rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

kind of hoping people who are from and living in Japan start posting

(when it comes to bizarro racist caricature and stereotypes)

how close is this discussion to the subject of crust punks/street kids right now

still a ways off, I think. Although I have a friend who lived somewhat of that lifestyle and also was really into hopping trains for a few years

tbh the traveller community is pretty damn interesting - a lot of it, at least

Also re "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding". They use Gypsy in the title but gypsy/traveller interchangeably in the show even though most of the ppl featured on the show are actually Irish travellers. I think that is pretty common in UK media and maybe why the distinction isn't all that clear?

I hear talk of Travelers around where I live (no, not the Arkansaw Traveler.)

Guys showing up with extra oil from another job and making a deal to seal it on your driveway.

Or painting address numbers on the curb that wash away with the first rain.

x-post - My best friend's little sister ran away from home at 16 to be a crust punks/street kids. I spent several nights out looking for her on the streets when I'd heard she might be in town. I know more than I'd like to about the subject tbh. She hopped trains too at one point.

there should be a sci-fi movie about time gypsies aka time travelers who venture back and forth through time conning people

they would call it TIME GYP

PP - yeah, most of the traveller communities in the states seem to be in the south and are descended from travellers who left during the Famine, I guess.

tarmacadam, kerblaying, painting are big traveller jobs in england so i'd guess the same over in the states

here, tbh, nobody would be likely to hire a known traveller workgang. the majority of known traveller community income comes from scrap metal deadling and welfare, the majority of assumed traveller income comes from illegal fighting and betting on same and criminal activity

timegyp awes

"they painted ID numbers on my starship and they washed off the first time i passed through a supernova."

'what do you mean the warpdrive is missing?'

ENBB how old is she now/she hasn't come back at all? that's the worst.

there should be a sci-fi movie about time gypsies aka time travelers who venture back and forth through time conning people

R.A. Lafferty's story "Land of the Great Horses" isn't quite this but it does deal with gypsies and time travel, of a sort.

they would call it TIME GYP

― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:22 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

TIME TRAVELLER

"this so-called piece of rare metal from the betelgeusean system ended up being from pluto."

making a killing stripping down the remnants of the death star

- "So you went back in time to save Lincoln from being shot?"
- "No, but I did do a really shitty job painting his barn."

Time travel + Gypsies = Tim Powers' awesome Anubis Gates.

Also I like how we've established that there's no gypsies/travellers/roma on this thread, so it's a-ok for racist jokes about them.

hmm i think imagining, as ilx is wont to do, what themes might run through a traveller-themed space movie doesn;t quite qualify, but i dunno

like i'm EVER going to catch up with the 238974394723947829342 posts since my monkey-ignorance post ~8 hours ago but

1. djp otm re learning that a word has racist connotations then never ever using it ever again
2. had no idea whatsoever about the 'uppity' thing until this morning (thanks urbandictionary)
3. ilx needs a racist word cataloguing thread for those of us who might say 'butter dish' without knowing what it means

xp i suppose we could ask the 'Is This Racist' thread, tbf

oh god i just looked up 'butter dish'

holy shit just GIS'd 'butter dish' these eyes these eyes doc they've seen too much

I'm glad you two feel like you can joke about this.

http://images.gama-go.com/product/lifestyle/buddha-butter-dish-4.jpg

guys i don't see anything particularly...oh fuck

that's not racist look how happy he is!

i have a bunch of smiley Buddha's in the house :(

none of them are butter dishes tho, but one is a money box

fap at NV's house, i'll just hang back and rest my legs while you guys get the tour from him.

hmm i think imagining, as ilx is wont to do, what themes might run through a traveller-themed space movie doesn;t quite qualify, but i dunno

― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:57 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Pluto_Nash.jpg/220px-Pluto_Nash.jpg

omar i think he's got about 60p in him, sorry

lol @ underlined "man"

damn

loses points for not spelling it 'da man' tho

he da maaaan on da moooon

Face book status update just now from girl I used to work with:

Lol my daughter comes home from school just now and says "was good lil niggie"
Had to laugh! Lmbo.

Girl is P Rican and her daughter is a quarter black. Girl is in preschool.

Discuss.

no chance

that is a massive can of worms

each worm holding its own smaller can of worms

russian cans of worms

LMQBAO.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l97zsvX6rf1qcqorzo1_500.jpg

I know. I read it and was like uhhhhh. 15 ppl like it BTW.

I assume many, if not all, of them are Puerto Rican and/or black

Prob. Only actual comment so far was "smh she's too much!".

I don't think I ever put this in this thread but I once asked two guys (one Dominican one Puerto Rican why it was ok for them and their friends to call each other (and p much everyone else too) "my n****". They said it was because they weren't racist, it just meant the same thing as dawg, and because it was spelled "nikka". They focused on the spelling thing a lot tbh. I had never even heard that before!

there's an ever-ongoing debate about that, was a big deal when fat joe used it

i had a friend who claimed it was weird that q-tip said "john holmes, the x-rated nigga" in a beastie boys song, like it was some kind of lyrical grenade the b boys were a little too proximate to.