rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

http://www.guineapig-rehoming-norfolk.co.uk/5733_628941025350_36913656_40348325_3506994_n.jpg

I have friends that have eaten them in south america, supposed to be pretty ok. Don't know if I'd trust a restaurant not run by people from that region to prepare it well.

Also, yes, they are adorable.

oh man that parasole group

mea culpa, i went to chino latino as recently as last week for happy hour with a friend (who, incidentally, was the one who alerted me to the racist ad via facebook). i guess it was more accurately a "girls night out," as i was the only guy there and all they did was talk about sex and stupid boys. i had a "reverse cowgirl" cocktail and jerk chicken wings, and, subsequently, GI distress.

i have always kinda liked the weird glittery facade.

but yeah parasole restaurants are something else...for a while i thought red stag and barbette were parasole, which totally didn't square up with everything else i knew about them

fuckin' chino latino

i forgot that place is still open, is it still busy? felt like a place that would have a short shelf life after it's period as a "hot spot"

but then again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMKZgt8qmgg

will fall for anything

i guess it was more accurately a "girls night out," as i was the only guy there and all they did was talk about sex and stupid boys. i had a "reverse cowgirl" cocktail and jerk chicken wings, and, subsequently, GI distress.

how to live, imo

red stag and barbette were parasole

those are kim bartman

http://www.citypages.com/related/to/Kim+Bartmann/
http://southwestminneapolis.patch.com/articles/kim-bartmann-invests-in-southwest-with-three-new-restaurants
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/print-edition/2012/05/25/industry-leaders-kim-bartmann.html?page=all

who's like the good-witch version of this imo

i kind of shudder to think how much money and time i put into bryant lake bowl alone

big fan of red stag

still never been to red stag, BLB is an occasional thing for me

barbette...look, it's irresponsible as a grad student, but let's just say that the waitstaff knows my name there

there's this guy who is a complete douche business owner in Des Moines and his MO appears to be that he finds a business that is doing OK, buys it, and then just uses the exact same concept to open more of them elsewhere. He bought what was a neighborhood bar w/food probably five years ago, then opened a bar in a suburb with the exact same name

so as I walked through mpls a couple months ago, I could only laugh: enjoy the Wellmans Pub, guys! (formerly Drink: The Original Party Bar)

i forgot that place is still open, is it still busy?

during happy hour on a saturday night (the first time i've been in years) the place was packed to the fucking gills.

oh god Drink. went there once with ex-gf (we had just had, and vaguely reconciled, an argument, it was the most ready to hand), i hated it.

i basically hate every bar in uptown proper, rip uptown

oh shit I forgot there was/is one in uptown

the one that's going to be Authentic Neighborhood Bar is downtown

what's that seafoood place that's multi-story in uptown? I saw a fistfight break out in the middle of a weekend afternoon on the rooftop bar there. yeeeah.

Does Barbette still have those lamb sliders? Those are really tasty. Love the fries and the house wine at happy hour.

stella's. the seafood is...not good

dunno about lamb sliders, i usually just get brunch (it's hella close to my house)

ILX, where eventually every thread turns into a thread about eating out in NYC...

um

clearly all restaurants everywhere are actually in N?YC.

Especially bad midwestern ones.

the entire midwestern restaurant-industrial complex is just a wing on the third floor of Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.

regionalist

applebees "oriental" chicken salad begs to differ

From Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/12/06/stupid-sorority-insults-mexica.html

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NewImage29.png

go Penn State!

maybe if this keeps happening we'll finally make fake moustaches illegal

wau

A: yes

yeah another one for the "this is racist" thread

Look forward to our US friends reaching the same state of post-racial utopia as our own students have apparently achieved.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jackrivlin/100193225/tribal-theme-for-exeters-safer-sex-ball-is-racist-scream-right-on-killjoys-but-racism-awareness-has-run-out-of-steam-at-universities/

Ugh, fuck off Torygraph.

to paraphrase Nigel Tufnel "what's wrong with being racy?"

note pervy picture of posh totty.

oh my god

sensible, well-reasoned argument:

"They have nothing in common with monkey chanters at football matches, and it's cheap of the sensitivity posse to make them feel guilty for being white and middle-class."

Depressingly, it's written by an actual student journalist from a multi-university website, not just one of the Telegraph's own aging trolls.

we can't be racist, we're young, middle class and white!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/12/headshot.png

If this guy is at university it must only be as some kind of Doogie Howser deal, right?

When people get mad at me for being an asshole, I'm just going to tell them to stop being so pc

do i even want to know what "monkey chanters" are?

somewhere along the line these jerks forgot that "politically correct" is a nonsense phrase created by conservative voices to belittle those who campaigned for social justice or against discrimination and it's not some checkbox.

then again, maybe they do remember and they're using it the same old way

http://newsone.com/2017946/natchez-mall-racist-sign/

do i even want to know what "monkey chanters" are?

― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, December 7, 2012 5:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People shouting "monkey" or hurling bananas at black football (soccer) players. It happens quite frequently. But of course the students aren't like that, because they're middle-class.

It happens quite frequently

what the fucking fuck

lol emily i know what football means here

as usual though every other aspect of u.k. culture is confusing and repellant to me

It is relatively rare in the UK now.

what a horribly formed "columnist"

That's just my latent racism against Americans coming out, there. Poor slow Americans.

It happens quite frequently

what the fucking fuck

― mh, Friday, December 7, 2012 5:35 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I know. I loathe football, but I have the feeling it's even worse in mainland Europe than it is here. I may be wrong, though.

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