to get real about the chris rock tweet; i believe celebrating july 4 was considered a lynch-worthy social offense for southern black people until shockingly recently -- it was explicitly a white-person's freedom holiday
(but i'd need to comb through my ta-nehisi coates rss feed to verify this, lol)
― goole, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
I keep reading Swastika Laundry to the tune of Waterloo Sunset.
― pplains, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
the tweet is so simple and beautiful because it's so by-the-numbers Chris Rock but every response says much more about the responder than him
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I wash my whites at Swastika Laundry but they won't let me wash a colored load :(
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
I foolishly tried to confirm the Independence Day lynching practice and now I just hate white people
is that racist?
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:10 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its really not simple or beautiful, note the unnecessary exposition in the middle necessitating the middling punchline at the end - not his best work imho!!
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
how quickly will I get punched if next year I wish everyone I meet "Happy Cracker Day!"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
In 1939, the laundry changed its name to "The Swastika Laundry (1912)"[3] to make clear the distinction between its use of the name and the symbol and the recent adoption of the symbol by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany.
?????
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
happy white pople day is clearer imho, like id prob just be thinking abt snack crackers trying to figure out wtf you were talking abt
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
xp: basically, they added the founding year to make it clear that they were around for 20+ years before the Nazis and had nothing to do with them
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'll be honest about July 4th. For many years I have given more thought to the fall of Vicksburg and Lee's retreat than the DOI.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
oh I see I just glossed right over the (1912) part xp
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
happy white ilxors day, lag∞n
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I looked it up and apparently all year was lynching day.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
This reminds me of being asked on the street outside the laundromat if I washed my whites with my colors.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg is that today! *launches fireworks*
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
my post was longer but I trimmed it according to your guidelines
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
darn white of you
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
here's the coates post i was remembering -- he doesn't give many details
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/patriotism/252062/
here's the book he's talking about
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/91623/the-persistence-of-the-color-line-by-randall-kennedy
― goole, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
ha, my wife tried to hook RK up with a friend-of-a-friend who is 21 years younger than him; shockingly she didn't go for it
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
You'll still find swastikas in Asia
several religious groups straight up replaced the swastika with different symbols iirc (which makes it extremely annoying when dumb teenagers get it tattooed on themselves bc OPEN YOUR MIND MAN IT HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT MEANING MAN)
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, July 6, 2012 3:42 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark
it's key to note that most of the buddhist swastikas go the other direction
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
this is sort of like an asian red cross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
ooh TNC, points off for "less" instead of "lest"
thus ends the content-free contributions of DJP
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
in this day and age, the swastika laundry co. would have sued the arses off the nazis for copyright infringement and hitler would have been all damn son and probably would have had to adopt a little picture of a penguin or something instead
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
then Munsingwear would have had a go
(yes I know the timeline is off)
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Btw, I'm still chuckling about goole's Morrissey b-side comment upthread
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
google munsingwear find a lot of tightie whities :(
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Man, reading about the Swastika just reminds me what a second-rate aesthete Hitler was.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
in re: founding fathers worship I got into it briefly w/some dude on Twitter talking about how much the founding fathers sacrificed. I sent him a link I got from Davey D about how George Washington pulled his slaves' teeth to use for his own
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
in fairness that was a sacrifice because those slaves could no longer chew his food for him
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
if somebody called me a cracker i think i would find that more funny than offensive.
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
I got called a cracker at a gas station once. (I may have even posted about it here.) I was more bemused than anything.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Getting called a "cracker" by an angry dude at a gas station: C/D?
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
its illustrative of the nature of the american racial dynamic that theres really not any name you can call a white person thatll make them feel bad abt being white
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
"hipster" duh
― some dude, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
racist and/or oppressor seem to do pretty wellunless you're being racist or oppressive and then it's all high-fives and bottle openers
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol no
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
just imagining someone calling someone else oppressor
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
to be fair, forks attended PCU
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
racist is dece but it only works in the context of doing something that could be construed as racist, if youre just standing there waiting to cross the street and someone calls you racist youd just be like huh what
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
tbf you r wearing an offensive tshirt tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if I could sell bumper stickers that said "my other car is racist"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
if you've never been labeled the oppressor, you've never really been to college imo
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
is your other car a VW?
― pplains, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
imagine the gas station cracker story ending with dude saying "Fuck you, you racist"much more effective
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's a Ford Porch Monkey
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I should probably feel much, much worse about that joke than I do
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
^^ afraid to laugh at that joke
― MacArthur Parkour (Phil D.), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link