Esso like debuted at no. 38 on Billboard. Which, I know it takes like very few copies to do, but that doesn't happen to, like, Thee Oh Sees or Grimes or w/e
Where are people even hearing this garbage?
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
idk, i'd imagine there's a big promotional push by some third party with major label affiliations but i don't know whom.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Stereogum premiered their video: 1 comment, 37 tweets
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
being in one of these bands doesn't seem like fun at all
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dh5lZmvXybg/Tc1uevkeFYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Q7S7JNdFPP8/s640/Lawn+Jockey.gif
I see white lawn jockey ornaments and think, yeah, I guess it's an improvement over the black lawn jockey ornaments, but it still rubs me the wrong way. What's the idea or concept being conveyed? "Remember back in olden days when you'd have men in uniform stand around holding the horses? They were usually blacks forced into servitude, but here's an effigy offered in white."
Maybe I'm off. Maybe it goes back to Scottish times when white people held their horses. Maybe not though.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
I think they mostly exist so that old white people can say "Remember when those things used to be black? Can't get away with that anymore ho ho"
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
I have an honest ITR: a friend of mine believes that any celebration involving the breaking of a piñata is inherently racist, unless it is a celebration entirely by and for Mexican people. This had never occurred to me before, but I'd be perfectly happy to accept that it is correct. Do you agree with my friend or not?
My huge almost-entirely-white extended family has included a piñata at our family reunion / Christmas celebration every year for decades in a manner that had previously seemed to me to be free of its historical cultural context (the piñata is not a traditional or stereotypical shape or color, there is no obvious element of "Mexican blackface" surrounding the breaking of it: no costumes, no broken spanish is spoken, etc).
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
What prompted this specifically was this event , which I'd thought it might be fun to go to, before my friend objected.
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
oh god i'm a racist aren't i
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
wikipedia lol suggests that the pinata has roots in chinese, european and mesoamerican tradition, & that the word itself is of italian origin. similar traditions exist all over the world. never heard anyone suggest that the pinata is the reserved and sacred cultural property of mexicans, but i suppose i wouldn't know.
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
Ha, no fucking way is this racist. If it is, I'll be sure to tell the Hispanic owner of the party store we get our annual birthday piñatas from, that sorry, his products are racist when purchased by people who look like my family.
― pplains, Friday, 6 June 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
there is plenty of racist bullshit that happens when white people throw cinco de mayo parties but a pinata used by white people is not inherently racist imo. if they wear sombreros and fake mustaches while swatting at the pinata, it's a different story though
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
thinking a pinata at a party is inherently racist is kind of getting us to a point where cultural exchange should be shut down entirely
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
is it racist if i drink tequila?
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
only if you do it at a Mexican restaurant
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
I bought some fireworks, is that racist?
― On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
fireworks originated in china, you asshole. unless you're chinese you better shelve those
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
brb building a pinata filled with fireworks.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
we're going to hang it and hit it with lit torches, it will be epic.
please don't use the word "epic" unless you are Ancient Greek and blind
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
otm
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
brb building a pinata filled with fireworks.― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, June 6, 2014 8:58 AM (3 hours ago)
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, June 6, 2014 8:58 AM (3 hours ago)
ha, i took these at a friend's rehearsal dinner:
http://i.imgur.com/TJ8QK0a.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/CF42WnB.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
a hate crime, imo
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
The main reason I asked was that I kind of felt where my friend was coming from w/r/t the pinata breaking being part of a cinco de mayo party called "Cinco de Mayhem" that was attended almost 100% by non-Mexican white people. I was just conflicted because I have such fond feelings about my family's Christmas pinata, but I thought I might have, like, a racial blind spot the way Dutch people do about Sinterklaas' 6 to 8 black assistants
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
your family's pinatas have 6 to 8 black assistants?
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
american "let's wear sombreros & get fucked on tequila" cinquo de mayo appropriation is much more questionable, imo
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
okay, sorry for xpost. where is undo.
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/l2DSLMt.gif
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
w/r/t the pinata breaking being part of a cinco de mayo party called "Cinco de Mayhem" that was attended almost 100% by non-Mexican white people.
See, the piñata is the part not being racist here.
― pplains, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure our Irish readers have similar feelings about the appropriation of St Patrick's day
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
"What do I want to drink? How 'bout one of those Decapitated Cartel Agents, you know, a little rum and tequila mixed together with grenadine.
What's that? It's St. Patrick's Day, not Cinco de Mayo? Oh yeah, well, how about an Irish Car Bomb then."
― pplains, Friday, 6 June 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
― gbx, Saturday, 7 June 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/music/downtown-sound-omar-souleyman
Though a firm favourite of more leftfield festivals and audiences, Omar Souleyman (not to be confused with Detroit legend Omar S) is really as accessible as hummus. The Syrian singer never fails to galvanise a crowd, channelling Middle Eastern music through a techno-informed prism, and is helped out as always by his master keyboardist Rizan Said by his side.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Omar Souleyman: smooth, creamy, available in 8 and 16 ounce containers in your grocer's produce section
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
what ppl do on paddy's day is nothing to me as an irishman
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
http://thatsthejoke.net/thatsthejoke.jpg
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/3174503/chickens.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 7 June 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
suggest ban nation
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
micks I can waive
― mikelovestfu (wins), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
*applause*
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
it's a type of it, yeah. but is it racist
― mikelovestfu (wins), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
i'm hispanic and i'm not crazy about speedy gonzales, primarily b/c it because it was used by white kids i grew up with as nicknames/slurs for hispanic people
― marcos, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
many xp. i cant wait to explain to my daughter who speedy etc. also airport dude at ORD brought out a mexican joke for no reason yesterday.
― le hague, Sunday, 15 June 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
"Great White Shark"
unsure
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Sunday, 15 June 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
Awesome Hispanic Whale
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 June 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
curvy colombian crustacean
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
@lawblobWhy is there no great white shark week?
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Monday, 16 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Every week is great white shark week.
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/read/austin-was-built-to-be-segregated
― *tera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
haha
Follow Luke Winkie on Twitter.
only 90s ilxkidz will get this
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Friday, 20 June 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
I just saw a blackpeoplemeet.com commercial, figured there had to be a whitepeoplemeet parody, and OH NOES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwl2y-1SJ2c
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link