where did you grow up? i lived in hilo for a couple months after high school
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
i bounced between the big island and oahu when i was a little kid, but eighth grade to graduation i was in hilo, so hilo.
http://www.hilohs.k12.hi.us/jrotc/hilo_high_school_logo.gif
go inappropriately nordic viks!
that is cool that you lived there! for such a remote place a lot of people seem to have spent a little time there.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i sorta knew a couple kids at college who had grown up there. its a cool place!! i watched a lot of movies at the cheap theater. and smoked a lot of pot.
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
i watched a lot of movies at the cheap theater. and smoked a lot of pot.
hilo!
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
only other things on the checklist really are 1) get dangerously drunk at boiling pots and 2) drive to kona, turn around
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
i tried hitching to kona once but i got stuff thrown at me so i turned around
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
im white btw
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:55 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
so hard, being white
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
i have read that anti-white bias is a problem
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
it's not really a problem. it's just a noticeable thing from time to time.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
it's really more a class thing cuz the japanese kids get it too.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
oh i wasn't even talking about hawaii! i was just referring to that times article max linked to in another thread.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
oh whoops! i get asked about this by a surprisingly large number of (white) people, and it's weird because haole-resentment is a thing, just like you'd expect it to be in an imperial colony with a mostly-native underclass, but it's not really a serious thing and a lot of people on the west coast ask me about it in hushed commiserating tones like they think people are being lynched and it always weirds me out/makes me uncomfortable and then i feel guilty for making whatever jokes i made about it.
(your post would not have been one of these even if it had been real though)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, when you posted i figured you must have gotten that kind of question before. i know very little about hawaii tbh.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
hawaiian sociopolitics are way more interesting than i thought they were when i lived there but that'd probably be true no matter where i was a bored teenager.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
your HS's shameless theft of NFL intellectual property is inspiring to me
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
i never liked being a viking and then i went to college at portland state where i was STILL A VIKING
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
everywhere, that's where i'm a viking
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
vikings are sort of a creepy mascot; sorry minnesota
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
at least it makes some sense up here!
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
youve never heard of the infamous viking raids of hawaii i guess
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Hahah the Whitehall Vikings had the exact same mascot/logo but in West Michigan. Is there only one set of HS logos in the WORLD, like one wildcat, one anchor, one viking, one...whatever. I know that it's the same everywhere, I KNOW it, and yet whenever I see that damn viking, I get a little shock of recognition.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
source of much of the anti-white bias
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
was thor heyerdahl a viking in some sense
xp anchor?
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
I mean at least Reeths-Puffer got to be the ROCKETS:
http://www.eteamz.com/rpwrestling/images/L_rocket_5675502.jpg
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
follow up: did thor heyerdahl go to hawaii ever
Oh sorry, I confused Montague's mascot (a wildcat) with their fight song ("Anchor's Aweigh"). I guess no one is The Anchors lollllll.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
haha my high school football team really should have been called the anchors
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
there was a rural HS near me built near a freeway called, sadly, "I-35 High School". their mascot is the Roadrunners. it's even in a town, technically!
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
just as long as they use jonathan richman as their fight song.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know for sure but i kind of doubt it
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
omg I-35 high school. those poor kids.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
the university of hawaii teams used to be called THE RAINBOW WARRIORS and sort of still are, but they replaced the rainbow with a stylized H ft. hawaiian iconography and allowed each sport to choose their own name and there was this huge complicated fight over it between 1) the university, 2) hawaiian activists opposing the use of the iconography and 3) football players who had been complaining for years about being called the rainbow warriors
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
i went to a quaker school and our mascot was a quaker
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
i went to a quaker school and we didnt have a mascot because we didnt have team sports because we didnt believe in competition
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
a quaker is not a v compelling mascot for competitive contact sports, i mean
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.i-35.k12.ia.us/
xps feeling your oats then were you
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
that was in middle school though. in high school i went to public school and we were the tigers, because we were in princeton.
terrible
xp
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
I went to school in a town named after a particular animal, and the school's mascot was... that very same animal.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
ok this doesn't actually have the img of my HS's logo but
http://www.mascotdb.com/team.php?id=106832
mascotdb.com??
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
well when I played hs football there was a push to change the team name to the "earthquakers" so
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://aworthyfamily.org/pella.gif
this is way butcher than it was when i was in school
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
haha "little dutch"
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
it sounds like a mob nickname
UH's local campus was and is "the vulcans"
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
joey "little dutch" pella
Somebody recently posted a photo of me from HS on fb but I can't access it now. :(
― All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is (Michael White), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
i think it sounds adorable. the mascot should be tiny anthropomorphic clogs or something.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
i'm trying to find the old logo! it has been erased from the page of time. it looked like one of these:
http://www.lawnornamentsandfountains.com/ProductImages/mass-statue/2535-s.gif
― goole, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link