oh man that parasole group
― goole, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
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-restaurantshttp://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
― goole, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
i kind of shudder to think how much money and time i put into bryant lake bowl alone
― goole, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
big fan of red stag
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
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
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit I forgot there was/is one in uptown
the one that's going to be Authentic Neighborhood Bar is downtown
― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Does Barbette still have those lamb sliders? Those are really tasty. Love the fries and the house wine at happy hour.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
stella's. the seafood is...not good
dunno about lamb sliders, i usually just get brunch (it's hella close to my house)
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
ILX, where eventually every thread turns into a thread about eating out in NYC...
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Saturday, 1 December 2012 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
um
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, 1 December 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
clearly all restaurants everywhere are actually in N?YC.
― s.clover, Saturday, 1 December 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
Especially bad midwestern ones.
― how's life, Saturday, 1 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
the entire midwestern restaurant-industrial complex is just a wing on the third floor of Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.
― s.clover, Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
regionalist
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 3 December 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
applebees "oriental" chicken salad begs to differ
― mayor mcpotle (mh), Monday, 3 December 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
From Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/12/06/stupid-sorority-insults-mexica.html
http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NewImage29.png
― Neil S, Friday, 7 December 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
go Penn State!
― how's life, Friday, 7 December 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
maybe if this keeps happening we'll finally make fake moustaches illegal
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 7 December 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
wau
― on a clear 乒乓 can see forever (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 7 December 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
A: yes
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah another one for the "this is racist" thread
― Neil S, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, fuck off Torygraph.
― emil.y, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
to paraphrase Nigel Tufnel "what's wrong with being racy?"
― Neil S, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
note pervy picture of posh totty.
― Neil S, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
oh my god
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― Neil S, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Depressingly, it's written by an actual student journalist from a multi-university website, not just one of the Telegraph's own aging trolls.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
we can't be racist, we're young, middle class and white!
― Neil S, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 7 December 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
When people get mad at me for being an asshole, I'm just going to tell them to stop being so pc
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
do i even want to know what "monkey chanters" are?
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 7 December 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://newsone.com/2017946/natchez-mall-racist-sign/
― NINO CARTER, Friday, 7 December 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
― 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.
― emil.y, Friday, 7 December 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
It happens quite frequently
what the fucking fuck
― mh, Friday, 7 December 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol emily i know what football means here
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
as usual though every other aspect of u.k. culture is confusing and repellant to me
It is relatively rare in the UK now.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
what a horribly formed "columnist"
― before and after broscience (goole), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's just my latent racism against Americans coming out, there. Poor slow Americans.
― 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.
xxxpost
― emil.y, Friday, 7 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
In fact, such is the mirth prompted by the Safer Sex Ball’s critics that there have been four layers of counter-protest on Facebook, leaving us with the deliciously meta “Campaign against the campaign against the campaign against the campaign against the Safer Sex Ball theme”.
Deliciously meta. ugh.
― the so-called socialista (dowd), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
i am trying to imagine this happening at american football games and all i can see are a bunch of dead white people
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link