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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
in all fairness that reporter was being a total dick
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:22 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
frogbs! this is like you considering the onion paterno article 'tasteless': you get to be a dick, & the seemingly dickishness 'insistence' of your behaviour excuses itself, if it's for the right reasons. i get that he was not behaving in a regular way, or was being awkward; he wasn't obeying a compliant, polite social norm that one would obey if the guy wasn't spitting bullshit, and that 'dickishness' was appropriate.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
that's also called, being a reporter. it's his job.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
yes, & dan otm. it's sorta like that recent times article thing, should we just print bullshit
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't disagree with any of that. Different thread but the tastelessness of the Onion article was WHY I liked it. We're kind of talking about different issues here and IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the longer you watch it & get acquainted with how ridiculous the guy is, the less inclined you should be to believe it was an honest, well-intentioned mistake. it's like being like "so what, the guy said blleeuurrgh" & then reading up on everything else about rick santorum for context.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
Can we go back to how wholly inappropriate it is to make a joke about 10% of your constituency being pissed with you after four of your police officers were handed a federal indictment alleging racial profiling and harassment against them? It "being a joke" almost makes it worse; he's not taking the situation seriously enough to respond seriously, and furthermore his unserious response makes the people with the grievance the butt of the joke rather than himself and the police force.
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)
Yes, we know.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
maybe unfair bc idk if he is otherwise terrible on the same topics, but he was fumbling for some easy liberal-media-bias outs while trying to recoverxp + yes
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
We're kind of talking about different issues here and IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)
what dan said. of course it was a joke. it was a nasty, mocking, racist joke that trivializes the serious accusations of racism made against his police department. the fact that dude was joking hardly excuses his behavior.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not
actually this really doesn't matter at all imho
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not
wtf no. whether it was a joke or not doesn't change the fact that he was basically saying idgaf about this issue
― joepa mi pinga (am0n), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not trying to excuse it!! to those saying "yes, we know" or "of course it was a joke", did you read the responses below mine?
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
yes it does, that's what makes the video funny
think you guys are seriously trying to attribute shit to me that i'm not even saying, c'mon
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/37/543/000/0375430008.jpg
― joepa mi pinga (am0n), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
you should probably stop trying to explain why things are funny to you, fwiw
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
what makes the video funny is the weird tone-deaf double-down on the stupid position, mixed in with "oh I bet you'll twist my words to make me look bad"/"no, I think I'll just go with what you said" and the "some people think I have an ethnicity"/"I may go have tacos with the Italians" wtf statements
the intent as shown in the video is reprehensible and not at all funny, but fortunately dude is such an incompetent that you can quickly get past that and just laugh at his dumb ass
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
to those saying "yes, we know" or "of course it was a joke", did you read the responses below mine?
what difference does that make? you're the only one here trying to defend this "funny" racist asshole.
the only funny thing funny about the video is the sick comedy of idiotic human shittiness on public display.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
So many Sylvan Reading books and not one has a frog on the cover :(
― ERIC CANONTA FOR PRESIDETN! (onimo), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
jesus, i'm not trying to defend the guy, take your pitchforks elsewhere people
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
go ahead and twist my words
― Detrius "The-Dream" Nash (symsymsym), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:22 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you are seriously the worst poster on ilx, and that's saying something
― dave cool it (stevie), Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
i'd make fun of this guy but jesus christ he reminds me of myself and i'm kind of uncomfortable with this
See, I thought this was a sign that you'd had a breakthrough and were up to some serious thinkin, but it's not looking like the frog can change his spots.
― Je55e, Friday, 27 January 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://ladygalore.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/thinking-frog.jpg
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
because I called out the reporter? you guys make some weird ass assumptions
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, it was that comment coupled w/ the display name frogs you are the dumbest asshole , which I found self-deprecatingly humorous.
xp
― Je55e, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
B/c I thought you identified some of your own questionable traits.
― Je55e, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
i've definitely made some bad jokes that i had to try to explain myself out of and wound up making myself look like an idiot. also I enjoy tacos. i might eat one right now...
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
is this racist?https://twitter.com/retwarted
― Sébastien, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
1000timesyes
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Friday, 27 January 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
like 75% of these he just did a google search for "n*gga" or "fart" and then retweeted all the ones that weren't in standard english, to showcase them as "retarted"
can't wait to read the frogbs defense
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Friday, 27 January 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
the frogbs defenseby John Grisham
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Friday, 27 January 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
I always read that as 1000timeseyes.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
he's r/ting some white people too. maybe you think he's racist against whites too.
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
I have white friends
― mh, Friday, 27 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
whites, italians, latins, afro-americans, it's all the same to me.
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Italians aren't white?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://raidreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dennis-hopper.jpg
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Do people* still say afro-american?
*other than frogbs
― ERIC CANONTA FOR PRESIDETN! (onimo), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/10/24/129009015073555710.jpg
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
racist against white people
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
never change frogbs, never change
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
reverse frogsbsism
― Mordy, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Racist against himself
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
So, someone says some pretty dumb-ass things. Guess what? We all have and, tbh, I feel like FBS's posting has improved at least a tiny bit since he first showed up. I feel like this has turned into one of those situations where people are jumping down the dude's throat no matter what he says. SB me for "defending" him if you want, but imho some people's reactions to his posts as of late are just as embarrassing, if not more so, as the posts they're intending to address.
― ENBB, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
not gonna sb u e but if someone watches that video and think its the journalist who has the problem then they can go get fucked tbh
― dave cool it (stevie), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Also, fwiw, that mayor is obviously an idiot but I also thought the reporter was being pretty dickish. I'm not, mind you, saying that he didn't have the right to be dick given the situation.
― ENBB, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
yah fbs is a pin cushion for lazy/entrylev zings atm
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
I think his posting has changed for the better but I also think promoting some level of self-consciousness about what he's saying would be good.
"baby psychology"
― mh, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - I thought they both came off badly.
― ENBB, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link