Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

Thanks for sharing that, sad stuff, but we'll get past it. Love the thugs not even keeping quiet about the $20!

Kids.

I mean, there are a bazillion words you could have used to describe the guys who were paid to be there, why did you have to pick the one that has become the proxy stand-in for "nigger"?

if you want to take the article's source for it it seems the phrase would have been 'hired goons', shame to miss a chance to use 'hired goons'

Should've said "bootleggers," chum.

if you want to take the article's source for it it seems the phrase would have been 'hired goons', shame to miss a chance to use 'hired goons'

― j., Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:45 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no shit unless you work in gotham city it's a rare chance

real nice caucus you got here

rev 105 beer imo

One more week before I'll allow myself to complain about this full time.

man it's worse than it looks out there. maybe worst commute i've ever had.

this state sucks balls

this state blows snowballs

all I know is that yesterday I drove into work because I was going to run home improvement errands afterward; I left the office at 5:30 to a light mist, was in my car by 5:40, then spent the next HOUR attempting to travel 4 miles to Home Depot

at least if there had been actual WEATHER happening there would have been an excuse; it literally took me 55 minutes to travel 3 miles

based on the updates i'm getting from the city of st paul this snow emergency is going to persist for 72 hours

minnesotans, on the other hand, will persist eternal

i love seein' arenas blowed up

http://www.twincities.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5753812

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_25202498/portion-metrodome-be-brought-down-explosives-this-weekend

well, after years of confusion i finally understand where they're going to build the new stadium

I mean, there are a bazillion words you could have used to describe the guys who were paid to be there

The "I mean" threw me, but is this a response to what I posted--"thugs"? Hoping you're not serious.

I think it was what looked like an instant retraction -- "Kids."

Ah, thanks. No, I meant "Kids" as an indulgent sigh. Like, the fact that they shared the price is kind of endearing. And I hope it's obvious "thugs" has a common political and non-racial context (strikers calling private detectives "gun thugs," Republicans calling protesters against Scott Walker "union thugs," etc.). The "thug life" sense hadn't occurred to me.

Think everyone would be happy with 'hired goons'.

xp: (Though of course it will next time! You guys are nice, thank you for supporting my retraction anyway.)

I prefer G-men.

Yeah, this might be best taken as a "you live, you learn" moment.

Just like I learned never again to go to Bar Louie after reading (between the lines) their dress code.

Which is?

No "athletic clothing." No "flat-brimmed hats." No "excessively baggy clothes."

Oh, I see this is actually a thing: http://www.wmctv.com/story/23043348/memphis

That exists in the UK: no hoodies/caps/trainers is a THING in many clubs.

Yeah, I've talked to Minneapolis bouncers who confessed to using double-carding and cleavage restrictions for management-driven racial profiling policies as well--this is going back to the '90s.

Take "racial profiling" there as ironic, since I'm seemingly making myself easily misunderstood, including (apparently) meaning to say I appreciate what I now see as people's kindness and sensitivity here while still not agreeing that "thug" should be abandoned--it has the appropriate connotation of aggression for hire, and in the case of the caucus, I wasn't even sure the young people in question would identify as African American. By the way, the next caucus went fine, though proof of residence was required--now there's a real slippery slope.

Racial profiling as in restricting the number of people of color in a club. Really wished I'd gotten this story on the cover of City Pages as I tried to do at the time--not many bouncers willing to go on the record "in real time."

in fairness lots of times even clubs that sounds like they are exclusively catering to african americans (or events, etc) have "no jerseys, no sneakers, no hats")....like ones that advertise on KMOJ, usually billed as "for the grown and sexy", seems like they are trying to cater to an older audience w/less chance for trouble

http://www.tout.com/m/fxr82f?ref=twmv2lrb

whoops, great day for a derailment

Dang

st. paul just put into place a one-side-only parking ban, minneapolis style.

not a bad idea i get it but fuck

maybe some homeownin motherfuckers will shovel their walks now that they'll have to walk an extra two or three blocks to get to their cars

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_25254778/st-paul-police-among-select-few-allow-hijab?source=rss

*breaking news*

new atmosphere album cover shot close to my house!

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/atmosphere_southsiders.jpg

Lakewood Cemetery?

My uncle's in there.

haha no i can't afford a house by lakewood

it's temple israel on 42nd Ave and 4th St. south (not far off of Nicollet and 42nd)

i went to temple israel pre-school! never been to the cemetery tho

My grandpa's in that cemetery, too.

My coworker regaled us this morning with a story of how he stayed in downtown Minneapolis over the weekend and thought he'd be able to get around using the skyways and light rail. Spoiler: he froze his ass off.

Someone ranked the best Minnesota high school hockey tourney hair

I didn't know Joel Hodgson followed high school hockey

have we hit some kind of new low plane of cultural illiteracy among restaurant people? what is with the names of these fucking places?

there's a big new bar/club type thing in uptown called... "coup d'etat". and now i see news that there's a new place coming into the warehouse dist. called... socialista. i think it's supposed to be caribbean!

http://www.journalmpls.com/news-feed/opening-soon-socialista

though i think i like a trend of inapposite political struggle names over the pointlessly blank ("borough". "parlour". etc.) (a place called "etc" is surely on the way)

Et al, iirc.

lol