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?
waht
― 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
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, 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