I don’t know what Mr. Shami was talking about,” [frontrunner in the race, Bill] White said. “Texas is too good for stereotypes. Everybody is made in the image of God.”
[Story continues at link above...]
Ahaha, Bill White, you make me laugh. As for Shamu, he shot that one through his blow hole. We're a big state and there are poor white Texans just as willing and eager for factory work that he basically alienated. Anyway, neither of these guys is gonna win. This state's still too red, so it'll be Rick Perry or Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
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"I just want to play my guitar."
lol effing hippie. hes so ugly i cant believe he gets so many women
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The rival is Bill White? HA!
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Actually the republican race is heating up because of a newcomer, Medina. No idea who that is but Texan republicans can see how both Perry and Hutchinson have failed, so why not.
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Patrick Kennedy announced he won't be our congressman anymore.
Yay!
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Actually the republican race is heating up because of a newcomer, Medina. No idea who that is but Texan republicans can see how both Perry and Hutchinson have failed, so why not.
From what I last saw in various polls, Medina may as well be a block of wood.
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You mean, Obama?
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She's gaining in the polls and Hutchinson is sliding back a bit. She went from 4% in November to 16% in February (2nd). Plenty of people are pissed about Hutchinson's Washington politics, and it is starting to show effect. Medina is supported by the tea party- I'm so glad they stopped calling them teabaggers -and her support is growing. Whether she's worth a damn, I don't actually know.
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Hee hee, teabaggers.
Plenty of people are pissed about Hutchinson's Washington politics
Yup and Rick Perry's ppl are definetely making sure everyone knows it.
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Even though for the most part, he supported her votes.
Also Medina just said there are, "unanswered questions," about 9/11. Doubt she is going go make it now.
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Yeah I wanna know whatsup with that UFO on some of the pics
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I'm so glad they stopped calling them teabaggers
Don't worry, they haven't.
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Well, I haven't heard it on the news in awhile.
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It hasn't gone away, though. I heard it quite frequently concerning their convention a week or two ago.
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Well, then maybe I am just not paying attention.
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It hasn't gone away, though. I heard it quite frequently concerning their convention a week or two ago.
They went away because it doesn't fit the current storyline. Same with all the Dems quitting the political life, that's not getting much play.
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I don't watch this show and never even heard of it until it got mentioned by one of you, but it's kinda topic relevant so bam.
SHOCKER: Jersey Shore's JWoww and Snooki Are Not Italian (http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/shocker-jwoww-snooki-are-not-italian-2010162):
So much for being "guidette" princesses.
Jersey Shore star Jenni "JWoww" Farley, 23, admitted on Fox's Strategy Room Tuesday that she and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi aren't even Italian!
J-Woww says she's Spanish and Irish, while Snooki, 21, is Chilean.
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Not Italian? Get outta here!
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I don't watch this show and never even heard of it until it got mentioned by one of you, but it's kinda topic relevant so bam.
SHOCKER: Jersey Shore's JWoww and Snooki Are Not Italian (http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/shocker-jwoww-snooki-are-not-italian-2010162):
So much for being "guidette" princesses.
Jersey Shore star Jenni "JWoww" Farley, 23, admitted on Fox's Strategy Room Tuesday that she and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi aren't even Italian!
J-Woww says she's Spanish and Irish, while Snooki, 21, is Chilean.
IRISH? No wonder she was punched. Italians hate Irish, right?
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Old news are old! Snooki said it in the show once. Poor girl, being chilean is next to being shit.
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Irish AND Chilean! I'm surprised punching is all that happened.
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Old news are old!
Is. :D
Snooki said it in the show once.
As I said, I don't watch it.
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Old news are old! Snooki said it in the show once. Poor girl, being chilean is next to being shit.
Says a Peruvian. :tom:
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That's EXACTLY why I say it! if anyone knows about chileans, its a peruvian.
Nuri, you need to watch the Jersey Shore. I think now they are going to be in miami
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Well, I prefer Argentinian Malbec to Chilean, but eh.
Miami? Jesus Christ, don't fucking start club fights down there. Columbians will fucking kill you.
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Nuri, you need to watch the Jersey Shore. I think now they're going to be in miami
No way. MTV is a pox upon the world. If I had a nuke, I'd launch it into them and destroy them.
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'Blacked up' Gerard Depardieu sparks race row (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/7275213/Blacked-up-Gerard-Depardieu-sparks-race-row.html)
Depardieu has rejected the discussion over his right to play the mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas because he is a blue-eyed blonde.
He said the debate over his role as The Three Musketeers writer in the big-budget production L'Autre Dumas is "ridiculous" and "unnecessary".
But France's Representative Council for Black Associations has questioned whether he should have been cast as a man with Afro-Caribbean heritage, saying black actors are not chosen to play white roles in French cinema.
Depardieu said the issue is "not interesting" and "not a problem".
Dumas was the grandson of a Haitian slave.
Yeeeeeah, I really had no idea Dumas had some Haitian blood. Learn something new everyday.
Also, semi-OT I saw Depardieu's turn as the Count of the Monte Cristo in the four-part mini-series of the same name. Each part was about movie size. 1-2 were pretty much brilliant but in 3 it starts to unravel and by 4 it was a downhill slope of wtf. Eugenie Danglars was cut out completely. Most of the movie had the count hooking up with some pale Titian-haired waifette Camille De La Richardais. Who the FUCK is that and why did they even bother? She wore out her welcome hella fast, but no, she had to stay for the entire frickin' series and was all sobbing "i love j00" to the count. Then at the end, Dantes ends up with Mercedes while Haydee and Franz d'Epinay hook up. Teh fuck? The Haydee they had was beautiful and she was cheated out of screen time. As was the actress who played Mercedes. For who, some dumpy odd looking bird-woman? Was this a color-slight of some kind or is Darel big in France or some shit? Or did Depardieu just have to "make it with her" because then I'm really apalled. =p
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I also hated that miniseries since the Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books.
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Do you know if the animated one is any good, the one currently on Netflix Instant.
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No clue, anime doesn't do it for me.
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Do you know if the animated one is any good, the one currently on Netflix Instant.
Gankutsuou? Merla (a Monte Cristo fan, I should add) and I loved it. Has its deviations of course but was more faithful to the story than the Depardieu live-action one, that's for sure. Is was also pretty to look at it.
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I fucking love Gerard Depardieu. Did anyone see Camille?
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Nope.
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Depardieu is a great actor, but that nose of his is distracting. It looks like he'd use it to root in the dirt for truffles or something. Prime candidate for a nose job if I ever saw it.
And I'm not surprised over the 4 part miniseries being all romantic and crap... it's France, everything has to be about love or sex over there....
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That's not true. They take time out of love and sex to drink and surrender.
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And I'm not surprised over the 4 part miniseries being all romantic and crap... it's France, everything has to be about love or sex over there....
Those weren't really the major problems with it. I had no issue with them wanting to focus on the more romantic aspects of a body of work, but adding in some non-existent character to that end and changing the ending is a no-no.
Anyway, yeah, his nose is huge. Judging by his earlier work, it apparently bloated with age.
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his son was hot, rip
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Oh yeah, that was a shame. Saw him in Monte Cristo, thought "what a waste".
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His casting as Cyrano de Bergerac was either utterly inspired or blatantly obvious. Whichever, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work as the titular character.
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Nowadays its all about the looks, come on. Do you think Daniel Radcliffe got chosen as HP for being a good actor? or that bitch from Twilight?? If it comes from a book, looks will have the upper hand
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But Daniel Radcliffe is a decent (not amazing) actor.
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Now he is, but when he started as HP he didn't even know how to act
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They picked him because he looked almost exactly like the book cover illustrations. It was uncanny.
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Obviously, that was the point of my previous post. If its about a book, they'll try to choose whoever looks the closest to the character.
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But not because he was "pretty" because he was "accurate."
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Yeah, there's a difference there.
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But not because he was "pretty" because he was "accurate."
Same thing bro, its all based on the looks.
ps: true, i dont think Daniel Radcliffe is hawt at ALL. he looks like a future pervert
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It is an important distinction. Finding someone who looks correct for the part AND can act is damn near impossible. Finding someone who is pretty is pretty easy.
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but you can always just find someone that looks exactly like the character and teach him how to act.
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You might be able to, but not always. See Beck's sticky at the top of the forum.
EDIT: Wait, I am sorry, they are just being lazy.
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Just a casual mention on the website.
Eight teens shot in Gary
from: http://www.post-trib.com/news/2087665,gshoot06.article
Eight teenage boys suffered gunshot wounds late Friday night while exiting a popular Gary skating rink where they were attending a concert.
Gary Police Cpl. Gabrielle King said Saturday "all chaos broke loose" when a fight broke out during the event and security advised attendees to leave Skate World, 4415 W. 5th Ave. in the Commons shopping center.
King said no arrests have been made.
One of the victims told police he was shot in the stomach by a male black holding a rifle. He said the man was wearing a red hat and had dreadlocks.
The wounded were transported to Methodist Hospitals Northlake in Gary, St. Catherine's Hospital in East Chicago and St. Margaret Mercy in Hammond.
Another victim said he was with a group of friends and they were asked to leave to avoid a fight with a group of males he didn't know. He said the suspects confronted him in the parking lot and someone started shooting. The teen suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg and was taken to St. Margaret.
Another victim told police he was inside Skate World and the crowd became disorderly. Security told the crowd to exit and when he stepped outside, he was shot in the left leg.
Police identified the wounded as: Shaquille Hughes, 15, shot in right side; Marcus Ratliff,14, shot in right wrist; Justin Bodley, 16, shot in the leg; Junan Washington, 18, shot in left ankle; DaVonte Biddings, 16, shot once in< back; Marquel Croock, 16, shot in stomach;Kesean Philon, 14,shot in leftleg; Stephan Danzy, 17, shot in left leg.
Gary police are still investigating the incident.
[racism]I didn't even know they COULD iceskate.[/racism] Seriously, though. I didn't.
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Shaquille? his name is shaquille? LOL I think we all know the ethnicities of this gentlemen. Not being racist or anything but some names just fall right into the stereotype. Like Juana or Maria
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Plus, who opens fire at a concert of any other ethnicity?
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Merge. :stickdance:
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I will merge something later!
Just you watch!!
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My cock and your ass? ;)
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HOT!
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NOOOOOOO!!!
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You say this after the fact. Victims.