In the middle of a discussion abt Epcot's World Showcase and it's reductiveness and how it is obv problematic in many ways but is it totally 100% awful or is there some redeeming quality in attempting to expose youngsters to the world outside of America?
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but I bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin. Well?
― straightola, Monday, 13 August 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I mean yes, when you take cultures and reduce them to a theme park attraction it is like the very definition of cultural tourism/fetishization, and in a way it's saying "We don't want the real modern/current/authentic France or Japan or China or Mexico, we want this really romantic and idealized version that is prob stuck in the past" but idk in my experience visiting it seemed to scratch a bit deeper than the surface and isn't as caricaturey as one might imagine, and the idea of "Hey kids, other cultures/things exist too!" seems less than totally insidious to me.
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 August 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
But it does seem like a not completely inauthentic representation of the histories of cultures (in lieu of what is current and modern)
I got this phat-ass sombrero at the Mexico pavillion
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Monday, 13 August 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but my girlfriend bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin, so really I have no public comment on this.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 August 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Does the duck swim in a quackvah?
― pplains, Monday, 13 August 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
wheres the thread to post things that are obviously racist?
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Monday, 13 August 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://i45.tinypic.com/10dy0pd.jpg
― starfish succulents (unregistered), Monday, 13 August 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
xp to djp
Because why not: Roger Fidelity's own election day thread, one to the public
― pplains, Monday, 13 August 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
That Jewish duck is awesome.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
Posts that effortlessly etc
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCN6dyjAvEc
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
britishist maybe
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah maybeWHAT IS HE SAYING LOLOLOLOLOLum, it's pretty clear what he's saying?
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen american tv shows do that for british white ppl too tho
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
that is totally Britishist
also I cop to watching TMZ but really I just want to punch everyone on that show in the privates
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
the kids are on youtube, they're downloading all the music
what the fuck doesn't TMZ understand? Plus, I think the "????"s are there to trick you into not hearing the actual normal-assed English words that are coming out of this guys mouth.
― how's life, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
normal-arsed iirc
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
sounds pretty clear to me, but i am british?
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
all of those white dudes are douches though, that's pretty obvious.
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
don't forget the black dude with dreads
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
i'll never forget how funny it was the first time i saw a liam gallagher tv interview w/ subtitles
― uncleshavedlongneck (some dude), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Sunny got on to me for watching The Young Ones with subtitles. Like I'm supposed to know what the hell a bilo is.
― pplains, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
shit i'd actually looked away from the vid by that poin.t "its the same language we speak... its the same language." yes, and that's why the dude was entirely intelligible.
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
Gallagher brother interviews should just be dubbed over with tracks of cats fighting and car crashes and the sounds of bones breaking.
― Pape de père en fils; pornocracie (Michael White), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
pplains, that reminds me of the difference I found in the 80's between European countries that watched American shows dubbed and those that watched them subtitled. The subtitlers all spoke far better English than the dubbers.
― Pape de père en fils; pornocracie (Michael White), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
That makes so much sense. Subtitles allow you to get both languages at once and after awhile, it has to meld.
― pplains, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
I definitely now know what a bilo is.
― pplains, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know what a bilo is...
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 17 August 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
anti-apartheid activist?
― contenderizer, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
close, but not quite
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
it's a pen?
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 August 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
only if you're starring in an old Charlie Chan movie.
― pandemic, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
you meant biro surely pp. (p)rick say "in biro!" on that show iirc. nfi what bilo is aside from an aus supermarket chain.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 17 August 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe. You'll have to forgive me, British is like a second language.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 August 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
if only there were subtitles you could consult
― ʘ (sic), Saturday, 18 August 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
So this Saving The Pearls piece of crap from upthread continues to have fallout.
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Monday, 20 August 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
oof
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
damn. the whole thing just blows my mind. "racism is just as bad when the coals do it. don't you see?!?"
― contenderizer, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
if you use the term "reverse racism" you need re-education
― goole, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
is "re-education" code for "punching"
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
I was hoping it was a code for "DJP goes to your house to explain why you are wrong"
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
which, in turn, is code for "punching"
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
you do what you gotta do, man
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
the "coals" vs. "pearls" business is such a dead giveaway.
"uh yeah, despite the fact that the society in question hates white people, they use a word suggesting value and beauty to describe them. why? well just, just ... just because, okay? coincidentally, that's also why they use a word for something dirty and common to describe black people. funny, huh?"
― contenderizer, Monday, 20 August 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't her reasoning that in her fictional society, pearls were useless whereas coal was useful, so 'coal' was a good thing? Yeaaaaaaaah. Not a stretch at all.
― emil.y, Monday, 20 August 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
the author couldn't metaphor herself out of a bulletproof mercedes with a grocery bag in it
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't her reasoning that in her fictional society, pearls were useless whereas coal was useful, so 'coal' was a good thing?
you mean just like in our present society?
― contenderizer, Monday, 20 August 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link