i.Beat Blaxx http://www.trekstor.de/en/news/index_detail.php?id=119
― and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER
― gr8080, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
hahaha, ILX's finest hour, that one ;_;
― Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
― sanskrit, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
when that fire gets stoked, flame-outs occur
-- deej, Friday, March 23, 2007 11:02 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
quoting lj
when that fire gets stoked for the madness
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
Remember when Ray Charles did that ad for Arby's "Horsey Sauce"? A sad moment.
― Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 20:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Jarlrmai, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
not as good as Boyz II Men doing the ad for Hardee's biscuits
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
The main Pixar guy, I can't remember his name...Lasseter?...said when he got an Oscar for Toy Story he spraypainted an Aunt Jemima syrup bottle gold & kept it next to the Oscar to keep it company.
They don't make syrup bottles shaped like her anymore, do they?
― Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Kris Kross doing the ad for Sprite was something...something.
Yo Kris! What's up Kross? What's that in your hand? It's an S, it's a P-R-I-T-E can.
― Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
Sprite ad was not racist, they just had a dumb rap (shokah). I found itttt on the online...got some of the lyrics wrong but it's been 14 years.
― Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
Holy shit, Golden Shred?
Racism is the real fun eraser.
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
the other day I picked up a copy of this edition (10pence in a local charity shop, old woman behind counter didn't say a word) and was amazed to find it was copyrighted 1978
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aVG2Pzf2to
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
rip ronaldinho bottle opener... top 10 all time
― max, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
holy shit @ christie book
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
i love that the total disconnect becomes clear within the first 3 posts. xpost
it's "Ten little Indians" now
― Heave Ho, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
what ilx2 needed was a britisher vs american race debate that also involves soccer
-- ghost rider, Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:59 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
^^^so otm it makes nabisco a pale shadow
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
i would just like to point out that i have been otm in this thread
― Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
in this rough ol' thread
― Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
I can't believe that Agatha Christie book. wow.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
The oft discussed Australian inclusion..
― W4LTER, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
let us never revive the bottle opener thread
― ghost rider, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
CENSORSHIP
― max, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
ill revive whatever the fuck i want
ILX
― admrl, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
That will mean 200 new answers on it by the time i get up in the morning
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
ah, the tragic Moolatte
― Morley Timmons, Monday, 27 August 2007 01:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Not a product, but a place:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/23/1050777305889.html
― S-, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
Roffle.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
― gershy, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
― gershy, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
― gershy, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
Haha, Taco Time's bean-stirring machine is called "the beaner."
― Abbott, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
nobody has ever used beaner (or considered it offensive) except for that fucktard mencia
― remy bean, Monday, 27 August 2007 05:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm such a dope, I was like "Who is 'beaner' a slur against, people who live in BOSTON? OH WAIT" Hi, Rems.
― Laurel, Monday, 27 August 2007 13:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
oh come on. cracker jack? may as well put up a picture of cracker barrell cheese, or cracker barrell the restaurant, or a saltine or whatever.
― andrew m., Monday, 27 August 2007 14:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's even immortalized in culturally uplifting Chicanosong
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
― sexyDancer, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
er,
― sexyDancer, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
― luriqua, Monday, 27 August 2007 23:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
― luriqua, Monday, 27 August 2007 23:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
you're kidding, right?
― milo z, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.permachink.com/
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ok geez o man: having grown up in southern Colorado, I can assure you times a MILLION that "beaner" gets used plenty.
Also: ^^^so otm it makes nabisco a pale shadow ==> why you gotta bring my RACE into it
― nabisco, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
may as well put up a picture of cracker barrell cheese, or cracker barrell the restaurant
"In the early 2000s and again in 2006, Cracker Barrel has faced accusations including a pattern of racial discrimination [1] in its treatment of customers. After national press attention to these accusations, the company announced explicit policies intended to address the charges, and the most prominent critics have not repeated their criticisms, but still they did end up paying $2 million for race and sexual harassment at three Illinois restaurants [2]. Stores now display a sign in their front foyer clarifying this policy, as has become the policy after a similar incident involving Denny's restaurants. In March 2006, Cracker Barrel agreed to pay $2 million to settle class allegations of sexual and racial discrimination brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.). In October of 2006, Rose Rock, the mother of popular comedian Chris Rock, threatened legal action after she claimed that she and her daughter were discriminated against at the company's Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, restaurant [3] due to not being served for over an hour. She said when she asked the manager about the delay, the manager did not try to find the cause of the delay, but told Rock that they could have a free meal, which she refused.[4]"
― Phil D., Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8KPj-cNA4 great song
― tremendoid, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
JUST ANOTHER GOLF TEE STABBED THRU THE WOODEN TRIANGULAR HEART OF AMERICA.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
HEY YOU ON THE FAR LEFT. KUDOS ON GETTING YOUR FUCKING ARM INTO THE PICTURE.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
― sanskrit, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
ok "Flavors of Negros" has to be a shop
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
it's filipino food, no?
― carne asada, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
I really highly doubt that Filipinos eat black people.
― libcrypt, Friday, 5 October 2007 21:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
― libcrypt, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
― artdamages, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
― artdamages, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
― libcrypt, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- Heave Ho, Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:52 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link
Or And Then There Were None.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
NOT a racist product obviously...
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
Dick Gregory is teh awesome btw
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's a great book, but I still felt kind of weird going to the counter with it in very, very quiet second bookshop.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
secondhand bookshop
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
How many copies do you need to own?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
Air Native, three times wider for Native American feet. Targeted towards Native Americans because of predispositions towards "diabetes" and "obesity"... first Nike targeted towards a racial demographic... racist!
― freewheel, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 05:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- Ned Trifle II, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
lol i thought you meant mein kampf
― and what, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ha, no! I did have a copy of that once though. Pimlico bought it out over here and I was tempted by the cover. I am so shallow. Anyway when I moved and had to whittle down the collection a bit it got sent to Oxfam. I don't know what they did with it.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
Talking about badly written rants against minorities...
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
COORS LIGHT
― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
'Offensive' stand name to stay
― haitch, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 15:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
wtf Australia
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 15:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
This one could launch 1000 ILX posts:
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
omg
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
One of them is eating watermelon just to really, you know, ram the point home...
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
(That’s Muhammad, as depicted in one of the infamous “Muhammad cartoons.”)
― Jeb, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
husseinist
― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
WTF, why do midgets need repair?!
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
I think I've told this story here before but when I was in the aiport in Kuala Lumpur with a couple of hours to kill, I went to the bookstore, and there prominently displayed was a copy of Henry Ford's "The International Jew" in a recently-printed Malaysian edition
punch line, also true: it was right next to a copy of "the protocols of the elders of zion"
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
licorice nom nom:
― warmsherry, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 01:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
― haitch, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 01:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
sheet music i bought at the thrift store:
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 01:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
That midget repair kit is ASTOUNDING!
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 05:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
it has everything
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 05:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
As it is Rugby World Cup time this is in the window of the bookshop below my work
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
Spike Milligan RIP
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 November 2007 14:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
That awful new twinings advert (in which Stephen Fry expresses disdain after the older white women tell him that the young black waiter has been 'filling us in'): tasteless and unfunny, or tasteless, unfunny, and racist?
― G00blar, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
Another cherished moment from childhood:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41205000/jpg/_41205544_kiaora.jpg
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.barryreigate.com
― braveclub, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 10:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
He's all kinds of interesting for sure... http://www.barryreigate.com/e/06/c1.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 10:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
― and what, Monday, 21 July 2008 14:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
keep 'em separately in the fridge!
― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 14:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
"The Hams What Am"
???
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^t-shirt
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
Hahahahaha, you sure have made a darned fool of them lib'ruls with that t-shirt now haven't ya? (xp)
― libcrypt, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^^ Saw that at a flea market 15 years ago for $10.
― libcrypt, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
THAT DRAWING
(whoa cool xp)
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
Anyone know anything about this? ^^
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
Classic Twister: Fun for Everyone (Except Your Black Friend Who Has to Sit in Back Operating the Spinner Because We Don't Want to Show Him Actually Touching and Crawling Around on the Little White Girls)
― nabisco, Monday, 21 July 2008 17:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
1962
Partly in response to the civil rights movement, Crayola decides to change the name of the “flesh” crayon to “peach.” Renaming this crayon was a way of recognizing that skin comes in a variety of shades.
― J.D., Monday, 21 July 2008 18:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Dutch word 'Negerzoen' translates to the English word 'Niggerkiss'.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 21 July 2008 18:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
xpost - Anyone know anything about this? ^^
Apparently it's a poster for the film "The Bad Bunch." The title was changed because no theaters would book the film with its original title.
From IMDB: "A white veteran goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his black Army buddy who died in Vietnam. He encounters hostility and trouble from all sides."
― Nathan, Monday, 21 July 2008 18:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 18:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
i passed a sign by a gravel road today that said "COON HUNT --->"
― deeznuts, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
From the Lethal Weapon 2 department . . .
― fields of salmon, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
― NickB, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
― NickB, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
― and what, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
Shouldn't that be in the encyclopedia of sexy products?
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jim, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
How about some delicious Mohr im Hemd..
Probably about the third most popular dessert in Austria (after Sachertorte and Applestrudel) Mohr im Hemd translates to "Negro in a Shirt"
Some more adventurous restaurants serve this with vanilla ice cream and call it "Negro in the Antarctic"
PS. It does actually taste really good!
― Jack Battery-Pack, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
If you can't make it out in the picture, it is chocolate sponge cake with chocolate sauce and cream!
― Jack Battery-Pack, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
man I try so hard to be good but every once in a while I read "negro in the Antarctic" and lose my shit
― Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
― libcrypt, Monday, 1 September 2008 03:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/15/obama-waffles-creator-works-for-fox/
― ==つ~~~(o)(o) (libcrypt), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 04:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^ real product btw
― ==つ~~~(o)(o) (libcrypt), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
a cover band that plays sometimes at my aunt's bar in southern illinois, The KoonSkyners
― nataschakristin, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 03:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
Fedele told The Times:
"If I was racist, I would have looked at it through racist eyes," she said. "I am not racist, which is why it probably didn't register."
Club member Kristina Sandoval agreed.
"None of us are racists," she said.
The use of watermelon, ribs and fried chicken was innocent, she said.
"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
Holy. Shit.
But what is the significance of the Kool-Aid Man?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Prob some kind of "drink the kool-aid" thing.
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
no, kool-aid is used as stereotypical "black" drink sometimes. i had a roommate once whose boyfriend claimed to be really good at making kool-aid because he learned from a black person. he was terrible.
― harbl, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
yikes. how was the kool-aid though?
― latebloomer, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
no better than the kool-aid i learned to make by reading the instructions
― harbl, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's not so much the imagery that I find shocking, but the fact that a goddamned GOP group put it out and then the woman responsible put on her po-face to claim that she had no IDEA it was racist. Ladies and gentlemen, THAT is the definition of gall.
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
cf. Dave Chappelle's bit about the black kid in the Sunny Delight commercial who gets really excited when someone mentions "purple stuff."
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.obamabucks.net/
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sorry, "Chaffey Community Republican Women", not GOP.
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
OHHH YEAH
― bnw, Saturday, 18 October 2008 18:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
Unfuckingbelievable
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 17:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
holy shit
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Combined with the price for that thing, what better way to show you're stupid?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
I...have to admit, the thing is hideous but it wouldn't have occurred to me that it was racist. Maybe too many bible stories about burning bushes and pillars of fire?
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
Suggested Donation: $81.85
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
Laurel, it's a burning cross for your lawn. That it's not actually on fire isn't really distance enough from, you know, crosses being burnt on black people's lawns to warn them that they're going to be killed if they don't leave town.
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 17:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
"like a prayer" vid to thread?
― the birdman from the hilarious "alcatraz" prison (get bent), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
i don't think today's racists would be practical enough to even know how to assemble and light a burning cross. this is just the product for them.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Uh yeah I get that. But only because ILX pointed it out; I would not bet money on my having thought that otherwise. Or at least not right away.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
hah I knew a kid in high school whose parents made one of these, only it was red lights and it was on their tv antenna. He came out to them the year after telling us about it.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
Well, ILX/I got it from Professor Ann Bartow, who probably heard it from elsewhere - I mean, it took me a second, after which second I was like "are you guys serious? a burning cross on a lawn? for Christmas? you're joking, right?"
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Let Your “Light” Shine For Christ This Christmas Season!
inappropriate roffles
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
LOL
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
what part of this is "burning"?
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
the AFA online store has been much blogged about in the last week and a halfthe video they sell about the gays coming to your town to take it over was a popular topic as well
― TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
that site is hilarious
― bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
(fwiw I think this falls much more easily into the "tacky" bucket than the "racist" one)(also everyone should be psyched when the gays take over, that's when your property values go up)
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
guys look at these racist frenchmen omg:
― Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
they don't seem to understand the concept of suggested donations
― bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
so sick of fucking justice
― TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
well stop fucking them, then
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
ps thanks to that site, today I have learned that women's gym Curves is run by scary God-bothers with horrible taste in music:
https://store.afa.net/pc-53-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-united-we-stand.aspx
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh, I already knew that! It's one of the reasons I didn't renew my Curves membership when it lapsed. Although the music at our gym was better.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
https://store.afa.net/pc-54-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-vol-2.aspx
Is the world ready for a handbag house version of "You Lift Me Up"?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
https://store.afa.net/p-42-its-not-gay-dvd.aspx
waht
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Falling into the tacky bucket:
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Dan, you have a stronger stomach than I, to be browsing through that site. Make Laurel angry.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
The one about the gays taking over Arkansas looks pretty fucking funny!
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
https://store.afa.net/pc-33-4-i-surrender-all-rebuilding-a-marriage-broken-by-pornography.aspx
hahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahahahaha
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
https://store.afa.net/pc-10000134-2-i-was-wrong-dvd.aspx
― Trail of Dead is one of thousands of cheesy death metal acts (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
oyce Zounis' choice of abortion, not once but seven times, nearly cost her life.
I think that maybe abortion isn't the problem here.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
FREE SHIPPING!!!!
i'm with Laurel on this one. site is making me feel ill.
― Trail of Dead is one of thousands of cheesy death metal acts (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
srsly would consider plunking down $82 for a 5.5 ft light-up combination cross/bottle opener
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
It'd be perfect for opening this:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
John, I really do not disagree w you that this product should never have reached the market, but I think you're VASTLY overestimating the mental complexity of both the creators and their market. Even when it's punitive, racist, and evil, this religious belief/lifestyle set is IMMENSELY earnest. And not very sophisticated, nuanced, etc.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's not just that it's a "light-up cross", the construction of it (ie lumpy lights) WOULD and DOES resemble fire. it's not purposeful but that doesn't stop it from being retarded and anyone who is saying otherwise is a disingenuous spoiled white brat OR a secret british. DEAL
xpost more directed at gabbneb and kerm than you, laurel, but i think it's pretty lame to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of forrest gump.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think it's pretty accurate to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of Forrest Gump!
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
"Life is like a box of racist products."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ned for win
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
I have no idea who's purchasing the thing, I don't know who's purchasing those propaganda videos either but they make my skin crawl. The cross strikes me as being as tacky as light-up Baby Jesuses for your lawn at Christmas, but if not for ILX I would have passed right over it! Maybe I'm just being naive/sheltered?
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
lolz Ned zing
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
I just have this strong feeling that the light-up cross is going to be hung from the pinnacle of garages as the "nativity star" in neon creche scenes for the holidays. I wouldn't put ANYTHING past those people.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of someone who sees a 5+ft light-up cross and thinks "IT'S PERFECT" but I am probably discounting the part where the person is earnestly browsing this site intending to make a purchase.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
they're taking it back.
― Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
For instance: I'm kind of shocked there isn't one in this photo:
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
the cross came later.
― Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
Then there's the institutional level example -- this is about five blocks away from me (sorry about the small photo size):
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
xxp Yeah, I mean, who the hell would crucify a newborn?
― Law-Thug for Chiquita Bananas (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
https://store.afa.net/pc-29-4-god-cannot-be-trusted-and-five-other-lies-of-satan.aspx
lol poor cover designalso, the prize should include a new car
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
J0hn, are you aware that a) in America, there are vast numbers of people who like to put large collections of small lights with a Christmas holiday theme all over their lawns and housesandb) in the contemporary United States, there are vast numbers of people who have very little knowledge of history, and that the knowledge of religious fundamentalists in the interior West about the pre-civil rights era South might be more diminished than most?
what are these people saying - i'm going to burn my own house down? these might be dumb questions, but they're no dumber than the notion that a cross wrapped in holiday lights rather than with the lights fused to the cross is a vague, subtextual, public advertisement of the owner's enjoyment in appropriating racist symbols. or are you suggesting that someone would buy this for intimidation purposes. what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
Gabbneb, the idea of you schooling J0hn on these points is the best laugh I've had all day.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
that's kind of the point here, Ned
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
sorry I'm not an itinerant OC/midwestern/Southerner, it's such a personal failing
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
Now I am SUPER doubting my take on this, because gabbneb is making sense to me. I wish it were coming from someone else, I really do, but...stopped clocks, once, etc.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
fyi i'm a south carolinian born n raised who went to school with the kids of grand dragons and when i saw this i didnt think kkk
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
gabbneb is still a dick tho
what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh nvr mind, I get it, at first it parsed like "mulattos be buyin' racist crosses!"
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
I gotta agree with ethan here that KKK was not the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw this.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
I dunno what the people who buy them will be thinking, but the first thing that struck me was the KKK angle, and I was pretty gobsmacked.
― emil.y, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
whether or not it is burning cross like enough is debatable... I don't give a shit what the intent behind it was
― bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
"pre-Civil Rights era South." Like nobody burns crosses for racial intimidation any more.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072008/news/regionalnews/o_cross_burning_137570.htm
― Law-Thug for Chiquita Bananas (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
― bnw, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:16 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^ this, yes, exactly.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah guys lets have the bottle opener argument again
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
fwiw I agree as well, which is why my comments have been less "how could you find this racist?" and more "I didn't find it racist, now let's laugh at the rest of the stupid shit on this site"
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think that lit lawn cross is along the same lines of accidental racism as "i.Beat Blaxx"
― adult turban contemporary (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
gabbneb to anybody who finds lit crosses on lawns a little wtf after a minute's reflection: "it's cool, they didn't mean anything by it"
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 19:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
that lady's fake eyebrows always distract me from the racism
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
― J0hn D., Friday, November 21, 2008 1:35 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, November 21, 2008 2:19 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 19:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
I may have to send that porn addiction dvd to some married friends just to mess with them ^^
― bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
someone go find the horseshoe crazy pills post, thats the applicable one here
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
i hope we can all agree on this
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
sorry ethan but i don't like liver very much
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
wait
i definitely agree that i have to go to eatliver.com to see that image
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's just a desk for a kid and it happens to be black i don't see how anyone could possibly be weirded out by that name gosh seriously
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh wait, AFA is Tupelo, not Colorado Springs, isn't it? in that case, I take it all back, this is KKK '08.
but not without this retake:
"Without this cool wax platter Tallahassee I picked up for 8 dollars American at a beat basement goes by the name of 'The Cake Shop,' I never would have seen so deep into the dark, deranged heart of proletarian America."
-- Ben, 35th Floor, New York, NY
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
stfu
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh so if they were in colorado it'd be ok? classist.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
in this day and age i cant believe cleaning products are still segregated
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
gabb you are killing me today, lolololololol
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
I love these nimrods who when they get their asses beat on a thread hafta raise my day job every time, fuckin spineless wonders
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 19:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
cloroxxpost
i remember that joke on that fox show about the interracial couple with the racist grandma, whatever the fuck it was called
― I've encountered Whiney on numerous message boards and (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
more like COLOREDO amiwite
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.desertspring.org/images/methodist.gif
This seems like the right time to bring up the United Methodist Church?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
J0hn, don't get mad about that, join me in laughing at someone who would actually use the sentence "Without this cool wax platter [insert record here] I picked up for 8 dollars American at a beat basement goes by the name of '[insert record store here],' I never would have seen so deep into the dark, deranged heart of proletarian America."
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
i.beat blaxx is still kraken me up
also i have been looking for an excuse to post this for a while, so here it is:
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh man, I have a perfect example, as I have occasionally found awkward/hilarious when people ask me what I do: I make books for L1tt1e Br0wn Chi1drens.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
ok wtf that ferris wheel photo immediately made me think "brett favre is having fun" what is wrong with me
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
this thread dedicated to pear's soap, the OG of racist products
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
regionalist, morelike
that was Ned, btw
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
?!?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
hahaha waht
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
gabbneb you need a job i think
― Mr. Que, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
gabbneb, as owner and creator of the encyclopedia of racist products i reserve the right to refuse posting to anyone. ned raggett, myself, and the rest of ilx will not tolerate these posts on our thread.
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
GIS 'racists having fun'
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
also, j0hn, you can't run away from what you do and where anymore than i can. only one of us has chosen to be a public figure tho.
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol this is killin me
u think u know??? U HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!!
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
only one of you has chosen to be a douchebag that nobody likes
O_o
xpost or is it who even knows anymoer
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
that guy looks like a cross between jimmy fallon and new jersey
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
but i'm having so much fun
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol wtf is that ad from
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
you can run but you can't hide from the gabb train, j0hn
― Mr. Que, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
whos the racist, gabbneb or john
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
think you know the answer?
somebody photoshop gabb's head into this
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is killing me
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
we need a caption contest for the ferris wheel one like "and it was then, with most their members stuck in the air, the group realized the town's only handyman was black."
― bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
are you thinking that we're stinking?
― omar little, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
ARE YOU THINKING THAT WE'RE STINKING?
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:55 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, November 21, 2008 2:55 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
also, j0hn, you can't run away from what you do and where anymore than i can. only one of us has chosen to be a public figure tho.― gabbneb, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― gabbneb, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
What band are you in, Gabbneb?
― I've encountered Whiney on numerous message boards and (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
i was just going to google 'delighted racists' but after typing the d and the e 'dead niggers' appeared in the pulldown menu of my search bar
¯\(°_o)/¯
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Jurassic 5, Whiney
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
― bnw, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:54 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
"brett favre is having fun"
xpost wtf
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
this thread is a traet
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
looool
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
why did hitler hate the jews so much
i mean a little would be one thing, but this is ridiculous!
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ask.com
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 20:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
was Hitler Jewish?
― Trail of Dead is one of thousands of cheesy death metal acts (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
now that's a question to pose ask.com if i've ever heard one
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.ask.com/web?q=why+is+the+schef+so+racist&search=search&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 20:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
Did you mean: why is the sched so racist
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
the week 13 nfl sched is the most racist thing i've ever seen in my life
this srsly feels like 2003
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think what this thread really needs is a children's slide that looks like a giant cock. To wit:
― Law-Thug for Chiquita Bananas (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
incorrect
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
unless you're saying its a racist product because black guys have giant cocks, in which case kudos
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
Any black guy with a cock that looks like that should get to a doctor immediately.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
Funny we don't have a thread already for things we think are racist that probably aren't racist.
Like when they sent the black girl to go sleep in the 50's room on "Big Brother".
― ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
theres a mural on mcdonalds here in atlanta with all these sock-hop types enjoying a 50s mcdonalds drive-in restaurant but theres like mixed race couples and a black girl with an asian dude all eating at the same place and it kinda pisses me off that kids today are gonna see that and think shit was all cool back in the 50s
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
Black Oak Arkansas IIRC
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 20:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
I thought Gabbneb was in Phish
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol where's that mcd's AW? i've never seen that shit
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
man, that was a big ol' bottle of beer, wasn't it!
― henry s, Friday, 21 November 2008 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, November 21, 2008 3:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
howell mill road
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
Also, all the amphibians in Wonder Pets have minstrel voices. Tuck the Turtle has been known to bust out a Oh Mammy "You know dats right!" kind of line in the middle of a song. And you should've heard the Louisiana Bullfrog who was too fat to get down to the swamp to visit his grand-tadpoles.
― ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 21 November 2008 21:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
guys, even I know the running gabbneb joke is k.d. lang -- tighten up your game here
― nabisco, Friday, 21 November 2008 21:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
Is this something I would have to see gabnebb's posts to know about?
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 21:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
aw laura, look how much run the other kids are having
― gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
good job getting her name right chief. not that she'll ever see it.
― ian, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
― gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
look how much run
― omar little, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
I obtain much hard run
― gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
Good luck usa!
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
i still wouldn't trade gabbneb for u, brah.
― ian, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
― freek-a-luriqua (and what), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
So easy to tell when Ethan is drunk.
― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥ ＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol im gettin there
― freek-a-luriqua (and what), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
― so i said let me HOOS the beats and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 04:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
― яσσʍ♭ⱥȵℹҁᔔ ᴗȵȴℹʍℹȶ∊∂ (libcrypt), Monday, 29 December 2008 15:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
I can't believe jagoff RNC dude who got caught putting that on his year end mix CD is trying to pass it off as "satire aimed at the LA Times"... Because to get that point across you DEFINITELY have to do Al Sharpton's voice like he's doing "Camptown Races" in 1860
― stfujan stevens (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 December 2008 16:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
Our ceramic statues are 10 inches tall with a fine gloss glaze. The blood drop logo is applied after the glazing process. The blood drop signifies our blood heritage and the sacrificial blood of Christ that redeemed us from our sins. These are hand poured one at a time and then kiln dried and glazed twice over a 32 hour period and are of excellent quality.
The statue comes with or without lighted eyes and makes a nice display item and is also great as a gift or collectors item. The Lighted Statues come with on/off switch and light bulb.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 21:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
hxxp://www.ozarkcraft.net/statue.htm if you dare.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 21:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
eeeeeeek
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 January 2009 21:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
The confederate flag is "heritage not hate" oh here's our Klan statues too.
― ☺♑ (joygoat), Friday, 16 January 2009 22:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 22:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
For when you want it to be Halloween all year long!
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Friday, 16 January 2009 22:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=9191
― and what, Friday, 16 January 2009 22:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
Pistons Rained Jizz on 3's
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 22:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
18 Pieces of Nutty Obama Merchandise
― Olive Wheatgrass (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
what, no obama bottle opener?
― ☪, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
The soap is close enough.
I don't know if I'm lolling hardest at Barack Obacca or "Tacos."
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Obama Dildo belongs on Dan Lacey thread.
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
All this time I had thought that the point of "soap-on-a-rope" was just to keep you from dropping the bar.
― Dr More BS (libcrypt), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
'Drunken Negro Face' cookies
― carne asada, Friday, 23 January 2009 03:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
is there a news story to go with that or just a link to shameracistcookie.jpg
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 January 2009 04:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
botched the link therehttp://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=8297992&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
― carne asada, Friday, 23 January 2009 14:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
not a product, but questionable notwithstanding:
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 14:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
o_O
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
sorry dont want to be the clueless white guy here but... i dont get it
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
black people eat greens like this.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's not just the greens, though! There's also:
chickenham hockspeanut buttercatfish
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Hawaiian Punch cake threw me for a grape Kool-Aid kind of loop there.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
good intentions :(
― bnw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
ya. i almost want to argue this one but i dont think its worth the effort and im not sure how i feel about it.
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
go for it, it'd be fun to watch at the very least
― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sock it to Me cake ??
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
i just think in the grand taxonomy of racial weirdness this aligns a lot more closely to, say, 'insensitivity' than straight-out racism--i imagine that for chinese new year theyd have the same kind of ad with, like, dumplings; or for italy day theyd do it with pasta--which strikes me as this kind of misguided "look at the culinary cultural heritage of group XXX" (esp. considering the context w/ all the facts about things black dudes have contributed to the grocery industry and the generally very positive light w/ which the ad treats black history month) and not so much "lol its negro history month lets put fried chicken on the menu"--i mean its collard greens and pork hocks, which arent exactly watermelons and grape soda, you know?
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
eh fried chicken is sort of o_O--lot more baggage attached to that stereotype in America than with pasta + Italians or dumplings + Chinese people.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
and there's no encyclopedia of racially insensitive products thread
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
haha yeah, thats the #1 reason why im not interested in particular in throwing my weight behind these guys
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
xp
You know, couldn't they have put a jar of some good peanut butter next to GWC's face, like JIF?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
guys don't forget to watch Eisbaer's video
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
it is impt
Is there anything more I can take away from watching it besides what I see in the preview screen cap?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
certainly more than some boring-ass racist discounts
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
ok crut1s otm
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
holee shit
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
got as far as "yes, Jesus loves me"
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
YEEEEAH
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
go further, lj, it's bananas
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
Excuse me i am v offended by the portrayal of white people as cuntry hicks in bad denim. Also their singing style is highly influenced by ragtime & blues which as every fool knows is black music anyway.
Oh wait here comes Jose. This is a delicious smörgåsbord of terrible ideas.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sorry, did I spoil the surprise?
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
Obv the white version should be played in totally straight time on a harpsichord and danced as a pavanne.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
i guess that i am good for something round here?!?
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
the inside of the small american indian puppet's mouth looks like a cartoon steak for some reason.
― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Why do the black kids look like cyanotic, ashen corpses?
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
and have cheaper eyes than the other puppets?!?
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
"EY man, did JEEsus forget about us?""¡No way Jose – olé!"
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
omg almost had a seizure at the end
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
Jesus DID kind of forget about Jose, who was not assigned a color that Jesus loves.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
at first I thought the black kids were vampires but then the porn music kicked in
― mullah mangenius (brownie), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
what porn have you been watching that is soundtracked by the Jackson 5
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
um
― mullah mangenius (brownie), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's called "80s porn"
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
also, "70s porn"
wah pedals are aural signifiers for BJs and stuff
― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
all this music kinda kicks ass i must say
― goole, Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
actually, the weirdest thing about the white kids segment is how it kicks in with the first few bars of "la marseillaise" -- given the whites-are-hicks theme for that segment, when did that song become a shit-kicker signifier?!?
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
sounds like super furry animals
― bnw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
is this racist?
― LOLBJ (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 March 2009 11:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
"i.Beat Blaxx" still cracks me up
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Monday, 2 March 2009 13:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Re the grocery store's salute to Black History Month, our high-school cafeteria used to serve sweet potatoes, fried chicken, greens, etc. for a couple of days during February, which a few of my friends and I were always o_O about but no one else seemed to bat an eye at. As Max suggested, I think it was more insensitive than anything else: white school administrators honestly trying to do something nice for the 25% of the student body that was African American.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 2 March 2009 13:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
Our kid's daycare gives us a photocopied calendar each month, and January featured this caricature of Martin Luther King that looked like he had just dropped something very heavy on his foot.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
― abebe's kids (and what), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
wat
― c♜lyn dodgers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
good luck uk
― bnw, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
i'd pay $$$ for any britishes to take a picture of themself rocking that tat while opening an ironic 40oz with ronaldinho
― abebe's kids (and what), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like how that buff dude on the package is rocking a temporary unicorn tattoo.
― felicity, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
KKK guy's all "Again with the nail through the gecko?"
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I'm o_0 at the KKK whatthefuckery, but then you have the nail through the gecko which is obv not racist but just WAAHT is going on there.
― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
ages 5 & up
― when I hit "Submit Post" I be doin tha stanky legg (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
what the fuck!
― only the beginning of the firestorm (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Goddamn that is a random group of stickers. The crazy bird at the bottom looks like an Aztec thing. You don't have the Klan in the UK do you?
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 09:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
i was struggling with ideas for my birthday presents at the end of the month, i can so ask for this.i can see it now, out on the town pulling ladies, getting respect and compliments on my new tattoos.
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 10:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
You don't have the Klan in the UK do you?
Only in provincial Scottish backwatershttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/kill_your_idle/kkk_airdrie.jpg
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 10:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
I misread that as something pertaining to Furry Racist Airdales. I thought that band was from Wales.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
why is everyone assuming that's a UK thing, i dont see any extraneous U's in the writing
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
ye raciouste tattooes
― homie bhabha (max), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
The one pound price sticker? The fact that all britishes are racist?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh lol i didnt see the sticker
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
i am glad that these tattoos are Saft & Non-Toxic
― i'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
omg elmo's display name quotes one of my favourite songs
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's a reach, but maybe the hooded character is one of those Spanish cofradia guys?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
kids love cofradia tattoos
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
lj is your favorite song an old meineke muffler commercial?
― i'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
ah, ok, it must quote the advert as well (namely Foetus - Kreibabe)
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
Looks like this may have originated in the good ole US of A after all, albeit 6 years ago:
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/2267912/detail.html
It certainly looks like the same tattoo.
― Guilty_Boksen, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Actually Turkey rather than the US.
― Guilty_Boksen, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol I only now noticed the cracked out expression on the dog tattoo
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
!
― kids love cofradia tattoos (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
Could have shopped that better in my sleep.
― ergo almondnut (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's a shop, not a 'shop:
http://www.therealtaiwan.com/nigger-king/724
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
cf. nigger black couch. Those crazy yellow slant-eyes.
― ergo almondnut (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 March 2009 05:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
owned
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Thursday, 5 March 2009 05:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
― ergo almondnut (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 March 2009 05:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
― mourn ya till i join ya dom u were 1 of a kind ~*~*RIP*~*~ (cankles), Thursday, 5 March 2009 17:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
WTF? I guess Fat Joe established that it's OK for Puerto Ricans to say it, but at least spell it with an "a" at the end!
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 6 March 2009 07:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 27 March 2009 15:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 07:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
― chap, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.chiaobama.com/
― WS not WS (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 05:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
― kickstand. kickstand? kickstand! (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 06:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
fucking hell what a self-righteous thread
― ello. ow are oo? (bug), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 06:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
― velko, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 07:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Minstrels"?? Whoa.
― the devil we@rs ch@ncl@s (Jesse), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 13:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Derelict, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
From Cake Wrecks:
[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/SUamwiqWaZI/AAAAAAAABT8/Wj8x2g2EFwI/s400/cycle+cheese+-+link.jpg/[img]
― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
:(
― nice babies finnish blast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
― the devil we@rs ch@ncl@s (Jesse), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.ghettobaskets.com
― Insane Clown Ventures, LLC (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 18 July 2009 01:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
In these dark and dreary times these baskets provide hope for a brighter future.
― http://i28.tinypic.com/4ux79e.gif (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 18 July 2009 02:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
― ned trifle is not working for you (Notinmyname), Friday, 31 July 2009 12:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
Pic doesn't work.
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 July 2009 12:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Works for me. It's not very exciting.http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NWgKLHOZqdQ/R9RPcPqvacI/AAAAAAAAAo0/5bbtUWnwraY/s1600/4.jpgJust surprised that every racist product hasn't been covered by this thread.
― ned trifle is not working for you (Notinmyname), Friday, 31 July 2009 12:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Holy shit, I don't know if Ghetto Baskets is trying to downplay the severe racism by getting white ppl to pose on the site, or the person that made it just doesn't know any black ppl. The guy and girl on the page look like williamsboard/bco posters that someone dressed up in sweatshirts. The girl on the "products" page still has a suicide girl haircut.
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
“We delivered our new Ghettobasket to a
high-end accounting firm today
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
mean to bold that
Hot SaucePregnancy TestGrape DrinkBatteriesBeef JerkyPotted MeatPork RindsNoodles in a CupAfter ShavePlastic Commemorative PlateReligious CandlePorcelain FigurineKung-Fu DVDCassette or VHS TapeDoo RagVapor RubEnergy DrankSoapOutdated Calendar
fuck these people imo
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
(altho I kind of want the hot sauce and the grape drink)
this is essentially hate speech
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah
btw awesome screenname
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's a thread for that :)
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
what's up, gangstas? i use soap.
― bnw, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
and batteries
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
― The Loneliness of the Single-Issue Googler (los blue jeans), Monday, 7 September 2009 18:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://gawker.com/5364440/iphone-gets-first-racially-offensive-app
― gag meter up, lets looooOOOOOOl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 04:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Surprised this hasn't yet popped up - one of Australia's most popular cheeses, unsurprisingly the subject of some controversy:
― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Uhhhhh, no Robertson's Jam yet? Don't know where to start ...
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
was any depiction of a common kids teddy/toy racist at the time, though? i mean, obviously if there were minstrels/golliwogs depicted in an ad campaign in the late 90's (wtf Lyon's Tea) then yeah, but how old are those pics?
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
I believe Robertson's dropped the golly in 2001
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/14/french-vogue-blacking-up
― fisherspwner (braveclub), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
― George Mucus (ledge), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Cats & Dogs 2 trailer, wait for the pigeon
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 December 2009 22:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
don't really see how that's racist
― open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
tbh
― open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
u pretty sensitive whiney
― bnw, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think katt williams voiced the pigeon?
― open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, sounds like him. Silly voice /= racism.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
And yeah, it is Katt Williams def.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah dude, not feeling it.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sorry Wieney.
sorry whiney : (
― caek, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think the casting choice of making the token "sassy black dude" character out of the pesky, dirty, unwanted, germ-carrying ratbird in a movie about cuddly-wuddly hero pets, yes is a little racist.
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
but if y'all are ok with it, i'll fandango my tickets for Cats & Dogs 2 now.
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, December 21, 2009 6:28 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it's less about the voice and more about why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates
i mean, i know it's not Song Of The South or whatever, but there's no thread called "encyclopedia of institutionally racist products"
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
i see only institutional cuteness
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
pigeons are urban.
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
whiney I think you're bringing some personal issues about pigeons to the table here
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
I mean dogs lick their assholes, pigeons don't afaik
advantage: pigeons
pigeon btw
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
shocked this thread wasnt bumped for this:
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Not feeling it on the pigeon front. His voice wasn't too wacky & didn't seem to be imitating any type in particular. Nor can I say I am familiar with any associations of pigeons and any particular race (unless you count "Palomar" in Los Bros Hernandez comics, which is near as big a stretch as the one being presented here). I would, however, like to point out that like Emperor penguins and flamingos, pigeons give 'milk' to their young.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
There's nothing racist about speaking pidgin.
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
^not that the actual character is speaking pidgin, although surely different species would need to rely on some kind pidgin to communicate. Purring is not barking after all.
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 21, 2009 6:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
That, plus the voice is right in line with the old trope of the ignorant, pandering Negro.
― he's a light-hearted snake (Jesse), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
This thread is causing my AV software to flip out, warning me that it is blocking IP address 90.156.153.34.
Malware Bytes does not care for racist pigeon characters.
― he's a light-hearted snake (Jesse), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
I am so not watching this when it comes out to determine if the pigeon is really a racist character or just a regular lactating freak of the bird world.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
I really like pigeons.
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 05:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
O_O @ the HP face-recog snafu
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
wkiw desi and wendy
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol at that HP face tracking
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
tbf I don't think that HP face tracking thing is intentional
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:50 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― professional log roller Lizzie Hoeschler (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think whiney is part of the cats & dogs 2 promotional street team and has just tricked us into getting hyped for this movie
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Let everybody in the world know this movie exists and think it sucks is a better condition than having a few people think the movie’s great before it comes out - James Cameron Whiney G. Weingarten
― professional log roller Lizzie Hoeschler (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
The HP fuck up does beg the question: does Hp have no one of dark complexion working anywhere in the R&D, testing, and marketing process? I mean, you'd think this would have been discovered at some point. I wonder if the thing needs to be "calibrated" or something.
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
HP calibration settings: "normal", "black"
psyched for cats & dogs 2
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
What the fuck is wrong with you, Australia
― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Harry Connick Jr. to thread
― moron oil (Gukbe), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hey if there was an Aussie offering me fried chicken I'd let him off.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
That is just... I mean... Wow
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
"too easy"
― girl, you gon' think i invented chex (m bison), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
conjudalad (22 minutes ago) 0 ReplyGet over yourself Americans. You are commenting on an ad you know NOTHING about. The world does not revolve around you and your dumb stereotypes. Get the chip of your ignorant shoulders
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
KingMacintosh (1 hour ago) 0 ReplyIf anyone one, especially blacks think this is racist, crawl back in that shell you came out of, this is not a bit racist whatsoever...
tramtrackharry (1 hour ago) +2 Replyit's not an american ad; it is in australia and they're at a cricket match. the black people are west indian. u dont understand the ad thats all.
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but, and i understand cricket, i have no idea what the joke the ad is trying to make.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
If anyone one, especially blacks think this is racist,
― Big K.R.U.T. (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
seriously, assuming the ad is not saying the obvious thing that stands out to an american audience, wtf is it saying?
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
kfc (and fried chicken as a thing) probably arrived in australia in the 80s or 90s and i'd be staggered if even 5% of the population was vaguely aware of lol fried chicken racism. this is why i'd give the benefit of the doubt, assuming i could parse the rest of the advert, but i can't.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
You could have inverted the black and white people and the core joke it was trying to go for would have been clearer (wiggle your way out of an uncomfortable situation by offering your enemies our food!). It's kind of massively unforgivably stupid that they didn't do this.
This is reminding me of another great KFC ad of old:
(of course, Hammer did that one to himself)
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
unforgivably stupid is a bit harsh. the only way an australian would be aware of this is by reading ilx racism threads or watching ghostworld.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
my guess is the guy is a fan of one team sitting alone in a crowd of opposing fans?
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^ yes
KFC is a global company based in the US; I'm sure someone in their organization is aware of both the Internet and how this commercial would play on an international level.
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
race and racism have global commonalities; if anything, US media dominance makes US race-relations MORE visible and valent on "local" racial issues.
i know australia is a magical island far away in the south seas but come on.
― chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
i guess the problem is if you want to make it at a cricket match, you've got to have fans of a different ethnicity, because teams are not so identified with particular colour shirts, etc. and that ends up being extremely crude and weird, whatever races you pick. obviously the bucket of fried chicken and the particular combination of races makes it very o_O for americans, but i really don't think they're referring to that stereotype. ignorance rather than malice, etc.
i think you're forgetting quite how backwards the people of australia are, dan.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
In furthering non-racist Aussie-US product relations, I would like to alert everyone that many Target stores are selling Tim-Tams on clearance under the Peppridge Farms label:
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm no dom passantino, but i think i'm reasonably up on u.s. culture. i had no idea about the chicken thing until about 5 years ago, fwiw.
i think you can overestimate the extent to which u.s. culture has become dominant. and which bits of it have become dominant has little to with what is the most controversial or interesting in the u.s. -- just because something is genuinely shocking to you, it doesn't mean someone in australia is any more likely to be aware of it than, say, the king of queens.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
they're delicious! bought some the other day at the dollar store.
― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
no question someone at kfc hq should have caught this, btw, but whiney's initial post was "What the fuck is wrong with you, Australia", not "What the fuck is wrong with you, KFC"
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
i guess the problem is if you want to make it at a cricket match, you've got to have fans of a different ethnicity, because teams are not so identified with particular colour shirts, etc.
I dunno. I think if it would have been a crowd of people wearing green shirts, and one guy in a blue shirt (or whatever), the idea that he was in a crowd of people cheering for the other team probably would have been clear.
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
i only watched the commercial, no sound: i thought the plot was he's surrounded by rowdy non-white fans, he gives them fried chicken, and they calm down. is that not what happens?
― chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Did I hear something about a racist product controversy that also involved cricket?! Well, hell-o!
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Complicated by the fact that no one is doing anything that's ACTUALLY threateningly "rowdy" in the first part! I guess that would have been too unfriendly even for KFC/Australia. But the problem with that is that the only threatening thing about them ends up being their different race. Which is even worse.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think that this is much less about chx wngs and more about the calm white person being distracted to annoyance by the black people and sibsequently being able to control them.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
xxxxp, if you want to make it a localized ad in the southern hemisphere summer, which there are good reasons to do, it's going to be a cricket match. if the crowd are wearing team colours then it is going to look like someone who know's nothing about cricket made the advert. of course if the alternative is "be racist", you pick the slightly inauthentic costume design, but this assumes "this is racist" was something that occurred to them.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
full disclosure: I know very little about cricket ;)
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
"for those times when you don't have tight pussy, loose shoes, or a warm place to shit, offer kfc. they love it!"
― chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
like everyone else has been saying the racial dynamics are weird even absent the fact that its fried chicken
― max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
but id expect nothing less from a paradise of tolerance and harmony like good ol AUS
This is actually pretty insensitive and bad, yeah. The issue is that he's clearly wearing an Australia shirt, and there is a big historical rivalry between the (almost entirely Afro-Caribbean) West Indies and the (almost entirely white) Australians, and to be sitting among fans of the opposition is inevitably going to lead to one being barracked, but it plays upon a pretty racially-defined stereotype, and plays upon it bluntly. If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine. But it is, so it isn't.
kkvg i don't think it's about that, i think it's an attempt to find camaraderie through the international language of stereotyping
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Complicated by the fact that no one is doing anything that's ACTUALLY threateningly "rowdy" in the first part!
yeah, this is what i'm saying about not understanding the advert. i have no idea what is going on.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
― max, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 4:06 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yes. I was typing a bunch of stuff, but that's basically it.
― he's a light-hearted snake (Jesse), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine.
not really buying this tbh!
― max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine. But it is, so it isn't.
hahahahaha oh dear. ok, lj is here. i'll leave you in his capable hands.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
You could film the ad easy by having different shirts, and when the isolated dude stands up to cheer the rest of the crowd goes silent and turns to stare menacingly. No need for the racial subtext and the joke would go over better if anything.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
although i will say, the racial dynamics may look weird, but fans of opposing cricket teams are generally of a different race, but when they interact it's not necessarily about race. i'm not saying they're colour blind though. i think we can all agree that australia is a prettty racist country.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
dude doesn't seem bothered by the fact that they're supporting another team but that they're dancing and having fun
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
West Indies fans are generally well-known for partying in the stands, having a ball, getting into the spirit. They're not being portrayed in a 'rowdy' or negative light; if anything's offensive about this portrayal it's a trivialisation of the WI fan as fun-loving plot device for chicken commercial. The threat isn't to the Aussie's health but his dignity. I *think* the Aussie is being portrayed initially as unable to get into the spirit because it's not in his genes to party like that. Hence, self-deprecation. But yeah, the rivalry is the key here, in the first part of the advert. The second part is the offensive bit.
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure it was made to run during the series between the two Commonwealth sides but AAAARGH. Whatever the history of KFC in AUS, ad agencies are supposed to run due diligence on their campaigns if only so their company doesn't do the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move. This really should have come up in a meeting.
― keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
You could film the advert.about a different Australian sport where people wear team colors?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think we can all agree that this ad is just racist enough to have a 500-post-long clusterfuck discussion about it
― Big K.R.U.T. (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
if anything's offensive about this portrayal it's a trivialisation of the WI fan as fun-loving plot device for chicken commercial
I hope you realize that this fragment, when diagrammed, isn't saying quite what I assume you meant.
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
xxpost
One day international shirts have colours, why not lone Aussie surrounded by Barmy Army or South African fans? The point is, as soon as you recognise that maybe this ad is "lol a bit dodgy" you ought to probably think how to reshoot it?
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
why not have the west indian surrounded by menacing aussie fans
― max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
The advert is especially made for the KFC Big Bash tournament, which is an Australian cricket competition that also involves quite a few West Indian players, because the West Indies aren't playing elsewhere at the moment. The West Indies recently toured in Australia. It's an advert for a situation.
TBH if I didn't post about this it'd be wrong ;-)
What's it saying? I meant 'fans' obv
...and yeah, I'm saying they shouldn't have made the ad, because it plays on racial stereotypes.
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
vrem (9 minutes ago) black people like fried chicken. its just what they eat.
― velko, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahaha max that was in an earlier iteration of my longer post upthread
xp: you aren't saying it's trivializing West Indian fans, you are saying it is trivializing their portrayal as plot devices for a chicken commercial
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Barmy Army? : ) Who are they?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
vrem (9 minutes ago) black people like hen fap. its just what you need to have.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
seems more true-to-life to me anyway in terms of australian race relations
― max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
let's not forget that fried chicken is delicious. even when kfc makes it. i mean fried chicken is just good.
― chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
sad but true
wait, that's not sad at all, in fact it's awesome
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
I wd never be a fried chicken denier, that is true.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've eaten at.KFC lately and it was not good.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
be funnier if the windians gave the aussie some fried chicken and he had a huge tearful crisis of identity right there in the stands
― chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
"i hate you fucking people but this is so crispy and delicious"
― chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
KFC chicken is fine imo but the fries here in the UK are a fucking abomination unto the Lord.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
naggz (11 hours ago)
Can't believe these fucking retards. The ad isn't racist. Go cry over something more important. What the fuck is racism anyway. We're supposed to be all multi-cultural and shit, but yet everyone still hates gay people? I don't see much of a difference between the two problems. Both effect alot of the worlds population, black people can't help that they were born as their race. Gay people can't help that they were born gay and like the same sex. Gtfo.
― velko, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
oops Dan sorry! I did mean that it was trivialising the WI fans. Into being plot devices for a fried chicken commercial. It's not trivialising the device. It's making quite a thing of it, sadly.
not a KFC fan fwiw
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?
― i am not down with ppl farting on salami (stevie), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
O_O
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I guess we should applaud the progress they've made in 18 years.
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Used to drive down with best friend in coldest winter to get KFC mashed poato/gravy combo, then snarf it in the car before we got back home.
― keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
American KFC does not do French fries It is much better than UKFC.
― keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
The only thing I think I detest when this shit comes up is it resulting in people saying shit like "people forget how backwards Australians are", thank you very much guys, have a nice day.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
I detest the racism as well.
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
The ad is dumb, many people here have no idea the "stigma" of fried chicken, they wont see the west indies as "african americans", the whole thing is stupid.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
I have a racist South Korean KFC youtube, freshly delivered to my inbox by ILX user "?????????"
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
congratulations!
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
the internet is amazing
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:47 (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fyi there was a neighbours story arc about ghostworld!
― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
Please describe!
― girl moves (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
"xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?"
can you dip penguins in hot cocoa, use them as a straw, then pop them in your mouth and have them melt into fattening choco goo?show me these penguins!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
"YOU fill our zoos with kangaroos, WE fill your summer breeze with the smell of KFC!"
― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
hi just poppin in to this thread to say that i ate at a kfc in st. lucia three years ago, it was ok
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sky, Harold's... niece?... was a crazy goth that didn't care for trends etc. and it turned out to all be based on thora birch in ghost world. everyone found out, teased her for still following a trend and so she goes through an 'ally sheedy in breakfast club' moment and becomes everything she once dispised for no apparent reason.
― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
amazing that popcorn chicken is still around since the days of hammer
― abanana, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
australia is so racist it's kinda crazy
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
do ppl there really call aborigines "black fellas"?
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
I thought we had covered this on The Cape of Good Hope's Rolling 09/10 Cricket Season thread...
...anyway, this is a great opportunity for the oppressed white people of surbuban Australia to whinge about Americans and Political Correctness and whatever.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
PS: I have eaten at KFC but I used to have a Sir Viv Richards "Master Blaster" cricket bat when playing schoolboy cricket.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
australia isn't any more racist than any other western country ime. "blackfella" and "whitefella" are words used mostly by indingenous australians and aren't necessarily racist at all.
― sonderborg, Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move.
This is an urban legend, btw.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin, at least do us the courtesy of understanding some of Australia's culture the way you expect us to of yours.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
There are plenty of racist terms and racism against the indigenous in this country but blackfella ain't one of them, nor is it really even a "taken back" insult. Words like "boong" and "abo" on the other hand... sigh.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sorry I didnt see sonderberg had already also pointed that out heh.
Well, they pulled the advertisement off and as predicted...
http://www.news.com.au/world/kfc-australia-pulls-racist-ad-after-us-anger/comments-e6frfkyi-1225816969895
ps: i am not asscoiated with these people
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
h4yd3n of melbourne Posted at 1:30 PM Today
Stand up for youself KFC. I'm never eating you agian untill you do.
fess up h-man
― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm currently boycotting them for taking the Tower Burger off the menu again, for what it's worth.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
can't believe that proud aussie company KFC bowed to imperialist american pressure like this
― jabba hands, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
katoomba fried chicken
― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Dave of Gold Coast Posted at 1:34 PM Today
Cool Can we now tell America to ban the movie White Chicks, or perhaps Tropic Thunder too... Oh no, wait... they make money for Hollywood... (I know KFC is American, but you get my point).
― velko, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
not sure i get his point tbh
― max, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Mystery solved:
Alex of The real world Posted at 3:10 PM Today
I hate Harry Connick Jr. He got all high and mighty because he realised his terrible music wouldn't sell but a few jabs at another country's culture might.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 05:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin
Why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol i had a 'wicked wings snack pack' yesterday at lunch, i could never boycott the dirty bird ;__;
― pyramid of geezer (haitch), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
tbhaitch
― estela, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
I had a Zinger Burger combo the other day so chalk me up as a evil racist Australian.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm chalking you up as a man who got zinged by his own lunch.
― estela, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
zinger burgers more of a scooby snax for zingers i'd have thought
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
if this has already been posted, apologies
O_o_O
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
hmmm
― nijolian dynamite (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto."We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page."When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Mr Sessions said.If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.
Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.
The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.
The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.
"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.
Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.
"When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Mr Sessions said.
If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
At least this mistake won't make people's crock pots explode.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 17 April 2010 17:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love that dude responded with "well, doing your job correctly is hard!"
― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Look I'm sorry your car exploded, but building gas tanks is complicated work!
― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
meh i've made weird typos like that before
― harbl, Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8627335.stm
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
ahem, ned
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
ha i like how their reaction was "who cares? it was a typo, jeez"
― mr. que surprise (k3vin k.), Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
are the black people locally sourced?
― velko, Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like how their reaction was "We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind" yet they don't understand why anyone would be offended. Isn't being "mortified" even more extreme of a reaction than being "offended"?
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, but they're apparently only mortified that it became an issue. Not that it happened.
― franny glass, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
ah, a pasta holocaust
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Cookbooks really ARE redonkulously hard to copy edit because of all the abbreviations and numbers, and the copy editor has no way of knowing which are right or wrong. (The mistake itt is an obvious one, but it's not surprising that something was overlooked.) Actually it's probably a success for a cookbook if they didn't make any mistakes that make the recipes turn out wrong (apart from the ridiculous) because that also makes the AUTHOR look bad (this way only the publisher does).
Shorter publishing seasons and a more market-driven book idea also make every project a rush, means there's less time for editing and proofing of all kinds. Pretty much sucks!
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Do they publish cookbook errata?
― kissogram powers (Abbott), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
i hadn't read that ronaldinho thread until just now. don't suppose anyone wants to talk about it?
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
Abbs: Yes! Although I think the general use of errata has declined since publishers tend to only print the copies they think they can sell in a short time -- the production cycle has gotten away from extended warehousing and toward a more on-demand market. So books are off the shelves faster and the pub can reprint the book w corrections already made.
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 May 2010 07:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Beat this: racism, sexism, ageism, and a soupcon of paedophilia.
― I don't want to go into my newt details (ledge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Holy shit!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Indeed!
― Madchen, Friday, 21 May 2010 12:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
― akontenderizer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
???are these naacp whores serious???
― Join the Gothscene! Join for free! Gothscene.com (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 12 June 2010 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
wau
― Krystal Chic (crüt), Saturday, 12 June 2010 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
feel bad for the Rutgers astronomy dept.
― Chips Moleman (los blue jeans), Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't know about this
also, something tells me d1pl0 is somehow responsible for major company obsessing over homegrown dance music/"get your island on"/trinidadian soca etc
― Elektro Guzzi Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 01:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
my buddy in SC noticed these in a store recently:
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2010 04:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2010 04:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
actually stupid me i didn't realize that was a chocolate coin
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2010 04:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
at what age did you make the decision to spend the entire rest of your life as a full-fledged racist
― del griffith, Saturday, 13 November 2010 04:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
what
please don't even joke about that man
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2010 05:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
so the other side of the glass had a cartoon dominatrix that gave it a different context, but DAMN.
― I DIED, Saturday, 4 December 2010 12:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
"i.Beat Blaxx" still kills me
― Princess TamTam, Saturday, 4 December 2010 13:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― max, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
my god.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.partycity.com/product/nine+iron+mask.do?sortby=ourPicks&pp=60&size=all&page=3&navSet=170614
very ronaldinho bottle opener
― The Dunkster (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 7 April 2011 09:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.woginabox.com.au/index.html
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 12:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
what the hell is a "wogina"
― DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
shouldn't that be wopinabox? it's not even racistly correct.
― walloginabox (kkvgz), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you have to ask
― remy bean, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
in Australian English the term was originally a pejorative for "Mediterranean" migrants, though in recent decades its offensiveness has been defused in certain contexts by common usage in pop-culture produced by the descendants of Mediterranean migrants.
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whoa! 'Gina in a box!
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
He had trouble getting the name registered for some reason.
― that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean how is this even possible
― DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
So it's like a pun on http://www.wokinabox.com.au/ or something?
― that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay that makes it slightly less horrifying
only slightly
― DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was pretty o_O at first but it seems like it's a pejorative term that's been successfully reclaimed, so good on those old sheepfuckers.
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9H0xPWAtaa8
― caek, Monday, 4 February 2013 07:45 (3 months ago) Permalink
LOL I never saw that WogInABox one. Yeah, the term's been slightly taken back by greek and italian migrants (the whole "wogs out of work" series of shows/plays etc) but geez calling a pizza shop "wog in a box" is just insane. Still, south australia what you gonna do.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Monday, 4 February 2013 07:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
I was just coming to post about that VW commercial that caek posted. It's bad enough on its own merits (or lack of) but the complete lack of black people in it goes beyond conspicuous into "somebody should get fired for this."
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Monday, 4 February 2013 11:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
Holy crap, that's awful!
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:31 (3 months ago) Permalink