http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoBusDriver
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
now find one more and write a gawker article about it
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoSommelier
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 28. I have a full time job bringing urban students new computers.
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh lol its a real twitter
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:46 PM
^ nick denton
― am0n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
The troubling thing for me about how the ghettohikes is less how it's presented than how it will probably be taken by a lot of its audience. Yes, the name is kind of offputting, and yes, the transcriptions are kinda blackface or something, but most of what the kids say is very funny, and I think the whole thing would be kind of innocuous if it wasn't for the fact that there was a whole built in audience of people who are reading this as "LOL BLACKS R DUM"
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah but i mean...kids saying funny or odd things is one of the most renewable resources on earth, if a particular batch gets 'tainted' i don't think it's some tragic waste of lols to not look at that one stupid twitter or write the whole thing off as unsavory
― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
i mean sure if you wanted to create a filter that allowed you to read it as "kidhikes" and found-and-replaced every "dis" or "dat" as "this" or "that" sure you'd have some decent guilt-free entertainment but is it really worth it?
― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/TweetsLMAO/status/157549013317586944
― am0n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
the ghettobusdriver one is obviously fake. the wildlife trip one, idk for sure, but it has the ring of truth.
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
"I drive a bus of troubled urban children (of all races) to school every day. I write the best stuff down and post it here."
maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'? ok well fair enough, you're not a racist bus driver and most likely not a bus driver at all, just some guy with a funny twitter account who likes laughing at america's underclasses, good job
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'?
yes, actually they should be jewish
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit, the youtube wine reviews posted on ghettosommeleir's blogspot (titled 'hood wine')
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
xpost yeah but I mean tbh what's funny about it does have something to do with it being kids from the ghetto who have very little experience with wilderness, and my point isn't really that it should be scrubbed of any racial identifiers and made into generic "lol kids" so much as the fact that it sucks that a lot of people won't just read something like that with affection and appreciation as opposed to, well, racism.
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
@GhettoHikes seems a more plausible scenario than texts from Bennett but if they're based on real things the kids say they have to have been paraphrased into abstraction - it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say
like I didn't find texts from Bennett that funny (altho when someone - forks? - said something about it reading like a ventriloquist/dummy act it became instantly more endearing to read for me) but you at least got the impression that Mac Lethal actually took time to think about the character and get into the part y'know
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say
IDK, it reads pretty real to me, whereas the bus one comes off totally canned
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ghetto hikes seems pretty plausible imo
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
although i bet the guy hears/types "dat" even when they say "that" sometimes, like that one young jeezy review on pitchfork
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
the reason it sounds real is because the kids actually say sharp, witty, irreverent things and not just dumb patsy lines
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
haha ok I didn't even look at the bus one until now
if anything that just seems like someone writing jokes on his own (eg the "start her car" one) then throwing them up on twitter
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
as the number of racist quotable twitters increases, the chance of a racially sensitive one appearing approaches 1
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
well 'not being racist' isn't really a thing you can (or should have to) applaud people for doing, not-racism is everywhere if you think about it
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
@shitmycatsays
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
I really wanted GhettoSommelier to be a parody
"I work as a sommelier in a michelin starred restaurant. I write down the best things customers (of all races) say
Ayo Mister, dis merlot STANK! Get it the fuck outta mah face, and bring me a 40 of dat '78 cab"
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp to some dude: http://gawker.com/5874912
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:09 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
iirc in the pitchfork review, he just said "i got snow, man" and the "dat" was just added out of thin air
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
oh right, i forgot how the line went. also i looked it up and it was a pitchfork guy in the voice :(
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
there is no way that @ghettohikes is real
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
Tardblog is way old, I'm sure I read it back when I was in Uni which was nearly 10 years ago. IIRC some of the stories were kind of cute if you take them out of the horrible context. I vaguely remember it had links to Tucker Max at the time although I didn't know what that was.
― kinder, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah it even says '(c) Tucker Max' at the bottom, of some posts, ha
― kinder, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:45 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
why not? seems a lot more real than texts from bennett imo
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
i was going to post this but feared a "posts very much in character" c&p
― buzza, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm guessing ghettohikes is "real."
― nah (crüt), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Check out the Reddit conversation on this. Commenters are throwing out the racism card like it’s going outta style. “Urban” is “urban”………relax. It’s an entertaining read and an expected Reddit time waster.
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
“Urban” is “urban”………relax.
full title of the Das Racist album
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
"Mr. Cody, lemme borrow them monoculars, I think I see a pack of bald eagles."
*dies laughing*
― buzza, Friday, 13 January 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's not that funny, which is part of why i think it's probably real
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
oh hey awesome not only is ghettohike on twitter but there is a tumblr
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lximlxAEjv1r9jpslo1_500.jpg
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
he must be really embarrassed that he typed "the cookouts" instead of "da cookouts" in that one
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
it's written exactly how a white dude would think black kids would talk.
there's no fucking way 12 year olds are cracking Jumanji jokes.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
no one says 'where the cookouts and shit' either. speaking w/ a dialect doesnt mean that your sentences are missing words
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
I hear people say "where the ____" without a verb all the time.
― nah (crüt), Friday, 13 January 2012 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
"You fuckin' crazy Ervin, it'd be hard as fuck to pogo stick out here."
guilty lol.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 13 January 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
― nah (crüt), Friday, January 13, 2012 3:01 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I've heard ppl say "where there are" and maybe slurring together 'there'&'are' like "there'r" but i dont think i've ever heard someone say "where the cookouts ...." and then just trail off. unless they had, like, a brain slip or were just generally dumb? idk i cant think of a time ive ever heard someone just drop off the verb entirely? it reads more like a baby's understanding of conveying ideas to me.
although i guess trying to find the logic in a racist's attempt to transcribe 'how black people talk' is the real problem
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:04 (twelve years ago) link
i've heard people say 'where the keys?' or i've said that, sure, but that's a different sentence than 'isn't this the park where the cookouts?' ... where the cookouts what? whereas in the first its implied that you're dropping "[where] are [the keys] located?"
idk it just reads like either a mistranscription or a made-up transcription the way it is imo
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:07 (twelve years ago) link
could be terrible punctuation. "Ain't this a park? Where the cookouts and shit?"
nb still horrible
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
i remember many years ago reading an essay about the transcription of working class voices in Charles Dickens and Robert Tressell that examined similar issues of a "neutral" representation that codes as mockery on the page. i'm guessing mr ghettohikes hasn't put any thought into this...for some reason
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
and this is the board where "where the tittays at" was a long-running joke
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
"tittays" is hilarious in a way that "dat" just ain't?
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
Just found out that for years I've been saying "Where's the white women at" when I should be saying "Where the white women at" :-(
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link