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http://www.dqmia.com/Moolatte-Caramel.jpg

and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link

OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

gr8080, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link

hahaha, ILX's finest hour, that one ;_;

Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9049/fatboysvb4.gif

sanskrit, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link

when that fire gets stoked, flame-outs occur

-- deej, Friday, March 23, 2007 11:02 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link

quoting lj

deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link

when that fire gets stoked for the madness

Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Remember when Ray Charles did that ad for Arby's "Horsey Sauce"? A sad moment.

Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.edisupport.masterfoodsusa.com/images/UncleBens.jpg

Jarlrmai, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link

not as good as Boyz II Men doing the ad for Hardee's biscuits

roxymuzak, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link

The main Pixar guy, I can't remember his name...Lasseter?...said when he got an Oscar for Toy Story he spraypainted an Aunt Jemima syrup bottle gold & kept it next to the Oscar to keep it company.

They don't make syrup bottles shaped like her anymore, do they?

Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Kris Kross doing the ad for Sprite was something...something.

Yo Kris!
What's up Kross?
What's that in your hand?
It's an S, it's a P-R-I-T-E can.

Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/~gipsytoo/gollyerasers.jpg

Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Sprite ad was not racist, they just had a dumb rap (shokah). I found itttt on the online...got some of the lyrics wrong but it's been 14 years.

Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Holy shit, Golden Shred?

Abbott, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Racism is the real fun eraser.

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link

the other day I picked up a copy of this edition (10pence in a local charity shop, old woman behind counter didn't say a word) and was amazed to find it was copyrighted 1978

http://www.ask.hl.no/privsalg/ten-lithe-nighers.JPG

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aVG2Pzf2to

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link

rip ronaldinho bottle opener... top 10 all time

max, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link

holy shit @ christie book

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link

i love that the total disconnect becomes clear within the first 3 posts. xpost

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link

it's "Ten little Indians" now

Heave Ho, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link

what ilx2 needed was a britisher vs american race debate that also involves soccer

-- ghost rider, Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:59 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

^^^so otm it makes nabisco a pale shadow

deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i would just like to point out that i have been otm in this thread

Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link

in this rough ol' thread

Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't believe that Agatha Christie book. wow.

Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link

The oft discussed Australian inclusion..
http://glenyalla.typepad.com/once_upon_a_blog/images/100_2038.jpg

W4LTER, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link

let us never revive the bottle opener thread

ghost rider, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link

CENSORSHIP

max, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link

ill revive whatever the fuck i want

max, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link

ILX

admrl, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link

let us never revive the bottle opener thread

That will mean 200 new answers on it by the time i get up in the morning

Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link

ah, the tragic Moolatte

Morley Timmons, Monday, 27 August 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link

ah, the tragic Moolatte

Roffle.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link

http://magazinusa.com/images2/originale/cracker_jack.jpg

gershy, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.top-quark.com/blosxom/images/122605_gookie.jpg

gershy, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Haha, Taco Time's bean-stirring machine is called "the beaner."

Abbott, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link

nobody has ever used beaner (or considered it offensive) except for that fucktard mencia

remy bean, Monday, 27 August 2007 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm such a dope, I was like "Who is 'beaner' a slur against, people who live in BOSTON? OH WAIT" Hi, Rems.

Laurel, Monday, 27 August 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link

oh come on. cracker jack? may as well put up a picture of cracker barrell cheese, or cracker barrell the restaurant, or a saltine or whatever.

andrew m., Monday, 27 August 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link

nobody has ever used beaner (or considered it offensive) except for that fucktard mencia

It's even immortalized in culturally uplifting Chicanosong

kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link

http://thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/cheese_nips.gif

sexyDancer, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link

er,
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31V6WENYYAL._AA160_.jpg

sexyDancer, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link

nobody has ever used beaner (or considered it offensive) except for that fucktard mencia

you're kidding, right?

milo z, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.permachink.com/

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Ok geez o man: having grown up in southern Colorado, I can assure you times a MILLION that "beaner" gets used plenty.

Also: ^^^so otm it makes nabisco a pale shadow ==> why you gotta bring my RACE into it

nabisco, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link

may as well put up a picture of cracker barrell cheese, or cracker barrell the restaurant

"In the early 2000s and again in 2006, Cracker Barrel has faced accusations including a pattern of racial discrimination [1] in its treatment of customers. After national press attention to these accusations, the company announced explicit policies intended to address the charges, and the most prominent critics have not repeated their criticisms, but still they did end up paying $2 million for race and sexual harassment at three Illinois restaurants [2]. Stores now display a sign in their front foyer clarifying this policy, as has become the policy after a similar incident involving Denny's restaurants. In March 2006, Cracker Barrel agreed to pay $2 million to settle class allegations of sexual and racial discrimination brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.). In October of 2006, Rose Rock, the mother of popular comedian Chris Rock, threatened legal action after she claimed that she and her daughter were discriminated against at the company's Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, restaurant [3] due to not being served for over an hour. She said when she asked the manager about the delay, the manager did not try to find the cause of the delay, but told Rock that they could have a free meal, which she refused.[4]"

Phil D., Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8KPj-cNA4
great song

tremendoid, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.hamiltonnj.com/business/business_photos/images/CrackerBarrel.jpg

JUST ANOTHER GOLF TEE STABBED THRU THE WOODEN TRIANGULAR HEART OF AMERICA.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link

HEY YOU ON THE FAR LEFT. KUDOS ON GETTING YOUR FUCKING ARM INTO THE PICTURE.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.spacetimefabric.com/image/jpg/1169878774102hm8.jpg

sanskrit, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link

ok "Flavors of Negros" has to be a shop

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link

it's filipino food, no?

carne asada, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link

I really highly doubt that Filipinos eat black people.

libcrypt, Friday, 5 October 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~schacht/rhe309k/pemmican.jpg

artdamages, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2204/630984600f221b9c4d7qm8.jpg

libcrypt, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.thelooniverse.com/strips/kuifje/afrika01n.jpg

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link

it's "Ten little Indians" now

-- Heave Ho, Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:52 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

Or And Then There Were None.

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link

NOT a racist product obviously...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimthing/nigger.jpg

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.pganuszko.freeuk.com/dissertation/kampf.jpg

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Dick Gregory is teh awesome btw

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, it's a great book, but I still felt kind of weird going to the counter with it in very, very quiet second bookshop.

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link

secondhand bookshop

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link

How many copies do you need to own?

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link

Air Native, three times wider for Native American feet. Targeted towards Native Americans because of predispositions towards "diabetes" and "obesity"... first Nike targeted towards a racial demographic... racist!

http://ap.google.com/media/ALeqM5gsq-1egPuW5qX0TVRBaENfZS9ZEA?size=m

freewheel, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, it's a great book, but I still felt kind of weird going to the counter with it in very, very quiet second bookshop.

-- Ned Trifle II, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

lol i thought you meant mein kampf

and what, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Ha, no! I did have a copy of that once though. Pimlico bought it out over here and I was tempted by the cover. I am so shallow. Anyway when I moved and had to whittle down the collection a bit it got sent to Oxfam. I don't know what they did with it.

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Talking about badly written rants against minorities...

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EGPKC36HL._AA240_.jpg

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link

COORS LIGHT

hstencil, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link

wtf Australia

HI DERE, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/746/picture1lo0.png

libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4905/picture3pg3.png

libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link

This one could launch 1000 ILX posts:

http://blacklegacyimages.com/db2/00197/blacklegacyimages.com/_uimages/niggarepairkit.jpg

libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.tritonlabs.com/Adam/whiteman.jpg

libcrypt, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link

One of them is eating watermelon just to really, you know, ram the point home...

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link

http://watch.windsofchange.net/pics/2006/Product_361_PrSpare2_s.jpg
(That’s Muhammad, as depicted in one of the infamous “Muhammad cartoons.”)

http://www.rightwingnews.com/graphics/dopeonarope.jpg

Jeb, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link

husseinist

hstencil, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link

WTF, why do midgets need repair?!

Hurting 2, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I've told this story here before but when I was in the aiport in Kuala Lumpur with a couple of hours to kill, I went to the bookstore, and there prominently displayed was a copy of Henry Ford's "The International Jew" in a recently-printed Malaysian edition

punch line, also true: it was right next to a copy of "the protocols of the elders of zion"

J0hn D., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link

wtf Australia
yes i know. sometimes, we are a really stupid country!

haitch, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link

sheet music i bought at the thrift store:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2221/1527983550_18a7820b69_b.jpg

scott seward, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link

That midget repair kit is ASTOUNDING!

HI DERE, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link

it has everything

Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 05:44 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.rugbyrelics.com/images/Books/biogs/Tommy%20David.jpg

As it is Rugby World Cup time this is in the window of the bookshop below my work

DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Spike Milligan RIP

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/1752/cid8010fcfce2f54fec9a82so1.jpg

Matt DC, Friday, 16 November 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link

That awful new twinings advert (in which Stephen Fry expresses disdain after the older white women tell him that the young black waiter has been 'filling us in'): tasteless and unfunny, or tasteless, unfunny, and racist?

G00blar, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Another cherished moment from childhood:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41205000/jpg/_41205544_kiaora.jpg

Frogman Henry, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8

Frogman Henry, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link

He's all kinds of interesting for sure...
http://www.barryreigate.com/e/06/c1.jpg

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/mmorein/racemelon.jpg

and what, Monday, 21 July 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link

keep 'em separately in the fridge!

Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

"The Hams What Am"

???

RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.otrcat.com/z/jemima1.jpg

am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link

http://bfcgroup.com/helluvatough/billydeesign.jpg

am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link

http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/PageMill_Images/soulgrabber.jpg

am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.blacknews.com/images/blackbabies.gif

RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

^^^t-shirt

RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahahahaha, you sure have made a darned fool of them lib'ruls with that t-shirt now haven't ya? (xp)

libcrypt, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link

^^^^ Saw that at a flea market 15 years ago for $10.

libcrypt, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link

http://lethal.fabrika.lv/stuff/Nigger%20Make-up.jpg

THAT DRAWING

(whoa cool xp)

RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

http://peet.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/nigger_lover.jpg

Anyone know anything about this? ^^

RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.overtimecomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/kramer.jpg

am0n, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.uki.net/images/shoppingdb/bullseyepagesukinet96-p-l.gif

Classic Twister: Fun for Everyone (Except Your Black Friend Who Has to Sit in Back Operating the Spinner Because We Don't Want to Show Him Actually Touching and Crawling Around on the Little White Girls)

nabisco, Monday, 21 July 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.99centplusonline.com/School/24%20Crayola%20Crayons.jpg

1962

Partly in response to the civil rights movement, Crayola decides to change the name of the “flesh” crayon to “peach.” Renaming this crayon was a way of recognizing that skin comes in a variety of shades.

J.D., Monday, 21 July 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.elsevier.nl/artimg/a20061233196764.jpg

http://www.kennislink.nl/upload/174991_962_1184683840801-negerzoen-758171.jpg

The Dutch word 'Negerzoen' translates to the English word 'Niggerkiss'.

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 21 July 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link

xpost - Anyone know anything about this? ^^

Apparently it's a poster for the film "The Bad Bunch." The title was changed because no theaters would book the film with its original title.

From IMDB: "A white veteran goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his black Army buddy who died in Vietnam. He encounters hostility and trouble from all sides."

Nathan, Monday, 21 July 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link

i passed a sign by a gravel road today that said "COON HUNT --->"

deeznuts, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link

From the Lethal Weapon 2 department . . .

http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/i/b/Kaffir-Lime.jpg

fields of salmon, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.mechanicalbanks.org/images/mb/uncle_remus.gif

NickB, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Shouldn't that be in the encyclopedia of sexy products?

libcrypt, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/yaestaellistoquetodolosabe/conguitos-1.jpeg

jim, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link

How about some delicious Mohr im Hemd..

Probably about the third most popular dessert in Austria (after Sachertorte and Applestrudel) Mohr im Hemd translates to "Negro in a Shirt"

Some more adventurous restaurants serve this with vanilla ice cream and call it "Negro in the Antarctic"

http://lh5.ggpht.com/enar.skog/Ry9ud4fS9YI/AAAAAAAAAUY/Z5wft9ud4NE/DSC02994.JPG?imgmax=512

PS. It does actually taste really good!

Jack Battery-Pack, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link

If you can't make it out in the picture, it is chocolate sponge cake with chocolate sauce and cream!

Jack Battery-Pack, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link

man I try so hard to be good but every once in a while I read "negro in the Antarctic" and lose my shit

Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6485/chocoyp9.jpg

libcrypt, Monday, 1 September 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

^^^ real product btw

==つ~~~(o)(o) (libcrypt), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=151986789&albumID=2147126&imageID=25186680

a cover band that plays sometimes at my aunt's bar in southern illinois, The KoonSkyners

nataschakristin, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Fedele told The Times:

"If I was racist, I would have looked at it through racist eyes," she said. "I am not racist, which is why it probably didn't register."

Club member Kristina Sandoval agreed.

"None of us are racists," she said.

The use of watermelon, ribs and fried chicken was innocent, she said.

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Holy. Shit.

But what is the significance of the Kool-Aid Man?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Prob some kind of "drink the kool-aid" thing.

LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link

no, kool-aid is used as stereotypical "black" drink sometimes. i had a roommate once whose boyfriend claimed to be really good at making kool-aid because he learned from a black person. he was terrible.

harbl, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link

yikes. how was the kool-aid though?

latebloomer, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link

no better than the kool-aid i learned to make by reading the instructions

harbl, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link

It's not so much the imagery that I find shocking, but the fact that a goddamned GOP group put it out and then the woman responsible put on her po-face to claim that she had no IDEA it was racist. Ladies and gentlemen, THAT is the definition of gall.

LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

cf. Dave Chappelle's bit about the black kid in the Sunny Delight commercial who gets really excited when someone mentions "purple stuff."

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.obamabucks.net/

LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry, "Chaffey Community Republican Women", not GOP.

LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link

OHHH YEAH

bnw, Saturday, 18 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Unfuckingbelievable

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link

holy shit

Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Combined with the price for that thing, what better way to show you're stupid?

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I...have to admit, the thing is hideous but it wouldn't have occurred to me that it was racist. Maybe too many bible stories about burning bushes and pillars of fire?

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Suggested Donation: $81.85

Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Laurel, it's a burning cross for your lawn. That it's not actually on fire isn't really distance enough from, you know, crosses being burnt on black people's lawns to warn them that they're going to be killed if they don't leave town.

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link

"like a prayer" vid to thread?

the birdman from the hilarious "alcatraz" prison (get bent), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link

i don't think today's racists would be practical enough to even know how to assemble and light a burning cross. this is just the product for them.

Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Uh yeah I get that. But only because ILX pointed it out; I would not bet money on my having thought that otherwise. Or at least not right away.

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link

hah I knew a kid in high school whose parents made one of these, only it was red lights and it was on their tv antenna. He came out to them the year after telling us about it.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Well, ILX/I got it from Professor Ann Bartow, who probably heard it from elsewhere - I mean, it took me a second, after which second I was like "are you guys serious? a burning cross on a lawn? for Christmas? you're joking, right?"

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link

Let Your “Light” Shine For Christ This Christmas Season!

inappropriate roffles

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link

LOL

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link

what part of this is "burning"?

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link

the AFA online store has been much blogged about in the last week and a half
the video they sell about the gays coming to your town to take it over was a popular topic as well

TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link

that site is hilarious

bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link

(fwiw I think this falls much more easily into the "tacky" bucket than the "racist" one)
(also everyone should be psyched when the gays take over, that's when your property values go up)

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link

guys look at these racist frenchmen omg:
http://i33.tinypic.com/ajoz83.jpg

Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link

they don't seem to understand the concept of suggested donations

bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link

so sick of fucking justice

TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link

well stop fucking them, then

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link

ps thanks to that site, today I have learned that women's gym Curves is run by scary God-bothers with horrible taste in music:

https://store.afa.net/pc-53-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-united-we-stand.aspx

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh, I already knew that! It's one of the reasons I didn't renew my Curves membership when it lapsed. Although the music at our gym was better.

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link

https://store.afa.net/pc-54-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-vol-2.aspx

Is the world ready for a handbag house version of "You Lift Me Up"?

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link

https://store.afa.net/p-42-its-not-gay-dvd.aspx

waht

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Falling into the tacky bucket:

http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/BozoWinner_230.jpg

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Dan, you have a stronger stomach than I, to be browsing through that site. Make Laurel angry.

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link

The one about the gays taking over Arkansas looks pretty fucking funny!

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link

https://store.afa.net/pc-33-4-i-surrender-all-rebuilding-a-marriage-broken-by-pornography.aspx

hahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahahahaha

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link

oyce Zounis' choice of abortion, not once but seven times, nearly cost her life.

I think that maybe abortion isn't the problem here.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link

FREE SHIPPING!!!!

i'm with Laurel on this one. site is making me feel ill.

Trail of Dead is one of thousands of cheesy death metal acts (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link

what part of this is "burning"?

gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link

srsly would consider plunking down $82 for a 5.5 ft light-up combination cross/bottle opener

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link

It'd be perfect for opening this:

http://www.wotif.com/webdata/image/promotion/big_bottle.jpg

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link

John, I really do not disagree w you that this product should never have reached the market, but I think you're VASTLY overestimating the mental complexity of both the creators and their market. Even when it's punitive, racist, and evil, this religious belief/lifestyle set is IMMENSELY earnest. And not very sophisticated, nuanced, etc.

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link

it's not just that it's a "light-up cross", the construction of it (ie lumpy lights) WOULD and DOES resemble fire. it's not purposeful but that doesn't stop it from being retarded and anyone who is saying otherwise is a disingenuous spoiled white brat OR a secret british. DEAL

xpost more directed at gabbneb and kerm than you, laurel, but i think it's pretty lame to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of forrest gump.

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link

I think it's pretty accurate to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of Forrest Gump!

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

"Life is like a box of racist products."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Ned for win

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I have no idea who's purchasing the thing, I don't know who's purchasing those propaganda videos either but they make my skin crawl. The cross strikes me as being as tacky as light-up Baby Jesuses for your lawn at Christmas, but if not for ILX I would have passed right over it! Maybe I'm just being naive/sheltered?

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link

lolz Ned zing

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

I just have this strong feeling that the light-up cross is going to be hung from the pinnacle of garages as the "nativity star" in neon creche scenes for the holidays. I wouldn't put ANYTHING past those people.

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of someone who sees a 5+ft light-up cross and thinks "IT'S PERFECT" but I am probably discounting the part where the person is earnestly browsing this site intending to make a purchase.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link

they're taking it back.

Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link

For instance: I'm kind of shocked there isn't one in this photo:

http://studio1seven.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MWC/_DSC5234.JPG

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link

the cross came later.

Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Then there's the institutional level example -- this is about five blocks away from me (sorry about the small photo size):

http://www.markdroberts.com/images/TBN-Xmas-lights-5.jpg

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link

xxp Yeah, I mean, who the hell would crucify a newborn?

Law-Thug for Chiquita Bananas (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link

https://store.afa.net/pc-29-4-god-cannot-be-trusted-and-five-other-lies-of-satan.aspx

lol poor cover design
also, the prize should include a new car

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link

J0hn, are you aware that
a) in America, there are vast numbers of people who like to put large collections of small lights with a Christmas holiday theme all over their lawns and houses
and
b) in the contemporary United States, there are vast numbers of people who have very little knowledge of history, and that the knowledge of religious fundamentalists in the interior West about the pre-civil rights era South might be more diminished than most?

what are these people saying - i'm going to burn my own house down? these might be dumb questions, but they're no dumber than the notion that a cross wrapped in holiday lights rather than with the lights fused to the cross is a vague, subtextual, public advertisement of the owner's enjoyment in appropriating racist symbols. or are you suggesting that someone would buy this for intimidation purposes. what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Gabbneb, the idea of you schooling J0hn on these points is the best laugh I've had all day.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link

that's kind of the point here, Ned

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry I'm not an itinerant OC/midwestern/Southerner, it's such a personal failing

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Now I am SUPER doubting my take on this, because gabbneb is making sense to me. I wish it were coming from someone else, I really do, but...stopped clocks, once, etc.

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link

fyi i'm a south carolinian born n raised who went to school with the kids of grand dragons and when i saw this i didnt think kkk

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link

gabbneb is still a dick tho

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link

what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

waht

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link

oh nvr mind, I get it, at first it parsed like "mulattos be buyin' racist crosses!"

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link

I gotta agree with ethan here that KKK was not the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw this.

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link

I dunno what the people who buy them will be thinking, but the first thing that struck me was the KKK angle, and I was pretty gobsmacked.

emil.y, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link

whether or not it is burning cross like enough is debatable... I don't give a shit what the intent behind it was

bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link

"pre-Civil Rights era South." Like nobody burns crosses for racial intimidation any more.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072008/news/regionalnews/o_cross_burning_137570.htm

Law-Thug for Chiquita Bananas (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link

whether or not it is burning cross like enough is debatable... I don't give a shit what the intent behind it was

― bnw, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:16 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ this, yes, exactly.

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah guys lets have the bottle opener argument again

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link

fwiw I agree as well, which is why my comments have been less "how could you find this racist?" and more "I didn't find it racist, now let's laugh at the rest of the stupid shit on this site"

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I think that lit lawn cross is along the same lines of accidental racism as "i.Beat Blaxx"

adult turban contemporary (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/210259_3.jpg

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link

gabbneb to anybody who finds lit crosses on lawns a little wtf after a minute's reflection: "it's cool, they didn't mean anything by it"

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link

that lady's fake eyebrows always distract me from the racism

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link

gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all

― J0hn D., Friday, November 21, 2008 1:35 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah guys lets have the bottle opener argument again

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, November 21, 2008 2:19 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link

I may have to send that porn addiction dvd to some married friends just to mess with them ^^

bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link

someone go find the horseshoe crazy pills post, thats the applicable one here

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.eatliver.com/img/2007/2535.jpg
i hope we can all agree on this

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry ethan but i don't like liver very much

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

wait

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

i definitely agree that i have to go to eatliver.com to see that image

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

it's just a desk for a kid and it happens to be black i don't see how anyone could possibly be weirded out by that name gosh seriously

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link

oh wait, AFA is Tupelo, not Colorado Springs, isn't it? in that case, I take it all back, this is KKK '08.

but not without this retake:

"Without this cool wax platter Tallahassee I picked up for 8 dollars American at a beat basement goes by the name of 'The Cake Shop,' I never would have seen so deep into the dark, deranged heart of proletarian America."

-- Ben, 35th Floor, New York, NY

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link

stfu

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link

oh so if they were in colorado it'd be ok? classist.

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link

in this day and age i cant believe cleaning products are still segregated
http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/spugbrap_8525_v3_730-800.jpg

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link

gabb you are killing me today, lolololololol

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link

I love these nimrods who when they get their asses beat on a thread hafta raise my day job every time, fuckin spineless wonders

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link

cloroxxpost

i remember that joke on that fox show about the interracial couple with the racist grandma, whatever the fuck it was called

I've encountered Whiney on numerous message boards and (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link

more like COLOREDO amiwite

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.desertspring.org/images/methodist.gif

This seems like the right time to bring up the United Methodist Church?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.desertspring.org/images/methodist.gif

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link

J0hn, don't get mad about that, join me in laughing at someone who would actually use the sentence "Without this cool wax platter [insert record here] I picked up for 8 dollars American at a beat basement goes by the name of '[insert record store here],' I never would have seen so deep into the dark, deranged heart of proletarian America."

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link

i.beat blaxx is still kraken me up

also i have been looking for an excuse to post this for a while, so here it is:

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7515/kkkferriswheelly2.jpg

ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh man, I have a perfect example, as I have occasionally found awkward/hilarious when people ask me what I do: I make books for L1tt1e Br0wn Chi1drens.

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link

ok wtf that ferris wheel photo immediately made me think "brett favre is having fun" what is wrong with me

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link

this thread dedicated to pear's soap, the OG of racist products
http://www.understandingslavery.com/scaled/792c6b70.jpeg
http://www.decodog.com/inven/ba/ba29662.jpg
http://www.fiu.edu/~lichtens/images/pears_soap.jpg

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link

oh so if they were in colorado it'd be ok? classist.

regionalist, morelike

I love these nimrods who when they get their asses beat on a thread hafta raise my day job every time, fuckin spineless wonders

that was Ned, btw

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link

?!?

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link

hahaha waht

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link

gabbneb you need a job i think

Mr. Que, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link

gabbneb, as owner and creator of the encyclopedia of racist products i reserve the right to refuse posting to anyone. ned raggett, myself, and the rest of ilx will not tolerate these posts on our thread.

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link

also, j0hn, you can't run away from what you do and where anymore than i can. only one of us has chosen to be a public figure tho.

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link

lol this is killin me

http://www.delta4.icom43.net/images/fullsize/spot_the_racist.jpg

u think u know??? U HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!!

ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

only one of you has chosen to be a douchebag that nobody likes

ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

O_o

xpost or is it who even knows anymoer

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

that guy looks like a cross between jimmy fallon and new jersey

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

gabbneb you need a job i think

but i'm having so much fun

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link

lol wtf is that ad from

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link

you can run but you can't hide from the gabb train, j0hn

Mr. Que, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link

whos the racist, gabbneb or john

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

think you know the answer?

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.delta4.icom43.net/images/fullsize/spot_the_racist.jpg
somebody photoshop gabb's head into this

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.andypryke.com/twiki/pub/Andypublic/BlogApril2005/tory_u_racists.jpg

this is killing me

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

we need a caption contest for the ferris wheel one like "and it was then, with most their members stuck in the air, the group realized the town's only handyman was black."

bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link

are you thinking that we're stinking?

omar little, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link

ARE YOU THINKING THAT WE'RE STINKING?

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link

are you thinking that we're stinking?

― omar little, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:55 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ARE YOU THINKING THAT WE'RE STINKING?

― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, November 21, 2008 2:55 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link

also, j0hn, you can't run away from what you do and where anymore than i can. only one of us has chosen to be a public figure tho.

― gabbneb, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What band are you in, Gabbneb?

I've encountered Whiney on numerous message boards and (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link

i was just going to google 'delighted racists' but after typing the d and the e 'dead niggers' appeared in the pulldown menu of my search bar

¯\(°_o)/¯

ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Jurassic 5, Whiney

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link

we need a caption contest for the ferris wheel one like "and it was then, with most their members stuck in the air, the group realized the town's only handyman was black."

― bnw, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:54 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"brett favre is having fun"

xpost wtf

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link

this thread is a traet

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link

looool

¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link

why did hitler hate the jews so much

¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link

i mean a little would be one thing, but this is ridiculous!

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Ask.com

gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link

was Hitler Jewish?

Trail of Dead is one of thousands of cheesy death metal acts (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link

now that's a question to pose ask.com if i've ever heard one

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Did you mean: why is the sched so racist

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link

the week 13 nfl sched is the most racist thing i've ever seen in my life

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link

this srsly feels like 2003

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link

I think what this thread really needs is a children's slide that looks like a giant cock. To wit:

Law-Thug for Chiquita Bananas (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link

incorrect

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link

unless you're saying its a racist product because black guys have giant cocks, in which case kudos

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Any black guy with a cock that looks like that should get to a doctor immediately.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Funny we don't have a thread already for things we think are racist that probably aren't racist.

Like when they sent the black girl to go sleep in the 50's room on "Big Brother".

⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

theres a mural on mcdonalds here in atlanta with all these sock-hop types enjoying a 50s mcdonalds drive-in restaurant but theres like mixed race couples and a black girl with an asian dude all eating at the same place and it kinda pisses me off that kids today are gonna see that and think shit was all cool back in the 50s

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link

What band are you in, Gabbneb?

Black Oak Arkansas IIRC

J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought Gabbneb was in Phish

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link

lol where's that mcd's AW? i've never seen that shit

¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link

man, that was a big ol' bottle of beer, wasn't it!

henry s, Friday, 21 November 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link

lol where's that mcd's AW? i've never seen that shit

― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, November 21, 2008 3:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

howell mill road

dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Also, all the amphibians in Wonder Pets have minstrel voices. Tuck the Turtle has been known to bust out a Oh Mammy "You know dats right!" kind of line in the middle of a song. And you should've heard the Louisiana Bullfrog who was too fat to get down to the swamp to visit his grand-tadpoles.

⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 21 November 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link

guys, even I know the running gabbneb joke is k.d. lang -- tighten up your game here

nabisco, Friday, 21 November 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Is this something I would have to see gabnebb's posts to know about?

One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link

aw laura, look how much run the other kids are having

gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link

good job getting her name right chief. not that she'll ever see it.

ian, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link

LOL

gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link

look how much run

omar little, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I obtain much hard run

gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Good luck usa!

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link

i still wouldn't trade gabbneb for u, brah.

ian, Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

So easy to tell when Ethan is drunk.

TEENAGE DIALECTICS (libcrypt), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link

lol im gettin there

freek-a-luriqua (and what), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link

looool

so i said let me HOOS the beats and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link

яσσʍ♭ⱥȵℹҁᔔ ᴗȵȴℹʍℹȶ∊∂ (libcrypt), Monday, 29 December 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link

I can't believe jagoff RNC dude who got caught putting that on his year end mix CD is trying to pass it off as "satire aimed at the LA Times"... Because to get that point across you DEFINITELY have to do Al Sharpton's voice like he's doing "Camptown Races" in 1860

stfujan stevens (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 December 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Our ceramic statues are 10 inches tall with a fine gloss glaze. The blood drop logo is applied after the glazing process. The blood drop signifies our blood heritage and the sacrificial blood of Christ that redeemed us from our sins. These are hand poured one at a time and then kiln dried and glazed twice over a 32 hour period and are of excellent quality.

The statue comes with or without lighted eyes and makes a nice display item and is also great as a gift or collectors item. The Lighted Statues come with on/off switch and light bulb.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link

hxxp://www.ozarkcraft.net/statue.htm if you dare.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link

eeeeeeek

Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 January 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link

The confederate flag is "heritage not hate" oh here's our Klan statues too.

☺♑ (joygoat), Friday, 16 January 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link

For when you want it to be Halloween all year long!

How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Friday, 16 January 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=9191

and what, Friday, 16 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Pistons Rained Jizz on 3's

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link

18 Pieces of Nutty Obama Merchandise

Olive Wheatgrass (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link

what, no obama bottle opener?

, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link

The soap is close enough.

I don't know if I'm lolling hardest at Barack Obacca or "Tacos."

^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Obama Dildo belongs on Dan Lacey thread.

Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link

All this time I had thought that the point of "soap-on-a-rope" was just to keep you from dropping the bar.

Dr More BS (libcrypt), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

is there a news story to go with that or just a link to shameracistcookie.jpg

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 23 January 2009 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

not a product, but questionable notwithstanding:

Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/02/flier.jpg

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link

o_O

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry dont want to be the clueless white guy here but... i dont get it

max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link

black people eat greens like this.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link

It's not just the greens, though! There's also:

chicken
ham hocks
peanut butter
catfish

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

The Hawaiian Punch cake threw me for a grape Kool-Aid kind of loop there.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link

good intentions :(

bnw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link

ya. i almost want to argue this one but i dont think its worth the effort and im not sure how i feel about it.

max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link

go for it, it'd be fun to watch at the very least

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Sock it to Me cake ??

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link

i just think in the grand taxonomy of racial weirdness this aligns a lot more closely to, say, 'insensitivity' than straight-out racism--i imagine that for chinese new year theyd have the same kind of ad with, like, dumplings; or for italy day theyd do it with pasta--which strikes me as this kind of misguided "look at the culinary cultural heritage of group XXX" (esp. considering the context w/ all the facts about things black dudes have contributed to the grocery industry and the generally very positive light w/ which the ad treats black history month) and not so much "lol its negro history month lets put fried chicken on the menu"--i mean its collard greens and pork hocks, which arent exactly watermelons and grape soda, you know?

max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link

eh fried chicken is sort of o_O--lot more baggage attached to that stereotype in America than with pasta + Italians or dumplings + Chinese people.

horseshoe, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link

and there's no encyclopedia of racially insensitive products thread

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link

haha yeah, thats the #1 reason why im not interested in particular in throwing my weight behind these guys

max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link

xp

max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link

You know, couldn't they have put a jar of some good peanut butter next to GWC's face, like JIF?

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

guys don't forget to watch Eisbaer's video

blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link

it is impt

blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Is there anything more I can take away from watching it besides what I see in the preview screen cap?

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link

certainly more than some boring-ass racist discounts

blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link

ok crut1s otm

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link

holee shit

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link

got as far as "yes, Jesus loves me"

Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link

YEEEEAH

How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

go further, lj, it's bananas

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Excuse me i am v offended by the portrayal of white people as cuntry hicks in bad denim. Also their singing style is highly influenced by ragtime & blues which as every fool knows is black music anyway.

Oh wait here comes Jose. This is a delicious smörgåsbord of terrible ideas.

How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry, did I spoil the surprise?

How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Obv the white version should be played in totally straight time on a harpsichord and danced as a pavanne.

How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link

i guess that i am good for something round here?!?

Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link

the inside of the small american indian puppet's mouth looks like a cartoon steak for some reason.

Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Why do the black kids look like cyanotic, ashen corpses?

i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link

and have cheaper eyes than the other puppets?!?

Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link

"EY man, did JEEsus forget about us?"
"¡No way Jose – olé!"

i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link

omg almost had a seizure at the end

Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Jesus DID kind of forget about Jose, who was not assigned a color that Jesus loves.

i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link

at first I thought the black kids were vampires but then the porn music kicked in

mullah mangenius (brownie), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link

what porn have you been watching that is soundtracked by the Jackson 5

blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link

um

mullah mangenius (brownie), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link

It's called "80s porn"

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link

also, "70s porn"

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link

wah pedals are aural signifiers for BJs and stuff

Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link

all this music kinda kicks ass i must say

goole, Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link

actually, the weirdest thing about the white kids segment is how it kicks in with the first few bars of "la marseillaise" -- given the whites-are-hicks theme for that segment, when did that song become a shit-kicker signifier?!?

Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link

sounds like super furry animals

bnw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

is this racist?

LOLBJ (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 March 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link

"i.Beat Blaxx" still cracks me up

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Monday, 2 March 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Re the grocery store's salute to Black History Month, our high-school cafeteria used to serve sweet potatoes, fried chicken, greens, etc. for a couple of days during February, which a few of my friends and I were always o_O about but no one else seemed to bat an eye at. As Max suggested, I think it was more insensitive than anything else: white school administrators honestly trying to do something nice for the 25% of the student body that was African American.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 2 March 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Our kid's daycare gives us a photocopied calendar each month, and January featured this caricature of Martin Luther King that looked like he had just dropped something very heavy on his foot.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link

wat

c♜lyn dodgers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link

good luck uk

bnw, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

i'd pay $$$ for any britishes to take a picture of themself rocking that tat while opening an ironic 40oz with ronaldinho

abebe's kids (and what), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link

I like how that buff dude on the package is rocking a temporary unicorn tattoo.

felicity, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link

KKK guy's all "Again with the nail through the gecko?"

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah I'm o_0 at the KKK whatthefuckery, but then you have the nail through the gecko which is obv not racist but just WAAHT is going on there.

one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link

ages 5 & up

when I hit "Submit Post" I be doin tha stanky legg (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link

what the fuck!

only the beginning of the firestorm (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Goddamn that is a random group of stickers. The crazy bird at the bottom looks like an Aztec thing. You don't have the Klan in the UK do you?

DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link

i was struggling with ideas for my birthday presents at the end of the month, i can so ask for this.
i can see it now, out on the town pulling ladies, getting respect and compliments on my new tattoos.

not_goodwin, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link

You don't have the Klan in the UK do you?

Only in provincial Scottish backwaters
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/kill_your_idle/kkk_airdrie.jpg

the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I misread that as something pertaining to Furry Racist Airdales. I thought that band was from Wales.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link

why is everyone assuming that's a UK thing, i dont see any extraneous U's in the writing

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link

ye raciouste tattooes

homie bhabha (max), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link

The one pound price sticker? The fact that all britishes are racist?

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link

oh lol i didnt see the sticker

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link

i am glad that these tattoos are Saft & Non-Toxic

i'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link

omg elmo's display name quotes one of my favourite songs

they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link

It's a reach, but maybe the hooded character is one of those Spanish cofradia guys?

http://www.trucospc.info/public/santa/Cofradia%20en%20la%20Semana%20Santa.JPG

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link

kids love cofradia tattoos

s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link

lol

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link

lj is your favorite song an old meineke muffler commercial?

i'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link

ah, ok, it must quote the advert as well (namely Foetus - Kreibabe)

they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Looks like this may have originated in the good ole US of A after all, albeit 6 years ago:

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/2267912/detail.html

It certainly looks like the same tattoo.

Guilty_Boksen, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Actually Turkey rather than the US.

Guilty_Boksen, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link

lol I only now noticed the cracked out expression on the dog tattoo

Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link

http://webtoid.com/daily/images/43.jpg

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link

omg

Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link

!

kids love cofradia tattoos (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link

Could have shopped that better in my sleep.

ergo almondnut (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link

It's a shop, not a 'shop:

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/nigger-king/724

Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link

cf. nigger black couch. Those crazy yellow slant-eyes.

ergo almondnut (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 March 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link

owned

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Thursday, 5 March 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link

WTF? I guess Fat Joe established that it's OK for Puerto Ricans to say it, but at least spell it with an "a" at the end!

DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 6 March 2009 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
two months pass...

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/DarkieToothpaste_new.jpg

chap, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.chiaobama.com/

WS not WS (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link

fucking hell what a self-righteous thread

ello. ow are oo? (bug), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9049/fatboysvb4.gif

velko, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link

"Minstrels"?? Whoa.

the devil we@rs ch@ncl@s (Jesse), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5TSpW_Iho

Derelict, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link

:(

nice babies finnish blast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.ghettobaskets.com

Insane Clown Ventures, LLC (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 18 July 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link

In these dark and dreary times these baskets provide hope for a brighter future.

http://i28.tinypic.com/4ux79e.gif (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 18 July 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Pic doesn't work.

Tuomas, Friday, 31 July 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Works for me. It's not very exciting.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NWgKLHOZqdQ/R9RPcPqvacI/AAAAAAAAAo0/5bbtUWnwraY/s1600/4.jpg
Just surprised that every racist product hasn't been covered by this thread.

ned trifle is not working for you (Notinmyname), Friday, 31 July 2009 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Holy shit, I don't know if Ghetto Baskets is trying to downplay the severe racism by getting white ppl to pose on the site, or the person that made it just doesn't know any black ppl. The guy and girl on the page look like williamsboard/bco posters that someone dressed up in sweatshirts. The girl on the "products" page still has a suicide girl haircut.

kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link

“We delivered our new Ghettobasket to a

high-end accounting firm today
, and it probably caused them to lose 40 hours in billable time. The recipient was so excited that he made everyone in the building come to look. Perfect mix of useless, tacky, funny, and inane items. You guys rock!”

kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link

mean to bold that

kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Hot Sauce
Pregnancy Test
Grape Drink
Batteries
Beef Jerky
Potted Meat
Pork Rinds
Noodles in a Cup
After Shave
Plastic Commemorative Plate
Religious Candle
Porcelain Figurine
Kung-Fu DVD
Cassette or VHS Tape
Doo Rag
Vapor Rub
Energy Drank
Soap
Outdated Calendar

fuck these people imo

Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link

(altho I kind of want the hot sauce and the grape drink)

Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link

this is essentially hate speech

kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah

btw awesome screenname

Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link

there's a thread for that :)

kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link

what's up, gangstas? i use soap.

bnw, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link

and batteries

kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...
two weeks pass...

Surprised this hasn't yet popped up - one of Australia's most popular cheeses, unsurprisingly the subject of some controversy:

http://www.globalpackagegallery.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4965&g2_serialNumber=2

Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Uhhhhh, no Robertson's Jam yet? Don't know where to start ...

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link

was any depiction of a common kids teddy/toy racist at the time, though? i mean, obviously if there were minstrels/golliwogs depicted in an ad campaign in the late 90's (wtf Lyon's Tea) then yeah, but how old are those pics?

What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link

I believe Robertson's dropped the golly in 2001

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4

George Mucus (ledge), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsTeUOeneA

Cats & Dogs 2 trailer, wait for the pigeon

wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 December 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link

don't really see how that's racist

open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link

tbh

open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link

u pretty sensitive whiney

bnw, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link

i think katt williams voiced the pigeon?

open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, sounds like him. Silly voice /= racism.

you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link

And yeah, it is Katt Williams def.

you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 December 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah dude, not feeling it.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Sorry Wieney.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link

sorry whiney : (

caek, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link

I think the casting choice of making the token "sassy black dude" character out of the pesky, dirty, unwanted, germ-carrying ratbird in a movie about cuddly-wuddly hero pets, yes is a little racist.

wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link

but if y'all are ok with it, i'll fandango my tickets for Cats & Dogs 2 now.

wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, sounds like him. Silly voice /= racism.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, December 21, 2009 6:28 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/7148/232980-jar_jar_binks_large.jpeg

james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, it's less about the voice and more about why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates

i mean, i know it's not Song Of The South or whatever, but there's no thread called "encyclopedia of institutionally racist products"

wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link

i see only institutional cuteness

a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link

pigeons are urban.

Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link

whiney I think you're bringing some personal issues about pigeons to the table here

Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link

I mean dogs lick their assholes, pigeons don't afaik

advantage: pigeons

Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link

pigeon btw

super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link

shocked this thread wasnt bumped for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link

Not feeling it on the pigeon front. His voice wasn't too wacky & didn't seem to be imitating any type in particular. Nor can I say I am familiar with any associations of pigeons and any particular race (unless you count "Palomar" in Los Bros Hernandez comics, which is near as big a stretch as the one being presented here). I would, however, like to point out that like Emperor penguins and flamingos, pigeons give 'milk' to their young.

just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link

There's nothing racist about speaking pidgin.

Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link

^not that the actual character is speaking pidgin, although surely different species would need to rely on some kind pidgin to communicate. Purring is not barking after all.

Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, it's less about the voice and more about why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates

i mean, i know it's not Song Of The South or whatever, but there's no thread called "encyclopedia of institutionally racist products"

― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 21, 2009 6:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That, plus the voice is right in line with the old trope of the ignorant, pandering Negro.

he's a light-hearted snake (Jesse), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link

This thread is causing my AV software to flip out, warning me that it is blocking IP address 90.156.153.34.

he's a light-hearted snake (Jesse), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Malware Bytes does not care for racist pigeon characters.

he's a light-hearted snake (Jesse), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link

I am so not watching this when it comes out to determine if the pigeon is really a racist character or just a regular lactating freak of the bird world.

just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link

I really like pigeons.

The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link

O_O @ the HP face-recog snafu

a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link

wkiw desi and wendy

wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link

lol at that HP face tracking

Nhex, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link

tbf I don't think that HP face tracking thing is intentional

=皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link

wkiw desi and wendy

― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:50 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

professional log roller Lizzie Hoeschler (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:00 (fourteen years ago) link

I think whiney is part of the cats & dogs 2 promotional street team and has just tricked us into getting hyped for this movie

=皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Let everybody in the world know this movie exists and think it sucks is a better condition than having a few people think the movie’s great before it comes out - James Cameron Whiney G. Weingarten

professional log roller Lizzie Hoeschler (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link

The HP fuck up does beg the question: does Hp have no one of dark complexion working anywhere in the R&D, testing, and marketing process? I mean, you'd think this would have been discovered at some point. I wonder if the thing needs to be "calibrated" or something.

Super Cub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:08 (fourteen years ago) link

HP calibration settings: "normal", "black"

psyched for cats & dogs 2

a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:18 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

What the fuck is wrong with you, Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftZt-Dw_hQ

steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Harry Connick Jr. to thread

moron oil (Gukbe), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Hey if there was an Aussie offering me fried chicken I'd let him off.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link

That is just... I mean... Wow

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link

"too easy"

girl, you gon' think i invented chex (m bison), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link

conjudalad (22 minutes ago) 0 Reply
Get over yourself Americans. You are commenting on an ad you know NOTHING about. The world does not revolve around you and your dumb stereotypes. Get the chip of your ignorant shoulders

♖♕♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link

KingMacintosh (1 hour ago) 0 Reply
If anyone one, especially blacks think this is racist, crawl back in that shell you came out of, this is not a bit racist whatsoever...

tramtrackharry (1 hour ago) +2 Reply
it's not an american ad; it is in australia and they're at a cricket match. the black people are west indian. u dont understand the ad thats all.

♖♕♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link

i'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but, and i understand cricket, i have no idea what the joke the ad is trying to make.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link

If anyone one, especially blacks think this is racist,

Big K.R.U.T. (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link

seriously, assuming the ad is not saying the obvious thing that stands out to an american audience, wtf is it saying?

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link

kfc (and fried chicken as a thing) probably arrived in australia in the 80s or 90s and i'd be staggered if even 5% of the population was vaguely aware of lol fried chicken racism. this is why i'd give the benefit of the doubt, assuming i could parse the rest of the advert, but i can't.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link

You could have inverted the black and white people and the core joke it was trying to go for would have been clearer (wiggle your way out of an uncomfortable situation by offering your enemies our food!). It's kind of massively unforgivably stupid that they didn't do this.

This is reminding me of another great KFC ad of old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkxvxV-S4wM

(of course, Hammer did that one to himself)

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link

unforgivably stupid is a bit harsh. the only way an australian would be aware of this is by reading ilx racism threads or watching ghostworld.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link

my guess is the guy is a fan of one team sitting alone in a crowd of opposing fans?

♖♕♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link

^^ yes

KFC is a global company based in the US; I'm sure someone in their organization is aware of both the Internet and how this commercial would play on an international level.

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link

race and racism have global commonalities; if anything, US media dominance makes US race-relations MORE visible and valent on "local" racial issues.

i know australia is a magical island far away in the south seas but come on.

chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link

i guess the problem is if you want to make it at a cricket match, you've got to have fans of a different ethnicity, because teams are not so identified with particular colour shirts, etc. and that ends up being extremely crude and weird, whatever races you pick. obviously the bucket of fried chicken and the particular combination of races makes it very o_O for americans, but i really don't think they're referring to that stereotype. ignorance rather than malice, etc.

i think you're forgetting quite how backwards the people of australia are, dan.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link

In furthering non-racist Aussie-US product relations, I would like to alert everyone that many Target stores are selling Tim-Tams on clearance under the Peppridge Farms label:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/3188959774_bfe8ee8ee2.jpg

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link

i'm no dom passantino, but i think i'm reasonably up on u.s. culture. i had no idea about the chicken thing until about 5 years ago, fwiw.

i think you can overestimate the extent to which u.s. culture has become dominant. and which bits of it have become dominant has little to with what is the most controversial or interesting in the u.s. -- just because something is genuinely shocking to you, it doesn't mean someone in australia is any more likely to be aware of it than, say, the king of queens.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link

they're delicious! bought some the other day at the dollar store.

And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link

no question someone at kfc hq should have caught this, btw, but whiney's initial post was "What the fuck is wrong with you, Australia", not "What the fuck is wrong with you, KFC"

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link

i guess the problem is if you want to make it at a cricket match, you've got to have fans of a different ethnicity, because teams are not so identified with particular colour shirts, etc.

I dunno. I think if it would have been a crowd of people wearing green shirts, and one guy in a blue shirt (or whatever), the idea that he was in a crowd of people cheering for the other team probably would have been clear.

chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link

i only watched the commercial, no sound: i thought the plot was he's surrounded by rowdy non-white fans, he gives them fried chicken, and they calm down. is that not what happens?

chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Did I hear something about a racist product controversy that also involved cricket?! Well, hell-o!

Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Complicated by the fact that no one is doing anything that's ACTUALLY threateningly "rowdy" in the first part! I guess that would have been too unfriendly even for KFC/Australia. But the problem with that is that the only threatening thing about them ends up being their different race. Which is even worse.

WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link

I think that this is much less about chx wngs and more about the calm white person being distracted to annoyance by the black people and sibsequently being able to control them.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link

xxxxp, if you want to make it a localized ad in the southern hemisphere summer, which there are good reasons to do, it's going to be a cricket match. if the crowd are wearing team colours then it is going to look like someone who know's nothing about cricket made the advert. of course if the alternative is "be racist", you pick the slightly inauthentic costume design, but this assumes "this is racist" was something that occurred to them.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link

full disclosure: I know very little about cricket ;)

chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link

"for those times when you don't have tight pussy, loose shoes, or a warm place to shit, offer kfc. they love it!"

chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link

like everyone else has been saying the racial dynamics are weird even absent the fact that its fried chicken

max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link

but id expect nothing less from a paradise of tolerance and harmony like good ol AUS

max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link

This is actually pretty insensitive and bad, yeah. The issue is that he's clearly wearing an Australia shirt, and there is a big historical rivalry between the (almost entirely Afro-Caribbean) West Indies and the (almost entirely white) Australians, and to be sitting among fans of the opposition is inevitably going to lead to one being barracked, but it plays upon a pretty racially-defined stereotype, and plays upon it bluntly. If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine. But it is, so it isn't.

kkvg i don't think it's about that, i think it's an attempt to find camaraderie through the international language of stereotyping

Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Complicated by the fact that no one is doing anything that's ACTUALLY threateningly "rowdy" in the first part!

yeah, this is what i'm saying about not understanding the advert. i have no idea what is going on.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link

like everyone else has been saying the racial dynamics are weird even absent the fact that its fried chicken

― max, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 4:06 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes. I was typing a bunch of stuff, but that's basically it.

he's a light-hearted snake (Jesse), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link

If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine.

not really buying this tbh!

max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link

If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine. But it is, so it isn't.

hahahahaha oh dear. ok, lj is here. i'll leave you in his capable hands.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link

You could film the ad easy by having different shirts, and when the isolated dude stands up to cheer the rest of the crowd goes silent and turns to stare menacingly. No need for the racial subtext and the joke would go over better if anything.

Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link

although i will say, the racial dynamics may look weird, but fans of opposing cricket teams are generally of a different race, but when they interact it's not necessarily about race. i'm not saying they're colour blind though. i think we can all agree that australia is a prettty racist country.

caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link

dude doesn't seem bothered by the fact that they're supporting another team but that they're dancing and having fun

meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link

West Indies fans are generally well-known for partying in the stands, having a ball, getting into the spirit. They're not being portrayed in a 'rowdy' or negative light; if anything's offensive about this portrayal it's a trivialisation of the WI fan as fun-loving plot device for chicken commercial. The threat isn't to the Aussie's health but his dignity. I *think* the Aussie is being portrayed initially as unable to get into the spirit because it's not in his genes to party like that. Hence, self-deprecation. But yeah, the rivalry is the key here, in the first part of the advert. The second part is the offensive bit.

Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm sure it was made to run during the series between the two Commonwealth sides but AAAARGH. Whatever the history of KFC in AUS, ad agencies are supposed to run due diligence on their campaigns if only so their company doesn't do the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move. This really should have come up in a meeting.

keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link

You could film the advert.about a different Australian sport where people wear team colors?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link

I think we can all agree that this ad is just racist enough to have a 500-post-long clusterfuck discussion about it

Big K.R.U.T. (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link

if anything's offensive about this portrayal it's a trivialisation of the WI fan as fun-loving plot device for chicken commercial

I hope you realize that this fragment, when diagrammed, isn't saying quite what I assume you meant.

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link

xxpost

One day international shirts have colours, why not lone Aussie surrounded by Barmy Army or South African fans? The point is, as soon as you recognise that maybe this ad is "lol a bit dodgy" you ought to probably think how to reshoot it?

Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link

why not have the west indian surrounded by menacing aussie fans

max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

The advert is especially made for the KFC Big Bash tournament, which is an Australian cricket competition that also involves quite a few West Indian players, because the West Indies aren't playing elsewhere at the moment. The West Indies recently toured in Australia. It's an advert for a situation.

TBH if I didn't post about this it'd be wrong ;-)

What's it saying? I meant 'fans' obv

...and yeah, I'm saying they shouldn't have made the ad, because it plays on racial stereotypes.

Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

vrem (9 minutes ago)
black people like fried chicken. its just what they eat.

velko, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

hahaha max that was in an earlier iteration of my longer post upthread

xp: you aren't saying it's trivializing West Indian fans, you are saying it is trivializing their portrayal as plot devices for a chicken commercial

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Barmy Army? : ) Who are they?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

vrem (9 minutes ago)
black people like hen fap. its just what you need to have.

Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

hahaha max that was in an earlier iteration of my longer post upthread

seems more true-to-life to me anyway in terms of australian race relations

max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link

let's not forget that fried chicken is delicious. even when kfc makes it. i mean fried chicken is just good.

chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link

sad but true

wait, that's not sad at all, in fact it's awesome

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link

I wd never be a fried chicken denier, that is true.

Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link

I've eaten at.KFC lately and it was not good.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link

be funnier if the windians gave the aussie some fried chicken and he had a huge tearful crisis of identity right there in the stands

chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link

"i hate you fucking people but this is so crispy and delicious"

chartres (goole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

KFC chicken is fine imo but the fries here in the UK are a fucking abomination unto the Lord.

Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

naggz (11 hours ago)

Can't believe these fucking retards. The ad isn't racist. Go cry over something more important. What the fuck is racism anyway. We're supposed to be all multi-cultural and shit, but yet everyone still hates gay people? I don't see much of a difference between the two problems. Both effect alot of the worlds population, black people can't help that they were born as their race. Gay people can't help that they were born gay and like the same sex. Gtfo.

velko, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

oops Dan sorry! I did mean that it was trivialising the WI fans. Into being plot devices for a fried chicken commercial. It's not trivialising the device. It's making quite a thing of it, sadly.

not a KFC fan fwiw

Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?

i am not down with ppl farting on salami (stevie), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

I guess we should applaud the progress they've made in 18 years.

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Used to drive down with best friend in coldest winter to get KFC mashed poato/gravy combo, then snarf it in the car before we got back home.

keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link

American KFC does not do French fries It is much better than UKFC.

keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link

The only thing I think I detest when this shit comes up is it resulting in people saying shit like "people forget how backwards Australians are", thank you very much guys, have a nice day.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link

I detest the racism as well.

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link

The ad is dumb, many people here have no idea the "stigma" of fried chicken, they wont see the west indies as "african americans", the whole thing is stupid.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link

I have a racist South Korean KFC youtube, freshly delivered to my inbox by ILX user "?????????"

chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link

congratulations!

ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link

the internet is amazing

chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link

unforgivably stupid is a bit harsh. the only way an australian would be aware of this is by reading ilx racism threads or watching ghostworld.

― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:47 (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fyi there was a neighbours story arc about ghostworld!

Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Please describe!

girl moves (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link

"xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?"

can you dip penguins in hot cocoa, use them as a straw, then pop them in your mouth and have them melt into fattening choco goo?
show me these penguins!

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link

http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/neil_hamburger_01.jpg

"YOU fill our zoos with kangaroos, WE fill your summer breeze with the smell of KFC!"

Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link

hi just poppin in to this thread to say that i ate at a kfc in st. lucia three years ago, it was ok

iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Sky, Harold's... niece?... was a crazy goth that didn't care for trends etc. and it turned out to all be based on thora birch in ghost world. everyone found out, teased her for still following a trend and so she goes through an 'ally sheedy in breakfast club' moment and becomes everything she once dispised for no apparent reason.

Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link

amazing that popcorn chicken is still around since the days of hammer

abanana, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw

♖♕♖ (am0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link

australia is so racist it's kinda crazy

jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link

do ppl there really call aborigines "black fellas"?

jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link

I thought we had covered this on The Cape of Good Hope's Rolling 09/10 Cricket Season thread...

...anyway, this is a great opportunity for the oppressed white people of surbuban Australia to whinge about Americans and Political Correctness and whatever.

striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link

PS: I have eaten at KFC but I used to have a Sir Viv Richards "Master Blaster" cricket bat when playing schoolboy cricket.

striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link

australia isn't any more racist than any other western country ime. "blackfella" and "whitefella" are words used mostly by indingenous australians and aren't necessarily racist at all.

sonderborg, Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link

the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move.

This is an urban legend, btw.

Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link

do ppl there really call aborigines "black fellas"?

Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin, at least do us the courtesy of understanding some of Australia's culture the way you expect us to of yours.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link

There are plenty of racist terms and racism against the indigenous in this country but blackfella ain't one of them, nor is it really even a "taken back" insult. Words like "boong" and "abo" on the other hand... sigh.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Sorry I didnt see sonderberg had already also pointed that out heh.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Well, they pulled the advertisement off and as predicted...

http://www.news.com.au/world/kfc-australia-pulls-racist-ad-after-us-anger/comments-e6frfkyi-1225816969895

ps: i am not asscoiated with these people

striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link

h4yd3n of melbourne Posted at 1:30 PM Today

Stand up for youself KFC. I'm never eating you agian untill you do.

fess up h-man

mr bollock apple (electricsound), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm currently boycotting them for taking the Tower Burger off the menu again, for what it's worth.

striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link

can't believe that proud aussie company KFC bowed to imperialist american pressure like this

jabba hands, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link

katoomba fried chicken

mr bollock apple (electricsound), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Dave of Gold Coast Posted at 1:34 PM Today

Cool Can we now tell America to ban the movie White Chicks, or perhaps Tropic Thunder too... Oh no, wait... they make money for Hollywood... (I know KFC is American, but you get my point).

velko, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link

not sure i get his point tbh

max, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Mystery solved:

Alex of The real world Posted at 3:10 PM Today

I hate Harry Connick Jr. He got all high and mighty because he realised his terrible music wouldn't sell but a few jabs at another country's culture might.

striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin

Why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link

fess up h-man

lol i had a 'wicked wings snack pack' yesterday at lunch, i could never boycott the dirty bird ;__;

pyramid of geezer (haitch), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link

tbhaitch

estela, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link

I had a Zinger Burger combo the other day so chalk me up as a evil racist Australian.

striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link

i'm chalking you up as a man who got zinged by his own lunch.

estela, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link

zinger burgers more of a scooby snax for zingers i'd have thought

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

if this has already been posted, apologies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NU9KULHO8

O_o_O

j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link

hmmm

nijolian dynamite (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.

The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.

"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.

Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.

"When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Mr Sessions said.

If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link

At least this mistake won't make people's crock pots explode.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 17 April 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link

I love that dude responded with "well, doing your job correctly is hard!"

human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link

Look I'm sorry your car exploded, but building gas tanks is complicated work!

human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepony/MeatGrinder.jpg

☀ ☃ (am0n), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link

meh i've made weird typos like that before

harbl, Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8627335.stm

Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link

ahem, ned

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link

ha i like how their reaction was "who cares? it was a typo, jeez"

mr. que surprise (k3vin k.), Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link

are the black people locally sourced?

velko, Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link

I like how their reaction was "We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind" yet they don't understand why anyone would be offended. Isn't being "mortified" even more extreme of a reaction than being "offended"?

Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, but they're apparently only mortified that it became an issue. Not that it happened.

franny glass, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link

ah, a pasta holocaust

Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Cookbooks really ARE redonkulously hard to copy edit because of all the abbreviations and numbers, and the copy editor has no way of knowing which are right or wrong. (The mistake itt is an obvious one, but it's not surprising that something was overlooked.) Actually it's probably a success for a cookbook if they didn't make any mistakes that make the recipes turn out wrong (apart from the ridiculous) because that also makes the AUTHOR look bad (this way only the publisher does).

Shorter publishing seasons and a more market-driven book idea also make every project a rush, means there's less time for editing and proofing of all kinds. Pretty much sucks!

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Do they publish cookbook errata?

kissogram powers (Abbott), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link

i hadn't read that ronaldinho thread until just now. don't suppose anyone wants to talk about it?

just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Abbs: Yes! Although I think the general use of errata has declined since publishers tend to only print the copies they think they can sell in a short time -- the production cycle has gotten away from extended warehousing and toward a more on-demand market. So books are off the shelves faster and the pub can reprint the book w corrections already made.

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129173074737196776.jpg

J0rdan S., Monday, 10 May 2010 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Beat this: racism, sexism, ageism, and a soupcon of paedophilia.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3399/4619185217_f036a10534_b.jpg

I don't want to go into my newt details (ledge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Holy shit!

Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Indeed!

Madchen, Friday, 21 May 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uneOOclsaPs

akontenderizer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link

???are these naacp whores serious???

Join the Gothscene! Join for free! Gothscene.com (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 12 June 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link

wau

Krystal Chic (crüt), Saturday, 12 June 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link

feel bad for the Rutgers astronomy dept.

Chips Moleman (los blue jeans), Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i don't know about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswOEG7Mndo

also, something tells me d1pl0 is somehow responsible for major company obsessing over homegrown dance music/"get your island on"/trinidadian soca etc

Elektro Guzzi Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

my buddy in SC noticed these in a store recently:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg602/scaled.php?tn=0&server=602&filename=h93v.jpg

glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link

actually stupid me i didn't realize that was a chocolate coin

glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link

at what age did you make the decision to spend the entire rest of your life as a full-fledged racist

del griffith, Saturday, 13 November 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link

what

please don't even joke about that man

glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2010 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://i52.tinypic.com/20f7v45.jpg

so the other side of the glass had a cartoon dominatrix that gave it a different context, but DAMN.

I DIED, Saturday, 4 December 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link

"i.Beat Blaxx" still kills me

Princess TamTam, Saturday, 4 December 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhfzca6st71qb886vo1_500.png

max, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link

my god.

kkvgz, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...
two months pass...

http://www.woginabox.com.au/index.html

ledge, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link

what the hell is a "wogina"

DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link

shouldn't that be wopinabox? it's not even racistly correct.

walloginabox (kkvgz), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link

if you have to ask

remy bean, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link

in Australian English the term was originally a pejorative for "Mediterranean" migrants, though in recent decades its offensiveness has been defused in certain contexts by common usage in pop-culture produced by the descendants of Mediterranean migrants.

ledge, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link

Whoa! 'Gina in a box!

Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link

He had trouble getting the name registered for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4PHL6dP1o

that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link

I mean how is this even possible

DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link

So it's like a pun on http://www.wokinabox.com.au/ or something?

that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link

okay that makes it slightly less horrifying

only slightly

DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link

I was pretty o_O at first but it seems like it's a pejorative term that's been successfully reclaimed, so good on those old sheepfuckers.

ledge, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link

nine months pass...
nine months pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9H0xPWAtaa8

caek, Monday, 4 February 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0xPWAtaa8

caek, Monday, 4 February 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link

LOL I never saw that WogInABox one. Yeah, the term's been slightly taken back by greek and italian migrants (the whole "wogs out of work" series of shows/plays etc) but geez calling a pizza shop "wog in a box" is just insane. Still, south australia what you gonna do.

Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Monday, 4 February 2013 07:59 (eleven years ago) link

I was just coming to post about that VW commercial that caek posted. It's bad enough on its own merits (or lack of) but the complete lack of black people in it goes beyond conspicuous into "somebody should get fired for this."

Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Monday, 4 February 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link

Holy crap, that's awful!

Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

http://www.harvester.co.uk/harvestercardiganfieldsleeds/pdf/harvestercardiganfieldsleeds-main_menu_print.pdf

Plantation Platter
Flame-grilled chicken wings, boneless pork belly strips,
half a spitroast chicken and crackerjack prawns with
grilled corn on the cob, pineapple rings and sour cream
& chive dip.

Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Sunday, 26 May 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link

surprised it doesn't come with watermelon

Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Sunday, 26 May 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link

racist vegan products

http://www.ecovegan.com/images/p_photo_oj.jpg

THIZZ VAN LEER @_@ (lpz), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link


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