on one hand it reads like the ravings of a depressed person, a cry for help. on the other hand she's trying to spin her racism as 'merely feminism', ugh ugh
― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Friday, 31 August 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
great red panda punchlinehttp://www.xojane.com/files/JennyAn3.jpg
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
her back-pedaling is also lol
http://twitter.com/jenny_an
'junot diaz-inspired performance art'
― USADA Bin Dopen (dayo), Saturday, 1 September 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
that was the most annoying part of her dumb "piece," when she namechecked junot diaz. i was like, i'm preeeeeetty sure this is not what junot diaz was talking about when he said we have to acknowledge the white spremacist within us.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 1 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
anyway she's an idiot; asian american dudes doged a bullet
― horseshoe, Saturday, 1 September 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbULBAjstBA
― s.clover, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
gross
― Nhex, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure ted is a racist.
― s.clover, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
or bob even.
http://laist.com/2012/09/12/middle_schooler_booted_from_class.php
― Mordy, Thursday, 13 September 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/558245_514703765213483_1661924772_n.jpg
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Monday, 17 September 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
also for his bad haircut
― max, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
he's missing the frosted tips
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Monday, 17 September 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-frank-offends-every-native-person.html
― joygoat, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
Read the follow-up!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
that is fantastic
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
that's amazing.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
White Republican President Joe Christmas.
― Bananaman Begins, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
the follow-up I meant: http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-frank-offends-every-native-person.html
president of paul frank industries personally reaches out, apologizes, promises to purge design catalog of anything vaguely looking like this
still, how the living hell did that shit get greenlit to begin with
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
i think you mean this:http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/paul-frank-powwow-party-update-am-i.html
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
A shame they had to come up with those designs and throw the party in the first place, but pretty cool for them to take responsibility like that and take actionable steps to improve. A lot more than you'd get from most companies.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol, yes, somehow found the follow-up and then pasted the original
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
oh whoa, that's pretty rad!
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
the pieces on hipster headdresses on that blog are p interesting
― ogmor, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
Hey cool, that's like an exemplary way to apologize for anything in life.
― The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
i like yo is this racist mostly but i always want to write him really long emails when he answers questions about religion
― max, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:59 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha i've been reading yo is this racist all day and keep having this thought
― horseshoe, Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
Is it racist that 'pee poop patel' has taken over most of my mental cursing since harbl had it as her display name?
― emil.y, Sunday, 23 September 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/398314_487233024629026_1226429939_n.jpg
- nothing to do with grammar- no one spells it like that- prescriptivist assholes: stfubut more importantly- racist?
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
I have always hated it when people say "aks" instead of "ask" but in recent years I have heard people say that they do so intentionally because "ask" sounds too much like "ass" and they don't want to curse
this makes me so furious that I don't even know what to do with myself
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
it's a nonstandard pronunciation, but it's just that -- pronunciation, an articulation of sounds. it has jack shit to do with grammar and no business on a "grammar pet peeve" poster but seriously fuck a grammar pet peeve poster.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/africanamerican-neighborhood-terrorized-by-ask-mur,24821/
― goole, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/01/added-bonus-irregardless-of-what-you-think-quot-conversate-quot-is-a-word/6549/
TNC: What fuels the notion that certain words aren't really words?JS: There a lot of different things. People feel that there is a certain kind of language that's appropriate and a certain type that isn't appropriate. And these judgments are based on many things--some may make sense, some might not. People take these things very seriously. People are told things about the language in school that are demonstrably untrue, and they think anyone who doesn't follow along with those beliefs is stupid or wrong.Let me give you an example, in terms of looking at things historically. At the beginning of this conversation you pronounced the word "ask" as "aks." This is something that people often object to. People say it's the wrong pronunciation, and it's stupid. But if you look at the history of the English language, you can't tell if the correct pronunciation is "aks" or "ask." The "aks" pronunciation goes back 1000 years. It's in Beowulf. It's in Chaucer. What happened was both were in use. But at some point, the dialect in which the "ask" pronunciation was used became dominant. But both continued and have been in use since then. When you look at America, the "aks" pronunciation is widespread in Southern American English. African-Americans used this because they were in the South--it's not especially African-American, but its Southern.Now, if you look at other Germanic languages, the "correct" pronunciation is, in fact, "ask"--but you can't tell that looking just at English and it ultimately doesn't matter. If I asked you to name the ordinal number between "second" and "fourth" you'd say, what?TNC: Third.JS: Right, third--but the old pronunciation is "thred," it comes from three. But if you were to say thred, you'd be considered a moron--even though it's "correct."
JS: There a lot of different things. People feel that there is a certain kind of language that's appropriate and a certain type that isn't appropriate. And these judgments are based on many things--some may make sense, some might not. People take these things very seriously. People are told things about the language in school that are demonstrably untrue, and they think anyone who doesn't follow along with those beliefs is stupid or wrong.
Let me give you an example, in terms of looking at things historically. At the beginning of this conversation you pronounced the word "ask" as "aks." This is something that people often object to. People say it's the wrong pronunciation, and it's stupid. But if you look at the history of the English language, you can't tell if the correct pronunciation is "aks" or "ask." The "aks" pronunciation goes back 1000 years. It's in Beowulf. It's in Chaucer.
What happened was both were in use. But at some point, the dialect in which the "ask" pronunciation was used became dominant. But both continued and have been in use since then. When you look at America, the "aks" pronunciation is widespread in Southern American English. African-Americans used this because they were in the South--it's not especially African-American, but its Southern.
Now, if you look at other Germanic languages, the "correct" pronunciation is, in fact, "ask"--but you can't tell that looking just at English and it ultimately doesn't matter. If I asked you to name the ordinal number between "second" and "fourth" you'd say, what?
TNC: Third.
JS: Right, third--but the old pronunciation is "thred," it comes from three. But if you were to say thred, you'd be considered a moron--even though it's "correct."
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Sheidlower seems cool
― Number None, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
He's totally cool.
But again, this is (1) not a grammar error and (2) not even technically an error and (3) never used in writing ANYWAY
So, again, is it racist?
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
just be safe and say yes
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
- " So then my manager had the nerve to axe me if I was going to stay late to work on the papers he could've given me a week ago!"
- "It's 'ask', by the way, but go on."
- "Oh, I'm sorry. Did they not include Beowulf in your high school curriculum?"
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
racists are lower in the food chain than prescriptivist grammar pedants, but a combination of the two really makes me see red
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
'Aks' - thought it had a class rather than a race element eg. bridge'n'tunnel/Working Girl typing pool; there's also a Jennifer Belle novel where the protagonist needs a job, winds up selling real estate in NYC and knows she has ~crossed the great divide~ when she catches herself saying 'aks' to a client.
― ella fingerblast hurls forever (suzy), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
grammar nazi
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
word supremacist
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
yes its racist
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
it's racist but also like, something more than racism
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
it transcends racism
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's post-racist
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
It's new RacismPLUS (tm)
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
with a brand new whitening formula
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
Just put this together, but bond trader slang for things you really want to buy/sell is an "axe" and people will have lists of "axes." It's got to be because this is simply easier to pronounce and remember (and sounds a bit more macho than?) "asks".
― s.clover, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Just axe the Askis.He knows everything man.
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
that unspeakable curse-syllable, "ass"
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you for reminding me that the business-speak people in my office sum up problem-solving meetings by saying, "So what's our ask?" to mean, What requests do we have as a result of this discussion?
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link