What's weird is that the "black" shirt worn by the black man isn't actually black! It's more grey isn't it?
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 18 November 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
it's lighter than the other grey shirt!
― crüt, Friday, 18 November 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's weird the other two grey shirts are called "dark slate heathered dark slate classic stripe" and "black herringbone", but that one is just "black" (instead of "black TV static" or whatever would be appropriate). That's why it feels like some ill-thought joke.
― Tuomas, Friday, 18 November 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
Anti-Roma hatred, even among 'enlightened leftists' in Britain, is the last acceptable bigotry.
surprisingly and worryingly true in Ireland as well. When EU enlargement happened in 2002 or whenever, news people considered it perfectly reasonable to ask ministers whether this would mean that Ireland would be flooded by Roma.
More recently a prominent commentator and moron in one of our more reprehensible newspapers has been ranting about how his area of Dublin has been taken over by Roma beggars. Apparently there were no beggars in Ireland before Roma immigration.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
come come there's lots of acceptable bigotries in ireland!
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
thought the revive was going to be about this
http://www.racialicious.com/2011/11/15/yes-there-are-black-people-in-your-hunger-games-the-strange-case-of-rue-cinna/
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6031/6345630935_451525e36c.jpg
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
wow I hate ppl
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
(just saying wht everyone is thinking)
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
i thought it'd be about terry/suarez/blatter
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
the reaction to the lenny kravitz casting makes me hate people, but the reaction to the rue casting is mindboggling. she's very clearly black in the book.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6345681315_f615461e93.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6345681325_e35948c511.jpg
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
"Ew,"
does hollywood actress or not?!!!!!!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
?!... ?!!!!!!
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
just saying wht everyone is thinking?!?!?!?!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
dying at the number of people who have no clue who lenny kravitz is either, definitely this is young adult fiction
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
"white, sweet and loving as a man"
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
wait lenny kravitz is black
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
"this guy is not cute at all!" o_O
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
what is hunger games is it like twilight
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
not thinking lenny kravitz is attractive is like the #1 sign that u are hella racist
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the "sweet and loving" thing is insane, but that girl's words seem chosen at random.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Hunger Games is like Battle Royale
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
hunger games is a YA dystopian trilogy that is not entirely dissimilar to twilight
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't read it, but I was led to understand it was less pathetic and more bloodthirsty, like a toned down Battle Royale
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
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lol i just read the hunger games wiki all why are there one million things w/this exact plot so dumb, but then i was like wait battle royale is the best movie
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
battle royale was only ok
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
tbf, Lenny Kravitz does have a nose.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg/393px-Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
and pupils (though somewhat dilated.)
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoYzcbhE-w8
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
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pffft pffft post
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
I never saw the Battle Royale movie but the book was SUPER ENTHRALLING
I've been avoiding The Hunger Games because I wasn't sure I wanted to read Battle Royale Lite; having them linked more directly to Twilight is even more of a turn-off
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
the movie is great dan u should watch it!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I actually wanted to start a thread for a serious discussion about "movies that should've been video games" but then I realized that I don't really care about the thoughts people really have about either I just like interacting with them
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
i like the books, with some reservations. the way they're like twilight is the way a lot of ya books about a girl are like twilight: there's a love triangle. they're a lot better than twilight, like almost everything in the world.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
TUOMAS OTM
very good find
― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
I am a racist so if there are any other racists around we can just have the vid game/movie discussion in this thread and it'll be on topic
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Friday, November 18, 2011 6:09 PM (17 minutes ago)
true true
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
max went gay just to prove hes not racist smh
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
'ringtone' is the preferred term
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
Lenny Kravitz apparently an apostate Jew, I think I am racist against him now
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I didn't realize this, but I've only read the first one.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
she's only in the first one! i guess people sort of skim YA sometimes. district 12 is evocative of Reconstruction-era south black sharecroppers. district 11 is reminiscent of Appalachian coal miners.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I never know when people are supposed to be black in books unless the book says "this character is black". "Dark skin" doesn't register for me as "this character is some sort of futuristic black person".
Haven't read hunger games
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
district 9 is an apartheid allegory
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
i do watch books like a hawk for race markers
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
lol shut up jho i am clearly invested in the hunger games for some reason
do you even realize what an amazing joke i made, do you?!!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
I have never heard of Hunger Games.
― crüt, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
But I'm still appalled that there are black characters.